284 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. XXIV. — Described Species of New Zealand Araneae 

 omitted from the Catalogue of 1891, " Transactions of 

 the Neui Zealand Institute." 



By A. T. Uequhaet. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 5th October, 1896.] 



I AM indebted to Captain F. W. Hutton for the subjoined list 

 of species described by Adam White in the "Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society," London, 1849, p. 3 : — 

 Mygale (Gteniza) antipodum. 

 My gale (Gteniza) zenops. 

 Dolomides sagittiger. 

 Dolomides lateralis. 

 Attiis darivinii. 



[Attus abbreviattis, Walck., and A. cookii, Walck., are 

 also mentioned from New Zealand, and probably 

 Attus phrinoides, Walck.] 

 Spharus gracilipes. 

 Tegenaria antip)odiana. 

 Dendridgia dysderoides. 



Art. XXV. — Natural History Notes. 

 By S. H. Drew, Curator of the Public Museum, Wanganui. 



[Bead before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 22nd July, 1896.1 



Wood-pigeon (Carpophaga novcB-zealandice) . 



A beautiful male specimen of our wood-pigeon {C. novcB- 

 zealandia), with abnormal plumage, has been presented to 

 the Wanganui Museum by Mr. T. Harper, of Mangamahu. 

 Head, neck, breast, belly, and tarsi are quite of normal colour, 

 but the mantle, wings, scapulars, back, and tail are white, 

 shaded at tips of feathers to darkish-grey ; ends of primaries 

 and tail darker grey ; a few darker feathers here and there on 

 the back and secondaries and wing-coverts add to the beauty 

 of this handsome bird. 



Cnemiornis. 



k box of moa-bones taken from one of the cuttings on the 

 main trunk line near Hunterville, North Island, has been sent 

 to our Museum by Mr. John S. Stewart. Amongst the many 

 moa-bones I was pleased to notice the femur, tibia, and tarso- 



