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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. v., 1898.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE

E Journal of Zoology

IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM.

EDITED BY

The Hon. WALTEE EOTHSCHILD, Ph.D.,

EENST HARTEET, and De. K. JOED AN.

Vol. v., 1898.

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Issued at tub Zoological Museum, Thing.

PRINTED By HAZELL, WATSON, 4: YINEY, I.D., LONDON AND AYLESHURV.

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CONTEKTS OF VOLUME V.

CtEnekal subjects.

PAGE

Obituary (Everett, Salvin, Shipp) 606

(See also pp. 435—454, 455, 521, 477.)

iMAMMALIA.

1. Descriptions of Three New Mammals from the East Indian Arcliipelago anil

Australia. O. Thomas 1

2. Note on Some Kangaroo Hybrids. Walter Rothschild ..... 4

3. Notes on Tnigelaphus spehei sjvlei and Traijdaphiis spekei gratus, with Descrip-

tion of a New Species. Walteh Rothschild 206

4. Field Notes on the Antelopes of Nyassaland. Percy Rendall . . . 207

5. Descriptions of Two New Cuscusea. U. Tuo.mas ...... 433

6. Descriptions of Three New Kangaroos, and Notes on the Skull fif Dfitdrolayus

bennettianus. Walter and N. C. Rothschild . . . • . .511

^9

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AVES.

On the Bii-ds of South Florcs. Part II. (Plate I.). Erxst Hartert

On the Birds of the Marianne Islands. Ernst Hartert

List of an Ornithological Collection made by Dr. P. Kendall in Nyassaland

Ernst Hartert

Notes on Paracliseidae. Walter Rothschild ....

List of a Collection of Buds from Lirung. Ernst Hartert .

On a Kew Parrot of the Family Loriidae. Walter Rothschild

List of Birds collected in Timor liy Mr. Everett. Ernst Hartert

List of a Collection of Birds made in the Siila Islands by William Doherty

Ernst Hartert

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

U,

15.

16.

17,

18

On a New Species of Thamnophilm (Plate IV.). Ernst Hartert

Description of a New Cassowary. Walter Rothschild .

On the Binls of Lomblen, Pantar, and Alor. Ernst Hartert

Account of Birds collected in Sumba by Alfred Everett. Ernst Hartert

On a Collection of BLi-ds from North-Westem Ecuador (Plates II., III.)

Ernst Hartert

Notes on Bii-ds from Perak. Ernst Hartert and A. L. Butler .

Notes on Some Parrots (Plate XVIII.). Walter Rothschild

Casiuiriits loriae sp. nuv. Walter Rothschild .....

Further Notes on Huiiiniing-Birds. Ernst Hartert ....

On the Birds collected on Sudcst Island by Albeit S. Meek. Krnst Hartert

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42

51

70

84

88

110

HI

125

220

418

455

46G

477

506

509

513

514

521

COLEOPTEKA.

1. Some New Species of Coleoptera. W. F. Rosenuerg

2. Die Passaliden dichotomiscb bearbeitet. 2"" Theil. A. Kuwert

3. Dasselbe (Schluss)

4. New AnthrihUhie. Karl Jordan ......

5. Some New Coleoptera. Karl Jordan ....

92

137

259

359

419

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LEPIDOPTERA.

tAQB

1. New Species and Genera of the Families Thi/7'ididae, Uraniidue, E}ii]iUmi(lae,

and Geomelridae. W. Warren . . 5

3. On Some New or Rare Lepiiloptera frum tlje Old-World Regions. Walter

Rothschild 96

3. Descriptions of New Species of Oriental Butterflies. H. Grose Smith . .103

•t. Some New Lepidoptera from the Kast. Walter Roihschilb . . . . 21(i

5. New Species and Genei'a of the Families Drepaaididae, I'hyi'idAdae, ('mniid(ie,

£piplemidae, and Geomelridae from the Old-World Regions. W. Warren 221

6. Descriptions of New Species of African Butterflies. H. Grose Smith . . 35U

7. Gontributions to the Morphology of Lepidoptera. I. The Antennae of

Butterflies (Plates XIV., XV.). Karl Jordan 374

8. Some New Lepidoptera from Obi. Walter Rothschild 416

9. List of the Oeomeiridae, Epiphniidae, Drepanulidae, and Thyrididae collected

on the Key Islands by Mr. H. KUhn. W. Warren .... 421

10. An Examination of the Classificatory and some other Results of Elmer's

Researches on Eastern Papilios : A Review and Reply. Karl Jordan . 435

11. A Monograph of Charaxes and the Allied Prionopterous Genera. Part I.

(Plates V. — XIVa,). Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan . . . 545

12. Some New Lepidoptera from the Ea.st. Walter Rothschild .... 602

SIPHONAPTERA.

Contributions to the Knowledge of the Siphmmptefa (Plates XVa. — XVII.)

N. 0. Rothschild 533

LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME V.

Plate

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

\ III.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV«.

XIV.

XV.

XVa.

XVI.

XVII

XVIII.

I'isorhina si/lvicola and /'. tilfredi, Two Owls from South Flores.

Nemosia rosenbergi and Buthraupis rothechildi, New Birds from Ecuador.

Odontophm'iis parainbiK and Crypluri'^ berkpschi, New Birds from

Ecuador.

Thamiiophihts bricenoi and T. dolialus.

. Coloiu-ed Figures of Charaaxs.

) Photographs of Charaxes.

Anatomical Details of Charaxes.

Antennae of Butterflies.

Sipfumaptera.

Eos h(ymeus and CycU/psittacus macihvraithi, Two Oriental Parrots.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. V. MARCH, 1898. No. 1.

DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW MAMMALS FROM THE

EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND AUSTRALIA.

By OLDFIELD THOMAS.

BY the kindness of Mr. Rotliscliild I liave been entrnsted with the determination

of some mammals recentl}' received at the Tring Musenm, and among them

two are new, one representing a new genus of Rodents. At the same time I take

the opi)ortunity of describing a new S)7ii nthopsis from Australia recently received

at the British Mnsenm.

Mallomys * gen. nov. (Jfiaklae).

Allied to Crateromys and Leuotw/s.^ External form strictly murine. Fur long

and thick. Ears short. Tail long, scaly, almost naked. Pollex with a short nail;

all other digits with strong curved claws.

Skull large and powerful, more heavily built than that of Cniterom>/s.

Interorbital region broad, inflated and convex on each side anteriorly, then in its

posterior half the inflation disappears, to be replaced by sharp vertical ridges,

between which the mesial part of the frontal is deeply concave. These ridges

are very sliort, and when reaching the anterior corner of the squamosal they turn

abruptly outwards and downwards, so as, with the anterior edge of the squamosal,

to enclose a deep vertical groove or concavity running down the postero-interiial wall

of the orbit. Brain-case proper scarcely ridged at all. Interparietal large, its

anterior edge evenly convex. Otiter plate of zj'goma root slightly projected forwards.

Palatal foramina of medium length. Posterior edge of palate level with the middle

of m'. Bullae small.

Teeth. — Upper incisors ungrooved, yellow in front, their wear such that tlieir

outer corners project downwards as sharp points. Molars very large and heavy,

so broad that the palate between the anterior molars is narrower than the teeth

themselves. In pattern they have a strong general resemblance to those of

Lenomijs.,X with similar isolated cusjis and posteriorly projecting processes of

enamel ; the nnmber of cnsjis is however difterent, as both the internal and external

cusps of the last lamina of m' are absent, as is the case with m-', while in m^ there

are no definite outer cusjjs ; the molars have therefore the following numbers of

lateral cusps, outer 2 — 1 — 0, inner 2 — 2—3, as opposed to the 3—2 — 2 and 3 — 3—3

of Lcnomi/s. Below the molars are very like those of C rateromi/s.

Type : M. rothscliiUli.

* iiaWi!, wool.

f Genus propo.sed in the account of Mr. Whitehead's Philippine mamm.al-*, imw in the press. It

is based on J/ia meyeri .lent.

I Figured Traiui. Zool. ,Sm: XIV. I'i. .\.\.KVI. tig. 1.

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It seems probable that Jentink's Mits armaruhillei * from Floras is also

a member of this genus, bnt as the palate and teeth only of a yonng specimen are

figured, and not the whole skull, I am unable to be qnite certain about it.

Geograi)hically its inclusion in Mallotm/s is very probable, as the relatives of that

genus occur in Celebes and Luzon. The three genera ifallomys, l.enomi/s, and

CrateromifS form in fact a little group characteristic of the eastern half of the

East Indian Archipelago — viz. Philippines, Celebes, New Guinea, and perhaps

Flores. This distribution is suggestively similar to that of the llijdronv/inae

(Philippines, New Guinea, Australia) and of the Rh>/7whom>/inae (Philippines and

Celebes).

1. Mallomys rothschildi sp. nov.

Size large, nearly e(^ual to Cratci-omi/s schadenbergi. Fur very long and thick,

the woolly underfnr about 30 — 35 mm. long on the back, and the longer hairs,

which are comparatively few in number, nearly twice that lengtli. General colour

all over blackish with a silvery grey suiTusion, the wool-hairs being pale greyish

with either silvery or blackish tips, the very long hairs black with whitisli

bases. Undersurface like the underfnr of the back, greyish white, with very few

black hairs intermi.xed. Whiskers black. Ears short, hardly projecting beyond

the fnr, thinly haired, brown. Hands and feet black above ; claws white basally

and at their tips, brown mesially. Tail in rather bad condition, but apparently

brown basally and rather lighter terminally; the scales very large, and not hidden

by the few short hairs.

Skull and teeth as described above.

Dimensions of the type, an adult male, measured on the stuffed specimen, and

therefore only approximate : —

Head and body (<".) 400 mm. ; tail 380 ; hindfoot Go ; ear (contracted) 'I'Z.

Skull : basilar suture to gnathion o7'5 ; lambda to nasal tip ()3'5 ; greatest

breadth 30 : breadth outside m' 14, inside m' 3'o ; nasals 27 x 9 ; interorbital

breadth 10; palate, length from heuselion 30; diastema 21 o : palatal foramina

14 X u"3 ; length of upper molar series IG'3.

Hnb. Between Mounts Musgrave and Scratchley, British New Guinea.

The type is stuffed, in the Tring Museum. Its skull is in the British Museum.

This fine rodent I have ventured to name in honour of Mr. Walter Rothschild,

by one of whose native collectors it was obtained, and to whose generosity the

British Museum is indebted for the donation of its skull, and also of the Fhalanger

next to be described.

2. Phalanger melanotis sji. nov.

Closely allied to I'/t. ur.sinufi Temm., but rather smaller, shorter tailed, and

very different in colour. Fnr thick and close, not mixed with longer black hairs

projecting beyond the wool-hairs. General colour silvery or hoary, becoming pale

yellow on the hands, feet, and furry part of tail. The hoary tone is obtained by

the light rings on the hairs, coppery or yellow in Pli. iirsinas, being silvery whitish,

and hiding the Idack of the basal jiart of the hairs much more completely, so that

the whole animal, instead of being black picked out with light, is light with

a slight indication of a darker suffusion on the body ; on the hands, feet, and

• Weber's ^<i(i7. Ergihn. II. p. 7.S, PI V. figs. 1-7, 1S92.

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tail even this suffusion is not visible. Hairs of head directed forward from the

crown, though this may be duo to the make of the skin ; no darker suffusion there

visible. Ears short, buried in the fur, the black of their backs more, and tlie

yellowish or orange of their inner surface less, developed than in urxiiius, so that

instead of appearing fulvous or orange on a black ground, the ear is conspicuously

black on a whitish ground, whence the name I have chosen for the species.

Undersnrface pale yellowish, instead of dark ochraceous, the hairs dark brown

at their bases. Tail decidedly sliorter than in the allied species, the reduction

being mainly or entirely in the naked portion : furry portion above and below

pale yellow.

Skull and teeth very much as in Ph. ursiitii.t ; the distance between the orbits

is, however, decidedly less, and the supraorbital edges are shari)er and less inflated.

Only one small intermediate t<iotli present on each side below.

Hab. Lirnng, Talaut Islands. Three specimens obtained by native collectors.

Dimensions, from skin, approximate : —

Head and body 450 mm. ; tail* 335, naked part of tail above 130, ditto

below 210.

Skull : basal length 79 : greatest breadth .J.) ; nasals, length ,'.'7, greatest

breadth 13-3, least breadth 9 ; interorbital breadth 12'3 ; palate, length 4.5 ; palatal

foramen 5-5 ; basi-cranial axis 2".>'5 ; basi-facial axis 49. Teeth, horizontal

length of last premolar 5-7 ; length of ms'~^ 19.

The occurrence of this fine Cuscns in the Talaut Islands, where it evidently

represents Ph. itrsinus, is a matter of great interest, and Mr. Roth.schild is to be

congratulated on its discover}'. Of the three specimens collected, he has been

generous enough to present one to the British Museum, the others, which

Mr. Hartert assures me are quite similar, being iu the Tring Museum.

3. Sminthopsis hirtipes sp. nov.

Size medium. Colour apparently, so far as can be judged from a spirit

specimen, much as in the ordinary species without special face-markings, more

or less fawn above, white below, the hairs slate-coloured at base. Ears very large,

laid forward in a spirit specimen they reach some way beyond the anterior canthus

of the eye. Hands and feet quite different to those of any other species, and

more recalling those of some of the African Gerbilles. Hands with a large trefoil-

shaped elevation occupying the whole of the palm, the elevation being covered

all over with fine silvery hairs, and with no normal pads on it at all ; the under-

snrface of the digits, however, is naked and very finely granulated. Similarlj'

the feet are hairy below throughout, except just along the middle line of the

digits ; on the terminal part of the metatarsus there is, as on the hand, a large

hairy elevation without any pads ; all the hairs of the foot, above as well as

below, are longer than usual, and especially those along the outer surface, where

they form a distinct silvery fringe from the ankle to the tip of the fifth toe. Tail

long, slightly incrassated for its basal lialf, dull whitish throughout.

Skull similar in its general outlines to that of -S'. cras.w'audata, but larger,

more heavily built, and with decidedly larger bullae. No trace of jiostorbital

processes. Proportions of upper premolars much as in S. Icucojju.-<.

* J'robably shrunk ; vertebrae taken out.

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Dimensions of tlie type, an lulnlt mule in spirit : —

Head and IkkIv 7(i mm.; tail 81: liiiidfoot 10; car 22-5.

Sknll : basal length 24 ; greatest breadth loS ; interorbital breadth .rl ;

palate, length 13-2 ; combined lengths of ms'~' 4-T.

JIab. Station Point, Charlotte Waters, Interior of Sonth Australia.

This striking little si)ecies comes from very much the same locality whence

several small marsupials have been obtained and described by Professor Baldwin

Spencer, to whom the British Museum is indebted for a valnable series of the

species described by him. None of these, nor so far as I know any other described

form, has the remarkable foot-structnre of .§. hirtipen, a structure so strikingly

like that found in tlie similarly desert-haunting Gerbilles of the restricted subgenus

Gerbillui.

NOTE ON SOME KANGAROO HYBEIDS.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

HAVING succeeded well in acclimatising tlie " Great Kangaroo," Macropus

(/ignntcus, and " Bennett's Wallaby," Macropus beinietti, in a state of

freedom at Tring, I began in 1802 and 1893 to try the same experiment with other

species, and I have had at different times Black Wallaby, Bridled, Striped, and

Sliort-tailed Wallaby, Dcrbian Wallaby, Black Wallaroo, Parry's Wallaroo, and

lastly Reil Kangaroos (^Macropus ualabat/ta, ('hn/clioqah; freiiatits, Macropus

dorsalis, M. brachjurus, M. </erbi/an/(s, M. robustus, M. parri/i, and M. rufus).

None of these, however, would live well in a free state, and of all of them I only

had in 1895 one female Red Kangaroo, Macropus rufus, left at liberty. This

animal paired with a male " Boomer " (Macropus gigantcus), and jiroduced, at the

beginning of 1897, a female hybrid which, strange to say, was e.xactly like the

mother and showed no trace of the father. At the time, knowing the many freaks

which appear in hybrids, I took little notice of this creature, but this year {i.e. end

of 1897) the same female Bed Kangaroo ])rodnced a male hybrid from a " Boomer"

which is of the most brilliant red colour, much brighter than any pure-bred Bed

Kangaroo I have seen, and also shows no trace of the male jiareut in its appearance.

It seems therefore that in this case the female has more influence on the jirogeny

than the male.

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NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF

THE FAMILIES THYIUDIDAE, URANIIDAE, EPIPLEMIDAE,

AND GEOMETBIDAE FROM THE OLD-WORLD REGIONS.

By W. warren, M.A., r.E.8.

Family TIIYRIDIDAE.

1. Banisia nana sp. no v.

ForewiiKjs : browDish ocliremiis, with darker brown reticulations; the markings

slight and obscure ; a dark line before the middle, and another be3'ond the middle,

the latter thickened towards inner margin ; an indistinct Hue from costa before

apex to the elbow in hindinargin ; fringe concolorons.

Ilinihrhx/s : with traces of a central and outer fascia towards the costa.

Underside paler, with ferruginous markings; the apical line of forewiugs and

a short one at anal angle more distinct, blackish. Head, thorax, and abdomen

concolorons.

Exi)anse of wings : 16 mm.

1 c? from Snmba, February 1896 (W. Doherty).

2. Camptochilus funifera sp. nov.

Foi'cwings : ruddy ochreous, covered with very numerous fine reticulations;

lines brown ; first near base, slender, obtusely bent below median ; a second

beyond is only distinct as far as the median : from before middle of costa to before

apex a brown semi-elliptical patch, from the outer edge of which a thick brown-

black oblique streak runs to middle of inner margin, becoming partially obsolete

below submedian fold ; just beyond it a fine sinuous brown line runs from the onter

edge of the patch into anal angle, and from the end of tlie patch another line,

nearly straight, runs to hindmargin at vein 3 : to the ends of veins 4, .">, 6, T, also

faint brown oblique lines run from the patch, the top one straight and ])lain.

IJiiidwiiHi^ : with the oblique streak continued fainter across wing before

middle ; the two long outer lines repeated, being curved and furcate before

reaching hindmargin ; a short brown curved streak from inner margin to median

vein near base ; fringes of both wings reddish brown.

Underside paler, the markings all duller; the hindmargin deeper tinted;

hindwings still jialer, excepting the costal area. Head, thorax, and abdomen

concolorons with wings; face and palpi rather darker.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

1 ? from the Khasia Hills, May 1897.

3. Dixoa trijuncta sj). nov.

Foreivings : white, with numerous fuscons ochreous spots and striae, of which

two towards middle of inner margin are rather more cons])icnous ; three black

submargiual spots below apex ; base of wing and costa tinged with smoky grey ;

fringe white, with small spots at end of veins.

]Ii)i<lirinqs : with few spots, but stronger striae, which teud to form double

basal, median, and submarginal fasciae.

Underside with all the dark markings brown and much more distinct. Palpi

and face brown, the latter strongly protuberant : vertex, thorax, and abdomen

whitish.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 ? from AVarri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1897 (Dr. Koth).

I have left this species in Dixoa, though it differs in the nenration, inasmuch

as veins 8, 9, 10, are all stalked together, as in Symphleps atomosnlix, with which.

however, it can scarcely be connected.

4. Hypolamprus praelongata sp. nov.

I'oreirings : greyish ochreous, with a faint pink tinge; three irregularly edged

darker fiisciae before middle, oblique inwards, constricted in cell and on submedian

fold, and below the median edged with blackish; beyond middle a forked fascia,

of wliich the inner arm resembles the other three, the outer runs obliquely outwards

in midwing and is then sharply angled and joins the inner arm on inner margin;

three other irregular streaks from costa meet at hindmargin and form a marginal

fascia to anal angle : all the pale intervals are obscurely dusted and lined with

dark scales ; fringe concolorous ; marginal line very fine.

llinJiciiigs : with the fasciae reduced to single lines ; the lower part of the

middle fascia edged and filled up with brown-black.

Underside similar. Head and palpi like wings ; thorax and abdomen darker

grey, the latter with whitish segmental rings.

Expanse of wings : 3o mm.

1 S from the Khasias, April 1897.

Both wings very narrow ; hindmargin straight and oblique.

5. Pharambara rostrifera sp. nov.

Foreu'ings : pale ochreous, the costal area washed with brownish grey and

sparsely striated with fnscons ; two dark blotches in the cell, forming the upper

part of two transverse fasciae, which become obsolete below middle, having only

the outlines a little darker than the ochreous ground-colour ; beyond the middle

a dark brown oblique fascia, the inner edge concave from costa to inner margin,

the outer bent round to middle of hindmargin and forming a curved rostriform

mark ; the pale ochreous marginal area with a few brown striae, which unite at

anal angle : fringe ochreous.

Ilinduings : with a j)artial]y double blackish basal streak, and an irregularly

reticulated and twisted dark brown fascia from middle of costa to anal angle; the

rest of the wing with rufous .streaks, which are darker near the costa.

Underside similar ; cell of forcwing with a bed of black and shining metallic

scales between two rows of hairs ; some black and white Lair-scales towards apex

below costa. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous and brown ; face and palpi

darker.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 S from Northdene, Natal.

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6. Pharambara scripta sp. uov.

I'orewings : glossy pale ochreons, with rnfous brown markings ; costal area

rufous, and marked with seven roundish or kidnej^-shaped darker brown blotches,

all margined with deep black along the costal edge, the intervening spaces pale

ochreons, each with three fine black points ; the three blotches nearest the base are

produced across the wing as basal, subbasal, and autemedian fasciae, with darker

edges and more or less laterally confluent, so that the whole basal two-fifths

appears rufous brown ; the fourth and fifth unite to form a central fascia, partly

interrupted in midwiug by the ochreons ground-colour; the other two do not reach

below the subcostal vein ; they are followed on the costa before the apex by two

small black spots, below which on the hindmargin is a round whitish spot with

black edges and containing a few black dots, and below this a largish black spot;

all the nervules are rufous, with two series of minute black points, the intervals

between them marked with short black dashes connected at their ends with the

points ; fringe rufous brown, with dark or black markings beyond the veins.

Ilindwiiiys : suffused with pale rufous ; a narrow basal black-edged fascia, an

interrupted median fascia, containing a black blotch on inner margin, a black dash

on the snbmedian fold, and two black dots between them, beyond the edges of the

fascia ; the rest as in forewings, the hindmargin more rufons.

Underside much brighter, the ground-colour paler and the rufous tints more

orange ; costal pale spaces enlarged into pale triangles, with three black converging

streaks ; the cell and nervules with black and ochreous lines ; the apical round spot

silvery white, with a small white spot above and below it. Head, thorax, and

• abdomen, as well as the underside and legs, rufons brown: the metathorax paler

and shining.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 S from the Khasias, July 18'-t6.

Closely allied to P. emhlicalis Moore.

Pycnopera gen. nov.

Forewinys : elongate ; costa straight ; apex rectangular ; hindmargin strongly

obliipie below the middle.

Himhcinijs: with hindmargin rounded; the inner margin fcihlcd and very

much thickened, clothed with long hairs and broad glistening scales, like those of

a fish in miniature.

Thorax and basal segments of abdomen with very broad scales. Anteunae of

S simple ; palpi thick, stout, porrect, the third joint quite short: tongue and

frenulum present; legs not hairy; hindtibiae with four long spurs. All the veins

free ; 9 and lU of forewings closely approximated throughout : vein .j of hind wings

from above the lower angle. Forewings of S with a hyaline jiatch between veins

3 and 4.

Type : Pi/cnojjera crassisquama sp. nov.

T. Pycnopera crassisquama sj). uov.

I'oreu'ings : dull ferruginous ochreous, reticulated with darker, with dark

fuscous markings ; these consist of a patch at base, a fascia just beyond, another

just beyond middle, angled outwards in midwing, a submarginal one, broadest

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in micklle, throwing off a spnr to bindmargiu below the bend and bifurcate at

anal angle, and a marginal shade from apex; a hyaline spot on the inner edge

of central fascia; fringe worn, bnt apparently concolorons.

IliiHtirinqs: with the ferruginons ground-colour almost obliterated by a dense

smoky fuscous suffusion: an obscure blackish spot at end of cell.

Underside dull red, with the fnscous markings of both wings much clearer.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ferrnginous cinereous.

Expanse of wings : 2<> mm.

One S from Pennngali, X. Borneo, December 1893 (Cator).

Mr. Meyrick, in describing his Siculodes platyntis, a ? ,from Pulo Laut, remarks

on the very broad scales of the thorax ; the two species are probably allied, but

scarcely identical, />/«('/»</« expanding only 15 mm.

Family URAJNIIDAE.

8. Acropteris nigrisquama Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 21.

The examination of a nearly jierfect specimen of this insect from Lugula,

Usogo, dated December 1890, enables me to supplement the original description.

The forewings have the costa well curved, the apex somewhat produced ; the

hiudmargiu oblique and slightly concave, so that the anal angle is square. The

costa is marked with geminated dark grey spots, tending to be produced into

paler streaks, the spots towards the apex becomiug darker and denser. Two pale

grev oblique bauds from inner margin near base and beyoud middle unite below

apex ; these bands are hardly resolvable into two darker lines ; two very obscure

lines of dark striae before the hiudmargin. The bands are produced across

hindwings as a narrow basal and broad median band, followed by a narrower band

from before apex to above anal angle, the spaces between the bands and before

hiudmargin being also varied with grey strigae. On the median vein of forewings

beneath is a thick tuft of white scales, the under surface of which next the wing

is darkened and shows through above in certain lights as a deep blue-black

oval spot.

In the forewings the discocellular is oblique and straight inwards, not distorted;

the lower radial from about its centre ; veins 6 and 7 on a long stalk. The hind-

tibiae are much thickened, with three stout spurs. Anal tufts of the i largely

developed.

9. Micronia sinuosa Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 23.

The type was from Palawan. In examples from Dongala, south of Palos Bay,

Celebes, there is a strongly marked basal line, parallel to the median line, on

both wings ; and on the hindwings the additional spot on vein 3 is very slightly

marked, or quite obsolete.

III. Urapteroides recurvata sp. nov.

Forcivinys: white; the costa with numerous small squarish black dots;

three fuscous ochreotis lines across wing; the first from costa at one-fourth, bent

on subcostal, then oblique and straight to before middle of inner margin ; the

second thicker, straight, from just beyond middle of costa to inner margin before

anal angle, slightly nearer first line here than on costa; third from four-fifths

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of costa to anal angle, slightly curved; a short fnscous ochreous discocellular

streak ; marginal line black : fringe white.

Ilindirings : with only two lines, less strongly marked ; first from below

costa before middle, bent above vein 2 nearly at right angles, to inner margin ;

second from three-fotirths of costa, curved towards tail, before which it is also

bent round to inner margin close above anal angle, where it ends in a grey spot ;

marginal line black, stopjiing short at base of tail on each side ; tail with two

black spots, preceded by some ochreous fnscous strigae, black-margined between

the spots ; extremity of tail recurved towards inner margin, not pointing outwards

as in the rest of the genus.

Underside of forewings with the costal black spots, and several scattered lilack

specks towards apex ; discocellular mark fuscous; the lines only showing through.

Hindwings with the outer line fuscous ; the marginal dark line present in both

wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; face with a black bar at toj) ; tarsi

black and white.

Expanse of wings : 56 mm.

One ? from Melindi, British East Africa, January 1892.

Family El'IPLEMIDAE.

11. Epiplema illiturata sp. nov.

Fore/cim/s : white : the costa specked with black on basal half ; first line

indicated only by slight specks on subcostal, in the cell, and on submedian fold ;

onter line at two-thirds, strongly outcurved in middle of wing, indicated by a few

fuscous spots marked with fine black atoms ; a spot of intense black atoms at anal

angle ; fringe white.

Hindwings : with an interrupted basal line, a double interrupted ])0stme(lian,

and a submarginal formed of pale ochreous patches, that before lower tooth marked

with scattered black scales, with a fine black line to anal angle: a faint interrupted

marginal line.

Underside white ; costa of forewings discoloured with ochreous and grey : paljii

blackish ; face black-brown above, greyer below ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen

white.

Exjjanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 c? from Northdene, Natal.

Forewing with hiudmargin simply curved ; hindwing with a tooth at veins

4 and 6.

Family GEOMETRIDAE.

Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE.

12. Arhodia obtusata.

Monoctenia obtHsata Wlk., XXI. p. 27U (V ).

Monoctenia obtusata Meyr., Pr. Linn. Soc. S.S. IT. ISOt) (II. 4j, p. 12(1T (?).

Monoctenia himeroides Wlk., XXI. j). 279 ( ? ).

The antennae of the S , which sex Meyrick had not seen, are bipectinatcd, and

the species must be transferred to Arhodia.

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13. Cemia amyclaria.

Cernia amyclaria Wlk., XX. p. 267.

Monoctenia odontias Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S..\. XVlll. ji. ^;J (1894).

Tliis genus is akiu to Arhodia Giieu., from which it is distinguished Lv the

creunlated hindmargiu of the wings and the rostriform i.aljii. In the forewings

veins 7, 8, 9, 10, arc stalked from the upper cud of cell ; 11 anastomoses with 12

and 10 with 11 : in both wings the radial rises from a little above the centre of

discocellnlar.

14. Palaeaspilates inoflfensa Warr., Nov. Zool. I. p. 370.

The type from the Felder Collection being nni(iue, I was unable at the time

of describing this genus to denude the wings. HaN-ing lately examined a pair

from Grahamstown, South Africa, I can now correct the neuration as formerly

given. The upper radial rises, as usual, from the upper angle of cell ; veins 7, 8,

9, 10, are stalked from just before 6 ; and 11 anastomoses with them, forming a

single areole.

The ? is smaller than the i and has peri'ectly simple antennae.

Subfamily ORTHOSTIXIXAE.

15. Bytharia latimargo sp, nov.

Like Bytharia marginata 'Wlk. from Ceram, but with the black border twice

as wide, even in the S S; antennae slenderly bipectinate.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

Two S<S from Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea, August 1896 (Capt! C. Webster).

Subfamily DYSPHANIINAE.

Dysschema gen. nov.

Forewings: with costa straight for two-thirds, then convex; apex blunt:

hindmargiu obli(|nely curved.

lliMhcings: with ajwx rounded, the anal angle square: hin<lmargiii with

a well-marked elbow in middle, thence straight to anal angle.

Antennae of S shortly and uniformly bipectinate, of ? simple. Palpi porrect,

terminal joint jiointed ; tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibiae of S stout, with

four short spurs.

Neiir-ation : forewings, cell barely half as long as wing ; discocellnlar in-

angnlated, the lower arm more oblique ; first median nervule at two-thirds ; second

and third from lower end of cell ; lower radial from a little below upper end ;

ui)per radial shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10: 11 free, approximated to 12 in

middle, llindwings with both subcostals and last two medians short-stalked :

radial as in forewings. Scaling fine and close, not hairy as in Dysphania.

Type : JJys»cheina goniata sp. nov.

10. Dysschema goniata sp. nov.

Forewings: dark ])urple, with a white postmedian blotch from beyond cell

towards anal angle, twice as large ia the ? as in the cJ.

llindicinys: white, with the hinilmargin broadly purple, more so in 6 than

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? , the white area correspondiugly smaller ; aista narrowly purplish : base purplish,

especially in cJ, where the basal patch and marginal fascia meet along inner

margin ; fringes purple.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow in the ! ; the vertex,

shoulders, and patagia purplish in the cJ, only tinged with darker in the ?.

Expanse of wings : S, 30 mm. ; ? , 39 mm.

One cJ, two ? ?, from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, the low country, January

1897 (\V. Doherty).

Si-BKAMiLY GEOMETRIXAE.

Acollesis gen. nov.

Fori'/r/nt/s: broad, the costa nearly straight ; hindmargin curved, but not very

oblique ; inner margin slightly convex.

Hindwings : full, with well-rounded hindmargin and anal angle squared.

Antennae in both sexes pectinated. Palpi porrect, short. Tongue present ;

frenulum absent.

Seuration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing; discocellular angled;

first median at three-fourths, second shortly before end of cell ; lower radial from

close below upper angle ; upper radial stalked with the five subcostals ; 11

anastomosing with V2 and 10 with 11. Hindwings with costal closely approximated

to but not anastomosing with subcostal for half the length of cell; tlie two subcostals

stalked ; medians as in forewings.

Tyj)e : Acollesis fmudiilciitu sp. nov. This insect aftords a very close

imitation of niwica, the type of Collesis ; but on comparing the two genera,

it will be seen that the neuratiou is quite different.

17. Acollesis fraudulenta s]i. nov.

Forewings: very pale yellowish green, with a whitish line from four-fifths of

costa to three-fourths of inner margin ; fringe long, concolorous ; in the best-

preserved sjiecimen there is a slightly darker cell-spot indicated.

Hindwings : with the line ])ostmcdian and slightly curved.

Underside paler, without markings. Face, top of palpi, and forelegs red;

thorax and abdomen very pale green ; vertex and shaft of antennae white.

Expanse of wings : tj, 27 mm.; ?, 29 mm.

One (S, two ? ?, from Barberton, Transvaal (Dr. P. Kendall).

Archiclilora gen. nov.

?. Forewings: with costa curved at base and before apex, straight between;

apex rectangular ; hindmargin elbowed at vein 3, vertical above, oblique below

and faintly waved.

Ilindirings : with a rather prominent tooth at vein 6, thence, except for a

slight elbow at vein 4, straight and waved to anal angle, which is rectangular.

Antennae bipectinate ; palpi (damaged) short ; tongue present : frenulum

invisible.

Sen ration : forewings, cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular angulated,

the lower arm oblique ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second and third from

lower cud of coll; lower radial from upper half of discocellular; upper radial

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stalked with last four snbcostals : tlio first froo. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4,

and 6 and 7, stalked.

Tyj)e : Arckichlora ti rid i macula sp. nov.

IS. Archichlora viridimacula sji. nov.

Foreiriixf.f : pinkish oclireons, varied with reddish atoms and strigae : costal

area speckled with fuscous ; basal area with one or two small green spots above

and below the median, followed by a large green blotch of oblong shape from

subcostal to inner margin, emitting a short rounded tooth above the median in

lower angle of cell ; a small green spot be3'ond it below the subcostal vein before

the middle ; at tli roe-fourths anotlier oblong green blotch from subcostal to vein 4,

along which it j)rojects towards liindmargin ; two small green spots obli(|uely below

it, between veins 2 and 4, and a green subapical horizontal dash beyond it ; fringe

concolorous, beyond some irregular triangular reddish marks between the veins

along the margin.

llinihrings : with the subbasal green blotch and spot as on forewings, with

two additional small green spots on inner margin ; exterior blotch only represented

by its ontline, which forms an angular mark before the elbow at vein 4 ; the apex

washed with pale green.

Underside uniform ochreous ; head, thorax, and abdomen the same.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

Two ? ? from Warri, Kiger Coast Protectorate, April l^',lT (Dr. Roth).

Cenochlora gen. nov.

Forewlnyit : with costa curved throughout : hiudmargin obliquely curved.

Ilimlwiiiys : with fnlly rounded hindmargin ; anal angle distinct.

Antennae of c? bipectinate, apical one-fifth simple ; palpi extremely weak ;

tongue and frenulum wanting : hindtibiae with middle spurs absent.

Ncuration : forewings, cell nearly two-thirds of wing; discocellular vertical :

first median at three-fourths, second before end of cell ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 1), 10,

stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hindwings witli H, 7, very sliortly stalked ;

medians as in forewings.

Type : Cenochlora felix sp. nov.

Differs from Eiicrostes in veins 3 and 4 of both wings being separate.

]'■•. Cenochlora felix sp. nov.

Forewimj.s : apple-green, rather thinly scaled; costa broadly white; a faint

denticulate wliitish line at three-fourths, parallel to hindmargin ; cell-spot ferru-

ginous ; fringe with the basal half, except beyond vein-ends, ferruginous, the

tips white.

Ilimhrinys : the same, the cell-spot larger.

Underside slightly paler green. Face green; palpi and legs whitish: fillet and

vertex white ; thorax and alidomi'u green.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

Two iS from Dawson district, Queensland (Barnard).

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20. Gelasma fascipuncta sp. nov.

ForcwingH : dull pale green ; the lines marked by rather large blackish sjiofs

on the veins ; first at one-fifth, bent on the median; second at i'onr- fifths, incurved

below vein 3 and slightly beyond cell ; fringe concolorons : a slight cell-mark.

HiiKlwings : the same, without first line.

Underside uniform pale green.

Face and jialpi red-brown above, pale yellow below; vertex, base and shaft of

antennae white ; thora.x and abdomen dull green.

Expanse of wings : S , 'i'-i mm.; ? , 36 mm.

A pair from Morondava, Madagascar.

-1. lodis albipuncta sj). nov.

Forew/ni/s: pale smooth olive-green ; a fine whitish dentate lunulate line at

five-sixths, parallel to hindmargin, the lunule on the submedian fold large and

white, that above vein 4 forming a small white spot ; a row of white marginal dots

at end of veins ; fringe concolorons.

Ifindifings : the same, but the white lunules less conspicuous.

Underside uniform whitish green. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale olive-

green ; fillet and shaft of antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 26 — 28 mm.

Two c? c? from the Khasias.

Mixochroa gen. nov.

Forewings: triangular; costa nearly straight; apex prominent; hindmargin

oblique, curved below towards anal angle.

Ilindwiiigs : with hindmargin curved, the angles fairly prominent.

Antennae of cj bipectinate, of ? simple, filiform : palpi quite short, slender,

porrect ; tongue weak ; frenulum absent ; hindtibiae of <? with four spurs.

Ji'eurat/on : forewings, cell one-half of wing ; discocellular inangalated ;

first median uervnle at three-fourths, second immediately before end of cell : lower

radial from near top of discocellular ; nj)per radial stalked with the last four

subcostals ; 11 anastomosing with 12, 10 with 11 and again with 8, 9, forming

a donble areole. Ilindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for more than

half of cell ; the subcostals stalked : radial from upper end of discocellular ; last

two medians from lower end of cell.

Type : ^[ixoch)•oa gratiosata Gnen. (Xt'moria).

22. Oenospila flavitaenia sp. nov.

P'oreiring.s : emerald-green ; costa ochreons white ; cell-spot small, black ; lines

slender, white, situated much as in l'roboIoscelrs{'i) csmeralJa sp. nov., but the outer

line reaches inner margin farther from anal angle and starts at three-fourths of the

costa; no marginal line; a row of pale spots at ends of veins ; fringe ochreous, with

a red-brown line at base, touching the white marginal spots.

Ilh/ihringx : the same, without the white lines.

Underside shining, whitish green : the cell-spots black ; the two white lines

of forewings showing through ; a row of very minute black marginal specks between

the veins. Head discoloured ; tliorax green ; abdomen ochreous.

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Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 180T (Dr. Roth).

The antennae are bipectiuate for half the shaft ; hindwings with a distinct

elbow in middle of hindmargin.

23. Oospila pulveriplaga sp. nov.

ForeiriiKjs : pale dingy greeu, tiucl\' and thiidy sealed : costal area whitish,

with fine snufF-brown atoms ; first Hue at one-fourth, vertical, its outer edge cur%-Bd

between the veins, diffnsely white and semihyaline, the space below snbmedian

vein dusted with snuff-brown ; an oblique whitish oval patch on the discocellular,

the centre dusted with brown atoms ; a large diffuse whitish blotch below the

median, from beneath the discocellular to inner margin and anal angle as far as

vein 2, its edges dusted with brown and with brown-black scales towards the anal

angle ; a white subapical blotch with brown edges and dusted with brown reaching

from ape.x to vein 4, its inner edge irregularly curved and indented ; a white brown-

speckled crescent between veins 4 and -3, halfway between discocellular and lower

edge of subapical blotch ; hindmargin marked with triangular patches of brown-

black scales in the subapical patch, edged with a white crescent below, and at the

anal angle with a double black mark ; fringe white, dusted with brown.

Ilitnhvings : with a raised oval spot at top end of discocellular ; a dentate

lunnlate white postmedian line : a large ochreous horseshoe-shaped blotch on

margin between veins 4 and 0, and a smaller one at anal angle, both dusted and

edged with brown-black ; marginal line brown-black, thickened below vein 6, .as in

forewings : inner margin from near base to above anal angle white, with brown-

black dusting.

Underside nniform bluish white ; marginal spots brown-black. Face fuscous

above, white below ; jjalpi above and antennae ferruginous ; vertex white, dusted

with fuscous ; thorax greeu, washed with whitish at base of patagia and shoulders ;

abdomen above pinkish grey, thickly speckled with black-brown, and with four

strong crests edged with metallic black-brown ; below whitish.

Expanse of wings : 43 mm.

One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, June IS'.IT (Dr. Roth).

24. Pareuchloris apicata sp. nov.

Forewings -. bright apple-green, glossy ; costal edge narrowly white, edged

beneath towards apex with bright scarlet, the apex with a scarlet spot: lines silvery

white; first curved, at one-fourth; second at three-fourths, parallel to hindmargin,

retracted to costa ; cell-spot of black and red scales in a pale ring : fringe silvery

white.

Hindwingn : without first line ; the postmedian line sinuous.

Underside silvery white : base of costa and apex of forewing red.

Palpi red ; face worn, apparently red : fillet and antennae white ; vertex,

thorax, and abdomen bright green.

E.xpanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Northdene, Natal.

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20. Probolosceles albipimctata sp. nov.

Fon'/fhiffs : bright grecu, the costa white ; cell-spot black or brown ; marginal

line red-brown, containing white dots at the vein-ends ; fringe rnfous grey, with

brown or reddish lines ; a large red-lirown patch with grey scales on it at anal

angle and the edges darker, mnch larger in the ? than in the cJ, in which sex the

centre of the patch is white ; very faint traces of an inner and outer paler line.

Iliitf/u'/'/ir/x : similar, with the patch at apex, and a small patch at anal angle :

inner margin narrowly red-brown.

Underside glossy white ; the fringes white, with brownish tips, and a row of

black-brown spots at base, larger and more conspicnons in ? than S ; forewings

with costal half yellow-green ; the costa itself yellowish. Paljii reddish ; face

green, edged all round with whitish ; vertex, thorax, and shoulders green ; the last

with the tips whitish, continuing the white costal edge ; abdomen reddish, whiter

towards apex, and with white dorsal triangles ; the sides with some green scales.

Expanse of wings : J, 24 mm.; ? , 28 mm.

One c?, two ? S, from Taylor River, Brisbane : allied to bijihnjfi Wlk. from

Borneo.

20. Probolosceles connata sp. nov.

Forewings : apple-green ; costa white, red-tinged towards apex : marginal

line thick, red-brown, interrnpted by silvery wliite dots at the vein-ends ; a

roundish blotch at anal angle, pinkish ochreous, edged with red-brown : traces of

a fine white onter line from two-thirds of costa to inner edge of anal blotch : cell-

spot dark green ; fringe silvery white, mixed with reddish.

Hindtcings : with the marginal line thicker, expanding slightly at anal angle,

and at apex endiug in a lengthened red-brown blotch with slightly paler centre ;

inner margin reddish throughout ; cell-spot green, very faint.

Underside whitish green; the cell-spots minute, ferruginous ; an obscure dark-

green postmedian line : the blotches whitish, with a few brownish scales. Palpi

whitish, with a few reddish scales towards apex; head green: fillet white; collar

green, with the top white; front of thorax and patagia green; metathorax and

abdomen reddish, the latter with silvery white dorsal spots, that on second segment

large; sides and apical segments whitish.

Expanse of wings: 28 mm.

One (S from Dawson district, Queensland (Barnard).

Nearest to F. biplagu Wlk. from Borneo.

27. Probolosceles (?) esmeralda sp. nov.

Forewings : bright emerald-green; costal area white; a roundish cloudy brown

cell-spot; lines very faint, whitish; first curved outwards, from one-fourth of costa

to near middle of inner margin: second curved inwards, from close before apex to

anal angle; marginal line uniform brown-red, interrnpted by ochreous spots at the

ends of veins; fringe ochreous, with two dark dividing lines.

Hindwings : like forewings, but the marginal red-brown line distinctly swollen

at apex.

Underside glossy, whitish green; both wings with traces of a deep green

denticulated postmedian line; cell-spots larger, brown: marginal line broken up

( le )

into shallow lunnles. Face and thorax discolonred : antennae and tij)* of palpi

brown; forelegs with black-brown scales at ends of femur and tibia: thorax green;

abdomen (?) ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from 'Warri, Niger Coast I'rotectorate, Ajiril ItS'.t? (Dr. Roth).

The antennae are simph" serrate; the liindwings roimded.

28. Rhomborista palliata sj). nov.

Forewings : pale watery green, speckled witli darker green; costal urea

ochreons white; a deep rosy black-speckled jiatch at base below the median vein

to about one-fonrth of inner margin; a ros}" spot on the discocollnlar; a ros}' browu-

edged oval patcli on hiudmargin between veins 2 and (i, incurved beyond the cell;

lines darker green ; first from before one-third of costa to near middle of inner

margin, marked on subcostal vein by a distinct black-brown speck; outer line at

fonr-fifths, denticulate, the t('<'th marked by minute black specks on the veins; the

line all but touches the marginal blotch; fringe pale green, with pink dashes at the

veins, tinged with ro.sy and with deeper red dashes beyond the marginal blotch.

Ilinilwinys : with large basal and anal rosy brown black-speckled blotches,

united along inner margin by a narrow band of the same colour; cell-spot black,

distinct: postmedian line more strongly denticulate, with more prominent lilack

specks; marginal line and fringes as in forewings.

Underside whitish green, the rosy blotches showing through. Head, thorax,

and abdomen rosy brown ; base of shoulders greenish.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1897 (Dr. Roth).

29. Syndromodes cellulata sp. nov.

Forewings: bright green, with dense deeper green irroration; costa narrowly

pale ; an exterior white line at four-fifths, parallel tn hindmargin : fringe green ;

cell-spot rather large, formed by white slightly raised scales.

JJind/rings : the same.

Underside glossy green, without dusting or markings. Face, palpi above,

forelegs, and underside of antennae bright red : vertex and shaft of antennae above

white ; thorax green : abdomen whitish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

One ? from Barberton, Transvaal (Dr. P. Rendall).

In the forewings vein 10 touches 1 1 witliont anastomo^^ing.

30. Syndromodes tenuis sp. nov.

Forewinga : dull bluish green, very thinly scaled : lines paler, indistinct :

first from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; second from three-fourths

of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; cell-spot darker green ; fringe whitish.

Iliiidwiiig.i : with cell-spot j)lainer ; the outer line crennlate.

Underside whitish. Face and paljii reddish: vertex wiiite; thorax and abdomen

like wings.

Expanse of wings : ? , 2(i mm.; J, 24 mm.

A pair from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, Ajn-il I'sOT (Dr. Roth).

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31. Thalassodes opaca sp. nov.

Forewings : bright apple-green, more thickly scaled than usual in this genus ;

the pale striae rather glossy and minutely contorted ; the lines obscurely marked,

but thicker; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, the outer

from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; costa and fringe rather

deep yellow.

Ilindwings : with the two lines still nearer each other, both bent iu middle,

and the onter distinctly denticulate ; no cell-spot in either wing.

Underside whitish green, with costa of forewing and fringes yellow. Head,

palpi, and antennae red ; vertex and base of shaft of antennae white ; thorax green :

abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 3U mm.

One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, Jmie 1897 (Dr. Roth).

32. Thalera oblong'ata sp, nov.

Forewings : pale greyish olive, somewhat glossy ; costa narrowlj- silver)'

white, edged beneath with red before the apex ; cell-spot red ; marginal line

red, interrupted by pale dots at the vein-ends ; fringe white, mottled with red

beyond veins.

Hindwings : similar.

Underside miiform glossy whitish green. Paljii and antennae pale reddish ;

face deep red ; vertex silvery white, edged al)Ove with a tine red line : thorax like

wings ; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1897 (Dr. Roth).

Both wings have the himlmargin strongly bulged in middle, rounded in the

forewings ; but in the hindwings the margin is straight from 4 to 6, and equally

straight on either side.

Subfamily STERRHINAE.

33. Craspedia calorifica sji. nov.

Foreiuings : yellowish ochreous, with a few very fine black scales ; the lines

pale grey; first curved, at one-fourth ; second, about middle, curved round cell, and

slightly approaching first line on inner margin ; both these lines obscure ; outer

line darker grey, at three-fourths, waved and sinuous ; submarginal line of the

ground-colour, between two faintly deeper shades, the one preceding it interrupted ;

cell-spot black, distinct ; marginal dots minute ; fringe concolorous, silky.

Hindivings : the same, without first line.

Underside paler ; the outer line and marginal spots blackish and very distinct.

Face and palj)i deep brown ; thorax and abdomen concolorous ; verte.x white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One 6 from Bali (W. Doherty).

34. Craspedia circumpunctata sp. nov.

Forewings: bone-colour, tinged with ochreous and witli sj)arse dark scales:

first line and median shade grey, very indistinct, the latter just beyond the black

•2

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cell-spot : outer line fine, at four-fifths, oblique outwards to vein 6, then concave

to below vein 4, thence oblique inwards, marked also by black vein-dots, and

followed at anal angle by a diffuse patch of blaekisli scales ; marginal spots round,

black, and very distinct ; fringe concolorous.

Ilimlwings : the same, with the median shade preceding the cell-spot, wliich

is large.

I'nderside pale, with the base of forewiugs and costa fuscous-tinged. Face

Idackish : vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 28 ram.

One (? from Barberton, Sonth-East Africa.

35. Craspedia coundularia s]). nov.

Forewings : ochroons, with seven waved yellower ochreous transverse lines,

three before and four beyond the middle : the latter all bent in beyond cell and

on snbmedian fold ; cell-spot and marginal dots minute ; fringe concolorous, glossy.

Ilindwitic/s : with four lines.

Underside pale glossy ochreons. Face and palpi dark brown ; thorax and

abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : IG mm.

One <? from Sumba, Febrnary 1896 (W. Doherty).

3(i. Craspedia (?) eximia sp. nov.

Near innocens Butler from Australia, but smaller and much more neatly

marked.

Foir wings : white, with very fine dark dusting; the lines fawn-colour, irregularly

wavy; first at one-fonrth, very obscure, distinct only through the cell, but marked

by small dots on the veins, second just beyond the middle, third at three-fourths,

and the snbmarginal, parallel and at even distances ; the exterior with slight dark

dots on the veins, the submarginal wavy and slightly thickened, but not into a

shade as in innorens ; a row of distinct black marginal triangular spots ; fringe

ochreons ; cell-spot black, before the middle line.

Hindtvings : the same, without first line.

Underside whitish, the costal half of forewings suffused with brownish grey.

Face black : vertex and antennae white ; thorax and abdomen white, dusted with

dark atoms.

Expanse of wings : 13 mm.

Two c?(? from Sumba, February 1896 (W. Doherty).

Neither this species nor innocens are true Craspedia ; for though veins 6 and

7 of hindwings are not stalked, the hindtibiae of the c? are not thickened or aborted,

only shortened, and the tarsi are twice as long as the tibiae.

37. Craspedia fiunigrisea sp. nov.

Forewings : ochreons, densely dusted with grey and with all the markings grey;

all the lines dentated and parallel; first at one-third, second at two-thirds, tliird at

five-sixths; the snbmarginal between two concise dentate lunate shades, the first

narrow, the second broad ; cell-spot dark grey ; marginal dots black ; fringe ochreons

grey.

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Ilindivinrjs : withont first line; the cell-spot black, followed by the median line,

but with a slight grey ring round it.

Underside greyish ochreous, with all the lines darker grey and plain. Fare and

palpi brown; vertex snow-white; thorax ochreons; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Snmba, February 1896 (W. Doherty).

38. Craspedia pallidiceps sp. nov.

Forewinfis : sordid ochreous, sparsely black-speckled; the lines darker, greyish

ochreons; first obscure, curved, at one-fourth; second at two-thirds, strongly bent

on vein 6, then oblicj^ue to middle of inner margin, obscnrely dentate; exterior line

at five-sixths, dentate, the teeth opposite the cell and below submedian vein nearer

the base and marked with black; marginal area greyish ochreous, darker at inner

margin, the submarginal line very indistinct; a row of rather large black marginal

spots; fringe concolorous, with slight dots beyond the veins; cell-spot ochreons,

rather large.

Hindivings : similar; but the cell-spot small and black, following the median

shade.

Underside paler, with the markings dingy, fuscous grey. Palpi dark brown,

laxly scaled beneath, decumbent : face, vertex, and collar whitish, speckled with

blackish; thorax and abdomen like wings; the two middle segments of abdomen

with a large black spot; hindtibiae much swollen, the tuft pale brownish; antennae

with the shaft above thickened and scaled, the joints apiculate; below with two rows

of short clavate densely ciliated processes, giving the appearance of short pectinations.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One S from Sapit, Lombok, 2000 feet, April 1896 (Friihstorfer).

Easily distinguished by the whitish face and the structure of the antennae.

39. Craspedia parumnotata sp. nov.

Fore/ci/if/s : irnle shining ochreous, with deeper ochreous markings and a few

scattered black scales; the lines all ill-defined; first curved, at one-third; second a

little beyond middle, curved round cell, then oblique to middle of inner margin ;

exterior line at two-thirds, slightly waved and marked by black vein-dots, and

ending on inner margin with a distinct black spot; submarginal pale, l)etween two

deeper shades; cell-spot and marginal spots small, black; fringe glossy ochreous.

Hindwings : the same, the median line before the cell-spot.

Underside pale ochreous, in the forewings washed with grey ; all the lines well

marked, the median and exterior denticulate. Face and palpi black; vertex white;

thorax and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One c? from Mount Arjuno, .Java (W. Doherty).

40. Craspedia sublobata sp. nov.

Foreicinys : greyish ochreons, with a slight pink tinge and very fine grey

irroration ; the lines grey, diffuse and indistinct; first line curved, at one-fourth, only

marked by darker scales; median shade thick, oblique, from before middle of inner

margin to two-thirds of costa, its outer edge irregularly creuulate; exterior line at

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five-sixths, parallel to hindmargin, fine, slightly darker on the veins ; snbmarginal

line fine, waved, pale, between two grey bands; marginal dots extremely minnte:

fringe long, concolorous, with base and apices paler; cell-spot small, dark.

Ilindwings: similar, with the shade antemedian.

Underside glossy, very pale ochreons, with the markings dnll greyish. Face

and collar brown; vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 24 — '2(i mm.

Three ? ? : two from Barberton, S.E. Africa, and one from Fort .loUnstun,

Nyassaland, January and Febrnary 1890 (Dr. P. Rendall).

The anal angle of hindwings is prodnced into a short lolio.

Emmesxira gen. nov.

Foreivinqx : with costa straight, convex before apex; apex blunt; hindmargin

obliquely curved.

flimlwinqs : with anal angle si|nare, the hindmargin nearly straight.

Abdomen of S with a lateral tuft of hair on each side in the middle: antennae of

S pectinated; palpi npcnrved in front of face, second joint with thick curled scales,

third short; hindtibiae with one pair of spurs; the legs all developed.

JVeuration: forewings, cell not half as long as wing; discocellular thickened,

concave outwards: first median uervule at two-thirds, second exactly halfway between

first and third: lower radial from just above lower angle of cell, upper radial from

middle of discocellular; vein 7 bent downwards and forming the lower edge of a

thickened oval patch beyond the upper half of discocellular ; Costal vein bent down-

wards and anastomosing above discocellular with the subcostal, all the veins there

thickened; S, 9, in, 11, 12, rising nearly all together from beyond the cell, s into ajiex;

a thickened and snberect bed of scales from the discocellular to the costa between

veins 8 and 10. Hindwings normal: veins 0, 7, and 3, 4, from angles of cell; radial

from centre of discocellular.

Type : Emtnrsura semicompleta Wlk. {Anixodes'i)

41. Perixera cretacea sp. nov.

Forewings : chalk-white, with very delicate and sjiarse rufous dusting ; the

lines very obscure, marked in the main by rufous dots on the veins at the edges of

the teeth : first at one-fourth, marked by three dots and a small additional one

nearer base above the subcostal vein ; outer line at five-sixths, rufous, followed by

a rufous cloud, most distinct beyond cell and above inner margin ; a faint rufous

oblique median shade below the middle of wing beyond the reddish cell-spot ; a row

of rufous marginal spots between the veins ; fringe concolorous.

lUndwings : the same.

Underside whitish, with costal region of forewings towards base slightly dis-

coloured ; outer line marked by dots on l)oth wings. Face and palpi whitish below,

dark Ijrownish red above ; vertex and antennae white ; thorax and abdomen like

wings.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from Woodlark Island, 1895 (Meek).

A ver^- distinct species.

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42. Ptychopoda mundipennis sp. nov.

Forewings : greyish cream-culuiir ; the liasal half of costa washed with lilao-

grey ; the lines dark grey ; first very indistiuct, at one-third, carved ; second in

middle, vertical, slightly waved, i)assing over the black cell-spot ; third at three-

fourths, oblique outward to veiu 0, theu vertical to vein '.i, where it is again curved

inward before inner margin; margmal area filled in with pale lilac-grey; fringe paler.

lUndwiiigs : the same, without first line.

Underside like niij)er. Face blackish ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen like

wings.

Expanse of wings : 1 S mm.

One c? from Madagascar.

43. Ptychopoda pilosata sp. nov.

Forewlriqs : pale ochrcous, with slightly darker dusting and markings ; lines

indistinct, but marked by dark dots on costa and inner margin, first at one-third,

exterior at three-fourths, olilique and slightly denticulate, followed by a paler line;

submarginal luuulate, pale between two darker shades ; fringe concolorous, with

slight dots beyond the ends of veins ; cell-spot small, dark.

ILmdwlnijs : similar ; inner margin in $ with very long ochreous fringe.

Underside pale ochreous ; forewings with a slightly darker submarginal fascia;

hindwings in i clothed with long hairs, especially along the veins of the inner-

marginal half. Face dark ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

Three S $, one ? , from Cedar Bay, Queensland (Meek).

The hindwings of the i are strongly rounded and slightly jirotnberaut in the

middle. The species seems related to Ft. crinipes Warr. from Queensland and

Ft. sericeipeniiis Warr. from Fergusson Island.

Subfamily TRICHOPTERYGINAE.

44. Dysethiodes quadripuncta s]i. nov.

Forewim/K : rufous brown, the costa darker from base to first line ; tlie lines

marked by l)lack-brown triangular Idotches on costa and inner margin at one-third

and two-thirds, between which they are slightly outcurved and marked by brown

vein-dots ; marginal area occupied by a diffuse deeper brown cloud, with a darker

spot on costa before apex and at anal angle ; fringe dark brown : cell-spot small,

blackish.

Hitu/winffs : much paler, especially towards costa ; a postmedian curved line

can be faintly traced, marked by a brown spot on inner margin.

Underside pale rufous, like the npperside of hindwings ; outer line in each

wing and the cell-spots marked by Inown dots : marginal area rather darker. Head,

thorax, and antennae rufous brown ; collar tlarker, like base of costa.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One c? from the Khasias.

Evidently related to I). lo7tyirumus Hmpsn. from Sikkim : the antennae with

long ciliated pectinations.

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45. Trimetopia coerulea sp. uov.

Foiewings : pale bine, with the costa uarrowly white ; two obliiiiie white Hues

not reaching the costa, the first about middle of wing, the second near hiudmargin ;

friuge blue.

lliudwiruis : with the outer of the two white lines only, straight from ajiex to

anal angle.

Underside bluish white. Head, thorax, and abdomen blue ; antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One i from Lamu, British East Africa.

Subfamily ASTHENINAE.

46. Chalyboclydon fiexilinea sp. nov.

Foreioings : with the grouud-colonr olive-ochreous ; the basal half of wing

crossed by four slightly curved darker bands, the paler intervals beiug marked with

lustrous scales; in the middle of the wing are three thick brownish lines, bracket-

shaped, all being slightly angled outwards on the median and curved inwards above

and below it, the first of the three touching the last basal line at the curves ; from

two-thirds of the costa a sinuous brown line runs obliquely outwards, forms two

teeth close before hindmargin above and on vein 3, then curves inwards parallel to

the lower half of the three median lines; followed by two lustrous brown-edged lines,

each followed by a band of the pale olive ground-colour ; a curved purplish grey

baud from costa before apex to elbow of hindmargin, running narrowly along margin

to aual angle and there somewhat swollen ; marginal line of shallow blackish

luuules ; fringe bright ochraceous.

Ilindwings : paler, with a slight pinkish tinge and with a few brownish scales ;

crossed by five wavy lustrous lines, the fourth the most distinct, the veins on its

outer edge and on each edge of the fifth line being neatly marked with brown specks ;

marginal line of uniform width throughout, purple-grey, with a paler grey uniformly

crenulated line upon it ; fringe as in forewings ; a dark cell-speck.

Underside dull greyish yellow ; the outer line on both wings brownish ; the

space within it on forewings darker ; hindwiug with cell-speck. Face and palpi

brownish red ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen olive-ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ¥ from the Khasias.

Closely allied to but apparently distinct from the Sikkim marginata.

47. Pseudasthena discata sp. nov.

Forewings : yellow, crossed by numerous luuulate rosy orange lines, the exterior,

subterminal, and snbmarginal being clearest; central area suffused from costa to inner

margin by an olive-grey tint, which runs to the hindmargin between veins 3 and 4;

a snbmarginal and marginal row of rosy orange spots on the veius; friuge yellow,

chequered with rosy beyond tlie vein-spots; discal spot distinct, dark brown.

Ilindwings : without the central grey suffusion, and with a purplish blotch at

anal angle; cell-spot large, dark brown.

Underside dull straw-colour, with dull reddish grey markings ; tlie cell-spots

distinct. Face and pulpi dull red ; fillet and shaft of antennae white ; vertex and

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front of thorax dull orange ; rest of thorax and abdomen yellow, speckled with

darker.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c? from Labuan, N. Borneo, February 18'J2 (A. Everett).

Taken in the dry season.

48. Psilocainbogia ingrataria sp. nov.

Forewings : pale liver-colour, crossed l)y darker more or less parallel lines ; all

the lines bent above on the subcostal and vein 0, and below the median and vein 4;

those beyond the middle growing more denticulate as they ajiproach the hindmargin;

five antemedian, the fifth touching the yellowish dark-edged cell-spot ; median,

postmedian, and exterior all parallel and curved above ; between each of these is a

fainter line, and two or three very obscure but more denticulate in the submarginal

area ; costal edge between the lines deep yellow ; hindmargin narrowly pale yellow,

tiie dark ground-colour being concisely edged by a dark purplish somewhat metallic

uniformly crennlated line; fringe yellow, with a purplish spot at elbow and a smaller

one at extreme apex.

Hinc/icinffs : with antemedian, postmedian, and outer dark lines, with the cell-

s])ot and fainter lines, margin and fringe, as in forewings.

Underside jjaler. Face, palpi, and vertex dull red-brown ; fillet and shaft of

antennae snow-white ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; the anal segment yellow.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One c? from the Khasias, March 1897.

Both wings with hindmargin elbowed at the end of vein 3 ; that of the hind-

wings truncate thence to anal angle, with a shallow double excision.

Superficially like a Chrgsocraspeda, and also resembling Pseudastkena grataria

AVlk., from which it is separated by the simple antennae of the S .

Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE.

41). Chloroclystis nigrilineata sp. nov.

Forewings : pale pearly grey ; the lines finely black : first from costa near base

to base of inner margin; second from one-fourth of costa to one-fifth of inner margin;

outer line from three-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, irregularly denticu-

late, bent at vein 6 and sharply angled below vein 4, emitting black streaks inwards

along the veins ; two fainter dark waved lines between second and third, and four

beyond third ; of these the one preceding the submarginal pale line is darker than

the rest and at the costa marked with black ; marginal line of black lunnles ;

fringe grey.

Hindwings : similar, the angle of the outer line acute and distinct.

Underside washed with dark grey, especially towards hindmargin : outer line

thick and black on both wings ; costa of forewings black on basal half ; a faint dark

cell-spot on each wing. Head and antennae pearly grey; thorax and abdomen the

same, but mixed with black scales ; the abdomen with a row of lateral black spots,

and ringed with black and rufous scales.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One ? from Dawson district, Queensland (Barnard).

Akin to the Indian admixtaria and immixtur a Wlk.

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Dasimatia geu. nov.

Yet another develoi>mcnt of Ckloiocli/stis, witli which it agrees in uenration.

Distinguished especially by the hiudwings of the c? being entirely clothed

beneath with rough shaggy hair. The palpi are very short, and the hindlegs of the

(J thick and stout, with four approximated sjiurs.

Type : Dasimatia subuMa sp. nov.

5i). Dasimatia subusta sp. nov.

Foretvings: dull grey-green, powdered with fuscous scales and crossed by

unmerous oblique dark fuscous lines, bluntly angled beneath the costa; that forming

the outer edge of the central fascia at two-thirds, obli(iue like the rest but thicker ;

the line forming the inner edge at two-fifths, finer, vertical and straight from subcostal

vein to snbmedian fold, and only oblique above and ))elow : be)ond the outer line are

four dentate wavy lines ; the basal area of both forewings in the only example

is too much worn to admit of exact description ; cell-spot dark, obscure ; fringe

grej'-green, with a finely paler base, beyond a distinct black basal line, interrupted

on the veins.

Hind wings : with the same lines, but curved.

Underside smoky fuscous, with obscure markings ; the hind wings with thick

brown-black hairs, as though singed. Head and face pinkish ochreons, as are the

forelegs ; thorax damaged ; abdomen black-brown, with the anal segments ochreous;

antennae auuulated.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

One i from Tawaya, north of Palos Bay, Celebes, August and September 189G

(W. Doherty).

■Jl. Gymnoscelis subrufata sp. nov.

Forewings : rather glossy, ochreous, with olive-grey markings ; a curved dark

streak close to base, the included area olive; a slightly curved almost vertical line

at two-fifths, jireceded by an olive shade, fading into ochreous towards base ; outer

line at two-thirds, black, denticulate, forming a rather acute projection below middle,

preceded by au olive shade ; marginal area dark olive except at middle]; submarginal

line pale, uniformly dentate, preceded by dark shades at costa and anal angle ; fringe

dark greyish olive.

llindwings : the same, without basal line.

Underside of both wings uniform deep flesh-colour, without markings. Head,

thorax, and alidomen greyish olive.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

One i from Dawson district, Queensland (Barnard).

Easily distinguished by the red under surface.

Hybridoneura gen. nov.

S . Forewings : witli costa straight for two-thirds, then convex; ajiex blunt;

hindmargiu obliquely curved, with a slight indentation above anal angle, which

is distinct.

Hindwings: abrnptly triangnlar, ail three margins straight ; the apex acute ;

anal angle rectangular.

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Antennae with rather long ciliations ; jjalpi short, npcnrved, the terminal joint

jjorrect ; tongue and freunlum present ; legs broken.

Nearation : forewiugs, cell two-fifths of wing, broad ; the discocellnlar

obliqne ; the three median nervnles all close together from lower end of cell, curved

and sinnous, the membrane between them distorted and scaleless ; radials normal ;

all five subcostals stalked from just before upper angle ; H anastomosing with 12.

Hindwings with costal anastomosing with subcostal to close to end of cell, then

running along costal edge, the subcostals curved upwards and again strongly

downwards, close together to hindmargin, one-fnurth below apex; cell broad, one-

half as long as wing ; discocellnlar vertical, stronglj- markeil ; first median at

two-thirds, second and third from end of cell ; radial from above middle of

discocellnlar, towards margin appro.ximating to third median ; scaling of both

wings sparse ; the wings semitransparent.

Type : Hi/bridoneiira abnormis sp. nov.

Notwithstanding the neuratiou, I am inclined to refer this genus to the

neighbourhood of Chlorocli/stis.

52. Hybridoneura abnormis sp. nov.

Foreicinys : pale olive, thickly dusted with blackish scales ; the markings

obscure ; a curved blackish subbasal line ; a curved dark shade before middle,

touching the thick black discocellnlar mark and followed by a pale fascia of the

ground-colour, with a dark line down its centre ; outer line at three-fourths, double,

dentate, lunulate, outcurved above, incurved to lower angle of cell, then parallel to

hindmargin ; inclnded space dark grey, with the nervnles finely black ; a spot of

black scales at lower end of cell ; snbmarginal line single, lunulate, interrupted by

the hyaline patch, which is marked with a black patch below on hindmargin ;

marginal line broad, blackish, interrupted by the paler veins, which are produced

through the olive-grey fringe.

Hindwim/ii : with thick black discocellnlar mark, and straight blackish post-

median and snbmarginal linos.

Underside iialer, with postmedian and snbmarginal dark fasciae. Head,

thora.x, and abdomen olive ; the thorax much mixed with blackish ; the abdomen

with subdorsal and lateral rows of black marks.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One 6 from the Khasias, January 1S97.

oa. Rhinoprora pallidiplaga sp. nov.

Forewififfs : pale ochreous, the markings olive-grey ; basal area small, olive-

grey, edged by a fine black line, sharply angled in cell ; ' a subbasal similarly

angled olive-grey fascia, preceded and followed by a narrow curved band of the

pale ochreous ground-colour, with a faint grey line down; the middle ; central fascia

with the edges curved and crenulate, the outer bluntly angled -on veins 4 and 6,

and with short dark wedge-shaped dashes on the veins ; the fascia is traversed by

three darker crenulated lines, alternating with paler ones ; marginal area olive-grey,

traversed by a faint pale denticulate submargiual line, and separated from

central fascia by an ochreous grey band, with a fine thread down the centre,

its outer edge lunulate and marked by black dots on veins ; interrupted beyond

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cell by an oclireous blotch, prolonged towards apex as far as the submarginal line ;

marginal line fine, black ; fringe olive-grey.

llimlwiiiys : like forewiugs, but without any ochreons patches ; the wedge-

shaped marks along the onter edge of central fascia plainer.

Underside paler and duller, with all the markings indicated. Palpi, thora.x,

shonlders, and abdomen olive-grey ; face, vertex, and patagia ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

One ? from Dawson district, Queensland (Barnard), August 1887.

The ochreons markings were in all probability pale green when the insect

was fresh.

64. Rhinoprora rufitincta sp. nov.

Forcwiiiys : grey, with a slight reddish tinge, which is stronger in the ? ; a

dark grey line close to base ; central fascia occupying not quite the middle third

of wing ; its inner edge curved, its onter edge waved, and angled or bent below

vein 4, where it is broadest ; the inner edge thickened throughout with blackish

scaling forming a curved band, the onter more narrowly black and marked with

black on the veins ; the fascia filled np with grey and traversed by three darker

waved lines, the middle one crossing the slight blackish cell-spot ; it is edged on

both sides by a pale baud traversed by a dark wavy grey line : basal area paler,

with three or four waved and curved lines ; snbmarginal line whitish, finely waved,

with a rnfons grey shade on each side ; marginal line formed of shallow black

Innnles, separated by a pale dot at the vein-ends ; fringe grey, with jialer liasc and

rather thick dark middle line, chequered with dark grey expanding spots beyond

the veins.

Hindwimjs : greyish white, with dark grey lines on the inner margin only;

hindmargin darker, the submarginal line denticulate an<l pale, preceded by a grey

shade; marginal line as in forewings ; the fringe itself white, with distinct black

chequering ; a small blackish cell-s2J0t.

Underside of forewings dull rufous grey, with all the markings obscurely

indicated ; of hindwings Inteous white, with'a dull grey marginal fascia, and the

outer edge of central fascia marked by dark dashes on the veins. Head and front

of thorax pale grey; thorax itself and palpi darker, the grey mixed with rufous ;

abdomen grey, the two basal segments strongly ringed with rufons.

Expanse of wings : 20 — 24 mm.

One d% five ? ?, from Mount Arjnno, Java (W. Doherty).

Nearest to intcntnta Wlk., but without any green tinge. The wings are

elongate ; the hindmargin of hindwings distinctly crennlate. The single i is

smaller than the ? ? and without the rufous tinge.

65. Tephroclystia nexilinea s]i. nov.

Forewings: grey-brown; the veins and niai'kings |)ale, towards the base

dusted and confused with grey; a double pale snbbasal line, angled on median;

antemedian line double, at one-third, strongly angled on the median vein, the inner

arm white, its costal portion obliterated; the angle of this line is occupied by a

diamond-shajied brown patch, edged inwardly witli ]ialer; the antemedian line is

followed by an angled brown shade; from middle of costa a double median line

runs, irregularly denticulate, to the lower angle of cell, joining there the brown

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sLade that limits the antemediaa line; onter line fine, white, thrice angnlated, first

acutely between veins 6 and 7, more blnutly on vein 3 and on the submediau fold,

edged internally with darker, and followed by similarly angled dark grey, pale grey,

and dark brown lines; two slender white submarginal lines, running parallel to

hindmargiu, the first preceded and the second followed by equally slender greyish

ochreous lines; fringe greyish ochreous, the basal line finely paler; the basal half

of the fringe with dark grey or blackish dashes between the veius; nervules beyond

the cell finely white as far as submarginal line.

Hi nd icing s : smooth, grey: with two curved slightly darker submarginal

fasciae, marked with black scales on inner margin; the inner lines marked only by

dark spots on inner margin.

Underside dull dark cinereous, with the submarginal line indicated on both

wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; abdomen ringed with pale and

dark : palpi dark grey.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

One ¥ from the Khasias, November 1896.

The hindmargin of forewings is vertical to vein 3, then very obliijue. This

species, strongly characterised by its markings, appears to stand quite alone.

Subfamily HYDRIOMENINAE.

Diactinia gen. uov.

I propose this distinctive name for those species of the somewhat heterogeneous

genus Citlaria which have the ground-colour dark, and the lines and often the

veins white or pale, the usual markings more or less cut up or abbreviated. The i

antennae are minutely serrate and pubescent. Scaling fine and smooth.

Type : Diactinia silaceata Hub.

.50. Diactinia leucoglyphica sp. nov.

Foreicinys: dark olive-brown; the lines cream-white; a dark brown cuvvlmI

line close to base, enclosing a dark spot; first line white, from one-sixth of costa

to one-fifth of inner margin, beut almost rectangularly on the submedian fold: a

slender white line along the fold of cell, and a shorter one beneath it along the

submedian fold; from middle of costa an oblong white patch, pointing towards anal

angle, and reaching vein. 3, containing a small brown spot on costa and a larger one

below it ; this patch is flanked on cither side by a broadish white line, each starting

from the subcostal vein, curved below the median, and meeting on vein 3; the

inner of the two connected with the white cell-line; on inner margin beyond middle

is an oblique ring-shaped white mark with oval brown centre, surmounted by a

curved white line from inner margin before anal angle; submarginal line white,

narrow, formed of long wedge-shaped marks, the points of which just touch the

outer of the two white lines; a broad white line oblique from apex, recurved to

hindmargin below vein 4, and again curved to anal angle; a fine white line close to

and parallel to hindmargiu; fringe brown, with a white fleck at apex and middle;

the ground-colour towards anal angle between the submarginal line and the curved

white line olive-yellow.

llini/winqs .- whitish, with fuscous grey surt'usion towards base ol' inner miirgm

and along a broad postmedian fascia, the outer edge of which is luuulate; some grey

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clonds towards margin, with the veius there }'ellowish ; towards the ead of the cell

is a large round brownish grey spot, followed by a curved dark line bej^ond cell

and a brown spot on inner margin; marginal line dark brown, interrupted by the

yellow veins; fringe whitish, chequered with grey, with the base yellow.

Underside white, with the dark tints of the upperside pale greyish brown;

the luuiilate markings of the outer line of both wings and the cell-spot of hind-

wings dark brown. Falpi whitish, externally fnseous; face and vertex whitish,

with fuscous scales; patagia and centre of thorax brown; collar, shoulders, and

sides of thorax whitish; abdomen with a pair of brown s[)ots on basal segment; a

broad white dorsal stripe; sides brown, with a white lateral stripe and whitish

segmental rings.

Expanse of wngs : 36 mm.

One cj from the Khasias, January 1897.

57. Orthonama semiflava sp. nov.

Foreivitigs : pinkish ochreons, with numerous fine oblique tremulous darker

lines ; first line at one-fourth, curved and wavy ; second at two-fifths, oblique and

wavy : third at four-fifths ; the first limiting the basal ]iatch, and edged inwardly

with darker; second edged outwardly and third inwardly witli darker, tlie second

followed by two and the third preceded by three wavy less strongly marked lines,

the inside ones coalescing below the median ; basal area also crossed by wavy lines ;

the pale fascia following with two dull lines in centre ; marginal area with several

oblique fine lines, the submarginal ])ale, marked by a darker shade preceding it ;

cell-spot and basal line of fringe reddish; fringe itself dark grey, glossy.

Ilindwings : yellowish, dusted with reddish towards base, with traces of a

deeper curved postmedian line, becoming reddish at inner margin; fringe yellowish

grey, without any basal line.

Underside of both wings yellowish, dusted and striated with red, with the

markings indistinct and the cell-spots of both wings red. Head, thorax, and

abdomen like forewings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

One ? from Barberton, Transvaal (Dr. P. Kendall).

58. Photoscotosia multiplicata sp. nov.

Forewiuffs : rufous brown, witli dark fnseous lines and suffusion ; tlie lines

edging the basal patch and central fascia black ; the first near base, irregularly

waved and vertical ; inner edge of central fascia from two-fifths of costa to middle

of inner margin, slightly angled outwards on tlie median and with a sinus inwards on

the submedian fold, starting from a black costal spot and closely followed by the

black cell-spot ; it is nearly preceded by a similarly waved fuscous line, and three

others traverse the space between it and the basal line ; outer edge of central fascia

at two-thirds, irregularly waved, with a single rounded jirojection between veins '.i

and 4 ; it is preceded by two fnseous waved lines, and followed by three others ;

marginal area except at apex darker fuscous ; the submarginal line formed of blunt

pale lunules, each followed by a blackish shade touching hindmargin ; the apex of

the Innule between veins 7 and 8 forming a whitish spot ; marginal line black,

interrupted by the veins ; fringe concolorous ; all the lines are more strongly marked

along the costa.

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Hi7ifhm7tgs : dnll dirty whitish, liecoming.Jnll fuscous along hindmargin ; with

traces of a waved postmediau line; cell-spot dark.

Underside of forewings dirty grey, with fuscous curved shades, most distinct

on the costa ; submarginal line marked by pale patches ; hindwings paler, with

large distinct cell-spot and traces of two dark submarginal lines. Head and thorax

like forewings : abdomen cinereons.

Expanse of wings : 48 — 54 mm.

Two ? ? from Mount Arjuno, Java (W. Doherty), both somewhat worn.

59. Polyphasia cuneifera sp. nov.

Foreioinq>i : pale olive-brown : the markings olive-fuscous : basal patch small,

its outer edge minntely angled above and below the median vein : central fascia

with inner edge bent on median, from costa at one-third to near middle of inner

margin; outer edge irregularly crennlate, forming a bluntly Ijilobed projection above

and below vein 4, from two-thirds of costa to about two-thirds of inner margin ;

dark olive-fuscous, the edges blackish, witli tliree waved blackish lines and cell-spot;

both basal patch and margins of central fascia edged finely with a whitish line, pure

white on costa beyond the exterior line ; submarginal line sinuous and dentate, grey,

preceded by an irregular fnscous shade and followed by black wedge-shaped marks

lieyond each tooth, the marks nearly reaching the marginal line, which consists of

thick paired black dashes, separated by the olive-brown veins : fringe olive-brown

and fuscous.

Ilindwiiiiis : Inteous white, tinged with yellowish towards hindmargin ; marginal

line interrupted, blackish ; fringe whitish.

Underside of forewings olive-fuscons, the outer line paler, and white at costa ;

hindwings white. Head and tliorax fuscous and grey ; abdomen i)ale grey, with

paired dark dorsal spots.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

One S from Mount Arjuno, Java (W. Doherty).

61 1. Xanthorhoe conchata sp. nov.

Forewinqs : with the ground-colour yellowish white, suifused and dusted with

fulvous, and crossed by numerous darker tremulous lines ; first line curved, at

one-fourth, dark brown, preceded by a white line, both plain only on inner margin;

second line from costa at three-fourths to inner margin at two-thirds, parallel in the

main with hindmargin, but slightly bent at veins 6 and 4, followed by a white line ;

marginal area beyond traversed by waved ochraceous lines: cell-spot Idack: pairs of

small black dashes along the margin at the ends of the veins ; fringe concolorous.

In one example the whole of the basal two-thirds is uniformly fulvous with darker

lines ; in the other the pale band between basal patch and central fascia is more

visible, and the outer band of the central fascia is fuscous ; in both the costa at base

is darker.

IlimlwiiKis : whitish, with dark cell-spot and exceedingly faint traces of a dark

postmedian line ; fringe yellowish, with the marginal spots as in forewings.

Underside whitish, discoloureil with fuscous, especially in forewings. Thorax

and abdomen greyish ochreous ; the face and palpi brownish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

Two dS from Nandi, Uganda Protectorate (Dr. Ansorge).

Palpi long, thick, and roughly haired.

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CI. Xanthorhoe ludifica sp. nov.

(J. Forewings : white or greyish white ; basal patch small, grej', with curved

darker edge : central fascia blackish, narrow, its inner edge blnntly angled, or some-

times only curved, on the submcdiau fold, its enter waved and forming two very

slight prominences between veins 3 and 4 ; three waved lines traverse the fascia,

one beyond the inner edge, two before the outer, leaving a paler central space at

costa ; band on either side of fascia white, traversed first by a fine line, hardly

distinguishable except at costa, and thou by a distinct waved and dentate grey-

brown line ; snbmarginal line finely lunulate, whitish, between two dark grey

shades, the first of which is darker at costa, beyond cell, and in the submedian fold,

the latter only below apex, where it forms an oblique edge to a pale streak from

apex ; marginal line formed of pairs of black dashes ; fringe iron-grey, the basal

half darker.

Ilimlwingg: silky whitish, slightly greyish-tinged along inner and hiud

margins ; a slight dark cell-spot, and traces of grey lines on inner margin ; marginal

dots as on forewings ; fringe paler.

Undersi<le dull greyish, with the markings reproduced but dull. Head, thorax,

and abdomen grey; thorax and vertex darker; abdomen with jiairs of dark spots.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

The above description is taken from the palest form : two out of the four 3 S

have the white ground-colour clouded with greyish, and all the black tints reduced,

so that the central fascia remains black only at its edges above the median and at

inner margin, the cell-spot appearing In a whitish costal space, and the veins being

marked in black ; of this pale form there is no ? .

A second form, which I shall call ab. nubilosa, has the whole forewing

suflnscd in the S with rufous grey, in the ? with browuisli ochreous, and the outer

edge of the central fascia is strongly produced and rectangularly bent in the middle.

One (?, one ? .

A third form, ab. incognita, has the whole forewing uniform grey, with the

edges of the central fascia and the snbmarginal line a little paler, the central fascia

liluntly bilobedin the middle ; of this there are two ? ? only. In all three ? ? the

central fascia is wider than in the S i-

In the hindwings and underside both aberrations agree precisely with tlic i)alc

type-form.

Five SS, three ? ?, from Mount Arjuno, Java (W. Doherty).

Subfamily ABRAXINAE.

62. Abraxas baccata sp. nov.

Forewings : white ; the markings dark fuscous, with a slight ferruginous tinge;

the costal area, including the greater part of the cell, the inner margin as far as the

submedian fold, and a sinuous fascia from costa before apex to beyond middle of

inner margin, all fuscous ; the last contains a deeper brownish shade : its outer edge

towards anal angle is irregularly produced along the veins in the shape of confluent

spots ; hindmargin with a series of contiguous lunules, leaving an irregular-edged

narrow white space from apex to anal angle, the apex itself yellowish ; cell-spot

large, round, fuscous, with a black ferruginous-tinged centre, touching costal streak,

and followed by two or three small round spots ; a wliitish or yellowish spot on costa

towards apex ; fringe fuscous, white at apex.

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Hinrhvings : with a snlimarginal curved chaiiilike fascia ; cell-spot less strongl}'

marked than in forewings ; some scattered discal and marginal round sj)ots; margin

as in forewings.

Underside duller. Face and vertex yellow ; palpi j-ellow, with the tip

blackish ; thorax and abdomen yellow, with black spots.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

One ? from Sambalun, Lombok, 4000 feet, April 1896 (Frulistorfer).

Like the two following Javan forms, confliientaria and firanuli/ern, but not

to be confounded witli them.

63. Abraxas confluentaria S2). nov.

Fore/d/if/s : dull white, with fnscou.s grey markings : costa broadly fuscous

grey, including the cell and cell-spot ; a funnel-shaped fascia from before the cell-

spot to middle of inner margin, and a broad submarginal streak parallel to hind-

margin, consisting of two united rows of confluent spots, whicli narrow off and

separate at inner margin; marginal area narrowly fuscous grey, swollen and pro-

longed in short irregular streaks along the veins towards the submarginal streak ;

fringe grey.

Hindwings : with a submarginal curved fascia of partially confluent fuscous

grey spots ; marginal line narrow, as on forewings, hardly prolonged along veins :

cell-si)Ot small.

Underside the same. Face and vertex yellow ; tliorax and abdomen yellow, with

black spots.

Expanse of wings : 50 mm.

Two (?c? from Mount Arjuno, Java (W. Doherty).

In one example the whole marginal area, including the submarginal fascia, is

fascous grey, and the funnel-shaped fascia interrupted on the submedian fold, the

marginal line of hindwings being likewise more developed.

Manifestly allied to ^1. (iniinilifem, but fairly distinct; distinguished by the

smaller size and the absence of the small granular spots.

64. Abraxas gramilifera sp. nov.

Forewings : dull white, with fuscous grey spots ; the costal area broadly fuscous

grey throughout : the base of cell and the whole wing below the median and

lower radial covered with numerous small fuscous grey round spots, which are

irregularly confluent, and between veins 2 and 5 almost wholly so, forming a

triangular suftused patch ; traces of two submarginal series of confluent spots,

visible chiefly across the pale space below tlie costal streak; a marginal row of

confluent spots, preceded by a somewhat interrupted streak of pale ground-colour ;

fringe fuscous grey ; cell-spot large, fuscous grey, with deeper centre, followed by

a few small spots in the pale horizontal space beyond it.

Hindwings : with a submarginal band of confluent spots, and a marginal baud

as on forewings ; cell-spot large, fuscous grey ; several small round spots scattered

irregularly on the disc and between the fasciae.

Underside the same. Face and vertex yellow ; palpi brown ; thorax, shoulders,

patagia, and abdomen vellow, with black spots.

Expanse of wings : 54 mm.

Two SS from Mount Arjuno, Java (W. Doherty).

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Enlygdia gen. no v.

Forewings : with costa gradually cnrved, and slightly shouldered at base;

apex blunt ; hindmargin obliquely curved, faintly jirotuberant at vein 4 ; no

fovea.

lliiulwings : with hindmargin crenulate, the projection at vein 4 more pro-

minent than the others.

Antennae of c? minutely serrate and pubescent ; palpi short, stout ; tongue

and frenulum present ; liiudtibiae thickened, with four spurs.

Nenration : forewings, cell broad, scarcely half as long as wing ; discocellular

concave ; first median at four-fifths, second at seven-eighths ; lower radial slightly

above middle of discocellular, ujiper from upper angle of cell ; veins 7, S, and 0

stalked, 10 and 11 coin(adeut, approximated at a point to the costal. Hindwings

with first subcostal just before end of cell ; medians as in forewings ; no radial.

Type : FAilygdiu tidzinaiia Oberth. ( Tephrosia).

05. Potera viduata sp. nov.

Foreu'ings : white, but this ground-colour much more restricted than in

punctifera Wlk., forming a broad curved fascia from inner margin to subcostal

vein, its outer edge strongly curved from two-fifths of inner margin, its inner

oblique from one-fifth ; in the dark marginal area are three irregular double wliite

blotches, two near hindmargin between veins 5 and 7 and 2 and :i, the third smaller

beyond cell ; in the dark basal area are five small white spots, one between the

snbmcdian and median veins at their rise, one on each side of the median obliquely

above it, and two along the costal vein.

Ilimlicinfis: with the central fascia broader, the basal fifth blackish, the costa

only narrowly black ; outer two-fifths occupied by a black fascia, with two white

blotches as in forewings, bat more elongated, sometimes with a fine streak towards

costa and anal angle. One specimen has a large round black discal spot, which in

others becomes a mere speck.

Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen bhick ; pectus, front of face,

collar, and anal segment of abdomen beneath yellowisli.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

Five 3 6 from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, February 1897 (W. Uolierty).

Subfamily BRACCINAE.

60. Bursada albicolor sji. nov.

A facsimile of B. tiispilata Warr., but with all the yellow patches j)ure white;

the basal streak of forewings shorter and more slender. As in that species, the

two fasciae vary much in size, those in one example being nearly twice the size

of those in the other.

Expanse of wings : 34 — 39 mm.

Two ? ? from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, from the low country, January

1897 (W. Doherty).

If, as seems possible, D. trispUata, Warr. should prove to be only the ? of

B. hasitriya Wlk., these may be merely albino aberrations of the same species.

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()7. Bursada intercisa ali. albifrons uov.

Exactly like typical intercisa Wlk., but with the face and palpi suow-wliite

instead of black. Two cj 6 and two ? ? of this species were sent by W. Doherty,

taken at Kapaur, Dntch New (Jniuea, in the low country, December 1S90 and

January 1807, one of the c? c? being the aberration here noted. The apical orange

blotch in the forewings is of uniform width tlinjughout in the ? ?, and therefore

api)ears longer than in the S <S , in whicli it broadens towards the costa.

08. Bui'sada vacuata sp. nov.

Fori'winyts : narrow, deep brown-black, with a large fulvous orange horseshoe-

shaped blotch beyond the middle, exactly as in the c? of 13. intercisa Wlk.

IIi)idicinijs : fulvous orauge, with the costa and apex, the latter broadly, black ;

below vein 4 only the fringe is black.

Underside the same; the forewings below the median with a longitudinal

pale streak from base, which in one example is visible also on the npperside. Head,

thorax, and abdomen black ; abdomen below and legs Intenus.

Exi)anse of wings : 20 mm.

Two 66 from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, in the low country, January 1897

(W. Doherty).

09. Craspedosis castellata sp. nov.

Forewings : white; the costal, inner, and hind margins broadly black; an

inbeut black band close tn base, enclosing a small white spot ; a broad vertical black

fascia beyond middle, generally more or less bifurcate below middle : marginal Viand

crenulate along its inner edge.

Hindwings : with a uniformly broad straight antemedian fascia, and curved

iuternallj' crenulate marginal fascia, black.

Underside like ujijier. Head and thorax blackish fuscous ; collar and lower

jiart of face yello^vish: abdomen yellow, with broad black rings.

Expanse of wings : 6, 4.j mm. ; ? , 45—52 mm.

One (J, four ? ?, from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, low country, December

1890 and January 1897 (W. Doherty).

The single 6 has the outer fascia entire ; in all four ? ? it is bifurcate.

70. Craspedosis galathea sp. nov.

FiireiriiKjs : white ; the base, costa, hiudmargin, veins 2, 3, 4, and 0, tlie discal

spot and an irregular blotch beyond, between vein.s 2 and 4, all deep black; the

spot of ground-colour jireceding discal sjiot varies much in size, according to the

development of the black tints, as also the narrow streak between the base of veins

2 and 3 ; marginal band with two white subajiical elongated spots, and often with

two small white sj)ots between veins 2 and 3, and 3 and 4 ; the lower edge of the

basal patch oblique ; fringe black, with greyer tips.

riindiciiigs : with the base narrowly, and the hindmargin very broadly, black :

the inner edge of the latter strongly crenulated, and with a submarginal row of

white lunnles, that beyond the cell usually obsolete.

Underside the .same. Head blackish ; base of face luteous : thorax black ;

patagia black externally, fringed with luteous ; abdomen black, with broad dull

3

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yellow rings : metathorax Inteous or wliitish : underside of abdomen yellow ; legs

dark fuscons externally, yellowish internally.

Expanse of wings : ¥, 52 mm. : <?, 45 — 48 mm.

Two cfcJ, three ?$, from Kapanr. Dutch New Guinea, taken in the low

country, December 1890 (W. Doherty).

The fovea in forewings is sometimes marked with a white spot.

Subfamily ASCOTINAE.

Tl. Paradromulia anomala sp. nov.

Forewings : rufous grey, with coarse grey and fuscous speckles and with fnscons

striae along the costa ; the commencement of the lines marked by blackish costal

spots ; first line obscure, from costa at one-fifth, bent on median vein, where it is

marked by a bhvckish spot, to inner margin close to base, preceded by a dark shade

which is distinct only on inner margin ; second line at two-thirds, sinuate-dentate,

strongly bent inwards below middle, and approximated near middle of inner margin

to a straight but obscure median line which traverses the cell-spot ; the outer Hue

is followed by another, less distinct, which is divergent towards costa, where it starts

at fonr-lifths : submarginal line formed of dark pale-tipped lunules, interrupted

between veins 3 and 4 ; a row of black marginal spots ; fringe concolorous, chequered

with fuscous : tlie cell-spot large, blackish, with tlie discocellular forming a paler

centre.

Hindwint/s : the same, without first line.

Underside smoky greyish white, with large black cell-spots and a broad dnll

fuscous and ochreons submarginal fascia, the hindmargiu and space beyond the

cell-spots whiter. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; front of

thorax somewhat ocliraceous.

Expanse of wings : 54 mm.

One (? from Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, the low country, .January 1897

(W. Doherty).

Larger than the type of the genus, 1'. ambigua Warr. from Fergusson Island.

In the forewings 10 and 11 are stalked, but instead of separating, as in

ambigua, close to costa, 10 runs into and becomes coincident with the stalk of 8 and

9 : the costa of forewings is straight ; and the antennae are unusually long, being

quite three-fourths of the length of the wing.

Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE.

72. Anonychia flexilinea sp. nov.

Forewings: brownish ochre(lU^, with the lines dark iirowii, thick; first from

near middle of costa, sharply angled in cell, then sinuous inwards to inner margin at

one-third, edged inwardly with paler; second hue from a little before apex, sinuous,

strongly inflexed below vein 4 to two-thirds of inner margin, edged outwardly with

whitish : the base, the central area, and an indistinct submarginal shade darker than

the ground-colour ; cell-spot and marginal spots blackish ; fringe coucoliirous.

Hindviings : paler, with a faint sinuous postmedian line.

Underside pinkish ochreous, with darker dusting ; the cell-sjiots and outer lines

dark brown. Thorax and abdomen like wings ; head and shoulders redder.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One <i from Songive Valley, Lake Nyassa.

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Subfamily SEMIOTHLSINAE.

73. Hyperythra lutea rubricata snb:<p. nov.

The cJ form of //. lutea Cram, occurring in Qneeusland differs so much from

all the others as to deserve separation as a subspecies. It is dull brick-red both

above and below, with no yellow tints whatever ; both wings finely strignlated

throughout with fuscous, the exterior curved line obscurely marked with fuscous,

and sometimes followed by dark blotches, forming a kind of submarginal fascia ; in

a few instances the median shade and inner line are indicated by dark costal

blotches ; the veins on both wings are deeper red. On the underside the yellow

ground-colour, in some cases, is more evident ; the whitish subapical blotch of the

forewings is very faint and almost obsolete.

Several S i from Geraldton, Queensland.

74. Tephrina bilineata sp. nov.

Foreirinqs : very pale yellowish white, tinged towards base and hindmargiu

with ochraceous ; the lines ochraceous, thick, parallel to hindmargin ; first at

one-fourth, sharply angled in cell, the second at three-fourths ; a slight ochraceous

cell-spot ; fringe concolorons.

Hindwings : with cell-spot and straight postmedian line.

Underside with the outer line followed by a faint broad fascia. Thorax and

abdomen concolorons with wings ; face and tips of palpi rufous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

One ? from Barberton, S.E. Africa (Dr. P. Kendall).

Subfamily ENNOMINAE.

Apleroneura gen. nov.

Forewings : with costa nearly straight and slightly inbent in middle ; apex

minutely produced ; hindmargin bluntly angled at vein 4, vertical above, oblii^ue

below.

Himlwinqs : with both angles rounded olf: hindmargin with a blunt tooth at

vein 4, and a slighter one at vein 7.

Antennae of cJ pectinated; palpi porrect, thick and blunt, roughly scaled; third

joint invisible, first joint with a small tuft ; tongue and frenulum j)resent ; hindtibiae

not thickened, witli four spurs.

Neuration : forewings, cell mon^ than half as long as wing; discocellular short,

the median vein npcnrved at extremity; first median nervule at three-fourths, second

from the bend ; lower radial from above the middle of discocellular, upper from

upper angle; vein 7 missing ; 8 and '■> stalked from close before angle ; 10 and II

stalked, 10 closely approximated to stalk of b, 9. Hindwings with costal apjiroxi-

mated to subcostal for half the length of cell ; first subcostal and second median

nervules before ends of cell.

Type : Apleroneura tripartita sp. nov.

75. Apleroneura tripartita sp. nov.

Forewings : deep yellow : the basal and marginal areas filled up witli wood-

brown; costa with short brown striae; first line from one-fourth of costa to one-third

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of inner margin, bent in cell iuul more sharjily on siibiuediaii fold ; exterim- line

from costa jnst before ajiex to two-tliinls of inner margin, slightly flexnons ; the

marginal area liver-brown, with long dark brown striae and with a dark brown

shade next to the line ; the extreme apex yellow ; cell-spot brown : fringe brown,

with the outer third paler.

Ilindwingg: with more than tlie basal half yellow ; a partially donble fairly

straight jiostmedian brown line, beyond which the yellow is tinged with brownish

and marked with brown striae : cell-spot distinct, blackish ; fringe as in forewings,

but with a stronger line at base.

Underside much paler. Head and shoulders brown ; thorax and abdomen

yellow.

Ex])ause of wings : 32 mm.

Que 6 from Barberton, Transvaal (Dr. P. Randall).

Chloromiza gen. nov.

Forewin/js : short and Ijroad ; costa arched at base, then straight : apex

rectangular : hindmargin giljbons, more oblique below : inner margin slightly

convex.

Hindicings : with a])ex rounded and anal angle square ; hindmargin curved,

with a faiut elbow at vein 4 and a slight incision beyond cell.

Antennae of i pectinated ; palpi porrect, hairy, subrostriform ; tongue and

frenulum present.

JSeuration : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing ; the subcostal bent

inwards at extremity ; first median at four-fifths, second close to third ; lower radial

somewhat above the centre of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell; veins

7 and S stalked from the bend in subcostal ; 9 absent ( ? coincident with 8) ; 10 and

11 stalked. Hindwiugs with costal approximated to subcostal for half cell ; first

subcostal and second median before ends of cell.

Scaling close and smooth.

Tyj)e : Cldoromi::a oUvesceiu sji. nov.

7t;. Chloromiza olivescens sp. nov.

Fore/rings : greyish olive, with very fine darker striatious ; base of costa

])uq)lish ; the lines dark olive, purplish-tinged ; first from costa at two-fifths, bent

in cell, then oblique to inner margin at one-third ; second from a dark brownish

spot just before apex to three-fifths of inner margin, irregularly flexuous and edged

externally by a fine whitish line ; cell-spot small, blackish ; fringe rufous olive, the

outer third paler.

Ilindwings : paler, with an irregularly minutely waved postmedian line.

Underside glossy, glaucous olive : forewings with base of costa and crennlate

outer line puri)le. I'aljii and sliaft of antennae purple. Head, thorax, and

abdomen pale olive.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

One c? from Barberton, Transvaal (Dr. P. Hendall).

The exterior line on the underside of forewings starts farther from the apex

than that above, its origin being marked on the costa above by a small purj>lish spot.

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Eurjrthecodes Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 117.

Trisyndeta Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 260.

In the description of the genus Tri^tjndefK it was stated that veins i>, 10, 11,

were stalked, and that 9 snbsei(nently anastomosed with 8. In the single i

examined this ajipeared to be the case, as vein 10 was united by a short bar to 8

and 9 ; but in all the other specimens since compared this bar is absent, and the

nenration is normal, veins 7, 8, 9, being stalked, 10 and 11 coincident and anasto-

mosing with 12. The genus must therefore sink, being identical with EunjthccoJeii

described at p. 117.

The comparison of these additional specimens, moreover, proves that the species

subsjjersa itself is nothing but a form of Guen^e's Jiavediiiaria, described as a

Heteroloclm, and of which his Metancma molliaria is the ? .

The synonymy will be as follows : —

Eurijthecodes Jiavediiiaria.

Heterolochaflavedinaria S Guen., riud. I. p. 106.

Metanema molliaria ? Guen., Phal. I. p. 172.

Trisi/iideta subspersa Warr., Nov. Zool. IV. p. 260.

77. Eurythecodes impunctata sp. nov.

Foreirinys : pale yellow, with faint brownish freckling ; the lines gre3--brown ;

first at about one-third, obscure, bent on the median vein ; outer line sinuous,

starting from a chestnut-brown pale-centred subapical costal spot, ol)lii[ue inwards

to vein 2, then vertical to inner margin at two-thirds ; cell-spot blackish ; fringe

concolorous, with no trace of basal dots or line.

Ilindirivgs : with a curved and sinuous postmedian line.

Underside with the lines and speckling clearer. Head, thorax, and abdomen

concolorous.

E.xpanse of wings : 28 mm.

Two 6S from Kampala, Uganda, January 1897 (Dr. Ansorge) : dry season.

The second c? is more ochreous-tinted, with the lines thicker and the speckling

browner and more distinct.

This appears to be quite distinct from any of the forms oiflarediiinria.

78. Fascellina papuensis sp. nov.

Forewiiigs : bright fulvous above the median vein, becoming darker and

duller below it with an olive tinge, with darker transverse striae ; costa broadly

purplish fuscous for one-third, ochreons speckled with fuscous in the middle, then

fulvous to the outer line, which is edged by a violet-white streak and followed

by a pale violet shade to apex ; cell-spot large, diffuse, purplish fuscous, with

whitish dots inside ; first line before one-third, curved, marked by a dark costal

spot, obsolete or very faint through the cell ; second line from costa at two-thirds,

outcurvcd and very ill-deiiued above median, oblique below, to inner margin at

middle; outer line from costa at four-fifths, oblique outward to vein 7, vertical to

vein 6, then incurved and oblique, dentate-sinuate, to inner margin close to second

ine, distinct only above inner margin, where it is pale lustrous with dark brown

edges ; fringe fulvons.

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Hindwingx: iliiU dlive-fuscons, slightly fulvons-tinged, especially towards

hindmargin ; tlie costal area darker, with stronger transverse striae : a faint sintious

lustrous central line, precedeil by a dull fulvous shade ; a broad dentate slightly

lustrous violet snbmargiual band.

Underside of forewings with a deep fulvous fascia, limited outwardly by the

darker pale-edged outer line, and inwardly by a straight line exactly across the

middle, and ending in a jioint on inner margin ; basal half yellowisli, with purplish

fhlvous striae ; marginal area violet-grey towards apex, dull brownish fulvous

below, becoming brighter fulvous at anal angle. Hindwings orange, with deep

ferruginous speckles : traces of two lines on costa, the outer deep red-brown edged

with a white spot. Palpi yellow, with the tips aud outside fuscous ; lower part

of face yellow ; upper part, vertex, and thorax olive-fuscous ; abdomen pale fuscous

above, yellow below.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

One ? from Sinibang, near Finsehliafen, German New Guinea, 1804 (Cotton

and Webster).

Margins of wings excised as in ckromatari'i \\\k.

79. Fascellina punctata sp. nov.

Forewings : deep olive-green ; first line at one-third, fiiintly lustrous, acntely

angled on the subcostal, then oblique, parallel to hindmargiu, followed by a deeper

green shade ; outer line at three-fourths, starting from a white costal spot, outcurved

above middle and forming a small inward sinus above vein 4, to inner margin

at two-thirds, faintly lustrous, edged in its lower half by a fine green liue, which

is followed by a lustrous sheen before the olive-green hindmargin, which is

traversed by a faint lustrous waved snbmarginal line ; in the sinus of the outer

line is a dark spot, and two more beyond it, between veins 3 and 5, on the course

of the subniarginal line ; between the two lines is an oblique deeper green median

shade, and another slighter beyond it ; fringe concolorons.

Hindwings : with the median shade and outer line of ibre'ivings, the outer

line being central and the shade antemedian ; the lustrous sheen beyond much

broader and more conspicuous, the hindmargin and fringe dee])er olive.

Underside yellowish olive-green, with irregular darker striae ; costal area

of forewings washed with white as far as median shade ; postmedian liue forming

a rounding projection between veins 6 and 7, edged finely with white, which forms

blotches on costa and above vein 4 ; an olive apical patch in a white triangular

space ; hindwings uniform yellowish olive, with a straight dark line just beyond

middle and a narrower curved snbmarginal line. Head, tliorax, and abdomen all

uniform green, the abdomen in places tinged with rufous.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

One S from the Khasias, January 1897.

Forewings with a distinct excision in hindmargin of forewings, and slight

truncation in apex of liind wings, as in F.ftiscociridis Warr.

Plesiomorpha gen. nov.

Forewings : triangular; X\h'. costa nearly straight, the apex minutely produced;

hindmargin sinuous; anal angle distinct; fovea distinct.

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llin<hnn(j!< : with a slight tooth at vein 4; the hindmargin cnrved above it,

straight below to anal angle, which is rectangular.

Palpi porrect, reaching beyond face; second joint broad, third shortly rostriform;

antennae of S simple, lamellate; tongne present; frenulum very slender.

^'^eufatiou : forewings, cell half the length of wing; discocellular vertical: tirst

median at one-half, second shortly before angle of cell: radials normal; 7, 8, 9, 10,

long-stalked; 11 from cell, anastomosing shortly with 10. Hindwings with costal

shortly approximated to subcostal; 7 before angle of cell: medians as in forewings.

Type : Plesiomorpha culpecula sp. nuv.

Apparently allied to Ocorlophora Warr.; superficially resembling Anzmde-s,

from which it is separated by the neuration and tlie presence of a distinct fovea.

80. Plesiomorpha vulpecula sp. nov.

Forewings : fawn-colonr, reddish-tinged towards hindmargin; sprinkled with

black specks, which are densest and coarsest over the basal third; costa reddish,

dotted with black ; the lines marked by black vein-dots : the first curved, at

one-third, the dots being slightly larger than the surrounding basal speckles; outer

line at seven-eighths, parallel to hindmargin, reddish, faintly denticulate, the teeth

marked by black dots; fringe reddish; cell-spot black.

Hindicings : redder throughout and more speckled; the lines indistinct.

Underside pale fawn-grey, with black speckles and dotted lines; the forewings

rufous-tinged before the outer line. Head, thorax, and abdomen pinkish fawn,

the head pure; the base of shoulders broadly black, with a metallic tint; abdomen

thickly sprinkled with black.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

One J from the Khasias, Marcli 1807.

81. Procypha confonnis sp. nov.

Foi-eicings : greyish fawn-colour, obscurely freckled with darker; the lines

brown, indistinct; first from lieyond one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner

margin, slightly bent below costa; second from just beyond middle of costa, acutely

angled on vein 6, then oblique to middle of inner margin, ai)proximating to first

line; preceded below the median by a slight semihyaline whitish patch; the inner

margin between the lines is tinged with fulvous yellow; the line is followed by a

fulvous yellow fascia, distinct only at costa and inner margin, limited externally by

the obscure submarginal line; fringe rather darker.

Hindicings : with traces of two crenulated dark lines across the centre; the

base of the apical excision fulvous.

Underside paler; a broad chestnut fascia between outer and submarginal line,

extending to margin in the middle of the wing, and a chestnut streak from median

to inner margin before the hyaline patch; the apex whitish; hindwing with the

fascia distinct only towards costa. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 'i'Z mm.

One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1897 (Dr. Roth).

The genus Xcnimpia, which I described in Xov. ZooL. II. p. 13;") and placed

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among the SemiotAisinae, must be transferred to the En/iominae. Procijpha diflfers

from it only in the less abruptly excised margins of the wings, and in the snb-

pectinated antennae of the ? , which in Xmimpia are sinii)le. From Go)wrlont>.<

Hub., to which it is also evidently allied, Proci/plta differs in having veins 10 and 11

coincident throughout ; in (ionodontis they are separate.

82. Pseudomiza fulvata sji. nov.

Forewing^ : fulvous orange, with dark brown speckles, palest along costal area :

the base and inner-marginal area darker fulvous : the lines brown-black ; first at

one-third, oblique outwards as far as median vein, along which it runs shortly base-

wards, then irregularly waved to inner margin ; median line similarly oblique from

costa to vein fi, where it becomes obsolescent ; outer line black, slightly waved, from

costa at five-sixths to two-thirds of inner margin, edged externally by a fine bluish

white line ; its costal portion oblique outwards like the other two lines, and met at

the angle by a dark streak from apex, which is more prominent than the costal

portion of the line ; area above anal angle fulvous brown, with scattered blue-grey

scales ; submarginal line of the same coloured scales, strongly dentate and only

distinct in the dark lower area ; fringe brown ; cell-spot brown-black.

Hindtciyigs : wholly red-brown, with blackish clouds ; central line, a continua-

tion of the outer line of forewings, slightly curved from costa to cell and there

preceded by an ochreous olive blotch ; suljmarginal line bluish grey, distinct

throughout.

Underside dark olive-ochreous, much clouded with fuscous ; the lines and cell-

spot blackish ; both wings sprinkled with blue-grey scales, which are thickest below

the median vein and beyond outer line and at anal angle of hiudwings ; the sub-

marginal line distinct in both wings. Face, thorax, and abdomen fulvous lirown ;

verte.\: and shoulders finely sprinkled with blue-grey scales.

The ? is brighter fulvous ; the outer line edged with metallic purple, in the

hindwings broad and with a purple centre ; the pale space before it not ochreous,

but whitish, and semihyaliue ; the zigzag submarginal lustrous line hardly expressed.

Expanse of wings : cJ, 33 mm. ; ? , 39 mm.

A pair'^from the Khasias, August 1896 and March 1897.

Psilocladia gen. nov.

Foreioirigs : elongate ; costa straight for two-thirds, then well arched : apex

produced, subacute ; hindmargin oblique, faintly sinuous ; inner margin slightly

incurved beyond middle, anal angle somewhat lobed ; fovea present.

Hindicings :\ costa straight : apex truncate : a strong tooth at end of vein 7 ;

the hindmargin below strongly sinuous, the anal angle rounded.

Abdomen of S very long ; antennae perfectly simple, lamellate ; palpi porrect,

hairy, projecting a little bej'oud face; tongue and frenulum present; hindtibiae stout,

with four spurs.

JS'euration: forewings, cell half as long as wing ; diseocellular oblique below;

first median at four-fifths, second close before tlnrd ; radials normal : 7, 8, 9, 10,

stalked, 11 free : hindwings with costal approximated to subcostal for half of cell ;

the two subcostal nervules short-stalked : medians as in forewings.

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Scaling of upper surface fine and close ; of nuder surface, especially in the

liindwings, coarse and lax, glossy, suberect.

Type : Psilocladia obltquatu sp. nov.

Related to Zanclojjera Warr. and Ti-'iyonoptila Warr., from both of which

it is distinguished by the perfectly simple antennae.

83. Psilocladia obliquata sp. nov.

Foreicuigs : whitish ochreous, slightly pink-tinged ; dusted with red-brown

atoms and striae, especially towards base of costa, which is itself brown ; the lines

red-brown, oblirjue, parallel to hindraargin : first near base, from inner margin to

cell, wheVe it ends in a dark spot ; second from before middle of costa to one-third

of inner margin, close to first line, partially double in its lower coarse ; third at

five-sixths, from a brown costal spot and marked throughout by brown dots on the

veins, followed below middle by a dark fnscous shade, and a pair of dark brown

spots, one on each side of vein 4 ; marginal line red-brown, swollen into obscure

marginal spots below apex ; fringe ochreous, mixed with red-brown.

IlindwiiKjH : with an indistinct waved antemedian and a bent dark br(_)wn

postmedian line ; the latter starting from a costal spot, preceded by a brown shade

and followed by a pale space : marginal line and fringe as in forewings.

Underside glossy, paler, with the same markings, and traces of cell-spots.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, dusted with red-brown ; patagia ochreous,

with their base reddish.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

One (J from Northdene, Natal.

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ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY MR. EVERETT IN

SOUTH FLORES.

Part 11.'

By ERKST HAKTERT.

(Plate I.)

PASSERES.

*05. Chlorura intermedia Hartert.

A malt', which is perfectly similar to specimeus from Lombok, where this form

was discovered by Doherty aud Everett, from Maiigarai. (Cf. Nov. Zool. III.

pp. 5.58, 559, 594.) The bird should have been enumerated after No. 30, but was

omitted.

CAPRIMULGIDAE.

*fiO. Caprimulgns affinis Horsf.

From the low country up to about oonO feet.

On November 15th njemale was found with two just-fledged young ones.

MEROPIDAE.

07. Merops philippinus L.

Onejhmale.

ALCEDINIDAE.

(58. Ceyx innominata Salvad.

A fine series from the lower country. The specimens dn not difier from those

sent from Lombok, Samba wa, etc.

As I have said before (Nov. Zool. III. p. .■)T]), I cannot find any differences

whatever between C. enerythra and C. innominata, which varies in tlie colour of the

upper parts according to age.

09. Alcedo ispida floresiana (Sharjje).

Two males. This very interesting form, first suj)plied with a name by Sharpe

in Cat. B. XVII. p. 151, is hardly different in colour from the bright blue form

found in (ley Ion and named .1. taprobana by Kleinsehmidt, but the beaks are much

thicker and less pointed at the tip. In my ojiinion all these forms can only be

treated as subs])ecies, and shimld be called .1. i.ytitla hengalensis, A. i. Jloresianu,

A. i. ixjndioideii ; but it is difficult to say what to do with A. taprobana, which is

found in Ceylon as well as A. i. bengalensis, but not in other countries inhabited by

A. i. hengalensi.-i, or at least not in all. It seems to me quite reasonable to

♦ For Part I. see Nov. Zool. IV. pp. .•>i;i..")28 and Plate III.

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(listingnish it nominally as a local aberration (ab. loc. taprobana), as is cnstomary

among entomologists.

Sharpe, I.e., gives also the " Moluccas " as a locality for this species, bnt this is

probably a jienslip.

*Tn. Halcyon sanctus Vig. & Horsf.

Three skins. I cannot fiml the species recorded from Flores.

71. Monachalcyon fulgidus (<iould) (? subsp.).

A series of M. fulgidm from Sonth Flores differs slightly from most of the

specimens received from Lombok and Sambawa, and especially from the former

island. The bine of most (but not all) is brighter, on the tips of some of the

feathers of the back are bright light bine spots, the blue of the back reaches farther

np towards the crown, and there are on the crown some white hairs between the

feathers. As some of these characters, however, vary a good deal, and the skins

before me are of rather different make, I liesitate to give a name to the Flores form,

the type being from Lombok.

The very yonng bird of this species has the crown deep bine, bnt the forehead

aud the back dull black, in opposition to the coloration of the adult bird.

72. Pelargopsis gurial floresiana (Sharpe).

A fine series of this interesting form from South Flores. Specimens from

Lombok cannot be separated from typical floresiana. Vordermann's .visah is only

an immature specimen, as the characters given by liim are found in immature birds

before me.

PSITTAGI.

73. Psitteuteles weberi Biittik.

Of this excellent species, hitherto only rejiresented by the specimens in the

Leydeu Museum, Mr. Everett has sent a fine series from Endeh and from Mangarai,

from the lowland up to 4000 feet above the sea. The specimens agree perfectly

with Biittikofer's description and figure on p. 200 and PI. XVIL in Max Weber's

Zoolotj. Knjfhidsse e. Beise in Siederl. 0. Ind. III. The much larger bill, the

green head with bluish forehead in the old bird, the yellowish collar ou the hindueck,

and the wide yellowish band across the chest distinguish P. wehcri at a glance

from P. eutcles. There is, nevertheless, a mystery about these forms. Among

the many specimens of P. cuteles brought home by Wallace are a number which are

labelled " Flores." As recent explorers have only found P. weberi ou Flores, one

might suggest that either Wallace's so-called P. euteles from Flores are all

P. weberi, or that the locality Flores is not right. Buttikofer {I.e.) took the former

view, and thus placed Trirho(ilossu.<s euteles Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484 (partim—

ex Flores), as a synonym of P. weberi, adding (p. 291) that Salvadori in Cat. B.

Brit. M'is. XX. p. 64, had already called attention to the darker green head and

darker green under parts of the Flores skins, collected in Flores for Wallace by

Mr. Allen, but had failed to recognise their specific distinction. Salvadori, however,

did not make such mistake, for the skins in the British Museiuu are all /'. euteles,

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aiul also Wallace's specimens from Flores in other collections (one in Tring) are

F. eiifr/i'x, and not, I believe, to be distingnislied from J', t'lite/i'x from Timor,

although, of conrse, a greater material would be of interest for comparison. So far

Dr. Biittikofer's error is excusable, but it is less so that Prof. Mivart, in his

Monograph of the Loriidiu', has united P. la'heri with P. eutelcs in the face of

Biittikofer's careftil description and good figure, evidently misled by the Flores skius

in the British Mnsenm. AVhether Wallace's Flores skins of P. enteles really came

from that island may be doubted, but there is no reason why two such good species

as P. eutele» and P. tvebcri should not occur on the same island. " The irides in

both se.\es are reddish orange, orbital skin and cere livid black; bUl orange-red,

tip of maxilla yellow; feet blackish grey or blue-grey." The JeTnale has the wing

about one to two cm. shorter.

74. Geofiroyus floresianus Salvad.

Of this form there is a fair series from South Flores, but in October they were

in dreadfully abraded plumage. The iris of the old tn^ile was " lemon-yellow." The

young female in first plumage, which has a green crown with slightly bluish

forehead, has the '' iris brown; the bill brown, passing into dnll yellow on the distal

half of the maxilla and on the mandible." This form is not easily separable from

G. stan/javensis Salvad. The old 7nale differs only in a slightly shorter uing, in a

generally darker green colour with less of a yellow tint above and below, and a

slightly difi'erent darker blue colour of the under wing-coverts, while the colour of

the crown is variable, according to age of plumage, and therefore not a safe character

to go by. The female differs in having a shorter wing and generally darker green

colour. The young male in first plumage equals the young female in first plumage,

but from a young male in abraded plumage, which has a reddish brown crown with

a few fresh lilac-lilue feathers and a few red ones on the cheeks, it would seem

that the male passes through a plumage similar to that of the iu\\\\t female, before

assuming its breeding plumage.

*7.5. Tanygnathus megalorhynchus (Bodd.).

It is geographically of the highest interest that Mr. Everett discovered this

large parrot in Mangarai in South Flores, whence he sent us five specimens. It is

certainly peculiar that former travellers did not find such a showy bird in the island,

and we may well believe that it was not found in the places they visited. It is still

more interesting to see that the Flores specimens are not T. megalorhynchus

sumbensis A. B. Meyer. I can say this with much confidence, as I have not only

seen Dr. Meyer's types and the skin sent by Doherty, but as I have now before me

a good series from Sumba, shot there by Everett and his men. The birds from

Flores have the upperside as little blue as Moluocan skins and others, have not the

deeper green head of T. m. sumbensis, and are more yellowish below. On the other

hand, I cannot help noticing that the Flores sjieciincns, like those from Djami)ea,

are slightly more greenish, or I should say more washed witli green, below than the

majority of those from the more eastern islands of the archipelago. This character,

however, is only to be seen in fresh specimens and is subject to a great deal of

variation, and it is therefore, I think, safer for the present not to separate them

even " subspecifically " from T. inegnlorhjnclnts, though it is of interest to know

that there seems to be a tendency among the Flores and Djampea specimens to

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point to T. megalorhijHchus sumbensix. [See about this form A. B. Meyer iu

Vrrh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XXXI. p. 762 (1882), Salvadori in Cat. B. Brit. Mus.

XX. II. 428 (18!tl), Hartcrt in Nov. ZooL. III. pp. 170, 588 (1806).]

? ad. " Iris white, with narrow inner ring of very dark olive; bill deep red, the

tips of both mandibles corneous; feet dark olive-grey; claws blackish grey." An

adnlt fomnle has a pure yellow feather on the back.

76. Cacatua parvula (Bil).

Malea &XiA J'emaleH from Endeh and Mangarai.

CUCULIDAE.

77. Centropus javanicus (Dnmnnt).

Both sexes from Mangarai.

78. Eudynamis honorata malayana (Cab. & Heine).

There is a small series of a Etuli/namis from South Flores, which must, 1

believe, bear the above name. They are nndonbtedly E. honorata, but their

measurements are very large. The wings of two adnlt mal('.<< are 217 to 219 mm.

long, and those of the fr males measure the same. In typical Indian E. honorata

honorata the wings, and all other parts, are smaller, while big specimens occur

already in Southern Tenasserim and Malacca, the latter of which are in fact generally

even larger than those from the Greater Sunda Islands. Nevertheless I think the

Malayan forms from South Tenasserim to Flores can be united under the name

E. hon. malayana. Iris of male and female crimson-lake. The specimens from

Satonda (Nov. Zool. III. p. 57.5) belong to this same form. There is a female

from Satonda in moult which, among the fresh spotted plumage, shows a few old

abraded wholly black feathers, thus distinctly confirming the wonderful discovery

of Whitehead, that the -^owxi^ female in first plnmage is black like the adult male.

It is strange that Indian ornithologists have not discovered this fact long ago.

79. Cuculus intermedins Vahl.

There are a number of cuckoos from South Flores which are very troublesome.

Some have the bills as long as a European Cuculus canorus, and the wing of one

also fully reaches 8 inches (203 mm.), which is, according to Shelley's Cat. li.

Cuculidae, Brit. Mus., the minimum length of the wing of Euro})ean cuckoos — a

statement which is, I think, correct. In other specimens, however, the wing is

shorter and the bill shorter, but unfortunately those with the shorter bills do not all

have the shortest wings, and there are intermediate lengths of bills as well as of

wings. Although some of the specimens are certainly C. infennediu.^, agreeing with

skins from various other localities, partly named C. intermedius by Dr. A. B. Meyer,

partly by myself after careful former considerations, others, larger ones, may belong

to another form. There is very little to be done with these cnckoos, all being shot

in winter quarters, and one must really have them from their summer homes to

decide about their various races.

*80. Cuculus poliocephalus Lath.

Half a dozen skins from the hills of Mangarai.

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PICIDAE.

>1. lyng-ipicus grandis Hargitt.

Both sexes from Mangarai.

('ORAClIl)AE.

82. Eurystomus orientalis australis (Sw.).

Four typical amtralis from Mangarai.

KAPACES DIURNAE.

8:5. Limnaetus limnaetus floris snlis]). nov.

In 18G0 H. Schlegel, in Di> Vogels van Nederlandsck Indie, Valkvogels, p. 5.5,

already mentioned, and figured very well on PI. VI., fig. 2, a specimen in the

white phimage of this species from Flores, and said that it difters from other

specimens in being purer white below, deeper brown and nearly black above, and

very large. Neither Wallace nor Weber got a specimen in Flores. Now Mr. Everett

has sent two adult birds, both marked " t? " by his native skinners, which perfectly

agree with Schlegel's description and figure. The head is white, the feathers of the

crown dark brown towards the tips. Remainder of upjierside very deep brown, with

less pale margins to the feathers. Tail very distinctly barred. Entire under

surface, including breast, under wing-coverts, thighs, and tarsi, pure white iu one of

the two specimens, with some faint pale rufous brown cross-markings on the breast,

sides of breast, and thighs in the other, but no sign of the dark central longitudinal

spots on the breast found even in the whitest L. limnartKS from Borneo and Sumatra,

of which we possess a good series in the Tring Museum. Total length about 63 cm.;

wing 437 to 450 mm.; tail 296 mm. These measurements do not quite, though

nearly, reach those of the biggest /gw/^Zc-i from Borneo and Sumatra I have been

able to measure; therefore, if the specimens are really males (and the sex-markings

of Everett's natives in Flores are, it seems, always right), then the difference in

size of the Flores subspecies is enormous. The two specimens have a very strong

fishy smell.

84. Circaetus gallicus hypoleucus (Pall.).

As it is, it seems that the birds which breed in France and Germany, and

probably those from other parts of Europe, have a distinct brown breast-shield,

while among the many specimens from India and other parts of Asia the breast-

shield is not distinct, there being much more white on the breast and throat. The

skin from South Flores has only brown shaft-lines to the feathers of the throat and

chest. To settle all about the Eastern form with more white below, it is, however,

necessary to study birds from their breeding-places, as India is the ha])py winter

resort of birds from many parts, and birds shot there iu winter, which are represented

in large series in the British and other Museums, are jwactically homeless. If an

Eastern form is distinguished, it should bear Pallas'a name hijijolcucas, C. L. Brehm's

name tneridionalis being much more recent.

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85. Astur torquatus (Temm.)-

From Endeh and Maugarai, from the low coiiutry up to abont 220U feet above

the sea. S ad. " Iris goldeu yellow; cere greenish: bill black; legs clirome-yellow;

claws black." ? ad. 'W'iug 249 ami 251 mm. d ad. Wing 234 mm. A yonng

female shows among its striped jilumage a freshly moulted ])arred feather, and thus

seems to indicate that the plumage of the old bird is entirely gained by moult, as

also others which I saw seem to ])rove.

86. Astur sylvestris (Wall.).

A good series from the lower parts of Maugarai. Females' wing 200 to 207 mm. ;

males' wing 183 to 188 mm.; sexes alike in colour. ? ad. " Irides deep red; bill

jet-black; cere deep pure chrome-yellow; basal half of bill and eyelids lighter

chrome- j'ellow; legs dull wax-yellow: claws black." Young birds are above rufous;

the feathers of the upper parts are rufous with a large dark brown central spot, and

white towards the base. From this plumage, which looks very much like that of a

kestrel, they moult directly into the slaty grey of the jjerfectly adult bird, but before

the moult their feathers become faded and very much abraded, so much in fact

that the broad rufous edges disappear and the brown spots become much smaller,

so that the back looks brown and white, in parts almost i[uite white. Also below

the plumage of the 3'oung bird passes into that of the adult by a direct moult.

87. Astur (Tachyspiza) soloensis (Lath.).

One young male from the low country of South Flores. " Irides golden yellow;

cere chrome-j'ellow ; bill black, the base greenish plumbeous; legs wax-yellow;

claws black." The under parts are white, brown shaft-Hues and a large round brown

spot before the tip, but the breast shows two feathers which are light rofous with

pale rufous brown cross-bars towards the base. Wing 183 mm.

88. Accipiter virgatus (Temm.).

One young male from Mount Repok in the Maugarai country, above 35u0 feet.

80. Tinnunculus moluccensis occidentalis M. & Wg.

Both sexes from Maugarai.

90. Baza subcristata (Gould).

A series of a Baza from South Flores belongs to 7>. subcristata. Biittikofer has

already recorded this species from Flores. B. subcristata closely resembles B. rein-

mirdti from the Papuan Islands, and some specimens are hardly distinguishable,

although mostly B. subcristata reinwardti, as this form must be called, has darker

brown bars on the abdomen.

I must here correct a mistake which I made before. ^\'hat I recorded as

B. reinwardti in Nov. Zool. III. jx 177, from Ujampea, and j). 598, from Lombok,

are both B. subcristata subcristata, not B. reinwardti.

91. Haliastur Indus intermedius (Gurney).

With narrow shaft-lines, from South Flores.

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STRIGE8.

(Antea, No. 63.) Pisorhina sylvicola Wall. (PI. I. fig. 1).

See Nov. Zool. IV. p. 527. This line large Scops-owl is figured on PI. 1. fig. 1.

(Antea, No. 64.) Pisorhina alfredi Hartert (PI. I. fig. 2).

This pretty little owl has been described in Nov. ZooL. IV. p. 527. It is now

figured on PI. I. fig. 2.

(Anlea, No. 62.) Pisorhina albiventris Sharpe.

See Nov. Zool. IV. p. 527.

COLUMBAE.

92. Carpophag'a aenea (Linn.).

From Mangarai.

*U3. Carpophaga sasakensis Hartert.

A series from abont oUU to between 3ii0o and 4000 feet in Mangarai. c? ad.

(A. E.) " Irides dark brown; orbital skin crimson; bill very dark slaty grey, tipped

with black; feet carmine: claws brownish slate-colonr." The specimens from Flores

have mostly the hindneck, foreneck, and breast of a darker shade than the types

from Lombok, but this varies so much that no imjiortance can be attached to it at

present, and I do not think it will prove to be a local peculiarity.

94. Ptilinopus ewingi J. Gd.

One specimen from !Manmeri in North Flores.

95. Ptilinopus albocinctus Wall.

A fair series from the plains of Mangarai up to about 3500 feet.

96. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.).

Several skins from the Mangarai country. ^Vings of adnlt 7n"/rs about 114 to

120 mm.

97. Osmotreron floris Wall.).

Both sexes from Endeh and Mangarai.

98. Chalcophaps indica ( L.).

Up to about 3000 feet.

911. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.).

Endeh and Mangarai.

loo. Geopelia maugeus tTenira.).

Also EuJeh and Mangarai.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGIC^ , VoL .V. 1898.

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J-GJCeuleinaJis del etlith.

I.PISORHINA SYLVlCOLAWall.

lintorivB»*os -imp.

2. P.ALFREDI Hart.

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*101. Macropygia emiliana Bp.

S ad. (A. E.) Mangarai, November 1896. " Irides bright reddish orange, with

!i narrow inner ring of white; bill warm brown; feet carmine." Wing 17U mm.

J immat. (nat. coll.), Mangarai, October 1896. " Irides orange-yellow; bill brown;

feet jjnrple-black ; claws dark brown."

*h)2. Macropygia ruficeps orientalis Hartert.

A series from the Mangarai country, from the low conntry to abont 4000 feet.

S ad. " Irides pale blue; bare skin of orbits dark lead-grey; bUl warm brown; feet

carmine ; claws greyish brown." ? . " Irides pale grey-bine."

These specimens agree with the types from >Sambawa. The adnlt male has

white edges to the cinnamon feathers of the breast; the females have dark brown

breast-feathers with cinnamon -brown edges; those of the throat in the females are

pale cinnamon with dark blackish brown lateral edges. Length of wings oi females

158 to 160 mm., of an adult male 102 mm. (Cf. Nov. ZooL. III. p. 573.)

GALLIDAE.

103. Gallus varius (Shaw & Nodd.).

Mangarai.

104. Excalfactoria chinensis lineata (Scop.).

Mangarai, from the low conntry up to about 3(_Mjo feet.

TURNIOIDAE.

105. Turnix powelli Gnillemard.

Low conntry of Mangarai. ? ad. (A. E.) "Iris white; bill pale yellow, with

the tip horn-grey ; legs yellow ; claws grey." S. " Irides white ; bill greenish

white, culmen dark grey; legs pale green; claws grey."

106. Turnix maculosus (Temm.).

? ad. "Irides white; bill yellow, cnlmeu light brown; legs pale olivaceous

ochreous; claws grey." Mangarai to 3000 feet above the sea.

The Flores specimens are of bright colours. Those mentioned in Nov. Zool.

IV. p. 271, from Savn, were probably all more or less immature.

MEGAPODIIDAE.

107. Megapodius duperreyi Less. & Gam.

Not rare iu the Mangarai country.

RALLIDAE.

108. Amaurornis phoenicura (Forst.).

Mangarai. ?. "Irides orauge-browu : bill pale green, basal half of culmeu

orange-red."

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lu9. Hypotaenidia philippensis (L.).

Upwards to about 3300 feet.

•llu. Hypotaenidia brachjrpus exsul subsp. nov.

This new form (species or subspecies) was shot in November in the Mangarai

district. Uufortnnatelv only a single Tnalr was obtained, but this has the appear-

ance of an adult bird. It resembles U. brachypus (Swains.) from Australia, but

differs in the following points : —

The head, which is distinctly streaked with black central stripes iu //. hrachi/pus,

is dark rufous chestnut, showing only towards the nape some rather indistinct black

lines. The back is much more olivaceous instead of rufescent: the foreueck and breast

are much more grey. The breast is grey, with only a very faint olivaceous tinge, and

has in the middle a pale brownish grey line. Chin and upper throat distinctly whitish,

as in H. brachiipwa brachijpus. The feathers of tlie lower back and rump have also

smiill white spots along the edges of their webs. Wing lOl mm.: tail 38 mm.:

culmen 27 mm.: tarsus 28 mm.

111. Limnobaenus fuscus (L.).

Two males from Mangarai. S ad. " Iris bright Indian red; bill dusky black,

base green; legs dark wax-red."

CHARADRIIDAE.

112. Charadrius fulvus Gm.

On the coast of Mangarai.

113. Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scop.).

On the coast of Mangarai.

ARDEIDAE.

114. Butorides stag'natilis (Gould).

S, October 1896. " Legs and feet dark orange-yellow, tinged with olivaceous in

front." ?, November 1896 (uat. coll.). "Legs bright yellowish green, soles dark

yellow."

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ON THE BIRDS OF THE MARIANNE ISLANDS.

By EENST HARTERT.

THE following article has a little history. Abont three years ago the Tring

Museum received several excellent collections from the islands of Guam and

Saipan. They were brought together by two Japanese collectors, sent to those

islands by our correspondent, Mr. Alan Owston, of Yokohama, at the request of

Mr. Walter Rothschild. Soon after they were in onr iiands I had prepared the

following article in a much more complete and more detailed form ; but, when it

was ready to be printed. Professor M. E. Oustalet's long and excellent article " Les

Mammif^res et les Oiseaux des lies Mariannes " appeared in Vol. VII. of the third

series of the Noucelles Archives du Museum cPIIistoire yaturelle da Paris, late in

189.5, followed by the concluding second part iu LS96. Under these circumstances

I first thought of destroying the whole article ; but, finding afterwards that it

would be, after all, of some interest to give some account of our collection, which

was accompanied by many nests and eggs, and seeing that, with all respect and

admiration due to Mons. Oustalet's excellent work, I had to differ from him in a

few points, and had to correct an oological and some other mistakes, I altered the

form of the article, shortened and adajited it to the circumstances, and hope it will

thus stni be of some service to ornithologists.

With regard to the notes on the colour of the soft parts, I may mention that

the collectors were provided with Bidgway's Nomenclature of Colours, and cjuoted

plates and figures on the label of every bird. All nests and eggs were accompanied

by the parent bird, numbered corresjiondiugly. The " sexes " are evidently quite

trustworthy, in fact more so than those given by many European collectors.

For convenience I adojit Oustalet's old-fashioned classification.

1. Astur sharpei Oust. (Oust. I. p. 161).

Only a single specimen, brought home by the collectors of the Astrolabe

expedition " des Mariannes " is known. The island where it was shot is not

mentioned.

Our collectors did not see nor hear of any hawk on the islands, nor did

Mons. Marche find it. From the alfinities of this remarkable hawk one is tempted

to doubt the correctness of the locality, especially since it is not very exact.

2. Accipiter nisoides Blyth (Oust. I. p. 166).

A single male is said to have been shot by Marche on the island of Guam.

Our Japanese collectors did not come across it. It is probably of accidental

occurrence only in the Marianne Islands.

'i. Asio accipitrinus (Pall.) (Oust. I. p. 168).

Said by Messrs. Freycinet, Quoy et Gaimard to be found on the Marianne

Islands, but specimens from there are not with certainty to be found iu the Paris

Museum. Our collectors did not send any specimens either.

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4. Halcyon albicilla Dumont (Onst. I. p. 169).

This species was not found on Guam by any collectors, but we received a large

series from Saipan. Marche found it ou Saipan, Rota, Pagan, and Agrigan. Local

name on Saipan : " Shiihii.'' Maxilla black, mandible white with blackish tip ; iris

dark, III. 8 (" burnt umber ") ; legs and toes III. 1 (" seal-brown ") ; claws II. 3

(blackish slate). Wiug 114— 118 mm.

The head seems to be pure white in very old indiv-idnals only, but the majority

of specimens have some dark greenish blue longitudinal spots on the crown, and

the young birds have more or less developed buffy white edges on the upper

wing-coverts.

The species is easily distinguished from H. sauropkaga Gould, which has so

often been called //. albicilla, by the smaller size and the greenish blue line encircling

the nape. An egg was found in a hole of a tree on Saipan July 31st, 1895. It is

only slightly glossy,' very thin, pure white, but soiled all over with deep brown spots,

evidently from the decaying wood in the nest-hole. It measures 33 : 25 mm.

o. Halcyon cinnamomina Swains. (Onst. I. p. 175).

Halcyon cinnamomina Swains., Zoitl. Illustr. Ser. I. Vol. II. pi. 67 (1821).

H. rufigularis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVII. p. 260 ( ? ).

Local name: " Shiihii."

<J ad. Neck and head and entire under surface cinnamon, a little paler on the

throat. In quite freshly moulted specimens the cinnamon is very dark, but it fades

in the breeding time. Ear-coverts black, more or less washed and mixed with blue;

a narrow black line from the right ear-covert to the left, round the nape. Back,

scapulars, and small upper wing-coverts near the bend deep blue-green, more green

if viewed with the light from above. Inner webs of wing-qnills black ; tail, outer

webs of wiug-quills, upper wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts blue ; rump

more vivid, like " cerulean blue " of Ridgway, PI. IX. fig. 21 ; tail and wing deeper

blue, and all these blue parts more greenish in a certain light and if the bird is

in abraded plumage. Iris, Ridgw. lU. 8, dark (burnt umber) ; bill black, basal

part whitish ; legs and feet II. 11 (mouse-grey) ; claws II. 3 (blackish slate).

? ad. Throat a little paler than in the male; breast, abdomen, under tail- and

under wing-coverts white. Bare parts as in (?; legs and feet II. 13 (drab grey).

The hind-neck is cinnamon in some examples, but almost pure white in others,

apparently older ones.

Juv. Crown mixed with greenish blue ; upper wing-coverts bordered with pale

cinnamon. One sjjecimen, marked ?, shot on Guam ou December 2Sth, lb94, has

the breast and abdomen buffy white, mixed with cinnamon, some whitish feathers

on the throat, under wing-coverts pale cinnamon. The colour of head and upper

wing-coverts shows it to be a young bird.

Total length about 9—10 inches; wiug MO — los, culmen 45—40, tail 80 — S5 mm.

More than thirty sexed skins and a special note of the collectors prove beyond

donbt that Sharpe's supposed " subspecies " (from an unknown place) //. rufigularis

is the female of the cinnamon-bellied male. This observation is not at all new, for

Kittlitz, Reise II. p. 132, where also excellent field notes are given, has already

correctly described the colour of both sexes, and also the markings of the head in

immature birds. Finsch has afterwards made the same observation {.Totirn. Mut.

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Godeffr. XII. p. 20; Joiirn. f. Ornith. 1880. p. 2S5, and This 1881. ]>. 1 12), but neither

Sharpe {Gat. B. XVII. p. 200) nor "Wigleswortli {Ates Polynes. p. Ki) would

believe in what tliese authors stated. Onstalet, however, came to the same con-

clusion, in spite of some specimens (evidently wrongly sexed) which did not agree

with his theory.

Halcyon cinnamomina is only known from Guam, while Baijian is the home

of another species, the Polew Islands are inhabited by H. peltm<c/Mis Wiglesw.

(Aves Polynes. pp. 1.5, 16), and Ponapi^ by H. reichenhachi (Hartl.), of which

//. mediocris Sharpe is no doubt the male, judging from the case of the Guam sjiecies.

(i. Collocalia fuciphaga (Thnnb.) (Oust. I. p. 187).

We got it from Guam and Saipan. If further researches sliould enable ns to

split this widespread species up into subspecies, then the name ranikorensi.-i Qnoy

& Gaim. would have to stand for this form, but I cannot 3-et see the possibility of

recognising it as different. Marche found it on Saipau and Rota.

7. Rhipidiira uraniae Oust. (Oust. I. p. \^() purtin).

Rhipidura nrrmkie Owai. in BiiU. .Soc. Pluhmi. Paris 1881, March; Biittikofer in Xntes Lei/den

Mus. 1893. p. 77.

Rh. atrigulans Reichenow in .Tourn.f. Orii. 1885. p. 110.

In the case of the PJiipifhirae from the Marianne Islands I have to diiler

entirelv from M. Onstalet. 1 am sorry to say that there is not more than a single

fact in which I can agree with his recent views, as laid down in his great work on

the birds of the Marianne Islands. Formerly M. Onstalet described as a new

species Rh. uraniae from the Marianne Islands. This name belongs to the black-

throated form of Guam. (See original description and Onstalet, op. cit. p. 192.)

Recently the author declared his Rh. uraniae not only identical with the specimens

from Saipan, but he referred both forms to Rh. irrsicolor Hartl. & Finsch from

Yap. He concludes from his specimens that the white-throated birds are in

breedino- plumage, while those with the black throat are in autumn or winter dress.

This supposition, however, is wrong, for not only have our men shot both forms on

the two islands of Saipan and Guam in the same mouths, but we also got nests and

eggs of the black-throated Guam birds. Thus our large series jiroves beyond a

sliadow of doubt that the two islands of Saipan and Guam are inhabited Ijy two

different forms of Rhipidura, which replace each other. The one from Guam must

bear Oustalet's name of Rh. uraniae. The latter author's supposition (derived from

Reichenow's description) that Rh. atriyalaris, described from the Pelew Islands,

is the same as the Guam species, is quite correct, for I sent skins 0^ Rh. uraniae to

Prof. Reichenow, who kindly identified them with his type and found them entirely

similar. Therefore Rh. uraniae would inhabit the Pelew Islands and Guam ! This

is a very peculiar fact, as we find in Yap, between the Pelew and Marianne Islands,

a white-throated form, and on the Pelew Islands another not very distant, though

((uite distinct species, viz. Rh. lepida. I cannot therefore help casting strong doubt

on the locality given for Reichenow's Rh. atriyularis, a doubt which is strengthened

by Reichenow's Phlegoenas lirgo and Gorms kubaryi, which are both Guam species,

being described from the Pelew Islands.

Local name Guam: " Chichilica." Bill above Ridgw. II. 3 (blackish slate):

iris dark III. 2 (clove-brown); legs and toes II. .5 (slate-grey); claws II. X

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The sexes seem not to differ in colour or size.

Nests were found on Guam in February and Marcli, two to six feet above the

ground. They are constructed in the usual way of the Rhipidura nests, being a

round cup with a very smooth whitish outer surface, and rest on the top of a branch.

The eggs are creamy buff, with a zone of tiny patches and sjwts of brown and

greyish, sometimes nearer the thick end, sometimes right in the middle. They are

somewhat longisli, and measure about 16-o : l^-5 mm.

8. Rhipidura saipanensis sp. uov.

Rhipidura versicolor Oostalet I. pp. 190 ft", partim (nee Rh. rersicolor Hartlaub & Finsch).

The specimens from Saipan are very similar to F/i. versicolor, from Yap in the

Mackenzie group, but differ in having the bases of all the rectrices rnfous, the rump

and upper tail-covcrts rufous. The sides of tlie abdomen are not olive-brown, but

rufous. These differences seem quite sufficient to give a name to the Saipan form,

especially since the distribution of a form over the Mackenzie group and Saipan,

while the island of Guam between those two areas is inhabited by lih. uraniae,

would be almost jihenomenal. The ear-coverts, lores, and a line under the eye are

black. The nnder tail-coverts are of the same pale rufous colour as the flanks,

while the rump, upper tail-coverts, and base of tail are of a deep bright rnfous.

The rnfous at the base of the rectrices, which on the central pair occupies nearly

half the feather, diminishes towards the sides of the tail, it e.xtending only

10 — 15 mm. wide on the lateral pair. The white, on the other hand, which forms

only a narrow fringe on the central pair, becomes broader towards the lateral

rectrices, where it is about 12 mm. wide. Total length of adult male (type) about

1.51 mm.; wing 69; tail 80; bill 8; tarsus 19.

Rh. saipanensis resembles very closely Rli. rubrqfrontatd Rams, from the

far distant island of Guadalcanar, in the Solomon group of islands, from which it

chiefly differs in the greater e.xtent of rnfous on the base of the tail and the slightly

wider rufous forehead.

Oustalet, in his article on what he calls Rh. versicolor, further expresses his

opinion that his own Rh. dsirolabi, which he described from Vaiiikoro in the Santa

Cruz Archipelago, is the same as Rh. versicolor, thinking it may be its summer

dress. I see no reason to accept that view, as Oustalet's theory about the Rhipidurae

of Saipan broke down, not to speak of the peculiar distribution at all. Thus I

think, without doubt, that Oustalet's Rh. versicolor, as he limited it under No. 7

of his article, consi-sts of —

1. R. cersicolor Hartl. & Finsch, Yap.

2. R. uraniae Oustalet, Guam.

3. R. .mipanensis Hartert, Saipan.

4. R. astrolabi Oustalet, Vanikoro.

9. Myiagra freycineti Oust. (Oust. I. ji. 194).

Oust., Bull. Soc. Philom. 18H1 (7), V. p. 7.3; id., Nuturalisle 18811. p. 'iOO ; Wiglesw., Arts

Pulynes. p. 24.

S ad. Maxilla black, mandibula plumbeous. Top of the licad deep metallic

blue, with a somewhat slaty hue : rest of uiiper surface dark grey, with a ste<'l-l)lue

gloss : winss and tail blackisli, outer webs narrowlv edged with grev, inner webs

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witli brownish white, tail narrow!}' tipped with greyish white. Under parts white,

breast more or less strongly washed with rnfous buff. Iris light ochraceous

(Rido-way V. 7); legs and feet with claws slate-colour. Total length about 130 mm.;

wing 71 — 73: tail 60 — 62; culmen 17. Local name: "Chugangan" or "C'hug-

wangwan."

? ad. Top of head slate-colour, slightly glossy. Back and rurap grey, washed

with ferruginous brown ; wing-coverts with rusty edges ; under parts as in male,

but not only the breast, but rather the whole of the under parts with a rufous wash,

which is strongest on the breast and vanishes on the belly. Smaller than »iale :

culmen 15 — 16 mm.; wing 66—68; tail 59. Local name : " Chichilica." Iris, feet,

and bill as in mrrfe.

I have no doubt that these two birds are male smd /e?nale, as all our skins

are sexed accordingly. Oustalet also came to the same conclusion. But if this

information is right, the inhabitants of Guam have different names for the sexes

—a thing which may be observed elsewhere, for example by myself in Curasao.

This species is apparently confined to Guam, where it seems to be common ; it

was not found by our collectors on Saipan, nor did the French collectors find it

elsewhere than on Guam.

A nest with one egg was found in a " Kamachiri " tree, three feet from the

o-round, February 14th, 1895. The nest is somewhat flat, with a thick bottom, but

not very thick walls. It is composed of fibres and rootlets, interwoven with lichens,

cobwebs, and leaves, and is about 55 mm. wide and hardly 22 mm. deep. The

single egg reminds one much of an egg of Lanius coUurio in colour. It is of a

brownish cream-colour, with a zone of heavy dark brown and deeper-lying cinereous

blotches and spots nearer to the thick end, and measures 19 : 14-6 mm. Nest and

egg are here described for the first time.

10. Myzomela rubratra (Less.) (Oust. I. p. 197).

Both on Guam and Saipan, evidently very common on the former, but less

numerous on the latter island. Local name : " Segegi" or " Sgegi." Colour of bill

Kidgw. II. 1 (black); iris III. 11 (Prout's brown); legs and toes II. 4 (slatc-

colonr) ; claws II. 3 (blackish slate).

"We have received over fifty skins of this bird, which is very numerous on

Guam. The m.alen are much larger ; the females have the wing about 6 mm.

shorter, and have the red paler, the wing and wing-coverts not pure black, but dark

olive-brown, the remiges with greenish olive edges on the outer webs, the back

less red, and the abdomen and vent more olive greyish brown, not black.

Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. XXXVIII. p. 263, described Mi/zomela major ex

insulis Caroliuis ab Hombr. & Jacq. as different from J/, rubratra from the Marianne

Islands with the diagnosis : " Similis praecedenti, sed major et percoccinea." That

is all— no measurements, nothing more! Oustalet, NaturalUte 1889. p. 261,

mentions Myzomela rubratra from the Mariannes, and says : " Representee par

des individus de tallies trfes diff^rentes, trouves dans la meme ile (.1/. rubratra

ordinaire et .1/. rubratra var. major Bp.)." Oustalet, t.c. p. 200, says that some

specimens from Pagan and Agrigan, collected by Marche, are entirely similar to the

type of M. major, and therefore he regards this name as synonymous to M. rubratra.

I cannot see any striking differences in size in our large series, beyond the

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differences of the sexes. Specimens from the Carolines (Rnk, Ualau) do not differ

from Marianne Islands specimens.

A number of nests were fonnd in Jaunary, February, and March on Guam.

They were placed in l)nshes or trees, chiefly the " Kamachiri " tree, from four

to eight feet from the ground. They are deep cups, woven together of rootlets

and fine grasses, outside ornamented with leaves, sheepswool, col)webs, etc., and

are about 5 — T cm. deep and 0 — 8 cm. wide. The eggs are two in number, white

or cream-colour, richly marked with deep rnfous brown spots, especially on the

thicker end. They measure from 17-1 : 14 to 10 : 14 mm. In some clutches

the sjxits are of a paler somewhat brick-red colour. A similar variation occurs

in the eggs of our Phi/lloscopus trochilus.

Kittlitz, Reise II. p. 127, mentions this species as a "rothe Sonimauga," and

gives as its name " Egik."

11. Cleptornis marchei Oust. (Oust. I. p. 202, PI. VII.).

This pretty little honey-eater was discovered on the island of Saipan by

M. Alfred Marche, and described as Ptilotis mnreliei, or rather as Cleptornis (the

distinguishing characters of the reservedly proposed genus being well stated)

marchei, by Onstalet in Le Naturaliste 1889. p. 260. It is deep golden yellow,

darker and a little merging into orange on the abdomen; back, rump, wings,

and tail greenish olive-yellow. Bill light V. 7 (ochraceous); iris III. 8 (burnt

umber); feet and legs V. 3 (orange-ochraceous) ; claws light ochraceous. Tlic

mnles have the wings 76 — 80 mm., the J'emales 71 — 73 mm.; the J'e/mi/fs have also

shorter bills. The local name is " Canario." Our specimens collected in July and

August are partly in moult, while those from September are in full plumage.

A nest was found on July 7th in a " Rakiti " tree. It hangs in the fork of

a thin branch, just like the nest of a golden Oriole, at the end concealed by the

long oval laurel-like leaves of the " Rakiti." The sides of the nest are not very

tightly woven and consist of roots, grasses, etc., outside beautifully ornamented

with small leaves and the silk of light green cocoons. It is about ol cm. high and

7 to 8 cm. wide. It is not lined with any special soft material, a character pecnliar

to all the nests of Guam before me. The egg, when fonnd, was almost hatched,

and therefore had to be cut in halves. It is pale blue without gloss, spotted over

and over with rufous, more so on the thicker end, and measures about 20 : 15 mm.

Four more nests, received afterwards, found on Saipan late in August in

" Paipai " and " Agauterau " trees, are exactly like the one hero described, also

nearly all more or less well shaded on one side by overhanging leaves, some

of course being a little smaller, others somewhat larger, but not much different.

The eggs, of which two or three were found in a nest, agree with the one

described above; some, however, are of a deeper sky-blue, thus resembling the

eggs of some species of Pyrrhula. The rufous spots are smaller in some, larger

and more like blotches in others, all being richly and some rather beautifully

marked. They measure 21o : 16, 20 : 15-1, 19-8 ; 143, 20 ; l."y], 20 : 14-0, 20 : 14-.-),

20-6:15, 20-O: 16-2 mm.

The nest figured by Oustalet agrees witli our nests, but the eggs which he

describes and figures are those of a Zosterops 1

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12. Zosterops conspicillata (Kittl.) (Onst. I. p. 205).

Z. semperi (nee Hartl.) Oust, in Le Naturuliste 1889. p. 261.

A series from Guam, where it is evidently common, and also some from

Saipan which jirobably belong to the same species.

Hitherto only recorded from Gnam, for Z. semperi from Uuk and Pelew

Islands is quite another species, with no white on the forehead.

Local name : " Nosai." Maxilla, Ridgw. III. 2 (clove-brown); mandible V. 10

(ochraceons bnff); legs and toes X. 15 (sage-green); claws deep brown.

This species is, according to Kittlitz {Heine II. p. 131), rather common, keeps

mostly in the higher trees, and reminded liim somewhat of the Titmice.

We have also six specimens from Saipan, shot in Jnly and Angnst.

Unfortunately they are mostly poor specimens, some being in moult or apparently

immatnre, others badly shot, so that it is ditficnlt to make them out. They seem

to have the white ring ronnd the eyes narrower, the lores and forehead more

yellowish, than typical Z. conspicillata from Guam, and there is also a distinct

grey wash on the sides of the neck and head, which is not perceptible in our Saipan

specimens. Although I can see these differences very well, I must at present

refrain from separating the Saipan liird, as there is an immatnre Gnam skin which

looks just like the Saipan birds, and in a genus like Zosterops (of which 130 species

are described already, and some more are to be discovered without doubt) it is

especially wise to be careful in separating new forms. Nevertheless it may be

possible to distinguish the Saipan bird when good adult specimens are to hand.

Several nests were found on Guam in February and March. They were placed

three or four feet from the ground in various bushes and trees. The nest is a fairly

deep cup, placed in the fork of a branch, woven together of fine grasses and roots,

and on the outside ornamented with cobwebs, wool, and cottonwool, varjing in

width from 8 to 5 cm. The clutches consist of two and three eggs. The eggs are

pale blue, like all Zosterops eggs. They measure 18:13, 17:13-2, 17:12-2,

15-5 : 12-5, 17 : 13o, and between these measurements.

[Onstalet, t.c. p. 207, mentions also Z. semperi as occurring on Rota, an

island between Guam and Saipan, which are, according to Onstalet, both inhabited

by Z. coiisjiicillatii, a view which seems to be correct, altliongh 1 could not be quite

certain about it. The reoccurrence of Z. semperi on Rota is very peculiar.]

13. Acrocephalus luscinia (Quoy & Gaim.) (Oust. I. p. 209).

Thnjnthorus luscmius Quoy & Gaim., Voy. Astrolabe I. p. 202. PI. V. (1830).

Tiitare luscinia Gray, Gen. B. (1849) III. p. 8, App.; Biittik., Noks Leyihn Mus. XIV. p. IG (189-2).

Acrocejih((lns nviriannae Tristr., Ihis 1883. p. 45.

Tatare maHannae Sharpe, Cat. II. VII. p. 528 ; Oustalet, Xatiiraliste 1889. p. 2G.

Si/lrut syiiiu- Kittl., lieisell. p. 141 (Guam, heard but not collected ! Not .S. syrinx Kittl. Carolines !).

Tatare luscinia, Oustalet in A'oiec. Arcli. Mas. Uist. Nat. Ser. III. Vol. VII. p. 209.

A good series both from Guam and Saipan. Birds from the two islands cannot

be separated. Local name Guam : " KalisO " (Quoy & Gaimard and Marche give it

as " Gapio "). Maxilla, Ridgw. II. 3 (blackish slate); mandible V. 11 (cream-buff);

iris IV. 3 ("madder-brown"); .legs and toes II. 11 (mouse-grey); claw II. 5

(slate-grey).

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As alreadj- mentioned by Mr. Rotbscbild in Atifauna of Laysan I. p. 2 of his

article on his x\crocephahmfumili(iris, I agree with liim and Canon Tristram in uniting

the so-called Tatare with Acrocephalus. Although Tatare longirostris and luscinia

seem to differ much from onr Acrocephalus in their long bills, there are A. sijrinx

and A. mendanae bridging over the gap between A. arundinaceus and ^4. longirostris

or luscinia, nor has the form of the wing sufficient constancy to warrant a generic

separation. P.nt even if Tntare is kept np b}- fanatic genus-splitters, A.familiaris

Rothsch. from Laysan wonld go with Acrocephnlus, not with Tatare. Song and

nests and eggs of the so-called Tatare are like those of Acrocephalus sensn strictiore.

On the other hand, Onstalet (p. 210) retains the genns Tatare, and says that certain

members of the genns have diiferent plnmages in different seasons, a character which

is not fonnd in Acrocephalus. However, neither A. luscinia nor A. syrinx, of which

we have large series, show any different plmnages in different seasons or ages, so

that I doubt the propriety of attributing generic value to the facts stated by Prof.

Onstalet, of which we should very much like to know more.

A. luscinia has been rebaptised A. mariannae by Tristram, because he "feared

that luscinia was preoccupied as a s])ccific sylviad name," but I cannot find any

Acrocephalus of that name, and we need not consider Aiklon luscinia (the

nightingale), which is in a totally different genus. I do not know either why

Sharpe in the Catalogue of Birds accepted the name of T. mariannae, as it was

against his usual practice. Kittlitz's note that he heard the song of his Sylvia

syrinx in the swamps of Guam no doubt refers to .1. luscinia.

It is an extraordinary fact that, according to Onstalet, t.c. p. 210, ^1. syrinx

{Tatare syrinx) was fonnd by Marche on the island of Pagan, one of the northern-

most Jlariannes. As this species is otherwise an inhabitant of the Carolines, and

seems not to occur in the Southern Mariannes, we would have here a peculiar

instance of distribution, much like that of Zosterops semperi, if there is no mistake

about that.

14. Aplonis kittlitzi Finsch & Hartl. (Oust. I. p. 212).

Wiglesw., Ares Pnbjncsiae p. 44.

Iris, Ridgw. VI. 11 (lemon-yellow); bill, Ridgw. II. 1 (black); legs, toes, and

claws, Ridgw. II. 3 (blackish slate). Another specimen: Iris V. 9 (ochre-yellow):

bill II. 1; legs, toes, and claws, Ridgw. II. 1 (black).

Local name Guam: " Sal6 " and " Solei."

Very common on the island of Guam. Size somewhat variable, the wings of

the males measuring from 118 to 131 mm., but mostly about 125 to 128 mm.

In May, June, and July many males had^many of the white-edged feathers of

the young on the underside, and old birds were much in moult, but in November,

January, and March they were all in good plumage.

Finsch & Havtlaub described this species from the Caroline Islands, but it

was found on the Marianne Islands by Kittlitz and Marche, and on the Pelew

Islands by Tetens and Kubary.

We have also received a small series from Saipan, collected in July, and partly

in monlt, partly in full jjluniage. The Saipan s])ecimens have mostly higher bills

and mostly longer wings, but it seems impossible to found on them even a sub-

species. Their wings measure from 122 to 133 mm. The Marianne birds cannot,

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I think, be distiiiguisbed specificall}' from those from Rnk or Luganor, the only

island from wliere 1 liave siJecimens before me, and some from the Pelew Islands

are also quite similar, though, on an average, with a trifle shorter wings. Wigles-

worth (V.r.) states that " specimens from Yap are bigger than those from Ualan, bnt

otherwise similar."

Two eggs found on Guam March 11th, IS'Jo, "position of nest on ' Xinginku "

tree." The eggs resemble much the eggs of several species of Caloriiis. They are

of a very pale blue, spotted all over with deep rufous brown and deeper-lying

brownish violet patches and spots, and measure 29 : 20 mm.

15. Corvus kubaryi Rchw. (Oust. I. p. 218).

Corvus soUtar'ms Kittl , Reiae II. p. 143 (1858) (Guam) {mc C. mJitarius Wiirtt. 1852, ex Hayti)

(descr. nulla !).

Corvus kuhanji Rchw., Jnurn.f. Oni. 1885. p. 110 (Pelew Is.).

Cnrum; phUippina Wiglesw. {nee Bp.), Ares Polynes. p. 4G.

Curvus solitarius, Oustalet in Noui: Arch. Ser. III. Vol. VII. p. 218 (1895).

Kittlitz (I.e.) says : " In these forests (of the island of Gnaham) lives singly

a species of crow, which at the beginning I thought to be Corvus corone, and

therefore neglected. Only too late I convinced myself that it was a new bird,

to which I gave, for the time being, the name of Corvus solitarius, but I never

found time to describe it properly. Unfortunately I could only keep one of several

I shot. Afterwards I found the species again in Manila. I saw this crow always in

trees only." From this note it is clear that Kittlitz's name is merely a " nomen

nudum," besides being preoccupied by C. solitarius Wiirtt (1852). It can therefore

not be used for the Guam crow.

Wiglesworth, who certainly never saw a specimen of it, considered the Guam

crow to be C. iihilippina, from which however it difters at a glance in its small

size, the wing being more than two inches shorter, the bill and everything else

incomparably less. It is much more like Corvus pusillus Tweedd., and from that

species (also a Philippine one) it is chiefly distinguished by its dark black plumage,

with only very little steel-blue gloss, and by a somewhat differently shaped liill.

I have sent one of our Guam skins to Prof. Reichenow, who kindly informs me

that it is his C. kubanji, which however he described as coming from the Pelew

Islands.

Our specimens measure: J. Culm. 53—57 mm.; al. 230 — 245; caud. 160 — 170:

tars. 50. ?. Culm. 48— .:)2 mm.; al. 220—230; caud. 160; tars. 50.

A dwarfed specimen, se.x doubtful, Guam, .July 25th, has the wing only

212 mm.; tail 146; culm. 47.

Local name: " Tolile." Bill black; iris 111. 5 (vandyke brown); feet and claws

black. Total length about 15 — 16 inches. Prom December to February they were

in good plumage, but those shot late in March or later were very iLl)raded and

rough.

Marche has also obtained a skin at Rota. Future researches must show

whether this raven is really found in the Pelew Archipelago. It is strange

that former collectors did not find it there, as a crow is not a bird which is easily

overlooked. I cannot help doubting the correctness of the statement that it comes

from the Pelew Islands.

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11. Ptilinopus roseicapillns (Less.) (Onst. I. p. 218).

We have received a large series from Gnam and two from Saipan. Marche got

it also in Rota.

Local name : " Totolu " or " Totorn." Iris, Ridgw. VI. 8 (chrome-yellow); legs

and feet dark YIII. 18 (heliotrope -pnrple): claws II. 3 (blackisli slate); bill X. 21

(nil-green).

Total length 200—230 mm.; wing 130.

The sexes do not differ materially, hut some of onr skins have the upper breast

darker, less distinctly tijjpcd with i)earlygrey; most of these are females, hnt not

all. Specimens from Saipan are ijuite like those from Gnam.

Nests were found in " Kamachiri " and " Abasn " trees, in dili'erent heights,

three and six feet from the ground, and they contained one egg each. The eggs are

of a glossless white, very pale yellow if held against the light. They measure

31-5 : 23, 31-6 : 21-4 (almost fusiform), and 35 : 22 mm.

IT. Turtur dussumieri (Temm.) (Onst. I. p. 222).

Very common in Guam and also in Saipau.

Local name: "Paloma halomtano." Iris between Ridgw. VI. 3 and V. 1 (tawny

orange); bOl II. 11 (mouse-grey); feet between VIII. 17 and VIII. 20 (solferino

and rose-purple).

The home of this dove is no doubt the Philippine Archipelago, and it is

probably introduced in Guam, where however as long ago as Kittlitz's visit it was

very numerous, and kept in cages in almost every house. Being aware of the

fondness of the Malays for keeping doves in captivity, I do not doubt that this

species is also not a native in Borneo, but only introduced there as well. Wiglesworth

however seems to believe the reverse, and credits Temmiuck with an " error " for

giving the island of Luzon as the habitat of his species, but it is so universally

distributed over the Philippines that I cannot see the origin of Wiglesworth's

theory. Oustalet also believes that it is introduced in Gnam, and says that Marche

found it less common than it was in Kittlitz's time. Onr men however found it

very numerous.

With Iso. 279 of his list however Wiglesworth has again propagated a long-

existing error, for Turtur pre-costianus Bp. is = T. picturatus (Temm.), and came

from Marianne Island, one of the Seychelles, but has nothing to do with the

l\Iarianne or Ladrone Islands.

Nests of Turtur dussumieri, each containing one fresh egg, were found on

Gnam in April and May. They were placed in " Lemoneina " trees. The eggs are

somewhat longish and glossy, and nearly pure white if held against the light.

They measure 2U'5 : 22 and 20 : 22-4 mm.

18. Phlegoenas xanthonura Temm. (Oust. I. j). 224).

Cnlumha xanthonura, Temm., PL Col. lilO, livi-. 32 (1823) (This figure shows distinctly afonalc or

young mak of this species. Tlicre is therefore no reason wliy the name of Temminck should

not be accepted.)

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Columba 2>atiii>usan Quuy & Gaim., Vny. Uraiiie, Zuul. pi. 30 (1824).

Columha xanlhura auct. aliquot, nee Forst.

Columba enjthropkra Hartl. (ner Gmel. !), Jmirn.f. Orn. 1854. p. 167.

Phlcgoenas enjthropleni Rchb., Tuxhen I. p. 41 ; Oust., Naturalistt 1889. p. 261.

Phhgoemis pampusan Wiglesw., Aves PoIi/ms. p. 55 ; Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI. p. 602. (Teste

Reichenow.)

Phleijocnus virgo Rchw., Jmirn.f. Orn. 1885. p. 110.

Phlogoenas pampuxan, Oustalet, op. cit. p. 224.

Not being able to find any differences between Dr. Eeiclienow's diagnosis of

P. virgo and the Guam specimens, I sent some of tlie latter to that author, who

kindly compared them with his bird and informed me that some of them were

identical with his type. This is surprising, as the Pelew Islands are inhabited by

another not very distantly related species (P. cainfrom), and the island of Yap,

between the Pelew and the Marianne Islands, is the home of another (P. yajMnsis).

I can very well understand that Dr. Reichenow, not having a large series of

1'. jminpusan before him, believed the rusty isabelline colour of the occiput and

hind-neck to be a differentiating character; but that three very conspicuous species —

i.e. P. pampusan., Rliipulara waidne, and CorvHS kaharyi — were found on the Pelew

Islands, while Finsch in his work on the birds of that group in the Journal of the.

Museum Godeffroy had not mentioned them, and that they inhabited both the Pelew

and Marianne Islands, lohile closel// allied forms were found on the Pelew Islands

as well as on Yap and the Marianne Islands, is difficult to understand. It will be

seen from this article that all the three sjjecies described by Reichenow (I.e.) from

the Pelew Islands have otherwise only been found on Guam, and I am therefore

inclined to believe that these three species came really from Guam, and were labelled

Pelew Islands by some mistake.

Our specimens agree perfectly with Salvadori's description in the Catalogue of

Birds, but the hind-neck and occiput are sometimes deep rusty rufous, sometimes

only very pale rusty buff, and in some nearly black, the latter younger examples.

Younger females have pale edges to the feathers of the upperside.

We have it from Guam and Saipan. Local name of the male " Apaca," of the

female "Paloma knno." Iris cj Ridgw. III. 2 (clove-brown), ? II. 3 (blackish

slate); feet 6 and ? light VIII. 6 (light Indian purple); bill II. 5 (slate-grey).

19. Excalfactoria sinensis (Gm.) (not m Oustalet).

Guam, introduced ! Local name : " Bishibishi." The collectors say : " It is

reported that this bird was introduced last year from Manila by a man named Henry,

but as it is found in different places on the island this statement may prove to be

incorrect." It was probably introduced several times before.

(Oustalet mentions also Gallus hankiva as having been shot in Saipan by Mons.

Marche. It was no doubt introduced, as also Oustalet admits.)

20. Megapodius laperouse Quoy & Gaim. (Oust. II. p. 26).

Five skins and a chick in first plumage from Saipan, and one from Guam. The

chick was found on July ITth.

Local name Saipan : " Sachigat." BOl, Itidgw. VI. 10 (gamboge-yellow),

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spotted with II. 5 (slate-grey); legs aud feet jellow, spotted with black on the toes,

sometimes the toes quite black; iris VI. 2 (cadminm-orange).

This is the true M. lajjerouse which was described from Guam, Botta, and Tiuian.

Oustalet (in Annales Sc. A'atur. 1891. p. 196) declared it to be the same as J/, senex

liartl. from Pelew. Grant (Cat. B. XXII. p. 400) followed Oustalet, never having

seen any specimens except from the Pelew Islands. The two forms are certainly

very closely allied, but J/, sencx diifers from .1/ laperouse in a decidedly paler grey

top of the head, which is not obvionsh- different from the nape; M. Inpcrouse

however has the crown darker and a patch on the nape or uppermost hind-neck

I)ale ashy grey, in contrast with the colour of the crown. Wing 170 — 180 mm.

The young is coloured exactly like the one of M. senex described aud tignred in

the Journ. Mus. Godeffr.

21. Hypotaenidia owstoni Rothsch. (Oust. II. p. 32).

RaXe tiklin Quoy et Gaimard, Voijoye i'ratiie, Zool. I. p. 35.

Rallus j/hilqip'mensis, NA'iglesworth, Ares Polytusiae, in Abluimll. itBcr. JIua. Dresden 18'.>0-91. p. 69.

sp. 305 (j)artim, Rah tiklin ex Guam).

Hypotaenidia owstoni Rothscb. in Nov. Zoul. II. p. 481 (1895).

//. marchei, Oustalet, op. cit. 11. p. 32 (1896).

In 1895 Mr. Rothschild described this species from three J'ema leu. It is named

in honour of Mr. Alan Owston, of Yokohama. Since then Mr. Rothschild has

received three more females and one male, all from Guam, where it was also

found by Marche. The female is well described in Nov. Zool. II. p. 481 by

Mr. Rothschild, and as also Professor Oustalet has given us a very good description,

I need not add much. I may only say that the male seems a little larger than

the females, especially the beak longer. Exposed culmen 40 mm.; wing 125;

tail 44; tarsus 51.

The remiges are very soft and short, so that the bird cannot fly much. This

is confirmed by the note of the collectors saying that " it cannot fly high." (See

Rothsch., Nov. Zool. II. p. 487.)

22. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.) (Oust. II. p. 34).

Gallinula spec, Ejttlitz, Reise II. p. 145.

Gallinula galeata var. sandwichensis (sic) {nee Streets, Stejneger, Ridgway, Wilson X Evans

Sharps), Oustalet, op. cit. p. 34.

Kittlitz, lieise II. p. 145, tells us that he got a moorhen on Guam, " which

was very much like our Gallinula chloropus." " The Gallinula," he says, " is said

to be very rare on Guam, and it may have much opportunity to hide in the

inaccessible reed-thickets. I never saw it in the open, but I got two alive.

Unfortunately only the less fine one of the two, a young male, remained for me,

the other, much finer bird, escaping out of the cage in wliich it was brought.

The iris in this was blackish brown; bill and frontal shield beautifully red; the

feet yellow, with green toes and red knee-bands. The plumage seemed to be

t)Iacker than that of G. chloropus, which differs specifically already in the colour

of the iris." The specimens before me, however, do not, according to the notes

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of the collectors, differ by the colour of the eye from Europeau moorhens, nor is

their colour blacker. 1 have tried hard to find any distinguishing characters from

European GaUintda chloropus, but failed. Although the oldest males have very

fine large red frontal shields, they are matched by specimens from Africa, England,

and the Malay Archipelago, nor is there any other remarkable difference.

Our collectors liave sent ns thirty-six well-prepared skins, all from Guam, shot

in January, February, April, July, August, and December. This proves that it

is a sedentary bird on Guam, where it also Iireeds. Local name : " Platarn."

Iris, Ridgw. VII. 15 (Chinese orange); bill and frontal shield VII. 3 (crimson);

tip of bill X. 20 (apple-green); feet X. 20 (apple-green); claws II. 5 (slate-grey).

The collectors also supplied the following information on one of the labels, which

I reproduce literally translated : " This bird was obtained in the neighbourhood

of swamps. It is more frequently found near water. We caught alive an immature

bird. We kept it in confinement and fed it with rice, but unfortunately, during our

absence, it fell victim to the dogs. We observed that it was very quiet in the day-

time, and used to move about only in the night-time."

Nests were found iu December and March on Guam in the grass on swampy

ground. The eggs are like those of European moorhens, and vary just as much

in size, form, and markings.

Mons. Marche also procured some specimens, but they are referred by Professor

Oustalet to what he terms " Gallinula galeata var. sandivichensis.'"

Having before me a good series of the Gallinula from the Sandwich Islands,

collected by Mr. Palmer, I am able to state that the form from Guam does not

at all belong to it, nor to G. galeata, which is the American form. The latter

resembles very much our (i. chloropus, from which it differs almost only in the

form of the frontal shield, which is less rounded, but more truncated at the top.

If any one wishes to separate it only subspecifically, he cannot be blamed;

but we may just as well follow the American ornithologists, Shar{)e, and others

in keeping it specifically distinct. On the other hand, G. sandivichensis Streets

cannot be put down as a subspecies of galeata, from which it differs considerably

by the extent of the frontal shield, which reaches beyond the eyes, is more rounded

on the hinder corners, and much more swollen. I consider this form more

distinct from G. galeata than G. galeata from G. chloropus. With regard

to the subspecies of G. chloropus, I may say that it seems to me possible to

separate the very small specimens from the Malayan Islands subspecifically,

although it is difficult to draw a line of limitation. I also find that all the

specimens I have seen from Madagascar and Reunion have the under tail-

coverts buff throughout. This character, in the rare cases when found in European

moorhens, is more or less confined to the outer under tail-coverts, and mostly due

to a dirty condition. I therefore do not think it unwise to recognise G. pyrrhorhoa

as a subspecies. G. garmani, which I have from the lake of Titicaca, is so large

that I must consider it worthy of subspecific rank.

The status of this group of the genus Gallinula would thus be as follows : —

G. chloropus chloropus (L.), Europe, Africa, Asia (Guam).

G. chloropus (prientalis?"), S.E. of Asia and Malayan Islands.

G. chloropus pyrrhorhoa Newt., Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion.

G. galeata Bp., America generally.

G. galeata garmani Allen, Lake Titicaca and Chili.

G. sandwichensis Streets, Sandwich Islands.

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Sharjie also thinks that the West Indian specimens might be separated

subspecifically from G. galeata. I do not know them.

The accomiiaiiying tigares show onr G. chloropm (an old male from Guam)

and G. galeata and G. sandwichensis. They are taken from average-sized adult

nmles.

GalliniiXa galeata

(Brazil).

G. sandxcichensis

(MoLOKAlt.

G. chloroi>us

(Guam I.

23. Fulica atra L. (not in Onstalet).

An nnsexed specimen, evidently a bird of the year, has been shot by the Japanese

collectors on Gnam in aiitnmn. Wing 165 mm. Bill, Ridgway V. 8; legs and toes

V. 8; claws II. 3. Total length 11 inches.

New to the omis of the Marianne Islands, where it is probably only an accidental

visitor.

24. Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieill.) (not itt Onstalet).

Gnam, July, Febmary, and about two dozen from August. Jjocal name:

"Galangajio" or " Garangajio." Maxilla dark V. 8; mandible V. T; iris VII. 3;

legs and toes V. 12; claws III. 23. The collector says: " The birds were obtained

in a swamp, where yon sink waist-deep, and overgrown with rushes. The note of

this bird is pleasant (isic). It is no exaggeration to say tliat the swamp is so

spacious that you forget your way back."

The bird is evidently very numerous in the swamps of Guam, although former

collectors did not find it there.

The Gnam specimens do not differ from those from other countries.

2.5. Demiegretta sacra (Gm.) (Onst. II. p. 36).

Common Gnam and Saipan. Local name : " Chichnko."

Nests, composed of dry twigs and branches, were fonnd among the grass on

Saipau July 28th, 1895.

The eggs are verj' pale greenish bine, like other herons' eggs ; sea-green inside

if held against the light. They measure 44 : 34, 47 : 35, and 45 : 34-8 mm.

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'■ill Ardetta sinensis (Gm.) (Oust. II. p. 38).

Guaiu, all the year ronud. Local names : " Kalalauir " and " Cagag." Maxilla

II. 1; mandible and tip of maxilla VI. 15; iris VI. a; legs and toes VI. 15; claws

III. 23.

The old birds are rather pale above.

27. Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scop.) (Oust. LL p. 39).

N. teniurustiis Kittl., Reise II. p. 129.

Guam, March and February.

The eastern form of the wimbrel seems very distinct, but Stejneger and Seebolim

were acquainted with many intermediate specimens, so that they had to regard it

only as a subspecies.

28. Numenius cyanopus Vieill. (not in Oustaletj.

i. Guam, December 11th, 1894. Local name: " Kalalan " or " Kalalang."

13111 II. 1 ; from middle to base of mandible light II. 5; legs between II. 0 and II. 7.

I believe that the species is never recorded with absolute certainty from the

North Pacific Islands, but the '• Corlienx " of Messrs. Quoy & (4aimard {Vo'/aye.

Uraitii;) was probabl}- this species, and perhaps some other references now referred

to ]S\ tahitiensis might belong to N. cyanopus.

29. Limosa lapponica baueri (Naum.) (not in Oustalet).

?. Guam, November 26th, 1894. Local name: " Kalalaug " or " Kaiahiu."'

Bill II. 3; basal half of mandible II. 15; iris between III. 2 and III. o; legs and

toes II. {).

30. Totanus hypoleucus (Liuu.j (Oust. II. p. 43).

?. Saipan, July 27th, 1895.

31. Totanus incanus (Gm.) (Oust. 11. p. 41).

Guam, commou in March and April. Local name : " Doli."

(Mods. Marche shot also a T. yUireoln on Guam. .See Oust. 11. p. 43.)

32. Gallinago megala Swinh. (not in Oustalet).

Onu female, Guam, December 10th, 1S94. Local name: " Kalalau" or '■ Kala-

laug." BUI II. 3; basal half II. 11 ; iris III. 1; legs and feet II. 13. Tail

nnfortnnately in moult. Wing 141 mm. : bill 65.

This bird agrees with skins of GaUinaqo mei/uld from Palawan (Whiteln';id

coll.), but the bill is a little longer. Those from Palawan have bills 55 — GO mm.

in length.

33. Tringa arenaria Linn, (not in Oustalet).

Guam, December. Local name : " Doli."

Some specimens with grey uppersidc, some with black sjiots on the back.

(Marche also collected Irimja acuminata. Oust. II. p. 44.)

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34. Charadrius fulvus Gm. (Oust. U. p. 40).

Gnaiu, very commou in March and April. Local name : " Doli."

3o. Strepsilas interpres (Linn.) (Onst. IL p. 45).

Guam, common in March and April. Local name : " Doli."

30. Charadrius squatarola Liuu. (not in Oustalet).

iSaipan, August 7th, ISO."). Bill 11. 1 ; iris between IIL 1 and 111. 2 ; legs

and toes IL 6. A rather large specimen. Exjwsed culiucn 33 mm. : wings 191;

tarsus 45.

There seems to be a large race which winters in Australia (cf. Hartert, Ratal.

Voyels. Senc/tenb. Mu.i. ]). 217, footnote 400), and which was named C. rhynchomega

by Bonaparte ; but if I recollect it well, its head was remarkably larger than in the

sjiecimen from Suijiaii. The first primary of the Saipan specimen has much white

in the middle of the outer web.

37. Charadrius mongolicus Pall. (Oust. II. p. 48).

Guam, February and November. Local name : " Doli."

38. Anas oustaleti Salvad. (Oust. II. p. 4ri).

(?) Ants bosclmn a.frcydiifti Bp., Cumj/l. Rend. XLIII. p. I'A'.* (mnneii imdunt. '" Isles Malouines " [?].

Oust, thinks it may have come from the Marianne Islands !).

Anas ouskileti Salvad., Bull. Bill. Oni. Club No. XX. p. 1: id., Git. B. Bril. .Uux. XXVII.

p. 189 footnote.

I have before me adult males and females from the mouths of January, April,

August, and December, and I find that Salvadori's suspicion, that the bird described

by him might not be in full dress, is unfounded. In fact the sexes, as in -1. super-

ciliosa, do not differ materially. The central rectrices of the specimens before me

are very soft, and become very likely easily curled, but they show a tendency rather

to curl down than to curl up.

This excellent species has the top of the head brownish black, with a slight

greenish gloss. Rest of upper parts more brownish, feathers narrowly edged with

brown, back often uniform. An indistinct blackish superciliary stripe, being separated

from the top of the head by only a narrow pale line. Sides of head and neck buff,

streaked witli dark brown. Throat buff, not streaked. Wings dark brown ; speculum

bluish ])urple, a little greenish in a certain light, l)ut never pure metallic green as

in A. sujjerciliona. Speculum bordered above and below by a black line, followed

by a white band. Under wing-coverts and axillaries white. Total length about

21 inches ; wing 245 — 265 mm. ; culmen 55 ; tarsus 40.

At once distinguishable from ^l. superciliosa by the purple speculum, which is

lined with black nnd white lines above and below, darker and spotted cheeks,

indistinct superciliary stripe, broader bill, and jialer somewhat greyish brown ujiper

wing-coverts without any pale margins.

Guam and Saipan. Local name : " Nagai."

Bill, Bidgw. II. 5 (slate-grey), si)aringly s])otted with 11. 1 (black); iris light

III. 1 (light seal-brown); legs and feet IV. In (ferruginous); claws II. .") (slate-

grey).

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39. Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Meisu. & Schinz) (Oust. 11. p. 57).

A yonng bird shot on Guam, November 6tli. Native name: "("Iiugi." Bill

II. 1 (black); iris II. 1; legs and feet IV. 6.

It may also be mentioned that we have received two adult II. leucoptera from

a place called" Ogasawara." They have been sent as with other rare Japanese birds

by Mr. Owston, and are no doubt from one of the islands belonging to Japan,

though I cannot find tlie name on our map.

40. Gygis alba kittlitzi Hartert (Oust. II. p. 58).

I am inclined to keep up my snbspecitie term for the white tern of the North

Pacific, not that I consider it veri/ different from others, but to call attention again

to the fact that the northern birds are regularly smaller than those from the South

Pacific. I have before me now half a dozen white terns from Guam, a series from

Laysan and Lisiansky, and one from Huahine, which I have compared with a large

series from the Kermadec Islands, and I found that they all have the bill from

3 to 10 mm. shorter and the wing from 0 to 20 mm. shorter than those from

the Kermadecs, a fact which in any case is worth recording. (Of Hartert, KataL

Vof/rls. Senckenb. Mus. p. 237, footnote 460 ; Rothsch., Apt/. Lnymu I. p. 36 ;

Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXV. pp. 149—152.)

Mr. Saunders (I.e.) i)refers the name G. caml/ila (1788), instead of G. alba

(1786), for reasons given P. Z. S. 1876. p. 667 — namely, that the latter was badly

described. Sparrman's description, however, is quite recognisable, and there is no

other tern to which it could apply (except G. mkrorhyncha, which is only known from

the Marquesas !). He says, " Sterna tota alba, rostro pedibusque uigris," and

further, that it has the size of S. nigra, and is found in the South Sea, in India, and

at the Cape of Good Hope. Saunders' descri23tion {I.e.) runs: "Above and below

ivory-white, except for a narrow black ring round the eye; at times some dark

colour on the shafts of the primaries and rectrices, depending, I think, on the age

of the feather: bill black; irides blue: tarsi and toes dark brown, the webs yellow

and very much incised." (Follow exact measurements.) If we consider that the

ring round the eye is very narrow indeed and not visible in bad skins, such as they

most likely had over a hundred years ago, there is no great difiference between the

two descriptions. The feet are certainly more black than brown in skins, nor are

they exactly " dark brown " in life. If Sparrman's description is to be rejected,

then hardly any Linnean or any older name can be accepted, and a good many

modern names must be rejected too, as one can easily find out by glancing them

over. Sorry as I am for dissenting in any case from the Catalogue of Bin/.'s, 1 must

accept Sterna alba of Sparrman. If we care for an undisturl)ed standard uomcu-

clature at all, we must be strict and firm to the utmost in following priority without

exceptions — unless the name is already used in the same genug, or not with any

certainty referring to the species in question, which, I think, Sparrmnn's name

does as well as any other.

Our coUectors found this species breeding on Sai/jan, and sent skins from there

and from Guam, shot in the months of January, February, and March. The native

name is " C'hugi." The iris is given, as liidgway III. 1 to III. 2, the centre of the

eve as II. 1 (seal-brown to clove-brown): bill 11. 1 (black), liasal part light IX. ."i

(light hyaciulh-blue); legs and toes 11. 16 (plumbeous;, claws 11. 1 (black).

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Kittlitz {Reise II.) also describes the iris as bladrish brown, Gould (JB. Australia)

iis black.

Eggs were found on Saipan on July 28th and Angnst 11th. They mostly

perfectly agree with the eggs of this species, as described and figured elsewhere,

especially with those figured in Part I. of Walter Rothschild's Avi/auna of Laysan,

and are of the same size. They vary much, however, in size, shape, and colour.

One eg'^ is rather h)ngish, measuring 44 : 31 '4 mm., and being white with very pale

and small greyish and brownish grey spots. Another egg is nearly spherical,

measuring 33-5 : 32'9 mm., and dirty yellowish, all over sprinkled and spotted with

darker and paler brown and greyish. One is dirty brown, marked all over with

dark brown spots, patches, and zigzag lines. Some specimens have a ringlike zone,

but all, except the longish white one, are more or less characteristic Gygis eggs.

Specimens from the Kermadec Islands are i|uite similar, but on an average (though

not all) a little larger.

All the eggs were found witliout any nest on the forks of low trees, every bird

laying one egg only.

41. Anous stolidus (Linn.) (Oust. II. p. 59).

Guam, three specimens from April.

Mons. Onstalet enumerates further : Ajwus leucocapillus Gould, Phaeton

catididits Temm., Sula Icucogastra Bodd., Hula piscatrix L., Tachi/jjetes qquila var.

minor, Larits tegae PalmSn, Pujfinus tenebrosus Pelz., which Salvin unites with

F. obscurus, but which Onstalet considers to be difl'erent, Pujfinws obscurus (Gm.),

Viomeilea, nigripes And., Fuligula cristata Steph. None of these (which I quote

witli Oustalet's names) were sent by our men, who had no boat of their own, and

who did not visit Rota and Agrigan, where most of these were found.

We have thus the following list of the birds known to occur in the Marianne

islands, and it is not to be expected that many more will be found, although

collections from Rota and the islands north of Saipan would still be of interest,

while we may accept that Guam and Saipan, where most of Marche's collections

were formed, and where Mr. Owston's Japanese collectors did their careful work,

are now ornithologically very well known: —

List of Birds Known from the Mariannes.

1. Astur skarpei Oust. (? See No. 1.)

2. Accipiter nisoides Blyth. (Accidental.)

3. Asio accipitrinm (Pall.). (Accidental.)

4. Halcyon albicilla Dumont. (Resident, northern islands.)

5. „ cinimmomina Sw. (Resident, Guam.)

6. Collocalia Juciphaga (Thunb.). (Resident.)

7. Rkipidura uraniae Oust. (Resident, (iuam.)

8. „ mipanensis Hart. (Resident, Saipan. j

it. Myiagra freycincli Oust. (Resident.)

10. Myzomela rubrutra (Less.). (Resident.)

11. Cleptornis marchei 0\\%t. (Resident, Saipan.)

12. Zosterops compicillata (Kittl.). (Resident.)

13. „ semperi MwW. (Rota, aec. to Onstalet.)

14. Acroeephalus lascinia (Quoy & Gaim.). (Resident, Guam.)

15. „ syrinx (Kittl.). (Pagan, ace. to Onstalet.)

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16. Aplonis Mttlitzi F. & Hart]. (Kcsideut.)

17. Corviis kiihari/i. Rchw. (Resident.)

18. Ptilinopus roseicapillus (Less.). (Resident )

19. Turtur dussumieri (Temm.). (Probably introdnced.)

20. Fhlegornas xantlionxra {Tcnxva..). (Resident.)

21. Gfillus hnvkiva Temm. (No donbt introdnced and rnu wild.)

22. Excalfactoria sinensis (Gm.). (Probably introduced.)

23. Megapodius laperouse Qnoy & Gaim. (Resident.)

24. Hi/potaenidia owstoni Rothscli. (Resident, Guam.)

25. Gallinula chloropus (L.). (Resident, Guam.)

26. Falica atra L. (Probably accidental ; Tring Mus.)

27. Poliolimnas cinereus (V.). (Resident, Gnam ; Tring Mus.)

28. DemiegretM sacra (Gm.). (Resident.)

29. Ardetta sinensis (Gm.). (Resident.)

30. Nimienius pkaeopus variegatus (Scop.). (On migration.)

31. ,, cyanopus V. (On migration ; Tring Mns.)

32. Limosa lapponica baueri (Naum.). (On migration : Tring Mns.)

33. Totanus h/poh'/icm (h.'). (On migration.)

34. „ incanus (Gm.). (On migration.)

35. „ glnreola (L.). (On migration ; Paris Mus.)

36. Gallinngo megala Swinb. (On migration probably ; Tring Mus.)

37. Triitga nremiria L. (On migration ; Tring Mus.)

38. „ iicuminatd (Horsf.). (On migration ; Paris Mus.)

39. L'harddrim fulvus Gm. (On migration, numerous.)

40. Strepsilas interpres (L.). (On migration, unmerons.)

41. Charadrius mongolicus V&W. (On migration.)

42. „ squatiiroJri L. (On migration : Tring Mus.)

43. Anas oiist((leti ^&,\-vaA. (Resident.)

44. Fuligula fidigula (L.). (On migration ; Paris Mus.)

/46. Diomedea nigripes Aud. (Probal)ly accidental ; Paris Mus.)

=46. Puffinus obscurus (Gm.). (One specimen ; Paris Mns.)

•, 47. „ tenebrosm Pelz. (One sjiecimen ; Paris Mus.)

48. Lar/(s vegae Palmt?n. {Own female; Paris Mus.)

49. Hgdrochelidon leucoptera (Meisn. k Scbiuz). (Proliably rare visitor.)

6U. Gggis alba kittlitxi Hart. (Resident.)

61. Anoiis atolidus (L.). (Perhaps resident.)

52. „ leucocapilhts Gould. (Resident, aec. to Oustalet.)

53. Phaeton candidus Temm. (Resident, Agrigan ; Paris Mus.)

54. Stda sula (L.). (One sent by Marcbe ; Paris Mus.)

55. „ piscatrix L. (Rota, May.)

56. Tacky petes minor (Schleg.). (Probably accidental.)

These 50 species are all known up to the present day. Kittlitz {Peise II.

]). 146) says that he observed 23 species of birds on Guam, of which however

several were not identified.

Wiglesworth (I.e.) names 31 s])ecies as occurring on the Marianne Islands, of

which however one ( Turtur /trevoxti'anas) was given erroneously. Oustalet in his

great work enumerates 47 sjiecies.

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LIST OF AN ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION

MADE BY DR. PERCY REXDALL ON THE UPPER SHIRI^ RIVER,

NEAR FORT JOHNSTON, AND ON THE SHORES OF THE

SOUTHERN PARTS OF LAKE NYASSA.

Ry ERNST HARTEET.

ALTHOUGH the coUectiou of which a list is liere given does not contain any

remarkable new species, only a closely allied suhsjiecifie form ])eing provided

by me with a new name, it will be of interest for the closer study of the geograpliical

distribution of African birds to see what Dr. Reudall found, and the very detailed

informations on all his labels will often be of value, as well as notes on nests and

eggs which he found, some of the latter not having been described before.

1. Saxicola pileata Gm.

May and June, Upper Shir6 River. These specimens seem to me to be perfectly

like those from the Transvaal, Natal, and the Cape of Good Hope.

2. Acrocephalus anmdinaceus (L.).

On March 3rd, Fort Johnston.

3. Acroceplialus gracilirostris (Hartl.).

March 2nd, Upper Shire River. " Iris dark brown; bill above horn-colonr, base

of mandible pinkish white, gape yellow ; feet dark steel-colour."

The nest of this bird was found to be constructed like that of other Reed-

Warblers, hanging between three upright reed-halms. It consists of grasses, which

are finer inside than outside, and some of which have oven now — about nineteeu

months after it was taken — an aromatic smell. On one side a piece of a snake-skin

is woven into the nest. The egg resembles paler varieties of Acrocephalus streperus,

and if mixed with them wonld not easily be found out again. It is of the same

dimensions, greyish white, all over spotted with pale brown and olive-grey, these

spots forming a loose ring near the thick end.

.1. gracilirostris is in my opinion a true Reed-Warbler, though its long first

primary would place it in the genus Lusciniola if that character alone were con-

sidered. I do not know whether ^4. gracilirostris is its oldest title. See Cat. B.

Brit. Mus. V. p. 122.

4. Cichladusa arquata Peters.

?. June, Upper Shir(i River. "Bill dull black; iris yellowish grey: tarsus

purplish grey, verging into brown on the feet, claws light horn-colour. Crops filled

with insects and a few seeds. Call-note very harsh and jarring."

5. Cossypha heuglini Iliirtl.

tf ad. February, Fort Johnston. This specimen has the abdomen distinctly

lighter than a mule collected at Bagamoyo by Emin Pasha.

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(3. Crateropus kirki (Shiujje.

<S ad. Kami) we, Lake Nj'assa, August 1895. " One of a noisy party, with liarsli

rattling cries and chorns. Bill black; iris deep orange, with a bright yellow ring

round the pupil."

('. /dr/fi resembles (''. jardinei from S. Africa, but differs in being smaller and

having the abdomen browner, the tail not so dark. It differs specifically from

C. plebejm of N.E. Africa. A female from Uar es Salaam does not differ materially

from Dr. Eendall's bird.

7. Cisticola natalensis (Smith).

July 31st, Upper Shire Uiver. " Bill above horn-colour, fading to pinkish

horn on lower mandible ; iris hazel : feet flesh-colonr."

8. Cisticola lugubris (Riipp.).

April and June, Fort Johnston and Upper Shire River. " Bill horn-coloar:

legs and feet flesh-colour; iris yellowish brown." " This bird has a habit of throwing

up its tail when moving among the reeds and rushes." Also February, Upper Shin'

River, in greyish plumage, while the others were in brownish plumage.

f>. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.).

June, Ujiper Shire River.

ID. Prinia mystacea Ru])p.

September, Moidiey Bay. " Iris yellowish hazel."

11. Pycnonotus layardi Gurney.

Kambwe, Lake Nyassa, August. "Bill, feet, and tarsi Idack; irides dark

brown; eyelids black and caruncnlate. Stomach fnll of coleopterous remains."

12. Cinnyris cupreus (Shaw).

A mule, shot on the Upper Shir^ River on March 4th, Lsyti, certainly belongs

to C. cupreus, but that species can probably be separated into several more or less

well-marked subspecies. The skin before me has the head, back, and throat metallic

coppery green, thus resembling the sjjecimeu from Angola described as C. chaleeus

by Hartlaub.

The wing measures 64 mm. Skins from Sierra Leone and Senegambia before

me have the wing shorter, skins from the Congo eijually long or longer. One from

Senegambia is nearly as green as the one from the Shire River.

13. Anthreptes hypodila (Jard.).

S ad. September 20th, Monkey Bay. " Iris brown."

14. Macronyx croceus (Vieill.).

June, Upper Shire River, ('riips and stomachs were found full of insects, it

sings while sitting on a bush as well as in the air with expanded wings and tail.

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15. Motacilla vidua Sund.

Shot in June and February on the Upper Shire.

10. Motacilla campestris I'lill.

Febmary, Upper Shire River.

1'. Pyrrhulauda leucotis smithi (Bj).).

February and Marcli, near Fort Johnston. " Iris browu."

1«. Passer diflfusus (Smith).

Monkey Ray. (The western bird seems to me to differ considerably from the

S. African form.)

19. Sporaeginthus subflavus (V.).

August, Upper Shir6 River.

20. Estrilda angolensis (L.).

Monkey Bay, B. C. Africa, September 1.5th. One adult mnle. It agrees

perfectly with a series of si)ecimens from the Transvaal in the Rothschild Mnseum,

but the wiugs are abont 1 or 2 mm. shorter than in most of the latter.

21. Lagonosticta senegala rendalli subsp. uov.

This name I propose for a pair of Layoiwstictar obtained by Dr. Percy Rendall

in May and March on the Upper Shir6 River. The mali' is very similar to

L. viinima, which may or may not be the same as L. sencfinln, bnt which I think

may turn out to be a subsjiecies of L. senegala. However, it differs in the wing

being slightly shorter, the upperside distinctly darker. The female .ilso has the

npperside darker than L. minima. Not being able to decide about this form, I sent

it to Professor Reichenow, who confirmed my supposition that these birds did not

quite agree with auy of tliedeseribed forms, and quoted the differences stated above,

which occurred to him when comparing our liirds with a series of L. minima from

North-East and West Africa. L. s. rendalli resembles also very much L. brunnei-

ceps, but the distinct reddish crown and reddish back of the male seem to separate

it easily from that species. The male of L. s. rendalli has the " beak cardinal red,

with a horn-coloured mesial line; legs and feet of a light horn-colour; irides orange-

red; eyelids with yellow margins. The fe>itale has the iris dark browu; maxUla

dark red, with a dark brown mesial line; mandible red, with a deep brown line along

the middle below; legs and feet light horn-colour. Stomachs full of grass-seeds."

A nest with seven eggs, belonging to the male, was taken on May 9th. The

eggs arc of a i)ure glossless white. They measure 13 to l:{0 : 10 to 10-6 mm.

The measurements of L. seiiegala rendalli are as follows : —

i. L. t. ca. 92 mm., a. 42, c. 34, r. 8-7, t. 12.

? . a. 49, c. 30, t. 12.

Named in honour of Dr. Percy Rendall.

22. Vidua principalis (L.).

Februar}-, Upper Shirfi River.

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23. Pyromelana nigrifi'ons Bohm.

(Of. -/./. Orn. 1884, p. 177; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XIII. p. 233.)

One cadult male, shot on March 6th on the Upper Shire River. Professor

Reichenow has kindly compared this bird with the type of P. nigrifrons in the

Berlin Museum, and found that my specimen entirely agrees with it, e.xcept that the

black baud on the forehead is a little wider. The wings also seem 2 mm. shorter,

but this is of no importance, as they are distinctly abraded. As they are, I measure

them as being <i5 mm. long. " Tlie iris is dark brown; legs and feet very light

horn-colour; Itill black."

24. Plocepasser pectoralis (Peters).

September 14th and 22nd, Monkey Bay. " Bill dark horn-colour, almost black;

iris grey-brown; legs dull brown; feet a little darker."

25. Hyphantornis xanthoptems Fiusch & Hartl.

March 5th, Upper ShirS River; also Jnne. $ ad. "Iris dull orange-brown;

bill black; legs and feet dull pinkish biscuit-colour. Crop contained seeds and a

few insect remains."

A great number of eggs of these birds, which are not yet described as far as I

know, vary enormously. Some are of a pale liver-brown, almost of a faded brick-

colour, unspotted ; others bluish green, unspotted, almost like a somewhat large

rather elongate<l and jiointed e^g'g of Erithacm phoenicurus; others are reddish white,

all over spotted with purplish brown ; others again similar, but the ground-colour

more bluish white, the spots and patches larger, rufous brown, thus closely resembling

an egg of a Pycnonotm ; others again are blue-green, spotted witli pale greyish

brown.

The stupendous variations in coloration of many of the species of Hypliantornis

are well known (cf. -Tourn. f. Ornith. 1895, pp. 332-335). I found the same in a

colony of Weaver-birds on the Benue, where, however, the eggs in the same nest were

always similar to each other; and that is no doubt, I think, always the case. My

observations were not published, as I did not procure the parent bird, or, rather,

lost it while lying ill of fever in a boat.

26. Lamprocolius sycobius (Licht.).

June, Upper Shirfi River.

27. CorvTis scapulatus Dand.

S. July 30th, Upper Shir^ River.

Sharpe, Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, Shelley, and others have united the white-

breasted Crows of Africa with those of Madagascar. It seems to me, however, that

in the skins from Africa the white patch above is'wider in extent, reaching farther

towards the head; in fact, in a skin shot by Mr. W. L. Distant at Pretoria, the

white reaches almost up to the nape, while in specimens from Madagascar all the

feathers of the hind-neck are black, so that a narrower band of white remains

just at the end of the hind-neck. Large series of well-prepared skins will be

necessarv to decide whether this is a constant character or not.

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2S. Corvultur albicollis (Lath.).

June, July, Upper Shiri River. " Bill black, with horny white tip; iridcs dark

brown; legs and feet shiny black. The stomachs of three contained fish-scales,

bones, seeds, and horrid-smelling putrid matter." The latter probably flesh from

carrion.

29. Dryoscopus major (Hartl.).

June to August, Upper Shird River. J. "Bill black; iris dark browu; feet

dark slate-colour. Generally frequenting dense cover, somewhat skulking in its

habits ; alarm-note a very harsh ' chnrrr-churrrr,' which is often uttered while the

bird bows before j'ou."

30. Telephonus senegalus (L.).

September 22nd, Monkey Bay. " Iris stone-grey."

31. Dicrurus afer (Licht.).

Evidently common on the Upper Shire River.

The name afer {Corvus afer Licht., Cat. Rer. Nat. Ilamh. p. 10) has been

rojpcted by Sharpe and other authors on acconut of the existence of a CorcMS afer of

Linnaeus. As, liowever, Linnaeus' C. afer is no Dicrurus, Shelley (Birds of Africa

I. p. 47) is right in adopting the name afer for our Drongo. It has been customary

among ornithologists to reject all names which were once used before under the

same generic name, but no harm can arise from using the same name in widely

different genera. The rule "once a sj-nonym always a synonym," as regards specific

names, is not adopted in the German Zoological Society's rales of nomenclature.

The sooner it is abolished by ornithologists the better. Those who have adopted

it so long have not taken into consideration the consequences ; namely, that by

adopting snch a system any recent author may, by mistake or carelessness, or out

of evil will, degrade hundreds of existing names to synonyms.

32. Hirundo smithi Leach.

In May and July, Upper Shire River, nesting. A pair built a nest of clay

against one of the rafters in a store in July.

33. Hirundo rustica L.

February, Upper Shir^ River.

[It is strange that the collection contained no specimen of an Oriole, but to make

up for this want I may be allowed to mention that the Rothschild Museum has some

time ago received from Ngurn, in German East Africa, a fine pair of

Oriolus chlorocephalus Shelley,

which was described from Mount Cbiradzulu, in the Shirfi Highlands, Nyassaland,

of which, as far as I am aware, only the type-specimen is known.]

34. Coracias caudatus L.

July and August, Upper Shire River and Kambwe, Lake Nyassa. " Bill black;

iris brown; legs dull yellowish horn-colour; feet darker." Stomachs of all full of

beetles, locusts, Gryllidae. Sits often on a dead tree, from which it hawks for

insects. Harsh grating alarm-note."

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35. Merops nubicoides Des Mnrs & Pnch.

A male and vi, female, both shot on the shore of Lake Nyassa on July 5th, 1895,

have the crowns rather bright blnish, and the red of the back somewhat light, if

compared with a series of nine skins from the Transvaal and the Congo region. If a

larger series of specimens from Lake Nyassa constantly shows these differences, they

could be separated subspecifically.

3(1. Merops persicus Pall.

February 26th, Ujiper Shire River.

37. Merops boehmi Rchw.

A male and & female were shot in June and July on the Up])er Shir^ River.

"Bill black; irides crimson; feet horn-colour; tarsus purplish brown. Stomachs

full of Hymenoptera and other insects. Shot when sitting hunched up on a bough,

its tail wagging backwards and forwards." The capture of this rare species of Bee-

eaters so far south extends its known distribution considerably.

38. Melittophagus meridionalis Shell.

June 2Gth, Upper Shire River. " Bill shiny black; irides carmine."

39. Caprimulgus fossei Hartl.

?. April, Fort Johnston; S. June, Upper Shir6 River. "Bill horn-colour,

with a lighter shade on the lower mandible; iris dark brown ; tarsus flesh-colour,

verging to light brown on the feet."

The female differs from the male in having the white line across the wings,

formed by the tips of a line of smaller upper wing-coverts, deep buff; the white

spots in the middle of the primaries brownish buff ou the outer webs; the outer

webs of the outermost rectrices brownish buff. The nostrils are rather prominent

in this species, as also noticed by Dr. Randall on the labels.

40. Ceryle rudis (L.).

C'ommon on the Upper Shir6 River.

41. Corjrthornis cyanostigma (Rlipp.).

Evidently common on the Upper Shire. An immature male has the bill

blackish brown (instead of vermilion in the fully adult bird); the wing-coverts deep

brown, with alight cobalt anteapical bar; the feathers of the back dark brown, with

very large light cobalt tips; below paler and more brownish, but the entire pileum

and crest well developed and of the same colour as in the adult birds.

42. Irrisor viridis (Licht.).

In moult in June, Upper Shire River. " Bill sealing-wax-red ; iris dark 1)rown;

feet coral-red. Stomach full of insects and larvae. Birds restless, uttering a loud

harsh chattering scream."

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43. Colius affinis Sharpe.

One female, New Heligoland, German East Africa, August 17th. " Bill black,

with white patch on maxilla and white tip to mandible; iris light yellow; legs

coral-i)iuk, posteriorly dirty brown. Stomach contained various large seeds and

vegttable matters. The specimen shot was one of a party of eight."

This skiu agrees with one received from Prof. Keichenow as C. affinis Sharpe,

and with the description of the latter author in the Catalogue of Birds (XVII. 342),

but the figure of the species on PI. XII. must be called bad, as it does not at all

show the silvery grey colour on foreucck, ear-coverts, and sides of neck.

(We received this species also from Muanza, on the south end of the Victoria

Nyanza.)

44. Coccystes glandarius (L.).

March .5th, Fort Johnston. " Iris dirty yellowish brown. Stomach full of

hairy caterpillars."

4o. Coccystes jacobinus (Bodd.).

Jliirch Kith, Fort Johnston. " Iris dark brown. Stomach full of hairy larvae."

46. Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.).

?. February, Upj)er Shire River. "Iris light brown, of a kind of stone-colour,

merging into grey on the periphery: maxilla very dark brown, almost black;

mandible of a bluish grey steel-colour; legs and feet dark horn-colour."

47. Indicator indicator (Gm.).

9. June 6th, Lake Nyassa. '' Iris light lia/.el; legs slaty lirown; bill light

horn-colour. The crop contained a mixture of Ijees-bread, wax, and remains

of insects."

4.S. Centropus natalensis Shelley.

From June, July, August, Up))er Shir6 River. 1 have no doubt that all these

specimens belong to C. natalensis. but they vary, and souiC approach ('. s^'negali'nsis

in certain characters. The head in a freshly moulted example is distinctly glossed

with blue, much more so than the more greenish tail. This same bird has no bars

on the base of the tail-feathers, no whitish shaft-lines on the mantle, no indication

of a whitish eyebrow, but it has the tail-coverts barred aud distinct whitish edges

to all the rcctrices. Its wing measures only 166 mm. One of the lateral rectrices

is snow-white. In none of the skins is the sn))erciliary stripe well developed. A

nest with four eggs was found on June 2iiX\\. It was a very loosely built domed

nest, standing in tall pai)yrus rushes about five feet above the ground. Ontside it

consisted of coarse grass, inside of fine grass. The hole was on the side of the nest.

The eggs arc of a chalky white without gloss, and measure 34-6 to 34'5 : 23 mm.

49. Gallirex chlorochlamys Sh.

Monkey Bay, Lake Nyassa, June 2nd, 1895. $ . " Beak black: legs dark slaty

brown; iris brown, ('rop full of large stoned fruit."

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50. Schizorhis concolor (.Smith).

Monkey Baj', Lake Nyassa, September 22qi1. " Iris brown. Stomach seeds.

Cry similar to ' Go away ' and ' Garrh.' "

51. Bycanistes buccinator (Temm.).

(? ad. August, Kambwe, Lake Nyassa. " Bill and casii[ue black, flecked and

streaked with dirty yellowish white; irides red-brown; bare space round eyes lake-

colour above, vermilion below; tarsus and feet brownish horii-colonr, slaty blue

posteriorly. The stomach was full of small figs. The bird was shot out of a party

of six. They had a harsh wailing cry."

52. Lophoceros melanoleucus (Licht.).

? ad. Septemlier, Monkey Bay. " Bill orange-red, base to both maudibles

yellowish: naked patch of skin ou throat at base of mandible bright blue; iris light

yellow; tarsus and feet brownish black. Stomach large seeds."

53. Lophoceros epirhinus (Snndev.).

June and July, Upper Shire River, Monkey Bay. " Iris dark liazel. Stomachs

large seeds and tigs."

54. Lophoceros erythrorhynchus (Temm.).

c?. September, Monkey Bay. " Iris chrome-yellow." Stomach full of ants

and other insects.

55. Poeocephalus fuscicapillus (Verr.).

In July at Mdokas ou Lake Nyassa and Upper Shire River, d. '■ Maxilla

slate-colour, much darker at ti}i ; mandible dirty white ; sooty black round eyes,

cere sooty black ; iris orange-yellow, with a dull yellow periphery ; tarsus and feet

dark slate-grey."

56. Glaucidium perlatum (Vieill.).

(S ad. July, Upper Shire River. " Iris light yellow." Stomach small rat.

57. Asio capensis (Smith),

5 ad. May, Upper Shire River. ''Iris very dark lirown; beak dark slate-

colour, tijiped with light horn-colour ; soles of feet pale yellow, claws dark

horn-colour."

5S. Bubo maculosus (Vieill.).

6 ad. May, Upper Shire River. ''Weight 1| lb. Iris bright yellow; eyelids

slaty-grey; beak and claws dull dark slate-colour. (Jrop large beetles and small

rodents."

59. Elanus caeruleus (Uesf).

Lake Nyassa, July, August, the latter a young bird. The stomachs of two

contained rats.

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60. Falco ruficollis Swains.

<S. July, Upper Shir^ River. "Bill horn-colonr at tip, dull yellow at base;

lores and cere cbrome-yellow ; tarsus aud feet bright orange-yellow, claws dull

black. Stomach contained remains of a small bird."

01. Pseudogyps africanus (Salvad.).

<? ad. Upper Shird River, July 7th, 1895. "Bill with bare skin at base, and

round the eyes very dark slate, almost black; irides brown; tarsus and feet slaty

black. Stomach pieces of crocodile."

62. Lophogyps occipitalis (Burdi.).

? ad. Upper Shird River, July Tth. " Bill, distal half orange-red, basal half

greenish blue; irides brown; upper part of bare throat and neck purple; naked skin

round eves, eyelids, aud base of beak inclining to pink; tarsus aud feet white with

jiinkish tiuge; claws very dark blackish horn-colour." The yoau<^ J'emale had the

" irides hazel; claws horn-colonr, with pale brownish bases; legs yellowish white, and

aU the other colours fainter."

In both the old and young bird I find the bare part of the throat and foreneck

crossed by narrow lines of dark brown caruncles, very obvious in the old, only thin

aud softer in the young bird.

63. Haliaetus vocifer (Dand.).

Young in first plumage, with parts of down left (not .sexed), and ? ad. Upper

Shir6 River, July. The young bird had the "bill dark horn-colour; irides light

yellow; claws dirty white. In the stomach were fish-bones."

64. Milvus aeg5rptius (Gm.).

Adult birds with yellow bills in August and September on the Lake aud cm the

Shir(5 River.

0.5. Cerclineis dickinsoni (Scl.).

c?. July 31st, Upper Shire River. " Bill dark slate-colour, fading to dull

yellow at base of mandible; cere aud lores bright lemon-yellow; irides dark brown;

tarsus and feet lemon-yellow; claws brownish black. Stomach contained large

grasshoppers."

06. Oena capensis (I;.).

This commou African bird was met with frei|ucnlly. It bred in June.

07. Turtui" semitorquatus (Uiipp.).

Upper Shire River. " Iris bright orange-red."

08. Turtur damarensis Shell.

May, Lake Nyassa. " Iris very dark hazel."

OV). Chalcopelia afra (L.;.

Mdokas aud Upper Shire River.

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70. Pternistes nudicoUis (Bodd.).

<5. Upper Shire River, June 2(Jtli. '• Bill urauge-red, base vermilion ;

triangular bare space behind eye, chin, and forepart of throat vermilion-red."

71. Francolinus johnstoni Shell.

An immature male, September 19th, Monkey Bay, Lake Nyassa. " Maxilla

dark horn-colour; mandible very light horn-colour; iris yellowish brown; legs

brownish orange, edges of scales blackish. Stomach seeds."

72. Numida mitrata Pall.

(J?. Upper Shire River, c? ad. "Bill horn-colciur at tip, then whitish,

shading to brown on upper and red on lower mandible : round eye and throat as

well as at the base of the wattles brilliant blue; iris brown; forehead and base

of beak vermilion, fading to brown on the helmet; legs and feet slate-colour.

Stomach full of various kinds of seeds."

73. Otis melanogaster Rftpp.

An immature m'tle, Upper Shir^ River, March; in moult. " Iris yellowish brown,

with pupillary margin of a darker shade; bill horn-coloured above, greenish white

below ; legs and feet dull greenish yellow, light in tint. Stomach filled with locusts

and other insects, together with some vegetable matter."

An egg of this species was found on December 7th, on the luchila plain. The

bird got up under Dr. Rendall's feet. The nest was only a shallow hollow in the

ground, with practically no nest at all. The egg was quite fresh. It is of the

same colour as most European and other Bustard eggs, with larger brown and

mostly smaller deeper-lying spots and patches of a lilac-grey, and almost perfectly

round, measuring 55 : 53'1 mm. As several eggs of Otidae are descriljed as being

very round, the extremely round form of this egg is probably not abnormal. The

egg does not aj)pear to have been described before.

74. Balearica chrysopelargus (i;iclit.).

c? ad. August 8th, on the S.E. arm of Lake N^vassa. " Bill blackish horn, as

is also the bare skin round its base; bare oral patch behind eyes white, tipped

with orange-red on its upper segment; legs, tarsus, and feet dull slate-grey, blacker

below; irides silvery white. Tiie stomach contained grit, mapira, and a few fresh-

water shells and helices."

75. Porphyrio porphyrio (L.).

Common. Irides brownish red or orange.

76. Porphyrio alleni Thomps.

S :id. !May, Up|ier Shire River. •' Bill dull red at tip, base and frontal shield

dull slate-colour; irides deep crimson; legs bright orange; tarsus, feet, and claws

dark red-brown."

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77. Limnocorax niger (Gm.).

June, July, Upper Shir^ River, adnlt and yonng. cj S ad. " Bill greenish

yellow; eyelids crimson; iris dark orange-red: feet and legs coral-red, claws born-

brown. The stomachs of all contained red seeds, grit, water-shells, and vegetable

matter." c? juv. "Bill horn-brown, light jiatch above nostrils and at tip; iris

brown ; legs and feet dark reddish brown."

T8. Parra africana Gm.

Dp])er Shir^ River. According to Dr. llendsill the adnlt males and females

are alike.

79. Cursorius temmincki Swains.

May and Jaly, Upper Shire River. cJ ? ad. " Bill dark horn-colour, except the

pro.ximal half of mandible, wliich is dull yellow: feet yellowish or pinkish white,

claws dark horn-colour. Crops and stomachs beetles and grasshoppers."

8u. Grlareola pratincola (L.).

October 8th, 11th, ]2th, Upjier iShire River. The stomachs and crops of all

contained locusts and grasshoppers.

81. Oedicnemus vermiculatus Cab.

August, Kambwe and Upper Shire River. Bill black, shading to greenish

yellow at base: eyelids dark slate: irides light yellow: feet dull yellowish green,

toes with a bluish tinge in front. Stomachs beetles and Hymenoptera."

Two eggs, slightly incubated, were found on August 5th, at the junction of

the Shire River and Lake Nyassa, in a slight depression of the ground, with a few

pieces of grass as a lining. The eggs are of the well-known character of Oedicnemus

eggs, with a rich buff ground-colour and rather heavy blotchings all over,

and measure 4s— 49'5 : 32'5 — 33 mm. They are like small eggs of Oedicnemus

oedioiemus (L.). The parents were very vociferous, but rather shy, even when the

eggs were taken.

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82. Lobivanellus lateralis (Smith).

S ? ad. June and August, Ujiper Shire River.

" Basal half of beak and wattling round eye light chrome, dependent wattles

oniuge-3'ellow: frontal wattle cardinal red; irides greyish, with inner bluish ring;

legs light chrome-yellow; tip of beak and claws black. Stomachs and crops full of

black weevils and other beetles and grit."

S3. Defilippia leucoptera (Rchw.).

A mutilated sjiecimen, caught by natives in August, Upper Shire Kiver.

<?. " Bill, terminal portion black, proximal dull lake-colour; wattled eyelids

vermilion; irides light orange, verging to yellowish red; legs red."

84. Glottis nebularius (Guun.).

Auguot 2iJth, Kambwe, Lake Nyassa.

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85. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.)-

Febrnarj' and August, Sliir^ River and Kambwe.

.^0. Aegialitis pallida (Strickl.).

In August on the isliores of Lake Nyassa.

■ST. Aegialitis pecuarius (Temm.j.

A young bird shot in March on the Upper Shire River.

88. Podiceps capensis Licht.

April and June, Upper Shire River, i ad. " Beak black, with light yellow

patch at angle; iris hazel: legs and feet mottled dark horn-colour and green."

89. Larus cirrhocephalus Vieill.

i ad. July, Lake Malombe; juv. April, Fort John.ston. i ad. '• Bill red,

darker at tip; eyelids carnnculated and vermilion in colour; legs red, claws blackish

brown; iris light yellow. Stomach fish-bones. ? juv. Bill light yellowish brown,

tip darker; eyes light hazel ; feet clingy yellow, drop full of locusts."

According to Howard Saunders, Ci.if. B. XXV., the American and African (iulls

of this form belong to the same species.

no. Rhynchops flavirostris Vieill.

The egg is 33-4 : 24-4 mm. long, pule yellowish green, all over lurgely jialched

with deep purplish brown and lower-lying greyish spots.

01. Chenalopex aegyptiacus (L.).

? . August, Kambwe, Lake Nvassa. '' Bill dull red, verging to browii:_ irides

reddish yellow; legs and tarsi yellowish white, washed with dull red, darker on the

feet. The stomach contained a helix, much grit, and pieces of shell." A fully

developed egg was extracted from the body: it is creamy white, and measures

65 : 44 mm.

This undoubted /e/«a^e has the wing 14-1 inches long. Salvadori gives lii inches

as the length of the wing of the male, and says that, according to Finsch, the/emale

is smaller.

9:^. Dendrocygna fulva (Gm.).

? ad. April, Fort Johnston. "Bill dark grey, verging to black; eyes hazel;

legs, feet, and webs dark blue-grey. In flocks at dusk." Immature 6- October,

Upper Shirii River. '■ Bill dull French grey; iris dark brown; legs and feet steel-

blue. Stomach vegetable matter."

93. Thalassornis leuconota (Smith).

? ad- June, Lake Malombe. •• Beak with lortoiseshell mottliugs and streaks;

irides dark brown; legs dark steel-colour."

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94. Poecilonetta erythi-orhyncha (Gm.).

?. February 15th, Upper Shire River. "Iris brown; bill deep dark red,

verging to dull black at tip of maxilla: feet and legs brownish slate."

'Jo. Nyroca brunnea Eyt.

April and June, in flocks, Upper Shire River. "Bill black; iris dark brown;

legs and feet dark steel-colonr."

96. Herodias alba (L.).

Upper Shire River, middle of June. S ad. " Beak gamboge-yellow, tipped

with dark liorn-colour, dark green round the gape ; eyelids and bare skin round and

in front of eye greenish yellow: irides pale yellow; tarsns and feet shining black."

In the crops small fish and an enormous water (?) beetle were found.

97. Ardea melanocephala Vig. & Childr.

S ad. Ujiper Shir6 River, June; tj immat. May 11th. c? ad. "Maxilla blackish

horn-colonr; maudibula light horn-colour, yellowish towards the tip ; feet and legs

(lull black; irides light yellow; eyelids yellow, bare space in front of eye yellowish

green." The crop of one contained two small lizards and two different species of

Gryllidue; that of another, two rats and remains of lizards.

98. Phojrx purpurea (L.).

Several immature birds, shot in July on the Upper Shire River. " Bills dark

horn-colour above, verging to dull greenish yellow on the lower mandible and

towards the base ; irides light yellow ; legs yellowish green ; tarsi and feet dark horn-

colonr anteriorly, dull yellow posteriorly; nails dark horn-colour. The stomachs

contained fishes and some pieces of rush."

99. Melanophoyx ardesiaca (Wagl.).

S. March 7th, Upper Shiri} River. " Iris deep brown; bill black: legs black,

feet bright chrome-yellow, claws black. Stomach full of small fish with transverse

bars (? Hetnichromis ? sp.). Shot out of a flock of about thirty individuals."

100. Bubulcus lucidus (Rafin.).

May, Jime, and August, on the Upper Shir6 River. S in non-breeding plumage.

" Eyelids, base of maxilla, mandibula, and naked space in front of the eyes greenish

yellow; rest of maxilla dark horn-colour; legs and feet dull yellowish green; irides

light yellow. In the crops and stomachs small fish, insects, and vegetable debris

were found."

101. Platalea tenuirostris Temm.

<?. Lake Malombe, September 2oth, 1895.

102. Ibis aethiopica Lath.

(J. September 11th, Upper Shirt- River. "Head and neck dull black; bill

shiny black; legs and feet very dark red, shading to blackish horn-colonr; iris

brown. Stomach containing small landshells (helices), beetles, and remains of fish."

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]u3. Hagedashia hagedash (Latli).

? . September, Upper Shire River. " Bill dark red, verging into blackish brown ;

irides dark hazel: legs dark horn, fading to reddish on the feet. The stomach

contained mapira seeds."

I'M. Scopus umbretta (Gm.j.

June and July, Upper Shird River. " Bill, feet, and legs black; irides dark

brown. In the stomachs and crops small fish, crustaceans, Gryllidae, and in one

some long thin bones of some small mammal were fonnd.'" On Jnne (3th an

enormous structure was found, with a hole in the side, from which, slightly

incubated, five eggs were taken. The arm had to be thrust in up to the shoulder

to procure the eggs. The eggs are of a dead white, slightly greenish yellow if held

up against the daylight. They measure 44 : iU, 45 : M, 455 : 34-4, 445 : 335 mm.

105. Leptoptilus argala (Temm.).

October, Lake Malombe. "Bill dirty yellowish white; irides brown; legs and

feet greyish black. The stomach contained remains of fish."

100. Phalacrocorax afi'icanus (Gm.).

Four immature birds with dirty white under parts, shot in June, July, and

September on the Upper Shire River. '' Bill dark horn-brown, fading to dirty

yellowish on the lower mandible; skin in front of the eye dull yellow: gape orange;

irides brown; bare skin on njiper throat yellowish pink: feet shiny black. The

stomachs always contained fish, but once some small worms were also found. These

birds were sometimes in September seen in large flocks."

lOT. Plotus levaillanti Licht.

(?. September 21st, Monkey Bay. •■ Bill shaded horn-colour, darker above,

base of a dark flesh-colour; legs and feet black; iris dark] brown. Stomach tish

and uumeroits small parasitic worms (':' taenia)."

lOS. Pelecanus rufescens Gm.

Young (?. June, Upper Shire River. '• Irides light yellow; bare patch around

eyes yellow; beak dirty yellowish white; legs light A'ellow; fleshy jjouch light

yellowish, dull white, or greenish. Stomach fish."

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NOTES ON PABADISEIDAE.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

1. On the Genus Manucodia.

IN the series of M. atra now in the Triug Musenrn 1 was always struck with the

great variation exhibited both in size and colour. The green, bine, and purple

reflections vary iu extent, and also in their respective positions ; in fact, of two

Wuigen sjiecimens, one i.s entirely washed with metallic green, the other entirely

with purple. These variations in size and colour do not, however, appear to be

local, and therefore have no subspecific value, and are not constant enough to be

of specitic value.-

My material consists of the following specimens : 6 from the Arn Islands, fi

from Waigen, 2 from Yule Island, 1 from Mansinam, 1 from Batanta, 4 from

Dorey, 3 from Takar, 1 from Kapaur, 2 from British New Guinea, and 2 from

German New Guinea.

M. chahjbata occurs all over New Guinea, except on the shores of Geelvink

Bay, where it is replaced by M. jobiensis rubiensis (A. B. Meyer), while typical

M. jobiensis occur on the islands in that bay.

Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, first pointed out the sujiposed differences between

eastern and western forms of M. chahjbata, saying that eastern specimens were less

green and more bine in colour. Count Salvadori founded a new species on the

eastern forms, calling it Manucodia orientalis. While admitting that some of the

eastern specimens are more purple-blue, I have western specimens from Kapaur

which are more so than most eastern ones, and some eastern specimens are greener ur

quite as green as the western birds. As to the alleged differences in size and shape

of the beak, they are partly sexual and partly individual variation. I therefore am

obliged to sink Manucodia orientalis as a synonym of Manucodia chahjbata.

M. jobiensis Salvad. is rare in collections, but I have received it from Jobi

Island I'rom Doherty. The differences said to distinguish it from M. chahjbata by

Salvadori are only partly to be found in Jobi specimens. The supposed " green

head,'' which is said to characterise it, is not to be seen in my skins. In fact there

are skins of M. chahjbata which have a more greenish head than M. jobiensis. The

margins of the feathers of the abdomen cannot be called green, but arc loss purple

than iu most M. chahjbata. What distinguish J/, jobiensis specifically from

M. chahjbata are the uniformity of the under parts and the less curly structure of

the feathers. While in M. chahjbata the foreneck is distinctly green, sharply

separated from the purplish blue breast and abdomen, the throat, breast, and

abdomen arc steel-blue with a greenish gloss and ])ractically of the same colour

iu M. jobiensis. The feathers of the neck, back, and abdomen are of a different

structure and less curly in M. jobiensis, so that this species stands iu this character

between M. chaljbala and M. atra.

Still rarer in collections than M. jobiensis is M. rubiensis A. B. Meyer. It

has been founded on specimens i'rom Kubi, on the southernmost part of Geelvink

Bay, and its describer has also specimens from Kafu, on the north coast of New

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Gninea. Mr. Dohpi'h' has now sent ns a male and ^female from Ta.kar, on the

north coast of New Gninea, nnder 130' long., i.e. not far from Kafn. This form,

as Dr. Meyer truly said, differ.s considerably from M. chalyhatd, bnt 1 find that it

closely resembles M. jobiensis \ in fact it only differs from the latter in a slightly

greener gloss all over and in having shorter wings. I therefore tliink full justice

is done to it if it is treated as a subspecies of >1/. yoi^/t'/(.sv'«. In several instances

birds from Jobi Island have near allies or reoccur on the northern coast of New

Gninea (cf Gcojjfroyus, Philemon, and others). The idea, once started by Dr.

Gnillemard, that M. chahjhutu is not specifically different from M. afra is absurd,

and has been opiwsed by Salvador! and others, and now generally abandoned.

Sharpe has created the generic name Eucorax for Manucodia comrii. As the

structure of the feathers which is peculiar to M. comrii is for the most part only

well developed in adult males, I do not recognise it, besides thinking that, if such

slight structural characters of plnmnge are taken as generic differences, also ^[. afra

and M. chah/lxda might be sejiarated genericallyl I have, on the other hand,

recognised Phonygammuis, as this name has been spelt by its author, as a genns,

because all species in both se.xes show exactly the same structural differences from

all species of Manucodia.

2. On some Genera not recognised by me.

I have not, again, allowed generic rank to Puradisorim, Uranornix, Triclw-

paradisea, Asfrarchia, Drepananax, Craspedophora, Rhipidornis, as the su)i]iosed

generic characters of these so-called genera are all based on secondary miile

characters, while i\\Q females show no structural differences of any importance, ami

in some cases their specific differences are difficult enough to make on(.

Dr. Sharpe told me he intended to separate geuerically my .UV/v/y//^ .>y//,7((//-

dis.vma. For the same reasons as above I cannot agree with him, for, apart from

an indication of the white base to the central rectrices so conspicuous in the male

and its smaller size, it is practically identical with the female of ,1. nigra. On

the other hand. Dr. Sharpe must be praised for separating the two species into

genera, as it proves him to be consistent, which few other zoologists seem to be,

in his views on the importance of secondary sexual characters as foundations

for genera.

3. Falcinellus striatus (Rodd.).

Being an advocate of the strictest priority, I have been obliged to adopt this

name for what is usually called Epimackus speciosus. The generic name Falcinellus

Vieillot has only been rejected on the erroneous impression that Falcinellus was

preoccupied as a generic term for the Glossy Ibis by Bechstein, but this is clearly

not the case, as that author never used the generic term Falcinellus, bnt always

called the Ibis " Tantalus Falcinellus'' The specific name striatus must be

adopted, as, although Boddaert gave it to the female, and named the male speciosa

on the same page, striata comes first, and I (luite agree with the Deutsche Zool.

<4es. that the name first mentioned in any book must stand, irrespective of any

other iiuestious.

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4. On some Chlamyderae.

In the genus Chlamijdera (spelt thus by Gonkl, ami not Chlamydodera) I have

not recognised C. orientnlia and C. occipitalis. My reason for not allowing specific

or even subspecific rank to the former was that; in the British Museum there are

exam])les of botli forms, together with a specimen almost intermediate, all from one

and the same locality. ('. oci-ipifaliK has long been considered only a very old inalc

of C. muculnta, although Sharjje again revived it in his monograph, I suppose to

bring in Gould's very beautiful original plate.

•">. Seleucides ignotus (Forst.).

Count 8alvadori, to whom we owe so much of our knowledge of the Paradiseidae,

and who has specially well worked out the synonymy of the species known at the

time of the publication of his great work Onntolocjia della Papuasia e delle Mohtcce,

has also given an excellent review of the literature on Seleucides, without, however,

accepting the oldest name for the species. There are, as he admits, several names

available for this species, which are based on Valentijn's account of the Birds of

Paradise (Vol. III. pp. 306 — 313), an English translation of which, by Dr. Forster,

is found in Forrest's Voyage to New Guinea, p. 140 (1779).* There is no doubt

whatever that both the second rariety of Valentijn's " White Bird of Paradise " and

his " Unknown Bird of Paradise " refer to Seleucides, while the first variety of the

" White Bird of Paradise " cannot be recognised, and is probably an albino specimen

of some kind, being described as guile white. To this AVhite Bird of Paradise Forster

gave the name Paradisea Candida, while not naming the " second variety " of it,

which is our present Seleucides. Valentijn's No. iS, however, which is also no doubt

om- Seleucides, is named by Forster Paradisea ignota. There is no doubt about this

fact, and Dr. Sharpe, when saying in his mouograpli of the Paradiseidae that this

name had been refused by Salvadori on account of its being founded on an in-

sufSciently clear description, must have misunderstood the Count, who merely did

not use it because he liad some doubts whether it was used in a binomial manner

(" in modo liinomino "). Although the phrase " iu a binomial sense " has often

been used by English ornithologists, it does not convey much of a meaning to me,

for I consider a species named if two Latin names are used for it after Linnaeus"

tenth edition (1758) by an author who acceiited the binomial system. Tliis has

been done by Forster, and C'ount Salvadori and others have generally adopted

Forster's names ; therefore there is no reason to refuse to accept Paradisea ignota.

Paradisea alba Gmelin (1788) cannot be accepted, as it refers again to the " White

Bird of Paradise.'" The next available name is Paradisea melanoleuca Dandin

(1800). This is the name g-jven to the second variety of the White Bird of Paradise,

in opposition to the first quite white variety. There is no reason to refuse

P. melanoleuca, and Salvadori only refused it because it gave a false idea of the

bird ! We, however, do not now disregard names for that reason, and it may also

be very much qucstione<l wliether the name really gives a very false idea, as most

specimens in Museums, at least those that are mounted, lose the yellow colour of

their plumes, and thus are " black and white.'" If therefore Forster's name could be

avoided — which it cannot, as shown above — then Daudin's would have to be used.

* .Salvadori only quotes tlic French translation of this work, which appcarcil in 1780.

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Vieillot's " ^lauucode a douze filets," altlionf;-li donbtli-ss representiii"; Seleucif/es, is

not a good figure either, in fact it cauuot be called much better than Valentiju's

descriptions, and on it P. iiiffricans Shaw and also Vieillot's resplendescens are based.

Levaillant's " Nebnleux " is a bad figure, but no doubt also meant to re]ircsent a

Sdeii-cides S- Shaw's P. raiUnnfi is a small copy of it.

<i. On Amblyornis subalaris and inornata.

1 have not used Sharpe's genus Xdiiihorhhnmj^, as it was only given to embrace

Amblyornis subalaris and A. musgravianus, nuder the impression that ,1. inornata

had no crest. However, as I have shown in Nov. Zool. IV. pp. 11 — 13, ^1. miu-

(/ravianus and ^1. mnajregoriae are not separable from ^1. inornata, which acquires an

enormous crest when adult. It is, nevertheless, very strange indeed that the crested

males of A. inornata remained unknown for so long.

7. Aeluroedus jobiensis.

I have no longer recognised my Aehiroi-.d as jobiensis, as I have come to doubt

the locality whence the specimen was said to come, and as I have now seen speci-

mens from Arfak which are almost exactly similar.

8. Parotia sefilata (Penn.).

This name must be used for what is mostly called Parotia. KCjfpeiinis. It has

only been abandoned because it was considered barbaric ; but, although I do not

particularly love such names, they are no longer to be refused, being in accordance

with the most modern rules of nomenclature.

9. Diphyllodes.

I am afraid tliat several ornithologists will not agree with me in uniting

Diphyllodes maqnifca, seleucides, chrysoptera, hunsteini, jobiensis, and xantlioptera

under one specific name. But, after having seen very many specimens, I cannot

find that the difterences in the colour of the head, wings, or any others, are constant

enough to allow any of these forms specific rank, nor localised enough to found any

subspecies on them. Future researches may show the fallacy of my theory, but

from what we know at present I cannot come to any other conclusion.

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LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS

FROM THE ISLAND OF LIRUNG OR SALIBABU, THE LARGEST

OF THE TALAUT GROUP.

[By ERNST HARTERT.

SOME time ago Mr. John Waterstradt sent us an interesting collection of birds

made for him liy his Bornean hnuters on Lirnng. As so little is known of the

Talant birds (I only know of two articles which have the Talant birds as their

subject, both by Dr. A. B. Meyer & L. W. Wiglesworth, in .Jo'n-n. f. Oni. 1894,

p. 237, and AM. Mks. Dresden, 1894-!»5, No. 9), we thought it worth while to give

a list of the collection. We follow the arrangement of Messrs. Meyer & Wigles-

wortli, who enumerate 58 species as being known from the Talant Archipelago.

Those not in their list are marked with an asterisk.

1. Butastiir indicus (Gm.).

Exactly like Celebes skins.

2. Haliastur Indus intermedius (Gnrn.).

Au adult specimen, distinctly belonging to tlie intermediate subspecies.

Although they run somewhat into each other, the three forms H. indus Indus,

H. i. intermedins, and //. indns (jirrenera are very well limited and easily recog-

nisable, ?I. indus indus having broad shaft-strii)es to the white feathers of the

breast and neck, //. i. intermedius narrow ones, //. indus (/in-enera none.

*3. Pandion haliaetus L.

One large male, March 1897.

4. Ninox scutulata japonica (Schl.).

One adnlt bird, sliot in April.

5. Eos histrio talautensis M. & Wg.

I find no difficulty in distinguishing every one of the series from March and

April from Eos histrio histrio.

*6. Trichoglossus ornatus (L.).

One skin, differing in no way from Celebes specimens.

T. Tanygnathus talautensis M. & Wg.

A small series, excellently conhrming all the statements of the describors of

this species. A specimen from Bongao, one of the northernmost islands of the

Sulu group, is quite like specimens from the Northern Philippines, and does not have

longer wings at all.

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8. Tanyguathus miilleri sangirensis M. & Wp.

Agreeing with the typical Sangi specimeus.

9. Tanygnathus megalorhynchus (Botld.).

Typical, as far as I can see.

111. Prioniturus platurus talautensis sabsp. no v.

With a series of nine good skins from Lirnng, which I have compared with

a good number of Celebes specimens, I can confidently say that they are very

different, as already suspected by Messrs. Meyer & Wigles worth. The mantle and

wing of the Talant l)irds are very mnch lighter and more greyish green than in

P. platurus pJafiiriis, and the wing is from .5 to 10 mm. shorter. The orange patch

across the mantle is not more orange than in most Celebes skius; bnt in most,

though not all, Talaut males the lilac-bluisli spot on the nape is paler. Two skins

from Peling seem also paler than typical Celebes skins, bnt the wings not so

greyish as in P. platurus talaufenxis.

*11. lyngipicus temmincki (Malh.).

One pair, unite like Celebes specimens.

12. Cuculus intermedins Vahl.

13, Eudynamis miudanensis sangirensis (W. Bias.).

14. Centropus bengaleusis (Gm.).

l.i. Halcyon coromanda (Lath.).

1C)._ Halcyon chloris (Bodd.).

Specimeus of very different sizes.

*17. Alcedo ispida moluccana (Less.).

One female, like Celebes specimens.

18. Eurystomus orientalis (L.).

•19. Lyncornis macropterus Bji.

One male, March, e.xactly like Celebes skins.

20. Muscicapa griseosticta (Swinh.).

21. Zeocephus talautensis 31. & Wg.

22. Monarcha inornata (Garn.).

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23. Edoliosoma talauteuse M. A AVg.

Both sexes, fnlly agreeing with the anthors' descriptions.

24. Dicaeum talautense M. & Wg.

Several good skins. This form is closely allied to D. sangirense Salvad. From

two skins from Siao, collected by Doherty, which 1 believe to be D. sangirense, it

differs in being above more bluish purple, almost as purple as D. celebense, and in

being darker below, but the size is the same.

25. Hennotimia (Cinnyris) talautensis M. & Wg.

Very close to //. sangii-eiisis, and only differing in the ranch more purplish

throat, but not larger, as far as I can see.

2ii. Zosterops babelo 51. it AVg.

Two tine male)<, fully agreeing with the description.

27. Pitta inspeculata M. & Wg.

Of this beautiful sjiecies we have received a good series from Lirnng. Near the

bend of the wing are some of the lesser nj)per wing-coverts with the basal two-thirds

white.

28. Calornis sangirensis : Salvad. (an snljsp. nov. ?).

A series fromj Lining has enormous beaks, and I believe it will have to be

separated snbspecifically from C. sangirensis.

29. Monticola solitarius (P. L. S. Miill.).

Old and young, April andMay!

3(1. Oriolus melanisticus JI. k Wg.

The oldest nmles of this excellent species are uniform black on the mantle,

but hardly two are alike in the extent of the black colour above. See Meyer &

Wiglesworth's interesting remarks i.e. pp. 247 and 7.

*31. Muuia molucca (L.).

Fonr nudes, all typical M. mohicca, and not at all approaching -1/. m. jiro-

pinqua.

32. Ptilinopus xanthorrhous (Salvad.).

3:i. Myristicivora bicolor (Scop.).

34. Carpophaga pickeriugi Cass.

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35. Carpophaga concinna \Vall

3<i. Carpophaga intermedia M. & Wg.

This interesting species is, no doubt, nearest to C. aenea, but clifiFereut.

37. Chalcophaps indica (LO-

SS. Megapodius sangirensis Schl.

39. Ardeiralla flavicoUis (Lath.).

Several adult birds.

*4o. Totanus hypoleucus L.

Several widespread Waders, etc.

There are also two specimens of Oriolas cdebrnsis, but one of them is almost

tj'pical 0. eel. meridionaUs. As this bird is confined to Celebes, and not even

reaches to the Sangir Islands, I have grave doubts whether these two Orioles might

not be picked up by the native hunters on the way to or from Talaut.

The same applies to a skin o{ Dieninis leucops with a wing shorter than all our

Celebes skins. The wing only measures 160 mm. The liird is labelled " Lining,

March 1897, male. J.W."

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SOME NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTEEA IN THE TEING

MUSEUM.

Bt W. F. ROSENBERG.

CEEAMBYCIDAE.

1. Poecilopeplus martialis sp. nov.

Head coarsely punctured, a deep longitudinal groove in centre, not reaching to

base.

Thorax black; disc with five slightly raised flattened tubercles, a lateral tooth

as in P. ffircacens, but not so strongly developed ; anterior angle rounded, less

produced than mf.atescens; surface coarsely ])nnctured except on raised portions of

disc, which are nearly smooth.

Elytra closely punctured, rugosely punctate at base; humeral angle not so much

raised as in F.flatescens. Straw-yellow; a black transverse band at base, not quite

extending to suture, narrowest laterally, not rj^uite reaching margin; a second trans-

verse black band before the middle, extending from the margin, but not reaching

the suture ; a third band situated at three-fifths of the distance from the base, and a

large triangular black spot at the apex.

Under surface and legs black; tarsi beneath dark brown.

Long. 32 mm.; lat. hum. 13 mm.; antennae 18 mm.

Ilab. Costa Rica. Type in the Triug Museum, under the above name, whicli I

have adopted. It may be distinguished from P. Jlanescens by the very different

position of the tliird band on the elytra and by the apical spot; all the bands are

much broader and regular in shape.

2. Poecilopeplus flavescens sp. nov.

Head closely punctured, smoother on top. Thorax black, dilated at sides; a

blunt tooth-like lateral process about the middle; anterior angles well produced,

rounded; sides slightly depressed above lateral tooth: centre of disc raised; a sliglit

tubercle on each side of disc, near the base and above lateral tooth; both margins

ridged; surface deeply punctate, except on raised portion of disc.

Scutellum black, finely punctured.

Elytra with three fine longitudinal raised lines, the inner one commencing at

the edge of the black basal band, gradually inclining towards the suture but not

touching it; it does not quite reach the apex; the second commences above the

ridge of the humeral angle and runs parallel to the first; it is a little longer and is

forked at the end; the outer line has its origin behind the humeral angle, and is

very short, becoming lost on entering the second black band. The humeral angles

are raised longitudinally. Surface of elytra thickly punctured, with several depres-

sions between the basal band and the middle one. General colour "gallstone

yellow " (Ridgway); a broad irregularly shaped transverse black band at base, not quite

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estendiDg to the sntnre : a secoud black band before the middle, consisting of two

angnlated spot;*, joined in the tiipc, bnt separated in a second specimen: this band

commences at the margin, bnt does not qnite reach the sntnre ; a third black band,

diagonally transverse, commencing at the margin at abont three-fourths of its

length from the base ; it is much shorter than the middle band, and is also com-

posed of two angnlated spots joined together; it is continued on the margin into u

narrow border which reaches the apex and extends a little way up the suture.

Under surface and legs black ; soles dark brown.

Long. 28 mm.; lat. hum. 11 mm.; antennae 17 mm.

Hah. Taken by myself at Paramba, Ecuador, April 1897, at an elevation of

3500 feet.

HISPIDAE.

3. Alurnus costalis sp. nov.

Thorax thickly covered with a grey pubescence ; transversely deeply depressed,

rngosely punctate, strongly convex in front, sides slightly depressed at apex : an

obtuse tooth at posterior angles.

Antennae black, half the length of the body, third joint more than twice the

length of the fourth.

Scutellum black, coarsely punctate.

Elytra much broader than thorax, margined, slightly sinuate below the

shoulders; humeral process well developed; six strongly marked costae, distributed

as follows : the first commencing at the base and running along the whole of the

sntnre ; the second also commencing at the base, confluent with the first for a little

distance, then running independently for about a fifth of the length of the elytra,

where it again merges into the first; the third starting from the base of the elytra

at the same point as the first and second, inclining towards the suture for about half

its length, whence it runs i)arallel to it; the fourth also starting from the base, but

not becoming prominent until passing the humeral process ; the fifth commencing

behind the humeral process, the sixth at the outer base of the shoulders. All the

costae show a tendency to converge towards the apical angle, but are lost before

reaching that point; the first, third, and fifth are the longest. The spaces between

the costae are thickly punctate, the coarsest punctures being at the base; there

are occasional punctures in the costae themselves. The elytra are ochre-yellow

in colour for slightly more than half their length from the base, the remainder

being blood-red; the costae, however, are yellow for their entire length, running over

the red portion of the elytra in the form of stripes.

Legs and under surface black; soles reddish brown. Under surface and tibia

thinly covered with a greyish pubescence.

Long. 33 mm.; lat. hum. 12 mm.; antennae 13 mm.

Hah. West coast of Colombia and Ecuador.

The bipe, now in the possession of the Hon. W. Rothschild, was taken by me at

Juntas, Rio Dagua, Colombia, in 189.5, crawling on a tree-trunk, near the ground; 1

never saw another example in that place. In .January 1897 I took a specimen at

Cachabi, N. W. Ecuador. In February of the same year I took a third example of the

species, ou the road from Cachabi to Paramba; in this the red is confined to rather less

than the apical half of the elytra, but it covers the whole of those parts of the costae

contained within that space. In both the Ecuadorian specimens the thorax is black,

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but with distiuct traces of the pnbescence, which has proliably been rubbed off.

The most prominent character of the species is the presence of the strongly marked

costae on the elytra.

Those from Ecuador were taken sitting on the leaves of low plants.

4. Alurnus humeralis sp. uov.

Head and antennae black. Thorax transverse, centre convex, sides of disc

depressed; a well-prodnced tooth on posterior angle; surface rugosely punctate, less

marked on convex portion; colour deep rod, niargiu of base Idack.

Scntellum black, punctate.

Elytra broader than thora.x, slightly sinuate below shoulders, margin slightly

reflexed, rngosely pnnctate at base, the punctation becoming finer towards apex:

hnmeral ])rucess well developed. Pearly white, a black spot on humeral process,

surrounded by a reddish ring; a black spot on each elytron hehind the centre.

Legs and under surface black; soles reddish brown.

Long. 35 mm.; lat. hum. 13 mm.; antennae 13 mm.

Hab. Cachabi and Faramba, N.W. Ecuador. Generally taken at rest on leaves

of low plants : frequently seen on sunny days flying at a considerable height.

Nearest to ^i. satmdersi, but may be at once distinguished by the humeral

spots, and by the position of those on the elytra, which are behind the middle in

-1. humeralis, whilst they are before the middle in .4. saundersi.

Some specimens have the apical margin of the thora.\ black ; one or two of

these have the black basal and apical margin connected by a black streak along the

centre of the disc. A few specimens have only the centre of the scntellum black,

the remainder being red; in one of these the humeral spots are also red. The

reddish ring which surrounds the humeral spot varies considerably in extent, in some

cases being almost obsolete, whilst in one or two specimens it margins the whole

base of the elytra. There is also mnch variation in the size of the central spots of

the elytra, but their position is always the same. The type has a narrow dark brown

line on the apical margin of the elj'tra, bnt this is absent in many specimens. The

humeral spots are constant.

The elytra are pearly white in living specimens, but become yellowish when

they are dried.

5. Alurnus boucardi sp. nov.

Head black, rugosely punctate in front. Antennae less than hali' the length of

the body. Thorax entirely black, sides dilated, anterior angle obtuse; posterior half

slightly depressed laterally, rugose-punctate behind, pnnctnred in front.

Scntellum black, thickly punctate.

Elytra pale yellow (probably white in living specimens, as in .4. humeralis);

general shape similar to A. saundersi, but hnmeral process rather more produced;

strongly marked costae are present, but they are not so pronounced as are those of

A. costalis; surface coarsely pnnctate, the punctures becoming finer towards apex; a

rather large black spot behind the middle of each elytron.

Legs black; soles light brown.

Long. 32 mm.; lat. hum. 13 mm.; antennae 13 mm.

Hab. Colombia. T>/jjc in Tring:Museum, from Museum Boucard.

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Clcisely allied to .1. ilorbtyntjt Uuer., but. may be distiugaislied by the entirely

Ijlack thorax, the well-developed costae, aud the positiou of the spots on the elytra,

which are situated even liirtlier from the base than in A. humiruUs.

An AlariMs in the British Museum, from Veragua, seems to be referable to this

species; it differs in the spots of the elytra being obsolete, but perfectly agrees iu

other respects.

6. Alurnus sexguttatus sp. nov.

Head and thorax shiny greenish black; head pnnctured, with a Innar-shaped

excavation above ; thorax snbcylindrical, sides rounded, transversely depressed

behind; front of disc convex, sides and dejiression rngosely punctate ; convex portion

of disc sparsely pnnctured; posterior angles not toothed.

Antennae black, third joint more than twice the length of the fourth.

Scntellnm black, punctate.

Elytra parallel, rather strongly margined, apex evenly rounded; above convex,

humeral process moderately developed ; jjunctatiou close, evenly distributed, finer

near apex. Colour pale tawny, with a reddish tinge at shoulders and sides; three

small black spots on each elytron, distributed as follows : one immediately behind

the humeral process; a second near the suture, at a little less than a third of

the length from the base ; and a third in the centre of the elytron, behind the

middle. There is a narrow black line on the margin, commencing behind the

humeral process and extending to the apex.

Underside, legs, inclusive of soles, black.

Long. 1(3 mm.; lat. hum. 7 mm.; antennae 8 mm.

Hah. One specimen taken by myself on the road from Cachabi! to Paramba,

February 1897.

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ON SOME NEW OE EAEE LEPIDOPTEEA OF THE

OLD-WOELD EEGIONS.

Bt the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

NYMPHALIDAE.

1. Charaxes latona diana .subsp. uov.

(J. Upperside : forewing, the black colour more extended than in cimon, to

which form of latona the present subspecies comes nearest: the black spots between

apical black area and black bar at apex of cell included into the black area ; binder

margin black to near middle. Hindwing, marginal black area also wider than in

cimon, without snbmarginal spots, except one near anal angle ; median lilack bars

between costal margin and apex of cell heavy, interspace between them and black

marginal area lighter, ground-colour at liasal side of the bars rather dai-ker, than

rest of the brown area of the wing.

Underside of both wings darker than in cimon, but median line of black bars

bordered with white outwardly, and ground-colour just outside these bars pinkish

white between vein 5 and hindmargin of forewing, and between veins 8 and 5 of

hindwing.

? . The markings in the same position as in the other forms of latona, but the

black colour very heavy, and the yellow colour partly replaced by white.

Upperside : forewing, basal region dark russet-brown ; the five black bars in

middle of wing very heavy, the two upper ones ibrmiug a large black patch; the

two series of markings in outer half of wing, separated from one another by a black

zigzag line, are white in diana, not yellow as in the other forms of latona; sub-

marginal black spots much larger than in cimon, merged together with the black

outer margin of the wing, except the last, which is partly separated from the marginal

border by a tawny line.

Hindwing russet-tawny; postcostal black median bars as in (J, ground-colour

at their basal side dark brown, three white or nearly white patches at their outer

side; a discal line of six or seven black lunules crosses the wing about midway

between cell and black snbmarginal patches; interspaces between the lunules and

snbmarginal patches tawu)', except that between veins 0 and T; first black lunule in

one of the two specimens not separated from the black submarginal patch. Sub-

marginal patches much larger than in all other latona forms, with minute white

centres, all touching each other, except the last two ; interspaces between these

patches and the black marginal border bright tawny ochraceous. Tails broad.

Underside differs from that of cimon ? in the ground-colour within cell of

forewing, outside the median black line of both wings, and between the two sub-

basal series of bars of hindwing, being white ; the middle of the forewing between

discal black line and cell also shaded with white; submarginal spots of forewing

white, brown at their basal side.

Ha.b. New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago, 1 S,2 ? ? (Capt. H. C. Webster,

February and March 1897).

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2. Charaxes latona leto subsj). nov.

c?. Agrees with Ch. latoim giyantm Hagen, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. 1897. p. 94.

u. 161 (Simbang), except in the followiug particulars: —

Upperside : forewing has a series of brown lunnles standing 2\ mm. from the

black border of the wing; the.se Innules are extremely faint in yigaiitcu and only

1 mm. distant from the black border, the latter being somewhat broader in giqaMea

than in leto; the Innule between veins 6 and 7 twice as wide in leto, the tawny

orange spot between it and border of wing larger; there is no orange-tawny spot

between veins 7 and 8. On hindwing the sabmarginal black patches are smaller,

the orange-tawny interspaces between them and border of wing larger.

Underside: hindwing with a gre)'ish plumbeons metallic glos.s, except onter

margin and a narrow band in outer half of wing; no small yellowish buff patches

at the outer side of the black discal bars, but on forewing the ground-colour there

paler than elsewhere on wings.

Iloh. Goodeuongh I., 1 $,tijpc (A. S. Meek, December 1.S9GJ; Fergusson I.,

1 $ (A. S. Meek, between September and December 1894).

3. Charaxes eupalus dilutus subsp. nov.

? . The greenish apical area of the forewing above much reduced, the white

colour extending 10 mm. beyond apex of cell, while in the females from West

Africa the intersjjace between apex of cell and green ajjical area is only 2i mm.;

no fnscous dot at apex of cell. Hindwing much paler than in West African eupalas,

margin as pale as disc; submarginal spots very small, only fonr iu number, the two

anterior ones of eupalus being absent iu dilutus.

On iinderside there is a broad pale bar in cell of forewing.

Hab. Zomba, Nyassaland, December 1895 (Dr. Percy Kendall).

4. Euphaedra eleus orientalis snbsp. nov.

c?. upperside : forewing, subapical band half as wide again as in the common

West African form ; the black area more extended, its inner edge crossing median

nervure at origin of vein 3 and being 1<) mm. distant from outer margin at vein 2;

two black dots in cell. Hindwing, submarginal blue and white dots smaller than in

eleus eleus.

Underside : forewing, subapical band as broad as above, an iuterrnpted black

line at apex of cell, and three black dots iu cell. Hindwing with two black dots in

cell and three white patches on disc ; submarginal spots smaller than in eleus.

Bab. Mikindani, German East Africa, between January and May 1897, 1 c?

(Reimer).

LYOAENIDAE.

5. Liphyi'a brassolis major subsp. nov.

? . A third larger than brassolis and robustus. Outer margin of forewing slightly

sinuate below apex, hence apical angle acute ; marginal black band of forewing

between veins 2 and 4 much narrower (comparatively) than in robustus ; yellow

postdiscal spots between these veins 7 mm. long, rounded outwardly, almost

straight or somewhat convex basally ; black area in cell not ijuite so extended basally

as inrobustus; black border of wing running down halfway to base at hinder margin.

7

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On hindwiug the discal black spots are very heavy in ti/pe-syecimeu, the

anterior one joined to the second by means of some black scales; in the second

specimen these spots are not larger than in brassolis brassolis.

Underside: forewiug, median black bandlike patch sharply defined, veins

traversing it not pale; patch is 10 mm. wide at the subcostal nervure; its onter

edge is irregularly indented between subcostal nervure aud vein 4; the portion

between veins 3 and 4 is nearly 1 mm. longer than that behind it ; inner edge of

I>atch forms a rounded angle, the point of which lies upon the median nervure.

Hindwing, disc aud onter-margiual region with very few brown scales ; brown band

at the basal side of the submetallic grey area at abdominal margin narrower than

in the other forms of L. brassolis; no black spot at the apex of the cell.

Forewing : length 46 mm., breadth 28 mm.

Hab. North Queensland, 3 ? ? ; type : Cedar Bay, thirty miles south of Cook-

town (A. S. Meek).

PIERIDAE.

6. Delias aruna rona subsp. nov.

c?. Black border to wings above slightly narrower tlian in aru/ia from the

mainland of New Guinea ; the red discal area of the underside of the hindwing only

half the size, extending from apex of cell to base of vein 7, aud being much dusted

over with black scales.

Hab. Ron I., Geelvink Bay, 1 6 (W. Doherty, July 1897).

I shall not be surprised if there turn up some day in collections from the

region between Dutch and British New Guinea specimens of aruna which entirely

link aruna together with inferna.

7. Delias madetes G. k S.

Messrs. Godman & Salviu described both sexes of this species from New

Ireland (now " Nen Mecklenburg ") and figured {P.Z.S. 1879. t. l.j) the upper-

and underside of the male. In the explanation of the plate the underside is

erroneously said to be that of the female ; this misprint would have been found out

by Mitis, no doubt, if this monographer of the genus had compared Messrs. Godmau

& Salvin's description of the two sexes, in wliich it is stated that the ? has on the

forewing below " no yellowish spot spreading from the inner margin over the

median branches." The absence of such a light patch from the underside of the

forewing of honrathi Mitis ? from New Britain (= Neu Pommern) was, however,

the chief character by which Mitis distinguished his honrathi from madetes ? ;

this difference docs uot exist.

I have lately received 2 cJ<?, 1 ¥, of i). madetes from Neu Hannover, collectetl

by Captain H. C. Webster in February and March 1897, and have also 1 S from

New Britain, obtained by the same collector on a previous exj)edition, which,

together with the figure.^ given by Godman & Salvin aud Mitis, enable me to

point out the following slight dill'ercnces betweeu the two forms oi madetes : —

$. In Z). madetes honrathi from New Britain the black ajiical area of the

forewing above and the black border to the hindwing are wider than in nuuletes

madetes ; in the latter tiio colour of hindwing passes into sulphur-yellow near the

outer edge of the wing, while in honrathi the sulishur-yellow colour is fouud only

( 9!) )

at the abdominal margin. On the underside the yellow spots are deeper in tint

in honrathi, and tlie bliick colonr of the hindwing is decidedly more extended.

?. The submarginal .spots of the upperside are smaller in honrathi than in

the first-described form of the species ; on the underside the spots of the forewing

are less yellow in honrafki, while the black colour of the hindwing is more

developed.

SATURNIIDAE.

8. Coscinocera hercules.

This insect, of which I have a series of eleven sj>ecimens from Queensland,

New Guinea, and New Ireland, has developed into three easily recognisable races,

which are distinguished from one another as follows : —

a. C. hercules omphale Butler, Tr. E. Soc. Loud. p. 7 (1879) (N. Ireland).

(?. Wings above much more reddish tawny than in the other two forms ;

white band in basal half of wings not bordered black outwardly ; postmediaii

white line not very clearly defined, of nearly the same width (2 mm.) throughout,

straight between the veins, its inner border darker than the ground-colour of the

wing, but not so black as in the races from New Guinea and Queensland. The

eye-spot of the forewing is irregularly elliptical, not pear-shaped, and has a

triangular hyaline centre the longer diameter of whicli (7 mm.) is jiarallel to the

postmedian baud, while the longer diameter of this hyaline spot is parallel to the

veins in the other races ; the hyaline spot in omplcale is encircled with white, upon

which follows a broad ochraceous ring (5 to 7 mm.), which is much more yellow

than the ground-colour of the wing and has a black otiter border. The distance

between eye-spot and postdisoal band is about .5 mm. The eye-spot of the hind-

wing is almost circular (width 13 mm.) ; the longer diameter of the hyaline centre

is again parallel to the postdiscal band ; colour the same as on forewing. On the

underside the size of the eye-spots is especially remarkable, the ochraceous ring

round the hyaline centre being .5 mm. wide midway between the veins.

? . Unknown.

Ilab. New Ireland (= Neu Mecklenburg), 1 S .

h. C. hercules eurystheus subsp. nov.

Attacus hercules, Oberthiii' {nee Miskiu), Et. d'Ent. XIX. p. 34. t. 1. f. 1 (c?) (1894) (Ansus,

Jobi I.).

S. Outer band of forewing much less white than in hercules hercules, con-

sisting of rather obscure whitish lunules, which are on the forewing widely separate

from one another and are inwardly bordered with brownish black. Basal band

outwardly with a brownish black Ijorder : the anterior luniform jiortiou of this band

stands at a distance of 13 mm. from the black outer ring of the eye-spot. The

eye-spots both of fore- and hindwing are very small, strongly triangular ; that of

the forewing reaches the postdiscal band, its clajnsh ochreons ring less bright

than in omphale, in li/pc from Dorey 2 mm. wide basally, in specimen I'rom German

New Guinea 4 mm. Eye-spot of hindwing with longer diameter nf hyaline centre

at an angle of about 45° to postdiscal band ; hyaline spot small, diameters 2 and

4 mm. respectively. Eye-spots on underside with the hyaline centre as above, but

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oclireons ring of nearly the same reddish brown colour as the inner line of the

l)ostdiscal bands, and narrower than above. The ^y/^c-specimen is much darker

above than omphale, while the specimen from German New (ininea approaches

mnphale in the tint of the ground-colonr.

¥ . Uifl'ers from hercules kercules in the eye-spots being smaller, the dusting

of grey and reddish brown scales outside the postdiscal band more extended, and

in the cellular portion of the white line of the basal band of the forewing being

8 or 9 mm. distant from the black ring of the eye-spot.

In these characters my three females from Waigen, Mefor, and Fergnsson I.

agree, while they differ inter sc in the width of the white line of the postdiscal

band, in the size of the hyaline spots, and the tint of the ground-colour of the

ujiperside. The hyaline spots are in the Waigen ? as large as in my Queenslandian

specimens.

Had. Dorey, 1 6, type (W. Doherty, June 1897); Su6r, Mefor I., 1 ? {W.

Doherty, May and June 1897); Waigeu, 1 ? ; Fergnsson I., 1 ? (A. S. Meek

December 1894) ; Constantinhafen, German New Guinea, 1 <S.

c. C. hercules hercules Miskin, Proc. Eut. Soc. Lond. j). 26 (1875) (Cape York).

i. As eimjstheus, but eye-spots much larger ; hyaline centres wider, that of

forewing measuring 7^ by 12 mm. ; white line of cellular curved portion of basal

baud of forewing lU mm. distant from the black ring of the eye-spot ; clayish

ochraceous outer-marginal region of forewing wider ; white line of jjostdisc^l band

more distinct. Body above paler.

? . Anterior portion of basal band of forewing above only 4 or o mm. distant

from the black ring of the eye-spot, while in etuystkeus the distance is 8 or 9 mm.;

outer-marginal region of forewing above for a greater distance without grey and

reddish brown scales. Body paler.

Groimd-colour of wings above varies i'rum walnut-brown to raw sienna-colour,

with the basal and outer-marginal regions lighter.

Hab. North Queensland : Cairns and Cooktown, 1 J , 4 ? ? .

9. Nudaurelia ansorgei si>. nov.

<?. Upperside : forewings, chestnut-brown, speckled all over with black scales,

gi\'ing a greyish tint to the wings. About one-fourth from tlie base the wing is

crossed by a black line, strongly angulatcd between veins 1 and 2; this line is edged

outwardly with white. At the ape.x of cell is a round eye, consisting of a vitreous

dot surrounded by a broad ring of tawny ochraceous and enclosed by a very narrow

line of dull whitish pink. Halfway between tliis eye and the outer margin the

wings are crossed by a black transverse line, curved near costa, margined on the

inner side with a pinkish wliite band, which colour runs into the wing towards

the eye in the form of scattered light scales.

Hindwings, basal two-thirds brownish pink, crossed between middle and base

by an indistinct black band. In the centre of the wings is a large eye, liaving a

vitreous centre, outside this a dark yellow broad ring, then a narrower black one,

followed by a dark red one, the whole enclosed by an outside whitish pink ring. A

little beyond the eye the wings are crossed by a broad black sinuous baud, edged on

the inner side with a narrow grey line. Onter third of wings chestnut, freckled with

black like forewings.

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Underside : antemedian bands absent ; eye-spot of furcwing as large as

above, but with a black ring between the tawny ochraceons central ring and outer

whitisli pink one. Hind wing from postdiscal black line towards base pinkish grey;

eye-s]iot reduced to a vitreous dot surrounded by a broad tawny ochraceous ring.

Antennae dark brown; basal part of stalk yellow. Head, thorax, and abdomen

tawny ochraceous.

Size as N. nictitatis Fabricius.

Distinguished from the allied species especially by the postdiscal band of the

forewing being curved anteriorly, the antemedian band being angnlate, and the black

outer band of the hiudwing being 2^ mm. wide.

Hal. Masindi, Unyoro, Ai)ril :JOth, 181»T, 1 S (Dr. I. W. Ansorge). Named

in honour of the collector, in whose collection the specimen is.

10. Pseudaphelia ansorgei sp. nov.

The two spots at the end of the cell of both wings of apollinaris are absent in

(insorgd, being replaced on both wings by a black dot just behind the origin of vein 5,

which has, however, on the underside a yellow centre : the black patches in the

apex of the forewing between vein 6 and costal margin are heavier above than in

apollinaris; the yellow marginal spots are very small, being reduced to minute

dots at the end of the veins, and they are not bordered by fnscons, the creamy

colour of the wing extending to the very edge of the wings (except apex of fore-

wing) ; fringe fuscous, thiit of hinder margin of forewing from base to midway between

veins 2 and 3, and fringe of hinder margin of hindwing from base to postdiscal lunate

line creamy. Postdiscal line of hindwing closer to cell than to outer margin of

wing.

Hall. Masindi, Unyoro, April lutli, 1x07 (Dr. I. W. Ansorge, in whose collec-

tion the specimen is).

AGANAIDAE.

11. Asota orbona ocellata subsp. nov.

3 . Upper side : pale orange. Forewing with the two light-coloured jiatches

almost white; the outer patch kidney-shaped, margined with brown; this brown

edge very narrow at basal side ; subbasal patch rather smaller than iu most speci-

mens of the other forms of orbona, edged with brown outwardly; six basal black dots.

In t'/pe fringe of both wings orange, in other specimens fringe of entire outer margin

of forewing and of apex of hindwing brown; sometimes there are brown streaks

near the light patches of the forewing and near the apex behind the costal margin.

On underside there is on both wings a bluish black spot near middle of costal

margin, also some bluish black scales at costal margin of forewing near apex, or a

brown streak extends down the costal margin from near apex of wing to the costal

Ijluish black spot.

¥. Uniformly pale orange; creamy white patches of forewing as in i \ no

brown streaks ; fringe pale orange ; costal bluish black sjiots of underside smaller

tlian in S •

Hub. Woodlark Island, March and April 1897 (A. S. Meek), a long series.

( 1<^-^ )

GEOMETRIDAE.

12. Presos angelus sp. uov.

c? ? . Upperside : forewing as in mariana White, which I have from Queensland

and British New Guinea, but the median white band mnch reduced, consisting of a

patch in the cell, a triangular spot between veins 'i and 3, and a small sjiot behind

vein 2, all much shaded at the edges with pale slate-colour; costal margin in front

of band and two minute spots just beyond apex of cell pale slate-colour; a series of

four small spots midway between cell and apex of wing, pale slaty, centred with

wliite; the indistinct pale line near hinder angle in mariana replaced here by two slaty

spots centred with white; a snbmarginal series of seven small slaty spots with white

centres ; an oblique indistinct slaty line at basal fourth as in mariana.

Hindwing with a large white median area, extending from abdominal margin,

where it is 16 mm. wide, to a little beyond vein 7, at median nervure only 4 mm.

distant from base, its inner edge nearly straight, somewhat oblique : shaded with

slate-colour at the outer edge, especially in S, including at the end of the cell a

black spot which is joined to black outer area of the wing. The latter contains two

series of yellow spots : the inner series consists of four spots, there being no spots

between veins 7 and 8, 4 and 6 — the iirst spot is minute, the last linear ; the onter

series consists of six spots, of which the fourth is the largest, but is mnch smaller

than the respective spot in mariana ; near the last spot stands a minute dot.

On the underside the markings of the forewing are more distinctly white : the

median band and the two slaty spots at the onter side of the discocellulars include

between themselves a black imtch ; on hindwing the yellow spots of the inner series

are in S partly joined to those of the outer series.

Body as in mariana., also size, but first abdominal segment slate-colonr.

Jlab. Eon I., Geelvink Bay, July 1897, 1 <?, 1 ? (W. Doherty).

13. Callhistia grandis kaporaua subsp. uov.

i. Differs from C. yramiis (/ranr/is in tlie band of the forewing being mnch

narrower, measuring at the costal margin only 3 mm. and at hinder margin 5 mm.

The inner edge of the band is almost straight, crossing the median vein just outside

the origin of vein 2 ; the outer edge is nearly straight from costal margin to inter-

nervnlar fold between veins 2 and 3, where the band is 9 mm. wide, and then turns

at a sliarp angle to the hinder margin of the wing ; the tip of the angle is 3A mm.

distant from the outer margin of the wing. The band of the hindwing is sliglitly

narrower than in i/randis, its outer edge being at vein 4 only li mm. distant from

the ajiex of the cell ; the first partition between veins 7 and 8 is sharply cut oft' by

vein 8 ; on underside the band extends beyond vein 8.

Ilab. Kapaur, Dutch S.W. New Guinea, January 1897, 1 6 (W. Doherty), at

a low elevation.

Note. — Milionia regina Druce, Ann. Macj. N. H. (7). I. p. 149 (1898), from

Woodlark I., is the same as Milionia ra/ca/ti'n.^i.f /roor/lar/dana, Itotlischild, Nov. Zool.

189C. p. 328, from Woodlark 1. Mr. Druce's specimens as well as mine were from

collections made by Mr. A. S. Meek on Woodlark.

( 1"-'' )

DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF OKIENTAL

BUTTEEFLIES.

By H. GROSE-SMITII, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Etc.

1. Hypochrysops aurifer sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside: both wings rather bluer aud darker pnrple than in //.

pythias Feld., with black margins wider than in that species ; on the posterior

wings the outer margin is more emarginate.

Underside : anterior wings with red bars and bands resembling those in

H. pythias^ bordered with metallic spots aud Ijars which are much broader and

more greenish golden than in that species; the ground-colour of the cell and the

costal area is greenish gold. Posterior wings with the ground-colour brilliant

greenish gold, with red spots and bands bordered on each side with black, which

are rather differently arranged from those in //. pythias, the bands being more

broken np into distinct spots.

Expanse of wings : \\ inches.

llah. Fergnsson Island (Meek).

Described from one specimen in tlie Tring Mnseum.

2. Hypochrysops aristocles sp. nov.

Female. — Upperside : anterior wings brownish grey, with a broad white fascia

covering the middle of the disc from the upper discoidal nervule to the inner

margin ; this band is ronnded at the apex and slightly invades the cell ; the basal

two-thirds of the cell aud the area beneath are pale silvery blue. Posterior wings

dull brownish grey, with the basal third pale silvery blue ; the middle third is white,

more broadly so towards the costa than on the inner margin.

Underside: anterior wings resemble //. alyattes G. & S., but the dark outer-

marginal area does not include a vertical white band. Posterior wings white, with

two parallel brownish black bands, one at the base and another below it from the inner

margin a little before its crossing the cell and ceasing on the subcostal nervure,

bot'i bauds bordered by silvery aznre-blue ; the disc is crossed by a third black

band from a little above the anal angle to the costal margin at the apex, where

it joins another marginal dark baud, the two bands enclosing a rather narrow white

area ; the third band is bordered on both sides by silvery blue lines, that on its

inner side only extending to the lowest median nervule; the marginal dai'k band

is traversed by a row of silvery blue spots divided by the veins.

Expanse of wings : \\ inches.

Allied to //. alyattes G. & S.

HaL Meoko, Duke of York Islands (Ribbe).

In the Tring Museum.

3. Hypochrysops honora sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside .• resembles IJ. arronica Feld., but is darker purple, \\'\\\\ the

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anterior wings rather less produced at the apex; the cilia of the anterior wings

are black, not mottled with white as in H. arronica. •

Um/erside : differs from //. arronica in the following respects : on the anterior

wings the cell and costal area are greoiiish lirowu instead of rnfons; the metallic

markings in the cell, costal and outer-marginal area are broader and greenish gold

instead of bluish gold ; the pale area is more dusky, and the vertical row of pale

bars between the veins towards the apex is narrower and of more uniform width.

On the posterior wings are three brick-red bands towards the base, not broken up

into spots as in //. arronica ; the shonlder and the area between the bars are

greenish gold instead of white. The other markings differ little from those in

//. arronica, but the submargiual hastate spots on either side of the lowest median

nervule are black instead of rnfons, and the discal hastate marks between the

median uervules of H. arronica are represented by straight bars.

Expanse of wings : If inches.

Hab. New Hanover (Webster, February and March 1897).

In the Tring Museum.

4. Hypochrysops rufinus sp. nov.

Male. — Uppersidc : both wings dark jinrplc, the anterior wings with the

apex broadly, and the costal and onter margins more narrowly, black. Posterior

wings with the costal and outer margins brownish black.

Underside : with the cell, costal margin, and apical third bright rnfons ; the

cell is bordered on the upperside by a metallic blue line, and traversed longitudinally

by another line of the same colonr, bent towards its end into the form of an

irregular S placed horizontally ; a bar at the end of the cell and several spots across

the upper part of the disc, and a submargiual row of spots, all metallic blue;

below the nifous area the ground-colour is rufous brown, becoming darker below

the cell and a little beyond it. Posterior wings bright rufous, crossed by six

metallic rnfons bands, of which the second and third from the base are parallel,

the onter bands being more or less broken up into spots ; the disc is traversed

by a broad irregular band of black markings, the veins crossing this band being

rufous. Cilia of both wings black.

Expanse of wings : 1^ inches.

Hab. Ron Island (W. Doherty, July 1897).

In the Tring Museum.

5. Thysonotis horsa sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside .- resembles T. keiujis Grose-Smith, but duller blue, without

any irroration of white scales on the nj)perside of the anterior wings. Posterior

wings without the white band of T. kengis and T. wallacei Feld., only the costal

margin above the costal nervure being white ; the broad outer-marginal black band

is wider and rather deeply indented on the veins.

Underside : on tlie anterior wings the black marginal band extends broadly all

round the costal and outer margins, becoming narrower to tlie outer angle: the aznre-

blne band by which it is centred is narrowed at the base, interrupted beyond the middle,

and extends along the outer margin as far as the lowest median nervule. On the

posterior wings the white band which crosses before the middle does not, on the

costal margin, approach so closely to the ajjcx; the discal blue area as in T. hengis,

r los )

bat the black spots in it approach its onter edge more closely, flilia on both wings

grey. '

Female. — Upperside: both wings dasky fdiginons grey. On the anterior

wings the pale central area is much more restricted and more densely irrorated by

dusky grey scales. On the posterior wings there is scarcely any trace of the pale

subbasal area of T. henyis and T. icallucei, the wings being only slightly paler

towards the base and the upper part of the inner margin.

Underside : differs from T. heiu/is as follows : on the anterior wings the black

costal and outer-marginal band is much broader, covering nearly the whole of the

cell, and extending broadly along the outer margin to the outer angle. On the

posterior wings tlie white band is rather narrower and more sinuate on its onter

edge. Cilia of both wings more dusky.

Expanse of wings : If inches.

Hab. Eon Island, Geelvink Bay {type?), and Dorey (W. Doherty).

In the Tring Museum and Mr. Grose-Smith's collection (types cJ, ?). A good

series of both sexes was sent.

6. Thysonotis helga sp. nov.

BIale. — Upperside : both wings rather brighter blue than in T. horsa. Anterior

wings with an indistinct patch of white scales in the middle of the disc ; costal

margin narrowly and onter margin more broadly black than in T. Jiorsa. Posterior

wings with a broad snbbasal white band crossing the wings, with a basal band

of blue; a broad outer-marginal black band, broadest towards the anal angle, not

indented on the veins, and extending at the apex along oue-third of the costal

margin ; the blue area crossing the disc between the white band and the outer-

marginal black band is more restricted than in other allied species.

Underside: with the costal and onter-marginal black band broader than in 7".

horsfi, extending over the cell and a little below it, and more broadly along the onter

margin to the onter angle, the white central area being corresjiondingly more

restricted. Posterior wings with the central white band broader, and the sub-

marginal azure-blue band narrower, the black spots in the blue band being less

elongate. Cilia of both wings narrowly white, crossed with black at the ends of

the veins.

Female. — Upperside : both wings blackish brown. Anterior wings with a con-

spicuous oblique broad white band, diffused outwardly, extending from a little above

the uppermost median nervule, and slightly invading the cell, to the basal half of

the inner margin. Posterior wings with the inner half white and dusky at the base.

Underside : anterior ivings with a costal and onter-marginal broad black band

of uniform width, centred by a pale azure-blue band, which extends from the base

round the wings nearly to the outer angle, the rest of the wings white. Posterior

wings as in the male, but the inner edge of the black outer-marginal area is more

regnlar.

Expanse of wings : c? li, ? If inches.

JJa/j. Ansus, Jobi Island (W. Doherty, April and May 1897).

In Mr. Grose-Smith's collection (types c?, ?) and in the Tring Museum.

7. Thysonotis lamprosides sp. nov.

Male. — Uppeiside: both wings very closely resemble 3". lampros Druce, but

the white baud on the posterior wings is comparatively narrower and more sharply

( inr, ^

defined, and the diseal irroration of bine scales is more restricted to the apical

portion of those wings.

The underside is also very close to T. lanipros; the blue costal streak of the

anterior and tlie white band of the posterior wings arc comparatively narrower.

Fkmale. — L'pperside : also closely resembles the same sex of 7'. lampros, bnt

the pale bands ou both wings are rather more conspicuous and more clearly defined.

Expanse of wings : I ^ inches.

Ilab. Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands (Meek).

In the Tring JIusenm. A good series was sent in the same consignment as T.

lampros; the very much smaller size (about one-half smaller) constitutes the main

difference between the two species, if indeed they are distinct, of which 1 am

doubtful.

8. Thysonotis coelinus sji. uov.

Male. — Upperside : both wings duller blue than in T. coelixs Feld. and T.

h>/»ietus Feld., the mule of which latter species it closely resembles, but the black

marginal band on the posterior wings is wider towards the anal angle and the wings

are less elongate.

Underside : differs from T. hymetus on the anterior wings in its white diseal

band being narrower and apj)roaching nearer to the apex. On the posterior wings

the white band is also rather narrower; the metallic submarginal band is more

azure-blue, and its inner and outer edges are straight, not lunulate as in 7". Ii>/metus,

the spots in the band being quadrate instead of lunulate.

Fejule. — Upperside : both wings dull glossy brown, with a bluish suffusion

towards the base, which on the anterior wings e.xtends over an indistinct narrow pale

area representing the white band on the underside and ceasing on the upper median

nervule. On the posterior wings the pale area is subbasal and indistinct.

Underside : with the white bauds on both wings very much narrower than in

Dr. Folder's figure of that se.^ of 7'. /v/metus, and on the anterior wings the white

bands do not approach so closely to the apex. On the posterior wings the diiference

between the azure-blue coloration of the metallic submarginal band of T. coelinus

and the greenish lilue of T. Iti/metus is very marked.

Expanse of wings : a little over 1| inches.

Ilab. Fergnsson Island (Meek).

In the Tring Museum and Mr. Grose-Smith's collection (types <?, ? ). The

females of this species diff"er very much from those of 2\ hjmetus. On the upper-

side they are not very unlike to T. ei'docia Druce, but the pale area is more

obscure and restricted than in that species, which moreover does not apjiear to have

any bluish sutfusion.

9. Thysonotis olga sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside: anterior wings with the outer fourth brownish black, the

costal margin narrowly and the base more broadly black, the black areas bordered

inwardly by a broad slightly metallic violaceous blue band which surrounds the

w hite area extending over the outer half of the cell and the middle of the wings to

the inner margin. Posterior wings with the outer fourth brownish black, in which,

towards the anal angle, are four metallic blue lunules between the veins; the inner

edge of the black band is indented in the middle, the indentation being filled by

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violaceous blue; the rest of the wings white, except at the base, which is uarrowly

dark grey, with an irroration of violaceons bine scales; one slender black tail.

Underside : both wings white, with the outer third dark brown, indented on the

inner edge. On the anterior wings the dark area is widest towards the costal

margin, and in it is situated a row of oval black spots on the onter margin, sur-

rounded by narrow grey rings, inside which is a row of darker spots, edged internally

by indistinct grey lines; a broad brown streak at the base, which extends halfway

along the costa, with a basal grey streak on the costal margin. In the dark band

of the posterior wings is a submarginal row of black Innules, crowned by metallic

blue Innules, excej)t the luunle near the apex, which is surrounded by grey, and

there are a few indistinct grey markings above the other Innules.

Expanse of wings : 1 inch.

Ilab. Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, at a low elevation (Doherty).

In the Tring Museum. Not close to any described species ; it is nearest to

T. mindarus Feld. Four examples were sent.

h). Holochila zadne sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside: both wings rather pale shining blue. Anterior wings with

the costal margin, apex, and outer margin rather broadly brown, broadest at the

apex, and gradually narrowing along the outer margin to the outer angle. Posterior

wings with the costal margin broadly and outer margin narrowly greyish brown.

Underside: brownish shining white; anterior wings acuminate, likewise the

anal angle.

Expanse of wings : li inches.

Hub. Mailu, British New Guinea (Anthony).

In the Tring Museum.

Nearest to Il.falgens Grose-Smith; it is the same shape as that species.

11. Holochila nitens sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside : anterior wings dull brown, with a basal pale silvery blue

area extending along the inner margin to three-fourths its length, extending

obliquely upwards to the lower part of the cell, and over the base of the two lowest

median nervules. Posterior wings with the basal four-fifths pale silvery bine, tlie

outer fifth being dnll brown.

Underside : white.

Expanse of wings : 1^ inches.

IJfi/). North Queensland.

In the Tring Museum.

The apex of the anterior wings and anal angle of the posterior wings are

acuminate, as in Il.Julgens and H. zadne.

12. Holochila vicina sji. nov.

Male. — Upperside : both wings pinkish purple. Anterior wings with the apex

rather broadly and the costal and outer margins more narrowly brown, snlTused with

the piuldsh purple coloration. Posterior wings with the costal margin paler brown

and outer margin very narrowly brown.

Underside ; sordid silvery white.

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Expanse of wings : 1^ inches.

Hub. Mailu, British New Guinea (Anthony).

In the Triug Musenm.

The apex of the anterior wings and anal angle of the posterior wings are

iu;uminate, as in Jl.fulgens, II. zadne, and H. nitens.

l:>. Cupha charmides sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside : from the base to the middle rnfons brown, beyond which the

wings are crossed by a curved transverse orangp-brown band; beyond the band the

outer margin is dark brown. In the orauge-brown band between the median nervnles

are two brown sjwts, the upper of which merges in the outer dark lirown area, the

lower being distinct; below the lowest median uervnle is a large dark brown spot,

also merging in the outer dark area; one or two indistinct small orange-brown

spots towards the apex. Posterior wings with the basal half rufous brown, be^'ond

which the wings are orange-brown: across the disc are two sinuate indistinct

brown lines, the space between them being rather paler, outside which between

the veins is a row of five dark brown spots surrounded by orange-brown rings,

the middle spot being the smallest, followed by seven dark brown Innules, between

which and the outer margin is another row of narrower Innules of the same colour,

bordered on each side by paler luuulos.

Underside: much paler than on the uppers ide. Anterior wings with the discal

orange-brown band very much restricted, and with a row of black spots crossing

the wings from a little before the apex to near the inner margin; the spots are

bordered by pale lunnles, the lowest spot, beneath the lowest median nervule, being

very large and dift'used. On the posterior wings is a row of seven spots crossing the

disc, surrounded by orange rings and crowned by pale lilac Innules; there is also a

submarginal row of pale Innules, with narrow brown bars at their base.

The,fenmle diflFers little from the nxik-^ but on the anterior wings are several

more indistinct tawny markings, and on the posterior wings tlie pale spaces between

the outer-marginal dark Innules are more strongly marked.

Expanse of wings : 2i inches.

IJub. Mefor Island {type), and Ron Island, Geclvink Bay (W. Doherty).

This species is intermediate between C. maeonidcs Hew. and C. madestes Hew.

In the Tring Musenm and Mr. Grose-Smith's collection.

14. Cupha rubria sji. nov.

Male. — Uppemidc : with the basal third of both wings chestnut-brown, the

middle of both wings crossed by a bright orange-brown band. On the anterior wings

I he band is widest on the inner margin, becoming narrower on the costal margin by

the sharp curving of its outer edge ; between the two lowest median nervnles this

band invades the dark brown outer area, but less broadly so than in C prosope Fabr.,

and encloses a dark brown spot ; the outer part of the wings is dark brown, with two

narrow indistinct tawny markings towards the apex. The posterior wings differ

little from those of G. prosope.

Underside : much paler brown than in C. prosope. On the anterior wings the

central band is less clearly defined than in that species; the outer third is dull

jmrplish brown, which is uninterrupted between the median nervnles, as in C. prosope,

with the row of dark sjjots more distinct, and bordered outwardly by whitish

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lunules instead of pale brown lunules in C. prosopf. On the posterior wings the

central band is wider than in C prosope, being widest on the costal margin, instead

of narrowest in that species, and the enter third is pnrplish brown, with the row

of sjwts in it mnch larger, and whitish Innnles outside instead of pale brown.

Yhe female resembles the male.

Expanse of wings : c? 2^, ? 2^ inches.

JIab. Rego, British New Guinea {type), and Samarai, S.E. New Guinea

(Woodford).

In Mr. Grose-Smith's collection.

Near to C. prosope Fabr. and C. turneri Butler. I possess a female from

Kiriwini Island (Meek) which diflers little from the ti/jjt, but is larger and paler on

the underside.

lo. Cupha alexis sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside: with the basal third jialer chestnut-brown than in C.

turneri, and with the central orange-brown band likewise paler, but broader and on

the posterior wings less curved.

On the underside the dark outer areas are more restricted. On the anterior

wings the inner edge of the dark outer area is more vertical. On the posterior

wings the spots in the dark onter band are nearer the margin and more quadrate.

Iht female resembles the male, but is a little more rufous.

Expanse of wings : c? 2J, ? 2J inches.

Hab. New Britain (Jijpe) and New Ireland.

In the Tring Museum and Mr. Grose-Smith's collection (type).

Very close to C turneri and C. cyclotas Grose-Smith ; it is a smaller insect

than the former. A considerable number has been received from several collectors.

16. Neptis dulcinea sp. nov.

Male. — Upperside: both wings velvety black. Anterior wings with a very

indistinct pale basal streak in the cell and a small indistinct white patch at its end ;

a large white spot on the disc, divided by the middle median nervnle, as in N. satitia

Grose-Smith, and another elongate spot on the inner margin, nearer the base, edged

with bluish scales, both spots being smaller than in N. satina. Towards the apex

are two rows of white spots, the inner two and the outer three in number, and

a white narrow submarginal streak between the two lowest median nervules.

Posterior wings crossed a little before the middle by a band of bluish white from

the upper subcostal nervnle to near the inner margin, where it is narrowest, being

widest above the uppermost median nervule; halfway between the band and the

outer margin, towards the apex, are three small indistinct white spots between

the veins.

Underside : with a broad bluisli white streak in the cell, divided by a dark

line at about two-thirds from the base, followed liy a greyish streak at the end of

the cell, and a triangular bluish white streak beyond, as in JV. satina, but less

elongate ; the other spots and markings as in iV. satina, but they are not margined

with bluish white. Posterior wings with two white streaks at the base ; the central

white band rather wider than on the upperside, but more abbreviated and more

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indented on its outer edge and of less nnifonn width than in iV. satiiia ; the double

row of spots and markings towards the outer margin is whiter.

The female resembles the male, but on the nppcrside of the anterior wings there

is an additional white spot in the cell beyond its middle, and the inner-marginal

white spot extends above the snbiiiedian nervure. The central white band on the

posterior wings is wider and whiter, and the disc is crossed by four white subconical

spots, with an indistinct snbmarginal row of white bars.

Expanse of wings : c^ ^i, ? 2| inches.

Hab. Mafor Island, Geelvink Bay (May and June 1897, W. Doherty).

In the Tring Museum and Mr. Grose-Smith's collection (^//'t;).

ON A NEW PAKROT OF THE FAJkllLY LORIIDAE.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD.

MR. HEINKICH KtTHN sent, among other birds from the Key Islands, a pair

of Parrots from Toeal, Little Key, which evidently belong to a new species,

which 1 name

Eos klihni sp. nov.

in honour of its discoverer. They resemble Eos semilarvata (Schleg.), but differ in

the following characters : —

1. On the head is a blue spot reaching from behind the eye to the ear-coverts

only, while in E. semilarvata the blue runs in a broad line from the base of the

mandible over the cheeks to the ear-coverts.

2. The scapulars form only a blue patch on the wing in E. semilarvata, while

in the new bird the blue forms a long line along the upper edge of the wing, some

of the lesser wing-coverts also being blue.

3. There is, in addition to the narrower black tips (jf the secondaries, a broad

black band across the wing, formed by the broad black tips of the longest upper

wing-coverts.

Wing (<?and ?) 164 mm.; tail 115; tarsus 10; bill 2.5. "Iris bright brown;

feet black; bUl reddish orange."

T>/pe : Key, Toeal, October 19th, 1897.

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LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED IN TIMOE BY

MR. ALFRED EVERETT.

By ERN.ST HARTERT.

"ly /TE. EVERETT, who, I regret to say, is now ill in Singapore, lias been to

-^-^ Timor, and sent a magnificent collection of birds. Altliongh circumstances

prevented bis ascending anj' high elevations, and therefore this collection not

containing many representatives of new species, these birds are of much value to

Mr. Rothschild's Museum, because a great number of the species represented are

new to the collection, many in fact being only known from a few specimens in

the Leyden and British Museum's collections. As so many of the species have

been first described from Timor, these Timor birds are especially valuable for

comparison with those received from Flores, Savu, Sambawa, and other islands,

whence we received collections of which no account has yet been given in this

journal — in fact the relations of the ovnis of all these islands could never have

been properly studied by us without a Timor collection.

I extract the following from one of Mr. Everett's interesting letters : —

" I arrived at Atapupu on the 8th of July, in the middle of the dry season

unfortunately, when the land was baked and the vegetation withered by long

drought, so that there was almost an absolute dearth of animal life, excepting

only birds, which were fairly plentiful.

" Atapupu or Atapoepoe, the second 'of the only two Dutch settlements in

Timor, lies at the mouth of a deep gorge in the liills which line the coast a little to

the west of the middle of the island, and between two portions of the Portuguese

territory. Here a small perennial spring of good water, and the shelter afforded

to small coasting craft by a narrow but deep passage through the fringing reef

of dead coral to a safe anchorage within, have combined to favour the formation

of a trading station. A 'Posthonder' is in charge, and the steamers of the

subsidised Dutch mail company are under contract to call once every month.

A branch of the Roman Catholic Mission at Larantuka has been in operation for

some dozen years, and there is a smaller branch in the interior at Filaran, but

they have made little impression on the Timorese so far. The population of

Atapupu numbers about 1000, of whom some 300 are Chinese (including women

and children), who are occupied chiefly in the collection of sandalwood, of which

6000 pikuls is exported yearly, beeswax, hides, etc., and in the importation of

rum and gin, with as much smuggling of opium and coffee across the Portuguese

frontier as they can manage. Ponies abound, but are not exported, as they are

looked upon in the Java market as much inferior to those from Samba, Savu, and

Rotti. Atapupu may be regarded as the coast terminus of inland communication

for a great part of Dutch Timor. The Chinese traverse almost the whole country,

residing a good deal among the Timorese, who do not molest them ; but the

' Posthouder ' appears to exercise but little influence.

"My object in visiting Atapupu was chiefly to obtain a collection of the birds

of Lekiian, the highest mountain of Dutch Timor, its elevation being some

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6600 feet. It was reported to have some sort of jungle or scrub right up to the

summit, whereas most of the other high monutains are said to be bare aud grassy

on their upper portions. 1 found on inquiry that no difficulty whatever existed,

apparently, to reaching aud working at the monntain, and accordingly, having

collected most of the birds at Atapupn, and having been furnished by tlie

' Posthouder ' with a man whom he recommended as guide and interpreter,

I dispatched my men and luggage in charge of the latter, to go up as far as

Filaran, intending to follow myself as soon as the steamer had passed. On the

27th, however, the guide came down, and reported to the 'Posthouder' that the

pt'oj)le at Filaran were in a panic at the news of my coming up, had removed

their families, cattle, etc., aud that it was impossible to obtain a single pony or

carrier. To make a long story short, I ultimately had to withdraw my men and

abandon the idea of reaching the monntain. I subsequently ascertained that the

guide had himself caused the panic, by telling the Timorese that my baggage

consisted of gunpowder and bullets. The ignorant people, who were being shot

and seized by the Portuguese on the frontier at the time, jumped at once to the

conclusion that I was in league with the latter, and was coming np to attack them :

and nothing would have disabused them of the idea except the ' Posthouder '

going nj) with me, which, however, he was disinclined to do. My collection was

thus formed entirely within a radius of about a dozen mile? of Atapu])U, aud well

below 2000 feet, in fact mostly below 600 feet. I have obtained good series of

many species, which will be useful for comparison with the birds from other

islands. I was much disappointed by getting no Pitta ! These birds were

diligently sought for, but not one was ever seen or heard.

" The heat in Timor was terrible, and we were all more or less sick. I got

back to Makassar on the 3rd of September, and had to send home two of my

Labuan men. My servant is down with strong fever, which does not seem inclined

to get better, and I am not well myself"

Collections of Im-ds from Timor have not often reached Europe. The largest

collection in Timor has been made by that admirable Dntch traveller Salomon

Miiller, and his discoveries of new birds were mostly published in Dutch language

in footnotes in his great work on the Land- eti I 'olkfnhuiiile of the Dutch East Indies ;

others were described by Temminck, others by Miiller it Schlegel. The next large

collection was made by Wallace, and the cream of it is now in the British Museum.

Quite recently a Portuguese collector, with the English name of Newton, has sent

many birds from Timor to the Lisbon Museum, but nothing is so far published about

them, and we do not know whether he made any new discoveries in birds.

1. Corvus macrorhynchus Wagl.

'i^o females, both with the wing-quills in monlt, shot at Filaran in July 1897.

They are like specimens from Flores and elsewhere.

2. Artamus perspicillatus P>p.

This species, which has its closest ally {A. melanops) in Australia, was found

at Filaran in W. Timor and at Atapnpn. A young bird, just out of the nest, has

narrow shaft-lines aud tips of a brownish buff colour to the feathers of the upper

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parts, on the breast and abdomen are faint dark cross-bars, the wliitc tips to the

tail-feathers are again narrowly tipped with blaclc, and tlie longer nnder tail-coverts

have wide white tips, which are narrowly bordered with Idack.

3. Artamus leucorhynchus (L.).

A pair from Atapnpn.

4. Calornis minor (Bp.)-

Filaran, W. Timor. Exactly like specimens from Flores, Sambawa, Lombok.

5. Geocichla peronii (Vieill.)-

? ad. " Iris chocolate-brown : liill brownish black, basal half of mandible

whitish ; legs white, tinged witli brown on tlie feet, and witii lavender-grey on the

tarsi ; claws pale brown."

Common at Atapnpn, from the sea-level np to abont a thonsand feet.

6. Pratincola caprata (L.).

Atapnpn.

7. Oreicola melanoleuca (Vieill.).

Mr. Everett procured a large series near Atapnpn in .Inly and Angnst 1897.

In Wallace's list in P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485, this bird occnrs twice, his Snxicolc

luctuosa being t\ie female of his S. melanoleufd.

^. Cettia everetti sp. nov.

A small series of a Cettia, from Atapnpn are closely allied to C. montana Horsf.

(cf. Nov. ZooL. III. p. 538). They differ, however, in being above of a more

greenish olive, not so brownish colonr as C. montana, and in the breast not being-

washed with riifons brown. The tarsus is shorter in most specimens. There is a very

pale whitish superciliary line. The iris of the 7nale is " burnt sienna-colour; liill

sepia-brown, mandible whitish yellow, brown towards the tip; legs yellowish white

on their inner, light brown on their outer aspect; claws brown." The wing measures

50 — 51 mm.; tail 53 — 55; tarsus 18 — 2i); culmen from base 13. A young bird has

the middle of the abdomen distinctly yellow. Sexes alike.

This form is closely allied to C. montana, and may be considered only snb-

specifically different; but with the present lack of more definite knowledge of its

allies, and of what may occur of it on Flores, Sambawa, and other islands, it is

l)erhaps less venturous to describe it as a species.

1 may here be allowed to s.ay that the genus Cettia does not, in my opinion, at

all belong to the Turdidae, among which they are placed in the Cat. B. Brit. Mu.'s.

v., but that their short rounded wing, bill, bristles, and the nidification, especially

the colour of their eggs, point towards a jiosition in Vol. VII. of the Cat. B. Brit.

Mi'.s., probably not very far from the Tailor-l)irds.

I have here also to add that, besides the sjiccimens from Mount Arjnno

recorded in Nov. Zom,. 111. \>. 538, we have two from Lombok, collected liy

Mr. "W. Uoherty.

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y. Orthnocichla subulata Shaiiie.

Tlu're is a good series of this rare little bird from Atapnpn. "The iris is

clay-brown: the bill pale brown, mandible horn-wliite; legs piukish white." The

bird was found right at the sea-level. Tliis Ortltnociclda differs cousiderably from

0. ereretti Hart, of Flores in being verj' much smaller, the beak being narrower and

more pointed, the wing shorter, legs smaller and lighter in colour, in having a very

distinct bnffy white superciliary line, which is not developed in ". everetti, and in

its white breast, which is pale ashy grey in 0. everetti. 0. whiteheadi from Monnt

Kina Bain in Borneo differs in having a mnch darker, almost black crown, the back

being mnch darker brown, the superciliary line rusty, sides of breast and flanks

darker: under the superciliary stripe runs a blackish brown line from the eye to the

neck, along the sides of the head. This line is not developed in 0. eeeretti and

0. subulata. While 0. whiteheadi Sharpe is evidently a mountain bird, both

O. eceretti and 0. subulata occur in the low country.

10. Dumetia bivittata (Bp.).

This bird, which is rare iu eoUoitinns, was found in numbers near Atapupu.

"The iris is yellowish brown; the bill black, mandible lead-grey; legs and claws

l>ale brown."

11. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.).

Atajiupu and Filaran. Two rather dark specimens with rather dark tails.

12. Acanthopneuste presbytis (Blyth).

See my remarks in Nov. Zool. IV. p. ^y>:^, No. ii'i. We have now received two

birds, lioth marked " j ", from Atapupu. Although they are only two, they are

sufficient to show that the Flores bird is different, for they both agree with the

Timor skins in the British Museum in being below very pale yellowish, of a some-

what striped appearance ; chin and throat distinctly white. In the Flores birds the

breast and abdomen are bright yellow ; the chin and throat not white, but of a paler

yellow. Sides of head and ear-coverts much lighter in the Timor specimens.

Wings 40 — 51 mm. in the Timor .skins, .54 — CO in the Flores bird, the smaller ones

being i\\(i fi'inales. Under the circumstances it becomes necessary to sej)arate the

Flores bird as

Acanthopneuste floris sp. nov.

I am of opinion that the genus AanithopiiCKste, to which also Cri/ptoloplm

mrasinorum M. & W'g. of Celebes belongs, must be placed among the Flycatchers,

but confess that the line cannot easily be drawn between many of the so-called

Si/lviidae and the Muncicaindae.

1:5. Gary gone everetti Hart.

Both sexes from Ata])ni)U. c^ and V . -Iris (irann-c-vcllnw : bill and legs

black."

14. Siphia hyacinthina (Temm.).

A magnificent series, shot iu July and August at Atajjupn. " Iris (J sid.)

warm lirown : bill and legs black."

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1-1. Myiagra rufigula Wall.

Filarau iiud Atapupu. The depth of the rufmis throat aud chest varies ver\-

much.

10. Piezorhynchus trivirgatus (Temm.).

One adLvHtfetnalc, Atapupa.

IT. Muscicapula westermanni Sharpe.

c? ?. Atapupu.

18. Erythromyias pyrrhonota (MiUl. iV Schleg-j.

Both sexes from Atapupu, where it is commou. i ad. " Iris chocnlate-lirown ;

bill black ; legs and feet dark purplish grey."

19. Rhipidura rufiventris (Vieill.).

Common near Atapupu.

20. Rhipidura semicollaris Midi. & Schleg.

A series from Atapupu.

Timor is the original locality for this form : our Atapupu skins are therefore to

be regarded as typical. The Flores form (see Vol. IV. pp. 52.5, 526) have the

wings generally longer, but one S has it not longer than 71 mm., while one Timor

male has it almost 70 mm. long. Therefore I do not dare to separate tliem without

further evidence. The Rli. celebensis (which does not seem to occur in Celebes)

differs only from semicollaris in its slightly broader black chest-band and a little

greater extent of the rusty red colour on the mantle. Eh. sumbenais is again only

distinguishable by a wider black chest-band and slightly longer wing on an

average. These forms are closely allied, and all subspecies of one species.

21. Graucalus melanops (Lath.).

c? ? ad. Filaran, .July lS'._t7. They seem to be indistinguishable from

Australian specimens, but it is remarkable that some of the latter are so much paler

than others. Perhaps the New Guinea birds are paler as a rule, but I have not

sufficient material to come to any conclusion about it.

22. Graucalus personatus (S. Mull.).

Mr. Everett ])rocured a tine series at Atapupu in July aud August. They were

then in good plumage. The " iris is brown ; bill black ; legs dark grey." The

upper wing-coverts aud scapulars are slaty grey, and not black, as said in the

Cat. B. Brit. Mas. IV. ]). 13. The under wing-coverts and axillaries are white

in both sexes, and only in some specimens washed with rusty butf near the bend of

the wing, and this is not a character jjeculiar to thc/emale.

23. Lalage timoriensis (S. Mull.).

Filaran, cJ juv., -luly. Atajiupu, J ad., July.

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24. Dicrurus densus Bp.

A small series from Atapupn, July aud Augnst. ? ad. " J ris lake-red ; bill

tiud feet black."

25. Sphecothera viridis ViL-ill.

S Hil. " 111 life the orbits always seem to be brick-red, but ufter death become

white or yellowish, though the red colour is sometimes retained. Iris ciuuabar-red:

bill black: legs lead-grey." Iris in a youog /?uil(: "clay-brown." lu aduh Jumales :

"Iris chocolate-brown; bare orbits and eye-ring jiale green; bill sepia-brown; legs

dark grey; claws blackish." Yonng males are in plumage like the &dnlt females,

but slightly darker brown aljove, aud the secondaries and wiug-coverts more

distinctly bordered with greenish.

Common at Atapupu in July and August.

2(i. Oriolus viridifuscus lloiue.

Sharpe was quite right in describing the bmwn bird as the Jemnli: of the

greenish one {Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 111. p. 208, PL XL). The bill of i\w female,

however, is not red. ?. " Iris cinnabar-red; Inll dark blackisli brown." i jnv. In

plumage like the J'etmle, only tlie chest with blackish longitudinal lines, which are

absent in most /ewafes, though not all. " Iris chocolate-brown; bill brownish black;

legs olivaceous grey." 6 a<l. " Iris cherry-red; bill pinkish brown: legs lead-grey."

Some males have very green wash on the breast, while one is there strongly washed

with green.

The species was common at Atapnpn.

-7. Pachycepliala calliope 15(1.

A series from Atapnpn.

28. Pachycephala orpheus Jard.

A large series from Atapnpn. The female is like the m,ale, but young birds

have the crown not distinctly grey.

29. Lanius bentet Horsf.

Three specimens from Atapupu.

30. Philemon timoinensis (S. Mull.).

Eare near Atapupn. '• iris (¥) dull while, bleared with brown."

'M. Philemon inornatus (Gray).

" Iris (J) raw sienna-brown or chestnut-brown." ? ad. " Iris chocolate-browu;

bill black; legs blackisli grey."

Not rare uear Atapupu. The female is smaller than the male. Gadow, iu

Cat. B. Brit. Mus. IX., gives 44 to 4-6 inches as the length of the wing. This is

right, but 4-4 is that of t\x^ female's, 4-0 that of the inale's wing.

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32. Ptilotis reticulata (Temm.)-

Commou at Atapupn aud Filaran. The female is (jnite like the nvile, ouly

much smaller. Wing iu males 80 — 82 mm., in females T4 — 77 mm. " Iris dark

lavender-grey."

33. Ptilotis maculata (Temm.).

A single/cwa^e of this rare .species from Atapn])n.

34. Zosterops muelleri (Hartl.).

A large series from low country near Atapupn. c? ? • " Iris deej) Indian red :

orbital skin bluish black ; bill ' very dark horn-grey : feet and legs greenish

plumbeous ; claws light lirown." This species has the feathers of the crown

lengthened, and rather round and com])act. The bill is strong aud large, as in my

" Lophozosterops,'' and also as in Z. superciliaris and Z. crassirostris from Flores,

the latter of which has also a similar structure of the feathers of the crown. My

Lophozosterops, however, although similar iu most points, has the feathers of the

crown longer, looser, and mure pointed. Dr. Hartlanb made Z. muelleri the type of

his genus lieleiu, which, however, has not been recognised by Sharpe {Cat. B. IX.

p. 202). If it is recognised, my Lophozosterops must either be united with it and

not with Zosterops, or must be separately recognised as a genus, though there is not

much generic value iu either of them.

3.5. Zosterops citrinella Bp.

Common at Atapupn. Everett's aud Doherty's collections from the East have

shown that this species, formerly only known from Timor, extends from Timor to

the mountains of Eastern Java, being found on Flores, Savu, Snmba, 8ambawa,

Lombok, and Mount Arjnno.

36. Cinnjnris Solaris (Temm.).

Two males from Atapupu.

37. Myzomela vulnerata (S. Mull.).

Several males from Atapupu.

■ 38. Dicaeum mackloti Mull. & Schleg.

Atapupn. Like specimens from Savu.

39. Piprisoma obsoletum (Mull. & Schleg.).

<J ? . FUaran and Atapupu.

1 must here correct; a mistake which I made formerly. What I recorded as

'^J'rio/wc//iliis oisoletus" fcora. Sambawa on p. 567 of Vol. III. of Nov. ZooL. is not

this species, but

Acmonorhynchus auuae Biittik.

The bad condition of the skins prevented my seeing the yellow rump-patch, and

1 had uu specimens of P. obsoletum from Timor, but judged from descriptions. On

the other haud, what 1 recorded as 1'. obsoletum I'rom JSumba (p. otjl, Nov. Zoul. 111.)

really does belong to that group, bnt is probably separable subspecifically from

typical obsoletum. The Snmba form will be fnlly discussed in a future article.

40. Munia fuscata (Vieill.).

Three from Atapnpu. "Iris {S ad.) lake-red; bill pale bluish grey; legs

hiveuder-grev."

41. Munia punctulata nisoria (Temm.).

Young male, July, Atapajra.

42. Munia molucca propinqua (Sliarpe).

A pair from Atapnj)u seems to belong to the subspecies propinqua.

43. Taeniopygia insiilaris (Wall.).

Common near Atapupu.

44. Sporaeginthus flavidiventris (Wall.)-

Atapnpu. The white s[)ots on the breast seem to bo smaller than in my skins

from Lombok and Flores, but there is only one male from Timor.

45. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.).

Two rather large specimens with dark piletrm, both females, Atapnpu, July.

Wings 108 and 1U9 mm. Like specimens from Savu.

46. Halcyon australasiae (Vieill.).

July, Atapnpu.

47. Halcyon sanctus Vig. k Horsf.

One male, Atapnpu.

48. Alcedo ispida floresiana Sharpe.

Two males and two females, all adult, from Atapupu. Both males have the

mandible as well as the maxilla entirely black, while botii females have the

mandible entirely red. Wings of the males 'I mm., of theymafe*- GS and 72 mm.

4U. Merops ornatus Lath.

Not rare at Atapu])u.

;")||. Ceutropus javanicus Dumont.

? juv., Atapupu.

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•il. Chalcococcyx malayauus (RafH.).

A single skiu from Ata}>ui)n.*

52. Psitteuteles euteles (Temm.).

Half-a-dozeu skins, Atapnpn, Aui;nst. " Iris orange ; bill orange-rod, witli

}'ellow ti]) ; orbital skin black ; feet dark olivaceous grey, claws dark brownisli

horn-grey."

TJie tyi)ical form is the Timor one. In the adult male the ear-coverts are much

brighter and more golden yellow, a character not mentioned in most descriptions.

As I have said before this, the specimens from Flores are like those from Timor.

53. Neopsittacus rubripileum Salvad.

A large series, Atapnpn, and one female from Filaran in W. Timor, shot in

July and August. ? . " Iris dark orange ; cere and orbits livid black ; bill orange-

rod : mandible dark yellow ; feet olive-grey, claws dusky blackish."

Although it seems pecnliar that two such closely allied species should occur on

the same island, yet N. iris (Temm.) seems to be quite distinct. Our specimens of

N. rubripileum either have the pilenm quite red, or mixed with light green or pale

greenish blue, some of the feathers having green or bluish edges. The young bird

has the pileum yellowish green, the feathers tipped with red, these tips increasing

in width, so that the forehead is quite orange-red.

Scops, iris was not met with by Mr. Everett.

54. Geofiroyus personatus (Shaw).

S ad. " Iris lemon-yellow : orbital skin and cere olive-brown : bill orange-red.

the distal third yellow, and the tip horn-brown, mandible brown : feet olivaceous

grey, claws dark grey." ?. "Iris pale lemon-yelldw ; bill brown; feet olivaceous

grey, claws dark grey."

5."i. Trichoglossus haematodus (L.).

A magnificent series of seventeen specimens, shot in July at Ata]iuim. " The

correct colour of the iris in this bird when alive is in both sexes a vivid blood-red,

with a very narrow inner ring of yellow, but the iris seems generally to turn to

orange after death." Some, I think younger, specimens — both males sind/emales —

have very little red on the breast, which is yellow with only some faint concealed

orange-red spots, while the under wing-coverts are bright red in every one of the

series, but mostly with some orange-yellow edges to some or all. In the series of

sixteen now before me from Sumba, there are five or six with hardly any red on the

breast, and eight with bright yellow under wing-coverts, only here and there with

a small red jiatcli. I further find that most specimens from Timor have a brighter

* No other Cuciilulac were procured on Timor, but before he went tiiere Mr. Everett shot a specimen of

Surniculus musschenbroeki A. B. Meyer

jnst outside the town of Makassar, Soutlt Celebes. It will be remembered that this species wa.s until quite

recently only known by the type-spccimen in Dresden, but that Mr. Everett collected two specimens on

ponthain Peak in Celebes. The type had been said to come from I^afjan.

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blue on the head, and that there is a tendenc}- in them for a greater extent of the

hlne on the crown : and the Snmba specimens have mostly, though not always, a

distinct green line under the eye as well as above it, while in the Timor birds the

green line luuler tlie eye is not visible. In addition to all (iiis, I find that the beak

of the Snmba birds is larger, exceeding that of the Timor birds about 2 to 3 mm. in

the length of the cnlmeu, and about 1 to 3 in height, the same sexes being

compared, which is necessary, because the malcH have generally slightly larger bills

than the females. The wing also of the Sumba form is generally longer. The wing

measures in Timor specimens from 144 to lo4 mm., the average being aliout 1.50 to

152, only one out of seventeen having the wing fully 154 mm. long. In Snmba

skins the wing measures 150 to 156 mm., the majority of the males having it 155

to 156 long, none reaching below 147 mm., a length found only in one female.

Under the circumstances it becomes advisable to separate the Snmba form as

Trichoglossus haematodus fortis snbsp. nov.

Typus (? ad. Waingapo, Snmba, A. Everett coll., September 1896.

50. Ptistes jonquillaceus (Vieill.).

cJ. " Iris orange ; cere yellowish brown ; bill orange-red, witli yellow tiji,

mandible reddish orange : feet greyish black, claws black." ? . " Iris deep brownisli

orange ; cere light yellowish brown." A fine series, shot in .Inly at Atapupu. The

wings of the 7nales measure 180 to 190 mm. Most of the specimens were in

moult in Jnly.

57. Cacatua parvula (Bp.).

Two skins from Atapn))n. From Schlegel {^fl/s. P. B., P.vftnri, p. 137),

Salvador! {C<it. B. Brit. Mas. XX. p. 120, footnote), and Finscli we learn tliat the

tyj)e of C. parvula came from Semao, near Timor, and that it agrees with Timorese

skins. Our two Timor skins may therefore be taken as typical C. parvula. In

comparing them with our series of a dozen skins from Flores and Lombok, I find

that all of them have conspicuously longer, thicker, and stronger beaks tlian the

Timor birds. This observation is not new, for it had been made by Sclilegel (/.r.)

and by Finsch {Papageien I. p. 300). Indeed, tlie strong beak was the reason

why Finsch considered the Flores and Lombok specimens to belong to the equally

hirge-billed C. snlpharea of Celebes, his oliservation that they Jiacl, like €. sulplmrert.,

a yellow patch on the ear-coverts, while this was wanting in the Timor birds, being

erroneous, for all the Lombok, Sambawa, Flores, and Timor birds have the ear-

coverts pale yellow, while it is of a much darker orange-yellow in C. sulphurea from

Celebes. That is also the reason why Salvador! says that most, but not all, C iiarruhi

had less strong bills than C. suljihircn. With the series in the Rothschild Museum

and others which I have seen, and with the confirmatory observations of these authors,

there can be no longer any doubt that the so-called " variation " in the size of the

bills of C. parvula is not " individual," but local. I therefore propose the name of

C. parvula occidentalis snbsp. nov.

for the large-billed form from T,ombok and Flores (type : i ad. Lombok, .Inly 1896,

A. Everett coll.), tliat from Timor and Seniao rcniaining C. parvula parvula.

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I find that many Parmts differ locally in the development of their bills; thns

1 found years ago that I'sittacus eritkacus L. differed locally in the size of beaks, and

I therefore separated it into two subspecies. Thus I separated Cacatua sulphurea

djampeana, and brought to light again C. trohriandi of Finsch.

58. Ninox fusca (Vieill.).

A small series from Atapujiu. The femcUes agree entirely with Dr. Sharpe's

description and figure in Vol. II. of the Cat. B. Brit. Mii.'<., and the males are

entirely similar. Wings 215 — 225 mm. " Iris lemon-yellow ; cere dull green ;

bill bluish lead-grey; feet ochreous yellow, claws dark horn-brown."

59. Strix flammea L. (subsp.).

One skin, a male, shot at Atapupu on August 17th, 1807, with the coloration of

the soft i^arts as in the Savu birds. It does, however, not belong to the Savu sub-

species, which I have identified as Gould's delicattda, nor to the pale-tailed Sumba

race, which I have separated as Strix flammea sumbai'nsis on p. 270 of Vol. IV. of

this journal. In coloration it agrees generally with S. flammea delicatuhi, though

the breast, abdomen, and under wing-coverts are rather heavily spotted with lilack,

these spots being more or less arrow-shaped on the breast and abdomen, and

though the wings and scapulars are marked with rather large longish half black

and half white spots, and the back with black spots. The dimensions, however,

exceed much those of Strix flammea delicatiila. The wing measures 290 mm.; the

tail 125; tarsus 66; middle toe without claw 35. This is probably a race peculiar to

Timor, but unfortunately I have only this single specimen before me.

60. Astur torquatus (Temm.).

Adult ynale smA female in good plumage, and another adult male in abraded

plumage, from Atapupu, end of August. Also a nestling, just showing the first

feathers, and two young birds, male andjhnale, in first plumage, from Atapupu,

August. The young male had the " Iris ivory-yellow; cere and margin of gape light

green, maxilla black, mandible and base of maxilla lead-grey: feet pale yellowish,

tinged with green, claws black." The jormg: female : "Iris greyish white: bill

black, mandible lead-grey, clouded with black; cere and gajie greenish; legs very

pale whitish yellow, claws black."

Ever since I recorded for the first time this species from a new locality

(Djampea and Kalao, Nov. Zool. III. p. 177), and afterwards from Savu (Nov.

ZooL. IV. p. 270), I liave been interested in the differences seen in different

specimens. Now, with our series from Timor and others from Alor before me, I

find that the adult males and females from Timor, Savu, and AJor differ from those

from Flores, Djampea, and Kalao in being below paler, the rufous bars being

lighter, narrower, and becoming less distinct and less dark towards the belly, the

thighs being white with very pale rufous cross-bars, while those from Flores,

Djampea, aiid Kalao are darker rufous below, generally not so much lighter on the

abdomen than on the breast, the thighs pale rufous, with or without distinct darker

rufous cross-bars. I find further that the young birds from Timor and all but one

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from Savn are darker above than thoso from Flores, Djampea, and Kalao; tbose

from Timor and Alor looking: above almost like a Kestrel, the feathers rusty red

with broad blackish cross-markings, those from Savu being darker, the blackish

brown on the back more extended, so that the feathers might be described as

blackish brown with rufous edges. These latter are very much like young Flores

birds; but all those from Flores, and still more so those from Djampea and Kalao,

are paler above. It is, however, evident that the latter are in older plumage and

more or less abraded and faded, being before their moult, and I tliiuk that all their

differences can be accounted for in that way, and that they are not of snbspecific or

specific value, especially as one of the young Savn birds agrees entirely with those

from Djampea and not with the other Savu birds.

Unfortunately we did not receive any specimens from Lombok, but the British

iluseum possesses one, the type of Sharj)e's Astiir wallacei. This is still more

rufous than the more western forms before me (from Flores), but does not differ

otherwise. It has been described as a male, but is doubtless a female. The young

bird from Lombok, described by Dr. Sharjjc in a footnote on p. 128 of Vol. 1. of the

Cat. B. Brit, ^fu.■i., seems certainly to Ixdong to the old bird from that place, while

the Buru specimens will be found to belong to another form. As it is, we must, I

think, distinguish between, at least, an eastern and a western siibspecies, or perhaps

three, namely: —

1. A very rufous form (Lombok).

2. A less rufous darker form (Flores, Djampea, Kalao).

3. A less rufous paler form (Timor, Savu).

I think, however, that possibly the Flores, Djampea, and Kalao birds may

have to be united with the Lombok form, and if this my surmise is correct, the

latter would jirobalily have to be named A. tortjuatu.s wullocei (Sharpe). More

material of adult birds from Lombok and Sambawa is required to solve this

jiroblem.

With regard to other allied forms I wish to offer the following remarks: —

In my first article on the birds collected in Sumba by Mr. Dolierty, I mentioned

■A ilawk from Sumba of this group as Astur torqnatu.'i. Afterwards 1 found that

Dr. A. B. Meyer had described an Urospizias sumbaiiims from that island, and

therefore I referred (Nov. Zool. IV. p. 270) my bird to U. sumhai'nsis. I have now

several young birds and a fine old pair sent by Mr. Everett. The young ones are

exactly like tliose from Flores, Djampea, and Kalao. The old birds agree perfectly

with the majority of the Flores birds, except that the cross-bars below are more

greyish and less reddish. As this character varies to a certain extent in specimens

from the same places, it must remain doubtful whether it is here a specific or an

individual character. The characters stated by me as distinguishing it from the

true A. torquatus are useless, as they vary in other individuals, and Dr. Meyer's

characters have to be disregarded for the purpose, as he compared it with a more

distinct ally. I expect that the Sumba bird can either be united with the Flores

one, or may be subspecifically distinct, but nothing more.

I cannot bring myself to unite with ,1. torqitattm the Australian A. rruentii.t,

which seems to differ in being more regularly barred below and in having a longer

tarsus. The birds from New Guinea are probably not separable from the latter.

The change from the longitudinally marked plumage of the immature bird to

the cross-barred jthmiage of the aihilt bird is effected through a moult, as shown by

some of our skins.

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fil. Cuncuma leucogaster (Gm.).

Yonug female in very abraded plumage, Atapnpu, Angnst 1897.

62. Haliastur indus (Bodd.) (? intermedius).

A very young female, m first plamage, Atapnpu, August. It belongs most

likely to the subspecies inti'i-medius, but as it is not accompanied by adult specimens

I cannot say for certain.

63. Baza subcristata Gould.

Male, August, Atapnpu.

04. Tinnunculus moluccensis occidentalis II. & Wg.

Male imd/emale, August, Larantuka ami Atapupu.

65. Falco lunulatus Lath.

c? ad. July, Atapupu. "Iris chocolate-brown; orbital skin pale bluish; cere

light dirty green; bill lead-grey, apical portion black; legs pale wax-yellow, claws

black."

60. Osmotreron psittacea (Temm. & Knip.).

Filaran, July, Atapupu, July and August, d ad. " Iris orange, with an inner

ring of olive-yellow; orbital skin pale bluish green ; bill horn-white, basal half

dull bluish ; feet dull purple-carmine." The edges of the greater and median wing-

coverts are yellow in all the males, while all the/emales have them white, or very

pale yellow on the longer ones, with the exception of one, which has them as

yellow as the males. It is not improbable that the latter is wrongly sexed, as it

was skinned by a native hunter.

67. Ptilinopus cinctus (Temm.).

This beautiful Pigeon was found not uncommon at Atapnpu in July and

August. The yellow tinge on the throat and breast is very strong in fresh skins.

The adult }>iale has the " Iris brilliant red; bill vivid yellow, strongly tinged with

leaf-green on the basal half." The young bird in first plumage has the feathers

of the head and neck barred with very pale grey, those of the back and rump and

the wing-coverts green, with yellow margins. The black band across the breast is

not developed.

08. Carpophaga rosacea (Temm.).

Two pairs, Atajjupu, July and August.

69. Turacoena modesta (Temm.).

Atapupu, July and Angnst. ? ad. " Iris with an outer crimson-lake ring and

an inner yellow one ; bare orbital skin chrome-yellow ; bill and feet black."

Another ? ad. " Iris orange ; orbital skin greenish brown."

70. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.).

July, Filaran and Atapupu.

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71. Geopelia maugeus (Tenim. & Knip.).

July, Atapnim. " In the living bird the iris is white ; the orbital skin

pale chrome-yellow ; bill dark bluish plumbeous ; legs dull purple-red, claws

brownish grey."

72. Chalcophaps chrysochlora (Wagl.).

There are three skins from Atapnpu, shot in July, that belong to this species,

which, according to the law of priority, should, I think, be called Ckalcoj/haps

javanica, although it does not occur in Java. Two of the specimens are not fully

adult, and they are only more or less grey on the nape. The third, however, which

is evidently an adult iriale, has the crown from the eyes backward, the upper neck,

and the interscapulium down to the metallic green back ashy grey. None of the

fifteen skins from Australia, New Guinea, and other places show this character.

73. Heteractitis brevipes (Vieill.).

S, August 16th, Atapnim. '■ Legs uchrcous yellow."

74. Himantopus leucocephalus Gould.

V, July, Atapupu.

75. Actitis hypoleucus (L.).

Atapupu, August.

76. Anas gibberifrons S. Hull.

One from Atapupu. S. " Iris vivid blood-red; bill lead-blue; feet dark brown."

77. Nycticorax caledonicus (Gm.).

Male, August 1897, Atapupu.

78. Tachybaptes philippensis (Bonn.).

(J ? juv., July, Atapnpu. cJ. " Iris crimsou-lake."

79. Gallus gallus (L.).

Male and/einale from Atapupu.

80. Synoicus raalteni (Temm.).

A fine series, shot in July near Atapupu, well confirms my statements, made in

Nov. ZooL. IV. p. 271, as to the distinctness of S. raalteni pallidior of Savu, for all

the Timor birds are of a darker and more rufous brown colour. The male has the

" Iris dark red; bill lead-blue, culmeu and tip black; legs dark ochre-yellow."

81. Tumix maculosus (Temm.).

Several females and a male from Atapujtu. The adult female has the " Iris

(in living bird) milk-white; the bill dusky blackish, basal part of mandible chrome-

yellow." The male : " Iris yellowish white; bill chrome-yellow, cnlmen and tip of

mandible horn-black; legs duU yellow."

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. V. MAY, 1898. No. 2.

LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS

MADE IN THE SULA ISLANDS BY WILLIAM DOHERTY.

By ERNST HARTERT.

"ly/rii. nOIIERTY, in Octolier and November 1897, collected on tlie islands of

-'-'-'- Sula Maugoli and Sula Besi, the eastern and tljc sontheni islands of the

Sula gronp. The collection of birdskins he sent contains all the birds hitherto

known to be restricted to the Snla Islands, and almost all the species known to

occur there, besides some striking new species and a few other additions.

Onr previous knowledge of the avifauna of the Sula group is but scant. The

Leyden Museum possesses good material sent home by some of the Dutch travellers

in former years, and Wallace's assistant, Mr. Allen, collected there. The latter

collections were duly recorded by Wallace in Proc. Zonl. Sot:. Loud. 1862. pp. 333 —

34f) (see also plates xxxviii., xxsix., xl.). Recently Messrs. A. B. Meyer & Wigles-

worth recorded a collection from Peling and Banggai, between Celebes and the Sula

Islands {Abk. DreMlen Museum 1896 — 7. No. 2). The ornis of these two islands

is essentially that of the Sula group.

I follow, in this list, the arrangement which will, I believe, be iidoi)ted by

Messrs. A. B. Meyer & Wiglesworth in their forthcoming great work on the

Birds of Celebes, in (irder that my article can with greater convenience lie compared

with their lists.

1. Spilornis rufipectus sulaensis (Schl.).

I very much doubt the possibility of keeping this subspecies distinct from

S. rufipectus rufipectus of Celebes. The differences said to exist in the Gat. B. Jhif.

Ahm. I. do not occur, and the spotting (or barring) of the abdomen varies as mucli

as the colour of the chest, wiiich in one specimen from Makassar is even paler than

in one from Sula Mangoli. ? ad. " Iris lemon-yellow ; cere orange-ochreons ;

feet pale dull ochreous, claws black ; bill pale bluish horn-colour, tip black."

Doherty collected specimens in Sula Maugoli and Sula Besi.

2. Astur soloensis (Horsf j.

Two adult /««/«.< and an immature mate, Sula Mangoli, November 18'.»7. The

old males are rather pale rufous on the breast. There may be several subspecies

of this bird, but I am not able to discuss them. The adult male has the " iris

crimson-brown, witli an outer yellowish line ; the feet ochreous, with black claws ;

the bill black, cere orange."

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3. Accipiter sulaensis (Schl.).

One female in (prolniljly) first ])lumagL', Snla Mangoli. It is above rnsty

nifons, the feathers with brownish black centres and wliite bases. Crown nearly

black. Onter webs of primaries dark brown, with pale rufons edges. Inner webs

of primaries brown towards the tij), with indistinct darker cross-bars, pale rnsty

rnfous on their basal portion, with brownish black cross-bars. Tail above rnsty,

below very pale reddisii, with fonr broad brownish black cross-bars, outermost jiair

of rectrices with seven narrower cross-bars. Below buffy white, with longitudinal

dark brown blotches along the middle of the feathers. Under tail-coverts bnflfy

white, without spots. Tarsus ZO mm. ; middle toe without claw 34-.5 mm. " Iris

yellow ; feet olive-ochreous, with orange soles and black claws : bare skiu round

eyes and cere olive-ochreons."

4. Pisorhina sulaensis sp. nov.

This owl resembles in colour of pluniiiL;c certain dark rufous brown varieties

of P. menai/<'».'<is (Quoy et Gaim.), but it is (•0M^iderllbly larger, and the (arsns,

being bare on the back for its entire length, is also bare in front for about three-

eighths of its length. Above dark rufous brown, the feathers with a more or

less distinct black shaft-line and black mottlings, and with lighter rufous brown

spots. The black central lines broader on the crown. Four or five of the scapulars

with the greater part of the outer webs white ; this colour bordered inwardly with

brownish black. Inner webs of primaries dark sepia-brown, on the inner ones with

a marginal line of pale buff spots : outer webs sepia-brown, with jiale buff and

rufous i)atches. Below like most scops-owls, and not differing from many 1'.

menadensis, but with as mnch white as the darker specimens of P. alhit-entris.

One S from Snla Mangoli, October 1897. "Iris orange; feet dirty yellowish

white, with blackish claws ; bill blackish, lower mandible and cere dirty ochreous."

Total lengtli abont 22-5 mm., a. 170, c. 77, t. .30 mm. There is also a nestling of

this interesting new owl from Snla Besi, the downy feathers of which are pale butfy

brown, with nnmerons dark brown cross-bars. " Its iris was deep brown, its feet

dull whitish testaceous, its bill j)ale dnll lead-colonr." The tarsus is bare for half

its length.

ft. Loriculus sclateri Wall.

A good series from Snla Besi and one from Snla J\Iangoli. " Feet orange,

claws black; bill black, basally orange."

The series before me confirms in the main the differences stated to exist

between this (typical) form of /,. sdafi'ri and L. i<clateri rnher M. & Wg. of Peling

and Banggai, although the most reddish sjjecimens cannot be distinguished from the

least reddish ones of L. s. ruber.

0. Aprosmictus dorsalis sulaensis (Hehw.;.

It is probably right to separate the Snla bird from .1. dorsalis dorsalis, but in

no case will it be a good species. 1 have before me, in the Tring Museum, ten skins

from Dutch N(!w Guinea, Batanta, Salwatti, Mori, and Mr. Doherty has now sent us

nine from Snla Mangoli, shot there in October and November. Out of these three are

marked '• ?." Two of these have the interscapular region entirely green, one being

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evidently yonug, the feathers of the breast beiug still j)artly green, unci both these

have rosy red tips to the rectrices. The third ?, probably adnlt, although in moult,

has a few bine edges to the feathers of the interscapular region, and the tail

entirely black below, without any rosy tips. Of the six males four have rosy red

tips to the tail-feathers, and three of them have no blue on the interscapulium, one

some faint blue edges. One has no rosy tii)s and distinct bine edges on the inter-

scapulium, but one is deep blue from the lower hind-neck to the tail, though right in

the middle of the interscapulium the feathers have only blue borders. I thus come

to the conclusion that the development of blue is generally stronger in A. donalis

(lors'dis, and that .1. d. stilaeitsis is very seldom quite so blue above, but more fully

adult Sala birds should be studied. Wallace declares that the bill in the Sula

specimens is red, while it is blackish with a reddish orange spot near the base of

the culmen, bnt this statement is erroneous, as all our Sula skins have the bills

exactly like the A. dorsalis dorsalis, in which, however, the bUl is red in very

young birds.

T. Tanygnathus muUeri (Miill. & Schleg.).

Five specimens from iSnla Mangoli look like a distinct form at tirst sight, as

their mandibles are black. But it seems evident that this is due to the juice of

some fruit with which they have also soiled parts of their feathers and which has

coloured the mandibles entirely black.

8. Trichoglossus flavoviridis Wall.

A series from Sula Mangoli. " Iris bright orange, bare orbital space pale

orange ; feet pale dull lead-colour ; bill orange-red."

9. Eudynamis facialis Wall.

In Froc. Zoo/. Sor. Lorn/. ISQ'^. p. 339, Wallace described as a new species

Ts. facialis, from a single specimen whicli differed from E. melanorhijnchus of

Celebes in its smaller size and different proportions, the wing being at least half an

inch shorter, the tail one and a half inch shorter, and also by its "chin and face, as

far as the eyes, being white." Some irregularity in the white facial markings, says

Wallace, " led my friend Dr. Sclater to suppose that it might be a case of incipient

albinism. This, however, would not affect the determination of the species, which

depends on its different proportions from its nearest ally."

These observations of the great explorer are quite true. It is excusable that

Shelley, in Cat. B. Brit. Mns. XIX. p. 327, did not recognise Vi. /aa'a//,«, as only the

one specimen, Wallace's type, was known, but mention of the fact of its differing

should have been made.

Doherty has now sent five adult mn.hs and one young female from Sula

Mangoli, and these specimens bear out fully the statements of Wallace. The wings

of the males measure 1S3 — 190 mm. (thoat^ oi J'J. melanorki//w/it!s 198 — 210) j the

tails 166 — 180 (those of E. melanorhynchns at least 200). Also the white facial

markings are not accidental, but due to locality, as three out of our five males show

them either indicated, or have the chin and forehead as far as tlie eyes white, like

the type, while in about twenty-live adult males of E. melaiiorli//iicki(s none has any

white at all. The iris of the adult male is described by Doherty as " orange-red ;

feet and bill black." The immature male had the " iris dull crimson ; feet and bill

brownish black."

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111. Cuculus intermedius Vahl.

(J ? immat., 8iil;i Maufroli, October ami November 1897.

1 1 . Cacomantis virescens Briigg.

$ immat., in moult, November 1897, Siila Mangoli, evidently belouging to

C. virescens.

12. Pelargopsis melanorhyncha eutreptorhyncha snbsp. nov.

Nine specinieu.s from Snla Mauguli.

I have before me ten skins from North Celebes and Baiika. All these have the

bills, including the entire base of mandible and maxilla, entirely black: only one from

Lembeh has a narrow red line along the middle of the mandible on one side only,

but not on the other. The black colour of the bills is natural, for there are several

labels with the remark " Bill black " made by the collectors. Then there are three

mail's and s. femali' from Tawaya (cf Nov. Zool. IV. p. 163). Of these two have

entirely black bills, one just a bit of red on the base of the mandible, the other a

conspicuous small red spot at the base of the maxiUa, and one on the cnlmen, right at

the beginning. Then we have three of the co-types of Pelargopsis dichrorkyncka

M. & Wg. from Peling and Banggai, between Celebes and the Sula Islands. These

have a very conspicuous large red spot at the base of the culmeu, and on the lower

part of the base of the maxilla, as well as about half of the mandible red. Now we have

received nine Sula Mangoli specimens. There is a (^ with the following notes on

the label : " Iris deep umber-brown ; feet dusky red, soles and hind part of tarsi

vermilion, claws blackish : bill bliickish. maxilla black with red spot at base

of cnlmen, mandible black with base red, gape orange." An adult fi'inati' has

on the label : " Iris dark brown ; feet dark red, soles scarlet, claws blackish ;

bill black, base of mandible and extreme base of cnlmen bright red." But in

the Sula specimens the red spot on the base of the cnlmen is much smaller than in

P. fliclirorhtfncha, and sometimes obsolete, or, in two specimens, not present at all.

The red of the basal part of the sides of the maxilla is less extended, and sometimes

quite obsolete ; the red at the base of the mandible is only extended over abont one-

rjuarter of the mandible and sometimes obsolete, and in one specimen not visible at

all. This is duly marked on the label : " Bill less red than usual." In all other

respects these birds agree with P. ilichrorki/ncha; the bill is also generally a little

longer and stronger than in P. mclanorlii/iwha melanorhi/iicha, but this and all other

differences in size between P. melanorkyncka and P. dichrorhijncha are trifling and

variable. The specimen from Tawaya with the red at the base of the bill is perfectly

similar to the Sula Mangoli birds. The case of these Pi'laryopsis is very interest-

ing. It is evident that the colour of their bills is variable, but their variation is

not individual, but rather local, probably due to local influences. The specimens

from the Minahassa are, it seems, quite constant in having a black bill ; those

from Peling and Banggai have constantly half of the mandible red : those from

Tawaya, in Middle Celebes, have an inclination to vary towards having a red base of

the mandible ; those from Sula Mangoli have small red spots at the base of the bill,

but occasionally quite, or almost quite, black bills. Under the circumstances, I

believe we can distinguish three subspecies : —

1. P. melanorkyncka melanorhyncha (Temm.), from North and Middle Celebes,

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Banka and Togian Is., with black bills, and a tondoncy in tlie sonthern parts to

become red spots at the base of the bill.

2. P. tnclamrhijncha (Vtrhrorhiinchn (M. & Wg.), Banggai and Peling, between

Celebes and Snla. Bill black, with about basal li;i,lf of mandible red and large red

spot on basal part of culmen.

3. P. mdanorhyncha exdreptorhynchu. Hart., ii-om Sula Mangoli. Bill black,

with smaller red spot at base of maxilla, sometimes obsolete, and with smaller red

space at base of mandible, sometimes var^ ing towards a black bill.

13. Halcyon coromanda rufa (Wall.).

Six skins of adnlt birds from Snla Mangoli. They are perfectly constant in

coloration and dimensions, and differ from Indian specimens in their deep brownish

red nnder surface and rather dark npperside. (Jnlmen from base 63 — 67 mm.; wing

I20--124 mm.

Whether this form can bear the name of H. coromanda rufa or not, I cannot

decide at present ; but it seems to me that only some, not all, of the Celebes

specimens agree with those from Sula Mangoli, which are all alike. " Iris dull

umber, with pale line in the middle; feet coral-red, claws duller; bill vermilion."

14. Halcyon sancta Vig. k Horsf.

Snla Mangoli.

lii. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.).

Sula Mangoli. " Iris deep brown; feet coral; liill orange-scarlet."'

16. Macropteryx wallacei (J. Gd.).

One young female in its first spotted plumage from Snla Besi. "Iris deep

brown; feet dull brown; bill nearly black."

17. Pitta irena crassirostris (Wall.).

I am very uncertain about the validity of this form. It is clear that Mr.

Wallace described P. crass/rostr/'s only by mistake, as he did not compare it with

its nearest ally, but only with P. vigorsi and P. concinna, which are, of course, quite

different (P. Z. S. 1862. pp. 188, 339). Dr. Sclater {Cat. B. Brit. Mm. XIV. p. 428)

says that P. crassiroatris from the Sula Islands, which he separates specifically,

differs from P. irena of Timor in being larger, and in having " a thicker and mon'

compressed bill." Unfortunately the British Museum possesses only one Timor skin ;

but comparing the three Sula skins of that Museum and the two now in the Tring

Museum with it, I cannot find that the former are larger, but the bill is slightly

thinner (more compressed) and higher than in the Timor skin. Other differences I

cannot see. Some years ago I sent a trade-skin, which I now know to have come

from the Sula Islands, to Dr. Biittikofer, who kindly compared it with the type of

P. irena, and informed me that it did not differ from it. The slight difference in the

form of the bill (if constant) was probably not noticed by him. It is thus clear

that the form from Timor and the one from the Sula Islands are most nearly allied,

if they can be separated at all. It is certainly most unlikely that they are entirely

the same forms, there being between Snla and Timor an enormous sea, and Burn,

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Celebes, Banda, etc., being inhabited by other species. If they are separable by the

bill only, theu tliere arises the question whether to treat them as subspecies or

species. The difference is so small that one is not easily con^-inced that it is of

specific value, but the distribution seems to speak more in favour of specific se])ara-

tion. Doherty only got one ? on Sula Mangoli, in October 1S97. He describes

"the iris as deep brown : feet flesh-cnloiir, claws slightly greyer; bill bniwu-bluck,

gape reddish."

There is, in my opinion, no doubt whatever that Brisson's Merle tert <les

Moluque.1 (Orn. II. p. 31(i) and Daubenton's Merle ile _ZJ^//y«/e (Planche 258) are

referable to P. irena. Their localities are of course wrong, but the figure agrees

with no other Pitta except P. mariu Hart., which they cannot have known theu,

Sumba birds never having reached p]nrope in the last century. Fortunately the

name brachiiurux which was based on Daubenton's plate cannot be used, as Liunueus

had already named the South Indian Ant-Thrush Cormix brachtjurus, though he

confounded Brisson's description with it, in which the black throat peculiar to

P. ireiM and absent in P. brachyurus is described.

18. Pitta dohertyi Rothsch.

In Bull. Orii. ( 'lub No. LI. (February 2(ith, 1898) this remarkalile new Pitto has

been described about as follows : i ad. Top of the head and naj)e brownish red,

darker on the forehead, in the middle of which, at the base of the cnlmen, are a few

pale bluish feathers. Entire throat and a ring round the neck black ; the feathers

in the middle of the throat with concealed white bases. A broad band across the

lower throat and upper back — interrupted on the sides of the neck by a pale

greenish spot— pale blue (each feather with black base), followed by a broad black

baud across the upper breast. Lower breast, entire abdomen, and under tall-coverts

red, with white and black bases to the feathers. Back and scapulars olive-green,

darker in the middle of the feathers. Least wing-coverts dark olive, the remainder

blue with light whitish blue edges, those near the shoulder with partially or almost

entirely white outer webs. Rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail pale blue. Qnills black,

tips brownish with a bluish wash ; second to fifth primary with a white speculum,

occupying the inner web only on the second, both webs on the third and fourth, aud

becoming smaller or even obsolete on the fifth primary. Secondaries with blue

borders to the outer webs. Under wing-coverts brown. " Iris deep chestnut-brown;

feet purplisli grey; bill black, gape aud tip of culmen dull ochreons." Wing

99 mm.; tail 39; bill 20; tarsus 40. Hhe female has the throat brownish black,

the iris, according to the note on the label, " white, slightly bluish." Dimensions

of tha feinale a little smaller. The young bird has the iris •' deej) brown," the

abdomen pale brown, mixed with the new red feathers, which come out by a perfect

moult, the feathers of the throat light brown at base and at the tip, black on the

sides.

Mr. Doherty got only three s])ecimens, a male, na female, and a young mule, all

from Snia Mangoli.

The deep black throat and bieast-band and the scaly appearance of the upper

parts distinguish this bird at a glance from the other species with red abdomen.

19. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.).

?, Sula Besi, November l^'.l7.

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20. Hypothymis puella blasii snbsp. nov.

A series of 14 skins from Sula Besi ami Snla Mangoli are at a glance

distinguished from Hypothymis puella puella oi' C'elebes, of which I have 22

before me, by their much deeper aziire-blue colour on the entire upper surface as

well as on the throat and fore-neck. This difference has alread}- been noticed

by Sharpe (of. Cat. ]i. Brit. Mm. IV. \>. 277). It is very constant. Judging

from two poor native-made skins from Peling and Banggai, the birds inhabiting

tliese islands belong also to //. p. bla.w. They certainly are not //. pm-lln, puidla.

This subspecies is named after Prof. Wilhelm Blasius, who wrote several very

careful articles on the birds of Celebes, and first drew attention to the differences

of Celebensian Cinnyris frenata.

The iris of Hyjiothymis puella l/lasii is " dark brown ; feet dark slaty blue ; the

bill blue, with black tip and nostrils."

21. Rhinomyias colonus sp. nov.

(J ad. Above rufous brown, more olive on the head, and with the forehead

indistinctly showing some of the pale basal shaft-stripes. Upper tail-coverts

rufous. Wings dark brown, with rufous outer webs and narrow buff borders to

the inner webs, innermost secondaries rufous on lioth webs. Rectrices bright rnfons.

Sides of the head pale brown, lores whitish. Throat and middle of abdomen whitish.

Breast and sides of body light brown. Under tail-coverts pale rusty buff. " Iris

brown ; feet very pale purplish, claws darker : bill dull brown, culmen deep brown."

L. t. ca. 170 mm., a. 77 — 78, c. 65 — 67, t. 18, r. (from end of feathering) 11 mm.,

culm, (from base of forehead) is-o mm. ? ad. Like the male, but smaller, wing

only about 73 mm., and darker below. The darker colour below seems to be also

due to immaturity.

Doherty collected this most interesting new species in Sula Mangoli and Sula

Besi. It is not without some hesitation that I place it in the genus Rhinomyias, for

its tail is rather long, its bill somewhat slenderer than in most species of that genus ;

the distribution too does not extend so far east to our knowledge, but there is no

other genus into which it fits. Rhinomyias insii/nis Grant also differs somewhat from

other species of the genus.

22. Monarcha inornatus (Garn.).

Common in Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli.

23. Pachycephala lineolata Wall.

Two skins from Sula Besi, both evidently adult birds, one marked J, the other

? , both with brown iris, feet and bill blackish. Both are ashy grey above, white

below, with a faint buff tinge in the middle of the abdomen, flanks somewhat

brownish, breast distinctly washed with pale brownish grey in the nurle, less

distinctly in the J emale. Quills deep blackish brown, with jiale ashy outer edges

and buff inner borders.

There is some difficulty about the name which this bird should bear. Messrs.

Salvador! (Orn. Papuas. II. p. 22'.») and Gadow {Cat. B. Bnt. Mus. VIII. j). 217)

call it F. qriseonota (iray. His tyjie, however, seems \o be an immature bird, and

its locality is donbtl'til. In iidditinn to this it seems very probable tlial the ditfereut

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islands of the archipelago have produced different forms of tliis group of Pachycepkala.

Therefore more evidence should come forth to make sure that P. firineonota of Gray

is the same as the Snla bird. Then Wallace described on j). :U1 of P. Z. S. 1802

P. lineolatu and P. ni/'esccns, both from " .Sula aiul Bourn Islands " {sic). It is

Salvadori's opinion that J', lineolafa is the young bird, whih; Gadow seems to consider

it to be the /e/«a/t'. I believe it is the immature dress. If P. lineolata and

P. rufescens refer to the same species, then the name P. lineolafa must stand,

coming first on the page. It is, in my opinion, doubtful if the Burn form is exactly

the same as the one from Sula, but more material must come to hand before we can

decide about this. If the Burn bird diflers, it will require a new name. Two

specimens named P. rufescens, one from Sula and one from l?uru (the latter with

a " ? "), are marked " type " in the British Museum, but these words were not written

by the author himself.

24. Pachycephala clio A\'all.

A large series from Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli. i ad. " Iris deep brown ;

feet bluish black ; bill black." ? ad. " Iris dull brown : feet j)ale leaden ; bill

black." Dr. Gadow's conclusion {Cat. B. Brit. Mus. VIII. p. 187) that P. tnerula

(Less.) from the Moluccas, P. melanura Gould from Australia, P. clio Wall, from

Snla (" and Burn "), and P. obiensis are all the same is not correct. There are three,

if not four, distinct species or subspecies. The name clio clearly belongs to the

Snla form.

25. Graucalus melanops (Lath.).

One 7nalc from Sula Besi. Messrs. Meyer & Wiglesworth have recorded it

from Peling.

26. Graucalus schistaceus (Sharpe).

Sharpe {Cnt. B. Brit. }fu.'i. IV. p. 11) described n fon/ili'. The mrile has

the entire iiead and neck glossy black. The specimens from Peling and Banggai

are exactly like those from Sula Mangoli, and the nnder wing-coverts are always of

the colour of the breast and abdomen. " Iris very dark brown ; feet and bill black."

It was not found on Sula Besi.

27. Lalage leucopygialis Walden.

?, October 1897, Sula Besi.

28. Edoliosoma obiense Salvad.

There is a series marked as ma /ex from Sula Mangoli and Sula Besi. With

three male skins before me from Obi Major I cannot detect any tangible differences.

The bill, nevertheless, is generally — but not always—a little shorter in the Sula

specimens.

Then there are three specimens marked as /;•«;'(/-■.>■, which <litfer from the mnlcs

in having the under parts paler grey and no black on the head. One of them shows

remains of bars on the abdomen and rufous edges on some c.f the wing-feathers. I

am not sure that these three so-called females are wrongly " se.xed," for one male

in moult from the first rnfous plumage shows already traces of the black on the lores

and sides of the head. If rlie sexes are riijfht, then we are entirelv in error about

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the sexes of E. obiense: if tlip\- are wroug, theu we mnst suppose that tliere is a

plumage of paler colour and without lilack on the l\ead between the rufous phimage

of the youngest birds and that of the mature male.

2'.». Artamus monachus Bj).

One S from Sula Besi, with a shorter wing than our Celebes skins. The wing-

only 142 mm. long. " Iris dull crimson, outwardly orange."

3n. Dicrurus pectoralis Wall.

A number from Sula Mangoli and Snla Besi. The iris of two adult birds is

marked as orange, of a young bird as brown.

This form is distinguished from JJ. leucops Wall, from Celebes by the colour of

the iris, which in the latter is white in adult birds. The differences supposed by

Dr. Sharpe (JJnt. B. Brit. Mus. III. p. 241) to exist in the coloration are not

really to be found, but the bill is generally somewhat more elongated in D. pectoralis,

and the wing distinctly shorter. While the latter measures 160 — 170 mm. in D.

lencops, it is generally only about 150 in D. pectoralis, and in none of the 12 birds

before me reaches above 155 mm.

31. Dicaeum sulaense Sharpe.

iSula ^langoli and Sula Besi.

"Iris deep brown; feet blackish; maxilla black, mandible deep brown with

lilackish tip."

32. Cinnyris frenata (S. Milll.) (? subsp.).

One immature mab' from Sula Besi. The bill seems very long.

33. Anthreptes malaccensis celebensis (Shell).

From Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli. Quite like Celebes specimens.

34. Hermotimia auriceps (G. R. Gray).

Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli. They are quite different from the Celebensian

//. porphi/rolai'mii, and seem to be quite like Moluccan //. auriceps, but the Sula

material is jioor, uud it is not impossible that there is a difference in size.

35. Zosterops subatrifrons M. & Wg.

Messrs. Meyer & Wiglesworth described this species from Peling. Doherty

sent it from Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli. The latter do not seem to differ from the

Peling form. Doherty describes the iris as " sepia-brown: the feet leaden grey; bill

black, with the base of the mandible whitish."

36. lole longirostris (Wall.).

Sula Mangoli and Sula Besi. 6 ad. '■ Iris dull crimson ; feet pale purplish,

with rosy soles ; bill black, with the middle of the mandible paler." ? ad. " Iris

sepia, inwardly fuscous ; feet very pale jmrplish, with rosy soles and greyish claws ;

bill blackish brown." The female is smaller. Wing of the nude about 120 — 122

mm., of the feitude 110 — 111 mm Most of the specimens from Peling and

Banggai are duller, but this difference does not seem to be quite constant, besides

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that the Peliuo; and Biinirt-'iii skins liefore me are of the detestable "Celebes-make,"

the neck very much shortened, tail pushed in, part of lower abdomen and belly cut

away, wliile Doherty's skins are ratlier thickly filled up. A nest n-ith two e^u's was

found on Sula Mangoli. They are jiinkisli white, blotched and spotted all over with

mostly somewhat longitudinal markings of brownish red, and deeper lying pale

pinkish grey patches. The markings are more accumulated on the thicker end.

The eggs thus resemble eggs of some species of the genus Crhtiffi'r and Pycnonotux.

They are large and measure 24 to 24'2 : 20 to 21 mm.

:i7. Munia molucca molucca (L.).

Sula Besi and Snla Mangoli.

38. Calornis sulaensis Sharpe.

Tliis e.Kcellent sjtecies (described Cat. B. Brit. Mm. Xlll. p. 14'.); may, on

account of its long tail, be described as a C. metallica with the colour of ('.

pinwyem'u. It difters from C. jjunaijoisis and C. neglect a.^ by its very much longer

tail, which measures from about 95 to 110 mm., although in one female it is only

'••2 mm.

Doherty has sent specimens from Snla Besi and Snla Miuigoii. The iris of

adult and immature birds in strijied plumage is red, but of very young ones it is

brown.

JMr. Wallace records a specimen of C. metallicu.i as being collected on the Snla

Islands by his assistant, Mr. Allen, which is now in the British Mnsenm. Doherty

did not find C. metallica.

3i». Charitornis albertinae Schl.

Doherty has sent us one adult male and two Mlxdt fe nude. h of this rare bird, all

from Snla Mangoli. The sexes do not differ in plumage, but the colour of the iris is

different, according to Doherty. The iris in the 6 is "white; the feet ochreous,

with paler claws; the bill orange-yellow, more reddish orange towards the base of

the mandible, which is black, like the naked throat and sides of the head." In the

female these colours are the same, except that the iris is " chestnut."

4(). Basileornis galeatus A. B. Meyer.

An evidently young male from Snla Mangoli. The feathers of the throat and

foreneck have dull brown edges, the rectrices are rather pointed, the crest is

very much shorter than in adult birds, of which I have a series before me from

Banggai and an uncertain locality. " The feet are ochreous, claws nearly black; the

maxilla blackish brown, pale towards the cutting edge, mandible and gape dull

greyish white."

41. CorvTis enca Horsf.

Several skins from Sula Jlangoli. " Iris deej) brown."

42. Oriolus frontalis Wall.

A large series from Sula Bcsi ;ind Sola Mangoli. The young birds have the

bills black; thcjemale does not seem to acquire a totally black tail as old males do,

but the basal part at least of the central rectrices is always more or less green.

The iris of the adult 7nale &nd female is "dull crimson; feet pale bluish leaden

grey; bill whitish pink, somewhat [Miriilisii towards the tip."

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43. Carpophaga paulina (Bil).

There are seven skins from iSula Miiuguli, but none from Siila Besi. Most of

these birds are females or immature specimens ; but it is remarkable that the spot

on the hinilneck is somewhat duller, and without the strong gloss which is seen in

C. paulina from Celebes. If more adult males were at hand, it could no longer

remain doubtful tliat the Snla bird differs snbspecifically from the Celebes bird, but

at present we cannot be certain about this. Mr. Doherty describes the iris of the

Sula birds as "dull crimson; the feet beet-red, with blackish claws; the bill pale

leaden blue, with whitish ti]i, the liasal half purjile above."

I may here remark that I do not believe in the distinctness of C. jmlchella

Wald. from the Togian Islands. It seems to differ from C. paulina merely in being

more of a golden coppery colour above, but we have in the Tring Museum specimens

from Celebes which are of the same golden coppery gloss, while others are quite

green. The alleged smaller size of the single specimen of C. pulchella may well be

disregarded, as it is very little and may lie due to individuality.

44. Myristicivora luctuosa (Temm.).

Three y^Mrjfe- and one male from Sula Mangoli. Wings of the femalex 22(i —

240 mm., of tlie male 223 mm.

45. Osmotreron wallacei Salvad.

A series from Sula Mangoli and Sula Besi.

40. Ptilinopus mangoliensis Rothsch.

" Resembles F. stibynlitris M. & \Vg. in the absence of the rust-coloured

spot on the abdomen, but differs from both P. i/ularis and P. subgularis in being

greenish yelhiw on the under surface, all the feathers of these parts being light

grey with very broad greenish yellow borders. The feathers of tlie crown have

narrow subterminal yellowish lines. Wing: i 165, ¥ 156 mm.: tail: cj 136,

? 130 mm." (W. Rothschild in Bull. Ornith. CM 1898. p. 34.) "Iris, outer

ring crimson, inner greyish fuscous ; feet beet-red, claws blackish ; bill bright

ochreons, nostrils and base of mandible laterally bright crimson."

Mr. Doherty has sent one S and two ? ¥, all perfectly adult, shot on Sula

Mangoli in November 1897.

47. Ptilinopus chrysorrhous Salvad.

Mr. Doherty sent a series of twenty specimens, nearly all adult males, from

Snla Mangoli and Snla Besi. He notes the feet as being " beet-red or carmine,

laws blackish; the iris greenish yellow; the bill brownish black, with a pale tip."

Comparing with this large series six males and Xhrae females from the islands

of Peling and Banggai, between the Sula Islands aud Celebes, I lind that the latter

are distinctly smaller. The wings of the males from Peling and Banggai are

generally about 110 mm. long; those of the males from Sula Mangoli aud Sula Besi

are from 115 to 121 mm. long. Peling aud Banggai males have the wings 109 to

1 14 (only one !) long, while those from the Sulu Islands have them all 115 to 121

mm., but mostly about 12U. Also the tails of the latter are longer. The race from

Peling and Banggai should therefore be distinguislied as

Ptilinopus chrysorrhous pelingensis subsj). nov.

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48. Columba albig^aris (Bp.).

On^ female, Snla Maugoli, October 1S9T. "Iris orange; feet anteriorly i)ale

beet-red, posteriorly yellowish : bill, basal half carmine, terminal yellow." This

specimen is rather brownish on the underside, the under tail-coverts are rather pale

grey, the feathers of the chin and throat have dark greyish speckled edges, the

wing is rather short, measuring only 215 mm., while in skins from New Guinea

and the islands to the north of Celebes (Gunong Api, Tagulandang) it measures

225 to 240 mm. However, all these differences should be registered from more

than a single skin before a name is given to the Sula bird. It must also be

said that the wings are very much abraded, and can therefore not be measured

minutely, and that ithe throat appears to be somewhat soUed.

49. Macropygia albicapilla V>\'.

Sula Besi and Rula Maugoli.

50. Chalcophaps indica (I-.).

Sula Besi and Sula Maugoli.

51. Megapodius bernsteini Schl.

A magnificent series from Sula Jliingoli. " Iris chestnut ; feet bright red

or bright orange, toes blackish in front; bill brownish fuscous." The J'emale seema

to be a little smaller than the ma/i'. The chick is like that of other species.

52. Hypotaenidia sulcirostris (Wall.).

There is a series of six from Sula Maugoli, none from Sula Besi. In both

sexes the iris is " bright crimson, the feet gre\-ish fuscous, the bill black." This

rare species is easily distinguished from //. celehenxis by its much more rufous brown

and less olive upper surface. It is also a stronger, more massive bird, with a larger

beak. The entirely black throat, which generally distinguishes it from //. celeben-sis,

is sometimes also found in very old //. celeberisis, while young //. sulcirostris have

the throat also finely streaked with white.

Dr. Sharpe redescribed H. sulcirostris, which bad been described by Wallace

in 1862 and figured in This 1880 (tab. vi.), under the name of //. jentinhi in yotes

Leyden Museum XV. p. 268.

53. Amaurornis moluccana (Wall.).

One female from Sula Mangoli, October 1897. " Iris dull orange ; feet light

fuscous brown ; bill pea-greeu, culmen darker, base of maxilla orange."' Wing

140 mm.; tarsus 43 mm.; bill 26 mm.

I can see no differences between this and specimens from New Guinea.

54. Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scop.).

Sula Mangoli.

55. Qnerquedula querquedula (L.).

One female, November In'.C, SuIu ilungoli.

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DIE PASSALIDEN DICHOTOMISCH BEAKBEITET.

Von a. KUWERT.

2™ THEIL.— DIE AKTEN.

(Fortsetzung von Nov. Zooi,. TV. ji. 3UG.)

9. GKUprE: ERIONOMINAE.

Erionomus Kanp, Col. HeJ'te III. p. Ki (1868).

1 (la). Uie drei nntersten Seitenzwisclieriinrnf dcr Flgdu. dnrchweg dicht

jmnktirt und leicht beliaart. Die ansseru Eckeu des wulstigen Clypeus zahnartig

vorgezogon. Die Stirnleisteii bogig abgernudet, zn.sammeu etwa § eines Kreises

bildend. Das Kopfhorn der ganzen Liinge nach mit Mittelriune, ganz breit-

gedriickt. Schildchen glatt. Taille an den Seiten breit punktirt nnd bebaart, in

der Mitte glatt, hinten ziemlich matt nnd fein liingsreifig. Metasternnm ohne

begrenzte Platte, mit glatten Hiuterecken, anf der hintern HiLlfte mit Querein-

drnck. Halsschildrandfurchen iiberall gleich breit, seine Narben punktlos. Die

Endhiicker der Stirnleisten ragen nm ein Geringes ttber den Ch^eusrand hinans.

28 mm.

llab. Zanzibar. 1. 7:. latcricrrnitus Knw., l.c.

\a. Nur die Schulterecken der Flgdn. siud vorne punktirt nnd behaart.

2 (2a). Die Stirnleisten lanfen vom Kojif luirn ab schon im stnmpfen Winkel

aus einander und erbeben sicb vor dem Clypensrande betriicbtlicb, daselbst nach

vorne und hinten ziemlich gleichmjissig, oder nach vorne starker, abfalleud. Im

Stirnwin"kel eiue Warze, aus welcher die Liingsrunzeln ziemlich gleichmiissig nach

vorne ziehen. Die Seitenfnrchen der Flgdn. etwas weniger stark punktirt, als

bei der folgendeu Art. Hinterraud des Metasternnms seitlich von dem nichtbe-

grenzten Sternalschild fein punktirt und behaart, wie die ganzen Metasternalseiten.

Taillenlatz nach hinten mit breit punktirten und behaarten Hinterecken, ganz vorne

gliinzend, hinten in der Mitte matt und nnpunktirt, auf der Mitte l;ingsrnuzlig

oder kielig.

L. 38—42 mm.

Ilab. Goldkiiste; Gabuu. 2. E. planiceps Eschsch., Noiiv. Mi'rn. Mosc.

I. p. 22 ; Perch., Siippl. I. p. 25. t. 78. f. :? ; dasif/dcuruti Jmh., V^erh.

Ger. Ba.sel. V. p. 172 : Aumeralis Smith, Som. Brit. Mus. p. 17.

t. 1. f. 0.

'Zu. Die Stirnleisten entspringen spitzwinklig vom Kopfhorue, um sicb daun

stumpfwinklig aus einander zulegen. Auf dem schwach ^vulstigen, vorne scharfcu

Clypeus die Knotchen als Kiele sichtbar. Die ganzen Kopffliichon sehr runzlig.

Der ganze ('lypeus in der Breite der ganzen Oberlippe scharf vnrgezogen. Stirn-

winkel ohne Warze. Schildchen uhne Pnnktirung. Taillenlatz bis auf die nicht

begrenzte Liingsmitte dicht punktirt, jedoch nur kurz behaart.

L. 30 mm.

Hab. Madagascar. 3. E. studti Kuw., I.e.

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Eriosternus Kiiw., l.c.

Die zahnartig ilber den Clypensraud vorgeschobenen Stirnleisten mid der von

beideii Soiteu weit zalinartijr vorgereckte Clypens wi'irde dein Genns einp Stelle

ill der Nahe der Phoroniiiden anweisen, wenii die sonstigc Kfirpergestaltniii: der

Thiere uiclit durdians aufdie Erionomicn hinwicsc.

1 (la). Tailleiilatz der Liiuge nach aufder Mitte gekiilt Stiriit'eld liiiijrsruiiiilig.

Stirnleisten im spitzen Winkel vom Kopfliorne ablanfeiid. Halsschild <;rnbig,

ohne Pnnkte, niit kleiner Narbe. Furclieii der Fliigeldeeken ohne rniiktiniug.

Hiuterlappen des Prostertinms dicht behaart. Tailleulatz vorne mit gefnrchter

Anschwelinng, dahinter der Liinge nach gekielt, an den Seiten pnnktirt und

behaart. Metasternalhinterecken obnr Pnnkte. Kopfhorn mit scitlich znsam-

mengedriickter S])itze.

1 Stiick im Mnseum zn Stockholm.

L. 35 mm.

Hah. Camernngebirge. 1. E. pilosns kxmviWms,, K. Sv. Vet. Harull.

XII. 4: .V;-. 1. p. 14.

\ii. Tailleulatz ohne Liiugskiel, uur an den Seiten pnnktirt nnd behaart.

Ancli die obern Fnrchen der Flgdn mit, wenn anch sehr schwacher, feiner

Punktirnng, Kopfhorn nnr ans einem ganz stnmpfen Hugel bestehend, von

welcbem in fast rechtem Winkel die Stirnleisten herabgeheu. Die klemen Hals-

schildnarben nndeutlich fein panktirt. Sonst dem vorigen gleichend.

L. 30 mm.

Hab. Guinea (2 Exemplare). 2. E. alterego Kuw., l.c.

Pleurostilus Kanp, Mon. p. 25.

(AUes nach Kaup.)

Der Cl^qieusrand gerade, glatt, von der Mitte seitlich abfalleud, ohne Vorsprung

am Rand der Oberlippe. Ovale kleine Narben an der Unterlippe. Narbe des

Halsschildes kaum dnrch einen Eindruck angedentet. Unterer Rand desselbeu

mit vorstehendem, dunnem Haarkranz. Obere Schnlterecke nicht behaart.

Gleicht Erionomus planiceps, allein der Hinterkorper ist weniger gestreckt.

Oberlippe stnmpfwiuklig, am vordern Rand ansgeschnitten, grob pnnktirt und am

Ra,nde grob behaart. Das nicht freie Kopfhorn an der Wurzel gewiilbt nnd

pnnktirt nnd nach der Spitze zu seitlich comprimirt. Von seiner Spitze gehen

im starken Winkel die Stirnleisten, welche sicli vom Knotchen ab geradliuig zn

einem stnmj)fen Dornevor dem Clypens erheben. Zwischen den Leisten ein nnregel-

miissiger Hiicker mit einer Fnrche tmx Ende ( — ob vorne oder hintcu !'' — Kuw.).

Von der KniJtcheugegend eine scharf ansgepriigte Querleiste znr Augenwand, die

am vordern abfallenden Ende gefnrcht ist. Kopfflache gliinzend glatt, ausserst

fein pnnktirt. T]uterlij)pe in der Mitte gewolbt, mit kleinen, schicfgostellten, ovalen

Narben. Prosternalkiel am hintern Ende trapezoidfiirmig abfalleud, am Ende niit

einem Langswulst, der in der Mitte gespalten ist. Taille in der Mitte ]innktirt,

seitlich stark beliaart, so dass an der Naht keiue Narbe sichtbar ist. Metasternal-

hinterecken nnjiunktirt; Seiten des Metasternums fein pnnktirt und behaart.

Sehildclien gestriclu'lt, an den Ecken glatt. Flgdnfnrchen nur an den Seiten

pniiiilirt. Mittel- nnd Hinterschieueu Ijeliaart; erstere mit 2 knrzeii Dorucheu.

L. 37 mm.

Hab. Africa? (British Museum). 1. 1'. trajjezoides Kaup, l.c. p. 26.

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10. GiiuiTE : KHUDOCANTHOPINAE.

Rhodocanthopus Ivaup, /.'•. |i. '■»<•.

1 (la). Stirnleisteii, besouders die rechtr, luit 2 bis :'. Kiiiitclien oder Zahneu

zwischen Glypeusdorn und Kopflw)rnsintne.

2 (2rt). Cl3'peus mit 2 ziemlicb deutjifhen Ziilinclieii, wclche unter sich fast

ebenso weit voneiiiander stelien, als von den ('1\ jiensdornen, mit kleineu Ringpnnkten

dicLit besetzt. Stinileisten wenig mebr als reciitwinklijj: aus einander gebend, mit

Warze im Winkel. Kopfborn kiirz, flaeb. Halsscbild luit punktirten Bau'llnrobeD;

Narbeu, scbmalen Bucbten und diversen I'nnkten nebcn den Narbeu. Kopfthaler

unebeu. Seitenfurcben der Flgdn. sebr breit. mit grossen 4-eckigen Puukten und

Qnerstjiben, obere Fiircbeu flacli nnd breit gekerbt gei'urebt. Metasternalbinterecken

dicbt pimktirt. Mittel- und Hinterschieueu mit 3 bis ■> kleiueu Uoruen. Taillen-

narben kommaartig, schmal.

L. 20 mm.

IJaL Amazouengebiet. 1. A'. clypeomleu>i Kuw., l.c,

2a. Ganz ohne, oder obne dentlic.be, Clypeusztihne zwiscben den (_Uy]jeu8-

vorspriingen.

:? (3rt). Kafer iinr 14 liis 17 mm. lang.

4 (4ff). Die Seitenstreit'en der Flgdn. mit deutlieben Querstabcben. i.)ie

oberen Zwiscbenriinme glatt, kaum mit einzelneii sebr feiuen Quertalteben. Der

(31ypeus vorne gerade, auf der Mitte kaiun mit Einschnitt, mit Kingpiinktcben diobi

besetzt. Stirnleisten wenig mebrals reebtwinklig aus einauder gebend, etwas vor der

Mitte mit 2 ziemlieb dicbt an einander stehenden Zabneu oder Kniitciien. Neben-

hocker nicht ganz so weit nacb vorne stebend, als die mehr oder weniger abgernndete

Sjntze des kurzen Kopf horns. Die Kopftbiiler aufdem Grunde zwiscben Augenwand

und Stirnleiste jiunktirt. Halsscbildseiteu ziemlieb dicbt, fast grob, punktirt, die

sclimalen Seitenra.ndfurclieii desselbeu einzeln feiner: Narben nnd Bucht dicbt

puuktirt; 'faille mit tlacher, breiter Narbe. Die Mittelfurcbe des auf dem Discus

bisweilen einzeln fein pi;nktirten Halsschildes auf der Mitte mit Anflug von Kerbung,

oder scbwacb wellig. Metasternali)latte binten jeseitig ueben der Mitte mit Punkten,

Hinterecken ziendicb dicbt punktirt. Mittelscbieneu mit 3 bis 4, Hinterscbienen

mit 3 Dornchen.

L. 17 bis 18 mm.; Br. li mm.

Ifab. Columbien, Caucatbal. 2. B. nanan Kuw.. l.r.

4a. Die Seitenstreifen der Flgdn. mit kiirzeren Querstabcben; die obern

Zwiscbenriinme ziemlieb uneben, starker gefaltet. Die S|)itzeu Nebenbricker eben-

soweit nacb vorne stebend, als das kurze kiclige Kopfhiirneben. Das iStirnfeld

zerstreut punktirt, mit kleinem Wiirzcben im stumi)fen Stirnleistenwinkel. Stirn-

leisten mit 2 ziemlieb dicbt an einander stebenden stiirkeren Kniitchen oder Ziibnen

vor der Mitte, welcbe auf der recbten Leiste viel stiirker sind. Halsscbild (iber den

Seiten, wenig oberhalb der Hiiiie der kleinen Narben, zablreicb iiuid<tirt, mit

scbmalen Bucbten und scbmalen, wenig ])uaktirten, ISeitenrandfm-clien. Mittel-

schienen mit 2 starkeu, Hinterscbienen mit 2 bis 3 scbwiicberen Dornciien. Tail-

lennarben tief, kommaartig. Platte des Metasternums binten jeseitig uebeu der

Mitte mit einigen kleinen, die Hinterecken mit zablreiciieu griissern Punkten.

L. 14 mm.; Br. o mm.

llab. St. Salvador. 3. A', perparoulujs Kuw., l.c.

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3a. Kafer 23 mm. lang. Stirnleisteu mit 3 Kuotcben zwischen C'lypensdorii

uiid Kopfliom, von denen das mittelste anf der recliteu Stirnlciste das stiirkste ist.

Das kurze Kopfhorn Linteu schwach abgejilattct mit spitzeu Nebeuhiickeni. Aiif

der vordern Mitte des Stirnfeldes vor der Warze desselben puuktirt. KopffliicheQ

nnebeu, gliinzend, mit wcnigen Pnnkteii in den Tbiileni. Flalsscbikl mit Piinktirnng

der Kandfurcben, Bnchten iind Narbeu nud eiuem aiifgellisten Pnuktscliwarm iilxsr

den letzten, sowie einigen nnregelmiissigen grubenartigen Pnnkten, welcbe uicbt

constant sein diirfteu. Seiteufurcben der Flgdn. mit starker Stiibcbenbildung.

Mittelscbieuen mit 3, hintere mit 2 starken Dornen. Tadlennarben oval, aufdem

Grnnde feiu ranb und dicht pnnktirt. Der Znngenstiel viel breiter, als bei dem ihm

sehr nahe stehenden spinigcr Bates. Metasterualplatte begrenzt, vor ihreni Ende

mit grlibchenartigem (ob immer?), punktirtem Eindrucke. Die Hinterecken des

Metasternnms pnnktirt. Abdoininalsegment bei dem vorliegeuden Stiicke uueben

und fein pnnktirt, mit Ansschhiss der Liingsmitte nnd des scbarf begrenzten

Hinterrandes.

L. 23 mm.; Br. T, 8 mm.; Flgdl. l.j mm.

Hah. Costa Rica. 4. /■'. spinosus Kuw., I.e.

Iff. Stirnleiste nnr mit einem stiirkeren Knotc.heu zwiscbcn Kopfhomchcu nnd

Clypensdoru, oder obue starkere, wahrnehml)are, Kniitchen.

o (5a). Immer mit stilrkeren Kniitchen.

(i (6a). Die scbarfen Endknijtchen sitzen schief vor dem Clypeusdurn uiid

nsiher an demselben. Cl3'peus mit schwacbem Eiuscbnitt in der Mitte, ohne

sichere Ziihnchen zn bilden. Das hintere abgeflachte Kopfhorn ist vorne znge-

scharft mit 2 spitzen Seitenhiickern. Die Briicken zur Angenwand pnnktirt.

Das kleine Halsschild ist an der vordern Ecke mit scbmaler Leiste, im stumpfen

Winkel abgestutzt, nnd nacb innen eine grob punktirte Bucht mit wnlstigem

Vorderrande. Grnben von grossen Pnnkten an den Seiten. Narbe dor Taille tief

nnd lang. Metasternalj)latte verschwommen, glatt, oder mit wenigen Pnnkten an

der hintern Ecke. Mittelscbieuen mit 3 bis 4 Dcirnchen, nicht immer gleichmiissig

entwickelt. Eine scbmale nnd gestreckte Form.

Abgeschrieben aus Kanp, Col. HeJ'te V. p. 87. Jlir fromd.

L. 23 mm.; Halsschild .5 mm. ; Flgdl. 1.5 mm.

Hub. Columbien. o. 7\'. iiicerUi.s Perch., Stij/jd. I. p. 27. t. 78. f. 4;

mtiUispinosus Kanp, I.e.

(ia. Die Kniitchen immer etwa bei i der Entfernnng zwischen Kopfhorn nnd

Clypeusvorsprnug vom ersten ah gelegen.

7 (7o). KuOtcheu anf der Mitte zwischen Kojifhorn und ('lyj)ensvorsjirnng.

8 (8a). Unmittelbar binter dem Clypeusvorsprung kein deutliches kleines

Ziihnchen anf der Stirnleiste.

it (9a). 25 mm. lang, <S mm. Iireit. Der Clypens, neben dem winzigen

Ausschnitt fast Ziihne bildend, hat nur wcnigi^ Punkte, iiber ilmi eine schwache

Langswarze in dem schwach stumpfwinkligen iStirnleistenwiukel. Die Kniitchen

sehr stark, genau anf der Mitte zwischen Ko})fhoru und Clypeusvorspmng, vor

ihnen die Stirnleisteu schwiicher.

Das kurze Kopfliom hinten mil Laiigsfurche und vorne schwach kieligen,

an den Aussenseiten stnnipfeckigen Nebenhiickern. Die aussere Angenwand vorne

fein zahnartig aufgebogen. Halsschild mit breiten, grob nnd flach pnnktirten

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Seiteurandt'iirclipn, tiefcn, nicht breiteu, jmnktirteii Bnchten nud in dor Hilhe dcr

Narben grnJiig punktirten Reiteii. Seitenfnrchpii der Flgdii. breit, mit starker

Stabi'lipiibildung. Taillennarben tief, koiumafiirmig. Jlotasteninm mit wenigeu

feiiipii Pimkten hiaten anf der Platte und grob verflossen pnnktirten Hiaterecken.

Mittel- und Hinterseliienen mit 4 bis ;"> scliarfen Dorneii. Seitenrandfnrclipn des

Halsschildes vorne stark verbreitert, jinnktirt.

L. 25 mm.

Halj. Nicaragua; Gnatemnla. 6. R. spiniriiv Batps, I.e. \k 15.

\^ii. Immer kleiner nnd schmaler. Halsschild idier der gaiizen Dorsalfliiclie

zerstrent pnnktirt. Die im spitzeu Winkel vom Kopfhorn auslanfeudea starken

Stirnleisten sehr stark geschwungen zum Clypeusvorsprunge ziebend, anf ibrer

Lfingsmitte mit eiuem KnOtchen versehen, im "Winkel mit einer kleinen "Warze.

Clypens und Stirufeld diebt mit Ringpiinktchen ; ancb die Kupftbiiler mit solcben.

Clypens mit deulichem, fast zahubildendem Anssclinitt aiif der Jlitte. Pas

Kopfbiirncben kurz, wie bei alien audern, hinten scbrage abgescbnitteu. Halsschibl

an den Seiten gnibig pnnktirt, nnd zwar binter der Bucbt nnd iiber der Narbe

diplit, iiber dem Seitenrand weitliiutig pnnktirt. Die Bncbt nacb oben et^vas vom

Vorderrande abziebend. Mittelscliienen mit 3 bis 4, Hinterscbienen mit 2 bis 3

kleinen, bisweilen nndentlicben Diirucben. Taillennarbe breit, langlich. Taille

vorne mit Liingsrinne auf der Mitte. Metasterunm anf der Platte hinten jederseits

der Mitte mit einigen ebenso feinen Pnnkteu, als die dichte Pnnktirung der

Hinterecken zeigt. Seitenfnrcben der Flgdn. mit starker Stiibclienbildnng, obere

breit und stark vertieft nnd stark pnnktirt mit gewiilbtea Iiitervallen.

L. 19 mm.

ILtb. Guatemala; Peru. 7. L'. caelafi'S Et., Wie(/m. A/t/i/i-. 1847. \i.lVl.

8a. Unmittelbar binter dem Clypeusdorne nocb ein kleines Kniitcben oder

Ziihncben auf der Stirnleiste. Die Vorderecken des Halsscbildos stumpfwinklig.

Die Stirnleisten, scbwach stumpfwinklig aus einauder laufend, umschliessen ein

nnebenes Stirufeld mit zerstreuten grossen Ringpnnkten, ohne deutlipbe Warze.

Cl3'pens gerade, ohne wesentliclie Eiuscbnitte. Das kurze Kopfbiirncben auf iler

schragen Absebnittfliicbe rait kleiner Liingsrinne ; Nebenbiicker spitz. Kopftbiiler

nneben, mit einzelnen Punkten. Halsscbild iiber dem Seitenrande nndicht grnbig

pnnktirt, mit punktirten Raudfurcben und Bnchteu. Metasternum auf der Platte

mit sebr wenigen, oder keinen, kleinen Punkten, in den Hinterecken mit etwas

griisseren verfliessenden Punkten dicbt jiunktirt. Seitenfurchen der Flgdn. mit

starker Stiibcbenbildung, die obern stark und breit vertieft mit gewijlbten

Intervallen. Taillennarbe breit kommafiJrmig. Blittelschienen mit 3 bis 4,

Hinterscbienen mit 2 bis 3 starken Dornen.

Nnr 1 Stiick.

L. IfS mm.

Hab. Costa Rica. s. Ji. !»ilcafu.'< Kuw.. /.'•.

Trt. Kniitclien immer dem Clypeusdorne dcutlicb niilicr, uls der lvo[ifliornspitzp.

10 (10a). Das stark gewijlbte Halsscbild unr iilier der imnktirten Narbe mit

einigen Pnnkten; seine scbmalen Bucbten nnd Seitenrandfnrcben pnnktirt. Clypens

zn den Seiten des kleinen Ansscbnitts ein sebr kleines spitzes Ziihncben zeigeml.

Die Stirnleisten reebtwinklig ans einander gebend.mit starken Kniitcben, nrascbliesscn

U

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pill glattes, knnm imiiktirtes Stinifolil iiiit klciiu-r Warze. Dio Kopfthiiler glatt.

Das^Kopfhiirnehen an den Seiteh und hinten mit einer feinen Fnrchc begrenzt.

Haudfurchen nnd Bnclit des Halsschihlcs mit dcntlicher Punktreiho. Taillennarbe

broit kommaf.'.nniir. matt. Hie selir scliarf begrcnzti; Jletasternalplattp mit (an

dem vorhandencn Stiicke 2) einzelnen Piinktclicn ist hinten nl)o;ernndet uud hinten

von dic'hten Piinktschwilrmeu begrenzt. Flgdn. in den .Seitenfurchen mit starker

Stiibchenbildnng, oben. zwischen den breit ansgekebltcn Fnrchen die Intervalle

etwa<i gefoltet. Mittel- nnd Hinterschienen mit 2 starken nnd daiiiber eineni

schwiichern Dome. Den zwei vorigcn, ancli nnnm, sehr iiUnlit-li.

L. 18 mm.; Br. T mm.

Hah. Central America. 0. It.J'ormoskepx Knw., I.e.

1(V/. Das weniger gewolbto Ilalsscliiid des griisseren Kiifers an den ganzeii

Seiten grnbig dicht pnnktirt. Die selir stumpfwinkHg zn eiiiander gestelltcn

Stirnleisten nmschliessen ein sehr l)reites, etwas rnnzligcs, vorne dicht pnnktirtes

Stirnfeld mit kleiuer Warze im Winkel und sind zwischen dem Knutchen und

( lypensvorsprnng ganz fehlend. Die ziemlicli glatten Kopfthiiler nur mit einzelnen

I'nnkton. Halsschild ant' dem Discus mit irregnlilrea, einzelnen, grnbenartigeii

I'luiktcii. Die starke, breitore Bucht und die lUiudfurcheu des Halsschildcs grub

pnnktirt. Taillennarben tief, kommafiirmig. Die scharf begreuzte Metasternalplatte

an den Hiiiterecken von gr()ber,dichterPnnktiruiig begrenzt und ant' dem Hiiitrrende

sehr t'ein zerstreut jtnnktirt. Mittelschienen mit 2 bis 3, Hinterschienen mit 1 liis 2

schwachen Dornchen. Anch die obern Flgdfnrchcn sehr breit und nach liinten zu

mit Stiibchenbilduug.

L. 23 mm.; Br. > mm.: Flgd. 14 mm.

fhh. (Jnatemala. in. 11 cxrfus Bates, I.e. p. 9.

iwi. Die Kniitchen sehr undentlich, als 3 sclivvaehe Ziihnchen bcsonders anf dor

linken Stirnleiste erscheinend. Die Angenwaiid anf der innern Seite der vorderii

Kopfhiilfte scharf gerundet ausgefnrcht. Das kurzc Kopfhorn hinten schwach

abgernndet, mit spitzen Nebenhiickern. Halsschild mit punktirten Randfurcheii,

Bncliten und Narben nnd zerstrent punktirten Seiten. Mittelschienen mit. 3

starken, hintere mit einigen ungleiehen Dorneii. Seitenfurchen der Flgdn. mit

starker Stiibchenbildung. Metasternum mit abgesetztcr, mit einzelnen Pniikteii

vor dem Hinterende pnnktirter Platte, mit dicht punktirten Hintereckeii. Tailleii-

narbe oval, auf dcni Orniide sehr dicht nnd sehr fciii pnnktirt. Dem .■fpinosus Kuw.

sehr iiluilich: dnrcli die Stirnleisten verschieden.

L. 20 mm.: Br. (!-ri mm.: Flgdl. 12T nun.

Ilnh. Costa Rica. H. 11. .^nnem Kuw., l.c.

\ \ H. (iRrppF,: NKLIDIXAE.

Neleuops Kuw., I.e.

Flache Kiifer, welche das Biiideglicd zwischen Rhoflocantkopvs und Xelez/.i

bilden, mit starker S(^hulteniuaste und starker Stiibchenbildung der obersten

Seitenfurchen der Flgdn. Durcli ciueii Ausschnitt am Vorderraude des Clypous

scheint sogar die Vierziihnigkeit des Clypeus angestrebt zu warden.

Die Kniitc.lien der Stirnleisten weitab von dem Clypensvorspriingen. Die

Stirnleisten im ganz stumpl'en Winkel ans einander gehend, in welchem eine grosse

flache Wnrze sicli befiiidet. Clypeus dicht inif JJiiigpnukten besetzt. Kopfthiiler

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uneben, glatt. Das knrze Ko])i'born ganz niifrei. Die von ihm wcitali lipjjendon

Nebenhcicker rnndlich langskielig. Halsschild an den Seiten zerstreut grob pmiktirt,

mit rechtwinkligen Vorderecken. Die obersten Seitenfnrchen der ganz flaclieii

Flgdn. mit starker Stabchenbildnng. Taillen mit dentlichen, langlichen Xarben.

Hintereoken des Metasternnms neben der scliarfkantig abgesetzten Platte diclit

])nnktirt.

Ij. 23 mm.; Br. 7 mm.

Iliih. Amazonengebiet. 1. N. rh oil oca nth o paid ex Knw., I.e.

Trichopleurus Kiiw,, l.r.

1 (!")• I'i'^ starken Stirnlei.sten bei ilirom Ursprnng von der Kopfhornsj)itze

zicmlicli rechtwinklig ans einander gehend, nacbher geschwnngen zu den Kniitchen.

Hinterecken des Metasternnms niclit oder nnr dnrcb wenige Pnnkte von der Platte

geschieden.

2 (2«). Die KnfJtcben anf den Clypensvorsjirnngen anfsitzend. Die Stirnleisten

nmschliessen eiu liallikreisformiges Stirnfeld, das fast glatt und ganz nnpnnktirt ist:

in ihrem "Wiukel cine Warze. r'l3-pensrand mit schwiichlic-ber Langsfnrclie. Briicken

nnd Kopftbiiler etwas qnerrunzlig. Kopfhorn hinten gefnrcbt. Angenwiinde fein

pnnktirt. Halsscbild mit pnnktirteu, breiton Bncliten, jmiiktirten Randfnrchen nnd

Narben; iiber diesen eine aufgeloste Liingsbiude griisserer, tieferer Pnnkte. Obere

Intervalle der Fliigeldecken mit schwachen Qnerfaltcheu. Taillennarlien tiel',

kommaformig. Mittelscbienen mit 1 Dornchen. Umgeschlagener Rand der Fliigel-

decken nnr an der Schnlter nnd anf dem er.sten Viertel der Flgdn. fein pnnktirt nnd

behaart.

Nnr 1 Stuck.

L. 26 mm.

Ihih. Ecnador,' 1. 7' (lhi-rrp(ni!< Knw., I.e.

2(1. Die Knotchen nm \ bis \ der Entfernnng nach dem Kopfliorne von den

Clypensdornen abstehend, also vom Kopfborne etwa 3i mal so weit, als vorn

Clvpensdorne entfernt. Das Stirnfeld mehr winklig, nnpnnktirt, mit Warze im

Winkel. Clypeus ohne Grubchen anf der Mitfe. vorne bisweilen fein gewnlstet.

Die Kopftbiiler zwischen Stirnleisten nnd Angeawand mit einigen selir feinen,

Bchragen, sich von den Leisten lierabsenkenden Qnerrnnzeln.

3(3(7). Die Briicken zwischen Angenwand nnd Clypensvorsprnng mit eiiier

feinen dnrcb die Eunzelnng cntstandenen Fnrche der Liinge der Briicke nach. Die

Stirnleisten sich allmiihlich nach vorn erhebend, hoch, vorne steil abfallcud.

Taillennarben schmal, rinnenartig vertieft, kommaformig, anf dem Grande mit

nndentlich punktirter Linie. Metasternalplatte jederseits in einiger Entfernnng vor

dem Tlinterrande mit einer Binde von feinen Piinktchen eiiigefasst, hinten mit

microscopischen Pnnkten nndioht pnnktirt, Mittelscliienen niif oder olmo 1 Dornchen.

Seitenraud der Flgdn. bis iiber die Mitte nndirht Ix'daart nml die Iliirchen sich

seitwiirts nach dranssen legend.

2 Stuck.

L. 23 bis 24 mm.: Br. 0-.") bis 7 mm.

lldh. Colnmbien. 2. 7". mh-alipon.-< Ivnw., I.e.

3r/. Die Briicken zwischen Angenwand nml Clypensvorsprnng niir einer feinen,

ibirfh Itnnzelnng cntstandenen Fnrclie vnni Kni'.tcln'n znm .\ngenw;uulhiicker, nnd

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einem Kiole vi>m ( 'ly])eiisvor.<|)riiiig znm Angenwaiulhiicker. Die Stinilcisteii, wit'

beim vorigen, sicli allmahlich znin starkcn Kniitchen erhebend, vorne steil abfalleud.

Taillemiarben knnimafiirmig, vortu' genindot. Mctasternalplatte ilurcb wenigc I'liiikte

von (leu Hiiiterockeii getri-iint. Mittelscliiencii luit 1 bis >' sehr kleineii Dr.rncben.

Umscblagrand der Fliigeldeckcn bis etwa znr Mitte bebaart. Der Clypons iuif dii-

Jlitte mit Andeiitnng einer zabnartigen Aiisbiognng nacb aiissen.

1 Stiick im IJriisseler ^Mnseniu, 1 Stuck in meinem Besitze.

li 28 mm.: Br. Oii nim.; Flgdl. Kl mm.

Uab. Ecuador. 3. V. I'limdoides Kuw., I.e.

\(i. Die Stirnleisten bei ihrem Ursprung von der Kopfhornspitze scbon im

stnnijifen Winkel aiis einander gelieml. Die Kn<itcbcn immer dreimal so weit von der

Kojifbonispitzc, als vou den ClyjKnisdonion entferut.

4 (4a). Kafer grosser, 24 bis 20 mm. lang.

5 (5a). Clypeus mit bis znr Stirnwarze reichender Liingsrinne. Halssohild in

normaler Griisse. Alle Kopfflacheu unj)nnktirt, ziemlich glatt. Halsscliild mit

ziemlich kurzen, tiefen, jmnktirten Bucbten, stumi)fen Vorderecken, feiiien, nnr

sehr eiuzehi puuktirten Handfiircheu, unpiujktirten kleinen Narbeii, iiber diesen

mit einer aufgebisten Pnuktreibe. Scbildcben vorne sehr fein dicbt punktirt nnd

beliaart. Taillennarben oval, gliinzend. Metastiernalhinterecken mit anfgelostem

rmiktscbwarm bei begrenzter Platte. Umscldagriind der Flgdn. sehr undieht bis

zn den Hiuterhiiften behaart.

L. 26 mm. ; Br. 72 mm.

Hrih. Caucathal, Colnmbien : Brasilien. 4. T. longulus Perch., Su/jp/.

I. p. 35. t. 79. f. 3.

■HI. Clypens mir vorne mit Griibclien auf der Mitte. Halssohild i)riip(irtionell

klciii nnd schmal gegen die Flgdn., welche liinger and breitor als gewdhnlieli sind.

Alle KopfBiifhen ranh. nn]mnktirt. Halssohild mit grol) jnmktirten, ziemlich

lireiten Bnoliten, deutlich einreihig pnnktirtcn 8eitenraiidi'urchcn, nach hinton zu

]inuktirteu Seiten ohne deutliche Narben, oben mit einigen flaohen Eindriicken.

Oime Stirnwarze. Stirnfeld fast breit dreieckig. Kopfhorn vorne soharf kielig

zusammengedriickt. Die tiefen Taillennarben schmal, liinglioh, gleichmassig breit.

Metasternnm ohne abgegrenztc Platte, schwacdi conve.K, in den Hintereoken mit

1 odor wenigen feinen Pnnkten. Umscblagrand der Flgdn. bis zn ^ sehr nndiolit

fein behaart. Mittelschienen sehr undentlicli zahnig.

L. 24 mm ; Flgdl. 15 mm. lang, 8 mm. breit : llalssiliild ."> mm. lang,

liintcM (>, vorne 5 mm. breit.

Jffi/j. Bogota, Colnmbien. 5. 7'. mnrf/u.i Kuw., /.c.

4(1. Kiifer nur 21 mm. (idor darnnter lang. Clypens anf seiner Mitte oline oder

mit einem s(Oiwaclien (iriiliohoii. Die Bebaarnng der l^pijilcni-en lang, dirlit. bis

znr Mitte ilor Flgdn.

fi (6a). Mit stark pnnktirten Seitcnrandfnrchen des Halssohildes. Die stnmpf-

winklig ans einander gehenden Stirnleisten (bisweilen an ilirem Ursprnng fast

reclitwinklig) nmschliessen ein nnebenes, gliinzendes, bisweilen mit einzelnon sehr

feinen Piiiiktohen verschenes Stirnfeld mit AVarze im Stirnwinkel. llinter der

glalton I'riioke an dor Angenwand eine gridiclieiiartige ^'ertil•fnng.

HalssoliiM mit diclit nnd stark pnnktirten SeitenriUidfnrclien, diclit ]innklirton

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grossen Buchteii, ]iiiiiktirtc'ii kleim'u Xarbeii uiid \ilier dieseii mit lireiter aufgeloster

Liiugsbiutle griisscrer I'uukti', welchc iu die Vordereckeu zielit. Mittel- uiid

Hiuterscliieiieu mit 1 ZiUiucheu. Tiiillonuarlieu oval. Metastenialiihitte mit oder

oliiie feiiie Puiikte iiach liiiiten, an den Iliiitereckeu begreuzt durcLi eiiie mcbr

oder weuiger breite Biude aus feiueu Piiukteu, welche selten die ganzen Eckeu

ausfullt.

7 (~(>). Die Endknotcben der Stirnleisten liegen kurz vor den Clvpeuszabiieu

uiid siiid mit dieseu uicht dui'ch eine Leiste verbunden.

Nach dem Kaujiseben T_vpns.

L. 20 bis 21 mm.

Hrifj. Coliimbieu : Merida, Veueznela : Panama. (i. T. jianctulnt'is Kaiij),

Prodi: p. 35.

'a. Die Eiidkudtclieu der Stirnleisten liegen ein wenig weiter von den ('lypeii.s-

ziilineu nnd siud mit dieseu durcli eine Leiste verbunden.

li. ]'.) bis 2U mm.

Hub. Merida, Venezuela : Mexieo. 7. 1\ piincttdatus ■A\t. jM-r/r(;tutacHi<itns

Knw., /.(■.

ivi. Obne Puuktiruiig der Halsscllildseitenrandfurclien, oder dieselbe ist

schwacb.

8 (8a). Den vorigen gleiebeiid, jedoch die Stirnleisten etwas mehr ge-

scbwungen, die Halsscbilduarben fast oder ganz unjiunktirt, flacb, uber welclien nur

wenige Punkte steben : die Vordereeken des Halsscbilds fast oder ganz unpunktirt.

Neben der kauni durcb geringere Wolbung angedeuteten Metasternalplatte hintcu

nur wenige kleine Piinktcben. Mittelsebienen mit 1 oder 2, Hinterscbieneu mit 1

kanm walirnebmbarcn Ziibncben. Die Pnnktirung der Seiteurandfureben des

Halsscbildes felilt ganz.

L. 21 mm.

JldJj. Brasilien ? 8. T. jtuDrtitlntus nh. (/irciiicus \\n\\.. I.e.

8ff. Ebeufalls den vorigen sebr abulieb, jedoeli die kleine Halssehiklnarlie mit

scbwacher Punktirung, die Seiteurandfureben auch scbwacb punktirt. Die ziemlieli

grossen Buchten dicbt ])nnktirt. Neben der kaivm durcb scbwiicbere M'iilbung

angedeuteten Metasternalplatte biuten die Sciteubinde aus nicbt zablreieben kleineu

Piinktcben bestebend. tJber der Halsscbildnarbe ein gi-iissercr oder kleiuerer Puukt-

scbwarm. Die Vordereeken fast oder ganz un])Uidctirt. Kopfhorn binten meistens

mit abgekUrzter Langsfurcbe. Mittel- und Hinterscbieneu obne deutlicbes Z;iliu-

cben, oder nngezabnt.

L. 22 mm.

llah. Caucatbal, Columbien. 9. '/'. pifm-lulu/t/s a,\>. t/ta/jrior Knv/., I.e.

Lophocephalus Kuw., /.r.

Nur 1 Alt.

Auf dem mittleren Kojife ist eine betrachtlielie beidige Auselnvellung, gegen

welche von binten das Kopfhorn sich als kielige kurze Beule aniegt. Vor diesem

Kiele laufen auf der grossen Beule die stark erbabenen Stirnleisten zusamraen,

nur durch eiiie niedrigere Stelle den Vereinigungspunkt keunzeielmend, vorne ein

breites, etwas concaves Stirnfeld einscliliessend. Ohne Xebenbiicker. (.'Ivpeus

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vorue mit Mittelliirche, feiii puuktirt. Stirii vor dom fehleudeu StiruViiikel init

angedeuteter 'Warze. Stirnleisten mit weit vom Clyj)eiisvorsi)riiug abbleilipiideiu

Kniitcheu. Halsschild mit selimalen, imiiktirten Bnchten, cinzeln inuiktirteii

schmaleu Seitenrandt'urclieu, jiuuktirten kleincn Narbeu und eiuem Punktscliwarm

iiber den letzteren ; auf dem Discus mit eiuigeu flacbeu Eiudriicken. Schildchen

uacb vorue aiif der Mitte feiu puuktirt. Taillennarbeu nur Hach augedeutet.

Metasterualhiutorecken puuktirt. Mittelscbieneu mit 1 Zabncheu.

L. 20 mm. : Br. S mm.

Ilab. GuatemaJa. 1. L. inirabilis Kuw., Lc.

Neleides Kaup, Mon. p. 87.

Die Stiruleistenkniitc-beu siti^eu uiemals auf den Cl}-])easvorsprungeu auf. Die

.Seitenfurcbeu der Flgdu. siud aucb in der Scbultergegend immer ohne Stabchen-

bilduiig, bcicbsteus dicbter puuktirt. Immer felilt die .starke Dornbildung der

-Mittelscbieneu vou Rhodocanthojitis.

1 (la). Die Stirnleisten trenuen sicb an der Kopfboruspitze im genau recbten

AViukel und scbwingen sicb dann lireiter aus eiuander. Stirnfeld ; mal so breit als

lang, dicbt puuktirt, mit Warze im Stiruwiukel, ziemlicb balbkreisfiirmig. Halsscbild

mit stumpfwinkligeu Vurdereckeu, grossen jmuktirten Bucbteu, breitcr ruuktbiudc

iiber den kleiuen, puuktirten Narbeu. Seiteufurcbe des Metasteruums sebr scbmal.

Flgdnfurchen stark pnnktirt. Taillennarbeu scbmal, lang, glfinzend.

L. 22-0 mm. ; Br. 8 mm.; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Hah. Brasilieu. 1. X obscuras Kuw., I.e.

Irt. Die Stirnleisten bei ihrem Urspruuge entweder spitz- oder stumiil'wiuklig

aus einauder gebend, dann gescbwungen.

2 ■(2«). Stirnleisten spitzwinklig aus eiuauder gebend.

3 (3a). Die Knotcbeu derselben scbou auf der Mitte zwiscbeu Kopfboruspitze

tmd Clypeusvorspruug sitzend. Stirufeld und (Jlypens runzlig, dazwiscben puuktirt,

im Winkel mit bobler Warze. Kopftbaler puuktirt. Stirufeld etwa ^ mal so breit,

als lang, kaum balbkreisfiirmig, mebr spitz. Halsscbildvorderecken kaum stumj)f,

fast recbtwiuklig. Uber der Halsscbilduarbe weuige Punkte. Bucbteu gross,

puuktirt. Scbmaler als di-imfmbraniliis Kuw., sonst ibm iiberaus iibulicb; an

Morosojj/ms anlebnend.

] Stuck im Briisseler Museum.

L. 25 mm. ; Br. 8'2 mm.; Flgdl. 14'.") mm.

Uab. Babia. 2. X. laccrdae Kuw., /.(.-.

3«. Die Knotcben der Stirnleisten siud immer den Clypeusvorspriiugeu vie)

uaber, als dem Kopfboru.

4 (4«). Die Kuotcbeu steben bei J bis i der Eutferuuug zwiscbcu Kopllioni

nud Vors])rnng vou dem letzten ab. Das Stirnfeld etwa nocli oiumal so laug als

lireit, ziemlicb dreiockig, dicbt puuktirt, mit Warze im Stiruwiukel, mit tlachcr

Furcbe vor derselben. Nebenbocker klein, bijckrig spitz. Schildcbeu glatl.

Halsscbild an den Seiten zerstreut puuktirt, mit grossen puuktirten Bucbteu.

Mittelscbieneu mit 2 sebr kleinou Zabncheu. Taillennarbeu tief, kommafiirmig.

Aus der Sammluug des Horrn Candtze.

L. 18-5 mm.; Br. 6 mm.: Flgdl. 12-3 mm.

Hab. Peril. 3. i\'. caudezei Kuw., I.e.

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4'". Die KuiJtcheu immer etwti luilb so weit voti dcu ('lyiieiisvorsi)i'uugeii,

als voin Kojiflioru eutfornt. ScUililcbeii ohue Mittelliuie, iiiir iiadi vornc y.n mit

zerstreuter, feiuer runktirung-, otler obiu? solclio. Die rcelite Stiriileiste mit eiuem

deutlich stiirkern Zahnchen, <als die linke.

u (5f(). Kiifer bei 23 mm. Liiuge nur ca. (ro mm. breit, mit 6 mm. Ijreitem

Halsschild und I'A-o mm. Uiugen Flgdu.

6 (6a). Clypens mit Langsriuue auf der Mitte, uiiiHmktirt, wie cille Ko])fHacbeu.

Die in spitzem Winkel von der KopfboriLspitze ablaufeuden Stivuleisteu steigeu zu

den bohen KnOtcbcn allmablicb au, welche vorne steil abfiilleu. Von der Stirnleiste

keiue Leiste in das Tbal vor deu Nebeubnckern. Halsscbild nnpnnktirt, mit uu-

l)unktirten Narben, mit punktirten scbmaleu Bncbtcn uud pnnktirten Handf'urcben.

Die matteu Taillennarben flacb, kommaformig. Metasternum ganz glatt, nur mit

scbwacben, flacben Eindriicken in deu Hintereckeu. Mittelscbienen mit 1 Diirucben.

iScbildcben unpuuktirt.

Nur 1 Stilck.

L. 23 mm.

Jfalt. (?). 4. iV". eximius Kaw., I.e.

6«. Clypens mit Mittelgrubcben,dicbt mit Eiugpnnkten besetzt. Auch die Kopf-

fliicbeii mebr oder weniger pnnktirt. Die etwas nnebenen oder schwacb geziibuelteu

Stirnleisten geheu im spitzen Winkel vom Kopfburn berab, um sogleicb recbtwinklig,

daun stum])fwinklig sicb zu den Kuotchen zu scbwingen. Sie scbliessen eine grosse

Warzc im Winkel ein und entsenden auf der Hiilfte ihrer Lange riickwarts eine

Leiste berab in das Kopt'tbal vor den Nebenbijckern. Das Halsscbild mit punktirter

kleiner Narbe, weuigen Seiteupunkten, punktirten Bncbten und desgleichen scbmaleu

Seiteurandfurcbt'U. Die Metasternalplatte, scbwacb gewiilbt, ist von punktirten

Hintereckeu begrenzt. Die matten, sebr fla-chen Taillennarben lang, ziemlicb breit.

Die Unterlippe in der Mitte stark vorgezogen. Mittelscbieuen mit 1, Hiuterscbienen

obue Diirncben. Scbildcben vorne mit oder obne sehr feine Piinktchen.

L. 23 mm.

Ilab. (St. Cathariua. o. N. (iiKjuHj'craa Percb., Mon. p. T."i. t. .">. i'. T.

5a. Kiifer bei 25 mm. Lange fast lu mm. breit, mit liiuten s mm. breitem

Halsscbilde, in seiner Form au Moro.wphus morio imd lati/rons erinnernd, docb

kleiner. Die Stirnleisten, im spitzen Winkel vom Kopfborn herabkommend, geben

alsbald breit im Bogen auseinander, eiuen ziemlich richtigen Halbkreis bildeud, und

umsehliesseu ein vorne dicbt punktirtes, im Winkel mit grosser Warze versebenes

Stirnfeld. Aucb die Kopftbiiler sind auf dem Grnnde mebr oder weniger pnnktirt.

Die iiussere Augenwand scbliesst vorne mit einem sebr feinen,aufgericbteten, scbarfen

Ziibncben ab. Taillennarben matt, scbmal, lang. Hinterecken des Metasternums

pnnktirt. Unterlippe knollig, gliinzend. 8cbildchen vorne auf der Mitte mit

gcbwilcblicben Liingspunkten. Mittel- und Hinterschienen obne Dorneu. Oberseite

der erstereu stark bebaart.

L. 25 mm.; Br, 9-4 mm.; Flgdl. 14o mm.

Ilab. St. Cathariua. 0. A', dhmembrandus Kuw., I.e.

2a. Stirnleisten sclion bei ibrem Entstehen von der Kopfhornspitze stumpf-

winklig aus einander laufend.

7 (7a).. Die Kubtchen sitzeu glcicb liinter den C'h'peusvorspriingeu und siud

bocb zabnartig.

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S (b«)' Das Stirut'c'ld im Wiukel woiiig luelir als recbtwiiiklig, ganz glutt uiid

uiipnnktirt, wie alle Kopffliicben uiit flacher Warze. Halsschild rnit unininktirteii

Seitonramli'urclien, imnktirteii Bnehten nnd Narbcn und (ibei- diesen eiiicr breitcii

Liiugsbiiidc von riiuktcii. IJio jMetasterualjilattL' liiuten mit rnuktbcgrciizuiig.

Jlittel- und Hiiiterscbient'ii luit 1 Diirncheu. Vordereckeii dcs Halsschildes fast

recUtwiiiklig. Abdomiualsegmeut Liuteu etwas ausgeraudet.

L. 18-(i mm.; Br. C mm.; Flgdl. 12 mm.

//"//. ICcnador. T. ^V. duponti Kuw., I.e.

ba. Der AViukel des t^tinifeldes betriichtlicb mehr als recbtwiiiklig.

9 (9a). Im Stinnviiikel eine gro.sse, auf ibrer Mitte concave Warze. Der

Vorderraud des C'lypens bald mebr, bald weniger mit grossen Punkten neben der

coucaven Langsmitte. Das Kopfborn fein pnnktirt, an der Spitze scitlicb etwas

comprimirt. Die Oberlij>iie etwas ausgeraudet. llalsscliild mit jmnktirten Bncbten

und Narben ; iiber den letzten weiiige Punkte. Flgdn. mit ziemlicb derben

Punkten in deu Seitcnfurcben, vor der Scbulter mit licbten Hiircben diinn bebaart.

Taillennarbcn kurz, rundlicb, gliiazend. Aftersegment breit abgernndet. Mittel-

scbieueu mit 1 kleinen Ziibncben. Mit rej- der grosste dieses Genus.

L. 32 bis 33 mm. ; Br. 1 1 mm.

H'///. Rio Ucayali, Oberes Amauzoneastromgebiet. 8. N. e///scojni,s Kuw., /.<■.

9rt. Die Warze im Stiruwinkel ist niclit bobl. C'lvpeus uiii)uuktirt. Vorder-

ceken des Halsscbildes stumpfwinklig. Abdomiualsegmeut breit zugerundet.

Alle Kopfflachen unpnnktirt ; das Kopfhorii mit oder obnc Andeutung einer

Mittelriune. Halsscbild mit un])unktirteii Seitenraiidfurchen, pnnktirten Bucbten,

unpunktirteu ganz flachen Narben und dariiber einer aufgcliisten Lilngsbinde vou

Punkten. Das ganz glatte Metasternum obnc Punktbegrenznng der Platte.

Schildcben mit Andeutung einer Mittellinie. Mittel- und Hinterscbieucn dbiu'

Diirncben (immer?). Taillennarben scbmal, oval.

L. 24 mm. ; Br. T'.") mm.

Had. Columbien, Caucathal. 9. A\ irregularis Kuw., I.e.

'(I. Die Kniitchen niemals erst bei J der Entfernuug von der Kopfboriispit/.e

ab iiach den ('ly]ieusdorneu zu sitzend, sondern immer naher der Koj)fUoriis]iitze zu.

10 (lOrt). Die Knijtcben immer bei oiler vor § der Entfernuug von der Kopf-

bornsjutze ab nacb dem Clypeusdonie zu sitzend.

11 (11«). Die Kuiitcben sitzen bei § der Entferuung von der Kopfbornspitze

nacb den Clypeusdornen zu. Die .Stirnloisten, in 7° recbtem Winkel aus einaiider

gebcnd, umscbliessen cin etwas unebenes, sebr wenig oder einzeln puuktirtes

iStinifeld mit llacber Warze im Winkel.

12 (12a). Glypeus in der Mitte vorue mit Andeutung einer Liingsfurcbc.

Halsscbild mit feiner, fein pnnktirter Heiteurandfurcbe, mit jmnktirten Narben

und Biu'.hten. Ubcr jenen eine aufgeloste Lungsbinde weniger Punkte. Die

matten Taillennarben komniafiirinig. Metasteruum bis auf wenige Punkte in deu

Hinterecken glatt, Mittelscbieneu mit 1 Diirncben. Discus des Halsscbildes

nnregelmiissig mit einzelnen griisseru punktartigen Eindriickeu.

2 Stiickc, davon 1 im Berliner Museum.

L. 21 mm. : Br. (i-3 mm.

llab. Brasilien. lU. JS\ nellotci Kuw., Lc.

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I2a. rlyjicus ohne Audeutung eiuer Mitteli'urclic lialsstliikl miorosi;o]iisuli

retii'iilii-f, mid jjuiiktirt. Die wenig vor der Mitte (Ut Stirnloisteu steheudcu uiid

diesu beeudigeadfii Kuiltcheu siiul boch zaliuartig. Halsscliild mit stuiuijl'wiiiU--

ligeu Vorderecken, schmalen, eiiizeln i)unktirtcn Eaudfurcheii, imnktirteu Bucliteii

uud Narben mid iiber diesen mit weuigen Pimkteii. Kopflioni mit comprimirter

Spitze, liinten breit blattartig uiit Mittelfuridie. Flugeldeckcnfnrchcn schwucb

imnktirt.

1 tStiick im Briisselev Museum, 1 iu meiuei' iSammlimg.

L. 32-5 mm. : Br. 12 mm.; Flgdl. 19 mm.

IfaL Esmeraldos ; Quito. 11. iV. /r.v Kuw., I.e.

1 1'l. Die Knotchen sitzen schon vor f der Entfernuug von der Kopfhornspitze

ab uaeli dem langen Clj-pensdorne zn. Die im selir stumpfen Wiukel von der

Kopfhornsjiitze sich treunenden Stirnleisten mit eiiiem Hijckerchen auf der Mitte

VI ir dem Knotchen, ein kurzes, breit es, nnpnnktirtes, dreieckiges Stirnfeld mit

Warze im Stiruwinkel einscbliessend. Hinter der Briicko an der Augenwand eiue

griibclienartige Vertiefung. Alle Kopfthaler fast oder ganz punktlos. Halsscliild

mit feiner einzeln pnnktirter Seiteurandfurche, mit nur aus wenigeu (:? — 4) Punkteu

bestelienden Buchteii, mit kleinen pnnktirten Narben und kleincr pimktirter

Liingsbinde dariiber. Metasternaljilatte flach, mit eiuigen feinen Piiuktchen, die

Hiuterecken nebeu ihr mit griissern Punkten uudicht oder dichter pnuktirt. Die

Taillennarbe sebr sclimal, lang.

(Naeh einer Kan])schen Type.)

L. 20-3 mm. : I'r. G mm.

Ila/j. Guatemala ; (Jolnmbien. 12. iV. <iintti'male)isis Kahj), Col. Hefte V.

■ ^ ':, _ p. S (1860).

10«. Die Kuotcheu bei fast f der Entfernnng von der Kopfhornspitze ab

nach den Clypeusvorspriingen zu steheud, zahnartig uud stark anfgerichtet. Die

geraden, starken Stirnleisten etwa in |- rechtem Winkel aus einander laufend.

Clypeus mit groben Punkten. Die Nebenhockcr liJickerartig, die kleinen Kopf-

thaler nniiunktirt. Halsschildbuchten weit zuriickspringend nnd jmnktirt, seine

Narben pnnktirt. Samtliche Intervalie der Flgdn. rund abgewblbt. Die Riicken-

furchen kaum jnmktirt. Taillennarben lang und schmal. Metasternalijlatte hinten

mit 2 Eindruckeu, an ihr die Hiuterecken mit eiuigen Punkten. Abdomiualseg-

ment liinten breit abgestutzt.

L. 24 mm. ; Br. 8 mm. : Flgdl. 14 mm.

Hub. Brasilien. 1:}. ^V. ructangalatus Kuw., I.e.

Aponelides Kuw., t.c.

1 (\(i). Hiuterecken des Metasteruums immer mit dichterer Puuktiruug.

Clypeus und der vordere Theil des Stirnfeldes fast immer mit Punkten.

2 (2ff). Metasternalplatte fast immer ohne einzelne grosse Punkte.

3 (3«). Halsschild projiortionell grosser, als bei alien audern Art en, bei 13 mm.

Flgdnliiiigo dasselbe 7-5 mm. lang und liei 8 mm. Kiirperbreite dasselbe vornc

8-5 mm. breit. Die im schwach stumpfeu Winkel aus einander ziehenden, wenig

gebogenen hohen Stirnleisten umscliliessen ein glattes, vorne mit einigen grosseu

Ringpunkten versehenes und durch eine Liingsgrube getheiltes, im Winkel mit

( ISO )

W'arze veraehenes Stirufelcl. Die Nebeiihiicker, wie in der ganzeu Gattuiig vor-

heiTschend, gernndet flachbacklig. Die unpuiiktirten Kopfthiiler fein runzlig,

last glatt, Oder mit einzelneii selir kleitien Pmikteu. HalsschUd ohue licsouders

verbreiterte Hucht, mit ]mnktirteii Huiidi'iirchon mid Narben und /.erstreutcr

lSeitenj)unktiruiig in der Hiilie der let/.toren. Tailiennarlien nnr scliwacli angedeutet.

Die in der Mitte vorgezogeue Unterlipjje dast-Ibst mit Ausrandung. jMittelschienen

mit 2, Hinterschienen mit 1 kleiuen Zuhnchen.

L. 22 mm.

Ilab. Guatemala. 1. A. laticoUis^ww'., I.e.

3rt. HulsscLiild immer pro]H)itionai, scbmakr and klciuer.

4 (-la). SwiscUen den beideu aus der Schulterecke kommeuden Piuiktstreif'eii

fehlt bis zur Hiilfte der Flgdu. die Kioliuig des Iiitervalls nnd es ist dieses daselbst

ganz ebeu. Halsschildvordereckcn scbarf rechteckig. Die srbmiileu, tiefen uud

geraden Bucbten dessclben, die schmale Seitenrandt'urcbe, sowie die Narbcu punktirt;

iiber diesen eiuige Punkte. Die im stumpfeu AN'inkel vom Kopt'born ziebendeu

Stirnleisten mit dem Eudknutchcn wenig hiuter den Ciypeusziihneu endigend.

8cbildcbon vorne mit weuigen Laugspilnktcben anf der Mitte. Taillennarben

undentlicb. Schieuen ohne Dorneu. Die Kiefer am Ende lang und scharf dreizabnig.

L. 23 mm.; Br. "(i mm.

J lab. Mexico. 2. A. sinccrus Kuw., Lc.

4a. Es feblt keiuc Kielnug dor Intervalle.

.5 (.5a). Die beideu ans der Schnlterbenle cntspringendeu tStreil'en der Flgdn.

haben die Punkte in der Niibe der Schnlterbenle nocb einmal so hoch, als breit, oder

hiiher. Die Intervalle daselbst scbmal. Die griissten Tbiere des Genus, mit der

liingsteu Stiibcbeubilduug der Seitenstreifen der Flgdn. Die Unterlippe in der

Mitte vorgezogen nnd schwach ausgescbuitten. Der Clypens in der Mitte ausge-

schnitten, ohue zu jeder Seite Zahne zu biUlen, mit Liingsvertiofnng anf der Mitte.

Die Stirnleisten im Winkel vou etwa f bis 1; eines rechten Winkels. Die Hinterecken

des Metasternnms neben der ebenen Platte diclit punktirt. Mittelscliienen mit oder

ohue I Doruchen. Im Stirnwinkel eiue grosse Warze oder Falton.

G (Oa). Die Taillenuarben flach, ziemlich breit, nicht kommafiirmig. Die reehte

Stirnleiste zwischen Kopfhorn nnd Kntitchen mit einer etwas wnlstigen, bogigeu

Erhabenheit. Das Halssehild zwischen der Punktirnng mit microscopischeu

Pnnkten, welche so weit von einander abstehen, als die Punkte stark sind; gliiuzender

als beim Iblgenden. Die Stirnleisten vor den Knutehen etwas meiir gebogen. Das

Thier uach dem Sterbeu mit stark nach naten gebogenen Halsschild, immer etwas

schmiih-r nnd gliinzender, als das folgende. Im Stirnwinkel eine glatte Warzc.

Jj. 21) mm.; Br. T-i) mm.: Flgdl. l.i mm.

Jh/j. Me.xico. 3. .1. contractKs Percli., Mon. p. T^. t. (5. f. 2.

6o. Die Taillenuarben mehr kommafiirmig, tiefer. Das Halsschild aul' dem

Discus oft mit niicniscopischen Pnnkten,welche sehr dieht an einander stehen, deshalb

dann oben matter als beim vorigen. Die Stirnleisten vor den Kmitcheu saufter

gebogen. Halsschild sonst gleich dem des vorigen, um die pnnktirte Narbe herum

mit groben Punkten und mit pnnktirten Buchteu und solcben Uandfurchen. Von

contractu)) schwer zu uuterscheidcn und von Kauji mit ihm zusammengeworfen.

Die Thiere nach dem Verenden meisteas mit gerade vorgestrecktem Halsschild,

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(liis, wic bei coiitractn-s, in den Vorilcreekcii selteiiei' uud dauii nur wuuig- I'lmktc

tnigt.

7 (7^;). iSliniwiukel mit A\';irzc,\ Diu iSeiteul'urchcu der Flgdu. des \VL'iiij,'ei'

g-ewolbteii Kiifers mit sebr laugen Qiierpunkten und Stixbcheu. Die Uuterlipije in

der Mitte etwas breiter vorgezogeu. Der vorlet/.te Bauebring am Hinterraude

ziemlicb fiacb.

Beide iStiruleisteu gleiclimassig glatt, obue Aiil'trcibiuig in der Mitte.

L. '^ij mm.; Br. 8 mm.; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Hub. Mexico. 4. A. /jii)ict<iti).'<fr/iifi/.s Fercb., /.c. t. (i. I'. 1.

7«. Stirnwinkel mit Falteu. Die Seiteufurcben der Flgdu. des starker gewiilbten

Kiifers mit weniger bxugeii Qnerpuukten und St;il)cben. Die Unterlijipe in der

Mitte weiter uud gerundet vorgezogeu, mit Aniing vou Mittelfurcbe. Der vorletzte

Bauchring am Hinterrande deutlicb gewolbt. Die recbte Stirnleiste oft mit

2 stumpfeu Ziibneu, die linke mit oft nur eiuem zwiscbeu Kopfboru uud Knotcbeu,

meistens beide uur mit Auftreibuug.

L. 28—29 mm.; Br. 10 mm.; Flgdl. 17 mm.

Hab. Mexico: Mazatlau, Duraugo. o. A. 6/'//er//ifa,s Kavr., I.e.

5a. Die Streifen aus deu Scbulterbeuleu mit etwas kiirzeren Querimukten. Die

lutervalle daselbst breiter. Die Tbiere meistens nnter 26 mm. Liinge. Aucli die

Vordereckeu des Halsscbildes immer mit Punktscbwarm.

8 (Sa). Kafer flacher mit proportionell etwas liingeru Flgdn.

9 (9a). Unterlippe vorne scbwacb abgerundet, nicht vorgezogeu. Die bobeu

Stirnleisteu, in ;', recbtem Windel aus eiiiander ziebend, umscbliessen eiue mit grosseu

Riugpunkten punktirte JStirnfliiche mit bobler Liingswarze in Winkel. Halsscbild-

vovderecken rechtwiuklig; die ganzen Seiteu mit Ausschlnss einer Fliiche vor den

Narben ziemlicb dicbt und grob punktirt. Taillenuarben lang, uacb binten ver-

schwommen, ziemlicb breit. Vorletztes Segment mit scbwacber Kielung. Hinterecken

des Metasternums dicbt und umfiuigroicli punktirt. Mittelscbienen mit 1 Dorucben.

('lypeus vorne mit Mittelgriibcbeu. Kopfthiiler einzeln punktirt, etwas uneben.

Stabcbenbildung der Seitenfurchen der Flgdn. stark und dentlicb.

Nur 1 Stiick.

L. 27 mm.; Br. « mm.; Flgdl. l.'ys mm.

flab. Brasilieu. 0. A. j/urabo/icu.f Kuw., /.c.

9a. Unterlippe vorgezogen.

10 (10a). Unterlippe vorne stunipl'wiuklig abgerundet vorgezogeu. Die ziemlicb

bohen, etwas uuebeneu Stirnleisteu, im etwa -f. recbten Winkel aus einander gebend,

umscbliessen ein ziemlicb dicbt punktirtes unebeues Stirnfeld oline Warze. Ibils-

scbildvordereckeu recbteekig ; die Seiten zerstreut grubig punktirt. Taillenuarben

klein, knrz und schmal. Hinterecken des Metasternums punktirt. Mittelscbienen

mit 1 Dornchen. Clypeus vorne mit Mittelgriibcbeu. Kopftliiiler eiuzeln grob

punktirt. Stabcbenbildung der Seitenstreifen der Flgdn. stark und deutlicb.

Nur 1 Stiick.

L. 23 mm. ; Br. U J mm. ; Flgdl. 13 mm.

Hab. Venezuela. 7. .1. iffmnits Kuw., L(

■.V.

10((. Unterlippe ziemlicb flacb, in iler Mitte breit vorgezogen uud mit flachem,

ziemlicb dentlichem, breitem Mittelausscbnitt daselbst. Die etwas unebenen Stirn-

( l.i-' )

leisten, liber letlitwiiikli^' ans c-imui<lc'rgelieinl, nmscliliessen ein glanzeudes, anf dom

iu der Laiigsmittc voriie vertiefteu Clypeus pnnktirtes, im Winkel mit einer anf

del- Mitte oft liolileii War/.e versoheiies Stirnfcld. Die jrliinzeiideii KoiiftliiikT

kaum piinktirf. llalsscliild an deu Seiteii undiilit imnktirt, mit imiiktirtcii Hand-

fnrcheti niid Bucliten uiid stark recbtwiiiklisreu Vordereckeii. Tailleniiurben liroil.

uach hiuteu verlaufeud. Metasternalliiutereckeu dicht, fast verlaiifeud jnmktirl ;

auch die Platte mit ein ])aar Pnnkten. Das letzte Segment vorne mit kielartiger

Beule. Mittelscliiencn mit 1 Zaiinchen. Scitcnfurchen der Flgdn. mit deutliiheu

Querstabclien, jedocdi betriichtlich kiirzern, als bei coittrai-tm und pniirtato.'itriatus,

welclicn das Tliier Uberans ilhuelt. Die Riickenstreifen der Flgdn. mit Qner-

faltchen. Der Stirnleistenwinkel etwas grosser, als bei }>aruhoUcus.

Niir 2 Stiick.

L. 2(ry mm.; Flgdl. l(i mm.: I'r. ^ mm.

llnb. Gnatcmala; Costa Rica. 8. yl. »-/«(7'//«m Kuw., /.t-.

b«. KaftT gcwiilbter, mit projiortiouell kiirzurm llintcrluibe.

11 (llo). Unterlippe lioeli gewolbt, in der Mitte stark gerimdet stumpfwinklig

vorgezogeu, von der Seite geseben fast balbnuul erschcinend. Halsscbildvordor-

ecken stumjifwiuklig. Die scbwach stumpfwinklig aiis einander gebeuden, holion

Stirnleisten mit Warze im Winkel. Kopfborn hinten mit Langsrinne. Stirnfclil

tmd Kopftbaler zerstreut grob pnnktirt. Seiten des Halsschildes grob, fast grubig,

bisweilen wenig punktirt. Taillennarbeu kleiu, rnndlich, etwas quer, gliinzend.

Metasternum mit ein Paar Pnnkten anf der Platte und diebt punktirteu Hinter-

ecken. Mittelschienen mit 2, Hinterschiuncu mit 1 Diirucben. 8eiteufnrcben der

Flgdn. mit deutlicben Querstabchen.

Nur 2 .Stiick.

L. 24 mm.; Flgdl. l:j mm.: Br. To mm.

llah. Mexico: Guatemala. 'J. .\. hoj'nmnni Y.\V!;.,Li:.

lift. Unterlippe entweder weniger stark gewiilbt und nacb vorne ziomlicb breit

vorgezogen, oder gewiilbt uud nicbt nacb vorne vorgezogen ; dock ist die Wulbung

immer scbwiicber, als beim vorigen.

12 (12'/). Die scbarf begrenzte Metasternalplatte binten ziemlicb abgerundet,

obne deutlicbe Ecken zu bilden. Halsschildvorderecken stumpf rcclit-, oder

scbwach stumpfwinklig. Die im stumpfen Winkel zusammenstossenden Stirn-

leisten umschliessen ein dicht mit Ringpunkten punktirtes Stirnfeld und Warze

im Stirnwinkel. Die nnebenen Kopftbiiler zwiscben Nebenhiickern und Augenwand

l)unktirt. Halsscbild mit breiten punktirten Buchtcn, ]iunktirten Narben und

Randfurchcn und unregelmassig punktirten Seiton. Die Riickenstreifen der Flgdn.

mit Querfaltchen. Taillennarbe breit kommaformig. Das letzte Segment an den

Seiten sehr breit nnd uach vorne verbreitcrt, dicbt ]iunktirt, so dass die Punktiruug

am Vorderrande beinalie zusammenstosst. Hinterecken des Metasternums dicht

j)unktirt.

Viele Stilcke.

L. 25-5 mm.; Flgdl. 15 mm.; lir. S mm.

llah. Nicaragua; Guatemala. 10. .1. mumhi.s Kuw., l.r.

\2n. Die scharf begrenzte Platte des Metasternums hinten etwas winklig,

indem die diuhto Punktiriing der Ecken etwas welter von der Mitte des Hinter-

randea zurtickbleibt. In allem Ubrigeu dem vorigen gleichend, jedoch mit etwas

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sparsamerer I'iuiktinu]i;' ties Clyiieus uiid mit scliwiicliprcr, oft unik-iitliclu'r Taillcii-

iiarbe. Audi moistens mit 1 Donichen der Jlifti'l- und Iliiiterscliifiien, wie jener,

alier immer betrachtlich kleiner.

Viele Stiicke.

L. 23 mm.: Flgdl. i:! mm.: P>r. 7 mm.

J/al). Mexico; ( 'nlnmliieii. 11. -1. //(.«•/(; Kiiw., /.c

2a. Metastenialiilatte mit eiuzelaeii grossen Pimkten. I-)as sclimalt^ Kopl-

hornchen anf die eine glatte Platte bildeudea Nebenhiicker gelegt. Das Stirnfeld

liiuter dem j)iiiiktirten Clypens laiigsninzlig. Die Mittelscliieiien mit Ansatz zn

tl kleinen Donichen. Das Halsschild mit feiner imd diclifc puiiktirtcu Randfnrclien

und zei'strent inmktirteu Seiten. Besonders die iinterste aus der Schulter ziehende

Punktreihe dev Flgdu. der gauzeu Lange nacli mit deutlicber StabclienbiJdnng.

Abdominalsegment an den Seiten breit, matt nnd rauh, daneben einwiirts pnnlvtirt,

mit glatter Mitte und schmaler Abdnminaluarbe. Hinterleib proportionell knrz.

Taillennarben klein und sclimal. Unterlippe in der Jlitte vorgezogen. Hinterecken

des Metasternnms mit grossem Punktschwarm.

L. 21 mm.: Br. T'5 mm.; Flgdl. 12 mm.

Hah. Me.xieo? 12. A. /inii'.'ifa/is Knvi'., /.r.

la. Metasternum ganz glatt, ohne jede Pnnktirnng der Platte nud der Hinter-

ecken. Alle Kojiffliichen glatt, nnpnnktirt. Taille mit Itinglichen Narben.

Stinileisten im spitzen Winkel vom Kopfliorne abgebend, dann gescliwnngen zu

den Knotchen zielieud. Obere Furclien der Flgdn. breit uud flach, mit grossern

Punkten, an Rhodoi'anthopni^ erinnernd. Mittelschienen mit 1, Hiiiterschienen

oline Diirnehen.

L. 25 mm.: Br. (Vf) mm.: Flgdl. 14 mm.

Ilah. Mexico. 13. A. ylaljii.'<fcrnus\\n\\\. l.r.

Microthorax Knw., I.e.

Nnr 1 Species. Von Aponclide.'i dnrch des verliiiltnissmassig sehr kleiiie

Halssoliild gescliieden, von Tnchoplexntx dnrch den Mangel der Behaarnng anf

dem Umschlagrande der Flgdu. getrennt, von Xelekles durch die vom Clyiieusdorn

abbleibenden Knotchen gesondert, dnrch die proportionell langen Flgdn. Tricho-

jileuras martins Bates iihnelud. Die Randfurche der Vorderecken des Halsschildos

mit 2 dicht au einamler liegenden Pnnktreihen zn der gleichbreitcn Bncht ziehend.

Die Seitenraudfnrchen nnr mit einfacher Punktreihe, die kleinen Halsschildnarben

punktirt; sein Discus mit flachen, einzelnen Druckjmnkten gezeichnet. Die sehr

breit aus einander gehendeu Stirnleisten nmscliliesseu ein fast nnpunktirtes, bre'ites,

ziemlich kurzes Stirnfeld mit Warze in Winkel. Die Kopfthaler siud glatt. Das

Kopfhorn der Liinge nacli gekielt. Die Flgdn. anch oben mit ziemlich starken

I'unktstreifeu zwischen [ntervallen, die mit schwiichlichen Faltchen versehen sind.

Taillennarben breit und lang kommaformig. Die bei dem einzigen vorliegenden

Stiicke binten mit 2 tiefen Punkten gezeichuete Metasternalplatte hat ncben sich

anf den Hinterecken nnr wenige, sehr zerstreute, feiue Piiaktclien. Die langen

Flgdn. breiter nnd flacher, als das mehr gewolbtc Halsschild.

L. 22-5 mm.; Br. der Flgdn. T-o mm.: Ijiinge der Flgdu. 14-0 mm.: T,. des

Halsschildes 4'3 mm.; Breite des Halsscliildcs hintcu li, vorne 4-S mm.

Ilah. ColuniMi'U. I. i' . Klulta.t \\\\w.. I.e.

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12. GmippE: PERTINACINAE.

Parapertinax Knw., l.c.

Clypeiis, Stirn nntl die g{?samt('i) Kojjfflaclien unpunktirt : das Kopfhoni mit

den jranz nnkenntlicbeii Nebenliockern eineii stumpfen Bnckel bildond. Die weit

vom Clypeus abbleibendon Kniltcbi'ii sind dnrcb deutlidie Sfirnleisteii rait der

Spitze des stumpfen Kopl'honikegels und dnrch nndentliclie liCisteri mit deu

(Jlj-peusvorspniiigen verbnnden. Metastemnm ganz glatt, nnr in den Achselhiihlen

der Mittelschenkel pnnktirt. Taille mit mattscliwarzen Fleckon, als Andentnng

der Xarben, hinteii in der Mitte mit lederartig narbiger Struktnr.

1 (la). Oberli])pe vonie ganz gerade. Die Halssrhildnarbe kni-z c|ner, nnjmnk-

tirt, die 13iicht flaeh pnnktirt. Das Kopfboru niipnnktirt. Die iStirnleisten im fast

recliteu Winkel auseinander iaufend.

Eiu Stiick.

Ij. 21 mm.

Hab. St. ( 'atharina. 1. /'. mhmtissimiis'Knw., l.r.

la. Oberlippe vorue ansgescbnitten, die Halsscliildnarbe selir klein. unpnnktirt.

I)ie tiefe Bncht dentlicher pnnktirt. Der Kopfhiigel nach binten mit, scbwacbcr

Fnrche, sehr fein pnnktirt. Die Stirnleisten im fast rechten Winkel anseinander

l:infend.

Eiu Stiick.

L. 20— 26 mm.

I//it/. Rio de Janeiro. 2. F. (liihUuim Knw., l.c.

Morosophus gen. nov.

Von Pi'i-tinn.r ancb dnreb die weuiger starke oder folilonde Bebaarnng des

nntern Halsscbildseitenrandes, sowie dnrcb die geringere finjsso versehieden.

I (Irt). Das Kopfborn ganz breitgedriickt, mit winzigeni Ziibnchen an Stelle

der Spitze, anf der Mitte etwas vcrtieft, von den Xebenbcickern dnrch eine zieralicli

fnrchenartige Begrenzung getrennt. Die im stnmpfen Winkel divergirenden Stirn-

leisten eudigen mit dem Kndtcben weit von den Clypensvorsjiriingen, cine Warze

im Winkel eiuschliessend. Siimtliclic Koptiliiclien sind nneben oder rnuzlicb. Von

den Knotchen geht eine Leiste als Briicke znr Angenwand nnd trifft im spitzen

Winkel mit der vom Clypensvorsprung znr Angenwand gehenden Leiste znsammen.

Halsscbild mit oder obne einige Pnnkte iiber der schragen, bisweilen pnnktirten

Narbe nnd tiefer, nicbt breiter, pnnktirter Bncbt. Tailiennarben dnrcb matte

Farbnng angedentet. Mittelscliienen mit 2 stilrkeni, bintere mit cincm scbwjicliern

Dome. Letztes Bauchsegment in den Seitenwinkeln rnnzlicb tciii ]iiinktirt.

Von Kirscb falscblicli zn Topilixs gestellt.

L. 2s— 30 mm.

Hah. Ecnador. 1 . ^f. (/epressicornis Kirscb, Berl. Ent. Zeit. XIX. p. 209.

1 (Iff). Das Kopfborn nicbt so breit gedriickt, anf der Mitte nie vertieft.

2 (2ff). Die obern Streifen der Flgdn. immer mit, wenn ancb sebr feiiier,

Pnnktirung.

3 (3ff). Stirnfcld nnd Clypeus nicbt rnnzlig oder rnnzlig pnnktirt, sondern

entweder ganz glatt oder nneben, glanzend, oder mit dicbtern oder weitlanfigen

Bingjmnkten,

( 155 )

4 (4''). Stirnfeld iineben, glanzend. Das Kopfliorn naoh liinteii gedriickt.

Der Clypens vorne schmal gewulstet, gerade. .Siimtliche Kopfthiiler nneben,

gliinzend. Oberlippe vorne ganz- gerade. Halsscliild mit einigen Pnnkten iiber

der Ideiiien pnnktirten Narbe, mit weniger als rec.liteckigeii Vorderwinkeln, mif

tiefer pnnktirter Bnclit, schmaleu iniidvtirten Raiidfnrcheii and ziemlioh dic'hter,

feiiier Piinktiriing auf seiner ganzcn Flarlie. Die Seiteut'urclien der ]'")gdii.

betraclitlich starker punktirt, als die obern. 8cinldcheu jeseitig nel)en der glatten

Liingsmitte mit eiuer feiuen Pnnktirnng. Taillenuarben dnrch mattscliwarze,

grossere Flecken augeileutet. Vorletztes Bancbsegmeut an den Seiten sehr stark

ausgeschnitten. Mittelscbienen mit 2, Hiuterscliieuen mit 1 bis 2 kleiuen Dtirn-

chen. Die Stiruleisten laufen im stumpfen Wiukel ans einander und nmschliessen

im Winkel eine kleine Warze. Vorne atif Stirn nnd Clypens eine Langsvertiefung

oder Riune.

L. 32 mm.

llnh. Cnlumbien. 2. .1/. remrahiiis Knw., 'Moti. lipst. Tahelle.

4a. Das. glanzende Stirnfeld niclit un('l)en, fast immer mit Riugimnktirnng.

5 (5a). Metasternum liinten mit einzelneu zerstreuten Pnnkten anf der Platte nnd

in den Ecken. Kiifer klein. Kopfhorn hinten am Fnsse mit Anfang einer Mittel-

riune, vorne von ihm die Stirnleisten stnmpfwiuklig ans einander zn den anf lialbem

AVege von den C'lvpeusvorspriiugen absteheuden Knotchen ziehend tind iiber diese

liinans fast geradlinig hinter die Mitte der vom C'lypensvorprung znr innern Angen-

waud ziebenden VorderrancUeiste verliingert, im Stirnwinkel eine kleine Warze

einschliesseud. Der Clypens vorne gerade, schmal gewulstet. Halsschildnarbe, <lie

tiefe Bncht und die scbmalen Randfurclien ])nnktirt. Schilck-hen glatt. Tailie oline

dentliche Narbe.

Nnr 1 Stiick.

L. 22-.5 mm.

Hal). St. Catharina. 3, ^f. amaruii Kuw., /.<•.

5ff. Metasternum anf der Platte obne Pnnkte. Der ('lyjieus immer init mebr

odor TToniger dirliter Pnnktirnng. Nnr die Hinterectken des jMetastevnnnis mit einigen

Pnnkten.

G (fiffl). Fliigeldecken des breitern Kiifers nnr kanin 1? nial so lang, als

zusammen breit.

7 (7rt). Das fast der ganzen Liinge naoh oben ziemlich scliarfkielige Kopfhorn

ist liinten am Fnsse bisweilen mit Ansatz zn einer Liingsrinne. Die im sjiitzen

Winkel von der Spitze des Kojjfhorus entspringeudeu Stiruleisten wenden sich

alsbald stnmpfwiuklig gegen die wenig iiber die halbe Entfernuug vom Clypens

gelegenen Kniitchen und ziehen von diesen zn der Spitze der Clypeusvorspriinge.

Clypens vorne sehr schmal wnlstig, in der Mitte bisweilen etwas ausgeschnitten.

Im Stirnwinkel eine Warze. Halsscbild mit pnnktirter Narbe nnd bisweilen

wenigen Pnnkten dariiber, mit breiten punktirten Bnehteu uud schmaleu pnnktirten

Seitenrandfurchen. Schildchen vorne anf der Mitte mit einigen Piinktchen. Flgd-

furchen auch oben dentlich punktirt. Tailie mit matt kommaartig angedenteten

Narben. Mittelscbienen mit 2 kleiuen DiUnchen. Vorderecken des Halsschildes

abgemndet stumpfeckig.

L. 28 bis 29 mm.

llah. Brasilien; Guyana; Colunibien: Mexico. 4. M. mono Perch., Mon.

p. 83. t. fi. f. 4.

r lofi )

To. Das iinr anf tier Sjiirze kielig znsaiumengedrtickte Kopflioni ist hiiiteii

rnnd al>gewolbt ohne Ansatz einer Fnrche. Die im spitzen Winkel von dor Spitze

(les Kopfhonis ontsjiringendon Stirnloistpii gelien daiin sof'ort schr lireitwinklig

ans einander bis zu ilen etwa anf halber Liitigc stebeudeii Kniitclien nnd von dieseu

etwas gebogen zn deu Clyi)enszahnen,ein sehrbreit dreii'ckigcs Stirnfeld nmscbliess-

end. Der gerade C'lypens wenig wnlstig. Ini Stirnwinkel eine starke Warze.

Halsschild mit pnnktirter Narbe, mit breiten pnnktirten Bnchten nnd pnnktirten

SeitPiirandfiirclien. Schildolicn vorne anf dor Mitte pnnktirt. rigdfnrchcn ancli

obeii [)nuktirt. Die Taille oline matten Narbeiifleok. Mittelscliienen rait 1

Diirncheu. Vorderecken des Halsschildes scliarf rechteckig.

1 Stuck.

L. 28—29 mm.

I[ab. ? 5. ,1/. 7norioi<les Knw., l.r.

Crt. Flgdn. des schmalern Kafers imraer etwas liinger.

8 (8ff). Die Stirnleisten lanfen sogleii'h vom Kopf horn stnmpfwinklig ans ein-

ander. Die Kniitcben steben anf der Mitte zwisolien Kojif born nnd f 'lyi)onsvorsj)rnng

nnd sind mit dem ersten dnrch starke Leiston verbnndeu. Im Stirnwinkd eine

grosse Warze. Der C'lypens kaum wnlstig am iinssersten Vorderraude, dielit mit

Kreispnnkten besetzt. Die Kopfthiiler sind glatt. Das fein pnnktirte, hinten

flacbe, vorne seitlieb etwas compvimirte Kopf born anf die nacb oben flacli abge-

iTindeten, nacb anssen etwas zngespitzten Xebonbucker gelegt. Halsscbild mit

pnnktirten Xarben, neljen denselben jeseitig mit 1 bis 2 Punktcn, mit grob

pnnktirten Seitenrandfnrcben nnd breiten, tiefen, dicht pnnktirten Bncbteu. Taille

mit kommaartigem, mattem Narbenfieck. Hinterecken des Metasternnms mit

einigen feinen Pnnkten. Die breite Oberlip|)e gerade, mit vorspringenden spbarfen

.Seitenecken. Das breite Stirnfeld knrz, fast als Falte erscbeineud. Die Soiten des

Metasternnms fein pnnktirt nnd sebr liobt behaart.

Ein Exemplar.

L. 27 bis 28 mm.

Il'ih. Veneznela. fi. .)/. bmifrons Knw., Lr.

Ha. Die Stirnleisten lanfea spitzwinklig von der Kopfbornspitze ans piimnder,

nm dnnn gesebwnngen sebr stnmpfwinklig anseinander zn geben. Ira (jbriiicn das

Tbier ganz dem vorigen gleicbend in Griisse, Form nnd Gcstalt.

1 einzelnes Stiick bier, 1 Stiick im Wiener Mnsenm.

L. 2(5—27 mm.

Ihb. Brasilien: Rio de Janeiro. 7. M. brevifrons ah. confrater\\.\\\\., l.r.

3a. Stirnfeld nnd Clypens rnnzlig oder rnnzlig pnnktirt.

9 (9a). Das rnnzlige Stirnfeld mit zerstrenten Kingpnnkten besetzt, welcbc

bisweilen wenig wahrnebmbar sind.

lO(IOa). Metasternnm in den Hinterecken ganz punktlos. Die Narben des

llalsscbildes rait einigen Hiircben ans den Pnnkten. Der Halsscbildseitenrand

nnten dicbt, aber nicbt lang bebaart, (^desbalb viclleicbt zn I'crtina.r geborig; das

einzige mir vorgelegene typische Stiick stand mir leider zn knrze Zeit znr

Verfiignng). Die obern Kopfflacben nneben, gliinzend. Vorderrand der Briicke

zwiscben Angenwand nnd ('Iy])ens obne erbabeuen, kieligen Rand naeb vorne.

Halsschildbncbt gross, wie die Narben pnnktirt. Taille mit gedriickter Markinnig

( l.)T )

der Narben, sehr glanzeud. Der Vonlerrand der Briicke zwischen Angenwand nnd

Clypeusvorsprnng ohne Leiste oder Kiel. f'ly]icns oline Einschnitt. Die Btirnleisteii

zwischen Knotchen nnd Clypens.

I Exfiujilar im Dresdeucr Mnsenra.

L. 37 mm.

llab. Ernador. s. J/. ficqimtorinU.-i Kirsch, Berl. Enf. Zeif. XXIX. p. 208.

10«. Metasternnm in den Hintereoken dieht nebcn der binten dnrch eine

Laugsl'alte augedenteten Platte immer mit eiuigen Pnnkteu. Die Halsschildnarben

nnr pnnktirt. Untere Halsscbildseiteu undicbt fein puuktirt und liclit lang behaart.

Die Stiruleisten erst recbt-, daun stumpfwinklig aus eiiiander gcbeud, im Winkel eine

Warze einschliessend, scharfkielig bis zn den niiher nach den Clypensvorspriingen

als nach der Kopfhornspitze gelegenen Knotclien gehend. Halsscliildnarbeu,

Seitenrandfnrchcn und Bnchten pnnktirt, die letzten tief nnd ziemlich breit. Die

rechte Stirnleiste immer etwas gezahnelt. Die Oberlippe vorne gerade. Das

Kopfhorn an der Spitze seitlich comprimirt, hinten breit, mit den Nebenhockern

verfliessend. Vorderschienen etwas gekriimmt. Clypens mit Mittelrinue.

II (lift). Die Vorderschienen zwischen den Ziihnen des Anssenrandes mit

weitlanfigen einzelnen Hiirchen, welche lauger sind als die starken Ziihne.

Mittel- nnd Hinterschieneu mit 1 Zahnchen. Die innere Angenwand hinten gegen

den Hinterrand der Nebenhocker als feines Leistchen vorgezogeu. Die Xeben-

hiicker selbst flach abgernndet, nach anssen als sehr kleine sjntze Erhijhnng

prscheinend. Der Clypens bisweilen anf der Mitte mit Andeutnng zweier stnmpfer

Zahnchen. Statt der Taillennarbe eine glatte, schmale Vertiefnng.

L. 27—28 mm.

llab. Cayenne; Columbien. 9. M. epipkanoides Knw., l.c.

II. Die Vorderschienen zwischen den Ziihnen des Anssenrandes mit weitlan-

figen Hiirchen, die kllrzer sind, als die Ziihne. Mittel- und Hinterschieneu mit

1 Ziihnchen. Die innere Angenwand hinten gegen den Hinterrand der Nebenhocker

als Qnerbenle vorgezogen. Die Nebenhiicker mehr qnerkielig. Die Stirne auch

nm die Warze hernm gernnzelt nnd grob pnnktirt. Statt der Taillennarbe eine

glatte Vertiefnng.

Nur 1 Stuck.

L. 33 mm.

l[(ib. Cuba. !'•. M. r>ib(iriiis\\.n-^., l.c.

9a. Das Stirnfeld nur gernnzelt.

12 (12a). Stirnleisteu rechtwinkhg, ohne Warze im Winkel. Clypens mit

Mittelrinne, liiugsrunzlig. Die Kopfthiiler fein rnnzlig. Von den in balber

Entfernung zwischen dem Kopfhorn nnd den Clypensvorspriingen stehendeu

Knutchen starke Leisten zu den letzten. Von den Knotchen rechtwinklig eine

Leiste in das Thai nach dor Angenwand. Das gedrUckte Kopfhorn hinten mit

Liingsrinne, auch ilie schwachen Nebenhocker hinten mit feinem Mittelrinnchon.

Halsschildvorderecken stumpfwinklig, seine Bnchten gross pnnktirt. Die Seiten-

raudfurchen fast nnpunktirt, die Narben grob und diclit pnnktirt. Taille mit

kommaartigen, gliinzenden, vertieften Xarben. Diese Narben wiirden dem Thiere

event, seine Stellnng bei Aponelides anweisen, ebenso die obern, mit Stabchen-

bildung versehenen Seitenfnrchen der Flgdn., wenn niclit die im Dreieck stehenden

\2

C lo8 )

Leisteii iiber deiu ( 'l_v])cnsvorsi)niiig das Tliier upudictiscli liicrhcr wiesen. Sehild-

chen ganz glatt. Metustenialhinterecken mit tiefen Pnukten neben der wenig

angedcnti'tcn Platto. Mittplsrhiciion mit "3 — :} Ziihnchen. Hinterschionen nnton

mit selir tict'or Liiiitrsfnrclio.

]j. :i'i mm.

Hall. Mexico. 1 1 . .)/. lomttflerahilix Knw., I.e.

\'2". Rtirnloisten eutweder spitzwinklig oder stnmiif'wiiiklig von der Kojif-

hornspitze aus einander gehend, immer eine Warze im W'inkel einschlies.send.

Taillen immer ohne Narben. Die Halsschildvorderecken abgernndet rechteckig,

fein nnd scharf gerandet.

13 {\'i"). Nel)pn der Mctasternalidatte nnd diosc begrenzend an don Ilintcr-

ecken das Metastcrnnm kurz eingedriickt, mit oder ohne einige i'eine I'nnkte im

Eindrucke. Das Stirnfeld feia gernnzelt mit sehr grosser, glatter Warze zwiscben

den stnmpfwinklig znsammenlanfenden, schwach gezabnelten Stirnleisten. Der

Rchwach, kanm oder nicht gewnlstete Vorderrand des Clypens mit sehr nnregel-

massiger, feiner Andeutung von Zahnbildnng. Die Briicke zwisclien der vordern

Angenwand nnd den mehr oder weniger vor den Kaiitchen I'ehlenden Stirnleisten

ebenso stark gernnzelt als der Clypens. Das Kopf'born hinten bisweilen mit

Aufang einer Langsfnrche. Alle Kopftliiiler rnnzlig. Halsschild mit tiefen,

breiten, pnnktirten Bnchten, breiten, pnuktirten Seitcnrandfnrchen. jmnktirten,

schriig qneren Narben. Taille hinten schwach nnd fein liiugsrniizlig. Mittel-

schienen mit 1 starkeren, Hinterschienen mit oder ohne 1 bis 2 sehr feine

Dorncheii. (Yielleicht ist in diesem Thiere der von -Perch, mit 17^ Linien

Lange ans Brasilien beschriebene tetrugonm v.w snehen, dessen Bcschreibnng zii

nnsicher ist.)

L. H4 mm.

Hab. Colnmbien ; Ecuador. 12. M. riihli Knw., /.r.

13«. Hinterecken der Metasternalj)latto nicht dnrch oinen Eindrnck begrenzt,

das ganze Metastomnm abgewiijbt, in den Hinterecken mit wenigcn, sehr grossen

rnnkten. Der fein gewiilstcte Vorderrand des Clypens ganz gerade. In deni erst

spitzwinklig, dannsgeschwnngen stnmpfwinklig ans einander gelienden .St.irnleisten-

winkel eine kleine Warze. Hinter den stark zahiiartig orhabenen Kni'ltchen vnn

den Stirnleisten im rcchten AVinkel eine Leiste riickwiirts in das Kopftlial. Von

den Clypensvorspriingen znr vordern Angenwand der Vorderrand der Briicke

scharf kielig gerandet. Alle KopfBiiclien rnnzlig. Halsschild mit tiefen Bnchten,

scbmalen pnnktirten Randfnrchen nnd kleinen pnnktirten Narben. Anf den

Flgdn. siud anch die obern Fnrchen stiirker pnnktirt, als gewiihnlich. Schienen

ohne Dornen.

L. 25 mm.

Hah. Brasilien. 13. M. manru.'i Bnrm., Hand. V. p. 506.

'in. Die obern Streifen der Flgdn. ganz nnjinnktirt. Die Vorsprlinge des

Clypens stehen betriicihtlich ansserhalb der Oberlippenseite ; dadnrch die Stirne

sehr breit. C'lypeus in der Mitte nnbedentend vorgezogen, mit Liingsfnrche anf

der Mitte. Vom linken Vorsprnng ilesselbon eine Leist(> znm Zahne dor innern

Angenwand nnd von diesom wiodor, oin Droieek bildend, eino solclic znni Kniifclien

im spitzon Winkel. Das Kopfliorn broitgedriickl, dnrcli eine l''iirclic vmi di-ii

( l.iO ')

Nebeiihockern getreiint. Taillennarben diirch scUwai'lio, quere Vertiefungen aiigo-

deutet, ohne matte Farbnng. Halsscbild fein nnd Jpntlicb reticiilirt, so auch die

Flgdn., gewiilbt, mit dentlicher Tiuclit, pnnktirtor Narbo nnd abgprniidoten Efkeii.

MctasternalliiiitcTockcii mit cinigrii Pnnktcii. rntci-liiijir in dcr Jlitte init

schwacher Fnrehe. Kiifcr dem innrin Percli., znmal dnrcli die ])i-o]inrfioiip|l knrzcn

Flgdn., sehv almlich.

Nacli dem Kanpschen Typus.

L. 30 mm.

Hah. (Jnyana. 14. .1/. hitifram^ Perch., Suppl. 1. j). '.Vi. t. Tft. f. 1.

Pertinax Kanp, Col. IleJ'te V. p. -,'1 (1800).

Die Nebenbiieker immer nnr klein, nnscheinbar. Grossp Thiere.

1 (1")- Zwischen den beiden Kniitclien der Stirnleisten zeigt das Stirnft'ld

keinen dentlicben Qnereindrnck.

2 (2«). Von der Spitze des kieligen Kopfliorus die Stirnleisten nnd die

kieligen Hcicker, siimtlich stnmpf, wie 5 Radien eines Kreises ans einander lanfend.

Clypens mit dichten Ringpnnkten: KopfBiiehi'n nnpnnktirr. Halsscliild mit pnnk-

tirteu nnd behaarten Narben, grossen pnnktirten Bnehteu, fast nnpnnktirten

Uandfnrcben. Schildclien neben der gliinzenden Mitte mit Pnnktreihe. Flgd-

fnrchen verloscbeu pnnktirt.

L. 37 mm.

Hab. Ecnador. 1. P. radiatas Knw., I.e.

'Id. Die Xebenhijcker niclif dnrch einen Ki<'l mit dcr Sjiifze des Kopfliorns

vorbnnden.

3 (Zii). Der ganze (Jlypens ist rnnzlig nud mit vereinzelten Ringpuukteu

besetzt. Stirnleisten, erst rechtwinklig, dann geschwnngen stumpfwinklig ans ein-

ander gehend, nmfassen im Winkel eine grosse Warze. Halsscbild starker gewolbt

als beim folgenden, die tiefe Bncht grob punktirt ; die gleichmiissig breiteu Seiten-

randfnrclien ziemlieh schmal nnd in der Mitte mit mehr oder weniger langer

Pnnktreihe, bisweilen fast pnnktlos. Die Narben grob pnnktirt nnd neben ihnen

meist noch einige Pnnkte. Schildchen vorne anf der Jlitte breiter pnnktirt, als

beim folgenden. Jlittelschienen niir rinem huriiclien: ihre Behaarnng mehr

rothlich, als beim folgenden.

L. 48 mm.

Jlah. Pern; Brasilieu. 2. P. convexus Dalm., in Schouii., Si/n. Ins.

I. 3. App. p. 142; Perch., Mon. p. 86. t. 6. f. 6.

pelUculatus, Perty, l>el. Anim. p. 55. t. 11. f. 10.

3a. Der Clypeus ist glatt, wenig nueben, mit einzelnen Ringpnnkten. Die

Stirnleisten nnd Warze, ebenso das Halsscbild, wie beim vorigen. Cl3-pens mit

oder ohne Liingsfnrche anf der Mitte. Die Briicke vom (Jlypensvorsprnug bis znr

vordern Angenwand meist glatt, selten (jnerrnnzlig. Schildchen glatt ; vorne anf

der Liiugsmitte jeseitig neben einem schmalen, gliinzendeu Mittelstreif fein pnnktirt

nnd gelb behaart. Mittelschienen mit starker liriinnlicher Behaarnng, meist

nngedornt, seltener mit 1 stiirkern Dome.

L. 42 mm.

Ildh. Amazonengebiet. 3. P. convexus ab. banghaasi Knw., i.e.

( 160 )

la. Zwisclicn tlen beitlen Kuotchen der Stirnleisten qiier iiber das Stirnfeld hin

ein Qnereindrnck, so dass der Clrpens vorne erhaben zn sein scheint.

4 (4a). Scbildchen mit tiefer, vorno nnd liiaton verkiirzter Mittellinio odcr

Bolchem Eindrnck.

.") (5rt). Die Stirnleisten sehr stiimpfwiiiklin- von der Koipfliornsipity.e aus cin-

.inder gehend, davor die Stirn fnrchenartif; verlieCt nnd vor der Fnrche der I'lypens

sehr dicht gross pnnktirt. Halsschild mit breiter, tiefer, pnnktirter Rncht, mit

ziemlich tiefeii. kaum pnnktirten Narlien.niit jMUiktirten Handfurclion nnd fust oh ne

grosse Pnnkte. Der 1. und 2., :5. nnd 0., ;">. nnd 0., 7. nnd 8. Streifen der Flgdn.

vereiuigen sich hiuten siclitlicli. Die Oberlippe ist vorne fast gerade, die Unterlipj*

iu der Mitte stark wulstig vorgezogen zwiscben 2 tiefeu Ausschuitten. Mittel- und

Hinterschienen ohne Dornen. Schildcben anf der Mitte mit einem schwachen

Langseindrucke.

Nnr 1 Stiick.

ffal). Pern. 4. P. sulcifrom Kuw., I.e.

5. Die Stirnleisten erst richtwinklig vom Kopfluirn anslanfend, dann ge-

schwnngen stnmpfwinklig ans einander gehend. Scbildchen mit tiefer, vorne nnd

hintcn verkiu'zter Jlittellinie, sonst glatt. Der f'lypens glatt, fast ohne Pnnkte.

Kopfthiiler glatt. Halsschild mit breiter, tiefer, pnnktirter Bncht, tiefen pnnktirten

Narben, vor nnd hinter der Narbe vertieften nnd verbreiterten Seitenrandfnrclien. j\Iit

kiirzerm Hinterleibe, als der ihm sonst ziemlich glcichende convexHx. Mittelschienen

bei dem einzigen vorhandenen Stiicke ohne Dornen.

Nnr 1 Stiick.

L. 43 mm.

llab. Brasilien. ."). P. Uneatoscutcllattis Knw., I.r.

Aa. Scbildchen immer ohne halbirende Liingslinie. Stirnleisten uiemals ganz

stnmpfwinklig ans einander lanfend.

6 (6'/). Scbildchen ganz glatt, nnpnnktirt, nnbehaart, nnr am alleriinssersten

Vorderrande sind anf der Mitte einige Piinktiheii nnd Harclien. Die Kandbehaarnng

des Halsschildes iiber dem Scbildchen ockergelb, der Seiten- nnd der Jlittelschienen

rostfarbig. Mittel- nnd Hinterschienen ohne Dornchen. Sonst ini Stiruleistcn-

nnd Kojifljan gleich dem vorigen, wie ancb im Halsschildban.

(ileichfalls nnr 1 Stiick.

L. 37 mm.

Jhib. Brasilien. 0. P. nichrrli Knw., I.r.

6a. Scbildchen vorne ueben einem sehr schmalen, gliinzeudcn Mittelstreifen jeder-

seitig schmal sehr fein pnnktirt nnd weisslich behaart. Die Randliehaarnng des

Halsschildes iiber dem Scbildchen gelb. Mittel- nnd Hinterschienen ohiie Dornen.

Die Seiteurandfnrchen des Halsschildes zwiscben den Voi-derecken und der Xarbe

nacb vorne zn betruchtlich verbreitert nnd dentlich pnnktirt, urn die Vorderecken

licrnm jedoch nnverbreitert und nnpnnktirt. Die Bncbten breit und tief, anf dem

Grnude pnnktirt. (!lyj)ens glatt mit wenigen einzelnen Pnnkten Stirnleisten etwas

breiter anseinander ziebcnd, Kiifer proportionell scbmiiler nnd liinger, als bei den

vorigen.

1 Stuck.

li. 4'3 mm. ^i

IJ>(b. Guatemala. ". P. stolli Knw., I.e.

( 161 )

Prosoclitus Bates, /.' .

Die Stiru durcli eiue Furche yetheilt. Das Kopt'liiiru frci odcr uutVei. Die

Stirn sehr unegal. Die Vordereckea der Flgdii. uui)unktirt imd uubeliaart. Jlit

langeru Flgdn. als Proctdejus; sonst diesem iiberaus ilhulicli.

1 (la). Die Stinileisten divergireu sehr starl< uud eudigea als Knutclien, die

sehr entfernt von den Knijtchen des Cl3peus stehen. Das kurze Kopfhom steigt

schief aufwiirts uud fiillt vorne steil ab. Zn beiden Seiten desselbeu ein knolliger

Querhiigel. Narbe der Taille matt, lung and von der Naht dnrch eine Langsfolte

getrennt. Prothorax mit kleiner Narbe nnd starker, pnnktirter Bucht, die bis znr

Mitte des Augenwulstes geht. Flgdufnrchen, besouders au deu Seiteu, tief nud

pnnktirt. Mitte der Metasternalplatte pnnktirt und am Ende mit 2 grossen Narben ;

die Plintereeken an ihr pnnktirt. Mittcl- nnd Hinterschieneu mit 1 kleinen Doru.

Der Clypens gerade.

Hab. Qnitn. 1. F. quitensis Kaup, Moii. p. G3.

ia. Die stnmi)fen Stirnleisteu quer, bis zn den Augenwanden ausgedehnt, ohuc

Knotcheu. Das breitc Kopfhom ist au der Spitze frei, hinten mit den 2 pfriemen-

formigen, khiftigeu XebenhOckern verbuuden. Die Clypensrandleiste bogig, ohne

au den Endeu Tuberkeln zn bilden. Mittel- nud Hinterschieuen mit 1 Dorn.

Metastenmm sehr glanzend. Auf dem sehr fein puuktirten Halsschild erreicht die

Mittelfnrche lange nicht den Vorderrand. Alles uacli Bates.

L. 42 mm.; Thorax 11 mm.; Figdnl. 22 mm.

Hab. Mexico. 2. F. obesus Bates, I.e.

Maulius Knw., Mon. Best. Tabelh'.

I'crtiiinj' uud Witiiiius iihulich, die Mitte zwischen beiden haltend, abcr mit

kuolligem, kurzem, hohem Buckel statt eines Horns. Der Clypens ist vorue

ziemlich gerade, kaum vorgezogeu, mit der Neignng, zwei Zahuchen zu l)ildeu,

welche jeduch meistens uicht vorhauden sind. Die von dem KuoUeu im Boge'i

auslaufenden Stirnleisteu besteheu meistens aus einigen verbnndeuen Hockercheu.

Statt der Tailleunarbe ein flacher, langer Eindruck.

Der riypens dicht mit Ringpuukten besetzt. \'ou dem Mittelknotcheu der

Stirnleiste eiue Briicke zur liinteru Angenwaud. Die Stirne sehr lang, mit feineru

Kreispuukten als der Clyi^eus. Die Kopfthaler rundlich, glanzend. Das Halsschild

mit vorne gernndet rechteckigen und abgernudeten Hinterecken hat nur in der

Nahe der kleinen punktirteu Narbe einige Pnukte. Seiu unterer Seitenrand dicht

rostrothlieh behaart. Die Bucht tief, etwas verbreitert und pnnktirt. Hinterecken

des IMetasternums mit weitlaufigem Funktschwarm. Mittelschienen mit 1 — ;>,

Hinterschieuen ohue oder mit 1 DOruchen.

L. 33 mm.; Br. 11 — 12 mm.

ll'ih. I^io dc .laiiciro: St. Calliariuii: Ecuador (3000 Fuss).

1. M. riiyij njii.s Kaup, .Mon. p. Itm.

Severus Kuw., /.<■.

Im Fliigclbau dem Ukodoca nthopus ahuelnd durch die slarlvc Stabchenbilduug

der Seiteniutervalle, durch das warzenartige, tief liegeude Kopfhom etwas an ManUus

erinnernd, dnrch die weitab vom Kopfhom sich halbkreisartig hoch um den vertieften

( lti2 )

Clypeus legeuJe Stiiiileiste uu mmiche Gattnngeii dcr ilstlicbeu llemisphare imil

dnrcli die glatte Vertiefuug an Stelle Jer wirkliclien Narbe au Fertiiuu- erinnerud.

Die obern Kopffliicheu stark nueben; die Nebeiihocker als kleine 'Wulstchen

sicb seitwarts iiiu das Koiiflioru legend. Die Kniitcben dor Stirnleisteu booh fiber

dea ( 'lypeusvorspriingen liegeud. Halsscbild luit scliarf recbten Vordcrwiukein,

an den Seiten ziemlicb diobt punktirt, mil lireiten, dicUt imnktirten Bucbten,

scbmalen Randfurcben nud kleinen, punktirten Narbon. Mittelscbienen mit

2 kleinen Diiruchen.

L. 21 mm.; Br. 7*66 mm.

Hab. San Salvador. 1. S. manliokles Knw., I.e.

13. Gruppe : PLEURARIINAE.

Pleui-arius Kaup, Col. llejh; IV. p. 1.

Alles nacb Kaup iiud Stoliczka.

1 (l<z). Kopf grosser mit bogig ansgeschnitteuem Clypeus. Das biutcu flache,

an der Wnrzel gefurcbte Kopfhorn mit 2 breiten, qneren, etwas abwiirts gehenden

Nebenbockeru .<teigt schief auf, mit stumpier Sjiit/.e. Von ibr in kleiuem Bogen

die Stirnleisten, die sicb am Ende zu Knotchen erbeben, welcbe rait den Vorsjiriingeu

des Clypeus verbunden sind. Von ihnen eine breite, hiuten rnud abfallende Briicke

znr innern Angenwand. Diese, vorne breit ansgefurcht, bat auf der Mitte 1 Dorn-

cben. Unterlippe iu der Mitte eiugebucbtet. raub, grubig, obne Narbeu. Sciten-

lappeii so laiig, wie die Znnge. Taille obue Narben, concav, in der Mitte mit eiucm

Wulst gegen die Hiiften bin. Halsscbild mit abgeruudeten Vordereckeu, grossen,

schief nacb oben und vorne gericbteten Narben. Scbildcben gestrichelt, mit glatter

Liingsmitte. Flgdn. an den Scbulterecken kiRi])fartig vorspringend, mit schwacb

imnktirten Furcbeu. Couvexer als Erioiiomm j/laHi(rjj.-<. llnterer Seiteurand des

Halsscbildes, Metasternalseiten, Mittel- und Hinterscliienen diclit, Mittelscbienen

fabuenartig lang bebaart.

L. 24 mm.; Flgdl. l<i mm.

/In'/. F(irt Maugula aiif Sumatra. I. P. />'/''/>rs Kaup, /.c. p. 1: id., Mon.

p. 2S. t.yB. f. 1.

\fi. .Scliildchcii au der Basis feui puuktirl und bebaart, auf der Laugsmitte feiu

gestrichelt. Taille an den Seiten dicht punktirt, binten etwas querruuzlig, obne

jede deutlicbe Narbe. Der linke Clypeus vorspruug etwas breiler, als der recbte.

Au B(t.<iiliann.'> oder Tiberius erinnernd, wobin das mir unbekanute Thier vicllei<',bt

zu stellen sein diirfte. Antennen laug, mit 3 kurzen Flaggenlappcn. Das

Kopfborn ist flacb convex, schwacb dreieckig, nacb vorne iu einer schnuileu

Verlangerung endigend, von welcher in sanfter Cnrve die Stirnleisten ausgehen, die

mit ciuem Knotchen dicht am Clypeusvorsprung endigeu. (Alles nacli Stoliczka.)

JIab. Nilgberies; Malabar. 2. P. brachijphjlUts Stol., Journ. As. Soc. Beiig.

1873. II. p. 152.

Ninoides Kuw., I.e.

Nur 1 Art.

Die Stirnleisten laufen bis auf die Clypensvorsiiriinge, auf denen sie aufsitzcu,

um auf der liukeu Seite mit ibneu zusammen steil abgelicilt zu werden. Das gauz

nnfreic Kopfborn auf die stumpf r(uorhiigligen Nebenhocker aufgelegt. Alio

( l(i3 )

Kopfthaler rnnzlig. Oberlippe in der Mitte ausgebacbtet. Taille ohiie Narbe.

Metasterualplatte durch wenigc Puiikte in deu Hiuterecken begren/.t. Mittel-

schicueu luit 1 stumpfeu Zabut'. Die :J Flaggeulapjien laug. Kiifcr tiacb.

Halsscbild mit puuktformiger Narbe. Scbultereckt'ii dor Flgdu. wenig, Mit-

telschiuneu dicbt boliaart. Clyjieus mit dem Vorderkupt'e nui^clig. Kat'er eiueui

FlwroiiaiJcii abnlicb, docb obue Mittekiihue des Clypeus.

L. 37 mm.

Hub. Central Amerika. 1. y. ■■siiiMlan,< Kinv., I.e.

Pertinacides Kuw., I.e.

Taille immer mit etwas gebrocbener oder wiukliger breiter Narbe.

1 {ya). Die Mittelscbienen zwischen der eiuen dichteu, blirsteuartigen Hsiar-

wucbs tragenden Oberleiste und der dorntrageudeu SeitenleLste immer nocb mit

einer sehr dicbten Eeilie langer Haare, welcbe indess bei iilteren iStilcken banfig

abgeriebeu sitid. Der Hinterleib \\ mal so laug, als breit. Die Flgdn. ziemlicb

parallel. Mittel- mit 1 — 2, imd Hinterschieueu mit 1 scbwacbem Dome. Das

Kojifboru scbon von der Mitte an nacb der Spitze zu seitlicb comprimirt.

Halssebild liber der kleineu pnnktirten Seitennarbe nocb mit 1 oder mebreren

Pnnkten. Seitenrandtiirchen und Buchten desselben verworren puuktirt. Soust

dem folgenden gleicheiul. Ob unr Varietiit desselben ?

L. 40 mm.: Flgdu. 23 mm. laug, 13 mm. breit.

Hub. Brasilien. 1. I'. rlojioUci Kuw., l.r.

\(.i. Die Mittelscbienen zwi>cbeu der eiuen dieliten, biirsteuartigeu Haarwuohs

trageudeu Oberleiste und der dorntrageudeu .Seiteuleiste mit mebr zerstreuter,

zweireibiger Bebaaruug aus den Pnnkten. Flgdu. nur etwa stark \]. mal so laug

als breit, uacb binteu sicbtlich verlireitert. Das Kopfhorn nur mebr auf der Spitze

comprimirt. llaJsscliild mit pnnktirter Seiteuuarbe, dariilier mit oder olme einige

Puukte.

L. 41 mm.; Flgd. 2o mm. lang, liiuten |ii mm., vurne 12 mm. breit.

Ilab. St. Domingo. 2. /'. ufftids Percb., Mon. p. 72. I. .J. f. .t;

Kaup, Moil. p. 88. t. 4. 1'. 11.

Epipertinax Rnw., I.e.

Den Perti nacie/es^ Avten und Niiioides darin gleicheud, dass die Stirnleisten,

ohue Knotcbeu zu bilden, bis auf die Cly])eusvorsprlinge gelien, audi ist, wie bei

den ersteru, der Clypeus dicbt mit Hingpunkten besetzt. Scbultereckeu ohue

Haarqnaste. Die Kopftbiiler glatt. I )ie Oberlijiijc schwach ausgescbuitten.

Seitenrandfurcbeu, Bncbt und Xarben des Halsscbildes pnnktirt, Tailleunarbc kaum

augedeutet. Hiuterecken des Metasternums ncben iler Platte mit sebr grober

Punktirung. Unterlippe mit glatter Mitte und matten, grossen Narben. Dem

fijllnis Lutr. znm Yerwecliseln ahulieh und wolil immrr mit ibm zusammengeworl'en.

L. 42 mm.

Hab. St. Domingo: Cuba. 1. E. jjelliadatus Percb., I.e. p. 77. t. u. f. 8.

pcrtyi Kaup, Col. HcJ'te X. p. 22: id., Man.

I). '.15. t. t. f. m.

C 164 )

14. GBurn; : PTK'HOPODINAE.

Ptichopus Kaup, Col. He/te V. p. 27 (1808).

Die Thiere dieses Genas siml uberaus schwierig nnd fast ansschliesslicli durcli

die Korperdiiuensiouea zn treuuen, wesbalb sie bisher jille nuter dem Nameii

angulatus zasammengefasst warden. Ihrc Verschiedeubeit ist aber, weiiii eiue

grossere Anzabl Exemplare der eiuzelnen Arten zur Verfiiguug stebt, sofort

ersicbtlicb. Das lange, breite Stirnfeld immer dicht kornig. Die Kiefer stark.

Das einzige Geuus, welcbes auf der Unterseite der Vorderschienen keine Langs-

leisten oder Furchea bat, sondern daselbst (jnerrissig oder querfaltig ist.

1 (la). Kaler iiumer nnr 20 bis 35 mm. lang.

2 (2a). Das Kopfborn binteu immer mit Andeutung eiaer Fiirche an seiuem

Fnsse, oder bis auf die Hiilfte gefurcht.

3 (3a). 26 mm. laug. Kiifer schmalcr, matter, als alle ilbrigeu. Das Scbildciien

nnr ganz vorne in der Mitte dicbt punktirt. Die Enddoruen der Vorderschienen

breit gerandet abgestnmpft. In den Halsscbildvorderwinkein ein schwucher

Eindruck mit nndeutlicher Punktirung. Die Seitenintervalle der Flgdn. dcutlicli

(|nergernnzelt. Das kleine Kopfborn vorne kanm zusammcngedruckt. Stirnleisten,

wie bei alien andern, erst im spitzen Winkel, dann geschwuugen aus einander geheud

und vom Knotchen, das weit entfernt vom Clypens ist, gerade und etwas divergirend

in die Vorsprtiuge desselben ziehend, eine selir grosse ganz ranbe, kornige Stiru

umschliessend.

Nnr. 1 Stuck.

L. 26 mm.; Br. b mm.

Uab. Mexico. 1. F. inlta Knw., I.e.

3a. Kafer grosser, glanzeuder. Das ScbUdcbeu vorne auf der .Mitte bis gegen

die Laugsmitte bin dicbt liingspnnktirt, mit mebr oder weniger kenntiiclier

glanzender Mittellinie.

4 (4a). Immer betracbtlich schmaler, nicht iiber 'J bis in njni. breit. Die

Vorderecken des Halsscbildes immer stark vorgezogen. Ivopfbnrn immer mit

deutlicher starker Furche.

.5 (6a). Der etwas kleine Kafer mit proportionell etwas kiirzerm Hiuterleibc,

wenig schmaler, etwas hoher. Die Hinterecken der Metasternalplattc nicht durcli

einen Eindruck des Metasternums angedeutct, welches ebenso oft auf dem hintern

Theile 2 deutliche Griibchen bat, als sie ihm fehlen. Hinter der Bucht des

Halsscbildes, welche stark jmnktirt und kaum erweitert ist, an diesc anstossend,

meistens ein dichter Schwarm Pnnkte. Auf dem Halsschild selbst unregelmiissig,

oft fehlend, einige grubenartige Punkte. Der Clvpeus meist mit einer biiher in die

Stiru reicbenden Rinne auf der Mitte. Die oberu Seitenfurchcn der Flgdn. nacli

hinten zu mit Auflug von Stabchenbildnng. Das Kopfborn hintcn stark gefurcht,

weniger punktirt, als beim folgenden.

L. 28 mm.; Br. 8 mm.; Hinterleib 14 mm.

Hub. Mexico. 2. P. angulatus Perch., Mon. p. fei4, t. 6. f. 5.

thoraciims Smith, Cat. Pass. Brit. Mus. p. 15. t. 1. f. 3.

5«. Der etwas grossere Kiifer mit proportionell etwas Uingerm Hinterleibe,

wenig breiter und fiacher. Das Metasternum hinten mit Andeutung einer Platte,

durch 2 kur/.e Eindriicke an dem Hinterende, anch mit 2 Eindriicken anf der Platte.

( 165 ■)

Hinter der weniger stark pnnktirten Bncht des Halsschildes nnv 1 oder weuige

Pnnkte ; auf demselbeii, wie beim vorigen, bisweileu einigc grubeuartige Punkte.

Das Mittelgriibcheii auf dem C'lypens ist seltener fnrchenartig nacli hiiiten verlangert.

Flgdufurcbeu wic beim vorigeii Kafer sehr gliinzeud. Das Kopfhorn auf seiuem

hintern Theile stark gefnrcht uiid starker piinktirt, als beim vorigen. J$ei nitidiiii

imd (ijif/ulatas ist das Kopfliorn voruc immer weiter resp. lunger gekielt, als bei deu

andern.

L. 31) mm.; Br. 8 mm.; Flgd. 17 mm.

Ilab. Costa Rica. 3. P. nitidas Knw., I.e.

4«. Kafer betriicbtlicli breiter, grosser uud flacher, als die vorigen. Kopfhorn

nur ganz hinten mit Fnrcbenandeutung. Die ziemlich deiitlich begrenzte Metasternal-

platte fast ganz flach. Der Riicken des Thieres flacb, die Intervalle der Flgdn.

breiter, wie bei den vorigen, die obern iSeiteufarcheu nacb binteu obne Andcutuug

von Stabcbenbildnug. Scbildcben vorne auf der Mitte mit dichten kurzen Liiugs-

pnukteu bis zu ^ der Scbildcbeuliiuge. Halsscbildvorderecken vorgezogen, obne

oder mit weuigen Punkten hinter der Bucht. Hinter- uud Jlittelschienen mit

1 oder 'i stiirkeren Z;ihuchen, ausserdem uocb schwacherer Zahnung. Im Ubrigen

deu vorigen gleichend.

L. 33 mm.; Br. 11 mm.; Ilinterleib K -l.> mm.

Hab. Me.xico: Guauajuata, Cordillereu von Durango; Guatemala.

4. F. montezuma Kuw., I.e.

2a. Das Kopfhorn hinteu meistens obne Furche, grob punktirt. Keino

begrenzte Metasternalplatte ; das Metasternum ziemlieh abgerundet. Jlittelschienen

mit 2 stumpfen Zahuchen. Sonst dem vorigen zum Verwechseln ahulich, jedocli

sind die Flgdn. iiberaus feiu microscopisch uud iiberaus dicht reticulirt, weuiger

glanzend, als der vorige, welcher weniger dichte Reticulation besitzt und stark

gliinzeud ist. Die IMittelscbienen oft uocli mit raehrereu sohw;ichlichen Ziibnchen.

Etwas breiter, als der vorige.

L. 3o mm.; Br. V2 mm.: Hinterleil) Is— I'.i mm.

Hab. iSt. Salvador; Guatemala. 5. /'. abrrrafor Kuw., /.'■..

ia. Ktifer 40 mm. king, jilump, stark gewulbt. Ivuiifrauh, grauulirl. Kopfhorn

hinteu mit Furche. Scbildclien auf seiner vorderu Mitte ])unktirt. Mittel- uud

Hinterschieneu mit 2 oder mehr stumpfeu Ziihuen, ausserdem ab und zu mit feiuer

uuregelmassiger Zahnung. Hinterlappen des Prosteruums spitzwinklig. Die

Vorderecken des Halsschildes durch die starke Zweibuchtigkeit des Vorderraudes

stark vortretend, rechteckig oder etwas abgerundet. Kenntlich durch seiue Grosse.

L. 4U mm.; Br. 13 mm.; Hiuterleib ",'4 mm.

l/"b. Aus deu Cordillereu von Durango, Jfexico. 'i. /'. i/i//afu.< Kuw., Lr.

1.3. (niiPi'E: VETURIIX.^IO.

Publius Kaup, Mo/'. \>. Tn (1871).

Clypeusraiid zugescharft, obne Leistonbildung. Flgdn. obne Behaarung. Die

Flgdn. verwachsen. Die Flagge mit nur 3 kurzen Lajijjen ; hierdurcli immer von

den Proculideu getrennt.

( l<i« )

Clypens genau wie bei dem Genus Vetuiim gebildet, niessersclineidenartig,

an den Seiten der Oberlippe Lerabgebogen. Das seitlich comprirairte Kopfhorn

unfrei, vorne stark crliaben, fost ohne NebenhiJcker. Alle Kopfthiiler gliinzend,

nnpnnktirt. Halsschild gross, glntt, mit glattcn Kaiidlnrcluni iind kleineu Narben.

Schildchen zn den Seiten der Mitte nndicht puuktirt, mit der Hpitze stark aufwiirts

gerichtct. Die T' iind lo'^ 2'*^ und 3% 4'-^^ und :'\ o"^ uud 0", 8'<^ uud 9"' Furche

der Flgdn. verbinden sich hinten. Mittel- nud Hiuterschieneii ohne Doruen :

mittlere mit 2 dichten Ilaarloisten, liintere weitlaufiger behaart.

1 Stiick im Berliner Museum.

L. 42 mm.: Halsschild l:J mm. lang, 18 mm. breit: Flgdn; 23 mm. laug.

Had. L'olumbieu. 1. P. mm(w Smith, Cat. Pass. Brit. Mas. p. 14.

Vetui"ius KaHji, /.<■. j). 11 ii.

1 (la). Taillculatz immer mit Behaarung an deu Seiten oder uebeu der Mitte

und daun daselbst auch punktirt.

2 (2a). Die Behaarung nud Puuktirnng ist immer zu den Seiten der Naht des

Tailleulutzes vorhanden, uiemals uebeu seiner Mitte vorhandcu uud an den Seiten

I'ehlend.

■i (3a). Flgdul'urchen mit Querstiibcheu. Das horizontalc, flacho Kopfhorn nach

vorne 2 deutliche mit ciuem Kin'telieu endigende Stirnleisten cutseudeud. Lippc

vorne fast gorade. Bucht und Raudfurchen des Halsschildes ziemlich zerstreut

punktirt. Schnlterecken mit Haaninasten. Von deu Knotcheu der Stirnleisten

2 eine tiefe Flache einschliessende Briicken zur Augeuwaud. Mittelschieuen mit

1 Dora. Flgdn. ziemlich matt, nicht stark gliinzend. (Allcs nach Bates,

mir fremd.)

L. 33 mm.

HaO. Panama, Volcano de Chiri.|ui. 1. \'. eirratus Bates, I.e.

3a. Flgdfurchcn ohue Querstabcheu. Flgdu. immer glauzeud.

4 (4a). IvMfer klein, 20— 3'i mm. gross, die kleiusteu des Geuiis. Die Kopf-

thaler ueben dem Horn immer mit einigen Pnukten uud bisweilen anch einzelneu

Hiirchen. Der Taillenlatz nnf seiner Mitte mati nud uupuuktirt. Schultereckeu

fast unbehaart.

5 (5«). Mittelschieneu gerade, nicht nach obeu gekriimmt. Flgdn. 1| mal

so lang, als zusammen breit, etwas liiuger, als beim folgenden. ]\littelschieuen

immer ohue Dorn. Die im spitzen AVinkel aus eiuauder laufeudeu Stirnleisten

undeutlich, mit deutlichem Eudkuotcheu. ('Iy])eus vorue auf der Mitte mit

kleiuem, halbruudem Aus^chuitt. Der Stiruwiukcl etwas wulstig. Schihlcheu

mit zerstreuteu Puukten ncben der gliinzeudeu Mitte. Kopfhomcheu flach uud

knrz, vorne in die Stirnleisten iibergehend.

L. 30 mm.; Br. 10 mm.

Ha'j. St. Cathariua. 2. I', ass/mi'/i.s Weber, Obs. E/tt. 1. p. ^1 : IV'icli.,

Mon. p. Dtj. t. 7. f. o.

se/tii/ci/lmdricus Esch., Nouv, Mem. Mosc.

1. p. 15.

5«. Die Mittelschieneu etwas nach obeu durchgebogeu oder gekriimmt, mit

oder "hue Ansatz zur Dondiikliuig. Kilter nur 20— 2T mm. laug.

6 (6a). Die Sjiitze des vorne nidil augerichteteu, fast niedergedriickteu uud

( 1«7 )

beiualic iu die Stinileisteii vcrlaufeiKlou Ko]if'lionis lii'gt /.icmlicli :iut' der Mitti;

lies Koj)fes uiid uicUt biuter derselbeu. Obei'lipjie nach hiiiti-'n uicht vei-scliiuillei-t.

Die im sjjitzeii AV' iukel aus eiuauder geheudeu JStiriileisten bisweileii kauui oder iiur

durcb die Knotcboii augedentet. Mittelschieueu mit oder ohno Doruausat;/.. Die

Zacken des Vordernahus des Kiefers weuiger divergireud, als beim folgcndeu, vuu

welchem das Tbier kaiim zu uutersebeidcu ist. Die Uiiterliiipc aul'der Jlittc etwas

vorgezogen, kurz.

L. 26 — 27 mm.; Br. In mm.

Uab. Kio de Jaueiro; St. Cathariua. 3. I', pumllis Kiiw., I.e.

6r/. Die Spitze des vorue augeriuhteteu Kopfborus liegt biuter der Mitte des

Kopfes. Die Oberlippi; nacb biuten etwas ver.scbmiilert. Mittelscbieneu mit einem

Dome. Die obern Zacken des Vorderzabus der Kiefcr divergireu starker. Kaum

von yumilis verscbieden. Die Uuterlippe ant" dor Mitte weuiger oder uiebt

vorgezogen nud etwas binger.

Eiu Stiick im Stuttgarter Museum, mit uiiaufecbtbarer Provenieuz ?

L. 3S mm.; Br. 10 mm.

Ihih. Gabon. 4. V. (jaboitia Vm.\\., l.r.

4«. Kiifcr immer idier 3i) mm. Uuig. Ko|i}'tb;iler fast ausuahmslos nupunktirt,

glatt uud uubebaart.

7 (7a). Mittelscbieneu mit 2 starken, Hiuterschienen mit 1 Dome. I'ie iStirn-

leisteu entspringcu von einem vom Ko]if'liorn berabkommeuden Kiele, gelien

stumjifwinklig auseiuauder, im Winkel eiu schwacbes Griibcbeu eiuscbliessend.

Die Stirnleisten eudigeu in der Hobe der vordern Augeuwand biuter dem Clypens

mit starkem Knotcben. Die NebenbOcker sind nur augedentet. Die Seitenrand-

t'nrclieu des gbxttrn Halsschildcs weitliiufig punktirt. Die Seiten des Scbildcbeus

uuregelmassig punktirt.

Ij. 33 mm.: Br. Ki mm.; Flgdl. ls-."i mm.

Hah. Ecuador. ij. V. cincdofovcaUi^ Yyxws.., I.e.

7«. Mittelscliieuen mit 1 oder keinem L)()rne.

(S (ba). Mittelscliieuen mit einem Dorui'. N'urdereckeu der Flgdn. nbue

Haarscbopi'.

0 (9a), Stirnleisteuwiukel uuter dem etwas aut'stebeuden Hurucbcn siiitz, dauii

die Leisteu sicb gauz breit auseiulegend und uudeutlicb. Bletasterunm mit biuten

ziemlicb abgesetzter Platte uud auf dersellieu mit balbkreislVirmigem, nacb vorue

geufi'netem Eindrnck, mit gleicbmiissig scbwacb nacb biuten verbreiterten Seileu-

I'nrcbeu. Tailleulatz in der Mitte matt, an den Seiten gliiuzeud, punktirt uud

bebaart. Mittelscbieneu iu der ^litte stark nacb oben gebogeu, mit starkem Dorn

dicbt biuter der Jlitte. Im Stirnleisteuwiukel eiue uudentlicbe AVaize. llalsscbild

mit abgerundeten Vorderecken, mit grob punktirler, breiter Seitenrandfurcbe. mit

sebr scbmaler Vorderrandfurche obnc Buclit, mit selir kleiueu fast puuktloseu

Narbeu. Scbildcben nebon der scbmal glatten Mitte dicbter stark punktirt, als

nacb den Seiten. Hie Oliorlippe vorue deutlicb ausgescbnitten.

L. :57 mm.

Ihili. Baliia. (i. V . MniUinni^ \s.\w\'., Lc.

'J«. Die Stiruleisten immer mebr oder weuiger spit/, nder reclil winklig aus eiu-

auder gelegl. .\ucb die' >L'itlicben Vordenandfurcben des llalsscbildes sind, wenn

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auch etwas schmaler als die Seitenrandftirchen, doch iiiimer breit uiid ausgefiirclit.

Das dicbt pniiktirte 8childcheu imnier mit glatter Mittelliuie. Die Taille au dea

Seiteu sehr dicbt imiiktirt und bebaart, aiif der vordern Ilulfte mit Liiugskiel anf

der matteu Mitte, danelien anf glatter Fliicbe zerstrent pnnktirt und zwiscben

dicsem Pnnktfelde niid der aussern dicbten Punktiriing gliiuzend nnpunktirt. Die

Briicke sehr IViii imnktirt.

10 (1U«)- We Bebaarnug der Seiteu des Taillenlutzes ist laug uud dicbt, die

Gruudfliicbe fast oder gauz deckeud. Die Seitcuruiidfnrcbeu des Halsschildca nacb

der innern Seite zn ranb, undeutlicli jniuktirt. Stirnleistenknotcben meistens dnrcb

ein uudeutlicbes Qnerleistcben verbuudeii. Metasteruuni binten glatt, seiue Seitea-

furcbeu binten stark verbreitert uud licbt lang bebaart. Im spitzeu Stirnleisteu-

winkel eine deutlicbe Warze.

L. 'ii> mm.

IJab. Columbien; Babia. 7. ]'. similior Kviw., I.e.

10a. Die Behaaruug der .Seiteu des Taillenlatzes sebr diinu und licbt, die

Gruudfliicbe durchaus frei sicbtbar hissend. .Stirnleisteuknotcheu uicbt durcb eiue

Querleiste verbunden. Im Ubrigeu dem vorigeu gleicbeud, jedocb mit proportionell

etwas liiugern Flgdu. Die Stiruwiukelwarze mit kurzer Liingsfurche.

L. 4(1 — 41 mm.

Ila/j. Hio de Janeiro; Tberesojwlis;. 8. V. stauclingeriKvLVi., I.e.

8a. Mittelscbienen fast immer uhne Dorneu, oder dieselben sind sebr kleiu uud

undeutlicb.

11 (11«)- Halsscbild breiter als die vou vorue nacb biutcu allmahlicb au Breite

abuebmeudeu Flgdn. Stiruleisteuwiukel sjiitz, undeutlicb, uur durch die Kuotcben

und den Wiukel ungezeicbnet. SeiteMi des Tailleulatzes sebr dicbt punktirt, jedocb

(lie gauze Mitte gliiuzeud und nupuuktirt. Scitenriuuen des Mctasteruums sebr

dicbt puuktirt. Kojif sebr breit. Vordereckcu der Flgdu. mit ziemlicb starker

Haarquaste.

You a'j,/i<ilotcs immer durcb die feiue uud diclite Puuktiruug der Meso- uud

Metasterualseiteii verscbiedeu. 1 Exemplar.

L. 43 mm.

Hab. Amazouengebiel. 0. V. atlentmtus Kuw., I.e.

11a. Halsscbild uiciit oder kaum broiler, als die last uder gauz jiaralleleu

Flgdu.

12 (12a). Scbultereckeu der Flgdu. mit Haarquaste, uicbt eiuzelneu Harcben ;

Kopf mit deu Augen sebr breit, fast vou der Breite des Halsscbildes. Die wenig