412 NEAV AND RARE AUSTRALIAN AGRIONID.E, 



superior l-'2min, black, slender, forcipate, witli an inner inferior 

 shelf or lobe towards tips ending suddenly so as to leave the tips 

 projecting suddenlj^ and sharply above it. (This form seems to 

 be a modification of the lobe and spine arrangement found in the 

 larger species of the genus). On the apical portion, above, a 

 series of very small sharp teeth or spines is placed. Inferior 

 0-3 mm., brownish, subcornute, rather blunt and usually bent 

 inwards towards one anotlier.(See Plate xliv., figs. 3, \). 



(^. Total leuyth 30-5, ahdomen 24, hindtving 20'5 mm. Very 

 similar to male, but without any pruinescence; wings slightly 

 broader and more rounded at tips; bands of thorax slightly paler; 

 abdomen quite cylindrical but scarcely thicker than in male, 

 bronzy-black, with very little yellow on sides of 1-2, and very 

 small basal spots on each side of 3-6. Appendages 0-3 mm., wide 

 apart, black, pointed. Ovipositor black, reaching to end of 

 appendages. 



Types: — j^' immature. Coll. Hagen("New Holland"); ^^ 

 immature and mature, and 9, Coll. Ti]lyaiTl(Blue Mountains, 



N.S.W.). 



B. Race intermedms. — A small series of three males and one 

 female taken by meat Alexandra, Vic, December, 1906, are of 

 intermediate form between typical specimens (A) and the very 

 distinct form eboraciis{C). 



Total length, (J 34, 932; ahdomen, (J 27, 924-5; hindwing, ^^ 

 22 mm. 



(J. Vertex, thorax, and whole of abdomen covered with grey 

 pruinescence above, but not so thickly as in mature males of 

 A; nor is there any pattern on the abdomen, the whole dorsal 

 surface l)cing equally and lightl\' powdered. Abdomen stouter 

 than in A, being a good 1 mm. wide. Wings very distinctly 

 shaded with brown all over. 9. Similar to male but with thicker 

 and shorter abdomen, and no pruinescence. Appendages: 

 ^.sti'perior similar to those of A, but not so slender, tips slightly 

 blunter, inferior lobe less pronounced; t?i/e/'ii>r slightly closer and 

 thicker than in A. 9-^<^'''i'cely as long as in A, broader at base, 

 separated by a laige brown tubercle beueath a,nd between them. 



