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mation regarding them :—“ The species is Sesta (Aegeria) 
tipuliformis, Linn., and is not indigenous to New Zealand, having 
been introduced from England with the currant, on the stems of 
which the larva feeds, being often very injurious. The family 
Sesiad@ is a large one, and is entirely composed of moths with 
narrow transparent wings like those sent. The group stands 
tolerably high, and has no affinity with the Hymenoptera, which 
it appears to resemble. I am not, however, sure that the resem- 
blance is due to mimicry, at least in the case of most species. 
The likeness is quite general; most of the species, like the 
present, have a resemblance to the Jchneumonide amongst the 
Hymenoptera, but it will not bear close investigation, and I am 
not aware that it has been possible to point out any particular 
species as mimicked. One or two larger species, however, cer- 
tainly imitate hornets with considerable accuracy, and some of 
the South American species resemble bees of that country. 
“ There is no species of the family native to New Zealand, and 
perhaps none to Australia, though generally well distributed 
elsewhere.’—G, M. T. 
PERIPATUS (Nos. 11 and 12, Vol. I., N. Z. Journ. Sc.).—It 
may interest some of the readers of this paper to know that I saw, 
a few days ago, a number of specimens of Peripatus which had 
been collected in the Gwavas Bush, near the Whakaraara Moun- 
tains, Hawke’s Bay. This bush is situated on the Secondary 
Rocks, which form a foot range to the main chain of the Ruahine 
Mountains. I should judge that it was fairly plentiful, but the 
specimens seemed all slightly smaller than those I have seen in 
the Wellington district—A. H. 
PIED SPECIMEN OF THE BLACK STILT.—I have shot a Black 
Stilt-plover (Himantopus nove-sealandi@) which has been seen 
frequenting a paddock in the Petane Valley, near Napier, for 
some weeks. I found that one leg had been fractured below the 
knee, and a large lump had formed over the point of fracture. 
This injury and its subsequent reparation was probably the cause 
of the isolation of the bird from its companions, but the most 
peculiar feature of the specimen was the beautifully regular 
manner in which the head, neck, shoulders and breast were 
spotted with white, giving the bird a very different appearance to 
either the Black or Pied Stilt. The specimen is now in the 
Museum of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute, Napier. 
Aine 
Ma@:kA PETRIEL (G. M. Thomson).—In January of this year 
[ took among alge, &c., in Sydney Harbour several specimens 
of a species of Amphipoda, which on examination proved to be 
without doubt the same as Mera petriei, G. M. Thomson, and 
after some little hesitation I also identified it with A/egamera 
sub-carinata, Haswell. Mr. Haswell’s name has priority, so that 
