Straight. The tibio-t.rsus is relatively longer and more slender 

 than that of Vorvus, and its extensor bridge is less oblique, but in 

 other respects it agrees very closely, showing that the genus has no 

 athnity with the Picaria), among which it has been placed by some 

 writers. •' 



\ 



?^ftcraIod>i at utiroStn'iS (Gould '). 



Syn. Xcomorpha acutirodris, Gould ^ 

 Heteralocha goiddi, Cabanis ^. 



The type and only species. 

 Bah. New Zealand. . 



32171. The left tibio - tarsus ; from the superficial deposits of 

 (^'*/y.) Wamgongoro, North Island. This specimen, of which 

 the length is 0,112, agrees exactly in dimensions with 

 the corresponding bone of a recent male specimen pre- 

 served in spirit. The distal extremity (fig. 1) shows the 



Fig. 1. 



HcteMa «r«//.W,v.. Anterior and di.tal aspects of tbe distal extremity of 

 the 1.11 tib.o tarsus ; from the superficial deposits of New Zealand. |. 



deep and wide anterior intercondylar gorge characteristic 

 of thelasseres. with the deep transverse depression at 



1 Proc. Zcol. Soc. 183(;, p. \^^.—^'tomorpha. 



^- Loc. cif. ^ i\j„s. Hein. vol. i. p. 218 (1851). 



