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Length 0°12 inch. 
Hab. Two specimens were obtained by the dredge in Otago Harbour. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XVII. AND XVIII. 
Prare XVIil 
Fig. 1. Anonyx corpulentus x 7; a, sup. antenna x 20; 3b, inf. antenna x 20; ¢, 
: 1st gnathopod x 20; d, 2nd gnathopod x 20; e, 5th pereiopod x 20; 
f, telson and posterior pleopoda x 20. 
Fig. 2. Phocus batei, a, head and antenne, seen from above, x 26; b, 2nd gnatho- 
pod x 20; c, 8rd pereiopod x 20; d, 5th pereiopod x 20; e, telson and 
posterior pleopoda x 20. 
Fig. 3. Polycheria obtusa x 13; a, mandible x 50; b, 2nd pereiopod x 20; ¢ 
extremity of 4th pereiopod, showing prehensile fingers, x 75; 4, telson and 
posterior pleopoda x 20, 
Fig. 4. Moera quadrimanus, a, hand of second gnathopod x 13, taken from dredged 
specimens; b, same taken from littoral specimen. 
Prare XVIII. 
Fig. 1. Leucothoe traillii, a, cephalon and antenne x 20; b, ist gnathopod x 20; 
c, 2nd gnathopod x 20; d, telson x 20. 
Fig. 2. Anonyx exiguwus, a, mandibles x 75; b, 1st gnathopod x 44; % and 
gnathopod x 44; d, 5th pereiopod x 44; e, telson and posterior pleo- 
poda x 75. : 
Fig. 3. Moera petriei x 5; a, 1st gnathopod x 20; b, 2nd gnathopod x 13, with 
dactylos separate ; ¢, telson and posterior pair of pleopoda x 20. 
Iphigenia typica x 13: a, superior antenne ; b, inf. ant.; ¢, maxillipeds; 
d, Ist gnathopod ; ¢, dactylos of same; /, penult. pleopoda; g, telson and 
last pair of pleopoda ;—all these parts x 44, except e x 75. 
as 
Fig. 
Art. XXXI.—On the Notornis. 
By Watrer L. Butxer, C.M.G., Sc.D., F.B.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 3rd September, 1881. 
Tue capture of a specimen of the rare Notornis mantelli in the South 
Island, is an event of sufficient importance to warrant a special memoir 10 
our *‘ Transactions,” and I have therefore much pleasure, at the request of 
our president, in bringing before you this evening all the information 1 
have been able to collect on the subject. : 
I may here mention—and I do so with regret—that the specimen which 
I am about to describe is no longer in the colony, having been despatched 
by the Waitangi about three weeks ago for sale in England, : 
