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first full lists, as far as they go, are contained in the appendix to 

 DiefFenbach's Travels, published in 1843. In this work, J. E. Gray 

 gives a catalogue of 84 species of birds and six species of lizards. 



In 1862 Gray in The Ibis gave a synopsis of the birds collected 

 in the "Voyage of M.M.S.S. Erebus and Terror," and enumerated 

 122 species as occurring in New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. 

 Buller's Birds of New Zealand, published in 1873, contained de- 

 scriptions of 147 species; his Mantial in 1882, gave 176 species; and 

 the second edition of the Birds of New Zealand in 1888, recorded 

 195 species. The Index Faunee Novce Zealandice (1904) gives 194 

 species of permanent birds, 222 of wandering species, and 15 species 

 of lizards. 



Fishes are first recorded in 1843 in Richardson's list (Dieffenbach), 

 where 92 species are named. In Hector and Hutton's Catalogue in 

 1872, 141 species are recorded; the Index (1903) gives 254 names. 

 Yet the fishes are very imperfectly known even yet. 



J. E. Gray in 1843 gives a list of 222 species of Mollusca and 

 3 species of Brachiopoda ; Hutton's Manual of Mollusca, pubhshed 

 in 1880, gives 598 species of Mollusca, 8 of Brachiopoda, and 191 of 

 Polyzoa ; while Suter's Manual in 1913 gives 1 187 species of Mollusca. 



White and Doubleday wrote the account of Insecta for Dieffen- 

 bach's work in 1843, and referred to the following numbers of insects, 

 namely: Orthoptera, 4 species; Hymenoptera, 5; Coleoptera, 50; 

 Lepidoptera, 23; Diptera, 6; Neuroptera, 2; Homoptera, 4; and 

 Hemiptera, 3 ; a total of 97 species. In 1873 Hutton published a list 

 of New Zealand insects of the above eight orders containing 742 

 species, of which 265 were Coleoptera. Captain Broun brought out 

 his first Manual of Coleoptera in 1880, and it contained 1321 species. 

 In 1 88 1 Hutton's Catalogue of Diptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera 

 brought up the number of species in these three orders from 151 

 (1873) to 227. In 1898 Hudson's Moths and Butterflies described 238 

 species of Macro-lepidoptera alone. Finally, the following numbers 

 are given in the Index Faunee Novce Zealandice (1903) : Hymenoptera, 

 155; Lepidoptera, 608; Diptera, 343; Coleoptera, 2787; Hemiptera, 

 166; Neuroptera, 60; Orthoptera, 17; and Aptera, 3 ; making a total 

 of 4139 species, a number which has been considerably added to 

 since. Many of these orders of insects are still very imperfectly known. 



White and Doubleday in 1843 recorded 11 spiders and 2 Myria- 

 pods; the Index (1903) gives 251 species of Arachnida and 30 of 

 Myriapods. Similarly the same authors name 30 species of Crustacea ; 

 Miers' Catalogue of Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea (1876) de- 

 scribes 140 species; while the Index records 532 species — a number 

 which has since been increased to over 600 species. 



