miles soutli-east of the Aucklands, and possesses a somewhat 

 similar flora, except that true forest growth is absent. The 

 46 species of Coleoptera now known from the Subantarctic 

 Islands, the predominant groups of which are the Carabidae 

 and the Rhynchophora, are referred to no fewer than 26 genera, 

 eight of these being endemic. No butterfly was observed in 

 these islands, and only one Noctuid moth, Melanchra erehia 

 Huds., a species of rather striking appearance; some half- 

 dozen Geometrae, and the same number of species of the domi- 

 nant genus Scoparia; a remarkable new Pyralid genus and 

 species, Protyparcha scaphodes Meyr., with one or two Micro- 

 Lepidoptera ; in all about twenty species, twelve of which 

 are endemic, though obviously allied to New Zealand forms. 

 Except the Biptera, of which one or two very remarkable 

 apterous and semi-apterous species were met with, the other 

 Orders are very scantily or not at all represented. 



In Antipodes Island, 490 miles east-south-east of the South 

 Cape of New Zealand, Prof. Hutton observed the conspicuous 

 Hypsid moth Deilemera annulata Boisd. ; besides this insect, 

 only three Diptera and a bird-flea, Goniopsylla kerguelensis 

 Tasch. have been recorded from this lonely speck of land. 

 The even more desolate rocks a little to the northward known 

 as the Bounty Islands, though they are without a trace of 

 terrestrial vegetation, have produced a single Hydrophilid 

 beetle, Thomosis guanicola Broun, a remarkable Stenopclmatid 

 cricket Ischyroplectron isolatum Hutton, and two or three flies, 

 all living in deposits of seaweed and guano at high-water 

 mark. Macquarie Island, in latitude 54° 30' S. and longitude 

 158° 50' E., has a fair amount of vegetation, but its only 

 recorded insects are two peculiar species of Diptera. The 

 biologists of the recent Australian Antarctic Expedition found 

 "numerous beetles under stones and moss" in this island; 

 these apparently have not yet been described, but cannot fail 

 to be of exceptional interest, and in all probability will prove 

 to be related to the singular forms occurring in Kerguelen Island. 



Two islands in a far more genial climate, included in the 

 New Zealand zoological province, remain to be considered. 

 Norfolk Island lies about half-way between New Caledonia and 

 New Zealand, and its fauna and flora, although mainly 



