160 Transactions, — Zoology. 
a black spot on vertex, a black ring round occiput and neck; antenns 
length of body, black; maxille and maxillary appendages fulvous. The 
prothorax yellow anterior edge; mesothorax, a broad black longitudinal 
line on mesonotum anterior end, with a yellow narrow and longer line on 
each side, a black lateral line from junetion of anterior wing to the yellow 
line of the prothorax, with narrow black curved lines at lateral edges, small 
-black spots above the junction of wings, and a small dark triangular spot at 
posterior edge of mesonotum, two small yellow spots beneath the junction 
of the wings and two larger yellow spots running diagonally towards inter- 
mediate coxæ ; metathorax, a large triangular black spot on anterior edge 
of metanotum, with a small yellow transverse bar at its base (post-scutellum), 
and a large yellow lateral line diagonal towards posterior coxe, scutellum 
mottled with yellow, slightly and sparsely acicular at apical end; sternum 
black ; wings iridiscent finely hairy and ciliated, hairs black springing from 
minute tubercles; stigma and nervures brownish; areolet small, sub- 
quadrate. Legs ferruginous; coxs yellow above; tarsi joints barbed and 
slightly hairy, the last joints of tarsi and ungues dark brown : posterior pair, 
coxe black below with a ferruginous line; trochanters black ; femora with a 
fusco-testaceous longitudinal line above: anterior pair, trochanters with a 
brown line ; spurs long on the two posterior pairs. Abdomen ferruginous 
above, yellow below, a line of fuscous spots at lateral margins of the 8rd on 
to the 6th segments, a narrow darkish line on the lateral edges of the first 
three segments, and a light ferruginous one below it on the first four 
segments; extremity yellow, with a minute black style on each side; ovi- 
positor 4 lines long, light ferruginous at apex, sheaths darker, ciliate. 
Length of body, 43 lines. 
Hab. Forests at Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1884: W.C. 
Arr. XVIL— Notes on New Zealand Fishes. By W. ARTHUR, C.E. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 14th October, 1884.] 
ACANTHOPTERYGII. 
Family CmRREHITIDAE. 
Latris lineata, Rich., variety. Pl. xiv., fig. 1. 
D. 22/27; P. 16; V. 5; A. 15 remaining; C. 154; Br. 5; Pyl. e. 4; 
Lat. 1.63; trans. 1. £. 
A sprcmen of this fish, which is rather rare here, was given me by Mr. 
A. K. Smith, of Prince’s Street, Dunedin, having been caught in Otago 
