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reddish purple, but elsewhere marbled with blackish grey ; the 

 cross-veinlets in the lighter spaces bordered more or less narrowly 

 with this same colouring. 



Imago ^ (dried). — Notum and legs raw umber or light pitch- 

 brown, opaque at the extreme tips of the fore femur and fore tibia ; 

 the fore tarsus matches the tibia in tint. Abdomen and forceps dark 

 pitch or bistre-brown ; the markings faded. Setas medium warm 

 sepia brown, with the distinct joinings blackish ; some of the 

 alternate joinings indistinct or not coloured ; the mediam seta 

 lacking. Basal joint in the forceps-limbs compressed, narrowed 

 somewhat suddenly after the acute end of the inferior dilatation. 

 Penis-lobes contiguous to each other, concave beneath towards the 

 line of contact, up-curved, narrowed and sloped off towards their 

 truncate tips. Wings vitreous with black neuration ; fore-wing, in 

 the marginal and submarginal areas, tinted with transparent raw 

 umber or brown amber ; cross-veinlets of the same areas, narrowly 

 set off with black, sliowing strongly, and a few of them (both near 

 the subcostal node and again midway beyond these towards the 

 apex), suffused by a small dark greyish cloud that extends from the 

 costa to just below the radius. The cross-veinlets of the marginal 

 area, all simple, number about six before and sixteen beyond the 

 bulla. Length of wing 10 — 12 ; outer setaD 17 mm. 



Hah. Wellington {Hudson) ; 1 sub. (No. 47) and 1 im. 

 Its nearest ally seems to be A. australis. Walk., a 

 Tasmanian species, which has forceps of a similar pattern, 

 but dark-bauded femora and more numerous cross-veinlets 

 ia the pterostigmatic region of the fore-wing. 



Atalophlebia dentata (Plate X, fig. 3, detail). 



Lep'ophlebia dentata, Etn., Trans. Ent. Soc. London 

 (1871), p. 80 (^ and $ im.), pi. iv, 18, 18a— c (details). 



Atalophlebia dentata, id.. Trans. Linn. Soc. London (2), 

 Zool., vol. iii, p. 88 (subim. and im.) [1884]. 



Resembles the preceding species in the form of the forceps, 

 figured with the penis, etc., in 1871. Tiie penis-lobes, contiguous 

 with each other throughout, are elongate triangular and thin with 

 their outer edge thickened. The wings of the subimago are without 

 pale markings, and the femora without dark bands. Fig. 3 now 

 given shows in fine stipple the extent of the yellow amber tint, and 

 in coarser stipple that of the bistre-brown of the description of 

 1884 ; the specimen appears to have had the darker tint changed in 

 the killing-bottle to reddish purple towards the apex of the wing ; 



