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Mr. Harley Donald gave me a Weevil, Otiorrhynchus suleatus, Fabr., 
which he had found in the town: it is cosmopolitan. 
Mrs. Arnott was good enough to bring me specimens of the 
Cockroach, Cutilia sedilloti, Boliv., and the deep green Mantid 
*Orthodera novae-zealandiae, Colenso, taken in the bush near her 
house. 
One afternoon Mr. Donald drove us over to Matakiwi, a few 
miles from Masterton, where a bit of bush survives on the bank of 
an excellent trout stream. Again we were disappointed. A large 
clump of Veronica salicifolia in full flower afforded sustenance to 
the two Chrysophani which fed side by side, but we saw no other 
Lepidoptera that day. Tearing the bark off logs and digging into 
the rotten wood, operations in which mine host exhibited great 
energy, were by no means productive. The commonest Beetle was 
a Tenebrio with a pungent odour; we also got a few specimens of 
Cilibe elongatus, Breme, and with them the Bug, Bhopalomorpha 
obscura, and a lot of the Ant, Ponera castanea , Mayr. 
While engaged in this almost fruitless search we happened upon 
five examples of *Peripatus novae-zealandiae, Hutton. Curious-look¬ 
ing creatures they are, and to me at any rate extremely repulsive. It 
is now generally agreed that they are primitive Arthropods, having 
certain affinities with the Annelida. My specimens varied in length 
from 30 to 40 millimetres, their antennae were black, the body bluish 
black above, paler beneath, covered with brownish-orange tubercles ; 
the feet were grey beneath. 
Mrs. Longstaff took a fine specimen of the introduced Slug, Avion 
intermedius, of an unusually deep yellow colour, also a very dark 
brown example of Agriolimax laevis. In the river she found 
Amphipepla ampulla, Hutton, and *Isodora tabulata, var. moesta, 
Adams. 
On the railway journey from Masterton to Wellington, at Summit 
Station, 1140 ft., I took * Or ambus tuhualis, Feld., then new to me, 
as well as the common *C. flexuosellus. 
Wellington. 
March 2nd, 1910. 
On my second visit to Wellington I had the pleasure of seeing 
some of that season’s additions to the collection which Mr. Augustus 
Hamilton is making for the Dominion Museum. Mr. Hamilton 
has determined to make the collection under his charge the standard 
