CoLENSo. — F2irther Notes on a Siultinna. 147 



lower end of joint, the lower half pale-brown, clouded ; tarsus 

 8 lines long, slender, unarmed, pale ochraceous-yellow with 

 darker joints. 



Hab. In trees, totara timber (Podocarpus totara, A. Cunn.,) 

 forests, Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1885. 



Obs. This is a very remarkable species, from the compara- 

 tive shortness of its body and great length of its stout posterior 

 pair of legs, which are nearly four times the length of its 

 body and head ! being considerably longer than those of the 

 two very large species — H. gigantea, Col.,* and Deinacrida 

 Tieteracantha, White. f Unfortunately, my only specimen is im- 

 perfect, wanting the upper part of the head, antennae, maxillae, 

 and prosternum ; it got crushed in capturing by the workmen 

 at the sawmill, and I only obtained the major part of the 

 insect (that had been pi-eserved for me) a few days after. 

 Luckily, however, the legs and body were perfect, and so was 

 a portion of the head, containing the clypeus, labrum, and 

 maxillary and labial palpi. It must certainly be a rare species, 

 as none of the workmen at the mill, nor of the villagers, (who 

 subsequently saw it,) long-used as they have been to forest 

 work, had seen one like it before, although they very well 

 knew the commoner and smaller kinds : it was also quite 

 unique to me. 



I may here repeat what I remarked before, in describing 

 another rare and allied species, Deinacrida nrmiger, Col., that 

 this insect appears to possess characters belonging to those 

 two closely allied genera [Deinacrida and Hemideina), and that 

 I doubt those two genera being naturally distinct. | 



Akt. XV. — Ftirther Notes and Observations on the Oestation, 

 Birth, and Young of a L/izard, a Species o/Naultinus. 



By William Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S., etc. 

 {Read before the Hawkers Bay Philosophical Institute, 9th August, 1886.] 



In a former paper, read here before you in the session of 1879, 

 I gave some " Notes and observations on the animal economy 

 and habits of one of our New Zealand Lizards, supposed to be 

 a new species of Naultinus ;" § that paper also contained an 



* " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xiv., p. 278. 



t Zool. " Ereb." and " Terror," Ins., p. 24 ; Button's Cat. N.Z. Orthopt., 

 &c., p. 79. 



I "Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xvii., p. 156. 

 § " Trans, N.Z. Inst.," vol. xii., p. 251, etc. 



