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DRAGONFLIES FROM AUSTRALIA AXD TASMANIA, 



General body-eolouration duller: froiis and face with scarcely 

 any metallic purplish colouring. 



Abdomen very slender, cylindrical. Segs. 1-2, ochreous, 

 with a touch of black apieally: 3-7, with the basal half ocln-eous, 

 the apical half black; 8, black, with ochreous base; 9-10, black. 



Appendages very different from those of C. py\im(fa, 

 Superior 1"2 nnn., black, diverging, tips clubbed; each appendage 

 carries a small inferior tooth about half-way; inferior 0*8 mm., 

 subtriangular, dark brown, tip upcurved and fairly pointed. 

 (Plate xxiii., tigs.9-10). 



Text-fig. 6. 

 Wings, of Co rdi I /eph2/a diren/en-s, n.sp., ^. (Hind wing 2H mm.). 



^. y'ofaJ Ipiigth, 31 "5; abdomen, '26'b\ foreivinc/, 27; hindwing, 

 26 mm. Closely resembles the male. Pterosfiyma very tliick in 

 forewing. Ahdornen slender (much slenderer than in 9 ^^ f'- 

 jyyymam), cylindrical, the ochreous markings more definite than 

 in (^. Valvula vnlv(e almost obsolete. Appendayef^ (V-tmm., 

 black, bluntly pointed. 



Types, ^9, in Coll. Tillyard. (Hornsby, X.8.W., taken in 

 cop., resting upon a tree-trunk, May 8th, 1916). 



Hah. — Upper end of Old Man's Valle\', Hornsby. Eiglit 

 males and two females were taken during May, 1916. The 

 species was looked for again in 1917, but without success. The 

 much commoner C. 2^yymcea Selys, occurs with it, but is nearly 



