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DRAGONFLIES FROM AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA, 



'Colour brilliant metallic j^'reen; scape of aiitemia j-ellovv... 



S. irtyer.si wtytrsi Selj's. 



Colour black or l^roiize-black; .scape of antetuia black 



S. ii'ti/er-si )ii(/rt><ctn.'<, ii.sub^;p. 



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Text-fig. 7. 

 of Sf/n/estts weytrsi >i'tyti'xl Selys, o, (32 mm.), (above); and 

 Synlestes i<elysi, n.sp. , $^ (28 mm.), (below). 



Synlestes weyersi Selys. (Plate xxiii., ftg.ll; Text-figs. 7, 8r/). 

 This very coiiiiiioii but beautiful species occurs throughout 

 Victoria, and in many parts of New 8outh Wales; in particular, 

 the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands, the iJorrigo 

 Plateau, and the New England district, ranging up to 5,00(J feet 

 at Ebor. Average measurements: total length, ^ 60, 9 ''•^! ^'^" 

 dumen, $ 50, 9 \o; forewing, $ 32, 9 35; hindwing, $ 31, 9 34 

 ]inn. The wing-venation is shown in Text-fig.7 (upper figure), 

 the appendages of the male in Plate xxiii., fig. 11. 



6r(. Svnlestes weyersi nigrescens, n.subsp. (Text-fig. 8(6). 



Size about the same as, or a little smaller than, the type-furm, 

 the wings distinctly more pointed at the tips. Fffro^tiy 

 shorter and narrower tlian in type-form, in $ 1-8 mm., coverii 

 3-4 cellules {rf. Text-figs. '6a and 86); usually darker than ii 

 type-form. 



Head: ('ijes black; epicfaainni, froits^ clypenx^ and bihrtiDi 

 nearly black, with deep metallic green reflections; antctin.((^ black, 

 with no yellow on basal segment; ijeiuv and labinin pale yellow. 



Thorax dull blackish. Prothorax with a fine yellow line on 



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