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On a CdUection of Lkpidoi'teua IIkteuoceua from Mi(rU>orouf]]i 

 Province^ New Zenhntd] by Airrnui; G. Butlkk, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



The series of Lepidoptera euumerated here, represents the 

 .Q'reater part of a collectiou forwarded to me last year by 

 Mr. William Skellon, of Blenheim; uuforrunatelv one of the 

 boxes, containing many of the smaller and some novelties of the 

 larger moths, was literally smashed into strips dnring transit; 

 whilst the other box, although whole, had evidently ])een 

 very roughly handled; so that the identification of several of 

 the species has been quite impossible, whereas in some instances 

 nothing but the bare pins remained to show that the numbers 

 had represented something. 



Notwithstanding the condition of manv of the species the 

 collection is a very interesting one, the novelties Avhich it con- 

 tains are sufficient evidence that there is still miich to be done 

 before we can pretend to anything like a complete knowledge 

 of the Lepidopterous resources of New Zealand. 



HEPIALID.^. 



1. Porina fuligirwa (No. ST)). 

 Poiiiui fnliginea, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii, p. 4S<S, n. 2 (1871)). 

 One specimen, in good condition; taken "in the bush :it dusk." 



2. Porina vmhrdcnhiUi (Nos. 83 & 34). 



Piduf wnbraculatvf<, (iuenee, Ent. Month. Mag. v, ]). 1 (IJ-^OS). 



"Common in the Phormium swamps at dusk." 'J'wo cxiun- 

 p)les, in good condition, differing slightly in tint. 



Respecting the Noctuites, Mr. Skellon writes — "the JVoctva' 

 for the most part have been taken on sugar; Nos. 10. 14, 15. 



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CisriLA Entomologica. 

 2oth September, 1880, 



