1222 president's address. 



Secondly, on Zoological Subjects, viz. : — 



By Professor Parker, on a Genealogical Tree of the Animal 

 Kingdom, to serve as a guide to the student in a museum. The 

 'Tree' is an actual construction of wood and wire, showing by its 

 various ramifications the presumed descent of such types as are 

 regarded of principal importance. Also, by the same, on the 

 Skeleton of Notornis. 



A. Reischek, F.L.S., contributes a series of eight papers on 

 N. Z. Ornithology, and notes on Sphenodon punctatum, and the 

 habits of the Mustelidse. 



Mr. Taylor White has Remarks on Moa Feathers, and on 

 Hybrids between Anas boschas and A. super xiliosa. 



Mr. Hugh Martin writes on the Protection of Native Birds. 



W. Colenso, F.L.S., on a new species of Sphenodon, S. diver sum. 



W. A. Hamilton on the Native Birds of Hawke's Bay ; on a 

 large specimen of Orthagoriscus mola ; and on the Fungi known as 

 Vegetable Caterpillars. 



Mr. T. W. Kirk contributes two papers on the species of 

 C arpophaga, and Platyaercus ; on a new species of Argonauta* 

 A. Bulleri ; on a new Pill Millipede Sphcvrotherium novce-zea- 

 landice ; and on some specimens of Vorticella. 



Mr. W. Smith describes the habits of Ocydromus australis. 



T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., describes a new species of Ghromodoris, 

 C. amoena. G. M. Thompson, F.L.S., and C. Chilton, M.A., give a 

 critical list of the Malacostraca of N. Z. ; and the latter also 

 describes a new Philygria, P. Thomsoni. E. Meyrick, B.A., 

 continues his descriptions of N. Z. Micro-Lepidoptera, and corrects 

 his previous nomenclature of the Geometrina. Mr. A. T. 

 Urquhart also continues his history of N. Z. Spiders : Mr. R. J. 

 Kingsley describes a new Butterfly, Diadema nerina ; A. Purdie, 

 M. A., the life history of Epyaxa rosearia ; and Mr. G. V. Hudson, 

 the Metamorphosis of the Caddis Fly. 



The Third section of these proceedings is devoted to Botany, and 

 contains papers as follows, viz. — 



