September, 1878] 73 



LIST OF THE HEMIPTERA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



BY F. BTTCHA]S'A]S^ "WHITE, M.D., F.L.S. 



{^Continued from p. 34). 



TARGAEEMA, «. g. 



Body oblong. Head triangular, broader tban long, immersed to 

 the eyes, and with them a very little broader than the apex of the 

 pronotnm ; clypeus rather produced. Eostrum passing the middle 

 coxae, the 1st joint reaching to or nearly to the base of the head. An- 

 tennae less than half as long as the body, the 1st joint reaching beyond 

 the apex of the head. Pronotum slightly convex, and with a slight 

 transverse depression in the middle, length more than half the poste- 

 rior breadth ; front margin about half as long as hind margin, slightly 

 concave, transversely impressed within the mai^gin ; side margins ob- 

 tusely keeled, nearly straight but rounded in front, the hind angles 

 elevated ; hind margin slightly concave in front of the scutellum. 

 Scutellum longer than broad. Elytra complete, parallel. Legs medi- 

 ocre, front femora slightly thickened, with one or more small spines 

 near the apex below ; tibiae straight ; 1st joint of the hind tarsus as 

 long as, or longer than, ths two other joints together. Hind margin 

 of 3rd ventral segment curved forward on each side, and not reaching 

 the margin. 



Allied to Peritrechus and Rliyparocliromus. Type T. Slall. 



23. T. Stali, n. sp. 



Dull chestnut-brown, variegated with paler ; three basal joints of antennae, ros- 

 trum, elytra and legs, paler ; pronotum with a spot in middle of front margin, side 

 margins especially behind, a spot in middle of hind margin (sometimes extended to 

 front edge of the hind lobe), and a smaller spot on each side, as well as the hind 

 angles, scutellum with the apex and a spot on each side behind the disc, corium with 

 a streak from the base to the middle of the claval suture, three short streaks follow- 

 ing each other on the disc, and a fourth obscure streak between the third and the 

 outer margin, as well as the base of the latter and the commissure of the clavus, 

 whitish-brown or brighter brown ; corium with a black streak from the middle of 

 the claval suture to the inner apical angle ; last joint of the antennae fuscous-black ; 

 membrane pale fuscous with darker streaks. The lobes of the pronotum nearly 

 equal in length, the front obsoletely, the hind coarsely and thickly, punctured ; 

 scutellum coarsely and thickly punctured ; elytra with rows of punctures, the clavus 

 with three rows, the disc of the corium more remotely punctured ; front femora with 

 one spine ; 1st joint of hind tarsus as long as the two others together. 



S ? . Length, 3i— 1, breadth, U— 1^ mm. 



Several specimens taken by Captain Broun. Somewhat variable 

 in the intensity of the markings. 



