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ping off bark, digging in rotten wood and at the roots of trees, for 
hours at a time, with no better success than two or three specimens, 
and yet the larve abound. 
Again, travelling is very difficult and laborious, rendering it 
impossible to pursue a specimen on the wing with success. 
I have examined trunks of trees in search of Longicorns, &c. 
but could find very few Coleopterous insects in the day-time in 
exposed situations. The gigantic lychens, parasites, &c. are so 
numerous on the old trees, in which they secrete themselves, and 
these being frequently from fifty to sixty feet high, renders it next 
to impossible to examine them. The night-trap, of which I exhi- 
bited a model, would have been useful in sheltered places, or in 
calm nights (which are rare), but I could not get one made in 
Port Nicholson. I was compelled to give up collecting objects of 
hatural history, and therefore took my departure, after a short 
residence of four months. It is my intention to proceed out to 
some other country more prolific in specimens with as little delay 
as possible; but have not yet determined whether it shall be to 
California, Mexico or New Holland. 
