﻿172 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Naultinus sulphureus. 

 N. sulphur eus, BuUer, Trans. IST.Z. Inst., Vol. III., p. 8. 



Ttis sjjecies differs from punctatus only in its rather larger and flatter 

 scales, and in the slightly more elongated tail, as pointed out hy Mr. Buller. 

 The type specimen is a female. 



Mr. Buller was mistaken in supposing that this specimen was obtained 

 near Botorua, for Dr. Hector informs me that he got ifc at Maketu, on the 

 sea coast, thirty-five miles from the nearest hot spring. 



NaultinuS pacificus. 



N. pacificus, Gray, " Dieff. N.Z.," Yol. II., p. 203. ^V. granulatus, Gi-ay, 

 " Catalogue of Lizards in British Museum," p. 273. Hoplodactylus pacificus 

 et granulatus, Fitz. 



The lower labial shields vary Very much in this species, so that, although 

 the difference is great between a typical pacificus and a typical granulatus, 

 all kinds of intermediate grades can be found. The colours are very variable, 

 and are not characteristic, as the white fronted dark bands are just as common 

 in one variety as in the othei\ 



This species is found in both the islands, generally under the bark of 

 trees, but Mr. W. T. -L. Travers informs me that at Lake Guyon, in the 

 province of Nelson, it is found under stones. From the same gentleman I 

 also learn that it is occasionally infested with a small red pai-asite on the inner 

 parts of the thighs. It is exceedingly sluggish in its movements. 



Art. XXII. — On Some Moa Feathers. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. 



(With Illustrations.) 



\Read hefore the Wellington Philosophical Society, 'iSth October, 1871]. 



When at Dunedin last July, I was shown by Mr. Purdie some feathers of the 

 Moa which had been found by Mr. Samuel Thompson with moa bones, buried 

 in sand, about fifty feet from the surface, at the junction of the Manuherikia 

 with the Molyneux River, and quite recently some more moa feathers have 

 been received at the Colonial Museum from Dr. Thomson, of Clyde, which 

 were found between Alexandra and Boxbiirgh, eighteen feet below the 

 ground. 



The feathers from both these places are so much alike that there can be 

 little doubt but that they belong to the same species of bird, their differences 

 being simply due to their coming from different portions of the body. They 



