288 Transactions — Zoology. 



Aet. XXXVIII. — Seco7id Note on the Maori Fiat. 

 By Prof. F. W. Hutton. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 7th August, 1877.] 



Last June the Museum received from Mr. Cocker a dried specimen of a rat 

 found by liim in a cave, along with some old Maori mats, etc., on Mount 

 Benger. This specimen consists of the skeleton nearly complete, and the 

 dried skin with a few hairs on it. A comparison of its skull with those 

 from Shag Point, described in my former paper * left no doubt as to its 

 being the true Maori rat, so that I am now able to add a httle more to our 

 knowledge of this animal. The following are the principal dimensions : — 



Inches. 

 Length of the skull 1-34 



„ snout to root of tail . . . . . . 4.00 (about) 



„ of tail . . . . . . . . . . 4'7o (perhaps rather more) 



of hind foot .. -87 



There are thirty caudal vertebra, but one or two at the end may be wanting. 

 The hair on the belly is whitish, that on the back and sides mouse-grey, 

 but all the colours may have been bleached. It will be seen that the 

 measurements and colour correspond very well Avith a small specimen o^ 

 the black rat (Mus ratlus.) 



Art. XXXIX. — Notes on the New Zealand Myriopoda in the Otago Museum. 



By Prof. F. W. Hutton. 



Plate XI. 



\_Read before the Otago Institute, 5th June, 1877.] 



Cermatia smithii, Newport. Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII., p. 96. 



Hab. Auckland. 



Henicops impressus, sp. nov. 



Head broadly ovate, narrowed towards the front, with an elevated 

 margin behind, and an impressed curved transverse line, convex backward, 

 on the top before the eyes ; space between the antennae concave. Dental 

 lamina with eight acute teeth. Antenna tomentose, with 34-36 joints. 

 Segments 15 (without the head), alternately large and small; but the small 

 seo-ment between the 7th and 8th, and between the 14th and 15th, absent; 

 each segment with a raised margin. Above olive-brown, generally more or 

 less marbled with black ; legs pale 'bluish ; feet yellow. Under surface of 



* " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," IX., p. 348, 



