2/0 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



Class MYRIAPODA. 



30. Scolopendra rubriceps, .$. Newport. MSS. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr.Dief- 



fenbach. 



" Head, labium, and mandibles very dark red; body blackish 

 brown, somewhat flattened ; very much narrowed in the anterior, 

 but dilated in the posterior segments. Antennse and legs reddish 

 olive. Posterior pair of legs, on the under surface, with 7 spines 

 arranged in two oblique lines, and 3 spines on the internal supe- 

 rior margin. Length 4f inches." Newport. 



Polack (i. p. 322) speaks of a species of " innocuous " cen- 

 tipede as occurring in New Zealand. 



31. Spirotreptus antipodarum. Newport. MSS. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



" Brown, with the head smooth, and deeply excavated at the 

 sides behind the antennae ; first segment with the sides triangular, 

 subacute without plicae; anterior portion of each segment sub- 

 striated diagonally, and mottled with orange ; posterior portion 

 almost smooth, with very faint longitudinal striae. Preanal scale 

 short, rounded." 



" These specimens are in their immature state, and have but 

 35 segments to the body, the adult number being about 50, and 

 the length of the individual from li to 2 inches." G. Newport. 



Class ARACHNIDA. 



A spider in New Zealand (at Mawi) is named pon- 

 werewere. Walckenaer, Apt, ii., p. 519. 



32. My gale antipodiana. Walck. Apt. i., p. 230. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Walck. 



33. Segestria saeva. Walck. Apt. i., p. 269. 

 Inhabits New Zealand, Walck. 



34. Lycosa nautica. Walck. Apt. i., 340. 

 Inhabits N. Zealand. Walck. 



" Aranea viatica' the wandering spider." Polack speaks of this 

 being met with continually in New Zealand (i. p. 321). It may 

 be some species of the genus Lycosa. 



35. Dolomedes mirificus. Walck,. Apt. i., 355. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Walck. 



