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was sorry that my “whites” had been left at Wellington; nevertheless 
there was no corresponding tropical abundance or variety of insect 
life, though it must be admitted that only twice did I get outside the 
cultivated area. 
In the hotel a few very common insects turned up, some of them 
at any rate attracted by the lights: *Crambus jlexuosellus, Plutella 
macidipennis , Curt., Borkhausenia pseudo-spretella , Stain., and the 
Muscid fly, Pollenia stygia. There was, in addition to these, the 
Geometer, Xantkorrhoe venipunctata, Walk., which Mr. Prout tells 
me is scarce. 
The Domain is a large park, comprising open grass-land, a cricket 
ground, an embryonic Botanical Garden, as well as a portion of the 
indigenous “bush.” It is a pity that here, as elsewhere in New 
Zealand, it has been the practice to plant Australian gum-trees, 
Californian pines, or English oaks, to the exclusion of the trees 
native to the island, and the Domain, in common with other open 
spaces, has suffered from this, a fashion from which I have some 
reason to believe that New Zealanders are beginning to shake 
themselves free. 
The insect in the Domain that most thrust itself into notice was 
the small moth-like Cicada, Scolypopa australis , Walk., which was 
extremely abundant on bushes, and on the bloom of Chinese Privet. 
On an oak-trunk I found a pupa-case of a much larger Cicada, also 
the Noctuid moth *Morrisonia insignis, Walk. The only other moth 
found in this disappointing locality was the very common Emmiltis 
rubraria, which was kicked up. Sweeping yielded some fetid Bugs, 
Bliopalomorplia obscura , White, and Tholosanus sp., and any number 
of the Ely *Sarcophaga impatiens. The Domain did not produce a 
single butterfly. 
Mount Eden is interesting as a well-preserved volcanic crater, 
commanding an extensive view which embraces many other extinct 
craters; moreover, the municipal authorities have done well to 
secure it as a public park, but if the horticulture of the Garden of 
Eden did not attempt anything beyond a grove of Pinus insignis , 
I can only say that it has been much over-rated. The very insects 
also seem to have a poor opinion of the place, since I got nothing 
beyond several * Crambus sublicellus and two or three Earwigs. 
One-tree Hill is another volcanic cone planted with Pinus insignis . 
It produced *Deilemera annulata } *Mnesictena flavidalis, and 
abundance of * Barcophaga impatiens , while a number of Dragon-flies 
that were exceedingly hard to catch haunted its crest. 
One day we landed at Takuna Point, near Devonport, to look for 
