1878] m 



times. Like, mauy other species of Lepidoptcra, P. Homerus is, 

 doubtless, attracted to the mango by the sweet juices exuded from its 

 fruit soon after its becoming ripe. 



Nearly allied to but one species, viz., P. Andr<smo7i, found as yet 

 only in Hayti, Cuba, and some parts of Mexico, P. Homerus, although 

 exhibiting most of the characteristics peculiar to similar forms common 

 to Central America and the West Indies, is yet so distinct from them 

 all, that it seems to occupy a position quite unique in the group to 

 which it is referred. Reasoning from the analogies presented by other 

 insular species and varieties of Lepidoptera, I am strongly of opinion 

 that P. Homerus is a survival of some group of Papiliones once largely 

 disti-ibuted throughout Central America at a time when the region 

 now occupied by the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea formed 

 part of the Mainland. 



SuiTPj House, Forest Hill : June, 1878. 



LIST OF THE HEMIPTERA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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



{Continued from Vol. xix,}). 277). 



Tribe LTG.^ODEA. 

 Of this tribe or section Captain Hutton mentions five and Mr. 

 Butler four New Zealand species. Of these five, I have seen Ncwr 

 Zealand specimens of two only, but I am able to add nine other spe- 

 cies, one of them, however, being possibly identical with one of 



Walker's species. 



Family BERTTID.E. 



14). Neides JVakefieldl, n. sp. 



Pale testaceous, coarsely punctate above and below ; the sides of the head and 

 of the prostethiura with a longitudinal brown line ; the last joint of the antennae and 

 the apex of the tibiae and of the tarsi ferruginous-brown. The apical lamina of the 

 head cylindrical, straight, gradually narrowed to an obtuse point, and reaching far 

 beyond the apex of the head ; the anteocular part of the head sub-equal to the 

 postocular ; the antennae two-thirds the length of the body ; pronotum rather flat, 

 with sub-parallel sides and a longitudinal keel, the length less than double the 

 breadth behind ; elytra much abbreviated, and only one-fifth the length of the abdo- 

 men, immaculate ; legs and antennae (especially the front femora and basal joint of 

 antennae) witli small black tubercles in rows. 



Length, 7 — 8 mm. ; breadth, scarcely 1 mm. 



Wellington (Wakefield); several specimens. 



It is very probable that this is an apterous form of a dimorphic 

 species — dimorphism being not unfrequent in this family, though the 

 species are rarely so brachypterous as in this instance. 



