224 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Genus ^schna, Fabricius. 



Eyes sinuated behind. The inferior appendage generally 

 entire, sometimes quadritid. Anal margin of the hind wings 

 of the male generally projecting, with the posterior margin 

 sinuated. 



Distribution. — Widely spread in both hemispheres. 



^schna brevistyla. 



^schna brevistyla, Eambur, Hist. Nevropteres, p. 205 (1842). 



Face yellowish, with the margin of the upper lip and an 

 I-shaped mark on the vertex black. Thorax reddisli-brown, 

 with two very oblique yellow lines on each side. Wings hya- 

 line, or slightly tinged with reddish, the costal nervure reddish 

 or yellow ; pterostigma ]"eddish-brown, narrow, longer in the 

 female. Legs black, the femora reddish at their bases. Abdo- 

 men inflated at the base, then constricted ; reddish-brown, 

 with numerous yellow spots. Superior anal appendages in the 

 male narrow, those of the female very short. Length, 65 mm. ; 

 of the abdomen, 46 mm. ; of the fore wings, 42 mm. ; of the 

 hind wings, 42 mm. 



Locality. — Eastern Australia and New Zealand. 



Tribe GOMPHINA. 



Eyes large, separated ; apices of the triangles of the wings 

 directed outwards ; the quadrangle without nervules ; wings 

 unequal, the hinder pair broader. 



Genus Ukopetada, Selys (1857). 



The lower lip notched in the centre ; occiput without any 

 horns ; eyes elongated ; bristle of the antennae articulated. 

 Sides of the thorax without any salient points. Pterostigma 

 long ; all the triangles of the wings divided, the basiliar space 

 not divided. Discoid al triangle of the fore wings with the 

 superior side as long as or longer than the interior side, and 

 divided into three cellules. Superior anal appendages of the 

 male flattened, narrowed at the base ; inferior appendages 

 rather shorter, not sloped. 



Distribution. — New Zealand. 



Uropetala carovei. 



Petalura carovei, White, Zoo\. "Erebus" and "Terror," Insects, 

 pi. 6, fig. 1. Uropetala carovei, Selys, Mon. Gomphines, 

 p. 370, pi. 19, fig. 2 (1857). 



Front of the head and occiput pale-yellow, the vertex black. 

 Thorax black, with two large yellow spots on the pronotum 

 and two smaller ones on the mesonotum ; an oblique yellow 

 band on each side, meeting on the back between the two pairs 



