130 Proceedings. 



Obthoptera. 



I have not seen Brunner and Redtenbacher's monograph of the Phasniidce (1), 

 but I believe that, up to the present, 589 pages and 27 plates have appeared. In Karny's 

 revision of the Conocephalidce (2) a new species is described, Xiphidium brunneri. Ac- 

 cording to Kirby, this is properly Conocephalus brunneri. Shelford ^) notices Poly- 

 zosteria novceseelandice (p. 279. pi. 7. f. 12). Cutilia sedilloti and brunni (p. 292), and 

 Temnelytra undidiintta (p. 304, pi. 9, f. 36). Shelford cites a note from Walker that 

 Polyzosteria eats bugs found under bark of trees. 



Mallophaga. 



The following parasites of the kea are described by Kellogg (4) : Lipeurus circum- 

 fasciatus, var. kea ; Colpocephalum setosum (originally described from a ^mlture) ; and 

 Menopon fulvofasciatum, var. kea (the typical form originally from a buzzard). 



Hemiptera. 



Kirkaldy (5) enumerates the known species of New Zealand Aleyrodidce, with their 

 food-plants, &c. The same author describes (6) Cenchrea maorica, a new homopteron 

 from New Zealand, from specimens collected by Messrs. A. Hamilton and G. Howes, and 

 notes the occurrence of Siphanta acuta in New Zealand, a specimen having been sent 

 him from Auckland by ]\Ir. Hamilton. The cimicid Pcecilmetis gravis, described from 

 New Zealand in 1781 by Fabricius, is noted as being Australian and not New Zealand. 



The same author A\Tites on the genus OEchalia (7), incidentally describing a new 

 subgenus for the Hawaiian species, the Australo-New Zealand CE. consocialis being left 

 for the typical subgenus. A summary of the habits of the latter is made. 



Renter (8) describes two new mirids (capsids), Oxychilophora marginicoUis and 

 Lygus plebejus. 



Coleoptera. 



Broun (9) has described a considerable number of Coleoptera, and the series is ap- 

 parently not yet finished. Champion (10) remarks (p. 123) that the genus Dio'edimorpha, 

 Broim, will probably prove to be inseparable from Stenotrupis. Donisthorpe (11) has 

 a note on the question as to whether Trogolinus anglicus has been introduced into 

 England from New Zealand ; Fowler, in a note attached, considers that T. unicolor is 

 distinct from T. anglicus. 



Enderlein (12) describes sixteen species of OurculionidcB from the Falkland Isles, 

 forming two closely related genera, one new, the other characteristic of the subantarctic 

 region, and consisting of a number of species from Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Chile, 

 as well as some from a more northern fauna. The Falklandic species are all endemic, 

 and only a few species have a close relation to continental forms. The paper also includes 

 a list of twelve others on the Antarctic land Arthropoda by the same author. 



Schwarz (14) has described Crepidomenus bruneus (p. 85), and the same author in 

 another contribution (13) describes Panspoeus biguttatus (p. 148). 



According to Gestro's catalogue (23), just published, four species of Physodidce are 

 found in New Zealand (see Index Famife N.Z., 167). They are : Rhysodes pensus, R. 

 arcuaius (= aterrimus = broimi), R. luscus (— eminens = orhitosus), and CUnidium (1) 

 proprius, 



Lepidoptera. 



The seventh volume of Hampson's " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalcence'' (15) 

 was published in 1908, probably in December. It deals with a portion of the 

 Acronycti7ice. 



Only one sjiecies is figured — viz., BityJa pallida (p. 42, pi. cix, fig. 6). 



Hymenoptera. 



Morley (19) provides some synonym}' in the Ichneumonidce. He maintains that 

 Proloboides sollicitorius and deceptus are from New Zealand, not from Britain. It is, 

 however, by no means certain that these species are endemic in New Zealand, and thus 

 maj' actualh' occur in Britain. The same author (20) has published some notes on 

 certain Ichneumonidce, which can scarcely be reproduced here. Morley says, " It may 

 be well to mention that the antipodean insects were taken by Sir Joseph Banks while 

 on his memorable voyage round the world with Captain Cook ; most of them when the 

 latter was stranded at Endeavour River, where Cooktown now stands, in 1770, and where 

 he had to remain for repairs for foiu- months." 



Cockerell (22) has described a new species of Prosopis {P. maoriana), adding a table 

 for the separation of the six New Zealand species (313-14). 



