Naultinus sulphureus. N. sulphureus, Buller, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. III., p. 8. This species differs from punctatus only in its rather larger and flatter scales, and in the slightly more elongated tail, as pointed out by Mr. Buller. The type specimen is a female. Mr. Buller was mistaken in supposing that this specimen was obtained near Rotorua, for Dr. Hector informs me that he got it at Maketu, on the sea coast, thirty-five miles from the nearest hot spring. Naultinus pacificus. N. pacificus, Gray, “Dieff. N.Z.,” Vol. II., p. 203. N. granulatus, Gray, “Catalogue of Lizards in British Museum,” p. 273. Hoplodactylus pacificus et granulatus, Fitz. The lower labial shields vary very much in this species, so that, although the difference is great between a typical pacificus and a typical granulatus, all kinds of intermediate grades can be found. The colours are very variable, and are not characteristic, as the white fronted dark bands are just as common in one variety as in the other. This species is found in both the islands, generally under the bark of trees, but Mr. W. T. L. Travers informs me that at Lake Guyon, in the province of Nelson, it is found under stones. From the same gentleman I also learn that it is occasionally infested with a small red parasite on the inner parts of the thighs. It is exceedingly sluggish in its movements.

Art. XXII.—On Some Moa Feathers. By Captain F. W. Hutton F.G.S. (With Illustrations.) [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 28th October, 1871]. When at Dunedin last July, I was shown by Mr. Purdie some feathers of the Moa which had been found by Mr. Samuel Thompson with moa bones, buried in sand, about fifty feet from the surface, at the junction of the Manuherikia with the Molyneux River, and quite recently some more moa feathers have been received at the Colonial Museum from Dr. Thomson, of Clyde, which were found between Alexandra and Roxburgh, eighteen feet below the ground. The feathers from both these places are so much alike that there can be little doubt but that they belong to the same species of bird, their differences being simply due to their coming from different portions of the body. They