156 Transactions. — Zoology. 



posterior pair very stout and long, lemur and tibia each about 10 lines ; 

 anterior pairs much smaller ; anterior and intermediate coxse armed with a 

 large light-fulvous spine ; the upper surface of all femora whitish with a 

 reddish tinge, smooth, each having three longitudinal lines of short dark- 

 brown diagonal streaks on the outer, and two lines on the inner side, but on 

 the posterior pair those two inner rows possess short muricated points, this 

 latter pair is also sulcated on the lower side and black at the lower end, and 

 bears five spines on the outer and six smaller ones on the inner edge, each 

 row gradually increasing in size downwards ; posterior tibiae very stout, 

 dark brown, triangular, four large spines on the outer and five on the inner 

 edge, and five spines together at the lower ends ; anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae 7 lines long, brown, each having five pairs of spines on the lower edge, 

 and two spines on the upper edge at the lower end ; a sunken oval depres- 

 sion \\ lines long, covered with a bluish-grey spotted and thin membrane, 

 on both sides of anterior tibiae near the upper end : tarsi, brown, hairy ; 

 ungues and tibiae slightly so ; pulvilli (or four cushions on sole) remarkably 

 large, hemispherical, glabrous, bluish-grey. 



Hab. Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, whence received in spirits ; 1884 : W.C. 



Obs. This is both a peculiar and pretty species, something dapper and 

 taking about it, from its many and bright contrast colours ; the dark mark- 

 ings on the light ground of the prothorax are symmetrical and curious, and 

 closely resemble a 6-angled shield with its two supporters ! Hence its 

 trivial name. It seems allied to D. (or Hemideina) megacephala, Buller ; 

 and possesses characters belonging to those two genera, — if they are really 

 and naturally distinct, which I doubt. 



Order NEUBOPTEBA. 

 Family Myrmeleonidje. 

 Genus Myrmeleon. 

 Myrmeleon novce-zealandice, sp. nov. 



Body slender, densely pubescent, black above and below, sub-iridiscent, 

 with yellowish joints to abdomen, and a broad grey lateral stripe running 

 down each side that is less hairy ; extremity of abdomen brown with whitish 

 spots, and a tuft of longish black rigid hairs ; abdomen much shorter than 

 wings. Head, vertex and thorax glabrous, with a few longish soft hairs on 

 prosternum and at junctions ; piceous-brown above, yellowish and spotted with 

 brown below and at base of antennas ; clypeus large and labrum yellow, with 

 4-5 dark hairs on the latter ; mandibles large piceous ; palpi light brown, 

 dark at tips ; eyes very large and prominent, metallic-greenish, shining, 

 with innumerable facets ; antennae 3 lines long, diverging, curved, bluish- 

 black, the two basal joints whitish spotted with brown, clavate with a 

 mucro, annulate, about 30-32 rings, with very fine short verticillate hairs ; 



