Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 188.—Agrion, sp.; nat. size; not Bermiidian. Figure 189.—Anax Junius;a, larva; h, c, pupa; slightly enlarged; after C. B. Aaron. ^schnina.—Size usually large ; head globular, eyes large, closetogether or in contact. Wings not petiolate, unequal, the hinderpair broader at base. Large Blue and Green Dragon-fiy. {Anax Junius (Drury), ExoticInsects, i, p. 112, pi. xlvii, fig. 5); Selys ; Hagen, op. cit., p. , Insect Book, pi. xl, fig. 15. Figures 189, 190. This is one of the larger species ; length 68-74^™ ; expanse 10
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 188.—Agrion, sp.; nat. size; not Bermiidian. Figure 189.—Anax Junius;a, larva; h, c, pupa; slightly enlarged; after C. B. Aaron. ^schnina.—Size usually large ; head globular, eyes large, closetogether or in contact. Wings not petiolate, unequal, the hinderpair broader at base. Large Blue and Green Dragon-fiy. {Anax Junius (Drury), ExoticInsects, i, p. 112, pi. xlvii, fig. 5); Selys ; Hagen, op. cit., p. , Insect Book, pi. xl, fig. 15. Figures 189, 190. This is one of the larger species ; length 68-74^™ ; expanse 104-110™°. The thorax is green spotted with blue and fuscous; headyellow, with a blue circle enclosing a black spot above; feet black;abdomen bright blue, except first segment and base of second, whichare green, and a fuscous dorsal line. Wings hyaline, yellowish inthe middle; pterostigma long and narrow, yellowish. Very widely diffused, both in the Old World and New; New Yorkto Florida, California, and Texas; Mexico; Hawaiian Islands; WestIndies; C
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