22 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. VIII. — Note on Paryphanta lignaria. 

 By Captain F. W. Button, F.E.S. 



{Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 20th August, 



1899.] 



Plate II. 



SiK Walter Bulleb has kindly allowed me to photograph a 

 perfect shell of this species which was obtanied on Mount 

 Eochfort, near Westport, and to add to the description given 

 in the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," vol. xx., 

 p. 43. The greatest diameter is about 2 in. There are five 

 and a half whorls in the specimen, and the angle of spu-e 

 is 125°. The whole shell is of a yellowish-brown or luteous 

 colour, the brown bands being obsolete. The first whorl is 

 pale, the following ones are darker in colour. The umbilicus 

 is the same as in P. hochstetteri. The aperture is transverse, 

 the columella descending more than in the adult P. hoch- 

 stetteri, but not so much as in the young of the same species. 

 The peristome is thin, the upper margin oblique, slightly- 

 undulated near the suture. 



The figures (Plate 11.) are rather less than natural size ; 

 the lower one is slightly canted to get the light into the 

 umbilicus, so that it does not show the correct outline at the 

 base. This is seen in the upper figure. I have compared 

 this specimen with photographs of the types of Paryphanta 

 gilliesii kindly sent to the Museum by Mr. E. A. Smith, and 

 I find that that species has a much larger umbilicus than 

 P. lignaria, besides being flatter. 



Art. IX. — The Tipulidse, or Crane-flies, of New Zealand. 



By Captain F. W. Button, F.R.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 1st November. 



1899.] 



Plates III. and IV. 



This paper is founded on Mr. G. V. Hudson's collection, 

 which he kindly sent me to describe. As it raises the list of 

 our Tijndidce from nineteen to forty-four species, the collec- 

 tion must be considered a very sood one, and I hope that I 

 shall be found to have given a fairly good account of it. My 

 part, however, has been rendered comparatively easy by Mr. 



