marginal ridge ; thorax smooth ; scutellum large, almost 

 equilateral, the base rather shorter than the sides. 



Above pitchy, cerium of hemelytra and antennae paler ; 

 thorax below blackish, legs castaneous. 



Length 2f lines. 



New Zealand (Richardson, Ross, Sinclair). Type. B.M. 



The type is said to have been taken " on Leptosperm 



Family Sciocorid.e. 



DiCTYOTCS POLYSTICTICUS, n. sp. 



Sciocoris polystictica. White Ms., tab. 7, /. 5. 

 Dictyotus polystictica, Dallas List Hemipt. Ins. I., p. 141, 

 n. 5 (1851). 



Same general form as D. affinis of Dallas, the thorax 

 wider, clypeus distinctly notched ; densely punctured, clay 

 coloured, more brightly above tlmn below ; abdomen black 

 above, marginal ridge spotted with clay colour ; basal 

 two-thirds of wings dusky, costal and internal veins black : 

 head, thorax, and legs below irrorated with fuscous 

 granules ; antennce, basal joints clay coloured, apical joints 

 black. 



Length 4^ lines. 



New Zealand {Sinclair, Hooker.) Type. B.M. 



Family Pent atom ID^. 



Rhopalimoepha obscura. Tctb. 7, fig. 8. 



Rhopalimorpha obscura, Wliite in Dallas, List. Hemipt. 

 Ins. L, p. 293, n. 1 (1851). 



New Zealand {Sinclair, Hooker). Type. B.M. 



ACANTHOSOMA VITTATUM. 



Acanthosoma bimaculatum, JVhite Ms., tab. 7,/. 1. 

 Cimex vittatus, Fuh., Ent. Si/st. IV., p. 104, n. 96 (1794). 

 Acanthosoma vittatum, Dallas, List. Hemipt. Ins. I., 

 p. 307, n. 13 (1851). 

 New Zealand {Ilarl). B.M. 



Family LygjEID^. 

 Nysius Zealandicus. 



Rhopalus Zealandicus, White Ms., tab. 7,/. 6. 



Nysius Zealandicus, Dallas, List. Hemipt. Ins. II., p. 552, 

 n. 1 descr. (1852). 



Nysius (Rhypodes) Zealandicus, Steel, Hemipt. Fabric. I., 

 IX 76. 



Lygajus clavicornis (ad partem). Fab., Ent. Syst. IV., 

 p. 169, n. 117 (1794). 



Coreus clavicornis, Fnh., Syst. Rhyn, p. 201, n. 48 (1803). 



New Zealand {Ross, Sinclair). Type. B.M. 



Family BuuriUyK. 

 Pikates ephippigek. Tab. 7, fig. 7. 



Reduvius (Pirates) ephippiger, White, Dicff. N. Zea. II., 

 App., p. 283, n. 108 (1843). 



Pirates eplrippiger. Walker, Cat. Hemipt. Eeteropt. VII., 

 }). 126, n. 100 (1873). 



Brachysandalus epliippiger, Stal, Ofv. Kongl. Vetcnsk. 

 Akacl. F'orhandl. XXIII.,^. 260. 



New Zealand {Sinclair). Type. B.M. 



The following Hemiptera from New Zealand ai-e also in 

 the collection of the British Museum— 



Gallidea imperialis, Platycoris immarginatus, Pentatoma 

 rilis, Rhaphigaster prasinus, R. Amyoti, Lygcetis pacificus, 

 Lygceus ruficollis,* Rhyparochromus inornatus, Capsus 

 laticinctus {C. ustulatus), Leptomerocoris Maoricus, Crimia 

 attenuata {Mezira Maorica), Aradus thoracicus. Phymata 

 Feredayi & conspicua and Aradus Hochstetteri are desiderata. 



Order Hemipteka (Homoptera). 



Family Aphrophorid^. 

 (Apheophorides, Am. & Serv.) 



Ptyelus subvirescens, u. sp. 



Aphrophora subvirescens, Wliite Ms., tab. 7,/. 9. 

 Ptyelus subvirescens, Wcdker, List. Homopt. Ins. III., p. 

 718, n. 33 (1851). 



Same general form as P. bifasciatus ; ochraceous above 

 and below ; legs and hemelytra pale greenish testaceous ; 

 wings hyaline white. 



Length, 3i lines : expanse, 6-J lines. 



New Zealand {Ross) ; Aucldand {Bolton). Type. B.M. 



P. pingens of Walker may possibly be a variety of this 

 species. 



Ptyelus trimaculatus, n. sp. 



Aphrophora trimaculata. White Ms., tab. 7,/. 10, 

 Ptyelus trimaculatus, Walker, List. Homopt. Ins. Ill, ^. 

 718, n. 32 (1851). 



Similar in form to the preceding, the head rather 

 narrower and consequently more transverse ; dark testa- 

 ceous ; the prothorax bordered on each side by a black 

 spot ; hemelytra jntchy, becoming paler at the margins : 

 an oblique subbasal semicircular streak (curving from near 

 base to middle of costal area), an almost semicircular patch 

 on costal margin towards apex, and a diffused triangidar 

 spot on inner margin near external angle, all creamy 

 whitish ; wings hyaline white, irridescent, the nerveless 

 border slightly fuscous, veins blackish ; legs pale testaceous, 

 tarsal joints black-edged. 



Length, 3i lines ; expanse, 7^ lines. 



New Zealand {Sinclair, Hooker) ; Auckland {Bolton). 



Tj-pe. B.M. 



Not a Ly(ja 



