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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

H journal of ZooiOi^^^

EDITED BY

The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.,

Dr. ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN.

ar

No. 1.

Pages 1— HS

Plate II.

IssDED June 17th, at the Zoological Museum, Trixg.

PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON & VIXEY, Ld., LO.MUON AND AYLESBURY.

1911.

Vol. XVIII.

NOYITATES ZOOLOGICAK

EDITED BY

WALTER ROTHSCHILD. ERNST HARTERT, and KARL JORDAN.

CONTENTS OF NO. I.

1. 01^ SOME NECESSARY ALTERATIONS

IN THE NOMENCLATURE OF BIRDS

2. TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN BIRDS

3. NEW SYSTO.MWAr: IN THE TRING

MUSEUM —

4. NEW AEGERJIDAK

5. ON THE BAT-FLEAS DESCRIBED BY

KOLENATI

6. KATALOO DER SIPIIONAPTEREN DES

KONIGLICHEN ZOOLOGISCHEN

MUSEUMS IN BERLIN. Illustrated .

7. SOME NEW AXTHftiniDAE FROM

THE ISLAND OF ST. THOME, BAY'

OF BENIN

8. NEW AyrmuniiiAK ....

9. SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES

OF SIPUuyAPTEEA. Illustrated

10. ON THE SKELETON OT PAIAE OCORAX

MUKIORUM (Plate II.)

11. DESCRIPTIONS OFNEW SATURNIIDAE

12. SOME NEW SRIlIXalDAE

13. TWO NEW AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES .

14. ON CARXVS HEMAI'TERCS NITZSCH

(CEXCURIDVlllA \E(H;EUI SCIIINER)

AND ITS SYSTEMATIC POSITION

AMUNG THE DIPTERA

15. DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW

XOCTUI DA E IN THE TRING

MUSEUM

Greijory M. Mathevs . 1 — 22

Greyory M. Mathews . 23

Walter Rothschild . 24—45

Waller Rothschild . 45 — 47

X. Charles Rothschild. 48—56

K. Jordan and

X. C. Rothschild . 57—89

K. ./ordan . 90—91

A'. Jordan . 92— IIG

X. Charles Rothschild . 117-122

./. E. Collin

W. Wun'en

138— 13!>

140—148

NOVITATES ZOOLOGIGAE,

Vol. XVIII., 1911.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE

H Journal of Zooloo^

IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM.

EDITED BY

The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D.,

Dr. ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN.

Vol. XVIIL, 1911,

(WITH TWEN'TY-SIX PLATES.)

Issued at the Zoologicai, Museum, Trino.

PRINTED RY HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY, Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

1911^12.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVIII. (1911).

AVES.

1. On some Necessary Alterations in the Nomenclature of Birds. Gregory

M. Mathews 1 — 22

2. Two New Australian Birds. Gregory M. Mathews 23

3. On the Skeleton of Palaeocorax morioram. (Plate II.) W. P. Pycraft 123—128

4. Preliminary De.scription» of some New Birds from Central New Guinea.

Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert 159 — ICO

5. On the Birds of Sermntta, one of (he South-West Islands. Ernst

Hartert 161— 1G7

6. On Henicophaps foersttri. (Plate I.) Ernst Hartert . . . .108

7. Additions to the Birds of Babber. Ernst Hartert 169

8. Additions to the Avifauna of Luang. Ernst Hartert 1^0

9. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Gregory M. Mathews . 171—455

10. Ornithological Explorations in Algeria. (Plates IX.— XI., XV.— XXVI.)

Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert 456—550

11. Notes on the Pai-adiseidae figured on Plates VII. and VIII. Ernst

Hartert *^"^

12. Laniarius fiinebris degener suhap. uov. C. Hilgert . . • • 605 — 606

COLEOPTERA.

1. Some New AnthriUdae from the Island of St. Thome, Bay of Benin.

K. Jordan 90—91

2. New AnthriUdae. K. Jordan 92—116

3. Some Now AnthriUdae. K. Jordan 601—604

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LEPIDOPTERA.

1. New Sijntomidm in the Tring Museum. Wai.teh Rothschild

2. New Aegeriidae. Waltf.k Rothschild

3. Descriptions of New Satnrniidae. K. Jordan

4. Some New Sphingidtie. K. Jordan .....

5. Two Now African Butterflies. K. Jordan ....

6. Descriptions of some New Nocliddae in the Tring Museum. W. Warren

7. Preliminary Descriptions of some New or Littlo-known Forms of the

Genus Acram. H. Eltringham

8. New Si/ntomidae and Arctianae. Walter Rothschild .

9. On New or Little-known Delias from New Guinea. K. Jordan

10. Some New Ert/cinidae from Dutch New Guinea. K. Jordan

11. On the Geometrid Genus Eiibordeta Roths. K. Jordan

12. A New Hawk moth from Ecuador. K. Jordan

PACES

24—45

45—47

129—134

135— 13G

1,37—138

140—148

149—153

154-158

580—593

594— 59G

590-599

599— GOO

DIPTEHA.

1. On Camus heimijiteriis Nitzscli {Cenchridohia eijgeri Seliiner) .tikI its

Systematic Position among the Diptera. J. E. Collin . . . 138 — 139

SIPHONAPTERA.

1. On the Bat-fleas described by Kolenati. N. Charles Rothschild . 48 — 5G

2. Katalog der Siphonapteren des Koniglichen Zoologischen Museums in

Berlin. Illustriert. K. Jordan and N. C. Rothschild

57—89

3. Some New Genera and Species of Siplionaptera. Illustrated. N. Charles

Rothschild 117—122

4. List of Siplionaptera collected in Portugal. Illustrated K. Jordan

and N. C. Rothschild 551 — 554

RHYNCHOTA.

1. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Morphology and Systeniatics of

the Pohjctenidae. (Plates XII. — XIV.) K. Jordan . . . 555 — 579

GENERAL INDEX 607—626

SPECIAL INDEX TO MATHEWS' REFERENCE-LIST TO THE BIRDS

OF AUSTRALIA 627-056

LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME XVIII.

I. Eenicophaps foersteri. By J. G. Keulemans.

II. Palaeocorax mwiorum.

III. Arctianae. By Horace Knight.

TV

V

VI.

VII. Faloinellus astrapioides Roth.sch. By H. Giiinvold.

VIII. Astrapia rothschildi Fbrst. By H. Gibnvold.

IX. Merops persicus persiois and Merups persicus chrysocercus.

X. Galenda theklae harierti, Galerida theklae hilgerti, and Gahrida theklae

deichleri.

XI. Heads of Sparrows from Algeria.

XII. — XIV. Polyctenidae. By K. Jordan.

XV.— XXVI. Algerian Views. Phot, by Walter Rothschild (XV. and XIX. from

photographs by Ilyams).

.^-1 J^^

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE

Vol. XVIII. JUNE, 1911. No. 1.

ON SOME NECESSARY ALTERATIONS IN THE

NOMENCLATURE OF BIRDS.

PART II.

Conlinued from Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 503(1910).

By GREGORY M. MATHEWS.

THE succeedinj; notes refer, as iu the previous part, almost entirely to Au.straliaa

birds, but tliose dealing with generic names iu some cases will appeal to

students not interested iu that fauua. I wish to acknowledge the invaluable aid

giveu by Mr. C. Davies Sherboru in the matter of obtaining dates ; indeed, without

his assistance some of these notes would not have been written. At the end of the

Australian notes I have added a few which deal entirely with extra-Australian

birds, but contain points whicli seem necessary to be recorded.

Since the publication of my conclusions regarding the invalidity of the

Brissonian genera 1 have received the " 0[iiiuous rendered by the International

Commission on Zoological Nomenclature." Opinion No. 20 seems to have a direct

bearing on the matter of Brisson, and the acceptance of the Summary there arrived

at would necessitate the recognition of the genera proposed by Brisson. The

printed Discussion, however, contains points which reijuire reconsideration.

Of Gronov's species it is written, " Essentially, Gronow's specific designations

are polynominal and diagnostic," and then the conclusion reads, " It is clear that

Gronow's nomenclature is binary— that is, he names two units or things, genera

and spedes." I would agree with Hoyle that " Gronow has not applied the

princijjles of binary nomenclature."

Article 2 states : " The scientific designation of animals is uninominal for

subgenera and all higher groups, binominal for species, and trinominal for sub-

species." Inasmuch as Gronov failed to comply with this article, which is certainlj'

a vital principle, he did not apply the principles of binary nomenclature, and hence,

according to Article 2.5, his names are invalid. That this reasoning is valid cannot

be denied, as Article 2 is not split into sections but reads consecutively, and must

be accepted or rejected as a whole, not partim. Otherwise it might be claimed

that the Gronoviau specific names, which are by chance binominal, should receive

recognition ; indeed, this principle has been carried out with regard to some, not

consistently binomial, writers.

But my main, and to me unanswerable, argument against Brisson was that

he was non-binomial. I interpreted the word "binary" as equivalent to "binomial,"

and used the latter as more familiar to my readers. According to the reading of

the Commission " binary " has an altogether difi'erent meaning. I am inclined to

question the correctness of the Commission's ruling iu this matter, and herewith

1

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give my reasons. From the British Association Cotle of 1842 nntil tho Ititeruatioiial

Code the word " binomial " was nsed. In that Code the word " binary " was

substitnted, aiijiarcntly on account of the nse of trinomials. It has been accepted

as corresi>ondinfr absolutely to binomial by all the leading writers on uomenclatnro

in every branch of science. As the meaning of "binary nomenclature" the standard

dictionaries give "binomial nomenclature," and of "binary name," "binomial name."

That such was the intention of the compilers of the International Code is

clearly shown by the wording of Article 20, which reads :

" Art. 20.— The tenth edition of Linne's Sifstema jS'afurae, 1758, is the work

which inaugurated the consistent general application of the binary nomenclature

in zoology. The year 1758, therefore, is accepted as the starting-point of zoological

nomenclature, and of the Law of Priority."

There can be no doubt from the wording of this Article that only a substitute

name for binomial was proposed. Linnd's 10th Edition of the Si/stema Naturae,

1758, (lid inaugurate consistent binomial nomenclature, but it certainly cannot

be stated to have introduced consistently "binary" as understood by the Com-

mission's nomenclature. That was adopted by Liiiiie in his 1st Edition, 173."), and

from that date he was always " binary " until KoS, when he became " binomial "

throughout in his writings.

I therefore submit that the meaning given to the word " binary "' must be

governed by the context, and that in view of Article 20 it can have none other

tjian t'.iat used by me, i.e. absolutely equivalent to binomial.

Page 8 : Genus XII. I'filojuis is preoccupied by ScliOnherr, his p. 1 140 (1823).

,, 12 : „ XXX. RalliiM must be reinstated.

In the last number of the Soc. Zool. p. 403 I projiosed the rejection of RnUina

(anct.), not Heichenbach, and the substitution oi Eari/zona Bonaparte.

While the matter was in the press I came across a note by Witmcr Stone

(I'roc. Acad. Xaf. Sci. Philad. p. 141, 1804) which, although Stone had arrived

at the same conclusion as myself, provided data which led me to reconsider the

question.

It appears that Stejneger {I'roc. V. S. Sat. Mas. x. p. 305, 1887) over

twenty years ago had antieijiated me in advising the misuse (apparent) oi' H'iIUiki,

and tlie necessity of using Kanizona. His arguments led to a diflerent source of

liullina, and consequent invalidity of the conclusions of Stejneger, Witraer Stone,

and myself.

Stejneger (p. 300) wrote : —

1846. Corethriira Gray, Gen. /!. iii p. 595 (type R. cei/lonicus Gm.) nee Reichb.

1855. Rallinn Gray, Cat. den. j). 120 (type R. fascintus Kaffl.) nee Keichb.

Unfortunately he did not say what he considered Corethrura Ueichb.

or Rallina Reichb. to refer to.

Witmer Stone, probably basing his researches ujion this groundwork, gave

more detail, thus : —

On p. 132—

1848. Rullina Reich. Si/n. Ae. vol. iii. Rasores — tyi)e R. maximus Vieill. ;

and on p. 141 —

1840. Rallina Gray, Gen. Birds iii. p. 505— 1\ pe R. zeylanictts Gm. (ncc Rallina

Reichb.).

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Throngb an apparent oversiglit he then rejected Gray's name, though obviously

it had priority.

Moreover, on p. 134 he had stated that Reichenbach first proposed the name

Rnllina in his Si/nopsis Avium vol. iii. Hasores, fam. llalliiKie, which agrees with

his quotation on p. 132.

Reference to Gray's Genera Birds iii. settled the matter, for on p. 595 Gray

introduced " Corethrura Reich.," naming thirty-one species but designating no

type. A footnote reads: "Established by M. Reichenbach in 184 ? liallina of

the same author is synonymous."

The second species, however, is thus treated : —

"2. C.fasciuta (Raffl.), Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 328; Gallinula euryzona Temni.,

PI. col. 417; Rallus nificeps Cav. — type oi Rallina Reich. 1845."

This was dated November 1846. Hence we have de6nitely : —

Rallina (Reich.) Gray 1^46 — type It. fasciata Raffl., as R. ruficeps Cuv. =

R. fasciata Rafti.

All quotations as to Rallina and its type are somewhat after this style {^Cat.

Birds xxiii. p. 74) : —

Rallina Relchenl). Handh. Falicar. p. xxi. (1846).

This reference is apparently incorrect as to the date, but I cannot get to

the truth regarding Reichenbach's works. According to Meyer in his Index zu

L. Reichenbach'' s Ornith. Werken, published in 1879, the date of the publication of

the family Rallinae was December 30, 1840, and of the synopsis Natatores, etc.

1848. If these be accurate then Rallina must be quoted as of Gray's introduction.

Even if Rallina was published prior to Gray's use, no type was designated anterior

to Gray's selection.

The type selections, both for Corethrura and Rallina, given by Stejneger and

Witmer Stone, are inaccurate, the type of Corethrura Reichenbach having been

fixed by Reichenbach himself in the Nat. S>/st. Vuyel p. xxiii. Is52 as jardinii

A. Smith, which is one of the species originally included by Gray.

Page 14 : Species 68. Aptenodytes patagonica Miller, Var. Sub). Nat. Hist. pt. iv.

pi. 23 (1778)

replaces A.forsteri Gray.

The latter species has not yet been recorded from Australia, whereas the former

has recently been noted from Tasmania.

When I reviewed the nomenclature of the Penguins {Xoc. Zool. vol. xvii.

p. 495, 1910) I indicated the existence of the Millerian plates but questioned their

publication. While the paper was in the j)ress I noted their quotation by Boddaert,

and since then I have seen that Richmond has dated the entrance oi Aptenodytes

from Miller 1778 {Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus. vol. xxxv. p. 590, 1908), and that Riley

{Auh, p. 269, 1908) has given details of these Millerian plates. Their recognition

will give stability to the genus Aptenodytes as generally accepted. Therefore

Ajitenndyles will date from Miller (1778), and the type (by monotyiiy) Aptenodytes

patayonica Miller.*

* It is worthy of remark that tliese plates of Tenguins (fur others were issued later) seem to be the

ones fi-ora which the iUuslnitions were made that appear in Forster's paper. The original drawings of

Geo. Forster in the Dritish Museum show that they were the source of both J. It. Forster's and Miller's

plates. They have, in Geo. Forster's handwriting, " I'ublished by J. F. Miller," and also reference to J, R.

Forster's paper in L'ljmment. Gotting.

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Page 16 : Species 84. Pujfinus irecicaitdus Gould

replnces /'. tt'nuii-os(ris Temrainck.

„ 21 : Species 120. Sterna striata Gmelin, S//s(. Sat. XIIIlL EJ. p. 6U9 (1789)

replaces Sterna frontalis Graj'.

This is a change that should have been made long .ago, and I now find that

Sharpe {Hist. Coll. B. M. vol. ii. p. ~'U4, I'JUG), from a stuily of Ellis's drawings,

has already pointed out its necessity.

Page 21 : Genns LXXII. Me<jaloj>l,'ruti Boio, l.-<is p. 1)60 (182G)

replaces Micranoiis Saunders.

In the his p. 980 (1826) Bois introduced his new gvuus thus : —

Mt-galojjterus tenutrosfris Tern. col. 202, u.s.w.

Saunders iu the Cat. i>/;-rfsxsv.p. 130, iJS'JO, placed this genus in the synonymy

of Ano'is, stating Megulopterus Boie, Ms p. 980, 1826, cf. id. op. cit. 1844,

jip. lST-8 — type -I. stoliihis ; and in the synonymy of A. stolidns (p. 137) gave

Megalopterus temtirostris Boie, I sis p. 980, ls20 (nee Temm., cf. Boie, Isis pp. 187-8,

1844).

But in the his (1844), at the quotation made, Boie only referred his Megalo-

pterus to the synonymy of Anoiis (Leach) Steph. (1825), on the score of priority,

usinsr both genera with their wide signiticaliuus. Boie also identified teitnirostris

Tern., PI. col. 202, with St. senex Leach. That action had no elfect either upon the

generic status of Megalopterus nor the specific of teiiuirostris Tem., PI. col. 202. If

Temminck's species were valid, and if ever generically separable, no oilier lonrso

Avas open save the adoption of Boie's name. This was made absolute by Gray,

who, in his List Genera Birds p. 79, 1840, included Megalopterus Boie (type)

M. tenuirostris Temminck, PI. col. 202. Yet in the Bull. B. 0. C. No. x.^iii.

p. six, 1895, Saunders proposed a new genus Micranous for Sterna tenuirostris

Temminck. In the Cat. Birds Saunders retained his own genus, dealing with

Megalopterus Boie as stated above, and as the introduction of tenuirostris gave

PI. col. 202.

Page 23 : Genus LXXXI. I.ohihjx Heine, Xomeiicl. Mus. Bei/i. p. 334, 1890

replaces Lobicanellus ncc Strickland.

Strickland, in Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 32, 1841, proposed Sarciop/iorus

for three birds, the first- named being pileutus Gmelin. On p. 33 he introduced

Lobicanellus, to which he referred nine species, the first of which was yoensis

(Jmelin. The same year Gray in his 2nd Edition of his List Genera Birds included

these two genera Q). 64), and designated as tyjies the first-named species in each

case.

In his Sat. Sgst. Viigel p. xviii, I6.j2, Rcichenbach made a new disposition

thus :^

Lobicanellus. Tyi)e /.. lobatus Latham.

Sarciop/iorus. „ S. pectoralis; and jiroposed

Sarcogrammus. „ 'S'. goensis Gmelin.

Of course these designations are invalid owing to the piior action of Gray,

but in the ( 'at. Birds xxiv. Heichenbach has been I'ollowed with regard to Lobicanellus

and Sarcogrammus, though the error was noted when dealing with Sarciop/iorus.

(Jonseijuently Lobibgx of Heine must be used for Lobivanellus of the Cat. Birds,

and Lobicanellus will be the name of the genus there called Sarcogrammus.

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Page 23 : Species 147. Lobibi/x novaehollandiae Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool.

vol. xi. \)t. ii. p. 510 (1819)

replaces L. lobatus " Latham " Vieill.

Latham proposed the name Triiiga lohata in the Stippl. Index Ornitli. p. Ixv,

1801, for this bird, bnt tliat combination liad been ntilised by Linne in the Si/st.

Nat. Xth Ed. p. 148 (175.S) for another sj)ecies. Vieillot's Vanelhis lobatus {Nouc.

Diet, et Hist. Nat. vol. xxxv. p. 209, 1819) is simply a new generic location for

Latham's species, so that we have to fall back upon Stephens's name as above.

Page 24: Genus LXXXIV. P^i^na^is Schaeffer, Mas. Ornith. p. 48 (1789)— type

P. axrea — C/iaradrus piuvialis Linne

replaces Ckaradrius nee Linni'.

„ ,, Genus LXXXV^. Eupoda Brandt, in TchihatchefF's Voi/. Sci. Altai

Oriental p. 444 (1845) — type (by monotypy) E. caspia Pallas

replaces Ochthodromus Reichb. 1852.

„ „ Genus LXXXVI. Chamdrius Linn(5, Syst. Nat. Xth Ed. p. 150 (1758)—

type C. hiatii'ida

replaces Aegialitis Boie, 1822.

„ 26: Genus XCV. Tringa Linn6, Syst. Nat. Xth Ed. p. 148 (1758)— type

T. ocrophm

replaces Ilelodromas Kanp (1829).

„ „ Genus XCVI. Ileteroscelus Baird, Rep. Expl. Sin-f. Railr. Pac. Ocean

vol. ix. p. 734 (1858)

replaces Heteractitis Stejneger, 1884.

Refer to note under Genus CXLVIII, Oxyum (p. 9).

Page 27 : Genus XOVIII. Xeniis Kaup, Skizz. Entwick. Gesch. Nat. Syst. p. 115

(1829)

replaces Tere/na Bonaparte, 1838.

The same remark applies as to the preceding.

Page 28 : Genus CVI. Canutus Brehm, Vdgel Dcutschl. p. 653 (1831)— type

C. canutus L.

replaces Tringa nee LinnS.

In Nov. Zool. vol. xvii. p. 502, 1910, I pointed out tliat under existing

laws Curvirostra Scopoli should replace Loxia as currently accepted. In a

footnote Dr. Hartert drew my attention to the fact that by the exercise of

tautonymy Loxia could be preserved. Privately he referred me to the published

Opiuiiiiis iif tlie International ('ommission on Nomenclature, where Opinion No. 10

dealt with tautonymy as applicable to the Linnean genera. That Opinion, while

ruling that it was a most desirable proceeding to have the type of the Linnean

genera fixed by this method wlien available, carefully decided to say nothing

with regard to the only debatable cases, and wrote : " If any author attempts

to construe the cases (viz. Tringa, Ckaradrius) under the present ruling, the burden

of proof to show that he is justified in the procedure rests upon him." I consider

this a most unscientific proceeding, and feel that if the Linnean genera can

lawfully have types fixed by this method (viz. tautonymy), all that will admit

of such type fixation must be so treated, Cousecjuently I accept as type of

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Chamchius Linnt'', Xtli Ed. ji. l.">0, 1T58, Charadriiis hintictda Liiiiir, ami, as

type of Tringa Lioue, Xtli Ed. p. 148, 1758, Tringa ocrojtlius Linne.

I do not feel it necessary, the sentence of Commission Opinion No. Ki above

qnoted notwitlistauding, to give proof of the urgency of the alterations, bnt

nevertheless will place on record a few of the vicissitudes of Trlnya.

When Bechstein (Orn/t/i. TaM-lienb. I)eutch.i\. p. ~'S2, 1803) introduced Tottnitis

he included in it species of Liinosa, and in Tringa, p. 302, he included both

ocroj/hus and eanutux. In Vanellus, p. 312, he included randltis and sijuatarola.

Illiger in the Prodromus, p. 202, 1811, proposed Aetitis for a mixture of

Limosa, Totantts, etc., and used Tringa, p. 203, for (anellus and squutarolu. In

the Abhamll. K. P. Wissen., 1812-13, p. 230, 1810, he accepted Tringa for what

he had called Actitis, and referred his prior acceptation of Tringa to Charadrius.

Temrainck (}rnniiel d'Ornith. p. xxxi, 181:')) preserved Tringa for the

"Tringoid"' species and Totanns for ^^ ochropus," etc., using Vanellus for

squatarola and vanellus.

Koch (Si/st. baier. Zool. p. xli, 181()) accepted the same disposition of the

species as Temminck.

Vieillot {Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 50, 1816) indicated as members of Tringa — •

Maubeche-Alouette de Mer-Paon de Mer Bitff.

Caviar {JRegne Animal i. p. 407, 1817) restricted Tringa to squatarola and

vanellus, designating the latter as Tringa s. str. ; then joined the remaining

members of Linnd's Tringa and Scopolax, and subdivided them into varions

sections. For canutus he provided Calidris.

Forster (5y«. Cat. Brit. Birds p. 24, 1817) included earnitus in Tringa, but

put ocropus into Totanus.

Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xii. pt. i. p. 89, 1824, u.^ed Cnlidris for

canutus, not designating anything as typical of Tringa, p. 115, but using it as

a name for the residuum after allotting the species he was familiar with to various

genera.

Boie (/;</« p. .500, 1822) followed Temminck, whilst Brehm {Vogel Dcutschl.

p. 053, 1831) proposed Canutus for canutus, and Tringa, p. 050, he restricted to

maritima, a Gmelin-Linnean species.

Fleming (Pkil. Zool. ii. pp. 255-0, 1822) followed fhivier, as did Lesson

{Manuel Ornith. 1828) and Kanp {Shizz. Entic. (iesch. Nat. Sgst. 1829).

It would seem that it is quite a questionable matter as to the correct type

of Tringa, and Gray's designation of 1840 {List Gen. Birds p. 09) is just as

unsatisfactory. So that, accurately speaking, the acceptance of tautonyray to fix

the type will settle a matter which cannot otherwise be considered as scientifically

decided.

The case of Cliaradrius is not quite the same, as the members of the genus

are very closely allied, and not much genus-splitting could be done. Tlic intro-

duction of Pluvialis by Schaeffer has however been consistently neglected. Its

type by tautonymy is P. aurea = Cliaradrius phivialis Linno. This has been

commonly accepted as the type of Charadrius Linne, but some other sjiecies

must be selected. The wisest course in this dilemma is the adoption of tautonymy

and the fixation of the type of Linne's Charadrius as hiaticula.

The division Orhthodromus must bear the prior name F.upoda of Brandt.

Some authorities may wish to ignore this name on account of a prior Kupodes,

bnt to such I would point out that Ochthodromus on the same grounds would

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appear ineligible, as Ochthedromns was used previous])' [b}- Le T'onte, Ann. Lye.

Xut. Hist. Sew York p. 453 (1848)] to Reichenbacli's Ochthod romus.

Page 25 : Genns LXXXVIII. Hypsibateg Nitzsch. m Erscb. u. Gniber's Ewyd.

vol. xvi. p. 150 (1827)

replaces Himantopus Bonnaterre fpreoccupied).

lu the last nnraber of Nov. Zool. p. 499 I allowed the use of Himantopus

Bonnaterre. I unfortunately overlooked the fact that this name was preoccupied

by Miillor, Anim. InJ'us. p. 248 (1780), so that we have to fall back upon

Ifi/psihates, which was provided on account of the invalidity of Himantopus.

Macrotarsus was introduced by Lacepede (Tabl. Ois. p. 18, 1799) for this

genus, but it is unavailable from the fact that earlier in the Tabl. Mamm. p. 5,

1799, he had proposed the same name.

Page 28 : Species 181. For this species acuminata Horsfield must be resumed.

Examination of the Watling drawing upon which the species aurita was

founded, and which Sharpe (///.?/. Coll. B.M. ii. p. 147) recognised as pertaining

to the species commonly known as acuminata Horsfield proves it to be a good

figure of Linne's hi/polencos.

8harpe's determination seems to be purely a lapsus, as no reason for such

identification appears in the figure.

Page 28 : Species 184. Canutus magnus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 39 (1848)

replaces C. crassirostris Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica,

p. 107 (1849).

No proof of prior publication of C. crassirostris can be obtained.

Page 29 : Genus CIX. Irediparra nom. nov.

replaces Hi/dralector auct. uec Wagler.

In the Isis p. 279, 1832, Wagler introduced a new genus Metopidius for

"Latham's Parra a/ricana und Cnvier's Parra aenea." On the next page ho

proposed Hi/dralector for " Vieillot's Parra cristata, Nouv. Diet. 16, p. 450, und

Temmiuck's Parra (tallinacea PI. Col." In the List Genera Birds 1840 Gray

typified these genera thus :

Page 70 : Hijdralector Wagl. //. cristatus (Vieill.) Wagl.

„ 71 : Metopidius Wagl. M. aeneus (Cnv.) Wagl.

In the Cat. Birds xxiv. p. 73, 189(3, these two species are synonymised with

Parra indica Latham, which is considered the type of Metopidius. As a con-

sequence Hijdralector became an absolute synonym of Metopidius. But on p. 79

Hi/dralector is used, the type being given as //. gallinacens Temm.

However, that action cannot be admitted, and as no other name is available

I propose the above, with /. (/allin'(ceus = I'arra gallinacea Temm. as type.

Page 29 : Species 189. Trachelia maldimrum Latham & Davies, Faunula Indica

p. 11 (1795)

replaces T. orientalis Leach (1820).

In the Faunula Indica p. 11, 1795, Latham & Davies proposed three names,

G. maldivarum, G. coromanda, and G. madraspatana, for the three varieties

described by Latham in the Gen. S>/n. Birds vol. v. p. 224. These have ail

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been referred to tlie synonymy of the species npon whicli Leach bestowed the

name of orientalis tweuty-five years later.

Page 29: Species 190. Burliiniis magnirostris Latham, Siipj'l. IihIpt Dm,

p. Ixvi. (1801)

replaces li. graUarius Latham.

The name maqnimiitns was given on the same page as (/rallariKs, bnt ajipeared

first. It has been neglected owing to slight inaccnracies in the diagnosis. Both

names, as well as a third, were given to birds represented by drawings. I have

examined the drawings known as the Watling drawings, now in the British

Mnsenm, and find tliat the one npon which magnirostrix was founded is by far

the best representation of the liird. I therefore have no liesitatiou in adopting

this name in preference to the two later ones, grultarius andj'i-ae/ia/tt.i.

Page 30: Genns CXIY. Choriotis (Bp.) Gray, Cut. Gen. Stibgen. Birds j). In'j

(185.-.)

replaces Eupo(loti.<i anct. nee Lesson.

Eapodotis was introduced by Lesson in the Jietue Xool. ii. p. 47, 1839, for a

nnmber of species, Otis rhaad, arabs, and others. The following year Gray typified

{List Genera Birds p. 04, 1840) Eitpodotis by rliaad Gm. as of Lesson, XIus.

Senckenb. ii. pi. 15.

In the Ann. Sci. Sat. Ser. iv. vol. i. Zool. p. 148, 1854, Bonaparte included

Choriotis, a nude name. In the Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. Iii9, 1855, Gray

noted :

Choriotis Pr. B. 1854. Type Otis arabs Linn.

The succeeding year Bonaparte used Choriotis (Comptes Itendiis xliii. ji. 410,

1850), attaching thereto arabs, cristata, edwardsi, and australis.

In the Nut. Sgst. Vogel p. xxx, 1852, Reichenbach had typified Kupodotis

Gray by 0. arabs, and proposed Tracheitis with cacrnle.'icens as type.

In the Cat. Birds xxiii. 1894 is given :

Page 308 : Trachelotis Heichb. Type T. caerulescens.

„ 322 : Eupodotis Lesson. „ E. arabs.

As congeneric with cacruleseens Vieill. is included senegalensis Vieill., as

a synonym of which is accej.ted rhaad (Mus. Senchenb. ii. p. 230, taf. 15, 1837),

and rhaad Gm. is dismissed as indeterminable. But Uiippell's fixation of rhaad

would seem to decide its identity, and hence Ei/podotis must be resumed for

tlie species included in the Cat. Birds under Trachelotis, which becomes

synonymous, and for the species typified by arabs, Choriotis must again, as

formerly, be recognised.

Page 30 : Genus CXV. Mathewsia Iredale, Bull. B. n. C. vol. xxvii. j.. 47 (101 1;

replaces Antigone Reichb. (preoccupied).

„ 33: Genus CXXXL Ardeirallu Bonaparte, Consp. Ac. ii. p. 131 (I8o0)

replaces Dupetor Heine.

Dupetor was proposed (yomencl. Ma.s. Ilein. Orn. p. 308) as a substitute for

Ardeirallu, the latter name not meeting with approval on account of its unclassical

formation. I cannot generically separate the Australian bird from the type of

Ardeirallu, but to those more skilled the generic name Xanthocnus Sharpe

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{BuU. B. 0. C. iii. p. sxxvii, lSfl4) iutrodnced for the Anstral-Malayan species

will be available.

Page 35 : Species 222. D. youldi Gonld, Handh. Birds Aiistr. ii. p. 374 (LSG."))

replaces D. arcuata Horsfield.

In the Cat. Birds, vol. xxvii. p. 153 Ralvadori preferred P. nrewita Horsfield,

Zool. Ttes. in Java, pi. 6.5, 1824, for the Austro-Malayan species dift'erentiated

from D.javanica of the same anther previously proposed in the Trans. Linn. Son.

Land. vol. xiii. p. 199, 1822.

Salvador! accepted arcuata on the plate given, hnt the letterpress covered

javanica. The fiicts are : Horsfield proposed jacaniea and noted varieties, one of

which agrees with the bird in question now considered specifically separable. In

his second paper he used arcuata for the same group on account of its prior

introduction by Cuvier in BIS. only, and saidv javanica as a synonym of the later

arcuata. Of course, in reality arcuata is a pure synonym of jaranica, the latter

having priority. Count Salvador!, however, recognising that the figure given

really belonged to one of the varieties, used arcuata as based on that figure,

though the text proved the contrary. This course is not permissible. As a

substitute I have fallen back upon ijouldi, which Gonld accepted for the Australian

bird as of Bonaparte. Bonaparte's introduction {Comptes Rendus, vol. xliii.

p. 649, 185G) was of a nude name only, so that the above quotation is the first

description.

Two other prior names have been used for this bird, but each I consider

inapplicable. Miiller's Anas badia {Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land en Yolkenk., p. 159,

1842) is another nude name, whilst Eraser's .4. vagans was described from the

Pliilippines {Zool. Tijpica, p. 68, 1849), and I am not inclined to accept it for

the Australian form.

Page 36 : Genus CXLVIII. Oxyura Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Kat. flist. Xew York,

ii. p. 390, 1828

replaces Erisrnatura Bonaparte, 1831.

I am unable to find that Oxyura is preoccupied. I have noticed several

prior usages of Oxyurus, but none of Oxyura. Under the existing nomenclatorial

laws the latter must be used. I may state that I have carefully considered this

matter, as the American Ornithological Union have sanctioned the rejection of

some names ending in -ics on account of prior similar names ending in -a and

rice versa, but in other cases acccj)t(.'d some differing only in the same way, and

conclude that confusion would ensue should the American Ornithological Union's

views be adopted. Many changes would be necessary in the nomenclature of

Australian birds by following the American Ornithological Union Code. To those

who would wish to retain lirismatura I would point out that it would occni)y an

unstable position. As far as I can trace, though that generic name, Giorn. Arcud. Iii.

p. 208, is usually quoted as 1831, it was not published until well on in the year

1832, whereas Cerconectes Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 282, appeared early in that year

and appears to have priority.

Page 38 : Species 244. Sula dactylatra Lesson, Traitc d. Ornith. p. OiJl (1831)

replaces S. cyanops Snndevall, 1837.

In the Cat. Birds, vol. xxvi. p. 430 Ogilvie-Grant accepted cyanops of

H\nidcva!l {I'hysioyr. Sails/,: Tidsk. (Lund.) i. p. 218, 1837) in preference to

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Lesson's ihtctylatra, which first upiieareil in the Vo>/. CoqniUe i. p. 404, noting,

"The description of S. dachjlatra given by Lesson is nnrecognisable." This

remark may be applicable to the note given in the Voij. CoquiUe, bat certainly

not to the account in the Traitl; which fixes the sjiecies as the bird called

cyanops by Sundevall six years later. It appears probable that tlie Australian

bird will bear the name given to it by Gould, viz. persoiwta, but I have not yet

sufficient material to decide.

Page 39 : Species 254. Circus approximam Peale, United States Expl. Erped.

p. 04 (1848)

replaces Circus gouleh Bonaparte, 1S50.

., 40 : Genus CLXL IlieraaHus Kaup, Classif. Sdmj. </• 17«/. p. V2n (1844)

replaces Eutolmaetxs Bl_\th, 1845.

„ 41 : Species 206. Ilaliastur leucostermis Gould, Synops. Birds Aitstr. pt. iii.

April 1838

replaces H. girrencra Vieillot.

Vieillot {Galerie d''Ois. i. pi. x. I82ii) j)roposed Ilaliaotus girrenera simply as

a new name for the bird described as Falco pondecerianus Gmelin. He wrote :

" On le tronve anssi, selon Latham, :i la Nonvelle Hollande, oil il porte le nom

qne nous Ini avons conserve." Of course this cannot be construed as separating

the Australian from the Indian bird, especially when the context is read. (Con-

sequently we must revert to Gould's name founded on the Australian species.

Page 44 : Species 293. Sinox queenslandica Mathews, Bull. B. 0. C. xxvii.

p. 02 (1911)

replaces yinox liwneralis, Bonaparte.

The later bird is confined to New Guinea, and is represented in Queensland

l)y a distinct form, as above.

Page 45 : Genns ('LXXVIII. Entelipsitta nom. nov.

replaces Psitteuti-les nee Bonaiiarte.

„ „ Genus CLXXIX. Psittextelrs Bonaparte

replaces Ptilosdera (Bp.) Gonld.

In the Rev. Mag. Zool. vol. vi. p. 157, 1854, Bonaparte introdnced Psitfetifeles

with four species — versicolor Vig., iris Temm., cuteles Temm., and placens Temm.

No type was indicated, and therefore the following year Gray {Cat. Gen. Suhgen.

Birds, p. 88) selected the first named as type.

In the Uandlj. Birds Austr. ii. p. 98, 1805, Gould used Ptilosdera as of

Bonaparte for versicolor alone. He referred to Ptilosdera versicolor, Comptes

liendus, 1857, but gave no pagination. In the Cat. Birds B. M. vol. xx. p. 06

Ptilosdera is accepted for the species versicolor.

Its entry is given as that of Bonajiarte, Comptis I'l'udiis, vol. xliv. p. 597,

1857, but at that place only the nude name occurs, no indication being given as

to its extent. The earliest systematic use of the name I have traced is that of

Gonld, as above.

In the Cat. Birds xx. p. 63 Psitteuteles is also retained, the type being

selected as P. euteles Temminck. But Gray's designation invalidated all later

type difterentiations, and couseqnently Ptilosdera must be replaced by P.titteiiteles,

and a new name is necessary for the group erroneously known by the latter name.

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I therefore propose Eutelipsifta, and designate as type Psittacus chlorolepidotus

Kuhl.

Page 40: Species 311. Ci/r-lopsitta h'lilhmti'ri McCoy, Annals Mag. j^at. Ilisf.

Ser. iv. vol. xvi. p. .54, Jnly 1, 1875

replaces C. mnccoyi Gonld, Froi\ Zool. Soc. Loml. p. 314, Ang. 1,

1875.

„ „ Genus CLXXXII. 5o;«no^Zos«i<.s Ranzani, Efewi. ^/< ^rto/. iii. pt. ii. p. 18, Jh qI.

pi. V. figs. 3, 3, 1821

replaces Microglossus Vieillot. ,

Salvadori's reason for rejecting Solenoglossus, as given in the Cat. Birds

xx. p. 102 footnote, reads:

" Solenoglossus Ranz. has certainly the priority over Microglossus Geoffr.,

but it conveys quite a false idea of the structure of the tongue."

Then follows a history of the name Microglossus.

It is interesting to note that Gray, in the List Genera Birds, p. 69 (1841),

nsed Microglossum Geoffr., 1 809 ; probably following Gray, Agassiz, in the Nomen.

Zool. Aves, p. 47, 1846, gave Microglossum Geoff., Ann. Mus. xiii. (1809).

But search through the Aimales Mus. d'llisf. Nat. Paris, vol. xiii. (1809) does

Dot reveal Microglossum, though in that volume Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire introduced

a new genus Microductylus. I surmise that the similarity of names, through

inadvertence, caused the reference of Microglossum to this place. I have looked

through all Saint-Hilaire's papers without result, and when he later discussed

Microglossus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire did not claim to have previously proposed

the name, and accepted it as of Vieillot, Galcrie d'Oiseaux i. p. 47, pi. 50.

In the same place Count Salvadori pointed out that Probosciger Knhl {Consp.

Psitt. p. 12, 1820) was not proposed generically, but only the name given to

a section, and therefore did not recognise it as applicable from that introdnction.

AVith this statement I ijuite agree, and refuse to accept names simply proposed

sectionally as of their sectional date.

Bnt I noted that on p. 170 Count Salvadori has allowed the use of Conurus,

which was proposed at the same time and in the same manner as Prohosciger, and

moreover dates it from the Consp. Psitt. of Kuhl. I consider it invalid as of that

place, and before it was taken up generically Aratinga would appear to have been

proposed by Spix {Av. Bras. i. p. 29, 1824). Further, the earliest use of Coriurus

1 can trace is that of Lesson, who, in the Manuel d'Orn. ii. p. 148, 1828, used it

subgeuerically and cited as type Psittacus rujirostris L. enl. 550. This is one of

Kuhl's original species, and therefore should Co'nurus be recognised as of Kuhl,

it follows that its type would of necessity be that species. In the Cat. Birds xx.

p. 443, the species, enl. 5.50, is called Palaeorids torquata Boddaert, the name

given to that figure alone. It would thus follow that Conunis Lesson, 1828,

should be quoted in the synonymy of Palaeornis. To refer it incorrectly to Knhl,

1820, would mean the displacement of Palaeornis by Conurus. Consistently

Comirus must be displaced by Aratinga.

Further, Count Salvadori {Cat. Birds xx. p. 138) rejected Micropsitta Lesson,

Traitc d'Orn. Tp. 646. 1831, in favour of N'asiterna Wagler, 3{on. Psitt. p. 498.

1832. No reason is given, but in the Ibis, 1906, p. 326, Count Salvadori has

cxi)lained, " The latter name (Micropsitta) was proposed as a subgenus of Psittacus,

and not as a real genus." Here Count Salvadori is clearly at fault, as for nomen-

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clatorial purposes names proposed generically luul subgenerically are of eiiiuil

value; therefore Nasiterna mnst be replaced by Micropsitta.

Page 47 : Genus C'LXXXV. Cacatois Domeril, Zool. Anah/tique p. 50 (1800)

replaces Cucatua Vicillot.

Genus ( 'LXXXVII. Lqitulophm Swainson, Xool. IlbiMr. Ilud Ser, i)l. 112

(18:i2-3)

rei)lace8 Calopsitta Lesson, Illustr. Zool. pi. xlix. 1835.

In the Cat. Birds xx. p. 135, Calopsitta is jjreferred as of date May 183'» ;

the month of Swainson's genus not being given.

A casual examination of Lesson's work showed that Mai 1832 was only the

date of the text to i)ls. xlix. and 1., and had nothing to do with publication.

The text to pis. xlv. and xlvi. is dated Juillet ls33.

Upon reference to the Bibliotheque Frauraise I obtained the following dates.

The prospectus, noticed February 4, 1832, gave the information that the volume

would consist of 20 livrs., eacli livraison to contain 3 pis. with text, not paged, and

the first No. to be issued March 1, and thence monthly.

The dates show that this was not carried out :

ilates. In 8" de % sheet. Julv 14, 1832.

„ i „ Sept. 1,1832.

„ I „ Oct. 13, 1832.

„ J „ Nov. 3,1832.

„ I „ Dec.1,1832.

„ f „ Feb. 23, 1833.

„ . i „ April 13, 1833.

„ i „ Aug. 10, 1833.

„ f „ Aug. 24, 1833.

„ J „ Oct. 19, 1833.

„ i „ Dec. 21, 1833.

„ 5 „ March 22, 1834.

„ i „ May IT, 1834.

„ f „ Aug. 2, 1834.

„ 3 „ .Jan. 17, 1835.

No further notices appear in this journal, but in the Comptes Rendiis, December

1835, p. 517, livr. 18 and 20 are noticed.

As corroboratory evidence it may be noted that the text to pi. Ix. contains a

reference to Journal cle I'lnstitut, No. 72, 27 Septembre, 1834.

These dates, therefore, place J;he publication of Calopsitta in 1835.

The 1st Series of Swainson's Zool. //to^r. were published monthly, and tlie

2nd Series was commenced on the same plan. They were announced on February 29,

1829, to appear monthly. In the Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. p. 272, June 1831,

Swaiuson himself wrote, "In each regular number (12 out of 13) there are five

plates,"' and in the same volume, p. 555, wrote in a letter dated September 1831,

" The 17th and istli came out bnt a month ago." He there threatened to publish

only two more parts. Apparently this was done, and constitutes the first two

volumes. Then under pressure a third volume was undertaken some time later,

and it was completed early in 1833, the preface being dated March 4, 1833. I have

been so far unable to fix tlie absolute date of the parts comprising this last volume,

but there can be no doubt that the date given on the title-page, 1832-3, is correct.

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Consequeutly the date for Lcptolophus Swaiuson, at the latest, is 1833, and it

has thus clear priority over Calopsitla.

It may be as well to note that Wagler, in the Abhandl. Ak Wi&semch.

Miliicfien, i. p. 400, proposed Xj/mpliicm, and included therenmler two species,

hisetin&wA nomehollnndiae. This paper is dated 1832, and as I have shown above

was jiublislied about that date. In the Lint Genera Birds, p. 51, 1840, Gray

typifies this genus by noraehoUandiae, and it would seem that another conflicting

element was to be introduced. Reference to Wagler's paper, however, shows that

the genus was based on bisetis; noviehollandiae being included from literature

only, Wagler carefully noting, " Non vidi." Under these circumstances I would

admit the abrogation of Gray's type designation and the retention of Nympkicus for

the bisetis group.

While noting these Parrakeet names it is of interest to point out that

1 hiay ptilus of Wagler (to', cit. p. 5o2) is retained in the Cat. Birds xx. jt. 385, in

preference to Fsittrickas Lesson, while when Wagler introduced his genus he

pointed out that he had been auticijiated in publication by Lesson with Psittrichas,

and it is this note that gives ns some idea of the date of publication of Wagler's

paper.

As a synonym of Psiltaciis pecquetii Less., Ball, des Sci. Sat. xxv. p. 241,

Juin 1831, Salvador! i^uotes Banksiaiws falyidtis Lesson, Traitc d'Oni. p. 181, 1831

(type examined).

I havesliown that this part of the Traitc d'Om. was published in 183i.» ; hence a

double change is necessary, and the bird called Dasi/ptilus pecquetii Lesson must

bear the name Fsittrickas fulgidus Lesson.

Page 47 : Species 327. L. auricomis Swainsou, Zool. ll/iis. llnd Ser. pi. 1 12 (1832-3)

replaces L. uoeaekollandiue Gmeliu, Si/st. Sat. XUlth Ed. 1788.

p. 328, not p. 316.

„ 48 : Si)ecies 328. P. swainsonii Desmarest, Diet. 8c. Nat. xxxix. p. 39 (1820)

replaces P. barrabandi Swainson, 1821 (nee Kuhl, 1820).

„ „ Genus (JXO. xiprosmictus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1842, p. Ill

replaces Ptistes Gould, Handbook Birds Austr. ii. p. 37, 18G5.

,, „ Genus CXCI. Alisterus nom. nov.

replaces Aprosmicttis Gould, 1805, not 1842.

When Gould introduced his genus Aprosmictas he stated "Types Plati/cercas

scapulatus and eri/t/wopterus." When Gra)', in the Cat. Gen. Birds, 1855,

designated types he selected the latter, and of course against this there can be

no objection. However, in 1805 Gould proposed a new name for the enjthroptcras

group, and restricted Aprosmicttis to the scapulatus group. This misuse of the

names was carefully noted by Gray in the IPxndl. Gen. Sp. Birds B. M. 187U,

who, as sections of Plati/cercus, gave

p. 138 : tj. Aprosmictas Gould, 1642.

Synonym I'tistes Gould, lS05.

p. 139: //. >

Synonym Aprosmictas Gould, IsOo.

Yet, in the Cat. Birds, vol. xx., apparently following Gould, Salvadori retained

p. 4^1 : Ptistes. Type P. enjthropterus.

p. 4s5 : Aprosmictas. ,, A. cijanoptjijias.

As Grab's action settled the mutter, there is no other course open save the

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introduction of a new name for tlie group erroneonslv known by tlie generic name

oi Aj/rosmktui and the nse of Ajuosiiiict'/g for the genus hitherto i^iiowu as Ptistes.

The type of Alistents is A. c>/amp>/gius = Psittacus cyanopygius Vieillot.

Page 49 : Species 338. Platycercus caledonicm Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. \\ 328 (1788)

replaces P.J/arircntiis Temra. {P. biowni Kuhl).

„ „ Species 344. /'. cecilae nom. nov.

replaces /'. xploididiia Gould, 1845 ; uec Shaw, 1702.

„ 50 : Species 3()0. J's('pI(Otii!i dnlciei nom. nov.

replaces /'. multicolor Kuhl, Mon. P/<i/t. p. 55 (1820), not Giuelin,

Syst.yat. p. 328(1788).

„ 51 : Genus CXCVIII. Lathamm Lesson, Traitc (/'Orn. p. 205 (1830)

rejilaces Kup/iema Wagler, 1832.

Oberholser, in the Smitltson. Miscell. Coll. vol. xlviii. p. 01, 19i)5, discussed

the names proposed for this genus, and accepted Euphema Wagler, and in my

Handlist I adopted his conclusion. Recently I have had occasion to go into

the matter more closely than at the time when I prepared my Handlist, and

I find Oberholser's decision must be reversed.

The lirst name to be introdnced was yanodcs, by Vigors & Horsfield in

the Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. ji. 274, who designated as type Psittacus

discolor Shaw. Oberholser, accepting the date of this paper as 1827, rejected

Xuiiodes on account of the prior Sa/iodes Schunherr, Cure. Dis]). Meth. p. 322,

1826. Bnt the part of the Linnean Transactions containing Xanodes was issued

in 1826, so that an awkward position would have resulted had it not been that

Schiinherr had previously published Xanodes in the Isis, p. 587, 1825 ; so that,

though Mr. Oberholser's dates were incorrect, Xanodes is nevertheless invalid.

In the Traitc d'Urn. p. 205, Lesson proposed Latkamus as a substitute

for Xanodes (preoccupied). Oberholser rejected this name, as he contended that

Lathamm had been used in the Centurie Zool. p. 03. pi. 18 in conjunction with a

bird which was not congeneric with discolor Shaw, and that this usage appeared

anterior to the Traitc introduction. Oberholser used as dates those on the title

pages of the two publications, namely, 1831 for the Traitc, and 1830 for the

Cent. Zool. But the latter was obviously incorrect, as articles in the Cent. Zool.

bore dates ranging from 1822 to March 1831.

Moreover in the Joarn. autour Globe du " "J'/ietis," ii. p. 313, 1837, Lesson

stated he had introduced new names for the divisions of Parrots in the Traitc

published in 1830. I therefore endeavoured to fix the dates of issue of the

Traitc and Cent. Zool. so that the priority of Latkamus in 'Traitc or Cent. Zool.

sliould be settled. As it is probable that these dates will have a bearing ujion other

matters as well as the one at issue I herewith give my results.

The Bibliotheqne Fran^aise gives as dates of receipt of the jjarts of the Traitc

d'Om. as follows :

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The pagination is estimated, parts as issued uot beiug available to me.

This would give as date of publication of Lathumus of the Traitc (/'0/n.

July 10, 1830.

From the same source I obtained information regarding the Centiirie de ZooL,

thus :

l"" livr. No plates. In 8" de 2 sheets ; in 4" de 4 sheets. March 20, 1830.

2- „ 5 „ „ 2 „ Oct. 2, 1,S30.

3" „ 5 „ » 1 slitet Jan. 29, lfS31.

4" and 5" livr. — — —

(5% 7", and SMivr. l.j [dates. Un seul cahier de 3 sheets. July 0, 1831.

9" to 12" livr. — — —

13'^^ to 16" ,, 20 plates. Uu seul cahier de 3| sheets. May 19, 1832.

" Le cahier annouce aujonrd'hui est le dernier " is added to this notice.

From this it is conclusive that Lathamus of the Cent. Zool. could not have

have appeared until after the Traite usage.

A complication at first sight appears by the notices of the Cent. Zool. given iu

Ferussac's Bull, des Sci. Sat. In vol. xix. j). 321, No. 180, November— December

1829, a notice is given of its appearance, and twelve plates are indicated as forming

livr. 1 and 2. In vol. xxiii, p. 201, No. h")3, November 1830, another notice

is given of livr. 1—5, and here the contents of livr. 3 — 5 are given as 5 pis.

each, and P. {Lathamus) aurifrons is mentioned as part of livr. 3. In vol. xxiv.

p. 3.j1, No. 222, March 1831, livr. 6—12 are noticed.

That all these notices are preliminary is proved by the receipt of the parts as

given by the Bibliotheque Frani,'aise. The first appeared without plates, and the

second with five only instead of the twelve noted above in the first notice. The

second instance appears similarly as preliminary note with regard to livr. 3 — ^5,

as there P. {Lathamus) aurifrons is given as part of livr. 3, which contained five

l)lates only, and this, with the twelve noted, only makes seventeen, whereas

P. (L.) auri/rons is plate 1 8.

Examination of the dated articles in the Cent. Zool. shows that the majority

of the first twelve bear dates October — November 1829, pointing out that the

first notice was written probably from MS. The text to plate 74 is dated March

1831, whilst the Postscriptum at the end of tlie work is dated February 1831.

Consequently no reliance can be placed upon these dates or the notices iu the

Bulletin, and the only trustworthy dates are those given in the Bibliotheque

Fran(;aise.

As Lesson was one of the reviewers attached to the Bulletin, it is easy to see

how such preliminary notices could be written.

The name selected by Oberholscr, namely Eapkema Wagler, ajipeared in the

Abhandl. Ah W'issensch. Miinchen, i. p. 492, and the date accepted by Oberholser,

1832, may be admitted. This paper has sometimes been quoted as 1829-30,

but a footnote on p. 502 quotes the Bullet. Unic. 1831, p. 241. This appeared

in June 1831, so that at the earliest it was later than that date.

Oberholser, when admitting Ldthumus of the Cent. Zool., wrote that its

connection with the species there figured " makes it a synonym of Bolborhijncha.i."

Of course this was purely an error, as that name was not introduced until almost

thirty years after the issue of the Cent. Zool.

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Page oT : Species 405. Cuculas paUiJus Latliam, [ml. Orn. Sujj/>L p. Ix (ISOl)

replaces C. iyiornatus Vig. & Horsf.

Dr. Hartert, in tlie Sov. /.ool. xii. p. :^1T, I'JUo, first cast doubt upon the

traditional identification of Latham's Pale Pigeon with tiie Cuckoo. From an

examination of the Watling drawings, from which Latham drew up his descriptions,

Shan'c (///.</. Coll. B. M. vol. ii. p. 145, liiOti) tentatively referred the tyi)e drawing

of Latham's Pale Pigeon to Loj//wlaimus untareticus Shaw. Such an extraordinary

identification led me to examine tlie Watling drawings, whicli are preserved in the

British Museum, and I find the drawing to be unmistakably of the Cuckoo, aud

hence Latham's name must be reinstated. The points of inaccuracy raised by

Dr. Hartert are visible on the drawing, but it is quite a good representation of the

Cuckoo, and however Sharpe wrote his note comparing it with L. aiUarcticus

I cannot understand, save tliat it was purely a lapsus calami.

Page 57 : Species 406. Cacomantis rubrkattis Latham, liid. Oni. Stijipl. p. Iv

(1801)

replaces C. rufuliis Vieill.

„ „ Species 407. Caeotiumtis variolosus Horsfield, Trans. Liim. Soc. I.oiirl.

vol. XV. p. 300 (181'6)

rei)laces C.Jiabellifonnis nee Latham.

The nomenclature of these Cuckoos has been the subject of some discussion.

North, in the Iljis,\i. 53, 1900, has, from an examination of the descrijitioiis, reversed

the traditional identifications, preferring rufulus Viellot, JS'oiic. Diet. iPJJist. Sat.

vol. viii. p. '.I'ii, 1817, for the species previously known a,s _/fabelli/'ormis Latham,

and using JlahelUJormis Latham for the species known as variolosus Horsfield.

Sharj)e, in the Hist. Coll. B. M. ii. p. 121, I'JOO, recognised the Watling drawing

upon which y/'('f//('W//o/v«/.s was founded as apjilicable to that species as commonly

understood, though he pointed out many inaccuracies. This figure was reproduced

in the General Synopsis, and it is obviously not applicable to any Australian

Cuckoo : the black band ou its throat prevents its adoption for any species,

and I therefore reject Jiabelliformis as indeterminable, and probably extra-

Australian. When examining the Watling drawings I recognised that some of

them, such as this, are obviously not representations of Australian birds, however

untrustworthy they might be. I do not consider any of the drawings untrust-

worthy, as the great majority are recognisable at sight, whilst most are really

good figures.

The Watling drawing No. 202, upon which is founded the Si/lcia rubricata

Latham, fnil. Orn. Sicppl. p. Iv, ISOl, is a splendid representation of the bird

previously known a,sJlabclliJ'ormis Latham, and was so recognised by Sharpe (p. 142)

when dealing with the Watling drawings. ('onse(piently it is available for this

species, and we can resume variolosus Horsfield for the species jireviously known

under that name, but which a{)pearcd in my Handlist nsjlabellijormis.

It may nut be out of place to note that in the Watling drawings, Nos. 202 aud

203 are both named Ruddy Warbler, the latter named as I'emale. This latter was

correctly identified by Sharpe as Eop.ialtria australis.

The description of the Uuddy Warbler in the Gen. 5y«. Siippl. ii. p. 24'J

is based upon both figures, but the description in the Ind. Orn. S/ippl. p. Iv, upon

which the name rubricata stands, applies solely to the Cuckoo.

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Latham's description is inaccurate only in tlie colonr of the feet, which are

given as " flavi," and which the fignre shows dark.

Page 59 : Genus CCXXIII. Menum Latham, Snp/d. Index Orii. p. Ixi (1801).

replaces j\[enura Davies (1S02).

„ „ Species 418. M. n. hollandiae Latham, Sappl. Judex Orn. p. Ixi (1801).

replaces M. superba Davies (1802).

In the Tranit. Linn. Soc. Land. vol. vi. p. 207 Davies described Menunt

superba. The date of this introduction has been usually given as 1800, and it has

been preferred to 'Menura n. hollandiae Latham, Siippl. Index Orn. p. Ixi, 1801.

But though Davies's note was read in 1800, an additional note (p. 210) is dated

June 10, 1801, and, as a matter of fact, it was not published until 1802, as Mr.

Sherborn has already pointed out {Index Animalium, p. 607, 1902). Consequently

Latham's names have absolute priority, and must be accepted.

Page 08 : Species o04. Coracina melanops Lath, must be resumed for this species.

Sharpe, in tlie Hist. Coll. B. M. ii. p. 113, when explaining the Watling

drawing's, pointed out that Lanius robustus seemed to be tlie first name given to

the bird commonly known as Graucaliis melanops Lath., and upon this authority,

in my Handlist, I included species No. 504, Coracina robusta Lath. = C. melanops

Lath.

Re-examination of the Watling drawings having indicated errors of identifica-

tion on the part of Sharpe with regard to some species, which are noted in this

paper, I carefully went into the matter again. With the birds in front of me I find

that robustus is not applicable, whereas No. 58, the type of Corvus melanops, is a

splendid representation. We are therefore compelled to resume melanops, as it

undoubtedly should never have l)een changed. The type fignre of robustus shows

that Latham's description {Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 74) is correct — " the head and the

whole of the neck as far as the breast are black . . . the tail in colonr like the body,

crossed near the end with a broad bar of black, but the very end of it is nearly

white." These characters at once divorce the name robustus from connection with

melanops.

Page 70 : Species 520. Psopl/odes olimceus Latham, Suppl. Ind. Orn. p. xxvi (1801)

replaces P. crepitans Latham, Suppl. Ind. C>rn. p. Ii, 1801.

This alteration will minimise the risk of such an erroneous localisation as that

"in the Zool. Record, 1009, Aves, p. 103, when, through the similarity of both the

generic and specific names to Psophia crepitans Linne, this species is referred to

the Ordek Gruiformes 1

Page 74 : Species 557. Oriyma solitaria Lewin, Birds of Xew Holland, PI. XVI

(1808)

replaces 0. rubricata uec Latham.

This change is necessary throngh the examination of the Watling drawings,

when it is discovered that Sylvia rubricata Latham referred to the bird previously

known as Cacomantis Jiabelliformis.

Page 75: Species 564. In the Xov. Zool. vol. xvii. p. 501 (1910) I proposed

the new name Acanthiza archibaldi.

This unfortunately appeared without any indication of its novelty ; hence this

note is necessary in order to prevent confusion.

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Page 80: Genus CCLXXIII. Diaphorillas Oberholser, Proc. Acud. Xat. Sci.

ri„lml. !>. 212 (1809)

replaces Aim/tornis .Stejueger.

Ill the llumll. Birds Brit. Mas. vol. iv. p. 340 (1903) Anujtornis (Stejneger,

Stanrl. Xat. Hist. vol. iv. p. 499, 1885) is used as the genus name for the genu.s

Aiiii/ti.i Lesson (preoccupied). However, at that quotation Amytornis is virtually

a nude name, and, as far as I can trace, its first systematic use is in the Ila/x/list

us above (19(i:)). But Oberholser lind jirevionsly correctly jiroposed DiaphoriUa.s

for the same genus, and consequently that name must be used.

Page 82: Species 046. Giallina rifanoleuca Latham, Siijtpl. Ind. Om. p. xxv

(1801)

replaces G. pinata Latham.

The Watling drawing, the type of cyanoleucn, is a good representation of tiie

bird previously known as picata.

Page 84 : Species 058. Cracticiis tonjiiatits Latham, Supp/. [ii(h:r Orn. \\. xviii

(1801)

replaces C. destructor Temminck.

From an examination of Watling drawing No. 27 I made the above identifi-

cation, and upon referring to Hist. Coll. Brit. Miis. ii. p. 113 (1900) I found that

Sharpe had obtained the same result ; but by writing " L. torquatiis becomes a

synonym of C. di:striietor'" I had overlooked that the former name liad almost

twenty years' priority.

Page 89 : Species T05. Clirnacteris leucophaca Latham, f?/^^/. Ind. Orn. p. xxxvi

(1801)

replaces C. scandens Temminck.

Examination of the Watling drawings confirms this change, j)ointcd out by

Sharpe {Hist. Coll. Brit. Mas. ii. p. 134).

Page 90 : Genus CCLXXXIX. The authority for Dicneum is Cnvier.

Dicaeum is usually quoted as of Cnvier, Rryne Animal, i. p. 41ii, 1817 : a

reference to Vieiliot, Noiiv. Diet, et Hist. Nat. vol. ix. p. 407, 1817, caused me to

look up the dates of these two works.

From the Bibliothi'que Francaiso I gained the following dates of receipt :

La Ecgne Animal, 4 vols, in octavo, each 130 slieets jiliis 1.") jils., Dec. 7, IMG.

Regarding the J\'oue. Diet. 1 obtained :

Prospectus noticed March 9, 1816.

Amended j)rospectus noticed . . . July 20, 1810.

Vols. L, IL, 111. „ ... Sept. 14, 1810.

„ IV., v., VI. „ ... Dec. 14, 1816.

„ VII., Vlll., IX. „ ... March 15, 1817.

„ X., XI., XII. „ ... June 21, 1817.

„ XIII., XIV., XV. noticed . . . Sept. 13, I8l7.

„ XVL, XVIL, XVIIL „ . . . Dec. 27, 1817.

„ XIX., XX., XXL „ . . . May 30, 1818.

„ XXII., XXIII., XXIV. noticed . Sept. 5, 1818.

„ XXV., XXVI., XXVIL „ . Dec. 26, 1818.

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This date regarding Caviar is of much interest, as it has always been known

that it must have been published very early in 181T, so that the fact of its issue

at the end of ISIO is uotevrorthy.

Page 90 : Species 72.5. Pardalotus striafas Gmeliii, .Sy*-/. Nat. i. p. H.Hi:] (1789)

replaces P. ajfinis Gould.

,, 91 : Species 733. Mclitlireptas lamitus Shaw, in Vieillot, Ois. Dor. vol. ii.

p. 122, pi. 61 (1S02)

replaces M. afr/'rajji/li/s iiec Latham.

„ 92 : Species 741. Mclithrcptus atricapUlus Latham, Sappl. lad. Orn.

p. xxxvii (1801)

replaces M. brevirostris Vigors & Horsf.

In the Ibis, p. 55, 1900, North advocated the adoption of Latham's atricapillus

for the bird known as " lunahitus " Shaw. He, however, observed that the

distinguishing character of the latter species was not mentioned.

Sharpe {IJist. Coll. Brit. Mas. ii. p. 128, 1900), from a study of the Watling

drawings, independently proposed the rejection of " Itumlatas''' Shaw, and also

preferred atrii-npilbis for the species previously known under the former name.

The absence of the name-character in the description made me dubious as to tln^

correctness of identifying " lunulatus " and atricapillus. I therefore have carefully

studied the Watling figures, and find that the above alterations are necessar}-.

The fignre upon which atricapillus was founded is ipiite a good picture of the

bird known as brevirostris Vig. & Horsf. It must be remembered that Latham's

descriptions were drawn up from these figures only, and conseipently the colour

vaUies given by Latham depend entirely upon the artists. In the present instance

the fignre shows a dark head, which Latham concluded was black ; but upon

comparing specimens of brcdrostris and luiiatiis (for such is the name Shaw

used) it was seen that the coloration of the figure agreed very well indeed with

that of brevirostris, whereas it disagreed in many particulars with lunatus, which

moreover was thrice well figured in the same set of drawings, Nos. 129, 130, and

131 (cf. Hist. Coll. Brit. Mi/s. ii. p. 132).

Page 94 Genus ccxcvii.

Grantiella nom. nov. replaces Entomophila Gould preoccupied by Horsfield,

Zool. lies. Java 1824.

Page 90 : Species 786. Plilotis noraehollaiuli'ir Latham, Tiidc.r Orn. ii. p. 478

(1790)

replaces P. ornata Gould.

Through misreading the description, Gadow {('at. Birds i.K. p. 242) referred

norachollandiac to aiiricomis Latham.

Page 98 : Species 801. Meliornis iti<jra Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. p. 196. pi. 37

(1811)

replaces ^^. sericea Gould.

,, 100: Species 821. Motacillu Jtaca similliina Hartert, Vij(/. Paliiarkt. Paiina,

iii. p. 289 (1905)

replaces JA buniardi North, Pivc. Liiiii. Soc. Xcw South Wales x.\.\.

p. 579(1900).

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Page 102 : Genus CCCXX. Stizoptera Oberholser, Pror. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pkilad.

p. 215 (1899)

replaces Stictopfera Reichenbach, preoccupied by (iueiu'o, Hist. 2\at.

Insect. Lcpid. vii. p. 51 (1852).

„ 105: Genus CCCXXXI. Calornis is preoccupied, as Mr. Oberholser has

pointed out {Froc'Acad.Nat. Sri. Phihil. p.215, ls99), and he has

proposed to use as substitute Lamprocorax Bonai)arte. In this

lie lias been followed in the Ilnndlist Birds Brit. Miis. v. p. 529,

but I cannot see that there are characteri* to generically separate

this group from Aplonis Gould, and I propose to use that

generic name for species 856.

„ 107 : Species 874. Corvus marianae nom. nov.

rephices C. australis Gould (not C. uiisfralis Gmelin, Sij-^t. Nat.

p. 377, 1788, nor Bechstein, Latham's Voyel, iv. p. 725, 1793).

There are no characters of generic value to separate the species of Corona

Kaup from species of Cordis Linne, and consequently the three Australian species

are all referable to the latter genus.

The following note regarding the nomenclature of the Whcatears and Chats

seems to be of sufficient importance to be recorded.

Saxicola Bechstein, Ornith. Taschenb. i. p. 216 (1802)— type (by subs, desig.

Swainson, 1827),

S. rubicola = Motacilla ruhicola Linn6

must be used for the Chats ; and

Oemnthe Vieillot, Analyse p. 43 (1816)— type (by tautonymy),

Oe. oenanthe = Motacilla oenantke Linn6

for the Wheatears.

In the Ornitli. Taschenb. i. p. 216 (1802) Bechstein introduced Sa.r/cola, and

included therein Motacilla oenanthe L., .1/. rubicola Linne, and .1/. rubetra Linne.

No type was designated, but his figured species was Saxicola rubicola.

Vieillot {Anali/se, p. 43, 1816) proposed Oenanthe, and mentioned as species

Motteux Bnff. (= ifotacilla oenanthe Linne) and Tardus leucurus Latham.

These two are congeneric, and the type by tautonymy is M. oenanthe Linne. In

the Stjst. baier. Zool. p. xxxr, 1810, Koch included in Saxicola several spe(,ues —

viz. Tardus saxatilis Gm., Mot. tithi/s Linne, Mot. phoenicurus Linne, Mot. suecica

Linnd, and Mot. oenanthe Linne, and then provided for Mot. rubetra Linn6 and

Mot. rubicola Linn5 the new genus Pratincola.

Strictly speaking, Koch's action cannot be construed as simple subdivision of

Bechsteiu's genas, and Vieillot's action in naming generically the Wheatears alone

would leave the Chats to bear Bechsteiu's generic name of Saxicola. Thus actually

by elimination we arrive at the results I have given above.

Forster {Sijn. Cat, Brit. Birds, \). 15, lsl7) also gave a generic name to the

Wheatears, taking up Vitijiora, and including the Chats in Curruca with the Robins

and others. At p. 54, however, he placed the Chats {rubicola and rubetra) alone in

Saxicola and preferred Oenanthe for the Wheatear, while the same year Stej)hens

(in Shaw's den. Zool. vol. .\. pi. ii. p. 504) also accepted Vitl/tora without including

the Chats,

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In the TsLi, p. 652, 1822, Boie used Saxicola Bechst. for the two Liiineatl

Chats and Vitijiora for the "Wheatears.

lu the List Genera Birds, p. 22, 1840, Gray used VitiJ/ora with type

1'. oenantke L. for the Wheatears, aud Riibetra with type 7?. rubetra L. for the

Chats. In the 2ad Edition, p. 30 (1841), Gray used Saxicola Bechst., and

designated as type S. oenaMhe L. for the Wheatears, accepting Fruticicola

Macgillivray, with type F. rubetra L. for the Chats. At p. xi he pointed out

that Fruticicola must give way to Pratiiicola Koch.

It is this action which has apparently governed all later systematists, and I

find that the type of Saxicola Bechst. is accepted in the Amer. 0. Union Checklist,

3rd Ed. p. 36.5 (1910) as M. oemnthe L. by snbsq. desig. Gray, 1841.

But even accepting the type by subse(piciit designation method, in preference to

the more accurate one of elimination, the results I have given must be recognised ;

for Swainson, in the Zool. Jourii. iii. p. 172 (1827), absolutely named as type of

Saxicola Bechst. the species Mot. ruhecola Linne, and nothing whatever can be

urged against this action, save that Fratincola Koch had been jiroposed for the

two species of Chats, and I would have allowed this claim in order to preserve

the general acceptation of the names were it not that Fratincola is inacceptable

on account of its prior use by Schrank {Fauna Boica i. p. 209, 1798).

Amandava Blyth, White's Nat. Hist. Selborne, p. 44, note (1836)

replaces Sporaeginflnis Cabauis, Mas. Hein. i. p. 170, 1850.

Blyth writes : " Amandam punctata mihi Fringilla amandava Linn6."

Sporaeginthus included two species, subjlaca Vieill. and amandam Linne, and

though Gray in the Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 70, 1855, designated the former as

type, in the Cat. Birds B. M. vol. xiii. p. 319, 1890, amandam is given as type.

Vaginalis versus Chionis.

In Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 503, 1910, I pointed out that two new genera were

proposed by Forster in the Enchiridion, 1788, and in the Xlllth Ed. Sgstema

Naturae Gmelin also named the same two genera.

Arguing that the two works were of even date, I concluded that both of

Gmelia's names should be preferred on account of his citation of species, inasmuch

as Forster's genera stood upon diagnoses only. Previous to my note one of Forster's

had been used and one rejected, but I had been unable to find any reason for such

action.

My action in preferring Gmelin's names has now been questioned on the score

of priority, the second part of Gmelin's Sgstema Naturae not having been published

until 1789. I therefore endeavoured to settle the matter from tliat stand{)oint.

Hopkinson {Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond. ji. 1035, 1907) has worked out the dates of

Gmelin us far as he could trace. His results are :

Part I. Earliest notice traced 25. vii. 88.

„ II. „ „ „ 20. iv. 89.

„ III. „ „ „ 20. xi. 89.

As in the Index Animalium Sherborn had dated both Parts I. and II. 1788, I

referred to him for data. AVith his usual unfailing courtesy he referred me to the

Gotting. Anzeig., and there I found the notice of Part II. in the Ajjril 20, 1789,

number, p. 041, and I also found, what to me was more important, a notice of

Forster's Enchiridion in the number for March 27, 1788, p. 489.

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Thns, as the earliest date of Gmeliu's Tart I. yet traced, us aliove, is July "Jo,

1788, both Forster's names must be accepted on the grounds of absolute priority.

Consequeutly —

Chionis Forster, Enchiridion p. 37, 1788 (before March 27)

must be resumed instead of Vaginalis Gmclin, 1780 (before Ainil 20),

but—

Callai'u.H Forster, Kncliiriilion p. 35, 1788 (earliest notiec Jlarcli 27)

will rei>lace illaucojiix Gmeliu, .S//.v/. .\(xt. Xlllth Ed. Part 1. [i. 303,

1788 (earliest notice July 2.")).

I would like to jjoiiit out that Maci-orlniiiplias Forster (»Siy/i. Cat. Brit. IMrda

p. 22, r^l7) ajipears to be invalidated by the prior use of the same name bj'

G. Fischer in the Zoognoisia i. p. 91 (1813).

Limnodromux Neuwied (1833) seems to be the next name to use.

Gallirallas Lafresnaye, Rcc. Zool. iv. p. 243 (1841), must be used for the

Woodhens of Xcw Zealand, the well-known Oci/dronas liaving been used by

Schelleuberg {Ilelcet. Eiitomol. vol. ii. p. 1(3, 18U(5) twenty-four years i)rior to

A\'agler"s use. (I liave been asked to include this note by Mr. Tom Iredale.)

Micropsitta Lesson, Traiti; d''Orii. p. 640 (1831)

replaces Xaaiterna Wagler, AbliawH. Ak. Wisscnscli. MiciiclteH i.

p. 498 (1832).

Aratinga Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 29 (1824)

replaces (\>ii>ir'i$ Knhl, Mon. Psitt. p. 4, 1820 (not proposed

generically).

The reasons for these changes 1 have given when dealing with Solcnoglossus

liauzani.

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TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN BIRDS.

Ky (JREGORY M. MATHEWS.

1. Gerygone albigularis rogersi sulisp. nov.

Differs from G. a. alhiijularis Gould in being paler above and mucb smaller

ill size. The average measurement of the wing of G. a. alh'ujidaris is OU mm ,

that of G. a. roger^i being 5o ram.

Ilab. Derb}-, North-West Australia.

Type : No. 63.jU in my own collection.

Collected by and called iu honour of Mr. J. P. Rogers, my collector for

many years.

The following is a description of the nest and eggs of the above bird ; the

clutch also contained an egg of CI(alcococci/x miKitfilliis Gould.

The nest was situated iu a j)aper-bark tree, about 4 feet from the ground,

and was suspended from a pendent twig. It was composed of fine strips of

paper-bark, cow-hair, and pieces of native silk, and the edges of the nest were

woven into the branch from which it hung. It was first lined with a layer of

rootlets and stiff grass, and then a layer of cow-hair and rootlets, and then some

silk-like native cotton. The entrance was in the side, and had a hood over the

hole. A ' tail-piece ' about 5 inches long hnng from the bottom of the nest.

Dimensions: outside, 2J inches x ','J and .51 inches deep; inside, 11 inches x IJ

and 21 inches deep. Taken December 0, lUlO, at Derby, North- West Australia.

The eggs are clutch three : ground-colour, white with a zone of red, irregular

shaped spots round the larger end ; and these spots also sparingly distributed

over the rest of the surface. Dimensions : 1 60 x 11 mm. The clutch also

contained an egg of Chalcococajx miiuitillii^, which is of a lighter colour than

the egg of C. jAayosus. The measurements are 19 x 12 mm.

This bird is not the same as Gerifjone ciiierascens Sharpe (I have examined

the type), which does not occur in Australia, but was so called by Dr. Hartert

{Xoc. Zool. xii. p. 221), and by myseU (£mii, ix. p. .5i), 1909).

2. Alisterus cyanopygius minor subsp. nov.

Differs from A. c. cyanopygius Vieillot iu its much smaller size. Measurements

of the wing of six males of A. c. cyaaopyyias gives 209 to 216 mm.; that of the

same number of A. c. minor gives 188 to 198 mm.

Hub. Cairns, North Queensland.

Type : No. 332 in my own collection.

I take the opportunity of giving a description of the eggs of Po'cphila

pcrsonnta bdchiiri Mathews :

Clutch four, white, without gloss; 18 — 10 by 13—12 mm.

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NEW SYXTOJIIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM.

By tub Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

1. Pseudosphex klagesi .sp. nov.

(?. Head black; tegnlae orange-yellow; thorax brown; patagia with wide

orano-e-vcllow bands, mctathorax with transverse )-ellow band ; antennae black ;

first three segments of abdomen rnfous, rest black ; coxae and tiliiae of forelegs

white ; ventral valve white tinged with rufons ; legs pale rufous. Forewing

iiyaline on inner half, costal half deep brown, inner area between margin and

vein 1 brown for its basal half; hind wing hyaline.

Length of forewing: 130 mm.

Ilal). Corosita, Caara River, Venezuela, June l'.iU4 (S. M. Klages), 1 S.

'2. Pseudosphex garleppi sp. nov.

c?. Fore coxae white, fore tibiae black, tarsi pale yellow ; hind and middle

coxae black, tibiae and tarsi yellow ; ventral valve white ; head and thorax black,

collar yellow, patagia yellow with black centre, two lateral lines and a transverse

line on thorax yellow ; antennae rufons brown, yellow at apical fourth ; abdomen

black. Forewing hyaline, margins and nervnres brown rnfous, apical portion

clouded with brown from end of cell to termeu between costa and vein o.

Length of forewing : lo mm.

J£ab. Yangas de Coroico, Bolivia, 1800 metres (Garlepp), 1 t?.

3. Pseudosphex exsul sj). nov.

(?. Head, antennae, tliorax, and abdomen deeii black ; legs orange-brown ;

ventral valve faintly ontlined with pale grey. Forewing hyaline, the basal

two-thirds brownish orange, apical third more greyish, basal two-thirds of costa

and inner margin brown ; hindwing greyish hyaline.

Length of forewing : 1~ mm.

Jfab. ? 2 (J c? (probably from pins and setting, Rio de .Janeiro or

Sta. Catherina).

4. Pseudosphex steinbachi sp. nov.

(J. Head golden yellow : antennae rufons ; leg.s orange-rufous ; thorax chestnut

with paler edges to patagia; first two segments of abdomen chestnut, third segment

])ale chestnut with broad transverse black band, rest of abdomen black.

Forewing orange-hyaline, costa and inner margin chestnut, ajiical area beyond cell

clouded with brown ; hindwing hyaline-yellow.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Jfab. Venezuela: La Vuelta, Canra River, May 1903, i d S ; Corosita,

Caura River, Jnne 19u4, 4 c?c? (S. M. Klages). Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,

1905—1906 (Jose Steinbach), 1 6. Type S, La Vuelta.

5. Sphecosoma trinitatis sp. nov.

<S. Legs gamboge-yellow; pali)i pale Icmon-ycIIow ; antennae bright rufous;

head and thorax yellow, a transverse line on vertex and two narrow transverse lines

on tegnlae black ; a longitudinal line on the jiatagia and two on thorax black ;

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first two segments of abdomen dull brownish yellow, a band of rufons brown on

second segment, rest of segments black, each with a narrow band of dull brownish

3-ellow on front edge, Wings hyaline, costal and inner margins of forewing

brownish yellow.

Length of forewing : 14 mm.

Hab. Caparo, Trinidad, December 1905 (S. M. Klages), 4 cJc?.

6. Sphecosoma aurantiipes sp. nov.

(?. Legs orange; whole nnderside gamboge-yellow; palpi and frons yellow;

vertex black ; tegnlae, basal half golden yellow, apical half black ; patagia yellow,

edged externally with black ; thorax black, mesothorax edged with yellow, meta-

thorax yellow ; first segment of abdomen horn-brown, rest black edged with

bright yellow. AVings hyaline, basal three-fourths of costa and inner margin

orange.

Length of forewing : 14 mm.

Hab. Corosita, Canra River, Vencznela, June 1904, 1 <? ; San Estebau, Vene-

zuela, June 1009 (S. M. Klages), 5 c?c? ; Sapncay, Paraguay, June 1902 (\V.

Foster), 1 ? ; Encorado, Department of Sta. Uruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (J. Steinbach),

1 S. Type c?, San Estebau.

The Paraguayan ? and Bolivian 6 are much smaller than the other six

specimens; length of forewing, 10 mm.

7. Sphecosoma rufipes sp. nov.

(?. At first sight resembles a discoloured specimen of S. anjiutatum Moeschl.,

but is quite distinct. Legs orange-rufous ; palpi white ; head black, a transverse

yellow line behind base of antennae ; antennae, basal two-thirds black-brown,

apical third orange-red ; tegnlae orange with transverse black line ; thorax orange

with black lines ; first segment of abdomen rufous brown, rest black-brown with

orange-bufF edges. Wings broad and ronnded hyaline, with orange-brown

margins.

Length of forewing, 10 mm. ; breadth of forewing, 8 mm.

Hub. La Vuelfa, Caura liiver, Venezuela, May 1904 (S. M. Klages), 1 S.

8. Sphecosoma mathani sp. nov.

c?. Legs orange, fore coxae lemon-yellow: antennae rufous brown; head and

palpi yellow ; tegulae orange with narrow black edges ; patagia yellow edged with

black ; thorax yellow with black central band ; abdomen orange with segmental

slate-bine rings. Wings hyaline, costa of forewing and base of inner margin

dark yellow, outer margin narrowly black, expanding considerably at termen from

vein 6 to costa above vein 8.

Length of forewing ; 14 mm.

Ilab. Tefi'e, Amazon, September 1907 (M. de Mathan), 26 SS.

0. Isanthrene schausi sji. nov.

? . Legs, head, and palpi orange ; antennae black ; thorax and abdomen deep

rufous orange. Forewing hyaline, base of wing, costa, and basal half of inner

margin orangi', apical half nl' inner margin black, fringe of outer margin black,

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wider between tornns aud vein 2, termen betweeu vein o and costa very broadly

bliU'k ; bindwiiig hyaline, terracn black.

liCngtli (if t'orewinir : 14-.j mm.

ll'il). lluatnxco, Vera Crnz, Jloxico, 1 ?.

111. Isanthrene cajetani sp. nov.

■ S. I-i<'gs brown-bliick, fore C(i.\ae white; jialiii black; head golden yellow;

antennae, basal three-fifths above scarlet, apical two-fifths oranije-yellow ; tegnlae

aud i)atagia golden yellow edged with black ; thorax golden yellow with black

bands ; abdomen golden yellow, except apical segment, with a black ring on each

segment, apical segment black with two subdorsal yellow spots. Wings deep

iiyaline-yellow, costa basal four-fifths golden orange, inner margin black with

orauge-yellow streaks, outer margin black, expanding enormously at termen between

veins 4 and 9.

Length of forewiug : ^"^ mm.

J lab. Central America (Felder coll.), o c?c?.

11. Isanthrene drucei ■>v- nov.

S- Legs (lark cinnamon-rufous, middle and hind tarsi iiUu-k-brown, fore coxae

white ; palpi yellow ; head yellowish wliite ; antennae brownish crimson-rnfuus :

tegulae, jiatagia, and thorax dull buff-yellow edged and streaked with black ;

abdomen deep steel-blue-black, first segment with two white longitudinal dorsal

patches with yellow centres, a pair of dorso-latcral transverse dull buffy yellow

l>atches on segments 2, 3, and 4. AViugs hyaline-yellow washed irregularly with

brown between the nervures, margins except costa of forewing black, the termen of

forewiug with broad black patch betweeu veins 4 and 9 ; base of hiudwiug yellow.

Length of forewing : 2it mm.

llab. Colombia, 1 cJ.

12. Isanthrene tryhanei sp. nov.

?. Legs, co.xae black, femora half black half crimson, fore and middle tibiae

crimson, hind tibiae black ti[iped with crimson, tarsi black ; palpi black ; Irons

black with central yellow sjwt ; vertex black ; antennae crimson orange-rufous ;

thorax velvety black ; abdomen except last three segments velvety black with

a median steel-blue spot on each segment, two subdorsal yellow spots on first

segment, and two lateral yellow streaks on second segment, last three segments

of abdomen ste(d-blue. Wings deeii hyaline-yellow, basal two-thirds of costa

of forewing orange-yellow, inner margin black, the basal half widest, reaching vein 1,

outer margin black, e.xiianding widely at termen between veins 4 and 'J, abdominal

area of hindwing and margins black.

Length of forewing : 20 mm., x 14 in breadth.

llab. !St. Ann's, Trinidad (V. E. Tryhaue), 1 ?.

K3. Isanthrene columbiana sp. nov.

? . Differs from /. tn/hanci in having entirely black legs, aud much broader

forewings, which are ji.aler hyaline-yellowish ; the costa of forewiiigs is orange-

yellow for four-lifihs of its length, and basal half of inner margin orange-yellow.

Length of forewing : 26 mm. ; breadth 10 mm.

llab. ]5ogota, Colombia, 1 ¥.

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14. Autochloris mathani sp. nov.

9. (toxae wlaite ; palpi black; head black, a glittering blue spot oa vertex;

tegnlae glittering blue ; thorax and patagia black ; first segment of abdomen buff,

segments 2 to 7 brilliant metallic blue with black rings on each segment, a median

dorsal black line, last segment black tipped with cinnabar-red. Forewing

hyaline-jellow, apical fourth black, basal half of costa yellow, rest of margins and

uervnres black, a basal orange slrcak between vein 1 and inner margin, a disco-

cellular black stigma; hindwing liyaliue-whitish, margins black.

Length of forewing : 20 mm.

Ilab. Cananche, Cnndinamarca, Colombia, August 1003 (M. de Matliau), 1 ? ;

Colombia,! ?. Type ?, Cananche.

15. Sarosa boenninghauseni sp. nov.

S. Allied to S. acutior Feld. Pectus black; antennae reddish orange; legs

black, tarsi bright orange, a blue metallic patch at base of tibiae ; palpi orange ;

head black, collar dull orange ; thorax black with a few orange hairs ; abdomen

black with steel-blue lateral spots on each segment, a transverse yellow bar

on first segment and a narrow yellow ring on segments 2 and 3. Forewin"'

hyaline-brownish yellow, costa, discocellular bar, and basal half of inner margin

deep orange, a subbasal spot above vein 1, the torual half of the inner margin,

and the outer margin sooty grey-brown ; hindwing hyaline-yellow, margins and

large patch at toruus sooty grej'-brown.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Hub. Province of llio de Janeiro ?

Hi. Sarosa klagesi sp. nov.

¥ . Pectus and coxae black ; tibiae metallic blue with a black central ring,

tarsi bright orange ; palpi black, frons black edged with yellow, vertex metallic

violet-blue, collar yellow ; tcgulae, patagia, and thorax black, a yellow spot at

base of tegnlae and patagia ; abdomen black with dorsal and lateral sjiots of

metallic viulct-blue. Forewing hyaline-yellow, margins, termen, and nervures

black, a metallic blue spot at base of wing; hindwing hyaline-yellow, margins

and patch at tornus black.

Hub. San Esteban, Venezuela, June 1009 (S. M. Klages), 1 ?.

17. Gymnelia chimaera sp. nov.

S . This extraordinary insect belongs to the cocho section of Gi/miiclia. Legs

black-brown ; frons greyish ; palpi and vertex black ; collar metallic blue ; tegnlae

metallic blue edged with black ; thorax black, a brilliant metallic blue-green

patch on metathorax ; abdomen black, a pair of brilliant metallic green subdorsal

patches on first three segments, and two rows of subdorsal and lateral blue points

on rest of segments. Forewing black, brownish on outer area, a patch of metallic

blue scales occupying intrauervular spaces from vein 2 to 0 and a streak of such

scales in cell, a hyaline spot in base of cell and another below base ; hindwing

reduced to a tuft of l)lack hair about 2 mm. long.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

llab. La Union, Kio Huacamayo, Carabava, 2o0ii ft., wet season, November

I'JU-i (.a. IS. OckendeuJ, 1 6.

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18. Gymnelia boettgeri sp. nov.

?. Pectus orange; legs blackish olive; antennae black; Lead, thorax, and

abdomen ^^reenish olive. Wings pale hyaline-yellow, nervnres and margins

black, forewing costa basal two-fifths liyaline, base of forewing and inner area

of hindwing with tornus broadly olive, the inner area of hindwing clothed with

thick and long hairs.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Hah. Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 0000—10,000 ft. (E. Boettger), 1 ?.

19. Gymnelia baroni sp. nov.

$. Coxae orange-bnff, femora black tii)ped with metallic bine, tibiae orange,

with metallic bine bases, tarsi basal half orange, apical half Mack; antennae black;

frons black with crescentic orange spot ; vertex and tegnlae metallic blue edged

with black; patagia orange, external half black; thorax black; basal segment

of abdomen bull' with large black patch, rest of abdomen metallic steel-blue

edged with black and with broad deep orange segmental rings and a median

dorsal row of orange spots joined to the rings. Forewing hyaline-yellow, basal

two-fifths of costa yellow, rest black, inner margin broadly sooty brown-black,

onter margin black, expanding at termen ; hindwing paler hyaline-yellow, tornus

and onter margin black, inner area hyaline.

Length of forewing : 24 mm.

llab. Zamora, Ecuador, 3000— 4000 ft. (U. T. Baron), 1 S ; Huancabamba,

Cerro de Pasco, Peru (E. Boettger), 1 S.

20. Gymnelia doncasteri sp. nov.

?. Coxae of forelegs orange, tibiae and tarsi black and orange; palpi orange,

third joint black ; antennae black ; head orange with black patches at base of

antennae, tegnlae basal half black, onter half deep orange ; patagia and thorax

deep orange streaked with black ; abdomen deep orange broadly ringed with

black and paired subdorsal metallic blue spots on last three segments. Forewing

hyaline-white, nervnres and fringes black, termen black, basal half of costa

hyaline-yellow, basal half of inner margin broadly black with a yellow basal

streak ; hindwing hyaline-white, fringes black, inner area forming broad lapjiet

reaching two-thirds of the way to tornus black, clothed with long hair.

Length of forewing : IT mm.

llab. Caracas, Venezuela, 1 ?.

21. Phoenicoprocta baeri sp. nov.

(?. Fore coxae white with red dots at base; palfii Mack; aiiteniiae Mack,

tijis white ; head and tegnlae metallic blue ; thorax and abdomen black with

median metallic blue line, a dirty buff band on penultimate segment and anal

tuft basally black, anteriorly dark crimson. Forewing black, basal two-thirds

of cell and a large patch below it hyaline-white, the latter extending from base

along space between vein 1 and median nervure halfway to outer margin; hindwing

hyaline-white, costa broadly and outer third of wing black.

Lengtli of forewiuK : 13 mm.

llab. Fa/.cnda Espcranea, Kio Uruhu, Goyas, Brazil, TOO metres, December

IDOo (G. A. Baer), 1 i.

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22. Phoenicoprocta steinbachi sp. nov.

(?. Fore coxae white ; legs black, liiud tarsi white ; palpi black ; antennae

black, tips white ; head and tegnlae metallic green-bine ; patagia and thorax

black streaked with metallic green-bliie ; abdomen dull black, a median line

of pale grey dots, anal tuft crimson. Wings hyaline-wliite, all borders black

and very wide, a large discocellular black stigma joined to costa and onter margin,

widely expanded at termen in forewings.

Length of forewing : 16 mm.

Ilah. Bnenavista, East Bolivia, TOO metres, April 1907 (Jose Steinbach),

2 $$.

23. Pheia costalis sp. nov.

$. Underside of body bright orange ; fore and middle legs orange with black

marks on inside, hindlegs orange with a black band on tibia and tarsi ; frons

silvery white ; palpi black ; antennae black ; thorax orange with black spots ;

abdomen except two last segments orange with median row of black spots, a

grey dot in the centre of the one on second segment, last two segments black

with grey-bine patches. ^Wings hyaline-white, forewing with base of wing

and basal four-fifths of costa brilliant orange, subbasal third of inner margin

black, rest bright orange, tornus black, outer margin black, expanding widely

at termen ; hindwing, outer margin black, costa orange, inner area black with

fringe of orange hairs.

Length of forewing : 13 mm.

Ilah. Yungas de la Paz, Bolivia, 1000 metres, December 1899 (Garlepp), 1 $.

24. Loxophlebia klagesi sp. nov.

S. Fore coxae white, fore femora and tibiae black, fore tarsi white, hind and

middle legs black, white on inner side ; palpi black ; frons white ; antennae black

with white tips ; vertex black ; tegulae black with basal white lines ; patagia,

basal half crimson, rest brown-black ; thorax brown-black ; abdomen black,

basal segment white, second segment with two bufiSsh white subdorsal patches ;

ventral valve white, enormous, covering underside of abdomen to penultimate

segment. Wings hjaline-white, margins black, forewings with margins

exj)anded widely at termen and a discocellular black bar.

Ilah. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam, February 1905,4 SS\

Albina, Surinam, January 1905, 2 Si\ Maripa, Caura River, Venezuela, 2 iS\

Caporo, Trinidad, January 1900, 1 S (S. M. Klages). Type c?, Aroewarwa Creek.

One $ from the Caura has jiaired subdorsal scarlet i)atches on third and fourth

abdominal segments, and the Trinidad $ has a scarlet lateral dot on each side

of the fourth segment, while one Aroewarwa i has the abdomen entirely black.

25. Loxophlebia rufescens sp. nov.

(?. Fore coxae white ; legs black ; a white spot below base of forewings ;

frons white ; antennae black, apical third white ; vertex black ; thorax liright

cinnabar-orange ; basal segment of abdomen black with two vertical subdorsal

buffy white bands, rest of abdomen bright cinnabar-orange ; ventral surface of

abdomen black ; ventral valve white, enormous. Wings hyaline-white, margins

black, base of forewing orange, termen broadly black, a black discocellular bar.

Length of forewing : 12 mm.

Hah. Maripa, Caura River, Venezuela (S. M. Klages), 1 S.

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2ti. Loxophlebia cosmosomoides sp. nov.

?. Fore coxae bnfF; legs yellow, outside of tibiae lilaik ; paljii yellow ; head

and antennae blark ; slionlders yellow; thorax black, metatliorax oranijje; abdomen

rufous oranjre, sixth and seventh segments black. AVings hyaline-white ; costa

of forewing black, basal fifth hyaline, discoeellnlar bar black, veins 3, 4, 5, and 6

orange, rest black, inner margin basal half narrow black, apical half and tornus

widely black, including outer halves of veins 1 and 3, outer margin and ai)ical

two-fifths of wing black : hindwiiig, nervures, inner area, and costa orange, outer

margin and ai>ical two-fifths black.

Length of forewing : 1» mm.

I/iil>. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, f^urinam, .July 1905 (S. M. Klages),

1 <?.

27. Loxophlebia semiflava sp. nov.

cJ. Legs brown-black, fure coxae and innerside of hind tibiae white ; frons

white ; jialpi black ; antennae black, apical fifth white ; vertex an<l tegulae lilack ;

thorax black, orange patches at base of patagia; abdomen orange-yellow, a narrow

black band on basal segment. Wings hyaline-white, forewing with margins,

nervures, and discoeellnlar bar black, expanding at termen ; hindwing with margins

and nervures black. Ventral valve large and brown.

Ifii//. Corosita, C'aura River, Jnne 19ii4, and Marijia, ('aura River, Venezucda

(S. M. Klages), 2 ^S. Type c?, Corosita.

28. Chrostosoma viridipunctatum sp. nov.

?. Differs from ? of /enestrina Bull, in the wings being entirely hyaline

and the discoeellnlar bar forming a wide black-brown band across the forewing,

joining both costal and inner margins ; a bright metallic green jjatch on meta-

thorax and lateral rows of similar patches on abdomen.

Length of forewing : 1.5 mm.

//a//. Yungas de la Paz, Bolivia, November 1890, Mod metres (Garlep])),

1 ?.

29. Chrostosoma schausi sp. nov.

?. Legs black-brown, metallic green patches on tibiae, hind tarsi whitish;

antennae black; shoulders below tegulae crimson; head and thorax metallic

green ; abdomen metallic green with narrow black rings and median dorsal

line, bivsal segment crimson. Wings hyaline-white ; forewing, basal two-fifths

of costa hyaline, rest black, tornus, outer and inner margins, a broad discal

transverse band, and terminal fifth of wing black ; hindwing, tornus and outer

fourth of wing black.

7/«i. Chirirpii, Panama, I ?; Paramba, West Ecuador, 1 ?. Type ?,

< 'liirii|ui.

30. Leucotomis felderi sp. iu)v.

?. Legs wood-brown; head black; antennae black, apical two-fifths white;

thorax black, tegulae and patagia orange ; abdomen orange, median dorsal line

and last two segments black. Wings hyaline-yellowish, basal third of both

wings orange ; forewing, outer half of inner margin, large discoeellnlar patch,

outer two-thirds of costa, and outer margin black, the latter strongly expanded

at tornus and termen ; hindwing, outer third, outer margin, and tornus lilack.

I

( SI )

(J. Similar.

Length of forewing : 11 lura.

link Amazon River (Fekler coll.), 3 JJ, 3 ? ?. Typo ?.

31. Cosmosoma brinkleyi sp. nov.

9 . Fore and middle coxae scarlet, tibiae and tarsi black-brown, liindlegs

scarlet ; palpi black ; antennae black, tips white ; frons metallic blue, vertex black

with central bine spot ; tegnlae and spot below them metallic blue ; thorax metallic

bine, patagia scarlet edged outwardly with lilack ; abdomen scarlet, last two

segments black, a median dorsal and lateral lines of triangular metallic blue

patches edged with black. Forewing hyaline-white, base scarlet, nervures,

discocellular bar, margins, and terminal fourth of wing black ; liindwing hyaline-

white, termcn, margins, and nervures black.

Length of lorewing : 22-o mm.

Ildh. Coreato, Oaura Valley, folombia (Paine & liriukley), 1 ?.

32. Cosmosoma garleppi sp. nov.

¥. Pectus and fore coxae dark yellow, fore tibiae and tarsi and middle and

hind legs black-brown ; antennae black, tips white ; head and tegnlae black spotted

with metallic blue ; thorax dark yellow, patagia edged outwardly with black ;

abdomen black, lateral large yellow patches on first five segments and metallic

blue patches on the rest. Forewing hyaline-white, nervures, margins, disco-

cellular patch, and apical fourth of wing black : liindwing hyaline-white, margins,

nervures, and apical fourth of wing black.

Length of forewing : 2.j ram.

Ilab. Yuiigas de Coroico, Bolivia, 18iM) metres, March 1007 (Otto Garlepp),

1 ?.

33. Cosmosoma oroyanum sp. nov.

c?. Fore coxae brick-red, fore tibiae and tarsi and middle and hind legs black-

brown ; antennae black, tips white ; head, tegnlae, and outer edge of patagia

black with metallic blue spots ; thorax and rest of patagia brick-red ; abdomen

black with a median dorsal row of metallic blue spots, a lateral brick-red band

on each side of first four segments and lateral metallic bine spots on apical fourth ;

anal valve black-brown with two large white lateral patches. Wings hyaline-

white, nervures and margins black, the latter exjianding at termen.

Length of forewing : 19 mm.

Hub. La Oroya, liio Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., dry season, September 1904

(G. R. Ockenden), 2 H.

34. Cosmosoma mathani sp. nov.

?. Legs black-brown, fore coxae crimson; palpi and frons black, vertex

metallic blue ; antennae black, a broad white band before tip ; thorax brilliant

dark crimson ; abdomen black, subdorsal crimson patches on basal segment, last

segment and subdorsal patches on rest metallic green. Forewing hyaline-white,

large discocellular patch, terminal two-fifths of wing, margins, and nervures black ;

liindwing hyaline-white, termen, outer margin, and nervures black.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Ilab. La Palma, Cundinamarca, Colombia, August 1902 (M. de Mathan),

1 ?.

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3."i. Cosmosoma bricenoi sji. nov.

?. Legs black, 'fore coxae orange; palpi and antennae black; frons orange

with central black spot; collar deep orange; tegnlae and patagia deep orange

with black bands ; thorax black with central dark orange band ; abdomen black,

a central band of bine metallic s]iots and lateral blue spots on last three segments,

lateral vertical dark orange longitudinal patches on tirst four segments. Wings

hyaline-white, forewing, termen, nervures, inner margin, and fringe of outer

margin black, a patch above basal third of inner margin and basal two-thinls

of costal region yellow ; hindwing, inner area and fringe of margins black.

Length of forewing : 18 mm.

Ilab. Merida, Venezuela, November 1808 (Briccno), 1 ?.

30. Cosmosoma carabayanum sp. nov.

?. Legs golden yellow, inside of tibiae black; palpi golden yellow, tiji of

third joint black ; head and tegnlae golden yellow edged with black ; j)atagia

golden yellow edged with black ; thorax black with central yellow line ; antennae

black ; abdomen black, first four segments banded with bright yellow, fifth segment

banded only at sides, dorsal metallic green-blue patches on fourth and fiftii

segments, broad metallic green-blue bauds on last three segments. Forewing

hyaline-white, termen, outer margin, and nervures black, basal half of inner

margin and costa yellow ; hindwing hyaline-white, fringes and nervures black,

inner area forming large hairy lobe, basal half yellow, rest black.

Length of forewing: IT mm.

Ilab. Santo Domingo, C'arabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft, dry season, Jnne and

July 1902, 2 ? ?, and Tinguri, C'arabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., dry season, August 1004,

1 ? (G. R. Ockenden). Type ? , Santo Domingo, June.

37. Cosmosoma viridicingulatum sp. nov.

?. Legs brown, tarsi whitish, fore coxae metallic blue-green ; antennae black ;

head black spotted with orange and metallic green, tegnlae and patagia black

banded with orange and spotted with metallic green ; thorax black marked with

metallic green ; abdomen above dark rufous orange banded with broad metallic

green bands edged with black. Wings hyaliue-j-ellow ; forewing, nervures,

margins, terminal half of costa and termen black-brown, a metallic green spot at

base ; hindwing with inner area, fringes, and nervures black.

Length of forewing : 10 mm.

Hab. Ecuador, 1 ? .

38. Cosmosoma baroni sp. nov.

(?. Legs brown, fore femora metallic blue outside, hind and middle tarsi

banded buff; antennae black-brown ; head and thorax deep black spotted with

small metallic deep blue spots ; abdomen black with subdorsal metallic blue

spots, terminal segment deep orange, a yellow narrow ring on segments 3 and 4.

Wings hyaline-yellow ; forewing, inner margin, termen, fringe of outer margin,

and nervures black, a metallic blue basal sjiot ; hindwing, nervures, fringes, and

tornus black, inner area semihyaline-white.

Length of forewing: 18 mm.

Hub. Zamora, Ecuador, 3000—4000 ft. (0. T. Baron), 1 S.

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30. Cosmosonia flavicostale sp. nov.

<?. Lesjs black, tarsi jialo sulpliui', fore coxae lianded with white; head black

a white dot at base of antennae; antennae deep brown, rufous tips ; tegulae black

with metallic blue centres ; patagia dnll )'e]]ow with black enter margins ; thorax

black with central yellow line ; abdomen black glossed with steel-bine, first two

segments with narrow pale sulphur rings, the third, fourth, and fifth segments

with orange rings. Wings hyaline-yellow ; forewing, costal and basal three-

fourths of inner margin deep orange, nervures and outer margin black expanding

to termen ; hindwing, hyaline-whitish, costa orange, nervures and margins black.

?. Similar.

Ilab. Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, 310U ft., dry season, June 1904, 1 S ; Santo

Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6500 ft., January 1903, 1 c? ; La Oroya, Rio

Inambari, Pern, wet season, October 1004, 2 ? ¥ (G. R. Ockenden). Type c?, Rio

Huacamayo.

40. Cosmosoma steinbachi sp. nov.

(J. Legs black, inner side dirty ochraceous, tarsi yellow ; palpi brownish ; frons

yellow ; antennae brown ; vertex black with metallic blue dots ; tegulae yellow

with black central spots ; i)atagia and thorax black streaked with yellow ; abdomen

above black with subdorsal rows of metallic green-blue spots, first segment and

interspaces between rest of segments yellow. Wings hyaline-yellow ; forewing

with fringes, termen, and nervures black, basal half of inner margin dark yellow ;

hindwing, fringes, tornus, and nervures black.

?. Similar.

Length of forewing : 16 mm.

Ilab. Buenavista, East Bolivia, 750 metres, August 1900— April 1907 (Jos

Steinbach). Type <?.

41. Cosmosoma simillimum sp. nov.

(?. Allied to turapotensis Druce. Legs orange, fore coxae pale sulphur ; palpi

orange, antennae brown, head yellow ; tegulae yellow with central black spots ;

patagia and thorax black with broad yellow bands ; abdomen above black with

broad sulphur bands and subdorsal lines of metallic blue spots. Wings hyaline

pale yellow ; forewing with termen, nervures, and margins black, base of wing

yellow with black central spot, a band of dark yellow on basal half of inner margin ;

hindwing with nervures, margin, and tornus black.

Length of forewing : 19 mm.

Hab. Amazon River, 2 S <S .

42. Cosmosoma metallicum sp. nov.

?. Legs black, coxae, femora, and i>roximal half of tibiae metallic green-

blue ; head and thorax metallic green-blue edged with black ; abdomen black with

subdorsal and ventro-lateral rows of metallic green-blue spots, interspaces between

first four segments orange. Wings hyaline-yellow ; forewing, basal three-fifths of

costa hyaline-orange, rest of costa, inner margin, narrow discocellnlar bar, nervures,

and terminal fifth of wing black ; hindwing, nervures, margins, and toniHS black.

A c? from the Felder collection labelled " Amazon River" is, I believe, the S

of this species, but it is in very bad condition.

Length of forewing : 21 mm.

Ilab. Bogota, 1 ? ; Amazon River, 1 S ? (Felder coll.). Type ? , Bogotsl.

3

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4:^. Cosmosoma ichneumonoides sp. nov.

<?. Legs, antennae, head, and thorax rafous orange ; abdomen black, basal

segment and broad bands on segments 2, 3, and 4 rnfous orange. Wings

hyaliue-yellow with orange nervures ; costa, base of forewing, basal two-thirds of

inner margin, and discocellular bar cinnabar-red.

Length of forewing : I'J mm.

Ilab. .Santa Ornz do la Sierra, East Bolivia, 1005-0 (Jos6 Steinbach), 1 c?.

44. Cosmosoma stuarti sp. nov.

?. Distingnished at once from (.'. cillia Urnce by the black margins to the

wings and the black termen ; also the black bands on the abdomen are mnch wider.

Ilab. Iqnitos (Maxwell Stnart), 1 ?;?!(?. Type ¥, Iiinitos.

4.i. Cosmosoma venatum sp. nov.

?. Legs orange ringed with brown; jialpi black; frons white, vertex and

antennae black ; tcgulae orange ; patagia and thorax orange spotted with black ;

abdomen orange, segmental interspaces and lateral rows of spots black.

Wings h)-aline-yellow ; forewing, apical fifth, toruns, and vein 2 and median

nervure black, rest of veins, costa from end of cell, discocellular bar, inner margin

and onter margin between veins 2 and 3 bright orange ; hindwing, veins, fringes,

and termen black, costa orange.

Length of forewing : l.j mm.

Hub. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, 0500 ft., January 1903 (G. R. Ockenden),

1 ?.

46. Cosmosoma dubium sp. nov.

?. Legs black-brown, hind tibiae aad tarsi yellow, fore coxae metallic blue ;

antennae brown ; head and thorax black spotted with metallic blue, palagia bright

yellow; abdomen bright yellow, last three segments black with subdorsal blue

.spots, a black patch with blue spot ou basal segment and a triangular metallic

blue spot on segments 2, 3, and 4. Wings hyaline-white ; forewing, discocellular

bar and nervures black, termen widely black, costa and inner margin bright

yellow, outer margin yellow edged with black ; hindwing, margins and nervures

black, costa yellow.

Length of forewing : 10 mm.

Ilab. Jamaica (Folder coll.), 1 ?.

47. Cosmosoma crathidinum sp. nov.

t?. Allied to cratha and cratlddia of Druce. Differs in having the wings

wholly hyaline with broad black margins and a scarlet round jjatch on each

side of abdomen.

Uab. ? 2 Si.

48. Cosmosoma citrinum sp. nov.

? . Legs yellow, tarsi brown ; jialpi, antennae, and head black ; thorax yellow

with two median black spots ; abdomen yellow with median dorsal row of black

spots. Wings hyaline-white, nervures and margins brown, discocellular bar

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of forcwing black, bases of wings jellow, the wide brown termen of forewing

densely powdered witb yellow scales.

Length of forewing : 21 mm.

Ilab. ? (Felder coll.), 1 ? .

49. Cosmosoma rosenbergi sp. nov.

? . Legs orange, tarsi black-brown ; head and thorax black with metallic

bine spots, metathorax orange with central metallic blue spot ; abdomen orange,

last two segments black with subdorsal and lateral metallic blue spots. Wings

hyaliue-wbite ; forewing, outer half of costa, discocelhilar bar, uervures, outer

half of inner margin, outer margin and terminal fifth of wing black, basal half

of wing below \n and basal half of costa orange ; hindwing, basal third, inner

area, and costa orange, termen, margin, and tornus black.

c?. Similar, but less orange on wings, and a median dorsal black streak.

Length of forewing : 20 mm.

Hab. Cachabe, West Ecuador, low country, January 189T (W. H. Rosenberg),

1 ¥ ; Paramba, West Ecuador, 3500 ft., dry season, March 18'J7(W. H. Rosenberg),

1 S. Type ¥, Cachabfi.

50. Cosmosoma parambae sp. nov.

? . Differs from caecum Druce by the brown, not orange-red, costa and inner

margin (the latter with a fulvous yellow streak), by the lemon-yellow bases (not

orange-red) to the hindwings and abdomen, by the browner thorax mixed with

fuscous yellow, and by the outer margin of forewing being much constricted

between veins 3 and 4, and much expanded between tornns and vein 3 ; the

discocelhilar bar much narrower ; whole insect smaller.

Length of forewing : caecum, ? 27 mm. ; S 22 mm.

„ „ „ parambae, ? 20 mm. ; c? 19 mm.

(?. Similar, but streak on inner margin stronger.

Ilab. Paramba, Ecuador, 35o0 ft., dry season, January — May 1897 (W\ F. H.

Rosenberg), 2(?c?, 2 ?? ; Rio Cayapas, North- West Ecuador (Flemming &,

Miketta), 1 ¥. Type ?.

51a. Cosmosoma teuthras nigrescens snbsp. nov.

? . Differs from the other forms of teuthras by the entirely black costa and

discocellular patch.

Ilab. Guadalite, C'ananche, and La Palma, Cundinamarca, July 1903 (M. de

Mathan), 4 ? ¥ . Type ¥ , Guadalite.

51b. Cosmosoma teuthras lignicolor subsp. nov.

<?. Differs from teuthras teuthras in the shorter and wider wings, in the

scarlet-crimson being replaced by yellow, in the black being replaced by dark

wood-brown, in the much wider outer margin and terminal area of forewings,

and in the dark wood-brown areas of hindwing occupying fully two-thirds of

the wing.

¥. Similar.

Ilab. Paramba, J]cuador, 3500 ft, dry season, March — May 1897 (W. F.

H. Rosenberg), 2 <JcJ, S ¥ ¥. Type 6.

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f)2. Cosmosoma brasiliense sp. nov.

c?. Legs l)rown, fore coxae white; head black ; antennae ilaik brown; thorax

oranoe; abdomen orange, last two segments black, ventral valve large, white.

Wings hyaline-white, nervnres, discocellalar bar, and margin black-brown, the

latter expanding at the termen.

(?. Similar.

Length of forewing : 2:5 mm,

Hab. Santa t'atherina, Brazil, 2 6S.

o3. Cosmosoma meridense sp. nov.

5 . Legs and antennae black ; head and tegulae orange ; thorax black streaked

faintly with orange ; abdomen deep steel-blue, narrow orange rings on segments

2, 3, and 4. Wings hyaline-yellowish; forewing, basal half of costa yellow,

veins and margins black, expanding at termen; hind wing, nervures and margins

black.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Hab. Mcrida, Venezuela (Briceno), 1 ? .

54. Icharia bricenoi sp. nov.

S. Differs from multigutta Schaus in its larger size, in the red on thorax and

base of wing being reduced to small dots, in red on abdomen being rednced to two

small subdorsal dots on basal segment, in the frontal half of ventral valve being

brown, and in the antennae being non-serrate and much swollen.

Length of forewing: mtdliijutta Via mm., bricenoi 15 mm.

Ilab. Merida, Venezuela (Briceno), 3 c?c?.

55. Psilopleura klagesi sp. nov.

(?. Legs black-brown ringed with white, coxae creamy white ; palpi black ;

frons black, vertex buffy yellow ; antennae brown, apical third white ; thorax

dark sej)ia with buffy yellow central band ; abdomen bright orange, broad median

band and last segment dark sepia. Forewing dark sepia, a white spot in cell

and below it, a white broad discocellular band from subcostal to vein 2, tips of

nervures in fringe white ; hindwing white, a broad marginal band and discocellular

spot sepia.

?. Similar, but hindwing entirely sepia with a basal and a discal white patch.

Length of forewing : c? 16 mm., ? 18 mm.

Hab. Cindad Bolivar, Venezuela, July 0th, 1898 (S. M. Klages), 1 S ; Caracas,

Venezuela, 1 (?, 2 ? ?. Type 3, Ciudad Bolivar.

56. Psilopleura hymenopteiidia sp. nov.

cT. An exact mimic of an Hymenopterous insect sent with it by the colli ctor.

Forelegs yellow, coxae white, middle legs brown, tibiae and tarsi yellow, liindicgs

brown, a yellow band on tibiae ; palpi, head, antennae, and thorax black ; abdomen

maroon-red, last two segments black. Wings semihyaline; forewings dirty

yellow, outer third clouded with dark brown, an ill-defined black discocellular

patch ; hindwing yellowish, ajiical third clouded dark brown.

Lengtii of forewing: 12'r) mm.

Ilah. Buenavista, East Bolivia, 75U metres, August I'JUG— April TJOT (Jos6

Steiubacii), 1 cj.

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57. Saurita watsoni sp. nov.

?. Legs black-browu, coxae white, a metallic blue band on tibiae; head and

antennae black ; tegulae black tijiped with crimson, a crimsoQ spot below tegulae ;

thorax black with metallic bine patch ; abdomen above black, subdorsal crimson

spots on basal segment and verj- narrow metallic green rings on rest, below white

except last two segments. Forewing black, cell hyaline-white, a hyaline basal

streak below cell, a large hyaline patch beyond cell between costa and vein 6

and a smaller one between veins 5 and 0, a small hyaline patch above and below

vein 4 ; hiudwing metallic green-blue, margins black, basal half of wing between

median nervure and abdominal edge hyaline-white, a hyaline dot above origin of

vein 2 and one on each side of vein 6.

JIab. Bogava, Chirinni, 800 ft. (Watson), 1 ?.

58. Saurita cardinalis sp. nov.

c?. Legs black-brown ; frons and antennae black; vertex and thorax brilliant

crimson-lake ; abdomen blue-black. Wings blue-black, basal two-fifths of

forewing and one-third of hindwing brilliant crimson-lake.

?. Similar.

Length of forewing : 15 mm.

Ilab. Carillo, Costa Rica, Jane and July 1903 (Underwood), 4 <?c?, 3 ? ?.

Type <?.

50. Eurota baeri sp. nov.

? . Legs brown banded with whitish, coxae white ; palpi crimson ; head

black ; antennae black, a broad subapical band white ; thorax black, shoulders

with crimson patch ; abdomen black with broad lateral crimson bands and sub-

lateral white ones, a pair of white spots on sixth segment. Wings black ;

forewing, a white patch in cell and one below it, a white band between subcostal

and vein 3 beyond cell ; hiudwing semihyaline-white, margins widely and discal

patch black.

Length of forewing : 10 mm.

Hab. Tapia, Province of Tacuman, Argentina, 600 metres, March— April 1903

(G. A. Baer), 1 ? .

On. Eurota parishi sp. nov.

c?. Legs black, fore coxae white; frons white, vertex and antennae black;

thorax black, shoulders white; abdomen, first five segments rnsty white, with

large dorsal black patch on second, third, and fourth segments, rest black, anal

segment rusty buff. Wings black ; forewing, a subbasal semihyaline-white

patch, a similar one in cell and one below it, a similar band of four beyond cell

between subcostal and vein 3 ; hindwing, basal third and large discal patch beyond

cell semihyaline-white.

?. Himilar.

Length of forewing : c? 12 mm.; ? 14 mm.

Ilab. Holguin, Cuba (H. S. Parish) , 8 c? c?, 27 ? ? . Type <?.

Ol. Dicladia vitrina sp. nov.

(?. Legs black, middle tibiae outside and band on hind tibiae buff; palpi

orange, third joint black ; frons black, vertex cinnamon-orange rufons with black

central band, antennae black with white snbapical band ; thorax cinnamon-orange

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rafons with central black band ; abdomen, basal segment orange with central black

band, rest dark metallic bine with black segmental interspaces. Forewiiig

hyaline-yellowish, base, costa, and nervares cinnamon-orange rnibns, apical

fourth, large discocellnlar patch, and tornns to vein 3 brown-black, outer margin

between veins :i and i and inner area chestnnt-brown ; hindwing hyaline-white,

base orange-rnfons, margins broadly brown-black.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Ihb. Hio Cayapas, N.AV. Ecuador, 4 SS, 1 ?, and Rio Dnratigo, N.W.

Ecuador, 350 ft., June 1901 (Flemmlng & Miketta), 1 ? ; San Pedro Snla,

Honduras, 1 S. Type c?, Rio Cayapas.

02. Euchromia brilliantina sp. nov.

<3. Legs black ; head and antennae black, frons margined'with white ; thorax

shining metallic green-blue edged with black ; abdomen above, basal segment

white, rest brilliant metallic green-blue, interspaces black, below black, third,

fourth, and fifth segments crimson. Forewing, basal half brilliant metallic

green-blue, outer half black, a snbbasal hyaline-white patch below cell, a similar

patch in cell and one below median nervure, a hyaline patch beyond cell below

subcostal and one above and one below vein 3 ; hindwing black, base and trans-

verse band beyond cell hyaline-white, a metallic green-bine patch between the

two hyaline areas across end of cell.

Hob. North coast of Burn, November 1897 (W. Doherty), 2 dd.

li3A. Euchromia neglecta neglecta sp. nov.

(?. Occurs alongside of the forms of creiisa, in the Solomon Archipelago.

Differs from crei/sa in its larger size, much larger hyaline patches, in having the

basal third of patagia white, in the three basal segments being white, the second

and third with a silvery blue gloss, and in the whole anal segment being black

and dark bine.

Length of forewing : 26 — 29 mm.

Ilab. Solomon Archipelago: Floridii, Jiinuary 1901, 4 c?<?, 2 ? ? ; Guadal-

canar, April 1901, 1 <3 ; Bougainville, April 10u4, 2 c?c? ; Isabel, June 4 to

July 9, 1901, 1 ? (A. S. Meek). Type S, Florida.

03a Euchromia neglecta occidentalis subsp. nov.

Differs from negkcta neglecta in the white shouldcr-i)atch being smaller, the

second and third abdominal segments bine, and the black bands on the fonr

penultimate segments much wider.

llab. .Solomon Islands : Vella Lavella, March 190S, 3 cJ J ; Kulambangra,

March 1901, 1 ? (A. S. Meek). Type 6, Vella Lavella.

04. Euchromia wahnesi sp. nov.

(J. Legs black, co.xae white; fnnis ;iuil collar white, vcrte.x and antennae

black ; thorax metallic green-blue edged with black ; abdomen above black, the

last five segments broadly banded with dark crimson, below last six segments

entirely crimson. Wings black with nsnal six hyaline patches on forewing and

two on hindwing large, a discocellnlar crescent, base of wing, abroad band above

vein 1, and basal four-fifths of inner margin metallic blue-green.

Hub. Sattelberg, German New Guinea, December 1905 (('. Wahues), S 6S.

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65. Histixea hoffmannsi sp. nov.

(?. Legs and head dark sooty-brown ; antennae black ; thorax dark brown

with indications of metallic spots, tegulae with metallic blue spots, patagia with

black streaks ; abdomen sooty black-brown with lateral rows of metallic blae

spots. Forewing sooty black-lirown, two or three metallic blue spots and a

discoidal bar and base, a salmon-pink basal streak for two-fifths of the wing above

subcostal, a wedge-shaped salmon-pink patch in cell, a boomerang-shaped salmon-

pink band below cell, and a band of salmon-pink above vein 1 from base for

five-sixths of its length, an oblinne creamy-buff baud beyond cell from costa to

almost the end of vein 3 ; hindwiug abruptly truncate, sooty-brown, apical third

orange except termen.

Length of forewing : 28 — 36 mm.

Ilab. Humaytha, Rio Madeira, Brazil, July — August 1906 (W. Hoffmanns),

6 c?c?.

66. Phaio unimacula sp. nov.

(?. Legs black, coxae white, a white band on basal part of tibiae ; palpi

black ; head black, two white spots on frons, one on verte.K ; antennae black ;

thorax black, white patches on tegulae and base of patagia, two white dots on

mesothorax ; abdomen, first and second segments black, first with dorsal and

lateral white patches, second with lateral only, remaining segments greenish

cupreous with black dorsal line and interspaces, bluish white lateral patches on

segments 3 and 4, and two white subdorsal dots on anal segment. Forewing

black-brown suffused with golden green scales, more densely on basal half of wing ;

hindwiug black suffused with golden green scales, less densely than forewing, a

subbasal oval semihyaline white spot, inner area black fringed with white.

Length of forewing : 22 mm.

Had. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6500 ft., dry season, April 1902,

and La Oroya, Rio Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., wet season, March 1905 (G. R.

Ockenden). Type c?, Santo Domingo.

67. Chrysocale gigas sp. nov

S. Allied to corax Hampson, but much larger. Legs black-brown, coxae and

tibiae deep metallic blue, hind tarsi white ; head and tegulae black with metallic

blue points ; antennae black ; thorax and patagia black ; abdomen black with

lateral metallic blue patches. Forewing black-brown densely suffused with

dark green metallic scales, a dark bine point and a paler blue metallic suffusion

at base of wing ; hindwiug black, powdered slightly with green scales between

veins 2 and 3 and along median nervurc.

?. Similar.

Length of forewing : cJ 32 mm. ; ? 35 mm.

Ilab. Santo Domingo, ('arabaya, Peru, 6000 ft., dry season, December 1901

(G. R. Ockenden), 1 S ; Zaniora, Ecuador, luOO— 3000 ft. (0. T. Baron), 1 ? ;

Bogota, 2 ? ?. Tyi)e J, Santo Domingo.

68. Calonotos autennata sp. nov.

c?. This is the second species of the group with enormous feathery antennae.

Differs from pliimulatus E. Klages in its longer and narrower wings, and in the

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metallic scaling of the wings and the metallic lands of the holy being deep

copper-colour.

?. Similar.

IM. Merida, Veueznela (Briceuo), 3 <? J, 1 ?. Type 6.

00. Calonotos hofFmanusi sp. nov.

?. Legs dark brown ; bead metallic green; antennae black with white tips ;

thorax black with wliite spots on tegnlae and shoalders ; abdomen black with

dull copperv green dorsal and lateral bands. Wings ver}' narrow, black ; fore-

win", a hyaline white patch and dot below median vein, two hyaline dots at end

of cell, and a hyaline spot above and below vein 4 ; hiudwing, a snbbasal and two

discal hyaline patches.

Length of forewing, IS mm. ; breadth of forewing, 0 mm.

Ilab. Itaituba to Obidos, Amazons, January — April lUUG (W. lloll'mauus),

2 ? ?

7n. Calonotos opalizans sp. nov.

S. Similar to tripunckUa Driice. Differs in having the three white spots on

wings almost obsolete, and the abdomen entirely opalescent mother-of-pearl-colour

above and on sides.

Ilab. Cindad Bolivar, Venezuela, November 28, 1898 (S. M. Klages), 1 c?.

71. Calonotos longipennis sp. uov.

S. Legs black, pectus and fore co.xae white, a metallic green baud on outside

of tibiae, tip of femora white ; palpi black, basal joint white ; frons white with

median black line, vertex and .antennae black ; thorax black, tegulae with central

white spots, mesothorax with two metallic green patches ; abdomen black, a dorsal

and lateral broad bands of metallic green, two subdorsal and lateral white dots

on basal segment, Wings black with strong deep purplish blue gloss ; forewing

with white dot at base, a basal subcostal metallic green streak, and a snbbasal

metallic green patch below cell.

Length of forewing, 2.5 mm. ; breadth of forewing, 8 mm.

]Inb. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam, March lUU.") (tS. M.

Klages), 1 (J.

72. Poliopasta ockendeni sp. nov.

3. Logs black-brown, coxae and bands on tibiae pale metallic blue, tips of

tarsi white ; palpi and antennae black ; head black with a pale whitish blue spot

on frons and vertex ; thorax black with pale whitish bine spots on tegulae,

shoulders, mesothorax, and metathorax ; abdomen blackish oil-green with dorsal

and sublateral whitish bine lines. Wings deep metallic blue ; forewing with

three whitish spots at base.

?. Similar.

Length of forewing : cJ 22 mm. ; ? 25 mm.

Ilah. La Union, Kio Hnacamayo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 2UU'J ft., wet season,

November 1904 (G. R. Ockenden), 3 cJtJ, 1 ? ; Tumatumari, British Guiana,

December 19U7 (S. M. Klages), 1 ?. Type S, La Union.

73. Poliopasta rosenbergi sp. nov.

(S ■ Legs black, coxae white, white spots on outside of tibiae near base ; palpi

and antennae black ; head black, two white dots on frons ; thorax black, two

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ntiiuite white dots on patagia ; abtlomeii browiiisli coppery green, two median

dorsal white spots on basal segment. Wings black ; forewing, basal half

golden metallic grass-green; hindwing, a subbasal hyaline-white sjiot, costal half

metallic grass-green with blue tinge, abdominal area powdered and edged with

bluish green.

Length of forewing : 20 mm.

Hah. Paramba, West Ecuador (Rosenberg), 1 S.

74. Mesolasia felderi sp. nov.

Differs from paxla Schans in having all the black margins of the wings very

mucli narrower, and in the discal transverse black band of forewing only reaching

from the costa to the origin of vein 3.

Hab. Brazil (Felder coll.), 1 3; Surinam (Meyer coll.), 1 c?. T^'pe S, ex

Felder coll.

75. Trichiura fasciata sp. nov.

cj. Legs orange, tarsi and inner side of tibiae black-brown ; paljii and iiead

orange; antennae black; thorax black with orange markings, tegulae orange;

abdomen above orange with transverse black bands, last two segments black with

metallic blue spots. Wings hyaline-yellow ; forewing, basal half of costa and

inner margin of both wings dark yellow, uervures brownish orange, margins of

both wings black, inner area of hindwing orange and black.

Length of forewing : 21 mm.

Ilab. Chanchamayo, Peru (ScLuncke), ~ S S.

70. Paraethria angustipennis sp. nov.

S. Differs from triseriata by the pure white palpi, entirely black abdomen

above with only a smudge of whitish on sides of segment 3, and by the distorted

hindwings, which are only half the size of those of triseriata.

Hab. Itaituba to Obidos, Amazons, January — April 1906 (W. Hoftminus), 1 S ■

77. Paraethria flavosignata sp. nov.

c?. Legs deep brown, fore co.xae orange; palpi and head orange; antennae

black ; thorax black with orange stripe, tegulae orange with central black dots,

patagia with central orange bauds ; abJomen above black, basal segment with

median line orange, segments 2 to 6 with transverse orange bars and last two

segments with scarlet patches. Forewing hyaline-yellow, more brownish along

nervures, costa black, outer margin black expanding widely at termen, inner margin

black powdered strongly with grey scales, nervures and discocellular bar black,

vein 4 widely; hindwing, basal half semihyaline-white, outer costal half grey,

tornal half black, tornus black.

Hab. Chimate, Bolivia, 700 metres, September 1900 (Simons), 1 S.

7s. Argyroeides aflSnis s]i. nov.

c?. Legs black, base of coxae white; palpi, heal, and antennae black, spot

below shoulders white ; thorax black, patagia with red band ; abdomen black,

first segment greyish horn-yellow, last five segments with dark red bauds.

Wings hyaline-yellow; forewing, basal half of costa hyaline-yellow, apical half.

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discocellalar bar, ami friuges of outer aiul inner margins black ; hiadwiug, toruieu,

discocellnlar bar, and a small hairy basal lappet on inner area black.

Length of forewing : 1- mm.

Uab. Minas Geracs, Brazil, IS'.tT, 4 cJc?.

TO. Argyroeides flavicornis sji. nov.

cJ. Legs black-brown, fore coxae white, middle and hind coxae yellowish

cream-colonr, distal half of tibiae orange-yellow, tarsi reddish brown ; palpi

golden yellow; head black, two yellow dots between eyes ; antennae deep orange,

basal half nf shaft black ; thorax black, inner edge of patagia with a few orange

hairs; abdomen above black shot with deep blue, a lemon -yellow patch on each

side of first segment. Wings dark hyaline-yellow ; forewing, costa, inner

margin, and nervures orange, outer margin black ; hindwing, nervures orange,

margins black, tornus hyaline.

Length of forewing : 20 mm.

Hah. Teflfe, Amazons, October lOii? (M. do Mathan), 1 c^.

^0. Argyroeides fuscipes sj). uov.

?. Legs blackish brown ; head, thorax, and antennae black; abdomen black,

basal segment bnffish horn-colour. Wings hyaline-yellow, forewing darker;

forewing, nervures brown ; hindwing, terraen, nervures, and small basal lappet

of inner area bhick.

Ilab. Minas Geracs, Brazil, 18'J7, 1 ?.

81. Diptilon aurantiipes sp. nov.

S . Legs, head, and antennae orange ; thorax yellow marked with black ;

abdomen orange, black edges to basal and second segments. Wings hyaline-

buflf, margins and adroconial patches orange-brown.

Length of forewing : 1 1 mm.

Hab. Calama, Uio Madeira, Amazons (\V. Hoffmanns), 1 cJ ; Amazon Kiver

(Felder coll.), 1 6. Type c^, Calama.

82. Diptilon hoffmannsi sp. nov.

c?. Legs orange ; head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen brown-black.

AViugs hyaline-buff; forewing, basal half of costa hyaline, outer half orange,

outer margin brown, inner margin rufous.

Length of forewing : 14 mm.

Hab. Pozuzo, Department of Hnannco, Peru (Hoffmanns), 1 S-

83. Eumenogaster aflBnis sp. nov.

c^. Differs from />ii(;«(/(?ify>/i!ee/a Hmpsn. by its white frons, ])ale brown thorax,

dark rufous metathorax and basal segment of abdomen, and by having the

remaining segments of abdomen lilaok, not rufous ; the costal area of forewing

instead of being clouded with wood-brown is strongly elouded with rufous scarlet.

Hab. (.'orosito, Caura River, Venezuela, June 1904 (.S. M. Klages), 1 S.

84. Teucer apicalis sj). nov.

6. Legs black-brown, fore coxae orange ; frons and antennae black, vertex

orange; thorax and abdomen black. Forewing, basal two-thirds black, a patch

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ill cell, a broad streak below it, aud two spots beyond it semihyaliae-grey, outer

tliird of wiug yellowish clay-grey with longitiulinal black iuterrupted streaks

OQ nervures ; hindwiug, basal half semihyaliue-white, outer half black-brown,

fading into clay-brown on tornus aud inner area.

Length of forewing : 16 mm.

llab. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam (S. M. Klages).

85. Teucer distincta sp. nov.

c?. Legs black-brown, fore coxae brick-red ; palpi, head, aud anteiuiae black-

brown, collar brick-red ; thorax lilack, a band of chrome-yellow on metathorax ;

abdomen above black, anal segment brick-red, below brick-red. Forewing

brown-black, a large hyaline-white patch in cell, a larger one between it reaching

from base to middle of vein 2, and two beyond cell, one on each side of vein (3,

apex white, nervures in apical half and a transverse line be3-ond hyaline patches

dark grey ; hindwiug, basal two-thirds hyaline-white, outer third black.

llab. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam, February 19u5 (S. M.

Klages), 3 SS.

86. Teucer rubrothorax sp. nov.

c?. Nearest to carmania Druce. Diifers from it in the whole thorax being

crimson instead of black, aud in the hindwiugs being much smaller and entirely

black, the basal three-fifths of costa white.

Length of forewing : 11 mm.

Hab. Humaytha, Rio Madeira, Amazons, July — September rj06 (^V. Hoff-

manns), 1 S.

87. Teucer germana sp. nov.

c?. Closely allied to hi/pophaea Hmpsu. Differs from it in the semihyaline-

grey patches of the forewing being smaller and in the upper side of hindwiug

being entirely black, with two small grey semihyaliue spots at base, and tornns

sooty grej'-black. Below the hindwing is sooty black, not three-fourths white,

and the semihyaline basal spots much smaller.

Length of forewing : 12 mm.

llab. i\Iaripa, Caura River, 9 iS, and La Union, ('aura River, Venezuela, May

r.MJ2 (S. M. Klages), 3 c?c?. Type (?, Marii)a.

88. Episcepsis hampsoni sp. nov.

c?. Allied to thetis Linn. Fore coxae sooty black with a trace of white at

base, rest of legs sooty black ; head black, two white lines at eyes, antennae black,

collar orange ; thorax sooty black ; abdomen sooty black, apical half oily metallic

green. Forewings sooty black, termen white, nervures paler sooty grey, most

distinct in basal half; hindwiug sooty black, paler ou disc, where there is a semi-

hyaline area, tornus produced to a long point, as is also termen, owing to the

outer margin being deeply excised aud concave, abdominal fold tilled with long

snow-white hairs.

?. Similar, but hindwing normal.

Lengtii of forewing : 18 mm.

Ihih. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam, February lOO.j (S, M.

Klages), 2 Si,\ ?. Type c?.

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89. Episcepsis dominicensis sp. uov.

? . Fore coxae orange ; collar orange ; rest of legs, head, antennae, and thorax

dark sootv jMuple-brown ; ulxlomcn sooty, last two segments washed with metallic

bine. ^"Forewiug dcei) i)uri)Ie-brown, apex white ; hindwing sooty, a paler discal

semilivaliiic area.

ilab. Dominica, West Indies, January— February I'.JUo (E. A. Agar), I ¥.

i»o. Episcepsis klagesi sp. nov.

S. Similar to gitnma Butl. Ditter.s in having the termen of forewing white,

the collar orange, and the underside of abdomen except anal fringe entirely white ;

the pale nervnres of forewing are also much more strongly marked.

Ilab. San Esteban, Venezuela, August lUO'J (S. M. Klages), b i S ; Palma

Sola, Venezaela, 1 6. Type S, San Esteban.

91. Episcepsis sordidus sp. nov.

S. Differs from preceding species in forewing being a deep dirty brown with

paler veins, the apical fourth being dirty whitish browu-grey, and in the abdomen

being uniform black-brown above and below.

llnh. San Esteban, Venezuela, June 1900 (S. M. Klages), 1 S.

02. Episcepsis ockendeni sp. uov.

cJ. Legs, head, and antennae scoty brown ; thorax and abdomen above and

below sooty brown. Forewing reddish plum-puri)lc strongly suffused with sooty

brown ; hindwing greyish sooty brown.

? . Similar.

Length of forewing : 20 mm.

Ilab. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, (jOOO— (joOO ft., March 1001,

November lonl, November 19U2, December 10U2, May 10n2, o JcJ, 1 ? ; La Union,

Ptio Huacamayo, Carabaya, 2000 ft., Peru, wet season, November 1904, 2 ? ? ;

Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., dry season, August 1904, 1 c? ; and La Oroya,

IJio Inambari, S.E. Peru, 31(i0 ft., wet season, December lOUo (G. R. Ockendcn),

1 cj. Type cJ, Santo Domingo.

03. Episcepsis littoralis sj). nuv.

^. Hindwing produced at tornus into a long point. Legs grey-brown, coxae

and outside of tibiae opalescent blue-green ; i)alpi grey-brown glossed with

opalescent blue-green ; head grey-brown shot with blue, antennae black ; thorax

grey-brown shot with opalescent green ; abdomen grey-brown, slightly sliot with

green on sides. Forewing bright purple-brown : hindwing smoky grey-brown

with deep blue reflections, disc paler semihyaline.

?. Hindwing normal purple-brown and dark grey-brown in colour without

opalescent gloss.

Ijcngth of forewing : i 10 mm.; ? IT mm.

Ilab. San Esteban, Vcnciiuela, June-August 1009 (S. M. Klages), 9 (?cj, 1 ?•

Type cJ.

04. Episcepsis scintillans sp. nov.

• i. Legs sooty brown stroi.gly glossed with o])aIcscent metallic blue-green,

coxae glittering blne-greeu ; paljii opalescent blue-grceu ; head black-brown shot

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with (lark lilne ; antennae deep iinqjle ; thorax dark purple grey-brown strongly

shot with opalescent green ; abdomen deep sooty black on dorsum, glossed with

dull purple, sides glittering blue-green. Forewing bright bluish jjlnm-purple ;

hindwing dark blackish grey glossed with blue purple, disc semihyaliue, paler,

tornus produced into a long point.

Length of fore wing : 19 mm.

Ilab. La Vuolta, Canra River, April 1903, 1 S, and Maripa, Canra River,

Venezuela (iS. M. Klages), 5 cTc?; Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewyin Valley, Surinam,

February 190.5 (S. M. Klages), M S S ; Calama, Rio Madeira, 1 c?, and Allianca,

below San Antouio, Rio Madeira, Brazil, November — December 1907 (W. Hoff-

manns), 9 <?c?; Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1906 (S. M. Klages), 2 SS.

Type S, Allianca.

9.J. Mesothen dorsimacula sp. nov.

? . Legs deep brown, fore coxae white ; palpi black ; head black with some

minute white dots ; autennae black with broad white subterminal band ; thorax

golden orange ; abdomen golden orange, a mediau black patch on two basal

segments, two penultimate segments black, anal segment metallic blue.

Forewing hyaline-white, base golden orange, costa, nervures, discocellular l)ar,

a subbasal patch, inner margin, tornus, outer margin, and terminal fourth of wing

black ; hindwing hyaline- white, margins, termen, and nervures black, base

narrowly orange.

Length of forewing : 17 mm

Jliib. Tnis, Costa Rica.

NEW AEGEBIIDAE.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

1. Sphecia bombyliformis sp. nov.

c?. Middle and fore legs black-brown, hairy, tarsi orange-brown ; hindleg

black-brown with very long hair, proximal half of tibiae white ; palpi black

clothed with enormously long hair ; head black, circle round eyes white, collar

dark grey, antennae black ; thorax hairy black ; abdomen very hairy black, three

median segments bright yellow above, anal tuft and fringe brownish rufous.

Wings hyaline-yellowish, nervnres and margins dark brown, discocellular bar

dark brown.

Length of forewing : 17'5 mm.

JIab. Khasia HUls, Assam, June 1895 (native collector), 2. 6 S,\ ?. Type S.

2. Melittia imperator sp. nov.

? . Forelegs black, tarsi rufous scarlet ; middle legs black-brown, tarsi rufous

scarlet; hindlegs very strongly tufted black, with tufts on tibiae and entire tarsus

and its tufts bright rufous scarlet ; i)alpi and head black-brown, frons with two

white streaks ; thorax black-brown with rufous patches ; abdomen bright purple,

segments edged anteriorly with rufons scarlet. Forewing bright metallic blue-

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{»reen ; hindwing hyaline, nervnres, margins, ami ajiical thiril of wing metallic

bine-green.

Length of forewing : 21 mm.

Ilab. Obidos, Amazons, April 1900 (W. Hoffmanns), 1 ? .

3. Melittia funebris sp. uov.

S. Forelegs, coxae banded white, black, and rufons, rest of legs black, tibiae

tufted ; middle legs black streaked inside with jjale grey, tibiae tufted, tarsi

proximal half white, distal half black ; hindlegs strongly tufted above black,

below grey, a little grey above at proximal end of tarsi ; palpi rufous ; antennae

above black, below rufous; head black, collar and tegulae rufons; thorax and

abdomen black. Forewing black ; hinJwing hyaline-white, discocellular bar,

nervnres, and fringes black.

Length of forewing : 12 mm.

Had. Dorey, Dutch New Guinea, June 1897 (W. Doherty), 1 cj.

4. Paranthrene aflBnis sp. nov.

S. Body, antennae, and legs deep brown glossed with metallic steel-purple.

Forewing bright metallic green-blue, fringe brown ; hindwing hyaline-yellow,

fringe, nervnres, and costal area green-bine.

Length of forewing : 1<S mm.

Ifab. Padang Rengas, Malay Peninsula, 1 c?.

5. Aegeria ruficauda sp. nov.

(?. Legs deep steel-purple ; palpi maroon rufous ; head deep maroon rufous;

antennae and thorax black slightly glossed with purple ; abdomen black slightly

glossed with pnri)le, last segment and large anal tuft rufous orange. Forewing

dark bluish purple, fringes reddish purple; hindwing hyaline-white, nervnres and

margins widely bluish purple, fringes reddish purple.

Length of forewing : 14 mm.

Ihl). Ukami, German East Africa, 1 c?.

G. Aegeria gaudens sp. nov.

c?. Legs purple-brown ; palpi and patch below eyes scarlet ; antennae black ;

head and thorax purple, collar and broad margins to thorax scarlet ; abdomen

brownish black, basal segment scarlet, anal tuft rnfous brown. Forewing

brilliant purple, a scarlet band beyond cell followed by a hyaline one, outer

fifth of wing orange-scarlet, fringe brown ; hindwing, basal three-fifths hyaline,

outer two-fifths purple-brown.

Length of forewing : 9 mm.

Llab. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1 cJ.

T. Aegeria aurantiibasis sp. nov.

?. Legs and palpi orange-yellow; antennae brown; head black; thorax

black-brown, two blue spots, and sides brick-red ; abdomen brick-red, anal

tuft wood-brown. Forewing, basal third brick-red median half hyaline, a broad

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brown band at end of coll with a liriclc-red centre, outer sixth pale wood-brown ;

hindwing hyaline with reddish brown.

Length of forewing : 7 mm.

IJab. Marcapata, East Pern, 35itO ft. (Garlepp), 1 ? .

8. Ichneumenoptera caeruleifascia sp, nov.

c?. Legs metallic steel-blue, fore tarsi white, tufts on hiad tibiae and proximal

half of tarsi steel-blue edged with white ; j)alpi white ; antennae, head, thorax,

and abdomen steel-blue, anal tuft very long, more than half as long as abdomen,

steel-blue.— — Forewing hyaline-white, margins steel-blue, a wide central transverse

band brilliant metallic blue ; hindwing hyaliae-white, margins and a lar^e

discocellular patch steel-blue.

Length of forewing : 11 mm.

Hab. Marcapata, East Pern, 3500 ft. (Garlepp), 2 SS.

9. Ichneumenoptera dohertyi sp. nov.

£?. Legs deep steel-blue, hind tarsi brown with two white rings ; palpi white ;

head, thorax, antennae, and abdomen deep steel-blue, anal tuft long, purple-black,

with some whitish hairs below. Forewing hyaliue-white, costa and inner

margin steel-blue, a discal bar which reaches to inner margin and the terminal

fifth of wing royal pnr|ile ; hindwing hyaline-white, margins royal purple.

Length of forewing : 10 mm.

Hab. Humboldt Bay, north coast of Dutch New Guinea, September —

October 1892 (W. Doherty), 1 S.

10. Sanninoidia peruviana sp. nov.

?. Legs and underside of body golden yellow; palpi, head, and antennae

black ; thorax black, banded with golden yellow ; abdomen, first four segments

black above, golden at sides, segments 5 and 6 golden, rest black. Forewing

hyaline-bufl:', nervures, inner margin, and discocellular bar golden yellow, terminal

fourth black ; hindwing hyaline-buff, nervures, abdominal margins, and tornal

third of outer margin golden yellow, rest of margin black.

JIab. Marcapata, East Peru, aSOO ft. (Garlepp), 1 ? .

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ON THE BAT-FLEAS DESCRIBED BY KOLEXATI.

By the Hon. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S.

THE Jahn'itheft iler tiatKrwisseiiscIiaftlichen Selttion der It. It. mii/ir. sr/ilf.f.

(lei<r//.fc/i(i/t fur Aclterbau, Nattir- uiid Landeskuncle, fiir das Jahr 1859

(Hriiun, ISOn), P- 1-L")G, contains a jiaper entitled " Monographie der enropiiisclien

Uliiropteren," von Prof. Dr. F. A. Kolenati. The work appears to be very scarce,

and with the exception of two copies we secured from Herrn W. .Tank, of Berlin,

we have been nnable to trace any examples of it in any library in the Britisli

Islands. On pp. 28 to 3it instructions for collecting Parasites from live 13j,ts

and Bats preserved in alcohol are given, and on p. 31 farther instructions for

the general preservation of Epizoa. These instructions are of some imi)Ortanoe,

as they render Kolenati's examples when preserved in their original condition

easy of recognition. We therefore quote in full Kolenati's remarks.

AUFBEWAHREN DER PARASITEN.

Bei der 32. Yersammlung der Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Wien zeigte dor

Verfasser am IT. September iu der Section fiir Zoologie und vergleichende

Anatomie (nicht wie es auch zugleich mangelhaft besprochea im Tagesblatte

Nr. 3. heisst, in der improvisirten vereiuigten Sitzung der physiologischen,

zoologischen uud botanischcn Section, von welcher vereiuigten Sitzung weder

die statutenmiissig bestellten Geschiiftslciter der zoologischen Section noch die

allergrosste Anzalil der Mitglieder etwas wussten, weil gar kein Antrag wegeu

einer solchen Yereinigung gestellt wurde noch nothig war, gestellt zu werden)

eine vollstiindige Sammlnng der vou ihm lieschriebenen Eudo- und Epizoon der

Ohirojitern vor, uud vertheiite an silmmtliche auwescnde Mitglieder dieser Section

die den Natnrforschern und Aerzten der 32. Yersammlung gewidmete Abhandlnng

" die Parasiten der Chiroptcrn." Des Urtheiles enthalten wir uns darilber, da

es noch Manchem im Andenken sein diirfte. Damals waren die Eudophytcu in

kleinen, die Betrachtung mit der Loupe gestattenden Gliischeu im Spiritns

iiufbewahrt, die Epizocn sowohl in Gltischen, als auch aufgeklebt. Yon der

letzteren Methode sind wir gegenwilrtig abgegangen und bewahren alle in diesen

Gliischen in Spiritus anf. Die Gliischen sind sehr klcin, rund, vollkoramen

durchsichtig, 0'" lang uud 21'" breit, ganz mit Spiritus gefiillt und gutverkorkt.

Der Kork wird iu Paraffin gekocht, und nach der sorgfiiltigen subtilen Yerkorknng

wird durch den weuig vorstehenden Theil dcs Korkes eine Insektonnadel der

Quere nach gestochen und der Hals des Fliischhens in heiss zerlassenes Paraffin

getaucht, damit der Verdampfung und dem Eintrockneu vorgebeugt werde. An

die Nadel wird der Species-Xame des Mieththieres uud die Nummer der Parasiteu-

species hoch befestiget und das Fliischchen, wie ein Insekt, in den Kasten der

Sammlung immer so eingesteckt, dass alle Fliischchen bei Aufstellung des

geschlosscnen Kastens mit dem Korke-nach aufwiirts, bei Aufstellung des geoffneten

Kastens horizontal und mit dem Korke nach hinten stehen. Auf dicsc Art

repriiseutirt sich die Sammlung gut, der Spiritus verdampft nicht, die Exemplare

schrampfen nicht ein, kOnnen mit der Loupe gehiirig betrachtet werden und wird

immer gnte Evideuz iiber die Mieththiere gehalten. Will man eine Art unter

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ilem Mikroskope niitersucben, so Offuet man das Fliischchen mid bettet es nacli

der Untersnchnug wieder wie friilier eia. Solche typisclie Sammlungen habea

wir nach der 32. Versammlnng an folgeiide Natnralienkabiuete als frankirtes,

ansprnchloses Gesehenk iiberschickt imd neiinen sie hier bloss desshalb, dass

eiii Jeder sich dariim luteressirende wisse, wo uusere Typen eiagesehea werdeu

kOniien.

Wien, im k. k. Hofiiaturalieukabinet, in der Privatsammlung des Dr. Schiner,

in der Privatsammliitig des Herrn Zelebor.

London, im Britisli Museum.

Paris, im Jardin des plantes (des VerCassers Onginal-Sammhmg).

St. Petersburg, im zoologiscben Museum der kais. Akademie der Wissenscbaften.

Berlin, im kOniglicben Museum.

Kopenbagen, im kfmigb Natnralienkabiiiet.

Stockbolm, im kOnigl. Museum (wo sicb aucb die Originalsamraluug der

Cbiroptern des Verfassers betiiidet).

Miincben, im kOuigl. Hofnaturalienkabinet.

Stuttgart, im kOnigl. Hofnaturalienkabinet.

Dresden, im kOaigl. Hofnaturalienkabinet.

Christiania, im Naturalienkabinet der Universitilt.

Halle, im Naturalienkabinet der Universitiit.

Wilrzburg, im Naturalienkabinet der Universitiit,

Dorpat, im Naturalienkabinet der Universitiit.

Jena, im Naturalienkabinet der Universitiit.

Moskau, im Naturalienkabinet der Universitiit.

Zurich, im Naturalienkabinet (Prof. Menzel).

Meseritcs in Poseu in der Privatsammlung des Dr. Prof. Loew.

Alle daukteu uns verbindlicbst, mancbe sugar ministeriell, Miinchen und

Christiania mussten an der J5est;itigniig des Emi)faiiges seit zwei verflossenen

Jahreu uoch verhindert gewesen sein, von dem riebtigen Empfang an dem ersteren

Museum iiberzeugteu wir uns jedocb durch die postilmtlicbe Quiistionirung.

The small glass tubes referred to above we recognised at once in the

collections of the British Museum, the Paris Museum, and the Berlin

Museum (a complete list of all the Kolenati specimens existing in these

collections and in the K. K. Hofmuseum, Wien, at the i>resent time is

appended to this paper). The outline sketch of one of these tubes

will help students in identifying Kolenati's specimens in the other

collections to which he states some of his specimens were sent, and

which we have not yet had the opportunity of inspecting.

In the list of museums already mentioned to which Kolenati has

sent typical ex;i,m]iles (/.c. specimens representing his species) it is stated

that his real collection, as opposed to any duplicates he might possess,

was presented to the Jardin des Plantes— /.c. the Paris Museum— and the material

there must consec|uently, in our opinion, be considered the most typical.

The collection of Hiphonaptera in the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris,

which we have recently had an opportunity of studying,* still contains a number

* A list of tlio Hiphonaplera contained in the I'aris Museum is publishoJ iu Aim. Sci. Nat. Zool.

vol. xii. p. 20.1 (1911).

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of Koleiiati's original viiils with specimens in lliem, each of these vials being

placed in a larger tube with alcdhol. The corks, pins, and original labels of the

vials have been removed, and a fresh label bearing tiie name of the insect has

been imt inside each of the larger outer tubes. Koleuati's statement, which we

have quoted above, abont the distribution of his specimens, can, we think, be

interpreted to refer solely to the i)arasites of bats, as there are only examples of

bat-fleas preserved in the vials in the Paris Mnseura.

There are also a number of Kolenati's vials, in the Kuuigl. Museum fiir

Xatnrkunde zu ]?erlin apparently in their original state, except for the alcohol having

evaporated. Tliese vials seem mostly to have been once in the collection of the

famous dipterist, H. Loew, and some of the specimens have been subsequently

mounted between cover-slips. On the pins there is a label with the name of the

host and one or two labels with a number, and in addition to this, in most

instances, a further label bearing the inscription " Col. H. Loew." Unfortunately

the pins do not bear any labels with the names of the parasite ; the numbers,

however, refer to the Museum catalogue, where the nami' can be found. These

Kolenati specimens belong to various genera. It must, however, be borne in

mind that the fact of these specimens being labelled " H. Loew," and that they

belong to different genera, seems to point to their being specimens other than those

which Kolenati refers to in his paper quoted above.

In the British Museum only two of Kolenati's specimens are preserved.

These are now monnted in balsam, but were originally in the characteristic small

vials referred to above, and were labelled with their respective names, apparently

in the author's handwriting.

The study of this typical material has enabled us to arrive at a definite

opinion as to the application of Kolenati's names for bat-fleas, and our views are

stated lielow in as full a manner as necessary.

In connection with the study of nomenclature Kolenati's material is of general

interest. Kolenati designated all the specimens he kept or distributed as " types,"

but, as we have already pointed out, the word is used in the sense of representa-

tives, and in no way as it is used to-day, even when the word " cotype " is

taken into consideration as well. At the time when Kolenati was stndjnng

Siphonaptera but little attention had been paid to the order, and species as

different as the human- and dog-fleas were frequently confounded and treated

as identical in the handbooks of that time. Under these circumstances it is not

surprising that he did not discriminate between species which superficially resemble

one another, but are in reality abundantly distinct. In the case of the eight-

combed bat-fleas, for example, Kolenati's types of what he called octactenm

comprise a number of species. It is therefore obvious that the value of such types

as assistance in the correct ajiplication of the name based upon them is very

small — in fact, if only a single such typical specimen were contained in a museum,

it might altogether mislead the student who relied on that example as a critical

guidu.

The system adopted by Kolenati is .still followed by many systematists even

at the present time — tliat of making a number of individuals types of a new

species, or rather, types for the name given to those specimens which are con-

sidered by the author to represent a new species and a single species only. This

system is frequently most mischievous, as all specimens differ rqore or less

inter ae, and such differences are often discovered later to be sisecific. It is

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therefore obvious that the nncertainty in the application of names is frequently

due to the names not being made monotypical in eacli case. It is, however,

interesting to note that Kolenati, although he made so many types, evidently

took his descriptions in most instances from a single specimen. In the case of

the bat-fleas, which alone are treated of in tliis paper, a considerable variation

obtains in the number of spines in the combs. Kolenati, on the contrary, describes

the combs as containing always one certain number of spines. The hosts that

lie gives for the various bat-fleas appear to clearly demonstrate that Kolenati

had before him, however, specimens belonging to various species in which the

combs are very diS'erent. All the specimens in Kolenati's collection contained

in the Paris, Berlin, and British Museums prove the statements made above to

be correct. The observation repeated in several of Kolenati's papers that the

live-combed bat-flea has only two spines instead of four at the anterior corner

of the head on the two sides taken together, was doubtless the result of the

e.xamination of a single specimen in which one of the spines was broken off, and

again points to the fact that Kolenati did not test by the e.Kamination of a series

of specimens the constancy of the speciflc characters which he mentions. There

is another point which we think should be borne in mind when considering the

reliability of Kolenati's descriptions, a point which conclusively proves that his

statements should not be taken too literally. In Parasiteii dcr Chiropteni

Briiun, LSoO*, p. 32, Kolenati says that the siiuirrel flea, Ceratopsi/llas sciuri, is

" monoctenus," which statement one must interpret as referring to the flea

usually found on the squirrel. In another paper, Wien. Ent. Mon. 1857, p. 65,

he states, when referring to the same flea, that it chiefly occurs on Rhinolophus

fi-ii-nm-equinum. In 1860, in the MoiKxjr. Europ. Ckiropt., the species is

mentioned amongst the i)arasites of the same bat, with the qualification " probably

acquired"; and finally, in 1862, in the Hot: Soc. Ent. Ross., the squirrel is given

as the host, Kolenati adding, " I also found it once on Rhinolophus ferriim-

equinum Daubenton." The species in question we refer to again later in the

present paper.

The figures published by Kolenati, rough as they are, prove to be of great

help in the application of the names. In his paper of 1856, Die Parasiten der

Chiroptern, Kolenati describes the bat-fleas under the generic name of Cerato-

psi/Uus Curtis. This name, however, is not restricted by him to the bat-fleas, but

embraces all the fleas which have one or more dorsal combs, with the exception

of those species which also have a genal comb. These latter he separates in 1856

in the paper mentioned under the name of Ctenophtkalmus, mentioning as species

which belonged to it musridi, talpae, canis, fdis, etc., and also erinacei. The

genus CeratopsyUtis, Kolenati states in a footnote, would be better called

CtenopsijUus, from ktew, a comb, as these fleas have combs at the hindmari'in

of the pro- and metanotum, and frequently also on some of the abdominal tero-ites.

Obviously, therefore, this name, Ctcnopnyllits, is nothing but another name in

place of Ccratopsyllus. AVe have, however, in a previous paper f shown that

the name Ceratopsi/llus cannot be retained, as it is a synonym of Ceratophyllus

(Jurtis (1826), and consequently the genus CtenopsjUus Kolenati (1856) would

have to be employed for the bat-fleas, if no older name were available. This

• The paper \v:is reissued at Dresden in 1857.

t See KotUscljild, Nod. Zool. xiii. p. 17() (February 1(»0G), ;uk1 Oudemaus, Ent, Bcr'wht, ii. p. 123

(September I'JOO).

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however, is the case, ami, as we demonstrated in the iiai)er (luoted above, West-

wood's name of hchiiopxi/Uu^ (l.s4',') takes precedence over Ctenop.v/llus.

Kolenati himself, in 1862, applied the name Cleiiojjsi/llus to musvuli (={jiia(/n'-

(fcntati/s) and bii/mfatus (= monoctenits), in which he was not justified, as he had,

as we have shown aliove, already used the name for the hat-fleas. At the time of

Kolenati's writings the necessity of a stable nomenclature was not yet conceived,

and Kolenati, like many others of the middle of the last centnry, considered it

not onlv admissible bnt even advisable to replace a name by another which

apiioared to hira more approjiriate. As an example of this, Kolenati in ls4ri

describe! a flea as Piilex /ii/ac/iae, and in 1862 changed the name into striutHs;

and as a further example it may be cited that he replaced in 1862 by

bisoctodentatus Kolen. the Ctenopktkalmus bisbidentatus Kolen, of 1x50, and

itnieleiifatus Kohn. o{ IS59 hy b/.'igeptemf/ent'itiis Kolen. in 1862. Further instances

of a similar nature could be quoted.

Kolenati gave five names to the bat-fleas in his Parasiten dcr Chivoptcrn

(1856), of which four, according to the rules of nomenclature recognised to-day,

can be retained as valid, although the author evidently liad under octoctcnus four

abundantly distinct species and under pentactcnus or tetraffciiits two. This state-

ment is inferred from tlie fact that those specimens from Kolenati's collection

which we have examined belong to no less than eight different species.

For the sake of lucidity we quote in full Kolenati's original descriptions of

the bat-fleas. The species belong to two genera.

I. Genus ISCHNOPSYLLUS Westw. (Is33).

Ciraliijilii/tliis Curtis, Siil. Eiitom. i.\. no. 417 (1832) (partiin ; type : hiriiiidiitis).

J.vlimijisi/lliis Westwood, Eiil. Mug. i. p. 359 (1833) (type : elomjaliis).

Ceialojixi/lliis Curtis, Brit Eiilnni. xv. errata (1838) {Ceraliiplii/lli cmcmlaliu).

Ceralojisi/lliis {CnHis) Kolenati, Panisll. Cliirojil. p. 31 (185G) (partim).

CteiuipsiiUna Kolenati, i.e. p. 31, footnote (185(5) (partiin; nom. nov. loco Ccralnjixijlli).

Two of Kolenati's species belong to this genns.

1. Ischnopsyllus octactenus Kolen. (1856).

Cemtopsyllus octactenus Kolenati, Parasit. Cliiropt. p. 31. no. 1. fig. 31 (1856).

" Braun-roth mit 8 Riickenctenidien."

" Das Endglied der Fiihler mit elf Wimperschnitten, das Ctenidiam des

Pronotnmg mit 26, des Metanotums mit 22, des ersten Riickensegmentes mit 10,

des folgenden mit 20, des dritten mit 16, des vierten mit 16, des vorletzten

mit 12, des letzten mit 8 Ziihnen, die Farbe der Ziihue branuschwarz, am Meso-

notnra eine Querreihe steifer Borsten.

" Miinuchen. Weibchen.

" Liinge : 0,0021 bis 0,0028 Pariser Meter.

"Aufenthalt: Im Balge des Vesperlilio mnrinns, Plccotns auritus, Synotus

barba»tellus, Vesperus discolor, Vcsperugci ]iipistrellus in Milhrcn, an letzteren

anch in der Schweiz, sehr hiiulig im absteigenden Grade. Die an den Haarwnrzeln

abgelagenten nicht festgemachten weissen liinglich ovalen Eier werdcn vnn dcm

Miethticrc im Tageslager ausgcschiittelt, wo sich die Maden eutwickeln."

At the present time at least eight species of bat-fleas are known from Enrope

which are characterised by possessing eight combs on the dorsal segments.

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Kolenati's description can only apj)!}' to one of the smaller species with a reduced

number of teeth in the last comb. This fact narrows down the selection to

two species, which differ in the male sex in one having a kind of a mane on the

thorax and the other being without it. Kolenati figures the male with a very

distinct mane, and this maned species therefore must be considered as the true

octactenus Kolenati (1856). The other species is simplex Roths. (1906). We have

so far been unable to distinguish with certainty the females of these two species.

Wagner, who found one of Kolenati's specimens, a female, in the St. Peterslmrg

Museum, believed this maneless female to be a different species from the maned

male in his possession, and described the male as a new species, jubata, which

name must now be regarded as a synonym of octactenus.

There are several other species under the name of octactenus in the material

belonging to the Paris Museum which they received from Kolenati : one male

and two females of/, elongatus Curtis (1832), one male of obscura Waguer (1897),

and one male and two females of intermedhis Roths. (1898). The number of

different hosts which Kolenati records for his octactenus renders it probable that

he possessed all these four different species of eight-combed bat-fleas at the time

he drew up the description of octactenus, and that he examined one specimen

only when noting the number of teeth in the combs. In the description there

is nothing mentioned which would make it doubtful to which species the name

must be applied, and the figure, moreover, unquestionably represents the small

species with the mane on the thorax. The true host of this species is the

Pipistrelle {Pipistrellus pip/strellus), and the other hosts mentioned by Kolenati

should be discarded for the present. Two females of octactenus are still preserved

in the Berlin Museum in one of Kolenati's characteristic tubes and lalielled

Nannugo (the name of the host). There is also a third female in the same museum

from the collection of H. Loew, possibly one of Kolenati's examples, the host

being given as S. nannugo. In the British Museum there is a single female of this

species labelled octactenus in Kolenati's own handwriting, and formerly preserved

in one of his characteristic vials.

It may be incidentally remarked that there are no eight-combed bat-fleas

originating from Kolenati in the Vienna Museum.

When the present author first published some notes on the eight-combed

bat-fieas, he figured and described a female specimen under the name of octactenus.

This example is a female of the true octactenus Kolenati, in the sense in which the

name is used in the present paper ; but he also recorded as new to Britain Jubata

Wagner, believing at that time that the single female specimen referred to above

and the series of Jubata recorded as new to Britain were different, and not as they

really are — sexes of the same species.

2. Ischnopsyllus hexactenus Kolen. (1856).

Cfralopsi/Uus liexactemis Kolenati, I'nnisit. Cliirojil. p. 31. no. 2 (1856).

" Hellroth mit sechs Riickenctenidien, am Pro-, Metanotnm uud den erstea

vier Riickensegmenten. Das Ctenidium des pronotums mit 28, des metanotnms

mit 26, des ersten Abdominalsegmcntes mit 18, des zweiten mit 24, des dritten

mit 14, des vierten mit 16 Zahueu.

" Liinge : 0,002 Pariser Meter.

" Aufenthalt: Im Balge von Syuofus barbustellus, Vespertilis muriuuo.

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Plecotns anritns, Vesperus discolor, serotinns, Vesperugo noctnla, Rhinolophns

liippocrepis, sehr haufig in absteigendem Grade bei den genannten Fiedermiinsen

in Miihreii."

This species is not easily confonmled with any other. There are 4 r?(?and

4 ? ? of it in the Kolenati collection of the Paris Museum. The Berlin Mnsenm

is in possession of 5 cJ(? and 5 ¥ ? of Kolenati's, some of which are still in

Kolenati tubes. Several of these specimens are labelled " coll. H. Loew," and it

is possible that all ten Kolenati specimens passed through that collection.

The Vienna Mnsenm has three of Kolenati's specimens of /lexiicfrm/s.

There is a single female specimen of this species in the collection of the

British Mnsenm labelled hexactenus in Kolenati's own handwriting, and formerly

preserved in one of the Kolenati tubes.

The fifth abdominal tergite bears occasionally some spines indicating a

seventh comb.

As hexacteiius is a fairly common insect, it is possible that it is found

accidentally on as great a variety of bats as are mentioned in Kolenati's list of hosts.

The usual host, however, is Plecotus auritus.

II. Genus NYCTERIDOPSYLLA Oudem. (1906).

Ceratopsyllus (Curtis) Kolenati, Paranit. Chiropl. p. 32 (185G) (partim).

Nyrleridojmi/Ua Oudemans, Tijihclir. Ent. 11. p. 58, Fo-s/. (U'OG) (type : pimtaclinus).

The two remaining species of bat-fleas which were described by Kolenati

belong to this well-characterised genus.

3. Nycteridopsylla pentactenus Koleu. (ls."iO).

Ceratopsi/Hiis peiitactfiiiis Kolenati, Parasit. Chiropt. p. .33. no. 3 (185G).

Ceratopsyllus tetracimus Kolenati, Paraait. Chiropt. p. 33. no. 4 (185G).

These two names apply to the same species. The descriptions read as follows :

pentactenns. — " Rothlichgelb, mit 5 Riickenctenidien. Das Ctenidium des

Pronotums mit 29, des Metanotums mit 11, des ersten Riickensegmentes mit 25,

des folgenden mit 19, das des siebenten Riickensegmentes mit 31, die Ziihne des

Ctenidiums am Metanotum nnr ein Viertheil so lang als die der andern, die Ziihne

des letzten Ctenidinms sehr sjutzig nnd der 8. nud 9. Zahn jederseits um ein

Drittheil kiirzer, der achte Leibesring triigt am Riickensegmeute jederseits eine

nierenfurmige Hornplatte, welche mit 42 Stachelschnppigen Riugeu besetzt ist,

die Ocellen grosser nnd mit 6 beweglichen zweiseitswendigen Stacheln vor der

Fiihlergrube, das Endglied der Fiihler mit 9 Wimperschuitten.

" Liinge : S 0,OiilO bis ? H,(.i023 Pariser Meter.

"Anfenthalt: Im Pelze des Vesperus discolor, Plecotns auritus, Syuotus

barbastellns sehr hiiufig, seltener beim Vesperugo noctula nnd Vcs])ertilio

muriniis."

tetractenus. — " Gelb, mit vier Riickenctenidien. Das Ctenidium des Pro-

notums 24-, des Metanotums 14-, des ersten Leibessegracntes 8- und des letzten

Leibessegmentes (Aftersegmentes) 14z;ihnig, alle unterbrochen, letzteres sehr

spitzziihnig ; die Ocellen klein und hell, die Fiihler mit langon Wimperu.

" Liinge : 0,002 Pariser Meter.

" Aufenthalt: Selten am Plecotus auritus bis jetzt in Miihren."

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These descriptioQs, if li|-erally interpreted, apply to none of the known

species of bat-fleas.

All the specimens from Kolenati's collection which we have examined had

five combs, and, moreover, in no specimens were there thirty-one spines in the last

comb, as stated in the description of pentactovix, nor had any example a comb

of only eight spines on the first abdominal segment. Kolenati's examples belong

to two distinct species,* but as the author mentions in the description oi pentacteims

that this insect has six bristles before the eye, the name of peiitnctemis must

be given to that species which possesses this characteristic. There are two

females in the Paris Museum collection, received from Kolenati, which possess

the bristles mentioned, and these must therefore be regarded as typical specimens

of peiitactenus.

There is nothing in the description of trti-actemis which would .jnstify ns in

applying this name to the second species of live-combed bat-fleas which is repre-

sented among Kolenati's specimens. The fact that Kolenati in subsequent papers

treated pentactenus and tetractenus as identical is, considering the indifferent

descriptions, sufficient ground for treating tetractenus as a synonym.

The name of the second species is iV. eiisiirca Dampf (19US). In the Paris

Museum there are three females received from Kolenati which belong to emarca,

in the Berlin Museum one male from Kolenati labelled as tetractenus from

Vesperugo discolor and one female, also from Kolenati, labelled as pentactenus

without any indication of host. In the Vienna Museum there arc a number of

specimens of this species which originated from Kolenati, but further particulars

about them are absent.

4. Nycteridopsylla dictenus Kolen. (1856).

Ceratnpgyllus dktenuK Kolenati, Puraxit. Chiropt. p. .32. no. h (1856).

" Lichtgelb, mit zwei Riickenctenidien. Das Ctenidium des Pronotums 24-

des Aftersegmentes l'2zahuig, letzteres zweimal nnterbnichen, uach Aussen

jederseits zu drei, in der Mitte zu sechs Ziihnen. Die Ocellen gross nnd mit einem

brannen Hof umgeben, die Fiihler mit langen Wimpern.

" Liinge : 0,0026 Pariser Meter.

"Aufenthalt: Selten am Vesperus discolor aufgefnnden."

A (J and a ? from the Kolenati collection in the Paris Museum.

The metanotum and first and second abdominal tergites bear each some

spines representing the corresponding combs of pentactenus. The present species

is therefore five-combed, with some of the combs being reduced to mere vestiges.

Kolenati further mentions a flea in Parasit. Chiropt. p. 33, which he maintains

in later publications to have also received from a bat. "Der EichhOrnchenfloh

Oeratopsyllns sciuri," he says, " ist monoctenus und hat an den Fiihlern nur

sine Borste." As several species occur on the squirrel, it is imjiossible to say

from this brief note which particular one Kolenati had in view. He himself rejects

the name in subsei[nent papers for a new name, hiJentatus {Ilorae Soc. Ent. Ross.

1862), for which he supplied a description and a figure. The specimen which

served as original for the drawing is among the Kolenati specimens in the Paris

• Cf. lintmnoloi/ut xlii. p. 27 (IIIUII)

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Museum nntler tlio name of monoclenus. Tliat it is tlie original for the drawing

there can be no doubt, since the genitalia jnotrnde in the s[)ecimeu in the way

indicated in the fignre. The species is the same as the one which we described

in 19IJ9 as Ctenopsyllus sobrinus (Ent. Mo. Mag. (2) xx. p. 186).

The question now arises if inonoetenus or bidentatus should be employed as

the name of the species. As Kolenati himself treats monoctenus as a synonym of

bidentatus, we have to consider the two names as applying to one and the same

species, there being no evidence to disprove the correctness of Kolenati's own

contention, and we must consequently accept the older one of the two names —

i.e. monoctenus — as the name of this species, although the original characterisation

is excessively meagre.

Kolenati, in Parasit. Chiropt. p. 32, also refers to Pulex respertilionis of

Duges and of BouchS, and remarks that it is impossible to say which particular

species these authors have described, which remark still holds good to-day.

Kolenati, however, erroneously quotes " Diiges in Aii/i'il. des Sc. nat. Tom. vi.

ls3U. Zool. i)ag. 130," where uo tiea is mentioned.

List of specimens of bat-fleas from the Kolenati collection contained in the

collections of the British Museum and the Bluseams at Paris, Berlin, and

Vienna :

1. Ischnopst/Uus octactenus Rolen. (1850).

Paris Museum : 1 c?, 10 ? ¥. As octactenus.

British Museum : 1 ¥ , old Register, Nos. 56, 1G3. As octactenus.

Berlin Museum: 1 J, 2 ? ?. As octactenus.

2. Isclinopsyllus intermedius Roths. (1898).

Paris Museum : 2 c? cJ, 2 ? ? . As octactenus and hexactenus.

Berlin Museum : 1 ? e.K coll. H. Loew, carded. Perhajis not from tlie

Kolenati collection. No name on the pin.

3. Ischnopsi/Uus elonga.tus Curtis (1832).

Paris Mnsenm : 1 J, 2 ? ?. As octactenus.

4. Ischnopsi/llus obscura Wagn. (1897).

Paris Mnseum : 1 (?. As octactenus.

5. Tschnopsijllus hexactenus Kolen. (1850).

Paris Musenm : 4 <?(?, 4 ? ?. As tetractenus and hexactenus.

British Museum : 1 ¥, old Register, Nos. 50, 103. As hexactenus.

Berlin Mnseum: 0 cJc?, 4 ? ?. Some in Kolenati's vials; otiiers only

marked "Coll. H. Loew."

Vienna Museum : three s])ecimens. As hexactenus.

6. Nycteridopsi/lla pentactenus Kolen. (1850).

Paris Musenm : 2 ? ¥ . As ptentactenus.

7. Nycteridopsijlla eusarca Dampf (1908).

Paris Mnseum : 3 ¥ ¥ . As pentactenus.

I'.erliu Musenm : 1 (?, 1 ¥ . As pentactenus and tetractenus.

Vienna Museum : seventeen specimens.

8. Nycteridopsylla dictenus Kolen. (1856).

Paris Mnseum : 1 cj, 1 ¥. A» dictenus.

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KATALOG DER SIPIIONAPTEREN DES KONIGLICHEN

ZOOLOGISCIIEN MUSEUMS IN BERLIN.

Von Dr. K. JORDAN und The Hon. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S.

DAS Studium der Siphonapteren hat iu nenerer Zeit infolge der Entdecknng,

dasa Fluhe als Krankheitsiibertrager von besonderer Bedentmig sind, eineii

grossen Aufschwnug genommen. Die Oftentlichen Museen, welclie bisber diese

Grnppe von lusekten ganz vernachlilssigten, beauftragea jetzt die Sammler von

Situgetieren und Vogeln, auch die Parasiten aufzubewahren. Das Material, an

Flclhen, welches den Specialisten znr Verfiigung steht, ist aber vorliiufig uoch

recht liickenhaft. Wenn man bedenkt, dass von Grossbrittauien mit seiner sehr

armen Fauna schon tiber 40 Floharten bekannt sind, so unterliegt es wohl keinem

Zweifel, dass die 400 bisjetzt beschriebenen Flohe uur einen kleinen Teil aller

existierenden Siphonapteren bilden. Unsere Kenntnis der Verbreitnng der ein-

zelnen Species liisst darnm auch noch viel zu wiinschen iibrig, und jeder Beitrag,

der die vorhaudenen Lticken ansznfiillen hilft, scheint nns von Wert zu sein. Das

ist einer der Grtinde, welche uns bewogen haben, einen vollstiindigen Katalog

der Siphonapteren des KOniglichen Zoologischen Museums zu verofFentlichen,

statt nns anf die Beschreibnng der nenen Arten zu beschranken. Wir glaubten

ferner, dass ein solcher Katalog praktischeu Wert fiir alle Hygieniker in Deutsch-

laud haben wiirde, die sich mit der Frage der Kraukheitsiibertragang beschiiftigen

nnd fiir die es mithin von Wichtigkeit ist zu wissen, welche Arten von Siphon-

apteren im KOniglichen Zoologischen Museum zu Berlin vorhanden sind und somit

als Vergleichsmaterial dienen kOnnen.

Wir sind dem Direktor des KOniglichen Zoologischen Museums, Herrn Prof.

Dr. A. Braner, sowohl als Herrn Prof. Dr. R. Heymons zu grossem Danke dafiir

verpfiichtet, dass sie nns die Saninilnng in so zuvorkommender Weise zur

Bearbeitung anvertraut haben. Die Samralung ist die reichhaltigste, welche ein

Oft'entliches Museum besitzt, abgesehen vom British Museum. Sie umfasst

78 Arten, von deneu manche in grosser Stiickzahl vertreten sind.

Eine Auzahl E.xemplare haben historischen Wert, z. B. die Fhilie ans der

Sammluug des beruhmten Dipterologen H. Loew, die wenigstens znm Teil von

Kolenati stammten und von denen manche noch heute in dea charakteristischen

Kolenati-Gliischen * aufbewahrt werden. Ausserdem enthiilt die Sammluug die

Typen der beiden uuteu beschriebenen neuen FlOhe und von folgeuden Arten :

Dennatophilus caecata Enderlein (1901).

Xenopsylla pallidm Taschenberg (1880).

„ aequisetosus Enderlein (1901).

Parapsyllus longicornis Enderlein (1901).

Malacopsi/Ua tolijpeutis Enderlein (1905).

Iloplopsyllus glacialis Taschenberg (1880).

Mesopsylla eucta Dampf (1910).

* Vergl. Seite 49.

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Wir liatten gehofft, in der Samraliing die Exemplare vorziifiaden, von denen

Bonchc' seine nngeniifrenden Beschroibnngen genommen hatto, nnd ps sind in d(>r

Tat mebrere rait einein Zettel ,,Bimclii''" bezeichiiete Stilcke vorhandon. Leider

helfen sie nns aber nnr wenig in der Deutnng der von BoncIi(5 gegebenen Namen.

Diese Stiicke sind genadelt oder anf Papier geklebt, wie das frillier iiblieli war

nud leider auch noch lientzntage mit vielen Insoktcn geschicht, die viel besser in

Balsam odcr in Alkoliol anfbewalirt wrtrdeu.

Eoncbe beschrieb in 1835 zehn Arten, davon sieben als nen, nilmlich cutiis,

felis, tnartis, erinacei, talpae, mmculi, nnd vespertiUonis.

Sein cani.t war wahrscheinlich dasselbe wie irrttuns. Da der Name canis aber

schon von ('nrtis vorher fiir den eeliten HundefloU vergeben war, so ist es ziomlicli

gleichgiiltig, welche Art Bonch^ als eanis bezeichuete.

'Unie^r felis vereinigte Bonche mnglicherweise zwei Arten {Ctenocephahts crinis

nnd fi' I ig). Die Angabe „Wobnort an der Hausltatze'" fixiert jedocb den Naraen.

Es sind keine mit „ Bonchd" bezeichneten Stiicke in der Samiulnng.

Die Beschreibnng von marfis bezieht sich anf einen „ am Marder, aneh an

Hnnden " gefnndenen Floh, der einen Kamm am Wangenrande nnd am Prothorax

besass nnd von felis hani)tsiiehlicli durcb das Fehlen der vordern Wangenstacheln

nnd die dnnklere Farbe nnterscbicden wird. Es handelt sich also entweder nra

canis oder felis, dessen vordere Wangenstacheln abgebrochon waren, oder uiu

Spilopsi/llus cuniculi oder einen Cteiwphthalmus. Es befiudeu sich keine Exemplare

in der Sammlnng, anf die der Name mit Sicherheit bezogen werden kann.

Von erinacei dagegen enthiilt die Sammlnng ein Paar mit „ Bonche "

bezeiclinete Exemplare. Die Beschreibnng liisst iibrigens keinen Zweifel dariiber

anfkommen, dass Archaeops>/Ua erinacei gemeint ist.

Ein ? ohne Kopf nnd Beine ans Bonche's Sammlnng nnd anf Talpa exropaea

gefnnden, ist vielleicht talpae Bouche. Dar Name talpcie war jedocli schon von

(Jnrtis vergeben. Das Exemplar gehort zn jener Art, welche Wagner als

bisoctodeiitatm Kolonati gedentet hat. In der Beschreibnng sagt Bouch(5 : „ Beim

Weibchen reicht das Aftersegment anf beiden Seiten liber den After hinans nnd

bildet so zwei verticale halbrnnde Scheiben." Es ist mit diesen „ Scheiben " der

erweiterte Teil des achten Tergits gemeint, der in der Tat bei dem erwiihnten Stiicke

iiber den Afterkegel hinansragt (wie gewohnlich bei geschrnmpften Exemplaren)

nnd bei oberfliichlicher Untersnchnng stark gernndet erscheint. Dass Bonche das

achte Segment hier Aftersegment, d.h. letztes Segment uennt, ist sehr bezeichnend

(siehe weiter nnten).

Es hat kanm je Zweifel geherrscht, dass Fidex musculi Bonchd anf den

Hausmansfloh zn beziehen ist, dagegen ist die letzte der Bonche'schen Arten

nicht mit Sicherheit zn denten. Dieser Pulex vespertilior/is wurde vou Taschenberg

und andern als fragliches Synonym zn hexacienns gestellt. Nnr Oudemans

glanbte, dass es sich nm eine noch nicht wieder anfgefnndene Art handele, die

njiher mit pentactenus verwaudt sei, nnd gab ilir den ncnen Namen botichei.

Bonche's Angaben passen in der Tat anf keinen bekannten Floh, wenn sie W(irtlich

genommen werden. Nach Bonche soil dieser Floh niliulich seeks Kamme habon

nnd zwar sollen sie anf dem Pronotnm, dem 1. nnd 2. sowie dem 5., 0. uud 7.

Abdominalsegmente stehen. Ein Vergleich der iibrigea Beschreibnngen Bonche's

zeigt jedocb, dass die als 1, 2, 3, etc., bezeichneten Segmente nicht diese sind.

Das Abdomen bestcht nach Bonche ans 9 Segmentcu. Uuter irritans werden die

Antepygidialborsten als tlber der Afterdecke stehend bezeichnet; nnter talpae wird

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das aclite Tevgit als Aftersegment angegeben ; und endlicli soli dem Metauotum

des vesperfiUonis eia Kamm febleu, withrend es bei alien iu Betracht kommeudea

europjiischen Arten einen Kamm hat. Darans scbeint uus mit ziemlicber

Wabrscbeiiilicbkeit bervorzngeben, dass in der Reschreibnng von resjtert/lio/us

mit dem 1. Abdominalsegment der binlere Teil des Metanotums nud mit dem 7.

Abdominalsegment das sechste gemeiut ist.

Driick- oder Beobachtnngsfebler siiid in den Bescbreibungen Boncbe's zablreich

vorbanden. Bei irritans ist z. B. Roesels Fig. 12 statt 11 zitiert und ist gesagt, dass

das 2. Vordertarsenglied liinger als das 5. ist. Unter ijallinae ist angegegen,

dass das 1. Vordertarsenglied liinger als das 2. nnd dieses liinger als das 5., nnd

nnter scitiroriim, dass das 1. liinger als das 5. ist. Boi eriiiacei soil der Mesothorax

mit Stacbeln gei'ranzt sein, wiibrend der Kamm in "Wirklicbkeit anf dem Protborax

stebt, und das Metanotum soil eine tiefe Lilngsvertiefnug tragen, was fiir den Kopf

nnd Protborax des Milancbens stimmen wiirde (die eriiiacei aus Bouch^'s Sammlung

haben natiirlicb keine Liingsvertiefung auf dem Metanotum), nnd von dem

Vordertarsus des vespertilionis wird gesagt, dass die Reibenfolge der Glieder der

Grfisse naeb geordnet 1. 2. 3. 5. 4. ist, was bei keinem bekannten Floh zutrifft.

Aus alledem glanben wir scbliessen zu diirfen, dass Boucbe"s Angabe betreffs der

Kilmme von vespertilionis auf Irrtum bernbt und dass die Bescbreibung

wahrscbeinlich von genadelten oder aufgeklebten Stiicken eines acbtkilmmigen

Flobs genommen ist, bei denen die Kilmme der Abdominalsegmente 2 und 3

infolge Einscbrumpfung des Kijrpers nicht deutlich zu erkennen waren.

Was die Klassifikation anbctrifft, der wir in diesem Kataloge folgen, so

haben wir es nicht fiir angezeigt gebalten, bier alle die zablreicben Familien und

Unterfamilien auf'zufiibren, in die man in neuerer Zeit die Sipbonapteren geteilt

bat. Die grosse Zabl der Namen wiirde fiir alle Nichtspecialisten die Ubersicht-

lii'bkeit beeintrilchtigen.

Die Angaben betreffs der Wirtstiere nnd Fundorte sind im allgemeinen

wijrtlicb so wiedergegeben, wie sie sich auf den Zetteln linden.

I. Gattung: DERALA'roPIIfLUS Gm-r. (1S38 oder 1839).

Es sind nur zwei Arten bekannt, die beide in der Sammlung vertreten sind.

1. D. caecata Enderl. (19nl).

SarrriiKiiUa camilii EuievXiAn, Zaol. Jiiliib., A hi. S;/«l. xiv. p. 549. tab. 34. figs. 1, :i. 5 (I'.IOl)

(Piracicaba).

3 ? ? (Typen) ; Piracicaba, Brasilien, binter dem Obre einer Mux spec. ;

Sammler : Ruhrig.

Das Miinnchen ist noch nicht bekannt. Wir haben vor Kurzem aber eine

Anzahl friscber Weibchen aus Sao Paulo, Brasilien, erhalten, welcbe nicht so stark

geschrumpft sind wie die Typen und von Dr. G. von Ibering auf Microihictiila

cristatas erbeuten wnrden. Bei diesen Exemplaren liegt der Kopf nicht ganz so

tief im Korper verborgen wie bei den Typen, sonderu der Riissel ragt aus der von

dem angescbwollenen Hinterleibe gebildeten Hoblung heraus und auch die Stirn

und Palpcn sind iu ciner Frontalansicht des Flobs in der Hohluug sichtbar.

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2. D. penetrans L. {\''<'^).

Puhr ppudriuiit Linnaeus, ■*>,v*V. Nol. ed. x. ]). dll. no. 2 (17:"»X).

Deniiali/]tliilu-i jir-iiel riina (L.) Jordan & Botliscliild, in TLomps., Yates & Jolinst. Liihor. liejil. vii. 1.

p. 67. no. 1. fig. F, tab. 4. fig. 28 (190G) (description, distribution, literature).

5 ? ? ; Columbia, ex cute miiri's spec. ; ex coll. Karsteii.

4 ? ?; Brasilien; Sammler : von Olfers.

1 (?, 3 ? ? : Sa. C'athariiia.

2 SS, 2 ? ? ; San Bernardino, Paragnay ; .Samniler : K. Ficlirig.

1 ? ; Guatemala ; Sammler : von Tiirklieim.

1 ?; Lima; Sammler: Winthem.

I cJ, 0 ? J ; keiue Data.

T ? ? ; Tunis; Sammler : Spatz, 30. iv. LS94.

;")??; S. Thome, ans dem Fnsse eines Negerfs.

32 ? ? ; Kamerun ; Sammler: Hasselbartb, iii. 1001.

3 ? ? ; Dentsch Ost-Afrika, vom Hausschwein.

1 ?; Amani ;; Deutsch Ost-Afrika ; Sammler: Prof. Vosseler, 28. i. 1005.

4 ? ? ; Mnnijft, Dentsch Ost-Afrika, im Fusse eines Triigers ; Sammler :

0. Neumann, iv. 1894.

10??; Kissenji, Ueutscb Ost-Afrika; Sammler: Ilaniitmanu von

Sti'gmann & Stein.

1 ?; Dar-es-Salaam; Sammler: Apotboker Wilbelm.

8 ? ? : Negundo, Dentsch Ost-Afrika, von Stis nrrflfa (/oiin'st/rn ;

Sammler : Dr. Kummer.

21(5' cJ, 178? ? ; Ngnelo, Ost Usambara; Sammler : Dr. Knuimor, 1899.

21 ? ? ; Ngnelo, Ost Usambara; Sammler : Dr. Kummer, 2). i. 1899.

1 ?; Ujiji, Dentsch Ost-Afrika; Sammler: Dr. Ilusemann, 21. ix.

1897.

4 ? ? ; Tanga, Deutsch Ost-Afrika, aus dem Fnsse eines Triigers ;

Sammler: A. Karasck, xi. 19o4.

1 ? ; Kibwezi, Britisch Ost-Afrika ; Sammler: G. Scbeffler, 28. ii. 1908.

1 ?; Ost-Usinji; Sammler: Stnblmann, 9. iii. 1892.

3 (?cj, 11 ? ?; Bameuda, Kamernn ; Sammler: Adametz, iv. 1909.

1 ?; Bukoba, Ost-Usinji ; Sammler: Stnblmann, iii. 1892.

Diesrr ursj)riing]ich ans Amerika stammeude Floh bat sicb iiber fast die

ganze iithiopisebe Hegiou ansgebreitet nnd ist liier zu einer wabren Plage geworden-

Der Sandflob scbeint Araliien noch uicbt erreiclit zn baben.

II. Gattung: IIECTOPSYLLA Franenf. (18ti0).

Die Gattung enthillt vier Arten, die alle amerikanisch sind. Eiue derselben

trifft man zuweilen in den Vogelbiiusern zoologiscber Giirten in Europa.

1. H. psittaci Franenf. (180(1).

IIe<-l„j,s,/U<i pKiltuci Frauenfeld, Sil-.-ltn: K. Ah. Wiss. )l'««, ihilh. Nal. C!., xl. p. 4G4 (18G0)

(Chile) ; Jord. iV- Rothsch., in Thomps., Yates & Johnst. Labor. Kept. vii. 1. p. CI. no. 3. tab. 1.

fig. 3, t;, 11. tab. 2. fig. 17. tab. 4. fig. 32 (UlOG).

Ein Vogelflob, der besonders die nackteu Kopfteile angreift. Nnr das

Weibchen sangt sich fest. Die Miinnchen bleiben frei nnd konnen daher abhiipfen,

wodnrch sich ihre verhiiltnissmiissige Seltenheit in Sanimlungen erkliirt.

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1 c?, 1-") ? ? ; von Tartlus leucomelas aus Brasilien ; Zoologischer Garten, Berlin ;

Sammler : K. Leium, 'H. viii. 1900.

140 ? 9; von Turdug versicolor; Zoologischer Garten, Berlin.

13 ? ? ; von einer kleinen Wild- oiler Hohltaube, Zoologischer Garten,

Berlin, 7. x. 11)08.

Zahlreiche ? S am Kopf(in Alkohol) einer Hohltaube, Zoologischer Garten,

Berlin, 14. ix. 1906.

Prof. Dahl hat in Naturw. Wochcnschr. No. 40 (ISOOj ilber ein Massenauftrcten

diesor Art im Zoologischen Garten berichtet.

III. Gattung: ECIIWXOPIIAGA Olliff (1880).

Die Arten dieser Gattnng finden sich in den Troi)en der Ostlichen Halbkngel ;

eine derselben, welche ein hiiufiger Schmarotzer auf dem Hanshuhn ist, hat sich aach

in den wiinneren Teilen der Vereinigten Staaten angesiedelt, wohin sie wahrschein-

lich mit dem Haushuhn verschleppt vrurde. Italien and Transkaspien sind die

nOrdlichsten Liinder, wo Echidnophaf/a angetroffen wordeu sind. Wir kennen

bis jetzt 9 Arten, die sich auf Siiugetierea und Vugeln, ausnahmsweise auch auf

KeiJtilien, finden.

Bei alien Arten trilgt die Hinterhiifte anf der Inneuseite einen Fleck kurzer

dicker Stachelu und ist die vordere Apikalecke dieser Hilfte in einen knrzen,

breiten, abgestutzten Zahn ausgezogen.

Eine Revision dieser und der verwaudten Gattnugen Hectopst/Ua und Dcr-

viatophilas ist in Thompson, Yates & Johnston, Labor. Rcpt. vol. vii. pt. 1 (lOOO)

verOft'eutlicht.

1. E. gallinaceus Westw. (1875).

Sai-C'ijisi/!liis ijalliiiarem Westwood, Ent. Mo. Miuj. xi. p. '1V< (1875) (Cojlon, auf Hiihuern).

Pidcx, i>idluhiruiii Johnson, Proc. Ent. Sac. Waxhhujtim, i. p. 203 (1890) (Florida).

0 (?c?, 1~ ¥ ? ; Langenbnrg, Deutsch Ost-Africa, an den KOpfen von Hiihnern und

Enten ; Sammler : Dr. Fiilleborn, viii., ix. 1898.

1 c?, 1 ?; Kissenji, Deutsch Ost-Afrika; Sammler: Hauptmann von Steg-

mann und Stein.

ud'cJ, 34 ??; Uhehe, Deutsch Ost-Africa, von Mas rattus; Sammler: Dr.

Dempwoltf.

9 ? ? ; Kibwezi, Britisch Ost-Afrika ; Sammler : G. Schefller.

1 ? ; Gahabis, Deutsch Sud-West-Afrika ; Sammler : K. Borchmaun,

1. X. 1896.

3 (?(?, r~; ? ? ; Deutsch Siid-West-Afrika.

2. E, larina Jord. & lloths. (19U6).

Bliidiiiiphmia hii-hia Jordan & Rothschild, ia Thomps., Yates & Johnst., Labnr. Jlejit. vii. 1.

p. 4'J. no. :i. tab. 1. fig. 12., tab. 2. fig. 18., tab. .!. fig. 25 (I'JOG) (Kapland, Somaliland, Abessinien).

Nur von Silugetieren bekanut.

4 ? ? ; Ifuckwa-Steppe, Deutsch Ost-Afrika ; Sammler : Hauptmann

Fromm, 31. viii. I'.MitS.

3. E. myrmecobii Uoths. (1909).

Kcliidnuph'jga niijrinrxohil Rothschild (Waterh. iioni. indescr.), Xor. Znol. xvi. p. 57. no. 2 (lOO'.t).

? ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; I'ai-ra matta, Nevr South Wales, von

Trlchosunis adpccida ; Sammler: I'h. Schradcr, iv. 1904.

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IV. Gattung: I'lI.EX L. (17581.

Nur fiiK' Art bekanut, die sick voii alien aiiJeni FlOheii ilurcli deu iiiuereu

l?au der scliiiialcii Mcsopleureu nnterscbeidet. Uio iialic VcrwaiuUschaft mit dciu

Ii;ei- niid deiu Kauiucheufloh, sowie mit don bciden auf Hiiiid und Katze

vorkomnifiideu Arten ist unverkeuubar. Viele E.xeinplare des Meascheuflohs

habt'n eiuen klcincn Zalin am 'Wangenrande, was darauf hiudeutet, dass die

(Species voii kamnitrageiiden Yorfabreu abstamiut. Es erscbeint mis viel

wabrscheinlic.ber, dass dcr Menscb deu Parasitcn von seinen Beutetieien crwdrben

hat, alii dass der i'loli eiu Erbstiick von anthropoidcn Aflen ist.

1. P. irritans L. (ITo.s).

Viilex irritaiii Linnaeus, .S^/.s/. -Yu*. ed. x. p. (514. no. 1 (1758) (partim).

0 6<i, 3 ? ? ; Homo sapiens; Sammler : Dr. tSchmidt.

16, 4 ? ? ; Berlin.

1 cJ; Berlin, aus ilem Nest von I'artis tnajor ; Sammler: Stitz, viii.

I91U.

1 ? ; Dresden ; Sammler : W. Enderlein.

•2.6 6, li ? ? ; Berlin; Sammler: H. Tetens.

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew.

\ 6 , ~ ? ; Berlin ; Sammler : Dr. Enderlein.

'JcJ<?, I'J ? ?; obne Data.

1 <^, 4 ? ? ; vom Ozelot, Zoolngiscber Garten, Berlin, vii. 190','.

1 ¥; Scbift'bodle, Vogcsen ; Sammler : II. Kolbe, vi. I'.Mil.

:i ? ? ; Leipzig, von einem toten Ueli ; e.\ coll. Enderlein.

] 6; Tuchlerheide, West-Preussen ; Sammler: IJiibsaamen.

1 6 ; Italien ; Sammler : Dr. Ueyhor.

1 6; Golodnaja Steppe, Tnrkestan, anf einer Springmaus ; Sammler:

Dr. Heymous.

1 6; Fiiente de Pedro, Teneriffa; Sammler: Dr. Heymons, 26. viii. lOoii.

3 ? ? ; Fnmni, Cbina ; Sammler : Missioiiar H. Lebmann.

I ? ; Hankiaug, Cbina ; Sammler : W. Filcbner.

] 6, 1 ? : von Mus muscidus.

1 ? ; Island ; Sammler : Dr. 0. Standinger.

1 cJ, 1 ?; Alexandria, anf 4rf/t'a «yrf/to/a.i' ; Sammler: Ehrenberg.

7 (? c?, 11 ? ? ; Cabira, „ in nave Arabica " ; Sammler : Ehrenberg.

4 66, 7 ? ? ; Loanda; Sammler : Bnchner.

\i6 6, ID ? ?; Loanda.

1 ?; Kueko bis Kimiioko ; Sammler; Biittner.

1 ? ; Bismarckburg, Togo.

2 ? ? ; Amani, Dentsch Ost-Afrika, Homo; Sammler: Prof. Vosseler,

xii. 19U0.

1 ?; Uhche, Dentsch Ost-AlVika ; Sammler: Dr. Dem|i\v(iltf.

1 ?; Kibwezi, Britisch Ost-Alrika; Sammler: G. Scheffler.

2 ¥?; Sattelberg, Dentsch Nen-Guinea ; Sammler: Dr. Neuhauss, xii.

1908.

8 66, 4 ? ? ; Majiiri, 15olivia, 1000 m. ; Sammler : Garlepp.

1 ? ; Valparaiso.

2 ? ? ; San Bernardino, Par>ignay ; Sammler : K. Fiebrig.

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V. Gattung : XENOPSYLLA Glink. (lOuT).

Die zahlreieheu Arteii sind meist klein und blass nnd finden sich fast dnrchweg

an Nagern. Wir keimeii gegen 30 Arteii, die zum Teil ziemlich scliwer zn nnter-

scheideu siud und alle dor ostlichen Halbkugel angcln'iren. Eine Art, A', cheojiis,

ist mit Ratten in alle tropiscben Liinder versclileppt worden nud kommt sugar in

earopiiiscbeu Hafen vor. Das kiihle Klima der mlrdlicbereu Gegendeu scheint aber

den Xenopsi/lla Arten nicht zu passeu.

Eine Revision der Arten erschien in Parasitologij vol. i. no. 1 (19ii8).

Der Name Loemopsijlla (11JU8) ist eiu Synonym von Xeiiojjsi/lla (I'-Wi).

1. X. pallidus Tasch. (lS8o).

Piilex jiaWdiis Tascheuberg, Die Fliilie p. 05. no. 0. tab. 1. fig. 9 (18><0) (Agypten, auf llcrjiesiea

Ichneumon).

Pulex loUherbyt Rothschild, Ent. ilo. Mag. (2). xiv. p. 86. no. 6. tab. 1. figs. 2. 5. G, tab. 2. fig. 11.

15 (1903) (Weisser Nil und Shendi, au£ Ei-lnareus albieentris, etc.)

Loeiiin2)si/lhi pallithis (Tasch.), Jordan & Rothschild, FarasUuIor/i/ i. p. 3.5. no. 1. tab. 3. fig. 4, tab. 4.

fig. '.1. tab. h. fig. 8 (1908).

Die Exemjilare, auf welche der Name urspriinglich von Taschenberg gegriindet

wurde, gehoren alle einer Art an. Spiitere Autoren, welche den echten pallidus

nicht kannten, haben unter diesem Namen mehrere Xenop.v/lla-Avten vereinigt.

AVo daher der Name palliflan in der Literatnr vor 1908 erwiihut ist, handelt es sich

selten urn den echten pallidus, sonderu urn eine oder mehrere andere Arten,

gevvOhnlich cheopis.

\'i$$i'M ?? (Typen) ; Agypten, aiif Viccrra ichiicamon ; Sammler : Ehrenberg.

2. X. cleopatrae Roths. (l!»03).

Pulex dciipu/nu Rothschild, Knt. ilo. Mag. {2). xiv. p. 84. no. 3. tab. 1. fig. 4. 8, Uib. 2. fig. 13. 17

(1903) (Shendi).

1 cJ, 1 ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild; Shendi, Sudan, auf Gcrbillus pijgargm,

iii. 1901 : Sammler : N. C. Rothschild.

3. X. cheopis Roths. (1904).

Pulei: cUiijih Rothschild, Eiit. i.)/o. Mag. (2). xiv. p. 85. no. 4. tab. 1. fig. 3. 9, tab. 2. fig. 12. 19

(1903) (Shendi).

Piile..r, murhiuii Tiraboschi, Arch. Parasit. viii. p. 252. fig. 15 ^ (1904) (Italien, auf Ratten).

Pulex jitiilijipinoisis Herzog, Bull. Bur. Gor. Labor. Manila xxiii. p. 77. figs. '2C. 27 (1907) (Manila,

auf Ratten).

Xenopxylla 2)achyuroiiigidi.i Giiakieviicz, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wicn cxvi. iii. p. 381. tab. 2. fig. 1-4

(1907).

Dieser in Indien nnd dem Niltale sehr hilufige Pestfloh hndet sich iiberall,

wohiu in den wilrmeren Landern Ratten verschlejipt worden sind, nnd wird auch

in europaischen Hafenstiidten gefunden (Loudon, Portsmouth, etc.).

1 ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Shendi, anf GerbUlus tafera, ii. 190l ;

Sammler : N. C. Rothschild.

53 cJcJ, ~;5 ? ? ; Uhehe, Deutsch Ost-Afrika, auf Mim rat.tas ; Sammler: Dr.

Demjiwolti'.

1 J, 2 ? ? ; Paramaribo, Surinam, iius eincm Rattennest ; Sammler: C. Heller.

2 cJtJ, 2 ? ? ; Paramaribo, Surinam, auf Ratten, Sammler : C. Heller.

1 ? ; oliue Fnndort, auf Sjiaku typhlus.

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4. X. aequisetosus EikKtI. (I'JUl).

Pulex afquinelomn Eoderleio, Zoul. Julnb., Abl. %»■<. xiv. p. 504. fig. it, tab. 31. lig. 7. 10 (IWH)

( 5 , Togo, auf Criceloiiiii^).

LiHiu'ipxi/lla urijuhet'ixiix (Enderl.) Jordan A Rothschild, Parusilolot/i/ i. p. 4.5. no. 7 (1908).

Die Angaben, welche wir iiljcr diese Art in Parasitology auf (Jrniul ciner

briefliclieu Slitteiliiiig iind dcr Euderleiuscbeu Fignreii macliten, sind dahiii zu

berichtigen, dass das Metcpimerniu nicbt 4 Borsten, sondera auf einer Seito 9 nnd

anf der anderen li> in zwei Heiben geordnet trjigt. Das einzige* bekaiinte E.xc>mi>lar

stimmt so gut luit -V. cheojiis iibereiu, dass man Zweifel begeu kimnte, ob es siih

lira eine eigne Art bandelt. Da jodoch die Receptacula seminis von aequisetosus

nnd cheopis auflallige Uuterscbiede zeigen, so ist aequisetosus gewiss eine eigne Art.

Die AVeibchen eiuiger anderer Xenopsi/lla-krizn steben ja einander gleicbfalls sebr

nahe. Zum Vergleich bilden wir die Eeceptacnla von A', aequisetosus (Fig. 3),

cheopis {¥\g. 2), brasiUensis (Fig. 4) nnd nuhicus (Fig. 1) ab. Der Durcbmesser

des Kopfes des ReceptacuUims ist bei aequisetosus grosser als der Durcbmesser des

benacbbarten Teiles des Scbwanzes, wiihrend bei cheopin und besondcrs aber l>ei

iiubieus das Umgekebrte der Fall ist ; auch ist das Ueceptaculum viel kleiner als

bei cheopis.

1 ?; Mangu, Togo, von Cricetom;/s si)cc., August 1M»S; Sammler :

Fierrv.

FIG. 1.

Fig. 2. Fig. 3.

Fig. 1. — Receptaculum seminis von Xeiinjiai/lla Hiiliii-iin.

„ 2. — ,, „ ,. clicojfis.

„ 3. — T. )) »» arijum'tosim.

4. — ,, ,, „ brasilianis.

5. X. nubicus Koths. (l',iu:3).

I'Hhx n„l,k,i« Rothschild, E„l. .V,k M,u/. (2). xiv. p. 84. no. •-'. tab. ■>. fig. 10. 16 (1903) (Shendi,

Sudan).

Es befinden sicb in der Sammlnng zwei Weibchcn aus di'iu Landc Moab, die

miiglicberwcise zn nuhicus oder zu einer nahe verwaudten, noch uuliescbicbenen Art

gehiiron. Die Borsten des llinterleibs sind zalilrciehcr als bei cheopis, besonder.s

die anf deu Vciitralplattcn nnd der acbten Dorsalplattc. Der tScliwanz des

Heceptaculums ist am Anfange stark baucbig erweitert und seiu Dnrchmesser an

dieser Stelle viel grosser als der des Kciiifchens (Fig. 1). Ein dritles "^ , von .Sofia,

stiramt mit den anderen beiden ? ¥ iiberein.

1 ? ; aus einem Glase mit Ratten aus dem Lande Moab.

1 ? ; aus dem Lande lloab, von Sesokia bacheri ; Samuiler : K. Satunin.

* Vcrgl. Aachlrarj, S. S'J.

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1 9 ; Sofia, voD Xeaokia bacheri (ob Fnadort korrekt ? — K. J. & N. C. 1?.")

] c?; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild; Sheudi, iSudao, ii. 1901, auf (jerbillus

robmtus \ Sammler : N. C Rothschild und Wollaston.

6. X. brasiliensis Baker (1904).

Piihx brasllkmts Baker, Proc. U. S. Nal. Mux. xxvii. p. 379 (1904) (Sao Paulo, Brasilien, Mus

valtuH und decunmiius).

LoemjjKijlla vigetiis Rothschild, Nur. Z,«il. xvi. p. 53. no. 1. tab. 8. fig. 3. 4 (1909) (Niger).

(57c?c?,31 ??; Uhehe, Dentsch Ost-Afrika, auf Mus rattus ; Sammler: Ur.

Demjjwolff.

Mit diesen Exemplareu wareii zahlreiche cheopis atifgemischt. Die Mannchen

des brasiliensis lassen sich von cZ/i-o/iis leicht durch das siebente Abdoraiiialtergit

und durch die Kopnlationsorgaue unterschiedeu, die bei brasilie»sis iihnlich wie

bet tortus und scojjuli/er gebaut sind. Beim Weibcheii siud die Borsten der Beine

viel kiirzer und kriiftiger als bei chi'Opis ; das Receiitacnltim (Fig. 4) ist kleiner,

hat einen verhilltuismiissig viel grOssereu Kopf als bei jeuer Art und einen kiirzeren

Scliwanz. Die Weibchen der drei anderen ahnlichen Arten brasiliensis, tortus

uud scopulifer kOnnen an den Borsten des siebeuten Abdomiualsternits und des

Ilinterbeins uuterschieden werden. Bei brasiliensis befinden sich vor der Borsten-

rcihe des siebeuten Sternits auf beiden Seiten zusammen nur 1 bis 3 Borsten, bei

tort an 8 bis 10 und bei sropuli/er 14 bis 10. Die liiugste Apikalbor.ste der

Ilinterschiene reicht bei tortus bis an die vorletzte Einkerbuug des ersten

Tarsensegments und die liiugste Borste dieses Segments reicht etwas iiber die

Spitze des zweiten Segments hinaiis, wjihreud die betreftenden Borsten bei

scopulifer und brasiliensis kiirzer siud.

7. X. isidis Roths. (1903).

Pitkx iwlis Rothschild, N'lV. Zoul. x. p. 313. no. 2. tib. .i. fig. 2. 5. (i. 8 (1903) (Harar).

1 cJ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild, Daroli, Somalilaud, auf verwildertem

Canis familiaris ; Sammler: Hilgert, Exped. Erlanger.

1 ? ; e.x coll. N. C. Rothschild, Harar, Abessinien, auf Procavia

erlangevi; Sammler : C. von Erlanger uud Neumann, April

1901.

VI. Gattung : PARIODOXTIS J. & R. (1908).

Unterscheidet sich von Xenopsi/lla hauptsiichlich dadnrch, dass der Wangen-

rand an der Umbiegungsstclle in eiueu dreieckigen Zahn ersveitert ist, iihnlicb

wie bei den Sarcopsyllideu.

Nur eine Art bekauut.

1. P. rig^genbachi Roths. (1904).

ruhx n.i;inil»i'hi Rothschild, Xuc. Zn.jl. xi. ii. C.ll. no. 7. tub. 8. fig. 111. 20, tab. 0. fig. 2) (1904)

i^Kapl.iud und Maroliko).

In AlVika iiberall hiiufig auf dem Stachelschwein.

13 c?(J, 59 ¥ ¥ ; Kissenji, Dentsch Ost-AIVika, auf dem Stachelschwein ; Sammler :

Hauptmann von Stegmann und Stein, ii. — xi. 1908.

\i'>6d, l')'i¥ ¥ ; Kibwezi, Britisch Ost-Afrika, auf dem Stachelschwein; Sammler:

G. Scheffler, 8. ix. 19i)8.

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VII. Gattung: ARCIIAEOPSYLLA Dampf (1008).

Sehr uahe mit Ctenocepkalu^ verwandt mul eiiio Art Zwischenstufe zwischcu

dieser Onttnng and Pidex bildend.

Der Waugenfortsatz uiiterbalb der Fiihlergnibe triigt eineu Zahn an der Spitze

wie bei ClcHOcepkalus; der Kamm am anteren Wangenrande bestebt ans drei oder

weniger Zjihnen nnd der Proiiotalkaram ist gleicbfalls rednciert.

1. A. erinacei Boncb(' (183.1).

Pulex erhiacfi Bouch^, Nora Aria ,1c. Af.-yi. Caml. xvii. 1. p. 507. no. 7 (1835).

Triclmpsi/lla cuxpitlala Kolenati, IJnr. Sue. Knl. Ross. ii. p. 33. no. 6. tab. 1. fig. 4 (1863).

12c7d', 10 ? ?; Beucba, Leipzig, anf Krinat-ois cnropaeus; 8ammler : Euderlein,

Summer 1898.

0 c?c?, 11 ? ? ; Berlin, anf Erinaceiis raropaeus.

'i 66, 1" ? V ; viwi Erinacens europaem ; Sammler ; v. Martens, 24. viii. V.)W.

\ 6, 4 ? ? ; Eutin, s,\\i ErinMeus europaetis; Sammler: Scbmidt.

2 ? ? : ohne Fnndort, anf Erinaceua I'ln-oimrm ; Sammler : Enderlein,

31. vii. KSOI.

1 <?, 1 ?; e^ co\\.^mK\w, Siwi Erinaceus europaeus.

\6. 17; dhait ¥\\nAoYt,d.\xi Erinaceus europacus.

2 ? ? ; obne Data.

8 c? c?, 11 ? ? ; Kronstadt, Siebenbiirgeu ; Sammler : E. F. Lehmann, 31. vi. lOO.x

2 ? ? ; ans dem Laude Moab, anf Mas alexandrines ; Sammler : K.

Satuuin.

23 cJo, 3."i ? ? ; I{abnsdorf bei Erkner, vom Igel ; Sammler : R. Lemm, vii. lUlU.

VUl. Gattuno: SPILQPSVLLUS B&ker (1904).

Die Weibcben dieser Gattnng sangen sich so fest, dass sie nicht abspringen

kOnnen. Sie bilden znweilen eine fr.rmlicbe Krnste am Kopfe des "Wirtes.

Ahnlieb wie bei don gleichfalls festsitzenden Sarcopsylliden sind die Labialtaster

sehr schwacb cbitiuisiert. In Enropa nnr eine Art.

1. S. cuniculi Dale (1878).

Pulex cuniculi Dale, Jlisl. Glanville\ Wvntlon p. 2;il. no. 10 (1878).

PiiUx (joiiiiicephaluH Tascheiiberg, Die Flijhe p. 82. no. 15. tab. 3. Eg. 20 (1880).

1 ? ; obne Fnndort, von Lepus cuiiimlus ; Sammler : Enderlein.

1 ?; Tanclia bei Leipzig, in plnom Fncbsban ; Sammler: Linlce,

13. iii. 1904.

\6, I ?: Meisdoif i. Harz, von Felis catusferm; Sammler: Enderlein,

20. ii. 191)1.

-J c?J, 4 ? ?; e.x coll. N. C. Botbscbild ; Tring (Herts), von l.cpas cmdculus;

Sammler : N. C. Kolbscbild, xii. 1890.

IX. Gattlxu: CTE^'OCEVIIALL.'S Kolen. (I8(j2).

Die iiicrlicr gelnprigeu wenigen Arten zeicbnen sicb vor Palex dnrcb den Besitz

eines Kammes am wagerecbten Wangenrande, eines Zalins an der Spitze des

■\Vangent'orU:itzes unteriiaib der Fiihlergnibe und eines PronotalUaiumes ans.

Die beiden hiinfigeu Arten, G. canis nnd felis, sind vielfueb miteinander

verwechselt wordeu.

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1. C. canis (Jurtis (1826).

Puh:i- raiiU Curtis, Brit. E,il. iii. No. 114. figs. A— F. und 8 (1826).

Die Stirn ist bei dieser Art stark gerniulet, besouders beiai Miiuuchen.

3 c?c?, 2 ? 9 ; ex coll. H. Loew, iii eiueni Koleuati-Glaschen.

2 ? ? ; ex coll. H. Loew.

:c?c?,25 ? ?; ohiie Data.

l:5<5c?,23 ??; Berlin, ans dem Neste von Parns maior; Sammler : Stitz, viii.

191U. [Das Nest war mit Hundehaaren gefiittert und enthielt

ansser C. canis audi Fulex irritaiis nnd CeratophyUtis

gallime.—K. J. & N. C. R.]

f) (?(?, 24 ? ? ; ohne Fnudort, von Caninfamiliaris.

7 ? ? ; ohne Fundort, vom Hunde ; Sammler : Malitzcli.

211 (? t?, 56 ? ? ; iiu Keller des Zoologischeu Musenms, Berlin ; Sammler: Enderlein,

5. vii. 1903.

3c? J', 2 ? ?; ohne Fnudort, vom Hunde; Sammler: Enderlein.

"i S S, 5 ? ? ; von Otoojoii megalotis, Zoologischer Garten, Berlin, 10. xii. 1901.

1 ? ; von Canis lagopus, Zoologischer (Jarten, Berlin, 1. xi. 1909.

1 c?, 2 ? ? ; Leipzig; Sammler: Enderlein, 23. ix. 1903.

1 cJ; Lougji, Kamernn; Sammler: R. Pascben.

1 ? ; Bismarckburg, Togo, 7. —23. iii. 1893.

6 ? ? ; Gobabis, Dentsch Siid-West-Afrika ; Sammler : K. Borchmann,

1. X. 1896.

2 <?(?; Para, von Nastia solilaria; Sammler: A. Schinz, xii. 1893.

2 ? ? ; Caracas, vou Felis jaguaroiuli ; Sammler : Gollmer.

2. C. felis Boifche (1835).

Pider Aih Bjuchi', Xui'd .Ifta Ac. Leoji. Carol, xvii. p. .Wa. no. 4 (1835).

Von <'. canis hauptsiichlich dnrch den viel Jiiiigeren Kopf zu unterscheideu.

C. J'elis ist hilutiger als canis, besouders in deu Tropeu ; beide Arten geheu auf

Menschen, und die iu reinlichen Hiiusern augetrotfeuen Flohe gehoren gewOhulich

zn einer dieser Arten und nicht za Pulex irritans.

2 ? ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, von " Canis domeslicus."

iS, 2??; von Felis catm domesticas, Berlin; Sammhu- : Enderlein, 1. ix.

1903.

•■> dS , 5 ? ? ; von Felis catxs dome.^^ticK.^.

\ 6, IV; olme Data.

1 ? ; ohne Lokalitiit, vou einer Fledermaus.

11 c?c?, 13 ? ? ; vom Gelbbauch Lemur, Zoologischer Garten, Berlin, viii. 1900.

3 (?(?, 17 ? ? : von eiuer Hauskatze ans Togo, Zoologischer Garteu, Berliu,

10. x. 1901.

■ 1 J, 4 ¥ ? ; von Canis atlanticus ans Tripolis, Zoologischer Garten, Berlin.

1 cJ, 9 ¥ ? ; von Felis leo, Berliu ; Sammler : Dr. Koch, 21. xi. 1903.

4c?cr, 7 ? ?, von Didelphis marsupia,lis, Nord-Amerika. [Wahrscheinlich aus

dem Zoologischeu Garten in Berliu. — ^K. J. & N. G. R.]

12 c?c?, 78 ¥ ? ; vou einer Hauskatze aus Lagos, Zoologischer Garteu, Berlin, 1900,

8 (?c?, 14 ? ¥ ; von Vloerra iiulica, Zoologischer Garten, Berliu, 3. ix. 1900.

2 ¥ ¥ ; von Felis.

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1 (? ; im AVaarenlager von 0. Calix.

4 66, 40 ? ? ; von Actifix, vom Taxidermisteu ties Musenms erlialteu, 14. iii. I'.ilO.

1 <f , 1 J ; von Paradoxtuus ti/lleri, Zoologischer Garten, Berlin.

1 ? ; Nen-Langcnbnrg, Uentsch Ost-Afrika, an Mensclien ; Sammler :

Hani)tmann Fromm, 14. viii. lOOS.

4cJcJ, 3??; nhne Fiiiidortsangalie, von Felix mamira ; Sammler: Vi . Glas-

raaclier.

1 "i; Mpnajma, DeiUsch Ost-Afrika; im Ilaiise gnfangen ; Sammler:

Lademanu, 13. i. liJO(i.

1 ¥ ; Mombo-Korogwe, Dentsch Ost-Afrika ; Sammler : Prof. Vosseler

i. 1004.

1 ? : Mamwia-Lager, Deotsch Ost-Afrika, an einem Streifenschakal ;

Sammler : Hanptmann Fromm.

'A6S; Nguelo, Dentsch Ost-Afrika; Sammler : Prof. Vosseler, 1. v. 10i)4.

'■> 66, 7 66; Kibwezi, Britisch Ost-Afrika; Sammler : G. Sclieffler.

11 (? J, -!5 ? ? ; Kibwezi, Britisch Ost-Africa, an einem Lenparden ; Sammler:

G. Sclieffler.

Vi66, 12 ? ? ; Kibwezi, Britiseli Ost-Afrika, von einer kleiuen bunteu Katzenart ;

Sammler : G. Schettier.

4 ¥ ¥ ; Deutsch Siid-West-Afrika.

o ¥ ¥ ; Kamerun.

13 ¥ ¥; ('anicas, von Felis jaijimrondi ; Sammler: Gollmer.

4 ¥ ¥ ; San Bernardino, Paraguay : Sammler : K. Fiebrig.

"i 6 6,'Z~ ¥ ¥ ; Bergendal, Snrinam, an Hnnden ; Sammler : ('. Heller, .\. l'.Ml.^.

\ 6 6, 0 ¥ ¥ ; Paramaribo, Surinam, an einer llansratte ; Sammler : ('. Heller,

vi. 19U8.

\6, 7 ¥¥; Paramaribo, Surinam, an Hunden ; Sammler: 0. Heller, ii. I'JUS.

3 (J J, l.j ¥ ¥ ; Cavandia ?, Chile, au Canis magellankas ; Sammler : Dr. Plate.

X. Gattung : llorLoVfiYLLVfi Baker (l!)i).5).

Hierher geliOren einige Arten von den Yereinigteu Staateu, Canada und

Gronland. Sie linden sicb auf Lepus.

1. H. glacialis Taseh. (lf<bu).

I'ulex ylickdU Taschenberg, Die Flul,,- p. 7r,. no. \1. tab. :). lig. 17. 17,; (isgo) (Nonliol, Wus

Berol.).

ii 6 6, 4 ¥ ¥ (Tyj)en) ; Nordpidarfalut, von Ia'j/xs ylacialis, ii. bsTO.

16, 1 ¥ ; e.\ coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Frobisher Bay, auf cinem Schneehascn ;

Sammler : C. G. Sampson, 14. ii. I'JtCi.

li.66, t5?¥;Karajak Xnnatak, Gronland E.xpedition, auf Lcpus (jlaciulis,

2s. xi. \m-z.

'■- ■' -"^1- GATnxc: lillol'ALol'sYLLLS Baker (I'.Mi.i).

. Erne rdui amerikanische Gattung, vou der bis jetzt dreizehn Arten bekannt

siud. Eiue Revision der bis VM6 bcschriebonen Arten finilet sieh in PunisitoUxjij

i. p. 00 ff. (I'JOS). Zn den dort aufgeziihlteu 1,' Arten, von iloneu wir UUi nicht

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kennen, haben wir letzthiii eioe weitere hinzngefiigt (/?. palpdlis, beschrieljeu in

Aiui.Sci.Xat. 1010), dereu zweites Maxillartastersegiueat doppelt so lang als das

erste ist.

1. R. cleophontis Hoths. (100+).

Piilex denp'iaiitis Rnthschild, .V..i'. Zf.ol. xi. p. 014. no. ;i. tab. 10. fig. .32 (UI04) (Buenos Aires).

1 (?, 3 ? ¥ ; San Bernaidino, Paraguay ; Sammler : K. Fiebrig.

2. R. australis Roths. (1904).

P,ile.r ,(iislnii;>' Rothechild, l.i; p. 01.3. no. 8. tab. 9. fig. 2!t, tab. 10. fig. 34. 30 (1004) (Mexico).

Wie in Paraaitology i. p. 73 angegeben, stimmen die siid-amerikanischen

Exemplare niclit genan mit mexikaniscben iiberein. Das zur Verfiigiing stehende

Vergleichsmatei-ial ist noch.nicht geniigend, nm niiher anf die Unterschiede eingeben

zn konueu.

1 S : San Bernardino, Paragnay ; Sammler : K. Fiebrig.

3. R. bernhardi Roths. (1908).

Rhi,/,nh,/ixi/lluM hfriihiinV .Jordan i<r Rnthschikl, PitirixiloJog;/ i. p. 77. no, 8. tab. 7. fig. C (KlilS)

(San Bernardino, Dkhlpjuj':).

1 c?, 3 ? ? ; San Bernardino, Paraguay ; Sammler : K. Fiebrig.

XII. Gattung: PARAPSYLLUS TS,nAer\. (1903).

Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten sind der Mehrzahl nach siid-amerikanisch, eiue

findet sich anf Pinguinen anf der St. Paul Insel und eiue andere, gleichfalls von

Pingninen, ist von West-Anstralien nnd Tasmanien beschrieben.

1. P. longicornis Euderl. (1901).

Piih.r loiif/ironilx Enderlein, Znol. J„Jii-b., Abl. %.«/. xiv. p. 553. tab. 34. fig. 8. 9. 12 (1901)

St. Paul In.sel).

PanipKiiUus loiif/iriini'x id., Wins. Erqrhii. Exjml. VidiJiria p. 201. fig. 2. tab. 39. fig. 13. 14. 10. 17

19. 21 (1903).

~ (Jc?, 1 ? (Typen) ; Insel St. Paul, von Eudyptes chrysocomc, Valdivia Exped ,

3. i. 1899.

Xlll. Gattung: MALACOPSYLLA Wey^nb. (1881).

Die zwei l)ekannten Arteu sind beide in der Sammlung vertreten. Sie fiuden

sich in Argentinien und Siid-Brasilien. Es sind GiirteltierflOhe.

1. M. grossiventris Weyenb. (1879).

PulrT r/roxsii-eiilris Weyenbergb, Bol, Ac. Nat. Cienr. Rep. Argeiil. iii. p. 188 (1879).

MaltiinpaiiUa grossiventris id., Period. Zoolorj. iii. p. 271 (1881).

.MnjopsiiU-i iuermis Wahlgren, .irkir Zool. i. p. 194. tab. 9. fig. ll-l.'i (1903).

Muhiropsyllii ani/rocli Rothscbild, A'oo. Zool. xi. p. 604. no. 2. tab. 7. fi^. 10. tab. 8. fig. 11. 12. 14-

15 (1904).

.Muliii-opsylla tubjpeulis Enderlein, Zool. .liiz. p. 139. fig. 1-0 (1905).

3 Jc?, 5 ? ? (Typen von toli/peutis) ; Salta, Argentinien, von Tohjpeutes conunis ;

Sammler : J. Steiubach.

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2. M. agenoris Roths. (1004).

}falacoi,>yUa ag^Morh Bothsohild, X,.r. Zool. xi. p. GOG. no. 3. tab. 7. fig. 5-9, tab. 8. fig. 13 (1904).

] jj . ex coll. N. V. Rothschild ; Cruz del Eje, Argentinien, von

Dasijpus; Sammler : P. 0. Simon, Novemljer 1901.

XIV, Gattung : VERMIPSYLLA Scbimk. (1885).

Grosse, gewOhnlich stark behaarte Arten, die keine Kiimme und keine Ante-

pydialborsten" haben. Die Weibchen schwellen sehr stark an. Wir folgen bier

Wagner, indem wir Cliartopsi/lhi mit Vennipsfilla zn einor Gattnng vereinigen.

Es liegeu keine zwingenden Griinde vor, die hierher geh.lrigen nnd sehr nahe

niiteinander verwandten Arten generisch zu trennen.

Die Arten sind am zablreichsten im gemiissigteu Asien, anch sind eiuige aus

Kanada bekannt. Der einzige bekannte Floh, desseu normale Wirte Ungnlaten

sind, gehort zu dieser Gattnng.

1. V. alakurt Schimk. (1885).

Vermiiiaijlht alakurl Schimkewitsch, Zuohig. Aiizeiij. viii. p. 75 (1885).

2 ? ? ; King-Kol, Turkestan, vom Pferde.

2. V. globiceps Taseh. (1880).

? PuUx wipes Victor (de Motsch.), Bull. Sue. Iinper. Moscou p. 170 (1840),

Piilex glohUvps Taschenberg, Die Flohe p. 6G. no. G. tab. 2. fig. 10. 10«. 11 (1880).

Der normale Wirt ist der Fuchs. Motschoulsky veriiffentlichte in 1840, I.e.,

den Namen rulpes ohne geniigeude Beschreibnng, wenigstens sind seine Angab.^n

nicht hinreichend, nm darnach zn entschieden, ob er ylohicepa, rothachiUU oder

trichosa vor sich gehabt hat.

1 ? ; ohne Fundort, vom Fuchs.

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, Vulpes.

2 ? ? ; ohne Data.

5 c?(?, 5 ? ? ; Karajak Nnnatak, GrC.nland Expedition, auf Cams lagopu», 28. xi.

18i»2 (lant Originalzettel, 29. v. 189:^).

3. V. trichosa Koh. (1903).

Chaelr^m/lh, Iriehom Kohaut, Alhit. Kozlem. ii. p. 39. tab. 4. fig. 6, tab. 5. fig. 2 (1903) ; Dampf,

Sehrift. Phya.-ijkon. Gen. Kruiigxherij li. p. 42 (1910).

ChaetopgylUi hihauti Oudemans, Ent. Ilerieltl. iii. p. 52 (1910).

Die Unterschiede zwischen trichosa nud glohiceps sind in klarer Weise von

Dampf anseinandergesetzt, der anch die Nomcnklatnr richtig stellt.

1 (J ; ohne Data.

1 ? ; ohne Fnndort, von Afe/e.s.

1 ? ; Schlesien von Mi'les ffixus ; Sammler : G. Euderlein.

1 ? ; Berlin, vom Dachs ; Sammler : Grimm.

2 ? ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, in einem Kolenati-Gliischen, Meles taxu.^.

In Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. ii. p. 22. nnter no. 3 sagt Kolenati, dass sich „ Typen "

von Pulex striatus Kolen. (= hyaenae Kolen.), welche Art zu Vermipsi/lla* gehort,

in den Museen zn St. Petersburg, Berlin nnd "Wien befinden. Wir haben diese Art

nicht in der Sammlung des Berliner Mnseuma gt^i'nndcn.

• Vergl. Oudemans, Ann. K. K. Nal. Ilifmus. x.Kii. p. 0 (i;P07).

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XV. Gattung: PYGTOrSYLLA Roths. (lOOG),

Stirn oline Hocker. Wangenfortsatz weiter nach hinten reichend als bei

Cerafop/ii/llus. Die Filhlergrnbe beim <? nicht dentlich anf das Prosternit

fortgesetzt, beim ? gescblossen. Ange bei durchfallendein Lichte nierenfOrmig.

Pronotum mit 2 oder 3 Reiheii Borsten. Bei beidea Geschlechtern zwei

Antejiygidialborsteii. Sinnesplate des nennten Hinterleibsegments stark erhabcn.

Die Mehrzahl der Ceratop/ii/lla.'!-i\hn]\i;hen Fliihe, die aus deii Tropen der

(jstlicbeu Hallikngel bekauut sind, gehOreu hierher. Australien ist besonders

reicb an Pi/ffio/igt/lla-Arten, von denen einige eiiie betriichtliche Grosse errcicheii.

1. P. torvus Koths, (1908).

PygiopxiiUa lorviis Rothschild, Eid. Mo. Mag. (2). xix. p. 77 (1908) (Ruwenzori).

Id; Bamenda, Kamernu ; Sammler : Oberlentnaut Adametz, vi. 1009.

2. P. mordax Roths. (1908).

Pl/f,!op.i>/na luonhij- RothschiKl, Prnc. Zool. Soc. Lowh 2. p. 021. no. 5. tab. 28. fig. 6, tab. 29. fig. 9

(1908) (c?& ?, Brit. Xeu-Guinea).

1 ? ; Rattclberg, Finschhafen nnd niihere Umgebnng, Dentsch Neu-

Gniuea, vom Bentelmarder ; Sainmler : Dr. Neuhauss, iii. l'.)09.

Die Seitenborsten des basalen Hiuterleibssternits sind weniger zahlreit-h als

bei nnserem einzigen ? ans Britisch Nen-Gninea. Diese Art nnterschiedet sich

von alien bekannten Vijgiop^ylla dnrch den knrzen Riissel, der nnr wenig iiber die

Mitte der Vorderhiil'te hiuansreicht.

3. P. novaeguineae Roths. (1904) (Fig. 5).

Ceriitojihi/Iliis noraeyuhimr RothachilJ, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 629. no. 21. tab. 13. fig. GCi. C7 (1904)

(Huon-Golf).

1 $; Sattelberg, Finschhafen nnd dessen niihere Umgebnng, Dontsch Nen-

Gninea, vom Bentelmarder; Sammler : Dr. Nenhauss, iii. 1900.

Fia. 5. — Kopululionsorgane ties <d von VyijUnstjUa noviu'tj^iuti ae%

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Wir ]<enncn bisher imr /.wei Kxcraplare dos WeiLchcns, mit ileneu das obige t?

recht gut iibereinstimmt. Cliarakteristisck fiir die Art ist der stark jre^ogeue

Vorderkopf, der 13 grossere Borsten triigt (5, 1, 3, 2, 1), von denen die letzte

niiiuittelbar unter dem vorderen Teile des Aiiges steht ; nnd ferner, die gennge

Zabl Borstea anf der Aiisseuseite der Schienen. Diese Borsten bilden anf der

Hiiiterscbiene zwei Reibcn, von doneu eine dicht an don Dorsalborsten nnd die

zweite mehr lateral stelit, dann folgt ein breiter Uaniu, der 1 oder 2 oder gar keine

Borsten tragt, wahrend der Vorder- (oder Ventral-) -rand wieder mit einer Anzahl

Borsten besetzt ist.

Der Koinilationsapparat (Fig. 5) erinnert etwas an P. ahalae Rotbs. (1904),

weicht alier in den Eiuzelheiten bedeutend ab. Besonders hervorznbeben ist, dass

der bewe^licbe Finger (F) viel kiirzer ist nnd das nennte Sternite dorsal an der

Spitze einen langen kegelf<irmigen Zahn triigt.

XVI. Gattung: CERATOPIlYLI.rs Cnrtis (1832).

Die in dieser Gattung nntergebracbten Arten siud allmiiblicb so zahlreicli

geworden, dass eine Einteilung in uatiirlicbe Gruppen ein dringendes Bediirfnis ist.

Leider sind nns nocb eine Anzahl Arten, besonders ans Nord-Amerika beschriebeue,

in Natur nnbekannt nnd wir miissen deshalb die Veroffentlichnng einer Revision

der Gattnng noch hinansschieben.

1. C. hirundinis Cnrtis (1832).

CeralnphiflhiK hirmullnl^ Curti.', Ilril. KnI. ix. No. 417. no. '.1(18.32) : Rothsch.. X„e. Z.ml. vii.

p. 542. no. 3. tab. 9. fig. 4. 12. 1.5. 20 (1900).

Hilnfig in den Nestern von Clirlhlon uihica.

1 (?, 7 ? ? : obne Fundort, anf llinimlo urbica.

2 <?c?; ohne Data.

SJcJ, 3 ??; Charlottenburg, ans einem Nest von Iliniiido iirlnca \ Sammler :

Stein.

1 S ; ohne Fundort, ans einem Nest von Iliruiulo.

1 ? : obne Fnndort, von Ilirundo rustica.

1 (?, 4(?c?; Liesken bei Bartenstein, ans einem Nest von Hirumlo urbica;

Sammler : Dewitz.

2. C. Styx Rotbs. (189s).

CeralophyUm Htjr Rothschild, Nor. Z„„l. vii. p. 543. no. 4. tab. '.). fig. 5. 7. 8. IG (1!IOO) (Cnfijlc

Hiinfig in den Nestern der Uferscbwalbe.

1 (J; ohne Fnmhrt, Cot>/lfi 7ipa)-ia ; Sammler: G. Enderlein.

3 ? ? ; Oberniblingen bei Halle, im Nest einer Uferscbwalbe; Sammler :

G. Enderlein.

10 ? ? ; Scbmiedebnrg, Mersebnrg, in der Hoble dor Erdschwalbe, viii. ;

Sammler ; Moritz,

(73^

3. C. spinosus Wagn. (1003).

CeratiiplnjJUia .yiiiinsiis Wagner, Hoi: Snc. Enl. I{us.i. xxxvi. p. 287. no. I. tab. 3. fig. 5((. J, tab. 4.

fig. 13». b (1903).

IS, 1 ? ; Turkestan ; ex coll. Grnbe ; Samiuler : Fedtschenko.

Als I'ulex jyCiivi" bezeichnet, was wahrsclieinlich meint, (lass tier Floh auf

Ciiriin gefnndeu wnrde. No. 10989 der Samiulung', das cJ als mikroskopiscbes

Praparat, oluie Data, nnr mit Naramer verselien.

4. C. rusticus Waga. (1903).

Ceniln/ilii/lln'! riisllrux Wagner, Ilor. Snr. Kut. liuss, xxxvi. p. 288. tab. ?j. fig. Ik/. GA, tab. 4. fig. 14(«.

14/i (1903, Juni).

Cpratnp/n/IItis ilttlei Rothschild, Eiitninol. p. 297. tab. o. fig. 1~.^ (1903, December).

2SS, 2 ? ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rotlischild; Valloire, 8avoie, aus dem Neste von

Hirundo urhica; Sammler : K. Jordan, vii. 1010.

Bei dem einzigen Exemplar, das dem Autor von dalei vovlag, einem c?, ist

del' beweglicbe Fortsatz des Haftapparats beiderseits so von den Borsteu de.s acbten

Tergits verdeckt, dass der Verlanf der proximalen Kante nicbt deutlich zn sehen

ist. Alls dem Grnnde feblt in der Zeiehnung, I.e., der kleine zabnartige Vorsprnug,

den Wagner richtii; angegeljeu hat. Ferner ist bei dem Stuck, gleichfalls beider-

seits, uur eine lange Borste neben der Eiuleukungsstelle des beweglichen Fortsatzes

vorbanden. Wir sehen jetzt aber an einer grOsseren Reihe von Exemplaren, dass

die zweite Borste sicb bei alien vorliegenden Stiicken findet, nnd daher bei der

Type von dalei in der Phiparation abgerissen sein muss. Die Grnbe fiir die Borste

ist tatsilchlich vorhanden, wie in der Abbildung, J.c, angedentet ist. Die obere

Borste der Hinterseite des Fingers ist lilnger als die anderen nnd viel diinner.

Das achte Tergit des ? zeichnet sicb dadnrch ans, dass die obere Ecke des

Apikallappens sehr spitz ist und bakenformig vorspringt.

5. C. gallinae Schrank (1S03).

Piih.1- galliiiue Schrank, Fauna Boiru iii. p. 19:') (1803).

Ceralaphijlhis i/allhuie (Schrank) Rothschild, Xnr. Zn„l. vii. p. .'■j40. no. 1. tab. 9. fig. 1. 2. G. 111. 13.

17. 19 (1900).

Der Hiihnerhausfloh kommt in der Niihe von Wolinnngen aiu-h luiufig in

Vogelnesteru vor.

3 ? ? ; ohne Fundort, auf GallKS domi'sticns.

1 ? ; Leipzig, ans zopfdiirrer Eiche ; Sammler : Reichert.

1 ? ; Finkenkrug bei Berlin, in einem Vogelneste ; Sammler : G. Endev-

lein, 25. viii. 19Ul.

1 (J, T) ? ? ; Berlin, aus dem Neste von Parus maior ; Sammler : Stitz, viii. lOln.

21(?c?,22 ¥?; Wendenschloss bei KOpenick, ans dem Neste einer Koblmeise ;

Sammler : Stitz.

3c?c?, 3 ? ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Tring (Herts), aus eiuem Sperlings-

neste ; Sammler: K. Jordan, Sept. 1910.

0. C. columbae Gervais (1844).

PuU.r cnhiiithae Gervais, Ui^t. Nal. Ins. A/)t. iii. p. 375. no. 22. tab. 48. fig. 7. la. b (1844).

CfralojifiiiHiis columbae (Gerv.) Rothschild, Nov. Zool. vii. p 542. no. 2 tab. 9. fig. 3. 9. 11. 14. 18

(1900).

12; ohne Fnndort, von Columba lieia.

~SS; ohne Fundort, von Colmnhn " domesticn."

1 <^) 1 ? ; ex coll. Bonche : Berlin, von ('oliimljK " domrst/ca."

^74)

7. C. fringillae Walk. (1S56).

ruletfringiVaf Walker, Dipt. Bril. iii. p. 4 (1856).

1 tJ I ?; ex coll. N. ('. Kothschild; Tring (Herts), ans dem Neste vou

Passer dotnesticus; Sammler : N. C. Kothschikl, 26. v. 1901.

8. C. gallinulae Dale (1878).

CtratnpByUM gaUUmla, Dale, Hisl. GUmvilUS Wootkm p. 201. no. 1 (1878).

2t?c?; ex coll. N. V. Rothschild; Tring (Herts), aus dem Neste von

Troglodytes troglodytes; Sammler: N. (J. Rothschild, vi. 1901.

1 ?; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild; Triug (Herts), aus dem Neste von

Sturnus vulgaris; Sammler : N. C. Rothschild, 27. iv. 1905.

2 ¥ ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Tring (Herts), aus dem Neste von

Erithacus rubecula Sammler : N. C. Rothschild, 0. x. 1901.

9. C. dacus spec. nov. (Fig. 0. 7).

Eine dnrch lange Tarsenborsten nnd einen ausserordentlich langen Riissol

ansgezeichnete Art, die ausserdem dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass die

Antepygidialborsten (beim <? eine, beim ? zwei) anf einem beim c? langen,

beim S kurzen Stiel stehen.

A7i;;/._Yorderkopf beim c? miissig stark, beim ? schwach gernndet, unmittel-

bar vor dem Ange eine Reihe von 4 Borsten. Hinterkopf jederseits mit eiuer

Apikalreihe von 5 bis 0 Borsten und einer oder zwei Lateralborsten ; ausserdem

stehen beim S etwa 12 nnd beim ? 5 kleine Borsten am Rande der Fttblergrnbe.

Der Rilssel sehr lang, bis anf die Tarsen reichend, der Labialtaster allein zweimal

so lang als der Kopf, die beiden letzten Segmente von ungefiihr gleicher Liinge nnd

jedes fast doppelt so lang als Segment 3, dieses so lang wie 2 und etwas

kiirzer als 1.

77^0/rfj.-.— Der Kamm des Pronotums besteht aus 20 Ziibnen ; vor demselben

eine Reihe von 14 Borsten anf beideu Seiten znsammen. Auf dem Mesouutnm

eine hintere Reihe von etwa 10 Borsten, nnd vor derselben eine Reihe vou etwa

12 kleinen, ausserdem 1 oder 2 kleine Borsten vor der vordern Reihe und eine

grossere Anzahl kleiner Haare am Basalrande ; anf der Innenseite vor dem

Apikalrande jederseits etwa 5 borstenformige Dornen ; auf dem Mesosternit 8

laterale Borsten, ausserdem einige sehr kleine Haare an der oberen vorderen Ecke.

Das Metanotnm mit einer hinteren Reihe von 14 Borsten und davor einer Reihe

von etwa 12 kleineren ; das Metepisternum hat 5 oder 6 Borsten, das Metasterunm

eine, und das Jletepimerum 8, selterer 7 (4, 2 oder 3, 1).

ylA^/o/«f«.— Anf jcdem Tcrgit zwei Reihen Borsten; die hintere Reihe enthiilt

anf den mittleren Segmenten 10 Borsten. Antepygidialborsten bei J und ? knrz ;

beim i jederseits eine solche Borste, welche auf einem walzenfOrmig erscbeinendeu

Marginalfortsatze steht ; beim ? zwei fast gleichlange Borsten, die kaum liiuger

als beim S sind und znsammen auf einem kurzen breiten Fortsatze stehen. Die

Borsteuzahl anf den Ventralplatten (anf beiden Seiten znsammen) ist wie folgt :

beim cj 2, 7, fi, 8, 8, 8 ; beim ? 2, 8, 8, 10, 10, 13 oder 14, ausserdem stehen beim ?

vor der Borstenreihe noch 1 oder 2 kleine Borsten auf dem dritten und sechsten

Segmente und etwa 10 anf dem siebenten.

Fig. 6.— Kopiilationsorgane des (J von Ceratnjihi/niis daciis.

VVII.sJ.

Fin. 7.— Ilinterleibssegmciite VII uiid VIII ile.s ? von CiiatophijUns itiu-ns.

( 'C)

Pteint. — Die Borsten siiid luiii;. Der Hinterschcnkol hat aiif der Anssenseite

eiue Keibe von 5 oder C und anf der Innenseite eine Reihe von etwa 12 Borstoii.

Die Dorsalliorsten der Tibicu sind reclit kriiftig, besonders auf der Vordertibie.

Die liiugere Borste im mittlereu Einschnitte der Vordertibie ist ebenso wie eiue

Apikalborste lang niul diinn ausgezogen uud erreiclit die Liinge der gauzeu Tibie.

Urei der Borsteu der Mittelschiene siud gleichfalls verlangert, die apikale reicht

bis fiber die Mitte des zweiten Tarsengliedes hinaus und ist nur nm \ kiirzer als

die Tibie. Die Hinterschiene hat anf der Anssenseite beim ^ eine, beim ? zwei

Reihen Borsten nnd triigt ansserdem am Vorderraiide eine Anzahl Ilaare (6 — 8) ;

anf der Innenseite der Schiene befinden sich (5 — 8 Borsten. Die langste Borste

des crsten Hintertarsensegnients reicht iiber die Spitze des zweiten Segments

hinans, nnd die langste des zweiten reicht bis gegen die Mitte des fiinften ; das

erst Paar Borsten des fiinften Segments ist lateral, wie die iibrigen.

Liinge der Tarsenglieder : c? In, 12, 9i, 7, 17; IS, 17, 10, 8, 17; 49, 32, 10, i», 19.

- ? 10, 11, 9, 6, 17; 21, 19, 12, 8, 17; 51, 32, Ki, 9, 19.

Modificifrte Sei/menfi'. — 3. Anf dera grossen aehteu Tergit finden sich 24 bis

26 lange kriiftige Borsten, von deneu 9 oder lo am obenen Kande, 4 djcht darnnter,

nnd 4 bis 6 in einer schriigen Reihe nach dem Ventralrande zn stehen. Die Innen-

seite des Tergits ist am Dorsalrande entlang geziihnelt ; die mit Ziihnchen besetzte

Fiilche beginnt sjiitz etwa an der viertletzten Borste nnd erweitert sich allmiililich

basalwiirts. Der KOrper des Haftorgans (Fig. (i) ist lang, etwas gebogen, mit

fast parallelen Randern, und ist in einen keuleufiirmigeu Fovtsatz (P) ausgezogeu.

Das Manubrinm ist fast ganz grade und seine Spitze gernndet. Der bewegliche

Fortsatz (F) ist allmiihlich erweitert nnd fast grade abgestutzt. Er erinnert in

der Form an den Fortsatz von (?. lagonti/t; Wagn. (1897). Er besitzt aber keine

stark chitinisierte Bewehrung, sondern triigt nur kurze diinne Borsten, von deneu

eine am Apikalrande nahe der oberen (vorderen) Ecke nnd drei an nnd unter der

iiusseren Ecke die liingsten sind. Der Innenrand (= Vorderrand) des Fingers ist

stark chitinisiert. Der horizontale Arm des neunten Sternits ist durch einen

ventralen Einsclinitt in einen schmiileren proximalen und einen breiteren distalen

Abschnitt geteilt. Der distale Teil ist auf der Anssenseite mit sehr zahlreichen

Hiirchen besetzt. Das achte Steniit ist schmal, triigt keine Borsten nnd endigt

jcderseits in eine lange, nacli oben gebogene Spitze (Fig. 0). ?. Das siebente

Steruit ist abgestutzt und schwach ausgerandet (Fig. 7). Das achte Tergit triigt

jederseits mehrere kurze Borsten oberhalb des Stigmas; vom Stigma abwiirts stebt

eiue nnregelmiissige Reihe von etwa 9 Borsten, proximal von denen sich noch ein

])aar kleinere Borsten finden; am Oberrande des erweiterten Teiles des Tergits

stclien zwei uder drei Borsten und am Apikal- und Ventralrande zusammeu eine

Reihe von 7 bis 9, ansserdem trifft man noch 2 oder 3 Borsten zwischen der Apikal-

nnd Proximalreihe. Die Borsten variieren in Zahl und Lange. Zuweilen sind

1—3 der Ai)ikalborsten verdickt. Auf der Innenseite hat das achte Tergit eine

Apikalreihe von 4 Borsten, von denen die unterste die liingste ist. Der ( 'ercus

(— sti/lct englischer Beschreibungen) ist kaum doppelt so lang als breit nnd ist

hinter der Mitte am dicksten. Die Borsten des Analsternits sind zahlreicii und,

mit Ansnahme der distalen, dick und dornfrirmig.

Liinge : <J 2 mm.; ? 2, 8 — 3 mm.

1 (J, 7 ? ? ; Arak^flnss, Siid-Kaukasns ; Sammler : Wolowodo, vi. 1905.

Drei der ? ¥ sind der Sammlnng N. C. Rothschild iibergeben.

( " )

10. C. fasciatus Hose. (1801).

naUc /■««■;«/«» Bosc, Bull. Sue. Philom. ii. p. IJIJ. no. 44 (I80I) ; Tasch., Dk Fliilir p. 00. no. 8.

tab. ii. fig. 13 (1880).

Ob die alteren Aiitoien ucter diesem Nainen die eine bestimmte Art verstanden,

welclie wir heutzntage sxh fasciatus anff'assen, ist zweifelhaft. Selbst Tasclienbergs

Fignr ist iiiclit geuaa genng, nm uns dariiber aufznkliiren, ob sin fasciatus iiu

modernen Sinne oder eine der zahlreichen ahnlichea Arten darstellt. Aber alles

das ist ziemlich gleichgiiltig, solange sich die Antorea dariiber einig siud, welche

kvt aXa fasciatus zw bezeiehueu ist. Wir folgeii der Anfiassung Wagners, der eiu

giites Bild des miiimliclien Haftapparats gibt {Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xx.xi. tab. 8.

fig. KJ).

Eiu auf Ratten biUitiger Flob, dor eiiie Uolle bei der Ubertragniig der Pest

spielt.

SSd, 2 ? ? ; ohue Fiindort, vom Frettcben, Mustela faro ; ISauimler : G.

Euderleiri, 3. vii. 1898.

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew (nnter mebreren musculi).

24 S(S, 20 ¥ ¥ ; Reinickendorf bei Berlin, aiis dem Neste der gewohnlichen grauen

Feldmaus; Sammler : M. Ude, 28. viii. 191U. [Es ist

Arvicola arvalis gemeint ; das Nest euthielt ausserdcm

Cteriophthalmus assimilis und ayijrtcs. — K. J. & N. C. R.]

11. C. mustelae Dale (1878).

I'liter iiHishI,,,: Dale, ///'.■;/. Glanrilk's ]Vu.,lhn, p. :.".ll. no. 8 (1878).

1 S; Bredower Forst bei Berlin, in eineiu Mauselocb, worant' eine Eiile

sass, die bei Anniiherung anfflog ; Sammler : A. 8paney,

7. iy. 1909.

12. C. uralensis Wagn. (1898).

CrialiiphijUHs uiakmis Wagner, Uor. Sue. Knt. lluss. x.vxi. p. 571. no. ',1. tab. 8. fig. 3 (1898) (Ufal).

2 cJc?, 1 ? ; Berlin, von Sciurus vulgaris ; Sammler: G. Enderlein, 1. ii. 1905.

1 cJ, 1 ?; ohne Fundort, von &i«/'«6\

\ S, 3 ? 9 ; ohne Fnndort, vou Mustela maHes ; Sammler : G. Enderlein.

Id", 4 ? ? ; obne Fundort, von Muntela putorius.

3 (Jc?, 3 ? ? ; obne Fnndort, von Afartcs.

] (?, 1 ? ; in einem Kolfiiati-Gliischon, von Sciurus.

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, von Sorex arancus („ J'ulc.c soricis arauri ").

\ S, 1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, als „martis" bezeicbnet.

Die Bezeicbnnng „ 7nartis " der letzten zwei E.xemplare soil vielleicbt nnr

bedenten, dass die Stiicke FlOhe „ des Martes" sind. Das Wort martis ist als

Si]eciesname von verscbiedeneu iilteren Autoren augewandt, gewObulicb obne jcde

Bescbreibuiig nnd immer obne geniigende Keunzeicliuung.

13. C. sciurorum Scbrank (lsii3).

Piile.r sriiiruriim Schrank, Fiiiina liuiin iii. p. IO."i (ISI):i).

Da in Mittel-Europe zwei einander iilinlii^be Arten auf dem Eiebliurncben

vorkoinincn, so bleibt cs sebr zweit'elbaft, welcbe Art die alteren Autoren mit

( 7ft)

sciurorum bezeichneten. Vcrinntlich beide Species {iiralensia ntid sciureium),

deren Unterschiede erst von Wagner klargestellt wnrderi.

2 <?(?, 10 ? ? ; ohne Fiindort, auf Mi/oxm nitela.

2S<i, 6 ??; Gdliren, lUigen, auf Sciurux rulgaiig ; Sammler : G. Enderlein,

211. V. 19112.

I J, 1 ? ; Berlin, vora Eichluimcheii ; Sammler : G. Enderlein, 19. ix.

1 ? ; ohne Fuudort, auf Sorex araneus.

1 ?; Harth bei Leipzig; Sammler: Riedel, 1. iii. 1899.

1 i; Ijubraer Wiild, von ^[>/o.l•us glis; Sammler: llacbel.

14. C. argus Roths. (1908).

CeititopJii/llus urgm Rothschild, Pinr. Zm,l. Soc. Loud. 2. p. 627. no. 2. tab. 30. fig. 15, tab. 31. fig. 18

(1908) (Japan, Pelaurisia Ifucoi/eni/i).

2 (Jf?, 5 ? ? ; ohne Fnndort, von I'etatirista leiwogemjs.

15. C. melis Walk. (Is50).

PuUx melh Walker, Dqit. Bril. iii. p. 5. no. 14 (18;'>6).

1 ? ; Berlin, vom Dachs ; Sammler : Grimm.

1 ? ; ohne Fuudort, von „ 3feles mlgaria."

Kl. C. rectangulatus Wablgr. (19u3).

Ccmln,,l,yll,m m-lai::i»hiln.H Wuhlgren, Arklr Zunl. i. p. 182. tab. 8. fig. 7 (UlO.'t).

1 (J; Sotun, Oberhalden, Norwegeu, auf }fi/0)ks leiiiitas; Sammler:

E. Strand, IT. viii. 19o;5.

IT. C. tesquorum Wagn. (1898).

Ca-iiliqih III Ills Irsiiiinniw Wagner, jriir. S,,,-. Kiil. liuss. xsjd. p. 564. uo. 4. tab. 8, fig. '.1 (1898)

(Taganrog, ■'■yjn rumpluluif naixicits, etc.).

1 (J, 1 ? ; Taganrog, anf Siiermoj)ltilus miiaicus, vii. 1n93.

' Wahrscheinlich Syutypen.

18. C. laverani Roths. (1911).

Ceraluplii/lhiH hii-pmiii Rothschild, Aim. Sci. Xnl. .xii. p. 2il7. no. 17. fig. 1 t'c 2 (1911).

3 (f <J, 3 ? ? ; ex coll. N. (_'. Rothschilil ; ( 'Intra, Portugal, aus cinem alten Vttgel-

neste; Sammler: K. Jordan, 2.5. iv. lulu.

19. C. penicilliger Grube (1852).

Pulex penn-Uliijet Grube, MidJeml. Sibii: Reise ii. 1. p. 500 (1852).

1 <?, 1 ?; ex coll. N. C. llothschikl ; Valloire, Suvoie, auf Microlus agrcstis

bdilloiui; Sammler: K. Jordan, vii. 191^.

20. C. walkeri Roths. (1902).

Cerutophi/lliit uxilkeri Rothschild, Enl. .1/... .lAi.r/. (2). xiii. p. 225. tab. 4. fig. 4. 5. 7 (19i)2).

I (J; ex coll. N. ('. Rothsohilil ; Tring (Herts), von Afustela rrmiiwa;

Sammler : N. t'. Rothschild, IT. x. l9iix;.

( 79)

21. C. agilis Roths. (1905).

Cenil''jfli;/Iliis aijiUs Rothschild, Nur. Znol. -xii. p. 167. no. 11. tab. 7. fig. 16. 17. 18 (1905).

1 (J; ex coll. N. C. Kotbscbilil; {'arpeuter's Creek, Mt. Cariboo, von

2seotoma cinerea drumiiiondi ; Sammler : Allan Brooks.

1 ?; e.K coll. N. C. Rothschild; Penticton, Britisch Colniubieu, von

Futoriug longicamlatus ; Sammler : G. F. Dippie, Janaar 1902.

22. C. eumolpi Roths. (1905).

Centlvjihi/llus enmoljii Eothschild, Nur. Znul. xii. p. 161. no. 6. tab. 6. fig. 2. 3. 4 (1905).

1 cJ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Okanagan, Britisch C!olumbien, " in dust

at bottom of pine tree " ; Sammler: Allan Brooks, 21. iv. 1902.

1 ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild; Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, von Taniias

borealis; Sammler: G. F. Dippie, 5. v. 1901.

23. C. poeantis Rotiis. (190.5).

CeratoiilKjUusponuitis Rothschild, Nur. Zonl. xii. p. 155. no. 2. tab. 8. fig. 22. 23 (1905).

IS; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild; Canadian National Park, Alberta,

Canada, von Say's Chipmunk ; Sammler : G. F. Dippie,

l(j. viii. 1899.

1 ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; San J^'rancisco, Flagstaff Mts., Arizona,

von Sciuriis alberti ; Sammler : Dr. Knnze, 20. vii. 1899.

24. C. acamantis Roths. (19o5).

Ceyatuphylliis nctumuilis Rothschild, Nur. Zml. xii. p. 156. no. 3. tab. H. fi^'. 24. 25 (1905).

1 cJ ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Okanagan, Britisch Columbien, von

Arctomijs Jiaviventer avarus; Sammler : Allan Brooks, 25. ili.

1902.

XVII. Gattung: MESOFSVLLA Dampf (191u).

Kanim des Kopfes hochstens ans zwei an der Spitze des Wangenfortsatzes

steheudeu Ziihnen bestehend. Pronotalkamm vorhanden. Auge rednciert. Fiiuftes

Hintertarsensegment mit vier Paaren Seitenborsten und einem fiinften zwischen

dem ersten Paare. — Dies (4enns fiillt vielleicht mit An/jj/i/j>si/!l(( Wagn. (lOiiD)

zusaramen.

1. M. eucta Dampf (l'.)lii).

Mrin,K!jtla riida Dampf, Zn„L .lalnb.. Suppl. 12. p. 609. fig. .\. 1; (1910).

l(J(Ty])e); Goloduaja Steppe, Tiirkestan, auf Abujfarja jaculm (Spring-

mans); Sammler: R. Heymons, Juli 1901.

Eiu zweites S (Syntype) der Sammlung N. C. Rothschild iibergebeu.

2. M. daea Damj)!' (lolu).

Mt»>qiMj]hi ,/,/,•,( Dampf. /..-., 6:a. fig. w— v (1910) {^ % , Transbaikalien '< auf .Icc/owy' huhar).

\ S \ ex coll. Grnbe ; Turkestan, auf Arrtomi/s hobac; Sammler: „ Fed-

tschenko y "

< 80 )

Dieses Stiick stammt bOclist walirsclieiiilich ans ilerselbcii Ansbentc, von der

die von Dampf ans dem Breslaucr Jluseniu l)('S(:hii('lK'iicii pjxemplaie lierniheu,

welclie von Uybowsiii (nicht von FedtschenkoJ gesammolt wnrden.

XVIII. Gattung : CrENOPIirHALMLS Kolen. (185C).

Da fiber die ricbtige Anwendnng dieses (iattnngsnamens noch keiiic voile

Ubereiustimmting lierrscht, i'iihreu wir an, was Kolenati in Paras. Ch'rajit. ji. 33

(1856) bei der Anfstellnng des Namens sagt.

„ Der Hausiuansfloh nnd der Maulwnrfsfloh hat vor den Ocellen kleiuc

beweglicUe Ctenidieu nnd diirfte ein nenes Gcschlecht ,, Ctcnophthalmux Koleuati "

mit mebreren andereu bildeu : Cfei/op/it/iahiiiis muscuU, C. talpae, C. cam's, G. felis

u.s.w. Der C. talpae bat ein Riickenctenidinm nnd an den Angen ein 4-zahniges ;

der C. musculi bat ein Rnckencteuidium und an den Augen ein dreiziibniges ; der

C. felis bat ein HJ-ziibniges Riicken- und ein 0-ziiliniges Angenctenidiniu ; der

C. canis hat ein 18-z;ibniges Riicken- und ein (i-ziibniges Angenctenidinm ;

dem C. erinacei fehlt das Riickenctenidinm, dagegen ist ein kurz-zweiziibniges

Cteuidinm tief nnter den Augen vorhanden nnd der zweite Halsring gezackt."

Der erste Satz euthiilt zwei Verseben. Da musculi und talpae als zwei

Flobarten anfgef'iihrt werden, so muss es iii der ersten Zeile ,, liaben " statt „ bat "

heissen. Fevner betindct sich das Angencteiudinm nicbt „ vor " sondern „ uuter "

den Ocellen, wie solcbes ja aucb ricbtig bei erinacei bemerkt ist.

Aus Kolenatis Angaben gebt nun unzweifelbaft bervor,

(1) dass er in l!S.j'J-57 untor Ctenojilithalmits allc luit Augcuctcnidiiim

versehenen FlObe verstebt, im Gegensatz zu P^^t.^- obue Ctenidieu und L'cniiopsi/llns

mit Rucken- aber ohne Augenctenidium ;

(2) dass die Genotype entweder sein musculi oder sein talpae ist;

(3) dass sein musculi ein dreiziibniges und sein talpae ein vierziibniges

Angenctenidium bat.

Der Flob mit dreizilhnigem Augenctenidiuni ist zuerst gestellt und ist daber

nacb der einfaehsten Methode der Typenbestimmung die Genotype. Wenn die

historiscbe Methode bei der Typenbestimmung angewandt wird, so ist das Resnltat

folgendes : Kolenati teilt in 1862 C'/'<V((?^>/i'///a/w(« in zwei Sektiouen, Cte/wp/tt/ialmus

und Ctenopsi/llus, und stellt den Floh mit vierziibnigem Augenctenidium in

Ctenopsi/llus. Es bleibt daber als Genotype fiir Ctenophthalmus der dreiziibnige

Floh iibrig. Das Resnltat ist also nacb beiden Metboden dasselbe.

Dass Kolenati in 18r>6-7 die Namen talpae nnd musculi vielleicbt vorwechselt

hat, kann nicbts an der Sacbe iindern, da wir nns nacb dem ricbten mtisscn, was

Kolenati sagt und nicht nacb dem, was er vielleiclit bat sagen wollen. Ubrigeus

scbrcibt er anch noch in 18.)9 (Fauna des Altvaters) dem " MaulwurfsHob,'' den

er zur Abwechselnng nun bishidcntatus nennt, ein vierzabniges Angenctenidium zn,

ebenso wie dem ,, Ilansmanslloli," den er nun als iprndridentatus auiriihrt.

Welche bestimmte Art der dreizahnige Flub von 18.")il-7 war, ist unniOglich

mit Sicherbeit ans den Angaben in Paras. Cliirojit. festznstellen nnd wir sind anf

die Bescbreibung und Abbildnng in llor. Soc. Eiit. fios.f. 1>!C2 angewiesen. Die

dort unter No. 12 als ('. l/isoctodentatus mit den Synonymen talpae und hisbidentatus

nufgefiibrte Art kann aliein in I'etracht koranien. Wir finden nicbts in der

Bescbreibung, das besser anf die eiue als die andere der ziemlicb zablreicben anf

Talpa europaea yovkomvaffatXnw FlObe mit <lreiz;ibnigem Augenctenidium jiassf, und

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wir sehen dalier keineu Grand, \v<ariiiu die voii Wagner als bisoctodentata Kolen.

in 1900 niiher cUarakterisierte iSjiecies nicht als die Kolenatiscbc Art angenommen

warden soli, obwohl man vermuteu miichto, dass Kolenati nnter seinem „ Maul-

wurfsfloh" die hiiufigen Artea minor nnd Verwandte verstand. Unter den

Synouymen gibt Kolenati talpae Boucbt' an. Im Berliner Museum findet sich eiu

AW'ibchen ohne Kopf und Beine, etiquettiert ,, anf Talpa caropaca " und „ Bonche,"

das zu bisoctodentattis (Kolen.) Wagn. gehort.

Zwei andere Stiicke aus der Loew Sammlung, audi von Talpa, miissen uocli

in dieser Beziehung Erwithunng finden, da Kolenati unter bisoctodentatus sagt, dass

die ,, Typen in der Originalsammlung des Verfassers und des Dr. Loew in Meserits

in Posen " sind. Das eine Exemplar ist eiu Miinnchen von Palaeop&ijUa s/mil/s

Dampf und als talpae Kol. bezeichnet. Das andere ist ein gleichfalls als talpae

bezeichnetes Weibcben, welches zu Ctenophthalmus orientalis Wagn. gehort. Wenn

die ,, Originalsammlung "' Kolenatis niich erlialten ware, so wi'irde sich also ohne

Zweifel ergebeu, dass seiu bisoctodentatus ein ebensolches Gemisch war wie z. B.

sein octactenus.

Als Genotype von Ctenophthalmus betracliton wir also bisoctodentatus (Kolen.)

Wagner. Dor iiltere Name talpae ist fiir diese Species nicht vervvendbar, da es

zweifelhaft ist, ob er sich wirklich darauf bezieht, nnd er ansserdem schon durch

Curtis an eine andere Art vergeben war.

Augen verkiimmert. Kopf nnd Pronotum mit Kamm. Fiiuftes Hintertarsen-

segment mit nur drei Paar Seitenborsten, mit einem vierten Paare ventral

zwischen den Borsten des ersten.

Eine Borste an der Hinterscite des Apex der Labia]2)alpen ist bei den

Ctenophthalmus-ATten verliingert nnd stark gebogen ; es gibt jedoch auch Aus-

nahmen von dieser Kegel, z. B. ist es nicht der Fall bei dem unten erwiihuteu

C. retttiji.

Der Hinterschenkel triigt auf der lunenseite nahe der Spitze eine knrze dicke

Ventralborste.

1. C. agyrtes Heller (1896).

TyiihlupsijUa agyrtes Heller, Enl. A'lu-hr. xxii. p. 97. fig. 1. 2 (1896).

a S 6 , 6 ¥ ? ; Reiuickendorf bei Berlin, aus dem Neste der gewiihnlichen grauen

Feldmaus; Sammler : M. Ude, 28. viii. 1910.— Vergl. Cten.

assimilis und Ceratophjllasfascintus.

1 ?; Finkenkrug bei Berlin, in einem Vogelneste; Sammler: G.

Enderlein, 25. viii. 1001.

1 ? ; Kehberge bei Berlin, in einem Nesto von Bombus terrestris ;

Sammler : M. Ude, 1. vii. 1900.

\(SS; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Tring (Herts), von Microtiis glareolus;

Sammler: N. 0. Rothschild, 10. v. 1897.

4 ? ? ; ex coll. N. 0. Rothschild ; Newport, Isle of Wight, auf Microtiis

glareolus ; Sammler : H. ti. Jeffrey, 20. iv. 1910.

:} ? ? ; ohne Data.

1 (^, 1 ?; ohne Fnndort, aus einem Neste von vlri-/6'o/a; Sammler: Enderlein.

\ 6, 2 ? ? ; Leipzig, -Mxi Arvicola glarcola ; Sammler: A. Rcichert.

1 (^; Eberswalde, im Moos eines Baumes.

2 ? ? ; Guttauer Gehege, Holstein, zahlreich im Moos neben einem

Forstsumpf; Sammler: Dahl.

1 ? ; Island ; Sammler : Staudinger.

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2. C. assimilis Tascb. (1880).

Tutihhip^'jUa ti.iihiiHU Tascheuberg, D,c Fluhe p. 95. no. 23. tab. 4. fig. 27. a. k (1880).

Sehr hiiufig io deu Nestern von Arvicola armlis.

13 <?(?, :5'.l ? ? : Tancha bei Leipzig, in einem vorjiihrigen Maiiseucste ; Samiuler :

A. l?oichert.

3 ? ? ; Fiiikenknii,' bei Berlin, ans einem Vogelneste; Sammler: Enderleiu,

~'.j. viii. 1901.

1 cf, 1:.; ? ? ; Harth bei Leipzig, aus faiilendem Gras, 20. i.\. 1903.

1 ? ; obue Fundoit, auf 'lalpa europaea emopaea.

\ S, 1 ?; ohue Fiindort, anseiuem Neste von .lrc('co/ff ; Samniler : Enderleiu.

51 cf (?, 08 ? ? ; Ileinickendorf bei Berlin, aus dein Neste dcr gcwulinlicben

grauen Feldmaus ; Sammler : M. Ude, 2S. viii. 19|o._Vergl.

C. agi/rtes niid Ccratophyllus fasciattis.

3. C. bisoctodentatus Koleu. (1802).

? C'leniijilillialmux iiiasculi Kolcuati, Pumsit. Chiropt. p. 33 (18515).

? Cleii'iiihthalmm bixliclentalm id., Fauna Allrat. p. 65. no. 41 (1859).

ClniD/ililhaliinis bisorlodcntaluK id., Uor. Sac. Eid. Rnsx. ii. p. 27. no. 12. tib. 2. fig. G. ? (1862).

Ti/phlajLti/Ha hhuclinknlata (Kolen.) Wagner, Unr. Sur. Eiit. Rosx. wxv. p. 24. no. 7. tab. 1. tig. 2

(1900).

1 ? ; ex coll. Bonche ; ohne Kopf und Beine ; Berlin, anf 'J'if/pa eiero/jaea.

Id, 1 ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Bradtield near Reading, auf Talpa

europaea; Sammler : N. H. Joy, xi. 1906.

4. C. rettigi Roths. (19o8).

CUmnphllialmus relliy; Rotbschild, /'/■",•. Zool. Soc. Loml. 2. p. 024. no. 8. tab. 28. fig. 3. 4 (1908)

(Rumanien).

1 ?; Ararat, 3000 m., rnssisch-persische Grenze, von Alactiuja tcill/amsi;

Sammler : R. Satnnin.

] J ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Malcocci, Rnmilnien, von Putoriics

desertorum; Sammler : A. Rettig, 2. i. 190T.

5. C. orientalis Wagn. (l^oT).

Tt/jililajisi/lla orkiikilit Wagner, Ilor. Sac. EiU. lia.is. xxxi. p. 5'.K. no. 5. tab. 10. fig. .J'l (18'J7).

1 ? : ex coll. Loew, als talpae bezeichnet.

Uas Exemplar stimmt mit eiuer grosseren Auzahl Exemplare iiberein, die wir

ans der Gegend von Leipzig babeu, wo sie auf Talpa europaea gefunden wnrden.

Unter sehr vielen ? ? war nur eiu eiuziges <S. Ua Wagners Fignr gut auf dieses

d passt, so nehraen wir an, dass auch die ? ¥ zu derselben Art gehOren.

MOglicherwcise ist dies der iichte {talpae = ) bisoctodentatus Koleu. (Ib62).

>>. C. spalacis spec. uov. (Fig. 8).

Das einzige vorlicgende E.xeinplar, ein S, ist dem C. cauca.iica. Taseh. (1880)

sehr ilhulich, uutcrscheidet sich aber durch die geringere Anzahl Borsten und durcb

Einzclheiten dco Kopulationsapparats. Wir gebraucheu hier den Namen caucasica

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absichtlich. Taschenberg war der Aasicht, dass seiue Art dieselbe sei als

Motscboulskys tijphlus, welehe Bezeichnung er des Gattungsnamens Typhlopsijlla

wegen uicht gebrauchen wollte.

Einschliesslich der gegenwiirtigeii ueuen Art siud nun aber drci Arten auf

Sjjalax gefunden und es ist dalier ganz iiusicher, welche von diesen Arten ti/phlus

Motsch. wirklich ist. Unter solchen Umstiinden ist es ratsam, einen auf eiae so

ungeniigende Beschreibang gegriindeten Namen wie typhlus (nnd viele der

Kolenatischeu Namen) nicht anzuwendeu, bis durch eiu wirklich authentisches

Exemplar ihre Zugehurigkeit ausser Zweifel gestellt wird.

Bei der neuen Art tritgt der Hiuterkopf oberhalb der Fiihlergrabe vorne eine

oder zwei Borstea und in der Mitte zwei. Der Pronotalkamm besteht aus

IG Ziihnen. Das Mesonotum hat nnr zwei Reihen von Borsten, ausserdem einigc

Hilrchen an der Basis. Auf dem Metauotum und erstem und zweitem Abdominal-

tergit sind gleichfalls zwei Borsteureihen vorhanden; die vordere Borstenreihe ist

dagegen auf Tergit III bis VII nur durch 0 — 4 Borstea repritsentiert. Die

Sternite der Segmente III bis VII haben auf beiden Seiteu zusammen eine Reihe

von 7 — 9 Borsten, vor der Reihe des siebeuten JSegmeuts jederseits eine Borste,

eine solche auf eiuer Seite auch auf dem sechsten Ringe. Auf dem achten Stemit

befindet sich lU lauge und uugefiihr l(j kiirzere Borsten. Die Borsten der Tarseu

sind etwas liluger als bei C. caucasica.

Fig. 8. — Kopnkiliousorgane rics jj vou Cten«j)htlialmits gj?ala<iis.

Via. fi.— .\bdomiii;ilstemit IX des J' v.ja Ctcnuihthalmiis caucasica.

Der Kurper des Haftapparats ist iihnlich wic bei C. a(j>jrtes durch eine

Ausbuchtung in zwei kurze Fortsiltze geteilt (Fig, 8). Der obere triigt dre

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l:uige uiul vicr (oder fiiiif?) kCirzere Borstini ; aiif iler Unterseite des nnteren

stark chitinisicrten Fortsatzes eine verhilltnismiissig diinne Borste. Der beweg-

liche Fortsatz (F) ist fast ganz wie bei caiicasica gcformt, nnr merklich schlauker,

mit weniger Hiiirbeu am Oberrando ; in der Mitte des Uuterrandes stehen zwei

Horsten zicmlich diclit bcieiuaiidcr, und eine dritte Borste befindet sich weitor

distal. Das neaiite Sternit ist viel scUmuler als bei C^ cauca.vca (Fig. 9j uiul aucb

etwas liino-er (Fig. 8). Sein Dorsalrand ist fast grade, wiihreud der Ventralrand

sanft gebogen ist, sodass das Sternit in Seitenan.sifht scblank kalmfOrmig erscbeint.

Liinge : (J L'.4 mm.

Das fiir das Mikroskop priipariorte Exemplar ist durcb den Drnck des Deek-

glii-icbens etwas ansgedehnt worden. Es war im natiirlicben Zustaude uicbt ganz

so lang wie es jetzt erscbeiut nnd war zweifellos kleiner als C. caacasica.

] cJ; Rnnowscbina, Gonv. Poltawa, Standort 76, von Spalax tijplilm ; Sammler :

V. Fofouoflf, 2. iii. 1906.

XIX. G.vrTUNi; : I'M.AKoV.'iYLLA Wagn. (I'.t02).

Mit Kopi- nnd Prouotalkamm : Angeu verkiimmert ; letztes Hintertarsen-

se^ment mit vier Paarcu Seitenliorsteu nnd eiucm t'iinften ventral zwiscbeu dem

ersten I'aaie.

Obwolil die Umgreuzung der Gattung eine kiiustliche ist, scheint es ans

praktiscbea Zweeken vorlanfig nicht ratsam, flir die verschiedenen beterogenen

Elemente, welche der Diagnose nach bier vereinigt werden, ncne Genera zn

scbafien.

1. P. intermedia Wagu. (19ul).

Ti/phhpsijlUi hitermedia Wagner, Hoi: Soc. Enl. Ru.ia. xx.'cv. p. 22. no. G. tab. 1. fig. 'J (1901)

(Paraguay).

7 t?(J, I~ ? ? ; San Bernardino, Paragnay ; Sammler : K. Fiebrig.

1 ? ; Paramba, Ecuador, von Metochirus opossum, 11. iv. 1894.

2. P. minor Dale (1878).

Cemlui'hiiUiix minor D.ile, fllxl. Gluiinllcn Woultim p. 291. no. 7 (1878).

Ti/iihl"/"<!llla (jracdh Taschenberg, Die Fluh- p. 9G. no. 2-1. tab. 4. fig. 28. 29 (1880) (partim ?),

Pulitei>jKi/lla <jm-!lh (Tasch.) Dampf, Zaol. Jahrb., Suppl. 12. p. 622. fig. E. J. I. (1910).

In einer bilbscben Arbeit iiber cinige in dicse Verwaudtscbaft gebOreude Fliibe

liat Herr Dr. Dampf, I.e., gezeigt, dass man bisber drei Artcn nnter (jracilis

vereinigt tat. In einer spiiteren Notiz erwiibnt er eine vicrte Art. Dicse Arten

liegen nns allc vor und wir kOnnen die von Dampf angegebenen Merkmalc als

sticbbaltig bcstatigcn. Die Miinncben lassen sioh, wie Dampf angegebeu, leicbt

an dcm llaftaiiparatc und die \Veibcben an dcra Umriss des sicbcnten Alidominal-

bternits erkcnncn. Bei minor bat dies Segment einen scbmalen Einscbnitt, durcii

den die obere Ecke als schmaler Lappeu abgesondert wird, bei sorccis ist der

Einschiitt sebr gross und mebr ventral, und er felilt bei similis ganz.

1 cJ; Berlin, von Putorius putorias ; Sammler: G. Enderlein.

3 ¥ ? ; Qnedlinburg a/Harz, auf Talpa europaea, 8. xi. 19U5.

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3. P. sorecis Dale (IS5S).

Cfralujilii/Ilus snrerh Dale, Il'ist. Glniirilh'a Wonlton p. 291. no. 6 (1878).

Palaeojisylki sorccls Dampf, Zool. Ja/irh., Suppl. 12. [>. 020. fig. v. D (1910).

1 (?, 1 ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild ; Whitcombe (England), auf Sorex

vulgaris; Sammler : H. G. Jeffrey, 20. iv. 1010.

Das einzige in der Dale Sammlnng (jetzt in Oxford) unter dein Namen sorecia

aufbewahrte Stiick gehiirt zn minor {—gracilis), dem Manlwnrfsfloh. Da bei der

Beschreibnng ausdriifklich augegeben ist, dass sorecis sich anf Spitzmiiuseu nnd

7>iinor anf dem Manlwnrfe findet, die iibrigen paar Worte aber, welche als

Beschreibnng gemeint waren, ganz nichtssagend sind nnd kein E.xeinplar vom

Antor al.s " Type " bezeichnet ist, so iniissen die Namen minor nud sorecis so

angewandf; werden wie hier geschehen und wie es iins von Herra Dr. A. DampI'

vorgeschlagen ist.

4. P. similis Dam^if (1010).

l'tilae"j}.^i/lla similis Dampf, Znol. Jalirb., Suppl. 12. p. G24. fig. F. (i. ii. i. k. m. n (I'JIO).

1 (J; ex coll. H. Loew, als talpae Kolen.

XX. Gattung: LEPTOPSYLLA nom. nov.

Ctennpsylhis Kolenati 18G2, nee Kolenati 1856.

Da Cteiwpsi/lliis in 185G von Kolenati als ein ,,l)esserer" Name fiir die

Fledermansflohe vorgeschlagen war, so hatte Kolenati in LS02 keine Berechtignng,

denselbcn Gattnngsnamen fiir den Hausmansfloh zn verwenden. — Namentype :

viuscuU Dnges (1832).

1. C. musculi Dnges (1832).

PiiUx musculi Dugfes, Ann. Sci. A^«/. xxvii. p. ICO (1832).

Ctempsyllus qxuulrulentatus Kolenati, Hor. Soc. Enl. Ross. ii. p. 29. no. IG. tab. 2. fig. 8 (1SG2).

Kolenati macht die merkwiirdige Angabe, dass sein quadrideiitatm sicii

„ besonders anf Arricola arvalis " und „ auch anf der Hausmans " findet. Sein

Bild lasst gliicklicherweise keinen Zweifel dariiber aufkommen, dass quadridentatus

als Synonym zn musculi gestellt werden muss.

1 c?, 1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, als muscidi.

If?, 1 ?; ex coll. H. Loew, als „martis nohilis" (d.h. vom Edelmarder.—

K. J. & N. C. R).

2 ? ? ; ohne Fundort, von }fHS musculus.

1 ? : ohne Data.

1 ?; )iev\\xi, Yon Mks mnscKlus; Sammler: Lichteustein.

1 ? ; Siebenbiirgen . Sammler : E. F. Lehmann.

16, 1 ?; Pulchow bei Rewahl, Pommern, von der Hausmans; Sammler:

R. Lemm, vii. 1010.

XXL Gattung: IIYSTPICIIOPSYLLA Tasch. (1880).

Der grosste europiiische Fioh.

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1. H. talpae Curtis (1820).

Pulrx taliMf Curtis, Brit. Kiil. iii. No. 114. fig. (182G).

Pulex lerreslri>: JIacquart, Aim. Sri. Xal. xxii. p. 465 (IR.Sl).

Piilee obUmcfjis Ritseni.1, Tijihrhr. Eiil. (2). iii. p. 173 (18GH).

HyatrlchriptyUa narheli Galli-Valerio, Arclih: Parasil. iii. p. 1"; (I'JOO).

4 ? ? ; Harth bei Leipzig, von einem toten Reh (Irrtnm ?— K. J. it N. ( '. K) ;

Sammler : Reichert.

1 J, 2 ? ? ; Tancba bei Leipzig, ans einem vorjiihrigen Manseneste ; SaiBmU-r :

Reichert, 13. iii. 1004.

1 ? ; Noniienberg (?) bei Leipzig ; Sammler : Reichert, Sept. 190(i.

1^; Holzhansen bei Leipzig, in einem Mauseueste, 25. x. 1903;

Sammler : Enderlein.

1 (J; Rehberge bei Berlin, ans einem Neste von Bomhus tivrestns;

Sammler: M. Ude, 1. vii. 1004.

1 ? ; Hinkekley Denkmal bei Berlin, anf Mks affrari/is ; Sammler :

Arno Schnlz, 1. i. 1884.

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew ; Posen, 4. .\i. 1843.

1 (J; Reinickendorf bei Berlin, ans dem Neste der gew.ihnlichcn granen

Feldmaus; Sammler: M. Ude, 28. viii. lOlO. (Vergl.

Ceratoph. fasciatxs.)

1 ? ; ohne Data.

XXll. Gattung : STErilANOriUCl-S Sknse (1803).

Mit Jli/ntrichopsi/lla verwandt. Die dnrcli die sehr merkwiirdige Kojif-

entwickelnng huchst eigentiimlichen Arten linden sicli in Anstralien mid Siid-

Amerika.

1. S. dasyuri Sknse (1803) (Fig. 10).

Stephanocirnia dasyuri Skuse, Rec. Auxtrol. ,l/«». ii. p. 78. tab. 17 (1893).

1 ? ; ohne Fnndort, von Miis 7nHSCulti.s ans der Hanptsammlnng.

Die Art zeichnet sich dnrch eine sebr merkwiirdige Entwickelnng der Spitze

der Labialpalpen ans, die sonst uirgends nnter den Siphonapteren angetroften ist.

Die iinsserste Spitze der Labialtaster ist bei alien Flohen dnrcbsichtig-hiintig

nnd dient als Tastorgan. Ansser den gewiihnlichen feiuen Borsteu, die an dem

Apikalrande des stiirker chitinisierten Teiles des letzten Segments stehen, findet

man zuweijen auf dem hilntigen Apikalteile winzig kleine Tasthilrchen. Bei

Sti'ji/iaiiocircK.^ dasym-i, iind zwar bei beiden Geschlechtern, triigt der Lippen-

taster aber drei breite, ansserordcutlich diinne Anbiinge, welcbe die Form von

Schmetterlingsschuppen haben (Fig. 10). Jede Schnppe steht in einer Grube uud

zwar ist die Verbindung mit dem Taster nicht starr, sondern gelenkig, sodass die

Schnppen sich zur Seite biegen kdunen, wenn die Spitze des Tasters gegen die Hant

des Wirts gepresst wird. Diese Schnppen sind offeubar moditicierte Borsten. Die

Zahl nnd Liinge ihrer Ziihne ist niclit konstant.

Die Umwandlnug von Borsten in solche Schnppen ist anch sonst bei Flohen

beobachtet worden nnd zwar bei Clnastopsylla numae Roths. (1904) von Afrika.

Das (J dieser Art triigt eine Anzahl Schnpiu-n anf dem 0. Abdominalsternit, die

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ileneii an der Spitze des Russels von Steplianocirciis dasi/nri stchenden ganz

ahnlich sind.

Fig. in. Apex ties Lippentasters von Stej>lianoc'irctts thisyiirl.

2. S. simsoni IJoths. (190.")).

Slfjjliiiiiorii-ciiK shiisoni Rothschild, 7?n^ Mn. Mag. (i). xvi. p. 61. no. 2. tab. 1. fig. 2. 3. 5 (1905).

3 ? ? ; ex coll. N. C. Rothscliild; Emerald, Victoria, Australia, von Mus

assimilis; Sammler : E. Jar vis, 12. -x. 1906.

XXIII. Gattung: /SC/AVOPSraZCZ-S Westw. (1833).

Die von Kolenati besclirielienen Fledermausflohe bilden den Gegenstand einer

besonderen Arbeit in der gegenwiirtigen Nummer von Novitates Zoologicae (S. 48).

1. I. octactenus Kolen. (1850).

CeratnpsijUus oclaclemis Kolenati, Parasif. Chiropt. p. Zl. no. 1 (1856) (partim).

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew, von " nannugo."

2 ? ? ; in einem Kolenati-Gliischen, von " nannngo."

1 ? ; oline Data.

2 6S, 2 ? ?; ex coll. N. C. Rothschild; Tring (Herts), anf Scotophilus pipi-

streUus; Sammler: K. Jordan, Id. v. 1910.

2. I. intermedius Roths. (1898).

CirntnpsyUa inlermedius Rothschild, A'ov. Zuol. v. p. 543. no. 7. tab. 17. fig. 15 (1898).

1 ? ; ex coll. H. Loew.

1 ? ; Lnsitania.

Dieses portngiesiscbe Exemplar mag eines der beiden Stiicke sein, welche

Taschenberg {Die Flbhe 1880. p. 89) unter dem Naruen Fulex reptans vorgelegen

habeu. Der Name Pidex reptans ersclieiut zuerst in Illiger's Magazin fiii-

Inse/itenkunde Bd. iv. p. 229 (1805), wo er jedoch als Name fiir den Sandfloh

gegeben wird.

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3. I. hexactenus Kolen. (1850).

Ceralnpsi/llua hexactenus Kolenati, /.c. p. 31. no. 2 (ISfjCi).

S cJcJ, 2 ? ? ; in Kolenati-Gliischen, von " muninis" ?.. T. e.\ coll. II. Loew.

1 cf , 2 ? ? ; ex coll. H. Loew.

1 cJ ; ohne Fnndort ; Sammler : G. Euderleiu.

Das fiinfte Abdominalsegment triigt zuweilen eiuige Zilhne, wekhe die Ueste

eines siebenten Kammes darstelJen.

XXIV. Gattung : MYODOPSYI.LA gou. nov.

c??. Maxillen abgestutzt wie bei Ischnopsyllus. Der Angeurest deutlich,

liber demselben cine lange Borste am Rande der Fiihlevgrnbe. Erstes Segment

des Maxillarpalpns liinger als zweites. Nnr das Pronotnm mit- iiobtcm Kanim,

alle anderen Kilmiue bestelieu ans den verdii'kten Borsteu dor jiostmedianen Reihe

der betreffenden Segmente, der Rand der Segmente bis an die Borstcnreihe

ansgeschnitten, die Borsten der falschen Kiimmc beim c? kiirzer nnd dicker als

beiiu ?. Siebentes Abdominaltergit jedi-rseits mlt einer langen Apikalborste,

welche auf einem kegelfrjrmigon Fortsat/.e des Raudes steht. Epimernm des

Mesotborax mit spitzem Apes. Erstes Vordertarscusegment so lang wie das

zweite. Anf alien Tarsen steht das erste Borstenpaar des fiinften Segments ventral

zwiscben den Bdrsten des zweiten Paares ; die Borsten des dritten Paares

veutralwJivts verscboben. In deni erston, zweiten nnd apikalen Eiuschnittc

anf der Riickkante der Tiliien stehen je zwei divergente Borsten, in den anderen

Einscbnitten findet sicb nnr eine lange Borste, wiibrend die betreiTende kiirzere

von dem Einscbnitt mehr oder weniger entfernt steht; diese kiirzeren Borsten

dentlicli dicker als die Seitenborsten der Tibien.

Wcicht von Ni/ctrridop.v/lla banptsiichlich in den Maxillen nnd dem 7.

Abdominaltergit ab. Die Beborstnng der Tibien iihnelt etwas der von

Nijcter)dops>/Ua.

Genotype : iiisignis Roths. (1903).

1. M. insignis Roths. (1903).

Ceratopsylla mslf/iuti Rothschild, N„i: Zool. x. p. 319. no. 4. tab. 9. fig. 8-12 (190.3) (Ontario).

1 c?, 1 ? ; von Am. bor. (America borealis).

XXV. Gattung: yyCTEUIDOPSYLLA Ondem. (1908).

Maxillen in Seitenansicbt zngespitzt, vorne viel liinger als hinten. Ange

dentliclier als bei Ischnopiii/llas, oberhalb desselben keine lange Borste an der

Fiiblergrnlie. Wangenfortsatz mit rundem Apex. Erstes Segment des

Maxillartasters so lang wie das zweite oder kiirzer. Epimernm des Mesotborax

;ini Apex abgestntzt oder etwas ansgerandet. Abdominaltergit 7 mit fulschem

Kamm, ohne Antcpygidialborsten. Alle dorsalen Tibieneinschnitte mit je einem

I'aare divergierender Borsten. Erstes Vordertarsenglied so lang wie das zweite

oder liinger.

Alle bekannten Arten liaben fiinf Kiimme, von dcnen aber die drei mittlem

bei N, dictenuB nnr ans ein puar ganz knrzen Ziibiun besteben.

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1. N. eusarca eusarca Damjif (1908).

N;/fteri(lnp.i>/lhi eiisarm Dampf, Seliri/t. rinjs.-iilun. (les, Kijnigsb. xlviii. p. 3118 (lOOS).

\ 3 ; ex coll. Kolenati, anf Vcrsperugo discolor; als tctracteiius

bezeichnet.

1 ? ; ex coll. Kolenati ; als pentacfcnus bezeichnet.

2. N. pentactenus Kolen. (18.50).

CemUipsylhi. peiducle.iius Kolenati, Pamsil. Chirnpi. p. 32. no. 3 (1856) (partim).

1 ? ; oline Fundort, von „Vespcitilio auritus "; Sammler : G. Enderleiu.

3. N. longiceps Roths. (1908).

Nyderklnpsylla longkeps Rothschild, Entom. xli. p. 281. tab. 8. fig. 1-3 (1908).

~SS, 3?¥; Berlin, von Vesperus serotinus; Sammler: I{. Hoymons, 1. ii.

1911.

In unserer Abbildnng, I.e., die nach einem aufgehellten Exemplar angefertigfc

wnrde, sind die Borsten, welche anf der Stirnhiilfte des Ko])fes zwischen nnd etwas

oberhalb der zwei laugeu Borsten stehen, etwas zu klein. Das 7. Abdominalsternit

des ? variiert etwas im Umriss, indem die Ausrandung bei einigen Stiicken viel

flacher als bei anderen ist nnd der Rand nnterhalb der Ansbnchtung znweilen

wieder deutlich ansgerandet erscheiut.

J!fac/<tr(/(/.~-J)as Entomological Research Committee, Tropical Africa, hat

kiirzlich ein zweites Exemplar, gleichfalls ein ¥ , von XriwpstjUa aequisrlosus

(vergl. S. 04) erhalten, das vou Dr. Staunns im Miirz 1011 liei Zomba (Nyassaland)

anf Gricetomys gefunden wnrde. Das Stiick betindet sicli im British Mnseum.

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SOME NEW ANTBRIBIDAE FROM THE ISLAND OF

ST. THOME, BAY OF BENIN.

By K. JORDAN, Ph.D.

ri'^HE three species which are here tleseribed were collected in lOni.i by Monsieur

-L A. Mocqnerys.

1. Xylinades thomasius spec. nov.

?. Nearest to .Y. montamis Kolbe (1894) and lanugiconiis Dalm. (1833).

Antenna longer and slenderer than in the species mentioned, the third segment

especially being longer. The false mentum without a groove along the edge of the

round central sinus.

Pronotum widest behind the middle, almost gradually narrowed from the

widest point to the ape.x ; the apex itself broadly excised, which is not known

of any other species, and the coarsely punctate-rugate disc posteriorly much

depressed ; dorsal carina rounded, interrupted in the centre, continuous with the

lateral carina, which gradually fades away in the middle of the side instead of

being continued to near the apical margin ; the yellowish tomeutum dense along

the middle line, no black spots.

Elytra coarsely punctured in the stripes and anteriorly granulose, depressed

along the suture, the yellowish tomentum dense at the suture, before and behind

the middle and at the apex, there being no black spots ; the stripes not developed

in the middle of the side, there being here an irregular, more or less smooth space

(due to pressure iu the pupal stage ?).

Prosternum similar to that of X. montanus Kolbe (1804), bearing posteriorly

a tubercle behind each coxa, but not in the centre. Abdomen more strongly

jiunctured than in the allied species.

Fore- and midtibiae much thinner than is usual in this genus, incurved on

the inner side with the apex widened ; foretibia without distinct groove on the

dorsal side, the groove being but feebly marked also on the midtibia. Tarsi

slenderer than in the allied species.

Length (exclusive of head) U mm.

One ?.

The excision of the apical margin of the pronotum, the short lateral carina,

and the peculiar shape of the fore- and midtibiae may possibly be malformations.

'i. Gynandrocerus thomensis spec. nov.

S. Similar to G. antennalis Lac. (1860). Rostrum as in that species.

Antenna longer, segment 7 much slenderer, being but little broader at the apex

than segment 6, segment 8 triangular, one-fourth longer than broad, strongly and

gradually narrowing from apex to base, 8 to 10 also longer, lo being less than

twice as broad as long.

Pronotum punctured almost throughout, the juinctures shallow.

Elytra slightly more depressed at the suture than in G. antennalis, the

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punctures larger, the .yellowish tomentnm more evenly distributed over the whole

surface in smaller spots which are more or less connected with one another.

Punctures on prosternnm larger than in antennalis.

Length (exclusive of head) 13 mm.

One cf .

3. Phloeobius hypoxanthus spec. nov.

c? ? . A large lateral patch on the prosternite extending anteriorly on to the

npperside, another on the metasternite, and a third situated on abdominal segments

2 to 4 fulvous-orange; the tomeutum of the head the same colour, while it is

clayish buff on the pronotum and grey on the elytra. On the pronotum five small

yellowish white tufts, two being placed on each side of the disc one behind the

other, and a third halfway between these and the apex of the lateral carina.

Similar small dots of raised pubescence, but almost pure white, on the elytra in

interspaces 3, 5, 7, 9 ; lateral margin feebly chequered. Under surface, apart from

the lateral patch, sparsely pubescent grey, appearing almost black.

Frons with a shallow mesial groove which extends on to the rostrum and

is accompanied by two flat ridges. Occiput and frons coarsely punctate-rugate ;

distance from antennal groove to frontal corner of eye somewhat shorter than the

width of the frons. Antenna in S without club, all the segments being slender,

the last long and thin, about as long as segment 3 ; in ¥ 10 longer than broad,

11 half as long again as 10.

Pronotum coarsely and densely rugate, depressed posteriorly, the hinder angle

a little over 90°.

Elytra rather strongly slanting in lateral aspect, strongly punctato-striate,

interspaces 3, 5, 7, 9 feebly elevate; no apical patch.

Prosternite with two transverse grooves, one being situated close behind the

apical edge, which appears elevate in consequence, and the other before the coxal

cavities.

Length (exclusive of head) 8i to 10 mm.

3 c? cJ and 2 ? ? .

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NEW ANTIIBIBIBAE.

By K. JORDAN, Vn.Tt.

1. Phloeotragus atlas spec nov.

S. Resembling P. j/rasiii^s Dnv. (1S92), from which it is easily distingnished

by the complete absence of snbapical tubercles on the elytra.

Uppcrside of head and elytra greyish green ; pronOtnm, basal edge of elytra,

pygidium and underside (with the exception of the proximal portion of the head)

ochraceons buff ; antenna greenish grey ; legs and abdomen buff, faintly greenish.

Triangular apical impression of rostrum deeper and longer than in P. prasiiuis.

Frons strongly convex, forming an obtuse angle with the rostrum in a side view.

Antenna strong, even thicker than in P. poliopras Jord. (1010), densely covered

with a fine pubescence, underside densely grauulose, apical segments black.

Prothorax broad, as strongly rounded as in P. prashms, broader at the base

than at the apex, without a prominent lateral apical fold ; notum densely irrorated

with black scales, at the apex and base the usual pairs of black spots ; carina

not interruj)ted in the centre, forming almost a semicircle with the lateral carina,

which reaches to the middle of the side, dorsally convex before joining the lateral

carina, a distinct short longitudinal lateral carina at base.

Elytra short, cylindrical, irrorated with black scales, which arc more numerous

behind the middle and before the apex, shoulders black, no lateral and apical

black spots as in P. prasinus ; base more deeply incurved than in that species;

punctures smaller, hardly visible on the declivous apex, third interspace not elevate,

there being no trace of subapical tubercles.

Prosternura declivous, with deep groove before the coxa, but no distinct

transverse impression in front of the fold which limits the groove, at the side a

black stripe.

A spot on middle of hindfemur, a subbasal and an apical spot on all the

tibiae as well as the apical half of the second tarsal segment and the whole third

brownish black.

Length (exclusive of head) 'i\ mm.

One cJ from the " Congo," no special locality being given.

2. Hypselotropis grandis spec. nov.

(?. In colour closely agreeing with Pti/choderes mixtus Jekel (1855), with

the exception of the head, which is more grey.

Rostrum strongly dilated at the apex, dorsally with three carinae, the

median one feebly developed and extending on to the frons, the lateral ones

higher, but not marked on the frons, at the side of the lateral carina a longi-

tudinal groove, no other grooves between eye and antenna, the sides of the

rostrum being coarsely punctured ; on underside the rostrum covered with a rather

long tomentum, a strongly developed median carina accompanied by a groove on

each side, laterally to which there is another groove as continuation of the

antennal groove. Antenna more than twice the length of the body, the proximal

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segments compressed and somewhat grooved lougitndiually nearly as in Pbjfho-

(leres depressiis Jekel (I'Soo), segments 7 to 'J thin, 8 and 9 each about as long

as 2 to 4 together, 10 and 11 short.

Prothorax as in Pti/choderes mixtus, but wider and the sides more rounded,

anteriorly with conspicnous black spots. '

Elytra also as in P. mixtus, the seriated punctnres less numerous and the

apical callosity vestigial.

Underside grey, almost white, jn-othorax with a black stripe below the lateral

carina and the tibiae with two black spots, one near the base and the other in

the middle ; process of mesosternum widest at the apex, which is rounded ; anal

stcrnite truucate-sinuate.

Length (exclusive of head) 2-") mm.

One cJ from Manuos, Amazons.

3. Mecotropis duplicatus spec. nov.

(?. Nearest to M. crassicollis Jord. (Is9.5), bearing a pilose, round, central

spot on the metasternum. Slenderer than crassicoUis. The uppersidc densely

variegated with grey, the markings being diffuse. Rostrum somewhat narrower

than in crassicoUis, on underside with two deep grooves behind the false

mentnm.

Prothorax less rounded at sides than in crassicoUis, but more so than in

cinerasceiis Jord. (1808), somewhat longer than broad, rather deeply impressed

mesially at the carina, the prominent central tubercle of crassicoUis very feebly

indicated.

Scutellam rouuded-triangalar. Elytra as short as in crassicoUis ; the groove

bounding the raised basal margin not continued to the shoulders ; in posterior

half each interspace with an additional row of punctures, with the exception of the

sntural and lateral stripes.

Prosternite slightly impressed in front of the coxae, uot grooved as in

crassicoUis. Mesosternal process ronnded-triangular, narrower than in crassicoUis ;

last abdominal sternite rounded, with a very faint indication of a small central

sinus.

Femora aud tibiae sparsely pubescent grey, without markings ; tarsi black,

first and fourth segment densely pubescent grey with the exception of their apices,

first hindtarsal segment less than twice the length of fourth, second as long as

fourth.

Length (exclusive of head) 13 ram.

One S from the Matang Road, Sarawak, 27. vii. 1000.

4. Mecotropis annulipes spec, nov,

(^ ? . In structure hardly distinguishable from M. cinerasceiis Jord. (1808), but

the coloration of the legs constanlly ditt'ereut. In cinerasceiis tlie tibiae bear

each a broad clayish ring at the base and another narrower one near the apex,

and the tarsi have a ring of the same colour near the apex of the first segment

and a broader one on the claw-segment. In annidipes, on the other hand, the

fore- and midtibiae are more diffusely grey, the first tarsal segment bears a grey

ring at or near the base, the second segment is grey with the exception of the

apex, and the claw segment is (jnite black.

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The groove bonnJing the raised basal margin of the elytra is deeper aromul

the shoulder angle than in cinerascem ; the pnnctnres on the disc are rather larger,

and the discal interspaces are without any distinct row of jjunctures. The elaw-

segmeut of the foretarsns, which is pilose beneath in the 6 of cinerasceiis, is much

less hairy in (nimtUpi'S.

Several pairs from Mt. Kina Bala, Sarawak and Poutianak.

5. Mecotropis icanus spec. nov.

(??. Differs from all the other known species in the structure of the

rostrum.

Black, pubescent tawu)'-olivaceous above, the head, pronotum and elytra

variegated with white, the elytra especially before the middle and at the ajiex,

the declivous area being white for the greater part. Rostrum as long as it is

apically broad, with a deep mesial sulcus, which is continued on the frons, being

deepest and widest between the eyes ; antcnnal groove large, almost reaching tlie

eye, its upper margin elevate, forming a prominent carina which is continued

to the eye, being higher than in the nearest allied species, M. coclcstis Jord. (lf>'J.s);

on underside the genal groove (below eye) is continuous with the ventral groove

situated behind the false mentum. Eye coarsely granulose, entire, with a very

shallow emargination. Antenna of S long, segment 1 strongly asymmetrical,

10 aljont half the length of 11, three times as long as broad, 9 three times as

long as 11 .

Protliorax broader than long, convex, almost as wide behind the apical

constriction as at the dorsal carina, longitudinally depressed above, with the

centre raised transversely ; dorsal carina nearly straight ; the white markings

rather sharply defined, connected with one another in centre of the pronotum, the

base tawny-olivaceous for the greater part.

Scntellum snbqnadrangnlar, widest behind. Elytra cylindrical, hardly at all

depressed at the suture, with the exception of the declivous apex ; elevate basal

edge suddenly narrowed at humeral callosity ; the seriated punctures small, the

rows very slightly imjjressed.

Underside tawny-olivaceous, with diffuse whitish spots, which are most

numerous on the abdomen, i'rosternite with sliarjily marked 3-shaped groove

before the coxae. Process of mesosternum broader than in .1/. coelestis Jord.

(Is98). Femora and tibiae olivaceous, the tibiae white before the black apex;

tarsi black, first segment white excepting the ajies, base of second also white,

first foretarsal segment half ( (J) or one-third (?) the length of the foretibia, first

hindtarsal in both sexes very little longer than the claw-segment.

Length (exclusive of head) II to 12 mm.

One pair labelled Malacca.

0. Xenocerus callimus spec. nov.

i. Tliird segment of antenna twice as long as first. Black above, with the

markings buff. Head with the usual three stripes well marked. Prothorax

widest jnst in front of the dorsal carina, the latter evenly curved ; three vittae,

of which tlie median one is twice the width of the others. Elytra : a broad

sutural stri|ie which extends from the base to beyond the middle and occujiies

a little over two interspaces on each elytron, posteriorly it curves obliijuely

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lateral! and termiaates in the sixtli interspace ; this broad sutiiral vitta is continued

to the apex of the elytra by a thin sutaral line which occupies only half the

sutural interspace ; a discal stripe joins the sutural one at the basal margin

and terminates before the middle ; a rather broad lateral stripe runs from below

the shoulder parallel . with the outer margin to the apical sutural angle, the

inner edge of this line slightly irregular. Pygidium buff, with black, triangular,

median stripe which is about one-third the width of the pygidiuiu proximally.

Underside white, apices of tibiae and of tarsal segments blackish.

Length (exclusive of head) 17 mm.

One S from the Andaman Islands.

T. Acorynus flavipunctum spec. nov.

Black ; the pubescence slate-colour and very short ; markings very inconspicuous,

with the exception of a rounded spot in front of the scutellnm, which is yellow.

Rostrum not quite twice as long as it is broad at the base, with five carinae,

which are sharply defined from the base to near the apex, where tlio three median

carinae widen out and disappear, the middle one being the longest ; the lateral

carina joins the cariuiform edge of the antennal groove close to the apex of the

rostrum ; punctures in between the carinae and at the apex large. Frons anteriorly

in S a little narrower and in ? a little wider than the interspace between the

central carina and the next, mesially cariuate. Antenna black, segments 1-8 more

or less rnfescent at base and apex, 3 = 4 or even a little shorter, 9 twice 8, lo = 8.

Pronotum longer than broad, densely punctured, especially at the sides, but

not rugate, no transverse groove ; a median dash behind apical margin, two

small spots towards the side one behind the other, a spot above the lateral

carina and another at the basal angle grey, inconspicuous, a spot before the

scutellnm much larger, yellow.

Elytra more than half as long again as broad, rather strongly depressed at

base, the callosity therefore prominent anteriorly, slaty grey for the greater part,

with short black lines, which form on each elytrum a patch before and another

behind the middle, there being also some indistinct black spots at the side.

Underside with very short slaty-grey pubescence. Tibiae with a s])ot proximally

to middle. Last abdominal steruite carinate in i.

Length (exclusive of head) 0} to 8 mm.

One c? and three ? ? from the Kina Balu, North Borneo.

In facies similar to A.distiiKjaendiis Jord. (18U4) aud A. luteolutus Jord. (1804;.

8. Acorynus homospilus spec. nov.

S . In the markings of the upperside similar to .1. gporadis Jord. (l'Jil3), but

very ditl'erent in structure.

Black, pubescence of upperside dark brown. Bostrum shorter than broad,

with three prominent dorsal carinae which terminate beyond centre, where the

rostrum is rather deeply impressed, the two lateral ones of them convergent

anteriorly, at sides a thinner carina which is separate from the cariniform edge

of the antennal groove. Frons anteriorly a little less than half the width of an

iutersjjace between the dorsal carinae of the rostrum, with a thin mesial carina ;

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sides of lieaJ, greater part of i-ostniiu and a narrow, iiitorrn])ted liorder to the

eye gre)-. Antenna characteristic, nifescent with darker club, segment 3 a

little longer than ~', mnch shorter than 10, this a little shorter than t), 3 to

8 gradually decreasing, 8 less than twice as long as broad.

Pronotuni coarsely imuetured, as are the head and rostrum, broader than

long, widest just in front of the dorsal carina, the sides slightly rounded,

two white median dots, one behind the apex and the other behind the carina

and slightly reaching beyond it, on each side tive more white dots, two

standing between apex and carina, two at the lateral carina and one behind

the carina, this last being tlie largest of all ; dorsal carina sliglitly rounded,

evenly flexed forward at sides, there being no lateral angle ; no basi-lateral

longitudinal carina.

Elytra snbcylindrical, shorter than in .1. sporadis, each with a dozen

sharply defined white dots and a few specks, margin at shoulder also white,

these markings placed almost exactly as in A. sporadis. Pygidium broader than

long, rounded, with white triangular spot at each side.

Pubescence of underside greyish white, slightly and very inconspicnously

variegated with brown, the white pubescence condensed to form spots at

sides of abdomen. Prosteruuni and sides of meso-metasternnm punctured.

Abdomen ((?) mesially flattened, with a prominent, conical, sharply jwinted

tubercle at base of last segment. Femora grey for the greater part, tibiae

brown, with two sharply defined grey rings, one near base, the other beyond

centre ; tarsi brown, first segment grey with the exception of the base.

Length (exclusive of head) 01 to 8 mm.

3 c? <? from " Malacca."

'■>. Acorynus caenonus spec. uov.

cj ?. In colour and pattern almost the same as .1. punctatus Jord. (1804),

but sharply distinguished iu structure as follows : Frons with distinct mesial

carina, in S strongly narrowed, anteriorly about one-third, and in ? two-thirds

the width of an interspace between the carinae of the rostrum. Segment 8

of antenna gradually widened from base to apex iu both sexes, not being

jiroximally nearly as wide as apically, the preceding segment also elongate-

triangular. Carina of pronotum nearer the basal edge than in ^1. punctatiu ;

the clayish or rufous lateral area of pronotum with black dash or interrupted.

The last abdominal sternite of S with tubercle or ridge, which is absent iu

A. punctatm.

Our specimens represent three distinct subspecies :

a. A. caenonus gitonus snbsp. uov.

J?. Clayish lateral area of pronotum with black curved line; dorsal

spots of elytra all small, narrow, the two situated in the middle on strijies

3 and 4 separate from one another, clayish shoulder-spot posteriorly incised ;

clayish ring of tibiae mnch smaller than black apical ring, at least on fore-

and niidtibiae; fnretibia of <S not humped at apex : tubercle on last abdominal

sternite of 6 pointed.

One pair from Sumatra : Palembaug.

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h. A. caenonus caenonus.

(? ? . Clayish lateral area of prouotum with black line or spot; dorsal

markings of pronotum and elytra a2ipreciably larger than in the preceding sub-

species, shonlder-spot of elytra rounded, entire, median spots on stripes 3 and

4 merged together to form one ronuded spot ; clayish or rnfons portion of

tibiae larger than black apical portion ; apex of foretibia distinctly hnmped in

5 on innerside ; tubercle of last abdominal sternite of S forming a low ridge

which is not produced into a pointed tubercle.

A short series from Perak.

c. A. caenonus cadarus subsp. nov.

S ? . Legs as in the Perak race, but the hump at the apex of the foretibia less

developed : abdomiiuil tubercle vestigial ; dorsal spots of pronotum and elytra

larger, the lateral clayish or rufous area of the pronotum broken up into three

spots, of which the two posterior ones are connected with one another at the

carina ; shoulder-spot of elytra transverse, a dorsal basal spot and a transverse

dorsal median one as large as the lateral spots ; underside strongly variegated with

fuscous, the abdomen bearing a lateral row of isolated clayish or rufous spots.

Sarawak, one pair.

10. Acorynus mesotaenia spec. nov.

(? ? . Close to .1. sidrirolUs Jord. (1807), narrower; frons perceptibly wider

in cJ ; eighth anteunal segment distinctly longer ; the markings on the elytra and

at the sides of the pronotum dark olivaceous and very feebly contrasting with the

black ground ; on the other hand a median stripe on head and pronotum greyish

yellow and very prominent; legs black, with the base of the tibiae slightly

rufescent : midtibia of c? without mucro at apex.

One pair from Dolok-Baros, Medan, Sumatra.

1 1 . Acorynus brevis spec. nov.

? . Brownish black, rather thinly pubescent olivaceous bufT. llostrnm vertical,

broad, flat, as long as apically broad, with five parallel carinae, the median one

abruptly terminating in centre, the next a little longer and continued by a rugose

ridge to apex, the third joining the carinate edge of the anteunal groove. Frons as

wide as the interspace between the two lateral carinae ; sides of head and rostrum

and border of eyes creamy. Antenna pale rufous, segments 9 and 1 1 each one-third

longer than 3, 8 half the length of '.» and a little longer than Id, the latter nearly

twice as long as broad.

Pronotum nearly twice as broad as long, gradually narrowed from dorsal

carina forward, impunctate, with transverse sulcus before middle; a widely inter-

rupted median line, and on each side a dot in snlcus, one laterally near apex, another

in front of and behind dorsal carina and one at lateral carina creamy ; dorsal carina

slightly curved backwards laterally and then evenly Hexed forward, the lateral

carina not reaching middle of side ; no longitudinal basal carina.

Elytra short, convex, hardly at ail depressed along sutnre, each with abont a

dozen creamy dots, of which the one on disc behind middle is the largest, the

spot behind shoulder being the second largest. Pygidium truucate-rotnndate.

7

( 9S )

Underside impunctate. Sides of meso- and metasternite laterally more densely

pubescent in ])hu'cs. Legs rnfescent, basal two-tliirds of tibiae and nearly the

entire first tarsal segment pubescent-grey.

Length (e.xclusive of head) Oi mm.

One ? from " Malacca."

12. Acorynus scalaris siicc. no v.

S. Black. The rostrum and liead with the exception of a blai;k triangular

spot on occiput, a broad oblicpie dorso-lateral vitta and an anteriorly narrowed

median one on pronotum, and the elytra covered with a clay pubescence with the

exception of the following brownish black markings : a shoulder-spot, three bands

extending from near the sutnre, which they do not reach, obliijuely backwards

to the outer margin, the bands irregular, tiic first commencing with a rounded

spot situated on the subbasal callosity, the third so connected at the margin and

on disc with a subapical spot that an elongate-ovate clay spot is isolated, in the

sntural interspace three small sjiots, one behind subbasal callosity, the secoud

in middle, the third on a[)ical declivity and couuected with the third band by

a thin line. Pygidinm with triangular clay vitta on each side. Underside greyish

clay, a broad lateral stripe on the prosternite, the greater part of the mososternito,

the centre of the metasternum and a broad stripe along the lateral edges of

the abdomen, black. Femora clay-colour at base and apex ; tibiae cla3--coIour,

extreme base and ajiical fourth black ; first tarsal segment also clay-colonr ; these

light-pubescent parts more or less rufous.

Rostrum only as long as it is broad, with five cariuae, the median one low,

broad, flattened, the next sharply defined, fading away beyond middle of rostrum,

the lateral one joining the edge of the antennal groove; apical margin somewhat

emarginate. Frons a little narrower than the interspace between the central and

secoud carinae. Antenna reaching to basal fourth of elytra, rufous, segment 1 1

brownish, :> a little longer than 4, S less than twice as long as it is broad, shorter

than 10, 9 nearly as long as 0 to S together, Itt twice as long as it is broad.

Pronotum very feebly punctured at the sides, practically smooth ; a transverse

groove on disc ; basi-lateral longitudinal carina vestigial.

The subbasal callosity of the elytrum but moderately elevate.

I'rosteruite with distinct but rather disj)3rsed punctures. First tarsal segment

about half the length of the tibia and about one-third longer than the claw-segment.

Midtibia of cj with a small apical spur.

Length (exclusive of head) (i mm.

Oue 6 from Kuching, Sarawak, .January 1903.

A. liyatus Jord. (1903), from the Philippines (Samar), is somewhat similar

in pattern, but has a distinctly punctured pronotum.

13. Acorynus xanthurus spec, no v.

Blackish brown. Rostrum vertical, half as long again as it is broad at the

apex, somewhat uneven, ])roximaiiy clayish like the head, distally grey and

granulate-rugate, with five carinae, the median one narrow, low, disappearing before

reaching apical margin, secoud curved outward at its base and apex, distally almost

confluent with the straight lateral carina, which joins the edge of the antennal

cavity. Frons entirely pubescent-clay-colour, a little narrower than the interspace

( 99 )

between the central aiiJ second carina, slightly concave. Antenna reaching beyond

basal fourth of elytram, Tulescont-brown, paler at the joints, segment -i longer

than 4, 7 nearly twice 8, 9 longer than 0 to 8 together, 10 abont half as long

again as broad.

Pronotiim broader than long, impnnctate, with a sharply marked transverse

groove on disc, clay-colonr, disc Ijrowii with the exception of a clay-colonred cross

formed by a median vitta and two spots sitnated in the groove, which join the

vitta and the sides, so that the brown disc is divided into four spots.

Elytra hardly at all depressed at the sntnre, the siibbasal callosity but slightly

elevate, basal margin greyish, nnmerous short clayish lines in basal half, more

or less connected with one auotlier and with the basal border, a shonlder-spot

and a round spot on the callosity remaining blackish brown, in centre a clayish

grey transverse spot from interspace 3 to 6, the whole declivous apex bright

clay-colour, with the exception of a rounded sjiot, this clay area being anteriorly

sinuous. Pygidium entirely clay-colour, convex.

Underside all grey, without any spots. Legs pale rufous, pubescent-grey, the

greater jjart of the femora and the tip of tibiae blackish, tarsi brownish. First

tarsal segment about half the length of the tibia.

Length (exclusive of head) 5A mm.

One ? from Kuching, Sarawak, August IlJUU.

14a. Acorynus luzonicus leitensis subsp. nov.

cJ ? . llufescent brown ; the upper one of the two lateral clayish vittae on the

prouotum broken up into three small spots, the second vitta obsolete in its posterior

half; elytra evenly dotted from base to apes, each puncture of the rows being

situated in a clayish grey dot, the punctures less numerous than in luzonicus Jord.

(Ih'J.3) and samamnus Jord. (1S9.S), at lateral margin a large spot behind shoulder

and a small one beliind middle, in ? also a spot close to apex.

One pair from Leite, Philippines, August 1896 (J. Whitehead).

14b. a. luzonicus rantus subsp. nov.

cJ?. Black. The slightly flexuose lateral vittae of the prouotum complete;

elytra dotted with clayish grey from base to apex, the dots much more numerous

and smaller than in the preceding form, most of them small or obsolescent in

central third of the elytra, while they are more or less confluent in the basal

and apical thirds ; no lateral spots, but a small spot on fourth interspace behind

middle.

One pair from Cape Engano, North Luzon (J. ^Vhitehead).

15. Acorynus distichus spec. nov.

?. An elongate rufescent species with the tenth antennal segment long as in

Litocerus; allied to A. nij'us Jord. (1894), jjicturatus Jord. (1895, described as

a Litocerus) and iiessiarops spec, nov., bearing like these species a rather close

suiierficiai resemblance to some species of the genus Xessiara.

Head and rostrum densely pubescent pale yellow ; the latter a little longer than

it is broad at the apex, with three prominent, straight, dorsal carinae, the median

one reaching to apex, but its apical half obsolescent, the lateral dorsal carina

( 100 )

not extendiug to eye and distally almost abruptly terminating, not being curved

laterad, between antennal groove and eye a slight additional carina, apical edge

of rostrum feebly emarginate. Frons sulcate, anteriorly a little more than half

the width of an interspace between the dorsal carinae of the rostrum, the narrow

l)ortion brown. Antenna entirely rufous, segment 'i one-third longer than 4,

nearly twice the length of }>, as long as 0, but shorter than 11, 1>) longer than 8,

two-thirds the length of 9.

Pronotum impnnctate, excepting the sides, which bear very shallow punctures,

one-fifth broader than long, without transverse discal sulcus, pubescent dark fiiwn,

with the following black longitudinal markings : on each side of the middle a stripe

from near the carina to beyond the centre, outside this stripe and rather close to

it another which is narrower and reaches from the apical to the basal margin,

being widened behind the carina and excurved in the centre, a third, short stripe

between lateral carina and ai)ical groove.

Scutellum transverse, grey. Elytra more than half as long again as broad,

flattened above, rufescent, pubescent dark fawn, the aj)ex huffish ochraceous and

the following markings black : a spot on basal callosity, an interrupted, elongate,

marginal halfring behind shoulder, some short dashes in basal half, a broad

band before apical declivity reaching from side to side, posteriorly deeply sinuate at

the suture and margin and less deeply on disc, anteriorly including a white square

spot which is contiguous with the fawn area at stripe ~, the black baud produced

forward at suture and much more so on disc. Pygidium rufous, rounded, with an

ochraceous patch at each side.

Underside entirely grey, with two brownish spots on the metasternite, anal

sternite bearing mesially at the apex a prominent conical tubercle. Legs rufous,

pubescence grey on the femora and ochraceous on the tibiae and tarsi, tip of tibiae

brownish.

Length (exclusive of head) 10 mm.

One ? from Kuching, Sarawak, May 19U3.

16. Acorynus nessiarops spec. nov.

c??. Near yl. ;•)//(« Jord. (1894) and r/wi/ins Jord. (1003). Rufescent-brown,

elongate, flattened, antennae and legs entirely pale rufous.

Rostrum about half as long again as basally brown, flat at apex, with three

dorsal carinae, the median one the shortest, low distally, the other two rather

high, reaching to middle, proximally slightly curving inward, a lateral carina

feebly indicated, concealed under the yellowish grey pubescence. Frons very

luirrow in 6, about half the width of the interspace between two carina in ¥,

entirely yellowish grey like the rostrum. Antenna slender, segment 8 in J not

much shorter than 9, in ? two-thirds the length of 9, 10 in both sexes about half

as long again as liroad.

Pronotum smooth, transversely depressed before centre, yellowish grey, with

two straight, rather broad, brown vittae on disc and a curved lateral sjjot.

Elytra elongate, de]>ressed, basal margin strongly excurved, subbasal callosity

feebly elevate, clayish grey, with the following rufescent brown markings : a spot

on subbasal callosity, a longitudinal sjiot from middle of fourth to middle of sixth

intersiiacc, contiimed forward by two or three indistinct lines, a large square spot

at the commencement of the apical declivity, its anterior corners connected with

( If^l )

an elongate sntnral spot and a Ijracket-shaped lateral one respectively, while the

inner hind angle is produced into a thin line, behind shonlder at margin an ellipse

enclosing a grey dot. Pygidinm entirely (or almost) greyish clay like the apex of

the elytra, subtrnncate in J, rounded in ?.

Underside greyish white, a small brown lateral spot on metasternum. First

tarsal segment about half the length of the tibia. Foretibia of <S with a hump

on inside at apex.

Length (exclusive of head) 8 to 9-5 mm.

One c? and three ? ¥ from Pontianak, Dutch Borneo.

IT. Acorynus pachys spec. uov.

c? ? . Compact in build, resembling Mecocerus. Uniformly black, covered with

a dense, short, olive tomentum, which is a little paler around the eyes, on the

epimerum of the mesosternite, at the tip of the metepisternum and -merum, at

the lateral angle and in centre of the sides of the abdominal sternites. On

the elytra bnffish grey markings — viz. a transverse macular band at basal third,

widened upon the suture and here extending forward to the scutellum, enclosing

an olive spot on the suture, in ? another band behind centre, vestigial in i, an<l

a transverse row of spots at apical fourth, sometimes absent. Legs not distinctly

ringed or spotted.

Rostrum thick at base, its upperside somewhat curved and separated from

the frons by a feeble depression visible in lateral aspect ; a more or less distinct

median carina, divided longitudinally by a minute groove and not very sharply

defined, not extending in between the eyes and disappearing in the apical

dejiression of the rostrum ; no lateral carina, but the sides dorsally somewhat

convex. Antennal segment 2 almost globular, 10 half as long again as it is broad,

one-half shorter than 9, C to 11 flattened in <?.

Prothorax widest before the dorsal carina, gradually narrowed apically; no

jiunctures, no discal transverse groove, carina with a minute sharp central angle

jiointing backwards, hardly at all convex towards the sides, laterally evenly curved

obliijnely downwards and forwards.

Elytra widest near the base, rather strongly narrowing apicad, punctate-striate,

the intersjjaces proximally convex.

Prosternite with a few minute granules in the middle and dispersed shallow

punctures at the sides ; coxae well separated. Mesosternal intercoxal process

nearly twice as broad as it is long, subvertical, punctured. Punctures on meta-

sternite and abdomen dispersed and minute, hardly visible. First foretarsal

segment about twice as long as the others together in both sexes.

Length (exclusive of head) 8 to 13 mm.

S c?c?, 1 ? from Kumassi, Gold Coast (Newberry).

IT A. Acorynus pachys vitticollis subsp. nov.

?. A narrow mesial stripe on the head and three stripes on the pronotum

(one in middle, and one, oblique, on each side) yellowish like the markings of tlie

elytra; the latter with the median transverse band marked only laterally and

the postmedian macular band well-developed, there being also a narrow curved

band (concave in front) before the apex on each elytrum. Pygidium with two

yellowish spots.

( 102 )

Underside yellowish latoinll.v, with two black spots on tlic metasternite and

a row of lateral spots on the abdomen.

One ? from the Kassai district, Congo Free State (Taymaus).

l'^. Acorynus pais spec. nov.

?. Black, tomentnm olivaceon.'< ; antenna, tibiae and tarsi reddish. Eye

bordered by a yellowish grey stripe; on pronotnm three narrow vittae of the same

colour ; alternate interspaces of elytrae olive-grey, more or less interrupted, some

dashes of the same colour in tlie other interspaces; a lateral 8tri])e on prostemnm

and the tip of metepisternum more densely pubescent than rest of underside, which

is grey.

Rostrum similar to that of A. calcaratxs .lord. (1804), but narrower proxi-

mally, with three dorsal carinae which do not reach the apex, wliile the median

one extends on to the head ; edge of antenna! groove continued by carina, which

soon forks, one branch ending below the eye and the other being parallel with the

dorsal carinae but much more feebly developed than in ,1. cd/rarati/s. Eye smaller

than in ? of calcarcitits, the frons being one-third the width of the rostrum at its

narrowed point. Antenna! segment 10 less than half the length of 11, the latter

longer than 9.

Prothorax conical ; dorsal carina straight, towards the sides feebly fle.xed

backwards and in a rather sharp curve forward, as in ,1. calcarutus, the lateral

carina not slanting downward as in ,1. (jeometi-icus Jord. (1894), but being parallel

with the dorso-lateral vitta.

Elytra strongly elevate near the base, the basal portion of the suture appearing

depressed.

Legs not ringed or spotted.

Length (exclusive of head) .') mm.

One ¥ from Portuguese Congo.

19. Acorynus caffer spec. nov.

?. Probably a local form of -4. calcaratus Jord. (1894); bnt the question can

hardly be decided before the S of cafer is known. Frons more convex than in

calcaratus. Sides of head below eyes and a broad border to the eyes yellowish

grey ; this border continnons with a broad, obli(iue, ill-defined, dorso-lateral,

pronotal vitta, there being also a vestigial median vitta on the ])ronotuni ;

dorsal carina sharply angulate in centre, curved backwards sublaterally as in

calcaratuH aud then curved forward in a wider cnrve than in that species.

Alternate interspaces of elytra more strongly convex than in calcaratus, the

basal and apical margins yellowish grey, short lines or spots of the same colour

behind the base and behind the middle, arranged transversely. Pygidium truncate,

with the corners rounded.

Shaft of antenna rufescent, segment 1 rufous, 8 pale rufous.

Chie ? from Malvern, Natal.

20. Litocerus helictns spec. nov.

i. Black. Rostrum vertical, on a plane with the frons and almost at right

angles to the occiput, broad, twice as lung as it is broad, almost suddenly widened

in centre, where the antennal grooves terminate, resembling the rostrum of the

( 103 )

Ceclus Pasc. (1860) in shape, its npperside nneven, with three ill-defined carinae

and another at each side from the upper edge of the antennal groove in the

direction of the eye, the median one forming a hnmp in lateral aspect, none distinct

in apical half; the whole rostrum and the genae very densely covered with

a yellowish grey pubescence ; below eye a widely-open slit, not a mere sntnre.

Frons narrowed, about as wide as the interspace between the median and the

next carina of the rostrum, witli distinct median groove and posteriorly puactnred.

Eye long, prominent, with a narrow, interrupted, yellowish grey, dorsal border.

Antenna slender, pale rnfous, extending beyond base of prothorax, segments

3 to 0 with a distinct black ring close to apex, club distinct but not compact, black,

segment 9 as lung as 8, and nearly thrice as long as broad, one-third longer than 10,

3 one-third longer than 4, 2 thinner than 1 and about half its length.

Pronotiim very coarsely punctnred, transversely dei}ressed before middle, with

the following bright clay markings: a median stripe, commencing near apex with a dot,

behind which the stripe is a very thin line, widening again behind the depression,

then being constricted, and finally widening at the carina, being widest behind the

latter ; on each side of disc four small dots, one being placed at the dejiression, three

in a longitndinal row further laterally from apex to base, and the fifth above the

apex of the lateral carina. The carina sharply angnlate in centre, rounded at

the sides ; basal lateral carina feebly developed.

Elytra coarsely punctate-striate, the punctures being large, the interspaces

more or less convex, esjiecially the third, basal callosity prominent, the suture and

a number of markings bright clay-colonr, namely : along the sntnre and connected

with the sutural strijie a basal spot covering the callosity, a small spot before the

middle, a large, transverse, band-like spot behind the middle immediately followed

by a smaller spot, and an apical jiatch, between third interspace and outer margin

about ten spots of unequal size, most of them situated in interspace 9 ; the black

portions of the elytra with a minute greyish silky pubescence, excepting part of

interspaces 3, 5 and 7 and the edges of the larger clay spots which are deep black,

a black ring on the basal callosity, open anteriorly. Pygidium narrowing gradually,

with rounded apex and a small clayish spot on each side at the base.

Underside densely pubescent clayish grey, sides of metasternite and abdomen

spotted with blackish brown ; pro- and mesosternum and sides of metasternnm and

abdomen coarsely jninctured. Legs luteous (like the places of the upperside covered

with a clay pubescence), base and apex of femora, base, centre, and apex of tibiae,

and apex of first tarsal segment brownish black, claw-segment brown.

Length (exclusive of head) : 5' mm.

One cJ from Assinie, West Africa (Ch. Alluaud, 1880).

21. Litocerus callias sjiec. no v.

(?. Blackish brown ; above ochraceons, brown and huffish grey, beneath grey,

legs ochraceous for the greater part.

Rostrum almost gradually widened towards apex, half as long again as it is

broad near the base, slightly porrect, with the upperside ap|iearing curved in lateral

aspect, three dorsal carinae, well defined from base to near centre, then widened and

more or less efiaced, remaining vestigial to the apex, a low carina from eye to

antennal groove; genal slit present. Head like the rostrum entirely pubescent-

ochraceous ; frons about two-thirds the width of an interspace between the dorsal

( IM )

carinae. Antenna palo vnfoiis, sesraent 0 (is Ions as 3, not qnitr twice the length

of 8.

Prothorax broader than long, rather strongly rounded from the dorsal to the

apex of the lateral carina, above ochraceons, impnnctate, with a feebly marked

transverse dei)ression and two broad brown vittae, which are a little wider than the

ochraceons median vitta and bear each a small ochraceons dot midway between

apical margin and dorsal carina, there being a small triangnlar ochraceons spot

at the carina close to the median vitta, with which it is united ; from the apex

of the lateral carina forward a brown doable stripe, one lateral and the other

snbventral. Carina straight above, lateral angle distinct, obtnse. Elytra elongate,

strongly flattened above, with the basal margin mnch excurved and distinctly

elevate; snbbasal callosity feeble; the basal two-thirds grey, apical third ochraceons,

lateral grey markings more or less tinged with ochraceons, the following markings

remaining blackish brown : a narrow sutnral strijie bearing a grey dot close to the

likewise grey scntellnm, a short basal line each in interspaces 3 and 5, a broad streak

commencing at the shoulder angle, extending at the margin to beyond middle,

expanding anteriorly between margin and stripe 5 and in centre between margin and

interspace 4, a line projecting forward in this interspace, the brown stripe bears a

yellowish grey line on stripe 7, a short grey posthumeral dash each in stripes s and

9 and a grey spot at middle of margin ; posteriorly the brown streak extends more

dorsad, approaching the suture at the commencement of the apical declivity in the

shape of a rounded lobe, before which the streak is excised, and ending at some

distance from the apex with a central, longitudinal, truncate ]>rojection; a narrow,

brown, elongate, marginal spot before apex. Pygidium longer than broad, rounded

at apex, ochraceons, with a blackish brown median vitta.

Underside grey, impunctate, with an elongate, blackish brown, lateral spot on

the metasternum. First abdominal segment with a small tubercle. Femora

rnfescent at base and apex, pubescent-grey ; tibiae and tarsi rufous, pubescent-

ochraceous, the apex of the tibiae brown.

Length (exclusive of head) 7 mm.

One (J labelled Malacca.

22. Litocerus ypsilon sjiec. nov.

c?. Black. Upperside with a blackish brown pubescence and the following

markings : an uninterrupted, posteriorly widening median vitta on the pronotnm,

continued by an equally well-defined, basal, y-shaped sutural spot on the elytra,

yellowish grey ; two small dots on each side of the pronotnm, jilaced one behind

the other and nearer to the lateral carina than to the median vitta, greyish ; on

the elytra a number of grey dots and dashes situated in the stripes, several laterally

to the tip of the y-mark, others placed in ring-shape on the posterior half of each

elytrnm.

Rostrnm more than half as long again as it is broad at the base, centrally

depressed beyond middle, with five carina, of which the three dorsal ones are

obsolete in apical half, while the lateral one almost joins the edge of the antennal

cavity, which edge is cariniform and extends as a well-defined carina to the apex

of the rostrnm. Frons a little less than half the width of an interspace between

the dorsal carinao of the rostrum, with a narrow longitudinal groove. Eyes

narrowly edged with grey. Antenna long, rnfescent at base of segments 1 and 2,

0 a little shorter than 3 and a little longer than 10, one-fourth longer than 8.

( "1.5 )

Prothorax broailer than Ion,?, the siiles almost stvaig'ht from the base to the

tip of the lateral carina ; pronotnm imnctnred at sides, transverse groove present,

bnt feebl}' developed, dorsal carina straight, forming an obtnse angle with the

lateral carina ; basi-lateral carina distinct.

Elytra rather strongly narrowed towards apox, slightly depressed along sntnre ;

the pnnctures small.

Underside grey, a sjiot on sides of metasternnm, and three small ones on

abdomen at some distance from lateral edges, blackish brown, sterna imnctnred.

Legs black, femora and a patch or a dot near or at base of tibiae grey. First

abdominal segment (c?) with tnbercle.

Length (exclnsive of head) 7i mm.

One d from Knching, Sarawak.

23. Litocei'us rajah spec. nov.

?. Similar to L. jirra/n'/is/n Jord. (1894), bnt broader, and the markings

different.

Rostrnm shorter than in L. pcrakensis, broader proximally, the sides more

ronnded at the apox, the five carinae as in pent/teiisis ; genal groove open. Eyes

jiarallel, the frons not being triangular, bnt narrowed abont the middle, broader

tiian in L. perakeims. Antenna brownish black, only the first segment rufons

at base, segment 9 as long as 3, longer than 10, and this a little longer than 8.

Prothorax broader than in L. perakensis, the sides more ronnded, the apical

constriction more abrupt ; pronotnm punctured laterally, with the following clayish

bnff markings : a broad median vitta, widened behind apex, and more so before

and behind carina, sending out a branch on each side from the carina to the

transverse discal groove nearly as in Ij. jihiUppinensis Jord. (1895) ; these

branches widened in the transverse groove, but here not joined to the median vitta

(in our only specimen), a narrow sublateral vitta interrupted behind middle and

again at the carina, and connected anteriorly with the tomentose underside, and in

middle with a large patch situated above the lateral carina.

Scutellum almost twice as broad as long. Elytra clayish buff for the greater

part, the following markings being black : a narrow transverse spot at basal margin,

a spot at shoulder angle, an anteriorly open thin half-ring on subbasal callosity,

three short thin lines one obliquely behind the other, the last standing in second

interspace in antemedian depression, another short line in fourth interspace, a

somewhat longer line in space 0, anteriorly joining a small half-ring which is

placed at the side of the subbasal callosity, spaces 7, 8 and 9 also with lines

behind shoulder, a little behind centre of suture an elliptical spot, longitudinal,

not quite extending to the second row of punctures, connected (1) before its centre

with an irregular, transverse, zigzag line, which is divided into two bands laterally,

and (2) posteriorly with a second, thinner, transverse zigzag band, a subapical,

small, sntural spot joined to the transverse line, a larger subapical discal spot,

more or less divided by clayish buff lines of dots, and also connected with the

posterior zigzag line, lastly a spot at sntural angle. Pygidium broader than long,

with clayish buff, lateral, triangular vitta.

Underside slaty grey, the sides huffish, metasternite with several blackish

lateral spots. Metasternum with a shallow transverse groove near anterior

margin; intercoxal process twice as broad as long, with an oblique longitudinal

( 1"6 )

groove on each siilo. Rase and ajiical fhvee-fifflis nf til)iafi pnliescent l]lafk like

the tarsi. A]iical tooth of ovijiositor long.

Lcngtii (oxihisive of head) 7 mm.

One ? from Kneliiiig, Sarawak, June 1903.

24. Litocerus macrophtalmus Monfr. (18.")0).

The species is widely distributed, and lias split up into a number of geo-

graphical forms. In true macropJifnliinis, from Woodlark only, the median vitta

of the jirouotum is broader anteriorly than ia the other forms, being nearly as

wide in front of the transverse discal groove as at the carina. To m'lcro-

jifitnlmus (whose spelling we do not alter) belong as races : perjilcrus Pasc.

(InOO), rariegatus Jord. (L'^'-H), p///l/jjjji/ii'/!sis Jord. (1895), crucicoUis Jord. (1S9.">),

and a number of nudescribed forms. Olivier's fuliginosiis (1795) possibly also

belongs here ; if that is the case, the name fuliginosiis would have iirocedenco

over macrophtalmus as designation of the species.

All the races are characterised by the frnus being parallel in the ?, while

in the S it narrows from behind first gradually and then almost suddenly, being

anteriorly a mere line in the i

24a. Litocerus macrophtalmus celebensis subsp. nov.

S ?. Nearest to L. m. pltiUppinensis Jord. (1895). Median vitta of pronotura

with a ])rojection at each side in front of the carina, but this projection quite

short and therefore not joining the spot situated in tlie transverse discal groove.

The black spots of the elytra larger, the central sutural spot being nearly as large

as the antemedian discal sjjot.

A short series of cJc? from South (Jelebes : Makassar, June ISOii, type, and

S. Celebes, August-September 1891, all collected by W. Doherty.

25. Merarius glabriceps spec. nov.

?. Black, pubescence dark olive above and olive-grey beneath. Hostnim

widened apicaliy, stibcylindrical proximally, without any carinae above and at the

sides. Frons about one-fourth the width of the rostrum, narrowing anteriorly,

somewhat concave ; genae cream-colour, a minute spot at frontal edge of eye

creamy white. Antenna not reaching to base of prothorax, shaft rufous at the

joints, segments 3 to 5 gradually decreasing in length, 5 nearly twice 0, 0 as long

as 8 and a little shorter than 7, club compact, slightly compressed, elongate-

ellijitical, segment 9 twice 8, narrow at base, gradually widening, one-fourth

longer than broad, lo three times as broad as long, 11 proximally widest, as

broad as long.

Prothorax conical, gradually narrowing from the dorsal carina to the apex,

the carina itself dursally very slightlv concave, gradually curved forward, not

much projecting latcrad, although more elevate laterally than dorsally, the

obliquely longitudinal lateral carina short, not reaching middle of side ; notnm

dispersedly punctured at sides, with double impression centrally in front of

carina; three small creamy liuff dots liehind carina, three very small ones,

more creamy, in a transverse row before middle, another dot below lateral

carina.

( 1"' )

Elytra: a sinnons band lieliiiul basal tnberclc from side to side, narrowed at

the suture, and the apical declivous area creamy bnff ; subbasal callosity enlarjjed

to a conical tubercle with rounded apex, a smaller dorsal tubercle behind middle,

obtuse and gradually fading away anteriorly, seventh interspace elevate before

apical declivity, but not forming a distinct tubercle. Pygidium semicircular,

entirely creamy butf.

Underside spotted with creamy buff laterally ; prosternite and sides of

meso-metasternite punctured. Femora rufescent at base, pubescence grey, fuscous

at ajiex ; tibiae black, with a broad grey ring proximally to middle, the chitin

being here rufous ; tarsi black, first segment grey excepting its extreme tip ;

first foretarsal segment not longer than fourth.

Length (exclusive of head) (J mm.

One ? from Knrseong, Sikkim.

26. Hucus virgatus spec. nov.

?. Near //. persimilis Jord. (1903), smaller, slaty black, very slightly

rufescent, the markings of the upperside and the whole underside pubescent

greyish white, not bulfish. Angle of pronotal carina perceptibly larger and last

antennal segment longer. All the alternate interspaces (1, 3, 5, etc.) of the

elytra bearing greyish white lines which are nearly all complete from base to

apex, the other interspaces also bearing same short streaks, the white pubescence

is denser at basal margin and behind soutelliim, and also form indistinct spots at

the lateral margin behind shoulder and in front of and again behind middle,

this last spot continued obliquely forward to disc by means of an ill-defined

narrow line.

Sides of meso- and metasternum white. Legs slighty rufescent, pubescent

greyish white, tip of tibiae and underside of tarsi black.

Length (exclusive of head) 3| mm.

One ? from Milne Bay, British New Guinea (A. S. Meek).

27. Hucus proles spec. nov.

?. Likewise closely allied to 11. persimilis Jord. (1003), as well as Tl. sfriatioi

Jord. (1003), being of the same size and colour. Angle of pronotal carina distinctly

more rounded and the pronotum, in a dorsal view, appearing hardly at all

narrowed immediately in front of the dorsal carina ; grey vittae as sharply defined

as in //. St rill fits. Elytra without transverse band ; a line in third interspace,

which it nearly fills up, from base to near apex, where it runs across the second

interspace to the sntnral angle ; another line in interspace 7, of nearly the same

width as the other, widened before apex, a thin line in 4 from base to near

centre, another thin line in 5 from base to near apex, but more or less incomplete

behind, some spots in lateral interspaces, and a short patch behind scutellum

posteriorly widening out laterad ; all these markings grey. Underside and legs

as in //. pi'rsimilis.

Two ? ¥ from Batjan.

Lemuricedus gen. nov.

S ? . Frons snlcate, not carinate as in Cediis. Rostrum either forming an obtuse,

rounded, angle with the gula, or vertical, in the J always and in the ? usually

( 108 )

tnore or loss abrnptl}- wiilniod nt the aiitpiiiial grooves, always lirofiiler in the S

than in the ?, a median carina in both sexes, not reaching beyond middle, generally

quite short, from eye to antenna or beyond, but on dorsal side, a broad groove

bounded by two more or less distinct carinae ; apex of rostrum flattened centrally,

margin straight : on underside a single or double mesial carina. Antennae similar

to those of (\'(/iis Pasc. (1800), being longer than tlie body in c?. Antennal

groove small, situated in middle of rostrum or beyond. Genal suture below eye

open. Pronotum coarsely punctured, at least at sides, dorsal carina bent back-

wards laterally and then flexed forward in a round curve, jn-ojecting so much

laterad that the side of the prothorax is sinnate between the dorsal carina and

the apex of the curved lateral carina. Elytra coarsely pnnctate-striate, tuberculate.

Type: L. audouini Fahrs. (1839).

The genus appears to be confined to Madagascar, whence about a dozen

species are known to me, but may also be represented on the neighbouring

islands. In facies it most nearly resembles certain Litocerus and Acorynus,

one of the sjiecies [maihiffascar/f/isis Faust (1880)], which was described as a

Litocerus, approaching those genera in the rostrum being more slender and

bearing the antennal grooves more distally than in the other Lemaricedus. The

elytra appear square or oblong in Lemuricedus and have a number of tubercles,

which are placed exactly alike in the diliVrent species, although they vary to some

extent in size, one near the base and another in the third interspace in the centre

being always large.

28. Lemuricedus audouini Fahrs. (1839).

c? ? . According to the original description this name refers to what appears

to be the commonest species of the genus. It varies much in size like its

congeners, and small specimens almost give one the impression of belonging to

a different species. The pattern of the pronotum is fairly constant. The central

area of the pronotum, which is bounded on each side by a velvety black vitta,

situated halfway between centre and lateral carina and widest at the base, is

more or less dark isabella-colour. The area is angnlate laterally, invading the

black vitta at the transverse discal sulcus, and bears on each side of the centre

two black spots between apex and carina ; the spot before the scutellum either

also isabella-colour or more or less bright creamy bnfF, always divided by a

dark central spot or line ; the velvety vittae bear generally a small Isabella-

coloured spot in front of the carina and are usually almost interrupted at the

transverse sulcus. The seventh abdominal tergite of <? (which often projects from

beneath the pygidium or becomes visible when the pygidium is lifted up) is

mesially sinuate. The teeth of the ovipositor of the ? are rather obtuse, especially

the apical one.

20. Lemuricedus acoenus spec nov.

(J ?. Very close to L. audouini Fahrs. (1839) ; less variegated on the pronotum

and elytra. The antennae thinner, segment 8 of ? longer. The black pronotal

bands broader and purer black, not bearing a lighter-coloured spot before the

carina, the two black spots situated in audouini within the central area in front

of the carina arc vestigial in the new species or altogether absent.

The seventh abdominal tergite of the J is rounded at the apex, not bearing

( 1<J9 )

a median sinus as in aiidouiiii, aad the teeth of the ovijiositor of the ? are more

pointed than in that species and the notch in the apical tooth is more distinct.

A long series of both sexes from the Bay of Antongil, N.E. Madagascar

(A. Mocqnerys).

30. Lemuricedus cervinus spec. nov.

(? ? . Brownish black, rostrum, sides of head, vertical portion of frons, a

median vitta on prothorax, the prosternnm and a number of spots on sterna and

abdomen greyish white, contrasting strongly with the dark ground.

Rostrum narrower than in L. audotdni, vertical, its median carina less elevate.

Frons broader than in audoiiini, the vertical portion entirely greyish white,

sharply limited posteriorly, a double dot on vertex and a narrow posterior border

to the eyes also greyish white. Segment 'J of ? -antenna longer than 3, nearly

twice the length of 8.

Prothorax more coarsely punctured than in audoabd and the dorsal carina

more distinctly curved backwards in centre, transverse groove deep ; the greyisli

white or slightly huffish median vitta sharply defined, constricted at the

groove, widest behind the carina, where it is divided by a small dark spot or

a thin line extending from the carina backward ; the posterior margin of the

transverse sinus greyish fawn or tawn, a greyish white dot above apex of lateral

carina and another laterally behind dorsal carina, a linear fawn spot from end

of transverse groove forward, another fawn spot more laterally at apex and one

or two laterally in front of dorsal carina.

Elj'tra deep fawn-colour or ochraceoug buff, without black spots, but the sides

occupied by a large triangular patch reaching at the margin from the shoulder

to fourth abdominal sternite and its apex lying at the large median tubercle of

the third interspace ; this patch bears some minute grey dots ; rows of punctures

only slightly curved in antemedian depression; snbbasal tubercle small, very

much smaller than the one which is placed in the fifth interspace before the

middle, three small tubercles on apical declivity in interspaces 3, 5 and 7,

forming a triangle, the seventh interspace bearing in most other species an

additional tubercle further forward. Pygidium brownish black, with two dots.

Prosternite coarsely punctured ; meso-metasternum and abdomen laterally for the

greater part brownish black, with grey dots, more centrally thinly pubescent

grey. Legs spotted as usual.

Length (exclusive of head) : G mm.

Two i$ and one ? from the Bay of Antongil, N.E. Madagascar (A.

Mocijuerys).

31. Lemuricedus dexius spec nov.

c? ? . Similar io L. ccrcinug spec. nov. Rostrum, sides of head and vertical

part of frons grey. Rostrum vertical, broader than in cercinns, and more uneven,

the short median carina more prominent, forming a liump in a lateral view.

Frons as in eerr/in/s, but the grey jiart incised ; a dot on vertex and another behind

eye clayish fawn. Segment 'J of ? -antenna one-third longer than S, but nut longer

than 3.

Prouotum very coarsely pnnctured from the sides to the median vitta, excepting

the area from the deep, curved, transverse sulcus to the apical margin, wliere the

punctures arc smaller : median vitta widest behind the carina, constricted in the

( 110)

snlcns, behind the sulcus widened laterad in cross-shape, clayish fawn, posteriorly

somewhat edged with grey, laterally an ochraccous clay spot extending from basal

margin across carina to near sulcus, a minute dot of tlie same colour above apex of

lateral carina, another at apical margin more dorsally, and a linear one at end

of transverse sulcus ; dorsal carina less angular in centre than in ceniina.

Elytra as in L. cervinus, paler, with the same blackish lateral triangular patch

and without black dots ; the subbasal tubercle nearly as large as the median one

in third interspace and much larger than the autemedian one in fifth space, behind

middle a tubercle in seventh space, on apical declivity three tubercles in a triangle

(in spaces 3, 5 and 7), and an additional small tubercle in space 5 in a line with

the ones in spaces 3 and 7. P3-gidium entirely pale fawn like the apex of the

elytra.

Underside thinly pubescent grey, almost api)earing black, the sterna laterally

with fawn spots, which are diffuse on the prosternite ; the entire prosternite and

nearly the whole metasternite coarsely punctured. Ijegs spotted in the usual way.

One pair from Diego Suarez, N.E. Madagascar.

Cedocus gen. nov.

c? ?. Allied to Cedus Pasc. (18Gn) on the one hand and Hucics Pasc. (1850) on

the other. Rostrum vertical, abruptly angulate at the antennal grooves, which are

on a level with the underside of the head, distance of antenna from eye much

shorter than the distance from antenna to apex of rostrum ; upper surface of

rostrum flattened, carinate from frons to antennae, then feebly concave, with slight

mesial carina and sharply carinate lateral edges ; the sides incurved beyond antennae

and then gradually widening ; apical margin straight. Antennae nearly as in

Ci(lti», in 6 a little longer than the body with long fir.st segment. Eye nearly

circular, beneath snbuugulate jiosteriorly.

Prothorax conical, widest at the basal angles, which are acute with the point

rounded oft'; angle of carina acute ; basi-lateral longitudinal carina very distinct.

Elytra short, not depressed along suture. Metasternum very strongly convex.

First foretarsal segment half the length of the tibia in ?, a little over half in S.

Type : C. It/nceus spec. nov.

32. Cedocus lynceus spec. nov.

cJ ? . Black ; rostrum, sides of head, and the whole under surface pubescent

white, upper surface bright clay-colour spotted with black.

Rostrum, on upper side, more than twice as long as it is broad at apex ;

between eyes and antennae a vestigial mesial carina, sometimes hardly traceable,

further laterally a more distinct carina slightly curved in lyre-shape, and between

antennal groove and eye the rather blunt cariniform edge of the rostrum accompanied

laterally by a thin but distinct carina. Frons narrowest at some distance from

rostrum, of about the same width in the sexes, being slightly narrower than (he

first antennal segment. Antenna black-brown, first segment rufous, second

rufescent; in c? 3 to 7 slightly increasing in length, 7 being oue-tbird longer than 3,

9 and 11 slightly longer than 7, 8 a little shorter than 7, 10 about half the

length of y ; in ? the antenna reaches beyond middle of elytrum, 3, 5 and 7 of

equal length, 4, U and 8 a little shorter, 8 as long as lU or slightly longer, half

the length of '.».

( 111 )

Prouotimi impuQctatc, conical, twice as broad as long, with a long transverse

sulcus before middle, wliich is curved backwards in centre, on each side three pairs

of brown spots, no spot behind the carina nor immediately in front of it; dorsal

carina feebly concave in middle and lateral carina slightly convex in lateral view.

Elytra a little longer than broad, punctate-striate, convex, subbasal callosity

feebly marked, the blackish brown spots somewhat variable, all small, the following

being fairly constant: on suture one at basal fourth, another, round one, before

middle, at lateral margin one on shoulder angle, a half-ring or ring behind

shoulder, a more or less rounded spot in middle, ou disc two behind base, often

accompanied by small dashes, one before middle, a transverse row before apical

declivity, and a round spot before apex. Pygidium rounded at apex, subcarinate in

middle, without spots.

Underside uniformly grey. Base of femora sometimes rufous.

Length (exclusive of head) 5 to G mm.

A small series of both sexes from Sumatra.

33. Cedus diversus spec. nov.

c??. In facies similar to C. antennalis Jord. (1894), but the elytra much

longer. Black, in S the base of rostrum and the cheeks, in ¥ only the cheeks

creamy white.

Rostrum essentially as in the allied species. Antenna a little longer than body

in the S, all the segments incrassate, the proximal ones at apex only, 3 the longest,

half as long again as 8, this one-third longer than '.i, lu slightly longer than broad ;

in ? not reaching to middle of elytrum, 3 half as long again as 8, this somewhat

shorter than V), 10 as broad as long.

Prothorax as in the allied species, with some minute luteous or grey dots in

the transverse groove and at the basal edge.

Elytra essentially longer than in C. ffiMatus Vane. (I860), ffidtukifiis Motsch.

(lsT4), and iiiitennaUs Jord. (1894), being nearly twice as long as broad ; a luteous

dot behind middle in interspace 3, another before middle of 8 smaller, and a

number of small specks dispersed over the whole surface; subbasal callosity

forming a very prominent tubercle.

Underside greyish white, with black lateral spots. Femora pubescent grey ;

tibiae and tarsi black, a ring in or beyond middle of the former and the apical half

of the first tarsal segment white.

Length (exclusive of head) 5 to 6 mm.

A series of both sexes from Madura, ^>. Lulia.

34. Mecocerina lewisi spec. nov.

cJ. Rufous ; upperside pubescent fawn, marked with white. Nearest to

M. xmioceroidcs Jord. (l«9.j) from the Philippines. Rostrum very coarsely rugate,

more abruptly widened at the antennal grooves and the proximal half rather

narrower than in that species, vertical, the elevM.te dorsal median portion bounded

at each side by a groove and gradually narrowed from the eyes to the antennae,

being widest at the eyes instead of distally, as is the case in M. xenoceroides ; the

mesial impression jiroximally almost eft'aced ; apical margin slightly emarginate.

Frons anteriorly and posteriorly wider than in J/, xenoceroidcs, the eyes being

less parallel than in that species ; sides of liead and rostrum and border of eyes

( 112 )

white. Antenna long and thiu, almost uaked exccjjtiug segments Id and 11

and apex of V, black, slightly rnfescent, 10 less than three times as long as

broad, one-third the length of 11.

Prothorax mnch broader than in M. xcnoceroidcs, being almost as wide at

apex as at base, with the sides nearly evenly rounded; three white straight

vittae, the lateral one connected at the dorsal carina with the white border of

the lateral carina ; dorsal carina straight, flexed forward in a wide round curve, the

lateral carina extending bej'ond the middle of the side ; no transverse discal

groove.

Elytra more than twice the length of the prothorax, feebly punctate, the rows

hardly at all impressed, with the following white markings : a patch around

scutellum, extended behind basal margin to shoulders, a postmediaa spot between

first and fifth rows of punctures, a small siibmargiual sjwt before and a marginal

one behind middle, and two other small ones on apical declivity, one towards the

margin and the other near apex. Pygidium round, white.

Underside entirely and densely pubescent white. Legs rufous, tarsi and

tip of tibiae blackish ; posterior tibia with a long truncate spur at iipex.

Length (exclusive of head) 4-3 mm.

One i from Tambak, Sarawak, September 18'JT.

3.J. Mecocerina rhanis spec. nov.

S. Nearest to .1/. guttata, Jord. (1903), rnfescent. Rostrum and sides of head

pubescent white; the dorsal carina forming the edge of the median area of the

rostrum curves laterad in middle and nearly reaches the apical margin, lat(!rally of

it a distinct dorso-lateral carina. Frons narrowest at some distance from rostrum,

the eyes being almost circular, coarsely graunlose and rather prominent. Antenna

twice the length of the body in our only specimen, bro-A'nish black, segments 1

and 2 and base of 3 rufous, 9 a little shorter than 11, lO half the length of 11,

being more than thrice as long as broad, apical half of S not white (as is the case

in M. guttata).

Pronotum half as broad again as long, almost evenly narrowed from the

dorsal carina to the apex, with distinct, curved, transverse sulcus before middle ;

rnfescent, a narrow mesial vitta and the entire sides greyish fawn-colour, the square

brown discal area being also shaded with greyish fawn (fresh specimen) ; dorsal

carina very slightly and evenly convex from side to side, laterally flexed forward

in a semicircle and reaching middle of side ; laterally there are some dispersed

shallow punctures.

Elytra as in M. guttata, but the stripes of punctures more shallow ; the

following markings black : a round spot on snbbasal callositj', a smaller one

before middle between interspaces 3 and o, a large marginal spot behind shoulder

and a broad, complete, transverse baud from side to side before ajjical declivity ;

close to ajicx an irregular brown shadow and on shoulder an indistinct brown spot.

Pygidium rnfescent, sublruucate.

Underside rnfescent, especially the abdomen, pubescent greyish white ; apical

half of tibiae and the tarsi black, basal two-thirds of first segment greyish white

above.

Length (exclusive of head) .J mm.

Une 6 from Kuching, iSarawak, December 1900,

(113)

'M. Mecocerina diffusa .spue. nov.

cJ. Black, very slightly rufesceut. Rostrnm and sides of head pubescent

white ; rostrnm slenderer than in .1/. xenoceroides Jord. (1895) and anmbilis Pasc.

(1859), the lateral edge of the elevate dorsal area rather more cariniform than in

those species and united above the antennal groove with a very distinct dorso-

lateral carina ; a thin mesial carina extends on to the frons and is divided by an

elongate groove beyond the middle of the rostrnm, the carina being indicated

between this groove and the apical margin by a broad, flat, very feebly elevate,

punctured stripe. Frons with nearly parallel sides, widening behind, a little

broader than in M. xenoceroides, buff ; occiput brown. Antennae long and slender,

similar to those of J/, xenoceroides.

Prouotum half as broad again as long, impuuctate, widest in front of the

dorsal carina, the sides being rounded behind, but less so than in M. lewisi spec,

nov. ; before middle a distinct transverse sulcus ; ground-colour brown, the sides,

exclnsive of an abbreviated (jblicjiie streak, and a broad straight median vitta buff,

rather diffuse; dorsal carina nearly straight, being faintly concave mesially and

more distinctly so laterally, curved forward in a semicircle, the lateral carina

extending to the middle of the side.

Elytra a very little wider at the base than the jirothorax, gradually narrowed,

slightly rounded, hardly at all depressed above, distinctly punctate-striate, brown,

marked with many short, diffuse, clayish buff streaks, which are widest dorsally

beyond the middle and here isolate a small brown sutural spot. Fygidium and

last abdominal steruite truncate, with sharp angles (cJ).

Underside pubescent grey, slightly huffish, impnnctate ; tip of tibiae and of

first tarsal segment as well as the wliolc 2-i segments black ; tarsi shorter than

in M. xenoceroides.

Length (exclusive of bead) 5 mm.

One S from Johore, Malay Peninsula.

37. Mecocerina guttata Jord. (1003).

The species was described from a single c? from North Celebes.

We have now from other localities specimens of both sexes which agree well

with the name-type except in some minor differences. They all differ from

M. rhcuiis spec. nov. in the prothorax bearing two broad and sharply defined

black vittae and on each side a black dot, in the elytra being rather coarsely

punctate-striate and having each 7 or 8 black markings, and in the apical half

of the antenna being white in the S. Segment 9 of the antenna of the ? is

very little longer than 8, half as long again as 10, and little over half the length

of 11.

Our specimens represent three subspecies.

3Ta. M. guttata guttata Jord. t^l0o3).

Antenna and legs brownish black, proximal antennal segments rufesceut at

base; huffish grey median stripe of pronotum nearly as broad as a lilack vitfa ;

the fourth dorsal spot of the elytrum the largest of all, round, at lateral margin

a transverse spot behind shoulder, a smaller one Ijehiud middle and another of

8

( 114 )

ji'pout the sa'ue size before apical declivity, the spot on apical declivity irregularly

roniided and !il)out as lartre as the one placed on the subbasal callosity.

Oue 6 from Toli-Toli, North (Jelebes.

3Tb. M. guttata ochropus siibsp. uov.

cJ ?. The proximal segments (6) or the whole shaft (?) of the antennae and

the greater part of the tibiae and tarsi Inteons ; median vitta of pronotnm narrow ;

the dorsal spots 1 and 2 of the elytrnra larger than in the previous race, 2 being

the largest of all, the marginal spots also enlarged, with the exception of the one

before apical declivity, which is reduced to a dot or absent, the subapical spot also

rcdnced and more transverse than in ^f. ;/. (/utfata.

Oue cJ and two ? ? from Ternate, and oue <S from Batjan.

3Tc. M. guttata suavis snbsp. nov.

?. Shaft of antenna blackish, rufescent, first segment luteous ; mesial stripe

of pronotum straight, less than half the width of a black vitta ; black spots of

elytrnra larger than in M. g. ochropus, the second dorsal spot concave behind, the

interspai-e between it and the third less than half the width of the second spot,

the third spot connected with the lateral margin, the lateral spots as well as the

subapical one also larger than in ochropus-, tarsi and apex of tibiae brownish black ;

a large spot of the same colour on sides of metasternnm.

One ? from Morty (Wallace).

38. Mucronianus lepidus spec. uov.

?. Similar to .1/. rufprs Jord. (1894), shorter. Kostrnm with distinct median

carina, which does not reach the apex and is continued on the frous by a thin

sulcus; dorsally in front of the eye a deep longitudinal groove bounded on inuer

side by a kind of carina ; between e3'e and antennal groove a thin carina ; sides of

rostrum and of head, border of eyes and an ill-defined mesial line on head creamy.

Frons about half the width of the eye in a frontal view, much wider than in

M. rufipes. Antenna black, proximally rufescent at the joints, segment 3 twice 8,

9 a little longer than 8, half as long again as 10, this as long as broad, 11 as long

as 9.

Pronotum nearly shaped as in M. nijipes, more evenly narrowing from the

dorsal carina forward, punctate all over, not ragose, almost entirely olivaceous

creamy bnfif, with five black spots on each side, two being placed near middle line,

two halfway towards side, and oue at side; longitudinal basal carina more obli(iue

thin in .1/. rxjipeis, and therefore forming a distinct angle with the lateral carina ;

there is also a short basal transverse carina at each side.

Elytra more depressed at base than in M. rufipes, also somewhat dejiresscd

along the suture, without any prominent grannies, and with the rows of punctures

obsolete at apex ; olivaceous creamy bntf, with the following black markings : a

riiuiided spot on subbasal callosity continued laterally by some short streaks and

conuected with that of the other elytrum by a sutnral sjiot ; behind subbasal

callosity some dots, and farther laterad some lines ; close behind centre a transverse

band composed of confluent spots, the sutnral spot being a little more frontal than

tlie other, and the lateral spot being small, farther back a small rounded s]iot in

( 115 )

fourth interspace accompanied laterally by a transverse spot, then follow a short dash

near suture, an irregular spot on apical declivity and a small spot near sutural

angle. Pygidium as long as broad, flat, but the apex gently carved upwards.

Underside grey, bnffish at sides. Legs grey, slightly rufons at knee-joint, apex

of tibia,e black like the tarsi, first tarsal segment pro.ximally grey.

Length (exclusive of head) 0 mm.

One ? from Perak.

39. Sympaector miltinus spec. nov.

?. In facies similar to Acorijiius rufus Jord. (1894) and allies.

Nearest to S. nigromaculatiis Jord. (1894), being, like that species, rufesccnt

and bearing black spots on the npperside. Rostrum, head and antenna as in

S. niqromaciilatu.f, the rostrum a little wider in proximal half.

Pronotum narrower in posterior half than in .S'. nlyromaculatm, therefore less

conically narrowed anteriorly ; transverse discal groove deep ; dorsal carina dis-

tinctly convex, but curved backwards in centre, the lateral angle more obtuse

than in S. nigromaculatus and less projecting laterad ; two black dorsal vittae,

not reaching apex, of nearly even width throughout, being slightly constricted

at the transverse groove and more strongly at the carina, each vitta about half

the width of the interspace which separates them ; lateral carina less oblique than

in S. ni<iromttCidaius.

Elytra more convex and less conical than in the allied species, with the

following black markings : a spot on suture before middle, another on subbasal

callosity, a third and a fourth at the lateral margin, one of them placed at basal

third and the other behind middle, all more or less circular, before apex and

well separated from it a transverse banil, not interrupted, narrowest at margins,

widest at suture.

Underside uniformly pubescent, the pubescence as on npperside )-ellowish

in certain lights ; prosternite with black dot placed in front of and below the apex

of the lateral carina.

Length (exclusive of head) 8| mm.

One ? from " Borneo."

40. Sympaector pagis siiec. nov.

Brown ; the style of marking as in <S'. aiignUfi'i- Walk. (1859) and lohiUheadi

Jord. (1895). Rostrum rufesceut, rugose, slightly depressed along middle, dorsally

with a thin carina on each side between the antennae, no cariuae in basal third ;

maxillary palpus thick, short, second segment twice as broad as it is long, third

much more obtuse than in the allied species. Antennal grooves at two-thirds

or three-fifths from base, ojjen dorsally. Genal groove open at eye. A white

dorsu-lateral streak on rostrum continuous with the sides of the head, frons and

border of eye also white. Antenna rather thick, black, segments 1, 2, two-thirds of

3 and extreme base of 4 rufous, 1 longer than 3, this shorter than 4 and following,

the dilference in length between segments 4 — 11 not considerable, apex of antenna

luteous white.

Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, with transverse groove on notum, the

latter bearing five sharply-marked white vittae, one in centre^ and two on each

side, tiiese confluent in front and behind and one of them bordering tiie lateral

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carina; ilorsal carina evenly aud slightly convex, lateral carina extended to the

faint prosternal sutnre.

Elytra very little depressed before centre aud alonj; suture, with tlie following

sharply-defined lines white like the scutellum : a sutural one from scntelliim to

middle, its posterior half being separated from the sutural edge, another line trans-

verse, situated close behind basal edge and extending from scntellnm to lateral edge,

a tliinl, continuous with the basal one, rnns from shoulder to second interspace,

whicli it reaches before middle, and then extends in this interspace to near apex,

where it curves laterad, is continued forward along the lateral margin for a short

distance, and then traverses the disc to join its sutural portion at tlie point

where the sutural line terminates, all these lines together forming the figure 8,

the basal loop being triangular, and the posterior loop ovate.

Underside greyish oHve, with a white lateral stripe.

Prosternum bearing a straight transverse groove before the coxae ; abdomen

slightly flattened mesially (c?), without tubercle.

Tibiae more or less rufous, tarsi luteous.

Length (exclusive of head) Gi to 8 mm.

A Malayan species, of which we have two subspecies :

40a. S. pagis pagis.

Blackisli brown ; apical half of eleventh antennal segment hiteous white.

Une 6 from Mt. Teugger, Java (H. liouyer).

40u. S. pagis ligyrus subsp. nov.

Jloru rnfesceut; the entire eleventh segment of the antenna and the apical

hall' of the tenth luteous white.

One 6 from " Malacca."

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SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF SIPMONAPTEBA.

By tiik Hon. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S.

1. Xenopsylla astia spec. nov. (Fig. 1).

d. Agrees with A', nnbicus liotbs. (1903) in nearlj' all details, with the excep-

tion of the genitalia. As in nuhicHS, chcopts and several other species, the frons

bears on each side only two sensory organs (pale dots), the third one being absent.

The occiput has one bristle towards the base of the antennal groove and another

above the centre. The hindco.xa bears three bristles posteriorly at the apex.

The bristles at the apex of the foretibia are thicker than in nuhtcus. Tiie

eighth abdominal sternite has seventeen to twenty bristles on each side. The

most distal one of the ventral bristles of this segment is mncli shorter and

thinner than the two preceding bristles, the new species agreeing in this character

with nubicus and differing from cheopis, which has no bristles distally to the

two long ones.

The clasper bears two movable processes. The npper or inner one is long

and gradually narrows to the apex, which is rounded (Fig, 1, F'). The second

Fig. 1. — Clasping organs of Xcitop&tjUa astia ^J.

process (F-) is almost the same as in A', cheopis, the upper edge being convex

and the lower concave. One of the bristles of this process is much longer

than the others. In the type sj)ecimen only seven bristles are visible on this

process. In a second specimen the process has a slightly different position,

presenting its up]ier snrface and hence ajipearing broader. In this specimen

there are eight liristles.

The ninth sternite resembles tlutt of A', nuhiras, but is distinctly broader,

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at loast the more strongl)- eliitinisod part, especially distally. Tiic anal torsite

bears on each side four small and two modcratoly Imi;,' bristles.

Two 6 (i from Rangoon, Burma, taken oil' rats, December 4, 19<i7.

Type in the British Museum.

Acropsylla i^en. nov.

?. The labial palpus consists of five segments. Eye reduced, non-pigmented

and i)laced far down (Fig. 2). Two spines at the genal edge, which is short.

Antennal groove open, continued to the vertex by means of a sutare and internal

incrassation. Club of antenna segmented all round, niui'Ii longer than broad.

I'ronotum with comb. Three antejjygidial bristles, of which the upper one is

short. First midtarsal segment a little shorter than second. Hindcoxa without

Fig. 2

Fig 3

Fig. 2. — Head of Acrojmjlla ejihcma J .

Fig. 3. — AlHlominal segments \\l. and VIII, and rcceptaciihim sominis of the same.

comb of sjiincs on the inner surface. Fifth segment of all the tarsi with five

pairs of lateral bristles, the tirst pair ventral but not placed in between the

second jmir.

The only species known to ns reminds one strongly of C/ii(ixto]iA>/l/a i/umac

Boths. (1904) by the pecnliar shape of the head. But in Cliiastopsylhi the

labial palpus consists of four segments only, the eye is pigmented and placed

much farther away from the geual spines, the hindcoxa bears a comb on the

inside and the fifth tarsal segment has only four pairs of lateral bristles.

The new genus is one of the numerous derivations from Ci'rafop/ti/lhis,

a genus which may be considered a central branch of which Ctenojilithuliinis,

NeopsijUa, C/uastopsi/lla , etc., are olfslioots.

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2. Acropsylla episema sp. nuv.

? . A pale species, of which we have only the ? .

Head. — The frons is prodaced into a kind of snout at a short distance from

the maxillary palpi (Fig. 2). The two genal spines are placed apart from each

other and are both rounded at tlie apex. There are sixteen long bristles on

the frons (8, 3, 3, 2), the last two being the longest, and also a number of

small hairs. Below the eye there are two pale dots, whose position is not

the same on the two sides of the head ; another jmir is placed near the

genal edge. There are two sensory organs (pale spots) on each side of the

anterior part of the frons. The occiput has three rows of bristles. The first

and second segments of the maxillary palpus are nearly the same in length,

the third is much shorter, while the fourth is longer. The rostrum reaches to

three-fourtlis of the forecoxa. The first segment of tlie labial paljjna is longer

than the fourth and shorter than the fifth, whereas the second and third

together are but little longer tlian the fourth. The first segment of the

antenna is short ; the bristles of the second segment are (jnite short, being not

longer than those of the first.

Thorax. — The pronotal comb consists of eighteen spines, besides a small sp'ne

on each side. The mesonotum bears three rows of bristles, besides numerous

short ones whirli are placed at and near the base, there being on each side also

three or four sj)iiies on the inside before the apex. The mesopleura bear about

eleven bristles. The metanotum has likewise three rows of bristles, but those in

the anterior row are less numerous than on the mesonotum. The episternum of

the metathorax has two or three bristles, the sternum one large one (aceompanied liy

a small bristle on one side of the body in our only specimen), and the epimenini

nine (=4, 4, 1). The metanotum, moreover, has a comb of eight short, stout,

dark-brown spines.

Abdomen. — There are two rows of bristles on the tergites, the anterior row

being represented by four bristles on tergite VI and by two on VII. The

stigmata are phu'ed aliove the first bristle on the anterior tergites, and below it on

the posterior ones. The jjostmedian row of tergite VI contains ten bristles on the

two sides together. Of the three autepygidial bristles the middle one is nearly

twice the length of the lower bristle and five times as long as the upper one. The

bristles on tlie sternites number on the two sides together 2, 4, 4, .5, .*), 8.

Legs. — The forecoxa has more than sixty bristles. There are about twelve

bristles on the outer surface of the forefemur, apart from the two snbapical ventral

ones. The mid- and hindfemora have a few lateral bristles near the apex, the

hindfemur also bearing one lateral bristle near the base. Both these femora iiave

two ventral snbapical bristles on the outer surface and one on the inner. The

dorsal bristles of the tibiae do not form a comb. The mid- and hindtibiae have

eight dorsal notches, the third and sixth of which bear only one bristle on

the midtibia, and the sixtli one on the hindtibia. The outer surface of the

midtibia has about fifteen and that of the hindtibia about twenty bristles, besides

a number of bristles placed at and near the anterior edge. The midtibia has two

or three bristles on the inner surface, and the hindtibia fonr or five. The bristles

of the tarsi are numerous but short ; none of the bristles reach to the apex of the

next segment. The fifth segment bears ventrally at the apex two bristles, which

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are placed far apart from one another. The proiiorti.niiil hMi,2:ths of the segments

are :

Midtarsus : fJ, 13, N, '^l, H.

Hindtarsns : ^(5, I'.i, 11,7, l'-*.

Modified segments.— The seventh sternite (Fig. :t, VII st.) gradually narrows

towards the apex, whuh is broad and almost evenly rounded off in side-view. The

eii'lith tergite (VIII t.) bears several small bristles above the stigma, and one large

bristle accompanied by a row of fonr or live small ones below it. On the ventral

jmrtion of the eighth tergite there are about eight long bristles on the side and

about eight shorter ones proximally to them ; the apical margin, moreover, bears

two loiitr bristles and below them a thinner and shorter one and a still shorter

bristle. On the inside there are near the apex two or three short and stout bristles.

The stylet is nearly cylindrical from the base to the bristles. It is two and a half

times as long as it is broad at the base, and bears a long apical bristle and proxi-

mally to it on the under respectively outer surface two shorter ones. The

receptacnlam semiuis (Fig. 3) has a long, irregularly pear-shaped head, which

gradually merges into the short tail.

Length : TT mm.

One ¥ from Dacca in India, obtained on Miis alexaiidrinus by Capt. Listen.

Craneopsylla gen. no v.

All the American species hitherto jilaced in the genus Stephunocircus Skuse

(1890) differ in certain characters from the Australian forms and constitute a

well-defined genus.

The maxilla is not elongate-triangular in side-view as in Stephanocivciis, but

irregularly elongate-ovate with the tip somewhat jiointed. The hindcoxa bears a

row of spines on the inner surface. The anal tergite is not separated from the

preceding segment by a broad membranons suture as in the ? ? of Stephanocircus,

and the stylet is at the most three times as long as it is broad proximally.

Genotype : C. wolffhaeijeli Roths. (1900).

Craneopsylla achilles spec. nov.

S. Close to C. tcol/fsuhiii Koths. (19u9), of which it is most probably a geo-

graphical representative. The genitalia, however, differ so much that the new

insect must be regarded as a distinct species. Ajiart from these organs there

is hardly anything by which achilles can be distinguished from irol/l'sohiu. The

comb of the helmet contains thirteen teeth on each side, instead of eleven as

in the i of icolj'aohni. The genal comb consists of five teeth as in that species,

but the upper tooth is much smaller and more isolated from the rest in ac/tilles.

The pronotnm bears a comb of eighteen teeth and two rows of bristles, not three

as in irolffaohd. The mesonotum has likewise two rows, there being no additional

bristles dorsally in front of the rows.

We are by no means certain of the homology of all the parts of the modified

abdominal segments of the $. As only a single specimen each of the c? c? of

tcolffmhni and achilles is known to us, we cannot therefore ascertain the homology

by making dissections, and hence have to describe and figure the organs as they

present themselves in the mounted specimens. In both species under discussion

the eighth abdominal tergite bears in the <? a slender (internal) manubrium on each

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side, wliieli in arhiUen is turned upwards in crescent shape, whereas it is feebly

curved in .S-shape in wolffsoluii. The ninth tergite is continued inwards for some

distance and here deeply excised, the lower lobe thus formed beinjr the manubrium ■

of the clasper. The excision is wider in achillcs than in icolffsohni, the manubrium

(M) being likewise broader at its base and the dorsal internal portion of tlie segment

consequently smaller. The large flaj) (P') of the clasper is longer and narrower

than in wolffsohni, and the arrangement of its bristles is different. There is an apical

row of six bristles on this flap, then follow at the upper margin two more isolated

bristles, and finally a row of four. The tips of these bristles incline inward. On the

outer surface of the flap there are six short bristles. We do not find a homologon

of the stylet-like process observed above the flap in wolffmlnti . The two other

processes, however, marked P- and F in oar figure, are similar to the corresponding

processes of irol/fsolmi. The movalde process F bears a peculiar spine, which is

Fig. 4. — Clasping organs of Cranfojmi/lla acliillcs (J.

incrassate in the middle and ends in a sharp claw-like tip, the incrassate portion

being transversely excavate on the distal side, and somewhat twisted. Ventrally

to the clasper, the seventh sternite from inside, a slender and nearly straight

process projects on each side which is not present in ivolfsokni, and which we

believe to belong to the eighth sternite. The process bears two very thick spines

and near the apex a thin third sj)iue.

Length : 2 mm.

Ohota, Ecuador; taken o(f Ori/zomijs uUji<ji(lari!i by L. Siiderstrcim ; one S in

the British Museum.

Craneopyslla ares spec. nov.

?. Very near ('. m(ii:-< Uoths. (IS'.KS), from Tierra del Fuego. As only one

specimen each is known of laars and this new form, it is impossible to say if the

dift'erences mentioned below are geographical or specific. We expect them to be

geographical. Both mars and ares have a very remarkable receptaculum semini.s.

The head of the same is globular and separated from the tail by a deep constriction,

while the j)ortion of the tail nearest to the head is much swollen, and contrasts

sharply with the curved part of the tail.

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The main differences between the two forms are as follows :

The genal comb consists of six spines in mnrs and of five in ares. The

pronotum I)ears in arcs three rows of bristles, the posterior row containing

on the two sides together 18 bristles, and the anterior rows together 37, the

nnmbers being 17 and 24 in mars. The mesonotum has three rows in mars

!ind fonr in ures, both insects bearing additional bristles at and near the base.

The metanotnm has three rows in both mars and ares, bnt there are some

additional dorsal bristles in ares which are absent from mars. There are two ante-

pygidial bristles in nuirs and three in ares. The bristles on the abdomen are more

nnmerous in ares than in 7nars, tergite VI having (on the two sides together) a

postmedian row of 17 in ares, and in front of it 19 shorter bristles, the numbers

being 16 and 13 in mars, on tergite VI ures having 12 and 17, and mnrs

Vi and V2. The sternites III to VI bear on each side five bristles in ares

and fonr in mars. Tergite VIII has in both forms a straight apical edge, bnt

while there are along this edge and near the ventral edge together six long

bristles in mars, there are eight or nine in ares.

One ¥ from Temnco, Chile, taken off Akodon olivaceus by Dr. S. Bnllock on

Febrnary 11, 1908.

Stephanopsylla gen. nov.

?. Near Stephartocircus Sknse (1890). Helmet not compressed, bnt depressed,

being nearly horizontal ; no radiating incrassations ; between the spines and the

frontal (npper) edge two rows of small hairs and several long bristles, posteriorly

on the nppcrside a nnmber of minnte hairs and on each side a sensory organ (pale

dot). Genal comb absent except for the spine-like npper angle of the genal edge.

Rostrnm reaching to the ajiex of the forecoxa, the labial palpns consisting of eight

segments. Bristles of second antennal segment nnmerous and short ; club nearly

twice as long as it is broad. Abdomen with complete combs (in the only species

known on tergites I — IV). Basal abdominal sternite with numerons bristles, sternite

VII with few bristles. iStylet three times as long as it is broad at the base. Snbanal

sensory plate (" pygidium ") with more than forty grooves (44). Anal tergite not

divided off by a transverse suture at some distance from the pygidinm.

Genotype : S. tliomasi Roths. (1903), described as a StephanocircHs.

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ON THE SKELETON OF PALAE O COB AX MOEIORUM.

By W. p. PYCRAFT, M.B.O.U., A.L.S., Etc.

[Published hy permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)

Plate II.

nnHE existence of the bird whieli forms the subject of this paper was first brought

-*- to light by Dr. H. 0. Forbes, who discovered numerous wing and leg bones of

a crow-like bird in recent, or late Pleistocene beach deposits, in Chatham Island.

These he described {Nature, xlvi. p. 252) as the bones of a member of the genus

Comis, since they were precisely similar to those of living members of this genus.

Later, however, skulls came to hand, and from an examiiiatiou of these Dr. Forbes

became convinced that these remains mnst after all be regarded as of a bird repre-

senting a new genus, to which he gave the name Palaeocorax* This bird, on

the new evidence, he contended, was intermediate in character between the

completely aegithognathons Coracomorjjhae, as represented by Corvug, and the

compound aegithogoathism of forms such as Gymnorhina.

It seems open to question whether, after all, this bird is entitled to rank as

generically distinct from the genus Corar, and it is certain that it has no genetic

connection with Gymnorhina.

The following jjages will, it is hoped, confirm these contentions.

The Skull.

Though the skull of Palaeocorax moriorum agrees very closely with that of

the raven, Cortus corar, it differs therefrom, and from all other Corvidae, in one

or two noteworthy particulars.

In regard to size, as the subjoined measurements show, it is inferior to the

Raven, bnt exceeds that of any other member of the ( 'orvidae.

Length. Tostorbital Wi.ltli.

Palaeocorax . . . .112 mm. . . .47 mm.

Corax 115 mm. . . . 50 mm.

Corvultur .... 105 mm. . . .48 mm.

In its cranial characters Palaeocorax differs from Corvus corax, as to the

occipital region chiefly in the greater distinctness of the cerebellar prominence, and

the relatively shorter distance between the rim of the foramen magnum and the

lambdoidal ridge. In the lateral aspect of the cranium the differences are slightly

more marked. In the first place the postorbital process is both actually, and

relatively, longer, turns slightly outwards and forwards, and has the ridge for the

itermotemporalis muscle more strongly developed, while the " temporal fossa " for

the temporalis muscle is less circular in outline. Though the difference in the

form and size of this process is not very great, it materially changes the form of

the orbit, since in the Raven this cavity has the form of a long antero-posteriorly

truncated oval, while in Palaeocorax it is circnlar. Further, while in Corvus corax

there are two deep depressions for the orhitomaxillaris muscle, in Palaeocorax the

superior border of the scar marking the origin of this muscle takes the form of a

'o"g .JS'gged line or ridge running outwards to the postorbital process.

♦ Bull. Brit. 0)11. Club. 1892. p. xxi. i

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In tlie form of the tympanic cavitj' Palaeocorax agrees very closely with that

of the Raven ; indeed it seems to differ only in tliat the processus articularis

sijtiamosi is less sharply defined. In hoth, it is to be remarked, the lateral occi])ital

wing which bounds this cavity posteriorly sweeps ronnd sharply into the base of

t\\e processus zyyomaticiis srpifimosi, and anteriorly terminates beneatli the recessus

tijmpanicits anterior.

The basi-temporal plate in Pdlaeocorax differs from that of the Raven, and

apparently C'orvidae as a whole, it may be remarked, in tliat it terminates in a

slightly raised free border, or, more accurately, in a slightly deflected edge, instea<l

of fusing with tlie basisphenoid. Vestiges of basipterygoid processes are slightly

more marked than in other Corvidae. The parasphenoidal rostrum is relatively less

swollen at its base than in the Raven.

Tlie antorbital plate and lachrymonasal fossa agree exactly with those of the

Raven, save only that the external lateral border is relatively shorter than in the

Raven ; thus the free edge of this plate is but little longer than the base thereof

at its fnsion with the interorbital septum, while in the Raven, and Coreultur,

for examjile, this free edge is considerably longer than the width of the base.

The interorbital fenestra is actually, as well as relatively, larger than in the

Raven.

So far, it will be remarked, no very striking characters have been pointed out

whereby the skull of Palaeocorax may be readily distinguished. If, however, the

palate be examined, it will at once become evident that the skull of this bird may

be distinguished from all other Corvidae. lu the first place the palate is almost

completely roofed in, only a narrow arcuate space being left in front of the vomer.

This condition of affairs is due in part to the ossification of the inferior border of

the nasal septum, and in part to ossification of the olfactory cartilaginous capsule.

A further contribution to this roofing is made by the maxilla, which is less reduced

than in other Corvidae, in tlie matter of its palatine extension. The maxillo-

]iiilatine processes are also larger actually, as well as relatively, than in the Raven ;

furthermore "they are connected with the main body of the maxilla by a very short

and wide, instead of a long and slender stem : the difterence in length, however, is

accounted for by the backward extension and great breadth of the maxillo-palaliue

itself

The vomer is unnsually large, exceeding that of the Raven in width. On the

form of the vomer alone, indeed, Palaeocorax may readily be distinguished from all

the other Corvidae. The peculiarity in shape lies in this : that, seen from below, it

terminates anteriorly in abroad, flat, donble-scalloped edge, instead of in a U-shaped

notch whose sides are bevelled. Seen from above it will be noticed that the lateral

in-turned plates which spring from the sides of the body of the vomer are bent over

so as to overhang its dorsum at a sharp angle, whereas in the Raven these plates

take rather the form of high scrolls, rising at right angles to the horizontal jilaue

and having a semicircular section. Into the trough thus formed the nasal septum

is received.

The nasal septum in the Raven, and perhaps the majority of the Corvidae, is

cartilaginous, but in Palaeocorax it is almost com])leteIy ossified. The cjnadratcs

and pterygoids are unfortunately missing in Palaeocorax. The ]ialatines diflVr in

no essential particulars from these rods in the Raven.

Finally, the anterior nares in Palaeocorax are relatively smaller than in the

Raven.

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GenefwVl (.'omi'ARIsons.

The ijeculiarities of the skull of Palaeocorax, though not perhaps very sti-ikiiig,

will be the more easily apparent, and their siguificaace the more readily perceived,

if we take a brief survey of the skulls of the Corvidae in general iu so far, at any

rate, as they present characters bearing on the main theme of this paper.

As touching the parietal region of the skull, it will be remembered that

differences iu the "temporal fossa" were pointed out wherein the skulls of

Palaeoccrax differed from that of the Raven. These differences concerned the

form of the " scars " or depressions for the temporalis and dennotemporalis

muscles, and au examination of a series of skulls belonging to different genera of

tlie Corvidae shows that these "scars," as well as the form of the processus ~ij(]o-

maticns squamosi exhibit many slight differences of form, which, apart from their

morijhological value, may prove useful characters for systematic ptirposes. Aud

the same remarks apply to the anterior palatal vacuity.

As touching the parietal region of the skull, the chief differences presented

are to be foand iu the relative size and shape of the postorbital process and the

processus z^//omaticus squamosi, and in the muscle-depression for the temporalis.

Only among the Corvidae is the postorbital process well developed. In

Coleiis, Pica, (Jarridus, Sucifraga, Deiidrocitta, Urocissa and Psilorhinus it is

much reduced, in some cases almost to the vanishing-point.

An ossified nasal septum apparently occurs only in Palaeocorax, Macrocorar,

Corcidtur, and in Corcus scapidatus and C. amcricanus.

In regard to the vomer, though the range in relative size and shape is not

great, it yet presents some noteworthy characters. It presents its maximum iu

Palaeocorax (p. 123), while in Cordis scapidatus, Psilorhinus mcxicaiius, and

Urocissa mag/iirostris it is extremely wide anteriorly. On the other hand it is

much reduced in Corcus frugilegus, Macrocorax, (jarrulus, Coleus, Pica and

Nuci/raga ; iu the last-named genus the free eud is rounded instead of notched —

a further stage in degeneration.

The maxillopalatine processes, like the vomer, present noteworthy characters.

As with the vomer, they present their maximum development in Palaeocorax,

wherein they are of great width (p. 12:3). In no other member of the Corvidae is

the maxillopalatine so wide, or are the backwardly-directed spurs — the maxillo-

palatine processes — so large. In the matter of these processes, however, an

apju'oach is certainly made in the case of Coreus frugilegus, in Psilorhinus mexi-

canus, and in Corcultur crassirostris. At the other extreme we find Nuci/raga and

Corvus scapulatus, wherein these rods are long and narrow and imperfectly ossified

at their free end, as well as Dendrocitta, Urocissa, Garrulus, Coleus and Pica,

wherein varying stages of reduction may be traced.

The lachrgmal is unfortunately missing iu most of the skulls herein described;

happily it has been preserved in some. It ajjpcars to attain its maximum in

Corcus scapulatus, C. macrorhgncha and Garrulus glandarius, and reaches its

minimum in Coleus monedula. In the first-named species it is roughly C-shaped,

the interior limb being much swollen and projecting beyond the autorbital

plate so as to rest on the quadrate-jugal bar. In Psilorhinus, while of the same

shape the interior limb is more or less spatulate, and does not reach the interior

border of the autorbital plate. Corcus amcricana agrees with Psilorhinus in this

respect, but the spatulate end is much swollen. In Corcus comix both extremities

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are spatnlate and slic;litl_v swollen. In L'rocissa and Pica it is almost oolnmnar,

constricted in the middle, and greatly swollen. In jS'uci/raffa the inferior limb is

laterally expanded to form a large swollen cushion projecting on to the qnadrato-

jngal bar. In Colcus, which closes this series for tlie present, this ossicle takes

the form of a slender curved rod, extending downwards to reach the ipiadrato-

jngal bar.

Another ossicle which demands mention here is that which was originally

fignred and described by AV. K. Parker in his monnmeutal papers on the palate of

the Aegithognathons Birds (T. Z. .S'.,vols. ix. and x.),aud called by him the " sej)to-

raaxilhiry." Occurring in pairs, he regarded them as " separated horns of the

vomer"; but I am not certain that their true nature has yet been determined.

I find them well developed, and i|uite distinct, in Cortus americnnm and

Psilorliiiais mexicanus. In the last-named they occur as oblong plates extending,

one on either side, from the maxillo-])alatine jilate, immediately dorsad of the base

of the stem of the backward spur forming the maxillo-palatine plate, to the antero-

lateral angle of the vomer in the latter ; in Corvns the bitid extremity of the vomer

is produced beyond the ossicle.

The Sternum.

The sternum of Palaeocorax resembles that of the Raven, Cordis corar, but

may be distinguished therefrom by its smaller size, having a total length of 70

as again?t 70 — the minimum length of the sternum of the Raven— and by the

relatively smaller sj)ina externa. This in Palaeocorax has a relatively shorter and

more slender stem and is more sharply incised interiorly. The carina sterni in

Palaeocorax is relatively shallower, and does not terminate anteriorly, as to its

inferior border, in a point. The posterior notelies are relatively wider and shallower,

while the posterior lateral processes are relatively wider. There are but five

articular surfaces for the sternal ribs, as in tlie Raven. In the rapid widening of

the corjjun sterni immediately behind the last articular facet for the hindmost

sternal rib, Palaeocorax resembles Corrag ami'r/ca)i'is, though a similar widening,

it must be remarked, occurs in many of the Corvidae.

The Shoulder Girdle.

The J'urciila differs from that of the Raven, Corvus corax, in being smaller,

and in having the free ends relatively less expanded. The hypocleideum projects

markedly backwards in the middle line, and is inclined directly upwards and not

upwards and backwards as in the Raven. Finally the dorsal, concave aspect of the

fused proximal ends of the clavicles are marked by a deep groove. In the form of

the hypocleideum Palaeocorax recalls Corcus amcricaims and C. lomjirotitntin.

The coracoid differs from that of the Raven in many minute characters too

subtle for description, but chiefly in the relatively large procoracoid process, in the

shallower depression for tlie lung head of the bici'ps, and in the feebler develo[imont

of the ridge dividing the areas of attachment of the supracoracoideas and coraco-

bracldaliis posterior ; further, the hamulate, in-turned area for the articulation of the

expanded end of the furcula is in Palaeocorax less developed.

The scapula in Palaeocorax has its free end much more arched, and less tapering

than in the Raven, and is relatively indeed in this region much wider tlian in any

other Corvidae ; furthermore, the scar for the insertion of the snpra-s})inatus is

deejier.

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The Pelvic Girdle.

Tliu innominate bones are incomplete, lacking the pubes, and ])ortions of the

free ends of the ischium. Markedly smaller than in the Raven, but larger than in

most other Corvidae, it seems to differ from the Raven chiefly in having the free

edge of the pre-acetabular ilium more decidedly arched, and the anterior extremity

thereof of a more regular oval contour. The cavity of the pelvis affords rather

more tangible differences, but nothing of any importance. One would have sup-

posed that the synsacral vertebrae of Palaeocora.c would have retained rather more

primitive characters than are to be met with among existing Corvidae ; but such is

not the case.

There are eleven synsacrals, as in the Raven, and the Corvidae in general. Of

these are one thoracic, three lumbar, two lumbo-sacral, two sacral, and three caudal.

The Inmbo-sacral vertebrae have lost their parapophyseal processes, though these

have been retained by the first lumbo-sacral in the Raven. The sacral are scarcely

distinguishable from the caudal vertebrae. The fovea Inmbalis is smaller than

in the Raven by reason of the narrower and relatively slightly shorter pre-

acetabular ilia.

The PEcroitAL Limb.

The humerus is hardly distinguishable from that of the Raven except in its

markedly smaller size. The principal distinguishing feature lies in the fact that

in the fossil the pneumatic foramen which opens into the fossa SKbtroclianterica is

larger, relatively, than in the Raven, while the rim of this foramen is, mesiad,

more sharply defined and forms a <-shaped angle, wherein it resembles Cortus

aiiicricana. In C. loiii/irostris and in ('. jriigih'(pis, it ma}' be remarked, this

foramen is obsolete. Finally, the width across the proximal end, from the crista

superior to the crista inforior, is relatively less in the fossil than in the Raven.

The forearm, in relation to the humerus, is much shorter in Falaeocorax than

in the Raven, and in this respect it resembles Coretis americana.

While the ulna of L'alacocoraj: agrees, even in matters of small detail, with

that of the Raven, this is by no means true of the radius. Thus, in the Raven,

immediately veutrad of the cotylus for the radial condyle of the humerus, there

will be found an elongated laterally-compressed boss, having its free edge deeply

indented to form an oval cup for the origin of the extensor indicis lougus. In

I'alaeocorux this boss of bone is so deejjly cut away distad, that the cup just

described appears to have been hollowed out of a strongly developed hook-

shaped process. The distal extremity of the bone has the articular surface for

the radial relatively much smaller than in the Raven ; while the radial shaft

differs in the much more extensive development of the ridges for the extensor

indicis lonyiis.

Of the manus only the carpals, carpo-metacarpus, and the pollex have been

preserved, and these afford no characters, apart from the smaller size, whereby

they may be distinguished from the same elements in the Raven. But both the

manus of this fossil and of the Raven agree, and differ from that of the smaller

Corvidae in having a deep pit at the base of Mc. Ill for the insertion of the

ligament attached to the inferior limb of the ulnar.

T\u' femur in I'ahieocorax is as long as in the Raven, and therefore is a

relatively much longer bone than in that bird. It may be distinguished from

that of the Haven not only on account of its greater slenderness, but also by

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the smaller size of the popliteal fossa. These distinctions are, however, extremely

sligiit. But the femora of these two species may at once be distinguished from

that of any of the smaller Corvidae by their greatly superior size, and the dei.'p

cnp-shapod cavity at the base of the external trochanter, for the origin of the

tleuor perforans digitorum profumhis only a very faint depression marking this

spot in the smaller Corvidae.

The tibio-tarsus in Falneocorn.r is as long as in the Raven, herein affording

further proof that the fossil bird was relatively much longer in tlie leg and shorter

in the wing than in the Raven. Bnt tlie tibio-tarsus of Palaeocorax may readily

be distinguished by the smaller size and triangular shape of the entocnemial

process, and by the mnch greater development of the muscular ridge immediately

beneath and laterud of this process. The cctocnemhd crest is also smaller than in

the Raven, and the fibular crest is shorter. The tibial shaft is also more slender —

actually and not relatively, the shaft is of equal length in tlie two species. The

extensor bridge in the Raven is wider and more obliquely sloped than in

Palaeocorax. Finally, the external and internal trochleae of the distal extremity

of the shaft have an almost circular contoi.r in J'alacocoiax, while in the Raven

the contour is elliptical.

The tarso-metatarsal shaft in Palaeocorax is actually longer, and is also more

slender than in the Raven. In the former it has a length of 7.5 mm., in the latter

of 71 mm., a difference which, having regard to the markedly superior size of the

Raven in other respects, is considerable. The bony bridge, above the tubercle,

for the insertion of the tibialis aiiticiis, under which passes the tendon for the

extensor longus (ligitorum, is wanting in Palaeocorax. Finally, the distal trochieac

are smaller, and the muscular ridges down the back of the shaft are less developed,

indicating a much less powerful foot than tliat of the Raven.

SUMMARY.

Only in its smaller size, and in the character of the palate, does the skeleton

of Palaeocorax differ in any material degree from that of Corax, and it is therefore

open to argument whether it was necessary to regard these remains as representing

a bird generically distinct from the Raveu of to-day; for the differences herein

described are those of degree rather than of kind, as may be gathered from the

facts which a survey of the skulls of other Corvidae have brought to light.

Palaeocorax, though markedly smaller than the Raveu, was yet relatively

a longer-legged bird ; this much is obvious from the fact that the femur and tibio-

tarsus were as long as those of existing Ravens, while the tarso-metatarsus was

actually longer. The greater length of this limb, coujiled with the relatively

smaller wing, sliallower carina sterui and smaller pygostylc, show that Palaeocorax

was not a migratory bird, or addicted to long flights. The characters of the jialate

rather indicate specialisation than a primitive condition.

That this bird was a Raven, and not a t'row, seems evident, since, though

decidedly smaller than tLie Raven, it was larger than any Crow. It seems, indeed,

to have occupied au exactly intermediate jiositiou between the two.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SATUBNIIBAE.

By k. Jordan, Pn.i).

1. Rothschildia amoena spec. nov.

c? ?. Near li.jorulloides Dogn. (1895) and maurus Bnrm. (1880) ; abdomen as

in those species without white line on npperside. Both wings shorter and broadc r

than in the allied sjiecies. The discal line dentate as in R. jorulloidcs, that of the

forewing both in the new species andjorulloirh's being less dentate from the vitreous

patch to the costa thau in maurus, and in the new species more curved basad

anteriorly and posteriorly than even in jorulloidcs ; the band accompanying the white

discal line is grey, there being only a narrow reddish line alongside the white one.

The white oblique subapical line SO'' — K' of the forewing shorter than in the allied

species, presumably owing to the less produced apex of the wing, median branches

huffish in the central area ; vitreous sjiot triangular, all three sides distinctly

incurved, the costal side least, the black border of the spot distinct ; marginal area

of both wings similarly marked and coloured as in jorulloidcs. Vitreous spot of

hindwing with the black border more distinct than in the allied species, anterior

and posterior sides slightly incurved, proximal side incurved in cJ, convex iu ?,

veins slightly buff; the central area bounded by the antemedian and discal lines

broader than the outer area from the discal line to the margin, the measurements

from the antemedian line across the tip of the vitreous patch to the apex of the

second radial vein being : central area 20 mm. and outer area 17 mm.

These distinctions are repeated on the underside.

lliijj. Matucana and Surco, Oroya railway, 70(tO to SOUO ft.. West Pern.

The Rev. A. Miles Moss bred a number of specimens of this insect. The

description and figure of the larva will be given in another place.

2. Rothschildia maurus lutea subsp. nov.

?. The entire insect clay-colour as regards the ground. The discal line less

dentate than in A', m. maurus, on the forewing anteriorly hardly at all dentate and

here distinctly curved basad, the extreme tij), however, as in maurus, pointing

obliquely distad ; grey scaling outside discal line more extended on both wings

and much more produced distad at the veins ; the vitreous patch of both wings

extended into the discal line, on the forewing its proximal edge anteriorly slightly

incurved and then convex, on the hindwing irregularly ovate, as in specimens of

maurus with exceptionally large vitreous patches ; the black border of the lines

and vitreous spots more distinct than in m. maurus, owing to the pale ground-

colour ; the outer border of the white discal line very slightlj pinkish, less so than

in m. maurus.

On underside duller and paler than on upper, the ground being olivaceous

cinnamon iu the basal half and butfish wood-brown in the outer area.

Length of forewing : 75 mm.

Jla/j. Sapucay, near Villa Ilica, Paraguay, January 21, 1905 (W. Foster) ; 1 9.

Another ?, from Juudiahy, near liio de Janeiro {h\ Dittrich), closely agrees

with the preceding except iu being much smaller (length of forewing Go mm.) and

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slightly more shaded with fuscous, in the vitreous spots beiug shorter (although

they invade the discal line), and the one on the forewiug having the proximal side

distinctly incurved.

The specimens recall by their luteons coloration B. arcthusa Walk. (1855),

which we know from Eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and the t'haco of Argentina, and as

a special race from the middle Amazons.

o. Rothschildia arethusa rhodina suhsji. nov.

cJ ?. Differs from li. a. arelluim Walk. (Is.Jo) in the discal line of the forewing

being more deeply incurved between costa and vitreous patch, and in the white and

brown scaling between the discal line and the margin being more extended on both

wings above as well as beneath. Moreover, the hindwing is, between the apex and

lower radial vein, distinctly incurved in the S and only feebly rounded in the ? .

Hob. Obidos, Amazons, July— August 19i)T (F. Santos) : one pair.

While in R. tmuirus the black spot below the apex of the forewing is large

and is accompanied by two small narrow spots, usually joined together so as to

form a half-moou, the black spot is small, triangular, acutely pointed in 1{. arethusa,

and is accompanied by two spots which are black shaded with buff and are larger

than the black triangle, being about the size of the buff submarginal spots below

them.

4. Samia lunula fulva sulisp. nov.

c??. A most remarkable race of S. Ininila Walk. (IS.').'!). Body and witgs

dark tawny-ochraceous. Collar and legs without white, with the exception of

the inside of the femora and a minute tuft at the knee-joints. Abdomen with

well-separated rows of small greyish white tufts as in -S'. ci/uthia Drury (1773).

Wings, uppersidc. Antemedian line of forewing more or less shaded with

black, sharply edged with black both on the proximal and distal sides, continued

along the median nervules to discal line ; the latter purer white than the ante-

median one, narrow, sharply defined, on the whole thinner than its sharply-deficed

black proximal border ; at outside of the discal line a narrow fuscous band, slightly

tinged with pink and not bearing a pink or fuscous line as in 6'. lunula ; disc

tawny-ochraceous, irrorated with fuscous ; costal area shaded with grey and i)ink

between discal line and apex ; the submarginal line separates a yellowish buff band

from the more or less olivaceous margin ; discocellular half-moou as in S. lunula,

except that its black anterior edge is more jirominent. The same differences

obtain in the hindwing, with the exception of the discal shadowy band which

borders the discal line bearing a vestigial pinkish fuscous line.

L'ndertside duller than upper, being less bright ochraceous-tawny ; discal band

with a more or less distinct pinkish line, which is best develo2)ed on the hindwing.

Length of forewing : 08 to 7U mm.

Hub. Port Blair, Andamans : I 3 and 4 ? ? .

■"). Actias selene callandra subsp. nov.

c?. Body and wings uniformly maize-yellow. Eye-sjiots smaller than in

A. s. selene Hubn. (ISUO ?), the i)art outside the transparent discocellular bar paler

yellow than the wing, the jiroximal dark lialf-moou bordered with pink at the

transj)arent bar. Subbasal and discal lines blackish olive, sharply marked, a second

discal line sometimes faintly indicated. Lines uf hindwing also blackish olive, less

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prominent than on forewing. Tail shaded with pink as in selciie. Eye-spots of

underside pale piuk.

?. Colour as in »t'lene, but tail with just the faintest trace of pink. Eye-spots

smaller, the discal line thicker, the outer margin of the forewing more convex and

the apex more obtuse.

Hub. Port Blair, Andamans ; ' S S and 4 ? ? .

<■>. Rinaca zuleika orites subsp. nov.

c??. Differs from 71. .-. zidcika Hope (1843), which occurs in Silhet and the

Khasia and Naga Hills, especially in the shape of the eye-spots. On both wings

the second line from margin composed of much thinner curved bars. The disco-

cellular reuiform s{)ot of forewing longer and narrower ; the corresponding spot on

hindwing likewise incurved on distal side, being longer transversely to the veins

than in the basi-distal direction, while this eye-spot is rounded in .;•. zideika and

longest basi-distally. Moreover, the discocellnlar bluish white curved bar situated

in the eye-spot is narrower in the new form than in z. zuleika.

Hab. Sikkim ; a long series of both sex'es.

This is the form commonly found iu collections as R. zuleika, while true zuleika

is rarer, at any rate iu museums.

7. Loepa anthera sj). nov.

t??. Closely allied to L. oberthuri Leech (1890). Body and wings deep

chrome-yellow ; tarsi vinous red like underside of femora and of tibiae, ringed with

black. Eye-spots incurved on distal side. SC of forewing from cell (?) or from

angle of cell (<?).

Wings, above, similar in markings to those of L. oberthuri ; forewing suffused

with vinous red from base and hindmargiu to M^ and beyond the postdiscal double

line, a deeper tint in between these lines and along their outside, following the

curves of the lines and extending forward to near the black subapical spot ; discal

line less deeply zigzag than in oberthuri, anteriorly curving costad as in that species,

but being here placed nearer to the postdiscal double line than to the ocellus ;

postdiscal double line a little thicker than the discal line, being posteriorly shaped

as in oberthuri, but anteriorly remaining double to costal margin, the outer one of

the double line almost evenly curved between the veins from M- to 11' and edged

with a white line between SC" and costal margin ; a white submarginal line, con-

tinuous, incurved between the veins (in miranda, kntinka, etc., the bars representing

the line are excurved), no fuscous spots along this Hue, as is the case in hatiuka

and allies ; black subapical spot hardly larger than in sikkinia, smaller than the

chrome-yellow interspace which separates it from the postdiscal double Hue, a slight

indication of a second black spot below 11' ; iu front of black spot a white line,

outside wliich the ground is yellowish ochraceous, not red as iu sikkima, kntinkn.,

etc. Hindwing: abdominal area nut suffused with red, except at inner side of

antemedian line ; discal Hue less deeply zigzag than in oberthuri, inner iwstdiscal

line less dentate ; white submarginal line regularly undulate, as in oberthuri, being

incurved lietwecn the veins and excurved across them.

V ndenide : ocellus on both wings reduced to a narrow half-moon which is

deep vinaceous, 3 to 4 mm. wide, its proximal edge reddish brown, followed by a

white line, u central Hue black edged with whitish on outside, along outer edge of

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ocellus a tbiu white Hue ; interspace between the posldiscal Hues pinkish fawu,

except anteriorly, tliis colour extending on forewing across the outer Hue in between

the veins in the' shape of a rectangular spot ; on hindwing the outer line edged with

white.

Tenth tergite of c? deeply cleft, the lobes slightly divergent, not lying close

together as in L. katinka and sikldma.

Length of forewing : 04 to OG mm.

Hub. One pair : S from Tonkin, ti/j>c (received from Monsieur II. Donckior),

and ? from Uigboi, North-Eastern Assam (L. Brunt).

8. Loepa katinka megacore subsp. nov.

c??. On an average larger than ludiiiu specimens, and brighter yellow. The

subbasal Hue of the forewing above black, rarely partly red, not edged with red on

proximal side or the red colour much reduced ; black inner ring of eye-sjiot thicker

on proximal side than in katiulm from Nortli India : apex a little less red both

above and beneath ; subbasal and postdiscal line of hiudwiiig above nut red at

abdominal margin.

Uab. Fadang Boveulanden, West Sumatra ; a long series.

Saturniodes gen. nov.

t^. Very close to Saaana AValk. (iSo.:)) and Copa.va Walk. (1 855), esjiecially

the latter. Branches of the auteuna longer. Spur of foretibia short or absent.

Cross-vein in both wings straight, situated in centre of eye-spot, the latter round ;

subcostal of hindwing terminating in outer margin, not at apex as in Sagana.

The only species known, -S'. mctica Maass., was described as a Sntiintia on

account of its round and ringed eye-spots, but is far removed from S. p>jri and allies,

being a derivation from Copaxa confined to the higher altitudes of the Andes. The

species varies individually and geographically to a considerable extent.

9a. S. medea carina subsp. uov.

<J, The white submargiual band of the forewing above at least 5 mm. wide

below M', being more than twice the width of the huffish white discal creuate line.

Underside of both wings suffused with fuscous and with huffish gallstone-yellow, the

grey ground-colour much restricted or entirely suppressed ; the black apical spot of

the forewing smaller than the ocellus of the hindwing, the submarginal arc situated

below it red or reddish, not larger than the black arc following it.

Ilab. Various places in Carabaya, Sonth-East Fern, June, September, December,

at yiJiJO and OoUU ft. (G. 11. Ockenden) ; 4 cJcJ.

'Jis. S. medea charila subsp. nov.

cJ. Like the preceding, the white submarginal band of both wings rather wider

and, moreover, very distinct also on underside. The latter for the greater part

greyish white, both wings traversed l)y a well-marked fuscous baud suffused with

gulistouc-yellow, touching the outside of the ocellus on forewing and running across

the ocellus on hindwing ; the apical spot of the forewing smaller than the occUus

of the hindwing, the red marking following it represented by an obH(iue hne

surrounded with white aud anteriorly widened by means of some red dispersed

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scales ; apical ami snbapical black and veil partitions of submarj,nual line of

liindwing larger than in the preceding race.

Uab. Marcapata, 8onth-East Pern ; 1 J.

9c. S. medea miles snbi3p. nov.

c?. White submargiiial line narrower than in the previons forms ; the black

apical spot of the forewiug larger, especially beneath, where it is at least as large

as the black centre of the ocellns of the hind wing. This spot on the underside

followed by a large red spot; first two red and black partitions of the snbmarginal

line of the hiudwing as large as in the preceding race; the snbmarginal white line of

the hindwiug distinct, that of the forewing marked only posteriorly ; ground-colour

whitish grey. Abdomen with a black line at the sides edged with white.

Hab. Rio Blanco, Oroya Railway, West Pern, 12,000 ft. (A. Miles Moss) ; 1 iS.

In this specimen the ocellns of the hindwing above has no vitreous dot and

the outer border of the snbmarginal line is pure white from R' to anal angle. In

a second specimen, from Huancabamlja, to the east of C'erro de Pasco, the ocellns

of the hindwing above has a vitreous pupil, the white snbmarginal line of the

forewing, also on upperside, is less than 2 mm. wide and the corresponding line of

the hindwiug is shaded with red throughout ; the underside is suffused with fuscous

and red as in the Carabaya form. Moreover, the black lateral line of the abdomen

is not edged with white.

9d. S. medea medea Maass.

Sahirnia metlm Maassen, in Stiibel's Reise p. 133. no. 72. t. 5. fig. 7 (1890).

S. White submarginal line of forewing above narrow ; apical spot small above

and beneath. Underside fnscons for the greater part, both wings with a narrow

white submarginal line ; below apical spot of forewing a narrow white crescent (part

of submarginal line) edged with red.

Hab. Ecuador : Pichincha, Riobamba, Iluambaya, at higher elevations.

Catharisa gen. nov.

¥ . Tongue reduced to two thin separate lobes. Palpi quite short. Shaft of

antenna strongly compressed, ventral outline appearing serrate, each segment more

than half as wide again in a dorso-ventral direction as in a basi-distal direction ;

bipectinate, the branches long, slender, curving evenly upwards and then down-

wards, those of the central segments about as long as five segments. Foretibia

with apical thorn as io Heliconisa Walk. (1855) and Coloradia Blake (1863) ; spur

of inside large, more than half the length of the tibia. Spurs of mid- and hindtibia

short, hindtibia with only the apical pair. Forewing with three snbcostals, the first

from cell, upper radial from angle, second radial much before centre, upper angle

of cell about 90", cross-veins less oblique than in the species of Heliconisa. Nenra-

tion of hindwing nearly as in Heliconisa imgenstecheri Geyer (1837?), but the cell

broader at the origin of SC^ the cross-vein traversing the ocellus less oblique and

nearer to the upper median vein.

One species.

10. Catharisa cerina sp. nov.

?. Uniformly greenish chrome-yellow; antenna ochraceous ; tibiae and tarsi

smooth, more or less purplish ; costal margins and fringes rosy. Forewing with

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sraall diffnse pinkish discocellnlar spot at lower angle of cell ceutreil with white ;

distal margin couvex. Hiudwiiig with black discoccllulur ring (diameter :51 to

4 luiu.) encircliug a greyish white spot. On nndeiside a whitish discocellular spot

encircled on both wings by a purplish or blackish ring, which is more or less diffuse

and smaller than the one on npperside of hindwing.

Length of forewing : 30 to 38 mm.

Ilab. Paraguay ; 3 ? ? .

11. Rhescyntis polyodonta sp. no v.

c? ?. Near Jllmcyntis armida Cr. (ITTO), of which it may be the West Mexican

snlispecips. Similar to light-colonred specimens of that species, but the forewing

shorter and broader and the outer margin of the hindwing in S very obtusely

(tngulate and in ? almost evenly rounded. Forewing grey from base to brnwu

discal band ; antemedian line more distal than in A", armida, incurved in cell and

forming a ring with the discocellnlar bar ; discal line, which bounds the brown

discal band proximally, slightly excurved between costa and lower median, and

then incurved ; postdiscal whitish line sharply marked from costal to inner margins

and bordered for its whole length on the proximal side by a distinct blacldsh-brown

line ; the blackish outer border of the whitish line as in K. armida, with this

exception that it forms four large teeth between the isabella-colonred apical patch

and the lower median vein. On the hindwing the discal line of the S is nearly

]iarallel to the postdiscal triple line, while it is more straight in the ? ; the black

teeth of the postdiscal line much larger than in .1. armida.

?. Paler than the S, the body and the distal marginal border of both wings

bnff; a costal streak at base of forewing black.

Length of forewing : c?, 56 mm. ; ? , 56 to 66 mm.

Ilab. West Mexico : Cnernavaca, September l'J04 (Dr. 11. Galow), Tena-

mastlan in Jalisco, .Tnly 1892 (Dr. Buller), and Guerrero (0. T. Baron); 1 6 and

4 ? ?.

12. Rhescyntis sylla pelias subsp. nov.

c? ? . Paler than /.'. «. sylla Cr. (1779) and hercides Walk. (1855). The huffish

white line bordering the brown discal band broader in both wings, which is esjiecially

noticeable at the costal margin of the forewing ; the marginal area as wide as in

hercules, being appreciably broader than in sylla.

(?. Brown baud of forewing 13 mm. wide at lower median vein and the greyish

fawn costal area 2U mm. ; the walnut-brown streak situated below apex interrupted

at R' and the black patch between R' and R- nearly as large as in hercules, being

larger than in sylla. The fawn patches at outside of huffish white line less purplish

than in sylla and hercules. The tail shorter ; the brown band of the hindwing

15 mm. wide at the npper radial and the marginal area 14 mm.

?. Nearly as bright clayish ochraceons as R. meander Walk. (ls.")."i). Brown

discal band of forewing 18 mm. broad at the lower median, the costal area 20 and

the marginal area 27 ; the black patch below apex very large. Brown band of

hindwing 0 mm. broad at II' and the marginal area 22 mm.; the purplish i)ost-

discal patches large, followed by large tawny arcs.

Hab. Cuyabi'i, Matte Grosso (P. Zobrys) ; one pair.

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SOME NEW SFniNGIDAE.

By K. JORDAN, Ph.D.

]. Protoparce scutata brasiliensis subsp. nov.

c?. Sides of tboi-a.x and the upperside of head and forewing distinctly more

greyish than in P. s. scutata E. & J. (1903), but less than in P. tucumana R. & J.

(1903), which latter represents fu'utafa in the Argentines. Smaller than «. scutata ;

the black discal patches on the forewing somewhat shorter ; the black median band

of the hindwing broader, the black lines on the nnderside of that wing more

distinct, the onter one being regularly dentate. Black spots on nnderside of

abdomen smaller. Harpe less strongly curved distally, with shorter apical process

than in s. scutata, but nevertheless sickle-shaped, and much larger than in tucu-

mana. The tooth of the penis-sheath is small and is placed at a considerable

distance from the apex in P. tucumana and the forms of scutata, as well as in

hnmihal, while it is apical and large in P. pellenia.

Ilab. Rio de Janeiro -,236.

Resembles P. hannibal Or. (1779) to a certain extent.

2. Protoparce pellenia janira subsp. nov.

S . Smaller than P. p. pellenia ; the underside of the abdomen almost pnre

white ; the harpe much larger, its distal margin much more strongly convex and

the proximal margin incurved, the harpe resembling that of P. tucumana, bnt is

much broader.

Differs from /■'. scutata brasiliensis, which is synpatric with janira, in the

forewing being perceptibly broader, the basal and apical areas of both wings more

prominently variegated, the grey bands of the hindwing shaded with fuscous ; the

apical lobe of the harpe, (which is directed basad) much shorter, the apex of the

tenth tergite slenderer in a lateral aspect, and in the tooth of the penis-sheath being

apical as in P. p. pellenia.

Ilab. Rio de Janeiro (E. May); 2 c?c?.

3. Protoparce dalica anthina subsp. nov.

(?. The ground of the forewing from near the white subbasal markings to the

thick black postdiscal undulate line hazel-colour, hardly at all shaded with fuscous

between the discal lines and the postdiscal one, this colour being far more distinct

than in any specimens from the Andes which we have seen.

Ilab. Rio de Janeiro (E. May) ; 2 c?c7.

4. Polyptychus amabilis spec. nov.

S. Tongne quite weak and short. Palpi large, first segment very short, the

joint not distinctly open, second long and broad, third minute, the palpi and frons

together appearing rounded in a lateral view. Antenna short, ventral line straight,

lateral outline slightly undulate in a dorsal or ventral aspect. All the tibiae with

numerous spines, spurs short, longest apical one of lundfibia not much longer than

the tibia is broad.

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Bod}' the colour of raw sifiuiii, thorax with l>hickii?h mesial line, sides of

abdomen rosy. Legs and a spot beneath the base cif the forewing blackish, hindleo-s

shaded with rosy.

Wings, iipperside : forewing raw sienna, a large patch beyond apex of cell and

a small one at apex of wing ochreons ; fonr blackish-brown linos as follows: two

parallel, 2i mm. apart, from costal margin obliquely to inner margin, curved, the

proximal one being anteriorly 4 mm. and posteriorly 9 mm. from base, the point

of origin of M" in between these lines, a second pair on disc, also parallel, but

approaching each other at hiudmargin, cnrved in S-shape, parallel with outer

margin in centre : outside these discal lines some indistinct brown dots ; a thia

discocellnlar bar and a short subapical curved bar bordering the yellow apical spot

also brown ; apex pointed but not much produced, the onter margin slightly

incurved below apex and then evenly rounded, the inner angle very obtnso ; costal

and hindmargins brownish ; numerous brown speckles all over the wing. Hind-

wing rosy red, shading off into raw-sienna colour towards outer and abdominal

margins, two indistinct brown discal lines curved in S-shape, and numerous brown

specks in the outer half and before the abdominal edge.

Underside ochfeous, forewing from base to apex of cell and to inner angle rosy

red, as is also a patch before abdominal edge of hiudwing extending from base

towards anal angle ; on disc of both wings two thin and ill-defined reddish-brown

lines ; the yellow parts of both wings irrorated with reddish brown. Subcostal and

first radial of hindwing on a very short stalk, second radial from centre, lower angle

of cell pointed, but not much produced, distance from lower angle to lower median

somewhat shorter than to upper angle.

Tenth tergite {S) lanceolate in a dorsal view, with sharply pointed apex, tlie

latter compressed, hence rather obtuse in a lateral aspect and slightly curved

downwards. Tenth sternite triangular, shorter than broad, with the apex rounded

off. Clasper short, without friction-scales, dorsal and apical margins strongly

rounded, ventral margin incurved, harpe weak, proximally rngate, the distal part

narrow, with nearly parallel sides, the apex slightly bent down, proximal jiart

produced into a short, broad, rounded ventral lobe. Apical margin of penis-sheath

produced into a broad lobe, which is strongly narrowed apically into a sharp point.

Length of forewing : 31 mm.

Hab. Belgian Congo ; 1 3.

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TWO NEW AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES.

By K. JORDAN, Ph.D.

1. Pseudacraea kuenowi hypoxantha snbsij. no v.

In a paper read at the Entomological Congress at Brussels I referred, inter alia,

to the similarity obtaining between the Nymphaline genus Pseudacraea and the

Acraeine genus I'lanema, and showed a nnmber of the forms belonging to these two

genera. Among them was a Psemhu-J'uea from Uganda which in literature and

collections is generally identified as P. kuenowi Dew. (1879). The insect, however,

is not true Iiucnowi, but a markedly different race which has as yet no name. As the

committee of the Congress does not deem it advisable to publish new names in the

Comj/tcs Rendus — now in press— I take the present opportunity of describing and

naming the new Pseudacraea.

<S ? . Smaller than true kuenowi. Sexes practically alike in colour ; the ?

rather larger than the c?, its forewing being more elongate and the distal margin of

its hindwing less rounded. Band of forewing paler yellow than in kuenowi from

Angola and the Congo, being bright buflfish orange, not ferruginous orange as

in kuenowi (Dewitz describes the band as "fulva" and as "gelb"; in our two

specimens, SS, the colour is as stated above); the band, moreover, is broader

than in true kuenowi and more sharply defined, being less invaded by black from

the distal margin, the spot R^— M' as long as the next two, all three reaching

close to the margin and being well defined also on the proximal side, the

anterior portion of the band from W to upper angle of cell half as broad

again as in true kuenowi. Anal angle of hindwing paler yellow ; the white

band on the whole broader..

Underside paler than in kuenowi.

Fairly common in Uganda ; name-type from Entebbe, June 1002 (Major

Rattray).

2. Charaxes protoclea nothodes subsp. nov.

Herr R. Graner, from whom we have received some small but very interest-

ing collections of Lepidoptera, discovered in the hills to the west of the north end

of Lake Tanganyika, a form of Ckaraxe.-i which so completely links the West

African protoclea Feisth. (18.50) with the East African azota Hew. (1877) that

these insects must now be regarded as being geographical forms of a single

species. The trne protoclea extends as far east as the Manyema country at the

Upper Congo. Between this country and the Lake the new race notkodes occurs,

and further east and south azota is found.

c?. Head, prouotum, and base of forewing at costal margin more or less

distinctly chestnut. Forewing, above, with a marginal and a snbmarginal series

of orange spots ; the snbmarginal row extends from SC* to the hindmargin, the

spots being clearly marked in two specimens, the first spot absent from one

example and the five anterior spots more or less obsolescent in two other

specimens ; the marginal row also extends to ISC'*, the four anterior spots being

small or more or less obsolescent; the two rows are confluent posteriorly, this

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taking jilace from the hiinlmari,nii to a, little lieyoiul vein SM-, or to near M',

and the posterior spots also merge together in eaeh row.

Tlie orange marginal area of the hindwing is as broad as in iiralu, being

broader than in protodea, especially anteriorly ; the dots in this area are minnte

and sometimes nearly all absent.

The uiidprxule is, on the whole, a little paler than in the palest protodea,

and very slightly darker than in the darkest (t::ota \ the markings in the onter

area of both wings are rather more sharply defined than in azotu.

The penis-sheath bears some minute teeth as in protodea.

Hub. Between Niembo and Kalembo, west of Lake Tanganyika, fino m.,

January 19U9 (E. Grauer).

5>cJ.

ON CAHNUS HEMAPTEEVS NITZSCH {CFXCHRIBOBIA

EGGEMI SCHINER) AND ITS SYSTEMATIC POSITION

AMONG THE DIPTERA.

By J. E. COLLTN, F.E.S.

rr^HE capture of this species in Ronmania by one of the Hon. N. f. Rothschild's

-L corresjiondents, constituting as it does the third recorded capture in nearly

a hundred years, is of great interest, and has made it possible to correctly locate

the species in onr present systematic arrangement of the Diptera.

Carnus hemapterus was described by Nitzsch in Germar's Moj/azin der

Entomologiey vol. iii. (1818), p. 31)5, in an article entitled Die Fanilien iind

Gattungen der Thierinsekten, upon seven specimens (1 cJ, 0 ? ?) found upon young

starlings. A few years later (after 1822) excellent figures of both sexes (communi-

cated by Nitzsch himself) were published in Germar's continuation of Ahrens's

]'aun(i J/isectonim Ettropae, Fasc. ix. Tab. 24 and 2."). Subsequently Egger in

1854 recognised the species from specimens found upon the young of Ftilro

timinailus and described and figured it in Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wieii vol. iv.

jip. 3-7. pi. 2, tigs. 7-11 ; he placed it among the Piipipara and gave a copy of

Nitzsch's description, pointing out several important instances of disagreement

between his specimens and that description, so much so that Schiner in 1SG2 ( ^Vieii.

Ent. Monatsclir. vi. 435) decided that Egger's specimens were generically distinct

from those of Nitzsch, gave them the name of Cenrhridobia cgcjeri, and placed them

near the Bovboridue. Schiner apparently made no allowance for the fact that

Nitzsch's knowledge of Diptera (with the exception of the Pupipard) was very

slight, that the proboscis of Carnus compared with that of any of the Pupipara

could easily be described as "geniculate," and tliat the ocelli of Canuj.'i (at least

in the sjiecimens I have examined) are small and difficult to distinguish, making

it (|uite j)ossiljle for Nitzsch to have overlooked tliem. It certainly is difficult to

understand why Nitzsch, in his short diagnosis of the genus on p. 284, described

the antenna as one-jointed ; but he did not repeat this when he elaborated his

diagnosis on ji. 3ii(i, and one is forced to the conclusion that he made a mistake in

so describing it, when the general api)earance of specimens, or even of Egger's

figures, is compared with the plates in Germar's Fauna Insectorum Ettropae. In

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all probability Scliiner wonld liave considerably modified his views, bad he examined

these plates, of which both he and Egger appear to have had no knowledge. I have

very little doubt as to the specific identity of Nitzsch's and Egger's specimens, and

from the points of resemblance given below do not hesitate to place the genus

near ^[eo)leura Rond., now considered to belong to the Milichidae.

The eyes are transverse oval, the jowls deep (about | the vertical diameter

of the ej'e), the antennae are sunk in two deep foveae and hardly visible from a

side view, these two foveae are separated by a chitinous stripe running from the

Innnle to the upper mouth-edge, the ocelli are very small and indistinct. The

frons and its chaetotaxy remind one irresistibly of Meoneura ; the vertical triangle

is large, reaching nearly to the front of frons, but is not sharply defined; apparently

only one of the three pairs of orbital bristles are incurved, the two decussate

bristles on the front of frons are present as in i^Ieniieura, and there are other

smaller bristles on the sides of the vertical triangle; the thoracic chaetotaxy as

far as I can trace* does not differ much from that of Meoneura, the mesopleurae

as well as the sternopleurae boar bristles, including the upturned bristle on the

lower part of the mesopleura found in Meoneura. Only a short stump of the

wing is present, giving one the impression of the wing having been broken off, and

such might well be the case, for Nitzsch called attention to, and figured, a specimen

with a complete, though narrow wing, on one side only.

The specimens examined were found on May 2.j, 1907, upon the more naked

portions of the head of some very young Falco sacer taken from the uest at

Malcoci in Ronmania by A. Rettig.

* All the specimens were preserved in spirit, consequently many of the bristles had been rubbed

off.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW NOCTUIBAE IN THE

TRING MUSEU:k[.

By W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S.

Subfamily CUCULLIANAE.

1. Cucullia cellulata spec. nov.

Fore wing : Mtiisli gi-py, finely dusted with darker and tinj^ed towards tcrmon

with pale olive-brown ; lines snbobsolete, indicated only on eosta and inner margin ;

a faint olive-brown subterminal shade ; veins dotted dark and pale ; the stigmata

jiale blnish grey, snlxpiadrate, the cell on each side of the orbicnlar olive fnscons ;

the reniform with a pair of largo olive-fnscous spots at top and bottom ; fringe grey,

with a bright pale basal line.

Hindu'inff : uniform brownish fuscous.

Underside olive-brown, paler in the hind wing.

Head and thorax bluish grey ; abdomen brownish ; the anal tufts ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 4i_i mm.

1 (J from Spili in the Himalayas, from the Felder collection.

The apex of forcwing is not produced, and the npper half of termen is les.s

oblique than usual.

-■ Cucullia mediogrisea spec. nov.

Fofeii-iiig : pale grey, tinged with brownish above the median vein and vein 4,

and at anal angle below the thick black streak below vein 2 ; lines marked on costa

by ]iairs of obli(jue black streaks ; the inner lino strongly and acutely angled out-

wards above and below vein 1 ; the outer lunnlate-dentate, the teeth marked dark

on the veins, and forming two oblique black Innules edged externally with white

above inner margin, preceded by a thick oblique black streak from before middle

of inner margin ; stigmata pale brown, detined only by dark dots above and below ;

a long black streak above vein 4, not reaching terraeu, and two shorter and thicker

above veins .j and G, both touching termen ; costa towards apex fuscous lilack, with

black streaks above veins 7 and 8 ; fringe grey-brown, with a bright pale basal line

beyond a series of fine black terminal lunules.

Ihadwtitg : whitish, the termen narrowly fuscous and the veins blackish ; the

terminal border broader and more difl'nse in the ? .

Underside of forewing bronzy lirownish, of hindwing whitish with brownish

border.

Head and thorax dark and light grey ; abdomen browner, grey towards anns :

frontal tufts and collar brownish.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

5 (?c?, 2 ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam.

Distinguished from utiymatopimm Hmps. by the much whiter hindwing in both

sexes.

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Genus ELWESIA limps.

Etwesia Hmps., F.U.l., Moths ii. p. 171 (18'J-l).

The antennae of the c?c? of this genus (of which Hampson had only seen ? ?)

are somewhat thickened in basal half, with very slender tnberculate fascicles of cilia.

3. Elwesia nigripalpis spec uov.

Forewinij : fawn-colour, more or less dusted with grey ; the lines blackish,

diffuse ; an obscure dark subbasal lino ; inner line outcnrved at one-third, preceded

))y a brown shade ; outer Hue outcnrved above the middle, with blackish teeth

beyond on the veins ; median shade diffuse, beut on median vein, where it touches

the reniform stigma ; stigmata hardly visible, the reniform alone plainer, ligure-

of-8-shaped, with dark centre and pale ring, not reaching below median vein;

subterminal line obscurely paler, waved, between slightly darker shades ; a row of

blackish terminal dots between the veins ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : dull greyish fuscous, with darker cell-spot.

Underside greyer, less rufous than in (fiplostigma, with dark cell-spots and

diffuse dark outer line.

Palpi externally, sides of frontal tufts, and outside of forelegs black-brown.

Exjianse of wings : 32 mm.

2 (JcJ, taken by Col. Pilcher in April and May 1«89 at Darjiling.

4. Elwesia pallida spec. nov.

Fore/ring: pale greyish ochreous ; the lines ferruginous, ill-defined ; inner line

waved, oblirpie inwards ; median shade fine, dentate, also oblique inwards below

middle ; outer line lunulate-dentate, oblique inwards above middle and more vertical

below ; the pale waved subterminal line hardly visible ; a row of black terminal

spots ; fringe pale ochreous, with a bright pale crenulate basal line ; claviform

stigma obsolete ; orbicular a small ferruginous ring ; reniform large, shaped as in

diplostigma, but the upper half narrower, reaching below median, and with a round

black spot at end of cell.

Ilhuhvhii/ : greyish i'uscons, paler towards base, with dark cell-spot ; fringe

fuscous, with a broad pale crenulate basal line.

Underside iiale ochreous, slightly speckled in parts with darker ; both wings

with large dark cell-spot and diffuse outer line.

Face and shonklers quite jiale ochreous ; the thoracic crest and patagia some-

what darker, the dorsum more rufous ; palpi externally and forelegs brown.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 cJ, taken at Darjiling by Col. Pilcher, probably at same time as the preceding

species.

Genus HYALUBOLE gen. nov.

Tongue well developed; frons smooth, roughly haired, like the vertex ; palpi

porrect, long, the second segment rough-haired above and below, the third smoothly

scaled, decumbent ; antennae of d with tnberculate fascicles of cilia ; thora.K and

abdomen witliont crests; pectus and femora wo(dly ; forewing as in Co.sm/a;

hindwing witli veins 0, 7 stalked ; the discocellnlar is acutely angled inwards in the

middle, the lower arm being long and oblique ; the lower half of cell below discal

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fold is hyaline thronghont, endiug ia the shape of a wedge (in the S). This

pecnliarity of structure is found also in the genns Tiracola Moore.

Type : //. orthoi^ioidvs spec. nov.

•J. Hyalobole orthosioides spec. nov.

Forewiny : pale yellowish rufous, siirinkletl with darker rufous scales, and iu

parts suffused with grey ; lines brownish rufous ; the inner double, its arms well

separated, ontcurved in middle ; the outer also doable, luiinlate-dentate, the teeth

dark on the veins and partially lost in a baud of grey sufl'iision preceding the waved

and dentate subterminal line ; the outer line is merely slightly flexuous, not, as

usual, strongly incurved below middle ; a brown diffuse median shade below middle ;

claviform stigma absent ; orbicular and reniform of the ground-colour, with brown

outlines, the former round, the latter constricted at middle of outer edge and

reaching below median vein ; terminal dark spots between veins ; fringe concolorous,

with paler base.

Hiruhving : yellowish rufous, gre}'-tinged ; a grey cell-spot, outer line, and

submarginal cloud ; the veins also dark.

Underside much paler, somewhat glossy ; the outer lines and cell-marks only

shown darker.

Head, thora.x, and abdomen rufous ; palpi externally browner ; abdomen

beneath, pectus, and legs paler.

Expanse of wings : J, 32 and 34 mm.

2 66 from Darjiling, taken by (Jol. Pilchcr, without date, but probably

cajitured at the same time as the examples of Klweisia above described.

Subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE.

0. Pareuplexia ruficosta spec. nov.

Forewiny : deep red-brown sprinkled with bluish scales ; a broad pale ferru-

ginous costal streak, widening at apex ; veins dotted with black and blue scales ;

inner and outer lines fulvous red ; the inner angled outwards on subcostal vein,

then running inwards, broadly excurved above and below vein 1, edged with bluish

scales ; outer line narrower, inwardly edged with yellow ochreous, angled outwards

at vein 6, and less strongly on vein 4 and the submedian fold, below which it

becomes more oblique ; snbmarginal line rufous ochreous, irregularly crenulate,

from close to apex to before anal angle, touching outer line on the fold : claviform

stigma brown sprinkled with blue, with deep brown outline ; orbicular and reniform

also brown, sprinkled with blue at centre, with bright rufous ochreous annuli ; the

orbicular very elongate, the reniform conversely oblique and produced above,

externally indented, and extended narrowly backwards along median vein to toucli

the orbicular ; terminal area leadeu brown, sprinkled with blue; terminal lunules

deej) brown ; fringe deep brown, with a pale yellow basal line.

Iliiuhviiiy : olive- brown with a crenulate black terminal line; fringe brown

with yellow basal line and white tijis.

Underside uniform bronzy brown.

Head and thorax rufous brown ; abdomen shaggy, brownish grey.

Expanse of wings : 58 mm.

1 6 from Sikkim, lii,nuO ft., L^M.) (O. Moller).

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7. Pareuplexia flammifera spec. nov.

lleseuible.s cnjlhiii-is Hmps., but larger ; the violaceous grey suffusion wider

and paler ; the edges of the stigmata ociueous tinged with rufous, the lower half of

rcnifovm flame-yellow ; hiudwing olive-fuscous, darker terminally ; the veins dark

and thickened terminally into spots in the terminal line.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 $ from 8ikkim, taken by Col. Pilcher, August 1889.

8. Pareuplexia nigritula spec. nov.

Forewing : deep purple black on a dull red ground, which shows only iu

a ])ostmedian band, in the spots of the subterminal line, in the outlines of the

stigmata, and at base of each fold ; lines obscure, double, intenseh' black ;

the outer dentate-lunulate, the teeth black along the veins, which are themselves

dark ; claviform stigma black, pointed ; a deep black line above it below median

vein ; orbicular elongate, narrow, with red outline ; reniform with central lunule

and inner edge red, outer half a yellowish white semicircle with a small dot

above and one or two below it ; terminal intervals, as well as the veins, marked

with purplish black ; fringe concolorous, with a pale basal line.

HindwiiKj : olive luteous sufl'used witli pale fuscous, with darker outer line and

subterminal shade.

Underside bronzy greyish fuscous, with traces of dark outer lines.

Head and thorax like forewings ; abdomen fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

7 SS,l ? from the Kliasia Ilills, October 180.5.

Much darker, with the reniform whiter, than harfordi Hmps. from Subathu.

9. Pareuplexia dissimulans spec. nov.

Resembles P. iiigritida, but quite distinct; purplish black, but with a bluer

tinge; the two folds streaked obscurely with dull red-brown, and the subterminal

line interruptedly marked with rufous ochrcous, but no red postmedian band ;

the claviform stigma broad and blunt, thickly outlined with black, and with no

black line above it ; orbicular stigma rounded, purple black with a deej) black

outline; reniform with large black outline, except externally, where it is interrupted

across the middle by the brown streak of the cell-fold, and marked by some

ochreons scales, with two white dots in the black outline at lower outer end ;

subterminal line obscurely preceded and followed by black dashes ; fringe dark

jiowdery fuscous, with a faintly paler crenulate middle line.

llindwtny: bronzy olive fuscous, paler basewards, with only a dark submarginal

shade shosvn ; fringe fuscous with pale line at base.

Underside bronzy greyish fuscous ; the outer lines and cell-spots dark ; terminal

area paler.

Head and thorax like fore wings ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the dorsal tufts

black.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

1 ? from Hazara, N.W. India, July lfti93 (.Johnstone), from the Elwes

Collection.

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10. Pareuplexia humilis siiec. uov.

Forewing : purplish fnscons ; the cell and a hlotch on snbmedian fold between

median shade and onter line darker ; also the row of wedge-shaped marks before

submargiiial line ; the lines as in metallica Wlk., bnt the upper stigmata botli

larger, pnriilish grey ; the orliicnlar black-edged, the reniform with fnlvons

ring and interrnpted by a pale smear across the middle, without any pale dots.

IJindwing : olive-fuscous with darker central line and subterminal border,

followed ]>y a distinct narrow subviolaceous band ; fringe with a paler line at

base.

Expanse of wings : S , A'2 — 48 mm.; ? 4.S mm.

•Z S£,\ ? Khasia Hills, Assam, October 1894.

11. Pareuplexia rufistigma spec. nov.

Forewiidj : deep purplish fuscous, darkest iu cell and snbmedian interval, and

in the praesnbmarginal band, thickly dusted with lustrous blue scales in basal area,

along the lines and margins of stigmata, and beyond outer and subterminal lines ;

claviform diffusely black-edged; the upper stigmata with blue annuli ; the outer

edge of reniform with a large rufous patch ; the praeapical costal sjiots silvery

white.

Uindir'uKj : bronzy olive-fuscons, the fringe and terminal line darker.

Underside fuscous, paler in iiindwiug, s[)aringly dusted with bluish scales

chiefly in terminal area; ditfiisc dark onter lines and subterminal shades.

Head and thorax purplish brown, the hairs tijiped witii blue ; abdomen bron/.y

fuscous, the dorsal tufts darker.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

2 ¥ 9 from Sikkim, :,0UO feet, 1889 (0. Moller), from the Elwes Collection.

1~. Pareuplexia luteistigma spec, nov., and ab. ochreistigma nov.

Smaller than i-up'stigma, the blue scales deeper, the annulus of orbicular stigma

showing pale beneath the blue scales ; the reniform with a pale dull ochreous jiatch

in middle of outer edge instead of rufous ; the hindwing muck paler basewards and

with darker terminal border; fringe with the tips whitish.

Underside almost without markings.

3 ? ? from Darjiling, taken by F. Moller.

A form of this last, intermediate in size between it and nifsligma — ah. ochrei-

stigma, ab. vov. — lias, instead of the rounded luteous patch, a bright ochreous

yellow one running up to a point at upj)er end of the reuiform stigma ; the dusting

is dull purplish rather than blue ; and the fringe of hindwing is more conspicuously

white at tips.

1 ? from Sikkim (0. Moller).

Underside as iu nijistigma.

13. Pareuplexia quadripuncta spec. nov.

Foreiving : purjile black througliout, the lines and edges of hiigmala intenser

black ; claviform stigma large, its lower edge produced basewards through the

inner line as a jwinted dash ; outer line very strongly dentate ; the reuiform stigma

on its outer edge with four white dots, two at each end; submarginal line faint,

grey, preceded and followed by indistinct black marks.

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Ilint/wiiKj : broiisiv fuscous, much jialer basewards, witli cell-spot and veins

darker ; fringe with pale basal line.

Underside bronzj' fuscous, much paler in hindwing, which has the cell-spot

and outer line dark.-

Head and thorax black ; abdomen fuscons, with the tnfts lilackish.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

1 ? from Tonglo, Sikkim, l,00f) feet, -Tnly IssC, (H. J. Elwes).

14. Pareuplexia? nitida spec. nov.

Foreu'im/ : dull olive-brown, glossy in certain lights, finely dusted with grey

atoms ; all the markings very indistinct, indicated by pale scales edged with darker

ones ; inner line waved, followed by an indistinct short black dash, representing the

claviform stigma ; orbicular rounded and reuiform reaching below median, both

with interrupted ochreons grey edges and black outlines ; onter line strongly

dentate, the teeth long, and, like the veins, dusted with ochreons ; subterminal line

more distinct, ochreons grey, partially interrujited, , preceded in the intervals

by dark dentate marks ; fringe concolorous, witli minute pale dots at the vein

€nds.

Hiiidwiiuj : uniform olive-fuscons, the veins and termen darker; fringe with

paler basal line and tii)s.

Underside of liotli wings olive-fuscons, beyond the subterminal lines conspicu-

ously whitish grey.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 ? from Knmaon, N. India, June 1&93 (C!ol. Pilcher).

15. Data dissimilis spec. nov.

Resembles 1>. th((lpoijhiloides-'^'W. from Borneo, Java, and Sumatra, but differs

as follows : the inner and outer lines are white instead of ochreons yellow ; the

inner bluntly excurved between median vein and inner margin ; the outer excurved

from vein 8 to below vein 1, then bent outwards, not indented on either fold;

space before inner line tilled np with dark ; orbicular stigma with sinuous edges,

pointed at both ends, oblique ; reuiform with lower extremity strongly produced,

with only one white dot ; veins more prominently yellow ; the median shade

angled ; subterminal line conspicuous except between veins 3 and 4, bluish white

and sharply zigzag from costa to vein 4. yellower below 3, and inangied on

submedian fold ; the terminal lunnles tipped with bluish white ; hindwing with the

terminal border narrower.

Underside yellower; the outer lines more evenly rounded, not indented, and

much nearer termen in both wings.

Dorsum throughout dingy yellow ; in tlial/iit/ilutoii/i's the basal segments are

yellower, the last three segments dark.

1 ? from Queensland.

lii. Data similis -^pcr. no\.

Nearest to the last species, dismmilis, but with the veins still [laler, mure

strongly marked ; the subniargiual line not broadly bluish white, but narrowly

whitish, forming three larger teeth inwards and two outwards, obsolete between

1(1

( 146 )

veins 4 and 3, and re!i])i)('iii'in? below :{, as in rlissimilis ; the inner line alinnst

angled on vein 1 ; tlie liorder of liindwinf; l)road, as in tlidl/tnphitoides.

1 ? tVoiii Lower Bnriiia, and ii second without loealitv.

IT. Data obliterata spee. nov.

Foreu'iiu/ : dark red-brown, with broad blurred greenish-white spaces, more or

less obsonring the markings : a i)atch on basal area above median vein, and a

smaller one at base below it ; the inner marj;in beyond inner line meeting a similar

liroud iireenish-white baud obliijne from apex to inner margin limiting the outer

line, which is white and Innulate-dentate, preceded l)y dark Innnles ; a long,

slightly curved white mark along vein 4 towards •) ; a streak of pale green above it;

snbtermiual line marked below middle only by white black-edged Innnles : terminal

area washed witli white; terminal luunles lilack : fringe brown.

llindwitiq : as in rallo/iistiioides, the basal half yellow, the outer co]ipery

fuscous.

Underside fuscous in forewing, more nchreous, exce]>t along costa, in hindwing :

outer lines black and lunulate : terminal area dusted with white : hindwing yellower

towards inner margin.

Head and thorax dark and light brown; abdomen worn, proliably yellow when

I'resh.

Expanse of wings : 'M\ mm.

1 S from Kuching, Borneo.

18. Neopistria esmeralda spe<-. nov.

I'oreicitiq : earth-brown with a rufous-grey tinge, suti'uset! with dark fuscous in

liasal area and towards termen ; veins in places finely j)ali' ; inner line brown,

double, ontcnrved above and below vein 1 ; broadly edged with white above

subcostal vein, more narrowly and interruptedly lielow, tbllowed by a briglit

emerald green shade to vein 1, below it brown; median line lilackisji. nbli(|Uc

to vein 4 and mitwardly ilentate. then vertically incurved ; the outer line similar,

but more strongly oblique outwards and more deeply incurved, the two lines

rnnning close together below middle, incurved again below vein 1, and there marked

by a green spot ; orbicular and reniform large, slightly glossed and ringed with

greenish : claviform stigma round, briglit green outlined with l)la,ck ; suliteriuinal

line formed of irregular green blotches, becoming terminal below vein 5, starting

from a green spot above base of vein 7, followed there by tirsf a white spot to costa

and then some bluish scales ; some dark terminal lunnles, ami white dots at

vein ends.

Iliiiihiiiiii : white, with fuscous terminal border, broad at o<isla, narrowing to

a ponit at anal angle, its inner edge diffuse.

Head, thorax, and dorsal crests dark brown ; dorsum laterally pale.

rnderside of forewing brownish : the basal area and subterniinal blutclies

ochreiin>; iiiiidwiiig (ichreous with dark eell-'-pot iiiiil mitei' liin' : lerniiual liorder

brownish.

Expanse of wings : i^n mm.

Described I'rorn a single 6 from l!ia;;i, Mainbare liiver, British New (iuinea,

51MIU ft., March I'.tdO (.\. S. Meek).

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]'•'. Ancara conformis i^\wv. nov.

FoiewiiKj : lirowii-black ; tli'_' lines ainl markings deeper black ; in the geueviil

scheme of markings agreeing well with A oliUti'ntiix Wlk. and its Ah. punrtiplaqa

Wlk. : l)nt tlie oblong red patch beyond the reniform is more irregnlar in shape and

outline.

lliiitlwing : orange yellow, with broad blackish terminal border, which shows

cupreous reflection at apex ; its inner edge below middle is wavy ; abdomen yellow

with black-brown dorsal streak anil the anal tufts tipped with yellow.

1 c? from the Upper f^etekwa Kiver, Snow Mts.. Dutch New Guinea, 2MtM) —

3000 ft., September 1910 (A. S. Meek), corresponding to the ab. j>ttiictiplfi(/a ;

1 ?, 3 (?c? from the Niuay Valley, Cential Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea,

3500 fr., November 1 '.(OS— January 100'.).

-'I'. Ancara rubriviridis <pec. nov.

I-'oreiciiifi : velvety blackish: the filling up of the lines and their upper

e.xtrcmities along costal streak, some broad shadings in basal area and on each side

of subterminal line, the veins towards termen with their rounded extremities,

the annuli of the upper stigmata, and a blotch beyond claviform, all deep shining

green ; a partially double streak from reniform along vein o, and the fringe of

inner margin bi-ight vinous red ; the black terminal lunules tij)ped with pale yellow,

forming a row of snbmarginal spots between the green veins.

llhulirimi : yellow, with a broad red-brown terminal border.

Head and thorax black intermixed with green ; abdomen yellow.

■i S li from the Up])er Setekwa liiver, Snow Mts., Dntch New Guinea, -HOii —

3001) fr., September lOlo ( .\ S. Meek).

~i. Acrapex meliauoides spec. nov.

I'lirfiriiKj : dull greyish ochreons with fuscous sutfnsion ; the paler ground-

colour forms two broadening streaks jilong the cell and submedian interspace,

in the former case running up to a[)ex ; costal area diffusely fuscous in the inter-

spaces, the veins remaining pale ; a dark olive-fuscous streak below cell from base

widens outwardly beyoud middle, becoming mm-e diffuse, its njjper edge ruunino-

obliipiely to just below apex ; a third fuscous suH'usion along inner margin ; in the

darker terminal area the veins are slightly paler; orbicular and reniform stigmata

indicated only by blackish dots above and on median vein ; faint traces of a dark

dentate outer line ; some dark terminal spots ; fringe grey, with a darker line

at middle.

Iliiiihrui;/ : dull ilirty grey, darker at termen; fringe pale, with slight rufous

tinge.

Underside dull ochreons grey, the folds of fm'ewiiig and the whole hindwini;-

rather paler.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all dull ^rey.

Kxpanse of wings : ? 32 mm.

4 ? ? tVom the Upper Setekwa Uivei-, Snow .\lts., Diilcli .\e\v (Julnea. Jooii

3000 ft., June-September lUM (A. S. Meek).

The pale streaks along the folds show traces of a tlesh-coloured tinge, which

( 148 )

is probiibly stroni^^er when the insects are (initf fresh. Snperticinlly the insect

resoiuhles the Enropeau Meliant fiimmei. Its nearest ally seems to.bL- ^1. brnnnfa

Hraps. from S. Africa, which is also recorded from Xew (Jninca mid Anstralia.

22. Sesamia grisescens s|)ec. nov.

Forewinq : dull cinereous dusted with dark atoms ; tlie two folds and the

inner margin dnll flesh-coloured ochreous, the streaks reaching snhtermiual line ;

inner line marked only by a dark spot on snbraedian fold; outer lini' hiiiniate-

dentate, very obscure, the tooth on submedian fold marked by a dark spot :

a blackish spot on discocellular and another beyond cell ; fringe concolorons.

Iliii(hciiiq : dirty whitish, grey-tinged towards apex and terraen : fringe

whitish.

Underside slightly glossy, uniform dull grey, the hindwing somen-hat paler.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dull grey ; palpi externally darker.

Expanse of wings : c? 26^32 mm. : ? 32 mm.

4 cJ(?, 2 ¥ ?, taken by A. S. Meek on the Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts.,

Dutch New Guinea, 2000— 3U00 ft., August— September 1910 {t>//je), and 1 (J, 1 ?

from Haidana, C'olliugwood Bay, British New Guinea, April 1907, also taken

by Meek : the pair from Haidana have purer white hindwiugs. The ? is

consistently larger tlian the <S, which varies considerably in size. The species

comes nearest to 'S'. calamistis Hmps. from S. Africa.

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1. PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF

SOME MEW OR LITTLE- KNOWN

FORMS OF THE GENUS ACRAEA . . U. EUringham .

2. NEW SYNTOMIDAE AND ARCTIANAE . Walter Rothschild

3. PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF

SOME NEW BIRDS FROM CENTRAL

NEW GUINEA Waller Rotlischild and

Ernst Barlert

i. ON THE BIRDS OF SERMATTA, ONE

OF THE SOUTH-WEST ISLANDS .

5. ON UENICOPHAPS FOERSTERI (Pl. I.)

6. ADDITIONS TO THE BIRDS OF BABBER

7. ADDITIONS TO THE AVIFAUNA OF

LUANG Ernst Uarlert

149—153

154— 15S

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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. XVin. SEPTEMBER, 1911. No. 2.

PRELIMINAEY DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR LITTLE-

KNOWN FORMS OF THE GENUS ACBAEA.

By H. ELTRINGHAM, M.A., F.E.S., K.Z.S.

BEING engaged iu the preparation of a monograph on the African species of

the genus Acraea, I have had opportunities of examining ver)' large numbers

of examples from many collections. As a considerable time must elapse before the

completion of the work in question, I think it well to publish the following notes on

certain new forms. Figures and more complete descriptions will be included in the

completed monograph.

1. Acraea aureola spec. nov.

(?. Upperside rich golden yellow with black spots and markings. Forewing

narrow and pointed, base very slightly suffused with black ; ground-colour of basal

portion rather richer in colour than remainder; costa narrowly black, except at

base ; snbcostal, upper radial, and distal ends of remaining nervules black ;

hindmargin narrowly black, expanded into small triangular marks at end of

nervnles ; a large ovate transverse spot in cell above origin of first median ;

a subquadrate spot ou upjjer part of end of cell ; a little beyond cell an out-

wardly convex row of five rather small rounded spots ; beneath these, nearer

base, and between first and second median, a rounded spot; below first median

a small, rather crescentic submarginal spot, and a very small subbasal spot

close to median. Hindwing rather paler than forewing; a moderately heavy

black basal suffusion ; in area 7 a subbasal spot followed by a larger transverse

spot near middle of costal margin ; beneath first subcostal a submarginal spot ; in

middle of cell a transverse V-shaped spot, the angle pointing outwards ; remaining

basal spots obscured by basal suffusion ; hindmargin with a very narrow black line,

and a series of well-marked regular black arches.

Underside. — Forewing resembling upperside but paler and duller ; apical

portion pinkish ochreous ; nervules not black, and without triangular marginal

marks. No basal suffusion. Hindwing pinkish ochreous ; the basal portion lemon

ochreous, except above the snbcostal ; a round black spot near base of cell fidlowed

by a V-shaped spot as ou upperside ; beneath median a basal spot followed by

another V-shaped mark, and a spot in 1 a and 1 h ; other marks as on upperside.

Head and thorax brown ; basal part of abdomen black, remainder orange ;

tarsal claws asymmetrical.

Expanse, 60 mm.

1 <J, Bih6, Angola; Mus. Tring.

Apparently allied to A. oneraia, Trimen, but very distinct. The genital

armature is of a very peculiar structure, unlike that of any other Acraea so far

examined.

H

■*■ ( 150 )

2.'Acraea lofua sjiec. nov.

(?. Forewiiv dull pinkish ochreons, with a very slight black basal snffusion ;

apex black for a depth of 3 mm. ; hindraar^in very narrowly black ; black spots

(very small) as follows : one in cell, one on end of cell, a row of four beyond cell,

the third linear, its lower end pointing outwards ; one in area 2, close to median,

and one in 1 b, nearer margin. Hindwing more decidedly pink than forewing ; a

black basal snffusion ; two spots in cell, the remaining basal spots obscured by the

black suffusion ; a row of five discal spots lying almost in a straight line from near

apex to inner margin ; two spots in area 7 ; a heavy black hindraarginal border,

5 mm. wide between first and second median, and tapering off at hind angle.

Underside much paler than above. Forewing as on upperside, but spots less

distinct, no basal, and very little apical black. Hindwing with faint pinkish

basal interuervnlar markings ; very slight basal black suffusion, and in addition to

spots as on upperside, one in 1 c, and two in 1 b and 1 a. Hindmarginal black,

narrower in the middle than on upperside, its inner edge sharply dentate, and

bearing a submarginal row of seven triangular greyish white spots, their bases

towards the margin.

Head brown ; thorax l)lack ; abdomen black above with yellowish lateral spots ;

tarsal claws asymmetrical.

¥. Pale dull ochreons. Forewing slightly darker near base; apical black

rather broader than in S, but all the spots absent except that on end of cell,

and the second of the discal row (this very minute). Hindwing with faint dusky

basal suffusion ; spots absent or very faint ; hindmarginal black, narrower in

middle than in S,

Underside.— Yoreyfing paler than on upjierside, the two spots just visible, but

apical black only faintly represented. Hindwing only a faint trace of the discal

spots ; basal spots small and indistinct ; hindmarginal black, 2-5 mm. wide, not

dentate, bearing greyish white submarginal spots though smaller and less distinct

than in 6- Abdomen black with whitish lateral spots.

Expanse, cj 4G mm. ; ? 48 mm.

1 tJ, 1 ?, Lofu River, N.E. Rhodesia; Mus. Oxon.

Nearly allied to ^1. omrora Trimen, and easily confused with this species. The

cf genital armature is however very distinct, and bears a pair of supplementary

processes between the harpes.

3. Acraea iturina kakana snbspec. nov.

cJ. Forewing : base and costa blackish. Apical half semi-transparent, basal

half including cell dull orange-red ; apex, hiudmargin, and distal edge of red area

rather more thickly scaled with black than the remainder. The transparency is

caused by reduction in width of the scales ; the red area extends slightly into

area 'A, about half the length of areas 1 b and 2, and nearly to hind-angle in area 1 a.

Hindwing dull orange-red ; a basal aggregation of confluent black spots ; a

discal band of large confluent spots, the first in area 7 abont the middle, the

remainder lie almost in a straight line across the wing, except that in area 3, which

is more distally jilaced ; a blackish hindmarginal border abont 2 mm. wide at

apex becoming rather suddenly narrower at nervule 5, and tapering to anal angle.

Underside resembles the upper, but is sparsely scaled, and the red areas are

dull pink ; the hindwing basal spots are somewhat less confluent and can be

( 151 )

resolved into a large snbbasal spot in 7, two conflnent snbbasal spots in cell, one in

\ c, lb, and 1 a ; in the latter area also a minnte dot beneath end of nervnie 1 a ;

a little black at origin of main nervures.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the latter with indistinct brownish lateral

spots ; tarsal claws as3mmetrical. In forewing nervores 6 and 7 arise, not from cell,

but from a common stalk about 1 mm. long, as in iturina.

A superficial examination of this form would lead to the conclusion that it was

a distinct species. It differs from iturina in the absence of the spot in forewing

cell, the deeper colour and greater extent of the red areas, and the larger size of

the spots. But the peculiarity of the hindwing nenration and the characteristic

toothed appearance on inner side of the claspers of the i armature convince

me that it is the Abyssinian form of A. iturina.

Expanse, 50 mm.

1 S, Adie Kaka, Kaffa ; Mus. Brit.

4. Acraea oscari Roths.

So far as I am aware, the ? of this species has not been described.

? . Spots and markings as in S , but ground-colour pale creamy ochreous,

somewhat darker at inner edge of hindwing hindmarginal border.

Underside resembles upper, but hindwing more lemon ochreous, and areas 1 a

and 1 b brick-red.

Expanse, 84 mm.

Bonga, Kaffa ; Mus. Brit.

5. Acraea cinerea alberta subspec. nov.

S- Resembles cinerea Neave, but the discal portion of hindwing is occupied by

a patch of deep crimson.

Expanse. 54 mm.

2 (JcJ, L. Albert Edward, lUOO m. ; Mus. Tring.

6. Acraea astrigera f. bninnea nov.

(?. Wings more rounded than iu astrigera Butl., ground-colour dull smoky

ochreous, usually with a whitish subapical patch in place of the orange of astriqera,

and apex more broadly black.

Underside much as iu astrigera, but forewing pale smoky ochreous, snbapical

area white. Discal portion of hindwing jiale pinkish ochreous.

?. Wings much more rounded, coloured and marked as in 6, but hindwing

hindmarginal border very broad (about 7 mm.).

Expanse, cj ¥ 70 mm.

5 <?(?, Angola; Mus. Tring. 2 ? ?, Unyoro and Masindi (Unyoro) ; Mns.

Tring. 1 ? , Entebbe ; Mus. Oxon.

Acrea astrigera Butl. exhibits several interesting forms. A fine series now

before me shows many intermediates, and a careful examination of the male

armature shows that ^1. astrigera Bntl., A. emini Weymer, and A pseudoh/cia

Butl. are all forms of the same species.

7. Acraea ella spec. nov.

Closely resembles A. equatorialis Neave.* It is distinguished from it by its

uniformly larger size, darker colour, much heavier scaling, wider black basal

• Neave's A. doitbledwyi equatorialis is not a form of doubhdayi, but is a distinct species.

( 152 )

suffusion in hindwing, and by the fact that the discal spot in forewing, 1 b, is

slightly nearer margin than the spot above it in 2, whereas in A. equatorialis this

spot is further from margin, and by other minor details.

The male armature is different from that of A. equatorialis.

cJ. Forewing dull to bright or pinkish ochreous ; costa, apex, and hindmargin

very narrowly black ; base with slight or moderate dnsky suffusion ; area just

beyoud discal row of spots rather paler, and apical area more richly coloured ;

black internervular streaks on apex and hindmargin ; a black spot in cell, one

on discocellular ; a row of five beyond cell, and nearly in a straight line at right

angles to costa ; a spot near base of area 2 ; beneath it and slightly more distally

placed a spot in 1 i, and in same area a subbasal spot 2 mm. before origin of

nervnle 2. Hindwing : ground-colour same as in primary, sometimes rather

paler ; spots corresponding with those beneath, but faint near inner margin ; a

moderately wide black basal suffusion, and a narrow hindmarginal border formed

of a narrow black marginal line and rather flat internervular arches enclosing

spots of ground- colour.

Underside. Forewing as above, but paler, and spots smaller ; two small spots

at base of costa. Hindwing duller than above, base touched with rose-pink,

followed by pale ochreous ; marginal border more sharply traced than above, and

enclosing pale ochreous spots ; black spots, one in 8 near precostal, two in 7 ;

discal spots in 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, \c, I b, and 1 '/ ; two in cell, a basal and a snbbasal

in 1 c ; beneath the former a spot in 1 b, and a basal spot in 1 a ; a spot at base

of 5 on M.D.O.

Head and thorax black with brown tufts ; base of abdomen black with pale

lateral spots ; remainder white or yellowish.

Expanse, 50 — 60 mm.

4 c?c?, 1 ?, Bihe, Angola ; Mns. Tring.

8. Acraea periphanes Oberthiir.

An examination of a fine series of this species in the Hope Department at

Oxford shows that this extremely variable Acraea presents five fairly well-defined

forms including the type. These variations are neither seasonal nor geographical.

They may be classified as follows :

8 a. A. periphanes f. beni B.-Bak.

Acraea toii Bethune-Baker, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 110 (1908).

This form is characterised by the uniform bright red ground-colour and the

absence of the black apical patch in the forewing.

Ilab. Angola, Lower Chambesi, L. Bangweolo.

8 b. A. periphanes f. melaina nov.

Differs from typical examples in having a heavy black basal suffusion in both

wings. The hindwing margin is broad with only a trace of pale spots. In the S it

radiates into the discal area, and in the ? has a more regular though suffused inner

edge, and is widest (about 4-5 mm.) at 1 c and 2.

liab. Lower Chambesi, L. Bangweolo.

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8 c. A. peripkanes f. marginata nov.

Resembles the melaina form, but is withont the black apex ia forewing. The

spots are larger in most examples than in the typical form.

Ilab. Lower Chambesi, L. Bangweolo.

8 d. A. peripkanes f. acritoides nov.

Differs from typical examples in having more elongated wings, and in the

absence of both the apical black patch and the discal spots of forewing. These

differences produce a very close resemblance to A. acrita, as already noted by Neave

{Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 2U, 191u).

Hah. Chinsali District, Lower Chambesi, L. Bangweolo.

The strnctnre of the male genital armatnre in A. peripkanes is very peculiar,

and separates it very definitely from allied species. The structure is the same in all

the above-described forms.

9. Acraea mansya spec. nov.

S. Differs constantly from A. chamhezi* (Neave, P.Z.S. p. 21. pi. l.fig. 5.

1910) in one feature only. The spot in area 3 of hindwing is in the middle of the

space between end of cell and the inner edge of the marginal black, whereas in

A. chamhezi this spot is close to end of cell. Two very small cf c? are dull orange

ochreous instead of rosy red.

? . Dull smoky ochreous inclined to orange in apical area of forewing ; spots

and markings as in cj.

I should not have regarded this as a distinct species had it not been for

the structure of the genitalia. In chamhezi the claspers are short, broad, and

toothed. In mansya they are long, narrow, cylindrical, and without teeth. The

armature of the latter species is entirely different from that of any other Acraea so

far examined.

Expanse, S 40—50 mm. ; ? 40.

5 (Jc?, 1 ?, near L. Young, N.E. Rhodesia ; Mas. Oxon.

* Neave's A. nohai-a chamhezi is not a form of nohara^ but is a distinct species.

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NEW SYNT03nDAE AND ABCTIANAE.

By the HON WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Pii.D.

{SYNTOMIDAE.)

1. Amata wilemani sp. nov.

<J. Legs deep brown ; frous white, vertex blaok ; thorax creamy white,

shoulders sooty brown ; antennae black, tips white ; abdomen creamy white,

segments narrowly ringed with sooty black. Forewing hyaline, veins sooty black,

costal region sooty black slightly powdered with white scales, outer margin sooty

black with irregular patches of creamy white between the nervnres submarginally,

inner margin greyish cream, a deep black discocelkilar patch. Hindwing hyaline,

nervnres sooty brown, abdominal area creamy white, margins sooty black edged

internally with creamy white.

Length of forewing : 24 mm.

Hab. Tainan, Formosa. 2 3S.

2. Amata aurantiifrons sp. nov.

(?. Legs black, basal half of tarsus of liindleg white ; frons orange ; antennae

black, tip yellow ; vertex, tegulae, and patagia black ; thorax orange with trans-

verse black baud ; abdomen orange ringed with black. Forewing blackish

chocolate, a wedge-shaped patch in cell, a large irregular patch below it, one

above vein 2 and one above vein 3 and one on each side vein 5 orange, somewhat

semihyaliue. Hindwing semihyaline orange with very broad blackish chocolate

margins running into centre of wing at vein 3.

Length of forewing : 22 mm.

Hab. Tainan, Formosa. 1 <?.

3. Amata arfakensis sp. nov.

(?. Pectus blackish olive ; legs blackish brown ; head and tegulae orange ;

thorax black, an orange patch on metathorax ; abdomen orange ringed with blackish

olive, anal segment and sides of 6 and 7 blackish olive. Forewing bronzy

greenish olive-black with sis semihyaliue white patches, one in cell 1 beyond it,

two below cell, and one on each side of vtin 3 ; fringe orange-brown. Hindwing

bronzy greenish olive-black, a large subbasal semihyaline white jiatih, a small

similar i)atch in cell, and a large one beyond cell.

Length of forewing : 22 mm.

? . Similar.

Hab. Niuay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dntch New Guinea, 3.500 ft., February

and March 1909 (A. E. Pratt coll.). 1 tj, 1 ? (c? type).

4. Amata alberti sp. nov.

<? and ¥. Legs and pectus black; antennae black; frons, tegulae, and spot

on thorax orange ; rest of thorax black ; abdomen orange-yellow, narrowly black

between the segments, anal segment black with dorsal orange-yellow spot.

Forewing black-brown, a subbasal semihyaline huffish orange spot, a similar patch

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in cell, one below it, and three beyond, with an obliterated similar Hue below vein S.

Hindwiug semihyaline orange-yellow with broad irregular black-brown border.

Length of forewiug : 1 1 mm.

Hab. Knmasi River, N.E. British New Guinea, low elevation, August 1907

(A. S. Meek coll.). 1 (?, 1 ? (<? type).

5. Amata yunnanensis sp. nov.

?. Legs brown -black with two gi'eyish bands; pectus orange; frons orange;

vertex and antennae black ; thorax black, spot on tegulae and shoulders orange ;

abdomen dark steel-blue with orange rings. Wings hyaline yellow with broad

black borders and nervures, a black discocelhilar j)atch on forewing.

Length of forewing : 21 mm.

Ilab. Tali, Upper Yunnan. 2 ? ? .

'1 Amata owstoni sp. nov.

(S . Pectus and legs brown ; antennae dark brown, tips white ; thorax black-

brown, collar orange ; abdomen yellow ringed with broad dark brown bands. -

Forewing dark brown, cell hyaline, two large hyaline patches between median vein

and vein 1, a hyaline patch above veins 2, 3, 4, and 6. Hindwing, basal four-

fifths hyaline, rest dark brown.

? . Similar.

Ilab. Phuc-Son, Annam, November, December (H. Fruhstorfer), 1 <J ; Yuboi,

Hainan, June 1904, \ S,\ ? ; Mount Wuchi, Hainan, May 1903, 1 i (type).

7. Micronaclia bicolor sp. nov.

? . Legs, head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen black. ^ Forewing sooty black.

Hindwing cherr)'-crimson with sooty border, which rapidly narrows towards

tornus.

i- Similar.

Length of forewing : 10'5 mm.

Hab. Antananarivo, Madagascar (Chulliat coll.). 1 ? (type), 2 c?cJ.

8. Micronaclia oberthueri sp. nov.

? . Legs, head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen black. Forewing sooty black,

a hyaline white spot in cell and beyond it, and a larger one on vein 3. Hindwing

sooty black, a subbasal hyaline white patch on abdominal area.

Length of forewing : 10 mm.

Hab. Antananarivo, Madagascar (Chulliat coll.). 1 ? .

9. Micronaclia leopardina sp. nov.

? . Legs pale buff ; antennae pale buff ; head cream-colour ; thorax black-

brown, a patch on metathorax and outer edge of patagia buff ; abdomen bufi' ringed

with black-brown, first segment entirely black-brown. Forewing black-brown,

a subbasal, two median, and two postmedian sulphur-yellow patches. Hindwing

black-brown, a large patch above tornus and a postmedian patch sulphur-yellow.

Length of forewing : 8 — 11 mm.

Hab. Antananarivo, Bladagascar (Chulliat coll.). 2 ? ? .

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10. Homoeocera garleppi sp. nov.

(?. Fore- and middle legs black, basal two-fifths of tarsi white, hindlegs black,

three-fonrths of tarsi white ; pectus black ; antennae above black, apical half below

white ; head and thorax black ; basal half of abdomen black, anterior half oily steel-

green. Forewing yellowish h)'aline, basal fifth, all margins broadly, and large

discocellular patch black. Hindwing whitish hyaline, base and margins black,

basal half (if abdominal area greyish.

?. Differs from S in both pairs of wings being hyaline yellow, in being much

larger, and the wings being longer and narrower.

Length of forewing : i, 16 — 19 mm. ; ? , 26 mm.

Flab. Marcapata, Peru (Garlepp coll.), 2 <? <S (type); Haancabamba, Cerro de

Pasco, Peru (E. IBoettger coll.), 1 ?.

11. Homoeocera bombiformis sp. nov.

(?. Legs brown ; pectus and whole underside of body brownish olive ; antennae

black ; head, thorax', and abdomen olive rennet-brown, last segment orange-buff,

aborted, daspers with long curved hairy clawlike processes. Forewing hyaline

yellow ; base, outer and inner margin, and terminal half of costa black. Hindwing

hyaline yellow, margins narrowly and abdominal area black.

?. DiSers from c? in the pectus and whole underside of body being orange-

yellow, and last segment of abdomen above orange-yellow, not aborted.

Length of forewing : (?, 2U mm. ; ? , 16 ram.

Hab. Marcapata, Peru (Garlepp coll.).

12. Gymnelia plumosa sp. nov.

(S. Legs, pectus, and head orange ; thorax orange, a central black spot ;

antennae brown, strongly pectinated ; abdomen orange with dorsal row of black

bauds. Forewing yellowish hyaline, base and costal area orange, onter margin

grey-brown. Hindwing yellowish hyaline, margins narrowly grey-brown.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Bab. Canon del Tolima, Colombia, 2700 m. = {5775 ft., Ueccmber 11)09 (A. H.

Fassl coll.). 1 c?.

13. Gymnelia plagiata sp. nov.

?. Legs and underside sooty brown-black ; pectus and large patch on basal

half of abdomen below bnffy yellow ; antennae brown-black ; head, thorax, and

abdomen black, a large dorsal patch on basal half of abdomen above buffy yellow.

Wings buffy hyaline, nervures, margins, and terraena black.

Ijength of forewing : 13'.5 mm.

IM. Sta. Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, dry season, 65UU ft., April 10i(2 (G. R.

Ockenden). 1 ?.

14. Cosmosoma lemoulti sj). nov.

c^. Pectus orange ; legs orangi-, outside of co.vae, tibiae, and femora pale brown ;

head and thorax brown, shoulders orange ; antennae dark fuscous brown ; abdomen

orange, last two segments black. Forewing hyaline yellowish, nervures and

large patch above vein 1 orange, base, a broad transverse diocal band, inner margin,

costa, and outer fifth of wing black. Hindwing, basal third orange, disk hyahue

white, margins broadly black.

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Length of forewing : 12'5 ram.

Hab. Cayenne, July (Nouveau Chantier) (Le Monlt). 1 c?.

15. Trichiura pusilla sp. nov.

S. Pectus steel-blne ; legs brown-black ; palpi white ; head and tegulae steel-

blue ; thorax brown-black with steel-blue patch ; antennae brown-black ; abdomen

steel bluish green, a white patch on each side of segment 2, and a tail as long as

whole abdomen. -Forewing yellowish liyaliiie, narrow margins, base and disco-

cellnlar bar black. — Hiudwing liyaline with opalescent white clouding, ape.x black.

Length of forewing : 14 mm.

Hab. Chauchamayo, E. Peru, 2U00 m. = 0500 ft., October and November 1906.

1 cJ.

16. Chrysostola cosmosomoides sp. nov.

(?. Legs and pectus golden yellow; palpi and irons golden yellow; vertex

black ; antennae black, central third rufous orange ; basal half of tegulae black,

rest orange-yellow, patagia golden yellow edged with black ; thorax black with

two median golden yellow spots ; abdomen, first two segments golden yellow,

rest steel-blue above with golden yellow edges. Forewing yellowish hyaline,

apical two-thirds of costa and median nervure deep orange, rest of nervures and

margins sooty black, termen widely black. Hiudwing very small, yellowish

hyaline, veins and fringe sooty black.

Length of forewing : 14 mm.

Hab. San Esteban, Venezuela, July 1909 (S. M. Klages). 1 c?.

{ARCTIANAE)

17. Automolis flavoplagiata sp. nov.

? . Pectus orange ; legs brown with longitudinal white stripes ; antennae

brown, shaft white ; head orange, a black dot on frons and two on vertex ; thorax

orange, tegulae with central black dots, j)atagia faintly edged with brown ; abdomen

orange, last three segments black strongly glossed with steel-blue. Forewing

brown glossed with dark mauve, nervures bufi'; a large central wedge-sliaped orange

patch runs into wing 19 mm. from costa to just over vein 5; basal two-thirds of

inner margin almost to vein 1 orange. Hiudwing brown, basal fifth orange-

yellow.

Length of forewing : 18 mm.

Hab. San Antonio, West Cordillera, Colombia, 1800 m. = 5850 ft. (A. H. Fassl).

1 ?.

18. Robinsonia banghaasi sp. nov.

? . Pectus brownish white ; legs pale wood-brown, white inside ; head white,

a brown spot on frons and two on vertex ; tegulae pale brown, a large and a smaller

white spot ou each, patagia pale brown with a white streak; thorax brown with a

median narrow orange line and two white dots ; abdomen above brown with broad

median orange band, below white. Forewing wood-brown, veins paler, a white

spot below median vein, a white dot in cell, an ovate white blotch beyond disco-

cellulars, and two whitish dots on each side of vein 7, near termen. Hindwing,

basal two-thirds semihyaline white, outer third pale wood-brown, here and there

broken by the white running into the margin.

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Length of forewing : 20 mm.

Hab. Matto Grosso, Brazil.

19. Amastus postflavidus sj). nov.

?. Pectus browu ; legs darker brown ; [liiljii black ; head, antennae, and thora.\

deep nmbcr-brown, abdomen basal half wood-brown, apical four segments above

3-ellow edged witii black, sides brownish mouse-gre)'. Forewing chocolate nmber-

browu with a number of indefinite indistinct transverse bauds of dull yellowish

brown. Hindwing semihyaline pinkish wood-browu.

Length of forewing : 37 ram.

Ilab. Monte Tolima, Colombia, 3200 m. = lii,40(i ft., January i'.Ud (A. H.

Fassl). A small series of ? ?.

20. Pelochyta fassli sji. nov.

?. Legs lilack-lirown ; a crimson j)atch on each side of thora.x below; palj)!

and head black ; collar crimson ; antennae and thorax black-brown, a pale crim.son

spot at joint of abdomen ; abdomen, basal half black-browu, apical half above and

on sides bright crimson, 4 dorsal black-brown s|)ofs. ^Forewiug deep wood-brown,

nervnres black-brown. Hindwing dark wood-brown, somewhat semihyaline on

basal half, nervnres deeper brown.

Length of forewing : 22 mm.

Hab. Rio Agaa, West Cordillera, (Colombia, l(iO(J m. = 5200 ft., October 4,

1908 (A. H. Fassl). 1 ?.

21. Halisidota colombiana sp. nov.

<?. Legs brown-black ringed with lemon-yellow ; pectus mixed pale crimson,

brown-black, and lemon-yellow; paljii black; head lemon-yellow, thorax pale

smoky wood-brown, shoulders lemon-yellow ; abdomen, basal three segments jiale

rose-crimson, rest sooty black-brown. Forewing dragon's-blood-colonr washed

with cinnaraon-browu, costa lemon-yellow. Hindwing semihyaline whitish pink,

margins smoky cinnamon, abdominal area rose-pink.

Length of forewing : 26 mm.

Hab. Monte Tolima, Colombia, 2700 m. = 8775 ft., February 1910 (A. H. Fassl)

1 cJ.

22. Hypomolis fassli sp. nov.

cJ. Pectus, legs, head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen sooty black. Wings

hyaline, margins and nervures sooty black-brown.

Length of forewing : 17 mm.

Hub. Monte Tolima, Colombia, 3200 m, = 10,400 ft., Jauuarv 1910 (A. H. Fassl).

1 i.

28. Automolis surinamensis sp. nov.

?. Legs pale crimson; head buff; antennae brown, shaft white; thorax

huffish grey, patagia white ; abdomen white with narrow brown dorsal line.

Wings white, somewhat semihyaline, nervures yellowish.

Length of fiirewing : 30 mm.

Hab. Aroewarwa C^reek, Maroewym Valley, .Surinam, July lOiJii (!S. M. Klages).

1 ?.

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PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW BIRDS

FROM CENTRAL NEW GUINEA.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and Dr. E. HARTERT.

MR. ALBERT 8. MEEK, whose name is so well kuowii to the readers of

Novitates Zoologicae, has been able to accompany a Dutch Exploring

Expedition up the Eilanden River, a river the month of which lies about a hundred

miles east of the Letekwa (or Oetakwa) River and has a general trend to north-east,

and to Mt. Goliath, where he collected up to elevations of above 500(1 ft.

Besides the discover}' of some new forms the collection is of the greatest

importance from the fact that it determines the exact locality of a number of birds

hitherto only known from Papuan trade-skins. Thus, for example, Pteridnphora

alberti, Loboparadisea sen'cea, and Parotia carolae carolae have been collected.

We hope to give a full report on the collections later on.

1. Paradig^alla brevicauda sp. nov.

This extraordinary new bird is in colonr almost exactly like Paradigalla

carunculata, being velvet)' black, with the head, nape, and foreneck dark metallic

green, almost olive-green. In the male the whole back and scapulars are glossed

with oily green ; this is not seen in most skins of P. cnriinculata, but in one in

the Tring Museum it is about as much developed as in most P. brevicauda. The

median and greater upper wing-coverts are glossed with green, and the secondaries

have sharply defined outer edges of a dark golden green, which colour is also to be

seen on the distal portion of the inner webs, while the primaries are of a glossless

black. These green outer edges to the secondaries are mostly duller and sometimes

I)nrplish in our skins of P. carunculata, but not much importance is to be attached

to this difference, as the skins of P. brevicauda are quite fresh and properly skinned,

while those of P. carunculata are old and remade skins.

The great and very striking difference of this new species is the short and

straight, slightly emarginated tail, the central reotrices being slightly shorter,

whereas in P. carunculata the tail is long and cuneiform, the middle tail-feathers

exceeding the lateral ones by about 60 to (55 mm. A very peculiar fact, showing

evidently the line of evolution, is, that the young birds have the tail longer than

the adult birds, i.e. from 35 to 40 mm. longer !

The first two primaries are less sharply pointed and less attenuated, and the

third is comparatively longer than in P. carunculata.

Wing 154 5 — 160, tail 51 — 54 (against ITO — 180 in P. carunculata), bill from

end of nasal tnfts (the base of the bill on the forehead being difficult to reach, on

account of the wattles) 25 — 26, metatarsus about 47 mm.

The adult female resembles the male, only the crown of the head is not quite

so strongly glossed, and the back has hardly any greenish gloss. Young birds are

like the female, only the plumage is duller, more brownish, the tail longer, and

the wattles shorter.

"Iris dark brown, feet dark Vandyke brown, bill black. The lappets on the

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npi>er mandible (and small bidden wattle at base of lower) are creamy yellow, the

rugose wattle-like skiu at base of lower mandible cobalt-bine."

Type : S ad., Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, T2. i. 11)11. No. 5164,

A. S. Meek coll.

Hab. Mt. Goliath, at elevations of not less than 50UU ft.

2. Falcinellus striatus atratus snbsp. nov.

(J ad. Differs from the adult male of Falcinellus striatus striatus in being

black instead of deep brown on the under-surface, and the tijis of the lower orna-

mental side-plumes being steel-blue instead of more or less bronzy green. The

beak appears to be slightly bigger, especially higher, which is more obvious in the

females.

?. Like tliat of F. s. striatus, but the upper surftice, especially the tail, more

olive, less rufous, and the crown generally somewhat darker rufous.

Hab. Mt. Goliath, at altitudes of not less than 5000 ft.

3. Cyclopsitta blythi meeki snbsp. nov.

Similar to C. blythi bli/thi but the sides of the head less orange, paler yellow,

the pectoral band well defined and of a uniform tuniuoise-blue, not orange-scarlet

mi.xed with blue, abdomen and under tail-coverts paler and more api)le-green. The

female is like the male, bnt the colours duller. There is also, at least in the adult

male, a well-deliued bright yellow nuchal baud, separating the orauge-red of the

crown from the green of the back.

Type : (? ad., Eilanden River, 10. xii. 1910. No. 5056, A. S. Meek coll.

" Iris dull yellow, bill black, feet pale yellowish green."

Hab. Eilanden River.

4. Charmosyna stellae goliathina snbsp. nov.

Differs from C. stellae stellae in both se.ves by having the longer njtper tail-

coverts dull green, instead of red.

Type : S ad., Mt. Goliath, 27. i. 1011. No. 5211, A. S. Meek coll.

Hab. Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea.

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ON THE BIRDS OF SERMATTA, ONE OF THE SOUTH-

WEST ISLANDS.

By ERNST HARTERT, Pn.D.

IN Nov. Zool. 1904, pp. 174-221, I gave a list, of the birds collected by the late

H. Kiihn on the South-West Islands, and in Nov. Zool. 1906, pp. 288-304,

appeared a list of those sent from the islands of Babber and Luang, while the

larger island ol Scrraatta remained ornithologieally nnlvnowu. Shortly before his

untimely death (see Nov. Zool. 1907, p. 340) Kiihn sent his men to Sermatta, and

hereafter follows a list of the birds collected there.

Only forty-four species are represented in this collection. Probably several

other species have been overloolied. Sermatta lies between Babber and Luang,

near to the latter, but far away from the former island. It appears to be barely

half the size of Babber, but is much larger than Luang. While we know eighty

species from Babber, only forty-seven altogether were sent from Luang. Generally,

the larger an island is, the more species it harbours, while the number of species

decreases more or less with size ; therefore, supjwsing that the forty-seven known

birds from I/Uang represent nearly all which are found there, the number of forty-

four species for Sermatta might perhaps be the majority of its bird-poj)nlatiou ;

but I cannot help thinking that an island like Sermatta must have more si)ecies.

There is no C'orvus, Pachijcephtla, Mi/zomela, or Dicaeum in tliis collection.

Naturally the birds of Sermatta agree on the whole with those of the neighbouring

western isles, while differing in some cases from those of Babber, and none of them

appears to be a peculiar form. Nevertheless the collection is a most interesting

one, as it fills a great want, since no species had hitherto been known from

Sermatta.

We have now received fair collections from practically every island in the

long chain of the South- West Islands, and very little more can be expected from

there. The small island of Marsela, south of Babber, remains unexplored ; but

not much can be expected from there, although a Flycatcher, Zoisterops, or other

Passerine bird might be differentiated enough to distinguish it from all others.

I am much obliged to Mr. Arthur Goodsou, who greatly assisted me during

this little work, which has been unduly delayed on account of pressure of other work

and long absences in Algeria.

1. Megapodius duperreyii Less. & Garn.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 288.

<?, Sermatta, 14 June 1900 (No. 1).

" Iris brick-red, feet vermilion, bill ochreons."

2. Ptilinopus cinctus lettiensis Schl.

Cf. Nor. Zool. 1904. p. 178.

3 (J<J, 2 ¥ ? ad., 6 ¥ juv., Sermatta, 19-23 June 1906 (Nos. 2-8).

" Iris cofifee-brown, feet violet, bill sulphur-yellow."

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The adult specimens agree well with P. cinctiis lettiensis, except No. 4 (a

male), which closely reseuiWes ottonis from Damruer Islaml, which is not easy to

separate, unless a series is compared, when it becomes at once clear enough.

3. Ptilinopus xanthogaster xanthogaster (Wairler).

Cf. Nor. Zool. 1906, p. i88.

5 c?? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 9-13).

" Iris snlphnr-yellow, feet light green, bill olive-green."

These birds are typical P. x. xanthogaster, and not P. x. roseipUeiim, which

occurs on Moa and other islands of the South- West group.

4. Carpophaga rosacea (Temm.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1908. p. 289.

4 (f ? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 14-17).

" Iris scarlet, feet carmine, bill slate."

5. Macropygia magna magna Wall.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 182.

(J ad., Sermatta, 17 June 1906 (No. 18).

" Iris brick-red, feet violet, bill sulphur-yellow."

Agreeing well with a large series ftom the South-West Islands (Wetter, Roma,

Kisser, etc.). M. magna timorlaocnsis, a close ally, is easily distinguished by its

much less rufous underside and darker rufous head.

6. Turtur tigrinus (Temm. & Knip).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 190G. p. 289.

c? ad., Sermatta, 22 June 1906 (No. 19).

7. Chalcophaps chrysochlora timoriensis Bp.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 183.

5 ad., c? juv., Sermatta, 22, 23 June 1906 (Nos. 20, 21).

The adult male is in poor condition, but the large white patch on the shoulder-

one of the characters for distinguishing C. c. timorioi.i/.i — is very conspicuous.

8. Geopelia maugeus (Temm. & Kniji).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 289.

1 c?, 5 ? ? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 22-27).

" Iris slate, feet violet, bill slate."

9. Sterna bergii pelecanoides King.

Cf. Nor. Zool. 1906. p. 289.

cJ ad., ? juv., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 28, 29).

"Iris chocolate-brown, feet black ; bill : base bluish, tij) whitish yellow."

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10. Sterna melanauchen Temm.

Sterna melanauchen Temm., PL Cut. 427 (April 1827) (Lea cotes des Celebes et les iles les plus

reculees du Grand Archipel. Type loc. Celebes).

? ad., Sermatta, June 19U0 (No. 30).

" Iris coffee-brown, feet chocolate-browu, bill black."

Not previously recorded from the South-West Islands.

Dr. Fiiisch in his list of the birds of the Sonth-West Islands .(3'o/«s Let/(f. Mas.

xxii. pp. 225-309) docs not mention the occarrence of any Tern.

11. Morinella interpres (L.).

Of. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 186.

2 ? ? , Sermatta, June 1 906 (Nos. 32, 33).

12. Squatarola squatarola (L.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 290.

?, Sermatta, June 1906 (No. 31).

13. Ochthodromus geofiroyi (Wagl.).

Cf. Nov. Znul. 190G. p. 290.

cJ ?, Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 32, 33).

14. Ochthodromus mongolus (Pall.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 186.

cJ, Sermatta, Jnne 1906 (No. 34).

15. Himantopus leucocephalus Gonld.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 186.

(J, Sermatta, Jnne 1906 (No. 35).

10. Glottis nebularius (Gnnu.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 290.

2 ¥ ? ad., Sermatta, Jnne 19U0 (Nos. 36, 37).

17. Heteractitis incanus brevipes (Vieill.).

Cf. Nm>. Zool 1906. p. 290.

i ? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 38, 39).

18. Limonites ruficollis (Pall.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 290.

4 (J ¥ ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 40-43).

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19. Tringa subarquata (Guldenst).

Scolopax suharquala Guldenst. Nov. Comm. Pelrop. six. p. 471 (1774).

?, Sermatta, June 1906 (No. 44).

2i>. Stiltia Isabella (Vieill).

Cf. Nov. Zonl. 1906. p. 291.

tf ? , Sermatta, Jmie 1906 (No.s. 4;"), 46).

21. Ardea sumatrana Haffl.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 188.

S ? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 47, 48).

22. Nycticorax caledonicus (Gm.).

Cf. A'ai-. Zool. 190G. p. 291.

<S ? ad., S jiiv., Sermatta, .Taiie 19U6 (Nos. .54-56).

23. Demiegretta sacra (Gm.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1900. p. 291.

3 cJcJ, 1 ?, Sermatta, Jnue 1906 (No.s. 50-53).

Three of these specimens are in white, and one in grey plumage. Two of the

former have blackish bills, the other one a yellow bill.

24. Herodias alba timoriensis (Less.).

Ardea timoriensis Lessson, Tr. d'Orii. p. .'J75 (1831, ex Cuvier MS., Timor).

? ad., Sermatta, June 1900 (No. 49).

25. Haliaetus leucogaster (Gm.).

Cf. Finsch, Notes Ley. .Mas. xxii. p. 240.

? imm. Sermatta, June 1906 (No. 50).

26. Astur torquatus wallacii Sharpe.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 20.

1 (J, 2 ? ? ad., 2 <?(J imm., Sermatta, Juue 1906 (Nos. 51-55).

" Iris in male lemon-yellow, in female whitish yellow, feet sulphur-yellow, bill

black." In one 3'oung cj the iris is marked as " brick-red," iu another " lemon-

yellow."

27. Tinnunculus moluccensis occidentalis Mey. & ^Vigl.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 292.

J ad., Sermatta, Juue 1906 (No. 56).

" Iris coffee-brown, feet sulphureous, bill slate."

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28. Halcyon chloris chloris (Bodd.)-

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 197.

4 <?? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 57-60).