454 NEW AND RARE AUSTRALIAN AGRIONID^, 



(J. End of segment 10 produced medially into a conspicuous 

 bifurcated projection, so that, viewed dorsally, the end is practi- 

 cally level with tlie tips of the appendages( Plate xlviii., fig.8). 

 Appendages : siqjerior scarcely 0*2 mm., blunt and depressed, 

 the inferior projection hidden behind the inferiors; inferior 0'3 

 mm., rather pointed above, with a small lower lobe(Plate xlviii., 

 figs.7, 8). 



lidb. — Townsville, Cairns, and Cooktown, N. Queensland; 

 taken by myself, January, 1905 and 1908 ; also taken by Mr. 

 E. Allen, at Cairns, in June, August, and December. Not 

 common. 



Types: cf 9 in Coll. Tilly ard. 



25. Argiocnemis rubescens Selys. 



Bull. Acad. Roy. de Belgique, xliii., 1877, p. 42. 



De Selys described only a unique female of this beautiful insect, 

 which is not uncommon. I append a full description : — 



cf. Total Itngth, 34; abdottiea, 28; hind wing, 18 mm. 



Wings slightly clouded with pale brown in the mature 

 insect ; pterostigma 0-8 mm. in forewing, 1 mm. in hindwing, 

 rhomboidal (upper distal angle slightly more acute) pale 

 brown in forewing, the merest shade darker in hindwing : ^jos^ - 

 nodals 10 in fore, 8 in hindwing. Basal postcostal nervule 

 nearer to second anLenodal than to first. Head: eyes black 

 above, olive-green beneath ; postocular spots green ; epi- 

 cranium black, postclypeus blackish, anteclypeus and labruni 

 deep olive-green; labium pale dirty yellowish-grey. Tho- 

 rax: prothorax black, an olive-green patch in front, poste- 

 rior ridge witii a semicircular projection (Plate xlix., fig. 

 5). Meso- and nie/athorax black, with a pair of rather 

 narrow dark green antehumeral stripes; lower down, on each 

 side, two broader stripes of bright olive-green (or yellowish- 

 green) separated by a band of the black ground-colour ; under- 

 side pale greenish-white. Legs black, oxcept coxae and part 

 of underside of profemora pale greenish- white. Abdomen: 



