Migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta 1, downy emerald, Cordulia aenea 2, hairy dragonfly, Brachytron pratense, female 3. As Libellula coluberculus, Libellula aenea, Libellula aspis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Moses Harris from his own Exposition of English Insects, Including the several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, or Bees, Flies and Libellulae, White and Robson, London, 1782.

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