Identifier: transactionsofro70roya (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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e beautiful thanthe rest, has two triangular spots of yellow above the junction of the thorax,then two letter V marks with their angles joined, succeeded above by twosimilar but larger marks, their inner arms forming the nail-head which capsthe bright dorsal stripe of red. Adult Male.—The male is considerably smaller than the female. Bodyshining blackish brown, with an obscure narrow line of yellow down the centreof the back, broader towards the posterior extremity, and a similar interruptedline on each side ; legs dark brown, with black joints. Art. VIII.—Notes on the Genus Deinacrida in New Zealand.By Walter Buller, F.L.S., F.G.S. (With Illustrations.)(Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, November 12, 1870.) (A portion of the following notes on a curious group of New Zealand insectsappeared in the Zoologist for August, 1867. It has been considered advisableto reprint the paper after revision by the author, who now adds the descriptionof an additional species.—Ed.)
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35 1. Deinacrida heteracantha, White. ( Weta-punga of the natives.) This fine species has a very limited geographical range. I have neverheard of its occurrence south of the Waikato District, in the North Island.Formerly it was abundant in the forests north of Auckland ; but of late yearsit has become extremely rare. The natives attribute its extermination to theintroduced Norway rat, which now infests every part of the country anddevours almost everything that comes in its way. One of these insects, in thecollection of the late Dr. Sinclair, measured, with its hind legs and antennaestretched out, fourteen inches; its head and body, exclusive of appendages,being two inches and a half. A specimen which I obtained in a pine forest,near the Kaipara River, more than thirteen years ago, and which is nowdeposited in the Auckland Museum, is even larger. The sexes differ con-siderably in size. The Weta-punga appears to subsist chiefly on the green leaves of trees andshrubs. It climbs with agi

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