Puriri moth

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-007

Description: A headland with pohutukawa in Auckland, with five Maori drawing up a waka onto the beach below. A watercolour of a large puriri moth. A pencil drawing of the headlands around East Cape. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawings and of watercolour

Date: [Between 1931 and 1966]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-204

Description: Album containing many contacts from 35mm film, as well as black and white prints of differing sizes, taken by Professor John Tenison Salmon. He takes particular interest in the flora and fauna of New Zealand, the damaging effects of road construction, erosion from bush felling, and destruction caused by introduced species including deer. There are huge collections of close-up images of various plants (only a few of which are listed above), including flowers, leaves and seeds. He comments on mangrove swamps at Tauranga, which are growing at the furthest point from the Equator possible for them to exist. The other important collection shows various stages in the life cycle of insects and animals, including wetas, katydids, different types of moths, mosquitoes, bees, stick insects, and native New Zealand frogs (Hochstetter's frogs) (p. 91-92). Photographs relating to wetas include scenes of ovipositor tracks of cave wetas in the mud in Waitomo Caves; different varieties of wetas including cave wetas; and weta nests. In 1935 he photographed two Australian species of lizards which he found in the yard of the Dominion Museum, the Australia crested dragon, and the Australian blue-tongued lizard. Many of these photographs were taken on a photomicroscope, including photographs of rock sections (p. 72-75), and photographs of insects and larvae. There are also views of his photomicrosope equipment. Professor Salmon worked at Victoria University, and there are numbers of "contaflex" views of Wellington from his office window, taken to demonstrate the use of various filters (p. 26-29). There are also images of Professor Salmon in his study lab in April 1955; and further images of him in the Entomological Department of the Dominion Museum. Page 35 has views of a science exhibition organised by the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand held in the Wellington Town Hall, 12-14 April 1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 29.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: Early 1900s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-125

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, black and white photographs, and prints of colour illustrations. Mostly connected with New Zealand native trees, and the timber industry. There are pages dealing with different native trees, and then with the various processes involved in felling the trees; transportation, including horse-drawn, logging railways, and water-born timber using dams; and timber mills. On page [7] of this album there are three personal photographs taken by John Logan Campbell from his home in Parnell, used as Christmas cards in 1900 and 1901; on page [27] is a print of a photograph originally taken by Albert Percy Godber, showing a poster in Maori warning against carelessness in lighting fires in the bush (see full information about the original, in the record at APG-1454-1/4-G).

Date: [18-]-1930

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-28

Description: Descriptions of New Zealand flora and fauna; also includes a manuscript on the Maori faith Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1970

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Franz-1970-01

Description: Envelope shows a promotion for Franz Josef Glacier, with a blue and black illustration of the glacier. A 4 cent stamp showing the puriri moth is attached at top right. The envelope is hand-addressed to Dalgety Travel, Box 190, Taihape. Puriri moth stamp was issued in 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on envelope, 90 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Complete Stamp Company on 12 August 2013.

From: Various artists :[Original illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A H McLintock, 1966].

Reference: A-332-156

Description: Male and female puriri moth, seen from above, with wings spread Reproduced in Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, vol 2, p. 590 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 177 x 161 mm