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also. From the many remains of the young Iceryas it was evident that 
they fed also on these. The Australian Coccinellid had not yet discov- 
ered this colony of scales, yet it must have existed here in numbers 
for at least four years. Only a few scattered specimens were found 
on other shrubs, but they had spread to the Mangrove bushes growing 
close by in large numbers. On this plant they thrive remarkably well. 
Captain Broun, at Drury, the authority on New Zealand Coleoptera, 
was visited:and asked in regard to the Australian Lady-bird. He did 
not know the insect, nor had he ever met with it, but he had the small 
Scymnus fagus, which seems to be more widely spread and lives upon 
various Scales ; neither had he met with the common C. nova-zealandica 
which I found at Napier. During a ramble in the woods with the cap- 
tain I found a large Coccinellid in all stages feeding upon Ctenochiton 
viridis Maskell infesting Coprosma lucida. This Coccinellid was identi- 
fied by him as Leis antipodum Mulsant (Fig. 16). Upon the same tree was 
also found in abundance a second and smaller Scale of the same genus; 
this is C. perforatus. The captain kindly promised to send me a number 
of living specimens of the Coccinellid, and he kept his promise, though, 
unfortunately, the insect had become so rare that with assistance he 
was able to find only six specimens. These came in an ice-chamber well 
packed in a large box, but only one of them was living on arrival here. 
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Fic. 16.—Leis antipodum, two varieties—enlarged (original.) 
On February 25 the steamer was ready to sail. Having made ar- 
rangements with the butcher on board the previous day as to the most ~ 
convenient time of receiving my insects into the ice-house, they were 
transferred from the freezing-house on board the steamer, which did 
not take more than ten minutes, and the insects were not disturbed in 
their dormant stage during the time. Every day on the voyage I re- 
ceived the answer from the butcher, to my inquiries about the parcel, 
‘“ Your bugs are all right.” On March 10, after leaving Honolulu, one 
of the boxes with the Lady-bird larve was examined and found in ex- 
cellent condition; no dead larve could be found among them, and this 
was twenty-four days after the first were collected. On Saturday eve- 
ning, March 16, we arrived at San Francisco, too late to have the in- 
sects forwarded, and I could not send them off before Monday evening, 
March 18. They were probably received and opened by Mr. Coquillett 
two days later. This would make thirty-four days that they were in- 
