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LIST OF THE SEIIIPTERA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



BT F. BTJCHANAK WHITE, M.D., F.L.S. 



{Continued from page 133). 



Tribe ANTIIOCOEINA. 

 Only one species of this section lias as yet been found in New 

 Zealand. Others may confidently be expected to occur, but, from 

 their (probable) small size, might easily be overlooked. 



43. Gardiastetlms Srounianus, n. sp. 



Piceous-brown, clothed with long pale hairs ; clypeus, anterior margin of the 

 embolium, and the corium, rather paler ; second joint of the antennae (apex ex- 

 cepted) and legs brownish-yellow ; membrane dark fuscous, with the outer three 

 nerves margined with whitish. Head, pronotum and scutellum finely transversely 

 rugose ; transverse depression of the pronotum nearly obsolete ; central depression 

 of the scutellum rather shallow. $ . Length, 2 — 2^ mm. 



A few specimens taken by Captain Broun. 



Tribe EEDUVIINA. 

 A single species only (which I have not seen) of this group is 

 reported from the Islands, viz. : 



44. Firates {Brachysandalus) ephippigera, White. 



Tribe EMESINA. 



45. 'Emesodema Suttoni, Scott. This I have not yet seen. 



Tribe NABINA. 



46. Nahis Saundersi, n. sp. 



Elongate, pale yellowish-testaceous ; a central longitudinal band running from 

 the head to the scutellum fuscous-black ; the cicatrices of the anterior part of the 

 pronotum fuscous ; back of the abdomen (conncxivum excepted) fuscous, with a 

 black central longitudinal band somewhat dilated at the base of each segment ; a 

 narrow intramarginal band on each side of the body below, the middle of the meso- 

 stethium, and a narrow longitudinal band on the centre line of the venter, fuscous ; 

 first and second joints of the antennse, and the legs, concolorous with the body, the 

 apex of the second joint of the former fuscous-black, and the last two joints pale 

 fuscous ; spots on the legs and apex of the tarsi fuscous-black ; hemielytra longer 

 than the abdomen, pale greyish-testaceous, with the three usual dark spots, the veins 

 margined, and the interstices, especially the first, irrorated with fuscous ; membrane 

 pellucid with fuscous veins. Head and neck about as long as two-thirds of the pro- 

 notum ; the first joint of the antennse shorter than the head before the eyes ; 

 pronotum convex and moderately widened behind, the posterior lobe without oblique 

 streaks, the base sub-equal to the length ; the front femora about as long as three- 

 fourths of the head and pronotum taken together. 



$ $ . Length, 8 — 9 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Messrs. Broun, Hutton, and Wakefield. N. Saundersi is rather 



