BY R. J. TILLYARD. 399^ 



2. Rhinocypha tincta Ramb. 



A single male of this species which I now possess, in very bad 

 condition, was taken in 1869 on the Endeavour River, Cooktown, 

 by one of Sir William Macleay's collectors. The species is an 

 exceedingly common one all over Oceania and the Indies, and it 

 is a practical certainty that it must occur at Cape York and 

 Thursday Island ; though the absence of any collections of 

 Odonata from that district accounts for its not being recorded 

 before. 



The specimen I possess is possibly var. semitincta from the 

 degree of suffusion of the wings, but all colouration has been 

 obliterated long ago. It would be useless to attempt to describe 

 it; the description of the type is given by Rambur, and Selysalso 

 has remarks on the species [Ramb., Ins. Nevr. p. 237 (1842); 

 Selys, Syn. Calopt. p. 64 (1853); Mon. Calopt. p. 253 (1854); 

 Bull. Acad. Belg. (2), xxvii. p. 663 (1869); (2), xxxv. p. 490 

 (1873); (2), xlvii, p. 395 (1879)]. 



