ÆSHNA JUNIA. Fuscescens, unicolor (in vivis virescens?), alis hyalinis,
costâ pallidè infuscatâ, stigmate oblongo, nigro. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 3
lin.)
SYN. Libellula Junia, _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: New York.
Head large, and in front of a brown yellow. Eyes brown, almost black,
large, and placed close together. Thorax, when the insect was living,
apparently green. The abdomen is now brown, but {117}was probably green
also; for these kind of insects are very subject to lose the gay colours
they exhibited when alive. Wings reticulated and transparent, appearing
of a brownish colour along the anterior edges; having a small slender
black stripe, about a quarter of an inch long, placed thereon near the
tips, and a small angular white spot at the base of each next the body.
"This insect is very much like one we have in England, but not entirely so,
differing in some circumstances from ours; and is introduced rather as a
subject for illustrating the history of these insects, than as a specimen
meriting a place in this work."--_Drury._