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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 64

Insects

Insects.

These are as yet very imperfectly known. The [unclear: number] of described species up to the present is, Colcoptera ([unclear: Beetley] 587; Hymenoptera 53; Lepidoptera (Butterflies [unclear: and] Moths) 418; Diptera (Flies) 86; Neuroptera 47; [unclear: Orthoeptera] 37; [unclear: Hemiptera] 56. of which 34 belong to [unclear: Heteropters] and 22 to Homoptera. The main collection of New [unclear: Zealand] Insects is kept in the Library, and can be examined [unclear: by] application to the Curator, but a few of the [unclear: commoner] or more remarkable species will be found in Desk [unclear: Cases] to 27, Upper Gallery. Hardly anything is yet [unclear: know] about the New Zealand Spiders (Arachnida). Twenty-[unclear: one] species of Myriapoda (Centipedes) have been described, [unclear: of] which 13 are in the collection, but not exhibited. [unclear: The] Trap-door Spider (Nemesia gilliesii) and its nest [unclear: will] be found in Case 24.