﻿Stuem. 
  — 
  Further 
  Notes 
  on 
  Dauais 
  bereuice. 
  305 
  

  

  Art. 
  XXX. 
  — 
  Further 
  Notes 
  on 
  Danais 
  bereuice, 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  W. 
  

   C. 
  Sturm 
  to 
  the 
  Honorary 
  Secretary, 
  Hawke 
  Bay 
  Philosophical 
  Institute. 
  

   [Read 
  before 
  the 
  Hawke 
  Bay 
  Philosophical 
  Institute, 
  9th 
  September, 
  1878.] 
  

  

  " 
  Hawke 
  Bay 
  Nurseries, 
  17tli 
  February, 
  1878. 
  

   " 
  Dear 
  Sir, 
  — 
  In 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  butterfly, 
  Danais 
  berenice, 
  or 
  a 
  closely-allied 
  

   species 
  (as 
  per 
  your 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  same),* 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  I 
  saw 
  it 
  was 
  at 
  the 
  

   Eeinga, 
  up 
  the 
  Wairoa 
  Eiver, 
  in 
  Hawke 
  Bay, 
  in 
  December, 
  1840, 
  or 
  January, 
  

   1841. 
  In 
  1848, 
  1 
  captured 
  a 
  number 
  at 
  the 
  Waiau, 
  a 
  tributary 
  to 
  that 
  river, 
  

   the 
  Wairoa 
  ; 
  I 
  cannot 
  recollect 
  how 
  many, 
  but 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  eight 
  or 
  

   nine 
  at 
  least, 
  as 
  I 
  sent 
  some 
  small 
  collections 
  of 
  insects 
  to 
  several 
  of 
  my 
  

   fiiends 
  and 
  correspondents 
  in 
  Europe, 
  and 
  all, 
  or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  had 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  

   of 
  the 
  Danais 
  included. 
  Again, 
  in 
  1861, 
  I 
  captured 
  three 
  on 
  the 
  Eangitikei 
  

   Eiver 
  (near 
  to 
  the 
  Messrs. 
  Birch's 
  sheep-run), 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  still 
  in 
  

   my 
  collection, 
  although 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  imperfect 
  state. 
  About 
  twelve 
  years 
  ago 
  

   Mr. 
  Brathwaite 
  captured 
  one 
  in 
  his 
  garden 
  at 
  Napier 
  ; 
  this 
  he 
  sent 
  to 
  

   England, 
  and 
  it 
  came 
  into 
  the 
  hands 
  of 
  the 
  Eev. 
  H. 
  Clarke, 
  who 
  mentioned 
  

   it 
  to 
  me 
  in 
  a 
  letter, 
  as 
  we 
  corresponded. 
  Four 
  years 
  back 
  I 
  saw 
  three 
  or 
  

   four 
  in 
  my 
  garden 
  here, 
  and 
  two 
  years 
  ago 
  there 
  were 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  in 
  

   my 
  gardens, 
  always 
  keeping 
  about 
  the 
  Lombardy 
  poplars 
  and 
  Houheria 
  

   populnea. 
  Mr. 
  Duff, 
  of 
  Kereru, 
  also 
  informed 
  me 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  captured 
  one 
  

   pretty 
  high 
  up 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Euahine 
  range, 
  about 
  ten 
  years 
  ago. 
  

   I 
  certainly 
  believe 
  the 
  butterfly 
  to 
  be 
  indigenous 
  and 
  not 
  introduced 
  ; 
  and 
  

   my 
  observations 
  of 
  it 
  fully 
  coincide 
  with 
  yours, 
  that 
  while, 
  in 
  certain 
  years, 
  

   it 
  is 
  plentiful, 
  in 
  other 
  years 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  seen. 
  — 
  I 
  am, 
  dear 
  sir, 
  yours, 
  etc., 
  

   F. 
  W. 
  Sturm." 
  

  

  Art. 
  XXXI. 
  — 
  Notes 
  on 
  some 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Echinoderttiata, 
  with 
  Descriptions 
  

   of 
  new 
  Sjyecies. 
  By 
  Prof. 
  F. 
  W. 
  Hutton. 
  

   [Read 
  before 
  the 
  Otago 
  Institute, 
  8th 
  October, 
  1878.] 
  

   Amphiura 
  parva, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Small, 
  disc 
  pentagonal, 
  covered 
  with 
  rather 
  large 
  imbricating 
  scales, 
  

   and 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  large, 
  nearly 
  semi-circular, 
  radial 
  shields 
  at 
  each 
  corner. 
  

   Eays 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  disc, 
  tapering; 
  upper 
  plates 
  broader 
  

   than 
  long 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  edge 
  convex; 
  under 
  plates 
  laterally 
  constricted, 
  

   with 
  a 
  blunt 
  tooth 
  on 
  each 
  latero-anterior 
  margin, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  edge 
  

   slightly 
  emarginate. 
  A 
  single 
  broad 
  tentacle 
  scale. 
  Side 
  plates 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  

   of 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  nearly 
  equal 
  spines, 
  which 
  are 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  breadth 
  

  

  * 
  Trans. 
  N. 
  Z. 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  X,, 
  p. 
  276. 
  

  

  