558 APPENDIX B 



p. 258 MOLLUSCA 



Family MURICID^: 

 Murex ramosus, Linn. 



Within the five years 1903-08 two specimens of this introduced 

 mollusc were found at Tauranga: one of these, 8| in. long, was living when 

 collected. 



They must have been brought from one of the South Sea Islands, 

 either purposely, or perhaps attached either to a ship's bottom, or to her 

 anchors. 



p. 265 MYRIAPODA 



Order CHILOPODA 



Family SCOLOPENDRID^E 



Scolopendra subspinipes, Leach 



This centipede is frequently introduced into New Zealand in fruit cases, 

 usually from the South Sea Islands. The species is very widely spread in 

 most tropical and sub-tropical countries. It does not seem to have estab- 

 lished itself, unless perhaps from Whangarei northwards. 



Ethmostigmus platycephalus, Newport 



Recorded in the Index Fauna Novee-Zealandia (p. 235) as an indi- 

 genous species Heterostoma platycephala but without locality. 



Ethmostigmus rubripes, Brandt 



A specimen, now in the Christchurch Museum, was found in 1901 

 among timber imported from Australia. 



INSECTA 

 p. 270 Sub-order PSEUDO-NEUROPTERA 



Family ATROPIDJE 



Troctes divinatorius, Miiller. Cabinet mite ; Book-louse ; Book-tick 

 This species appears to be equally common with Atropos pulsatoria. 



p. 272 Order HYMENOPTERA 



Family ICHNEUMONID^E 



Pleurotropus (Entodori) epigonus, Walker, was recorded by the Agri- 

 cultural Department on its introduction as Semiotellus nigripes. But this 

 latter species is a parasite of Oscinella in Britain, not of the Hessian fly, 

 and Mr D. Miller informs me that it is doubtful whether it occurs in 

 New Zealand at all. 



p. 273 Family CHALCIDID^ 



Aphelinus mail, Haldane 



This little wasp was introduced from America early in 1921 by Dr R. J. 

 Tillyard, Chief of the Biological Department of the Cawthron Institute, 



