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<0N SOME KEMARKABLE AUSTRALIAN 

 LIBELLULIN^. 



By R. J. TiLLYARD, M.A., F.E.S. 

 Part iii. Further Notes on Camacinia othello Tillyard. 



(Plate xvii., fig.3.) 



Since I first published the description of a unique male of this 

 magnificent dragonfly*, a considerable amount of information has 

 been collected about it. My friend, Mr. E. A. C. Olive, of Cook- 

 town, North Queensland, has paid many visits to the locality 

 where I took the type-male, with the result that he has succeeded 

 in securing a splendid series of males, both of mature and 

 immature colouring, and has at last also captured a perfect speci- 

 men of the female. The latter is a most beautiful insect, with a 

 very remarkable scheme of colour-shading on the wings, so that 

 I propose to give, in this paper, a full description of it, supple- 

 mented by a figure. 



The range of the species has also been extended to several 

 widely separated localities. Mr. H. Elgner has taken it at Cape 

 York, and also at Prince of Wales' Island, Torres Straits. Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd has taken it at Port Darwin. Dr. F. Ris, of Rheinau 

 Switzerland, who has taken a great deal of interest in this 

 species, informed me that he had lately seen, at Brussels, some 

 old forgotten lots of dragonflies purchased by de Selys shortly 

 before his death. In one of these collections, from the Solomon 

 Islands, he noticed a beautiful CamaciniaQ "which might well be 



*0a Some Remarkable AustraUan LibeUulince. Part ii., Description of 

 New Species. These Proceedings, 1908, Vol. xxxiii, p. 639, Plate xiv., fig.l. 



