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very pretty sage-green Arjapanthida palelicUa, White, Ebiirida scricea, 

 kSm., and Somatidia antarctica, White, one of the largest of the genus ; 

 a red-spotted form of Chcetosoma scaritides, Westw., the flat Promanus 

 depressus, Sharp, Pi/cnomerus, PhUothermus (very like Cerylon), 

 Diagrypnodes, and other interesting Ciavicorns, occurring in the same 

 situation. Anchomenus otagoensis, Bates, and a rather fine Gilibe 

 {ptagenis, Y. Bates) were fairly common under stones near the 

 seashore. 



During our September visit the weather was very cold and 

 stormy throughout, the hills were more than once whitened with snow 

 to the water's edge, and collecting was by no means easy. Still I 

 managed to pick up a few good beetles, and of these the most interest- 

 ing was the minute blind Carabid, CUlenum (?) suhccecum, Sharp, 

 which w^as pointed out to me under deeply imbedded stones by my 

 friend Mr. J. H. Lewis, of Ophir, Otago, with whom I had a pleasant 

 afternoon's beetle-hunting. Under bark, both old and recent, I 

 found Agapanthida pulchella, White (not rare), Lenox mirandus, 

 Sharp, TTlonotus, Platypus, Tomicus, Cryptodacne, and Arfystonus 

 erichsoni, White, the largest of its genus. A few Longicorns, 

 Didymacantha cegrota, Bates, and Hyholasius crista, Fab., among them, 

 were shaken out of dead leafy boughs on the ground, and Necrophilus 

 prolongatus, Sharp, was found in large numbers in a dead cat. 



Leaving Port Chalmers on September 22nd, a call of three or 

 four days' duration was made at the thriving little seaport of Timaru, 

 120 miles to the northward, on a low straight open coast fronting the 

 South Canterbury Plains, but possessing a fine breakwater which 

 makes a good artificial harbour. In one or two walks on shore, I 

 found the country very unsuitable for collecting, it being nearly all 

 dry pasture, arable, or "tussock" laud, with endless hedges of furze 

 and belts of pine and " blue-gum," but not a bit of native "bush " 

 within several miles. Among the few Coleoptera found here were 

 two fine species of Trichosternus, the green T. virens, Br., and a 

 species very like T. antarcticus in size and build, but coal-black in 

 colour ; and a fine Gilihe allied to C. opacula, Bates, but probably 

 distinct. A small patch of sand, which had accumulated on the 

 shingly beach since the construction of the breakwater, produced a 

 pretty little Bledius commonly, Cecyropa, Lagrioida, and a plentiful 

 supply of Pachylopus lepidulus, Br., under a big dead skate. 



Further up the coast, near the head of a fine well-sheltered inlet 

 in Banks Peninsula, is Akaroa, a quiet and pretty little town much 



