576 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
New Species oF ParroveriaA.—In January last I took at Spar 
Bush, Southland, several specimens of a Philowgria which appears to be 
new. It is much larger than Philougria rosea and is nearly black, but 
with markings of light-brown, the integument being rather smooth and 
shining. The following isa brief description :—Outer antenne rather 
long, and with a few stout setz chiefly at the end of the joints, flagellum 
of 5-6 joints ending in a pencil of sete. Abdomen much narrower than 
the thorax and narrowing rapidly posteriorly, lateral margins straight, 
last segment sub-triangular, truncate at end, margins straight. Terminal 
pleopoda two-thirds as long as the abdomen, inner ramus slender, nearly 
three-fourths as long as the outer. Legs increasing in length from 
before backwards, all bearing long sete, dactylos bearing a long two- 
branched seta reaching to the end of the dactylos. I propose to name 
this species Philougria Thomsoni, in honour of Mr. G. M. Thomson, 
from whom I have received much kind assistance. It will be described 
more in detail in a paper to be shortly read before the Philosophical 
Institute of Canterbury.—CuHas. CHILTON. 
Tur BRONZE-WINGED Cuckoo.—I have to record a new and curious 
locality for the egg of this bird. One of my pupils brought in, the 
other day (on Nov. 5th), a house-sparrow’s nest, which had been built 
in a large bramble (lawyer) bush and which contained four eggs, viz. 
three sparrow’s and a cuckoo’s. The latter was about 10 lines long, of 
very thin texture, and much paler than usual, being of a pale greenish- 
white feebly marked with pale brown spots and markings. I am not 
aware that this bird has ever before been known to lay its egg in a 
sparrow’s nest, the Grey Warbler (Gerygone flaviventris), Tit (Petroica 
macrocephala), or Wax-Eye (Zosterops lateralis) being the usual foster- 
parents.—G. M. T. 
New CrustaceaA.—The long delay in the publication of the 
Crustacea of the “Challenger” Expedition has caused Mr. Chilton and 
myself to hold our hands in regard to descriptions of new species, as we 
were both anxious to avoid the confusion which arises from independent 
naming and describing of identical forms. The three main groups at 
present in course of being worked out are the Amphipoda by Rev. T. 
Rk. Stebbing, of Tunbridge, the Isopoda by Mr. F. E. Beddard, of the 
Royal Zoological Society, and the Schizopods and Cumacea by Prof. 
Sars. Pretty full material for the incorporation of the New Zealand 
forms of the two former groups have been sent to the specialists named. 
Among those sent are several new and undescribed species, of which 
probably descriptions will be separately published in the “ Annals and 
Magazine of Nat. Hist.” They are named as follows :— 
Pherusa cerulea, n.sp.—A_ pretty little species of a deep indigo- 
blue colour, obtained in a small stream at an elevation of 3000ft. on the 
Obelisk or Old Man Range. Besides Calliopius fluviatilis and the 
subterranean species found by Mr. Chilton in Canterbury, this is the 
only fresh-water Amphipod hitherto found in the Colony. Its most 
remarkable feature is the peculiar dactylos of the second pair of 
gnathopoda ; it does not end ina claw, but in a finger-like setiform 
process, 
