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._ LIBELLULA SERVILIA. Plate XLVII. fig. 6. ORDER: Neuroptera. SECTION: Subulicornes. FAMILY: Libellulidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. LIBELLULA, _Auct._ LIBELLULA SERVILIA. Alis hyalinis, basi flavis, thorace fusco, abdomine rubro. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.) SYN. Libellula Servilia, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. (1773.) Libellula ferruginata, _Fabr. Mant. Ins._ 336. 11. Libellula ferruginea, _Fabr. Ent. Syst. t._ 2. _p._ 380. HABITAT: China. This insect was of a beautiful red colour when living, but is now much altered; being considerably darker. Head red brown. Eyes darker, but not black. Thorax red brown; having a kind of ridge running along the middle of its upper side. Abdomen red brown, flat underneath, but above terminating in a high ridge, from the extremity of which a small black line runs along the upper ridge to the thorax. Wings reticulated and transparent; having a small, slender, dark stripe placed near the tip of each, and also near the body a small reddish brown cloud. PLATE XLVIII. [Illustration] LIBELLULA CAROLINA. Plate XLVIII. fig. 1. ORDER: Neuroptera. SECTION: Subulicornes. FAMILY: Libellulidæ, _Leach_. GENUS. LIBELLULA, _Auct._ 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_).