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NUMBER CXV.

I. New African Saturnide. By the Hon. L. W. Roruscuitp,

LE] D eh ee 0c 0 thn yooh NIN Care earta aaa eae yaaa Se errr

II. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the

Oriental Zoological Region. By P. CAMERON .............+.---

Ill. On Three new Mammals from South Africa. By R. C.

WVROUGEBLONG Sopot aes sata ccuercccin ted he ee os ttn Ratio cee hea ohare

IV. Descriptions of new Species of African Spiders and Solifuge.

EK vge Nem Sea EATER STM tener eyare Max «iss sen MPA apoio ohaas ed elas Mel Mist aka otal anon

V. Remarks on Prof. L. von Méhely’s Paper “Zur Losung der

‘ Muralis-Frage.’” By G. A. BouLenesr, F.R.S...............

VI. Description of a new Engystomatid Frog of the Genus

Breviceps from Namaqualand. By G. A. BouLencer, F.R.S.

PETa Coe US) bers carved ch cate Sect era arc nl y Oldocbeievha tea alge d dette conic

VII. Descriptions of a new Toad and a new Amphisbeenid from

Mashonaland. By G. A. BouLencER, F.R.S. (Plate ILI.) ......

VIII. Description of a new Cichlid Fish from Portuguese East

Perce. Dye Cr AL DOULENGER, ES. adcectaclace ss oe sere:

IX. Descriptions of Three new Freshwater Fishes discovered by

Mr. G. L. Batesin South Cameroon. By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S.

X. The Atractylis coccinea of T.S. Wright. By E.S. Russet,

WVU Ate peyeags u8 Sa sina en et age AAT PAR ON ae: ah V PA ed are

XI. On the Generic Position of Benson’s Helix hyba and the

Similarity of its Anatomy to that of Khastella vidua, W. T. Blanford.

By Lt.-Colonel H. H. Gopwin-AuvstEn, F.R.S. &. ............

XII. Descriptions and Records of Bees—XV. By T. D. A.

CockKuRELE. University, of Coloradoy . 0 ft dau. ons vce ceo anes

XII. Notes on the Habits and External Characters of the

Solenodon of San Domingo (Solenodon paradoxus), By A. Hyatr

VSR Eee CCE LEbOM NV -)) Sth. s.45 0 5-tcpih ale wi, eee tind ade ocle Ses

XIV. On Three new Mammals from British New Guinea. By

OLDFIELD THOMAS........ Roch bc t €cge both cx PROOTaor PAuOtEL

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XVI. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Hymenoptera of

the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. CAMERON ...........04.

XVII. On a new Leptolepid Fish from the Weald Clay of South-

water, Sussex. By A. SmirH Woopwarp, LL.D., F.R.S. (Plate I.)

XVIII. On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others. By

CRATES; AU <M 153,085 v csctee octets uC CAG EAT RR EOte etek oh eee eRe

XIX. Descriptions of Two new Freshwater Fishes discovered by

Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Mossamedes, Angola. By G, A. BouLENGER,

1 8s] StS eee tele oan einen ota Otitis ane frie Butb ont bas

XX. Description of a new Frog discovered by Dr. W. J. Ansorge

in Mossamedes, Angola. By G. A. BouLencsEr, F.R.S. ........

XXI. On the African Mungooses usually referred to the Herpestes

gracilis Group. By R. C. WroueHtTon

XXII. The Name of the Armenian Wild Sheep. By R.

PG YDWRRER sips kn sia ike 2 aie iat cee is, oe elec ae ae aI Oe TE RRR RI ee

XXIII. Descriptions and Records of Bees—XVI. By T. D. A.

CocKERELL, University of Colorado

©) lo MO! 0ice)Te) alco le) ee! 618 B,eel.@ (ele Lee je8\re

XXIV. Notes on the American Species of Hespertide described

by Elotz.. By FF. D;Gopman, DiC.L.; HORS., &e. 2.0... belle

XXYV. Function and Form with Reference to the Hand and Foot

in Man and Apes. By DunoanC. L. Frrzwiiiams, M.D., Ch.M.,

F.R.C.SS. Ed. & Eng., Demonstrator of Anatomy, King’s College,

London ; Casualty Officer, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond

Sureet. s(blate: Ve). osc crctnncine snc eee eras ei era

XXVI. On Neotropical Mammals of the Genera Callicebus,

Reithrodontomys, Ctenomys, Dasypus, and Marmosa. By OLDFIELD

THOMAS

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XXVIII. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews.—

No. XXVIII. By Prof. M’Inrosu, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., &c.

Hila ces VE VIELE) i. oc alere ii ora aaceuten rears Gre eda Pde ono ae

XXVIII. Descriptions of apparently new Species and Subspecies

of Mammals belonging to the Families Lemuride, Cebide, Calli-

trichide, and Cereopithecitde in the Collection of the Natural History

Museum. “By DG. Bunton, DiSe., BORIS EwWen acces ate ce ahs

XXIX. On Mammals from Northern Persia, presented to the

National Museum by Col. A.C. Bailward. By OLpriei.p THomas,

BRAS.

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XXX. A Subdivision of the Old Genus Nesokia, with Descriptions

of Three new Members of the Group, and of a Mus from the

Andamans.” (by: OLDRIOLD LH OM ASE cite aici. o)'o vieiejoid @iereleoacs oboe 202

XXXI. On some British Polyzoa. By Canon A. M. Norman,

SAC DOs Gln Dry Boke cru elncn (bate Ik.) Web dc vee < 207

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XXXII. Three new Spanish Insectivores. By ANGEL CaBRERA, 212

XXXIII. On Four new Pill-Millipedes from the Malay Peninsula

and Siam. By A. 8. Hirsr (British Museum, Nat. Hist.).

GES S.c a Eres 10 ap o Geol gop ORs Gator e Colo ertT. te ore ian an ea 215

XXXIV. Description of an apparently new Lycenid from Mauri-

tiuss) By asm rOn Hh. DRUCES EIZ.S. FONS. fie... < dese e snine 219

XXXV. On an Extinct undescribed Fruit-Bat of the Genus

Pteropus from the Mascarenes. By Gro, E. Mason ............ 220

XXXVI. Brachiopod Nomenclature: Seminula, &c. By 8.58.

WE Tal ORANG be Ce Sich Faaye ey aS craton oda¥ ah si acdtge dhe Gisee ak coheed oe uelehera ob ab cheat gtaracemlc oe

XXXVII. On some Freshwater Amphipods: The Reduction of

the Eye in a new Gammarid from Ireland. By Prof. Dr. Fr.

Wa OViSKeveuy (Gblatest Mul Gg. 2XonIe))) Pttie vercyarc testis fe? st lv oi alexeqster 4 wile ad)

XXXVIII. Observations on the Trematode Parasites of British

Birds. By Witi1AM Nicoxt, M.A., B.Sc., Gatty Marine Laboratory, _

Rear MTT WV SEN way al oeettinyafefcv are. 5)s: orehasetey seeps) sceiereyerore.oei oes Cosanie''ei tis sole a0o¥e 245

XXXIX. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonellida of the

National Antarctic Expedition. By R. KIRKPATRICK .......... 271

XL. Description of an apparently new Species of Monkey of the

Genus Cebus. By D. G. Evuiot, D.Se., F.R.S.E., &e. 2... een 292

XLI. On the Occurrence of <Acanthoglossus in British New

Gauitieasse DY= OLDETET DWE HOMAS ) We /.0e oie'ele © acura Siena ities sea LOD

New Books :—1 Go A-Walking. Through the Woods. With Tllus-

trations by CHARLES Rerp.—Nature in School. No. 2.

Edited by Boris WEINBERG, Priy. Doc. St. Petersburg Univ. . 295

NUMBER CXVIII,

XLII. New South-African Spiders of the Family Drassede in the

Collection of the South-African Museum, By W. F. Purce t,

PhDs Cane Bown. (Plates XL RCV ot os; eietete Sener ayy ones wheraye aces 297

XLIII. Descriptions of Two new African Species of Barbus. By

CrP AG ES OUEAONGIOR OE CEU) (kd acre ahd dcdogeiwledshald = oie tlslatafesovdyop ited se aioks 336

XLIV. Description of a new Pit-Viper from Brazil. By G. A.

EA UUIERIN GIG Rie eek Ua Sepia ave ony atstces ye) ake PARTE Sd ek age og Shen sca ist vores 338

XLY. On new Species of Histertde and Notices of others. By

Gt Lewis, F.L.S.

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XLVI. Some Remarks on Pteropus mascarinus, Mason. By Knup

JARO ES NAG Sg ac ewe de Sa asse don hyn eae ae Sododencomaecds ds ot. 351

XLVITI. Notes on the Crustacea of the Channel Islands. By

Canon A. M. Norman, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.RS., F.LS.

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and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of

State for India in Council. Edited by Lt.-Col. C.T. Bryauam.

Butterflies. Vol. II. By Lt.-Col. C.T. Binguam...... 372, 373

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NUMBER CXIX.

XLVIII. Preliminary Notice of new and remarkable Cephalopods

from the South-west Coast of Ireland. By A. L. Massy, Depart-

ment of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Fisheries Branch,

Dee GS Re ek BA lea date ou Wib,o ots ih fe eae mtetsale She ietene wantnehe tiets 377

XLIX. On the Geographical Races of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat

(Rhinolophus hipposiderus). By KNuD ANDERSEN .............. 384

L. Some new European Insectivora and Carnivora. By Grrrir

roy EN Doty rap hE ES Search ican Cio yen eRCrC en dio aia eehec Gia aon tu 389

LIL Two new Forms of the Spanish Hare. By Gerrit S.

PMSA SEVER coikcve folate etch oleae cialonale ro lors sore ts iels hola eielrer ake leig ss ee tCiet tage 398

LII. Description of Two new Characinid Fishes from South

America; « SBy iC, slam shunGAIN, VL AS 5.0 rie cee et testes torsion te 402

LIII. Note on Raia undulata, Lacep. By C. Tate Reean, M.A. 403

LIV. On a new Hare from the Transvaal. By H. Lyster

AME SON Getveaers ete ole eric aieojtutes. te mine ioon Regan irom our beast p tech pane 404

LV. On anew Dormouse from Asia Minor, with Remarks on the

Subgenus “ Dryomys.” By OLDFIELD THOMAS .............00 406

LVI. Notes onan “ Octopus” with Branching Arms. By EpGar

ARS MITH, LS Oia ZiSes (Plate SXAVAUL:) ote Navs ice top tices oie ee ce ead 407

LVII. Rhynchotal Notes—XLIII. By W.L. Disrant ...... 411

LVIII. Description of a new Genus and Species of Cerambycide

fromeNatal, «By WA DISTANT <. 2 sigs. cau osc cviemee ee pote ewe a ek 423

LIX. Description of a new Species of Cicadide from East Africa.

SV Ve MOIRIDAINI Eat iki te Gn tanh ie «None th whih RAs oie, ae eit cole om ». 425

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LX. Four new European Squirrels. By Grerrit 8. Minuer.... 426

LXI. New Species of African and TadosWalayan Hesperude. By

(Wolonel C SwinBon,-MeAv.. HRS Ge. is a uSwa 6 ads socked cd 430

LXII. The Significance of the Pattern of the Cubs of Lions (Felis

leo) and of Pumas (Felis concolor). By R. I. Pococr, F.IS.,

¥.Z.S., Superintendent of the Zoloogical Society’s Gardens. (Plates

DG D.C 9. BO) IN 6, SET eee iy OL ORI eSB a C COROOE EC Se IIOM ET EET Tae 436

LXIII. Descriptions and Records of Bees—XVII. By T. D. A.

CockuEMEn.Wmiversity of Colorado. 3 vs :7s.y.ves tie sie d olin som s50 < 445

Echinocrinus versus Archeocidaris, by F. A. Bather, British Museum

(NGM ERISES ptrete rs eed re ttt sc etamiues owen nate Mele ae leads 452

NUMBER Cxx.

LXIV. A Revision of the Medusz belonging to the Family

Laodiceide. By Epwarp T, Browne, University College, London. 457

LXY. On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others. By

Cello aish dial bas bee ep eSiO Ditis Ain Paice eIOIRirhs bio SNe ean mie IPE 480

LXVI. Descriptions of Three new Freshwater Fishes discovered

by Mr. G. L. Bates in South Cameroon. By G. A. BouLENGER,

I GIS odin OA Ow tro OIG Cnn OURO RNR tere Rae Gira RienenD oe 485

LXVII. Descriptions of Three new Fishes from Central Africa.

iBygG. AG DOUMENGRR s Hoku Sis qwerials ta: S40 ssl ciaureste « Gecleee = 487

LXVIII. Description of a new African Snake of the Genus Simo-

cephalus, By G. AS BOUGENGER WE RAS. 55.) 0... ccceecc- sess 489

LXIX. Descriptions of new Species of Land and Freshwater

Shells from Central and South America. By H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 490

LXX. A new Acanthoglossus from the Island of Salawatti. By

OM PTH DMM ONMAS® oy. ha tere eee sor els rat ais othe oes 498

LXXI. Description of a new Baboon from British East Africa.

Syme) s Coe Mare TOs). OC.5 Ec kuaSats. (OCs aamiere cd ohr-s/ster aro fetes occa 499

LXXII. List of a Collection of small Mammals made by Mr. A. L.

Butler in the Bahr-el-Ghazal. By R.C. Wroucuron .......... 500

LXXIII. Descriptions of Five new Species of Heterocera, By

ERR BERIE ORE CHE MSR OCCk «sic ssloccciis Meme alert d eeeve. serererst. 505

LXXIV. New African Species of the Genus Chrysops, Meigen, in

the British Museum (Natural History). By Ernest E. AuSTEN .. 507

LXXV. Descriptions of Two new Species of Plecotus. By G. E. H.

Eye EL AMCOEETON: ciayetsjersiute aijeoyaNat ve) a ari aye) ews Ce ws 520

LXXVI. Description of a new ‘ ores of Monkey (Cercopithecus

Hamlyn) from the Ituri Forest. By R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., Super-

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[SEVENTH SERIES. ]

Ce ncemeoncennnnOsed per litora spargite muscum,

Naiades, et circitm vitreos considite fontes:

Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores:

Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum.

At yos, o Nymphee Craterides, ite sub undas ;

Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco

Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas

Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia suceo.”

N. Parthenii Giannettasi, Ecl, 1.

No. 115. JULY 1907.

I.—New African Saturniide.

By the Hon. L. W. Roruscuiyp, Ph.D.

1. Epiphora pelosoma, sp. n.

Body clay-colour ; upperside of thorax hair-brown; meta-

notum, upperside of last abdominal ring, two thin ventral

lateral lines, and a spot on the breast white.

Upperside of wings dark hair-brown, slightly pinkish out-

side the discal band, yellow at the outer margin; eye-spots

as in Antinori, but larger. Fore wing with a white, subbasal,

angle-shaped band and a narrow white discal band, the latter

being nearly straight from costal margin to middle and then

slightly incurved ; apex of wing red. On hind wing a white

subbasal and a white discal band, joining each other in front.

Underside washed with clay-colour, the disk of both wings

densely dusted with white outside the discal band ; the latter

on hind wing continued along costal margin to base,

Length of fore wing 70 mm.

Uluguru Mts., German East Africa; one female in the

Tring Museum.

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 1

2 Hon. L. W. Rothschild on

2. Epiphora rectifascia, sp. n

Body blackish brown; antenna, head, and legs clay-

colour; edges of the abdominal segments yellow; metanotum

white.

Upperside of wings dark hair-brown, the distal margin

olive, preceded by yellow spots. Fore wing falcate, a sub-

basal band white, forming an angle of 90° ; eye-spot as in

mythimnia, but longer ; a straight white discal band, sharply

defined ; outside the same and along costal margin white

dusting. Hind wing with a basal and a discal band, both

white and slightly curved; eye-spot large, incurved between

the first and second radials ; disk outside the band pinkish,

as on fore wing, and dusted with white.

Length of fore wing 80 mm.

Yakusu, Stanley Falls, Congo (J. L. Roger) ; one male in

the Tring Museum.

3. Imbrasia ethiops, sp. n.

Nearest to J. rubrocostalis, Kirby (1892).

Upperside of head, thorax, and wings brownish black;

abdomen fulvous. Fore wing with a trace of a grey discal

line ending close to apex in a small costal patch; ocellus

represented by a transparent semicrescent, which is larger

than in rubrocostalis, but very much smaller than in Mitfordi,

Kirby (1892), being thinly edged with fulvous. Costal area

of hind wing rosy red from base to middle and backwards as

fay as anterior edge of cell; ocellus consisting of a deep drab

outer ring, followed internally by a black ring which encircles

an ochraceous iris, bearing a small transparent pupil; no

discal line.

Underside paler than upper, outer margin of fore wing

and the whole hind wing shaded with erey ; on disk of fore

wing near margin a straicht but indistinct blackish band, the

hind wing bearing a likewise blackish shadowy median band

and a discal line, “the latter reaching costal margin close to

angle.

Cameroons ; one male in the Tring Museum.

4, Imbrasia eytherea lucida, subsp. n.

Smaller than South-African cytherea. Resembling yellow

specimens of the same, but the head, collar, metanotum, and

breast purer rosy red, the basal half or two thirds of the

underside washed with rosy red, the brown bands and the

ocelli edged with dark grey-brown, which is usually almost

new African Saturniide. 3

of the same colour as the brown discal line, instead of being

nearly white as in cytherea, the ocelli almost the same size on

fore and hind wing, being much smaller on the hind wing

than in cytherea.

Langenburg, Lake Nyassa, German East Africa; a series

in the Tring Museum.

5. Imbrasia anthina xanthomma, subsp. n.

Ochraceous or red-brown. Fore wing more strongly falcate

than in anthina, the discal band nearer the margin, the yellow

ocellus without transparent centre, or the transparent spot

minute; the grey submarginal area of the hind wing more

extended, being on the underside also less dentate.

Gold Coast and Sierra Leone; several males and one

female in the Tring Museum; a female from T'afo, Gold

Coast, in the British Museum.

6. Imbrasia Gueinzit nyassana, subsp. n.

Smaller than Guecnzii, less uniformly yellow; the sub-

median band of the fore wing more strongly zigzag, the

discal band costally further from the apex, therefore less

oblique ; the ocellus smaller, being subtriangular, a distinct

but shadowy grey submarginal band.

Hind wing more extended rosy red than in Guernzdi, the

base of the abdomen being also red. On the underside the

area between the discal band of the fore wing and the margin

costally wider and posteriorly narrower than in G'uecnz77, and

the grey marginal band prolonged to costal margin. On the

hind wing the distal marginal area posteriorly less widened

than in Guetnziz; the transparent spot of both wings smaller

and less distinctly edged with yellow.

A series in the Tring Museum from Langenburg, Lake

Nyassa, German Hast Africa.

7. Imbrasia Wahlbergi rhodina, subsp. n.

Body and wings varying from tawny ochraceous to reddish

tawny, the ground-colour being much deeper than in Wahi-

bergi ; the costal area of the hind wing above and sometimes

nearly the whole underside more or less distinctly flushed

with rosy red. Ocellus of fore wing smaller than in Wahlberg?,

proximally less strongly rounded than on the outer side, the

pinkish basal patch smaller, the submedian band less sharply

dentate, and the pinkish-grey submarginal band much less

prominent, as is also the case on the hind wing. 4

4 Hon. L. W. Rothschild on

Kigonsera, N.E. of Lake Nyassa, German East Africa ; a

small series in the Tring Museum.

8. Aurivillius triramis, sp. n.

The first subcostal of fore wing from the cell. Antenna

of male much smaller than in A. arata, Westw. (1849), the

branches shorter and therefore stiffer, the apical ventral

branches of the central segments about as long as the next

two segments together, being much shorter than the proximal

branches, the dorsal apical branches also shorter than the

proximal ones of the same segments. In the female the

segments shorter than in arata, the branches, which are

longer, being therefore closer together,

Smaller than West-African specimens of arata. The

pattern almost exactly the same as in yellow individuals of

arata. The tuft at the base of the antenna and the sides of

the breast more yellowish ; the second discal line of fore wing

thinner and more distinctly dentate; the marginal area less

marked with brown.

Dorsal lobe of anal segment of male narrower than in arata,

bearing a dentate crest beneath. Apical lobe of clasper long.

Penis-funnel with a black dentate club on each side.

Sierra Leone, southward to the Kassai River and Angola.

A, arata occurs also in these districts, but is apparently

less frequent.

9. Gonimbrasia belina occidentalis, subsp. n.

Nearest to G. bd. ostris, Druce (1896). Outer margin of

fore wing in male more incurved and in female more straight,

being usually slightly emarginate. The white scaling along

the lines of both wings less dense, this white border to the

discal line of fore wing edged by a fuscous or red line. The

outer margin of hind wing in male more angulate below

centre and the discal line closer to margin; its white border

usually disappearing posteriorly. The ocellus of underside

of fore wing not edged with fuscous. The anal tergite of

male slenderer than in ostris and the processes of the penis-

sheath obtuse.

Gambaga, Volta River, Gold Coast Hinterland (Dr. Bury) ;

a long series in the Tring Museum.

10. Gonimbrasia melanoneura, sp. n.

Nearest to G. acetes, Westw. (1849). Antenna more

shortly pectinated, and only 15 segments bearing side-

branches, about 16 distal segments being without them.

new African Saturniide. 4)

Upperside of wings deeper ochraceous than in acetes, the

distal marginal area narrower, the discal line, especially on

the fore wing, standing nearer the margin; the veins black

from middle of fore wing to outer margin ; the marginal area

of fore wing shaded with fuscous both above and beneath,

except at hind angle.

On underside there is an olivaceous black double spot at

apex of cell on both wings, the inner spot being large and

the outer one small. The clasper (of male) obtuse and the

anal tergite flattened, not compressed as in acetes.

Wassaw district, Gold Coast; one male in the Tring

Museum. Another male, also from the Gold Coast, in the

Leeds Museum ; acetes occurring there too.

11. Lobobunea Morland?, sp. n.

As large as L. alinda, Drury (1780).

Upperside of body and wings maize-yellow, the distal

margin except fringe white in male and fuscous in female.

On tore wing a blackish band just outside apex of cell and in

female a lunate band on the disk nearer the margin than the

cell. Hind wing without bands on upperside in male, there

being two bands in female, one from the ocellus to the abdo-

minal margin, the other about halfway between cell and outer

margin.

On underside the discal lunules in female further away

from the cell than in alinda and the marginal area in both

sexes evenly grey, being without brownish blotches ; the

central line of lunules crossing the wing at tip of cell, being

continuous with the olivaceous black central patch, these

lunules large.

Pemba Island, Hast Africa (4. Morland) ; one pair in the

Tring Museum.

12. Melanocera parva, sp. n.

A little over half the size of MZ. mentppe, Westw. (1849).

Body not washed with white on underside; head and pro-

thorax olivaceous brown, there being no white edge to the

collar.

Upperside of. wings as red as in menippe, hardly at all

speckled with brown along the outer margin; eye-spots as in

menippe, but the white lines absent from both wings.

Underside of fore wing pale red, slightly irrorated with

brown before outer margin; an extremely faint trace of a

discal line. Hind wing less clouded with brown than in

6 Hon. L. W. Rothschild on

menitppe, bearing as in that species on disk a straight white

line bordered outwardly with brown.

Length of fore wing 42 mm.

Clasper bisinuate at apex, the upper angle projecting ;

anal tergite with two acute processes. The segments of the

antenna longer than broad, the branches longer than in

menippe.

Caiala, near Bihé, Angola, 12th October, 1904 (Dr. W. J.

Ansorge), one male; and another male, also from Bihé: both

in the Tring Museum.

PARUSTA, gen. nov.

g. Antenna cylindrical, flattened at apex, the segments

much broader than long, except the last two, each with only

one pair of branches, these long and very slender, being short,

however, on the last three segments ; the apical ventral edge

of the distal segments slightly raised, but not produced into

a process as in the case of Usta and Pseudantherea, Tibiex

normal, without apical thorn-like claws, mid-tibia longer than

the first tarsal segment. Neuration similar to that of Tago-

ropsis; fore wing with four subcostals, the first more distal

than the fourth, the second very short; first radial and first

median at equal distances from the cross-vein ; costal margin

of hind wing nearly straight, the second median much more

proximal than the subcostal.

Nearest to Tugoropsis, differing especially in the structure

of the antenna and in neuration.

13. Parusta wanthops, sp. n.

Cream-buff ; the head ochraceous ; the antenna deep buff

and the abdominal segments brown at the bases and ochra-

ceous at the apical edges. Wings dirty white ; on fore wing

a patch at base, a broad curved antemedian line continued to

base at hind margin, a discal line excurved in centre and there

widened to form a patch, partly encircling the ocellus, further

an ill-defined marginal band and a portion of the veins

brown; the ocellus round, yellow, edged with brownish

black. On hind wing a discal and a submarginal band, both

ill-defined and nearly parallel to outer margin ; ocellus as on

fore wing, but smaller.

Underside nearly as upper; discal band of hind wing

distinct, widened at the ocellus, submarginal band represented

by some ill-defined patches, namely, a costal, a central, and

an anal one, the last two being joined together by a faint

new African Saturniide. iG

line. The eighth ventral ring of abdomen sinuate, the angles

being acuminate.

Length of fore wing 27 mm.

Mpwapwa, German East Africa; one male in the Tring

Museum.

14. Tagoropsis sabulosa, sp. n.

Buff, the head and upperside of the legs being brown-red.

Wings almost uniformly irrorated with brown-red scales,

which give the wings a pinkish-buff appearance. On fore

wing the first and second lines thin, placed asin 7’. flavinata ;

ocellus small, composed of a vitreous dot encircled by a

brown-red line ; the discal line curved gently but distinctly

towards apex of wing, being costally much more distal than

in I’. flavinata; apex of wing produced; no submarginal

spots, but the reddish scaling slightly condensed at the outer

side of the discal line. On hind wing two lines, the first

placed as in 7. flavinata, the second costally excurved, poste-

riorly incurved; the anal angle more prominent than in

7. flavinata, the distal margin being less rounded.

Underside like upper ; the first line of fore wing absent.

The anal tergite black, divided, each lobe compressed.

jlasper excised ventrally before apex, the upper lobe pro-

jecting, the dorsal edge of clasper biemarginate.

Length of fore wing 46 mm.

Moshi, Kilimandjaro ; one male in the Tring Museum.

15. Tagoropsis lupina, sp. n.

Ochraceous buff; palpus and fore coxe vinaceous rufous ;

upperside of legsrosy. Fore wing with three brown-red lines,

the first as in 7. flavinata, broken at median vein, the second

straight across the ocellus, very slightly dentate on the

proximal side; the third line also straight, commencing at

costal margin 6 mm. from the apex, meeting the second line

at inner margin; ocellus composed of a round vitreous spot

edged with brown-red. On hind wing a broad evenly curved

median line and a vestige of an undulate discal line.

Underside washed with brown-red except the posterior area

of the fore wing; the lines as above, but the first line of the

fore wing absent.

Length of fore wing 55 mm.

Lokolele, Congo; one female in the Tring Museum.

8 Hon. L. W. Rothschild on

16. Pseudaphelia apollinaris barotsina, subsp. nv.

Like apollinaris, Boisd. (1847), but the discal line absent

from the hind wing.

Barotseland and west side of Lake Nyassa; several

specimens in the ‘Tring Museum.

17. Cyrtogone Ansorgei, sp. n.

In colour resembling the male of C. nemia, Westw. (1849).

Fore wing shorter and broader, non-falcate, non-dentate,

the outer margin slightly incurved. Hind wing red at base

only; costal margin longer than in nemia, outer margin very

faintly dentate.

Underside more uniformly irrorated than in nemia; fore

wing with trace of a postdiscal line; extreme base of hind

wing red; tarsi partly also red.

Caiala, near Bihé, Angola, lst December, 1904 (Dr. W. J.

Ansorge) ; one male in the Tring Museum.

18. Cyrtogone bilineata, sp. n.

Similar to C. Ansorge?, but approaching nem7a in the shape

of the wings, both wings being more distinctly dentate than

in Ansorgei and the fore wing more falcate.

Upperside of fore wing with two lines as in Ansorgez, but

the discal line more distinct, especially towards costal margin ;

between this line and the yellowish-grey blotch which stands

at the apex of the cell there is a black shadowy patch ex-

tending forward to the costal margin; the outer area more

plainly irrorated with blackish brown, as is also the case on

the hind wing; the costal area of the latter more extended

red.

On underside the disk of the fore wing and the outer area

of the hind wing lighter in colour than in Ansorgei; the fore

wing with a blackish cloud outside the apex of the cell and

the discal line ending in a black spot at the costal margin.

Female similar to the male, but the wings much broader,

the fore wing without a distinct black cloud on the disk, and

the upperside of the hind wing as well as the underside of

both wings, the distal margin of the fore wing excepted,

much paler. ‘There are no white patches, as is the case in

C. nemia.

Kidugala, German Hast Africa; one male and two females

in the Tring Museum ; a pair from Salisbury, Mashonaland

(G. A. K. Marshall), in the British Museum.

Perhaps a geographical representative of Ansorget.

new African Saturniide. 9

19. Holocera suavis, sp. n.

Deeper red-brown than //. smilax, Westw. (1849).

Fore wing broader, less produced at apex, the central band

posteriorly wider, its grey outer border much less curved,

being almost straight from costa to middle; the glass-spot

consists of a half-ring, to which is joined in front an angle-

or inversed comma-shaped spot. Hind wing broader than in

HM, smilax, shorter at abdominal margin, the distal margin

slightly convex ; the eye-spot as in the species of Ludia,

yellow, with a thin, black-edged, central half-ring and a

black outer border; a pinkish-grey submarginal line extends

from close to anal angle forward to the eye-spot, encircling

the same and running back to the abdominal margin, this

last portion being faint ; this line forms the border of a red-

brown band as in Ludia.

On underside the fore wing washed with grey on the disk

outside the vitreous spot from the costal to the abdominal

margin ; some specks at the costal edge and a thin apical

half-ring grey ; outer margin, the cell, and part of costal

margin olivaceous walnut-brown; on hind wing the basal

costal area, a short costal discal band, and the outer margin

the same colour, this costal band continued to hind margin as

a very thin line.

In female the wings much broader than in the male.

Highth abdominal segment (of male) without the apical

spines found in /7. smilax.

Larva yellow; the head, prothorax, a ventral lateral stripe,

the anus, and on each ring a narrow belt bearing setiferous

warts, black, the anterior belts more or less interruped, none

of the belts reaching down to the legs.

Neuelo, Usambara, German Hast Africa ; several specimens

in the Tring Museum ; also in the British Museum from the

same place.

20. Ludia goniata, sp. n.

Similar to Delegorgue?, Boisd. (1847).

Fore wing somewhat longer at inner margin, the apex

rather more produced, the distal margin dentate, the brown

discal area in male wider than in Delegorguet, its outer edge

less curved in front and behind, slightly crenulate. Hind

wing anteriorly longer, the wing therefore larger, distal

margin dentate and below middle distinctly angulate; the

outer edge of the brown discal area also angulate, though

slightly.

10 Mr. P. Cameron on Hymenoptera

On underside the marginal area of fore wing in male nearly

as deep brown as the disk, with a thin grey submarginal

line; in female the whitish submarginal shade of both wings

more restricted than in Delegorgue?, and the brown submar-

ginal line more irregular, being slightly angulate below

middle.

Natal and Grahamstown; several males and females in

the Tring Museum and the British Museum.

21. Ludia eximia, sp. n.

Also closely resembling L. Delegorquet.

Body and wings more blackish brown; basal, costal, and

outer marginal areas shaded with grey, not clay ; submarginal

line on both wings posteriorly a little less close to edge than

in Delegorguei, the margin of fore wing densely shaded with

blackish above and beneath; costal margin of hind wing

longer than in Delegorgued, the wing being less triangular.

Ventral lobe of clasper (of male) short and blunt, the apical

lobe rounded off, not produced into a thorn-like process.

Kampala, Uganda; one male in the Tring Museum.

II.—A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Hymenoptera

of the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. CAMERON.

For the Indian species described in this paper I am indebted

to Col. C. T. Bingham; those from Borneo were sent me by

Mr. John Hewitt, the Curator of the Sarawak Museum. I

have also described a few species taken by Col. Nurse in

Baluchistan and Simla.

Braconidae.

Iphiaulax Preyert, sp. n.

Black ; the head, antennal scape, thorax, and the four ante-

rior legs red, the middle tibie and tarsi darker coloured ; the

wings fuscous, the nervures and stigma black; the head,

metathorax, and legs covered densely with longish blackish

pubescence, the ovipositor densely with stiff black hair;

the first abdominal segment suffused with rufous, the raised

central part almost smooth, the middle with a narrow keel

down the centre; the second segment closely but not very

strongly striated, the keel narrow, extending to the apex,

the base with a small smooth triangular plate; the third is

from the Oriental Zoological Region. It

striated at the base, and there is a triangular striated part on

the sides, the apex extending to the base of the apical fourth ;

there is a keel down the middle of the basal three fourths.

Temples as long as the top of the eyes, rounded behind, the

occiput almost transverse. Face coarsely rugosely punctured.

Antennal scape about three times longer than wide, of equal

width, hardly as long as the second “joint of flagellum, not

hollowed below. Parapsidal furrows shallow. Recurrent

nervure interstitial; the third abscissa of radius as long as

the basal two united.

Length 10, terebra 17 mm.

Kuching ; March (John Hewitt).

In size and form this species resembles J. trichiothecus,

Cam.; the latter may be known by the third and fourth

abdominal segments being striated. J. extraneus, Cam., has

the same abdominal striation, but isa much larger and stouter

species, and may be readily separated by the different form of

the abdominal plate, which is much longer, gradually nar-

rowed to a point near the middle of the segment.

Iphiaulax erlophorus, sp. 0.

Black ; the head (except the sides and top of front) and the

vertex (except the sides behind, and the hinder central part

more narrowly, which are black) dark rufous; the antennal

flagellum black; the prothorax bright red; the depression

bordering the basal plate of second abdominal segment, its

apex broadly in the centre, narrowly on the sides, the centre

of the third and fourth segments broadly at the base and apex,

more narrowly in the middle, and the greater part of the

ventral surface, rufo-testaceous. Median segment and breast

thickly covered with white woolly pubescence, that on the

latter shorter than on the former. The fore legs and the

middle knees broadly rufo-testaceous. Wings hyaline, very

iridescent, slightly tinged with fuscous ; the costa, stigma,

and nervures deep black. 9.

Length 7, terebra 7 mm.

Kuching; October (John Hewitt).

Abdominal segments to near the apex of the fourth finely

closely striated ; the first segment broad at the base, raised,

the sides depressed ; the area on the base of second not very

clearly defined, striated, narrowed gradually towards the apex,

which extends to near the end of the segment; the sur-

rounding parts are much more strongly striated ; there is a

curved furrow on the sides of the third segment and a trans-

verse crenulated one on the apex. Tface “covered with white

12 Mr. P. Cameron on L/ymenoptera

pubescence, smooth; the oral region bordered laterally by

deep wide furrows. There is a distinct malar space about

two thirds as long as the antennal scape. Temples wide,

only slightly narrowed behind. Parapsidal furrows narrow,

deep, clearly defined, reaching from the base to the apex.

The third abscissa of the radius fully as long as the basal two

united ; the recurrent nervure received distinctly before the

transverse cubital.

Iphiaulax cosmiothecus, sp. n.

Black ; the head, palpi, mandibles (except at apex), pro-

thorax, mesothorax, and metathorax (except the sides of

metanotum broadly) red; the fore legs red, darker at the

apex. Wings uniformly fuscous violaceous; the second

abscissa of radius longer than the third; the legs and sheaths

of ovipositor densely covered with stiff black hair; the apex

of the sheaths of the ovipositor with a broad band of white

hair. On the apical three fourths of the raised part of the

first abdominal segment are two stout parallel keels, forming

almost a deep furrow; they are united near the base by a

weak transverse keel ; on the sides are two keels, the outer

(and shorter one) commencing at the base, the other shortly

beyond it; the basal half of the bordering furrows is stoutly

closely striated ; the second, third, and basal half of fourth

segments are closely stoutly striated ; the central keel on

the second extends to the apex, it becoming gradually

narrowed until it is more than twice longer than it is wide at

the base, where it is smooth, the rest being closely longitu-

dinally striated; the sides of the segment are smooth,

shining, triangular; the central area on the outer side bears

two irregular longitudinal keels ; the inner sides bear a few

irregular transverse ones. ‘The first transverse furrow has

the central third stoutly crenulated ; on either side is a large

smooth area, longer than wide, the inner side becoming

gradually roundly curved from the base to the apex ; there

is a somewhat similar but smaller and semicircular area on

the sides of the fourth segment. ‘There is a smooth, raised,

mitre-shaped space in the centre of the face; the sides are

sparsely punctured, the punctures with hairs. The parts

bordering the centre of the front are raised. Metanotum

covered sparsely with long black hair. ‘Temples nearly as

long as the top of the eyes, rounded, not much narrowed

behind. 9?.

Body 13, ovipositor 17 mm.

This species is not unlike J. reticulatus, Cam., which may

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 13

be separated from the present by the first abdominal segment

being flat, not angled, it having also only a single narrow

keel down the centre; the areaon the base of second segment

is an equilateral triangle, small, the fourth seement is striated

to the apex, and the raised central part of the face forms a

large triangle. The central lobe of mesonotum, too, is

flatter, especially at the base.

Kuching, Borneo.

OpuionInz.

Zachresta nigromaculata, sp. n.

Yellow, with the following black spots :—the ocelli, a large

mark in the centre of occiput gradually obliquely widened

below ; a broad line on the basal two thirds of mesonotum in

the centre, slightly dilated and rounded at the apex; a line on

the sides, half in front and half behind the tegule, the two

united at the scutellum by a transverse line ; two semicircular

marks on the base of metanotum ; a mark below the tegule,

narrow and square above, gradually roundly widened below,

where it is transverse ; an oblique mark, rounded at base and

apex, on the mesopleure at the apex close to the sternum; a

broad band on the narrowed base of postpetiole, a broad one

on the middle of second segment, a triangular incision on

its base, the apex transverse; the base of the others broadly,

with a spot on their sides; and a mark on the middle of the

third to fifth ventral segments. Antenne black, the scape

yellow below. Legs coloured like the body, a broad mark on

the base of the hind cox below, the basal joint of the hind

trochanters (except a narrow stripe in the middle above), a

stripe on the outer side of the femora at the base, their base

narrowly, and apex and the tarsi (except the basal half of the

metatarsus), black. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma

black ; the areolet minute, with a long pedicle, receiving the

recurrent nervure in the apex; the transverse median nervure

received clearly beyond the transverse basal; the radius and

cubitus in hind wings very faint; the posterior nervures

obsolete. ?.

Length 9, terebra 1 mm.

Sikkim.

Tibiz sparsely, the tarsi more thickly spinose ; the calcaria

long, about three fourths of the length of metatarsus. Head

and thorax closely, somewhat strongly punctured and covered

with white pubescence; the metanotum almost rugosely

punctured ; the apical slope with a broad depression in the

14 Mr. P. Cameron on //ymenoptera

middle. First abdominal segment nearly as long as the

second and third united, the apex distinctly dilated; the

following segments are not compressed, distinctly broad

compared with those of Campoplew.

I refer this species to Zachresta because the spurs, although

longer than usual, are still distinctly shorter than the meta-

tarsus ; in the allied genus Echthronomus, Foer., they are

described as “ very long, scarcely sharter” than it. The

only difference between this species and Campoplea of much

importance lies in the abdomen not being strongly compressed,

the latter genus having also the metanotum longer and more

or less areolated,

Anomalon Bingham, sp. n.

Black ; the face, clypeus, mandibles, malar space, a broad

line on the lower third of the inner orbits, tegulee, and under-

side of antennal scape lemon-yellow; the abdomen (except

the top of the basal two segments) rufo-ferruginous; the four

front legs fulvous, tinged with yellow, their coxe and _ tro-

chanters yellow; the hinder legs rufous, the coxe# and

trochanters black above, the former broadly yellow in the

middle below, the apical third of the tibize black ; the apical

joints of the tarsi tinged with yellow. Wings hyaline, tinged

with fulvous, highly iridescent; the stigma testaceous, the

costa and nervures black. <@.

Length 22 mm.

Sikkim.

Head covered with white hair; the face strongly punc-

tured, the punctures large, clearly separated; the front

stoutly obliquely reticulated; the vertex strongly deeply

punctured. Mesonotum strongly closely punctured, the

punctures running more or less into each other, the apex

stoutly transversely striated. Scutellum roughly reticulated,

depressed broadly in the centre. Metanotum much more

widely reticulated, slightly broadly depressed in the middle,

as are also the metapleure. Propleure stoutly striated,

obliquely above, longitudinally below; the upper part

distinctly punctured. Mesopleure above longitudinally

coarsely reticulated; the apex smooth, bare, below the reticu-

lated part, the rest punctured, the punctures clearly separated,

each having a black hair. Flagellum of antenne rufo-

testaceous, the basal half black above.

Allied to A. tinctipenne, Cam., from the Khasias. The

present species may be known from it by the stoutly reticu-

lated front: in tinctipenne it is striated rather than reticulated,

from the Oriental Zoological Region. V5

the keels, too, being much finer; the yellow mark on the

inner orbits is obliquely narrowed above, not of uniform

thickness, and there is a similar mark above it, which is not

the case with the present species; the puncturation on the

mesonotum is finer and closer and does not run into reticu-

lations and striz at the base; the transverse cubital nervure

is as long as the basal abscissa of the cubitus, while in téne/-

penne it is shorter than it,

Pruprin”.

Rhyssa varilineata, sp. n.

Black, with the following yellow spots:—underside of

scape, face, the orbits broadly (except on top), apex of pro-

notum (its sides more narrowly), scutellar keels, scutellum

(except at apex), median segment (except round the edges),

tubercles, an irregular spot below them, a smaller line under

hind wings, a line down the centre of first abdominal segment

(narrowed in the middle, the apex wider than the base), a

broader line on the apical three fourths of the second (its

apex rounded and dilated), a continuous line near the apex of

the third, an interrupted one on the fourth and fifth, and a

narrower obscure one on the sixth. Legs yellow, the four

anterior cox above, the hinder (except for a broad band

above), the greater part of the femora behind and the poste-

rior in front in the middle, the base of the four front tibia,

the posterior to beyond the middle, and the tarsi, black.

Wings hyaline, iridescent, the stigma testaceous, the nervures

black ; a squarish cloud at the end of the stigma, extending

shortly beyond the areolet. 9.

Length 13, ovipositor 12 mm.

Kuching; September (John Hewitt).

Smooth, except the striated mesonotum and the scutellum,

which is punctured. Pedicle of areolet as long as the straight

basal branch. Clypeus narrowed obliquely, testaceous, its

middle dilated, almost toothed.

This is the smallest Malay species known. It is near to

maculipennis, Smith, which may be separated from it, apart

from its much larger size, by the much larger alar cloud,

which extends beyond the cubitus, and by the metanotum

having three separated yellow spots on the apex, the rest

being black.

Rhyssa claripennis, sp. n.

Black ; the head (except the centre of front), the vertex

16 Mr. P. Cameron on Hymenoptera

and occiput, the mesonotum (except for two lines, rounded

on inner side, in the centre), scutellum (except at apex),

postscutellum, the keels, metanotum, the pleure (except

the propleuree broadly in the centre), the first abdominal

segment broadly in the centre, a narrower stripe down the

middle of the second (widest at the apex, not touching the

base or apex of the segment), and transverse lines before

the apices of the others, the apical two interrupted, and the

ventral surface, pale yellow. Legs pale yellow, the fore

femora behind, the middle above on the apical two thirds, the

posterior entirely above, the base of the tibiee, and the tarsi

black. Wings hyaline, the costa and nervures black, the

stigma fulvous ; pedicle of areolet shorter than lower branches,

the recurrent nervure interstitial. 9.

Length 18, terebra 21 mm.

Kuching ; November (John Hewitt).

Face closely but not coarsely punctured, thickly covered

with short white pubescence. Basal and apical slopes of

mesonotum smooth; the striation strongest in front. Clypeus

depressed, yellow tinged with rufous.

May be known from the described Indo-Malay and

Indian species by the immaculate wings.

Epirhyssa nigrobalteata, Cam.

The markings on this Bornean species vary somewhat,

e.g. the yellow’ mark on the mesonotum may be longer than

wide, with a triangular incision on the apex.

Epirhyssa curvimaculata, sp. n.

Black; the face, clypeus, inner orbits to the ocelli, the outer

narrowly above, broadly below, prothorax (except for a broad

band on the pleure), a pyriform spot on the sides of middle

lobe of mesonotum, a longer one on the inner side of the

Jateral lobes of mesonotum, straight on outer side, rounded

on inner and produced into a sharp point at the apex, scutellar

keels, basal two thirds of scutellum, metanotum (except for a

semicircular mark on apical half), an oblong mark below the

tegule, united to an oblique large mark below it, extending

from the base to the apex, the metapleurse (except at the

base, the black basal spot having the part above the keel

larger than that below it), broad bands (rounded at the base)

on the basal two abdominal segments, the lines on the

following three broad and curved ‘backwards in the middle,

those on the following two broad, curved and widely inter-

rupted in the middle, and the basal ventral segments, pale

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 1%

yellow. Legs pale yellow, the inner side of the four hinder

coxe, the lower side of the posterior, base of four hinder

trochanters, the four hinder femora broadly above, tlie hinder

two also in the middle below, base of tibie and the tarsi, black.

Wings hyaline, a lage fuscous-violaceous cloud at the apex,

commencing shortly beyond the transverse cubital nervure

and extending to the end of the radial cellule. ¢.

Length 15, ovipositor 28 mm.

Kuching ; September (John Hewitt).

Face smooth, finely obscurely striated above ; the stria on

apical central part of mesonotum much finer and closer than

on the rest. Basal half of scutellum closely punctured, as

are also (but more finely) the middle segments of the

abdomen.

In the male the meso- and metapleure are yellow, without

black, as is also the breast, the black on first abdominal

segment is transverse at the apex, the bands are broader, and

the apical segments are reddish brown; the black on the

legs is less extended and the apical cloud in the fore wings

is small, not extending to the cubitus.

This species comes near to EH. (Macrogaster) flavopictus,

Sm., described from Singapore by Smith and from Borneo

by Tosquinet (Mém. de la Soc. ent. de Belg. 1903, p. 258).

It is a much larger species (25 mm. according to ‘losquinet,

15 lines according to Smith). Macrogaster, Brullé, does not

belong to the Pimpline ; Ctenotoma, Cam., is probably the

same. It is purely African, so far as I know.

Epirhyssa cruciata, sp. n.

Black ; the apex of the second and the following abdo-

minal segments reddish brown; the face, clypeus, inner orbits

to near the end of the ocelli, the outer (except for a broad

stripe in the centre of upper third), a large mark (dilated

broadly at the apex below) on propleure, two small oval

spots on the centre of mesonotum at the base, two larger ones

(roundly narrowed on the inner side) at the end of the basal

lobe, a square mark on the sides of the scutellum at the base,

a longer narrower line on the sides of the apex (leaving a

black cruciform mark in the centre), a broad curved band on

the metanotum near the apex uniting with the yellow on

metapleure which occupies almost the whole surface, the

tubercles, the mesopleuree (except round the edges and a large

oblique mark, narrowed above, near the centre below), a large

triangular mark on the sides of mesosternum, a longish line

(dilated at the apex) in the centre of apical three fourths of

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 2

18 Mr. P. Cameron on L/ymeneptera

first abdominal segment, a mark (roundty narrowed behind)

near the apex of the second, a curved line shortly beyond the

middle of the third, two oblique lines in the centre of fourth,

two more widely separated curved ones on the fifth, and more

or less of the ventral surface, yellow. Legs yellow, the four

anterior femora broadly dark rufous above, the hinder pair of

a darkersrufous on the inner and outer side; the four hind

tibia broadly black at the base above, the apex black all

round, and the four hind tarsi black. Wings hyaline, the

apex lightly smoky, the costa and nervures black, the stigma

rufo-testaceous; the recurrent nervure interstitial. @.

Length 18 mm.

Kuching; January (Hewitt).

Face closely distinctly punctured and thickly covered with

white pubescence, the front and vertex smooth. Underside

of antennal scape yellow. Mesonotum striated throughout,

but more weakly towards the apex. Base of scutellum

strongly, the apex more finely and closely striated. Meta-

notum closely punctured, the punctures clearly separated ; at

the end of the central furrow are three or four stout curved

strive.

Epirhyssa lineatiscutis, sp. n.

Length 15mm. ¢.

Kuching ; September (/ewztt).

This species is very similar to L. cruciata, described above ;

the two may be separated thus :

Mesosternum entirely black; mesopleuree black with a

large curved yellow mark below the tubercles and a

smaller, triangular one at the apex below; the mark

on first abdominal segment not much longer than it

is wide at the apex, narrowed at the base, that on

the second triangular, as long as the width at the

apex, the lines on the third and fourth wide, not

Curved, COntINUOUS factor. ak ue citi eet ree eee lineatiscutis.

Mesgosternum black, except for a triangular lateral spot ;

mesopleurs yellow, with an oblique black mark at

the base ; the mark on first abdominal segment long,

narrow, on the second narrow, transverse, the lines

on the third and fourth narrow, not continuous .. eruciata.

The legs are more largely suffused with rufous than in

cruciata, the four hind tibie much darker coloured, the hind

coxee black, yellow above, the line down the centre of

scutellum is narrower than the apical which curves round the

apex, the black band on base of metanotum occupies the

basal fourth and is of equal width, the curved black apical

mark is wider at the apex than it is long, the metapleure

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 19

black round the base, apex, and lower edge ; the four lines on

mesonotum are longish, narrow. Basal three segments black,

except for the yellow marks, the others brownish red. Except

that the black line uniting the eyes with the black on vertex

is wider, the head is coloured as in cruciata. As in that

species, the apex of the wings is narrowly smoky. The

yellow transverse lines on the third, fourth, and fifth seements

are wide, that on the third dilated in the middle at the base.

Xanthopimpla lissonota, sp. n.

Pale yellow, a triangular mark covering the ocelli, a semi-

circular mark, the rounded narrowed end at the apex, on the

centre of middle lobe of mesonotum, a mark widened in the

middle at the base of scutellum, a minute spot on either side

of the base of metanotum in the lateral areze, and two spots

on the seven basal abdominal segments, those on the first

produced into a narrowed line at the base, a mark on the

outer and inner side of the trochanters, and a line on the base

of the hinder tibie, black; the basal joint of the hind tarsi

and the apical two infuscated. Wings hyaline, the apex

shghtly smoky, the nervures and stigma black ; the areolet

small, shortly appendiculated. Flagellum black. @.

Length 7 mm.

Kuching ; November (/ew?#t).

Areola wider than long, six-angled, the apical keel almost

rounded ; the lateral are widened gradually in the middle

almost to a point; the sides slightly angled in the middle,

from which a keel runs towards the apex. Mesonotum

smooth, shining; the furrows short, on basal slope only.

Except the third to seventh abdominal segments the body 1s

impunctate ; the puncturation on the abdomen becomes

gradually weaker. Marks on second abdominal segment

small, irregular, on the third irregularly round, on the others

wider than long, transverse. Face equally roundly convex,

closely punctured, squarish.

Agrees best with Krieger’s section G (cf. Ber. d. naturf.

Gesel. z. Leipzig, 1897-8, p. 92).

Echthrus maculiceps, sp. n.

Black; face (except for a line over the clypeus, dilated at

the sides above), clypeus, labrum, base of mandibles, a line

round the orbits, broadest on the front, palpi, two oblique

marks in the centre of the occiput, base of pronotum, a broad

line, narrowed in front, on the sides, an irregular squarish

) %

A

20 Mr. P. Cameron on Hymenoptera

mark in the centre of the propleuree below, a longish oval

mark on the apex of the middle lobe of mesonotum, tegule,

scutellum (except at apex), a small spot on the sides near the

apex of the yellow part and united to it, scutellar keels, a

band on the base of metanotum, the black bordering its apex,

A-lobate, a large trilobate mark on apex, the central lobe

projecting backwards, smaller than the others, its base incised

in the middle, the sides rounded, a broad large mark, the

base roundly dilated, the apex straight, produced posteriorly

below, this part being also produced backwards as a broad

line to near the apex of the basal third on mesopleure, the

centre of mesosternum broadly, the mark widened towards

the apex and with a black mark in the middle of the apex,

a small mark under the hind wings, a large one almost

covering the metapleure, a broad mark on the apex of the

first abdominal segment, its basal half narrowed, rounded

and incised at the centre, narrower lines, dilated laterally, on

the apices of the second to sixth, the seventh (except for a

large trilobate mark), the apical lobe square, larger than the

lateral, and the ventral surface (except the first and large marks

on the following three segments), pale yellow. Antennze

broadly (sixth to twelfth joints) ringed with white. Legs

yellow, the anterior paler, the hinder femora fulvous ; a spot

on the outer apical side of the four anterior, the posterior

below and broadly at the apex all round, a line on the

trochanters, on the four anterior femora, the apex of the

hind femora narrowly, the base of the hind tibie slightly

more broadly, the apex of the hind tibiz more broadly, and

the apical joint of the tarsi, black. Wings hyaline, the

nervures and stigma black.

Length 19, terebra 5 mm.

Quop, Sarawak ; November (Hewitt).

Closely punctured, densely covered with short white

pubescence ; the mesopleure at the base closely striated ; the

depressed apex of middle lobe finely longitudinally striated.

Base of metanotum behind the keel closely, somewhat

strongly striated, the part between the two keels stoutly

closely striated in the middle, the sides closely reticulated,

the apex much more strongly striated, the striz curved; the

basal keel curved backwards in the middle, the apical stouter,

not curved in the middle. Parapsidal furrows distinct,

narrow, deep. The first abdominal segment broadly smooth

in the centre of narrowed basal part, this smooth line

bifurcating on the widened apex; the punctures on the

segment are stronger and more widely separated than on the

rest of the abdomen. Areolet as long as it is wide at the base,

Srom the Oriental Zoological Region. 21

the apex slightly narrower than the base, through the cubitus

turning slightly upwards from the recurrent nervure. The

transverse basal nervure is received considerably in front of

transverse median.

TRYPHONINE.

Fovaya spinipes, sp. n.

Black, the second, third, and fourth abdominal segments

red, the fourth with the apex narrowly black ; the antenne

with the thirteenth to twentieth joints white ; legs black, the

greater part of the fore femora and all the tibia reddish ;

the anterior tarsi testaceous, the four apical joints black

above ; the basal two joints of the middle tarsi testaceous, the

third whitish, the apical black ; the basal joint of the posterior

tarsi black, testaceous at the base, the second to fourth white,

the fifth black. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma

black ; the areolet shortly appendiculated, the basal nervure

straight, oblique, the apical rounded, the recurrent nervure

received near the apex. @.

Length 11 mm.

Simla.

Head and thorax alutaceous, opaque, covered with a pale

down; the lower half of the clypeus shining, somewhat

strongly, but not closely punctured. Apical half of meso-

pleuree smooth and shining above. On the apex of the

metanotum are three areee longer than wide, the central larger

than the lateral and all rounded above; leading from the

base to the central area are two keels which curve inwardly

before the middle, the apical half of the area being wider

than the basal. The anterior tibie sparsely, the four

posterior thickly spinose.

This species may be known from F. annulitarsis, Cam.,

the type of the genus (it is also from Simla) thus :—

Clypeus, lower inner orbits, and a spot on the sides of

mesonotum at the base pale yellow; flagellum

brownish beneath before the white band; second

abdominal segment black, red at the base, the inner

keel of spiracular area distinct ; the four hind femora

HESHACCO USE peters ne metel tel aio tehoekek- kell retere lel ch-Es) felakolial sive

Clypeus, lower inner orbits, and base of mesonotum

entirely black; flagellum black before the white

band; second abdominal segment red, the inner keel

of spiracular area indistinct ; the four hind femora

Cee ate on tet, adsueibeed. cokcdecehate: vce etal cvchatal oo otal «

annulitarsis.

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Mr. P. Cameron on Hymenoptera

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CRYPTINA.

Silsila striolata, sp. n.

Black, a broad band on the centre of the flagellum, face,

clypeus, mandibles, palpi, a narrow line on the upper inner

orbits, a line on the upper, a broader one on the lower edge

of prothorax, the line on the top, narrowed behind, scutellums,

scutellar keels, a large, broad, triangular mark behind the

hind wings, the apical slope of metanotum, except in the

centre, the mark in the centre continued upwards to near the

transverse keel, this part becoming gradually narrowed,

from its outer edge at the apex a line of equal width runs

along the edge of the pleurze to near the spiracles and below

along the coxe, a broad curved mark on the lower edge of

the mesopleure, the base being narrower and continued

higher up than the apical, and lines of equal width on the

apices of the abdominal segments, pale yellow. Four front

legs pale fulvous, paler at the base; the fulvous tint on the

hind legs is deeper, the lower and outer side of their coxe,

the apical joint of the trochanters, the apex of the femora

narrowly, and the base of the tibiz still more narrowly, black.

Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma black. @.

Length 12 mm.

Bidi, Borneo; July (/ewiit).

Face, except on the outer edges, closely, roughly punc-

tured, the clypeus smooth. Front stoutly, obliquely striated

below the ocelli, the lower part furrowed down the centre.

The yellow projecting part of the pronotum stoutly striated ;

the upper part of the propleures irregularly, finely striated

and punctured; the middle stoutly striated. Mesonotum

closely, distinctly punctured, finely striated on the edges of

the lobes; the scutellum smooth, its basal depression deep

with four stout keels; the mesopleure stoutly striated,

except in the middle at the apex. On the base of the

metanotum is a band of stout strize, closely pressed, but

clearly separated ; the space between them and the keel is,

in the middle, coarsely, closely shagreened, almost punctured ;

the sides have the punctures clearly separated. Metapleure

closely, rugosely punctured, the punctures running into reti-

culations, especially at the base. ‘The first abdominal segment

smooth and shining, the others opaque, aciculated.

Mesostenvideus cariniscutis, sp. n.

Black ; a line on the inner orbits, a mark, longer than

wide, narrowed above, transverse at the apex, in the centre

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 23

of the face, two large marks, almost united above, in the

centre of the clypeus, the apex of the labrum, an irregular

line on the base of the pronotum, tegule, tubercles, scutel-

Jums, scutellar keels, metanotal spines, and the apices of the

abdominal segments, yellow ; the four front legs yellow, the

femora tinged with fulvous, their tarsi fuscous; the hind

coxe and basal two thirds of the femora fulvous, the tro-

chanters, apex of femora, and almost the apical half of the

tibie, black ; the basal part of the tibize testaceous, the tarsi

white. Antennze broadly ringed with white. Wings hyaline,

the stigma and nervures black, the areolet square; the

transverse median nervure received distinctly behind the

transverse basal. 2.

Length 12, terebra 2 mm.

Sikkim.

Front irregularly transversely striated, the strise weaker

below; a narrow keel down the middle. Face finely,

irregularly reticulated, the clypeus with large scattered

punctures. Mesonotum closely minutely punctured. Scutel-

lum with large lateral keels to near the apex. Base of

metanotum finely, closely, longitudinally striated, the striz

becoming stronger towards the apex; the rest closely,

strongly reticulated ; spines broad, rounded at apex. Abdo-

men finely, closely punctured, the ‘postscutellum smooth.

Mesostenus respondens, Cam., M. brahminus, Cam., JM,

misippus, Cam., JM. clarinervis, Cam., M. reticulatus, Cam.,

M. caligatus, Cam., J. saltator, Cam., M. versatilis, Cam.,

and M. maculiceps, Cam., from the Khasias, belong to

Mesostenoideus.

Friona lineatipes, sp. n.

Black ; the face (except for a short line in the centre below

the antennze and the clypeal fovea), the clypeus (except for a

black triangular mark in the centre of apex), the orbits

broadly (except the upper half of the outer), mandibles (except

the teeth), palpi, a broad line on the pronotum, scutellums, a

large, transverse, triangular mark behind the hind wings, a

broad longitudinal mark on the middle of metanotum, com-

mencing shortly behind the keel and uniting at the apex to a

broader transverse one across the apex, tubercles, a line at

the apex of the pleural furrow, a longish mark, widest below,

in the middle of the metapleuree at “the apex, not quite the

apical half of the postpetiole, a narrower band on the apex

of the second segment, a still narrower one on the apex of

the third, slightly dilated at the middle, broadly laterally,

24 Mr. P. Cameron on Lymenoptera

where it is continued on the sides to the base of the segment,

a similar, but narrower and more irregular line on the fourth,

not dilated in the middle, a narrower one, interrupted in the

middle, on the fifth, and the sides and middle of the apical

two broadly, yellow. Four front legs pale yellow, the

femora tinged with fulvous, the middle tarsi infuscated ;

hind coxe black, with a yellow mark above, extending from

the base to shortly beyond the middle; the trochanters

fulvous, the basal joint black at the base below and entirely

above; the femora fulvous, broadly black above, more

narrowly below; the tibize yellow, tinged with fulvous, the

base narrowly, the apex more broadly black ; the tarsi white

with a narrow black line at the base. Wings hyaline, the

stigma and nervures black. Antenne broadly ringed with

white. @.

Length 13, terebra 5 mm.

Darjiling, 7000 feet; March (C. 7. Bingham).

Frout with a weak, straight, central, and three oblique

keels on either side, the inner oblique one weaker than the

outer two, the outer keel originating from the hind ocelli ;

be low, the front is depressed; the keels are weaker in the

depression. Mesonotum smooth, the apex of its middle lobe

stoutly, metanotum closely, rugosely reticulated ; the space

between the keels stoutly, longitudinally striated; on the

sides the strise run into reticulations; the basal keel is not

very distinct, being confused with the puncturation ; there

is a slight indication of an areola at the base; the second

keel is distinct, broadly roundly curved, dilated laterally.

Basal slope of scutellum with large, clearly separated

punctures, the top is more closely punctured, the punctures

running into each other; it 1s depressed in the middle at

the apex; the apical slope closely, strongly punctured.

Metanotum behind the keel closely, strongly transversely

striated. Pro- and mesopleure stoutly longitudinally

striated; the mesopleurze smooth in the middle behind

and more or less reticulated below ; the metapleuree stoutly

obliquely striated, except for an almost smooth space at the

base. ‘Ihe recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond

the middle. Pubescence on thorax not very dense and pale

in colour.

This species comes near /. frontella, Cam., and the Malay

F, varipes, Cam.

Cratocryptus annulitarsts, sp. 0.

Black ; a semicircular mark on the sides of the face

touching the eyes, a square mark in its centre, touching the

from the Ortental Zoological Region, 25

clypeus, the clypeus, a broad curved line on the inner orbits,

commencing shortly above the antennze and extending above

to the end of the eyes, a longish triangular mark (the

narrowed end above) on the outer orbits, commencing

shortly below the middle and reaching near to the middle of

the malar space, a broad mark on the base of the mandibles,

palpi, a broad line on the middle of pronotum, a line on the

lower edge of propleure, tubercles, tegulze, a line on scutellar

keels, scutellum, a broad, large mark, roundly narrowed

below, on the sides of metanotum on apical slope, and the

apices of the abdominal segments (the lines on the basal

three broad, narrower on the others), pale yellow. The

seventh to thirteenth joints of antennz white, except above.

Legs red, the hinder darker in tint, the tarsi black, the

second and third joints of the posterior white; the four

anterior cox and trochanters yellow ; the hind coxe (except

broadly on the inner side, where they are yellow, as they are

also at the apex below), the apex of femora narrowly, and the

base and apex of tibiw slightly more broadly, black. Wings

hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. ¢.

Length 10, terebra 2 mm.

Sikkim.

Face rugosely punctured, more or less reticulated in the

centre ; the clypeus strongly, sparsely punctured. Front in

the centre, to the apical depression, strongly striated, the

striae intermixing; it is longitudinally striated above,

transverse below. Mesonotum closely, finely punctured,

irregularly transversely striated along the furrows. Scutel-

lar depression wide and deep ; there are four stout keels on

it. Metanotum behind the keel stoutly, longitudinally

striated ; the rest stoutly, closely reticulated. Pleuree closely,

rugosely reticulated; the greater part of the propleure

stoutly striated. ‘The first and the apical segments of the

abdomen smooth; the middle closely punctured. Areolet

wider along the radius than along the transverse cubital

nervures, of almost equal width; the recurrent nervure is

received shortly beyond the middle.

This species has the general coloration (including the

marks on the face) of C. rufipes, Cam., from Deesa, but is

much larger ; they may be separated as follows :—

Base of metanotum punctured, with an areola; the post-

petiole strongly punctured ; meso- and metapleuree

with yellow marks; hind cox red; the hind tarsi

NOGMACWIALS WACHN WHICE! | rere « <ateisio ceeneeeltresie-e o's rufipes.

Base of metanotum striated, without an areola; the post-

petiole smooth ; meso- and metapleure immaculate ;

the hind coxe black and yellow, the hind tarsi

TALC ULCER YEN WEG ae ce ude welch spe sore oars reese annulitarsia,

26 Mr. P. Cameron on [Hymenoptera

Colganta latiscutis, sp. n.

Rufo-fulvous ; the basal six joints of antennze coloured

like the body, the seventh to twelfth pale yellow, the apical

black ; the apical joint of the middle tarsi, the apical two of

the hinder as well as the base of the second and third joints

of the hind pair black. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent,

suffused with brassy tints; the costa and stigma dark testa-

ceous, the nervures black. Median segment closely rugosely

punctured-striated-reticulated ; the two basal keels are irre-

gular; the basal abscissa weaker than the apical, its basal

part straight, the apical longer, weaker, and roundly curved

outwardly. Hye-orbits broadly pale yellow ; the front in the

middle closely rugosely punctured, raised, obliquely narrowed

to a point below. Temples almost obsolete, the eyes above

extending to the extreme edge, below they are abruptly

obliquely narrowed ; the margined edge of occiput is placed

low down below the top of the eyes. Pro- and mesopleure

closely distinctly punctured. Scutellum closely strongly

punctured, thickly covered with longish black hair; the

lateral keels extend to the middle. Mandibles pale yellow,

the apex from shortly behind the teeth black. Centre of face

slightly raised, of equal thickness, not tuberculate above.

Scutellum broad, rounded at the apex, which has a longish,

steep, vertical slope.

Length 17, terebra 3 mm.

Sikkim.

May be known from C. fulvipennis, Cam., by the middle

of the antenne being clear yellow, the antenne being distinctly

three-coloured, by the temples being much less developed

above and more sharply oblique, by the shorter ovipositor,

and by the difference in the metanotal keels: in /ulvipennis

the inner keel is straight, the apical slightly rounded back-

wards in the middle and obliquely sloped; there is a distinct

outer keel inside the spiracles, it having the basal two thirds

roundly curved inwardly, the lower third straight; in the

present species there is no outer keel and the inner is broadly

roundly curved. The difference in the form of the scutellum

is well marked ; in fwlvipennis it is clearly longer than wide

and becomes distinctly narrowed towards the apex, with a

gradual, short, not a vertical slope.

APHADNUS, gen. nov.

Areolet entirely open at apex, the only transverse cubitus

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 27

short, the recurrent nervure widely distant from it, the cubitus

between it and the transverse cubitus sharply obliquely

sloped. Antenne 30-jointed, basal three joints of flagellum

greatly elongated, the basal two of equal length. Transverse

median nervure in hind wings broken below the middle.

Hind ocelli separated from the eyes by a greater distance

.than they are from each other. Eyes very large, the temples

very short, the occiput roundly deeply incised. Metanotum

with three central aree, the petiolar a longish triangle, the

areola longish, 6-angled, obliquely narrowed at the base, the

apex transverse ; the apical area occupying the apical slope ;

there are two large lateral basal areze; spiracles small, not

much longer than wide, broadly rounded before and behind.

First abdominal segment large, longer than it is wide at the

base ; the first, second, third, and base of fourth segments

closely, regularly, longitudinally striated.

The antennee are as long as the body, slender, ringed with

white ; the wings are spotted. Parapsidal furrows distinct,

complete, the metathorax densely covered with long pubes-

cence. Radial cellule wide near the middle ; radius issuing

from middle of stigma, its first abscissa shorter than second.

Eyes higher than the vertex.

This genus cannot be confounded with any of the known

genera of Hemitelline wanting the areolet. The first abdo-

minal segment is shorter and wider than usual; noteworthy

are the striated basal abdominal segments.

Aphadnus rufipes, sp. n.

Black ; tegule, a broad band on the apex of the first

abdominal segment, a stripe in the centre of the apex of the

second, apical half of fourth, an obscure broken narrow line

on fifth, and a narrow complete one on sixth, whitish yellow.

Legs bright red, the four anterior coxe, the base of hind tibie

behind, and the hind spurs white ; the rest of the hind tibiz

and the tarsi black. Wings hyaline, a cloud (rounded and

narrowed in front) before the apex of transverse basal and trans-

verse median nervure, extending slightly beyond the latter, a

large one extending from the base to near the apex of radial

cellule, its lower half projecting backwards along the disco-

cubital nervure, and one in the apical fourth of hind wings,

almost black ; the nervuresand stigma black. Head opaque,

closely punctured, densely covered with white pubescence,

as are also the pleuree and metanotum. Face and clypeus

dilated in the centre. Middle lobe of mesonotum somewhat

28 Mr. P. Cameron on [Hymenoptera

strongly and closely striated, the outer and inner edges of the

lateral more finely striated, their centre opaque, alutaceous.

Base of metanotum irregularly transversely striated, more

finely and closely on the inner side at the base, the apical

striz interlacing, the apical slope more strongly, obliquely,

and transversely striated, the striae more or less interlacing.

Except on the smooth apex the basal segment of abdomen is

closely finely striated, as is also the basal half of the fourth ;

the striation on the second and third is stronger. Abdomen

as wide as the thorax and slightly longer than the head and

thorax united. ?.

Length 7, terebra 2 mm.

Kuching; September (J. Hewitt).

IcCHNEUMONIN2E.

Imeria levifrons, sp. n.

Black ; the entire head smooth, shining; the mesonotum

opaque, closely irregularly striated ; the propleurse almost

smooth ; the mesopleurz smooth at the apex above, the rest

closely longitudinally striated, the striae more or less twisted ;

the metapleuree smooth at the base and below, the rest more

or less striated ; the metanotum (except the enclosed space at

the base) closely reticulated, more or less striated; the

abdomen less shining than the thorax. The following are

pale yellow : face, ely) peus, mandibles, palpi, a spot outside

the lower part of the eyes, the upper inner orbits somewhat

broadly from the antennze to the ocelli; a large broad oblique

mark, obliquely narrowed on the outer side, behind the top of

the eyes; a small irregular mark outside the lower edge of

the eyes. Base of pronotum, a line on the apical half of the

sides above, tubercles, scutellum, apical slope of metanotum,

the mark roundly dilated above in the middle, a large

elongated triangular mark below the hind wings, a line about

the same length on the lower apical half of the apex of

metapleure, its base roundly narrowed, the apex of the first

abdominal segment broadly, a mark on the apex of the second

and base of third, forming united a triangular lateral mark,

narrow lines on the apices of the third to sixth all round,

and the seventh broadly, whitish yellow. Four front lees

whitish yellow, the femora tinged with fulvous, the hinder

yellow, the femora and tibie broadly black, the tarsi fuscous ;

the coxe black, rufous at the base. Wings hyaline, the

nervures and stigma black. @.

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 29

Length 7 mm.

Kuching ; September (John Hewitt).

Antenne longer than the body, the fourth to eighteenth

joints of the flagellum white. Ovipositor-sheath largely pro-

jecting, as long as the apical two joints united. Apex of

scutellum slightly rounded inwardly, the lateral keels of equal

height. Areolet 5-angled, the nervures clearly separated in

front. Apex of abdomen becoming gradually narrowed from

the middle. Transverse keels on metanotum indistinct.

Imeria, Cam., was described from the Khasia Hills, Assam,

in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. (7) 1903, p. 174. Its occur-

rence in Borneo is another proof that Assam belongs to the

Indo-Malay zoological region rather than to the Indian.

It has a considerable resemblance in the form of the head

and abdomen to Aulojoppa, Cam., but that genus has longi-

tudinal as well as transverse keels on the metanotum.

Imeria has only transverse keels.

ALLONOTUS, gen. nov.

Antenne ringed with white, broadly dilated as in the

Joppini. Clypeus clearly separated, raised in the middle

above, the sides above bordered by a furrow. Mesonotuin

with distinct parapsidal furrows on the basal half, the basal

half of the mesosternum bordered by a distinct, if narrow,

furrow. Scutellum keeled laterally to the top of the apex,

which has a longish oblique slope. Metanotum regularly

areolated ; the areola widely distant from the base, longish

triangular, the narrowed end at the base; there is no petiolar

area, the basal lateral arez therefore being confluent ; there

are three aree on the apical slope, the lateral keels of which

are dilated near the top. Abdominal petiole dilated at the

apex, the postpetiole not, however, separated ; there are seven

segments of equal width (except that the second is narrowed

at the base); the ovipositor has a longish sheath, which

projects obliquely over the top of the last segment, which is

bluntly pointed; gastrocceli broad, smooth, broader than the

space separating them. Legs stout, the hind coxe large,

the tarsi spinose. Areolet 5-angled, narrowed in front ;

the discocubital nervure with an indication of a stump; the

transverse median nervure interstitial Head large, the

temples broad, rounded ; the occiput deeply incised.

The thorax is long, about three times longer than wide ;

the eyes are large, parallel; there is a short malar space ;

the transverse median nervure in the hind wings broken near

30 Hymenoptera from the Oriental Zoological Region.

the bottom. The ventral keel extends to the apex of the

fourth segment. Head large, wider than the thorax. Labrum

hidden.

The edentate mandibles refer this genus to the Heresiarchini.

It cannot well be confounded with any of the known genera

in that group. The parapsidal furrows and that on the meso-

notum are quite as distinct as they are in many Cryptine ;

but in other respects the genus belongs to the Ichneumonine.

The antenne are exactly as in the Joppini. Characteristic

is the dilated at the base, clearly separated clypeus. In this

respect the clypeus shows an approach to what it is in

Chiaglas, an Kast-Indian genus belonging to the same group,

but differing considerably otherwise.

Allonotus rufus, sp. n.

Rufous ; the red on the second and following segments of

the abdomen darker, more testaceous in colour; a broad band

at the outer sides of the ocelli (continued as a narrower line

in front of them), the second abdominal segment (except at

the sides and apex), slightly more than the basal halt of the

third and fourth segments, the fifth (except narrowly at the

apex), the sixth (except for a narrow white line at the apex),

and the seventh (except for a wide white band in the middle),

black; the petiole has the bright red colour of the thorax ;

the gastrocceli pale rufous, Legs coloured like the thorax,

except the apices of the four anterior tarsi broadly, the apex

of the hind femora narrowly, and the hind tibize and tarsi,

which are black. Antennze with the scape rufous, the

flagellum black, brownish at the base below, the middle with

a broad white band. Wings hyaline, the stigma fuscous, the

nervures black. ¢@.

Length 10 mm.

Kuching ; December (Hewitt).

Face and clypeus smooth, the former pilose, the latter bare ;

the rest of the head smooth and shining. Except the meso-

notum (which is opaque and slightly shagreened), the thorax

is smooth and shining, as is likewise the abdomen (except

the second and third segments, which are slightly shagreened).

The thorax is three times longer than wide; the scutellum is

not raised above the mesonotum and is longer than wide ;

the metathorax is densely covered with a short pile.

[To be continued. ]

On new Mammals from South Africa. dl

IIl.—On Three new Mammals from South Africa.

By R. C. WRouGHTON.

In a small collection of mammals recently presented to the

Natural History Museum by Mr. C. W. Turner, of Good

Hope, near Aberfeldy, in the north-east of the Orange River

Colony, there are three specimens of an Otomys which differs

from any form hitherto described.

Otomys Turnert, sp. n.

An Otomys of the general form of O. Sloggett?, but slightly

larger and paler.

Fur long and soft; 17-20 mm., against 10-12 mm. in

O. Sloggettt.

General colour above between “raw umber”? and tawny

olive; the individual hairs “ slate-grey,” with a “clay-

coloured” tip (5 mm.), but a certain small proportion of

them, of greater length, with black tips (5-10 mm.).

Under surface “ pinkish buff”; the hairs with slaty bases.

Hands and feet silvery white; hairs on tail, like those on

back, markedly longer than in O. Sloggett’; in the latter the

hairs of its upper surface are coloured black, whereas in

O. Turnert all are dull white except a few on the median line,

above, towards the end.

Skull and dentition in all essential characters the same as

in O. Sloggetti, but upper molar row distinetly larger and

nasals more spatulate (6°5 mm. at broadest, instead of 5 mm.

in O. Sloggetti).

Dimensions of type specimen :—

Head and body 134 mm.; tail 493; hind foot 24; ear 17.

Skull: greatest length 385 ; basilar length 29; zygomatic

breadth 19 ; length of upper molar series 8°5; bullee 7-5.

Hab. Aberfeldy, N.E. Orange River Colony. Alt. 3500/.

Type. Young male. B.M. no. 7. 5. 25. 5. Original

number 27. Collected on 9th July, 1906.

Only one of the three specimens sent has a skull, and

unfortunately it is the youngest. Though young, however,

the type is adult, and the skull dimensions given above may

be accepted as practically normal for the species, but the

body-measurements are small. The largest of the three

specimens measured head and body 160 mm. and tail 59;

this was almost certainly a fully-grown animal.

This new species is undoubtedly very close to O. Sloggett/,

from which, however, it is separable externally by its longer

14

32 On new Mammals from South Africa.

fur, paler general colour, white feet and longer hind feet, and

by the skull having broadened spatulate nasals and a longer

upper molar tooth-row.

In my key to this genus (published in this Magazine in

October last, p. 266) the last section under A. a! might now

stand as follows :—

b°, All four lamin of m, complete ; tail short

and slender,

a‘, Fur long; hind foot 24 mm.; upper molar

series:S:0 mami. s( Oden.) cre pears O, Turnert, sp. n.

b*. Fur short ; hind foot 22mm. ; upper molar

series 7°55 mm. (Deelfontein.) ........ O. Sloggetti, Thos.

In order to compare a specimen of Pedetes contained in

Mr. Turner’s collection, I had occasion to lay out all the

specimens available in the Museum, with the result that it

became at once apparent that there are at least three local

races of the South-African Pedetes cafer separable on colour-

characters. They are distinguishable as follows :—

A. Tail dark above; paler below than above, but not

white ; ears (ctve.) 75 mm. (Cape Colony.) ...... P. cafer.

B. Tail pale above, white below.

a. General colour above “ wood-brown ”; ears longer,

(ere) -formm:) (OMRe Colony.) Vester eh tells e + 5:- P. c. orangia.

b. General colour above redder, nearest to “ vinaceous

cinnamon,” but darker ; ears shorter, (czc.) 70 mm.

(NE Dinas walls) Fea ao.ca, «ate yoxm 2 y-savegercunieiny tele topscahna > P.c. saline.

The following are descriptions of the new subspecies :—

Pedetes cafer orangie, subsp. n.

Size and general characters as in true P. cafer.

General colour above “ wood-brown.” Hairs on the

shoulders and back pale slate-coloured at their bases, then

‘ pinkish buff” with black tips ; a small proportion of wholly

black hairs sparsely scattered among the others. (In all

three forms the slaty bases, black tips, and scattered black

hairs disappear on the lower back, rump, and tail.) Colour

below pure white, the hairs white to their bases. Tail above

coloured like the rump, below pure white (except a discoloured

area near the base) ; tip for about 100 mm. black above and

below.

Skull-characters as in true P. cafer.

Dimensions of type :—

Head and body 400 mm. ; tail 410; hind foot 130; ear 75.

Skull: upper length 89; basilar length 62; zygomatic

breadth 57.

On new African Spiders and Solifuge. 33

Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 7. 5.25.11. Original

number 24. Collected by Mr. C. W. Turner on 27th Feb-

ruary, 1906.

Hab. Aberfeldy Dist., O.R.C.

Other specimens from Ladybrand and Vredefort show that

this form extends all over the Orange River Colony, and even

to Bechuanaland.

Pedetes cafer saline, subsp. n.

Size and general characters as in true P. cafer.

General colour above as in P. cafer, though slightly paler,

much redder than in P. c. orangie; the ground-colour of the

hairs ‘‘ vinaceous cinnamon” rather than “ pinkish buff,”

and the proportion of black greater. The underside quite

as in P. c. orangie.

Skull-characters as in true P. cafer.

Dimensions of type :—

Head and body 398 mm.; tail 464; hind foot 144; ear 70.

Skull: upper length 90; basilar length 63; zygomatic

breadth 57.

Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 6. 4.3.86. Original

number 1345. Collected by Mr. C. H. B. Grant on 30th

December, 1905, and presented to the Museum by Mr. C. D.

Rudd.

Hab. Woodbush, Zoutpansberg Dist., N.W. Transvaal.

T'wo other specimens taken at the same time and place do

not materially differ from the type.

1V.— Descriptions of new Species of African Spiders and

Solifuge. By A. S. Hirst.

Pterinochilus Hindet, sp. n.

3 —Cephalothorax equal in length to patella, tibia, and

tarsus of maxillipalp and considerably shorter than patella

and tibia of fourth leg. Ocular tubercle considerably longer

than broad, the clypeus narrow.

Legs. 4,1, 2, 3. Metatarsus of first leg sinuate, with the

distal end slightly thickened, and leaving but little space

between metatarsus and spur of tibia when closed on tibia ;

tibia of first leg more slender than femur. Patella and tibia

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. a

34 Mr. A. S. Hirst on new

of first leg longer than the corresponding segments of the

fourth.

Palpal organ resembling closely that of P. murinus, the

terminal portion of the style very long and slender (fig. 1).

Fig. 1.

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Palpal organ of Pterinochilus Hindez.

Measurements in mm. Length of cephalothorax 13°5, of

patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp 14°75, of first leg 49, of second

leg 44°5, of third leg 41, of fourth leg 50, of patella and tibia

of first leg 16°5, of patella and tibia of fourth leg 15°25; total

length 27.

Hab. A single male specimen was collected by Mr. 8. L.

Hinde at Fort Hall (4400 feet), British East Africa.

Remarks. The male of P. Hindei differs from that of

P. murinus, to which it is closely allied, in the much smaller

size and in that the cephalothorax equals the patella, tibia,

and tarsus of the maxillipalp, whilst in murdnus the cephalo-

thorax considerably exceeds the patella, tibia, and tarsus of

the palp in length.

Pterinochilus murinus, Pocock.

Pterinochilus murinus, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 753, pl. xl.

fig. 4; 1898, p. 501.

3 .— Cephalothorax longer than patella, tibia, and tarsus of

maxillipalp, and shorter than patella and tibia of fourth leg.

Legs. Metatarsus of first leg sinuate and dilated distally,

tibia of first leg more slender than femur. Patella and tibia

of first leg exceeding patella and tibia of fourth in length.

Size. Vhis species 1s much larger than P. fHinde?,

African Spiders and Solifuge. 35

Measurements in mm. Length of cephalothorax 19, of

patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp 17°25, of patella and tibia

of first leg 23, of patella and tibia of fourth leg 20; total

length 32.

Hab. Mombasa (Capt. Crawshay).

Pterinochilus meridionalis, sp. n.

&¢ .—Obolour. Cephalothorax greyish black, with lines of

yellowish hairs radiating from the fovea; sternum and ventral

surface of coxee of legs deep black ; abdomen greyish yellow,

the ventral surface marked with a dark patch.

Cephalothorax almost equal in length to patella and tibia

of fourth leg, much shorter than patella and tibia of first leg,

and considerably exceeding patella, tibia, and tarsus of

maxillipalp in length. Ocular tubercle longer than wide,

clypeus of moderate length.

Legs. Metatarsus of first leg moderately stout, curved,

thickened apically, of much less length than tibia, and leaving

but little space between spur and hbase of metatarsus when

closed on tibia.

Lalpal organ with the style fairly long and slender (fig. 2).

Palpal organ of Pterinochilus meridionalis.

Measurements in mm. Length of cephalothorax 14, of

patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp 11°75, of tibia of first leg 11,

of metatarsus of first leg 9°5, of patella and tibia of first leg 17,

of patella and tibia of fourth leg 14°5 ; total length 25.

Hab. A single male specimen was collected at Dowa,

British Central Africa, by Mr. A. R. Andrew during March

1907.

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BIS

36 Mr. A. S. Hirst on new

Fleteroscodra crassipes, sp. 1.

9 —Colour. Legs marked with dark spots, which are

distributed much as in H. maculata.

Cephalothoraz longer than wide, of much less length than

patella and tibia of fourth leg, and exceeding patella and

tibia of first leg in length.

Sternum a little longer than broad; posterior sigilla

situated in the posterior third of the sternum and at but little

distance from the lateral margins.

Legs. ‘Tibia and patella of first lez much shorter than the

corresponding segments of the fourth. Fourth leg long-

haired and very stout, the femur being much swollen and the

patella and tibia of considerable thickness. Metatarsus of

fourth leg a little longer than tibia (fig. 3).

Fig. 3.

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Fourth leg of Heteroscodra crassipes from above.

Measurements in mm. Length of cephalothorax 21, of first

leg GO, of second leg 57, of third leg 57, of fourth leg 77, of

patella and tibia of first leg 20, of patella and tibia of fourth

leg 25 ; total length of body 50 ; width of cephalothorax 18°25,

of femur of fourth leg 7°75, of tibia of fourth leg 5:5.

Hab. An adult female from Efulen, Camaroons, and

another from the forest 25 miles inland to the east of Kribi,

Camaroons. These specimens were collected by Mr. G. L.

Bates.

Remarks. This spider differs from H, maculata, the only

other species of the genus, in the much greater thickness of

the fourth pair of legs and in the great dilatation of their

femora.

Cladomelea ornata, sp. n.

?.—Colour pale yellow; tarsi and distal portions of

metatarsi of legs fuscous, the metatarsi of the legs of the

anterior pairs being marked in the middle of their length

with an additional dark patch; patelle and tibie of legs

African Spiders and Solifuge. 37

with light brown spots; cephalothoracie spines apically

darkened.

Cephalothorax. Ocular tubercle moderately elevated as

compared with that of C. longipes, the three spines of the

cephalothorax of fair length and the middle one slightly

curved in an anterior direction (fig. 4).

Fig. 4.

Side view of cephalothorax of Cluwomelea ornata.

Abdomen. Dorsal tubercles of abdomen small, almost

uniform in size, and distributed much as in C. longipes.

The two median tubercles of the second row are replaced,

however, by a single tubercle. Additional tubercles are

present in the posterior median part of the abdomen, a

couple being situated between the row of three tubercles

and the lozenge-shaped group of four tubercles and another

pair placed posteriorly to the lozenge-shaped group.

Legs. Patella and tibia of first leg a little longer than

metatarsus and tarsus, and with tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus

more slender than is the case in C. longipes.

Measurements inmm. Length of first lez 27, of second

leg 19°5, of third leg 10, of fourth leg 18°5, of posterior

cephalothoracic spine 2°75, of ocular tubercle *5, of cephalo-

thorax 4°75, of abdomen 10; total length 14:5; breadth of

cephalothorax 4°75, of abdomen 12.

Egg-cocoon pale yellow in colour, hemispherical, the surface

smooth, the pedicle very short.

Hab. Dry foot-hills, South-east Ruwenzori, altitude

3400 feet; a single female specimen was collected by the

British Expedition to Ruwenzori in May 1906.

Remarks. he more important differences between this

new form and C. long/pes are shown below. The characters

of the latter species are in part taken from a female specimen

from San Salvador, Congo.

Ocular tubercle moderately elevated, the three

spines of the cephalothorax fairly long; tu-

bercles of dorsal surface subequal in size; patella

38 On new African Spiders and Solifuge.

and tibia of first leg together a little longer than

the metatarsus and tarsus .............0005- C. ornata, sp. n.

Ocular tubercle high, the three spines of the cephalo-

thorax long; abdomen dorsally with a pair of

antero-lateral enlarged tubercles ; patella and

tibia of first leg together a little shorter than

the metatarsus and tarsus. ...0 0... 0h = acne C. longipes, Cambr.

Solpuga Fordi, sp. n.

S.—Colour pale yellow; mandible and head-plate pale

brown above, abdomen dorsally pale or darkened.

Head-plate exceeding tibia or metatarsus and tarsus of

maxillipalp by nearly two thirds of its breadth.

Mandible with the end curved. Anterior teeth two in

number and separated from the succeeding large tooth by

two intermediate ones, the first of these being exceedingly

BK nay

Alfeae: oO.

A. Mandible of Solpuga Fordi from the inner side.

B. Distal half of flagellum of 8. Fordi from above.

C. Side view of terminal portion of flagellum of S, Fordi.

minute. Flagellum dorsally provided with a spined projection

on angle, situated at the junction of the dark-coloured anterior

part with the distal and paler part. Inner side of flagellum

furnished with a smooth ridge (sometimes with a few spines

towards the distal end) running from the angular point and

* Zur Lésung der ‘ Muralis-Frage.’” 39

terminating towards the distal end of the flagellum in a spined

projection. Distal part of flagellum dilated and squarely

truncate, Flagellum inserted above the interval between the

two anterior teeth and extending posteriorly to the middle of

the mandible ; basal lamina moderately elevated (fig. 5).

Maxillipalp. Tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of maxillipalp

ventrally provided with numerous cylinder-bristles, those of

the metatarsus and tarsus unequal in size and more numerous

than those of the tibia.

Measurements in mm. Length of tibia of maxillipalp 13°75,

of metatarsus and tarsus of maxillipalp 12; breadth of

cephalothorax 8. (In another specimen tibia 12, metatarsus

and tarsus 11, cephalothorax 6:5.)

Hab. Two males of this new form were collected by

Captain R. Ford in British East Africa (near Lake Baringo ?).

Remarks. The specimens are dry and somewhat shrunken,

and therefore the total length cannot be given. The colour

also is somewhat faded. ‘The species may be readily distin-

guished by the peculiar form of the flagellum.

V.—Remarks on Prof. L. von Méhely’s Paper “Zur Lisung

der ‘ Muralis-Frage.’”” By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S.

PurRsuING his studies towards the solution of the Lacerta

muralis problem, studies which, it is already pertectly clear,

will result in a plethora of ill-defined Jordanian species, the

distinguished Hungarian zoologist Prof. von Méhely has

recently published a short paper * in which he attempts to

prove that the derivation of forms must have taken place in

a direction the reverse of that postulated by Eimer f and since

endorsed by most workers at this difficult group, including

myself, and to which Dr. Gadow’s recent investigation of the

American lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus t has given

further support.

The numerous variations in the pattern of markings in

LL. muralis fall roughly under five heads—striated, spotted,

reticulated, barred, ocellated. It is evident to any one

studying large series that these different types of markings

are insensibly connected by every possible gradation §. ‘lhe

* Ann. Mus. Hung. v. 1907, p. 84, pl. iii.

+ Arch, f. Naturg. 1881, p. 375,

t Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, i. p. 277.

§ Eimer has pointed out that the pattern on the posterior part of the

body anticipates the evolution of that on the anterior part. This is true

40 Mr. G. A. Boulenger—“ Zur Lisung

question is merely to determine which is to be regarded as

the most primitive. Ontogeny, in these lizards as well as in

their American analogues the Cnemiédophor’, indicates the

direction, as it is the general rule for new types of markings

to be produced in adult males and to be then transmitted to

females and young *, and strong evidence, derived from other

features, would be needed to convince us that, as now held

by Méhely, “striation is not the phyletic initial form, as

believed by Eimer, but the phyletic terminal stage.” His

opinion rests, in the first place, on the assumption + that

L. saxicola and L. chalybdea represent the most primitive

forms of wall-lizards, and he now attempts to strengthen his

position by arguments which seem to me based on a miscon-

ception of the evolution of cranial characters.

In my contribution published in 1905 { I expressed my

full agreement with Himer in regarding the striated type of the

var. campestris as the most primitive among all the wall-lizards,

and I added that “ we are led to regard the var. campestris

as the most ancient form from which the others were derived ;

and this, I think, is also supported by the structural cha-

racters, which differ less from what we may assume to be the

more normal or generalized form of Lacerta before adaptation

to climbing petrophilous habits had been reached.” A form

with massive convex skull, like the var. campestris, would

lead through a number of almost insensible gradations, such

as actually exist, to the much flattened skull which has been

distinguished by Eimer as the platycephalous type in oppo-

sition to the pyramidocephalous. I have never been able to

draw a satisfactory distinction between the two types, and I

do not quite understand how Prof. v. Méhely manages to

group his “ species’’ according to this character. In the list

he gives I notice that L. tiliguerta is regarded by him as

pyramidocephalous. In the paper of mine§ to which he

refers I have described the head of the true “ Tiliguerta”

from Sardinia as “ rather strongly depressed, the occiput quite

flat or even slightly concave”’; it is certainly as a rule more

of the markings on the tail. In primitive striated forms, suchas Z, agilis,

L. taurica, L. campestris, the tail is frequently more or less striated or

“ maculato-striata,’ whilst in extreme reticulated forms, such as LZ. ovy-

cephala, L. sardoa, L. nigriventris, it is more or less distinctly barred.

Reproduced tails, if bearing any markings, are always longitudinally

striped.

* This is clearly shown in the vars. campestris and serpa. We cannot

imagine the reverse.

+ Ann. Mus. Hung. ii. 1904, p. 376.

{ Trans. Zool. Soc. xvii. 1905, p. 388.

§ L.c. p. 409, pl. xxvili. fig. 7.

der ‘ Muralis-Frage.’” 41

platycephalous than that of the typical Z. murals, which

falls in the platycephalous group of Méhely. Besides, the

works of Eimer and of Bedriaga show, in several instances,

that these authors have been unable to correctly appreciate

the character to which, in my opinion, they have attached too

great importance *,

Yet, when we compare extreme forms, such as var. cam-

pestris or fiumana, on the one hand, and var. Bedriage + or

sardoa on the other, the difference in the two types of heads

stands out very strikingly. Weare not much the wiser when

the skulls have been prepared, as the characters pointed out

by Prof. v. Méhely are, for the most part, correlative of the

degree of elongation or depression of the head, which can be

appreciated without injuring the specimens. It must be

borne in mind that skulls of lizards cannot be extracted as we

do in the case of mammals. Preparing the skull means the

partial destruction of the specimen, and in a discussion of

this kind, dealing mainly with individual variations, annectant

examples cannot always be sacrificed. Prof. v. Méhely has

eiven us figures of two extreme types of skulls, but I could

easily lay out a series that would to such an extent bridge over

the differences as to show of how little practical value they

are for the definition of species. A discovery of Prof. v.

Méhely’s is the incomplete ossification of the supraocular

region in the most pronounced platycephalous wall-lizards.

But even here he is obliged to make this restriction—that in

some, in the var. Bedriage, for instance, the fontanelle in the

supraocular bony plates is ‘nicht immer vorhanden”? in adult

males. The character is therefore not of so great importance

after all.

What surprises me most is to find that Prof. v. Méhely

is not at all aware of the individual variations which occur in

the skulls of the forms which he classifies as “rein platy-

cephal” and ‘rein pyramidocephal.” Thus he attaches a

* For instance, in the vars. zzgriventris, serpa, and quadrilineata, some

specimens have been referred by Bedriaga to the pyramidocephalous

group (L. muralis neapolitana, Bedr.) and others of the same race to the

platycephalous (LZ. muralis fusca, Bedr.). Eimer regards the Maltese

lizard as platycephalous and its Filfola derivative as pyramidocephalous,

a distinction which is not borne out by the material at my disposal.

Werner has also fallen into the same pit, in describing examples of the

same form (Z. muralis htteralis, Werner) under the two groups (vars.

lissana and fiumana). I myself do not blush at confessing similar errors,

due, perhaps, more to the nature of things than to any want of ‘ Scharf-

blick” on my part.

+ Prof. v. Méhely calls this lizard Z. reticulata, Bedr. But this name

is otherwise employed in the genus Lacerta (Z. muralis reticulata,

Schreiber, Eimer).

42 Mr. G. A. Boulenger—“ Zur Lisung

great importance to the size and position of the true supra-

orbital bone, and yet a skull of an adult male of the var.

Bedriage which I have prepared for the purpose of verifying

his statements has the supraorbital bone entirely concealed

under the first osteodermal supraocular and the first supra-

ciliary, and this bone is rather smaller than in a male of the

var. téliguerta from Cagliari. It is clear to

me that Prof. v. Méhely is not familiar with

the skull of the true Z. tiliguerta, which, as

stated above, he regards as_ pyramido-

cephalous. The sketch here given of the

bony plates of the supraocular region, care-

fully prepared for me by Mr. E. Degen

from an adult male from Cagliari, shows that

the ossification of that region may in indi-

vidual cases be incomplete; and I should

add that the nasal apertures may be nearly

as large asin L. Bedriage, also that ossifi-

cations are altogether absent from the

temporal region. I have already pointed

out *, and still believe, that the var.

tiliguerta constitutes in a certain sense a

link between the var. Brueggemanni on the one hand, and

the vars. Bedriage and sardoa on the other.

Mr. Degen has also found the supraocular region incom-

pletely ossified in male specimens of the vars. Lilfordi and

Jiumana,.

Prof. v. Méhely thinks a study of the cranial characters

affords a key to the solution of the Z. muralis problem from

the point of view of the phylogeny. He starts from the

assumption that the more feeble development of the osteo-

dermal plates of the head indicates a lower stage of evolution,

and as the ultra-platycephalous forms of wall-lizards belong

more to the reticulate type of pattern, whilst the striated

lizards (with six light streaks) are pyramidocephalous, he

declares ‘so ist es klar, dass die Liingsstreifung nicht die

phyletische Ausganesform kennzeichnet, wie Kimer annahm,

sondern gerade die phyletische Endstufe anzeigt.”

I wish to give here my reasons for differing from this view.

In most groups of lower vertebrates, in which we have some

indication of orthogenetic derivation of forms, we find that a

massive skull degenerates into a more feebly ossified one

so far as the “roof”? is concerned. Among Silurid fishes we

have a beautiful example in the series Clartas—A llabenchelys

Supraocular region

of L, tihguerta.

* Tc. p. 404.

der ‘ Muralis- Frage.’ ” 43

— Clariallabes— Gymnallabes—Channallabes, in which we

witness the gradual disappearance of the plates which roof

over the sides of the skull, concurrently with the eel-like

elongation of the body, the reduction of the caudal fin, and

the reduction and ultimate suppression of the paired fins—a

most suggestive series, the direction of which is unmistakable.

Again, in the Characinid fishes, as pointed out by Sagemehl,

the more primitive types, with large toothed maxillary bone,

have a massive skull, the fontanelles appearing together with

the reduction of the maxillary bone. The same story is told,

in a somewhat different way, by Chelonians (Chelydra—

Staurotypus, Emys—Cistudo, &c.). In Lizards, also, when

we have to deal with an unmistakable orthogenetic series,

ithe drift of which is open to no question, as in Chalcides, for

instance, the more generalized type has a more convex skull,

better protected by osteodermal plates. But there is another

point which is of great importance, and which Prof. v.

Méhely does not appear to have considered. The Lacerte

with massive skulls, from which I would assume the platy-

cephalous lizards to have been derived, have teeth on the

palate (pterygoid bones). These teeth are nearly constantly

present in Lacerta taurica and constantly absent in the forms

of L. muralis with supraocular fontanelles mentioned by

Prof. v. Méhely. Now, the only cases in which I have found

teeth on the palate in L. muralis have been in examples of

the pyramidocephalous vars. campestris and serpa*, a fact

which, in my opinion, goes a long way to support the view

of Eimer as to the general drift of evolution in this group of

lizards.

Much as I value the careful investigation of neglected

points of structure, whether external or osteological, to which

Prof. Méhely is devoting himself, I cannot help regretting

the too frequent appeals he makes to phylogeny in order to

give importance to characters which, from a strictly syste-

matic point of view, must be regarded as trivial and had

better be omitted from specific diagnoses. I have pointed out

on various occasions } that some of the lepidosis characters on

* T have looked for these teeth in a large number of examples of the

typical form without ever succeeding in finding any. Siebenrock (Sitzb.

Akad. Wien, ciii. i. 1894, p. 254) must therefore, in all probability, have

had skulls of some other form before him when he wrote that six or

seven pterygoid teeth are present in Z. muralis. As his specimens are

stated to be from Dalmatia, it is most likely that they belong to one of

those pyramidocephalous forms which were grouped by Bedriaga under

L. muralis neapolitana.

+ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, ii. p. 333; Nov. Zool. xii. 1905, p. 75; Trans.

Zool. Soe. xvii. 1905, p. 351.

44 Mr. G. A. Boulenger— Zur Lésung

which he lays stress hopelessly break down when put to the

test of large series from more extensive areas than it is the

custom for faunists to deal with. An interesting example of

the danger of hasty generalizations of this kind has just come

under my notice.

As I mentioned in describing the typical form of Lacerta

muralis*, one of the two specimens (topotypes) from near

Vienna, received from my ever-obliging friend Dr. Werner,

proved to be highly aberrant in several respects. The

parietal shields were abnormally divided by a transverse cleft.

On recently enquiring from Dr. Werner as to whether he had

other examples from the same locality (Véslau, near Baden,

Lower Austria), I was greatly surprised to hear that an

examination of his material had satisfied him that this

division, instead of being anomalous or accidental, is the rule

in Lower Austria. Among his specimens from Médling,

Baden, Véslau, Reichenau, and Miesenbach, not one is without

at least an indication of it, whilst he cannot find such a thing

in any of his other specimens from various parts of Europe.

In order to further confirm this observation, Dr. Werner has

made excursions to Baden and Véslau, whence he sent me

six living examples, all showing a complete or incomplete

cleft across the parietal shields. Therefore this anomaly,

which very seldom occurs in other parts of the very exten-

sive habitat of the wall-lizard, although it is frequent in the

viviparous lizard t, appears to have become fixed in a small

district near Vienna. E. Martint mentions the case of

the inhabitants of a small secluded village in France,

nearly all of whom, at the end of the eighteenth century,

had an extra digit to both hands and feet; gradually,

however, as intercourse with neighbouring communities

became frequent, the deformity was wiped out. Some

years ago, when reporting his interesting discovery of

Lacerta praticola in a valley near Herkulesbad in Transyl-

vania §, Prof. v. Méhely pointed out the frequent presence of

an accessory shield between the interparietal and the occipital,

observed in 48 specimens out of 78; and as it so happened

that the unique specimen on which the species was estab-

lished by Eversmann offered the same anomaly, which occurs

* Trans. Zool. Soc. xvii, 1905, p. 354, pl. xxv. fig. 4.

f+ In which it may be transmitted to the offspring, as shown by a

female from the dunes near Ostend, which produced four young in

captivity (Aug. 4-7), all showing the same anomaly,

{ Histoire des Monstres, 1880. Quoted from Delage, L’ Hérédité, p. 194.

§ Math. Naturw, Ber. Ungarn, xii, 1894, p. 255, and Zool. Anz. 1895,

p. 474.

der ‘ Muralis-Frage.’”’ 45

occasionally in many other species of lizards, he was led to

regard it as “ ein ausgesprocheness Merkmal der Art [Z. prati-

cola], das mit der Zeit wohl eine vollkommene Bestindigkeit

erlangen wird, besonders da drei Schildchen hiufiger bei den

Weibchen, zweie aber bei den Minnchen auftreten und bei

Lacertiden bekanntermaassen die weiblichen Charactere viel

alloemeiner auf die Nachkommenschaft vererbt werden ” *,

Now the case of the Z. praticola from the valley near

Herkulesbad is analogous with that of the LZ. muralis near

Vienna, for in other parts of the habitat of the former species

the intercalated shield is only exceptional, as pointed out by

Kessler and by Bedriaga {, not being found in any of the

fifteen specimens from Caucasia examined by them ; it is

absent in the three specimens from Sukum Kaleh, Caucasia,

and in six out of the nine from the Comana Forest, Roumania f,

preserved in the British Museum. And yet Prof. v. Méhely

included this character of the three azygous shields between

the parietals among the points which, in his opinion, militate

in favour of regarding L. praticola as more nearly related to

LL. muralis (“besonders die auch bei L. muralis hiiufige

(uerteilung des Interparietale”’) than to LZ. vivipara §.

Needless to say, the intercalation of a shield between the

interparietal and the occipital (or division of the interparietal)

occurs occasionally also in L. vivipara. I have before me

specimens presenting such an anomaly from Falmouth,

Brussels, T'alomitza Valley and Brosteni, Roumania, and

Moscow. It should also be mentioned that a few (two to

four) granules may be present between the supraoculars and

the supraciliaries in L. vivipara, whilst, on the other hand,

these granules may be reduced to three or four in Z. praticola.

Great is no doubt the interest attaching to the record of

such individual deviations from the normal condition, great is

also the danger of introducing them in the diagnosis of species.

I seize this opportunity to point out that the genus

Apathya, recently proposed by Méuely || for Lacerta cappa-

docica, Werner, does not seem separable from Latastia,

Bedriaga. Iam indebted to Dr. Werner for a specimen of

Latastia cappadocica, and Dr. J. Roux has shown me another

(labelled as from Mesopotamia). ‘The structure of the digits

* T am not aware of any evidence in support of this statement.

¥ Zool. Anz. 1895, p. 261.

t I am here at variance with Kiritezcu, Bull. Soc. Sc. Bucarest, x.

1901, p. 318, but he does not state how many examples he has examined.

§ A view which has since been abandoned (cf. Ann. Mus. Hung, li,

1904, pp. 875 & 377),

|| Termész. Késlén., Budapest, Ixxxy. 1907, p. 2

-

46 Ona new Engystomatid Frog from Namaqualand.

is similar to that of ZL. longicandata, so is the shape of the

posteriorly narrowed frontal shield, with truncate antero-

lateral angles, and the coloration, as described and figured by

Werner, is highly suggestive of some examples of that species.

The three shields behind the nostril (“ postnasals ” of Werner)

cannot be regarded as a generic character, especially in

view of the well-known variability of these shields in the type

species of the genus Lacerta. Nor can generic importance be

ascribed to the scaling of the lower eyelid if we bear in

mind the modifications which it undergoes within the limits

of the genera Lacerta and Hremias.

VI.—Deseription of a new Engystomatid Frog of the Genus

Breviceps from Namaqualand. By G. A. BouULENGER,

HRS:

[Plate II.]

Breviceps macrops. (P1. II.)

Head comparatively larger and body less gibbose than in

B, gibbosus and allies, eyes much larger, their diameter 63 to

8 times in the length of head and body; interorbital space

narrow, barely half the width of the upper eyelid. Digits

shorter and thicker than in the other species of the genus ;

first and second fingers equal, twice as long as the fourth,

a little shorter than the third, which is not longer than the

eye; toes extremely short, increasing in length from the

rudimentary first to the fourth, which is not longer than the

third finger, the fifth as long as the second; subarticular

tubercles very small, very feebly prominent under the fingers,

\% <F

Lower aspect of hand and foot.

absent under the toes; two large, feebly prominent metatarsal

tubercles, the inner longer than its distance from the extre-

mity of the first toe. Body with small smooth warts above,

limbs and lower parts smooth. Pale sand-colour above, with

e On new Reptilia from Mashonaland. 47

dark brown spots or marblings; a broad dark angular or

curved band from one eyelid to the other across the back of

the head anda narrow straight dark streak across the forehead,

between the anterior borders of the upper eyelids ; upper lip,

limbs, and lower parts white.

mm

IR Royoa MPAGUERR IHC) IMG Apo ooo Dada bo ao oUD 48

Flea diye mere crete ser on ae clarhiamaene 3

WsiGhay Ge INN. oo oonecobeeuveaaauuer ity

Dram SleRO yO eek verte scar tek eoNere idee. 6

Interorbitall wadthy $e... fe swe sts 0 hat 24

Awake Ge mnOldd svoogodeecavananedoc 12

Moreglimnll ieee seer eckoi tna Mole cise cone: 22

Elaine setae cus wre a Bicseecicd? ates song its 10

Mim de lining se tey ee teeta cud cestaiond ccs 30

1 SHG 0) rt oth 0 oa Bn at Ao Sar ne eR 3

I am indebted to my friend Mr. L. Péringuey, Director of

the South African Museum, for three specimens of this most

distinct new species, one of which he has kindly presented to

the British Museum, Mr. Péringuey, who has been able to

keep them alive for some time, writes to me that they spend

the whole day buriedin damp sand. At night the pupil, which

contracts to a narrow horizontal slit, expands over nearly the

whole eye. Like B. gibbosus, this frog, when teased, or

merely touched, inflates its body tremendously and utters

shrill screams—a habit which seems to be frequent among

burrowing batrachians whatever their affinities. Unlike

B. gibbosus, B. macrops does not cover itself with a viscous

secretion when alarmed.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE II.

Breviceps macrops, adult and half-grown,

VII.—Descriptions of a new Toad and a new Amphisbenid

from Mashonaland. By G. A. BouLeNGER, F.R.S.

[Plate III. ]

In November last I had the pleasure of drawing attention in

these ‘ Annals’ to the Chirinda Forest in 8.E. Mashonaland,

where Mr. Guy H. K. Marshall had discovered a new

chameleon of the genus Rhampholeon. I remarked that its

reptile and batrachian fauna, when explored, was likely to

afford further startling additions to South-African herpetology.

48 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on

A small collection, including examples of only two species,

was since made there by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, and

has been presented by him to the British Museum. The

following descriptions show that there was some foundation

for my optimism.

Bufo anotis. (PI. IIL.)

Crown without bony ridges; head as long as broad; snout

pointed, projecting beyond the mouth, with strong canthus ;

loreal region nearly vertical, concave ; interorbital space flat,

a little broader than the upper eyelid; no tympanum, no

eustachian tubes. Fingers’ short, blunt, with strong double

subarticular tubercles, first and second equal; toes short, one-

third webbed, the web covered with coarse granules ; sub-

articular tubercles under the fourth toe double and very

prominent ; two round, subconical, metatarsal tubercles ; no

tarsal fold. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the posterior

border of the eye. Upper and lower parts covered with small

smooth warts; parotoid glands very large, moderately promi-

nent but well detined, only a little longer than broad, extending

on the sides to the base of the arm. Upper parts brown and

sides of head and body blackish, or entirely blackish above ;

liinbs, if light-coloured, with blackish cross-bars ; lower parts

bright gainboge-yellow, the breast speckled with black.

Male without vocal sac.

From snout to vent 40 mm.

Three male specimens, in nuptial dress, from small holes

containing water at the foot of large trees.

This remarkable new toad agrees with B. Preusst, Matschie,

and B. taitanus, Peters, in the absence of a tympanum. It

is readily distinguished from the former by the warty integu-

ment and the distinct parotoid glands, from the latter by the

more pointed snout with less oblique lores and the much

larger parotoids extending down the sides.

CHIRINDIA, gen. nov.

Distinguished from Amphisbena by the absence of an

ocular shield, the eye being situated under the posterior part

of a large shield (nasal + labial + prefrontal + ocular) covering

each side of the snout, and by the absence of preanal pores.

Teeth very small.

Chirindia Swynnertont.

A small triangular rostral, a pair of large shields covering

° 7 Ea . . o

the snout, a pair of small frontals in contact with a large

new Reptilia from Mushonaland. 49

shield extending, to the oral border, a pair of postfrontals and

a pair of parietals, both broader than long, and four small

square shields between them and the oral border; four lower

labials, first very large and forming a short suture with its

fellow behind the point of the elongate symphysial. 246

annuli on the body and 24 on the tail; in the middle of the

body an annulus contains 24 segments, 12 above and 12

below the lateral lines; dorsal and lateral segments a little

longer than broad, the two median ventrals about twice as

broad as long. Lateral line moderately distinet. Anal

segments scarcely enlarged. Hind of tail rounded. Flesh-

coloured, tinged with purplish.

Chirindia Swynnertont.

Total length 135 mm.; diameter of body 3; length of

tail 14.

A single specimen of this remarkable Amphisbenid worm-

like lizard was obtained. In the fusion of the ocular with

the large paired shield which covers the whole of the snout, in

addition to the small azygous rostral, Chirindia resembles

Placogaster, Blgy., the unique species of which inhabits

Senegambia ; but it is at once distinguished from that genus

by the paired ventral shields and the absence of preanal

ores. Chirindia is certainly, with Placogaster, the most

remarkable type of Amphisbeenid discovered within the last

twenty-five years.

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 4

50 On anew Cichhd Fish.

VIII.—Deseription of a new Cichlid Fish from Portuguese

East Africa. By G. A. Boutencer, F.R.S.

A SMALL series of fishes obtained by Mr. C. M. F. Swynnerton

in the Idunda River, a limestone-stream flowing into the lower

Buzi River, in Portuguese Gazaland (altitude about 100 feet),

and presented by him to the British Museum, consists of

examples of Barbus decipiens, Blgr., Tilapia shirana, Bler.,

T. melanopleura, A. Dum., and a new species of Ttlapia,

here described.

Tilapia Swynnertont.

Depth of body 24 times in total length, length of head 3

times. Snout obtuse, with straight or convex profile, as long

as the eye, which a little exceeds interorbital width and is

contained 31 times in length of head; mouth extending to

below anterior border of eye or a little beyond ; maxillary

exposed at the end; lips rather thick; 3 series of tricuspid

teeth and an outer series of rather large bicuspid teeth (40

to 42 in the upper jaw), the cusps subequal and very obtuse ;

3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek; large scales on the

opercle. Gill-rakers short, 8 on lower part of anterior arch.

Dorsal XV 9-10; spines increasing in length to the last,

which measures nearly half length of head; longest soft rays

% length of head. Anal III 8-9; third spine shorter than last

dorsal. Pectoral barely $ length of head, not extending to

origin of anal. Ventral reaching origin of anal or a little

beyond. Caudalrounded. Scales ctenoid, 20231 lateral

lines oa Dark olive-brown, with ill-defined black cross-

bars ; a black vertical bar below the anterior half of the eye

and a black opercular spot; fins grey; male with two or

three round yellow spots on the anal.

Total length 95 mm.

Described from three specimens.

This species bears a great resemblance to H wlochromis

Moffatt, Casteln. (Chromis philander, M. Weber), but differs

in the dentition and in the larger eye.

IX.—Deseriptions of Three new Freshwater Fishes discovered

by Mr. G. L. Bates in South Cameroon. By G. A.

BouLENGER, F.R.S.

Synodontis Butesi?.

Depth of body 33 to 43 times in the total length, length of

head 3 to 33 times. Head a little longer than broad, rugose

On Three new Freshwater Fishes. ult

above; snout obtusely pointed, as long as postocular part of

head ; eye supero-lateral, its diameter 4 to 5} in length of

head, 12 to 23 times in interorbital width; pramaxillary

teeth forming a short and broad band; movable mandibular

teeth not half diameter of eye, 30 to 40 in number; maxillary

barbel not distinctly margined, extending about to middle of

pectoral spine ; mandibular barbels with ubtuse or tubercular

branches, outer at least twice as long as inner and § to 2

leneth of head. Gill-openings not extending downwards

beyond root of pectoral spine. Occipito-nuchal shield rough

like the occiput, obtusely tectiform, not or’but slightly longer

than broad, the posterior processes rounded. Humeral

process rugose, acutely pointed, extending as far back as

occipito-nuchal process. Skin without villosities. DorsalI 7;

spine nearly as long as head, striated, strongly serrated in

front, with a few very feeble serree behind. Adipose dorsal

rather small, not longer than its distance from the rayed

dorsal. Anal III 8-9. Pectoral strongly serrated on outer

side, still more strongly on inner. Caudal fin deeply notched,

crescentic. Caudal peduncle longer than deep. Brown,

blotched and marbled with darker, with three broad irregular

dark bands, the first below the dorsal fin, the second below

the adipose, the third in front of the caudal fin; fins whitish,

with round black spots.

Total length 90 mm.

Several specimens from the Ja River.

The smallest species of the genus. The first specimens

received were thought by me to be young S. obesus, Blgr., a

species which has not yet been discovered in Cameroon.

Clarias longior.

Depth of body 8 to 9 times in total length, length of head

5 to 54 times. Head extremely depressed, once and } as long

as broad, smooth; occipital process very short, pointed ;

frontal fontanelle knife-shaped, about 3 times as long as

broad ; occipital fontanelle smaller, in advance of occipital

process; eye very small, 24 times in length of snout, 5 or 54

times in interorbital width, which equals width of mouth and

3 length of head; band of preemaxillary teeth 4 times as long

as broad; vomerine teeth granular, forming a curved band

which is as broad as the preemaxillary band; nasal barbel 4

to ? length of head, maxillary once and 4 to once and 3, outer

mandibular once, inner mandibular 3 to 3. Gill-rakers very

few, 12 on anterior arch. Clavicles concealed under the skin.

Dorsal 80, its distance from occipital process 3 to 2 length of

2 Mr. E. S. Russell on

head, its distance from the caudal equal to diameter of eye.

Anal 70-73, nearly reaching the caudal. Pectoral 2 to 2

length of head, the spine smooth and about 2 the length of

the fin. Ventral once and 2 to once and ? as distant from

base of caudal and from end of snout. Caudal 2 length of

head. Dark brown above, whitish beneath.

Total length 225 mm.

One specimen from the Kribi River and one from the Lobi

River.

Eleotris kribensts.

Body cylindrical or a little compressed, its depth 4 to 5

times in total length; length of head 3 to 3} times in total

length. Head broader than deep, naked; snout broad,

rounded, as long as or a little longer than the eye, the diameter

of which is 4 to 4} times in length of lead and equal to or a

little less than interobital width; lower jaw projecting ;

maxillary extending to below anterior third or centre of eye ;

no canine teeth ; no preopercular spine. Dorsals VI, I 8-9,

well separated from each other, longest rays not longer than

head. Anal I 7, opposite to second dorsal. Pectoral 2 to #

length of head, a little longer than ventral. Caudal rounded,

alittle shorter than head. Caudal peduncle once and 4 to once

and 2 as long as deep. Scales smooth on the nape, strongly

ciliated on the body, 52 to 35 in a longitudinal series, 12

between origin of dorsal and anal. Yellowish to brown,

dotted with darker, with or without five or six ill-defined

dark cross-bands; a blackish bar at the root of the caudal

fin; fins brown or blackish and white-edged in males, whitish

with blackish spots in females.

Total length 50 mm.

Numerous specimens from the Kribi River.

X.— The Atractylis coccinea of T. S. Wright.

By E. 8. Russevy, M.A.

Tus hydroid was described by Wright (Ann. Nat. Hist.

ser. 3, viii. (1861) p. 180) in the following words :—

© Atractylis coccinea, n. Sp.

“ Polypidom creeping, widely reticulate. Polyp fusiform,

set at an obtuse angle to its stalk, rich crimson or pink, with

eight alternating tentacles, four long and four short.”

the Atractylis coccinea of T. S. Wright. 53

No gonophores were found. Hincks (¢ Hydroid Zoophytes,’

1868) provisionally transferred the species to the genus

Lerigonimus. Allman does not mention it at all, and I have

not been able to find any subsequent record of it.

In 1905 1 obtained near Millport Marine Biological Station

numerous specimens of what is almost certainly the Atractylis

cvecinea of Wright. They differ from Wright’s specimens in

having twelve equal tentacles, but they all have the hydranth

set at an obtuse angle with the stalk, a very characteristic

point.

The species was not figured by Wright, and his description

was in some respects incomplete. I therefore give here a

detailed description of my specimens and a figure.

The species must be assigned to the genus Wrightia,

Allman (1872). The genus Atractylis, Wright (1859),

contained forms which are now distributed among the genera

Bougainvillia, Perigonimus, and Wrightia. Hincks’s genus

Atractylis is synonymous with Allman’s Wrightia, but the

name Wrightia is to be preferred, since Atractylis ig the

long-established name of a genus of plants. Wrightia, when

constituted by Allman, contained one species, Wrightia

arenosa (Atractyls arenosa, Alder, Suppl. Catalogue, p. 7,

pl. x. figs. 5-7), and the diagnosis of the genus contained

some of the specific characteristics of Wrightia arenosa (Alder),

namely, the funnel-shaped stems, the retractile hydranth, and

the position of the gonophores on the hydrocaulus. I propose

the following definition of the genus, which is in all essentials

the same as Allman’s definition, but leaves out any reference

to the purely specific characters of either of the two species

which the genus contains, arenosa (Alder) and coccinea

(Wright).

WRIGHTIA.

Atractylis (in part.), Wright, Edin, New Phil. Journ. ix. p. 106 (1859).

Atractylis, Hincks (1868).

Wrightia, Allman (1872),

Hydrocaulus erect, unbranched, arising from a creeping

hydrorhiza. Perisare expanding above to form a protective

sheath which clothes the hydranth up to the base of the

tentacles.

Reproduction by fixed sporosacs, which are partially or

wholly invested by a chitinous envelope.

Wrightia coccinea (Wright).

Atractylis coccinea, Wright (1861).

Perigonimus (?) coceineus, Hincks (1868).

54 On the Atractylis coccinea of 7. S. Wright.

Trophosome.—The hydrocaulus consists of a number of

short stems }—} inch in length (slender, somewhat contorted,

unbranched, or with small offshoot bearing a hydranth), which

arise at short intervals from a

creeping and anastomosing

hydrorhiza, which resembles

the stems. The hydranth

makes an obtuse angle with

the stem. It is closely in-

vested up to the roots of the

tentacles by a hydrothecal ex-

pansion of the perisarc, but is

not retractile into it. The

tentacles are 10-12 in number,

short and straight, disposed in

a single verticil round the

bluntly conical hypostome.

The perisare is straw-coloured,

and is wrinkled transversely

where it expands to cover the

hydranth. The colour of the

hydranth is pink, turning to

white at the tip of the hypo-

stome. The tentacles are

translucent white ; the cceno-

sare pink to scarlet.

Gonosome.— The gonophores

aresporosacs, ‘hey are globu-

Jar and arise from the bydro-

rhiza, to which they are at-

tached by a slender pedicel.

They are invested by a

chitinous covering which is

continuous with the perisare.

There is a short blunt spadix,

in the outer layer of which the gametes are matured.

The gonophore resembles in structure that of Garveda

nutans, as figured by Allman (‘Gymnoblastic Hydroids,’ i.

. 44).

The colour of the gonophore is translucent white; the

spadix is brick-red ; the gametes pink.

Wrightia coccinea was taken by Wright at Inch Garvie,

Firth of Forth, on the roots of Laminaria saccharina, and by

the writer at Hunterston Perch, near Fairlie, Firth of Clyde,

in 12 fath., on Tubularia, and in Castle Bay, Little Cumbrae,

in 15-20 fath., also on Zubularta. It is common where it

Wrightia coccinea.

On the Generic Position of Benson’s Helix hyba. 55

does occur. J obtained my specimens in May and June, and

they bore numerous gonophores.

In studying Wrightia and the allied genera one cannot help

noticing their resemblance to Calyptoblasts. The family

Bougainvilliidse, to which they belong, is practically alone

among Gymnoblastea in possessing a single verticil of filiform

tentacles surrounding a conical hypostome. All the Calypto-

blasts have this conical hypostome and single verticil of

filiform tentacles. Further, many of the genera of Bougain-

villiidee have quite a distinct protective cup for the hydranth,

resembling greatly the hydrotheca of the Calyptoblast. Indeed,

were it not for the fact that these genera are classified with

the Gymnoblastea, their protective cups would receive the

name of hydrothece.

These facts point to the conclusion that a close relationship

exists between the family Bougainvilliide and the suborder

Calyptoblastea. The Bougainvilliide, perhaps, form a

transition-stage between the suborders Gymnoblastea and

Calyptoblastea.

XI.—On the Generic Position of Benson’s Helix hyba and

the Similarity of its Anatomy to that of WKhasiella vidua,

W. T. Blanford. By Lt.-Colonel H. H. Gopwin-AUSTEN,

F.R.S. &e.

Ever since the discovery of this species about 1860 it has

been impossible to locate it in any Indian genus without

considerable doubt. It is apparently very rare. I have never

come across it in the field, and | do not think it is to be

found in many collections. I am informed by Mr. S. F,

Harmer, of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge,

that two specimens (Benson’s types) are in the MacAndrew

collection. Fortunately I have recently discovered two

specimens among some other species preserved in spirit by

Mr. W. Theobald, marked “Chamba,” a small State in

the N.W. Himalaya, 8.E. of Kashmir Territory. The one

from which the subjoined description was taken was in a

very good state of preservation. All we knew with any

certainty was that it belonged to the Zonitide, Mr. Theobald

having noted the presence of the mucous gland at the extre-

mity of the foot at the time of capture.

Mr. Benson described the shell in the Ann. & Mag. Nat.

Hist. ser. 3, vol. vii. (Feb. 1861), in his usual excellent way,

and goes on to say :—

56 Lt.-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen on the

“ This interesting form, discovered in the mountains near

the Bari Do-ab by J. ‘Doy le Smithe, Esq., F.G.S., of

Madhopore, and kindly communicated to me by his broken

the Rev. Fred. Smithe, of Churchdown, approaches more

nearly to the Nilgherry H. Gwerint, Pfr., than to any Hima-

layan species. It is notable for its shorter vaulted spire, sharp

keel, rather open umbilicus, and sculpture. In one imperfect

specimen, with a higher and more rounded hive-shaped spire,

the keel of the penultimate whorl overhangs the anterior part

of the last whorl.”

We now know that 7. Guerin, Pfr., is a Thysanota in a

very distinct family of Land-Mollusca. The overhanging of

the keel of the whorl I note in these shells, and it produces

the appearance of a thread running with the suture. Theobald

records the finding of a large variety of this species at

* Aijas” (“ Ajjas”’ on the map of Kashmir, 2 m.=1 inch),

in the hills east of the Walar Lake, Kashmir, measuring

171 x162x10mm. ‘This shell appears to have been lost.

‘Yhe specimen Benson described measured: diam. major

14mm., minor 18, axis 7; the one I now figure: 12 x 11:5 x

54 respectively

On removing the shell the visceral sac is pale-coloured,

sparsely and finely spotted with black on the line of the

rectum. The foot is short and very narrow, indistinctly

divided, dark grey ; a distinct mucous gland overhung by a

blunt lobe, peripodial grooves, and a well-marked fringed

margin to the foot. ‘There is a small but distinct and serrated

right shell-lobe, which would spread further in life ; the lett

isa marginal band on the edge of the peristome. The genera-

tive organs were of great ‘interest as ey were unfolded.

‘The amatorial organ is of the usual form; the penis retractor

muscle given off from a distinctly coiled czcum at the head

of the main penis-sheath. There is a long epiphallus thence

to the junction of the vas deferens, with a long kale-sac

adjacent in which a spermatophore had been developing.

The sperm atheca is very long, gradually enlarging to the

distal end, and contained hives « spermatophor es; these are of

the type I have described in various species of CEO

Austenia, &c. ‘The flume had no large spines, but ver

minute ones could be detected on the edges of it. This being

a single specimen, which I have mounted in gly cerine-jelly,

I did not like to destroy the sac of the spermatheca to get a

spermatophore out entire. In separating out the lengthened

genitalia of a close-wound shell such as this is, it is not easy

to do so without occasionally something breaking away. The

oviduct is peculiar, very straight up to the albumen-gland,

Generic Position of Benson's Helix hyba. D7

am.or

Fig. 1.—Khasiella hyba, Bs.; shell. x 4:8.

Fig. 2.—Side view of mantle-edge from right side, showing the obscure

right shell-lobe, foot, &e. x 8,

Fig. 3.—Genitalia. x 4:5.

Figs. 3a, 36.—The penis, as seen from two opposite sides, to show the

coiled czecum and position of the retractor muscle attachment, the

kale-sae or flagellum, &e. x 8.

Fig.3¢e—A portion of same organ more enlarged, slightly pressed

between two glass slips and viewed by transmitted light, to show

the close-coiled ceecum.; the dark portion is part of a spermato-

phore. \ x 12:

Fig. 5d.—Terminal end and distal end of an organ not located in the

genitalia and with which it may have no connexion, X 12.

Fig.4.—Jaw. xX 24.

Fig. 5.—Central tooth and three admedian teeth of the radula. x 368.

Fig. 5a.—Kighth to eleventh admedian and sixteenth to eighteenth

lateral teeth.

ep. Epiphallus. | pr. Prostate.

k. Wale-sac or flagellum. | rsl. Right shell-lobe.

vd. Vas deferens, | f. Foot.

ce. Crecum, vs, Visceral sac.

p. Penis. ov. Oviduct.

rmp. Retractor muscle of penis,

am.or. Amatorial organ,

58 = On the Generic Position of Benson's Helix hyba,

so was the line of the prostate; but lying nearly parallel to

this I observed a long narrow ribbon—no doubt a duct—lying

on the surface of the jelly-like oviduct, of a hard nature and

ochraceous in colour, clearly pointed and with a fine retractor

muscle, while floating free among the parts of the genitalia

was a similar-sized duet with a swollen open end, where it

had evidently broken away. ‘Vhis may be an accessory gland

of some kind given off from the free oviduct or base of the

spermatheca. It might very easily have been set down as a

spermatophore, but fortunately in this case the spermatophore

of this species is before me, and narrows its possible function

and connexion with the genitalia considerably. We must

wait for more material to clear up this point.

The second specimen, the shell of which is here figured

(p. 57), I do not like to destroy, as the species would appear

to be so rare.

The jaw is strong and solid, slightly arched into a central

projection.

The radula has the formula

NO elo a lO

20 elie Zee

The teeth are of the usual form in so many genera of the

Zonitidse, the laterals being bicuspid, with the outer cusp

below the inner, becoming very small on the margin.

On comparing these anatomical details with those of other

Indian species, I find there is a remarkable similarity to those

of the genus Ahasiella (Godwin-Austen, Moll. Ind. vol. ii.

p- 129, pl. ¢. figs. 1-5 d@) as seen in the type species vtdua,

W.T. Blanf. ‘There is (1) the same small obscure right

shell-lobe ; (2) same form of foot and mucous gland; (3) the

jaw and radula are precisely alike; (4) the generative organs

differ in no appreciable way, merely that the short free cecum

retractoris penis of vidua becomes a close-wound coil in hyba,

and is thus similar to the same part in ALacrochlamys indica.

It is extremely interesting to find such close resemblance

in the anatomy of two land-molluscs with such very distinct

forms of shell as presented in hyba and indica; differing so

widely, conchologically they would take their place in separate

genera. The shells of vidua and hyba also present at first

sight considerable differences, but the variation becomes less

apparent when hyba is compared with the sharply keeled

species of Ahasiedla, such as climacterica, Bens., and Austeni,

W. T. Blanf.

I think I am right in considering //. hyba by its anatomy to

Descriptions and Records of Bees. 59

belong to the genus Khastella, with these shell-characters :—

Openly umbilicated; sharply keeled ; spire very conoid, with

sides and apex very convex.

Nore, Godalming,

oth June, 1907,

XII.—Descriptions and Records of Bees.— XV.

By T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado.

Triepeolus Nore, sp. n.

? .— Length about 83 mm.

Black, with the usual markings only slightly yellowish ;

hair on middle of face pure white; legs clear red, spurs of

middle and hind legs black ; no red colour on thorax ; tegulee

apricot-colour; scutellum low, obscurely bilobed, the lateral

teeth black and short. Clypeus shining, with many very

minute punctures and a few large ones; mandibies red except

at base and apex; labrum black, a little reddish at sides ;

first three antennal joints and base of fourth ferruginous;

sides of vertex with large well-separated punctures on a

shining ground ; mesothorax exceedingly densely punctured,

the two median stripes of hair short, not attaining the ante-

rior margin; pleura hairy in fiont and witha large transverse

patch of hair ; lower part of pleura densely punctured, but

at one place a little of the shining surface shows; dark trans-

verse mark on first abdominal segment essentially as in

T. occidentalis, but the posterior band interrupted; segments

2 to 4 with even entire bands, that on 2 with lateral processes

directed forwards so as to make with the band an angle of

about 45°; sides of fifth segment with white tomentum ; last

ventral segment normal.

In nearly all respects exactly like a small edition of

T. occidentalis, but the hair of the abdomen is less yellow,

the pygidial patch is narrower, and the scutellar teeth are

less developed. In size and general appearance it closely

resembles 7’. callopus, Ckll. ‘The colour of the spurs will

readily separate it from 7’. Hopkinst.

Hab. Mesilla Park, New Mexico, at flowers of Spheralcea

lobata, Wooton, May 16 (Ikiss Nora Newberry).

Triepeolus remigatus (Fabr.).

Mesilla, New Mexico, June 30 (Cockerell).

This is the true remigatus, as defined by Cresson and

60 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Desertptions and

Robertson, and is new to New Mexico. The species has a

wide range eastward. Mr. N. Banks sends me specimens

from Glenearlyn, Virginia, July 26, and Falls Chureh,

Virginia, Aug. 7, 2 at “flowers of Eupatorium linearifolium.

Triepeolus agaricifer, sp. 0.

3d .—Length 9 mm. or rather more.

Black, with the markings orange-buft, all the abdominal

bands of the same colour ; legs red, the cox and trochanters

black, anterior femora black above except at apex, middle

femora mainly black above and beneath, hind femora black,

with a broad red stripe above; hind tibiw with a large black

patch behind; spurs red. Middle of mandibles red; labrum

black; hair of face orange; antenne black, the third joint

with a large red mark in front; vertex very coarsely punc-

tured ; mesothorax very coarsely punctured, with two very

distinct stripes which reach the anterior margin, which latter

has no light border; markings of thorax as usual; tegule

and most of tubercles red; scutellum entirely black, strongly

bigibbous, with short but very distinct lateral teeth : lower

part of pleura showing a black (but not entirely nude) area,

which is densely and coarsely punctured. Wings with the

apical margin broadly dark fuliginous; stigma red; nervures

fuscous; second s.m. much narrowed above. Abdomen

broad, with all the bands broad and perfectly entire, except

the basal one on the first segment, which is rather broadly

interrupted ; black median mark on first segment transversely

fusiform, with obliquely truncate sides, much shorter than in

T. helianthi, but not triangular as in J’, lunatus; band on

second segment with a broad low prominence on each side in

front, but no projection forming an angle; apical plate

black, narrow.

Looks at first sight like a small TZ. lunatus, but easily

separated by the characters italicized,

flab, Beulah, New Mexico, August (Cockerell).

The name aga icifer 18 derived from the black mark on

the first abdominal segment, which, when the insect is seen

from the front, looks like an agaric.

Epeolus argyreus, sp. n.

g .—Length about 8} mm.

Black, but largely covered with the usual pubescence,

which on the abdomen is pale cinereous with a yellowish tint,

on the thorax above the same, but on the face and pleura

(both of which are entirely mrad densely covered) brilliant

Records of Bees. 61

silvery white. Eyes pale green. Antenne brown-black, the

third joint partly red. M:sothorax covered with appressed

hair, except a somewhat U-shaped patch posteriorly ; area of

metathorax nude, surrounded by dense hair on all sides;

tegule very hairy, piceous, with reddish margins. Wings

hyaline; in the type the upper half of the second t.-c. 1s

wanting on both sides. Legs black, with silvery hair, that

on inner side of basitarsi golden ; small joints of tarsi ferru-

ginous ; spurs of middle and hind legs black ; first abdominal

segment covered with light hair, except a slenler transverse

band, which is only moderately long and is ill-defined at the

ends; all the light bands entire and broad, that on second

segment greatly enlarging laterally, but the enlargement

forming with the band a very obtuse angle; erect fringe on

fourth and fifth ventral segments fuscous.

Hab. North Yakima, Washington State, Aug. 4, 1903

(Eldred Jenne).

E/peolus bihamatus, sp. n.

g-—Nize, colour, and general appearance agreeing with

E. argyreus, with the same silvery hair covering the pleura,

yieuey not quite so densely, and also on the ‘face, though

failing below, so as to leave the lower part of the very minutely

and densely punctured clypeus visible. The black spurs also

are the same, and the hyaline wings. ‘he following differ-

ences are ree :—Maniibles with more red; margin of

labrum red ; face less narrowed below; third Site joint

longer ; flagellum ferruginous beneath except at base ; meso-

thorax less ‘hairy, leaving a large anchor-shaped black area

very densely punctured, its stem reaching the anterior margin ;

tegulz piceous basally, red in the middie, and with hyaline

margin; area of metathorax almost entirely covered with

hair; marginal cell less slender; second t.-c. complete ;

knees, femora, and tibise red; transverse band on first abdo-

minal segment large and clean-cut ; band on second segment

with a large hook-like process on each side ; erect fringe on

fourth and fifth ventral segments white.

Hab. North Yakima, Washington State, June 26, 1903

(Eldred Jenne).

This species and the last are very distinct by the general

appearance and hairy pleura, together with the black spurs,

from the other American members of the genus.

The following three species of Zrtepeolus superficially

resemble J’ Renata and helianthi, and were confused with

?

62 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Deseriptions and

those species until critically examined. A table is offered to

facilitate their separation :—

Females.

Black mark on first abdominal segment distinctly

triancular, the lateral corners pointed ...... lunatus, Say.

Black mark on first abdominal segment a trans-

VERSO MUAM igus stercgs bese oan acme Ore ee eae toe if

dL eAMUeTIOTetem ora ted pie me see wilersktoen ies eneoke segregatus (Ckll.).

Anterior femora biack, or black with ared stripe. 2.

2. Pleura hairy all over, though more thinly below. Townsend, Ckll.

Lower part of pleura bare.............5-000.- helianthi, Rob.

Males.

All, or nearly all, of the abdominal bands narrowly

ATIFETMUP LCA” qarere er-yaiciae etter aa eines eusat sublunatus, Cll.

The bands beyond the first segment all, or nearly

allientire: ee kercemiate pele eens Thy

1, Larger; anterior femora black; pleura hairy all

OVER ce neers sities Meter eine een Frasere (Ck1l.).

Smaller; anterior femora red and black, or red.. 2.

2#Ploura deity iallvoyer se near tee an ete «ieee where Townsendi, Cll.

Lower part of pleura bare or little hairy ..,... segregatus (Ckll.).

Triepeolus sublunatus, sp. n. (Cressont’, Rob., race ?).

g .—Leneth 11 mm.

With a relatively long and narrow, cylindrical abdomen.

Hair of face distinctly yellowish. Labrum, basal part of

mandibles, and first three joints of antenne red ; the two

stripes on mesothorax very clear and distinct; no band along

anterior border of mesothorax, or patches of hair in the ante-

rior corners; tegule bright ferruginous. Wings dusky ;

lower part of pleura with a bare, very densely punctured

patch. Legs red, the anterior femora black, with the apex

and the lower edge red; middle and hind femora with much

black in front; spurs of middle and hind legs black ; trans-

verse band on first abdominal segment with broad anterior

and posterior projections, the latter dividing the apical light

band ; all the abdominal bands practically of the same colour.

By the colour of the tegulee this species is like 7. occidentalis,

Cresson, but it differs from that by the dark femora and inter-

rupted abdominal bands. In Robertson’s table(Canad. Entom.,

Oct. 1903) it runs to Z. Cressonii, Rob., and agrees with the

diagnosis there given, except as to the pleura. According to

Robertson, Cresson? as found in Illinois is exceeding variable,

and it may be that sublunatus represents a geographical form

Records of Bees. 63

of it*. In our insect the scutellum and tubercles show no

red whatever, and the teeth at the sides of the former are

very little developed. The second abdominal segment has

the band hooked at the sides in one specimen, but the hook-

like projection is wanting in the other, which is certainly

conspecific. The marking of the mesothorax is very different

from that of Hrasere, which I described as a subspecies of

Cressonit.

Hab, Dripping Spring, Organ Mts., New Mexico, Aug. 10

(C. H. T, Townsend). Two males.

Triepeolus segregatus (Ckll.).

3g .—Length about 10 mm.

Compact; labrum black and mandibles with little red;

clypeus very densely punctured; hair of face silver-white.

Antenne black, or scape with a red spot in front, and third

segment and base of fourth red; the two stripes of meso-

thorax very distinct; no pale anterior border; scutellum

entirely black, the lateral teeth pointed but not long; pleura

with a nude patch below, on which are scattered strong

punctures on a shining ground; femora entirely red, or with

suffused dusky patches.

¢ .—NScutellum entirely black ; the abdominal bands beyond

the first segment entire, or that on the second inclined to be

interrupted.

The female ascribed to segregatus in the original descrip-

tion probably represents a distinct species, or at least variety.

I was misled by it into thinking the present insect distinct

from segregatus, but I cannot see that the males are anything

but true segregatus, and the females taken at the same time

and place certainly belong with them. The insect is related

to T. pectoralis, Rob., but the black band on the first abdo-

minal segment is not so long, the tegule are differently

coloured, and there are other differences. The spurs are

brown, not black.

Hab. Dripping Spring, Organ Mts., Aug. 10, 2 ¢,2 2

(C. H. T. Townsend).

Triepeolus Townsend, sp. n.

In size, colour, and markings just like the 7’. segregatus

from the Organ Mts., but differing as follows :—

* However, FE. Cressonii was based primarily on the mercatus of

Cresson (1878), and Cresson’s full description appears to indicate an insect

specifically distinct from swb/wnatus. Virginia is to be taken as the type

locality.

64 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Descriptions and

3 .—The two stripes of mesothorax broader, broadly

reaching anterior margin, and more or less connected with

large patches of pale hair which occupy the anterior lateral

corners ; pleura densely covered with hair ; teeth at sides of

scutellum somewhat longer and appreciably curved inwards ;

spurs of middle and hind legs black; black band on first

abdominal segment longer, rounded instead of obliquely

truncate laterally, and without an anterior projection breaking

the basal pale band; angles formed by lateral processes of

band of second segment less acute; apical plate rounded.

The antenne and labrum are entirely black, and there is no

red about the thorax.

? —Antenne black ; anterior lateral corners of mesothorax

with pale patches ; teeth at sides of scutellum smaller; pleura

hairy, the lower part densely punctured. Wings hardly so

dark; spurs black; apical pale band of first abdominal

segment more broadly interrupted, but basal band not

interrupted.

Hab. Rio Ruidoso, New Mexico, about 6700 ft., at flowers

of Hrigeron macranthus, July 27, @ (C. H. T. Townsend) ;

Rociada, New Mexico, Aug. 8, 2 (Cockere/f).

ISEPEOLUS, gen. nov.

$ .—Similar in appearance and markings to Hpeolus, but

differing as follows :—Third antennal joint very long, longer

than the scape; apical half of galea slender and elongated ;

labial palpi very long (the last two joints minute as usual) ;

axillar teeth present but rounded, blunt; b. n. falling far

short of t.-m. ; submarginal cells subequal, but the third the

largest ; the second large, square, a little shorter below than

first or third, receiving first r.n. near its end; third s.m.

receiving second r. n. near its end; outer side of third s.m.

strongly bulging; marginal cell. with its apex obliquely

truncate, the tip away from the costa, the part of the lower

edge joining the s.m. cells a trifle shorter than the part

beyond; apex of abdomen rounded, without a_ projecting

plate, the upper surface of it covered with fine hair. The

maxillary palpi appear to be quite as in Epeolus. Claws

bifid; a very long pulvillus, as long as the claws, with a

black apical disk.

For years I have had this insect marked ‘ Leiopodus?” ;

but having seen the type of Lezopodus in the British Museum,

it is evident that Zsepeolus is very distinct by the oval abdo-

men, large but not especially peculiar hind coxe, second s.m.

a little narrower below than first, &c.

Records of Bees. 65

. Isepeolus albopictus, sp. n.

3 .—Length about 82 mm.

Black, with markings of white tomentum like those of

Hpeolus; mandibies rather feebly bidentate, dark reddish

except at base; labrum black; face covered with white hair,

but clypeus nearly all bare, dull and roughened with very

minute punctures ; apex of scape, and the following three

joints entirely, red; the remaining part of the flagellum,

which is stout, red beneath; mesothorax dull, with minute

close punctures, anteriorly with two triangles of black hair

surrounded by white, the anterior lateral corners also covered

with white hair; tubercles red ; upper part of pleura covered

with white hair, lower part bare, densely punctured ; scutel-

lum bigibbous, red, with black hair at sides; postscutellum

red, with white hair; metathorax black, the area bare; tegula

reddish. Wings clear, the apical field with dusky stains ;

stigma well developed, red; nervures dark fuscous. Knees,

anterior and middle tibia, apex and base of hind tibiz, and

all the tarsi red ; anterior tarsi long and slender; anterior and

middle tibize marked with two bars of white on the outer side,

hind tibie with a broad bar or patch on apical half; hind

femora swollen ; spurs ferruginous ; first abdominal segment

with white hair at base, a spot at each side, and a pair of

semicircular marks on hind margin; second segment with a

broadly interrupted band on hind margin, its proximal ends

subclavate, its upper lateral margin with a very large bifid

process or extension ; third segment ornamented like second,

except that the band is obsolete in the subdorsal region,

leaving the proximal ends as spots; fourth segment with a

pair of spots; fifth with two transverse hammer-shaped

marks; sixth four-spotted ; apex red; venter dark brown,

with some white hair-spots.

Hub. Carcarana, Argentina; received from Mr. J. C.

Crawford. Collected, I believe, by Professor L. Bruner.

I believe there are other specimens in the U.S. National

Museum.

GRONOCERAS, gen. nov.

Large bees allied to Megachile, with the nesting-habits

(cf. G. combusta) of Chalicodoma: male with flagellum exca-

vated beneath, like a trough ; abdomen with two long spines

at apex; anterior coxee with very long spines ; anterior tarsi

pallid, broadened and flattened ; claws bifid at apex : female

with mandibles 2- to 4-dentate ; scopa red or red and black ;

claws simple. ‘lhe maxillary palpi are bristly.

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 5

66 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Deseriptions and

The general build resembles that of Chalicodoma, but the

structure of the apex of the abdomen and of the male antenn

is quite different.

Type, G. Wellmani, sp. n. Also including G. combusta

(Megachile combusta, Sm.), G. guineensis (Apis guineensis,

Fabr.), G. tricolor (Megachile tricolor, Friese), and G. stuppea

(Megachile stuppea, Vachal).

Gronoceras Wellmant, sp. n.

? .—Length 17-19 mm.

Black, including legs and antenna, the hind margins of the

abdominal segments ferruginous ; hair of head, thorax, and

legs black or brown-black, of abdomen bright fox-red, above

and below, but largely black or dark fuscous on the first

segment above; mandibles long, with two apical teeth, the

rest of the cutting-edge toothless ; clypeus normal, strongly

punctured, the punctures well separated in the middle ; meso-

thorax densely punctured and dull; tegule densely punctured,

black, with dark ferruginous margin. Wings subhyaline,

strongly yellowish.

Very nearly agreeing with G. combusta, but the wings are

not nearly so dark.

é .—Lenegth 16-19 mm.

Like the female, except in the sexual characters mentioned

in the generic diagnosis, but the hair of the first abdominal

segment is red like that of the others (in combusta ¢ it is

black); the hair of the face is light yellowish or yellowish

white, with black hairs intermixed ; the cheeks below have

a fringe of long white hairs; the anterior tibia are more or

less pale apically, with a little elevated keel in front; first

basitarsus broad and flat, a sort of pale honey-colour, with a

raised ferruginous keel or line along the outer anterior edge,

short white hair on the outer surface, except basally and more

or less anteriorly, where there are fuscous bristles, a fringe

of dense short black hair on the anterior interior edge, and

a long fringe of ferruginous-tipped hairs behind; second

joint of anterior tarsus dark reddish or yellow, the remaining

joints black, except that the tip of the last is red ; extreme

apex of middle tibia red; bases of claws red; red hind

margins of abdominal segments very broad; venter of abdo-

men mainly red; apex of abdomen with some long dark

hairs, and two long, straight, red-tipped spines, mesad of

each (and springing from the same base) is a short incon-

spicuous spine; a red spine, easily overlooked, on each side

of penultimate segment; anterior coxal spines long and

Records of Bees. 67

straight, reddish above. The second specimen, manifestly

conspecific, has at the apex of the abdomen a pair of short

black spines on one side and a single one on the other ; it is

asymmetrical and evidently abnormal. This male is also

very like G. combusta, but separated by the much paler

wings, red hair on first abdominal segment, form of apical

teeth, &e.

Hab. Portuguese West Africa, long. E. 15° 05', lat. S.

12° 44’, alt. 1360 metres, at flowering mint, Molanthus sp.,

Dec. 1906 (middle of rainy season) ; two of each sex collected

by Dr. F. Creighton Wellman.

Gronoceras benguellensis, sp. n.

2? .—Length about 16} mm.

Black, including legs and antennee ; hair of head, thorax,

and legs brown-black, except that there is a little pallid hair

about the bases of the antenne, and the hair of the thorax

above is dark coffee-colour on the mescthorax, becoming

bright fox-red on hind part of scutellum and upper part of

metathorax ; the hair of the first two abdominal segments

above is bright fox-red, but on the ethers blaek, the hind

margins of the segments narrowly whitish ; ventral scopa red

in the middle and black at the sides, but entirely black on the

last two segments. Wings dusky hyaline, the apex clouded ;

hind spurs red; mandibles 4-dentate, the third tooth trun-

cate, the fourth very small.

¢.—Length about 13 mm.

Hair of face yellowish white, of cheeks below white, of

vertex and occiput brown-black, of thorax and abdomen

brown-black, without red; whitish at sides of abdomen

beneath ; apex of abdomen with a large stiff tuft or brush of

long black hairs ; abdomen above practically bare, the hind

margins of the segments dark reddish; clypeus densely

punctured, with a narrow shining median raised line ; middle

of mandibles with a large tubercle beneath Gia Wellman with

a similar process, but hardly so large); labrum broadly

rounded at apex; anterior tarsi formed in general as in

Wellmani, but the apical joints are red, not black, and the

basitarsus is greyish, with no anterior ferruginous line, but

with a broad cream-coloured stripe down the anterior margin,

and continued on to the second joint; the fringe of hair on

the inner anterior edge is pale reddish instead of black, and

the long posterior fringe extends as far as the penultimate

joint, and is fuscous for its upper half, ferruginous with a

white base for its lower, ¢.e. from the last quarter of the

ry

68 Mr. A. H. Verrill on the

basitarsus on; anterior coxal spines well developed ; spines

at apex of abdomen long and straight, without any inner

pair; the short sublateral spines are black.

Hab. Same locality and date as G. Wellmani; taken by

Dr. Wellman at flowers of Composite, one of each sex.

Megachile caricina, sp. n.

? —Length about 103 mm.

Black, with broad head and broad shovel-shaped abdomen ;

hair of face pale yellowish, of cheeks white, of occiput pale,

but about ocelli short and black; antenne entirely black ;

mandibles 4-dentate; clypeus normal, strongly punctured,

with a smooth, shining, discal area; hair of thorax white at

sides and beneath, above black, with some whitish on meso-

thorax in front and in mesothoracico-scutellar suture ; meso-

thorax and scutellum very densely punctured; tegule black.

Wings strongly dusky. Hair of legs white, pale reddish on

inner side of tarsi; hind basitarsus very broad and flat ;

claws simple; abdomen punctured, not strongly or closely,

and without bands; apical segments above with coarse

black bristles ; scopa bright orange-red, but white basally

and black on last segment.

3 .—Size about the same, as also general appearance.

Face densely covered with yellowish-white hair, a few dark

hairs on each side near upper part of clypeus; black hairs on

vertex ; antennz black ; anterior tarsi quite simple ; anterior

coxe with rather short but stout spines; metathorax and first

abdominal segment with copious white hair; apex with a

strong transverse keel, which is broadly emarginate but not

serrate ; no subapical ventral teeth; claws bifid at end.

This belongs to Megachile, s. str., as defined by Friese and

Robertson. In its general appearance it is much like the

American Jf. mendica, Cresson.

Hab. Same locality and date as Gronoceras Wellmani ;

2 6,1 ¢, taken by Dr. Wellman, the males marked “ on

flowering sedges, side of stream,” the female ‘‘ on sedges.”

XII1.—WNotes on the Habits and External Characters of the

Solenodon of San Domingo (Solenodon paradoxus). By

A. Hyatt VERRILL *.

[Plate IV.]

AurHouGH Solenodon paradoxus of San Domingo and Haiti

was discovered and imperfectly described as early as 1839,

* Reprinted from the Amer. Journ. Sci. for June 1907. From an

advance proof communicated by the Author.

Solenodon of San Domingo. 69

several years before the Cuban species (Solenodon cubanus)

was known to science, it is still practically unknown to recent

zoologists. The published descriptions of this rare and inter-

esting mammal are vague and unsatisfactory. For many years

it has been commonly considered extinct, and when, in Decem-

ber 1906, I undertook a collecting-trip to San Domingo with

the avowed intention of obtaining the Solenodon, prominent

zoologists stated that the quest was hopeless, one of them

saying that I would be as likely to secure specimens of ghosts

as of Solenodon paradocus.

During the five months spent on the island I devoted a

great deal of time hunting for the Solenodon and in inter-

viewing natives from the remote and little-known parts of

the island.

I soon found that the animal was well known to the natives

in certain isolated localities, but that over the greater portion

of the Republic it was absolutely unknown.

This is readily accounted for by the presence of the mon-

goose in most parts of the country, and. it is only a question

of time when this pest will overrun the entire island and the

Solenodon will become actually exterminated.

The natives have several names for the Solenodon, calling

it ‘ Orso,” “ Milqui,” ‘‘ Homigero,” and Juron,” while the

English-speaking negroes from the British West Indies know

it as ‘Ground Hog.” The name- “ Juron” (ferret) is also

applied to the mongoose, and. for some time I was misled by

this confusion of the two animals. In its habits the Solenodon

resembles a hog, rooting in the earth and cultivated grounds,

tearing rotten logs and trees to pieces with its powerful front

claws, and feeding on ants, grubs, insects, vegetables, reptiles,

and fruit, and at times proving destructive to poultry. On

several occasions it has been known to enter the houses in

search of roaches and other vermin, and has been captured in

rat-traps.

It is strictly nocturnal, and spends the day in caves, holes

in the coral-limestone rocks and in hollow trees and logs. It

is a slow, stupid creature. It is unable to run rapidly, but

shambles along with the zigzag sidewise motions of a planti-

grade. It is doubtless owing to this that it obtained the

native name of “ Orso ”’ (bear).

Its long snout and stout front feet, with their curved claws,

and its thick short neck prove impediments to forward progress,

According to the natives, it is incapable of running straight.

They also claim that when pursued it frequently trips itself

and tumbles heels over head. When hunted with dogs, it

thrusts its head into the nearest hole or shelter, and allows

itself to be captured without resistance.

70 Mr. O. Thomas on

The only specimen that I obtained was a female, which

was captured alive and uninjured. A few days after its

capture it gave birth to three naked young. These the

mother promptly devoured, and she died three days later.

This specimen {see Pl. IV.), as preserved in formol, is

14 inches in length, exclusive of the tail, which measures

about 13 inches in length.

The body and head are covered with sparse coarse hair,

which is reddish ferruginous from the eyes to the shoulders

and dusky brown on the rest of the body.

The hair becomes very thin and scattered on the hind-

quarters, which for some distance on the back and sides are

naked, roughly corrugated, and warty, with a sparse, short,

woolly growth between the excrescences.

The legs, snout, and eyelids are naked, and, with the bare

skin of the rump, are pinkish white. The ears are short,

thin, rounded, and are bluish grey with light edges. ‘The

heavy rat-like tail is dark brown and naked. The claws are

horn-colour. The front feet and claws are large, heavy, and

mole-like, and well adapted to digging and tearing asunder

rotten wood &. They are much smaller in proportion than

in the Cuban species, however. The snout is also more

flexible than in S. cubanus, trom which it also differs im

the naked skin of the rump, the colour, size, and other

characters.

XIV.—On Three new Mammals from British New Guinea.

By OLDFIELD ‘THOMAS.

In a further consignment of small mammals presented to the

National Museum by Mr. C. A. W. Monckton, Resident in

Northern British Guinea, there are examples of the two

following new Rodents, one of them forming a new and most

striking genus allied to Hydromys, but even more highly

specialized for an aquatic life.

‘The collection also contains specimens referable to Macro-

glossus australis, Pseudochirus corinne and Forbest, and

Phalanger carmelite, all being valuable acquisitions to the

Museum.

In determining the last-named animal, a new Phalanger

allied to it has been noticed and is now described. It was

obtained by Mr. A. Meek.

Crossomys, gen. nov. (Hydromyine).

A highly specialized aquatic form. Fur thick, soft, and

new Mammals from British New Guinea. 71

very woolly. Har-conches practically aborted, a mere rudi-

ment, 1-2 mm. in length, being all that is left of them.

Whiskers not so thick or long as in the allied forms.

Fingers free, toes rather more broadly webbed than in

Hydromys ; claws, both fore and hind, small, delicate, strongly

curved ; hind feet broad, more twisted than in Hydromys,

those of Parahydromys * being less so; sole-pads broad and

smooth, a large part of the elongate hallucal pad visible in an

upper view of the foot. Tail provided with a strongly

marked swimming-fringe below, formed of hairs about 8 mm.

in length, the fringe bifureating into two lateral ridges on

the proximal inch of the short-haired part of the tail.

Skull with a proportionally short slender face and very

large, smoothly rounded, broad and low brain-case. The

distance from the supraorbital foramina to the occiput is

therefore greater instead of less than that to the tip of

the muzzle. Nasal and interorbital region slightly built, not

broadly swollen as in Parahydromys. Cranial ridges

practically absent. Interparietal sutures almost obsolete in

the type, which is an old specimen. Structure of ante-

orbital and palatal foramina as in Hydromys, the latter not

so far forward as in Parahydromys. Bullee very small, in

correlation with the abortion of the external ear-conches.

Dentition as in Hydromys. Upper incisors narrow, con-

siderably bevelled laterally. Molars small in proportion to

the size of the animal; in structure like those of /Hydromys

except that the laminz are more directly transverse and the

middle lamina of m! is scarcely broadened internally.

Type Crossomys Moncktont.

This beautiful animal forms a most striking new genus,

and Mr. Monckton is to be congratulated on its discovery.

In specialization for an aquatic life it far surpasses Hydromys,

as indicated by its woolly fur, aborted ear-conches, twisted

hind feet, and fringed tail, in which last character it re-

sembles the European water-shrew (Veomys, long known

as Crossopus). Indeed in the accumulation of these characters

it stands at the head of all rodents, for while Fiber has

an even more specialized tail and the same fur and feet, it has

retained its ear-conches. Perhaps the nearest analogue to

* Described as Limnomys, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. p. 325 (1906).

This name being preoccupied (Mearns, 1905) the genus was given (Zool.

Anz. xxx, p. 326, 1906) the clumsy name of Parahydromys by Poche,

to whom a perusal of page 14 line 10 of the Stricklandian Code of

Nomenclature (1863) is to be recommended. My own substituted name

of Drosomys (P. Biol. Soc. Wash. xix. p. 199, 1906) was a few months

later in date.

72 Mr. O. Thomas on

Crossomys, both in structure and habits, 1s Anotomys, from

the torrents of the high Andes, which has altogether lost its

ear-conches, has equally aquatic fur and feet, but in which

the tail, although longer-haired below, has not such a

specialized swimming-fringe.

The structural modifications of the Beaver are of so different

a nature as hardly to come into the comparison.

Crossomys Moncktoni, sp. n.

Size considerably less than in //ydromys. Fur soft and

glossy, the comparatively sparse longer fur of the back about

18 mm. in length, the wool-fur very thick, soft, and close,

about 10-11 mm. in length, resembling that of Fiber.

General colour above grey (grey no. 6), washed on the

back with pale yellowish olivaceous, the longer hairs with

black tips and isabella subterminal rings; the wool-hairs

silvery white or greyish white for seven-eighths their length,

their tips black. Under surface silvery white, the line of

demarcation well-marked, high up on the sides, the hairs

white to their bases or very faintly greyer below the tips.

A narrow line down front side of arms like back, the

remainder white; upper surface of hands pale brown, the

fingers naked. Feet practically uaked, the few minute hairs

glossy white. Tail grey throughout on the short-haired

part, the swimming-fringe white.

Skull and teeth as described above.

Dimensions of the type (measured in the skin) :—

Head and body 205 mm.; tail 220; hind foot (wet) 48.

Skull: greatest length 40°5 ; basilar length 31:5; zygo-

matic breadth 22:2; nasals 11°45; interorbital breadth 5:8 ;

breadth of brain-case 19°7 ; height of brain-case from basion

12; palatilar length 17:3; diastema10°8; palatine foramina

5; length of upper tooth-row 5:3, of m’ 4:2.

Hab. Serigina, Brown River, N.E. British New Guinea.

Altitude “‘ not less than 4500 ft.”

Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 7.5. 22.3. Original number

36. Collected 12th October, 1906, and presented by C. A. W.

Monckton, Esq.

“Tris dark brown. Caught while swimming down a

rapid creek.”—C, A. W. M.

Uromys anak, sp. n.

A very large species with a wholly black tail.

Size largest of the genus. Fur harsh; longer hairs of

back 28-81 mm, inlength, underfur about 20 mm. General

new Mammals from British New Guinea. 73

colour coarsely mixed grey-brown, becoming bistre on the

middle back and rufous or burnt-umber on the rump. When

first appearing the hairs of the fore-back at least are really

grey, that is ringed with black and white, but owing to the

bleaching of the black to brown, and of the white to bufty

white, the general tone soon approaches bistre. Under

surface mixed brown and whitish, without sharp line of

demarcation, most of the hairs brown with whitish tips, but

a certain number along the median area white to their bases.

Muzzle and chin dark brown. Ears short, naked. Arms

grizzled brown, like body, the inner aspect rather lighter ;

upper surface of hands reddish brown. Hind legs dark

rufous, becoming browner on the metatarsals ; toes naked,

except for the few brown hairs at the roots of the claws.

Tail long, of the usual Uromys structure, wholly black,

except for the short basal furry portion, which is deep

reddish.

Skull large and heavy, but otherwise as in the other

members of this group. ‘The molar series markedly longer

than in any other species.

Dimensions of the type (measured on the skin) :—

Head and body 310 mm.; tail 400 ; hind foot (wet) 69 ;

ear (wet) 24.

Skull: palatilar length 38°5; nasals 27 x 8°6 ; interorbital

breadth 10°3; diastema 23°5 ; palatine foramina 7°3 ; upper

molar series (crowns) 14:2.

Hab. Ifogi, Brown River, N.E. British New Guinea.

Altitude ‘* not less than 4000 ft.”

Type. Old male. B.M.no. 7.5.22.2. Original number 27.

Collected 2nd October, 1906, and presented by C. A. W.

Monckton, Esq.

“Tris dark brown. Native name ‘ Felek.” A ground

animal, living in burrows, though occasionally found in the

hollow of a leaning tree.”—C. A. W. M.

Under the names of Uromys validus*, Hapalotis papuanust,

and Mus barbatus {, three members of this group of the genus

have been described from South-eastern New Guinea, though it

is possible that all of these names, or either two of them, may

be synonymous with each other. I have examined the types

of the first and third, and find that their upper molar series

measure 11°3 and 11 mm. respectively, and each of these has

the terminal portion of the tail yellow.

The case of “Hapalotis papuanus” is not so clear, for nothing

* Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xvi. p. 703 (1881).

+ Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. viii. p. 18 (1883).

{ Milne-Edwards, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1900, p. 167.

74 On new Mammals from British New Guinea.

is said as to the colour of the tail, and the skull and tooth-

measurements are quite inconsistent with each other. How-

ever, both upper and lower tooth-seriesaresaid to be “0°49 in.”

(=12°5 mm.), and if this be taken as correct the size of the

animal wonld be little larger than in U. validus, and con-

siderably smaller than in UW. anak.

Phalanger sericeus, sp. n.

A dark brown species like Ph. carmelite, the fur very long

and silky.

Size and general characters as in Ph. carmelite, to which

the specimen had been hitherto referred. Fur very much

longer than in that species (hairs of back about 38 mm. in

length instead of 27 or 28), exceedingly soft and silky, quite

unlike the rather coarse close fur of the allied species.

Colour essentially as in carmelita, chocolate-brown above and

pure sharply defined white below, but the brown above is

darker and more glossy, resulting from the comparative

silkiness of the hairs. The median dorsal area blacker than

the sides, but no defined stripe perceptible. A patch of paler

brown just above the base of the tail. Mars very small,

thickly clothed internally as well as externally with short

brown hairs. Tail with the proportions of the hairy and

naked portions about as in PA. carmelite, but the proximal

part of the latter is smoother and less shagreened.

Skull and teeth very much as in Ph. carmelite, except that

the secators, both above and below, are less developed, their

apical ridge, which has three or four distinct crenulations in

carmelite, reduced above to an indistinetly bifid point, and

below to an undivided one. Molars rather narrower than in

carmelite. Coronoid process of lower jaw rather higher

and less slanted backwards than in the allied species.

Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) :—

Head and body 455 mm.; tail 810; naked part of tail

above 170 ; hind foot (s. u.) 57.

Skull: basal length 75; greatest breadth 51; greatest

diameter of upper secator 4°38; combined length of three

anterior molariform teeth 16°95.

Hab. Owgarva, Angabunga River (near the Aroa River),

S.E. New Guinea. Altitude 6000’.

Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 5, 11. 28.23. Collected

30th October, 1904, by Mr. A. Meek. One specimen.

This Phalanger was placed on arrival with Ph. carmelite,

but the further material since received from Messrs. Monckton

and Meek shows the Angabunga specimen to represent

quite a distinct form.

On new and little-known Eastern Moths. ras

XV.—New and little-known Eastern Moths.

By Colonel C. Swinuog, M.A., F.L.S., &e.

Family Eupterotide.

Apona khasiana, nov.

& ?. Of a uniform pale ochreous-brown colour, darker and

more ochreous than in A. pallida, Walker, from Sikkim, but

about the same size; the plumes of the antenne about half

the length and brown in colour; the transverse lines and

bands similarly placed, the medial and discal lines single, the

latter curving inwards in its middle; a black dot at the end

of the cell of fore wings; the underside of both wings with

some large red-brown patches towards the outer margin.

Expanse of wings, g 33%, 9 44% inches.

Khasia Hills.

This is probably the insect referred to by Mr. Elwes as

Apona cashmtrensis, Kollar, expanse 120 mm., from the

Khasis, in Journ. Bo, N. He Soc. xi. p. 250 (1897); but

cashmirensis is a small inseet differing from both pallida and

khasiana in the shape of its bands. I have it from Solon,

taken by Bayne Reed.

Family Arctiidae.

Diacrisia procedra, nov.

3. Above and below of a uniform pale ochreous-buff

colour; antenne and palpi black, frons with black sides ;:

fore wings with two black costal spots, one before and the

other beyond the middle; a black spot at the upper end of

the cell, another close to hinder margin below the first spot,

a spot at the base, the discal band of spots below showing

through the wing with two spots on it on the hinder margin

above, and two dots on veins 2 and 3: hind wings w ith a

large spot at the end of the cell and a discal band “composed

of two very large black spots joined together, each divided by

veins 1 and 2, and a small spot divided by vein 5; cilia

concolorous, without markings ; abdomen pinkish, dorsal and

lateral rows of small black spots. Underside marked as

above, except for a larger black spot at the end of the cell of

fore wings, and the discal band clear and prominent, com-

posed of three large spots divided by the veins and connected

with each other by small black dots; pectus bright ochreous,

with black hairs ; legs with black stripes.

76 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new

Expanse of wings 1,5, inch.

Padang, Sumatra; one example.

Superticially resembles D. punctata, Moore, which I have

from Java.

Diacrisia amilada, nov.*

3. Palpi and frons black ; antennz greyish white ; head,

thorax, and fore wings brownish buff, spots and bands on the

latter black; a basal spot, a spot near the hinder margin at

the middle, another above it, and then in continuation five

small spots in a line obliquely inwards to the costa; three

bands of paired linear marks divided by the veins, the first

from the hinder margin a little beyond the middle obliquely

to the costa a little before the apex, the second running

almost parallel, starting a little before the hinder angle, the

third close to the outer margin, the second spot of the row

being absent: hind wings pale pink, a large black spot at

the end of the cell and a discal band composed of two large

black spots in the lower disk and two in the upper; cilia of

both wings ochreous grey, with black spots on the upper

third ; abdomen pale pink, with dorsal and lateral rows of

black spots. Underside: wings paler, hind wings nearly

white, markings much as above, except for a large black

lunular spot at the end of the cell of the fore w ings; fore

legs scarlet, hind legs grey, all with blackish stripes.

“Expanse ‘of wings 1,8, inch.

Padang, Sumatra; one example.

Chionema rhadota, nov.

@. Palpi and antenne dark orange-colour; frons white,

with an orange spot; head and thorax white, ‘bands on each

side of the thorax scarlet : fore wings white, bands scarlet ;

a subbasal, rather thin, sinuous band not reaching the hinder

margin; a broad antemedial band slightly bent inwards in

the middle, with a thick black line on its inner side; a large

black spot at the end of the cell; a postmedial erect band as

broad as the other, with a thick black line on its outer side

which slightly curves inwards above its middle; a marginal

scarlet band of somewhat lesser width: abdomen and hind

wings pinkish ochreous without markings ; cilia of both wings

yellow.

* This I expect is the insect identified by Piepers and Snellen in their

list of Javan Lepidoptera as D. casigneta, Kollar, a Palearctic species

not unlike it in general appearance, but quite a different insect with black

antenne.

~l

S|

and litile-known Eastern Moths.

Expanse of wings 1,%5 inch.

Sitoli, Nias; one example.

There is a female from Nias in the B. M. with C. javanica,

Butler. J have no doubt when the male is known it will be

found to be quite different to the male of the Javan species.

Family Drepanulide.

Drepana albiceris, nov.

@. Whitish buff-colour; palpi black; antennz orange-

brown ; a black band on the upper half of the frons; legs

brown above; thorax and abdomen without markings: wings

sparsely covered with very minute orange-brown atoms and

a few larger black atoms; a transverse brown band composed

of three lines close together from near apex of fore wings,

where there is a smail brown patch with a pale centre, to the

middle of the abdominal margin of the hind wings ; on the

hind wings the band is accompanied by some slight blackish

suffusion, and is obsolete above vein 6, and at the end of cell

touching the inner margin of the band is a rather prominent

black spot ; on both wings there are submarginal black dots,

close to the margin at the apex of fore wings, widening from

the margin hindwards: on the underside the band is

blackish brown, broad and complete, and there is a similar

band on the outer margin.

Expanse of wings 2,*, inches.

Padang, Sumatra; one example.

In shape this species is like Drepana curvaria, Walker,

from Mysol, figured in Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. i. pl. vii. fig. 1,

but it is larger and the fore wings more falcate.

Family Lymantriide.

Leucoma ecnomoda, nov.

3S. Palpi bright pinkish orange; head dark chestnut-

colour; front of thorax pure white, remainder of thorax,

abdomen, antenna, and wings rather pale pinkish brown:

both wings with a large irregular hyaline patch, evenly curved

on its inner side at one third from the base, running to a

point below the costa, very irregular on its outer side, with

three square lobes projecting outwardly on the fore wings and

one on the hind wings and occupying the best part of the

wings; on the fore wings above and close to the hyaline

patch there is a duplex hyaline spot, almost subapical; on

the hind wings there is one, with another disconnected patch

outside. On the underside the coloration is pinkish white.

78 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new

Eixpanse of wings 1,%) inch.

1 g, Buitenzorg, Java (type).

1 g, Padang, Sumatra.

Allied to Leucoma fenestrata, Hmpsn., from Ceylon, the

hyaline patches much larger and differently shaped.

Euproctis xanthura, nov.

g. Antenne and frons dull ochreous ; palpi brown above,

white beneath and at the tips; body and wings blackish

brown; thorax orange in front; abdomen with an ochreous

tuft: fore wings with the costal line and a patch at the apex

ochreous white, a prominent black spot at the apex, a little

ochreous white on the outer margin below the middle, and

the broad cilia ochreous white: hind wings without markings,

the cilia pure white. On the underside the inner portion of

the fore wings is pale blackish brown, the base and margins

broadly whitish; the hind wings are all white except for

some blackish-brown suffusion on the abdominal third ;

abdomen blackish brown, thorax and legs whitish.

Expanse of wings 1,5 inch.

Padang, Sumatra ; one example.

Belongs to the scintillans group, but is not very closely

allied to any of the forms of that section.

Euproctis neola, nov.

2. Of a uniform blackish brown ; antennz, palpi, thorax

beneath, legs, and abdominal tuft pale whitish ochreous;

thorax in front dull orange: fore wings with a large apical

bright yellow patch, containing two prominent black spots,

one at the apex and the other below it ; another yellow smaller

patch in the shape of a half-circle on the outer border below

the middle; cilia concolorous with the two colours of the

wing: hind wings without markings, the cilia bright yellow,

with a little of this colour entering within the outer margin.

On the underside the fore wing is the same as it is above,

except that the apical spots are absent and the costal line is

yellow ; on the hind wings there is a marginal yellow band

and yellow cilia.

Expanse of wings 1$ inch.

Padang, Sumatra; one example.

Family Chalcosiide.

Soritia zebra.

Laurion zebra, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xiv. p. 85 (1884).

Erasmia laja, Pag. Nass. Ver. xxxvili. p. 11, pl. 1. fig. 5 (1885).

Sitoli, Nias.

and little-known Eastern Moths. 79

Butler’s and Pagenstecker’s types were females. I have

received both sexes from Sitoli. ‘he male differs from the

female in having a narrow discal white band on the fore

wings, narrower than in the male of Soritia obliquaria, Fabr.,

but it is broken into three pieces, the centre piece being a

small white spot ; the black marginal band of the hind wings

is narrower, and the black portions of both wings on the

undersides are covered with blue streaks and spots as in the

female.

amily Notodontide.

Stauropus virescens.

Stauropus virescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p.404; Hmpsn. Journ. Bo.

N. H. Soe. xiii. p. 42 (1900).

Sikkim.

Moore’s type isa male; I have lately received from Sikkim

what I believe to be the female. The fore wings have the

same kind of green above, with four irregular, dark, trans-

verse bands ; the hind wings are pale brownish grey and the

undersides of both wings are grey and quite unmarked as in

the male; the fore wings are rather broad and the expanse

2,3, inches.

Family Hadenide.

Polia illoba.

Agrotis illoba, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 162 (1878).

Polia illoba, Hmpsn. Phal. y. p. 151 (1905).

Graphiphora pacifica, Butler, /. c. p. 165.

Mamestra declinans, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 250.

Khasia Hills; several examples.

Recorded from Siberia, Japan, and China; not previously

recorded from the Indian Region.

Family Focillide.

Iluza eugrapha, nov.

6 ¢. Of a uniform grey colour, very slightly tinged with

pinkish ochreous and minutely irrorated with black atoms ;

antenne blackish brown ; sides of the palpi and legs black:

fore wings with a black dot in the middle of the cell and

another at the end; a broad straight band from apex of fore

wings to near anal angle of hind wings, obsolete from vein 6

to the costa; this band is composed of a thick black outer

line, a thin black inner line, the narrow space between them

erey-pink, and close to it on the inner side on both wings is

80 Bibliographical Notice.

another fine black line for two thirds upwards ; there is also

a black spot just below the middle and close to the outer side

of the band on the fore wings; a thin marginal interrupted

line and black points close to the outer margin on both wings;

a black dot at the end of the cell on the hind wings. Under-

side paler, no markings; the cell-dots and a Le

festooned black line on the outer margin of both wings, most

prominent in the female.

Eixpanse of wings, ¢ 17%, ? 1,5 inch.

3, Gédé, W. Java.

?, Padang, Sumatra.

Allied to Ituza transversa, Moore, from Sikkim and Assam.

There is a male from Bali in the B. M. unnamed, Quadrifid

drawer no. 222.

Family Boarmiide.

Opthalmodes plesia, nov.

3. Moss-green; palpi and frons ochreous white, palpi at

the sides, head, and antenne black: wings somewhat pale

between the bands, making them more or less variegated in

colour, with four transverse, duplex, green, slightly dentated

bands at equal distances apart, commencing from black spots

on the costa of the fore wings and with black spots throughout

on each inner band, the “outer margin of both wings with

equally prominent black: spots; cilia white, a black spot at

the end of each cell. Underside whitish, suffused with dull

ale green; a black spot at the end of each cell and a dull

blackish submarginal band more or less macular.

Expanse of wings 1,’ inch.

Padang, Sumatra ; one example,

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Chiaglas nigripes, Cam.

Chiaglas nigripes, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) ix. p. 152.

Runjit Valley, Sikkim, 1000 feet; April (C. 7. Bingham).

Described from the Khasias.

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Faliphera latibalteata, sp. n.

Black ; the face, clypeus, base of mandibles, a line on the

inner orbits, above extending to near the hind ocelli, the

lower half of the outer orbits, malar space, prothorax (except

for a line in the centre of the pleure dilated at the base), a

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below, tubercles, a large mark on the lower half of the meso-

pleure (rounded below and extending on to the sternum,

rounded and narrowed above at the apex), an oval spot below

the hind wings, a large mark in the middle of the metapleurae

(transverse at the base, the three other sides broadly rounded),

the postpetiole, almost the apical half of the second segment,

two broad marks (obliquely narrowed towards the base) on

the apical half of the third, two smaller oblique triangular

marks on the sides of the fourth, a narrow line on the apex of

the fifth and sixth, and the seventh from shortly behind the

middle, bright orange-yellow, as are also the legs (except the

fore femora behind, the middle at the base all round and at

the apex, slightly more broadly above, the middle yellow part

being about as long as the black apical) ; the basal and apical

third of the posterior all round, the base narrowly of the four

hind tibie (their apices more broadly), the four anterior tarsi

above, and the hind coxe and trochanters, black. ‘The

underside of the antennal scape yellow, the sixth to fourteenth

joints of the flagellum white. Wings hyaline, the nervures

and stigma black. ¢.

Length 14 mm.

Runjit Valley, Sikkim, 1000 feet; April (C. 7. Bingham).

Head closely punctured, the apex of clypeus and a large

round depression over each antenna smooth, shining. ‘Thorax

closely punctured, the depression in the centre of propleurse

obliquely irregularly striated; the apex of the mesopleure

finely, closely, obliquely striated below. Median segment

closely rugosely punctured, the apex of the posterior median

area transversely striated; the lateral apical areze more

strongly, irregularly, and much less closely striated; the

apex ot the pleure irregularly, stoutly, obliquely reticulated.

Postpetiole smooth, the second and third segments closely

punctured. Gastrocceli longer than wide, somewhat pyri-

form, smooth on the inner side at the base, the outer side

coarsely aciculated. Tarsi closely spinose. ‘he areolet

5-angled, large, the recurrent nervure received shortly beyond

the middle.

For a synopsis of the Indian species of Haliphera see ‘The

Entomologist,’ 1904, p. 307. Inter alta, the present species

may be known by the broad continuous band on the second

abdominal segment.

DIPLOPTERA.

Odynerus Hewittit, sp. n.

Black ; the mandibles (except at extreme apex), clypeus,

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 83

the eye-incision entirely, a line down the centre of the front

(narrowed on the upper half, dilated below the middle, and

the apex still more widely triangularly dilated), the outer

orbits almost entirely, a triangular mark between the ocelli

and the eyes, a large pyriform mark on the sides of the pro-

notum, the two united by a narrow line, two longish lines

down the centre of the mesonotum, a mark on the basal half

of the scutellum (roundly incised in the middle), a large

mark on postscutellum (its base transverse, the apex obliquely

narrowed), a large curved triangular mark covering the sides

of the metanotum, the narrowed part below, two large marks

on the mesopleure at the base (the upper broader and shorter

than the lower, the two divided by the suture), tegule (except

for a fuscous spot), the first abdominal segment at the top of

apical slope, its apex and the apices of the following seven

segments, the lines dilated laterally and that on the seventh

also in the middle, a mark in the centre of the eighth (nar-

rowed towards the apex), the sides of the second ventral

broadly, its apex more narrowly (the black central mark

formed thereby is obliquely narrowed at the apex), and the

apices of the other segments, yellow. Legs yellow, the coxe,

trochanters, and femora black behind. Wings hyaline, the

anteriorsuffused with fuscous; the stigma fuscous, the nervures

black. .

Length 10 mm.

Kuching, Borneo; June (Juhn Hewitt).

Clypeus as broad as long, the apical half roundly narrowed,

the apex transverse. Upper part of head and the thorax,

except the apex of the mesopleure and the base of meta-

pleure (which are bare, smooth, and shining), closely, rather

strongly punctured. Underside of antennal scape yellow, of

the flagellum brown, as is also the hook, which is as long as

the joint. Base of thorax not quite transverse, the sides of

metanotum margined ; the postscutellum is obliquely nar-

rowed. ‘The pubescence all over is short, dense, and pale.

In the Journ. Linn. Soc. 1857, p. 112, Mr. F. Smith

described an Odynerus multipictus from Borneo; in the same

journal, 1859, p. 165, he described another O. mulupictus

trom Aru. In his ‘Catalogue of Malay Hymenoptera’ tlhe

Aru multipictus is duly noted, but not the earlier one.

Saussure (Stett. ent. Zeit. xxui. p. 200) redescribes what he

regarded as the Borneo multipictus, and renamed it guttu-

latus—“ parce que l’auteur |’a aussi donné a une autre espéce

qui pourra le conserver.” It is, however, the Aru mu/tipictus

of 1859 that ought to have been renamed. Bingham (‘ Fauna

of Brit. India,’ Hymen. 1. p. 868) describes and figures the

Ge

84 Mr. P. Cameron on [Tymenoptera

Borneo multipictus, but only the female. Col. Bingham has

given me from Sikkim the male of what is no doubt the

Indian multipictus (1. c. pl. ii. fig. 13). I have unfortunately

only males of these yellow-banded species. Those known

to me may be separated as follows :—

a, The pubescence dense and black, the apex of

the clypeus not transverse; pygidium black ;

the lateral marks on metanotum not much

widened above.

Pronotum and tegule black ; pleuree and scutel-

lum immaculate , second ventral segment

black, with two large yellow spots, the

othersemments black sce, snisice ae ieee « multipictus, Sm.

Pronotum, pleuree, and scutellums marked with

yellow ; the ventral segments (except the

apical two) for the greater part yellow.... septemfasciatus, Sm.

6. The pubescence short and pale; the apex of

clypeus transverse; pygidium with a large

yellow mark; the marks on metanotum much

WIECH ADOVE Moms eel aiseretetoinic! vetlel eee melaiets Hewitt, sp. n.

Odynerus heterospilus, sp. n.

Black; the clypeus, the eye-incisions, a longish triangular

mark over the antenne, the greater part of the mandibles, an

oblique mark opposite the ocelli touching the eyes, the outer

orbits broadly, the base of pronotum, apex of tegule, the base

of scutellum to near the middle, a broad curved line (widened

above) on the sides of metanotum, a large conical mark

(longer than wide) below the tegula, a smaller narrower spot

near the apex of mesopleure below, the first abdominal

segment (except narrowly at the base), the apices of the

second to fifth, the whole of the sixth, the base of the second

ventral, and the apices of the middle ventral narrowly, yellow,

the yellow on the abdomen tinged with rufous ; a transverse

line on the vertex behind the ocelli, the apex of pronotum

from shortly behind the middle, the sides of mesonotum

largely, and a spot below the hind wings surrounding a

yellow mark, blood-red. Underside of antennal scape yellow,

of flagellum brown. Legs yellow, the four anterior coxe,

trochanters and femora behind, and the greater part of the

posterior, black. Wings clear hyaline, the radial cellule

smoky, the stigma testaceous, the nervures black; the first

and second transverse cubital nervures united in front, 9.

Total length 9 mm.

Kuching, Borneo; February (Hewitt).

Belongs to Odynerus (sensu str.). Densely covered with

short white pubescence. First abdominal segment large,

from the Ortental Zoological Legion. 89

cup-shaped, not quite sessile, slightly longer than it is wide

at the apex; the second longer than wide, the apex with a

narrow but distinct depression. Clypeus with the apex trans-

verse, as it is also above. Apex of postscutellum transverse ;

the sides of metanotum bluntly rounded, the apex transverse,

not much depressed in the middle. The base of the thorax

is not quite transverse and with the sides rounded.

A distinct species.

Ancistrocerus megaspilus, sp. 1.

Black ; clypeus, mandibles (except the inner edge), the

eye-incision, the yellow extending beyond it, a longitudinal

line (extending from shortly above the top of the eye-incision

to the antenne, its top narrowed, the bottom dilated), a short

oblique line on the vertex running into the top of the eyes,

the outer orbits broadly, a broad line on the sides of pronotum

(extending from the base to shortly beyond the middle),

tegulz, basal two thirds of scutellum, the apex of the marx

transverse, the sides of the metanotum broadly, the mark

curved and narrowed below, a large almost semicircular mark

below the tegule, a much smaller oblique conical mark on

the apex of mesopleure below, a small transverse mark on

the sides of the first abdominal segment at the top of basal

slope, a line on the apex of the first to fifth segments (that on

the first dilated in the middle, the dilated part with an

incision), and a large conical mark on the sides of the second

segment, yellow. Legs yellow, black behind at the base.

Wings hyaline, the radial and the apex of the costal cellule

fuscous violaceous, the stigma dark fuscous; the recurrent

nervure interstitial, the second cubital cellule much narrowed

in front, but with the nervures apart. ¢.

Total length 10 mm.

Kuching; March (Jewitt).

Apex otf clypeus transverse, moderately wide. Thorax

more than twice longer than wide, the sides at the base

broadly rounded, the apex transverse. Apex of postscutellum

obliquely narrowed towards the centre. First abdominal

segment cup-shaped, not quite sessile at the base; at the

centre of its apex is a distinct fovea, there being similar fovese

on the second and third; the segments are smooth, silky.

The base of the first abdominal segment is hardly separated

from the rest, but is more glabrous and shining.

Sphegide.

Cerceris baluchistanensis, sp. n.

Yellow; asmal! longish spot over each antenna, the vertex

3 g i

86 Mr. P. Cameron on [Tymenoptera

from the hinder ocelli (except for a triangular spot behind

each of the latter), the basal two thirds of the pronotum and

the central apical furrow, three broad lines on mesonotum

and a similar one across the base, the space bordering the

sides of scutellums, a large triangular mark covering the

basal area of metanotum, a broad line covering the central

apical furrow, and the space between the meso- and metapleure,

black ; the flagellum of antennze and the space separating the

abdominal segments rufo-fulvous. Legs yellow, the femora

tinged with fulvous. Wings hyaline, the apex narrowly

smoky, the costa and stigma fulvous, the apical nervures

black. ¢.

Length 12 mm.

Quetta; June (Nurse).

Metanotal area closely but not very strongly transversely

striated. Head, thorax, and, to a less extent, the abdomen

covered with white pubescence, closely strongly punctured,

the metathorax more closely than the rest. Clypeus fringed

with pale golden hair, its apex bluntly rounded. Hyes

slightly converging above. Hinder ocelli separated from each

other by a little greater distance than they are from the eyes.

Apical half of penultimate joint of antenne abruptly narrowed,

the last bluntly rounded at the apex. First abdominal seg-

ment slightly narrowed at the base, longer than it is wide at

the apex. Pygidium strongly punctured throughout, of equal

width, the apex bluntly rounded, keeled; the apex of

epipygium bluntly rounded.

Comes near to C. Waltli’, Spin., from Egypt.

Cerceris quettaensis, sp. n.

Black ; the face, a broad line on the lower half of the inner

eye-orbits, clypeus, mandibles (except the teeth), antennal

scape, two marks (broader than long) obliquely widened

towards the apex on the outer edge of pronotum, tegule,

tubercles, postscutellum, basal half of second abdominal

seoement, the third entirely, the fourth narrowly in the centre,

widely at the sides, the fifth (except for a curved black band

on the base), the sixth entirely, and the greater part of the

ventral segments, bright lemon-yellow, as are also the legs.

Basal four joints of antennal flagellum dark yellow, the apical

brownish below. Wings hyaline, the apex narrowly smoky,

the stigma dark fuscous, the nervures black. @.

Length 11 mm.

Quetta (Nurse).

Metanotal area smooth, shining, the central furrow wide,

from the Oriental Zovlogical Region. 87

opaque, finely rugose. Entire body closely strongly punc-

tured. ‘Third antennal joint as long as the scape, shorter

than the second and fourth united. First abdominal segment

longish oval, about one half longer than wide, as long as the

second. Abdominal segments strongly but not very closely

punctured, the second smooth in the centre at the apex, the

others smooth at the base, the last strongly punctured, de-

pressed at the apex. Pygidium closely strongly punctured,

slightly gradually narrowed towards the apex.

Comes near, apparently, to C. ewgenta, Schlett.

Cerceris basimacula, sp. n.

Black ; a mark on the centre of the clypeus (obliquely

narrowed above and below), a broad line on its apex, a broad

line on the inner orbits from the antenne, two large oblique

marks on the apex of the metanotum (extending on to the

pleuree), the basal third of the abdominal petiole on the sides,

more than the basal third of the second segment, and narrow

lines on the apices of the fourth and fifth segments, yellow ;

the sides of the central and lower parts of the clypeus, pro-

thorax, seutellums, more than the apical third of the second

and third abdominal segments, a line behind the yellow on

the fourth and fifth, and the apical two segments entirely,

dark rufous ; the apex of the first segment of a paler rufous

colour. our front legs pale rufo-testaceous ; the tibiz and

base of tarsi yellow ; the hind legs similarly but much darker

coloured. Wings hyaline, the radial cellule smoky, the apical

cubital cellule of a deeper smoky colour ; the costa and stigma

dark testaceous, the nervures black. Antenne rufo-testa-

ceous, the scape yellow below, the eight apical joints blackish,

paler below. 2.

Length 10 mm.

Sikkim.

Face strongly but not closely punctured ; the clypeus more

finely and closely punctured; there is a short keel in the

centre of the latter, with a fovea on either side. Front and

vertex strongly, somewhat closely punctured. Middle of

pronotum closely punctured, the sides almost smooth ; meso-

notum somewhat strongly but not closely punctured; the

scutellum is more strongly but not so closely punctured as the

latter. Postsecutellum smooth. Metanotum strongly punc-

tured, the punctures clearly separated; the area shining,

smooth. Head and thorax densely covered with white

pubescence. First abdominal segment of equal width, about

four times as long as wide, longer than the second; the

88 Mr. P. Cameron on Hymenoptera

segments strongly punctured ; the pygidium strongly but not

very closely punctured; the sides rounded, narrowed at the

base and apex, the latter slightly rounded inwardly. The

whole abdomen covered with longish white pubescence.

Hypopygium depressed at the apex; the latter has a slight

rounded incision.

Allied to C. lencha, Cam.

Crabro violaceipennis, sp. n.

Black; the antennal scape, a narrow transverse line on the

postscutellum, a spot (broad and rounded at the base, roundly

narrowed towards the apex) on the base of the metanotum in

the centre, a band (rounded at the apex, the base with two

incisions in the middle, the space between projecting beyond

them) on the apex of the first abdominal segment, a broad

irregular band on the basal half of the second, a slightly

narrower band (almost continuous) on the base of the third,

and similar bands (but more clearly interrupted) on the base

of the fourth and fitth, bright lemon-yellow. ‘The legs black ;

the fore tibize in front and above, the middle and posterior

(except below and narrowly at the apex), the middle femora

broadly below, and the basal joint of the tarsi (except at the

apex), lemon-yellow. Wings fuscous violaceous, the nervures

and stigma black. ¢.

Length 13 mm.

Sikkim.

Mesonotum and scutellum closely punctured, the latter

more closely at the base than at the apex, where the punctures

run into striz. Postscutellum smooth at the base, the apex

strongly but not closely punctured. Metanotal area closely

longitudinally striated, the rest of the metanotum more

strongly obliquely striated, the striae curved and interlacing

more or less. Face, clypeus, and cheeks densely covered

with silvery pubescence; the thorax densely covered with

white to silvery pubescence, which is longest on the meta-

notum. Pygidium shining, longish, the basal third with

deep clearly separated punctures; the rest is less strongly

and more sparsely punctured, especially in the middle.

‘There is a deep crenulated furrow down the base of the meso-

pleure. Abdomen sessile, triangular.

Belongs to Bingham’s section B. c. 6'; with none of the

species therein can it be confounded.

Crabro clenopus, sp. Nn.

Black ; a line above on basal half of mandib es, two broad

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 89

lines on pronotum, a large, irregular, oblique mark on the

sides of second abdominal segment, a line (about three times

longer than wide) on the sides of the third, a slightly longer

and narrower one on the sides of the fourth, with two small

lines between, a line on the basal half of the fitth, with two

black lines in the centre at the base, a band on the centre of

the sixth (with two rounded black lines, united at the base,

in the centre), bright lernon-yellow. Anterior legs testaceous,

the femora with the lower half yellow in front ; the tarsi

blackish towards the apex ; the middle trochanters and femora

clear lemon-yellow, with a broad black line in the middle and

a short line on the apex below; the tibia lemon-yellow,

blackish at the base and apex, and with a broader blackish

band in the centre; hind legs black, the metatarsus to near

the middle pale yellow. Wings hyaline, iridescent, the costa

and stigma black. ¢.

Length 9 mm.

Sikkim.

Abdominal petiole fully one fourth longer than it is wide

at the apex ; it becomes gradually widened from the base to

the apex and is closely punctured. Base of metanotum with

a small central area of equal width and a large area on either

side (wider than long), the apical keel less distinct than the

lateral and rounded ; the top of the apical slope is irregularly

widely reticulated, the middle smooth, the apex transversely

striated. Top and apex of mesopleure above and at the apex

smooth, the latter bounded by a rounded curved keel; the

apex below with a narrow band of stout striw. Metapleura:

(except at the apex above) striated closely, ‘The pubescence

on the head, thorax, and sides of abdomen white, on the back

of the abdomen bright golden fulvous. Basal joint of middle

tarsi dilated, straight on inner side, rounded on outer to near

the apex, which is narrowed, below it is fringed with a

comb of stout bristles, the apex projects and ends in two

long spines ; the basal joint of the anterior broad, curved,

slightly narrowed at the base, the following three joints are

broad, the second as long as the following two united ; the

first joint of the posterior longer than the following united,

broad, narrowed at the base. ‘he middle of the mandibles

rufous.

In having the metanotum areolated this species agrees with

C. agycus, Vam., from the Himalayas (‘The Entomologist,’

1904, p. 261).

Psen montanus, sp. 0.

Black, shining, sparsely covered with short white pubes-

90 Mr. P. Cameron on Hymenoptera

cence. Wings clear hyaline, the nervures and stigma black ;

the second cubital cellule much narrowed in front, one fourth

of the length of the third in front; the first recurrent nervure

received very shortly beyond the transverse cubital, the

second at the apex of the basal fourth; metanotum without

keels, except two indistinet longitudinal ones leading down to

the furrow, which is distinct, smooth on upper, crenulated on

lower half; the narrowed part of petiole half the length of

thorax. Body smooth ; the pubescence densest and longest

on the sides. 9.

Length 7 mm.

Simla (Nurse).

May be known from the other black Indian species by the

absence of keels and arew on the metanotum, it being also

smaller than them. P. kashmirensis, Nurse, has a “ remark-

able tubercle” between the antenna, and it agrees otherwise

with the present species closely, but it differs in having a

triangular depression at the base of the metanotum, which

also bears outwardly diverging striz, this not being the case

with the present species.

Psen rufoannulatus, sp. n.

Black, shining, densely covered with longish white pubes-

cence ; the second and third abdominal segments bright red ;

the apical four joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the wings

clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures black; abdominal

petiole as long as the thorax ; the front with a distinct keel

down the middle. @.

Length 9 mm.

Simla; August (Nurse).

A. stout species.

Metanotal area bare, shining, large, clearly defined, the

apex gradually roundly narrowed to a point shortly above

the middle of the metanotum ; in its centre are two parallel

keels; at a distance from these is a keel; separated from it

at the outer edge are three or four less distinct ones. The

rest of the metanotum is opaque, irregularly striated, the

strize more or less curved; the pubescence is long and dense.

The first recurrent nervure is received near the apex of the

basal third of the cellule, the second very shortly beyond

the second transverse cubital. Hind tibie with about a

dozen white spines. The second abscissa of radius not quite

half the length of third ; the second cubital cellule wide in

front.

from the Oriental Zoological Region. 91

Psen puncticeps, sp. n.

Black ; the knees, tibie, and tarsi whitish testaceous, the

hinder darker tinted, with the tibie fuscous from shortly

beyond the middle ; the second and following segments of the

abdemen piceous, the narrowed part of petiole half the length

of the thorax. Wings clear hyaline, the stigma dark fuscous,

the nervures black. Metanotum without a basa] area, the

sides keeled, the keels with a narrow striated band on the

inner side ; the furrow on the apical slope is wider and deeper

on the basal than on the apical part. Antenne stout,

brownish below, the third joint about one fourth longer than

the next, which is as long as the second. First recurrent

nervure received close to the base of the cellule, the second at

double the distance. Front closely, distinctly, the vertex

less strongly punctured ; there is a narrow keel down the

centre of front, ending in a large stout projection between

the antennze. Parapsidal furrows distinct on basal half of

mesonotum ; the furrow on the base of metanotum is deep,

crenulated, it is separated in the middle by a smooth space

bounded by curved keels. 9.

Length 7 mm.

Simla.

Palarus fortistriolatus, sp. n.

Black, shining, sparsely covered with white pubescence ;

the three lobes of clypeus, lower half of front, basal third of

mandibles, a broad line on the lower three fourths of the outer

eye-orbits, the apex and the sides of pronotum to near the

middle, a line on its base, a large mark in front of the

tegule roundly, irregularly narrowed at the base, tegule,

tubercles, a line on the base of mesopleure, gradually narrowed

below to a sharp point, not reaching to the breast, an irre-

gular triangular spot on the outer lower side of its apex,

scutellums, their lateral keels, and the greater part of the

abdomen, bright lemon-yellow. Legs yellow, suffused with

rufo-fulvous, the four hinder cox and the greater part of

trochanters black; the anterior metatarsus with seven long

spines of equal length (except the basal, which is shorter),

the apical two close together. Wings hyaline, the apex very

slightly suffused with fuscous, the stigma and nervures

fulvous, the apical nervures darker coloured. @?.

Length 13 mm.

Quetta ; June.

The basal slope of the first abdominal segment, the base

92 Hymenoptera from the Oriental Zoological Region.

of the second to sixth narrowly, and the ventral (except for a

line on the apex of the second and irregular marks on the sides

of the others) black; the depressed apices of the first to

fourth brownish ; the line on the second broad, slightly dilated

in the middle, that on the third forming a broad triangle, that

on the fourth narrowly dilated backwards to the apex of

basal third in the middle; there is a deep furrow in the

centre of the apical two thirds of the fifth. The second

ventral segment becomes gradually raised in the centre

towards the apex (forming about one third of the segment),

the apex of the raised part slightly roundly narrowed; the

part beyond this is raised also, is stoutly striated, and has the

apex bluntly rounded and curled up. Pygidium long,

gradually roundly narrowed from the base to the apex,

sparsely weakly punctured. Eyes at the top separated by

not quite the length of the third antennal joint. Hinder

ocelli irregularly oval, depressed in the centre, the depression

behind them longer than wide, the apex deep, the base much

shallower and narrowed; the anterior ocellus roundish, sur-

rounded by a rounded furrow. ‘Third antennal joint as long

as the second and fourth united; front and face densely

covered with silvery pubescence. Pronotum with a steep

oblique slope from the top to the bottom, the top rounded,

clearly separated, widened laterally. Base of mesonotum

closely, the sides and apex sparsely punctured, the scutellums

still more sparsely punctured. Metanotum depressed in the

middle, strongly striated, transversely on base, obliquely on

sides of apex, the centre being smooth; the rest closely,

strongly, rugosely punctured, with an irregularly reticulated

area, widest on outer side, on the inner side at the base.

Pro- and mesopleure shining, sparsely punctured; the meta-

pleure closely irregularly reticulated. The last ventral

segment is flat at the base, gradually narrowed to a fine point,

then prolonged into a keel; the penultimate flat. The front

over the antenne is roundly raised. Middle of first abdo-

minal segment keeled laterally. ‘The striation on the meta-

notum is iregular, being more transverse in one example

than in the other; it is strong in both.

Allied to P. flavipes.

On a new Leptolepid Fish from the Weald Clay. 93

XVIT.—On a new Leptolepid Fish from the Weald Clay of

Southwater, Sussex. By A. SMira Woopwarp, LL.D.,

ERS:

[Plate I.]

TuIn cycloid scales which might have belonged to a Leptolepis-

like fish have already been neticed in the English Wealden

formation, but no complete example of a Wealden member

of the Leptolepide has hitherto been described. A well-

preserved specimen, however, which may be referred to the

family just mentioned, has lately been found in the Weald

Clay at Southwater, near Horsham; and I am indebted to

the Directors of the Southwater Brick and Tile Co., Ltd.

(through Mr. C, H. Aldersmith, A.M.I.C.E.), for the oppor-

tunity of studying this interesting fossil, which has now been

presented to the British Museum.

The new specimen is preserved in counterpart in a slab of

clay, and its best half is shown of one half nat. size in

Pl. I. fig. 1. It is exhibited in direct side-view, only

lacking the anterior part of the head and the hinder half of

the caudal fin. The maximum depth of the trunk is con-

tained somewhat less than three times in the length from the

pectoral arch to the base of the caudal fin, and would probably

equal about one fifth of the total length of the fish. The

same depth is not quite three times as great as the depth of

the caudal pedicle. The fragmentary remains of the head

show that the mandibular suspensorium is inclined forwards,

so that the articulation of the lower jaw must have been

directly beneath the hinder part of the orbit. The hyo-

mandibular bone (dm.) bears a long process for the suspension

of the operculum (op.), which is shown in impression, trape-

zoidal in shape, and about as deep as broad. The preoper-

culum (pop.) has a long upright ascending limb, expanding

below into a triangular plate. The suboperculum (sop.), best

seen in the counterpart not figured, must have been about

four times as broad as deep. Fifteen branchiostegal rays (dr.)

can be counted, the upper seven being expanded and in close

series, the lower eight being narrower bars and more widely

spaced. ‘The opercular apparatus is quite smooth, not

ornamented. The total number of vertebra is about sixty,

half being in the abdominal region. ‘The centra are about

as long as deep in the anterior part of the caudal region, but

are somewhat shorter than deep both in the abdominal and

94 Onanew Leptolepid Fish from the Weald Clay.

in the hinder part of the caudal region. They are well ossified

and their primitive double-cone is strengthened by secondary

bone arranged in fine, close, longitudinal ridges (fig. 2).

The ribs are stout, apparently borne on very short transverse

processes, and clearly extending to the ventral border of the

fish. ‘The fixed neural and hemal arches in the caudal

region are also very stout and gently arched. The hinder

extremity of the vertebral column turns only slightly upwards,

and its heemal arches are somewhat expanded without fusion

into plates. ‘The intermuscular bones are almost completely

obscured by the scales in the fossil, but there are traces of

them above the vertebral column in the abdominal region,

and both above and below this column in the caudal region.

The post-temporal (pt.) is a thick plate, almost triangular i in

shape, and the supraclavicle (sc/.) is a deep and narrow bone.

The clavicle (c/.), as shown in impression, is expanded into a

large smooth plate above the pectoral fin, which is inserted

close to the ventral border. When adpressed to the trunk

this fin extends halfway to the insertion of the pelvic fins;

its rays have a very long and stiff base, but are finely divided

and articulated at the extremity. The pelvic fins (plv.) are

smaller than the pectorals, though similar in character, and

inserted midway between the pectorals and the anal. The

dorsal fin (d.) arises well in front of the middle point between

the occiput and the caudal fin, somewhat in advance of the

insertion of the pelvic fins. It comprises eighteen to twenty

rays, of which the three foremost are closely pressed together,

undivided, and gradually increase in length. The length ot

the fourth or longest ray much exceeds half the depth of the

trunk at its insertion, and, like the following rays, is finely

divided and articulated distally. The anal fin (a.) resembles

the dorsal in character, but is much smaller and comprises

only thirteen or fourteen rays. It is far behind the dorsal,

and its origin is much nearer to that of the caudal than to

the insertion of the pelvic fins. he remains of the caudal

fin-rays (¢.) show that they were comparatively stout. There

are no fulcra on any of the fins, The scales are relatively

large, cycloid, and smooth, occasionally with feeble traces

of a slight radiating pectination at the hinder border, but

usually exhibiting structural lines, including wavy concentric

markings. They are scarcely displaced in ‘the fossil, and are

seen to be deeply overlapping, with the exposed area narrow

and deep. The “lateral line” is scarcely traceable, but

seems to produce a slight depression along some scales in a

series above the vertebral column.

So far as the skeleton is preserved there is nothing in the

On new Species of Histeride. 95

Wealden fossil just described to prevent its reference to an

Hlopine or Clupeoid fish; but as the European Wealden

fish-fauna is essentially of a Jurassic type *, the specimen is

more likely to belong to a member of the Leptolepide, with

which it equally agrees. ‘The skeleton of the trunk resembles

that both of Leptolepis itself and of Athalion ; but the lack

of jaws prevents an exact determination of the genus. The

number of the vertebree exceeds that of all known species of

both genera except dthalion Vidali +, and the relative short-

ness of the hinder caudal, as well as the anterior abdominal

vertebral centra, is a feature peculiar to the new Wealden

fish. The fins, as described, also distinguish this fossil from

all species with which it can be compared. It therefore

represents a new species, which I propose to name Leptolepis

valdensis until the discovery of the head determines its

precise generic position.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE LI.

Fig. 1. Leptolepis valdensis, sp. n.; right side view of type specimen, one

half nat. size-—Weald Clay; Southwater, Sussex. [{ Brit. Mus.

no. P. 10440.] a, anal fin; 6r., branchiostegal rays; ¢., caudal

fin; c/., clavicle ; d., dorsal fin ; Am., hyomandibular ; op., oper-

culum ; plv., pelvic fins; pop., preoperculum ; pt., post-temporal ;

sel., supraclayicle ; sop., suboperculum.

Fig. 2. Ditto; caudal vertebrae of same specimen, nat. size.

XVIII.—On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others.

By G. Lewis, F.L.S.

Tus is the thirty-first paper of this series, which dates from

the year 1884. In the Histeride the absence or otherwise of

prosternal striz is sometimes of great significance, and serves

to distinguish both genera and species. Thus, in Teretrio-

soma the striz are wanting, in Teretrius they are well marked

and very useful as specific characters; and in Paromalus, as

the genus is now defined, the prosternal keel is marginate—

that is, the striae meet at both ends. In Grammostethus,

also, the prosternal striew are of importance, as being con-

stantly similar in a series of fourteen cognate species, but

which possess, however, inter alia, good specific characters.

* A.S. Woodward, “ Note on the Affinities of the English Wealden

Fish Fauna,” Geol. Mag. [4] vol. iii. (1896) pp. 69-71.

t H. E. Sauvage, “ Noticia sobre los Peces de la Caliza litografica de

la Provincia de Lérida,” Mem. R. Acad. Cienc, Barcelona, [3] vol. iv.

no. 35 (1903), p. 18, pl. ii. fig. 2. a

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But it is necessary to note that in other genera the strie

only help to identify certain species. In Plescus and Placodes

they can only be used as specific characters. Plestus cossy-

phus, Mars., and striatipectus, Lew., are extremely similar,

but the latter alone has a bistriate prosternum, and the same

differences clearly separate edlipticus, Mars., from javanus,

Er. In the genus Placodes, caffer, Hr., has strie, and they

are wanting in ebeninus, Lew., species which otherwise are

superficially very much alike.

It is to be regretted that at the present time there are

genera which are not well defined, notably Lioderma, Apo-

bletes, Phelister, and others, but, as time goes on, with in-

creasing knowledge, some future student of the group may

see a way to point out some salient characters not at present

obvious, and, perhaps, by further subdivision introduce a

more intelligent systematic arrangement,

Marseul’s monograph will, however, remain the initial

work on the family, and the figures of the species, drawn by

him at the time of writing his descriptions, are so charac-

teristic that they lead generally to the certain identification

of the species. But in his time more material was wanted

for an efficient classification, and not much advance has been

made since for the same reason.

List of Genera and Species.

Lioderma pervalidum, Blaisdell. Hister similis.

Hyposolenus, gen. nov. Microlister Sheppardi.

Apobletes poenalis. Margarinotus, Marseul.

Carcinops Voulogeri, Théry.

pumicatus.

Platylister niponensis, Lev. Monoplius Braunsi.

Platysoma germanum. Probolosternus brevistrius.

Cornillus, gen. nov. Exosternus rufulus.

Contipus, Marseul. Reninus Salvini, Lew.

Eugrammicus, gen. nov. puncticollis.

Zabromorphus ordinarius. Eretmotus planifrons.

Coptochilus, Rey. foveisternus.

Heterognathus, Rey. Onthophilus niponensis.

Hister Marseuli.

Lioderma pervalidum, Blaisdell, Lew. Ann. & Mag. Nat.

Hist. xiv. p. 139 (1904).

L. 12-16 mill. (absque mandibulis).

A series of this Californian species has been sent to me,

and I understand that it will be shortly described in America.

It is very distinct from yucatecum, Mars., by its more

elongate and parallel outline, by being slightly more convex,

by the second dorsal stria being complete, by the elytra being

new Species of Histeridex. 97

sparingly punctured on the apical margin, by the propygidium

being wholly punctured on the disk and not at the sides only,

and by the third and fourth abdominal segments being trans-

versely punctured. JZ. yucatecum has sometimes, but rarely,

the second dorsal stria complete, but this variety was not

known to Marseul.

HYPOSOLENUS, gen. nov.

Bedy oval or oblong-oval, somewhat convex ; head retrac-

tile; mandibles dentate; labrum narrow and transverse ;

forehead striate; antenna, scape long and bent; thorax

transverse, lateral stria strong and abruptly terminating after

passing the anterior angle; prosternum bistriate ; meso-

sternum with a deep anterior marginal furrow; pygidium

convex and closely punctate. The other characters agree

with those of Plescus, in which genus the species levigatus,

Mars. (type), and levis, bengalensis, and hamatus, Lew., have

been hitherto included.

Apobletes peenalis, sp. n.

Ovalis, deplanatus, niger, nitidus; fronte excavata, punctulata ;

clypeo transverso, margine late sinuato; pronoto lateribus sub-

rugose punctato, stria marginali antice interrupta; elytris striis

dorsalibus 1-3 integris, 3 sinuata, 4 apicali, ceteris nullis ; pro-

pygidio punctato in medio excepto ; pygidio toto profunde punc-

tato ; mesosterno stria marginali haud interrupta.

L, 34 mill.

The above is similar to A. cavifrons, Lew., in that the

mesosternal stria is complete. A. excavatus and feriatus,

Lew., Schaum? and tener, Mars., belong to the same group,

and the six species all closely resemble one another, but in

the last four the mesosternal stria is interrupted. The type

example of A. excavatus has the third dorsal stria interrupted,

but in a longer series the stria is complete and in several the

pygidium is deeply foveolate on each side at the base.

Hab. Andaman Islands.

Apobletes pumicatus, sp. n.

Oblongo-ovatus, deplanatus, niger, nitidus, antennis pedibusque

piceis; fronte plana, haud striata, impunctata; pronoto stria

marginali tenuiter impressa, brevi in angulo antico ; elytris striis

1-3 integris, 4 apicali, dimidiata; propygidio disperse punctu-

lato; pygidio basi transversim punctato; prosterno lato haud

striato; mesosterno bisinuato, immarginato ; tibiis anticis multi-

denticulatis.

L. 2% mill.

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 7

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Very similar to A. Marseuli, Lew., and pauperatus, Sch.,

which together form a local section of the genus in which

the head is smooth and without striae, the thorax has a very

fine marginal stria close to the edge and confined to the region

of the anterior angles, the pygidia are indistinctly punctured,

and the prosternum broad and not striate. Specifically

pumicatus may be known by its more oblong form and by the

third dorsal stria being complete.

Hab. Cape S. Juan, Biafra, West Africa, In the Museum

of Madrid and my own collection.

Platylister niponensis, Lew.

There is an example of this species in the Museum of

Paris from the island of Kiushiu, and I think it likely that

this is the true locality of the species, not Kioto on the main

island, as I have recorded it. ‘The last place is very far north

for the occurrence in it of a genus which is essentially tropical

or subtropical.

Platysoma germanum, sp. n.

Oblongum, subparallelum, nigrum, nitidum; fronte stria recta,

integra ; pronoto stria marginali antice interrupta; elytris striis

1-3 integris, 4-5 dimidiatis, suturali brevissima ; mesosternum

late emarginatum, stria integra, conspicue impressa; tibiis

anticis 4-dentatis.

L. 33 mill.

Oblong, rather parallel, slightly convex, black and shining ;

the head, frontal stria straight anteriorly and complete, surface

obscurely punctulate; the thorax punctured laterally, stria

continued behind the neck and laterally it is close to edge

(differing in this respect from Alewandri, Mars.) ; the elytra,

striae 1-3 complete, 4—5 dimidiate, sutural very short and

occupying a median position to the fifth stria, the humeral

strice are wanting; the propygidium is coarsely punctured,

but the punctures are not closely set; the pygidium, the

punctures are similar but closer together; the prosternum,

keel rather narrow, without strie; the mesosternum widely

emarginate, with a well-marked marginal stria; the femora

and tibiee are red.

Smaller but somewhat similar to P. Alexandri, Mars. ; the

thoracic stria, however, is close to the edge of the thorax

laterally and is interrupted behind the neck ; the thorax is

punctured at the sides and there is no vestige of a sutural

stria in Marseul’s species. Marseul says of P. Alexandri

new Spectes of Histeride. 99

that there is a short oblique humeral stria, but this oblique

stria, very common throughout this family, is not usually

called a ‘ humeral” stria—humeral striz, as usually under-

stood, are longitudinal.

Hab. Mikindani, E. Africa (Raffray).

CoRNILLUS, gen. nov.

Body oval or oblong-oval; forehead impressed longitu-

dinally, stria biarcuate ; thorax, antennal fossa in the anterior

angle; elytra, strie fine, crenate, or punctiform ; pro-

pygidium finely and evenly punctured, binodulose; pro-

sternum bistriate ; anterior tibize 4-dentate.

This genus has much general similarity to Omalodes ; the

species to be included in it are tuberculipygus, Sch., bullatus,

tuberculatus, and tuberosus, Lew.

Contreus, Marseul, Mon. p. 545 (1853).

I propose to include in this genus C. flezuosus, Sch., as the

type, because it is the commonest species existing in collec-

tions, and digitatus, Mars., with ¢mmarginatus and oblongus,

Lew. For the present I would also include the American

species, abhorrens, Sch., platanus and subquadratus, Mars.

The African species with didymous elytral stria I assign to

the new genus below.

EUGRAMMICUS, gen. nov.

Body oval, more or less convex ; head transverse, man-

dibles equal and strongly dentate, labrum short and transverse,

frontal strie complete; thorax with two lateral strie; an-

tennal fossee are open from below and shallow and somewhat

similar to those of Contipus; elytra, strie are wide and

shallow, with fine crenate edges (Marseul termed them didy-

mous), striz 1-4 complete, 5 and sutural nearly complete,

sutural turning outward before the base; pygidia almost

impunctate; mesosternum feebly sinuous anteriorly ; tibizx

dilated, anterior strongly 3-dentate. Other characters similar

to those of Contipus.

Type, Contipus didymostrius, Mars.

The other known species are sinuosus (convex), prowimus,

and fractistrius, Lew. (less convex) ; at present only unique

examples are in collections, so that it is highly probable

the species have secretive and peculiar habits.

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Zabromorphus ordinarius, sp. N.

Ovatus, parum convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte irregulariter punc-

tata; elytris striis 1-3 dorsalibus integris, 4 antice abbreviata,

5 subobsoleta, suturali fere dimidiata; propygidio pygidioque

dense punctatis.

L. 6 mill.

Oval, rather convex, black and shining; the head irregu-

larly punctured, stria complete ; the thorax smooth, with two

lateral strie, interstice at and near the anterior angle with a

few scratches and punctures ; the elytra, striz, inner humeral

strong and abbreviated anteriorly for about one third, 1-3

also strong with fine crenate edges, 4 somewhat similar but

finer and but a little longer than the inner humeral stria, 5

very short, apical, and traceable only as punctures, sutural

similar to the fourth but apical and not reaching beyond the

middle; the pygidia are densely and very evenly punctured ;

the mesosternum is very feebly sinuous, with a well-marked

marginal stria ; the anterior tibize 3-dentate.

The most peculiar characteristic of this species is the sculp-

ture of the thoracic interstice.

Hab. Fort Salisbury, Matabeleland.

Macrouister, Lewis, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 145

(1904), = Coptochilus, Rey, L’ Exchange (Lyon), part 14,

p- 4 (1888), type Hister major, L.; Pachylister, Lewis,

l. c.,= Heterognathus, Rey, l. ¢., type Hister inequalis,

Ol.

Rey’s names do not appear in the ‘ Zoological Record’ nor

in “ Scudder” or any of the later lists of genera; Rey writes

of them as ‘* sous-genres,”’ but they are natural genera, and

must be recognized as such. ‘There are some specific names

in Rey’s paper also, but they are synonymic and of no

importance.

As Rey’s lines are very short and have escaped notice for

nearly twenty years, I reproduce them :—

“1? Hister major, Lin., & cause de son labre échancré et

des cétés du prothorax densement ciliés-frangés, mériterait de

constituer au moins un sous-genre (Coptochilus, Rey).”

“T) Hister inequalis, F., en raison de ses mandibules

inégales, pourrait également donner lieu & une coupe sous-

eénérique (Heterognathus, Rey).”

new Species of Histeride. 101

This is all; and I regret reinstating names introduced so

casually, but the rules of nomenclature apparently demand it *.

Hister Marseul, sp. n

Breviter ovatus, convexiusculus, niger, nitidus ; fronte stria integra,

labro trigono ; pronoto stria laterali interna integra basi haud

incurvata, externa ante medium abbreviata; elytris striis 1-3

integris, 4-5 basi multo abbreviatis ; pygidio levissime punctu-

lato; mesosterno margine bistriato ; tibiis anticis 3-dentatis.

L. 87 mill.

Shortly oval, somewhat convex, black and shining; the

head, frontal stria complete, labrum triangular; the thorax,

outer lateral stria confined to the region of the anterior angle,

inner strong and complete, with a rather wide interstice, not

incurved at the base, finely crenate behind the neck ; the

elytra, striz, subhumeral deep but shortened at both ends,

1-3 dorsal complete, but the third is lightly impressed apically,

4-5 faint, punctiform and well shortened anteriorly, sutural

stria discal and bending from the suture at both ends; pygidia

somewhat opaque, microscopically punctured, and there is a

fine raised exterior margin to the pygidium ; the mesosternum

is emarginate, with a stria on each side of the emargination,

and behind it, leaving a rather wide margin, is a complete

stria which turns to the outer edge at the suture and does not

join the metasternal stria; the anterior tibiz are 3-dentate.

This species closely resembles £. adjectus, Mars., but it is

less oval and the thoracic stria is not incurved at the base,

the pygidia are more minutely punctured, and the meso-

sternum has two marginal strie. Hister adjectus, Mars., is

reported from Natal, and the specimens I have determined as

such are from Kamerun and the French Sudan; and I may

not know Marseul’s species except from description.

Hab. Region of the Upper Congo.

The form of the pygidium of the above is similar to

the pygidia of Pachylister cafer, Ex., ceylanus, Mars., pygidi-

alis, Lew., besides [Zister adjectus, Mars., and others; but

this structure does not at present suggest itself to be of generic

importance.

Hister similis, sp. n.

Oyatus, convexus, niger, nitidus ; fronte leviter punctulata, stria

* Since writing the above I find that Rey’s names are preoceupied—

the first in Hemiptera (1843), the second in Pisces (1854) and in Coleo-

ptera (1864).

102 Mr. G. Lewis on

integra antice recta; pronoto striis duabus pone oculos coales-

centibus, interstitiis pone angulos punctatis; elytris striis 1-4 et

humerali integris, 5 basi abbreviata, suturali magis longa, humerali

externa brevissima; propygidio pygidioque dense punctatis ;

mesosterno haud sinuato, stria marginali integra; tiblis anticis

ra :

3-dentatis.

L. 77 mill.

Extremely similar to H. eneus, Lew., but differs in being

black and rather less convex. Also there is a fine punctuation

only within the stria at the anterior angle, not a band of

conspicuous points; the outer humeral stria is median and

very short, scarcely more than an elongate puncture, and the

pygidia are not quite so densely punctate.

Hab. Gambesi River.

Mierolister Sheppardt, sp. n.

Ovalis, parum convexus, niger, nitidus; antennis pedibusque nigris ;

fronte stria transversa in media interrupta, stria anterius arcuata ;

pronoto lateribus distincte punctato, stria marginali integra ;

elytris striis humeralibus nullis, 1-3 dorsalibus integris, validis,

4 et suturali equalibus antice abbreviatis, 5 dimidiata; pro-

pygidio sparse punctato; pygidio fere levi; prosterno bistriato,

striis in medio interruptis; mesosterno late emarginato, stria

integra; tibiis anticis 4-dentatis,

L. 33 mill.

This species is larger than WZ. coronatus, Lew., but extremely

like it. It differs by its more oval form, by the transverse

frontal stria being broken in the middle, by the thorax being

more distinctly punctate, by the elytral striz being deeper

and distinctly crenate, and the interstice between the first and

second striz is markedly wider at the base ; the prosternal

stria are interrupted like those of coronatus, and this may

prove to be a generic character of many species. In coro-

natus the elytral striez are less deep and very feebly crenate ;

in both species there is a transverse crenate stria marking the

suture of the mesosternum, and laterally it is continued along

the metasternum.

It is satisfactory to find a second species which possesses

the characters on which the genus was lately established ; to

these characters may now be added the form of the frontal

striz and the similarly interrupted prosternal strie.

Hab. Beira, East Africa (P. A. Sheppard). Several

examples.

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new Species of Uisteride. 103

MarGarinotus, Marseul, Mon. p. 549 (18538).

The species of this genus have open circular antennal fosse,

and this structure suggests its position to be near Grammo-

stethus and Atholus. It cannot remain between Contipus and

fTister, where Marseul placed it.

Carcinops Voulogert, Théry.

Tn the Catalogue of 1905 I placed this species erroneously

in Kissister. Mons. Théry has kindly given me the type

example.

Monoplius Braunst, sp. n.

Orbicularis, convexus, niger, opacus ; fronte plana; elytris seriebus

septem plagarum levium subobsoletis, striis dorsalibus nullis ;

prosterno bistriato; metasterno antice foveolato,

L. 43-5 mill.

Orbicular, convex, black, and opaque; the head, lateral

striz reach a little beyond the eye, surface flat and rugosely

punctured ; the thorax with three lateral small punctures and

one behind the eye (these are seen in other species), surface

densely and strigosely punctured; the elytra, strize, outer

humeral distinct and complete, inner also complete but less

marked and varying in individuals, dorsal obliterated; the

smooth circular spaces, as seen in pinguis, Lew. (pl. xx a.

fig. 8, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. 1893), are obscured by

the dense longitudinal strigosity of the general surface ;

the propygidium is densely and longitudinally strigose; the

pygidium is punctured on the disk and rather bro oadly 1 ugose

along its base; the prosternum is clearly punctured, keel

bistriate, the striee bend towards each other in the middle;

the mesosternum, marginal stria complete; the metasternum

has a fovea close to the suture, and there is a more or less

deep median linear impression which connects the fovea in

the base edge, and sometimes there are two small foves on

the first abdominal segment ; the pilosity on the thighs &e.

when existing is reddish and always sparse. The female has

a very faint longitudinal impression before the apex of the

pygidium, but it is only seen in certain lights.

he above is somewhat similar in size to s¢yillatus, Péring.,

in which, however, the ely ‘tral smooth spaces are much more

distinct.

Hab. Willowmore, Cape Colony. Many examples captured

by Dr. H. Brauns, occurring with Llodotermes viator, Latr.

(Havilandi, Sh.). ; be

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Probolosternus brevistrius, sp. n.

Ovalis, parum convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte minute punctulata,

antice haud impressa, stria marginali integra ; pronoto levissime

et sparse punetulato ; elytris striis 1-4 integris, 4 basi hamata,

2 Cons brevissima, suturali dimidiata ; propygidio fere levi.

L. 3? mill.

an rather convex, black and shining; the head, marginal

stria complete, not impressed ; the epistoma, surface very

minutely and sparsely punctulate ; the thorax, marginal stria

complete, surface sparsely and finely punctured, with an

antescutellar fovea ; the elytra, interstices of strize smooth,

striz, outer humeral fine, inner humeral and 1-4 dorsal strong

and complete, 4 being markedly hamate at the base, 5 is very

short and dorsal, being just behind the middle of the disk ;

pygidia are almost smooth, but a few fine points are seen in

certain lights; the prosternum narrow and bistriate; the

mesosternum markedly marginate ; the tibize are dilated.

The short discal fifth stria distinguishes this species from

the other four at present known.

Hab, Sierra Leone. A single example in the British

Museum.

Eaosternus rufulus, sp. 0

Ovatus, convexus, nigro-piceus, nitidus; fronte conspicue rugoso

punctata ; pronoto stria marginali integra ; elytris striis tenuiter

impressis, margine late mares ; prosterno ane antice conjunctis ;

mesosterno parum acuto, marginato ; pedibus rufis.

L. 33 mill.

Oval, convex, piceous and shining; the head rugosely

punctured, especially on the anterior part, marginal stria

interrupted in the middle, apparently obliterated by the

rugosities ; the thorax, marginal stria complete, surface

rather closely punctured at the sides, less and more finely so

behind the head, and on the disk nearly smooth ; the elytra

somewhat broadly red at the sides and along ‘the apical

margin, the outer humeral is complete, inner very short and

basal, dorsal 1-4 complete, 6 very short and apical, sutural

complete and hamate at the base ; the propygidium is densely

punctured ; the pygidium has a fine punctuation at the base

and is nearly smooth on the apex; the prosternum, striz

widen out slightly at the base, are parallel along the sides,

and join, forming an arched outline anteriorly ; the meso-

sternum distinctly marginate and somewhat acute in the

middle ; the legs are red and the anterior tibize are 6-7-dentate.

new Species of Histeride. 105

This is the third species of the genus known.

Hab. The Matopo Mountains, Matabeleland (Guy A. K.

Marshall).

Reninus Salvini, Lew., occurs in the nests of Geodoma

cephalotes, and it is probable that all the species of the genus

Reninus and Discocelis ave formicicolous. Hpiglyptus (Lister)

costatus, Mars., also associates with the Gicodoma.

Reninus puncticollis, sp. n.

Breviter ovatus, convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte depressa, stria

angulata; pronoto punctato (basi excepta); elytris striis sub-

humerali et 1 dorsali integris, 1-3 postice, 5 et suturali totis

punctiformibus ; tibiis extus valde dilatatis.

L. 33-34 mill.

Shortly oval, convex, black and shining; the head, frontal

stria strong and angulate before the eyes, depressed before

the epistoma, surface with bowed strize representing incom-

plete parts of shallow punctures and set very irregularly ;

the thorax, marginal stria very fine and apparently very

narrowly interrupted behind the middle of the neck, the inner

stria is close to the marginal stria and traceable anteriorly to

a point behind the eye, anterior angles obtuse and reddish,

surface with coarse punctures, points most dense on the outer

part, and the scutellar region is smooth, the basal edge is

narrowly and microscopically strigose; the elytra, stric, inner

humeral and first dorsal are complete and somewhat carinate

on the basal part, 1-3 are abbreviated on or before the middle,

but are continued apically by shallow punctures arranged

more or less in two rows, the fourth stria is hamate at the

base, 5 and sutural are indicated by shallow punctures, the

fifth is shortened at the middle, the sutural continues to the

base ; the pygidia have a shallow sculpture, consisting appa-

rently of crescents or half punctures which have an imbricate

outline ; the prosternum, lobe somewhat truncate anteriorly

and rather strongly marginate, with a few irregular and

shallow punctures, surface microscopically strigose, keel

bistriate, striz join anteriorly before reaching the suture, the

inner stria is abbreviated behind and the interstices of the

strize are smooth, the anterior area of the keel has a few

irregular punctures somewhat like those of the lobe ; the

mesosternum, marginal stria very fine, sinuous in the middle,

and not very close to the edge, from each basal angle pxo-

ceeds a fine bowed stria, unconnected with the lateral striz,

and both ends of them turn outwards, the sides are bistriate,

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the stria being also common to the metasternum ; the tibia

are dilated on the outer edge.

This species resembles seminitens, Sch., in the punctuation

of the thorax and in the punctiform sutural stria.

Hab. British Guiana, “ Bartica, Demerara” (2. J. Crew) ;

also Cayenne.

Eretmotus planifrons, sp. n.

Orbicularis, convexus, niger, nitidus ; fronte subopaca, immarginata,

haud striata ; pronoto basi utrinque foveolato ; elytris striis 1-2

brevibus ; prosterno opaco minutissime rugoso, antice indistincte

punctato ; pedibus rufo-piceis.

L. 23 mill.

Orbicular, convex, black and shining; the head is some-

what opaque, being microscopically rugose, very slightly

impressed anteriorly, and without a frontal stria; the thorax,

stria feebly sinuous before the basal angles, anterior angles not

very prominent, less so than those of Lucasz, Mars., and foveo-

late at the base close to the outer margin ; the elytra, strig,

outer humeral dimidiate, inner complete, 1-2 dorsal basal and

very short; the pygidia are finely and somewhat irregularly

punctured, the points being most distinct at the bases of the

segments; the prosternum, surface opaque and microscopi-

cally rugose, with indistinct punctures on the anterior half of

the keel, striae rather fine, widely sinuous laterally and widening

out anteriorly somewhat similarly, but rather more, to those

of corpulentus, Lew. (see figure, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. x.

pl. xix. fig. 1, 1892); the mesosternum, marginal stria is

very fine and the fovea shallow.

Hab. Mount Babor, Algeria (A, Théry). Found with

Aphanogaster testaceopilosa.

Eretmotus fovetsternus, sp. n.

Orbicularis, convexus, niger, nitidus ; femoribus nigris, tibiis obscure

rufis ; fronte stria laterali carinata; elytris striis 1 integra, 2-3

postice evanescentibus ; prosterno striis antice abbreviatis ; meso-

sterno foveis laterali profunde et circulariter excavatis.

L. 2} mill.

Orbicular, convex, black and shining; the femora are

black and the tibise obscurely red; the head, surface opaque,

rugosely punctured, sculpture shallow, stria laterally carinate ;

the thorax margined laterally, punctured chiefly behind the

neck and anterior angles, angles truncate ; the elytra, strie,

1 complete, 2-3 basal and evanescent before the middle, outer

new Species of Histeride. 107

humeral carinate and extends beyond the middle, inner com-

plete but only carinate at the base; the pygidia are evenly

and not densely punctured; the prosternum, strie sinuous

and well-marked, but abbreviated anteriorly before the suture,

keel distinctly punctured and obsoletely rugose ; the meso-

sternum, lateral foveze are deep and circular and the margin

is wider than that of H. Leprieuri, Mars.

The species of Hretmotus are difficult to differentiate, but

the punctuation of the keel, the deep circular fovez in the

mesosternum, and the colour of the legs will distinguish the

above from the other two small Algerian species known, viz.

carinatus, Lew., and Leprieurt, Mars.

Hab. Yakouren, Algeria.

There are sixteen species of Hretmotus now known.

Onthophilus niponensis, sp. n.

Ovatus, niger, subnitidus; fronte leviter concava, clypeo quadrato ;

pronoto 6-costato vix dense punctato; elytris 3-costatis, basi in

medio foveolatis ; pygidio in medio longitudinaliter costato, dense

punctato.

L. 22 mill.

Oval, black, somewhat shining ; the head slightly concave

between the eyes, the clypeus is nearly quadrate, being less

widened posteriorly than that of O. globulosus, Ol. ; the

thorax is rather densely punctured, lateral margins narrowly

and slightly raised, surface 6-costate, outer costa short and

near the base, intermediate one third longer and feebly oblique,

the two before the scutellum are short, parallel to each other,

and clearly separate ; the elytra are 3-costate, the interstices

with five fine carinules, and between the third costa and the

suture the outer carinules are crenate, at the base of the

elytra is a deep fovea between the second and third coste ;

the propygidium is densely punctured, with a median longi-

tudinal carina.

This species closely resembles O. globulosus, F., but it

differs by the clypeus being less wide at the base, by the

thoracic punctures being closer, smaller, and less deep, and

the elytral fovea is conspicuous and occupies the whole

breadth of the interstice. As regards the Japanese species,

it is most similar to ostreatus, Lew., which is, however, much

larger, and the median thoracic coste have appendages

behind the neck.

fab. 'Tokio, Japan. Many specimens in the Museum of

Paris and in my own collection.

108 On Two new Freshwater Fishes.

X1IX.— Descriptions of Two new Freshwater Fishes discovered

by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Mossamedes, Angola. By G. A.

BouLENnGER, F.R.S.

Labeo Ansorgti.

Body strongly compressed, its depth equal to length of

head and contained 4 times in total length. Head once and

2 as long as broad; snout broad, truncate, feebly projecting,

beset with conical horny tubercles; eye nearly perfectly

lateral, its diameter 4 times in length of head and once and 2

in interorbital width; width of mouth, with lips, about half

that of head; rostral flap not denticulated ; lips bordered

with rounded papille, their inner surface with numerous

transverse plice ; two barbels on each side, anterior 4, poste-

rior 3 diameter of eye. Dorsal IV 10, with concave upper

border, a little nearer root of caudal than end of snout, longest

ray slightly longer than head. Anal IIT 5, nearly reaching

root of caudal. Pectoral nearly as long as head, not reaching

base of ventral, which is below middle of dorsal. Dorsal

deeply forked, with acutely pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle

slightly longer than deep. Scales 36 3, 4 between lateral

line and root of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Silvery,

back brownish.

Total length 65 mm.

A single specimen from shallow swamps at Dongwenna.

A very distinct species, to be placed between L. barbatus,

Bler., and L. capensis, A. Smith.

Paratilapia angusticeps.

Depth of body about 3 times in total length. Head very

strongly compressed, 23 to 3 times in total length; lower

jaw projecting ; preemaxillary processes very long, extending

to between the eyes ; snout pointed, twice as long as the eye

in the adult (not longer than the eye in the young); eye 3}

(young) to 5 times in length of head, its diameter at least

equal to interorbital width ; mouth very oblique, extending

to below anterior border of eye; teeth in 3 or 4 series, outer

largest ; scales on cheek small, in 7 to 9 series; large scales

on the opercle. Gill-rakers short, 11 or 12 on lower part of

anterior arch. Dorsal XV-XVI 14-16; spines slightly

increasing in length to the last, which measures } to 2 length

of head. Anal JI] 11-13; third spine stronger and as long

as or a little shorter than last dorsal. Pectoral 3 to $ length

On a new Frog from Mossamedes. 109

of head, not reaching origin of anal. Caudal rounded,

Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Scales denticulate,

36-39 =; lateral lines 21-24/13-17. Brownish above,

yellowish beneath, with dark brown spots or marblings or

with 7 or 8 indistinct dark bars on the body; a blackish

opercular spot; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins with round

brown or blackish spots.

Total length 160 mm.

Several specimens were obtained by Dr. Ansorge. <A

specimen measuring 215 mm., from the Zambesi, has been

submitted to me by Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist.

Closely allied to P. robusta, Gthr.

XX.— Description of a new Frog discovered by Dr. W. J.

Ansorge in Mossamedes, Angola. By G. A. BOULENGER,

E.R.S.

Rana eryptotis.

Tongue rather feebly notched behind. Vomerine teeth in

two oblique groups between the choanee. Habit very stout.

Head short, snout rounded ; interorbital space narrower than

the upper eyelid; tympanum completely hidden under the

skin. Fingers short, pointed, first and second equal; toes

short, one-third webbed ; subarticular tubercles of toes very

prominent, conical; inner metatarsal tubercle very large,

very prominent, shovel-shaped, sharp-edged, at least as long

as the inner toe ; asmall, round, outer metatarsal tubercle ; a

round tarsal tubercle, just below the tibio-tarsal articulation.

The tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the eye. Skin

smooth. Pale greyish or brownish above, with dark-edged

grey or brown spots disposed with greater or less symmetry ;

an interrupted dark cross-bar between the eyes ; back some-

times with white or pink dots ; a light vertebral streak often

present ; hind limbs with dark transverse spots, not forming

complete cross-bars ; lower parts white.

From snout to vent 31 mm.

Numerous specimens were obtained by Dr. Ansorge at

Catequero, Ponang Kuma (Dongwenna), and in the Kafitu

Swamps.

The hidden tympanum and the tarsal tubercle well distin-

guish this small frog from &. Delalandii and other allied

species from Africa.

110 Mr. R. C. Wroughton on

XXI.—On the African Mungooses usually referred to the

Herpestes gracilis Group. By R. C. WRouGuHTON.

THE following notes refer to the section of the Herpestine

containing the forms of the small mungoose with a dark

tail-tip (usually black, rarely brown). ‘The members of the

section are found all over Africa, varying somewhat in size

and colour, as was to be expected.

The following is a list of the names already given to

members of this section, so far as I have been able to

ascertain :—

1835. Herpestes sanguineus, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss. p. 27.

1835. Herpestes gracilis, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss. p. 29.

1835. Herpestes mutgigella, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss. p. 29.

1836. Ichneumon ratlamucht, Smith, App. Rep. Exp.C. Afr. p. 42.

1836. Ichneumon Cauu, Smith, App. Rep. Exp. C. Afr. p. 42.

1836. Cynictis melanurus, Martin, P. Z. 8. p. 36.

1838. Herpestes badius, Smith, Ill. Afr. Zool. ii. pl. iv.

1839. Ichneumia nigricaudatus, Geoffroy, Mag. Zool. p. 18.

1847. Herpestes Galiniert, Guérin & Ferret, Galinier, Voy. Abyss.

Atlas, Zool. pl. i.

1848. Herpestes ochraceus, Gray, P. Z. S. p. 138.

. 1849. Herpestes punctulatus, Gray, P. Z.8. p. 11.

. 1850. Herpestes Lefebvret, Desmurs & Prévost, Lefebvre, Voy.

Abyss. Atlas, Zool. pl. i.

13. 1852. Herpestes ornatus, Peters, Reis. Moss. p. 117.

OIE SU CO OIE

coed geet peed

=

14, 1855. Herpestes ochromelas, Pucheran, Rev. Zool. vii. p. 393.

15. 1861. Herpestes iodoprymnus, Heuglin, Nov. Act. Ac, Leop. xxix.

p. 23.

16. 1864. Herpestes Granti, Gray, P. Z.S. p. 561.

17. 1864. Calogale venatica, Gray, P. Z. 8. p. 564.

18. 1877. Herpestes ruficauda, Heuglin, Reis. N.O.-Afr. p. 41.

19. 1877. Herpestes mutscheltschela, Heuglin, Reis. N.O.-Afr. p. 43.

20. 1894. Herpestes Newmanni, Matschie, SB. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berl.

Ope 2

21. 1904. Terpesles ochraceus perfulvidus, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat.

Hist. p. 96.

22, 1904. Herpestes ochraceus fulvidior, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat.

Hist. p. 97.

23. 1905. Herpestes Bocageit, Thomas & Wroughton, Ann. & Mage.

Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 170.

Practically all these forms were described as distinct

species, some even as belonging to separate genera. In

1882, in his paper on the African Herpestine (P. Z.8. p. 59),

Mr. Thomas brought all these forms together as varieties of

one species, i.e. gracilis, Riipp. In 1898 Mr. de Winton,

with increased material to guide him, pointed out that

Mr. Thomas’s variety “d” must rank as a distinct species on

account of differences in skull-characters. At present the

African Mungooses. aL

material is at least five times that which Mr. de Winton

examined. It divides easily into two groups—a smaller, with

a hind foot (cire.) 50 mm. and a skull-length (cire.) 57 mm.,

and a larger, with a hind foot (circ.) 60 mm. and a skull-

length (cire.)62mm. The group of smaller animals subdivides

into (1) Mr. Thomas’s variety “d,” that is Mungos ochra-

ceus, Gray, with its races; and (2) into a group of which the

oldest representative is Cynictis melanurus, Mart. Similarly

the larger forms are separable into two groups, viz. a northern,

in which the crown and nape are coloured like the back, and

a southern, characterized by a tawny suffusion on the head

and neck. ‘This colour-pattern is so striking and constant

that (combined with the fact that a band across Africa from

east to west, in which only a small form is found, separates

the habitats of the northern and southern groups) I deem

myself justified in ranking this form as a distinct species (or,

more correctly, group of species).

Key.

I. Size smaller ; hind foot (cire.) 50 mm,

A. Brain-case swollen anteriorly, postorbital

constriction sudden,

a. Hairs of body annulated. (Abyssinia.) (1) ochraceus, Gray.

6. Hairs not annulated in dorsal region,

which, with tail, is darker than back,

(Somali pacts ta dele alaeiecde se) 2) Gn eeesazor, Los

ce. Hairs of body not annulated. (Somali.) (8) 0. perfulvidus, Thos,

B. Brain-case narrowing gradually forward

to postorbital constriction.

a, Skull larger ; condylo-basal length 60-

62 mm.; zygomatic breadth 33-34.

a‘, General colour “burnt umber”;

face and crown like body; length

c-m' 23mm. (Gold Coast.) .... (4) melanurus, Mart.

b'. General colour “burnt umber”;

crown black; length c-m! 21'7 mm.

(Zanzibar Island.) ate de stares: (5) m, Last, subsp. n.

6, Skull smaller; condylo-basal length 58-

60 mm. ; zygomatic breadth 29.

a‘. General colour yellow ; length e—m' [ Wr.

20mm ATP OLA) s ceclocre soar (6) m. Bocaget, Thos, &

6‘, General colour drab; length c-m!

AZlmni (Cape: Verd:)\..\5 «crass as (7) m. canus, subsp. n.

ce’, General colour red-umber: length

c-m' 20°77 mm. (Zomba.) ...... (8) m. zombe, subsp. n.

II. Size larger ; hind foot (cire.) 60 mm,

A. No tawny suffusion on head and neck.

a. Tail-tip chestnut. (Kordofan.)...... (9) sanguineus, Riipp.

6. Tail-tip black.

a‘, General colour pinkish drab ; hind

foot 583 mm, (Abyssinia.) ,..... (10) s. gracilis, Riipp.

112 Mr. R. C. Wroughton on

&'. General colour brown; hind foot

623mm, W(Abyssinia.) 6a sila (11) s. mutgigella, Riipp.

c!, General colour “ seal-brown ”; hind

foot 58 mm. (Ruwenzori.)...... (12) s. proteus, Thos.

d', General colour “ oliye-buff”; hind

foot 58 mm, (Fort Hall, B.E.A.) (13) s. wee, subsp. n.

B. Tawny suffusion on head, neck, and

shoulders.

a, Hair not or only obscurely annulated.

a‘. Tail-tip brown. (Ugogo.) ...... (14) Granti, Gray.

6. Tail-tip black. (N.W. Transvaal.) (15) vatlamuchi, Sm.

6. Hair annulated. (S. Africa.) ...... (16) Cauui, Sin.

1. Mungos ochraceus, Gray.

1848. Herpestes ochraceus, Gray, P. Z. 8. p. 138.

Gray’s type is in the collection.

The following are 21g MO-SUENE dimensions :—

Head and body 250 mm.; tail 240; hind foot 48.

Skull: condylo-basal length 58; basilar length 53;

greatest breadth 31; palate breadth across p* 20; length

c—m' 19°6.

The skull is recognizable from that of MW. gracilis &e. by

the inflation anteriorly of the brain-case, recalling somewhat

the shape of the quite young skull in both these species.

Gray describes the colour as “ Pale brownish (yellow, very

minutely mixed or punctated with a darker tint.’

Hab. Type locality “ Abyssinia.” (Type, B.M. no.

44. 7. 30. 44.)

5.5.11.3. Near Berbera (Mr. Drake Brockman).

98.6. 9.3. Jefa Muder, Somaliland (Messrs. Hawker &

Cheetham).

59.7.9.10. Coast of Africa (Verreauz).

2. Mungos ochraceus fulvidior, Thos.

1904. Herpestes ochraceus fulvidior, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.

xiv. p. 97

Thomas describes this form as grizzled ochraceous, darker

than in the typical form, the median dorsal area unannulated,

strong tawny ochraceous, in continuity with the tawny of

the tail.

Dimensions :—

Head and body 250 mm.; tail 240; hind foot 51; ear 26.

Skull: condylo-basal length 58; basilar length 53 ;

greatest breadth 31; palate breadth across pt 19; length

c-m! 20°5.

African Mungooses. 113

Hab. Type locality Mandeira, Somali. (Type, B.M.

NOVO. 8.95 7 2 rs Atkenson.)

98.3.9.3. N. Haud, Somali (C. V. A. Peel).

3. Mungos ochraceus perfulvidus, Thos.

1904. Herpestes ochraceus perfulvidus, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.

xiv. p» 96:

Thomas describes this species as unannulated, “ uniform

bright ochraceous on head, body, and outer side of limbs.”’

Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :—

Head and body 275 mm.; tail 220; hind foot 51; ear 25.

Skull: condylo-basal length 51:5; basilar length 53°5;

greatest breadth 34; palate breadth across p* 19; length

c—m' 20.

The above measurements of body and tail seem to me to

be open to doubt. There is nothing to show that this form

differs at all strikingly in size from the two preceding ones.

Hab, Type locality Wardair, Somali. (Type, B.M. no.

4.5.9.9: Capt. Dunn.)

7.4,4,1-2. Ber, near Burao, Somali (Ir. Drake Brock-

man).

4. Mungos melanurus, Mart.

1836. Cynictis melanurus, Martin, P. Z. 8, p. 56.

Martin’s description is very meagre, but, besides the actual

type, there are several specimens from the same and_ neigh-

bouring localities. The following is a short general descrip-

tion of this form :—General colour “ burnt sienna.” Hairs

of back short (10-12 mm.), ‘‘orange-rufous,” ringed and tipped

with black, forming a grizzling which tends to produce trans-

verse alternate dark and light bands, this tendency extending

much further forward than in the Abyssinian forms, visible

even on the neck behind the ears; face the same colour as

the back, but much more finely grizzled; tail coloured as

back, with the usual black tip.

Dimensions :—

Head and body 300 mm.; tail 280; hind foot 53.

Skull: condylo-basal length (cire.) 63; basilar length

(cire.) 58; zygomatic breadth 34; palate breadth across

p* 21; length c—m'* 23.

Hab. Type locality Sierra Leone. (Type, B.M. no.

55. 12. 24. 229.)

72.2.22.2. Ashanti.

76.10.28.9. Gold Coast ( Col. Strachan).

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 8

114 Mr. R. C. Wroughton on

5. Mungos melanurus Last?, subsp. n.

General colour near “ Mars brown,” with the usual black

tail-tip. Hairs of back 10-12 mm. long, black, with a lower

pale buff and a subterminal tawny ring. Face and crown

almost black, very finely grizzled with tawny; tail coloured

like the back, individual hairs 20 mm. long.

Dimensions :—

Head and body (circ.) 270 mm. ; tail (cire.) 250; hind

foot 50; ear 25,

Skull: condylo-basal length 62; basilar length 56; zygo-

matic breadth (?); palate breadth across p* 21°5; length

c—m' 21°7.

Hab. Type locality Zanzibar Island. (Type, B.M. no.

6.6.9. 11.)

6.6.5.8-16. Zanzibar Island (J. T. Last).

6.6.5. 27-29 (skulls only). Zanzibar Island (J. 7. Last).

The black mask is very noticeable; in a series of nine

specimens it 1s absent in only one, in which the face-hairs

are markedly longer, more coarsely annulate, and a red-

brown is substituted for the usual pale buff.

In the general colour there is a strong likeness between

M. m. Lasti and M. melanurus of the West Coast, but the

black face suffices to distinguish the former. Even the excep-

tional individual mentioned above has a quite different look

to the minutely but distinctly grizzled mask of IL. melanurus.

6. Mungos melanurus Bocaget, Thos. & Wr.

Herpestes gracilis punctulatus, Bocage.

1905. Herpestes Bocager, Thomas & Wroughton, Ann. & Mag. Nat.

Hist. xvi. p. 170.

The general colour is a bright ochraceous, strikingly

different from the red-brown and drab of the preceding more

northern forms.

Dimensions :—

Head and body 265 mm.; tail 235; hind foot 52; ear 25.

Skull: condylo-basal length (probably circ.) 58; zygo-

matic breadth 29; palate breadth across p* 19; length

c—m* 20.

Hab. Caconda, Angola. (Type, B.M. no. 5. 5. 9. 13.)

7. Mungos melanurus canus, subsp. n.

General colour drab. Hairs of the back 15 mm. long,

black, with two cream-buff rings, one of which is subterminal,

African Mungooses. 115

leaving only a very short black tip. Face coloured like

back, but the grizzling finer ; tail coloured like back.

Dimensions :—

Head and body (circ.) 260 mm.; tail (cire.) 250; hind

foot 52.

Skull: condylo-basal length (cire.) 58; basilar length

(cire.) 53; zygomatic breadth 29; palate breadth across

p’ 19; length c—m’ 21°5.

Type (young adult), B.M. no. 72. 12. 12. 5.

Hab. Cape Verd.

8. Mungos melanurus zombe, subsp. n.

General colour “ raw umber,” with black tail-tip.

Hairs of back 10-12 mm. long, dirty white at base, followed

by four rings, black and cream-buff alternately, with a black

tip, but in avery large proportion of the hairs the subterminal

pale ring only gradually darkens to black at the extreme

tip. Face darker than back, almost black, very finely grizzled

with white ; tail and feet coloured like back.

Dimensions :—

Head and body (cire.) 260 mm. ; tail (cire.) 220; hind

foot 48; ear 24.

Skull: condylo-basal length (cire.) 60; basilar length 55;

zygomatic breadth 29; palate breadth across p* 19; length

c—m’ 20°7.

Hab. Type locality Zomba, Nyasa. (Type, B.M. no.

GUGLOL EGE)

93.5. 2.2-3. Zomba, Nyasa (Sir H. H. Johnston).

97.10.1.67. Zomba, Nyasa (Sir H. H. Johnston).

9. Mungos sanguineus, Riipp.

1835, Herpestes sanguineus, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss. p. 27,

This form has hitherto been accepted as a species distinct

from M. gracilis. The Natural History Museum has no speci-

men from Kordofan, the type locality of I. sanguineus, but a

specimen from the hills near Suakim can, I believe, be nothing

but a form intermediate between M. gracilis and sanguineus.

It is very pale in general colour and the tail-tip is half

chocolate-brown and half black. There is a cotype of M.

gracilis in the collection, and comparing these two specimens

with Riippell’s plate of WM. sanguineus and gracilis, the Suakim

individual resembles the figure of J/. sanguineus quite as much

as (if not rather more than) the cotype agrees with that of

M. gracilis, In the dimensions recorded by oor there is

116 Mr. R. C. Wroughton oa

practically no difference between those of these two forms.

I have no skull of either typical JM. sanguzneus or even of

the Suakim form which I believe to be closely allied to it.

Riippell gives figures of skulls of M. sanguineus and gracilis,

and at first sight the emargination of the lambdoid crest

(which he particularly notices in the letterpress) and the almost

complete absence of a postorbital constriction in the former

seem to point to a fundamental difference in skull-shape

between the two forms. An examination of the long series

of skulls in the Natural History Museum shows, however,

that in this group both these characters merely indi-

cate immaturity. I think I am justified in concluding that

M. sanguineus and gracilis cannot be specifically separated ;

and as JV. sanguineus is the earlier name that form must be

accepted as the typical one of this group, which extends

through the length and breadth of Africa, with no variation

other than of size and colour.

I follow Riippell in describing M/. sanguineus as “ reddish

isabella colour, grizzled with chestnut and with a rust-

red tail-tip.” Riippell’s dimensions are based on a quite

young individual, and I offer the following (based on adult

M. gracilis and the Suakim specimen) as probably those of a

normal specimen :—

Head and body 300 mm.; tail 325; hind foot 58.

Hab. Type locality Kordofan.

(?) 6. 10. 2.9. Erkowit, Suakim (Af. A. ZL. Butler).

10. Mungos sanguineus gracilis, Riipp.

1835, Herpestes gracilis, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss. p. 29.

1847. Herpestes Galinieri, Guérin & Ferret, Galinier, Voy. Abyss. Atlas,

Zool. pl. i.

1850. Herpestes Lefebvrei, Desmurs & Prévost, Lefebvre Voy. Abyss.

Atlas, Zool. pl. i.*

1855. Herpestes ochromelas, Pucheran, Rey. Zool. vii. p. 393.

1861. Herpestes todoprymnus, Heuglin, Nov. Act. Ac. Leop. xxix.

p. 63.

1861. Herpestes adailensis, Heuglin, Peterm. Geog. Mitth. p. 17,

Riippell describes the colour of his type as “ cinereo

flavicans”” and “‘ gelb grau,” but I think the term “ pinkish

drab” used in my key gives a much better idea both of a

cotype in the collection and of the animal represented in

Riippell’s plate. Riippell’s description is evidently based on

a young individual and the cotype mentioned above is also

* This is the name given in the index to the Atlas, but at the foot of

the plate itself is printed “ Herpestes gracilis.”

African Mungooses. 117

young. The proportionally long tail is specially mentioned

by Riippell.

Dimensions :—

Head and body 300 mm.; tail 340; hind foot 58.

Skull: condylo-basal length 62 ; basilar length 37; zygo-

matic breadth 82; palate breadth across p* 20; length c—m'

PAS

Fab. Type locality near Massowa, Abyssinia. (Cotype,

B.M. no. 163 a.)

69.10. 24.11. Soaroo, Abyssinia (W. 7. Blanford).

69. 10. 24. 18. Adigrat, Tigre, Abyssinia (W. IT.

Blanjford).

69. 2.2.6. Abyssinia. Purchased.

Oli Tali “lh. Zuar, Abyssmia (Zephiro, HH. iN.

McMillan).

Hlerpestes Galiniert is from the figure plainly a very

young M. gracilis. Mr. Thomas has quite recently made a

special examination of all the specimens in the Paris Museum

and assures me that the animal figured by Desmurs and

Prévost as H. gracilis, on which both the names Lefeburet

and ochromelas were based, is a pale example of MW. s. gracilis,

in spite of the resemblance that the figure bears to

M. ochraceus.

11. Mungos sanguineus mutgigella, Riipp.

1835. Herpestes mutgigella, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss. p. 29.

1889. Ichneumia nigricaudatus, Geoffroy, Mag. Zool. p. 18.

1877. Herpestes mutscheltschela, Heuglin, Reis. N.O.-Afr. p. 43.

Riippell defines MW. mutgigella as “* blackish umber-brown.”

There is considerable individual variation in the extent to

which the body-hairs are annulated. In a cotype from near

Masowa all annulation is completely absent, while in a

specimen from Hrythrea almost all the hairs are annulated,

though very coarsely. In all cases, however, it would seem

that annulation of the hairs is absent on the tail. ‘he form

is rather larger than typical JM. sanguineus and has a rather

markedly short tail.

Dimensions as follows :—

Head and body 350 mm.; tail 320; hind foot 62.

Skull: condylo-basal length 65; basilar length 60;

zygomatic breadth 34 ; palate breadth across p* 21; length

c—m 23.

Hab. Type locality Dembea and Simen Dists., Abyssinia.

(Cotype, B.M. no. 164 a.)

46.6. 15.37. Abyssinia.

118 Mr. R. C. Wroughton on

69. 10. 24. 12. Adigrat, Tigre, Abyssinia (W. T.

Blanford).

3.12.5. 2-3. Chadi Saati, Erythreea (Schrader).

12. Mungos sanguineus proteus, Thos.

1907. Mungos gracilis protets, Thos. Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. xix.

p. 119.

A very variable form, much subject to melanism. Mr.

Thomas describes the colour as ranging from “ grizzled

tawny ochraceous”’ to ‘ blackish bistre.”

The recorded dimensions are :—

Head and body 306 mm.; tail 260; hind foot 959;

ear 25.

Skull: condylo-basal length 61 ; basilar length 56 ; zygo-

matic breadth 30°5; palate breadth across p* 19°5; length

c—m! 21°7.

Hab. Type locality Ruwenzori. (Type, BoM. aio;

6. 12. 4. 35.)

6. 12. 4. 31-36. Ruwenzori.

13. Mungos sanguineus ibe, subsp. n.

Size about as in M. s. mutgigella; general colour ‘‘ olive-

buff’ Hairs of back 15-20 mm. long, black, with subbasal

and subterminal rings bright buff, each 2-3 mm. wide;

grizzling of back, as in all the preceding forms, tending to

assume transverse dark stripes on hinder back and flank ;

head and feet more finely, tail more coarsely grizzled ; hairs

of latter, 25-30 mm. long, each with three or four buff rings.

Skull distinctly longer than in any of the preceding

forms, the extra length almost wholly behind postorbital

constriction.

Dimensions of the type specimen :—

Head and body 330 mm.; tail 300; hind foot 60; ear 26.

Skull: condylo-basal length 67; basilar length 62;

zygomatic breadth 35; palate breadth across p* 22; length

c—m! 23°5.

Hab. Kikuyu, British East Africa. (Type, adult 9 , B.M.

no. 4.12.6.7. Collected by 8. L. Hinde, Esq., at Fort Hall,

British East Africa.)

Like the other forms it seems that J. s. cbew has a tendency

to melanism, though much less so than in JZ. s. mutgigella or

s. proteus. Of the two specimens taken at the same place

by Mr. Crawshay, one is quite normal; in the other the

width of the buff rings is much reduced everywhere, while on

the face and along the median dorsal line they are absent.

African Mungooses. 119

92.12. 3.6. Machakos (Ff. J. Jackson),

0.3.27.11. Lé, Galaland (Lord Delamere).

0. 5.3.1-2. Roromo, Kikuyu (2. Crawshay).

0.6. 21.8. British East Africa (Lord Delamere).

2.7.6.13. Fort Hall, B.E.A. (8S. Z. Hinde).

3.4.4.1. Wort Hall; BEA. (S. L. Hinde).

Sells 2. Hort Hall, B.E.A. (S. L. Hinde).

4.2.5. 3-4. Fort Hall, B.K.A. (S. ZL. Hinde).

4.11.5.11-12. Fort Hall, B.H.A. (2. Metnertzhagen).

14. Mungos Grantt, na

1864, Herpestes Granti, Gray, P. Z. 8. p. 5

i se ‘pestes Neumanni, Matschie, SB. ‘Ges. naturf, Fr. Berl,

p. 121.

Matschie’s Md. Newmanni is from Ugogo, and is therefore

a topotype of Grant, Gray, and a comparison of Gray’s type

with Prof. Matschie’s description of JZ, Newmanni shows that

without doubt they are the same form.

General colour ochraceous, all the hairs on the median line

from nose to tail tipped with tawny ; tip of tail chestnut.

Dimensions :—

Head and body (cire.) 320 mm.; tail (circ.) 270; hind

foot 58; ear 25.

Skull: condylo-basal length 63; basilar length 58 ; zygo-

matic breadth 30; palate breadth across p* 21°5; length

c—m} 22.

Hab. Type locality Mgunda Mkali. (B.M. no. 63.7.7. 18,

Capt. Speke.)

15. Mungos ratlamucht, Sm.

1836. Ichneumon ratlamuchi, Smith, App. Rep. Exp. C. Afr. p. 42.

1838. Herpestes badius, Smith, Il. Zool. S. Afr. pl. iv.

«‘ Above chestnut, deepest on the head, neck, and tail; the

hair of the back ringed with dull yellow, that of first half of

tail with brown and yellow ; tip of tail deep black.” This

is Smith’s description of JZ. ratlamucht. In his description of

M. badius he substitutes “ bright bay ” for ‘* chestnut,” and

mentions the black annulations of the hairs of the head and

neck which cause the deepening of colour noted in his

first description. Both descriptions apply to the type

specimen in the Museum Collection.

Dimensions :—

Head and body 300 mm.; tail 290 ; hind foot 58 ; ear 25.

Skull : condylo-basal length Gai: basilar length 58 ; ZY Zo=

120 On African Mungooses.

matic breadth 33; palate breadth across p* 20°5; length

c—m! 21°5.

Hab. Type locality (of IZ. ratlamucht) ‘ between Latakoo

and the Tropic” ; (of MZ. badius) “ between Old Latakoo and

Karichane, 120 miles eastward.” (Type, B.M. no. 46.6.1.14.)

16. Mungos Cauui, Sm.

1886. Ichneumon Cauui, Smith, App. Rep. Exp. C. Afr. p. 42.

1849, Herpestes punctulatus, Gray, P. Z. 8. p. 11.

1852. Herpestes ornatus, Peters, Reise Moss. p. 117.

1864. Calogale venatica, Gray, P. Z. S. p. 563.

I have been able to examine about 40 specimens from

localities spread over 10° of longitude and 15° of latitude,

and I have to confess that I cannot differentiate any of them

as even racially distinct from the rest. It is true that a

series from Matabeleland is on the average paler than the

rest, as a series from Mashonaland and the Zambesi basin is

somewhat redder, but single individuals could be picked from

other localities which are quite as pale or as red. It is to be

regretted that Smith’s name Cauuz is the oldest, it was given

to a young specimen from the neighbourhood of the Kalahari

Desert, a quite extreme example of the pale desert type.

Peters’s M. ornatus is also based ona quite young specimen *

of a darker redder type, while JZ. punctulatus, Gray, un-

doubtedly represents the normal form,

The general colour is hard to describe, it is some shade of

drab tinged with greenish, having in all casesa greater or less

suffusion of reddish on the loins and rump.

Dimensions :—

Head and body 300 mm.; tail 275; hind foot 58; ear 25.

Skull: condylo-basal length 65 ; basilar length 60; zygo-

matic breadth 33-35 ; palate breadth across p* 20-23 ; length

c-m' 22.

Hab. Type locality Currichaine (N.W. Transvaal).

45.4.4. 2. Durban, Natal. (Type of 1. punctulatus, Gray.)

5.3.8.13. Illovo, Natal (udd Collection).

4.12.3. 36-38. Umvalosi, Zululand (Rudd Collection).

4,.5.1.33-36. Htshowe, Zululand (Rudd Collection).

4.9.1. 32-34. Zuurbronn, EH. Transvaal (Rudd Collection).

* Peters’s figure of the skull of M. ornatus shows all the sutures

which are only visible in youth. A specimen in the collection from the

Zambesi not far from Tette, the type locality of M. ornatus, answers both

in dimensions and colouring to Peters’s description ; itis quite young: an

older specimen from the same locality is identical with other S. African

individuals in dimensions and colour-pattern.

On the Armenian Wild Sheep. 121

98.4.4.13. Krugersdorp, West Transvaal (17. P.

Thomasset).

46. 6.2.23. Mohopaui Berg, Bechuanaland.

97.1.4.1-4. Matabeleland (/’. C. Selous).

99. 2.23.1. Ngamiland (Capt. Lugard).

93.11.21.1. De Kaap (Dr. P. Rendall).

6. 4. 8. 31-36. Woodbush, N.W. ‘Transvaal (Rudd

Collection).

5.12.9.19-20. Klein Letaba, N. Transvaal (Rudd

Collection).

6.8.2.49. Legogot, N.E. Transvaal (Rudd Collection).

6.4.7.1. Sabi River, N.K. Transvaal (J. S. Hamilton).

(sey 25, 4, Salisbury, Mashonaland (Guy Marshall).

97. 1. 4.5. Salisbury, Mashonaland (Ff. C. Selous).

99. 8.3.4, Mashonaland (Boyd Alezander).

Gaile a 21. N. Rhodesia (S. A. Neave).

1.6.26.2. Pasa (Col. Manning).

9

7.10.1.66. LL. Nyasa (Sir H. Johnston).

XXII.—The Name of the Armenian Wild Sheep.

By R. LypeKKer.

CONSIDERABLE diversity of usage prevails among naturalists

with regard to the scientific name of the Armenian wild sheep,

some writers adopting Ovis Gmelini, Blyth (1840), while

others prefer Ovis orientalis, When the latter name is used

the authority is generally given as G. I’. Gmelin, ‘ Reise,’

vol. 11, p. 486 (1784); but the animal is there referred to

merely as “das orientalische Schafe,’” which is, of course,

not a technical name. On the other hand, in Brandt and

Ratzeburg’s ‘Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der

Thiere, etc.,’ Berlin, 1829, p. 54, pl. ix. fig. 1, we find the

wild sheep of the “ Ceraunian Mountains ”’ of Persia described

and figured as Ovis musimon, var. ortentalis; and this name,

moditied to O. orientalis, consequently stands. It may be

added that the work in question is really composed of extracts

from ‘ Medizinische Zoologie,’ a serial of which the first

volume, containing the name in question, appears to have

been published in 1827.

As to the “ Ceraunian Mountains” of Persia, I take it

that this must be an application of the name in a sense

analogous to that in which the term “ Alps” is often used,

seeing that the Ceraunian or Acroceraunian Mountains are

122 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell— Descriptions and

in Albania. It probably refers to the south side of the

Elburz range.

To the sheep of this locality I have given (1905) the name

Ovis Gmelini Erskinet, but this will now have to give way

to O. orientalis typica, while the Armenian race will have to

be called O. orientalis Gmelint, Blyth’s specimens having

come from Erzerum.

X XIII.—Descriptions and Records of Bees —XVI.

By Tl’. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado.

Osmia Bennette, sp. n.

$ .—Length about 9 mm.

Very brilliant, shining, Auwgochlora-green, with coppery

and golden tints on the face and mesothorax, and a certain

amount of golden lustre on the abdomen; antenne entirely

black, not moniliform ; clypeus with long white hair; hair of

front, vertex, and thorax above yellowish white or pale

yellowish, without any admixture of dark hairs except a very

few about the ocelli; tegule brilliant green. Wings clear,

the apical margin a little dusky. Legs green, with mostly

pale hair, but some dark, e. g. the middle tibia has dark hairs

intermixed, and the middle basitarsus has much black hair.

Dorsal hair of abdomen partly light and partly black, the

black prevailing posteriorly ; apex of sixth segment very

feebly notched ; seventh bidentate; venter with strong blue

or purple tints.

From O. gaudiosa, Ckll., this is easily known by its larger

size and the conspicuous black hair of the hinder part of the

abdomen. ‘The size and green tegule suggest aftinity with

O. bruneri, Ckll., but I do not think it can be the male of

that insect, the colour of the pubescence being so entirely

different. ‘The quite different colour of the tegument is not

so important, as that may differ sexually in Osmia, e. g. in

QO. versicolor, Latr. From QO. bella, Cress., it is readily

known by the absence of dark hair on the thorax above.

‘The width of the abdomen is 3 mm., thus much broader than

O. fulgida, Cress.

Hab. Campus of University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado,

at flowers of Zarawacum taraxacum, May 8, 1907 (Mrs. C.

Bennett).

Records of Bees. 123

Osmia Edne, sp. n.

? .— Length about 7 mm.

Very brilliant golden-green, a little reddish on second

abdominal segment; hair of head and thorax above long, pale

ochraceous, with no dark hairs intermixed; on clypeus the

hair is yellowish white; flagellum ferruginous beneath, not

moniliform ; mesothorax densely rugoso-punctate ; tegule

brilliant green. Wings dusky hyaline. Legs green, with

yellowish-white hair; hind femora almost black behind.

Abdomen subglobose, with the hair enterely pale yellowish or

yellowish white ; sixth segment with a minute feeble notch ;

seventh strongly notched rather than bidentate.

Hab. Campus of University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado,

at flowers of Zarawacum taraxacum, May 9, 1907 (Aliss Edna

Baker).

The following table separates this species from some other

bright green males :—

Posterior part of abdomen dorsally with some or

much: black, hair srsize larger oa. + 6 0s )3 0003s UG

Posterior part of abdomen dorsally with wholly light

Haine Size smaller racecar ae wists cae casts) «shee 2.

1, Hair of thorax above with some dark hairs inter-

BUCO US a eePerk vapeur atttts tales oletel sites ae sls adnate « bella, Cresson.

Hair of thorax above without dark hairs intermixed. Sennette, Ckli.

2. Size smaller; pubescence white; abdomen dullish,

MO SHINING SOLMENM see ealel clelele cis zsoe ee ws mals gaudiosa, Ckll.

Size larger; pubescence very yellow; abdomen

brilliant; sbimine eoldeni ii. Gesclecten sce sees Edne, Cll,

Osmia leonis, sp. n.

? .—Length about 113 mm.

Head and thorax partly dark green, partly black ; abdomen

shining dark blue; legs black ; ventral scopa black ; cheeks

normal, Head ordinary, with large strong punctures ; man-

dibles tridentate, the apical tooth long and falciform, the

second triangular and sharp, the third a long undulating

ridge; anterior part of clypeus purple-black, this colour

extending also up the middle; edge of clypeus straight, but

at the middle next to the edge there is @ transversely oval

shining pit of quite large size; supraclypeal region with a

shining green mark like an inverted V; antenne entirely

black, comparatively short. Hair of clypeus, lower sides of

face, and cheeks black; of front black and pale ochreous

mixed ; of vertex mostly black, but of occiput pale ochreous,

extending forward over ocelli; hair of pleura black, but of

124 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Descriptions and

thorax above light ochreous, with black hair sparsely inter-

mixed on scutellum and hind part of mesothorax ; tegule

black. Wings clear in the middle, but with the hind margin

broadly and very distinctly infuscated ; a very dark streak

in upper part of marginal cell. Hair of legs black, dark

reddish on inner side of tarsi. Abdomen short and convex,

shining dark blue, with slight crimson or purple tints on

second and third segments: hair of first segment pale except

at extreme sides ; of second black at extreme base, at sides,

and apex, but long and pale on disk; remaining segments

with black hair.

In my table of Boulder County Osmia (Univ. of Colo.

Studies, ined.) this runs to O. nigrifrons and O. gaillardia,

resembling the latter in superficial appearance (especially the

shining abdomen), but differing in the colour of the pubes-

cence, the clypeal pit, &c. The second r. n. joins the second

s.m. nearer its end in gadllardie than in leonits. In gatl-

lardie the little brushes of hair from beneath the clypeus are

yellow; in deonds they are pure black. From nigrifrons the

new species is more easily separated; among other things the

punctures of the face are finer and smaller in negrifrons than

in feonts. "There is evident affinity with O. juata, Cresson,

but the admixture of black hair on the thorax above and the

light hair on second abdominal segment, as well as the clypeal

pit, should suffice to distinguish deonts from that insect.

Hab. Campus of University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado,

at flowers of Taraxacum tararacum, May 8 (Edna Baker).

On the hair of the abdomen were some mites of the genus

Trichotarsus, which Mr. N. Banks says are 7. osmie, Duf., or

more probably a new species allied to it.

Osmia integrella, sp. n. (possibly wntversitatis var.)

3g .—Length 10 or 11 mm.

Steel-blue, with the head and thorax above, the first abdo-

minal segment, and a strong tinge or suffusion on the apical

part of the other segments green; hair Jong, the pale hair

white, not ochreous, no admixture of black hair on head and

thorax above, except that some black hair on upper part of

cheeks has a few outlying hairs on extreme sides of vertex;

cheeks with hair white, but some black behind and above.

Antenne black, flagellum not moniliform; clypeus normal;

pleura with white hair except on posterior margin, starting

with a patch just beneath wings, where it is black; extreme

sides of metathorax with black hair; tegule green in front.

Wings little dusky. Legs black, not at all metallic, their

Records of Bees. 125

hair largely black, but some pale on middle and hind femora,

and long and mainly pale on anterior femora and _ tibie

behind. First two abdominal segments with long white hair,

some black at extreme sides of first segment, and short black

hair along extreme base of second ; third with mixed black

and pale; the other segments nearly all black; in certain

lights there is a strong suggestion of pale hair-bands; sixth

segment quite entire; seventh with a pair of comparatively

short teeth, wide apart; first ventral segment entire, third

deeply emarginate, the emargination ciliate with reddish.

The second and third joints of middle tarst have a strongly

swollen or inflated appearance. ‘Third antennal joint shorter

than fourth. Spurs normal.

This must be closely allied to O. integra, Cress., which I

know only from the description ; but it is smaller, the hair

not (or barely) ochreous-tinted above, the legs apparently

with more pale hair ; the abdomen with more pale hair; and

the fringe on middle of third ventral segment can hardly be

said to be long and golden. Cresson also makes no allusion

to any peculiarity of the middle tarsi of dntegra, though in

the species described just before he describes and figures

tarsal structures. It does not fit into any of the Robertsonian

subgenera.

In my table of Boulder County species O. integrella runs

nearest to O. viridior, or, perhaps, to cyaneonitens. The

three are readily separated thus :—

Larger ; hair on anterior tibiee behind dense, rather short,

and wholly black, contrasting with the long white

hair.on' their femora behind)... oi 2s eee asks viridior.

Smaller; hair on anterior tibiz behind long and mainly

WALLS Herp 8 cedars AN Ah ae es tats etehiafale Meu MAGA Lah: integrella.

Size about as in integrella, but very different by the dark

purple-blue abdomen, without conspicuous light hair,

much larger head and broader face, notched sixth

SIITETE OOF anne anicoino dip. cocnt: Opec coneces bienn cyaneonitens,

The face of integrella is rather unusually narrow, the eyes

converging below, and is densely covered with white hair.

O. universitatis, Ckll., has the same type of coloration and

the same sort of middle tarsi as integrelia; but it is smaller

than the latter and has not the conspicuous black hair on the -

sides of the thorax posteriorly or on the cheeks. In wniversi-

tatis the middle femora and tibia have the hair behind

brilliant white, with some black intermixed ; in dntegredla

this hair is black, with a few glittering white hairs. The two

are obviously of the same immediate group, but apparently

not varieties of a single species.

126 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Descriptions and

The stipites of O. ¢ntegrella are divided at the end into a

brush of black hairs and a divergent long, linear, corneous

process.

Hab, Campus of University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado,

at flowers of Taraxacum taravacum, May 8 (Edna Baker).

Osmia Ramaley?, sp. n.

3 .—Length about 73 mm.

Head olive-green, the front almost golden; thorax above

yellowish green, at sides bluish green; the metathorax blue,

contrasting with the green scutellum and_ postscutellum.

Abdomen a sort of Prussian green or greenish blue. Legs

greenish blue, but the anterior legs black in front; tegule

green. Wings clear, with only a very faint duskiness, the

hind margin no darker than the rest. Hair of head and

thorax long and white (not ochreous above), very dense on

face ; no dark hairs anywhere; hair of legs white, fulvous on

inner side of tarsi; middle tarsi rather long, slender, the

joints normal. Antenne black, the flagellum not moniliform ;

third joint shorter than fourth. Abdomen rather coarsely

sculptured; hind margins of segments concolorous with the

rest ; sixth segment with a broad, very shallow emargination ;

seventh strongly bidentate; first ventral truncate. Hair on

abdomen above white, without any black.

In the table of Boulder County species this runs to

O. proxima, Cresson, which is, however, much smaller and

otherwise different. There is a good deal of resemblance to

O. atriventris, Cress., but the green tegulz and the structure

of the sixth abdominal segment are distinctive. O. Wheeler

has the legs much less metallic, the tegule reddish in the

middle, and, especially, the teeth of the seventh abdominal

seoment very much larger and triangular.

Hab. Campus of University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado,

at flowers of Taravacum taraxacum, May 10 (Hdna Baker).

Named after Professor Francis Ramaley, of the University

of Colorado, in recognition of his work on the natural history

of Colorado.

Since the above was written, on May 21, Mrs. C. Bennett

has taken at Boulder 2 2? and 1 ¢ of O. Ramaley?, all at

flowers of Astragalus goniatus, Nuttall. ‘The male is exactly

like the type, except that the first ventral segment is very

distinctly emarginate. This character is considered by

Robertson to be of generic value, but after minutely com-

paring every part of the two bees I am sure that they are of

the same species. ‘The female has an orange scopa and is

Records of Bees. 127

almost exactly like O. hypochrysea Rohwert, Ckll., except

that the clypeus is quite normal (not quadridentate) and the

disk of the mesothorax is very much more densely punctured.

The legs are blue.

This certainly belongs to the subgenus Xanthosmia, but it

is not Robertson’s X. cordata, being much smaller, with the

third antennal joint in the male nearly as long as the fourth.

O. tridis from New Mexico, which also has the first ventral

seoment (fg) emarginate, is easily separated from O. Ramaleyi

by its larger size and the character of the hair on the abdomen.

Osmia olivacea, Ckll.

This was described from a male, but Mrs. C. Bennett has

taken a female at Boulder, May 21, 1907, at flowers of

Astragalus goniatus, It is a remarkably fine insect, coloured

like the male, but nearly 12 mm. long, very robust, the

ventral scopa black ; coarse black hair on the clypeus, but

pale ochreous on sides of face, and these colours mixed on

front; hair of thorax above as in male; hair of pleura pale

ochreous, rather scanty; clypeus normal; mandibles _ tri-

dentate, but the inner tooth broad and notched; legs black,

not metallic. The abdomen is a very beautiful deep oliva-

ceous green, with some slight crimson stains.

Also at the Astragalus goniatus, on the same day,

Mrs. Bennett took two females of Osmia nigrifrons, Cresson,

variety, and one of O. coloradella, Ckll.

Celioxys Portere, Ckll.

Mr. N. Banks sends me a 9 of this New Mexico species,

which he took at Falls Church, Virginia, July 21—a most

unexpected extension of range.

Melissodes Boltonie, Robertson.

Falls Church, Virginia, August and September (V. Banks).

Very like MW. perplexa, but smaller. Differs from MV, dllata

by the smaller average size, band on middle of second abdo-

minal segment entire or almost, and tuft on end of hind

femora pale.

Melissodes manipularis, Smith.

Falls Church, Virginia, 2 ¢, one from flowers of Eupa-

torium, Sept. 4 (V. Banks).

Much like JM. trinodis, but differs by the black hair on

128 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell—Deseriptions and

middle of thorax above. Smith does not mention this hair,

but I have examined his type.

Melissodes nivea, Robertson.

Falls Church, Virginia, 4 ¢, Sept. 4 and 8 (NV. Banks).

Andrena nigre, Robertson.

Boulder, Colorado (Rohwer).

New to Colorado. At Boulder, on May 22, 1907,

Mr. Rohwer took females of three species of Andrena, all

having red abdomens, at the flowers of Salix luteosericea,

Rydberg. These, upon examination, prove to be A. nigra,

Robertson, A. Marie, Robertson, and A. erythrogastra

(Ashmead). The known range of nigre is extended about

800 miles westward.

Andrena saccharina, sp. n., Cockerell and Rohwer.

3 .—Length about 8 mm.

Black, with greyish-white hair, not nearly dense enough on

thorax above to hide thesurface. Head rather large, quadrate,

facial quadrangle much broader than long; front with coarse

vertical striz ; cheeks broad, with the rounded posterior angle

a little above level of middle of eye. Antenne long, third

joint longer than fourth, but a trifle shorter than 4+5;

flagellum very obscurely brownish beneath, the middle joints

longer than broad. Mandibles strongly grooved, bidentate,

the apex reddish ; process of labrum broadly rounded, not at

all emarginate ; malar space large and shining ; clypeus much

produced, mainly light yellow, with strong but very sparse

punctures ; the yellow is invaded by black above and below,

so that its lower margin is convex (the apical margin of

clypeus being black) and its upper part is notched above and

deeply on each side; mesothorax and scutellum dull, minutely

tessellate, with sparse feeble punctures ; area of metathorax

merely roughened, scarcely defined; tegula dark in front,

shining brown behind. Wings yellowish, iridescent, stigma

(of normal size) and nervures ferruginous; second s.m.

narrow, receiving the r.n. near its middle. Legs black, with

light hair. Abdomen with asericeous surface, not punctured,

the hind margins of the segments obscurely reddish, and with

very thin, not conspicuous, bands of white hair.

On account of the produced clypeus and large malar space

this is related to A. leptanthi, V. & C., but it is a very distinct

Records of Bees. 129

species. It was given to me by Mr. 8. A. Rohwer, who had

already studied it and determined that it was new.

Hab. Sugar Loaf Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado,

8500 ft., May 18, 1907, at flowers of Arctostaphylos uva-uasi.

Collected by Miss Edna Baker,

Perdita quadrangularis, sp. n.

3 .—Lenegth 4 mm.

In my tables of Perdita runs to P. spheralcee, of which it

looks like a small edition. From P. erigeronis it is easily

known by the pallid nervures and the coloration of the

abdomen. The face-markings are of a chrome-yellow

instead of lemon-yellow, but otherwise agree, as do all the

other markings of the head, with spheralcee. The face

below the antenne is ail yellow, the lateral marks being large

and quadrangular, ending on the orbital margin at an angle

of about 45°. Antenne chrome-yellow, the first four or five

joints black-spotted above. Thorax, legs, and wings essen-

tially as in spheralcee, but margin of stigma yellowish.

Abdomen with the venter yellow, as in spheralcee, but on

the dorsum the dark colour is reduced, the general effect

being that of equally broad light and dark bands, with the

apical segments a sort of yellowish ferruginous. The thorax

has much white hair.

Hab. Alamogordo, New Mexico, May 15, about eighty-five

specimens (H. L. Viereck).

P. spheralcee does not appear on the wing until long after

midsummer.

Perdita Vierecki, sp. n.

The female runs in the tables of Perdita to male P. tarda,

the male to P. exclamans. Both sexes were taken in large

numbers; otherwise one would suspect the insect to be a

variety of P. exclamans, to which it is very closely allied.

? .—Length about 43 mm.

Differing from eaclamans as follows :—Size smaller ;

abdomen above piceous, with the yellow markings reduced

to a variable series of spots occupying the middle of the

segments; thus the first segment may have a pair of dots or

no light marks at all; the second may have a large quad-

rangular pale yellow patch ora yellow band on the middle

third; the third segment, and also the fourth, may be more

or less banded, the band in no case approaching the lateral

margin; or the fourth and fifth may each have a couple of

spots ; thus the abdominal markings are extremely variable,

Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xx. 9

130 Mr, T, D, A, Cockerell—Descriptions and

but in all cases the colour is very different from that of

exclamans, which has broad yellow bands, mostly reaching

the lateral margins.

3 .—LEssentially as in exclamans, but the head-like ex-

tension of the yellow above the antenne in middle line is

much smaller, and the yellow patch on the pleura does not

send a band to the middle coxe.

Hab. Alamogordo, New Mexico, April 26 to May 15,

about 110 specimens (ZH. L. Viereck).

Although this series is manifestly distinct from P. eacla-

mans, some of the specimens show more or less evident

transitional characters, suggesting that the insect should

perhaps take only subspecific rank, This is one of those

cases, of which we now know several in Perdita, which

promise to yield facts of extreme interest to the evolutionist

when carefully studied in the field.

Perdita phacelie, Ckll.

Alamogordo, New Mexico, May 13 and 15 and June 6,

33 specimens (HH. L. Viereck).

I have compared the Alamogordo specimens with cotypes

of phacelie and cannot see any difference. The latter,

however, were taken early in September. Are we to suppose

that this species winters over in the adult state, or is it

double-brooded? The small size and dull mesothorax readily

separate this from P. @nedfrons.

Perdita pectidis, Ckll.

This also has been known as an autumn species, flying in

September. Mr. Viereck took at Alamogordo, April 24 and

May 3, a series of about 65 specimens, which exhibit much

variation, but do not seem to be separable from P. pectidis.

In the female the clypeus may be three-spotted or may

lack the middle spot, and even the lateral spots may be very

small. The banding of the abdomen varies from a couple of

dots only to well-developed bands. In general, however, the

insect agrees excellently with pectedis, and I do not think it

possible to regard it as distinct.

Perdita chamesarache, Ckll.

Highrolls, New Mexico, June 11, 1902 (H. L. Viereck).

This species was found flying at Albuquerque and Santa I'é

in August.

Records of Bees. Poe

Perdita Rehni, sp. n.

? .—Length about 43 mm.

In the table of New Mexico Perdita runs to P. pallidior,

but is easily distinguished from that species by the smaller

size, much darker abdomen, colour of antenne, &c. Head

and thorax yellowish green, the mesothorax dullish (not

brilliantly polished, as it is in many species) ; head small ;

front shining green; clypeus and supraclypeal area purplish

black ; the only pale face-marks are the small L-shaped pale

yellowish lateral marks, which send a very fine broken line

up the orbital margin to a little above level of antenne,

Mandibles whitish ; cheeks dark, with white hair. Antenne

dark above, pale yellowish beneath, the dark more prominent

than the light; border of prothorax and tubercles light

yellow; pleura all dark. Anterior legs entirely light yellow,

or the femora may have a brown patch, and the tibiz a line,

behind; middle femora all light yellow, but the tibize mainly

brown on outer side and the tarsi somewhat darkened ; hind

femora with the apical half above dark brown and their tibize

and tarsi brown; nervures colourless, but stigma margined

with brown; marginal cell with the substigmatal portion

much the longest ; third discoidal distinct. Abdomen above

dark brown, the first segment with a transverse light yellow

discal mark ; segments 2 to 4 each witha basal light yellow

band, but the bands on 3 and 4 may be nearly concealed by

the retraction of the sezments, giving the appearance of a

one-banded abdomen; fifth segment, apex, and ventral surface

reddish yellow. Sometimes the fifth segment has a very

broad yellow band on a dark ground, or it may be all dark.

Hab. Alamogordo, New Mexico, June 9, 1902 (HZ. ZL.

Viereck).

Named after Mr. Rehn, the well-known orthopterist and

mammalogist, who was Mr. Viereck’s companion on the 1902

expedition.

Prosopis Cressoni, n. n.

Prosopis pygmea, Cresson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. (1869)

p- 272 (Lllinois).—Not P. pyymea, Schenck, 1853,

Nomada flavoguttata Alfkent, n. n.

Nomada pygmea, Schenck, Berlin. ent. Zeits. xviii. (1874) p, 342.—

Not WV. pygmea, Cresson, 1863,

g*

132 Dr. F. D. Godman on American

Megachile Grantiana, n. n.

Megachile punctatissima, W. F. Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Mus. iii, (1900)

p. 20.—Not of Spinola, 1806.

Hab. Sokotra (Ogilvie- Grant and Forbes).

I informed Mr. Kirby of the preoccupation of the name

proposed by him; but as he is no longer working on Hy-

menoptera, he asks me to rectify the matter.

Megachile paucipunctulata, W. F. Kirby.

Megachile paucipunctulata, W. F, Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Mus. iii. (1900)

p- 21.—Sokotra.

N. syn.: Megachile sokotrana, Friese, Zeits. f. Hym. und Dipt. 1903,

p- 287.—Sokotra (Simony).

Megachile subsericans, n. n.

Megachile vicina, Moraw. Here Soc. Ent. Ross. xxviii. (1894) p. 87.—

Turkestan.—Not M. vicina, Mocsary, 1879.

Megachile mixtula, n. n.

Megachile mixta, Radoszkowski, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, xlvii. (1874)

p. 188.—Caucasus.—Not M, mixta, Costa, 1863.

Boulder, Colorado, U.8.A.,

June 5, 1907.

XXIV.—WNotes on the American Species of Hesperiide

gourd by Plétz. By F. D. Gopman, D.C.L., F.R.S.,

ec

J HAVE recently had an opportunity of examining the large

number of coloured drawings made by the late Carl Plitz,

and am at last enabled to identify most of the Mexican and

Central-American species described in his various writings.

These drawings not only illustrate the numerous Hesperiids

named by him, but nearly all those tabulated or described by

Herrich-Schiiffer and other continental authors, and they are

therefore of the greatest interest to all students of Rhopalo-

cera. The following notes on his figures of the American

species, generally, give the necessary corrections to the

synonymy, &c.* ‘The numerals in parentheses after each

name indicate the number of Pl6tz’s drawings, and the locality

& Drawings nos. 1328-1833 are unfortunately missing, and one

Central-American species, Netrocoryne coronus, Plotz, still remains

unidentified by me.

Hesperiide described by P itz.

133

is added either from the drawing or the published description.

In a few cases the locality has not been recorded.

Coloured

copies of the figures of all the unidentified American species

have been made and presented by me to the Natural History

Museum at South Kensington.

Goniurus pilatus, Plétz (2), Brazil

and Guiana.

9 procne, Plotz (3), Brazil.

zagorus, Plotz (4), Alla-

era.

zalanthus, Plotz (5), Alla-

ora.

» élongatus, Plotz (8), Brazil.

» nicasius, Plétz (9), Brazil.

Eudamus flammiula, H.-S. (18),

Loe. ?

Goniurus procerus, Plotz (21), Peru.

AS elius, Plétz (22), Para.

retractus, Plotz (24), La

Guayra.

» larius, Plotz (26), Cuba.

Pf velinus, Plotz (27), Bahia.

» géalbula, Plotz (80), Brazil.

» Keferstemt, Plotz (32),

Caracas.

» protecides, Plotz (55),

N. Am.

rtvion, Selotz «(36)5) Rae

Janeiro.

5, herophilus, Plotz (43), Rio

Janeiro.

» leucodesma, Plitz (47),

Para.

» Aypozonius, Plétz (53), La

Guayra.

Eudamus fulminans, H.-S, (63),

Loc. ?

. zopyrus, Plétz (64), Su-

rinam,

= Eudamus semplicius, Stoll.

= Eudamus simplicius, Stoll.

Probably a small form of Zuda-

mus eurycles, Latr.

= Eudamus eurycles, Latr.

Very near Eudamus undulatus,

Hew., but with the outer dark

band only present on the

secondaries beneath.

= Eudamus undulatus, Hew.

= Eudamus indora, But]. Herrich-

Schaffer’s name has priority.

Belongs to Hudamus. Not in

the G. & S. coll.

Belongs to Eudamus. Not in the

G. & S. coll.

The St. Vincent and Grenada in-

sect recorded by G.& 8. under

the name Eudamus santiago,

Luc., belongs to this species.

=Eudamus santiago, Lue. (=cory-

don, Butl.).

Probably a var. of Eudamus do-

rantes, Stoll.

Belongs to Eudamus. From Co-

lombia, Guiana, and Brazil in

the G. & §. coll.

= Eudamus dorantes, Stoll.

= Eudamus proteus, L., var. with

the hyaline spots on the pri-

maries very small. Specimens

from the Lesser Antilles in the

G. & S. coll.

= Eudamus catillus, Cr.

= Eudamus virescens, Mab.

= Eudamus cholus, Plotz. Descrip-

tion unpublished ?

= Goniurus ceelus, Cr,

= Thymele mephitis, Hew. Herrich-

Schaffer’s name has priority.

Probably belongs to Thymele. The

markings are very similar to

those of Eudamus miltas, G.

& 5.

134

Eudamus erycina, Plotz

(66),

Brazil.

4 aulus, Plotz (67), Brazil.

Telegonus granadensis, Méschl. (70),

Venezuela.

Eudamus briccius, Plétz (72), §

Am.

» passalus, H.-S. (74),

Loc. ?

55 orphne, Plotz (79), Rio

Janeiro.

5 orpheus, Plotz (80), Para.

» justus, Plotz (81), S. Am.

Telegonus bahianus, H.-S. (89),

Loe. ?

” pseudochalybe, H.-S.

(87), Loe. ?

Eudamus Hopfferi, Plotz (88), 8

Am.

Telegonus cretellus, H.-S.

(89

Loe. P )

Eudamus xagua, Lue. (90), Cuba.

49 blasius, Plétz (93), Cuba.

5 latimargo, H.-S. (94),

Loe. P

5 albicuspis, H.-S. (95),

Loc. P

r Gundlach, Plotz (99),

Porto Rico.

% clavicornis, H.-S. (100),

Loe. ?

» panthius, H.-S. (109),

Loe. ?

x rochus, Plotz (116),

Brazil.

i. scheba, Plotz (117), S.

Am.

7 chersts, H.-S. (118), Loc. ?

3 phhus, Plotz(124), Brazil.

Dr. F. D. Godman on American

Unknown tome. ? Genus Thymele.

d =Thymele enotrus, Cr. 9 =T.

Sulviluna, Mab.

= Thymele aulestes, Cr., var.

= Thymele aulestes, Cr., var.

A Goniurus, near talus, Cr. Not

in G. & 8. coll.

A Telegonus, very near T. eudemus,

Mab., from Central America.

AT. Rymele, very near 7’, enotrus,

Cr.

ASSL, hymele, dg, near 7. pervivar,

Hiibn.

A Chrysoplectrum, probably a var.

of otriades, Hew. From San

Paulo in the G. & S. coll.

A close ally of the variable 7. cre-

teus, Or.

= Telegonus creteus, Cr,, var.

Plotz’s figures appear to represent

two “species : the lower one

agrees with 7. jaira, Butl.,

the upper one being very

like 7. chiriquensis, ” Stand.

Herrich-Schafier’s name has

priority.

The identity of this species with

Goniloba malefida, H.-5., was

noted by Plotz.

= Telegonus elorus, Hew.

= Telegonus grullus, Mab. Herrich-

Schiiffer’s name has priority.

A Thymele(?), near phalecus,

G.&S.

A form of Proterdes idas, Cr., very

near Angasi, G. & S., but

without the subapical spots.

= Lpargyreus exadeus, Cr.

= Epargyreus asander, Hew., var.

=Epargyreus enispe, Hew., var.

with the subapical ” spots

wanting.

Very near LEpargyreus asander,

Hew., but with a straicht

Ww hite band on the secondaries

beneath.

= Zichydrus evelinda, Butl. Her-

rich - Schiffer’s. name has

priority.

Bone Cogia(?), near cajeta,

Hesperiidae described by Plotz.

Eudamus cajeta, H.-S. (128), Loe. ?

9 valeriana (valerius), Plotz

(150), Mexico.

3 nicomedes, Plotz (153),

Brazil.

» galapus, Plotz (184),

Mexico.

FS casica, H.-S. (135), Loe. ?

Proteides zethos, Plotz (137), Para.

a antiope, Plitz (138), Para.

as nicola, Plotz (140), Para.

Telemiades vulpecula, Plotz (145),

S. Am.

Telegonus epicalus, Hiibn. (arctu-

rus, H.-S.) (147),

Loe. ?

ceramina, H.-S. (148),

Loe. ?

)

Netrocoryne seneca, Plotz (160),

Brazil.

Eudamus porcius, Feld. (161), Rio

Negro.

Netrocoryne damias, Plotz (162),

S. Am.

Telegonus gaurus, Plotz (165), Rio

Negro.

fulvius, Plotz (166), Ca-

meta,

”

os probus, Moschl. (168),

Surinam.

- cenosa (H.-S.), Méschl.

(169), Venezuela.

a5 tychios, Plotz (179),

Bahia.

lucea, Plétz(183),S. Am.

135

Plotz’s figure does not quite agree

with the insect identified as

Cogia cajeta, H.-S., in the

‘ Biologia.’

Belongs to Cogia, near cajeta, H.-S.

Belongs to Telemiades, near me-

gallus, Mab.

A Rhabdoides, near casica, H.-S.

Her-

has

=Lhabdoides epigena, Butl.

rich-Schatler’s name

priority.

= Telemiades amphion, Hiibn., var.

= Telemiades amphion, Hibn., var.

Belongs to Cabares(?), near potrillo,

uc.

The type of the genus Physalea,

Mab. Males from Colombia

and Venezuela in G. & §. coll.

= Telemiades phasias, Hew. Hib-

ner’s name _ has __ priority.

Plotz’s figure was taken from

a Brazilian specimen.

Plotz’s figures represent the two

sexes of a Telemiades, from

Surinam, very near 7’. littera,

Mab. The supposed type of

T. ceramina, in the G. & 8.

coll., isa Q of Lerema accius,

Smith and Abbot, as stated in

the ‘ Biologia.’

Possibly belongs to Ardaris. Not

in the G. & S. coll.

= and 9, Dyscophus doriscus,

Hew., and Netrocoryne cecu-

tiens, H.-S. Felder’s name

has priority.

= Bungalotis ramusis, Cr., 3.

= Nascus euribates, Cr., 3, var.

= Telegonus erythras, Mab. There

is a specimen of it from Villa

Nova, Amazons, in the G. &58.

coll. Mabille refers the species

to Dyscophellus. Plotz’s name

has priority.

Genus? NotinG. & S$. coll.

= Bungalotis phaselis, Hew., ¢ @.

Plotz’s figures seem to represent

vars. of Bungalotis salatis,

Cro

Probably a var. of Nascus cephisus,

Hew., 2. A specimen of it

136

Pellicia macarius, H.-S. (191),

Venezuela.

» albangula, H.-S. (192),

Guatemala.

» ephora, H.-S. (193), 8. and

Centr. Am.

» licisca, Plotz (196), Nica-

ragua.

dimidiata, H.-S. (cormna,

Plétz) (199), Mexico.

» theon, Plétz (200), S. Am.

zamia, Plotz (201), 5. Am.

» tyana, Plotz (202),

Paulo.

» crispus, H.-S. (204), Ve-

nezuela,

Arteurotia demetrius, Plotz (205),

Brazil.

A‘thilla toxeus, Plotz (212), Mexico.

» nocera, Plétz (218), Co-

lombia.

primus, Plétz (214), Brazil.

melas, Plotz (216), Rio

Janeiro.

”

”

Cogia punctilia, Plotz (222), San-

tarem.

Cecropterus longipennis, Plotz (227),

S. Am.

55 koluthos, Plotz (228),

Colombia.

ss orontes, Plotz (229), La

Guayra.

+ lunulus, Plotz (281),

. Am.

bocus, Plotz (283), Para.

Lychnuchus ee) hiarbas, Cram.

(242), S. Am.

clearchus, Plotz (247),

S. Am.

9)

Dr. F. D. Godman on American

from Santarem in the G. & S

coll.

Pl6tz’s figures (¢ 2) do not agree

with the insect identitied under

this name in the ‘ Biologia,’

but belong to P. castolus, Hew.

The specimen (2 ) figured by Plotz

is stated to be from “ Rio,” not

Guatemala, The species can-

not be satisfactorily identified.

tiphys, Godm. __ Herrich-

Schaffer’s name has priority.

=P. thyestis, Godm., g. Plotz’s

naine has priority.

didia, Méschl. Herrich-

Schaffer’s name has priority.

Achlyodes nivonicus, Plotz, is

doubtless the female of the

same species.

Apparently not represented in the

G. & S. coll.

Apparently not represented in the

Wie

=P,

. coll,

Probably belongs to Mycteris, near

cer ‘ulead, Mab. Specimen

figured isa ¢.

Probably belongs to Mycteris, near

cambyses, Hew. Specimen

figured isa g.

Unknown to me.

=Murgaria albociliata, Mab., but

has darker cilia.

There is a worn specimen of this

species in the G, & 8. coll.

Also in G. & S. coll.

Very like 2. echina, Hew., but

with the secondaries almost

black beneath.

A close ally of C. calchas, H.-S.

=C. aunus, F., Gs

=C. zentus, Moschl., ¢. Occurs

also in Venezuela.

=, aunus, E., 9).

= C. neis, Hiibn., 9, var.

=C. ttylus, Hiibn., var.

Plotz figures a Lychnuchotdes

(P ozeus, Hew.) under this

name. It is possible that

Cramer’s species has been cor-

rectly identified by him.

This figure represents the insect

identified as Ancistrocampta

Hesperiides described by Plétz.

Sophista plinius, Plétz (249), 58. Am.

Hesperia paria, Plota (259), Chi-

riqul.

y ma, Plotz (261), Chiriqui.

» wmsignis, Plitz (262), La

Guayra.

» wmfuscata, Plotz (265),

Brazil.

Pamphila lurida, U.-S. (266),

Loc. P

Hesperia rubida, Plotz (268), S.

Am.

Cobalus derasa, H.-S,* (269), Loe. ?

Goniloba sandarac, H.-S. (271),

Cuba.

Hesperia depuncta, Plotz (278),

Rio Janeiro.

Cobalus tertianus, H.-S.

(274),

Loe. ?

Hesperia crispinus, Plotz (277),

Mexico.

5 rivera, Plotz (278), Rio

Janeiro.

5 bias, Plotz (279), 8S.

m.

137

hiarbas, Cram., in the British

Museum. Pl6tz’s figure (246)

of L. celsus, F., appears to

represent the same species.

Very near S. aristoteles, D. & H.

Fhere is a specimen of it from

Novo Friburgo in the G. & S.

coll.

=Lutychide achelous, Plotz, 3.

Specimen figured is from La

Guayra, not Chiriqui.

= Methionopsis modesta, Godm.

Plotz’s name ina has priority.

= Mnasitheus simplicissima, H.-S.

This is not the species identified as

Papias infuscata, Plotz, in the

‘ Biologia,’ for which Mabille’s

name wteger can be used.

HT. infuscata, Plotz, has a

brand formed of two narrow

elongate streaks on the pri-

maries in the ¢. It comes

very near Metiscus atheus,

Godm.,

Probably belongs to Mnasitheus.

Specimen figured is from

Brazil.

Probably belongs to Papias.

Probably the 2 of a species of

Papeas.

= Hesperia palea, Hew., Herrich-

Schaffer’s name having pri-

ority. Belongs to genus As-

bolis, Mab.

= Cobalus cinnamomea, H.-S., the

latter name having priority.

Belongs to a genus near Dion.

Numerous specimensin G, &S.

coll.

Belongs to Cobalus. Pamphila

warra, Moschl., is the ¢, and

P. zola, Moschl., the 2, of the

same species,

Looks very like Mnasicles geta,

Godm. The drawing of the

underside is, perhaps, too

highly coloured.

Probably a Mnasicles,

Very like Mnaseas bicolor, Mab.

* Corresp.-Blatt Regensb. 1870, p. 159.

138

Tesperva gabinus, Plétz (280), Rio

Janeiro.

», Herminieri, Latr. (281),

Carolina.

» perloides, Plotz

Brazil.

perla, Plotz (283), Rio

Janeiro.

» ewcellata,

Brazil.

Pamphila subcostulata, H.-S. (286),

Brazil.

(282),

Plitz (284),

Hesperia leucopogon, Plotz (287),

La Guayra.

antistia, Plotz (290), Rio

” ?

Janeiro,

lycenoides, Plotz (291),

Rio Janeiro,

pruinosa, Plotz (293), 8.

Am.

Plitz (294),

abdon,

Brazil.

acrea, Plétz (296), Co-

lombia.

aon, Plotz (800), Co-

lombia.

Jinbriata, Plotz (801),

Mexico.

ochrope, (311),

Para.

Plotz

Erycides apicalis, H.-S. (818), Loe. ?

Hesperia peratha, Plotz (815),

Bahia.

» _ nealces, Plotz (816), Rio

Janeiro.

alda, Plotz (321), Brazil.

”

Dr. F. D. Godman on American

Genus? Two @Q from Santa

Catherina in the G. & S.

coll.

Plétz figures a Venezuelan speci-

men as this species.

Very like the Mexican Mastor

anubis, Godm.

Not represented in the G. & S. coll.

Apparently not represented in the

G.& 8. coll.

Probably belongs to Papias. A ¢

from Iquitos in the G. & S.

coll. may belong to it.

Apparently not represented in the

G. & 8. coll.

A Cymenes and probably a form of

the species identified as C.

stlius, Latr., in the ‘ Biologia,’

Plotz’s figure of the latter

represents a larger insect, very

like an unnamed specimen

from Chiriqui in the G. & S.

coll.

A Cymenes, and perhaps a var. of

malitiosa, H.-S.

Belongs near the genus Dion.

There are two specimens of it

from Chapada in the G. & S.

coll.

Belongs to the genus Zenida, Mab.

There are three specimens of

it in the G. & 8. coll.

Unknown to me.

=Lignyostola lacydus, _ Druce.

Plotz’s description does not

seem to have been published.

Unknown to me.

=Pyrrhopygopsis telmela, Hew.,

var. with a small hyaline spot

on the primaries exterior to

the transverse fascia. Plétz’s

figure (310) of P. telmela is

very like P. cleanthes, Latr.

= Pyrrhopygopsis cleanthes, Latr.,

var. with the spots on the pri-

maries very small.

Probably a TZhracides, near luda,

Hew.

= Thracides luda, Hew., and T.

hundurensis, Mab.

A very close ally of T’hemesion cer-

tema, Hew. There is a 9 of

it from Santa Catherina in the

G. & S. coll.

Hesperiidae described by Plotz.

H.-S. (822),

Cobalus quadrata,

Loe, ?

Hesperia trimaculata, Plotz (826),

Brazil.

» elisa, Plotz (832), Brazil.

5 adjuncta, Plotz (340),

Colombia.

» Besckei, Plotz (348),

Novo Friburgo.

» xanthotrix, Plétz (852),

Rio Janeiro.

» brinoides, Moschl. (860),

Surinam.

» nanneta, Plotz (870), Rio

Janeiro,

catochra (catochia), Plotz

(3874), Mahrida.

Goniloba matthiolus, H.-S. (375),

Loe. ?

Hesperia pelora, Plotz (884),

Brazil.

valentina, Plitz (889),

Surinam.

¥ replana, Plotz (890),

Brazil.

. socles, Plétz (892), 8.

Am.

. emacareus, Plotz (393),

Venezuela,

Goniloba macareus, H.-S. (395),

Loc. ?

Hesperia eas, Plotz (400), Chiriqui.

» eabenta, Plotz (401), 8.

Am.

139

Belongs to genus Tisizs. There is

a ¢o of it from Minas Geraes

in the G. & S. coll. exactly

agreeing with Plotz’s figure.

Probably a Cobalus near gabina,

Godm. There is a ¢ of it

from Minas Geraes in the

G. & S. coll.

=H. crotona, Hew. Genus near

Perichares.

= Talides sergestus, Cr.. g, dark

var.

= Mcontades cydia, Hew., var., 3,

with a broader white band on

the secondaries beneath.

Probably a var. of Paraides or-

chamus, Cr., ¢. The Phocides

canthothrix of Mabille, from

Bolivia, is perhaps a different

species, Plétz’s description

has not apparently been pub-

lished.

=H. noseda, Hew. Genus?

Probably belongs to Thraeides,

near c@sena, Hew.

Incorrectly quoted amongst the

unidentitied Mexican species

in the ‘ Biologia.’ No doubt

an eastern form,

= Thracides salius, Cram., var.

Plotz’s figure is too green on

the upperside.

Probably not the 9 of Cobalopsis

edda, Mab., as suggested in the

‘ Biologia.’

= Carystoides basochesi, Latr., var.

with the three hyaline spots on

the primaries reduced in size

and the patch on the second-

aries broken up into small

spots.

=Carystoides basochesi, Latr., var.

with the hyaline patch on the

secondaries reduced to two

small spots.

= Vacerra litana, Hew., var.

The insect identified as Thespicus

macareus, H.-8., in the ‘ Bio-

logia.’

= Thespieus othna, Butl.

= Vacerra htana, Hew., var.

Probably a var. of Vacerra litana,

Hew., with the white markings

more extended beneath,

140

Hesperia diores, Plotz (407), 8. Am.

elana, Plotz (409), Brazil.

» stlanion, Plotz (410),

Bahia.

5 mitella, Plotz (411),

Brazil.

Jebus, Plotz (412), Brazil.

melaleuca, Plotz (413),

Rio Janeiro.

Cobalus dissoluta, Plotz (416),

Loe. ?

Hesperia ozeta, Plo6tz (417), Bahia.

ciniea, Plotz (418), Para.

”

”

7

Goniloba caniola, H.-S. (419), Loe. ?

» conformis, H.-S. (422),

Loe. ?

» luctuosa, H.-S. (426),

Loe. ?

Hesperia chlorus, Plotz (428), Suri-

nam.

» xsa, Plotz (430), Rio

Janeiro.

hypodesma, Plétz (481),

Para, Rio Janeiro.

cuneata, Plétz (482), 8

Am.

hesiodes, Plotz (434),

“Cap Rico.”

elvira, Plotz (436), S.

Am.

lyrcea, Plotz (442), Brazil.

eucherus, Plotz (445), Su-

rinam,

», monacha, Plotz (451),

Blumenau.

peninsularis, Plotz (452),

Para

senen, Platz (459), Rio

Janeiro.

Dr. F. D. Godman on American

Very like Carystus Claudianus,

Latr., but with the seeondaries

similarly marked above and

beneath.

Comes near the genus Pseudo-

sarhia, Berg. There are three

males of it from Chapada in

the G. & S. coll.

Very like the 2 of Carystus hy-

laspes, Cram., the type of Ma-

bille’s genus Synale. The

single specimen (Q) in the

G. & §. coll. has the head

green above.

A very close ally of H. elana,

Piitz, and belonging to the

same genus. Occurs at the

same locality, Chapada, from

which place there is a pair in

the G. & 8, coll.

= Zenis minos, Latr.

= Zenis minos, Latr., var.

= Zenis calvina, Hew.

= Zenis ozota, Butl., var.

Probably a Tirynthia, near conflua,

= Vacerra canente, Butl. Herrich-

Schaffer’s name has priority.

Probably a var. of Prenes nero, F.

Belongs to Prenes, near evadnes,

Cram., and pauper, Mab.

= Prenes evadnes, Cram., 3.

Rr obably: an Oxvynthes, near corusca,

H.-S.

A close ally of Metron chrysogaster,

Butl.

= Metron chrysogaster, Butl., and

goza, Hew

= Cobalus fidicula, Hew. The lo-

cality quoted is a misprint for

Costa Rica.

Probably a Vettius, near laur a

Hew.

= Carystus marcus, F.

= Carystus fantasos, Cram.

Belongs to Vettius, near triangu-

laris, Hiibn. Plotz’s figure is

taken from a Para specimen.

Probably a Vettéus, near Lafres-

nayt, Latr.

= Paracarystus hypargyra, H.-S,

var.

Hesperiidee described by Plitz.

Hesperia rexia, Plétz (466), Brazil.

; aquilina, Plotz (473),

Loe. ?

Cobalus catocala, H.-S. (485), Loe. ?

Hesperia distigma, Plotz (488),

Loe. ?

” sabina, Plotz (490),

Novo Friburgo.

hersilia, Plota (492), Rio

Janeiro,

Cobalus bistrigula, H.-S.

Loe. ? 2

Hesperia cyrus, Plotz (498), Rio

Janeiro.

9 parvipuncta, Moschl.

(500), Surinam.

Goniloba hemeterius, H.-S. (501),

Loe. ?

(497),

Carystus erebina, Moschl. (502),

Colombia.

Cobalus sameda, H.-S. (503), Loe. ?

Hesperia degener, Plotz (504),

Loe. ?

_ lydora, Plotz (505), Ve-

nezuela,

Cobalus grossula, H.-S. (507),

Loe. ?

rH deleta, H.-S. (508),

Loe. Pp

Hesperia duroca, Plétz (509), Rio

Janeiro.

Goniloba aphilos, H.-S. (511), Loe, ?

141

Genus? Probably a var. of Hes-

perta almoda, Hew., with the

lighter markings of the under-

side wanting. Carystus meta-

nira, Mab., is no doubt synony-

mous.

Perhaps an Artines, near epitus,

Hiibn.

Plotz’s drawing of this species

shows that it is not the 2 of

Megistias tsus, Godm.

Very like Hutychide cingulicornis,

H.-S., and probably Ameri-

can.

Unknown to me. Genus? The

¢ has a brand formed of three

short streaks,

= Cobalus virbius, Cram.

=Rhinthon alus, Mab. Herrich-

Schaffer’s name has priority.

Near Hesperia obeda, Butl. Genus?

=Pamphila Méschl.

Genus P

There is a pair of this species from

Cuba in the G. & 8. coll.; the

3, however, wants the two

small hyaline spots on the

primaries shown by Plotz.

Genus ?

Plotz figures the ¢ of a different

species from Brazil under this

name. C, erebina, Moschl.,=

Hesperia cynea, Hew.,as stated

in the ‘Biologia,’ under the

genus Rhinthon.

This may be the 9 of Plét2’s C.

erebina, which cannot be in-

cluded in the genus Rhinthon.

Herrich-Schiffer’s name has

to be used in any case,

Belongs near Gonus. A ¢ from

Bolivia in G. & 8. coll. is very

like it.

Belongs near Gonus. Two males

from Venezuela in the G.& 8.

coll.

Very like Oligoria maculata, Edw.

Unknown tome. ? American,

= Oligoria maculata, Edw.

angularis,

Perhaps the 2 of H. cyrus, Plotz.

=Carystus obeda, Butl., ¢. Ge-

nus? Herrich-Schatter’s name

has priority,

142

Cobalus elegantula, H.-S. (518),

Loe. ?

Hesperia quadrangula, Plotz (514),

Brazil.

Cobalus subcordata, H.-S. (515),

Loe. ?

Hesperia olympia, Plotz (516),

Brazil.

Ps norus, Plétz (518), New

Orleans.

Pamphila theogenis, Capr.* (519),

Surinam.

Cobalus dama, H.-S. (522), Loe. P

Hesperia cornelius, Latr. (525),

Cuba.

Cobalus tripunctus, H.-S. (526),

Cuba.

Hesperia gura, Plétz (528), Chi-

riqui.

Goniloba complana, H.-S. (529),

Loc. ?

corope, H.-S. (530),

Loe. ?

Hesperia eteocla, Plotz (581), Rio

Janeiro,

Carystus orope (Plétz), Capronn.

(533), Botafogo, Brazil.

Cohalus nerotdes, H.-S. (554), Loc. ?

”

Hesperia dalima, Plotz (688),

Brazil.

dispersa, Plotz (541),

Cuba.

» philerope, Plotz (542),

razil.

i; credula, Plotz (5851),

Brazil.

Goniloba cubana, H.-S. (556), Cuba.

Hesperia osca, Plétz (557), Caracas.

sabea, Plotz (560), Brazil.

”?

ulrica, Plétz (561), Rio

” i

Janeiro.

Dr. F. D. Godman on American

Genus? Several specimens of it

from Brazil in the G. & S.

coll.

A close ally of C. elegantula, H.-S.

Genus? Also contained in

the G. & S. coll.

Genus? Occurs in Guiana and

Brazil.

= Cobalus subcordata, H.-S., var.

= Oligoria maculata, Edw., var.

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

Not identified in the G. & §. coll.

@ looks like Prenes vada,

Mab.

Plotz’s figure represents Prenes

ocola, Edw., and his deter-

mination is, parhaps, correct.

Near Megistias. Occurs also in

S. America. Pamphila ancus,

Méschl., is the same species,

= Eutychide midia, Hew., and Hes-

peria favetta, Plotz.

= Lutychide midia, Hew. Plitz’s

drawing is taken from a Nica-

raguan specimen. Herrich-

Schiatfer’s name has priority.

= 9, Damas clavus, Er.

Probably a Codalus, allied to ga-

bina, Godm.

Unknown to me,

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

? American.

Probably belongs to Vacerra.

There is a ¢ very like it in

the G. & S. coll.

=Lerodea eufala, Edw. Descrip-

tion unpublished ?

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

Very like Hesperia quadrangula,

Plotz, 2. Genus?

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

A ¢ from Colombia in the G. & S.

coll. very like this, but with

small hyaline spots.

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

* Figured by Capronnier in Ann, Soc. Ent. Belg. xvii. t. i. fig. 8.

Hesperiidee described by Plotz.

Fesperia xanthosticta, Plotz (562),

Para.

Goniloba complanula, H.-S. (564),

Loe. ?

Hesperia yema, Plotz (565), West

Indies.

is verticalis, Plotz (567),

Brazil.

o commodus, Plotz (568),

Brazil.

ef dyma, . Plétz (569),

Brazil.

99 dedecora, Plotz (571),

La Guayra.

Goniloba exoteria, H.-S. (572),

Loe. P

Hesperia Grote, Plotz

United States.

. lochius, Plotz (576), La

Guayra.

A dido, Plotz (577), Vene-

zuela,

F phocylides, Plotz (578),

La Guayra.

p edata, Plotz (580), La

Guayra.

= tyrteus, Plétz (581), La

Guayra.

5) judas, Plitz (584), Novo

Friburgo, Brazil.

(573),

5 wimico, Plétz (585),

Florida.

53 pudorina, Plotz (587),

Brazil.

4 lupulina, Plotz (588),

Loc. ?

3 lunata, (589),

Loe. ?

stlene, Plétz (590), Loe. ?

oA corticea, Plotz (591), La

Guayra.

Plotz

nt vetulina, Plotz (597),

Loc. ?

143

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

=Turesis Lucasi, F. Plotz’s

drawing is taken from a Chi-

riqui specimen,

=Turesis Lucast, F. Carystus

hebon, Mab., and Pamphila

stlacea, Moschl., are probably

varieties of the same specier.

Description unpublished ?

Genus? A female from Rio

Janeiro in the G. & BS. coll.

may belong to this species,

but it has only one outer spot

on the primaries instead of

two.

Numerous specimens (¢ ?) in the

G. & 8. coll. Genus ?

Genus? A pair in the G. & S.

coll.

Not identified in the G. & S. coll.

= Amblyscirtes nanno, Edw. Her-

rich-Schaffer’s name has

priority.

= Atrytonopsis hianna, Scudd., 3,

var.

= Lerema bipunctata, Mab. Plitz’s

name has priority.

Probably Lerema accius, 8. & A.,

Waits, o:

Probably a small Q of Lerema

aceius, S. & A.

P=Megistias sus, Godm, 9.

Plétz’s name has priority.

= Megistias telata, H.-S., var.

Unknown to me.

Pnear genus

Atrytonopsis.

=Prenes panoquin, Seudd. De-

scription unpublished ?

Belongs near Catia. Numerous

specimens (¢ 2 )intheG. &S8.

coll.

= Atrytone inimica, Butl. & Druce.

=Cymenes berus, Mab. Plitz’s

name has priority.

= Cymenes berus, Mab., var.

= Megistias epberus, Mab. Hes-

peria noctis and lysias, Plotz,

are doubtless varieties of the

same species. Plétz’s name

corticea has priority over epi-

berus, Mab.

= Euphyes verna, Edw., ¢.

144

Hesperia lidia, Plitz (607), Loc.?

» eulogius, Plotz (608),

Mexico.

» vesuria, Plotz (612), Ja-

maica.

» gemma, Plitz (618),

Loe. ?

» myrona, Pléitz (614),

Venezuela.

» floridensis, Plitz (616),

Florida.

*) PELTED Plotz (617),

Loe. ?

» lysias, Plotz (623), Chi-

riqul.

» mutius, Plotz (625),

Georgia.

53 Huebneri, Plotz (626),

West Indies.

Pamphila magdatia, H.-S. (681),

Cuba.

Hesperia magica, Plitz (682), Cuba.

Plitz (633),

ammonia,

Loe. P

radians, Lue. (684), Cuba.

’”

clara, Plétz (635), Cali-

fornia.

Hy combinata, Plotz (636),

Colombia.

55 unna, Plotz (637), Phila-

delphia.

enuna, Plétz (639), Chile.

ancora, Plitz (641), Loe. ?

ignorans, Plotz (647),

Loe. ?

dares, Plotz (648), Loe. ?

Dr. F. D. Godman on American

Probably a var. of Limochores

manataaqua, Seudd,

= Atrytone mellona,GGodm. Plotz’s

name has priority.

A Catia, near Druryi, Latr.

in G. & 8. coll.

= Pamphila ravola, 8. & G., oS,

from Dominica, as already

noted by Weymer and Mabille.

Belongs near the genus Catia.

Plotz’s name has priority.

= Pamphila kenava, Butl., d. Be-

longs near Molo.

=Limochores palatka, Edw., 3.

Also

Probably a var. of the N.-American

Erynnis ottoe, Edw., 3.

=Megistias epiberus, Mab., and

Hesperia corticea, _— Plotz.

Plétz’s names antedate that of

Mabille.

= Atrytone arogos, Boisd., var., 3.

= Atrytone vitellius, F. Descrip-

tion unpublished ?

This Cuban insect has stood for

many years under the name

Thymelicus nanus, H.-8., in

the G. & 8. coll, This latter

species, according to Plotz’s

figure of it, isan Ancyloaypha.

There is a specimen of 7. na-

nus in Mr. Druce’s collection.

= Choranthus radians, Luc., vayr.,

dQ.

Perhaps a dark form of the 2 of

Choranthus radians, Lue.

This figure, if really belonging to

H, radians, Q, represents a

dark, almost immaculate form.

Apparently a pale var. of Thyme-

licus brettus, Boisd., 3.

=Thymelicus viber, Hiibn. rm Vein

Description unpublished ?

= Thymelicus brettus, Boisd., 3.

Blanch.,

=Hylephila fasciolata,

unpub-

@. Description

lished ?

= Hylephila phyleus, Drury, 3 9.

Probably belongs to Pol.tes. There

isa 9 very like it, from Me-

rida, Venezuela, in the G. & 8.

coll.

Belongs to Thymelhcus, There are

several specimens (d¢ 2) of

this species, from Brazil and

Bolivia, in the G. & 8. coll.

Hesperiidee described by Plétz.

Hesperia lina, Plitz (649), Bogota.

5) reticulata (650), la

Guayra and Chiriqui.

zacheus, Plitz (652), Su-

rinam.

”?

Cobalus vitellina, H.-S. (653), Loe. ?

Hesperia erratica, Plitz (656),

Guatemala.

subreticulata,Plitz (658),

Loe. ?

ob

francisca, Plitz (666),

California and Mexico.

Hf amphissa, VPlotz (667),

Venezuela.

grynea, Plotz (670),

Chile.

5 augustus, Plotz (676),

Brazil.

6 angulina, Plotaz (677),

Brazil.

Pamphila fasciata, Moschl. (678),

Surinam.

Hesperia ulphila, Plotz (679),

Mexico,

Pamphila lamida, Moschl. (680),

Colombia.

Hesperia statius, Plétz (686), Vene-

zuela.

Pamphila antiqua,

Cuba.

Hesperia serina,

Mexico.

H.-S. (687),

Plitz (697),

145

Probably belongs to Polites. There

isa @ of it from Colombia in

the G. & S. coll.

=Famphila_suffenas and meton,

Mab, Plotz’s name has pri-

ority. The species is referred

to Phlebodes by Mabille. The

four specimens figured by Plitz

seem to represent more than

one species.

= Atrytone melane, Edw., var., 3,

with the secondaries immacu-

late above.

=Atrytone melane, Edw. Plitz’s

figures (¢ 2) were made from

Mexican specimens. The two

names were published in the

same year, 1869.

= Altrytone zabulon, Boisd., ¢.

Plotz’s figures (655) of A.