314 Transactions. — Zoology. 



PalinuvKs tumichis, sp. nov. 



Carapace beaked, much swollen, armed with very blunt spines, or rather 

 spine-knobs, some directed forward, others, again, standing nearly vertical ; 

 a double row of small, stout, blunt spines, standing nearly vertical, runs 

 along the posterior edge of the carapace. Beak stout, round, and curved 

 upwards. Supra-orbital spines stout, compressed, turned upwards. An- 

 tennae spines stout, somewhat triangular in shape, and also turned upwards. 

 Superior antenna less than the total length of the animal, peduncle armed 

 on its upper and outer surface with stout spines. Inferior antennae smooth, 

 longer than peduncle of superior. 



Anterior legs very stout, inferior margin of second joint armed with a 

 row of five or six spines ; third joint with a very stout spine at the anterior 

 and also at the posterior extremity, the anterior twice the size of the 

 posterior, also a stout triangular spine on the superior distal extremity ; 

 fifth joint with a row of six spines on the superior internal angle, the largest 

 and posterior one being directed backwards to meet the anterior spine of 

 the third joint, a row of three small blunt spines on the inferior internal 

 angle. Superior margin of the distal extremity of the third joint of the 

 last four pairs of legs armed with a spine. 



Abdomen very coarsely granulated and punctated. Tail, especially the 

 telson, armed with small spines ; telson rounded at the extremity. 



Anterior margin of each segment of the abdomen produced into a very 

 prominent spine, backed by three or four teeth. 



Whole animal destitute of hair, with the exception of the pedipalps, 

 and the inferior sm-face of the terminal joint of each pair of legs. 



Colom*, reddish brown, tinged in many places with yellow. 



Length, 24 inches. 



Distinguished from P. hiigelii by its much larger size, by the beak, 

 supra-orbital and antenna spines being turned upwards, by the telson being 

 less triangular, and rounded instead of scarped. 



PLATE XI. represents Palinurus tumidus. a. Dorsal view. b. Inferior surface of 

 anterior leg, showing armature. 



Aet. XLV. — Description of a neio Species of Lizard of the Genus Naultinus. 

 By W. L. BuLLER, C.M.G., Sc.D., F.E.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 10th January, 1880.] 

 The Kzard described in this paper was obtained in August last by Mr. Joseph 

 Annabell while engaged on a Government survey in the wooded country of 

 the Wanganui district. It is an interesting form, belonging to a well known 



