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Urewera fuchsiata Salmon, 1938. Plate 63, figs. 390–393. Colour: In life, pale olive-green to dark green, with darker bluish-green markings. Mounted, a body colour of pale yellowish-cream, with intersegmental margins marked by narrow posterior bands of blue. Patches of blue and greenish pigment occur irregularly over body, particularly on Abd. IV. Ventral edges of thoracic pleura and Abds. I, II, and III deep blue. A cross-hatched blue band anteriorly on Abd. IV. Antennae and legs pale ochreous, the latter with bands of dark blue. Scales greenish-brown, prominently striated. Clothing: More or less evenly clothed with scales and occasional setae. Prominent tufts of flexed setae occur on head and at apex of mesotergum. Strongly ciliated setae surround tip of abdomen. Antennae thickly clothed with hair and occasional long setae. First three antennal segments scaled, these scales long, narrow, and pointed at the apex. Ventral tube invested at tip with a number of long, curved ciliated setae. Legs scaled and bearing numerous long setae. Furcula thickly clothed with long setae, many of which are ciliated. Dens scaled dorsally only, with long, narrow and easily rubbed off scales. Body: Length 2·5–4 mm. Head diagonal somewhat longer than mesothorax. Antennae slightly longer than half the body, four-segmented, the segments related as 15: 30: 26: 34. Ocelli typical of genus, eight to each side, situated on dark pigment patches joined by a dark frontal line, often incomplete. Anterior pair of ocelli very large, four of remainder medium, and the posterior inner two small. Abd. IV 3–3 ½ times longer than Abd. III. Legs: Claw with a pair of inner teeth about one-third from base, a distal pair at a little over two-thirds, and a single apical tooth a little past half-way between distal pair and apex. The two long outer basal teeth reaching to the level of the first pair of inner teeth. Empodial appendage about two-thirds as long as claw, lanceolate. A single clavate tenent hair almost as long as claw, to each foot. Furcula: Reaching to ventral tube. Dens slightly longer than manubrium, corrugated, and annulated, the uncorrugated portion half as long again as mucro. Mucro bidentate with a single external basal spine. Dens apically without notch but with bow-like lamella. Localities: North Island—Waihui Gorge, Urewera Country, from under the bark of native fuchsia trees; Waimana Gorge, Bay of Plenty, under stones. South Island—Bench Island, Dunedin (Prof. Marples); Haast Pass, near summit, from under bark of beech trees. Type: Slide 3/82, Figured Paratype: Slide 3/198, Dominion Museum Collection. Urewera parva sp. nov. Plate 63, fig. 381. Colour: In life, yellowish; mounted, pale yellow with deep violet edging to thoracic and first four abdominal pleura. Pale violet broad intersegmental bands on posterior margins of metathorax, Abds. I, II, III, IV and V, and an elongate area of violet on each side of Abd. IV. Antennae pale violet, becoming very dark on IV. Legs and furcula pale yellow, but tibio-tarsi deep violet. Ocelli on dark brown fields.