Recently a Lyttelton resident picked up an insect on a hose which was supplying the motor ship Pakura witli water. lie sent it to Mr. J. Drummond, who identified it as a tortoise beetle. It is an Australian species that lias come into New Zealand. The eggs, Mr. Drummond stated, probably came with Australian timber. The insect lives mainly on eucalyptus trees, eating the leaves and doing a great ileal of damage. In Australia it is called the eucalyptus beetle. Apparently it is not uncommon in Lyttelton, for another resident killed a similar insect some days later.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 6
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