80 PLAT BE ZXAVI. 
It is found in Afay and Fune, fporting on the waters, or among the 
bufhes which overgrow the fides of pools, or gently flowing ftreams ; 
at noon, or after a fhower, when the fun breaks from its watery prifon, 
and penctrates the thickets, and the groves with inviting warmth, they 
are feen iffuing from the dark retreat, and overhanging fhrubbery; to 
bafk and wanton in its effulgent beams, and fan the gently rifing breeze 
with their lucid Wings. In many parts on the banks of the Thames they 
heighten the fcene by the glow and richnefs of their colouring; the 
green, the blue, and the reds the yellow, purple, andthe brown, in 
their richeft teints, according to the fpecies ; and as they fly in various 
direCtions, difplay themfelves in all their native elegance and {plendor. 
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FA. Gust Ue 
LIBELLULA PUELLA, 
NeEvROPTERA. 
LipELLua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Body red with yellow and black lines at each fegment; thorax 
green with yellow ftripes. Wings clear, with marginal {pots. 
The body is red, with a yellow band and black mark at every feg- 
ment; the Thorax green, with longitudinal lines of yellow; the 
Wings are perfectly tranfparent, except a marginal fpot on each, It 
is voracious, as are all the fpecies of Libellula, whether in the larva or 
the winged flate ; it appears about the fame time as the preceding, and 
is the produce of an aquatic larva, 
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