40 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Abt. III. — Supplement to the Stenopelmatidae of Neiv 



Zealand. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.E.S., Curator of the Canter- 

 bury Museum. 



[Read before the Philosopliical Institute of Canterbury, 3rd August, 1898.'\ 



Plate II. (in part). 



I WISH to make the following corrections and additions to my 

 paper on the Stenopelmatida, published in the twenty-ninth 

 volume of the " Transactions of the Zealand Institute " : — 



Page 224. 



There is a mistake in the synopsis of the genus Pleioptec- 

 tron. It should read as follows, now that P. diversum is left 

 out : — 



" Fore femora with one and middle femora with two 

 apical spines. Fore and middle tibiae with two pairs of apical 

 spines ; hind tibiae with three pairs, of which the superior is 

 much the longer." 



The words " hind tibiae with three pairs " were, unfortu- 

 nately, omitted. 



Talitropsis sedilotti (page 225). 



I have received a female of this species from Makaretu, in 

 Hawke's Bay, collected by Mr. W. F. Howlett, which differs 

 slightly from my description of those from the South Island, 

 which was taken from males. The inferior margins of the 

 lobes of the pronotum do not descend posteriorly, and the 

 lobes of the meso- and meta-nota are rounded. The small 

 spines on the upper surface of the hind tibiae alternate with 

 the larger ones, so that there are only two (not four) rows. 

 The second joint of the hmd tarsi is not less than half the 

 first. Seventh abdominal segment below with two short 

 spines. Subgenital plate notched at the end. 



C'o/om-s.— Tawny, paler below, variegated with brown on 

 the back and sides ; a pale band down the centre of the pro- 

 notum ; knees, tibiae, and tarsi of the hind legs brown ; ovi- 

 positor getting brown towards the apex. 



Length, 18 mm.; pronotum, 5 mm.; thorax, 10 mm.; 

 abdomen, 10 mm.; ovipositor, 12 mm.; antenna, 72 mm.; 

 fore tibia, 8 mm. ; hind tibia, 13|mm.; hind femur, 13|mm. 

 Width of mesonotum, 5i-mm. 



