Difference between : and :: in SSH

What is the difference between these two segments of an SSH command, when specifying a remote source or destination directory?

pi@192.168.0.5:/mnt/disk1/Adam/Dropbox/

pi@192.168.0.5::/mnt/disk1/Adam/Dropbox/

In which cases should : be used over ::?

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As far as I'm aware, the double colon syntax is used when connecting to an rsync server without using ssh or rsh as the transport.

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