the dorsal surface of the head and thorax. The colour is particularly striking, the head, thorax and first abdominal segment and portion of the second being a deep violet colour, the remainder of the body a pale yellow oehre. Legs and furcula pale ochreous tinged with violet at the joints, the tarsi with deep violet bands. Antennae pale orange darkening towards violet at the joints. The second abdominal segment is bisected by the line of demarcation between these two colours. Ventral tube elongate, bilobed at its tip, darkly pigmented and clothed with short hairs. The relative proportions of the trunk segments are as 7:4:2:3:3:16:2:1. Segmentation is distinct. Antennae four-segmented and usually exceeding the body in length. The relative lengths of the segments being as 6:8:5–5:12. The first three segments clothed with hairs and occasional setae, the last with somewhat shorter hairs only. Ocelli eight on each side, six of which are large and two smaller. A post-antennal organ is present, appearing as a wheel with seven spokes lying on a line of dark pigmented patches extending backwards to the ocelli. The superior claw of the foot is grooved on its inner edge, each wall of the groove bearing a tooth, the one about one-third from the apex of the claw, the other about two-thirds. On its outer edge, the superior claw carries a large accessory spine. The inferior claw is almost as long as the superior and sharply pointed. There are two basal wing-like processes and a tenent hair to each foot. Fureula almost as long as the trunk and lying in a deep groove along the ventral surface of the abdomen. Tenaculum absent. The dentes pass one to each side of the ventral tube and terminate at about the level of the anterior pair of legs. Dentes somewhat longer than the manubrium, tapering only very slightly to the mucrones and provided near the manubrium with a few short spines. Mucrones bidentate, each with a large basal scale-like structure, and provided with two elongate scale-like appendages one on each side of each mucro. These appendages often are absent, due, probably, to their fragile attachment.

Localities: In open bush country at Karori Park (1933); Butterfly Creek, Wellington (1933); Akatarawa (May, 1937).

Salina karoriensis maculosa var. nov.

This variety, which is characteristic, differs from the main species principally in that it is not bisected into two colour regions, but instead presents a mottled appearance of violet to bluish patches on a creamy yellow ground.

Localities: Karori Park in open country (1933); Butterfly Creek, Wellington, in native bush (1933).