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64 NATURAL HISTORY. ; 
by Ray the middle fized Libella, with a blue body, and the gteatett 
part of the wings of a blackith blue. This likewife frequents riverss 
and is of the fize and fhape of the former, but the wings are of a black- 
ith blue, with the points of a pale brown, and the tail horny at the end. 
3. ‘Phe Lidellula with a greenith-blue body, dufky wings, and a whité 
fpot upon the edge. It is termed by Ray the middle fized Libellag 
with a green body, and wings of a dunnith colour, marked with fmall 
fpots, that are white near the extreme angle: the body is of a greet 
fhining colour, with black feet and brown wings, which are marked on 
the edges with an oblong white {pot. Some think it is the female of 
the former. ; 
4. The Libellula with a filky fhining body, and the wings of a dufky 
‘old colour, marked with a black fpot. It is termed by Ray the mid- 
dle fized Libella, with a body partly green, and partly blue, and the 
wings marked in the middle with very large blueith black {fpots: the 
body is of a bright blue, the feet black, and half the wings next thé 
point, of a blueifh-black, with points of a gilt brown; the other half 
of the wings near the bafe, are of a gold colour. 
OF the Lidbellula of the laft kind are, 
1. That with a filky body, and the wings marked on the edge with 
a dufky {pot. It is called by Ray the lefler Libella with reticulated 
wings, a green back, and whitifh turrows: this flie flutters on the fides 
of marfhes, and has a back of the colour of copper, with gilded fhining 
’ wings, marked on the edge with arhomboidal brown fpeck: the wings 
are compofed of two nerves, which are particular to this infe@; and 
the breaft, belly and fides, are of a livid colour; the eyes are of an, 
ath-colour, but brown above, and the head, as far as the back, is of © 
the colour of copper: the feelers are black, fhort, and thick at the laft 
int. / a ‘ 
2. The Libellula with a fleth-coloured body, and wings with a dufky 
fpot on the edges. It is termed by Ray the middle fized Libella, with 
-two black fpots near the incifures: it is very like the former, both it 
fize and fhape; but near the furrows of the belly there are black lines 
ar characters, and a brown {pot on the edge of the wings. 
3. The Libellula with a filky body, and the edge of the wings mark- 
ed with a black fpot, is named by Ray the Libella with a blueith livid 
body: it has white wings, and the upper part of the body is of a green+ 
ifh fhining blue, without mixture.* . 
4. The Lidellula with a blue body variegated with afh-colour, and 4 
black fpot on the edges of the wings; Ray terms it the leffer Libella 
with fhort wings, and a blue body, marked with tranfverfe black fpotsé 
‘It is of the fame fize and thape as the three former, and the wings are 
white; the joints of the belly, viewed before, are of an ath colour, and 
behind of a thining blue. | 
Of the large kind of Lidellula, there atey t 
1, ‘hat with a double fpot on the edges of the wings, called by Ray 
the greateft Libella, with a long, fhining, flender, fmoeth, greenitlt 
belly, at the beginning, and fwelling near the end. It is diftinguithed 
from the reit, byhavetig two fpots on the wings, that are white, but 
yellow towards the bafe, and black underneath the yellow colour. __ 
2. The Libellula with white wings, but yellow at the bafe; it 1% 
named by Ray the greateft Libella, with a broad, fhort, yellow belly 
