On the Crustacean Fauna of New Zealand. 465 



middle in a transverse series ; apex and a patcli upon the 

 outer margin sparsely mottled witli ferruginous; fringe strami- 

 neous, spotted with brown at the ends of the veins ; a slightly 

 irregular discal series of brown-edged silvery spots ; a blackish 

 discocellular spot : secondaries with a clear, transversely 

 elliptical patch just beyond the middle of the subcostal area ; 

 apex and some spots on the outer border sparsely speckled 

 with ferruginous ; fringe and silvery discal spots as in the 

 primaries : body pale. Under surface of wings pale ochraceous, 

 the mottling ill-defined, excepting upon the external third of 

 the wings ; pale patches as above ; silvery spots obsolete ; 

 all the wings with blackish discocellular spots : body whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 



Old Calabar. 



E. stellata comes nearest to E. hidovicata (a common Ma- 

 layan form) , the pattern of the under surface being somewhat 

 similar ; it, however, bears a greater resemblance, in the colour 

 and pattern of the upper surface, to the little genus Stegania. 



Ojphthahnodes squalida, n. sp. 



Wings pale greyish testaceous, clouded with pale olivaceous 

 and densely mottled with dark brown ; the usual discoidal spots 

 outlined in brown ; a marginal series of black spots ; two verj' 

 ill-defined, parallel, sinuated, discal brownish lines ; fringe 

 and the costa of primaries testaceous, spotted with black : 

 body pale brown, mottled with darker brown. Wings below 

 with the basal two thirds sordid white, mottled with grey ; 

 discoidal spots dusky ; external third fuliginous brown ; fringes 

 as above : primaries with a dusky line beyond the cell ; costa 

 yellowish, spotted with grey ; apex and a spot on external 

 border white : secondaries with a white apical spot : body 

 very pale greyish brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches ?> lines. 



Old Calabar. 



LIT. — Additions to the Crustacean Fauna of New Zealand. 

 Bj T. W. Kirk, Assistant, Colonial Museum, Wellington, 

 N. Z. 



Caprella lohata. 



A single specimen of this species dredged in Cook Strait in 

 January 1876. 



Caprella novce-zealandice, sp. nov. 

 Cephalon furnished with a spinous tooth directed forwards. 

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