56 Transactions. 



Art. III. Revision of the Cirripedia of New Zealand. 



By L. S. Jennings, B.A. 3 M.Sc. 



Communicated by Dr. Charles Chilton. 



[Bead before, the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, ■'>tli December, 1917 ; received by 

 Edit rs, 31st December. 1917 : issued separately, 24th May, 1918.] 



Introductory Note. 



The late Captain L. S. Jennings commenced the study of the New Zealand 

 Cirripedia, a group of animals that had received very little attention from 

 local naturalists, in 1910, and, becoming greatly interested in the subject, 

 he continued his observations with much enthusiasm and great thoroughness, 

 and hoped to be able to prepare a comprehensive paper dealing with the 

 whole group. In 1915 he published a paper on the " Pedunculate Cirripedia 

 of New Zealand and Neighbouring Islands " (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 47, 

 p. 285). In this he gave a revised list of the species known to occur in the 

 New Zealand region, established a new variety of Lepas anatifera Linn., 

 and gave a critical discussion of the specific characters of Lepas anatifera 

 Linn, and of the New Zealand species Pollicipes. He had nearly completed 

 his examination of the sessile Cirripedia when he left for the front, and 

 before his departure he gave into my charge all his specimens and manuscript 

 notes. Though nearly all the essential work of identifying the species had 

 been done, the manuscript was not arranged in a form suitable for publica- 

 tion. Mrs. Jennings has carefully gone over the collection, under my super- 

 vision, and has put the notes in order for publication. The paper contains 

 a list of the New Zealand species examined by Captain Jennings, with 

 localities, &c, of the different species. 



References have been added to Pilsbry's " Sessile Barnacles (Cirripedia) 

 contained in the Collections of the U.S. National Museum" (1916*), and to 

 Borradaile's " Report on the Cirripedia of the ' Terra Nova ' Antarctic 

 Expedition " (1916 and 1917) — works which Captain Jennings had no oppor- 

 tunity of seeing. 



In the list given below only those species are included which had been 

 examined by Captain Jennings. Additional species are recorded from 

 New Zealand by Hutton (1879, p. 330), Filhol (1885, p. 485), and Borradaile 

 (1916, p. 128). 



Those references only have been given which appear necessary for New 

 Zealand workers. 



The collection has been named and arranged in order, and is stored in 

 the Biological Laboratory of Canterbury College. It contains a few speci- 

 mens added after Captain Jennings left New Zealand, mainly from the 

 collections of Mr. W. R. B. Oliver. 



Captain Jennings was killed in action in France on the 15th September, 

 1916. By his death New Zealand was deprived of one of the most promising 

 of the younger generation of workers in science. 



Chas. Chilton. 



* The references are made by the year of publication to the bibliographical list 

 on p. 63 



