187(3. J 105 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF HEMIPTERA- 

 HETEROPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 



BY F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., F.L.S. 



For the following and other species of Hemiptera, I ain indebted 

 to Captain Broun. 



Plociomerus Douglasi, n. sj). 



Ferrufjineo-nif/ricans, capilUs palUdis parce vest if us ; antennis, tu- 



herculis antenniferis ad apicem, pronoti Johi postlci anr/ulis laternlibus 



hemeli/ti'is, rostro pedibusque plus minus Jlavescentihus ; antennarum 



articuli primi dimidio hasaJi et apicc, articuU secundi apice, articuli 



tertii hasi apiceque, liemehjtrorum punctis maculisque, annulo Jatissimo 



in medio femorum anticorum, annulo Into (qjicem versus femorum inter- 



medior urn poster iorumque, necnon apicibus tibiarum omnium, tarsorum 



articulis tertiis ungiticulisque, nigricantibus autferrugineo-nigricantibics; 



mcmbrana haud abbreviata, brunneo-fusco-variegata, venis nonnullis albi- 



cantibus ; antennarum articulo tertio leviter incrassato. 



Long. 5 — 5| mm. 



(^ . Tibiis anticis subius pone medium dcnie acuto armatis, apicem 



versus conipresso-incrassatis. 



Patria : Nova Zelandia. {In museo attctoris.) 



Head black, finely punctured, clothed with pale yellow hairs. Anteiinso brownish- 

 yellow -with paler hairs : 1st joint, basal half and apex narrowly brownish ; 2nd joint 

 rather darker at extreme apex ; 3rd joint fuscous at base and apex, slightly incras- 

 sated upwards ; 4th broken off. Anteniiiforous tubercle yellowi.-h at apex. Eyes 

 and ocelli reddish-brown. Rostrum yellowit^h-brown, 1st joint fuscous at base and 

 apex. Pronotum with a few long pale hairs, dull reddish-black, somewhat darker at 

 the sides and in the middle ; strongly constricted, the anterior lobe about twice as 

 long as posterior and somewhat globose ; posterior lobe strongly punctured, the pos- 

 terior two-thirds of the side margins pale yellow, interrupted at the outer angle by 

 reddish-black ; hind margin slightly sinuate above the scutellum. Scutellum dull 

 blackish, reddish on each side of the centre of the disc, strongly punctured. Ster- 

 num reddish-black. Coxfe blackish ; trochanters yellowish ; anterior femora shining 

 black, broadly yellow at base, and narrowly at apex, armed below near apex with 

 two strong and some smaller teeth. Anterior tibiaj of the S with a tooth beyond 

 the middle below, and flatly incrassated upwards towards the apex. Intermediate 

 and hind femora yellow, with a broad reddisli-blaek band near the apex ; all the tibise 

 and tarsi yellow, with the apices of the tibiae fuscous, and the 3rd joints of the tarsi 

 and claws reddish-fuscous. Elytra yellowish, with a few long pale hairs. Clavus 

 with the tlu'ce rows of punctures reddish-black. Corium with reddish- black punc- 

 tures, and with a small spot near the base (sometimes almost obsolete), a larger 

 square one about the middle of the anterior margin, a still larger triangular one 

 filling up the anterior apical angle, and an irregular streak enclosing the inner apical 

 angle, reddish-black. Membrane variegated with brownish-fV.scous ; some of the 



