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Single specimens of the Skippers, Gegenes letterstedti, a female; 
Gomalia albofasciata and Parnara fatuellus were taken, the last- 
named settled on a leaf in the sun, with the wings fully expanded; 
we also obtained two Kedestes macoma, Trim. 
We kicked up from grass, etc., two specimens of the exceedingly 
variable Noctua Ophiusa lienardi , Boisd., one of them settled upon 
the ground; in like manner we turned up a battered example of the 
restless moth belonging to the same group, Bemigia repanda, Fabr., 
and found another at rest upon a leaf in the full sun. Here also 
we took our first specimen of that beautiful Catocaline, the steel-blue 
and orange-yellow Egybolia vaillantina, Stoll, known to the Colonists 
as the Peach Moth, together with the Quadrifid Noctua Bhanidophora 
cinctigutta, Walk., pale fawn with large, neatly outlined, cream-coloured 
spots on the fore-wing; and the curious Geometer Cartaletis libyssa, 
Hopff., of which several were seen, but only one taken. This 
moth, orange, with a black white-spotted border to all the wings, 
looks like anything rather than the Boarmiid that it is. It flies 
rather high with feeble fluttering action, and when on the wing 
somewhat recalls JDanaida ehrysippus, or an Acraea ; it also resembles 
Acraea by exuding a yellowish juice when pinched, but the juice in 
Cartaletis is odourless. These are three very striking and charac¬ 
teristic moths. Another Geometer, allied to our Magpie Moth, was 
Zerenopsis geometrina, Feld. 
The Hyponomeutid, Eretmocera scatospila, Zell., and the familiar 
Scopula ferrugalis, complete the list of moths, so far as I have 
been able to assign them names. 
The yellow and chocolate-coloured Lamellicorn Macroma cognata, 
Schonh., was very conspicuous on the wing; the Clavicorn Episcaph - 
nla aulacochiloides, Crotch, was taken under a log, associated with 
ants and fungi. Asida bicostata, Fahr., and Hister subsulcatus , Mass., 
were also found under logs; a specimen was obtained of the phyto¬ 
phagous Lady-bird, Epilachna infirma, Muls. The Weevil Scidbius 
pullus, Sparm., a female, was beaten out of a Clematis-like creeper 
[? really a Senecio]. The Carabid Arsinoe quadriguttata, Casteln., 
was taken on low herbage. 
Two Crickets were captured, also the Acridian Monachidium 
mridipenne, Burm., and others of the group still unnamed, including 
one which made a loud snapping noise in leaping, whereas the very 
spiny-legged Acridium ruficorne, Fabr., sat on a bush and made no 
attempt to escape. From under a log was unearthed an immature 
female Cockroach, which Mr. Shelford thinks may possibly be a new 
species. 
