416 Transactions. 
Genus 1. Paraporyprum Kirkaldy. 
Kirkaldy, Entom., vol. 34, p. 339, 1901. 
Paradorydium westwoodi (F. B. White). 
Dorydium westwoodi Е. B. White, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 15, p. 215. 
1879; Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (D), vol. 10, p. 43, 1880; 
Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 41l, 1894; Hutton, Trans. 
N.Z. Inst., vol. 30, p. 185, 1898.  Paradorydium westwoodi 
Kirkaldy, Entom., vol. 34, p. 339, 1901; ibid., Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., vol. 41, p. 28, 1909. 
F. Buchanan White’s description is as follows: “Pale yellowish- 
ochraceous ; head with a very slight tinge of brown ; tarsi claws pale brown. 
Head and thorax finely punctate; tegmina coarsely reticulate-punctate 
or cribose between the veins. One example has a brown intramarginal 
streak from the base to the apex of the tegmina. Length, 14; breadth 
at base of tegmina, 2; length of head, 4mm. Three specimens from Mr. 
Wakefield, with the ticket, ‘Found by Mr. Fereday near Christchurch.’ 
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tively. The head is also rather more upturned at the tip and inclined. to 
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be very slightly spatulate apically. This is a sexual difference in P. mé 
Kirk. from Australia (Kirkaldy, 1906, p. 339), so that I suspect these are 
males and the other (Fereday collection) a female; but all four are gummed 
so tightly by the whole of the ventral surface that I refrained from attempting 
to remove them for examination of the genitalia. The Hutton specimens 
have the date 1865, but no locality legible. 
This is evidently a rare species. Besides the specimens referred #0 
above, Signoret received some from John Scott, which according to Kirby 
(1894, 412) appeared to be “ darker than the types " and were only PEE 
long. Finally, a nymph and a male imago were sent to Kirby at the British 
н in 1894, with the following notes by Mr. Н. Clarke, of Christchurch : 
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tion of Pinus insignis, about a quarter of a mile from the sea and he a 
chains from the river. The time of appearance is from the beginning >: 
November to the end of the year.” : 
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