106 Ti'ansactions. — Zoology. 



will be submitted to Mr. McLachlan as soon as others are 

 captured. 



5. Two species of Coleoptera {Bhyncodes saundersi, White, and 



B. ursus, White). 



Taken at Lake Eotoiti (Nelson) and Wellington in forest, 

 but only singly. 



[Mr. Hudson expressed the opinion that the series shown 

 appeared to connect the two species.] 



Art. IV. — Description of a Large Species of lulus. 

 By W. CoLENSO, F.R.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Read before the Hatulcc's Bay Philosophical Institute, 9th October, 1S93.] 



lulus (Spirostreptus) fijiensis, Col. 



Body cylindrical, stout, back very convex, smooth, glossy, 

 hard. Gin. long, l^in. across back from bases of legs on each 

 side, dark umber-brown, somewhat mottled, darkest at ends ; 

 5 blackish bands, nearly equidistant, the first about one-third 

 length from head ; segments imbricate, 58, about 1 line wide, 

 but a little narrower at extremities. Head broad, rounded, 

 smooth. Eyes composed of many facets, forming a broadly- 

 deltoid dark-blue-black patch above at base of antennse, its 

 angles rounded, having a regular papillose appearance ; facets 

 subglobose in 8 rows, 9 facets broad at base. Antennee 3 lines 

 long, 7-jointed ; joints subclavate, the terminal one very 

 short, the second echinate, the third and fourth slightly 

 hairy ; tips of maxillary processes hairy. Legs, 2 to each 

 segment, 3^- lines long, subterete, curved, 7-jointed, the ter- 

 minal jomt with a single acute sharp claw, and also 1-2 

 minute accessory ones or short stout hairs ; colour paler- 

 brown. Weight, ^oz. 



Hab. Fiji ; specimen obtained living at Dannevirke 

 (Seventy-mile Bush), from a bunch of bananas imported. 



Obs. I have had this fine myriapod in my possession for 

 some time, having vainly endeavoured by inquiry, both North 

 and South, to obtain some information respecting it, supposing, 

 from its size and habitat, it must be known and described. 

 I now, however, provisionally describe it — in part, as, from 

 it having died with its head much incurved, I cannot well 

 get at its mouth, &c., without breaking it up, and, having but 

 a single specimen, I am unwilling to do so. 



