Lepidoptera, among which are three butterflies, Melanitis 

 leda L., Hypolininas holina L., and Pyrmneis ilea F. are common 

 species of wide distribution ; ten are New Zealand forms, and 

 eight are described by Mr. Meyrick as new. The notorious 

 plague-flea, Pulex cheopis, has found its way to these remote 

 islands, which swarm with rats ; as well as our Ccccinella 

 11-punctata, now abundantly naturalised throughout New 

 Zealand. 



The larger group of the Chatham Islands is about 450 miles 

 east-south-east of Cook's Strait. They possess a luxuriant 

 vegetation, with a good deal of forest, and the number of 

 resident species of insects at present known will certainly be 

 largely augmented by further research. Besides the butterfly 

 Pyrameis ada Alfken, already mentioned, 106 species of 

 Coleoptera have so far been recorded ; 49 of these are endemic, 

 the remainder being well-known New Zealand forms. They 

 include 12 Longicorns, three AnOirihidae, and eight Cossoninae, 

 and the rare Acalles fougeri Hutton, is the largest and finest 

 known member of this extensive genus. 



The widely scattered island groups in the stormy ocean 

 south and east of New Zealand, and the solitary Macquarie 

 Island far to the south-west, have in recent years been visited 

 by several naturalists ; and the results of the scientific expedi- 

 tion despatched thither under the auspices of the Dominion 

 Government in 1907 are embodied in the two fine volumes 

 entitled " The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand," pub- 

 lished two years later. In this enterprise Entomology was 

 most adequately represented in the person of our Fellow 

 Mr. G. V. Hudson, whose researches, however, were confined 

 to the Snares and the Auckland Islands. Six species of Cole- 

 optera, including a fine new Mecodema, were found in the 

 former little group, distant some sixty miles south-west from 

 Stewart Island. From the Auckland Islands, so renowned 

 among botanists for their beautiful and most peculiar Flora, 

 some half-dozen species of beetles were obtained by the French 

 Antarctic expedition under Capt. Dumont d'Urville in 1840; 

 and this number was increased to thirty by Mr. Hudson. Nine 

 additional species were found by Mr. Marriner, another member 

 of the expedition, at Campbell Island, which lies about 180 



