Colenso. — Description of a new Lizard. 149 



Male, female. — 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. Antennaa whitish. Abdomen and legs ochreous- 

 whitish, anterior and middle pair dark fuscous except apex of joints. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, tolerably oblong, costa moderately arched, apex 

 round-pointed, hindmargin straight, very oblique ; white, densely irrorated 

 with pale fuscous-grey ; a short black streak from base beneath costa ; 

 tufts preceded by a few black scales ; sometimes a thick irregular blackish 

 longitudinal streak in disc, extending from J— § ; 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, partita albo-conspersis, macula costae 

 basali nigra, maculis costse sex parvis, aliisque disci plerisque obscuris fuscis ; 

 post, griseo-albidis. 



Female. — 17 mm. Head and thorax white, irrorated with light grey. 

 Palpi rather long, lower half dark fuscous, upper white. Antennaa 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 -J, 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 ■§■ 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 Eiver ; one specimen amongst forest at 1,600 feet, in January, 



Art. XIV .^Description of a small Lizard, a Species of Naultiiius, supposed to 



be new to Science, By W. Colenso, F s L.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 1st October 1884.] 



Naultinus versicolor, sp« nov. 



General Colour.— 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 



