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as wide as base of vertex bétween eyes. Apex of scutellum acute. Male 
genitalia short and abrupt; claspers bent abruptly, tips almost reaching 
the dorsal line of abdomen in lateral view. Female genitalia—ovipositor 
short, tipped with fuscous, and furnished with seven or eight very stout 
short bristles. Ninth or last unmodified abdominal tergite abruptly 
truncate. 
Total length, 2-7 mm. (male and female). 
This is the common grass-frequenting species, found in large numbers 
in any grassy places, whether the grass be introduced pasturage or native 
tussock. It is also common in all stages on tauhinu, or cottonwood 
(Cassinia leptophylla), There is considerable colour-variation, those from 
anganui being yellowish, the common Wellington specimens greenish, 
and those taken on tauhinu in various localities of the Wellington district 
a peculiar greyish-green resembling that of the food-plant. I can find no 
accompanying structural differences. The various forms seem to grade 
into one another. A somewhat dilapidated female taken on mangrove 
at Whangarei appears to belong to this species. Typical specimens have | 
been collected from manuka (Leptospermum scoparium). While making the 
above description wide enough to include all the forms here enumerated,- 
I have retained the Cassinia forms as types. 
; Tararua Range, Wellington, 4,000-5,000 ft.; Wanganui; October to 
une. 
Described from eighty-eight males and eighty-four females. l 
Holotype, allotype, and paratypes in Myers collection, Biology 
Laboratory. 
Erythroneura kiekie n. sp. (Figs. 30, 40, 43.) 
anteriorly, and considerably excavated posteriorly—the anterior portion 
paler and somewhat depressed, posterior half shining and darker yellow. 
Erythroneura cyathea n. sp. (Figs. 31-33, 38, 44.) ; 
$9. General colour pale yellowish- or greenish-white or practica 
colourless, ; Vertex pallid, tumid, produced, nctate, with occasion T 
two brownish patches varying from faint smudges to distinct spots. sN í 
variegate. Pronotum with an anterior smooth, collar-like pore" т 
