THE 
DEPRESSED LIBELLULA. 
Generic Character. 
Mouth consisting of several mandibles. 
Antennce very slender, filiform, shorter than 
the thorax. 
Wings spreading. 
Abdomen lengthened. 
Specific Character, &r. 
Flat-Bodied LIBELLULA; that of the male 
blue, of the female yellow. 
The Flat-Bodied Dragon-Fly. 
This beautiful insect, the general manners or ha¬ 
bits of which resemble those of its congeners, is of 
so different a colour in the different sexes, that the 
shape is the chief criterion of the species. The body 
of the male is of a bright blue, with brown margi¬ 
nal variegations, while that of the female, on the 
contrary, is of a bright yellow, with similar mar¬ 
ginal markings. Like the Libellula grandis, this 
species is principally seen towards the decline of 
summer, and flies with great rapidity about the 
neighbourhood of brooks and stagnant waters. 
