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red color, are also found : bunches of the latter are frequently 
attached to the same point and to each other. 
Fam. Sepiadce. —The sepia, or cuttle-fish, is found of con¬ 
siderable size, and is used as a bait for fish. 
Fam. Spirulidce. — Pipi, (venus intermedia ,) this is much 
prized as an article of food. 
Radiata. — [Echini.)—He kina, the sea egg, or hedgehog. 
There are several varieties ; one kind attains a large size, and 
is of an orbicular form ; another is quite flat; and a third is 
of an oval form : all have remarkably small spines. 
On the east coast, the paper nautilus muheke , is frequently 
found. Some specimens are very large and beautiful. A 
small chambered nautilus is abundant on all the coasts; 
also several varieties of a deep sea purple helix. The rori, 
a large black slug, abounds on rocky coasts; one has an 
oblong white shield, about three inches long and one and a 
half wide; another is without it; both are eaten. 
Annulosa. — Class Myriapoda.—Haro (scolopendra). This 
centipede is of a dark yellowish green, of large size, fre¬ 
quently nearly six inches long; it is quite as lai'ge as the 
Australian one, but not so dangerous. I have never heard 
of any one being bitten by it, although I have seen boys 
repeatedly handling it. 
Class Arachnida. — Punga werewere, puawere, is the general 
name of the spiders of New Zealand. I have remarked, they 
always select their habitation on a ground of similar color 
to their own. A green spider will be found on leaves, a 
brown one on the bark of trees. 
There are several large spiders, but only one poisonous one, 
called a katipo ; it is black, with a red cross on its back ; the 
bite causes immediate inflammation, and much pain; it is 
generally found in tufts of grass near the sea side. 
There is a small insect found on the sea shore, closely re¬ 
sembling the scorpion in every respect but that of having 
no tail; its bite is not much more irritating than that of 
the flea. 
Diptera, namu (simulium ,) a small black sand-fly, is also 
