222 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Somatochlora smithii. 



Corclulia smithii, White, Zool. "Erebus" and "Terror," 



Insects, pi. vi., fig. 2 (no description) ; Hudson, Man. 



N.Z. Entomology, p. 104, pi. 15, fig. 2 (1892). C. nova- 



zealandicB, Brauer, Eeise der " Novara," Neuroptera, 



p. 78, tab. ii., fig. 3-36 (1868). 



Head browny-green in front, the sides yellow. Thorax 

 metallic bronzy-green. Wings hyaline in the male, in the 

 female with a broad spot of pale brownish-yellow behind the 

 pterostigma ; hind wings yellowish at the base ; pterostigma 

 brown in the male, reddish in the female ; triangle of fore 

 wing divided by a nervule, that of the hind wing free ; 7 ante- 

 nodals in the fore wing and 5 in the hind wing. Legs black, 

 the fore femora almost entirely red, the intermediate red on 

 the inside. Abdomen dull-red, posteriorly moniliform in the 

 male, depressed-cylindrical in the female ; a median longi- 

 tudinal band of blackish bronzy-green interrupted at the 

 posterior margins of the segments by a yellow transverse 

 line. Superior anal appendages in the male black, long, 

 acute at the apex, and bent upwards, in the middle converg- 

 ing and subdilated, angled exteriorly. Inferior appendages 

 simple, half the length, triangular, yellow. Anal appendages 

 of the female cylindrical, incurved, acute. Length, 50mm. ; 

 of fore wing, 35 mm. ; of hind wing, 34 mm. 



Locality. — Throughout New Zealand and the Chatham 

 Islands. 



Common. 



Somatochlora grayi. 



.Eyitlieca grayi, de Selys, Synopsis Cordulines, p. 49 (1871). 

 Blale. — Head with the lips yellowish, the face pale-brown, 

 the upper part of the front metallic green. Thorax brown, 

 with metallic-green reflections. Wings slightly tinged, the 

 extreme base ochraceous, especially in the hind wings, where 

 the colours expand along the membranule ; neuration black, 

 including the costa ; pterostigma small, reddish ; triangle 

 traversed by a nervule in the fore wing, free in the hind wing ; 

 three post-trigonal cellules followed by two rows ; the anal 

 margin excavated, but almost filled in by the membranule, 

 which is brownish-grey, paler at the base; 8 ante-nodals 

 in the fore wing. Legs black, the anterior femora and an 

 external band on the intermediate yellowish. Abdomen 

 inflated at the base, a little constricted at the third segment, 

 then broadening and flattening to the eighth, afterwards 

 attenuated ; oreillettes prominent. It is blackish above, ex- 

 cepting the first and second segments, which are yellowish, 

 and the third to the tenth have on each side a broad yellow 

 spot occupying their basal half. Superior anal appendages 



