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"Who has not many a time stopped in his walk to watch the bold and rapid flight of the large kinds of these kinds of insects (Libelludidae or Dragon-fly tribe)? Who has not often had his attention arrested, when wandering by the rippling stream with tapering rod and treacherous flies attached, a large insect insect of glossy green flits by, the sunshine glittering on his burnished body? And who has not admired? ..."

Sketches of British Insects Rev. W. Houghton  (1888)

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