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Proportionately, a considerable number of exotic forms of ter- 
restrial arthropods are found in New Zealand, more than two 
hundred species of European and Australian origin having been 
introduced into the Dominion at one time and another. A fair 
number of cosmopolitan species is also present. Since several of 
the New Zealand cities are ports of call for ships from all parts 
of the world, it is probable that the vessels and their contents are 
disseminators of many kinds of insect life in spite of the pre- 
cautions taken to prevent it. 
“‘Tf we review the noxious insect fauna of New Zealand it will 
pe found that of the approximate total of species already recorded, 
the indigenous element equals only eighteen per cent. The 
countries of origin of the exotic eighty-two per cent. are Europe, 
Australia, North America, Pacific islands and South Africa. The 
European element is by far the most prominent, making up about 
sixty-eight per cent.; of the others, the Australian accounts for 
approximately nine per cent., the North American two per cent., 
and the Pacific islands, South African, and cosmopolitan one per 
cent. each. The most pronounced elements, therefore, of our de- 
structive insect fauna are the European and the indigenous, but 
in proportion the latter is hardly one-fifth of the former, although 
there is every likelihood of additional native forms becoming in- 
jurious.’’® 
Although some large forms occur in the Dominion, the number 
of conspicuously colored representatives is few. A miscellaneous 
collection of New Zealand insects, such as I saw in the Dominion 
Museum at Wellington, has a peculiar, ‘‘old-fashioned’’ appear- 
ance about it. There is a scarcely definable something that savors 
of the long ago; the curious shades and combinations of colors 
give the observer the notion that their wearers have long since 
passed on. 
Back of the high hills which surround Wellington, and one and 
one-half miles northwest of the city, about sixty acres of native 
forest, known as Wilton’s Bush, have been set aside as a govern- 
ment preserve. Hills and deep valleys, woods of remu, tawa and 
matai, partly cleared and burned-over areas with huge decaying 
limbs and trunks of trees, here and there a stalk of prickly, 
yellow-flowered gorse adding a touch of color to the scene, and 
below, a beautiful clear stream winding its way among this riot of 
6 Miller, David. The Status of Entomology in the Economy of the Domin- 
ion, N.Z. Journ. Science and Tech., II. Nos. 4 and 5, 270, (July) 1919. 
