Üorzxso.— Description of a new Lizard. 149 
Male, fenale.—16-17 mm. Head and thorax white, slightly speckled 
with grey. Palpi in male moderate, in female long; lower half dark 
fuscous, upper half white. Antenne whitish. Abdomen and legs ochreous- 
whitish, anterior and middle pair dark fuscous except apex of joints. Fore- 
wings elongate, narrow, tolerably oblong, eosta moderately arched, apex 
round-pointed, hindmargin straight, very oblique ; white, densely irrorated 
with pale fuscous-grey; a short blaek streak from base beneath costa ; 
tufts preceded by a few black scales; sometimes a thick irregular blackish 
longitudinal streak in disc, extending from }-%; cilia white, densely 
irrorated with pale grey. Hindwings grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 
Characterized by the short black subcostal streak. The arrangement of 
the surface tufts of scales appears to be the same in all the species. 
Dunedin and Invercargill, in September; three specimens from 
Leptospermum. 
Het. epomiana, n. sp. 
Minor, alis ant. dilutissime griseis, partim albo-conspersis, macula costs 
basali nigra, maculis costs sex parvis, aliisque disci plerisque obseuris fuscis ; 
post. griseo-albidis. 
Fenale,—17 mm. Head and thorax white, irrorated with light grey. | 
Palpi rather long, lower half dark fuscous, upper white. Antenne whitish. 
Abdomen and legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair suffused with dark 
fuscous, middle pair greyish. Forewings elongate, narrow, oblong, costa 
moderately arched, somewhat bent at $, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 
slightly sinuate, rather strongly oblique; very pale grey, irrorated with 
‘white towards costa and hindmargin, and with scattered dark fuscous scales ; 
a blackish elongate spot along costa at base; a blackish dot above inner 
margin near base ; costa with six small fuscous spots between 4 and apex; 
discal and posterior tufts also preceded by small obscure fuscous spots: | 
cilia pale grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. 
Easily recognizable by the conspicuous elongate black spot on base of 
costa. 
Otira River; one specimen amongst forest at 1,600 feet, in January. 
Arr. XIV.— Description of a small Lizard, a Species of Naultinus, supposed to 
be new to Science. By W. Corzwso, F.L.S. 
(Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 1st October 1884.j 
aultinus versicolor, sp. nov. 
GeneraL Corovz,—Above light brownish-black or dark grey, spotted with 
small dark spots; six broad dark-umber zig-zag, or double VV, shaped 
bands across the body, and nine similar ones across the tail, 15 in all, and 
