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Abstract of Proceedings, June 24th, 1908. — 1) A Catalogue of the 

 Hemiptera of Fiji. By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. — This paper is based on 

 the collections made in Viti Levu, in 1905, by Mr. Albert Koebele, and 

 in 1906, by Mr. Frederick Muir, when searching for parasites and predators 

 to control the ravages of the "Sugar-cane Leaf-hopper'' (PerkinsieUa saccha- 

 rieida) in the Hawaiian Islands; and upon specimens kindly sent by Mr. 

 Charles H. Knowles, Superintendent of the Department of Agriculture in 

 Fiji. The latter were specially valuable, as being accompanied, in most 

 cases, by indications of the foodplants. The leaf-hoppers have already been 

 worked out 1 , the descriptions in this paper principally concerning the Hetero- 

 ptera. — The previous total of Fijian Hemiptera was about 40. This is 

 brought up to 202 (of which seven have not been specifically determined) 

 including the representatives of ten genera, one subgenus, and forty-two 

 species described as new. But it is evident that the endemic forms were 

 scarcely yet collected, as only three islands had been searched for Hemiptera, 

 viz., Viti Levu, the largest island, and the seat of the present capital; Ovalau, 

 a small island, the former seat of government; and Taviuni, an island to the 

 east of Vanua Levu. The whole Archipelago must be exceedingly rich in 

 Hemiptera, and we .knew probably less than a tenth of the total of that 

 fauna. — Fiji was associated, by Wallace, with other Pacific Islands, in a 

 "Polynesian Subregion" but its Hemipterous fauna seemed decidedly conti- 

 nental, and to be included in the "Austro-Malayan Subregion" of the Austra- 

 lian Region. — 2) Revision of the Genus Seirotrana [Coleoptera: Fam. 

 Tenebrionidae] : together with Descriptions of new Species of other Australian 

 Coleoptera. By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. — Twenty species, including 

 four described as new, are referred to the genus Seirotrana Pasc. ; and the 

 types of fourteen of them have been examined. One genus with one species, 

 together with twenty-one other species, distributed among the genera, Cyria, 

 Stigmodera (four), Hyocis, Adelodemits, Ceropria, Platydema, Heterooheira, 

 Pterohelaeus, Chartopteryx , Hymaea, Byallius, Cardiothorax, Coripera and 

 Bry copia, are also described as new. — 3) On the new Genus Austrogyii- 

 acantha [Neuroptera: Odonata]. By R. J. Tillyard, M.A., F.E.S. — This 

 genus is proposed for the reception o? il Gynacantha lieterogena Selys" a remark- 

 able species named from a unique female from Rockhampton , Q., in de 

 Selys' Collection, but de Selys' description does not appear to have been 

 published, though the name is given by M. René Martin in his "Odonates du 

 Continent Australien, 1902." The study of two males from Rockhampton in 

 the Macleay Museum, and a series of six males and six females from Cook- 

 town has shown it to be necessary to take this step , as the neuration of the 

 male differs very remarkably from that of all the typical members of the 

 genus GynacantJta. The differences which separate Austrogynacantha from 

 GynacantJta (s.str.) are fully discussed, and the type-species described. 



1 1906, Bull. Ent. Hawaiian Sugar Planters 1 Experiment Station, I. pp. 269 

 -479, Pis. XXI— XXXII; and 1907, op. cit. III. pp. 1-186, Pis. I -XX. 



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