LIBELLULA CAROLINA. Thorace fusco, abdomine ([male]) coeruleo, alis
hyalinis, posticis basi dentato maculâ magnâ ferrugineâ flavo cinctâ.
(Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Libellula Carolina, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. 904. 17. _Amoen. Acad._ 6.
411. 85. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 2. 382.
Libellula Chinensis, _De Geer, vol._ 3. _tab._ 26. _f._ 1.
HABITAT: New York, Virginia, China, Madras (_Drury_).
Front of the head dark yellow. Eyes large, and situated near together.
Thorax dirty green. Abdomen round; and in some appears to have been of a
yellow, in others of a blue, colour. Wings reticulated and transparent;
the superior (being narrowest) have only a small dark spot on the
anterior edge of each near the extremity; all the remaining part being
transparent. The inferior have also a small dark spot on each, like the
superior; but close to the abdominal edge they have a large dark
{118}cloud on each, which reaches from the anterior edge almost to the
posterior. At this part the wings are much broader than is generally
observed in any of this genus; gradually widening from the extremity to
the abdominal edge.