298 Transactions. —Zoology. 
Length 3 lines. 
Hab. New Zealand. One example. 
Techmessa telephoroides, n. sp. 
Sublinear, depressed, slightly shining ; somewhat thinly clothed with a 
short, subdecumbent, whitish pile; head and prothorax brownish-black ; 
the front and hind margins of the latter reddish-brown, rather coarsely and 
closely punctured and rugose; the punctures most crowded on the front 
and epistoma of the former, which are also unisulcate down the centre ; 
prothorax distinctly wider than long, subcordiform, a little depressed and 
unequal by slight irregular depressions: elytra pale brown, with a yellowish 
tinge, closely punctured and rugose ; underside reddish-brown, pubescent, 
finely and not closely punctured; legs and palpi pale yellow; antenne, 
brown. 
Length, 84 lines. 
Hab. New Zealand. One example. 
Art. XXXV.—Critical Notes on the New Zealand Hydroida. 
By Mitten Covenrrey, M.B.B.M.; Edin. Univ.; Corr. Mem. Roy. Phys. 
Soc. Edin. ; Hon. Fell. Historic Soc., L. and C., ete. 
(Read before the Otago Institute, October 26, 1875.] 
To the last volume (No. VIL.) of the “ Transactions,” I contributed a paper 
on the “‘ New Zealand Hydroida,” in which I gave the results of an exami- 
nation of the type specimens of Capt. F. W. Hutton’s paper on the New 
Zealand Sertularians,’’* and of several other specimens I had obtained on the 
New Zealand coast. Further study of these species and comparison of 
them with British and other forms have proved to me that in many cases I 
was in error in my previous paper, and I now hasten to correct these errors. 
The classification I have now adopted is the commonly accepted one of Mr. 
Hincks, as proposed in his “ British Hydroid Zoophytes,” and the order 
will, therefore, be found different to that used in my former paper. Mr. 
Hincks divides the Hydroida proper into three sub-orders: a Athecata 
( Hydroida destitute of true thece, or protective cases either for the polypites 
or gonophores ; 3. Thecaphora ( Hydroida furnished with thece), and y. Gymno- 
chroa (Hydroida destitute of polypary). The first of these corresponds with 
Professor Allman’s Gymno-blastea, and is represented in New Zealand by 
the Eudendride and Tubularide (+) more especially the second agrees with 
* Vou ¥., 1872. 
: t T append to these notes a description of a pretty Tubularian species I lately obtained 
aeres Rock-pools off Tomahawk Caves, and in various parts of the Upper Harbour, 
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