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corium. Veins brownish; macrotrichia darker. Wi ings hyaline, smoky ; 
veins fuscous. Ovipositor stout. Flocculent material in form of long silky 
fibres. 
Two females. Mamaku (C. E. Clarke); Tiritea, Palmerston North 
e J. Tillyard). Dr. Tillyard's specimen was taken in undergrowth of rain 
forest. 
I have much pleasure in dedicating this, the type of a curious endemic 
genus, to its discoverer, Mr. C. E. Clarke, to whom I am already indebted 
for much interesting material. 
Genus 8. Axa Buchanan White. 
Type: A. finitima (Walker). 
This very distinct genus is sufficiently differentiated by the characters _ 
given in the generic key. The tegmina are short and curved to fit the 
body. The hind legs are с long. The male genitalia of the 
genotype are described below 
Aka finitima Walker. (Plate 24, figs. 4, 5.) 
Cixius finitimus Walker, List Homopt. Insects in Brit. Mus. Suppl. 
p. 81, 1858. 
Aka finitima (Walker): 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. Kirkaldy, Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., vol. 41, p. 29, 1909. 
ength, 4 mm. Baers 35mm. Pale-brownish, heavily ere 
of clavus—in some specimens "this s spot is iced to form а 
great dark splash across apex of tegmen. Wings hyaline; veins almost 
colourless. Abdomen almost black. Genitalia fuscous. Genital styles 
straight-stalked, сыы, spatulate. Aedeagus complex, stout; three 
much-curved hooks at base of membranous appendage. 
2 Length, 5 mm. i and 4-3 mm. Ovipositor jarge and ie 
Ne iios district (G. V. Hudson, T. Cockcroft, J. G. Myers); Tararua 
Howe, (J. б. Myers); Canterbury (Hutton): Leith, Dunedin (W. б. 
o 
Mr. G. V. Hudson has given me a large handsomely marked female 
with the following dimensions: length, 6-3 mm.; tegmen, 59mm. This is 
but рени are not lacking, and I am loth to separate 
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