CORDULEGASTER SABINA.
Plate [XLVIII]. fig. 4.
Order: Neuroptera. Section: Subulicornes. Family: Libellulidæ, Leach.
Genus. Cordulegaster. Leach, Steph. Libellula p. Drury.
Cordulegaster Sabina. Ænea, thorace nigro lineato; abdomine clavato nigro, flavo annulato, alis hyalinis stigmate minuto. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Libellula Sabina, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: China, and the Island of Johanna, near Madagascar.
Front of the head green. Eyes brown, large, and placed close together. Thorax green, with three black longitudinal stripes at top, and with several others running obliquely on its sides. Abdomen, next the thorax, large and green, with black transverse stripes, but of a sudden becomes very small and slender for about five-eighths of an inch; black, with yellow rings; afterwards it becomes broad near the extremity, where it is black, the apex being yellow. Legs black. Wings transparent, except a small slender spot near the tips of each on the anterior edges.
LIBELLULA PULCHELLA.
Plate [XLVIII]. fig. 5.