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Genitalia — Lateral plates yellowish spotted with fuscous. Ovipositor 
uscous, scarcely projecting — = unmodified tergite. Dorsal surface 
of abdomen fuscous. Length, 
ymph. — Varying in iu ét dcin brownish-olive to green, thickly 
sprinkled with short stubbly glistening hairs. A darker depressed spot 
on each side of each abdominal tergite. Vertex produced much more than 
in imago ; anterior border thin, foliaceous, with fuscous-tipped acute angle 
projecting cephalad of each eye, and with a row of five or six more or 
less distinct brownish blotches along anterior edge. 
Described from eleven males and nine females 
mmon in vast numbers on tauhinu (Cassinia leptophylla) and Olearia 
Solandri on the sea-coast, Wellington, October, November, June. 
Holotype and MN with eighteen paratypes, in Myers collection, 
Biology Laboratory (No. 25) 
D. maorica n. sp. (Fig. 6.) 
General macroscopic арсен uniform yellowish-testaceous. A very 
distinct species 
ertex pale stramineous slightly clouded with yellowish. Median 
suture strongly marked. oe _but sparsely eae with a 
punctures ; posterior half атылу апа изн striate. Hind- Seder 
sinuately but very slightly emarginate. 
Scutellum small and short, pale-yellowish, with a brown-tipped, 
Tegmen narrowing slightly towards tip, which is rounded. Almost 
uniform pale-yellowish, with indistinct хав spots along the veins (eight, 
for Асан along claval кае, (d on es two cross-veins similarly 
"tibiae armed Мар тери with two rows of yellowish spines with 
brownish bases on an otherwise colourless tibia—eleven in one row and 
Frons elliptical, pale uniform stramineous, as are also the antennal pits. 
Genitalia concolorous with the rest of abdomen and likewise shining. 
Length, 5-4 mm. 
Described from one male. : 
Wainuiomata, 126b. Poa ary, 1921; Mr. G. V. Hudso 
Holotype in Myers collection, Biology Laboratory, Wellington (No. 192). 
D. zealandica n. sp. (Fig. 3.) 
A large and easily recognized though very variable species. General 
colour brownish, speckled with fuscous and white. 
Vertex almost as long laterally as medianly—i.c.., only very slightly 
produced; about four times as wide as long. Ocelli red. Fore-border 
rounded, edge fuscous and slightly upturned. Colour warm brownish, 
n a few irregular smoother yellowish areas. Very slightly granulate 
n disc. 
