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in middle, red apically; face and front with dull white hair; antennze 
long (reaching to end of thorax), entirely black; flagellum crenulate 
beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum dull, the surface microscopically 
tessellate, the very minute punctures not clearly visible under a lens; 
area of metathorax finely and weakly plicatulate, the sculpture fading 
toward the apex; hair of thorax thin, dull white, with a faintly 
yellowish tint on scutellum; tegule black; wings dusky hyaline, 
stigma and nervures reddish sepia ; second s. m. very narrow; abdo- 
men shining. 
Hab. Eaglehawk Neck, §.-E. Tasmania, February 12th-— 
March 8rd, 1913 (R. E. Turner). British Museum. Resembles 
H, tasmanie (Ckll.), but easily known by the dull mesothorax. 
The black antenne and absence of metallic colour separate it 
from H. hedleyt, Ckll. 
A SUCCESSFUL HUNT FOR SOME OF OUR LOCAL 
CRAMBI. 
By tHe Rey. Joun W. Mertcaure, F.E.S. 
Tux following notes are put together mainly with a view 
to the possible usefulness to others of our experience gained in 
collecting certain Crambi, which, if plentiful in their restricted 
haunts, are not only very local but may easily be missed owing 
to their retiring habits. Incidentally a few other local .species 
will be mentioned, which are not commonly taken in such 
numbers as we were fortunate enough to meet with. My 
companions on this expedition, which lasted from July 13th 
to 31st, were the Revs. W. G. Whittingham and J. EK. Tarbat, 
and it is well to mention at once that the weather was as 
adverse throughout the whole time as it well could be—wet, 
cold, and windy, a fact which made our subsequent success the 
more noteworthy. 
Our first halting place was a very happily situated boarding 
house in the middle of the well-known Deal sandhills. If the 
accommodation it afforded was not palatial, the position was all 
that the collector could desire. During the ten days we spent there 
we were pleased to see Lithosia lutarella var. pygm@ola in pro- 
fusion; indeed, whatever the weather was like it appeared on the 
wing or sitting on the marram in great numbers. By day M. 
lineata, H. cespitalis, C. angustalis, and S. ictericana were common, 
but A. ochrata was practically over. However, our special object 
of desire was C. contaminellus, and the stirring of an occasional 
specimen by day from the marram gave us the cheering 
assurance that it was about. Yet not till we discovered that at 
night it loves to sit an inch or two above the ground, on the 
patches bare of marram, did we secure it in any numbers. 
From this discovery onwards we took it in plenty, together 
