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  Transactions. 
  — 
  Zoology. 
  

  

  female 
  katipo 
  in 
  an 
  empty, 
  clear 
  glass 
  bottle 
  ; 
  she 
  at 
  once 
  began 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  

   fine 
  irregular 
  web, 
  and, 
  on 
  tlie 
  morning 
  of 
  the 
  8th, 
  I 
  found 
  that 
  during 
  the 
  

   night 
  she 
  had 
  constructed 
  and 
  suspended 
  near 
  the 
  neck 
  of 
  the 
  bottle, 
  a 
  

   spherical 
  cocoon, 
  composed 
  of 
  a 
  pale 
  yellow 
  silky 
  web, 
  through 
  which 
  one 
  

   could 
  see 
  the 
  purplish 
  eggs 
  ; 
  for 
  the 
  next 
  two 
  months 
  the 
  spider 
  remained 
  

   on 
  or 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  cocoon 
  ; 
  I 
  put 
  several 
  flies 
  and 
  other 
  insects 
  into 
  the 
  

   bottle, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  she 
  at 
  once 
  killed 
  and 
  threw 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  bottom 
  without 
  

   eating. 
  Early 
  in 
  January 
  she 
  shifted 
  the 
  cocoon 
  close 
  to 
  one 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   bottle 
  at 
  the 
  shoulder, 
  and 
  took 
  up 
  a 
  position 
  for 
  herself 
  three-quarters 
  of 
  

   the 
  distance 
  from 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  bottle. 
  By 
  this 
  time 
  she 
  was 
  

   reduced 
  to 
  half 
  the 
  original 
  size 
  and 
  was 
  very 
  inert, 
  and, 
  on 
  the 
  7th 
  

   February, 
  1878, 
  sixty 
  young 
  katipos 
  issued 
  from 
  the 
  cocoon. 
  Next 
  morning 
  

   the 
  mother 
  lay 
  dead 
  at 
  the 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  bottle 
  ; 
  it 
  must 
  not 
  be 
  supposed 
  

   that 
  the 
  old 
  spider 
  always 
  dies 
  in 
  this 
  way, 
  for 
  I 
  had 
  one 
  which 
  ate 
  the 
  

   greater 
  part 
  of 
  her 
  family 
  before 
  doing 
  so. 
  The 
  young 
  ones 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  semi- 
  

   transparent 
  white, 
  with 
  two 
  lines 
  of 
  black 
  dots 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  black 
  

   joints 
  to 
  the 
  legs, 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  being 
  brown, 
  with 
  an 
  

   irregular 
  whitish 
  centre. 
  

  

  Aet 
  LV. 
  — 
  On 
  Additions 
  to 
  the 
  Carcinological 
  Fauna 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  

   By 
  T. 
  W. 
  KiKK, 
  Assistant, 
  Colonial 
  Museum. 
  

   {Bead 
  before 
  the 
  Wellington 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  31st 
  August, 
  1878.] 
  

   The 
  publication 
  of 
  a 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Crustacea 
  ' 
  by 
  the 
  Geolo- 
  

   gical 
  Survey 
  and 
  Colonial 
  Museum 
  Department, 
  has 
  proved 
  a 
  great 
  boon 
  to 
  

   students 
  and 
  collectors 
  in 
  the 
  colony, 
  by 
  bringing 
  together, 
  in 
  a 
  convenient 
  

   form, 
  descriptions 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  species 
  known 
  to 
  inhabit 
  these 
  shores, 
  thus 
  

   enabling 
  them 
  to 
  pronounce, 
  with 
  some 
  degree 
  of 
  certainty, 
  upon 
  any 
  speci- 
  

   men 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  under 
  discussion. 
  

  

  The 
  remarkable 
  resemblance 
  which 
  our 
  fauna 
  bears 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  England 
  

   and 
  California 
  has 
  been 
  pointed 
  out 
  by 
  many 
  authors. 
  I 
  have 
  now 
  to 
  

   record 
  the 
  occurrence 
  here 
  of 
  at 
  least 
  two 
  additional 
  European 
  and 
  the 
  

   same 
  number 
  of 
  Californian 
  species. 
  

  

  Three 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  mentioned 
  in 
  this 
  paper, 
  viz., 
  Cajorella 
  lobata, 
  d 
  

   novcE-zealandiae, 
  and 
  Ehalia 
  tumefacta, 
  were 
  obtained 
  in 
  Cook 
  Strait, 
  in 
  

   January, 
  1876, 
  whilst 
  dredging 
  for 
  the 
  telegraphic 
  cable. 
  

  

  Group 
  Abeeeantia. 
  

  

  The 
  coxse 
  of 
  the 
  pereiopoda 
  are 
  not 
  squamiformly 
  developed, 
  some 
  or 
  

   all 
  being 
  fused 
  to 
  their 
  respective 
  segments* 
  The 
  pleou 
  has 
  one 
  or 
  more 
  of 
  

   the 
  segments 
  absent* 
  

  

  