Plate XLVIII. fig. 2.
ORDER: Neuroptera. SECTION: Subulicornes. FAMILY: Libellulidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. AGRION, _Fabr._ Libellula, _Linn._ Calepteryx, _Leach_.
AGRION VIRGINICA. Aureo-viridis, abdomine nigro, alis fusco-luteis apice
nigricantibus, stigmate ([female]) albo. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Libellula virgo var. Gamma, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. (Exclus. Syn.
_Linn._)
HABITAT: Virginia.
Head beautiful golden green. Eyes round, black, not so large as those in
the other figures, and placed at a distance from each other. Thorax
golden green. Abdomen black, long, and slender. Legs black, very spinose.
Wings reticulated, and of a fine shining brown, somewhat inclining to
dark blue, with a remarkable white oval spot near the tips of each, which
part is much darker than the rest; but in the males is the same, the
wings there being of a deep mazarine blue, almost black, and without the
white spots.
Drury observes of this insect, that "it is somewhat like one we have in
England, but distinctly different, and soon to be discovered by comparing
them together." He nevertheless applied to it the name of the English
species, which I have been consequently obliged to reject.