CorzNso.—On some newly-discovered New Zealand Arachnids. 167 
the longest, measuring nearly 8 inches. Colour (after keeping in spirits) 
brown, variegated with many small white spots and rings which under a 
lens present a subtesselated appearance, those white rings are swollen and 
appear as if jointed, each bearing two (or more) minute black spines; core 
large, prominent, slightly hairy, hairs patent; trochanter very short, smooth ; 
Jemur 7 lines long, beset with short spinous hairs; tibia (genual joint) 1 
line long, smooth ; metatarsus of the second pair 6 lines long, (in the other 
three pairs this joint is only 8 lines long,) with a few short and scattered 
hairs, and four equidistant white rings; tarsus 1 inch and 8 lines long, 
hairy particularly towards tip, very finely annulated in the upper part and 
very flexible: this last joint of all the legs is exceedingly fine and flexible 
and curved at tip; when the animal is taken out of spirits for examination 
it is very difficult to keep this long last joint steady. 
Sternum very small; anus produced. 
Hab. In dark forests, among long mosses and Hepatic on the trunks 
of living trees 6-8 feet from the ground, ‘‘70-mile Bush," between Norse- 
wood and Danneverke, 1879-1881. 
This curious and strange animal has greatly puzzled me, not knowing 
of any genus, or even family, to which it might rightly be referred. In its 
peculiar and prominent characters it seems to partake of more than one 
family of Arachnida, as they are at present constituted. In its body and 
long filiform legs it agrees with Phalangium, in its long chelate falces with 
Pseudoscorpionide (Cheliferide) ; it evidently has also some relationship to 
Thelyphonide through Phrynus, particularly in its extra long and filiform 
(antenns-like) second pair of legs ; while its large and bent maxillary palpi 
bear close analogy, if not affinity, with those organs in our endemic genera 
(of Orthoptera) Deinacrida and Hemideina. There may, however, be some 
known genus to which it can be hereafter rightly referred; at present I 
have done my best here (without modern scientifie works on Arachnida), 
and by naming it as I have done I have placed it near to its proper place in 
the Natural System. 
Believing this Arachnid to be very scarce, and having but one perfect 
specimen, I have not cared to break it up so as to examine it more narrowly, 
especially as to its buccal apparatus. I have only seen four specimens in 
the woods, throughout three years, although from my first seeing one in 
1879 (which I failed to capture), I have sought most diligently for speci- 
mens. In the following year I accidentally, and most unexpectedly, saw 
another in the same forest, and though I tried long and arduously to secure 
it without smashing, I failed to do so; it spread out its long flexible legs so 
prodigiously, that in the end it escaped among the thick vegetation. Its 
