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work at, all of which yield their quota o£ interesting Coleoptera. In 

 and under damp rotten logs, that most curious and interesting 

 creature, Feripafus novcs-zelandicB, Hutton, may often be met with 

 in considerable numbers. 



To enumerate only a few of the Coleoptera met with in the 

 " bush " near Wellington, the Carahidce are represented by several 

 forms allied to Pterostichus, of which the shining black Trickosternus 

 planiusculus. White, and T. difformipes^ Bates, are the largest and 

 most conspicuous. They are both common under logs and stones, 

 and the first-named is certainly the most unpleasantly-smelling 

 beetle I have ever met with, its odour resembling, on an exaggerated 

 scale, that of our Omalium rivulare, or the little evil-smelling ants of 

 the genus Gremastogaster. A curious and anomalous form is Amaro- 

 typus edwardsi, Sharp, which is superficially very like an Amara in 

 appearance, but in habit is entirely arboreal, and is taken not rarely 

 by beating foliage in company with two elegant Dromius-Wke. insects, 

 Demetrida nasufa, White, and D. lineella, White. Agonocheila hino- 

 tata, White, a very Australian-looking form, occurs under loose bark, 

 and on one occasion only I found the rare and very pretty little 

 Wakejieldia vittata, Broun, among dead leaves. Actenongx hemhi- 

 dioides. White, a curious and handsome little bronzy beetle referred 

 to the Lehiince, is found abundantly in wet shingle in the bed of a 

 stream in the Wilton's Bush gully, with some peculiar Bemhidia, and 

 Syllectus anomalus, Sharp, a queer little creature near Anisodactylus. 

 Anchomenus is represented by several species not very unlike our own, 

 and the anomalous Zolus Jielmsi, Sharp, and Z. femoralis, Br., occur 

 under logs and bark. A handsome little convex green beetle referred 

 to the Philhydrida, Hygmodus modestiis, White, comes not rarely in 

 early summer off the pink flowers of the " mako-mako," Aristotelia 

 racemosa, a small tree of the order Tiliacece, the trunk of which is often 

 riddled with the burrows of the larva of the great green Hepialid 

 moth, Gliaragia virescens, Doubl. 



Among the Sfaphylinidce we meet with a number of interesting 

 small forms, and a few of larger size, such as Xantholinus shnrpi, Br., 

 and X. arecce, Br., both rather fine species ; several Quedii, the largest 

 of these, Q. antipodiim, Sharp, being found rarely in carrion, with the 

 much moi'e common Creophilus oculatus, Fab., remarkable for the 

 bright red spot behind each eye, and our British Philonthus ceneus, 

 Rossi, which is now generally distributed throughout New Zealand. 

 The highly-coloured but sluggish Xantholinid, Metoponcus hrouni. 

 Sharp, is not rare under the bark of the Rimu, and is one of the very 



