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 ^schnina are insects of notoriously wide distribution and 

 great power of wing. 



Tribus Agbionina. 



15. Lestes Colensoms, White. 



Agrion Cokiisonis, White, Zoology of Voyage of ' Erebus ' and ' TeiTor/ 

 pt. xi. pi. \\. fig. 3 (c?). Lestes Colensonis, Selys, Syn. Agrion. 

 (Lestes), p. 44.* 



Genus Telebasis, Selys f. 



16. Telebasis zealandicaX^ n. sp. 



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

 cum nasi margiue labroque (macula mediana nigra excepta) san- 

 guineum ; ore flavido. Pronotum nigrum, marginibus maculisque 

 tribus sanguineis ; margine postico fere semicirculari. Thorax 

 supra niger, inter alas sanguineus, Hneis duabus sanguineis ; 

 ad latera rubescens, Hneis duabus brevibus ad alarum bases 

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

 termiuatis. Abdomen sanguineum, ad apicem obscurius ; macula 

 quadrata ad basin segment! basalis, juncturis liueaque 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 vitreae ; pterostigmate rufo-brunneo vel 

 flavido. 



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

 mutato; labro postice e\ddenter nigro-marginato. Pedes palb- 

 diores ; femoribus supra infuscatis. Abdomen supra nigrum, 

 juncturis (ad apicem exceptis) flavis ; infra flavum. 



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

 long, alse 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 antennae 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 Agiionines,' Z)""^ legion, p. 4. 

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

 postcostal nervule. 



I Be Selys, MS. 



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