io</i>), which is very
common here and everywhere in Queensland, is very dangerous
even to men. It is a small black animal, of the size of our
house-spider, with a brilliant scarlet mark on its back."

1891. C. Frost, `Victorian Naturalist,' p. 140:

"I also determined, should opportunity occur, to make some
further experiments with the black and red spider
<i>Latrodectus scelio</i> . . . I found suspended in the web
of one of this species a small lizard . . . which doubtless had
been killed by its bite."

1892. Jan. 1, `The Katipo,' a Journal of Events in connection
with the New Zealand Post Office and Telegraph Services. On
p. 2 of the first number the Editor says:

"If hard words could break bones, the present lot of the
proprietors of `The Katipo' would be a sorry one. From certain
quarters invectives of the most virulent type have been hurled
upon them in connection with the title now bestowed upon the
publication--the main objections expressed cover contentions
that the journal's prototype is a `repulsive,' `vindictive,'
and `death-dealing reptile,' `inimical to man,' etc. ; and so
on, <i>ad infinitum</i>."

[The pictorial heading of each number is a katipo's web,
suggestive of the reticulation of telegraph wires, concerning
which page 3 of the first number says: "The Katipo spider and
web extends its threads as a groundwork for unity of the
services."]

1895. H. R. Hogq, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,
Zoology, p. 322:

"This spider, popularly known as the red streaked spider, is
found all over Victoria and New South Wales, and is recorded
from Rockhampton and Bowen on the Queensland Coast, and from
the North Island of New Zealand, where it is known by the
Maoris as the Katipo."

<hw>Kauri</hw>, or <hw>Cowry</hw>, or <hw>Kauri-Pine</hw>,
<i>n</i>. Maori name for the tree <i>Agathis australis</i>,
Sal. (formerly <i>Dammara A</i>.), <i>N.O. Coniferae</i>.
Variously spelt, and earlier often called <i>Cowdie</i>. In
`Lee's New Zealand Vocabulary,' 1820, the spelling <i>Kaudi</i>
appears. Although this tree is usually called by the generic
name of <i>Dammara</i> (see quotation, 1832), it is properly
referred to the genus <i>Agathis</i>, an earlier name already
given to it by Salisbury. There is a Queensland Kauri
(<i>Dammara robusta</i>, F. v. M.). See <i>Pine</i>.

1823. R. A. Cruise, `Ten Months in New Zealand,' p. 145:

"The banks of the river were found to abound with cowry; a