On Odonata from Queensland. 15 



This makes the third Coccid believed to be found on \j on 

 Loranthace£B ; the others are Diaspis visci, Schr., on Viscum, 

 in Europe, and Pulvinaria dendroyhtlioroi^ Ckll., on Dendro- 

 2)hthoraj in Jamaica. 



Las Criices, New Mexico, U.S.A., 

 May 1894. 



IV. — On a Small Collection of Odonata {Dragonflies) from 

 Queensland^ with Descriptions of Five new Species. By 

 W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant in Zoological 

 Department, British Museum (Natural History), ISouth 

 Kensington. 



The British Museum has lately received one or two collections 

 of insects of various orders from Mr. Gilbert Turner, of 

 Mackay, Queensland, among which were twenty species of 

 dragonflies ; and as five of these appear to be new and others 

 interesting from the locality or otherwise, I thought it might 

 be useful to publish a list of them. 



Libellulidse. 



LlBJELLULiy^. 



Pavtala flavescens. 



Libellula flavescens, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. Suppl. p. 285 (1798). 



An almost cosmopolitan species, found in all parts of the 

 world except Europe. 



Tramea Rosenhergii. 



Tramea Rosenberyii, Brauer, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. "Wien, xvi. p. 564 

 (1866). 



The known localities are Ceram (Brauer), New Caledonia, 

 and Moreton Bay {Brit. JJus.). 



Rhyothemis grapliiptera. 

 Lihellula graphipiera, Eauib. Ins. Nevr. p. 4o (1842). 

 A common Australian species. 



Rlnjotliemis chloe, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 30 millim. ; exp. al. 68 niillim. ; long. pter. 

 2 millim. 



Female. — Body pale greenish bronze ; head above and 



