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OCEANIC 30 

 NEW ZEALANDIAN 7 

 PAPUAN 12 



Figure 5. — Distribution of tingid species by faunal subregions. 



Stal from the neo tropics into the Hawaiian Islands for the "biological 

 control" of the noxious lantana plant, previously imported there as 

 a decorative flowering shrub from Mexico. Since then, this tingid 

 has been released in numbers for the same purpose in India, Australia, 

 Fiji, the Philippines, and islands of the South Pacific and Indian 

 Oceans. Teleonemia is an indigenous American genus and records 

 of its occurrence in Oceanic, Oriental, Australian, Papuan, Malagasy, 

 and Ethiopian subregions are now all referable to T. scrupulosa. 

 The species, formerly described from Asia and Africa as members 

 of the genus Teleonemia, have all been transferred to other genera 

 during the past two decades. 



Caloloma uhleri Drake and Bruner, originally described from the 

 West Indies, seems to be an accidentally introduced species from Aus- 

 tralia. During the past decade, three small lots of C. uhleri have been 

 identified from Queensland. As no specimen of this species has been 

 seen from insular America since its characterization, it appears 

 doubtful that it has been able to establish itself in the Lesser Antilles. 



The genus Dictyonota of the Old World is represented solely in the 

 Nearctic by the unintentionally imported species D. tricornis (Schrank) 

 (described as variety americana ParshlejO from Europe. This species 



