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Cephalelus leptocarpi n. sp. (Figs. 13, 15.) 
о. Same colour and markings as C. hudsoni n. sp., from which it | 
. differs in its smaller size, genitalia of male (fig. 13), and, above all, in the - 
very distinctly spatulate head (fig. 15). Examination of a large series of - 
both species has shown these differences to be constant. Е 
Length: Male, total length, 8:5-9 mm.; head, 2-2-5 mm, : female, - 
8-5-10 mm. ; head, 3 mm. an 
Described from twenty males and twenty-two females. e 
Holotype (male) and allotype in Myers collection, Biology Laboratory. _ 
here are two specimens in the Hutton collection at Canterbury Museum - 
from Whangarei (no date), where I myself took the material on which I~ 
have founded the species. The locality was the edge of a mangrove-swamp, - 
and the food-plant Leptocarpus simplex, as in the previous species. It w 
interesting that although there were acres of almost pure Leptocarpus 
association, yet this insect was found, after a large area had been fruit- 
lessly swept with the net, rather plentifully on a patch not a yard square, 
and apparently nowhere else in the vicinity. NS 
e nymphs, which are dark brown in colour, are found on the food- 
plant with the adults. The distinctly spatulate head is noticeable at a | 
very early stage. > oe 
This species is parasitized by apparently the same red long-legged mite ' 
as C. hudsoni n. sp. | 
The sexes were present in approximately equal numbers. December- x 
ary. ae 
January 
SuBFAMILY 3. TYPHLOCYBINAE. 
Syn. EUPTERYGINAE auctt. 
; Probably every one is vaguely familiar with the minute whitish active : 
insects which leap vigorously in all directions whenever the grass of аиа 
bed. 
wish to gather in a porti 
await descri 
hoppers 
