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fresh; the pale grey * A. subpur pur eata, three; A. visata, Guen., 
two; * Tatosoma agrionata, Walk., two males: this was my first, 
and only acquaintance with living specimens of this peculiar genus, 
in which the male is conspicuous by its abnormally long abdomen 
and contracted hind-wings, its nearest ally in the British fauna is 
Lobophora ; Coremia aegrota, abundant; * C. semisignata , abundant; 
* C. cineraria , abundant; * Epyaxa semifissata, two; E. rosearia, 
Doubl., one ; * Coenocalpe gobiata , common : this is so variable that 
it is hard to say whether or no two species are included under the 
name; * Xyridaema hemipteraria, one, considered somewhat of a 
rarity by Mr. Howes; the dark green * Cidaria similata, abundant; 
*Elvia glaucata , Walk., we took three of this very pretty little species; 
lastly, * Helastia mucosata , one. 
If my records are to be trusted, the only Pyrales that visited the 
sugar at Paradise were members of the genus Scoparia. Of these 
* submarginalis was common enough ; of *minusculalis , Walk., three 
came; but only single individuals of * philerga, *astragalota , Meyrk., 
and * char addi Meyrk. There were several specimens of *Tortrix 
excessana , also a worn Tineid of the Laverna group. 
Several of the Cockroach, Temnopteryx sp., which I had previously 
met with in several places, and a few of the Weevil, Rhyncodes ursus, 
White; on e Artystona obscura, as well as two of the Longicorn, *Soma- 
tidia antardica , were found upon the trees, but whether the three 
latter were attracted by the sugar is questionable. 
The return journey to Queenstown gave us a little time at 
Glenorchy at the head of the lake. In the small garden of the 
hotel, on an ill-kept lawn a Geometer, an Asaphodes, previously taken 
near Dunedin, was somewhat common. Mr. Prout considers it to be 
new and has promised to describe it in due course. Under drift¬ 
wood at the edge of the lake were a very few beetles, including 
Odontria sp. Mr. Howes had left one of his cyanide-bottles with 
the hotel proprietor, it now contained a few of the large * Hyssia 
nullifera. 
On our way up the lake, when the steamer called at Kinloch, 
Mr. Howes found several small Land Shells; two *Charopa otagoensis , 
Suter, and eight Aeschrodomus stipulatus, Eeeve. 
