INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MEJNSTRUUS 203 



Pronotum brown, sparsely gray pruinose. Mesonotum shiny 

 reddish brown, darker medially, the lateral margins of the 

 praescutum weakly pruinose ; postnotum conspicuously light 

 gray pruinose. Pleura conspicuously light gray pruinose. 

 Halteres pale yellowish brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs 

 with the coxae reddish, sparsely pruinose ; trochanters reddish ; 

 femora dark brown, the bases broadly orange; a broad (about 

 2.5 mm.) orange subterminal ring before the narrow (about 

 1 mm.) brownish black tip; tibiae light brown, the tips nar- 

 rowly darker; tarsi brown, the subterminal segments with 

 appressed yellow pubescence. Wings very pale yellow, the 

 costal region brighter yellow ; the sparse wing-pattern resembles 

 very much that of Gynoplistia suhfasciata and allies ; a small 

 brown spot at origin of Rs ; a brown seam along the cord and 

 on the outer deflection of M^ ; a small but conspicuous dark 

 brown stigma; a brown seam along vein Cu; wing-apex con- 

 spicuously infuscated ; veins dark brown. Venation : Sc^ at 

 tip of 5*Ci, both beyond the fork of i?o+,, ; r at tip of R-^ ; Rs 

 square and spurred at origin; R^^^ a little longer than the 

 deflection of Cu^ ; cell M-^ about twice its petiole ; vein 2nd A 

 long, ending beyond the origin of Rs: arculus broken. 



Abdomen brown, sparsely pruinose, the subterminal segments 

 darker brown. 



Habitat. — New Zealand (South Island). 



Holotype, female, Riccarton Bush, Christchurch. Canterbury, 

 April 10, 1922 (E. S. Gourlay). 



Cerozodia hudsoni Edwards, hemiptera, new subspecies. 



Male. — Length 20 mm.; wing 17.6-18 mm. 



Female. — Length 16. .5 mm.; wing 11 mm. 



Generally similar to typical hudsoni, differing as follows : 

 General coloration paler brown throughout, especially the abdo- 

 men and legs, the latter brownish yellow. Wings of the female 

 well-developed though shorter than in the male (in hudsoni, 

 the wings of the female measure only 3 mm.). 



Habitat. — New Zealand (North Island). 



