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( Charopa ) coma, Gray; E. anguiculus, Reeve, also var. montivaga, Suter; 
E. bianca , Hutton, f. montana, Suter; E. tapirina , Hutton; Thalas- 
sohelix ziczac , Gould; T. zealandiae , Gray; the endemic Slug, *Janella 
bitentaculata, Quoy, sub-sp. rufovenosa, Suter, and, here as every¬ 
where else, the introduced Agriolimax agrestic. 
At Wairoa *Epirrhoe deltoidata, and Anachloris subochraria 
were to be had, but not many of them; here also the chauffeur 
caught a large fly *Hystricia lupina , Svederer. Somewhere that 
day I took a second example of the Saropogon found on the top of 
Ngongotaha. 
By the roadside above Lake Roto Kakahi was a little cliff of 
pumice sand about which flew numbers of Gasteruption unguimlaris , 
Smith, a strange-looking and still more strangely named Evaniid 
Hymenopteron, of which the larva is said to be parasitic on other 
hymenopterous larvae. Close by I swept three pretty Tortrices off* 
the Veronica : * Heliostibcs illita, Feld. & Rog., of which the National 
Collection possessed but one specimen; its hind-wings are black, 
marked and fringed with orange. 
In the train between Rotorua and Taumaranui (at Otarohanga), 
I captured the Cicada, Scolypopa australis, and at a way-side station, 
Te Kuiti, found plenty of Zizera labradus, together with abundance 
of Emmiltis rubraria. 
Taumaranui (North Island). 
February 17th and 18th, 1910. 
Many moths came to the humble hostel where we slept. Far the 
commonest of these was Emmiltis rubraria, which appeared in 
numbers; the fine *Hemerophila dejectaria, Walk. ( pannularia , Guen.), 
turned up here for the first time, as did two specimens of the smaller 
*Epyaxa subidaria , Guen., while among the more ordinary things were 
* Goremia semisignata and * Pseudo-coremia melinata, Feld., with which 
I afterwards became very familiar. The Noctuae were represented 
by Persectania ewingi, *Morrisonia mutans, *Euxoa admirationis, 
Guen., also the tiny Plusiid, Hypenodes exsularis, Meyrk., which is 
only three-quarters of an inch in expanse, and might well pass for 
a Phycid. Then there were a fair number of Pyrales, including 
*Mecyna maorialis, Feld., the spidery-legged Sceliodes cordalis, Doubl., 
and the fidgety Diasemia grammalis, Doubl., the last two being 
Australasian in distribution. There was also a *Tortrix leucaniana, 
a female. 
But better than all these was a second specimen of the new 
