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MEMOIR ON A FEW HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERA 

 FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



(Plate xliii.) 



This memoir records the Heteroptera collected by Mr. A. 

 Koebele and Dr. R. C. L. Perkins in Queensland, and by Mr. 

 Koebele in Kew South Wales. These expeditions were carried 

 out under the auspices of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Associa- 

 tion at Honolulu, for the purpose of discovering and forwarding 

 predators and parasites for the control of certain insect pests of 

 sugar cane in the Hawaiian Islands; and the resulting collections 

 are preserved in the cabinets of the Division of Entomology. The 

 Homoptera have already been worked out.* The Heteroptera 

 were not specially collected, and were merely a side issue; never- 

 theless I am able to add, as I believe, seven new genera and 

 twenty-five new species. 



The Plate has been prepared by Mr. W. E. Chambers, 

 Illustrator of the Station. 



The captures are as follows, novelties in italics : — 



CiMiciDiE : Stictocarenus sp., Panaetius lobulatus, Cuspicona 

 thoracica, Testrica rudis. 



PYRRHOCORiDiE : Syncrotus circumscriptus. 



GEOCORiDiE : Graptostethus cardinalis, Cymus vuUurnus, 

 Nysius vinitor, Phaenacantha australice, Pachygrontha austrina^ 

 Phlegyas vuUurnus, Macropes anthi^opojyhagorum, Oxycarenus 

 lifuanus, Geocoris roseohistriatus, G. capricornutas, G. luhra, 



* 1906, Bull. Ent. Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assoc, i. 269-479, Pl.xxi.- 

 xxxiii.; 1907, op, cit. iii., 1, Pl.i.-xx. and figs. 



