426 NEW AND RARE AUSTRALIAN AGRIONID.E, 



forewing. Xodnl .sector arising only f>i-<> complete cells hefore 

 nodus. Head: i°_yfs dark Ijrown; epicranium black, clypeus 

 and /((h7'U))t greyisli(po8sibly blue in living insect); labium pale 

 diity straw-colour. T h o r a x : y^ro^Ao/aa- blackish. Meso- and 

 mf'tatharax with a black dorsal stripe bordered on each side by a 

 dark metallic green stripe; next, a humeral pale stripe(probably 

 blue in living insect), then a subhunieral black stripe. Sides pale 

 (possibly bluish) with a straight black lateral stripe; underside 

 pale, /y^'v-s very pale(po8sibly bluish) with black stripes. Ab- 

 domen \evy slender, dull blackish, slightly njetallic; markings, 

 if any, obliterated: undersides brownish, sutures black. A }) - 

 pendages: superior 1-3 mm., forcipate but with extended 

 tips (as in A. analis), pale broicn icWt black banes and tips: 

 inferior spine smaU, not visible fi'om above; outer margin with 

 three very small blunt teeth. Inferior \ery short, close together, 

 subti'iangular, black(Plate xlv., tigs. 13, 1-i). 



5. Unknown. 



I/ab. —Banks Island, Torres Straits; taken by Mr H. Elgner, 

 February IGth, 1910. 



Type: (J in Coll. Tillyard. 



Closely allietl to. A. ana/is Rambui-, from which it difl'ers by its 

 smaller size, ditierent colouration, and especially by the smallness 

 of the inferior spine on the appendages, and the tips even more 

 pointed than in A. aiialis. 



10. AUSTKOLESTES TENUISSIMUS Tillvard. 



Lestes tenuissimi(s Tillyartl, These Proceedings, 1 906, xxxi., 

 p.l79. 



(J. A p p e n d a g e s (Plate xlv., figs. 9-1 Oj : siiperior 1 -5 mm., 

 black, forcipate, the inner inferior maigin carrying a ]alher Ijlunt 

 spine near base, and a large lobe or shelf about midway; outer 

 surface furnished with 4-;") small spines; tips moderately pointed 

 and slightly Ix-nt outwards. In ( rofile, the basal spine is moi-e 

 conspicuous and sharper, and the edge of the projecting shelf 

 shows al.so a sharp s])ine. Inferior short, blunt and thick. 



Hal). — Cairns and Cooktown, N.(4 I took a fair lunnber at 

 Cooktown during January, 1907; some of the males api>eared 



