a 
T. W. Kmx.—On some New Zealand Aphrodite. 897 
upper surfaces covered with very prominent tubercles; fingers brown, 
tipped with white, smooth, except theirinternal margins, which are armed 
with 3 or 4 tubercles. Ambulatory legs densely covered with hairs, 
Male, length ,° in., breadth 4$ in. 
Female, length 45; in,, breadth 4$ in, 
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Arr. LVI.—On some New Zealand Aphrodite, with Descriptions of supposed 
new Species. By T. W. Kir, Assistant in the Colonial Museum, 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 30th October, 1878.) 
Aphrodita. 
Halithea, Savigny, Syst. Annel. 11 and 18. Lam., An. s. Vert., v. 306. 
Aphrodita, Leach, in Suppl. Encyclop. Brit. L, 452; Aud. and M. Edw., Litt. de la France, 
IL, 63; Blainville in Dict. des Sc. Nat. LVIL, 455; Fleming in Encyclop. Brit., 
Edit. 7, XL, 221; Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. IL, 427. 
Body ovate or oblong, the back convex, covered with fifteen pairs of 
scales, either concealed by a felt or exposed ; the venter distinctly separate, 
flat, marked with the dissepiments and a longitudinal mesial furrow; 
antenna one, mesial, small; the palpi two and long; segments 89, with 
scales on the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, and every alternate segment to 
the twenty-fifth, and on the twenty-eighth and thirty-second ; the inter- 
vening segments with a dorsal cirrus; feet stout, biramous, with three 
fascicles of bristles, two on the dorsal and one on the ventral branch; and 
each foot has a ventral setaceous cirrus ; bristles various, simple or com- 
pound, with a spine in each fascicle; no anal styles. 
A. aculeata. 
Aphrodita aculeata, Linn. Sys. X., 655; XII., 1084. 
Body from 8 to 8 inches long, oval, narrowest behind, convex dorsally ; 
the back of an earthy colour; roughish, with a thick close coat of hair and 
membrane, forming a sort of skin, which entirely conceals the scales; the 
sides clothed with long silky green and golden hairs clustered in fascicles, 
and glistening like burnished metal, with blackish-brown spiniform bristles 
intermixed ; ventral surface flat, often light coloured and dotted, sometimes 
dark brown, obsoletely ribbed across; head small, entirely concealed, 
roundish, with two round clear spots or eyes on the vertex ; antenna 
minute; palpi large, subulate, flesh-coloured or dusky, jointed at the base, 
where they approximate, but are separated by a black membranous crest ; 
mouth with a large edentulous proboscis ; the orifice encircled with a short, 
even, thick-set fringe of compound penicillate filaments divided into two 
