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treme tip of the spines on the legs being brown ; the margins of 

 the abdominal segments are of a lighter colour ; the transversely- 

 ridged and rough-surfaced femora have many light-coloured 

 streaks. The greater portion of the dorsal part of the thorax is 

 somewhat ferruginous. This specimen was found by itself on 

 the Marsh Pine in Waiheke, in the Firth of Thames. Five other 

 specimens of smaller size Dr. Sinclair found congregated under 

 the bark of trees. The Deinacrida, according to the Maouries, 

 generally keeps high up on the trunk, which the natives are afraid 

 to climb, as the insect, especially the dark-headed, long-jawed 

 male, bites severely. 



The fore tibiae have no spine in the middle in front, and the 

 head is much smaller than in Mr. George Gray's Anostostoma, 

 of which it may, however, be a species merely. 



Kikdraru. Polack. 



Inhabits New Zealand (Spear-grass). Polack, \., p. 329. 

 " The most disgusting insect in nature." Polack. It is impos- 

 sible to say to what order this insect is to be referred. 



NEUROPTERA. 

 Libellula ? Dragon-fly. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Yate, p. 373. 

 Dr. Sinclair brought five species of Dragon-flies from New 

 Zealand : two of these are Agrionideous ; the largest is described 

 below. 

 97- Petalura Carovei. White, n. s. 



Inhabits New Zealand. (Auckland.) British Museum. 



Dr. Sinclair. 



Dilated anal appendages, somewhat rounded at the end ; an- 

 terior margins of wings dark brown ; the tips, especially of second 

 pair, are slightly tinged with dusky. The yellow-coloured plagae 

 on the thorax are wide, and more distinct than in P. gigantea, 

 Leach. Total length from 4 inches 5 lines, to 4 inches 8 lines. 



In the type of this genus, established by Dr. Leach in the Zoo- 

 logical Miscellany, ii., p. 96, tab. 95, the anal appendages are 

 notched or sinuated near the end within, and the anterior edge 

 of both wings is varied with white ; the forehead is wider, and 

 the frontal ridge somewhat different ; the femora are dark, while 

 in this they are ferruginous. 



Those who have read * The Storv without an End,' translated 



