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the fore wings have a distinct dusky, curved dash from the knob of the stigmal vein which 
extends about half way across the wing; it is not black, merely dusky. Posterior femora 
beneath with eleven teeth, all distinct, the first largest, then 5 and 7, 3 and 9; 2 and 11 
smallest, then 4, then 6, 8 and 10 which are subequal, each not more than half the length of 
1. Coxe green, the tibie dark except at tip, at base broadly ringed with yellow-white. First 
funicle joint much longer than the pedicel, the distal one somewhat wider than long; joints 
2 to 4 rather long, 1 longest. Disk of propodeum without a median carina, shallowly concaved, 
the concavity punctate, without it the surface rugose and sulcate, the middle of the dorso- 
lateral aspect with a conspicuous oval and deep fovea whose long axis is longitudinal; punctures 
of propodeal disk about the same as those of the rest of the thorax. Scutellum smooth and 
shining distad of the transverse line or suture. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 11, 1913. 
Type: No. Hy 3316, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide with 
the caudal femora and the head. 
GENUS PODAGRION Spinola. 
1. PODAGRION OBSCURUM (Westwood). Female. 
Palmon obscurum Westwood. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., IV, pt. 4, p. 260 (1847). 
Australia. 
2. PODAGRION OLENUS (Walker). 
Palmon olenus Walker, 1839, pp. 7-8. 
‘‘Fem.—Corpus longum, angustum, convexum, scitissime squameum, parum nitens, parce 
hirtum: caput transversum, breve, thorace paullo latius; vertex sat latus; frons excavata, 
abrupte declivis: oculi mediocres, non extantes: ocelli vertice triangulum fingentes: antenne 
clavate, crasse, apice quasi truncate, thorace non longiores; articulus 1% sublinearis; 2us 
longicyathiformis; 3us et 4us brevissimi; 5us et sequentes breves, transversi, usque ad clavam 
latescentes: thorax sublinearis: prothorax transversus, subquadratus, sat magnus: mesothoracis 
parapsidum suture non bene determinate: petiolus brevis: abdomen compressum, lve, nitens, 
thorace multo brevius et angustius: oviductus vagine pubescentes, corpore longiores: 
metapedum coxe magne, femora maxima ovata subtus dentata, tibie arcuate: ale medioeres. 
Sp. 1. Pal. Olenus. Fem. Aneo-viridis, antennae fulvae, abdomen subtus fulvum, 
pedes fusco-fulvi, femora viridia, alae limpidae. 
AMneo-viridis: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae fulvae: abdomen cyaneo et cupreo-varium, 
subtus fulvum; oviductus rufus; vaginae nigrae: pedes fulvi; coxae virides; femora viridia; 
tibiae fuscae: alae limpidae. (Corp. long. lin. 2; alar. lin. 2%.) 
Sydney, New South Wales.’’ 
3. PODAGRION SPILOPTERION Cameron. Female; male. 
Length, 3 mm.; ovipositor, 2 mm. 
Dark blue; abdomen dark violaceous, hind tibiz and femora black, tarsi testaceous, 
antennal scape fulvous; wings hyaline, nervures black, a large blackish-violaceous cloud on the 
marginal nervure, commencing near its base and reaching to near the apex, enclosing the 
stigmal nervure, becoming slightly, gradually widened to shortly beyond the middle, then 
roundly narrowed, the sides at the apex rounded, the centre transverse; it extends to the top 
of the apical third. Face closely, finely punctured; the punctures close and regular. Man- 
dibles darker red, brighter in tint at the base. Pro- and mesonotum and scutellum closely 
punctured; the scutellum with more distinct brassy tints; upper part of basal mesopleure 
strongly, obliquely striated, it forming a triangle, bordered below by a keel; the rest of it 
