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A CATALOGUE OF THE HEMIPTERA OF FIJI. 



By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



(Plate iv.) 



The present paper is based on the collections made in Viti 

 Levu, in 1905, by Mr. Albert Koebele, and in 1906, by Mr. 

 Frederick Muir, when searching for parasites and predators to 

 control the ravages of the "Sugar-cane Leaf-hopper" ( Perkinsiella 

 saccharicida) in the Hawaiian Islands. 



In addition to these official materials, I have included an 

 account of some Hemiptera kindly sent to me by Mr. Charles 

 H. Knowles, Superintendent of the Department of Agriculture 

 in Fiji. These are specially valuable, as being accompanied, in 

 most cases, by indications of the food-plants. The leaf-hoppers 

 have already been worked out,* the descriptions in this paper 

 principally concerning the Heteroptera. 



The previous total of Fijian Hemiptera was about 40. This 

 has now been brought up to 202 (of which seven have not been 

 specifically determined), but it is evident that the endemic forms 

 .are scarcely yet collected. Only three islands have been searched 

 for Hemiptera, viz., Viti Levn, the largest island and the seat of 

 the present capital; Ovalau, a small island, the former seat of 

 government; and Taviuni, an island to the east of Vanua Levu. 

 The whole Archipelago must be exceedingly rich in Hemiptera, 

 and we know probably less than a tenth of the total of that fauna. 



Fiji was associated, by Wallace, with other Pacific islands, in 

 a "Polynesian Subregion," but its Hemipterous fauna seems 

 decidedly continental, and to be included in the "Austro-Malayan 



* 1906, Bull. Ent. Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, i. 

 pp.269-479, Pls.xxi.-xxxii.; and 1907, op, cif. iii. pp.1-186, Pls.i.-xx. 

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