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Order—NE UROPTER A . 
J^aleti totngg, 5c* no stinc* 
GENUS i.— LIBELLULA DRAGON-FLY, 
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II HE 1 argett is produced from a water-worm that 
has fix feet ; which, whilft yet young, and very 
fmall, is transformed to a chryfalis, that has its dwel¬ 
ling in the water, it wears a mafk, and this fattened 
to the infecTs neck, and which it moves at will, ferves 
to hold his prey while he devours it. 
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The libellulse which have wings extended horizon¬ 
tally when at rett, live chiefly upon moths, &c. 
Thofe which have iheir wings placed at a dittance 
from each other, the wings erefl, and the eyes very 
prominent, upon mufcas or flies. 
They are all exceedingly voracious. Linnaeus calls 
them the hawks of gymtiopterous infefls. The larvae 
of both live and run, rather than fvvim, in the w r ater ; 
they devour aquatic infefls weaker than themlelves, 
and are not lefs voracious than the compleat infe&s ; 
they are likewife cruel, killing and tearing other 
infefts, 
