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producing fruit the like of which as regards abundance, size, and 
flavour I have not seen approached in the old country. “ But ne’er 
the rose without the thorn.” And if you should put into your 
mouth a certain small Hemipteron that is too apt to lurk among 
the luscious drupes, well, you will rue the day. Yet another English 
plant, the familiar Eagwort, harboured-—not the Cinnabar—but 
both larvae and imagines of * Deilemera annulata, as well as abun¬ 
dance of the Bug, *Nysius zealandicus. With the common Emmiltis 
rubraria , a specimen of *Asthena rubropunctaria , Doubl., was taken. 
Sweeping Manuka bushes resulted in the capture of the shiny green 
beetle, Calonota festiva, Eabr. The Asilid, *Neoitamus varius , White, 
which I found by the exquisitely clear water of the cold spring at 
Hamurana, was a fly new to me, but Bombus harrisellus was familiar 
enough. It is not many years since Bombus hortorum was purposely 
introduced into Hew Zealand, and it is remarkable that the form 
harrisellus, which is comparatively scarce in England, is in Hew 
Zealand so common that my impression is that there was one of the 
melanic form to every two or three typical specimens. As in the 
old country, no intermediates were met with. Surely this is a case 
about which the Mendelians might have something to tell us. 
In the clear stream that flows from the Hamurana Spring, Mrs. 
Longstaff found several Water Snails. The most abundant was 
*Potamopijrgus corolla, Gould, both the smooth and the spiny forms; 
*Isidora novae-zealandiae, Sowerby; Amphipepla arguta, Hudson, 
and Sphaerium lenticulum, Deshayes. 
At Okere on Lake Eoto Iti we were told that the quantities of 
shells of *T)iplodon menziesi , var. hochstetteri, Dunk., had been left 
there by the Maoris, who dredge the bivalves out of the lake for 
food; the valves are some 2^ inches long. 
On the top of a small mountain, Pohaturoa, which overlooks the 
Geysers, I took three males of the Southern form of Fyrameis cardui, 
known as P. hershawi. This is distinguished from the type by a row 
of blue spots on the hind-wings, but in the absence of other dis¬ 
tinctions this scarcely seems enough to raise it to specific rank. I am 
the more confident in this opinion since the Hope Collection contains 
two specimens with like blue spots, one from Cyprus, the other from 
Mongolia. Moreover, in the fine old Dale Collection there are three 
similar British examples. It is interesting to bear in mind that 
somewhat similar blue spots occur in many specimens of Chryso- 
phanus phlaeas, and *C. sallustius . On the same mountain I took a 
second specimen of the Asilid, *Neoitamus varius . 
One day I drove to the foot of Mt. Hgongotaha, not to the 
