116 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The President exhibited a piece of sandstone, found lying in 

 the open at Springwood, partially covered with an organic 

 structure of an undetermined nature. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited five specimens (^ 2; £ 3) of a Peripatus 

 with fourteen pairs of walking legs, the males with white papillre 

 on the legs of the posterior nine pairs, from the North Island of 

 New Zealand. The specimens were obtained by Mr. C. T. Musson 

 near Te Aroha in the early part of last January. They will 

 probably prove to be referable to the species for which Professor 

 Dendy [Nature, March 8th, 1900, p. 444] has recently proposed 

 the name P. viridimaculatus, founded on specimens collected at the 

 head of Lake Te Anau in the South Island. The (spirit) speci- 

 mens exhibited, however, do not in their present condition seem 

 to show the "fifteen pairs of green spots arranged segmental^" 

 which Dr. Dendy describes as characteristically present in the 

 specimens from the South Island. 



