Syn. Libellula Lydia, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: Virginia.
Front of the head green. Eyes dark brown, very large, and placed near each other. Thorax green, having on each side two transverse yellow stripes. Abdomen of the male blue, with small yellow indented marks on the sides; that of the female yellow; the former having two little horny substances like tails at the extremity, which are wanting in the female. Wings reticulated and transparent; the middle of each being of a very dark blue colour, occupying about a third part, and crossing them from the anterior to the posterior edges, which by the reflection of white paper becomes dark brown. A dark brown stripe also, about a quarter of an inch in length, issues from the base of each wing, almost joining to the anterior edge; below which the males have a white patch placed on their inferior wings.
ÆSHNA JUNIA.
Plate [XLVII]. fig. 5.
Order: Neuroptera. Section: Subulicornes. Family: Libellulidæ, Leach.
Genus. Æshna, Fabr. Libellula, Linn. &c.
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.