56 MR. R. J. TILLYARD : LIFE-HISTORIES AND 



large pale dorsal spots on 8-10 ; 4-6 with three small dorsal spots each, in a 

 triangle. 



L a r V a 1 T y p e : ? Coll. Tillyard. (Stanwell Park, N.S.W.) 



The second exuviae, also $ , from Guy Fawkes, measures 35 mm. and is 

 darker. 



Habitat. The type-form is found in Victoria. The smaller and very 

 beautiful vslgq pulchra occurs rarely on the Blue Mountains and coastal spurs, 

 N.S.W. ; it was described by me from specimens taken at Lily Vale, on the 

 Illawarra Line. A fine series taken by me at Guy Fawkes, at 4000 feet, 

 averages as large as the type-form, but possesses, in the male, an inferior 

 appendage quite as strongly truncate as in race pulchra. The second ? 

 exuvise belongs to this series. I have also taken two very handsome and 

 darkly coloured males at Mount Tambourine, S. Queensland, whose coloration 

 reminded one exactly of that of J. /orcipato. 



The female of this species uses its very long ovipositor for placing its eggs 

 in the tissues of mosses and other small plants growing on damp rocks, 

 usually a foot or more above the summer level of the water. 



De Selys originally described this species from a unique female, locality 

 simply " Australia.''^ Martin added the description of the male from a 

 Victorian specimen. 



Types: S Coll. Martin, ? Coll. Selys. 'R.^cq pulchra, $ ? Coll. Tillyard. 



AUSTEO^SCHNA ANACANTHA, Tillyard. 



Austroa'schna anacantJia, Tillyard, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxxii. 1907, 

 p. 732 ; His, Die Fauna S.-W. Australiens, 1910, p. 432. 



AustrocescJina aspersa, Martin, ^schnines. Coll. Selys, fasc. xix. p. 96. 



The habits and appearance of this species have been already fully dealt 

 with by me (see reference above). It is confined to the south-west corner of 

 Australia, and is undoubtedly the western geminate representative of an 

 original eastern form which later on gave rise to both A. parvistigma and 

 A. multipunctata. Mr. G. F. Berthoud found it abundant at Waroona on 

 Jan. 4tb, 1912, and collected a fine series of larval exuviae, which he kindly 

 sent me. 



Larva. — Total length 33 mm. (average), greatest breadth 8 mm. across 

 eyes. Head. — 5 mm. ; eyes rather large ; postocular lobes not prominent, 

 rounded, somewhat crenulate. Labium. — Mentum 5'5 x 4 mm., reaching 

 to between pro- and mesocoxse, where it narrows to 2'7 mm. (Plate 6. fig. 8). 

 Median lobe slightly convex (with very slight median depression), carrying a 

 row of short hairs and a pair of very small tubercles. Lateral lobes narrow, 

 truncate, outer apical angle rounded, inner with very small tooth ; inner 

 border distinctly crenulate ; movable hook 1"2 mm., sharp (Plate 5. fig. 6). 

 T h o r a x. — Prothorax 1*7 x 4*7 mm., with one pair of blunt dorso-lateral and 

 two pairs of sharp sublateral spines. Meso- and metathorax fairly smooth, 



