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These are a few of the little picture-memories that I love to dwell 

 upon now my collecting days are over. They are not very numerous 

 considering- the many years spent by me in India, but 1 believe most 

 travellers or residents m the Tropics have recorded how rare are the 

 occasions on which insect-life is in sufficient mass to make an apprecial)le 

 mark on the landscape and how inferior it is in this respect to more 

 temperate zones. 



IViubui y, 1 Tudor Pl-.ice, Upper Norwood. 

 June \Sth, l!)2U. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTING IN NEW ZEALAND DURING THE 

 SEASON 1919-1920. 



BY », y. HUDSOIf, F.E.S., F. N.Z.INST 



The season of 1918-1919 was a very unfavourable one for New 

 Zealand entomologists, and the season just closed has been even less 

 favourable. September is always an unsettled month, but a few fine days 

 enabled me to secure about fifteen pupae of Hepialus virescens Dbld. 

 These were obtamed by cutting out sections of the trees containing 

 pupae, Avhich were carried home Avith considerable labour. Except three, 

 all of these pupae died ; this was due to the subsequent cold weather, 

 whicli stopped their normal emergence early in October, the contraction 

 of the wood preventing the escape of the moths. Later on, a few fine 

 days at the end of October seemed to give promise of better things, and 

 general beating of Howering shrubs, chiefi}^ Aristofelia racemosa, 

 Brachyylottis repanda., Olearia cunninghami^ and Rubus australis, 

 produced some interesting weevils belonging to the genera Acalles, 

 Erirrhinus, Fraolepru, and Eugnoums, as well as a few of the early 

 Elaters and Longicorns. November set in with heavy and continual 

 N.W. gales, alternating with very cold wet spells from S.W., which 

 rendered collecting both unpleasant and unprofitable, and in this way 

 what should liave been one of the best months of the season passed with 

 little result. December was hardly bettei- ; an expedition to Kaitoke on 

 the 16th resulted in the capture of two 6 6 Mitophyllus gibbosus 

 Broun. At the end of December a visit to Wainuiomata, a beautiful 

 forest reserve on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour interspersed 

 with numerous streams flowing into the Wainuiomata river and forming 

 the main water-supply for the city, produced a few of the extremely 

 local Stenosiiiylns stellae McL. and the large May-fly Ichthybotut 



