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NATURAL HISTORY. a 
colours, the delicacy and refplendent texture of its 
wings, aftord infinite delight to the beholder. 
In order to accomplifh the purpofe of nature, the 
male, while hovering about, watches, and then feizes 
the female: by the head, with the pincers with which 
the extremity ofits tailisarmed. The ravifher trav- 
els thus through the air, tll the female yields to his 
fuperior ftrength. ‘Thefe flies are feen thus coupled 
in the air, exhibiting the form ofa ring. The female 
depofits her eggs inthe water, from whence fpring 
water worms, which afterwards undergo the fame 
transformations. | 
—~ dome MEMEM EH 9%— 
TIBELIULA CRANDJS.——--GREAT 
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i H1S. dpecies is the largeft of any this country af- 
ferds. Its head is yellow, efpecially forwards ; its 
eyes are brewn, and being very large, meet on the.. 
top of the head, and are often fet with dots, raifed 
and fhining, which would conftitute a very diftinctive 
chara¢ter, if it were conflant ; but fometimes thofe 
dots are abient, or there are, at moft, but one or two. 
The thorax is dun coloured, with two oblique bands 
on each fide, of alemoncclour. The abdomen, which 
is very long, is likewife of a deep buff, often fpotted 
with white on the top and bottom of each fegment. | 
The finall lumine that terminate the abdomen are 
‘§ -very long in the {pecies. The wings have more or 
“B lefs of the yellow die. with a brown fpot on the exte- 
Mf rior edge. At'the rife of each wing there isa {mall 
protuberance, of a dark brown colour, 

