1 50 Transactions. — Zoology. 



different habits. It agrees still less with the other described 

 species of green Xaultini. It may be a variety of N. fjraxjii, 

 Bell, but certainly not of A\ pimctatus, Gray, which species 

 Professor Hutton has subsequently stated to be identical with 

 N. grayii.* 



Addendum. — Since writing the above, and very recently, I 

 have received a letter from Mr. D. P. Balfour, of Glenross, a 

 member of this Society, dated 16th July, 1886, informing me of 

 a green lizard, a s])ecies of Naultiniis, and believed by him to 

 be of the same species as N. pentagonalis, Col., which he had in 

 confinement, having produced two young ones on the 14th of 

 July. One of them was born alive, and the other dead, and 

 then only after some considerable difficulty, Mr. Balfour largely 

 assisting the mother ; for when he saw her on this occasion, 

 this second young one was half expelled, tail foremost, the other 

 having been first born. Mr. Balfour also says that the living 

 one measured 3 inches at its birth. 



This is the tliird known instance of the birth of these green 

 lizards, and all of them happened about mid- winter,! (a 

 strange season !) when they should be in their natural semi- 

 torpid hibernating state. This additional circumstance, now 

 confirmed, seems very peculiar, and is worthy of being noted. 

 The living young lizard, mentioned by Mr Balfour, seems to 

 be of an extraordinary large size, " 3 inches long when born :" 

 tho'^e four born here with me, in 1878, were only a little over 

 1 inch in length when first seen, [loc. cit., p. 263,) and those 

 described in this paper (although still uncoiled m their fetal 

 membranes), cannot be much more. 



Art. XVI. — Remarks on Palinurus lalandii, M. Edw., 

 and P. edwardsii, Hutton. 



By T. Jeffery Parker, B.Sc, C.M.Z.S., Professor of Biology 

 in the University of Otago. 



\Read before the Otago Institute, 10th August, 1886.] 



Plate X. 



In Miers's " Catalogue of the Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea 

 of New Zealand," two species of Palijiurus are assigned to this 

 country — one, P. Jalandii, M. Edw., identical with a species 

 found in Cape Colony ; and the other, P. edwardsii, Hutton, 



• " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. iv., p. 171. 



t See " Trans. K.Z. Inst.," vol. xii., p. 251, for the first. 



