﻿T. 
  W. 
  KiEK. 
  — 
  On 
  some 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Apliroditse. 
  897 
  

  

  upper 
  surfaces 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  prominent 
  tubercles 
  ; 
  fingers 
  brown, 
  

   tipped 
  with 
  white, 
  smooth, 
  except 
  -their 
  internal 
  margins, 
  which 
  are 
  armed 
  

   with 
  3 
  or 
  4 
  tubercles. 
  Ambulatory 
  legs 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  hairs, 
  

  

  Male, 
  length 
  j-% 
  in., 
  breadth 
  -f'-^ 
  in. 
  

  

  Female, 
  length 
  j\ 
  in., 
  breadth 
  -^^ 
  in. 
  

  

  Abt. 
  LVI. 
  — 
  On 
  some 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Aphroditse, 
  ivith 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  supposed 
  

  

  new 
  Species. 
  By 
  T. 
  W. 
  Kirk, 
  Assistant 
  in 
  the 
  Colonial 
  Museum. 
  

  

  IRead 
  before 
  the 
  Wellington 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  30t/i 
  October, 
  1878.] 
  

  

  Aphrodita. 
  

   Halithea, 
  Savigny, 
  Syst. 
  Annel. 
  11 
  and 
  18. 
  Lam., 
  An. 
  s. 
  Vert., 
  v. 
  306. 
  

   Aphrodita, 
  Leach, 
  in 
  Suppl. 
  Encyclop. 
  Brit. 
  I., 
  452; 
  And. 
  and 
  M. 
  Edw., 
  Litt. 
  de 
  la 
  France, 
  

  

  n., 
  63; 
  Blainville 
  in 
  Diet, 
  des 
  Sc. 
  Nat. 
  LVIL, 
  455; 
  Fleming 
  in 
  Encyclop. 
  Brit., 
  

  

  Edit. 
  7, 
  XI., 
  221 
  ; 
  Johnston 
  in 
  Ann. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  11., 
  427. 
  

   Body 
  ovate 
  or 
  oblong, 
  the 
  back 
  convex, 
  covered 
  with 
  fifteen 
  pairs 
  of 
  

   scales, 
  either 
  concealed 
  by 
  a 
  felt 
  or 
  exposed 
  ; 
  the 
  venter 
  distinctly 
  separate, 
  

   flat, 
  marked 
  with 
  the 
  dissepiments 
  and 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  mesial 
  furrow 
  ; 
  

   antenna 
  one, 
  mesial, 
  small 
  ; 
  the 
  palpi 
  two 
  and 
  long 
  ; 
  segments 
  39, 
  with 
  

   scales 
  on 
  the 
  second, 
  fourth, 
  fifth, 
  seventh, 
  and 
  every 
  alternate 
  segment 
  to 
  

   the 
  twenty-fifth, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  twenty-eighth 
  and 
  thirty-second 
  ; 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   vening 
  segments 
  with 
  a 
  dorsal 
  cirrus 
  ; 
  feet 
  stout, 
  biramous, 
  with 
  three 
  

   fascicles 
  of 
  bristles, 
  two 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  and 
  one 
  on 
  the 
  ventral 
  branch 
  ; 
  and 
  

   each 
  foot 
  has 
  a 
  ventral 
  setaceous 
  cirrus 
  ; 
  bristles 
  various, 
  simple 
  or 
  com- 
  

   pound, 
  with 
  a 
  spine 
  in 
  each 
  fascicle 
  ; 
  no 
  anal 
  styles. 
  

  

  A. 
  aculeata. 
  

  

  Aphrodita 
  aculeata, 
  Linn. 
  Sys. 
  X., 
  655 
  ; 
  XII., 
  1084. 
  

   Body 
  from 
  3 
  to 
  8 
  inches 
  long, 
  oval, 
  narrowest 
  behind, 
  convex 
  dorsally; 
  

   the 
  back 
  of 
  an 
  earthy 
  colour 
  ; 
  roughish, 
  with 
  a 
  thick 
  close 
  coat 
  of 
  hair 
  and 
  

   membrane, 
  forming 
  a 
  sort 
  of 
  skin, 
  which 
  entirely 
  conceals 
  the 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  

   sides 
  clothed 
  with 
  long 
  silky 
  green 
  and 
  golden 
  hairs 
  clustered 
  in 
  fascicles, 
  

   and 
  glistening 
  like 
  burnished 
  metal, 
  with 
  blackish-brown 
  spiniform 
  bristles 
  

   intermixed 
  ; 
  ventral 
  surface 
  flat, 
  often 
  hght 
  coloured 
  and 
  dotted, 
  sometimes 
  

   dark 
  brown, 
  obsoletely 
  ribbed 
  across 
  ; 
  head 
  small, 
  entirely 
  concealed, 
  

   roundish, 
  with 
  two 
  round 
  clear 
  spots 
  or 
  eyes 
  on 
  the 
  vertex 
  ; 
  antenna 
  

   minute 
  ; 
  palpi 
  large, 
  subulate, 
  flesh-coloured 
  or 
  dusky, 
  jointed 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  

   where 
  they 
  approximate, 
  but 
  are 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  black 
  membranous 
  crest 
  ; 
  

   mouth 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  edentulous 
  proboscis 
  ; 
  the 
  orifice 
  encircled 
  with 
  a 
  short, 
  

   even, 
  thick-set 
  fringe 
  of 
  compound 
  penicillate 
  filaments 
  divided 
  into 
  two 
  

  

  