Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge the assistance given by Dr. Patricia M. Ralph and Professor J. A. F. Garrick of the Zoology Department, Victoria University of Wellington. Dr. Ralph suggested this study and provided specimens to make it possible, and with Professor Garrick offered much constructive criticism during the writing of this paper.

I also wish to thank the Director of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W., for access to material of Chitina. ericopsis and Solanderia fusca.