. Les genres des insectes de Linné : constatés par divers échantillons d'insectes d'Angleterre, copiés d'après nature. (S£jrrsll. ^^i/u ( Libellula quadri-maculata. I. The head is brown, and thefore-part above the jaws is of agrecnifli yellow. The thorax isbrown, but covered on the upperpart with grey hairs. The abdo-men is broad at top, but decreafesxîownwards, and is terminated bytwo cylindrical appendices. Thecolour of it is brown ; above, it isfompwhat hairy on the fides. Thefour wings are yellow at their bafeand along part of the exterior edge,befides which the inferior ones have
. Les genres des insectes de Linné : constatés par divers échantillons d'insectes d'Angleterre, copiés d'après nature. (S£jrrsll. ^^i/u ( Libellula quadri-maculata. I. The head is brown, and thefore-part above the jaws is of agrecnifli yellow. The thorax isbrown, but covered on the upperpart with grey hairs. The abdo-men is broad at top, but decreafesxîownwards, and is terminated bytwo cylindrical appendices. Thecolour of it is brown ; above, it isfompwhat hairy on the fides. Thefour wings are yellow at their bafeand along part of the exterior edge,befides which the inferior ones have,beneath the yellow colour, a fpotof very- dark brown. But whateafily dill:ino;uiflies this fpecies fromall others, is its having two mar-gin 1 f^ ots on tha outwardedge ofeach wing ; one towards the extre-mity, at the place where the otherfpecies have one, and a fécond al-mofl on the middle of the outer?edge, which in that part is ftreight-ened : both are of a dark fpecies is fcarce in this coun-try. Libellula virgo. Linn. This beautiful libellula has alarge head, reticulated, prominent,bro
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