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in middle, red apically ; face and front with dull white hair ; antennas 

 long (reaching to end of thorax), entirely black; flagellum crenulate 

 beneath ; mesothorax and scutellum dull, the surface microscopically 

 tessellate, the very minute punctures not clearly visible under a lens; 

 area of metathorax finely and weakly plicatulate, the sculpture fading 

 toward the apex ; hair of thorax thin, dull white, with a faintly 

 yellowish tint on scutellum ; tegulse black ; wings dusky hyaline, 

 stigma and nervures reddish sepia ; second s. m. very narrow; abdo- 

 men shining. 



Hah. .Baglebawk Neck, S.-E. Tasmania, February 12tli- 

 March 3rd, 1913 (R. E. Turner). British Museum. Kesembles 

 H. tasmanicc (Gkll.), but easily known by the dull mesothorax. 

 The black antennaB and absence of metallic colour separate it 

 from H. hedleyi, Ckll. 



A SUCCESSFUL HUNT FOR SOME OF OUR LOCAL 

 CRAMBL 



By the Rev. John W. Metcalfe, F.E.S. 



The following notes are put together mainly with a view 

 to the possible usefulness to others of our experience gained in 

 collecting certain Crambi, which, if plentiful in their restricted 

 haunts, are not only very local but may easily be missed owing 

 to their retiring habits. Incidentally a few other local species 

 will be mentioned, which are not commonly taken in such 

 numbers as we were fortunate enough to meet with. My 

 companions on this expedition, which lasted from July 13th 

 to 31st, were the Revs. W. G. Whittingham and J. E. Tarbat, 

 and it is well to mention at once that the weather was as 

 adverse throughout the whole time as it well could be — wet, 

 cold, and windy, a fact which made our subsequent success the 

 more noteworthy. 



Our first halting place was a very happily situated boarding 

 house in the middle of the well-known Deal sandhills. If the 

 accommodation it afforded was not palatial, the position was all 

 that the collector could desire. During the ten days we spent there 

 we were pleased to see Lithosia lutarella var. pygmceola in pro- 

 fusion ; indeed, whatever the weather was like it appeared on the 

 wing or sitting on the marram in great numbers. By day M. 

 lineata, H. cespitalis, C. angustalis, and S. ictericana were common, 

 but A. ochrata was practically over. However, our special object 

 of desire was C. contaminellus, and the stirring of an occasional 

 specimen by day from the marram gave us the cheering 

 assurance that it was about. Yet not till we discovered that at 

 night it loves to sit an inch or two above the ground, on the 

 patches bare of marram, did we secure it in any numbers. 

 From this discovery onwards we took it in plenty, together 



