58 I'lansoclioiis. — Zoology. 



other ways. An investigation of this kind, to be of any real 

 service in economic matters, requires to be carried out on such 

 a large and exhaustive scale that it is quite beyond the power 

 of any one situated as I am to do it without assistance. 



[Since writing the above, Mr. Hobbs, M.H.E., has kindly 

 furnished me with specimens of Carpocapsa iiomonella in all 

 stages of existence from Auckland, so that material is now 

 availo.ble for figuring the complste life-history of this species. 

 From this circumstance it also appears probable that the 

 ravages observed in the Auckland District are due to CarjJO- 

 capsa immondla, and not to the indigenous Cacoecia excessana.] 



Akt. YI. — Notes on the New Zealand Squillidse. 



By CnAs. Chilton, M.A., B.Sc. 



'Bead hefurc the Otago Institute, 13th Octol)cr, 1890.'] 



Plate X. 



During the early part of this year I obtained from Mr. W. M. 

 Innes, of Port Chalmers, some very fine specimens of a Squilla, 

 and, in endeavouring to identify them with the forms already 

 described from New Zealand, I have been led to make the 

 following notes, which are perhaps worthy of publica- 

 tion : — 



In Miers's "Catalogue of the Stalk- and Sessile-eyed 

 Crustacea of New Zealand," published in 1876, tw^o species of 

 Squillida are given, both on the authority of Heller. These 

 are Squilla ncpa, Latr., and Gonodactylus trisjnnosus, White. 

 It is doubtful, however, whether either of these really belongs 

 to New Zealand. In a paper on the Stalk-eyed Crustacea of 

 New^ Zealand, in the New Zealand Journal of Science, vol. i., 

 p. 263, Professor Hutton gives Squilla ncpa in a list of species 

 which he considers as " very doubtful," but which he was not 

 yet prepared to dismiss from the New Zealand Catalogue. 

 Gonodactylus spinosus, he says, may possibly belong to the 

 colony, but was not represented, so far as he knew, in any col- 

 lection in the colony. 



So far as I know, neither of these species is yet repre- 

 sented in any New Zealand collection, but there I fear the 

 matter must be allowed to rest for the present, as it is 

 desirable to hesitate long before removing any species from 

 the list. 



