460 NEW AND RARE AUSTRALIAN AGRIONID^, 



nodals 5-6 in fore, 4 in hindwing. Head: eyes dark green 

 (brown when dead) ; epicramum and clypeus blackish, lah- 

 rum dark brown, a pale greenish band under clypeal suture; 

 labium, whitish ; postocular spots blue, small, elongate-oval. 

 Thorax; profhorax black, posterior lobe enlarged into a 

 wide oval plate with upturned edges. Meso- and metathorax 

 metallic blackish above, a fine green, antehumeral line on each 

 side; sides and underside pale olive-green. Legs pale yellow- 

 ish, touched with black at elbows. Abdomen slender, 1-2 

 slightly wider, 9-10 slightly clubbed. CoJour: 1-6 metallic 

 bronzy-black, with pale greenish transverse lines in sutures, 

 sides pale greenish except at apices, when the black from 

 above spreads downwards, underside dull greenish with black 

 ventral carina ; 7, brilliant red, with a touch of black at 

 base; 8-10 brilliant red; underside of 7-10 pale straw-colour. 

 End of segment 10 upturned. Appendages: superior 

 0-2 mm., bright red, suboval, slightly f orcipate ; seen in pro- 

 file, thick, blunt, slightly depressed ; inferior scarcely 1 

 mm., rather flat, with thick bases, and with a sharp superi- 

 orly-pointed tip (Plate xlviii., figs. 17, 18). 



9 . Unknown. 



Hah. — Cooktown, N. Queensland. Very rare. December, 

 1907. 



A unique, perfect male, taken by myself ; also a damaged 

 male (end segments of abdomen lacking) sent by Mr. E. A. 

 C. Olive, from same locality. 



Type: cT, Coll. Tilly ard. 



Closely related to A. minima Selys* (Java, unique male), 

 from which it differs chiefly as follows: — Only two antenodals 

 (.4 . jninima has three) ; segments 7-10 bright red (8-10 in A. 

 minima) : postocular spots elongate-oval (in A . m-inima, they 

 are in the form of a "7"); superior appendages about as 

 long as segment 10, less curved, and thicker at tips ; also 

 considerably larger size (abdomen of .4. minim,a 13 mm.). 



Loc. cit., p.51. 



