50 MB. T. ALLIS ON THE SKELETON 



Vertex finely punctured, with a deep oblong vulviforra impression. 

 Thorax transverse, very slightly dilated at the sides, not distinctly 

 gibbous in front, densely covered with irregular punctures of two dif- 

 ferent sizes, which are especially numerous towards the posterior 

 angles. Elytra more finely punctulate, the punctules forming indis- 

 tinct strise. Beneath pale testaceous, the sternal plates and legs 

 dai'ker, inclining to castaneous. — Hab. California. 



The coloration of this species, so different from its congeners, 

 might induce the suspicion of its being immature. If so, it is 

 still distinct from any other species that I have met with. 



Notice of a nearly Complete Skeleton of a Dinornis, presented by 



Dr. GriBSON to the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical 



Society. By Thomas Allis, Esq., F.L.S., Hon. Sec, Torksh. 



Phil. Soc. 



[Eead June 16, 1864.] 



(Abstract.) 



In the course of last summer, Mr. Allis had an opportunity, on 

 the occasion of Dr. Gribson and his brother, who is a resident in 

 New Zealand, visiting the Museum of the Yorkshire Philoso- 

 phical Society, to suggest to those gentlemen how desirable it 

 would be if the Museum could obtain some bones of the Moa, of 

 which it possessed only a single smaU fragment. Mr. AUis was, 

 at the same time, anxious to procure a specimen of the Apteryx, 

 with a view of his tracing out the rudimentary wing-bones in that 

 bird. 



A few weeks since, Mr. Allis was informed by Dr. Gibson that 

 his brother had succeeded in obtaining a perfect skeleton of the 

 3Ioa, as well as an Apteryx and some of its eggs, all of which had 

 been forwarded to England. This collection reached the York 

 Museum at the end of May, and, when examined, was found to 

 contain a very nearly complete skeleton of a gigantic species of 

 Dinornis, together with numerous bones belonging to four distinct 

 young birds of the same species The best-marked of these bones 

 were an ischium, an os pubis, a few ribs, and a small cruciform 

 bone (the immature sternum). Before the skeleton was mounted, 

 some photographic views of the bones were taken, copies of which 

 were exhibited to the Society. One of the photographs shows the 

 inner aspect of the sacrum ; the three anchylosed vertebrae adjoin- 

 ing the sacrum, with their ribs stiU attached by cartilage to them ; 



