Hudson and Skuse. — On vu- X.Z. Glowicorm. 43 



ager's bird flew against the lantern of a lighthouse ; and the 

 British Museum specimen "was purchased by Mr. Salvin from 

 a dealer who said it had been obtained on the New Zealand 

 coast. 



Eudyptes, sp. 



The coasts of New Zealand are lich in penguins as well as 

 petrels. Twelve well-defined species, belonging to four ge- 

 nera, are abeady on our hst, and I have now to submit to you 

 another absolutely distinct species, of which I have received 

 two specimens from the West Coast sounds. I have not yet 

 been able to identify it -with any described fonn of Eudyptes, 

 and I have httle doubt that it will prove to be new to science. 



Among the species referred to above is one so rare that 

 only a single example of it has yet been recorded. I refer, of 

 course, to the Black Penguia {Eudyptes atratus). The type 

 was kindly forwarded to London by Professor Parker for the 

 purpose of being figured in the second edition of " The Birds 

 of New Zealand," and I regret to say that this imique spe- 

 cimen has been lost, with my own collections, in the barque 

 '• Assaye." I have, however, given Mr. Keulemans's drawing 

 of it to Captain Fairchild, and have asked him to keep a sharp 

 look-out for this penguin at the Snares, its only known 

 habitat. 



.Art. III. — The Habits and Life-history of the Kcic Zealand 

 Glowworm. 



By G. Y. Hudson. F.E.S. 



'Bead before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 6th October, 1S90.' 



Plate Yin. 



My former paper on this insect (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. sis., 

 p. 62) was written considerably over four years -ago, and 

 is, I regret to say, very incomplete in its details, as well as 

 being in some places absolutely misleading. I will there- 

 fore, with the permission of the Society, completely recast my 

 account of the natm-al history of the glowworm, the present 

 paper thus euth-ely superseding my previous one. I trust that 

 this course may be allowed, as the insect is one of unusual 

 interest, and also excessively difficult to observe. It is there- 

 fore deskable that a complete account of its habits and hfe- 

 history should be carefully recorded. 



My first attempt to discover the natm-e of the New Zealand 

 glowworm was in January, 1885, when I captured several 



