264 Tranmctions. — Zoology. 



On tbs 16tli November, the young one, No. 2, cast its skin, much broken. 

 (This one only shed its skin twice during the last summer.) On two occa- 

 sions suace, I have seen it have a kind of convulsion fit — once in its cage, 

 and once on my hand — during which its writhings were strange, as if its 

 little legs were disjointed ; its head was thrown back and its mouth stretched 

 wide open, showing its capacious throat ; it also uttered two faint cries 

 during the fit, and once tried to bite I — but such a little easy nip, scarcely 

 perceptible. 



The adult one also, while I was handling (examining) it, bit me — in its 

 fashion ! — and twice uttered a cry because it could not get away. Their cry 

 was a grave sound, a little low croak, something like an attempt on our part 

 at uttering the letter a (broad) with the mouth open. 



I have since fully proved the strong prehensile power of thek tails ; they 

 can hold on by them to a cord, or small branch, or to my finger, and thus 

 suspend themselves for some time. 



An acquaintance here lookuig at them observed, that he once saw two 

 green lizards (Naultinus sp.) together near Auckland ; in endeavouring to 

 caj)ture them, one got away among the fern, and the other was unfortu- 

 nately killed. He, however, noticing that its abdomen was very large 

 opened it, and found two small living lizards within. This statement 

 strengthens me in my supposition that this lizard is viviparous. 



The adult lizard is now casting its skin in the usual manner (November 

 26th). 



Art. XXVII. — Description of a new (?) Genus and Sjiecies of Butterfly of the 

 Sub-family Satyrinse. By E. "W. Feeeday, C.M.E.S.L. 



Plate IX. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th June, 1879.] 

 Eeebiola, no v. gen. 



Antenna, the club much narrower and longer than in Percnodaimon pluto, 

 but not so narrow or long as in Erebia blandina. Eyes, naked. Labial 

 palpi rather longer, and densely clothed with much longer stiffish hairs 

 than in P. p)luto ; the hairs of the tip forming an obtuse-pointed pencil. 

 Body and legs clothed with rather longer hairs than in P. pluto. 



Wings entire. Primaries rather more elongate, and hind margin more 

 oblique than in P. pluto ; the nervures and discoidal cells of both the pri- 

 maries and secondaries very similar to those of P. pluto ; except that in 

 P. pluto, the first (c, fig. 3) sub-costal nervure is absent, and the space 



