74 [September 



IVoTE. — 111 giving names to the New Zealand Hemiptera, I wish 

 to commemorate not only the entomologists who have done good work 

 in collecting the specimens, but also some of those whose labours in 

 this order of insects are well known to all their brethren. 



[As, since the above was written, Dr. Stal has gone from amongst us, I cannot 

 allow the opportunity to pass without expressing the sincere regret with which all 

 entomologists must regard his untimely death.] 



24. T. electa, n. sp. 



Dull chestnut-brown, variegated with paler ; rostrum, antennae, and legs paler; 

 pronotmn with a spot in the middle of the front margin, side margins (interrupted 

 in the middle), hind angles, and three spots on the hind margin, scutellum with the 

 sides and apex, clavus with the commissure, corium with the base of the outer 

 margin, a streak at the middle of the claval suture, three obscure streaks following 

 each other on the disc, and a fourth between the third and the outer margin, paler 

 brown ; pronotum with an obscure band before the hind margin, scutellum with the 

 apical half of the disc, clavus with a streak near the inner angle, corium witli a 

 streak from the base to near the middle of the claval suture and another from beyond 

 the middle to the inner apical margin, as well as a large irregular patch near the 

 outer apical angle, more or less fuscous-black ; membrane yellowish-fuscous. Head 

 very finely punctured ; the two lobes of the pronotum nearly equally long, the front 

 mipunctured except behind the front margin, the hind closely but obsoletely punc- 

 tured ; scutellum rather i-emotely punctured ; elytra with rows of punctures, the 

 disc of the corium rather obscui'ely and remotely punctured ; front femora with 



three spines ; 1st joint of hind tarsus twice as long as the two last joints together. 



? . Length, 6, breadth, 2i mm. 



Two specimens taken by Captain Broun. 



MARGARETA, n. g. 



Body oblong, clothed with longish suberect hairs. Head rather 

 small, longly triangular, immersed to the eyes, and with them broader 

 than the apex of the pronotum. Rostrum reaching the hind coxfe, the 

 1st joint attaining the base of the head. Antennae half the length of 

 the body, the basal joint passing the apex of the head. Pronotum 

 anteriorly convex, somewhat concave in the middle behind, the length 

 eqiial to the posterior breadth, the front and hind margins equal in 

 length, all the sides nearly straight, the lateral rounded in front and 

 obtusely keeled behind. Scutellum acutely triangular, longer than 

 broad, and somewhat depressed in the centre of the disc. Elytra 

 complete, somewhat rounded near the middle, the clavus with three 

 and a-half longitudinal rows of punctures. Legs mediocre, the front 

 femora somewhat thickened, and near the apex below armed with three 

 spines ; the front tibire straight; the 1st joint of the hind tarsi more 

 than double the length of the other two put together. 



Somewhat related to the genits Pacln/merus. 



