. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . s have therefore forwarded male and female specimens* to Saunders, of London, who will be able to speak with autho-rity on the subject; and, should it transpire that the insect isnot already known, I have asked Mr. Saunders to kindly allowme to publish his scientific description with these notes. The discovery of this parasite adds another chapter to thealready remarkable life-history of the New Zealand glow-worm. * These specimens were described by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, underthe name of Tanyzonus bolitophilcc, in the Entom

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. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . s have therefore forwarded male and female specimens* to Saunders, of London, who will be able to speak with autho-rity on the subject; and, should it transpire that the insect isnot already known, I have asked Mr. Saunders to kindly allowme to publish his scientific description with these notes. The discovery of this parasite adds another chapter to thealready remarkable life-history of the New Zealand glow-worm. * These specimens were described by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, underthe name of Tanyzonus bolitophilcc, in the Entomologists MonthlyMagazine for November, 1892. Subsequently, however, Mr. Marshallascertained that the female insect had been previously described by in the Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and PhilosophicalSociety (4th series, vol. ii., 1889), under the name of Betyla fulva. Theinsect must consequently be known under that name in future. IrimsHjjtimts f iui fbafanit $miUut$f Vol. xxv., To illustrate Paper Hudson Fig. I. Y

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