488 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE FAMILY LIBELLTJLIDjE, 



male and several females at Kuranda; the male was unfortunately 

 destroyed by ants, but I still have the females. The following is the 

 description: — Q. Total length 22-24 mm.; abdomen 14-15 mm.; 

 wings, fore 22-5 mm., hind 21 mm. Wings tinged with yellow 

 from triangle to nodus and slightly beyond; pterostigma rather 

 short and thick, 1*6 mm., black. Membranule nil. Triangle of 

 hindwings placed beyond the arculus. Nodal Indicator^ 8 6-7 

 Head somewhat hairy, dull olive-brown, paler on clypeus;' 7-8 5-6 

 labium straw-colour. Thorax: Prothorax brownish. Meso- 

 and metathorax dull olive-brown above; sides glaucous, paler 

 yellowish-brown, crossed by two fairly broad parallel brown bands. 

 Abdomen cylindrical, short, 1-2 very slightly enlarged. Colour: 

 1 brownish; 2 brownish, with a transverse basal black band; 3, 

 central portion black, a narrow transverse yellowish-brown band 

 at either end, sutures black; 4, basal two-fifths yellowish-brown, 

 rest black; 5, basal one-fifth black, central two-fifths yellowish- 

 brown, rest black; 6 black, crossed by a narrow irregular central 

 transverse band of yellowish-brown; 7 dull yellow, a transverse 

 black band at either end; 8 black, a small yellowish spot low 

 down on each side; 9-10 black; 10 projecting below outwards 

 beyond the appendages into a black spine carrying some longish 

 hairs; there is also, above this, a tubercle under the appendages. 

 Appendages very short, 0*6 mm., subconical, points not very 

 sharp but ending with a short stiff hair; separated at bases, very 

 dark brown (Plate xliv., fig.6). ] 



The above description is taken from the dried specimen. If I 

 remember aright, the dull browns of the dead insect were a dull 

 olive-green in the living insect. 



This curious dragonfly flies rather high up around small trees 

 and bushes on the banks of densely wooded jungle creeks. It 

 seldom descends low enough to be caught. It is very fond of 

 sitting on leaves or twigs of trees with wings much depressed. 

 If disturbed, it indulges in a bewildering up-and-down flight, 

 finally rising high up into the trees. 



It can be distinguished at once from Nannophlebia Lorquini, 

 an insect of somewhat similar size and habits, by the position of 



