Insects of New Zealand. 35 



that gentleman also collected in the neighbourhood of Mel- 

 bourne, there is no reason to suspect any confusion of locality. 

 The iEschnina are insects of notoriously wide distribution and 

 great power of wing. 



Tribus Agrionina. 

 Genus Lestes, Leach. 



15. Lestes Colensonis, White. 



Agrion Colensonis, White, Zoology of Voyage of ' Erebus ' and ' Terror,' 

 pt. xi. pi. vi. fig. 3 (3). Lestes Colensonis, Selys, Syn. Agrion. 

 (Lestes), p. 44 * 



Genus Telebasis, Selys f. 



16. Telebasis zealandica J, n. sp. 



$ . Caput supra nigrum, longe brunneo-pilosum, antice et postice 

 cum nasi margine labroque (macula median a nigra excepta) san- 

 guineum ; ore flavido. Pronotum nigrum, marginibus maculisque 

 tribus sanguineis ; margine postico fere semicirculari. Thorax 

 supra niger, inter alas sanguineus, lineis duabus sanguineis ; 

 ad latera rubescens, lineis duabus brevibus ad alarum bases 

 nigris. Pedes sanguinei, nigro-spinosi, tarsorum apicibus nigro- 

 terminatis. Abdomen sanguineum, ad apicem obscurius ; macula 

 quadrata ad basin segmenti basalis, juncturis lineaque utrinque 

 apicem versus nigris ; segmento ultimo supra in medio exciso ; 

 appendicibus superioribus parvis, sanguineis, intus tuberculo 

 nigro instructis ; inferioribus elongatis, subforcipatis, sanguineis, 

 nigro terminatis. Alse vitrea3 ; pterostigmate rufo-brunneo vel 

 flavido. 



$ . Caput thoraxque fere ut in J , sed colore sanguineo in flavum 

 mutato; labro postice evidenter nigro-margina to. Pedes palli- 

 diores ; femoribus supra infuscatis. Abdomen supra nigrum, 

 juncturis (ad apicem exceptis) flavis ; infra flavum. 



$ . Long. corp. 14-15'", long, abdom. 11-12'"; exp. alar. 16-17'", 

 long, alas postic. 8-8^"'. $ . Long. corp. 15'", long, abdom. 11|'" ; 

 exp. alar. 19'", long, alas postic. 9'". 



Male. Head and thorax above black, with long brownish 

 hairs. Hinder and anterior margins of the head, the front 

 margin of the nasus, and the labrum wholly (excepting a black 

 spot in the middle) red ; under lip yellowish ; second joint of 

 the antenna? red, black at the apex. Pronotum with the 

 margins and three discal spots red ; posterior margin nearly 



t The characters of Telebasis are briefly indicated in a note appended 

 to the introduction to his ' Synopsis des Agrionines,' 5 me legion, p. 4. 

 The chief character is that the wings are petiolated up to the first basal 

 postcostal nervule. 



\ DeSelvs,MS. 



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