274 May, 



Hong Kong. From Herr Mess, of Munich. I liave since received, 

 for examination, a Japanese specimen, from tlie Berlin Museum, 

 through E. von Harold. 



Derobeaciifs aspeeatus, n. sp. 



Elongato-ohlongiis, supra oninino intricato-punctatus, nitidus, niger, elytris 

 maris interdiwi ca stands ; thorace utrinque equaliter trispiinoso ; elytris nulla modo 

 costatis, apice ad suturam spinosis ; antennis $ corpore paullulum brevioribus ; 

 articulis 1 — 3 asperato-punctatis, 3 stiprd sulcata, 4 — 5 laterlbus, 6 — 11 omnino, sub- 

 tiliter acute sfrigosis : pedibus asperato-granulatis et piinctatis : corpore subtiis Icevi, 

 pectore lateribus punctatis et fulvo-pilosis. Long. $ , 1 in. 9 lin. ? , 2 in. 3 lin. 



Costa Eica, Mt. Irazu, alt. 6-7000 ft. Sogers. Coll. Grodman 

 and Salvin, and H. "W. Bates. 



SxNONTMiCAL NoTE. — Parancecus OUvieri, J. Thomson, Eev. et Mag. 

 Zool., 1877, p. 270, = AjjotropJms simplicicoUls, H. AY. Bates, Ent. 

 M. M., vol. xii (1875), pp. 48-49. 



Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town : 

 April, 1878. 



LIST OF THE SEMIPTJERA OP NEW ZEALAND. 

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



"When sufficient material has accumulated, I hojie to be able to 

 publish a Synopsis of the Semiptera of New Zealand ; but, as in the 

 meantime I can (thanks to the kindness of Mr. C. M. "Wakefield and 

 Captains Broun and Hutton) add considerably to the list presented in 

 1873 to the Otago Institute by Captain F. W. Hutton, it may not be 

 out of place to give now an account of our present knowledge of the 

 New Zealand Hemiptera. 



HETEBOPTEBA. 



Tribe SCTJTATA. 

 In Captain Ilutton's list referred to above, fifteen species of this 

 tribe are reported. The next and only other list of New Zealand 

 Ilemiptera that I have seen is in the concluding part of the Insects of 

 the voyage of the Erebus and Terror, published by Mr. Butler in 1874, 

 in which eleven Scutatce are mentioned, two of the names in Captain 

 Hutton's list having been reduced to synonyms, and two others not 

 being mentioned at all. In the following list, four of the names of 

 species mentioned by Captain Hutton are considered as synonymic ; 

 but I am able to add two species to the list. In cases where I have 

 seen no New Zealand examples of the species, I give the authority for 



