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elliptical, but with a pronounced lateral compression on the 

 anterior third of the body, then gradually expanding again, the 

 hinder third being slightly wider than the anterior. On the 

 dorsal aspect two crescent-shaped shallow grooves rise from 

 the posterior angles of the shield, and extend backwards for 

 about one-third the length of the body, terminating in deep 

 pits immediately opposite the lateral constrictions ; from these 

 pits two deep crescent-shaped grooves extend backwards, ceasing 

 abruptly a short distance from the posterior margm. A straight 

 medial depression, not so pronounced as the crescents, runs 

 between them from the posterior margin for rather more than 

 a third the length of the body. The pits are connected by a 

 transverse line. 



On the under-side, a deep and wide central groove starts at 

 the posterior margin and runs for about one-fourth the length 

 of the animal. Two equally deep and wide grooves commence 

 in a line with the insertion of the third pair of legs, and run 

 backwards, gradually widening till they reach the centre of the 

 mesial groove, when they turn in rapidly, giving the mclosed 

 space (from the third pair of legs to the posterior margin,) much 

 the outline of a Florence flask. The rostrum, in addition to the 

 spines possessed by all the members of the genus, appears to be 

 armed on its under side with five lines of hard-pointed tubercles. 



The body of the animal when alive is of a delicate French- 

 grey colour ; the shield on the head pale-brown ; legs red, with 

 white at the joints ; rostrum same colour as the body. 



It is generally supposed that a separate species of tick is 

 appropriated to a particular species of animal. Although this 

 appears to be usually the case it is not always so, as proved by 

 the fact that in England the common species /. erinaces is found 

 on rough herbage, in forests; and on dogs, cattle, foxes, and 

 hedgehogs. A short time since I found on a large gull a tick 

 exactly similar to the one from the Crested Penguin described 

 about two years ago by Mr. Maskell. 



Art. VIII. — On the Occurrence of the English Scaly Lizard 

 (Zootoca vivipara) in New Zealand. 



By T. W. KiKK. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 30th June, 1886.] 



In August of 1883 I had the pleasure of bringing under the 

 notice of the Society two English butterflies — viz., the Eed 

 Admiral, or Alderman, and the Small Tortoiseshell, both of 

 which were captured in the Wellington Botanic Gardens — and 

 drew attention to the fact that the importation of plants and 



