188 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE FAMILY AGRIONIDjE, 

 7. PSEUDAGRION IGNIFER, n Sp. 



<§. Total length, 42 mm.; abdomen, 35 mm.; wings, fore, 25mm., 

 hind 23*5 mm. 



Wings generally hyaline, but sometimes tinged with brown, 

 especially towards the pterostigma. Pterostigma - 7 mm., 



rhomboidal, brown. Nodal Indicator 

 nodal of all the wings not continuous. 



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H e a d. — Epicranium black behind, front brilliant rust-colour, 

 crossed by a short black transverse line in the middle, and 

 bordered below, next the clypeus, by a second black line. Eyes 

 black; ocelli placed so that the front ocellus is just on the edge 

 of the rust-colour. Antenncv black, basal joints brown. Clypeus 

 and labrum brilliant i"ust-colour. Labium and mandibles pale 

 dirty brownish. Mouth edged with black. 



Thorax. — Prothorax black, with a bluish-brown on the sides. 

 Meso- and metathorax black, with a pair of brown humeral 

 stripes; the sides and underside of mature specimens covered with 

 a bluish-grey bloom. Scuta and scutella covered with bluish 

 bloom. Legs black. 



Abdomen thin, cylindrical; 1-2 and 8-10 slightly thickened. 

 Colour, black; 1, and sometimes also 8, covered with bluish 

 bloom. Underside dull grey or blackish. 



Appendages. — Superior 0*5 mm., very short and blunt, 

 divergent, black with a brownish central spot above. Inferior 

 02 mm , rough, separate, very blunt, brownish. (8ee Piate xvii., 

 fig. la). 



Q. Total length, 44mm.; abdomen, 36mm.; wings, fore 27'5mm., 

 hind 26 mm. 



Wings. — Pterostigma 09 mm., larger and paler than in £. 

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Head — Epicranium brown, a small black slanting ray 

 reaching from each of the back ocelli to the eye, a short black 

 central line in front of the front ocellus. Eyes black, with a dull 



