582 ON SOME AUSTRALIAN ANISOPTERA, 



Colour dark chocolate-brown to black, marked as follows with 

 green— 1, green with two basal brown spots; 2, a fine dorsal cross 

 made of four separate parts, of which the basal upright is sub- 

 triangular, the rest being lines; an apical transverse band; sides 

 largely green; 3 6, black, with a pair of large apical spots nearly- 

 meeting dorsally; 7, similar but with smaller spots; 8-10 black. 

 A-ppendrnjes 1 mm., pointed, black. Ovipositor ending in a semi- 

 circular cutting edge armed with about fourteen serrated spines, 

 and pi'ojecting slightly beyond end of abdomen. 



^a6. — Kuranda, Cairns, Cooktown, Herberton, and Atherton, 

 N.Q. December to January. 



Types: ^^, Coll. Tillyard((J, Kuranda, January, 1905, taken 

 by myself; $, Kuranda, January, 1908, taken by Mr. F. P. 

 Dodd). 



The series of six males and three females in my collection, 

 shows considerable variation in size. 



Subfamily PETALURiNiE. 



10. Petalura pulcherrima, n.sp. 



$. Total length 104, abdomen 77, forewing 58, hindwing 57, 

 expanse of wings 122 mm. 



Wings: neuration black, strong; pterostigma narrow, black, 

 forewing 11, hindwing 12 mm. Head: eyes nearly black, 2mm. 

 apart across occiput; ocelli conspicuous; antennce 4 mm., slender, 

 black; vertex and base oi front black;/?-o»/! yellow, with a large flat 

 triangular black patch next clypeus; postclypeus very dark brown, 

 with a yellow patch on each side; aiitedypeus very dark brown; 

 lahrum bright yellow, boi'dered with black along mouth; gencB 

 yellow; labium yellowish (Plate lxii.,fig.l3). Thorax: prothorax 

 very narrow, hairy, black, with a conspicuous narrow yellow collar 

 behind. Meso- and metathorax dark brown, with a pair of sub- 

 triangular curved yellowish dorsal bands close up to dorsal ridge 

 (Plate Ixii., fig. 14); sides brown, with two broad parallel straight 

 yellow bands. Legs black, large, strong; measurements of femur, 

 tibia and tarsus: fore, 9, 9, 4-5; middle, 12, 9, 5; hind, 16, 11, 

 5-5 mm. respectively. Abdomen slender; breadth at 1-2, 



