180 Transactions. — Zoology. 



a black spot on vertex, a black ring round occiput and neck ; antennae 

 length of body, black ; maxillae 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 junction 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 coxae ; 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 coxae, 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 ; coxae yellow above ; tarsi joints barbed and 

 slightly hairy, the last joints of tarsi and ungues dark brown : posterior pair, 

 coxae 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 3rd 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, 4^- lines. 



Hah. Forests at Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1884 : W.C. 



Art. XVI. — Notes on New Zealand Fishes. By W. Arthur, C.E. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, Uth October, 1884.] 



Plate XIV. 



ACANTHOPTEKYGIL 



Family Cirrhitidae. 



Latris lineata, Eich., variety. PI. xiv., fig. 1. 



D. 22/27; P. 16 ; V. 5 ; A. 15 remaining; C. 15f; Br. 5; Pyl. c. 4; 



Lat. 1. 63 ; trans. 1. ^. 

 A specimen 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 



