460 Transactions.—Zoology. 
That in both cases these insects have been introduced in timber im- 
ported from Australia there can be little doubt; and it shows the import- 
ance of instituting a careful supervision of all the timber brought into the 
colony from other countries. 
The moth which I received from Mr. Travers was a female, and con- 
tained thousands of eggs ; in fact, her abdomen was crammed with a mass 
of ova, which, had she been permitted to deposit, a new agent of destruc- 
‘tion might have commenced its ravages in our forests. That other indi- 
viduals of the same species have escaped from the imported timber is more 
than probable, and already the work of destruction may have begun. 
I am not acquainted with the extent of injury done to the timber of 
Australia by this moth, but trees affected by Cosside larve are generally 
riddled with their perforations. 
We are already suffering from other introduced pests of this description, 
e.g., ZEgeria tipuliformis, a moth whose larve are committing great destruc- 
tion amongst our eurrant trees by perforating the branches and rendering 
them pithless and hollow. 
Government inspectors should be appointed, whose duty it should be to 
carefully examine all imported articles subject to the attack of insect pests, 
for the purpose of ascertaining if any such pests are present, and of adopt- 
ing means to effect their destruction. 
There are probably many gentlemen in this colony who have resided in 
Australia, and been acquainted with the species of moth in question, and 
who might furnish information that would be a valuable supplement to this 
paper. 
Art. LIX.—Brief observations on the genus Chrysophanus, as represented in 
New Zealand. By R. W. Ferepay, C.M.E.S.L. 
(Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, December 5th, 1876.] 
In a paper read before this Institute on the 11th of October, 1871, * I took 
occasion to state that there were three, if not four, distinet species of Chry- 
sophanus found amongst the butterflies of New Zealand ; and, in making 
such statement, the species Boldenarum, which has since been placed by 
. A. G. Butler under the genus Chrysophanus,t was not taken into 
account, as it then stood recorded, on the authority of Mr White, by whom 
it was named and described, as of the genus Lycena. 
* “Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. IV., p. 214. 
t “Cat. Lep. N.Z.," p. 3. 
