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Frontispiece.
Fig. 1. Bolitophila luminosa. 1a. Larva, 1b. Pupa.
AN ELEMENTARY
MANUAL
OF
NEW ZEALAND ENTOMOLOGY.
BEING
OF
OUR NATIVE INSECTS.
WITH 21 COLOURED PLATES.
BY
G. V. HUDSON, F.E.S.,
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.
West, Newman, & Co., 54, Hatton Garden.
1892.
To
The Right Hon. LORD WALSINGHAM,
M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S.,
LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
The object of the present volume is to give a brief account of the Natural History of the insects inhabiting New Zealand in a form intelligible to the ordinary reader. For this reason every effort has been made to avoid all unnecessary technicalities, and to adapt the book as far as possible to the requirements of youthful entomologists and collectors.
Several very elaborate systematic lists and descriptions have been published from time to time of the insects of New Zealand, amongst which may be specially mentioned—Captain Broun's "Manual of New Zealand Coleopte