Myers.—New Zealand Plant-hoppers. 319. 
Cixius rufifrons Walker. 
Walker, се Homopt. Insects іп Brit. Mus. Suppl, р. 83, 1858. 
Buchanan White, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 15, p. 216, 1879. Hutton, 
Trans. N. Z, Inst., vol. 30, p. 186, 1898; Index Faunae Nov. Zeal., 
p. 225, 1904. Кома Trans. ae Inst., vol. 41, p. 28, 1909. 
“ Tawny. Head testaceo verte rrow, concave; front and face 
with a distinct keel, their elite slightly elevated ; face and disc of the 
with black points towards the tips ; stigma pale testaceous ; with a blackish 
dot. Length of the body, 2 lines; of the wings, 6 lines. (a.) New 
Zealand. Presented by Colonel Bolton.” —(Walker 
This ces 4 totally unknown to me. From the description I should 
have expected wein Pero dd with C. aspilus ( ior Mr. 
Muir writes as follow “C. rufifrons Walker po is a male very close to 
aspilus, but the genital styles are broader and the anal segment light 
(in aspilus and interior it is fuscous)." 
Cixius kermadecensis n. sp. 
9. Length, 4-4 mm. ; tegmen, 5:5 тт. Pale-brownish, darker on e 
and angles of pronotum and abdomen. Ventral surface pale. Abdom 
darker, with whitish edges to segments. Ovipositor strongly curved ; ex- 
tending slightly beyond tip of abdomen. Frons and c ypeus unicolorous, 
pale drab, edges of face raised. Tegmina hyaline, veins pale brown, 
macrotrichia darker and very conspicuous. road brown transverse 
smudge at one-third of tegmen, and a smaller one at apex 
Stigma with brownish centre edged wi rder of vertex 
less roundly notched than in most other Cixiids, also line bounding vertex 
cephalad, more angulate 
Described from one female. Sunday Island, porns Islands, 1908 
(W. L. Wallace, No. 4); on kawakawa (Macropiper ezce 
Holotype in Dominion Museum, Wellington. I am indebted to the 
minion Museum authorities for the opportunity of describing this insular 
species. 
Genus 2. Koroana nov. 
Type: K. 
Longitudinal carina a of vertex extremely obscure or entirely obsolete. 
One! fairly rounded, without median longitudinal carina (Plate 21, fig. 6). 
Male genitalia complex ; three very twisted hooks at base of membranous 
part of aedeagus. 
Claval veins joining margin considerably before apex of clavus, forking 
about middle. Cu usually touching M for some distance 
In other respects resembles Cixius. The venation exhibits considerable 
variation, as shown by the illustrations (Plate 21, figs. 1-5; Plate 22, 
figs. 1-3). Of the two species, one is apparently confined to the North 
Bid and the other to the South. 
Koroana helena n. sp. (Plate 21, figs. 1-8.) 
d. Length, 4mm.; tegmen, 5mm. Reddish, relieved with black. 
Vertéx brownish, eyes dark. Pronotum pale-yellowish. Mesonotum henna- 
colour, the lateral carinae black, the median greenish. Apex of scutellum 
