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part of the apical third blackish, the latter so suffused as to make 

 apparent 3 bronzy-yellowish spots, one at each corner of the rough 

 triangle. The veins are partly (and probably very varyingly) orange- 

 brown, and there are several small yellow spots scattered over the 

 tegmen. Wings fuliginous. Legs pale yellow. Abdomen black, the 

 incisures sanguineous. The scutellum has 3 paler longitudinal lines. 

 TTie other specimen is probably not quite mature, the whole colour- 

 ing being pale, the small spots on the tegmina whitish, and the veins 

 concolorous with the ground colour. 



The tegminal venation is very similar to that of C. dorsal is, but 

 the brachial vein is forked much nearer to the base. 



Length, 4 mill.; expanse of tegmina, 15 mill. 



Hab. New Zealand, Wellington (Hamilton and Howes). 



I have recently received from Mr. Hamilton, a specimen of 

 the Homoptcron Siphanta acuta from Auckland. This is, 1 be- 

 lieve, the first record of its occurrence in New Zealand. It is of 

 course, not endemic, but immigrant (probably introduced with 

 ornamental shrubs) from Australia. 



In my recent "List of the Hemiptera of the Maorian Region" 

 (1909, Trans. N. Z., Inst., xii, 22-9), I omitted Poecilonictis 

 gravis (Fabricius), a Halyine Cimicid. This was described in 

 1 78 1 from New Zealand, but has since been found in New South 

 Wales. As this genus of 12 species is entirely Australian, and 

 gravis has never been found smce in iS!^ew Zealand, it is probable 

 that the latter habitat was incorrect in the first place. 



In the same list, "syn." between 14 and 15 should be deleted; 

 there should be a "h" before the second ''enicocephalus'' on line 

 29 of p. 26 ;and on p. 28, line 9 from botton, "specimens'' should 

 be "species." 



MAY 6th, 1909. 



The 51st regular meeting of the Society was held in the usual 

 place. 



Mr. Gififard exhibited specimens of a stylops (Elcuchus sp.), 

 and leaf-hoppers (Nesosydne ipomoeicola Kirk.) from which 

 they had bred. The leaf -hoppers were collected by him on Tan- 

 talus, and the stylops bred out in Jan. and Feb., 1906. 



Mr. Gififard also wished to record the finding recently of 

 O-^theda insignis infesting a Clerinontia bush on Schmidt's 

 Ridge, Tantalus. 



