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Sikkim ; Carahus smaragdinus, Fisch., from Siberia ; Julodis 

 amplicita, Mars., from Aintab, Asia Minor, and a variety of 

 the same from Kurdistan; and Julodis hite.o(jramma, Mars., 

 from Syria, and a variety of the same from Kurdistan. 



Mr. H. Goss read the following letter from Mr. R. W. 

 Fereday, of New Zealand : — 



Christchurch, Canterbury, 

 New Zealand, 



June 14th, 1889. 



Dear Sir, — I am sending you by my nephew, Mr. A. P. 

 Chapman, who left here yesterday for England, a box of 

 insects, consisting of Coleoptera contained in two small 

 bottles, a specimen of Hymenoptera in a small match-box, 

 and some Lepidoptera. Will you kindly bring to the notice 

 of the Society the following particulars relating to the speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera, and exhibit them at 

 your next meeting. 



In January last I received a letter from Sir John Hall, 

 K.C.M.G., who had then recently gone to England, in which 

 he wrote me as follows : — " When on my voyage home in the 

 ' Kaikoura ' a curious incident occurred, which I thought 

 might be turned to the advantage of your entomological 

 collection. About half-way between the Eiver Plate and Rio, 

 and at a distance of over 250 miles from land, the ship was 

 visited by a numerous flight of various kinds of moths. The 

 visitation commenced in the evening, lasted more or less all 

 the next day and part of the succeeding night. As the ship 

 steamed about 300 miles a day, it follows that the atmosphere 

 for about 400 miles must have been pretty full of these moths. 

 Several of them were caught, and some I have placed in a 

 box, which Mr. East, the chief officer of the ' Kaikoura,' has 

 taken charge of and promised to have sent to your office. I 

 do not know that the specimens are of any value, while all of 

 them have been roughly handled, and some, I fear, spoilt. 

 They may, however, have some interest from the circumstances 

 under which they were caught. It was supposed the moths 

 might have been driven off the land by violent westerly winds, 

 but on arriving at Rio we could not hear that anything violent 



