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.
LIBELLULA CAROLINA.
Plate [XLVIII]. fig. 1.
Order: Neuroptera. Section: Subulicornes. Family: Libellulidæ, Leach.
Genus. Libellula, Auct.
Libellula Carolina. Thorace fusco, abdomine (♂) cœruleo, 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.