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288 Transactions—Zoology. 
Art. XXXVIII.—Second Note on the Maori Rat. 
By Prof. E. W. Hurron. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 7th August, 1877.] 
Last June the Museum received from Mr. Cocker a dried specimen of a rat 
found by him in a cave, along with some old Maori mats, etc., on Mount 
Benger. This specimen consists of the skeleton nearly complete, and the 
dried skin with a few hairs on it. A comparison of its skull with those 
from Shag Point, described in my former paper * left no doubt as to its 
being the true Maori rat, so that I am now able to add a little more to our 
knowledge of this animal. The following are the principal dimensions :— 
Inches. 
Length of the skull : os os 
a snout to root of tail X: <a E 4.00 (about) 
Se of tail ze ve e. vs ^e 4:75 (perhaps rather more) 
e '87 
f hind fo 
There are thirty ale vertabiee; ba one or two at the end may be wanting. 
The hair on the belly is whitish, that on the baek and sides mouse-grey, 
but all the colours may have been bleached. It will be seen that the 
measurements and colour eorrespond very well with a small specimen of 
the black rat ( Mus rattus. ) 
ART. XXXIX. — Notes on the New Zealand Myriopoda in the Otago Museum. 
By Prof. F. W. Hvrrox. 
Plate XI. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 5th June, 1877.] 
Cermatia smithii, Newport. Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII., p. 96. 
Hab. Auckland. 
Henicops impressus, sp. nov. 
Head broadly ovate, narrowed towards the front, with an elevated 
margin behind, and an impressed curved transverse line, convex backward, 
on the top before the eyes; space between the antenns concave. Dental 
lamina with eight acute teeth. Antenne tomentose, with 34-86 joints. 
Segments 15 (without the head), alternately large and small; but the small 
segment between the 7th and 8th, and between the 14th and 15th, absent ; 
each segment with a raised margin. Above olive-brown, generally more or 
less marbled with black; legs pale bluish; feet yellow. Under surface of 
** Trans. N.Z. Inst.” IX., p. 348. 
