258 Transactions. 
Art. 25.—New Species of New Zealand Delphacidae ( Homoptera). 
By Е. Murr, Hawaiian Sugar-planters’ Experiment Station, Honolulu, T.H. 
Communicated by J. G. Myers. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 2nd August, 1921 ; received by Editor, 
31st December, 1921; issued separately, 30th April, 1923.] 
Nilaparvata myersi n. sp. (Figs. 1, 14.) | 
5. Macropterous ; length, 2-6 mm. ; tegmen, 3-3 mm. Head nearly as 
wide as thorax ; length of vertex subequal to width, apex slightly narrower . 
ing hind-margin. Hind basitarsus as long as or slightly longer than the 
other two together; spur large, as long as basitarsus, broad, laminate, 
concave on inner surface, numerous (fifteen to twenty) distinct teeth on 
-margin. 
Opening of pygofer wider than long ; lateral margins not continuous with 
a row of about five teeth along right side and three minute ones more dorsad, 
on ventral aspect produced into a thick, curved spine. Orifice not detected ; 
in bod 
1 body. 
Black or dark brown, legs lighter, base " abdomen yellowish. Tegmina 
hyaline, dark mark on hind-margin from middle of clavus to apex of claval 
vem; fuscous over greater part of clavus, less so over cubital area and 
around apical margin. Veins slightly darker than membrane, granules 
minute, sparse, black. Wings hyaline, veins brown. 
Described from one male from Mount Alpha, Tararua Range, Wellington, 
North Island, 4,500 ft. elevation. (J. G. Myers, 15th February, 1921, 
T a Type in шнш Museum, Wellington. I 
s 18 quite a distinct species, i ike an = 
Беда ч i p the aedeagus being unl 7 
Delphacodes tasmani п. Sp. (Figs. 2, 2a.) 
d. length, 2 mm.; tegmen, 2-7 mm. Length of vertex 
equal to width at base, vertex projecting beyond eyes, median carina pro- 
Jecting, base slightly behind middle of eyes, slightly wider than apex. Length 
f des subparallel, median carina simple. Antennae 
base of clypeus, second segment 1-7 times the 
