Bibliographical Notice, 399 



Long, from head to apex of elytra 20 lines; max. lat. 

 12 lines. 



Hah. British East Africa. 



Allied to Golianthus Fomassinii, WestAV., from which it 

 differs bj the much more produced head, the bridge-like horn, 

 with its broad and triangular base, the longer and more 

 attenuated scutellum, and the three spines to the lateral 

 margin of the anterior femora, &c. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



The Students" Flora of New Zealand and the outlying Islands. By 

 Thomas Kirk, F.L.S. AVellington, N.Z. : J. Mackay, Govern- 

 ment Printer. 1899. Super Royal 8vo, pp. vi, 408. 



We have in this fragment the last work on which the late Pro- 

 fessor Kirk was engaged at the time of his lamented death in March 

 1898, being the whole of the material he had put into the hands 

 of the printer. It is well known that he had been occupied on an 

 account of the flora of his adopted country for many years, and no 

 better man could have undertaken it. The hope is expressed in the 

 Introduction that the completion may be entrusted to other hands, 

 and if the author's notes are sufficiently brought together it may be 

 accomplished by his son. 



The Government printers have done their part well, sundry small 

 typographical errors being no doubt due to the fact that the author 

 could not correct the proof himself. Besides the Errata set out on 

 p. 384 (which may be considered as corrected), the most important 

 error noted by us in glancing through the volume is on page 72, 

 where the reference to Oayia Lyallii, " J. E. Baker . . . 37," should 

 read " E. G. Baker . . . 137," while on page 379, in the sixth line, 

 the first two letters have droppedout from DICOTYLEDONS. Agaiu, 

 under the genera Azorella and Helichrysum there are references 

 given which are entirely misleading as they stand ; it is also unfor- 

 tunate, too, that the author should have preferred to cite Allan 

 Cunningham's paper by its title as " Prsecursores," instead of referring 

 to its proper place in the ' Annals of Natural History,' ser. 1, iv. 

 (1840), where the page should be cited instead of the running 

 number of the plants ; this could have been supplied from the 

 ' Index Keweusis,' which the author has employed elsewhere. 



Turning to the scientific points of interest in the volume, we note 

 that a new genus, Huttoniella, is established for four species of 

 Cannichaelia, on account of the pods being indehiscent, the seeds 

 not exceeding three in number, and the radicle conduplicate. 

 Purthermore, the genus Hoheria is retained for the original species, 

 H. populnea, A. Cunn. ; Sliaivia pankidata, Forst.,is re-established, 



