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NUMBER XXV.
I. Arctic Crustacea: Bruce Collection. By the Rey. Tuomas PE see na TSUN Gat Dae Ae IE SEN Sys shenaidiarstsigia cid eiaisvety Se/teterw's Sawa e te» II. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Aculeate Hymeno- ptera from the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. CAMERON .... Ill. Note on the Weasel, Putorzus (Ictis) nivalis, Linn., and some of its Subspecies. By G. KE. H. BaRRETT-HAMILTON ...,........ IV. On Squirrels of the Sczwus MacClellandi Group. By J. L. LTE UTE Gea Hic ai ASOD OP ee ees On oll Oa Aiea ekg petra is ic oearrgs V. Descriptions of Two new Atherinoid Fishes from Mexico. By Gr ACAD URGE US. OES I Fa Le aS ctdle ie safe ee alas ards VI. Description of a new Lizard of the Genus Nueras from Usoga, British East Africa. By Oscak NEUMANN ...0....-c0.essc000- VII: On the Genus Lycodes. By Prof. F. A. Smirr .......... VIII. On a Second Collection of Butterflies obtained by Mr. Ed- ward M. de Jersey in Nyasaland. By A. G. Burzer, Ph.D. &e. .. IX. Descriptions of new or doubtful Species of the Genus Ammo- phila (Kirby) from Algeria. By F. D. Moricr, F.ES. ..........
X. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Coleoptera from S. and W. Africa, of the Section Serricornia, and of the Families Erotylide, Endomychide, and Languride. By H. 8. Goruam, NSLS OEE set i pite sit a ea eaoteg Roem ted RMON crau phe te Ses! spur wcieaa oso es
OC OC Ragmn net ean r PETA eters lake Petraeus osteo ible aie eie o Au waren aes
XII. Notes on the Pangonine of the Family Tabanide in the British Museum Collection. By Miss GertrupE Ricarpo. (Plate I.)
XII. The Hexagonal Structure naturally formed in Cooling Bees- wax, and its Influence on the Formation of the Cells of Bees. By CHARLES Dawson, F.G.S. &c., and S. A. WoopHKaD, B.Sce., F.C. S.,
XIV. British Amphipoda of the Tribe Hypertidea and the Families Orchesttide and some Lysianasside. By Canon Norman, M.A., SPs se Wea ips ge Eas CEOs arn csp caanatct WA Gh apecare BEI ad Sensetete eter os
XY. A new Bat from the Key Islands. By OLpFreLp THomas..
XVI. The Geographical Races of the Tayra (Galictis barbara), with Notes on Abnormally Coloured Individuals. By OLpFirLp THomMas.
XVII. New South-American Mammals. By OLDFIELD THoMas.
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Iv CONTENTS. Page New Books :—Rhopalocera Athiopica. Die Tagfalter des Aithiop- ischen Faunengebietes. Hine systematisch-geographische Studie. Von Cur. Aurivitiius.—Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck- Archipels. Von Dr. ARNOLD PAGENSTECHER. Erster Thiel. —Orthopteren des Malayischen Archipels, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. W. KiixkentTHAL in den Jahren 1893 und 1894, bearbeitet von BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL, unter Beriicksichtigung neuer verwandter Species.—New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera). By G. V. Hupson, F.E.S.—The Butterfly Book, a Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America. By W.J. Hortanp, Ph.D., D.D., &e... 154—157
Note on Ceroplastes africanus (Family Coccide), by E. E. Green, F.E.S. ; On the Lateral Cephalic Organs of Glomeris, by N. de PULA GeNaiore a ersirier ne etic ikea ea eye Eats eae tee IT 158, 159
NUMBER XXVI. XVIII. On the Nephridium of Nephthys ceca, Fabr. By Francis Hue Stewart, M.A., Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. (tare UE: GTS) «2s. Seaides test deamie Ae na seen etic eitrale testes » LGE
XIX. Descriptions of Three new Species of Siluroid Fishes from Southern Brazil. By G. A. BouLenerr, F.R.S...........000005 165
XX. Notes on the Pangonine of the Family Tabanide in the
British Museum Collection. By Miss Grrrrupr Ricarpo ...... 167 XXI. On the Mating Instinct in Moths. By ALFrep Gotps- EAE OU SN MA WARE (oS Paty, 1efeie isles c lores Givin are a eet erst faves akse bout he dete 183
XXII. On British Species of Siphonostoma. By M. 1. Newsxtain,
isc. (lond,), "(Plate PV. \s.;...eucdassmice meen ns Meare 190 XXIII. On an Unnamed Species of Cervus from Turkestan. By ESE DERM. Ei. 5 Sablon oo. carve hetqad« Intl ee AEE acta 195
XXIV. British Amphipoda: Fam. Lystanasside (concluded). By Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &e. (Plate VI.) 196
XXYV. A new Flying-Squirrel from Borneo. By Cuaries Hose. 214
XXVI. Description of a new Fruit-Bat from New Guinea. By OcoritDD WAOMAS..:.1, insnk wrtoiemsis S:pebstoniis hawmeugieites coon 216
XXVII. Descriptions ofnew Neotropical Mammals. By Otp¥FreLp THOMAS
XXVIII. ‘The Generic Name Thylacomys. By Epear R. Warre, GUTS fire sscpnie'e echo cote cal ne gh eee eI ts lay sent gud ete alee Va 222
XXIX. On new Species of Histeride, and Notices of others. By Bory La Waals L259 .151, 5512 ,5% let Ain sai Reese aia Sete trate sure eae ee XXX. On the Absence of Regeneration in the Posterior Limbs
of the Orthoptera saltatoria and its probable Causes. By Epmonp SO RIDAGGH Aare, (labels Fels ohn sole « <) eeaggIee Ge wisslahadiee mine ean a ORM aeeee 254
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Page XXXI. Regeneration of the Tarsus and of the Two Anterior Pairs of Limbs in the Orthoptera saltatoria. By EpMonp BorpbaGE, 257
New Book :—Die Fledermiiuse des Berliner Museums fiir Naturkunde. —Neunzig,unter Leitung von Prof. W. Peters und Paul Matschie, gezeichnete und lithographirte Tafeln. Bearbeitet und durch Verbreitungskarten und Bestimmungstabellen fiir alle bekannten Arten ergiinzt. Von Paut Marscure, Kustos am Museum fiir Naturkunde zu Berlin. Erste Lieferung. Megachiroptera .... 259
NUMBER XXVII. XXXII. A New-Zealand Species of the Amphipodan Genus Cyproidia. By Cuar.es CuitTon, M.A.,, D.Sc., M.B., C.M., F.L.S., Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh. (Plate V.) .......... 241
XXXIII. On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others. IES paler peEINV TS, BM She eat hy wks rd sores uP eas vo gn 3%) havea’ be slensumene 246
XXXIV. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews.— No. XX. By Prof. M‘Intosu, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. (Plates
VATE Seal ele ee tater he crates alule chy. era atone a meg ta ctalbtae sca ren eaeeele 254 XXXYV. Descriptions of new Neotropical Mammals. By OLDFIELD BPR ET WHEN tay tres cach hal ent cc ns ha voVas a re ava Soom =v, Reshma tats Meme ee aay @ 269
XXXVI. Descriptions of Two new Sciwroptert discovered by Mr. Charles Hose in Borneo. By OLDFIELD THOMAS............ 275
XXXVII. Notes on a Collection of African Blattide, chiefly from the Transvaal, formed by Mr. W. L. Distant. By W. F. Kirsy, Ee lee ree Bice eet awterasa tela utaperiaim © sare deca oe, omitheis wi here d so.
XXXVI. Some new or little-known Thelyphonide and Solifuge. By R. I. Pocock
XXXIX. Descriptions of new Reptiles from Perak, Malay Benmaula.. By G. A. BouLENGER, ERIS: . 1... ccc ess ca tens , 306
XL. Description of a new Genus and Species of Longicorn Coleo- ptera from Central Formosa. By C. J. Gawan, M.A............. 308
XLI. Descriptions of new Coleoptera from Hainan Island, China. By Cuas, O. WATERHOUSE, FES.
XLII. Description of a new Species of Plectopylis from Tonkin. pa Cae ee eRe LAS can MUR sh svt ed Sta eole oie whisk 5 Eile 313
XLII. On the Spiral Growth of Appendages in Course of Re- generation in Arthropoda. By EpmMonp BorbaGE ............., 314
New Book:—Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 1897, by Arthur Willey, D.Sc. Lond., Hon. M.A. Cantab., late Balfour Student of the University of Cambridge. Part III.
The Hexagonal Structure formed in Cooling Beeswax in relation to the Cells of Bees, by F. Chapman
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NUMBER XXVIII. Page V" XLIV. Evidence of an Extinct Eel (Vrenchelys anglicus, sp. 1.) from the English Chalk, By A. Smrra Woopwarp, LL.D., F.LS. (Eaten x figs. VL ai) pis. eS ici Fanta ee Ra on ee 32]
XLV. Ona new Specimen of the Clupeoid Fish Awlolepis typus from the English Chalk. By A. Smira Woopwarp, LL.D., F.L.S. Gente UX. figs; 2. 2ia;). di. » «oi eudah. taihnd aa hee ee 324
XLVI. British Amphipoda: Families Pontoporetde to Ampe- liscide. By Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &e. .. 326
XLVITI. On some Longicorn Coleoptera from the Island of Hainan.
Byrd MO AHAN, MOA. 5.7, 4.0 bees cee ene eae eto ak 00 Oe XLVIII. Descriptions of Two new Murines from Peru and a new Hare from Venezuela. By OLDFIELD THOMAS ........022.-005 bo4
XLIX. On a new Genus and Species of Bulbul and an apparently new Species of Cyornis. By Col. C. T. Brineuam, F.Z.8. ........ 357
L. Note on the Common Hedgehog (Erinaceus ewropeus, Linneus) and its Subspecies or Local Variations. By G. E. H. Barrert-
OMRON cs Wa scclae Fite cis bene eae ee SEE Cee oe eee 360 LI. Asiatic Tortricide. By the Rt. Hon. Lorp Watsinecuam, Nears eg BENS.) ety u Sess Soe seme eam a auase eae ebatirsbe ta rAsem ntact ae 368 LI, Rhynchotal Notes. -IV. Heteroptera: Pentatomine (part.). PM Me PUTS TAID oe. cearinn bolas htteis sll 21k » & doa pol AFR a wis ee ete ae 386 LUI. Description of a new Cetoniid Beetle fron East Africa, eee ke Mela AmmmeD IMT), oP Diets. ae a auchncts eta xs a ieide wearable Ko mimnels 397 New Book :—The Students’ Flora of New Zealand and the outlying Islands...“ By aomwas Kink; Polish osc eee .cncns tae oS Scriptotricha or Paracantha?, by T. D. A. Cockerell ............ 400
NUMBER XXIX.
LIV. Observations on Bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains, By T. D. A. CockrrEtu, Pro- fessor of Entomology, New Mexico Agricultural College.......... 401
LY. On anew Ostracoderm (Luphanerops longevus) from the Upper Devonian of Scaumenac Bay, Province of Quebec, Canada. By A. SmirH Woopwarp, LL.D., F.L.S. (Plate X. figs. 1, la, RAE Ve etcfartefe cia ajevaya (e% vies scl ce)» signals ‘oS saysPae. wits aa cones | ie eee 416
LVI. On a new Species of Deltodus from the Lower Carboniferous - (Yoredale Rocks) of Yorkshire. By A. SmrrH Woopwarp, LL D., te. “(Plate X. figs.°2)-2.4,°2'6.). <<. .uan.ce « » ce eee 419
LVI. Rhynchotal Notes.—IV. Heteroptera: Pentatomine (part.). BS YW Wie TWIST ANT «occ cre eraetece ocala s Soucy ole 8 pela ne 420
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Page LVIII. On the Variation of the Weasel (Putorius nivalis, Linn.). yigtors, BAN ATS AGNING WEGy, 4 fou Uidkiad aisle oy huskies stialeen ame Salty § 456
LIX. New Species of Mollusca of the Genera Voluta, Conus, Stphonalia, and Euthria. By G. B. Sowersy, F.L.S. (Plate XL.) 459
LX. A List of the Species of Cyaniris, a well-known Group of the Family Lycenide. By A.G. Burier, Ph.D., F.LS., F.Z.8., &... 441
LXI. Asiatic Tortricide. By the Rt. Hon. Lonp WatsiInGHaM, I Nero e NUD eeB arcs. tener e nuiattern Waitara titel digest teeta ee tase cnet ke 451
LXII. Some new or little-known Neotropical Scorpions in the British Museum. By R. I. Pocock
New Book :—Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels. Mit Beriicksichtigung der thiergeographischen und_biologischen Verhiltnisse systematisch dargestellt. Von Dr. ARNOLD
PAGENSTECHER. GZweiter Theil: Die Nachtfalter .......... 478 Proceedings: of the Geological Society... 00.0606 cence ree ss seers 479 A Question of Nomenclature, by F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A. &e. ........ 480
NUMBER XXX. LXIII. Asiatic Tortricide. By the Rt. Hon. Lorp Wa sinc- RAW aed ee Ug EIS re esd eoetirc city sesscs; eas tse ECO ces AOE ORG 481 LXIV. On the Squirrels of the Ratufa (Seturus) bicolor Group. Pay ae Mares ASONHOTE y..\. 5 x 02s gn Faheaso ao ns erence era ee 490 LXV. A new Skunk from Peru. By OLpFreELD THomas ...... 499
LXVI. On the Special Protection of Appendages in Process of Regeneration after Artificial Mutilation among Insects. By EpMonp BorDAGE...... ste Soo Sat CR AEE CP NOES ici ace cae Pea a rare ae 5OL
LXVII. New Species of the Coleopterous Genus Prionocalus from Ecuador and Peru.. By Cuas. O. WaTERHOUSE, V.P.ES......... 508
LXVIII. Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Hete-
rocera from ‘Tropical South America. By Hirrperr Drucer, F.LS. &e.
BCE Tb OROe oc OER RE a CR A aie fee 507 LXIX. Further Note on the Harvest-Mouse (Mus minutus,
Pallas) and its Geographical Variations. By G. E. H. Barrerr-
EAPAEON ge rch he adler. ae ridin <oeenue ee me cTie athe foals hee 527
LXX. On a Small Collection of Odonata (Dragonflies) from Hainan, collected by the late John Whitehead. By W. F. Kirsy, Pel Sepietes ore.” Gelato MEL ae s cpt. wean ea eessawie ac uedss 530
vill CONTENTS. . Page LXXI. On the Species which have been included in Zygonyx, Hagen and De Selys. By W. F. Kirey, F.LS., 1a Pea TSB a SA 539 LXXII. Note on the Individual Variation of the Common Hedge- hog (Erinaceus europeus, Linn.). By Dr. Ernar LONNBERG...... 542
Proceedings of the Geological Society........... 6s seee eens 544, 545
Golianthinus (Sphyrorrhina) Wisei, by E. A. Heath, M.D., F.LS. ; On the Skeleton of the Snout and Os caruncule of the Mammary Feetus of Monotremes, by Prof. J.T. Wilson, M.B., Ch.M. .... 546
TGR « icone te eeatetetete tetera aotatalene attr Mee leate Hate aiiie remeron 548
PLATES IN VOL. V. PuatE I. New Tabanide. ‘ephridiuin of Nephthys ceca,
IV. British Species of Siphonostoma. V. Cyproidia otakensis. VI. New Amphipoda. VII. | VILL. | IX. Urenchelys anglicus and Aulolepis typus. X. Euphanerops longeyvus and Deltodus Croftoni. XI. New Mollusca. XII. New Odonata.
Species of Nephthys.
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Oe cepeaonoscoateces per litora spargite muscum, Naiades, et circitm vitreos considite fontes: Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco Vellite muscosis e rupibus, ef mihi conchas Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.”’ N. Parthenii Giannettasi, Eel, 1,
No. 25. JANUARY 1900.
I.—Arctic Crustacea: Bruce Collection. By the Rev. THomas R. R. Stenpine, M.A., F.R.S.
THE Crustacea collected by Mr. W. 8. Bruce in Franz-Josef Land during 1896 and 1897, in connexion with ihe well- known Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, have recently been described by Mr. Thomas Scott, F.L.8., in the ‘ Journal of the Linnean Society.’ In 1898 Mr. Bruce made three new Arctic cruises: the first with Mr. Andrew Coats in his yacht ‘Blencathra’ to Kolguev and Novaya Zemlya; the second _ with the same friendly sportsman ‘‘to Bear Island, Hope
Island, across the Barents Sea almost to the north end of Novaya Zemlya, and to the Wiche Islands”; the third with the Prince of Monaco, on the ‘ Princesse Alice,’ to Bear Island, Hope Island, several parts of Spitzbergen, and the Greenland Sea.
As might have been expected, Mr. Bruce made every possible use of his opportunities in the interests of natural science. The Malacostraca thus obtained he has, on the suggestion of Mr. Scott, submitted to me for determination, and the following catalogue is the result.
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2 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. BRACHYURA.
Tribe OXYRRHYNCHA. Fam. Maiida. i Genus Hyas, Leach, 1813-1814.
Hyas araneus (Linn.).
1758. Cancer araneus, Linn., Systema Nature, ed. x. (reprint, 1894),
7b0. es bufo, Herbst, Naturg. Krabben u. Krebse, vol. i. pt 8, p- 242, pl. xvii. fig. 95.
1814. Hyas araneus, Leach, Edinb, Encycl. vol. vii. p. 431.
1816. Hyas araneus, Leach, Malacostraca Podophth. Britannia,
epexcxdl Av.
1804, Hyas aranea, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. vol. i. p. 312.
nee oe ara Brandt, Middendorff’s Sibirische Reise, vol. ii.
Laity joe (Aor
1853, Fe araneus, Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 31, fig. in
text.
1864. Hyas araneus, Goés, Crust. podophth. Suecize &c., in ify. Vet.-
Akad. Forh. p. 161 (extr. p. 1). 1882. Hyas coarctatus, var., Hoek, Die Crustaceen..... des Willem Barents, in Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 8, pl. i. fig. 1.
1887. Hyas araneus, H. J. Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p, 284.
In regard to this abundant, widely distributed, and well- known species there is still an unsettled question, Leach in one work mentions and in another figures a specimen measuring 16 inches across between the tips of the extended legs. ‘The carapace of the specimen figured is 83 inches long by a little over 24 broad. These dimensions, as Leach himself recognizes and as subsequent experience has shown, are very uncommon. From this form, capable of so large a development, the same author in 1815 distinguished, as Hyas coarctatus, a second species, of which a specimen is considered fine when the carapace is 14 inch long by ? inch wide. Leach did not, however, lay any stress on the difference in size, but on a character less easily appreciable, namely, that the acute lateral postorbital process of the carapace is tuberculate to the rear in Hyas araneus, whereas to the rear in Hyas coarctatus it is much dilated and unarmed. The latter species more- over, in accordance with its name, has the sides of its carapace constricted. It is not said, and it would not be true to say, that they are without constriction in the other form. The fact appears to be that the constriction forms a small pocket (as in the smaller of Leach’s two figures of Hyas coarctatus) only in small specimens, but that, as specimens increase in size, it becomes a shallow emargination.
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Brandt, in distinguishing the species, uses Leach’s character of tuberculation, saying that the part of the carapace in question has about two or three warts in Hyas araneus and only about one or none in Hyas coarctatus. His words are “ subternis vel subbinis”’ and “ subunica vel nulla,” of which the meaning seems plain, although the Latinity is not Ciceronian. He adds that in Hyas araneus the breadth of the front third of the carapace is a little less or more than half the extreme breadth, but that in Hyas coarctatus this front third has more than three fourths, or about four fifths, of the extreme breadth. The two species live in the same waters, so that, when it comes to determining matrimonial alliances, one cannot help wondering how they manage without compasses to prevent a narrow-fronted Romeo from winning the affections of a broad-fronted Juliet, since we, with all appliances and means to boot, can scarcely keep their rival clans from mixing. According to Bell, “‘ In the young state it is very difficult to distinguish the two species, as the former [Hyas araneus] has, in its early age, the spreading form of the postorbital processes which distinguishes the present species [ Hyas coarctatus| inits perfect adult condition, and which is gradually lost by the other.” Bell dismisses Hailstone’s Hyas serratus as undoubtedly only a very young form of Hyas coarctatus.
Sars, in the ‘ Crustacea of the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition ’ (Crust. pt. 2, p. 2, 1886), records both HZ. araneus and H. coarctatus, and, further, considers Brandt’s var. alutacea of the latter “to be strictly entitled to specific distinction.” Unfortunately he does not give the characters to be relied on for keeping the three forms apart. Most of the specimens assigned by him to H. coarctatus were young individuals. He notices, as earlier authors had done, that this form descends into much deeper waters than those frequented by H. araneus.
Brandt considers the Hyas coarctata of De Kay (Nat. Hist. of New York, 1843) to be a form intermediate between H. araneus and fI. coarctatus. Professor 8. I. Smith, in ‘The Stalk-eyed Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast of North America north of Cape Cod,’ 1879, not only shows no doubt of the distinctness of these two species, but accepts a third from Stimpson. That author, he observes, in the Pr. Ac. Philadelphia, 1857, “‘describes a new species, latifrons, as common in Bering Sea, apparently using the same specimens which were a few months before referred to HH. coarctatus. H. latifrons., though closely allied to coarctatus, is certainly
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a good species or a very remarkable variety, and quite distinct from Brandt’s variety alutaceus.” Miers, on the other hand, in the ‘Challenger’ Brachyura, pronounces Stimpson’s H. latifrons to be “very doubtfully distinct from Hyas coarctata,” though he recognizes Dana’s Hyas lyratus from the west coast of America as a very distinct species.
In 1882 Hoek, among the Crustacea of the ‘ Willem Barents’ Expedition, describes and figures ‘* [Tyas coarctatus, Leach, var.,”’ and lays stress on measurements of the male chelipeds. But these appear to be far too variable with age and size of specimen to admit of any reliance being placed upon them, and, moreover, as Hansen has pointed out (‘ Dijmphna Krebsdyr,’ p. 235), it is clear that Hoek’s species is a true FHyas araneus. Hansen’s own conclusions are as follows :— Specimens from the ‘ Dijmphna’ give the same result as that of Hoek’s table of measurements, that the breadth of the carapace in front, compared with its breadth behind, is relatively greater in the small than in the large specimens, just as the breadth in front is in the small specimens greater in relation to the length than in the large individuals. Whether, all things considered, Hyas coaretatus is a valid independent species or only a variety of H. araneus, appears to me somewhat doubtful, although I have inspected a rather considerable number of animals at various ages and from various seas.”
Into how many species the genus Lyas will eventually be divided it is impossible to foresee. Dana’s H. lyratus should, it seems, stand by itself. Of the other forms as yet known how happily, sua si bona norint, may all of them live under the common name of Hyas araneus. But to expect that they will do so is utopian.
Mr. Bruce’s specimens were obtained from off the north end of Kolguev Island at 12 fathoms, and from the western part of the Barents Sea, 76°17’ N., 21° 36’ E., at 60 fathoms depth.
MACRURA. Tribe ANOMALA., Fam. Paguride. Genus Eupacurus, Brandt, 1851. Eupagurus pubescens (Kréyer).
1838. Pagurus pubescens, Kroyer, Danske Selsk. Skr. Afh. pt. 7, p. 814; Kroyer, Conspectus Crust. Groenlandiz, Naturh. Tidsskr. vol. ii. p. 251.
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1846. Pagurus pubesceus, Kroyer, Gaimard’s Voy. du Nord, Crust., Atlas, pl. ii. fig. 1.
1851. Eupagurus pubescens, Brandt, Middendorff’s Sibirische Reise, vol, i. pt. 1, pp. 31, 34, 35.
aes Pagurus Thompsoni, Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 372,
@. in text.
1858. Eupagurus pubescens, Stimpson, and Eupagurus Kroyert, Stimp- son (both without description), Pr, Ac. Philad. pp. 75, 87.
1859. Eupagurus Kréyert, Stimpson, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. vii. p. 89.
1879. Eupagurus pubescens, S. I. Smith, Trans. Connect. Ac. vol. v.
pt] pat. 1879. Eupagurus Kréyert, 8. I. Smith, ibid. p. 48. 1882, Eupagurus pubescens, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no. 18, p. 42, pl. i. figs. 1-2. : 1886. Eupagurus pubescens, Henderson, Crust. Decap. Firth of Clyde, 26
1888. Eupagurus pubescens, var. Kroyeri, Henderson, Rep. Voy. ‘Challenger,’ vol. xxvii. p. 65.
In first establishing the species Kroyer assigned to it two distinctive characters, the long soft hairs clothing the chelipeds and the form of the left hand, which, however, he left un- described. In the same year he gave another characterization as follows :— Dorsal surface of the cephalothorax and the legs densely beset with yellow sete, and a strong dentate carina of the right hand extending from the base of the finger to the outer carina of the wrist.” This was followed by a comparison or contrast instituted between the new species and Pagurus bernhardus. No mention at all is made of the left hand; but Brandt is no doubt right in supposing that Kroyer by a slip of the pen wrote “ dextre ” in place of “ sinistree.”
Bell probably instituted his Pagurus Thompsoni in igno- rance or forgetfulness of Kréyer’s species, and he speaks of the small anterior leg (that is, the left cheliped) as “ nearly linear,” without noticing the characteristic carina. Stimpson found specimens which agreed with the figure in Gaimard’s ‘Voy. du Nord’ in having the pubescence little demonstrative, and both he and afterwards Professor 8. I. Smith concluded that Kroyer had mixed up two distinct species. Professor Smith finds numerous minute distinctions in the outline, position, and denticulation of the outer carina of the left hand in the two forms. But Professor Sars maintains that the two cannot possibly be separated specifically. He urges that the pubescence of body and legs is on the whole very variable, and that the form of the left chela varies a good deal in the two sexes—in the female fairly corresponding with Smith’s account of Hupagurus Kréyert and in the male with his Eupagurus pubescens. We finds the male as a rule more
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strongly pubescent than the female. Professor Henderson contents himself with the compromise of accepting Stimpson’s species as a variety of Kroyer’s. In the feebleness of the pubescence Mr, Bruce’s specimens make no very marked claim upon the original specific name, to which otherwise they may well have a right.
Localities. Off north end of Kolguev Island, 12 fathoms ; Novaya Zemlya, 20 fathoms.
Tribe CARIDEA. Fam. Crangonide. Genus SABINEA, Owen, 1835.
Sabinea septemcarinata (Sabine).
1821. Crangon septemcarinatus, Sabine, Parry’s Voyage, Appendix, no. x., Zoology, p. 58, pl. ii. figs. 11-18.
1835. Sabinea septemcarinata, Owen, Ross’s 2nd Voyage, App., Zool. ah ixxxit,
1879. Sabinea septemcarinata, S. I. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, p. 57, pl. xi. figs. 5, 9-18.
1890. Sabinea septemcarinata, Sars, Arch. Natury. Christian. vol. xiv. p- 168, pl. v., pl. vi. figs. 1-13.
It has been pointed out by Professor Smith that two distinct species have sometimes been confounded under the name septemcarinata. ‘lhe specimens to which that name © properly belongs have the rostrum obtusely rounded at the tip and the telson subtruncate, its apex fringed with eight or more spines. On the other hand there are specimens of similar general appearance belonging to the species Sabinea Sarsti, Smith, 1879, which can readily be distinguished by the circumstance that the rostrum ends in an acute tip and that the telson likewise has its apex acute, with one or two spines on either side. Sars has pointed out that the Myto Gaimardit of Kroyer is in fact the first larval stage of Sabinea septemcarinata, and that in a very young post-larval condition that species is already sharply distinguished from Sabinea Sarsit by the character of the telson.
Mr. Bruce’s specimens were obtained by the trawl off North Kolguev Island, at 12 fathoms and at 30 fathoms; and in the west of the Barents Sea, 76° 44'-76° 47! N., 30° 30/- 29° 55’ E., at 110 fathoms; at 76°17’ N., 21°36’ E.. m 60 fathoms. ‘
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Genus SCLEROCRANGON, Sars, 1882.
1882. Sclerocrangon, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no. 18, p. 45. 1885. Sclerocrangon, Sars, Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp. vol. xiv., Crust. pt. 1, p. 14.
Sclerocrangon ferow, Sars. 1876. Cheraphilus ferox, Sars, Arch. Natury. Christian. p. 339. Bae caps JSerox, Hoek, Nied. Arch, f. Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 9, Ji. fig. 3. 1885. Sclerocrangon salebrosus, Sars, Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp. vol. xiv., Crust. pt. 1, p. 15, pl. i. 1887. Sclerocrangon ferox, H. J. Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 236. 1890. Selerocrangon ferox, Sars, Arch. Natury. Christian. vol. xiy. p. 180.
The dentiform projections on the lower margins of the pleon-segments afford an easily observable distinction between this species and the Sclerocrangon boreas of Phipps. In Sclerocrangon Agassizii, 8. I. Smith, the first pleon-segment has an obtuse tooth on the lower margin and the second has a slight tooth, but the following segments have the lower edges unarmed. Hansen points out that the Crangon sale- brosus of Owen cannot be identified with the present species, since, besides other differences, it is described as having the carapace septemcarinate.
Mr. Bruce’s specimens were obtained between 76° 24 N., 33° 43’ E., and 76° 47’ N., 29° 55! E., at depths of 100 and 110 fathoms ; at 77° 14’ N., in 76 fathoms.
Genus SPIRONTOCARIS, Spence Bate, 1888.
Sptrontocaris polaris (Sabine).
1821. Alpheus polaris, Sabine, Parry’s Voyage, Appendix no. x., Zoology, p. 60, pl. ii. figs. 5-8.
1835. Heppolyte polaris, Owen, Ross’s 2nd Voyage, App., Zool.
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1835. Hippolyte borealis, Owen, ibid. p. lxxxiv, pl. B, fig. 3.
1842. Mippolyte polaris, Kroyer, Monogr. Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 116, pl. iii. figs. 78-81, pl. iv. fig. 82.
1842. Hippolyte borealis, Kroyer, ibid. p. 122, pl. iii. figs. 74-77.
1879. Hippolyte polaris, S. 1. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1,
4° op: 80, pl. xi. figs. 1-4.
1886. Hippolyte polaris, Keelbel, Crustaceen von Jan Mayen, p. 11.
1887. Hippolyte polaris, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 239.
1899. Sprrontocaris polaris, Scott, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. vol, xxvii. p. 63.
‘From Sabine onwards authors have noticed the great
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variability in the number of the teeth of the rostrum both above and below. Professor Smith’s conclusion that no specific distinction is tenable between polaris and borealis has been generally accepted. The American professor is also inclined to believe that [ippolyte cultellata, Norman, 1867, is another synonym, and Norman himself (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xiii. p. 270) accepts it as such. It may be noticed that cu/tellatum is a word used by Kroyer in describing the rostrum alike of polaris and borealis. he variability in the pterygostomian spines (to disappearance) and in the number of dorsal aculei (from four to ten pairs) on the telson’ is fully discussed by Professor Smith. Kcelbel gives the branchial formula as comprising a podobranchia on the second maxilliped, an epipod on each of the five appendages from the first maxilliped to the second trunk-leg, and a pleuro- branchia on each of the five successive trunk-legs. As this species has seven subdivisions to the fifth joint of the second trunk-legs, or, in brief, a seven-jointed wrist, 1t seems proper to include it in the genus Spdrontocaris. Hansen mentions 77 millim. as the length of a very large male.
A large specimen (about 3 inches long), with others not so large, was obtained at 70° 03’ N., 49° 10! E., in 20 fathoms. A small specimen (about 14 inch long), with eight pairs of dorsal spines on the telson and eight apical spines, of which the median six are subequal, was taken at 76° 29’ N., 19° 08' E., in 140 fathoms.
Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby).
1805. Cancer spinus, Sowerby, British Miscellany, p. 47, pl. xxiii. 1814. Alpheus spinus, Leach, Edinb, Enceycl. vol. vii. p. 481. 1815. Alpheus spinus, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soe. London, vol. xi. p. 347. 1817. Hippolyte Sowerbei, Leach, Malac. Podophth. Britanniz, pl xx Kix, 1837. Hippolyte Sowerby’, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. vol. ii. 380
p- 380.
1842, Hippolyte Sowerbet, Kroyer, Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 90, pl. il. figs. 45-54.
1879. Hippolyte spinus, S. I. Smith. Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, p. 68.
1882. Hippolyte spinus, Hoek, Crust. Willem Barents, in Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 15, pl. i. figs. 4-7.
1886, Hippolyte spinus, Koelbel, Crustaceen yon Jan Mayen, p. 11.
1888. Sprrontocaris spinus, Bate, Rep. Voy. ‘ Challenger,’ vol. xxiv. p. 596, pls. evi., evil.
The synonymy may with little doubt be amplified by the names [Hippolyte Lilebory?, Danielssen, 1861, and Hippolyte securifrons, Norman, 1863, Stimpson in 1860 adopts the
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curious reading of the name, //¢ppolyte spina, as if spinus were an adjective. Spence Bate emphasizes the variability of the species by describing seven varieties. According to Keoelbel the branchial formula is the same as in Spirontocaris polaris, except for the additional epipod in the present species, which has one on the third trunk-leg, as observed by Kroyer.
Specimens were obtained at 76° 17! N., 21° 36! E., in 60 fathoms depth.
Spirontocaris Gauimardit (Milne-Edwards). 1837. Hippolyte Gaimardii, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. vol. ii. 378
ist, Hippolyte Gaimardii, Kroyer, Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 74, pl. i. figs, 21-29,
1842. Hippolyte gibba, Kroyer, ibid. p. 80, pl.i. fig. 80, pl. ii. figs. 81-37.
1864. Hippolyte Gaimard:, Goes, Crust. podophth. Sueciz etc., GEfv. Vet.-Akad. Foérh. p. 168 (extr. p. 8).
1879. Hippolyte Gaimardi, 8. I. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, p. 67, pl. ix. figs. 8, 9.
1882. Hippolyte Gaimardi, Hoek, Crust. Willem Barents, Nied. Arch. fur Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 18. 1886. Hippolyte Gaimardu, Koelbel, Crustaceen von Jan Mayen, p. 12. 1887. Heppolyte Gaimardi, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 238. 1888. Hetairus Gaimardn, Bate, Rep. Voy. ‘Challenger,’ vol. xxiv. p- 611, pl. cix. fig. 2.
1893. Spirontocaris Gaimardi?, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat, Science Series, vol. Ixxui. p. 235,
1899. Spirontocaris Gaimardit, Scott, Journ. Linn, Soc. London, Zool. vol. xxvii. p. 63, pl. iii. figs. 1, 2.
This species is notable for the absence of the pair of spines so commonly found in this genus over the eyes at the base of the rostrum. According to Keelbel the branchial formula is the same as that of Spirontocaris polaris. Goés has been followed by subsequent authors in uniting the forms gibba and Gaimardic*. With these he united Hippolyte Belcher?, Bell (Belcher’s ‘ Voyage,’ p. 402, pl. xxiv. fig. 1), and was inclined to unite Hippolyte pandaliformis, Bell (Brit. Stalk-eyed Crust. p. 294). Hoek considers that they should both be regarded as synonyms of Gatmardit. A specimen measuring 24 inches in length was obtained by Mr. Bruce. It has the third pleon-segment dorsally produced over the next with a rather broadly rounded apex, above which, but not reaching beyond it, is a narrow, though not acute, median projection. The rostrum has four teeth below and eight above, in addition to three on the carapace. The dorsal spines of the telson
* Miss M. J. Rathbun, however, keeps them distinct, but without comment, in her recently published ‘ List of Crustacea known to occur on or near the Pribilof Islands.’ -
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are not exactly paired, being six on one side and five on the other.
Locality. 70° 51’ N., 53° H., at a depth of 20 fathoms.
Sptrontocaris turgida (Kroyer). 1841. Hippolyte turgida, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidsskr. vol. ii. p. 575. 1841. Hippolyte Phippsit, Kroyer, ibid. pp. 575-576. 1842. Hippolyte turgida, Kroyer, Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 100, pl. ii. figs. 57, 58, pl. iii. figs. 59-63. 1842. Hippolyte Phippsii, Kroyer, ibid. p. 106, pl. ili. figs. 64-68. 1864. HMippolyte Phippsti, Goés, Crust. podophth. Sueciz etc., Céfy. Vet.-Akad. Forh. p. 169 (extr. p. 9). 1879. Hippolyte Phippsit, 8. I. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, 73
1882, Hippolyte Phippsti, Hoek, Crust. Willem Barents, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 17.
1899, ? Sperontocaris Phippsti, Scott, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. vol, xxvil. p. 63, pl. iii. figs. 3, 4.
The suggestion made by Goés that Kroyer’s turgida and Phippsti were respectively female and male of one species has been generally accepted. The priority of the name turgida has been as generally set aside, probably under the idea that the male was so obviously the superior animal that no rules of nomenclature could compete with its claim to preferential notice. Professor Smith includes in the synonymy the Hippolyte vibrans of Stimpson (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. x. p. 125, 1871), and, with some doubt, Hippo- lyte ochotensis, Brandt, 1849.
Specimens were obtained by Mr. Bruce at 76° 17’ N., 21° 36' E., in 60 fathoms depth.
SCHIZOPODA. Fam. Euphausiide.
Genus Ruopa, Sim, 1872.
1872. Rhoda, Sim, “Stalk-eyed Crust. N.E. Coast of Scotland,” in Scottish Naturalist, sep. copy, p. 6 (fide Norman).
1883. Boreophausia, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no. 7, p. 11,
1886. Boreophausia, Norman, Fourth Annual Rep. Fish. Board Scot- land, p. 156.
1892. Boreophausia, Norman, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. ix.
. 461. 1803, Rhoda, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat. Science Series, vol. Ixxiy. p. 263.
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Rhoda inermis (Kroyer).
1846. ? Thysanopoda inermis, Kroyer, Gaimard’s Voy. du Nord, Crust. pl. vil. figs. 2 a-t.
1882. Euphausia inermis, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no, 18, p. 51, pl. i. fig. 15.
1885. Boreophausia termis, Sars, ‘Challenger’ Reports, vol. xiii. Schizopoda, p. 64.
1886, Boreophausia inermis, Sars, Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp., Crust. vol. ii. p. 13.
1887. Boreophausia inermis, Hansen, Malac. Groenl. occid., Vid. Medd.
53.
1892. Boreophausia inermis, Norman, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol, ix. p. 461. 1893, Rhoda inermis, Stebbing, Hist. Crust. p. 263.
Norman having identified the Boreophausta Raschit (M. Sars) with Rhoda Jardineana, Sim, 1872, it seems clear that the generic name Boreophausia, proposed by Sars in 1883, must give way to the much earlier name Rhoda.
Mr. Bruce’s specimens of Rhoda inermis were taken on two occasions iu July by the tow-net at night.
Fam. Myside.
Genus MysipeIs, Sars, 1869.
1869. Mysideis, Sars, Underségelser over Christianiafjordens Dybvands- fauna, p. 28.
1870, 1879. Mysides, Sars, Monogr. Norges Mysider, pt. 1, p. 9, pt. 3, pp. 1, 110.
On page 9 of the ‘ Monograph’ Sars assigns Mysidezs to the group in which all the pleopods of the male are unlike those of the female, and to the division of that group which has the molar of the mandibles distinct, separating the genus from its companions by the character that the incisive lobes of the first maxille are only two instead of three. The full generic character in pt. 8, page 1, and the subsequent specific descriptions and figures, agree with the original account in 1869 in applying the character to the second maxillex, to which alone it could be appropriate. From the type species, Mysideis insignis, the M. grandis of Goés is very clearly distinguished by the subacute or tubercular projection in the middle of the outer margin of the first maxillz, as well as by the truncate apex of the telson.
Mysideis grandis (Goés).
1864. Mysis grandis, Goés, Crust. podophth. Sueciz etc., CEfy. Vet,- Akad. Forh, p. 176 (extr, p. 16),
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1879. Mysideis grandis, Sars, Monogr. Norges Mysider, pt. 3, p. 106, pls. xl, xlii.
A specimen, 1} inch in length, and two of smaller size, were obtained at 70° 51! N., 53° E., in about 20 fathoms depth, comparatively shallow water for this apparently rare species.
CUMACEA.
In this group the only captures observed were Leucon pallidus, Sars, from a depth of 60 fathoms, and some small specimens taken with the tow-net, probably belonging to Lamprops fuscata, Sars; but the lateral margin of the cara- pace is furnished with five or six denticles, the first joint of the inner branch of the uropods has only six spines, and the apex of the telson scarcely looked as if it could have been furnisked with more than three spines, the full number in L. fuscata being five.
ISOPODA. Tribe CHELIFERA. Genus CRYPTOCOPE, Sars, 1880. 1880. Cryptocope, Sars, Isopoda Chelifera, Arch. Naturv. p. 49.
1886. Cryptocope, Norman and Stebbing, Trans, Zool. Soc. London,
vol. xii. pt. 4, p. 106. 1896. Cryptocope, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. p. 33.
Cryptocope arctica, Hansen.
1887. Cryptocope arctica, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 209, pl. xxi. fig. 4; id. Malac. Greenl. occid., Vid. Medd. p. 180, pl. vii. figs. 1-1 e. This minute species, less than 44, inch long, differs from the Cryptocope Voringit and Cryptocope abbreviata in having setee on the pleopods, of which the other two species are devoid. The sete are apical in the specimen I have examined. It has the antenne agreeing with those figured by Hansen in pl. vii. fig. 15 for the female. Also apparently the outer branch of the uropod is two-jointed, in agreement with Hansen’s figure of that microscopic appendage in the ovigerous female. According to Sars the outer branch is one-jointed in the female both of C. abbreviata and of the larger C. Voringit, although in 1876, when describing the latter as Tanats Voringit, he had stated that both branches of the uropods were two-jointed in the female. Mr. Bruce’s specimens came from a depth of 100 fathoms.
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Tribb FLABELLIFERA. Fam. Anthurida.
Genus CataTHura, Norman and Stebbing, 1886.
1886. Calathura, Norman and Stebbing, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. xii. pt. 4, p. 122. 1897. Calathura, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. p. 44.
To this genus Sars assigns three species—Stimpson’s Anthura brachiata, his own Paranthura norvegica, 1872, and Bonnier’s Calathura affinis, 1896. But the last of these three should be referred to the genus Leptanthura, Sars, 1897. It is, I think, quite certain that in the genus Calathura the inner ramus of the uropoda is not biarticulate, but, in accord- ance with the view separately propounded by Dr. Anton Dohrn for Paranthura Costana, and by Dr. Charles Chilton * for the Anthuride in general, only one-jointed. The outer ramus is articulated near the base of the peduncle and there is. the possibility that the elongate peduncle includes a coalesced first joint of the inner ramus, but, at least in Cala- thura, the homology of such a first joint is not proved either by perceptible suture or power of movement.
Calathura brachiata (Stimpson).
1853. Anthura brachiata, Stimpson, Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan, p. 43.
1874. Anthura brachiata, Harger, in Verrill and Smith’s Invert, Vine- yard Sound, p. 573.
1875, Paranthura arctica, Heller, Denk. Ak. Wien, vol. xxxvi. p. 38 (14), pl. iv. figs. 9-12.
1886, Calathura brachiata, Norman and Stebbing, Trans, Zool. Soc. London, vol. xii. pt. 4, p. 181, pl. xxvi. fig. 1.
1897. Calathura brachiata, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. p. 46,
Ppl igh 2
Heller accurately describes the uropods in agreement with Dohrn and Chilton, but, like Gerstaecker, he regards the upper ramus as the inner instead of the outer, a problem in homology which, as Dr. Chilton suggests, can perhaps only be deter- mined by an appeal to embryology.
A single specimen, 1 inch long, was obtained at or near 71° 31’ N., 49° 12! E., in 76 fathoms.
* Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2nd ser. Zool. vol. vi. pt. 2, p. 317.
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Tribe VALVIFERA. Fam. Idoteide.
Genus Cuiriporea, Harger, 1878.
1878. Chiridotea, Harger, Amer. Journ. Sci. vol. xv. p. 374.
1880. Chiridotea, Harger, U.S. Fish. Comm. pt. 6, p. 337.
1882. Glyptonetus (part.), Miers, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. vol. xvi. p. 9; Hoek, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 29.
1897. Chiridothea, Sars, Ann. Mus, Zool. St. Pétersb., Extr. p. 21.
As pointed out by Sars, and earlier by Miers himself, though the latter did not regard the distinction of generic value, this genus is separated from Glyptonotus by the im- portant character that it has the side-plates distinctly defined on six segments of the perzon, from the second to the seventh, while in G'lyptonotus they are only defined on the last three.
Chiridotea Sabini (Kroyer).
1847. Idothea Sabini, Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. ser. 2, vol. ii. pp. 394, 401. 1846? Idothea Sabini, Kroyer, Gaimard’s Voy. du Nord, Crust., Atlas, pl. xxvii. figs. 1 a-o. 1875. Idotea Sabini, Heller, Denk. Ak. Wien, vol. xxxvi. p. 38 (14). 1882. Glyptonotus Sabini, Miers, Journ. Linn, Soc. London, Zool. vol, xvi. p. 15, pl. 1. figs. 3-5. 1882. Gilyptonotus Sabin, Hoek, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p- 29, pl. ii. figs. 11, 12. 1887. Glyptonotus Sabint, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 193. 1897. Chiridothea Sabini, Sars, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pétersh., Extr. p. 21. A single specimen, 3 inches long, in full agreement with Kroéyer’s figures, was obtained near 77° 14! N., 38° 26’ E., in 76 fathoms.
Tribe ASELLOTA.
Fam. Janiride. Specimens of Janira tricornis (Kréyer) were obtained from depths of 20 and 27 fathoms. Fam. Munnide. Munna Fabricit, Kroyer, was taken from 60 fathoms depth.
Fam. Munnopside.
Specimens of Munnopsis typica, M. Sars, in somewhat damaged condition, came up from 100 fathoms, and Lurycope mutica, Sars, from 60 fathoms.
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AMPHIPODA.
Of these it may be sufficient to enumerate the species, most of them being well known and having been frequently dis- cussed. Jam aware that faunistic lists, without any particulars to guarantee the identification or to warn the reader of lurking errors, are of little value; but the attempt to give them value by adding descriptions would often make it impossible to give them at all.
Socarnes Vahli (Kréyer). From about 20 fathoms.
Anonyx nugax (Phipps). As usual in very great abundance. In small specimens, with acute angles to the upturned corners of the third pleon-segment, the knobbed spine of the first and second pereopods is quite as con- spicuous as in Anonyaw Lilljeborgii.
Hoplonya similis, Sars.
Onisimus brevicaudatus, Hansen. From 76 fathoms. —— plautus (Kroyer).
Chironesimus Debruyntvi (Hoek). From 76 fathoms. Pseudalibrotus littoralis (Kroyer). Taken in tow-net. Orchomenella minuta (Kroyer). From 75 fathoms. Andaniella pectinata, Sars.
Byblis longicornis, Sars. From 76 fathoms. Proboloides Bruzelit (Goés).
Monoculopsis longicornis (Boeck). The rami of the third uropods in this specimen are quite devoid of spines, the telson apically rounded, some appendages abnormal, as if renewed after accidental injury, but the specimen is otherwise in exceptionally good preservation.
Acanthostepheia pulchra, Miers. Fragment. Acanthonotosoma serratum (QO. Fabricius). Pardalisca cuspidata, Kroyer. From 60 fathoms. Rhachotropis aculeata (Lepechin).
inflata, Sars. From 60 fathoms.
Apherusa glacialis (Hansen). Taken in tow-net.
16 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. Atylus carinatus (J. C. Fabricius). From 17 fathoms.
Guernea coalita (Norman).
Melita dentata, Kroyer.
Gammarus locusta (Linn.).
Ischyrocerus angutpes, 9 , Kroyer.
Erichthonius (?) Huntert (Bate). From 100 fathoms.
Caprella,microtuberculata, Sars. Shore, east coast of Kolgnev;
9, the flagellum of the first antenna with only eleven
joints, the dorsal tubercles of the body numerous,
agreeing with Sars’s description much better than with
his figure in the ‘ Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp., Crust.,’ p. 222, pl. xvii. fig. 3.
Euthemisto libellula (Lichtenstein). Taken in tow-net.
crassicornis (Kréyer). Taken in tow-net.
(?) compressa (Goés). Fragment.
Parathemisto oblivia (Kroyer). Taken in tow-net.
Besides the species above named, Mr. Bruce’s collection may still afford some gleanings in the tubes of small mixed Amphipoda. One or two small species of Pantopoda were observed, and outside the limits of the Malacostraca some large masses of Balant were conspicuous. One or two species of Macrura procured while Mr. Bruce was with the Prince of Monaco do not come within the scope of the present report *.
* I may take this opportunity of announcing a new genus required in my revision of the Amphipoda.
Fam. Phliadide.
PALINNOTUS, gen. nov.
In general agreement with Peretonotus, but distinguished as follows :— Upper lip not bilobed. First maxilla having a small spinule representing the palp. Maxillipeds with the outer plates reaching slightly beyond the three-jointed palp and minutely fringed on the distal half of the inner margin. The third pleopods, but not the second, with the inner side of the peduncle produced. The second uropods are developed in the female (male unknown), short, uniramous, and the third uropods are without distinction between peduncle and ramus, as in Peretonotus.
The type species is Palinnotus Thomson, Stebbing, previously referred to Pereionotus.
New Aculeate Hymenoptera, 17
Il.—Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Aculeate Lymenoptera from the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. CAMERON. i
In describing the new genera recorded in this paper, I have taken as a basis Kohl’s admirable work “ Die Gattungen der Sphegiden,’” Ann. d. k.-k. Hofmuseums, Wien, Band xi. 1896. In the sequence of the genera and species [ have followed Col. Bingham in his ‘ Fauna of Brit. India,’ Hymen. In addition to the genera here described for the first time, the genus Agenia is now added to the Indian fauna.
Scoliide. Tiphia brevipennis, sp. n.
Nigra ; alis brevis, flavo-hyalinis, nervis flayis; metanoto rugoso. 2. Long. 14 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antenne thickly covered with long white hair, shining, punctured; the flagellum thickly covered with a pale down; the base pilose. Front and vertex shining, strongly and rather closely punctured and covered with pale hairs. Clypeus closely punctured. Mandibles broadly rufous in the middle; the palpi testaceous. Pronotum strongly punctured, its apex smooth, bare; the base thickly covered with long pale hair. Mesonotum bearing large deep scattered punctures, which are few in the middle; the scutellum similarly punctured round the edges and down the middle. Postscutellum closely and finely punctured; the scutellum is sparsely covered with long white hair. Median segment finely and closely rugosely punctured ; the central keel does not reach quite to the apex, the outer ones are straight and converge towards the apex; the apex of the segment is slightly concave, smooth, indistinctly furrowed down the middle. ‘lhe upper part of the propleuree is strongly acicu- lated, the rest closely striolated, the lower part rugose; the middle of the mesopleurz shining, punctured, thickly covered with white pubescence; metapleurz shining, closely striated throughout. Mesosternum shining, sparsely punctured, sparsely covered with long white hair ; the triangular apical area less shining, aciculated, sparsely punctured, deeply furrowed down the middle. Legs thickly covered with white silvery hairs ; the calcaria pale, the tarsal spines pale fulvous. Wings short, not reaching much beyond the apex of the second
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abdominal segment; yellowish hyaline, the nervures yellowish; the second transverse cubital nervure is oblique, slightly curved at the top; the second recurrent nervure is received near the base of the apical third; the base of the radius has two oblique curves, the latter being slightly the larger and not quite so uniformly straight. Abdomen shining, closely punctured, weakly on the second, strongly on the apical seg- ments; the apical half of the pygidium is smooth in the middle; the petiole is sparsely punctured; the furrow on the base of the second segment is smooth in the middle. The basal neck of the underside is roundly raised in the middle ;
the apex of the raised part is oblique and does not reach to its apex.
Myzine ceylonica, sp. n.
Nigra ; mesonoto levi; alis fumatis, nervis fuscis. @. Long. 9-10 mm.
Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury).
Scape of antenne shining, sparsely covered with white hair ; its apex rufous; the second joint is shining, punctured ; the others are opaque and thickly covered with white pubes- cence. ‘The ocellar region and the middle of the vertex behind impunctate, the rest of the vertex and the front bearing large, deep, clearly separated punctures; the vertex is bare; the front bears long black hairs; the antennal tubercles are smooth and shining. Face and clypeus closely punctured. The basal depression of the pronotum closely and finely rugosely punctured; the apex bears large deep elongated punctures. Mesonotum smooth; its sides with some punctures; on the apical half are two deep, wide, oblique furrows. Scutellum sparsely covered with large punctures; the postscutellum more closely and not so strongly punctured. Median segment opaque, irregularly closely rugosely punctured; the middle region with some distinct punctures ; in the middle, extending from the base to near the apex, are two not very distinct longitudinal keels, which are wider apart at the base and the space between them is irregularly transversely striated; theapical slope is more coarsely rugose, more strongly at the sides than in the middle. Propleure strongly punctured, the apex closely longitudinally striated ; on the upper part at the apex is an oval depression. Mesopleure rugose, distinctly punctured above; thickly covered with white hair, Metapleure closely striolated; the base depressed, the depression with a few stout keels. Meso- sternum shining, sparsely covered with large deep punctures ;
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the metasternal process is triangular at the base, obscurely keeled in the middle; the apex is depressed broadly in the middle. Legs black, the tibia ard tarsi thickly covered with glistening silvery-white hair; the tibial spines white; the apices of the tarsal joints are rufous. Wings fuscous-viola- ceous, the hinder pair only slightly paler in tint than the anterior; the nervures are fuscous; the second cubital cellule is distinctly shorter than the third ; all the transverse cubital nervures are roundly curved. Abdomen shining, sparsely punctured, covered with long white hair; the narrowed base of the petiole is depressed in the middle above ; the underside is finely rugose and is furrowed down the centre.
Comes nearest to M. fuse/pennis, but is abundantly distinct. Characteristic is the almost impunctate mesonotum, which is, according to Bingham, more closely and coarsely punctured than the head in M. fusetpennis, but not according to Smith.
Pompilide. Agenia diana, sp. 0.
Nigra, basi mandibularum alba; apice clypei inciso; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. 2. Long. 11 mm.
Hab. Khasia (Coll. Kothney).
Head alutaceous, below the antenne thickly covered with silvery pubescence. LHyes slightly converging at the top. Clypeus roundly convex ; its apex clearly separated, smooth, shining, glabrous, roundly, broadly incised, obliquely depressed. Mandibles at the base thickly covered with depressed silvery pubescence ; the underside at the base pale yellow; before the apex they are ferruginous ; the palpi black at the base ; the apical joints pale ; the hair-bundle on the maxilla ferruginous. Thorax alutaceous, pruinose; the median segment sparsely covered with fuscous hair. Wings clear hyaline; the stigma black ; the nervures slightly paler; the first cubital cellule at the top is very slightly longer than the second; the trans- verse cubital nervures are curved; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly before the middle; the second at the apex of the basal third of the cellule. Legs black, pruinose; the anterior tibiz and base of tarsi rutfo-testaceous in front. Abdomen pruinose.
A distinct species. The genus Agenia, as defined by Kohl, has not been hitherto recorded from India. The females are easily separated from Pseudagenia by the maxilla having at the base a bunch of long stiff hair; but I am very much in
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doubt if the males of the two groups can be always distin- guished by characters which can be regarded as of generic value.
Ceropales parva, sp. Nn.
Nigra; pedibus abdomineque rufis, orbitis oculorum lineaque pronoti pallide flavis; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis, 6. Long. 4 mm.
Hab. Ceylon (Yerbury).
Antenne black; the greater part of the scape bright, and the second and third joints below dark, red. Head smooth and shining ; below the antenne thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the hinder ocelli are separated from each other by the same distance they are from the eyes. ‘The inner orbits to nearly opposite the lower ocellus are lined with yellow ; the apex of the clypeus is reddish, the red projecting upwards on the sides. Apex of mandibles rufous; palpi rufo-testaceous. Thorax black, smooth, and shining; the pronotum behind broadly lined with pale yellow; the edges of the propleurz behind are narrowly lined with yellow, and there is, near the middle of the base, a yellow mark, tri- angularly narrowed on the top. Median segment thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Wings hyaline, infuscated from the base of the radial cellule; the first and second transverse cubital nervures are roundly curved; the second is straight and oblique; the second cubital cellule on the top is about one third the length of the first. Legs rufous ; the tarsi infuscated. Abdomen rufous, darker towards the apex.
This is the smallest of the known Indian species.
Sphegide. _ Tachytes interstitialis, sp. n.
Nigra; ore, antennis, abdomine pedibusque rufis; abdomine nigro
balteato ; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis, nervo 1° recurrente inter- stitiali. 9. Long. 15 mm.
flab. Ceylon (Yerbury).
Antenne rufous, thickly covered with a pale pile; the apical four joints black. Head black, thickly covered with golden pubescence. LHyes large, strongly converging above, where they are separated by the length of the fourth joint of the antennae. ‘The clypeus, labrum, and mandibles, except the apical third, rufous; the palpi are of a paler rufous
from the Ortental Zoological Region. 21
colour; the base of the mandibles covered with depressed golden pubescence. Thorax black; the tubercles rufous, covered with short golden pubescence; the mesonotum alutaceous; the metanotum and the pleura closely and finely punctured. Legs rufous, the coxe broadly black at the base. Wings hyaline, with a slight fuscous tint; the apex of both wings smoky, the cloud commencing near the end of the radial cellule; the first cubital cellule is half the length of the second; the first transverse cubital nervure is sharply elbowed and bullated shortly below the middle, and is united to the first recurrent nervure. The basal three segments of the abdomen are rufous, marked with black on the apices, the third more broadly than the others, the fourth is still more broadly black; the last segment is rufous, suffused with black, and is strongly and closely punctured; the pile is golden. The ventral surface is similarly coloured but more suffused with black.
Comes nearest to 7. Yerbury?, Bingham. Characteristic is the interstitial first recurrent nervure, a feature which does not occur in any of the other Oriental species. The apex of the radial nervure too is rounded, not straight or oblique as in most species; the appendicular cellule is almost obsolete, the nervure being almost obliterated.
Tachytes ceylonica, sp. n.
Nigra, abdominis basi late rufa; tibiis tarsisque anticis rufis ; alis hyalinis, nervis testaceis. <¢. Long. 7 mm.
Hab. Ceylon (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Head black, the oral region rufous; the front and face densely covered with pale golden pubescence ; the front and vertex aluta:eous; the ocellar region raised, furrowed down the middle. Mandibles rufous, black at the apex; the base covered with silvery pubescence. The eyes at the top are separated by fully the length of the third antennal joint. Thorax minutely punctured, rather thickly covered with silvery hair; the apex of the median segment has a steep, oblique slope and is closely transversely striated; the sides thickly covered with long white hair; the furrow on the upper half is wide, large, deep, and triangular at the apex. Pleure closely and minutely punctured. Wings clear hyaline; the costa and nervures pale testaceous ; the second recurrent nervure is received shortly behind the middle; the second cubital cellule at the top is nearly double the length of the first; the apex of the radial cellule is obliquely truncated ;
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the two recurrent nervures are separated by a distinctly greater distance than the length of the second cubital cellule above. Abdomen black; the basal two segments rufous ; the apical segments dark rufo-testaceous ; the segments are thickly banded with silvery pubescence.
Comes nearest to 7. tarsata, Sm., but that is a much larger species (15 mm.) and differs from it in many respects.
Tachytes brevipennis, sp. n.
Nigra, dense argenteo pilosa; alis brevis, costa stigmateque rufo- testaceis, nervis fuscis. @. Long. 12 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (ftothney). Coll. Rothney.
Front and vertex alutaceous; the front and oral region thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the oceliar region raised, with a shallow furrow down its middle; the ocellus is broader than long; the depression behind is shallow, in- distinct, and narrowed to a point behind. Clypeus shining, depressed, its apex depressed. Mandibles at base thickly covered with silvery pubescence; palpi dark testaceous. Thorax thickly covered with silvery pubescence and with long white hair; closely and minutely punctured; the meta- pleure obscurely striated at the base; the hairon the mesonotum has a golden tint; the sternal process wide and triangularly incised at the apex. Wings shoit, not much longer than the head and thorax united, not reaching much beyond the middle of the abdomen; hyaline, with a slight yellowish tint; the costa and stigma testaceous; the nervures darker; the first and second cubital cellules are almost equal in length and are as long as the space bounded by the recurrent nervures ; the second recurrent nervure has a brcad round curve below the middle. The furrow on theapex of the median segment is wide and deep in the middle, and does not reach to the topor bottom. Legs thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the spurs testaceous; the tibial spines pale; the apical two joints of the foe tarsi are rufous ; the tarsal spines are long and white; the claws testaceous; the fore tarsi bear long white spines. ‘The basal four segments of the abdomen are breadly fringed with silvery pubescence, which has a more golden tint towards the apex ot the segment. Pygidium covered with stiff black, intermixed with bright golden, pubescence.
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Tachytes aurifrons, sp. n.
Nigra; abdominis basi rufa, fronte aureo pilosa; apice tarsoruam rufo ; alis hyalinis, costa stigmateque testaceis. 2. Long. 8 mm.
flab. Ceylon (Rothney), Trincomalt (Yerbury). Coll. Rothney.
Antenne black, covered with a pale down. Front and vertex closely punctured; the vertex with a shallow, the ocellar region with a wider and deeper longitudinal furrow ; the latter is distinctly raised ; the hair on the front is longish, thick, and bright golden, on the vertex it is thinner and shorter ; the pubescence on the face and clypeus is silvery, intermixed with golden on the sides. ‘The ocellus is broader than long and rounded at the sides. The apex of the clypeus is depressed and with a row of punctures on the sides. Thorax densely covered with silvery pubescence; that on the meso- notum has a golden hue; on the median segment it is long and thick. ‘The base of the median segment is alutaceous ; the furrow on the apex does not extend much beyond the middle ; it is large, wide, rounded at the top, triangular at the apex; except at the top, the apex of the segment is closely transversely striated. Pleure closely and minutely punctured; the metapleure thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Legs black; the fore tibie for the greater part, the fore tarsi and the apices of the hinder tarsi, rufo- testaceous. Wings clear hyaline; the first cubital cellule at the top is not much, if any, longer than the second; the second recurrent nervure is received in the middle of the cellule. The basal segment of the abdomen is entirely red, the second except at the apex; the apices of the segments are thickly banded with silvery pubescence. Tegule testaceous. The apex of the scape of the antenna is testaceous.
The only species with golden pubescence on the head ts auriceps ; but that is a larger species (11-12 mm.) and has the legs for the greater part red and differs in other respects.
Tachytes tabrobane, sp. n.
Nigra, dense aureo pilosa ; femoribus, tiblis tarsisque rufo-testaceis ; alis hyalinis, neryis testaceis. 2. Long. 12 mm.
Hab. Ceylon (Yerbury).
Antenne black, inclining to brownish towards the apex. Head thickly covered with pale golden pubescence, which hides the texture, except on the vertex, which is sparsely
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punctured. Mandibles rufous at the apex. Palpi testaceous. Kyes at the top separated by nearly the length of the second and’ third antennal joints united. Thorax thickly covered with pale golden pubescence. Median segment closely punctured ; there is a distinct furrow in the middle at the base, which reaches to the middle of the basal division. Legs rufo-testaceous; the coxe and trochanters black. Wings hyaline, with a slight yellowish tint; the costa and nervures testaceous ; the apex of the radius rounded ; the second cubital cellule is slightly longer than the first on the top; the first transverse cubital nervure is roundly curved; the second recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond the middle. Abdomen thickly covered with depressed golden pubescence, which forms broad bands on the apices of the segments; the penultimate segment is broadly rufous on the apex; the pygidium is thickly covered with stiff bright golden pubes- cence.
The only Indian species of Zuchytes with golden pubescence on the abdomen is JZ’. monetaria, which is otherwise very different from the species here described.
Tachytes maculitarsis, sp. n.
Nigra, dense argenteo pilosa ; apicibus tarsorum anterloribus rufis ; alis hyalinis, stigmate, costa nervisque rufo-testaceis. ¢. Loug. 8 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antenne densely covered with short, silvery pubescence ; the flagellum with a pale pile. Vertex minutely punctured, the lower part broadly turrowed; it and the ceciput are covered with long fuscous hair. The front (especially laterally), the face, and clypeus are thickly covered with pale golden hair; the anterior ocellus is broader than long, not dilated at base or apex. ‘The base of the mandibles thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the apical joints of the palpi testaceous. ‘The eyes at the top are separated by the length of the second and third antennal joints united. ‘The apex of the pronotum is thickly covered with depressed silvery pubescence; the mesonotum with fulvous silvery pubescence and long dark fuscous hair. Scutellum minutely punctured and covered with long fuscous hair; the post- scutellum thickly with silvery pubescence. Median segment minutely punctured, the middle at the apex finely transversely striated ; the furrow on the upper part wide and deep. Pleure thickly covered with white pubescence and with long pale fuscous hair; the metasternal area is stoutly keeled laterally,
from the Oriental Zoological Region. 25
and has a short, stout keel in the centre at the base. Legs thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the apical two joints of the anterior tarsi rufous ; the apex of the posterior more or less rufous, as are also the claws; the tibial and tarsal spines are clear white; the calcaria are pale. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures testaceous; the first cubital cellule at the top is shortly, but distinctly, longer than the second; the second recurrent nervure is received very shortly beyond the middle. Abdomen shining; the apices of the basal four segments broadly banded with silvery pubescence ; the pygidium is entirely covered with silvery pubescence ; the filth and sixth segments and, to a less extent, the base of the middle have a brownish sericeous pile.
Notogonia Chapmant, sp. n.
Nigra, facie metanotoque fulvo pilosis; alis flayo-hyalinis, apice fumato, nervis stigmateque flavo-testaceis. ¢. Long. 14 mm.
Hab. Himalayas.
Scape of antenne thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. The front and vertex alutaceous; the ocellus is circular ; behind the ocellar region isa triangular depression ; the lower part of the front and the face thickly covered with fulvous, intermixed with longish silvery pubescence. Mandibles piceous beyond the incision; the base thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Palpi black, t thickly covered with white pubescence. Thorax alutaceons ; the sides of the apical slope with some stout, irregular, transverse striations; the mesonotum is thickly covered with fulvous pubescence; the hair on the rest of the thorax silvery ; the furrow on the apical slope is deep and reaches to the middle. ‘The sternal process is large, depressed at the base, narrowly keeled in the middle ; the apical incision is small. The breast is thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. Wings distinctly yellowish hyaline, the apex slightly infuscated ; the nervures yellowish fulvous ; the first transverse cubital nervure is roundly curved; the fist cubital cellule at the top is about two thirds of the length of the second ; the second recurrent nervure is broadly rounded and is received shortly behind the middle of the cellule. The abdominal segments are banded with pale fulvous pubescence ; the pubescence on the pygidium is stiff and dark golden or fulvous.
This species was given to me many years ago by my late friend, Mr. ‘Thomas Chapman, of Glasgow. It comes near to N. jaculatria.
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Larra fuscinerva, sp. n.
Nigra, capite thoraceque dense argenteo pilosis; alis hyalinis, nervis fuscis. 9. Long. 11 mm.
Hab, Allahabad (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antenne shining, sharply keeled on the middle beneath ; the flagellum opaque, densely covered with a white microscopic pile. The vertex is shining, minutely punctured, sparsely haired ; the ocellus has a triangular, clearly separated, part in front, the whole being distinctly longer than broad ; in tront of itis a wide longitudinal furrow. The face and clypeus are densely covered with silvery pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus is bare, smooth, and shining ; the base of the mandibles is thickly covered with silvery pubescence, the middle is broadly rufous; palpi black, densely covered with white pubescence. Pro- and mesonotum thickly covered with tulvous pubescence ; closely minutely punctured, as are also the scutellum and postscutellum. Median segment opaque, its middle alutaceous, the sides irregularly, transversely, and somewhat widely striated; the basal three-fourths is finely furrowed down the centre; the apical slope is distinctly furrowed to near the apex and is transversely striated; the sides are thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Pro- and mesopleure alutaceous, thickly covered with silvery pubes- cence; the metapleura are obscurely, closely, obliquely striated. Legs thickly pruinose, the spines black. Abdomen thickly pruinose, as long as the head and thorax united; the pygidium smooth, shining, glabrous, impunctate.
Comes into Bingham’s section J? on p. 197; nana may be known from it by the ocellus being round: nigriventris is a stouter built insect, has the wings more distinctly yellow, the clypeus more distinctly keeled in the middle; the frontal furrow in the present species does not bifurcate round the ocellus, the wing-nervures are darker, the apex is scarcely infuscated, and the abdomen is longer with the pygidium only very slightly punctured round the edges.
Larra tridipennis, sp. n.
Nigra, argenteo-pruinosa ; alis flavo-hyalinis, nervis fuscis, cellula cubitali 2* longiore quam 1*. 9.
Long. 11; alar. exp. 13 mm. Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antenne shining, covered with pale pubescence ;
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the flagellum opaque. Front and vertex alutaceous; the front thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the face and clypeus are densely covered with silvery pubescence. Man- dibles with the apical half red, the basal thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the palpi dark testaceous. ‘The apex of the pronotum has a band of golden pubescence, as have also the sides of the mesonotum. Mesonotum and scutellum closely and minutely punctured. The basal part of the metanotuin alutaceous, the sides transversely striated.; the apex is transversely striated, more distinctly above than below ; the middle is furrowed; the sides thickly covered with pale golden pubescence. Pro- and mesopleure acicu- lated, covered with silvery pile; metapleure closely, minutely, obliquely striated, and covered with a sericeous pile. Meso- sternum smooth, thickly covered with a sericeous pile: the metasternal process has an oblique slope at the base; it is depressed deeply at the apex of the slope. Wings flavo- hyaline, the nervures dark fuscous; the top of the first cubital cellule is fully one half the length of the second ; the first transverse cubital nervure has an oblique slope at top and bottom, the angle in the middle being broadly rounded; the recurrent nervures are received distinctly behind the middle and are separated by one half the length of the top of the second cubital cellule. Legs thickly pruinose; the spines black. Abdomen not much longer than the thorax; pruinose; the pygidium shining, obscurely and minutely punctured on the sides.
Larra longicornis, sp. n. Long. 10mm. 9.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Comes very near to L. tridipennis; may be known from it by the antenne being longer, by the abdomen being longer compared with the thorax, by the first transverse cubital nervure having a more rounded gradual curve, by the second recurrent nervure being more sharply angled, its lower abscissa being quite straight and oblique, and the base of the metasternal process has not an oblique slope—not raised above the rest.
Antenne rather longer than usual, longer than the head and thorax united. Front and vertex alutaceous, the front thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the ocellus some- what triangular in front, irregular, obliquely furrowed near the middle; the face and clypeus are thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the apex of the clypeus smooth and glabrous. The base of the mandibles thickly covered with
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silvery pubescence. Thorax alutaceous; the apex of the pronotum thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the meso- notum with a pale down. Scutellum minutely punctured. Median segment alutaceous, the sides transversely striated ; the apex is closely transversely striated, the sides thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the furrow is longer than usual. Pro- and mesopleure alutaceous; the metapleure closely, finely, obliquely striated, the apex thickly covered with silvery pubescence. ‘The metasternal keel is hollowed throughout; the central keel is ill-defined. Legs pruinose ; the spines are black. Wings short, hyaline, the basal half yellowish ; the first cubital cellule at the top is two-thirds of the length of the second; thie first transverse cubital nervure is oblique at the top, the middle curve rounded ; the second recurrent nervure is received distinctly behind the middle and is somewhat sharply elbowed. The abdomen is as long as the head and thorax united; the pygidium smooth, shining; the lateral keels distinct.
C.HNOLARRA, gen. nov.
Second cubital cellule shortly stalked. Radial cellule short, wide, the apical abscissa of the radius large, oblique. Inner eye-orbits with distinct folds. Eyes reaching to the base of the mandibles. ‘The hinder ocelli obliterated. Man- dibles incised on the lower side. The hinder edge of the pronotum not placed below the hinder edge of the meso- notum. Median segment as long as the mesothorax ; its apex with an oblique slope. Tibi and tarsi sparsely spined ; the tarsi long; the claws short, simple; the front tarsi not with long spines as in Tachysphea, &e.
The eyes converge a little above; the second joint of the antennz is pilose ; the top of the pronotum has oblique sides ; the pygidium is pilose; the hinder tibie grooved; the pterostigma is small. The structure of the prosternum is rather peculiar ; itis large, keeled down the middle ; the sides project at the apex, the middle of the projection is depressed, so that there is thus formed two blunt rounded teeth.
This genus comes nearest to Notogonia, with which it agrees in the structure of the thorax, head, and abdomen; but may be readily separated from it by the transverse cubital nervures being united at the top and there shortly appendiculated. The only genus of Larride with an appendiculated cubital cellule with which it could be confounded is Palarus, but that is readily separated by the ocelli being complete.
The radial cellule is wide and hardly reaches to the apex of
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the cubital; the appendiculate cellule is long; the pedicle is bullated ; the form of the third transverse cubital cellule is as in Notogonia, not as in Palarus, the third transverse cubital nervure being parallel with the second, the third cubital cellule not being broader at the top than at the bottom. The head appears longer than usual and is wider than the mesothorax.
Cenolarra appendiculata, sp. n.
Nigra; fronte facieque dense argenteo pilosis ; pro- mesonotoque aureo pilosis ; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis, nervis fuscis. ¢. Long. 6-7 mm.
Hub. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antenne shining, the lower side covered with microscopic silvery pubescence ; the flagellum opaque, covered with a white down. Vertex alutaceous; the front thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the middle furrowed and closely transversely striated ; there is a wide and deep furrow in front of the ocellus, which is triangularly produced in front. The face and oral region are thickly covered with silvery pubescence, as are also the mandibles broadly at the base. Palpi black, thickly covered with white pubescence. Thorax alutaceous; the pro- and mesonotum thickly covered with a short golden pile, as is also the basal part of the median segment on the base and sides; the apical part is widely furrowed in the middle and is transversely striated ; the sides are thickly covered with silvery and golden pubescence. Pleure alutaceous, thickly covered with silvery pubescence. The prosternum is stoutly keeled down the middle ; its apex has an oblique slope and is hollowed; the mesosternum is keeled down the middle; the metasternal process is wide, large; the basal half much more deeply depressed than the apical, whose lobes are somewhat triangular. Legs thickly pruinose ; the tibial and tarsal spines are dark rufo-testaceous. Tegule rufous behind, pruimose. Wings hyaline, the apex from the end of the radial cellule smoky ; the second recurrent nervure is elbowed backwards distinctly in the middle and is received shortly behind the middle of the cellule. Abdomen pruinose.
LEPTOLARRA, gen. nov.
Tarsi unusually long, the hinder twice the Jength of the tibies ; the middle joints narrowed at the base, dilated towards the apex; the claws long and armed with a short tooth near the base. Front and vertex with depressions as in Noto- gonia, &c. ; there is only one ocellus ; eyes large, converging
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above, below reaching to the base of the mandibles. Clypeus broader than long, its apex transverse. Mandibles broad at the base, the apex of the incision with a stout tooth on the lower side ; the apex has one tooth. Scape of antenne short, broad ; the pedicle is covered thickly with pale pubescence. The pronotum behind rises to the top of the mesonotum. Median segment as long as the mesothorax ; its sides at the apex rounded. Metasternal process depressed, its apex incised. Legs stout ; the tibize sparsely, the tarsi more thickly spinose ; their spines long and stout; the femora stout ; the hinder pair have the apical half distinctly narrowed; the fore ealcaria are curved, the hinder are half the length of the metatarsus. Wings as in Larra; the apical abscissa of the radius is straight, not curved, and has an oblique slope. - Pygidial area shagreened, bare ; the sides carinate. ‘The head is distinctly wider than the thorax.
This genus is readily separated by the unusually long tarsi with their joints dilated towards the apex as in Ampulex, and by the long claws with the tooth near the base.
Leptolarra flavinerva, sp. n.
Nigra, dense argenteo pilosa; alis flavo-hyalinis, nervis flavo- testaceis ; segmento mediali striolato. 9. Long. 15 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Antenng black, the scape keels rufous; the flagellum pruinose. The front, face, and oral region thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the vertex alutaceous, minutely punctured ; the clypeus shining. Mandibles black, the base thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; above each antenna is a smooth shining spot. Pro- and mesothorax alutaceous, covered with a silvery down. Scutellum more shining and more distinctly punctured. The basal region of the median segment is distinctly, irregularly, transversely striated, almost forming reticulations at the base; the striz become weaker towards the sides, and down the middle is a longitudinal keel; the oblique apex is furrowed down the middle, above it is finely obliquely, below more strongly transversely striated. The furrows on the mesopleure are obscurely striated. The metasternal process is keeled down the middle. Metapleura closely, obliquely striated. Wings yellowish hyaline; the stigma and costa dark testaceous; the nervures yellowish ; the first cubital cellule is as long as the second; the second recurrent nervure is received shortly behind the middle of the cellule and is roundly bent backwards in the middle; the first
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has a rounded curve. Abdomen pruinose, longer than the head and thorax united; the apex of the pygidium is rufous, the apex of the hypopygium has the sides thickly covered with pale fulvous pubescence.
Leptolarra longitarsis, sp. n.
Nigra; alis fuscis, fere violaceis ; metanoto striolato. @. Long. 8-9 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antennz aciculatel, covered with a pale down; the underside with a smooth, shining, glabrous keel in the iniddle. Front and vertex shining, aciculated; the depressions deep, there are three on the front; below the ocelli is a deep furrow. Face aciculated; the clypeus smooth and shining. The base of the mandibles aciculated, opaque ; the apical part smooth and shining; palpi densely covered with white pubescence. Pronotum and mesonotum strongly aciculated, almost punctured, and covered with a minute pale down; the scutellum is closely punctured, but not quite so much so as the mesonotum; the postscutellum almost im- punctate. Median segment strongly and closely transversely striated all over; down the middle is a narrow but distinct furrow; the oblique apex is more closely and finely punctured, except above; in the middle is a wide furrow, narrowed below. The base of the propleure is strongly aciculated and obscurely striated below ; above near the apex is a curved furrow, thickly covered with white pubescence. Mesopleure strongly aciculated ; in the middle on the basal half is a deep longitudinal furrow. Metapleure: closely and finely longi- tudinally striated. Mesosternum furrowed down the middle, and with a transverse furrow behind the middle coxe. Metasternum hollowed; the sides raised; in the middle at the base is a short, stout, keel; its apex is incised, the sides rounded. Legs pruinose; most of the tarsal spines are rufous. Wings hyaline, strongly iridescent, slightly fuscous ; the nervures are black. Abdomen shining, pruinose; the apices of the segments with pale bands; pygidium acicu- lated, less strongly at the base; the penultimate ventral segment is strongly, but not very closely punctured; the hypopygium is more closely and finely punctured, except at the base.
Leptolarra reticulata, sp. n.
Nigra ; alis flavo-hyalinis, nervis fuscis ; metanoto reticulato. 9. Long. 8 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney,
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Head alutaceous, the lower part of the front and the mouth region densely covered with silvery pubescence, the furrow below the ocelli is deep, and there is a similar furrow on the front, commencing near the top. Mandibles broadly rufous near the middle. Pro- and mesonotum closely punctured ; the scutellum punctured, but not so closely. Median sezment closely, irregularly reticulated, the reticulations more distinct at the base; the apex is transversely striated, the strize are distinctly separated; the furrow is narrow but distinct. Pro- pleure closely punctured; the mesopleure are distinctly, but not so closely punctured; metapleure obliquely striated all over. ‘The sternal process has a distinct hollow at the base ; the apex of the hollow is conical; the apical incision is triangular. Wings hyaline, with a yellowish tint at the base; the nervures blackish ; the first cubital cellule is equal in length to the second; the upper (and larger) part of the first transverse cubital nervure has a sharply oblique slope ; the recurrent nervures are separated by the length of one third of the top of the first cubital cellule. Legs pruinose ; the calcaria black; the tarsal spines dark rufous. Abdominal segments pruinose on the apices.
SPANOLARRA, gen. nov.
Mandibles incised on the underside near the base. Antenne long, slender; the second joint pilose. Eyes large, con- verging above, reaching to the base of the mandibles ; the folds on front large; the ocellus elongate, triangularly produced in front. ‘T'arsi long, the posterior twice the length of the tibie, which are sparsely spined ; the tarsal spines long ; the claws are long, longer than the apical joint of the tarsi, roundly curved, and without a tooth. Anterior femora roundly dilated, narrowed at base and apex. Radial cellule wide and truncated at the apex. Wings reaching to the apex of the abdomen. Apex of pronotum reaching to the level of the mesonotum. Median segment as long as the pro- and mesothorax united ; there is no furrow on the mesopleure. Abdomen shorter than the thorax; the pygidium smooth, except at the apex, glabrous, except slightly at the apex ; the sides are sharply keeled throughout.
The chief characteristics of this genus are the long antennz and tarsi and the almost spineless tibiw. In the form of the legs it comes close to the genus Leptolarra here described, but the tarsi want the tooth found on the claws in that genus, from which it differs further in the much longer antenne, in the longer median segment, and in the apex of the pronotum
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reaching to the level of the mesonotum. From Zarra it may be known by the much longer antennex, by the tibie not being thickly spined, and by the head being less stronely developed behind.
Spanolarra rufitarsis, sp. n.
Nigra ; apice clypei, apice flagelli antennarum late tarsisque rufis ; alis flavo-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque flavo-testaceis. 9. Long. 10 mm.
Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney.
Antennz long, longer than the head and thorax united; the scape is thickly covered with white hair, its inner side is red; the flagellum is thickly covered with white pubescence. Vertex alutaceous; the ocellus is triangular behind; front covered with silvery pubescence ; there is a short, wide furrow below the ocellus, a wide shallow one in the middle, and a narrow deep one over and between the antenne. Face and clypeus thickly covered with silvery hair; the apex of the clypeus smooth, bare, rufous. Mandibles broadly red in the middle, the base thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; there is a smooth bare line in the middle of the clypeus. Thorax thickly covered with silvery pube$cence ; the hair on the pro- and mesonotum has a slight golden tinge. ‘The base of the metanotum is alutaceous and thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the apical slope is transversely striated laterally and in the middle near the apex. The prosternum is furrowed down the middle; the furrow is bordered by two keels; the apex has an oblique slope, is slightly hollowed and broadly margined above. Mesosternum thickly covered with white pubescence ; the metasternal process is keeled in the middle at the base, and with a long, somewhat triangular incision on the apex. Legs black; the tarsi longer than usual, the apical four joints rufous; the tarsal spines are long and black; the claws long, curved, and rufous. Wings hyaline, with a slight yellowish tinge on the base; the stigma and nervures pale yellowish testaceous. The apical abscissa of the radius is long, straight, and slightly oblique ; the first cubital cellule on the top is slightly shorter than the second; the first transverse cubital nervure is curved; the second recurrent nervure is roundly elbowed in the middle, and is received shortly behind the middle. Abdominal seg- ments with broad pruinose bands on their apices; the pygidium shining, smooth, the apex punctured, the sides and apex sparsely haired; the hypopygium is sparsely punctured and rufous round the edges.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 3
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CRATOLARRA, gen. nov.
Ocelli distorted. Front raised near the eyes. First cubital cellule above much longer than the second. Median segment as long as the pro- and mesothorax united. Anterior tibie without spines; the tarsi with long spines. Pygidium strongly punctured, the punctures mostly in longitudinal rows, only sparsely pilose. :
Eyes large, converging above ; the upper part with a dis- tinct inward curve ; distinctly margined above and _ behind. Mandibles large, bearing a large tooth near the base beneath ; the apex with one tooth. The top of the pronotum reaching to the top of the mesonotum. All the tarsi and the four posterior tibia are strongly spinose; the anterior femora dilated, narrowed towards the apex. ‘The first transverse cubital nervure is straight, oblique; the apex of the radius is large, oblique; both the recurrent nervures are received behind the middle. The second antennal joint is large, smooth, and shining. ‘The apex of the median segment has an oblique slope. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax united; the basal ventral segment has a large, raised, distinctly defined tubercle on the apex; this part is narrowed towards the apex of the segment laterally. The pygidial area is sharply keeled laterally ; the sides inside the keel are depressed; there is a distinct, wide, deep furrow down the middle; the sides of the segment are broad; the lower and upper edges clearly defined, the middle hollowed.
The presence of the fold within the eye-margins separates this genus from Tachytes and Tachysphex ; from Larra and Notogonia it may be separated by the strongly punctured pygidium, and by the first cubital cellule being longer than the second. In the latter respect it agrees with Tachysphex, but that genus, ¢nter alia, wants the folds near the eyes.
Cratolarra femorata, sp. n.
Nigra; femoribus posticis rufis; capite levi; thorace dense albo piloso; alis fusco-violaceis. 92. Long. 14 mm.
Hab, Khasia. Coll. Rothney.
Scape of antennee smooth, shining, bare; the second joint shining, almost bare; the others thickly covered with short pale pubescence. Head smooth and shining, above almost bare; the face and clypeus thickly covered with white pubescence. Mandibles behind the apex and the middle of the basal tooth rufous; palpi fuscous black, thickly covered
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with white hair. Thorax thickly covered with short white pubescence, closely punctured; the median segment closely transversely striated, the striz strongest on the base; the furrow on the apical slope is wide and deep and extends to shortly beyond the middle. ‘The metasternal process is de- pressed in the middle at the base; the sides have two keels ; the middle has a narrow keel; the apex is bluntly bilobate. Legs black, except the hinder femora, which are red; the anterior calearia and the base of the posterior are rufous; the tarsal spines are of a deeper rufous colour; the legs are covered thickly with a white down. Wings fusco-violaceous ; the stigma and nervures black; the two recurrent nervures are received behind the middle of the cellule; the upper part of the second recurrent nervure is straight and oblique. Abdomen pruinose, shining; the pygidium haired only along the sides; the basal ventral segment is stoutly keeled laterally ; the hypopygium punctured.
ODONTOLARRA, gen. nov.
Clypeus with three lateral, two central, and one inter- mediate teeth on the apex; it is broader than long, roundly convex in the middle. Mandibles large, narrowed, and with only one tooth on the apex; on the lower side, near the base, is a large rounded tooth. Antenne placed low down, oppo- site the lower edge of the eyes. Eyes large, almost parallel on the inner side; they reach almost to the base of the mandibles; the three ocelli are distinct and are placed in a triangle; the ocellar region is slightly raised; the front has a shallow furrow. Occiput margined. Pronotum large, tuberculate in the middle behind; its apex not reaching to the level of the mesonotum; its middle deeply depressed. Mesonotum furrowed down the middle; the tubercles are large. Mesosternum furrowed down the middle, and with a transverse furrow in front of the middle coxe. Median segment longer than broad. Legs stout; the tibiz and tarsi spinose; the claws simple. Wings appendiculate at the apex ; there are three cubital cellules, the second and third of almost equal length; the transverse basal nervure is inter- stitial. The basal segment of the abdomen is triangular; the second segment is the longest; the pygidium opaque and finely transversely striated.
Comes nearest to Parapiagetia: may be known from it readily by the large number of teeth on the apex of the clypeus; Kohl’s genus has only four. The distinct ocelli, the vertex without any raised folds as in Larra ee and the
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toothed clypeus make the genus of easy recognition. I have not seen the male, and in my female the scape of the antenne is broken off.
Odontolarra rufiventris, sp. n.
Nigra, dense pallide aureo pilosa; abdomine dimidio basali rufo ; alis hyalinis, apice late fusco. @. Long. 11-12 mm.
Hab, Khasia. Coll. Rothney.
Front densely covered with pale golden pubescence; the vertex with a sparse pile, shining, coarsely shagreened; there is a narrow longitudinal furrow on the outer side of the ocelli, and a broader, deeper one down the front ; on the apex of the ‘clypeus are two central teeth, and three teeth on either side of them, the lateral teeth being placed close together. Man- dibles broadly red on the middle. Thorax covered with golden and silvery pubescence; the pronotum is roundly raised in the middle behind. Mesonotum alutaceous; the sides and hinder region covered with golden pubescence; the middle slightly and roundly raised. Metanotum covered with golden pubescence ; the basal region narrowly furrowed in the middle; the upper half of the apical slope with a deep furrow. Propleurze alutaceous ; the middle obscurely striated. Mesopleure densely pilose; tuberculate above; a furrow below the raised part; the narrow apical furrow is finely striated. Metapleure finely and closely obliquely striated. Mesosternum thickly pruinose, furrowed down the middle; in front of the middle coxe, on the central part, is a short transverse furrow. Legs thickly pruinose ; the tibize spinose ; the tarsal spines long and pale. Wings fuscous hyaline ; the apex from the base of the stigma fusco-violaceous; stigma testaceous. Abdomen pruinose; the basal three segments red, the others black ; the pygidium is bare, opaque, finely and closely striated, more coarsely towards the apex.
Sceliphron lineatipes, sp. n.
Nigrum ; linea pronoti, apice metanoti, scapo antennarumque subtus flavis; d¢ clypeo flavo-bimaculato. Long. 13-15 mm.
Hab. Khasia. Coll. Rothney.
The front and face densely covered with pale golden pubescence. Clypeus keeled in the middle, its apex broadly incised, the sides of the incision oblique. Mandibles and palpi black. Scape of antennz yellowish beneath. Thorax thickly covered with longish pale hair and with silvery
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pubescence ; a line on the pronotum behind, a transverse line on the scutellum (transverse behind, dilated in the middle in front), the tubercles, a mark (broadly extended downwards) on the apex, an irregular mark under the hind wings, and the apex of the median segment, lemon-yellow. Mesonotum closely transversely striated; the scutellum longitudinally striated ; the postscutellum closely rugose. Median segment closely and strongly transversely striated ; the striae on the central lobe more widely separated than on the sides; in the centre of the basal lobe is a narrow furrow. Propleure smooth ; mesopleure closely horizontally striated; meta- pleuree closely, obliquely, rugosely striated. Wings iri- descent, hyaline, with a distinct fuscous tint; the apex with a narrow smoky cloud. Legs black, the femora more or less dark brown in front and below ; the four anterior tibic yellow in front. Abdomen black; the apex of the basal segment dark brown; the other segments lined with lemon~ yellow on the apices.
The amount of yellow on the abdomen and legs varies. The male wants the two yellow marks on the face, and in the female these may become amalgamated.
Allied to S. tiéb¢ale, Cam. (Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist., July 1899, p. 53).
Ampulex pilosa, sp. n.
Cerulea; femoribus posticis late rufis; capite thoraceque dense.
longe pilosis; alis fusco-violaceis. 9.
Long. 25 mm.
Hab. Khasia. Coll. Rothney.
Antenne black, almost bare, opaque, the third joint not quite double the length of the fourth. Head densely covered with long black hair, strongly aciculated ; the eyes at the top separated by slightly more than the length of the third antennal joint. Clypeus keeled in the middle, its apex broadly and roundly projecting ; its sides bluntly and shortly toothed. ‘Thorax green, mixed with indigo-blue ; the pro- and mesothorax thickly covered with long black hair. Pronotum aciculated ; its basal neck short ; the apical part almost square and slightly depressed in the middle at the base. Mesonotum aciculated, without distinct punctures ; the furrows broad and deep at the base, indistinct towards the apex. Scutellum flat, blue at the base, brassy at the apex; the postscutellum slightly depressed laterally. The central keel on the median segment is straight, and reaches to the base of the basal third of the segment; the inner lateral are of similar length and converge slightly towards
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the apex ; the basal parts more oblique and straighter than the apical, the part enclosed by them strongly transversely striated, this being also the case, but less strongly, with the outer side; the apex in the middle is smooth and has on either side at the base a round, deep fovea; at the apex, in the centre, the keels are raised, leaving a rounded depression between them. The apex of the segment is semi-per- pendicular, stoutly transversely striated, and thickly covered with long black hair. Pleure impunctate, except the apex of the metapleuree, which is stoutly obliquely striated. Meso- sternum smooth, thickly haired; the middle depressed and with a black keel in the depression; in the centre of the lateral part is a shorter black keel. Wings fusccus violaceous, darker in the radial and cubital cellules. Abdomen blue; the narrow basal part of the petiole short, becoming gradually wider towards the apex ; the transverse furrow at the base of the second segment is deep; the second segment is as long as the succeeding segments united.
The upper nervure in the apex of the radial cellule is roundly curved ; the appendicular cellule is closed ; the part of the radius bounding the second cubital cellule is nearly as long as that bounding the first; before the first recurrent nervure is a faint nervure, perhaps representing the transverse cubital. ‘The claws are long, sharp, and with a sharp tooth near the base.
Ampulex pulchriceps, sp. n.
Viridis, vertice abdominisque dorso purpureis ; antennis nigris ; femoribus 4 posterioribus rufis; tibiis posticis purpureis; alis fusco-fumatis, stigmate nervisque nigris. o¢.
Long. 15 mm.
Hab. Khasia. Coll, Rothney.
Antenne stout, about as long as the head and thorax united ; the third and fourth joints equal in length. Head bluish green, the face with brassy tints, the vertex to the front ocellus purple; the vertex wide at the top, the eyes there separated by the length of the basal three joints of the antenne united; the eyes almost parallel. Behind, the head is largely developed and roundly narrowed ; the punctures on the vertex are distinctly separated; the hinder part of the vertex impunctate, except near the margin, where it is finely and closely punctured; the front is coarsely and irregularly reticulated. Clypeus projecting in the centre, which is flat, rounded at the base, gradually narrowed to near the apex, Which becomes more widely depressed in the middle and at
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the point bifid and purple; the basal part is keeled in the middle. Mandibles purplish black. Pronotum broader than long, roundly convex above, coarsely and closely punctured. The sides of the mesonotum strongly but not closely punctured ; the base with the punctures more widely sepa- rated ; the apex smooth. Scutellum smooth and marke] all over with widely-separated punctures ; the postscutellum closely and finely punctured, its central part with large deep punctures. There are only two central keels in the middle of the median segment; they form almost a triangle, the space enclosed by them is obliquely striated on either side at the base; the apex transversely striated ; the rest is more finely transversely striated; the keel bordering the apex in the middle is slightly dilated; the middle of the dilatation transverse, its sides oblique; the apex of the segment above reticulated ; the keels on the lower part not forming distinct aree, being widely waved. ‘The part of the propleure above the keel has large scattered punctures all over; the lower part has a few punctures on the base ; the apex on the lower side has some stout, oblique, irregular keels. Mesopleure with large, deep, distinctly separated punctures ; metapleuree reticulated in the middle, at the base and apex are a few curved irregular keels. The coxw are green; the four posterior femora rufous, the anterior black, blue behind; the tibiz on the inner side dull rufous ; the pad on the pen- ultimate tarsal joint does not reach to the middle of the next joint ; the claws are bifid, the joints of almost equal length. The first transverse cubital nervure is obliterated entirely ; the second is interstitial, with the apex of the nervure bounding the apex of the radial cellule; the first recurrent nervure is received in the middle, the second in front of the basal third of the cellule. Abdomen shorter than the thorax ; above bright purplish blue; the apical segment dark green ; the narrowed part of the petiole is not quite so long as the dilated apex and is black in colour; the apex of the petiole and the second segment sparsely punctured, the punctures small and shallow, longer and deeper on the apex of the second segment; the second segment is longer than usual, more than twice longer than broad; the third segment is deeply and largely punctured, the base in the middle smooth ; the apex keeled in the middle; the apex all round has a sharply raised border ; above there are only three segments distinguishable, below only two.
Note.—It appears to me that Col. Bingham has included in the Fauna of British India,’ Hymen., Ampulea cognata,
40 New Aculeate Hymenoptera.
Kohl, in error. He gives the Khasia Hills as the only locality, no mention being made of Java, the only locality given by Kohl for his species. I have not seen the species among the thirteen known to me from Khasia.
Oxybelus ceylonicus, sp. n. Long. 5 mm.
Hab. Ceylon (Yerbury).
Belongs to the section with the scutellar lamine obsolete, previously represented in the Indian fauna by O. Lewis, Cam.
Scape of antenne yellowish beneath ; the flagellum more or less brownish and thickly covered with a pale pile. Front and vertex closely punctured; the vertex sparsely, the front thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the front broadly and shallowly excavated in the middle; the hair on the clypeus and face is dense and silvery. Mandibles rufous, black at the base and apex; the base thickly covered with silvery pubescence. Thorax black, shining, thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; a broad irregular mark on the pro- notum near the tegule, a smaller, more elongated one nearer the middle, the tubercles, a large oblique mark, rounded at the ends, on the side of the scutellum, the postscutellum, and two narrow lines issuing from them, lemon-yellow. Meso- notum closely and distinctly punctured, more closely at the base than at the apex; the scutellum sparsely punctured ; the postscutellum is rounded behind, and has there, on the top, a distinct bordering keel. The top of the median seg- ment is obliquely, the apical slope is more closely, trans- versely striated; the second row of transverse keels on the top form by longitudinal keels distinct are; the base is minutely punctured ; the apical slope is strongly aciculated ; above its centre is a large, smooth, somewhat triangular depression. Propleurze aciculated, the middle and behind with curved striz. Mesopleure closely rugose, thickly covered with silvery pubescence; the furrow over the sternuin is wide. Metapleurz bearing all over curved strise, which are not closely set together. Legs black, the apical half of the four anterior femora beneath, all the tibia, except be- hind, and the fore tarsi yellow; the middle and hinder tarsi blackish ; the legs are thickly covered with silvery pubes- cence. Wings clear hyaline, the nervures testaceous. Ab- domen shining, covered with silvery pubescence; there is a large yellow mark on the first segment, narrower ones on the second, third, and fourth, and larger yellow marks on the fifth segments almost united in the middle; the pygidium
On the Weasel and some of its Subspecies. 41
black, dark testaceous near the apex; it is thickly covered with bright golden pubescence. ‘he base of the petiole is slightly depressed ; its sides with some distinct curved striations. The abdominal segments are lined with yellow ; the apical one is for the greater part testaceous.
This species is referable to Oxybelus rather than to Crabro, although it has not got any thoracic lamine, through the submarginal cellule being confluent with the first discoidal, and through the eyes not being strongly divergent towards the vertex. Saussure forms a tribe and Fox a subfamily for Oxybelus—the Oaybeline.
III.—WNote on the Weasel, Putorius (Ictis) nivalis, Linn.,
and some of its Subspecies. By G. E. H. Barrerr- HAMILTON.
I HAVE recently had under examination the set of skins of the weasel in the British Museum collection, and have been greatly struck by the large amount of local variation shown in the specimens from various parts of Europe, for many of which the Museum is indebted to the liberality of the late Lord Lilford and of Mr. Oldfield Thomas.
The characters which seem most subject to variation are the general size, the length of the tail, the colour of the underside, and the course and arrangement of the line of demarcation between the colours of the two surfaces of the body. In the far north, as is well known, the weasel regu- larly turns white in winter, and this character is in itself sufficient to warrant the subspecific separation of those indi- viduals whose winter coat is white from those which, as in England, do not undergo such a seasonal change of colour. In temperate regions the reddish-brown colour of the upperside is retained throughout the year, but the animal is characterized, as in Great Britain, by the possession of a pure white belly. In the warmer South, however, we find weasels with the belly more and more washed with yellow, until, in some of the Mediterranean localities, such as Sicily, Malta, and Algeria, the colour reaches buff or orange. The length of the tail seems to bear some relation to the colour of the underside, for whereas specimens from Great Britain, France, Hungary, Germany, Northern Italy, the Caucasus, and Asia Minor (Van and Erzerum) have short tails, those from Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Algeria, and Cairo are long-tailed, while those from the south of Spain seem to be intermediate in this respect.
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The general size of the animal appears also to be larger in the South, especially in those regions where the stoat (P. ermineus, Linn.) does not occur or is rare. Thus speci- mens from Cairo and Malta are the largest, while those from Sicily and Algeria, although larger than those of England, are not quite equal to the former in size. On the other hand, we have examples of a very small subspecies from Asia Minor and the Caucasus. ‘The changes in the line of demar- cation are not so clearly connected with the southern range of the animal, since while specimens from Great Britain, North France, North Italy, Haida in Bohemia, Burgheim in Bavaria, Hungary, Malta, Cairo, Tangier, and Sardinia have this line wavy and undulating, those from Seville, Sicily, Algeria, and the Caucasus show an almost straight line like that of the stoat.
The colour of the upperside does not seem to lend itself so readily to variation as do the characters alluded to above, but it is markedly lighter in the eastern subspecies J/. nivalis Stoliczkanus, Blanford, of Yarkand, and a new subspecies, M. n. pallidus, of Turkestan and Afghanistan.
It is of great interest to thus find parallelled in a mammal the weil-known increase of richness in the colour of the plumage of so many birds—such as, for instance, Parus ceruleus, Linn., Hirundo rustica, Linn., Ligurinus chloris (Linn.), and Fringilla celebs, Linn.—according as they range southwards.
The following forms are recognizable :—
(1.) Putorius nivalis typicus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 69 (1766).
Type locality. Upsala, Sweden.
Listinguishing characteristic. Winter coat white.
I have no series of northern weasels, but it is almost certain that, in addition to the above, they will be found to present other distinguishing characteristics.
Distribution. Arctic and subarctic regions of Europe.
(1I.) Putorius nivalis vulgaris, Erxleben, Syst. Reg. Animal. p.471 (1777).
Putorius minutus *, Pomel, ‘Cat. méth. et descript. des Vert. Foss. découvertes dans le Bassin Hydrographique supérieur de la Loire, et surtout dans la vallée de son affluent principal, |’ Allier,’ p. 51 (Paris, 1853).— Type locality. Paris.
; ; bated Type locality. Leipzig. * Should specimens from Great Britain and Western Europe be distinguishable from those of Central Europe, Pomel’s name will be applicable to the former,
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Colour (of British specimens) . Above reddish brown of variable depth, the darkest specimen being a large male from Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, dated 29th September, 1894: a very pale male from Froyle, Hants, dated 30th January, 1893, almost approaches P. nivalis Stoliczkanus in tint. On the whole I think the most intensely coloured specimens of both sexes are those obtained in September and October.
Beneath. At all ages pure white, which, however, may become dirty when the coat is very old, as is the case with a male from Cambridgeshire, labelled May 24th, and another from Wales, labelled June 15th. The wavy uncertain line of demarcation between the colours of the two surfaces is in its very variability exceedingly characteristic and naturally causes an equal variability in the area of the white colour of the belly. The latter in large specimens (males) usually reaches a breadth of 25 millim. or upwards. In some individuals, however, as in a male from Tring, Herts, it is very much constricted in the region behind the chest and does not exceed a breadth of 11 millim. ; in another specimen, a male from Cambridge, there is a complete band of the brown colour extending right across the belly. Posteriorly the brown colour usually, but not always, encroaches on to the belly, preventing the extension of the white as far back- wards as the anus. There are frequently isolated patches of brown colour irregularly distributed over the belly, even in the middle line. Some of the variations bear a very close resemblance to those shown by the Irish stoat, P. ermineus hibernicus, Thos. & Barr.-Ham.
The fore feet are partially white.
A trace of the assumption of a white winter coat is visible in two specimens from Cromarty, viz. a male killed on the 30th October, 1895, and a female killed on the 21st March, 1896, which, especially the male, show many white hairs on the flanks and a few on the dorsal region, the latter forming an indistinct saddle-like band over the back.
Although in coloration the sexes are identical, males are far larger than females, have the skull proportionately broader, and show a stronger development of the sagittal crest. ‘The following is asummary of the dimensions (in millimetres) of sixteen adult males and eight adult and two immature females, all British, taken from the British Museum and from my own collections, and for which we are indebted to the kindness of Messrs. F. Austen, J. L. Bonhote, Sir W. G. Cumming, W.R. Ogilvie Grant, E. H. Caton Haigh, 8. F. Harmer, K. Hartert, W. L.S. Loat, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, G. St. Quen- tin, the Hon. W. Rothschild, and A. Wright.
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Sixteen males. Length of Breadth
Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at body. Tail. claws). Ear. gnathion).zygoma. Maximum .... 235 65 36 16 41 25 Mean iat 214 60 32 15'5 37 23 Minimum .... 203 53 29 15 36°5 21°5 Eight females. Maximum .... 195 50 28 13 34 19 WMiean oF. i case 178 44 25 12 33 17 Minimum .... 160 36 22 11 31 16°5
Two immature females. Hind foot Head and (without body. Tail. claws). Lar. Boxmoor, Herts (A. Pifird), 15th
May; 1803 fen eae enh eer 146 37 24 Bletchingley, Surrey (W. R. Ogil- vie Grant), 6th Aug.,1895 .... 150 43 21 13
The dimensions given would seem to show that the British weasel is a variable species not only in the colour of its underside, but also in its size. The ratio of the length of the tail to that of the head and body is about 1: 4.
We have also specimens of this subspecies collected by Mr. Oldfield Thomas in the Forest of Guinnes, Pas de Calais, France, from Haida in Bohemia, and from Burgheim in Bavaria, of which the dimensions are :—
Length of Breadth Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at
body. Tail. claws). Ear. gnathion).zygoma.
No. 94. 6. 6.10. o, Pas de
(ORIRIS Sas nate eee ees 212 +58 30 fe 37 21 No. 94. 6. 6. 11. Same locality,
6, 27th May, 1894 ........ 209 +60 31 ¢, Haida, Bohemia, 13th Feb.,
1896 (not white) .......... 210 652 32 9 ral Dr
, Burgheim, Bavaria, 29th April, 1895 (asmall faded skin, NOUGWHIUE) 26. Ga eclec «mies 150 40 21 .. about 38
Three unsexed skins from Cs. Somoja, in Western Hungary, may possibly be summer examples of P. nivalis typicus. The dimensions of tail and hind feet taken from these (dried skins) reach 62 and 25, 55 and 380, and 72 and 30 millim, respectively.
Distribution. Western and Central Europe.
sao Sih
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(III.) Putortus nivalis italicus *, subsp. n.
Type. No. 95.11. 11. 1 of British Museum collection, from Grezzana, in the highlands of the Province of Verona, Italy. Distinguishing characteristics. Size perhaps a little larger than, but line of demarcation and length of tail as in, P. névalis vulgaris of Britain, with the underside slightly washed with buff. The following are the dimensions of three specimens presented to the Museum by Mr. Oldtield Thomas and collected through Conte Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi by Signor dal Nero Vittorio, of Verona :— Length of Breadth Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at body. Tail. claws). Ear. gnathion). zygoma. No. 99.11. 11.1. o, Grez- zana, Prov. Verona, Italy, 400 metres, 20th April, 1899, (Type.) ........6. es SE ae 40°5 29 No. 99.11. 11.2. 6, Villa- franca, Verona, Italy, 10th Ming tSOOM ees. sa. hi; gta Se re 4 gag 29 No. 99.11. 11. 3. , slightly immature, Colaguala, Pro- vince of Verona, Italy, 54 metres, 2nd Dec., 1898.... 190 45 a 10 32 17
The skull of a male from Genoa, presented by the late Lord Lilford, has a length and breadth of 41—24 millim. Distribution. Italy.
(IV.) Putorius nivalis ibericus, subsp. n.
Type. No 95. 3. 8. 10 of British Museum collection, from Seville, Spain.
Distinguishing characteristics. Size and length of tail inter- mediate ; belly usually washed with yellow ; line of demarca- tion decided, as in P. ermineus ; feet white.
Length of Breadth Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at body. Tail. claws). gnathion). zygoma. No. 95. 3.3.10. 2, Seville, Spain, i 2nd Oct., 1894 (collector A. Ruiz,
Sor the late Lord Lilford). (Type.).. 250 50 a 38 22 No. 95.9.4.12. , ditto, 8th June, PRs tse 2vaedenarlard anatase 250 = «65 45
SR POUR CEC ® TC De CPE Or 120 40 38 Distribution. The Iberian Peninsula. * 1 cannot find the origin of the reference to a variety “ vulgaris, var.
mertdionalis, Costa et auct.,” thus given by Trouessart in his ‘ Catalogus Mammalium,’ i, p. 276 (1898-99). -
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(V.) Putorius nivalis numidicus, Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 393 (1855).
Type. No. C. 250 {in alcohol) of Paris Museum collection (fide F. Lataste *).
According to Lataste the type of P. numidicus came from Tangier, where it was purchased from the dealer Favié in 1841. If that be so, I possess a topotype of this subspecies, in no. 322 of my collection, which I purchased of Olcese, Favié’s successor at Tangier, in 1895. ‘The specimen agrees exactly with Pucheran’s description as far as it goes, having ‘“‘Ja queue plus longue que la Belette, de France, avec une touffe terminale de couleur noiratre.” In other respects it seems to be very closely related to P. nivalis boccamela, having the yellow underside, partially white fore feet, and wavy line of demarcation of that subspecies.
Distribution. Morocco.
(VI.) Putortus nivalis boccamela, Bechstein, Saiug. Deutsch. p- 819 (1801).
Typical locality. Sardinia.
Distinguishing characteristics. Size larger than and tail longer than in P. n. ttalicus of Italy; line of demarcation wavy. General colour of upperside probably darker. Toes of fore feet white. Skull broad.
Length of Breadth Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at body. Tail. claws). gnathion). zygoma. ¢ (in spirit), Sardinia. (Topotype.)
Ride OS TROMAS. oe oct ei Se pee 200 79 36°6 PAIN) War eeeeattevyp ees se ntnre (6 wie ieee 145 51 26 3S, Sardinia, Feb. 1898 (£. N. Buxton).
(A very dark specimen.) .......... Ae | - 39 a od, ditto (ex coll. Linnea)..........4. See ROOT, “ 40 25
This weasel was, as has been pointed out by Lataste f, described by Cetti in 1774§; but as he did not apply a Latin name to it, the name boccamela must stand to the credit of the next author who used it, who would appear to have been Bechstein.
Distribution. Sardinia.
(VIL.) Putorius nivalis siculus, subsp. n. Type. No. 95. 3. 4. 5 of British Museum collection, from Marsala, Sicily. * Mamm. de Barbarie, p. 121 (1885). + Dimensions taken from dried skins only.
t Mamm. de Barbarie, p. 122 (1885). § ‘Quadrupedi,’ pp. 165-186 (1774).
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Distinguishing characteristics. Size larger, tail long (ratio to head and body about 1: 3); belly washed with yellow or orange of variable intensity ; line of demarcation straight, as
in P. ermineus ; all four feet white.
Length of Breadth
Hind foot skull (ba- of skull
Head and body. Tail No. 95. 3. 4.2. og, Palermo, Sicily, 9th Feb., 1895 (J. I. S. Whitaker). No. 95.3. 4.3. o, Palermo, Sicily,
26th Feb:, 1895'(detto) <.. 0.056. 240 80 No. 95. 3.4.4. o, Balestrate, Sicily,
15th Feb., 1895 (ditto) .......... 230 70 No. 95. 3.4.6. o¢, Marsala, Sicily,
18th Feb., 1895 (ditto) .......... 250 90
(without — sion to at . claws). gnathion). zygoma.
41:5 22 38 38 40
A single specimen from Algeria (no. 56. 3. 12. 12, from Oran Prov., W. Algeria, ex coll, Parzudaki) agrees with a series of nine, young and old, from Sicily, for which the
Museum is indebted to Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker.
Distribution. Sicily and Algiers.
(VIUII.) Putortus nivalis africanus, Des Nat. xix. p. 376 (1818) (nec Pomel 1856, and Lataste).
Typical locality. “ d’ Afrique.” *
m. Nouv. Dict. Hist. ,C. R. Ac. Sc. p. 654,
Distinguishing characteristics. Size large ; tail long (ratio of length to that of head and body about 1 : 3); belly orange; line of demarcation wavy ; feet partially white.
Length of Breadth
Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at body. Tail. claws). Ear. gnathion). zygoma.
No. 92. 7. 15. 7. o, Pyramids of Ghizeh, Egypt (Dr. J. Anderson),
14th. March, 1893. 2. oA t. . 280" 90 No. 92. 7. 15. 8. 9, Abu Roash,W. of @airo,; Heypt (dtit0) 4 in ona. ee 270 70
Egypt, 3, in spirit (fide O. Thomas)... 260 108 No. 94. 11. 26. 2. ¢$ juv., Malta (C. A. Wright), 16th April, 1894 ...... 173 62 No. 95. 1. 2. 1. 9, Malta, 1894 (ditto), (measured in dry skin) .......... 200 85 No. 75. 4.6.1. ¢, Malta (stuffed) (fide ORSTAGMGSYIG Oke et oss 0 300 105
42 5 43°5 24 47 : SG Sif 23 43
It would appear from the smaller specimens that the tail
* The species was described from a specimen at the time in the Paris Museum, but which had formerly been in the Museum at Lisbon,
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may be short in the young of this subspecies. This is the largest subspecies of the series, and the great size of the stuffed specimen from Malta makes it impossible to distinguish Maltese from Egyptian specimens, at least with the material at present available. In my identification I am therefore glad to be able to follow Mr. Oldfield Thomas, who in 1895 recorded his belief that the weasels of Egypt and Malta are identical (P. Z. S., Feb. 5, 1895, pp. 128-131). Distribution. Kgypt and Malta.
(IX.) Putortus nivalis caucasicus, subsp. n.
Type. No. 94. 9. 2. 3, from the Barey collection (Mons. Hotschal), the Caucasus, at a height of 12,000 feet, 26th June, 1887.
Distinguishing characteristics. Winter coat white; size very small; tail short; belly white; line of demarcation decided ; feet white.
I make this subspecies with confidence from four specimens, since the characters which they show are very constant in the various subspecies of weasels, and their combination in this form is unique. ‘he white winter coat is represented by two specimens, nos. 97. 6. 4. 4 & 5, a male and a female, collected at Van, Asia Minor, by Major Williams, R.A., and of which the date and dimensions are :—
Length of Breadth
Hind foot skull (ba- of skull Head and (without sion to at body. Tail. claws), Ear. gnathion). zygoma. GC; isthdan., 18907 .... 196 55 27 12 80°5 17 O, 10th Jan,,1897 <... 4 dvs 55 27 13 34
There is also one from Erzeroum (no. 84. 6. 3. 5), col- lected by Messrs. Dickson and Ross in 18-40. Distribution. Caucasus and Asia Minor.
(X.) Putorius nivalis pallidus, subsp. n.
Putorius Stolicekanus, O. Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 453 (1895).
Type. No. 94. 9. 2. 1 of British Museum collection, from Kokand, Ferghana.
Distinguishing characteristics. Colour of upperside ex- tremely light and faded; size intermediate ; tail short ; line of demarcation distinct ; feet white or nearly so.
The characters given above readily distinguish this sub- species from P, nivalis Stoliczkanus, with which it has been
Weasel and sume of tts Subspecies. 49
formerly associated. I know of no other described weasel with which it might be confounded; it is certainly very widely different from P. alpinus, Gebler.
The skull of no. 94.9. 2.1 is damaged, but measures about 37 x 20, showing the specimen to have been about of normal size.
Distribution. I have only two bad and faded skins of this subspecies, one of which (no. 94. 9. 2.1) is a female (with skull) from Kokand, Ferghana, collected by Th. Barey on 20th March, 1893, and procured in exchange from the Branicki Museum, Warsaw; and the other (no. 79.11.21. 293) is an unsexed skin from Afghanistan, from the Indian Museum collection.
(XI1.) Putortus nivalis Stoliczkanus, Blanford, J. As. Soc. Bengal, xlvi. 2, p. 260 (1877). Mustela vulgaris, ? var., Blanford, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xliy. 2, p. 106 (1875).
The typical specimen was brought by Dr. Stoliezka from Yarkand, Eastern Turkestan, where it was purchased.
A single topotype of this subspecies in the collection is no. 75. 3. 80. 8, and was collected by Colonel Biddulph in Yarkand on the 26th May, 1894. It is very faded, but must have been very light in the coloration of the upperside, is of small size, has the tail rather long in proportion to the head and body length, the line of demarcation wavy, and the feet nearly white. The skull has been damaged, but is small, measuring not much more than 36 millim. in total length.
In his original description Blanford states that the colour of the typical specimens was pale sandy brown above, with a small white spot close to the anterior angle of each eye; the tail throughout the same colour as the back; the fore feet white, mixed with pale brown above; the hind feet only whitish at the edges; the soles of all the feet thickly clad, only the toe-pads being naked; the total length 306 millim.*, of which the tail without the end-hairs reached 58 millim.* ; the length of the hind foot and tarsus without the claws 30 * ; and the weight 5:2 ozs.
[(XIL.) ? Putortus nivalis subpalmatus, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symbol. Phys. dee. ii., at end of article on LHlerpestes leucurus (1833).
I regret that I am unable to throw any light on the identity
* Converted to millim. from the inches as given by Blanford.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 4
50 Mr. J. L. Bonhote on Squirrels of
of the still lost smaller weasel of Egypt, the status of which has been already discussed by Mr. Oldfield Thomas*. The original description, which is in Latin, is rather peculiar, and interesting enough to merit reproduction here. It runs as follows :—‘* Quarta Mustelinorum forma Mustele vulgari ad- modum affinis est. In itinere Mustele subpalmate nomine eam distinximus, digiti enim membrana latius conjuncti erant, statura minor. In domibus egyptiacis Cahire et Alexandriz murium vulgaris socius. Adlurum (a’Aovpov) non hance, sed Felem Bubastis cam F. maniculata fuisse serius docebo.’’]
IV.—On Squirrels of the Sciurus MacClellandi Group. By J. L. BonHore.
From a close and careful examination of a large series of skins of this species from India and China it seems to me that the following races may be easily distinguished. The most noticeable feature of the group is their variability in a very small area, and it will be seen that there are no less than three forms to be found in the province of Fokien, China, and specimens of all three kinds may be obtained within an easy radius of one place, namely Kuatun. At first I was inclined to regard it as an instance of polymorphism, but a further investigation has satisfied me that such is not the case. In the first place, the differences between the three forms are constant and there is little or no variation among themselves ; secondly, one form (Swinhoez) is apparently different in habits, being never found amongst the tall conifers, as is the habit of all the other races, but being always found on the ground and among low scrub. With regard to the other two forms, the typical locality of the one is Foochow, on the sea- coast, and of the other Ching Feng Ling, a village about 2000 feet up in the mountains; that they should both be found at Kuatun is not surprising, since Kuatunt is a village halfway up a high mountain, and it may well be that the form which inhabits the valley should be different from that found at a greater altitude. Of the Indian races there is nothing much to be said; those from Tenasserim and the Straits Settlements are, as might be expected, much brighter than those from the north, while specimens from Manipur show a very interesting intermediate stage.
* P. Z. 8. 1895, pp. 128-131. t O. Thomas, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1898, p. 769.
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Scturus MacClellandi typicus, Horsf.
Sciurus MacClellandi, Horsf. P. Z. 8. 1839, p. 152; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 875; id. Cat. p. 107; Jerdon, Mamm. p. 173. Sciurus Pembertoni, Blyth, J. A. 8S. B. xi. p. 887; id. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 875 General colour above yellowish brown. Median dorsal stripe from the nape to the root of the tail black, on each side of which is a lighter stripe hardly distinguishable from the colour of the neck, succeeded by another of a darker shade. The outer dark stripes are bordered by two narrow yellowish ones, which start from the nose and, passing under the eye and ear, continue as far as the root of the tail. Underparts yellowish grey. Measurements (skin) :— Head and body 151 millim.; tail 90. Skull: greatest length 35; basal length 26; zygomatic breadth 21; length of nasals 10. Hab. Nepal, Sikkim, Bootan, and Assam.
Sciurus Mac Clellandi manipurensis, subsp. n. Sciurus MacClellandi, Thos. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 61.
This form differs from the foregoing by being much lighter in general coloration. All the stripes are clearer and more distinct, especially the outermost light stripes, which are very pale and well marked. The underparts are also paler. ‘The tail seems to be rather longer.
Dimensions of type (from skin) :—
Head and body 120 millim. ; tail 100.
Hab. Manipur.
Type B.M. 85. 8.1. 273. Aimole, Manipur. Presented by Mr. A. O. Hume.
Seturus MacClellandi maritimus, subsp. n.
This is the form which most nearly approaches the typical Sc. MacClellandi, from which it differs in being far greyer and more concolorous. ‘The median dorsal stripe is by no means well marked and very short, noé being continued to the root of the tail. The two subdorsal stripes are of the same colour as the back, while the outermost light stripes are of a dull white, very narrow and short, not being continued to the root of the tail, and only starting at the shoulder.
Measurement of type (from skin) :—
Head and body 140 millim.; tail 95; hind foot 31; ear 12,
4*
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Skull: zygomatic breadth 21; length of nasals 10.
Hab. Foochow, province of Fokien, China.
Type B.M. 94. 9. 1. 11. Foochow, April 1893. Col- lected and presented by Mr. C. B. Rickett.
This is apparently a form inhabiting the coast and low ground. It is found also at Tingchow and Kuatun.
Scturus MacClellandi monticolus, subsp. n.
Brighter than the preceding subspecies, to which it is most nearly allied, and from which it differs in having the median dorsal stripe more distinct and always continued to_the root of the tail. The outermost light stripes are very broad and distinct and continued to the root of the tail.
Measurements of type (from skin) :—
Head and body 132 millim. ; tail 109; hind foot 31.
Skull: greatest length 37; basal length 29; zygomatic breadth 23; length of nasals 10°5.
Hab. Ching Feng Ling *, 2000 feet.
Type B.M. 97. 3. 2.6. Ching Feng Ling, Fokien, Dec. 1896. Collected and presented by Mr. C. B. Rickett.
There are also specimens from Kuatun, Fokien, and Chinteh, Anhua.
Seiurus MacClellandi Swinhoet, Milne-Edw.
Sciurus MacClellandi Swinhoei, Milne-Edwards, Rech. des Mamm. p. 308 (1874).
Easily distinguishable by having three black dorsal stripes. The whole animal is much brighter than any of the other Chinese races. ‘The subdorsal stripes are distinctly lighter than the colour of the neck; the outer light stripes are very broad and well marked, with a tendency to join the subocular cheek-stripe over the shoulders.
Hab. Province of Moupin, China.
Specimens in the British Museum are from Ching Feng Ling, Peling, and Kuatun. This form differs also in habits, being found on the ground or in low scrub, whereas the other forms are especially partial to tall trees, rarely descending to the ground.
Scturus Mac Clelland formosanus, subsp. n.
This form, which inhabits the islands of Foochow and Hainan, is simply the insular variety of Sc. MacClellandi maritimus. It differs from this form in being darker, the
* Ching Feng Ling is situated 100 miles north-west of Foochow.
the Sciurus MacClellandi Group. 53
general tone being of a dull reddish brown. ‘The stripes are all very short and indistinct, and hardly distinguishable towards the root of the tail. ‘The subocular stripe is very dusky and indistinct. ‘The underparts are of a dark yellowish prey.
Measurements (from skin) :—
Head and body 130 millim. ; tail 90.
Hab. Formosa.
Type B.M. 62. 12. 24. 18. N. Formosa, April 1862. Collected and presented by Mr. Robert Swinhoe.
There are also specimens of this race from Hainan.
Scturus MacClellandi Barbet, Blyth.
Seiurus Barber, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xvi. p. 875; Thos. P. Z.S. 1886,
edge :
Specimens from Tenasserim and Upper Burmah are con- spicuously different from all the other forms; they most nearly approach Sc. MacClellandi manipurensis, from Mani- pur, the ground-colour of these two forms being similar and much lighter than in all the other races. Sc. MacClellandi Barbe: may be, however, at once distinguished by the very broad and conspicuous outer light stripes, which are con- tinuous with the suborbital light stripe, and are clear and distinct to the root of the tail. The three dark stripes on the back are black, broad, and well marked ; the subdorsal light stripes are also bright and distinct. The underparts are bright ferruginons.
Hab. Upper Burmah.
In some specimens the yellow of the outer light stripes is replaced by a delicate salmon-pink.
Sciurus MacClellandi leucotis (Temm.). Tamias leucotis, Temm. Zool. sur la Cote de Guenée, 1853, p. 252.
Closely allied to the preceding form, from which it differs in having all the stripes considerably narrower and with a tendency to disappear before reaching the tail. The hair on the tips of the ears is long and white to its base, whereas in Sc. MacClellandi Barbe its basal halt is black.
Hab. Malacca Peninsula.
The three specimens which [ have referred to this sub- species all came from Perak, and although Temminck’s description does not quite agree with the specimens before me, there can be little doubt that it is the squirrel to which he alludes. The most noticeable point about this form is the white ears, agreeing therefore with ‘lemminck’s specimens.
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All the individuals at hand have most distinctly the three dark bands black, and not only the centre one as stated in the description ; but, except for that point, the description agrees fairly well with the specimens.
Sciurus MacClellandi Rodolphi (Milne-Edwards).
Sciurus Rodolphi, M.-Edw, Rey. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, xix. p. 227; id. Rech. Mamm, 1871, p. 162.
This is the last race which we shall have to consider; it is allied to the Tenasserim specimens, but the hairs of all the dark stripes are tipped with brown. The four light stripes are of equal size and intensity, but the subdorsal ones have a
slight tinge of pink. The underparts are ferruginous. Hab. Cochin China.
Key to Species.
One black stripe. Four light stripes equally bright ...... S. MacClellandi Rodolphi. Two outer light stripes much brighter than subdorsal. Light stripe continuous with subocular. General colour suffused with yel-
RONWISEN Pi ciety teiara ts aseore Stn) 00 S. MacClellandi typicus. Lighter, greyer, stripes distinct.... 8. MacClellandimanipurensis, Light stripe not continuous with sub-
ocular. Outer light stripe broad .......... S. MacClellandi monticolus. Outer light stripe narrow and short.
General colour greyish ........ S. MacClellandi maritimus.
Darker, general colour reddish
TOW. |... niceb rime S. MacClellandi formosanus,
Three black stripes. Light stripes broad; hair of ears black at base. Light stripe continuous with subocular. S. MacClellandi Barbei. Light stripe not continuous with sub-
OCUIAT ER. BAG He SG oe S. MacClellandi Swinhoet. Light stripes narrow; hair of ear white Bub DASO™ Arete alee eel hoy sttia ercea Sheen tence S. MacClellandi leucotis.
V.—Descriptions of Two new Atherinoid Fishes from Mexico. By G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S.
Chirostoma luctus.
Depth of body 43 to 5 times in total length, length of head * 34 to 83. Head large, pike-like, with the lower jaw projecting; teeth small; vomer toothless; snout pointed, 14
* The projecting lower jaw is not included in the length of the head,
Atherinoid Fishes from Mexico. 55
diameter of eye, which is 43 times in length of head and equals width of interorbital region ; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye or a little beyond; depth of sub- orbital region barely 2 the diameter of the eye. 21 or 22 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsals V-VI, I 11-13; longest spines not quite 4 length of head; the distance between the two fins equals the base of the spinous one. Anal I 20-22, originating under posterior extremity of spinous dorsal. Pectoral acutely pointed, about 2 length of head, contained 5 times in total length, extending to above middle of ventral. Ventrals reaching vent. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle twice as long asdeep. Scales with crenate edge, 52 to 60 in a longitudinal series and 20 to 22 in a transverse series. A well-marked silvery lateral stripe.
Total length 200 millim.
Several specimens from Lake Chapala, collected by Dr. A.C. Buller.
This species is very closely related to C. estor, Jord., from the same lake, and likewise known under the name of Pescado blanco; but it differs from Jordan’s and Stein- dachner’s descriptions by the longer pectoral fin, the more numerous anal rays, the narrower suborbital region, and the smaller number of scales along the body.
Chirostoma sphyrena.
Depth of body 6 times in total length, length of head 3}. Head large, suggestive of a Sphyrcena, with the lower jaw projecting ; teeth in both jaws intermixed with large canines ; vomer toothless ; snout acutely pointed, 24 diameter of eye, which is 64 times in length of head and equals ? interorbital width ; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye ; depth of suborbital region equalling the diameter of the eye. 23 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsals V, I 11; longest spines not quite 4 length of head ; the distance between the two fins equals double the base of the spinous one. Anal I 21, originating a little behind posterior extremity of spinous dorsal. Pectoral acutely pointed, nearly 4 length of head, contained 5 times in total length, extending to above middle of ventral. Ventrals not reaching vent. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales with crenate edge, 65 in a longitudinal series and 20 in a transverse series. A well-marked silvery lateral stripe.
Total length 225 millim. A single specimen from Lake Chapala, collected by
Dr. A. C. Buller.
6 Prof. F. A. Smitt on the Genus Lycodes.
VI.— Description of a new Lizard of the Genus Nucras grom Usoga, British East Africa. By Oscar NEUMANN,
Nucras Boulengert.
Body elongate; head not depressed, its length (to ear- opening) contained 44 to 5 times in the length from snout to vent ; two postnasals ; no granules between the supraoculars and the supraciliaries ; interparietal not so long and narrow as in N, tessellata and N. Delalandit; occipital very small ; subocular bordering the lip between the fourth and fifth upper labials ; two supratemporals bordering the parietal; tym- panum half as large as the ear-opening. Dorsal scales small, pointed behind, larger on the sides of the body; 45 to 53 scales round the body ; ventrals in 6 longitudinal and 27 to 30 transverse series. Femoral pores 11 or 12. Foot much shorter than the head. Tail thinner than in JN. tessellata and N. Delalandii, 13 to 14 as long as head and body. Colour brown above, with small indistinct blackish spots; bluish white beneath.
This seems to be a much smaller species than the two previously known ; its principal distinctive characters reside in the rather large tympanum, the pointed dorsal scales, and the small foot.
Two specimens were collected by me at Lubwas (Usoga) in September 1894.
VII.—On the Genus Lycodes. By Prof. F. A. SMIrt.
THE genus Lycodes has, in recent times, given very much trouble to the ichthyologist; and, in the first place, the usual manner of defining the species by the colouring of the body has failed to give any systematic certainty. Thus, when writing the ‘Scandinavian Fishes,’ although I had very poor material for comparison, I was struck * by the apparent identity of Lycodes reticulatus, in Giinther’s “ Deep- sea Fishes of ‘Challenger’ Expedition,” with Lycodes frigidus, Collett, which I knew from one of the author’s type specimens, aud I expressed my suspicion that the “species” frigidus was a mixture of sterile and more or less deformed specimens of two other species. And as it was impossible to find any constant characteristics, either in nature or in the descriptions
* Sinitt, Scand, Fish. p. 610.
Prof. F. A. Smitt on the Genus Lycodes. DF
by the accessible authors, for the greater number of local varieties and forms already described as distinct species, L was unable to recognize more than four true species, viz. Lycodes reticu/atus, L. Vahliit, L. Sarsii, and L. murena. Now, in determining the very valuable collections brought home from Greenland this year by the Nathorst expedition, [ find these views fully confirmel. Lycodes perspiciilum (=L. Rossi) is the young stage of L. reticulatus, Lycodes gracilis that same stage of L. Vahlit. Lycodes pallidus was identitied by Lénnberg with LZ. frigidus * (=L. reticu/atus), but by Collett | with LZ. gracilis (=L. Vahlit); thus these two authors, by their difference of opinion, strengthen the doubts as to the validity of the distinction based upon the characteristics used by themselves.
As in the near future I shall return to a fuller treatinent of the collection of fishes from the last Nathorst expedition, [ will here give only a key to distinguish the species, in accordance with the characteristics supplied by my new materials :—
A. Length of the head more than 29 (30) per cent. of the length of the tail—Subgenus Lycodes. a. Length of the head more than 42 per cent.
of the-longth ofthe tail ys See alee Lycodes reticulatus. b. Length of the head less than 40 per cent. of thelensth ofthe tall+...24csneeseeeeus- Lycodes Vahlit.
aa. Length ef the head more than 22 per cent. of the total length and usually more than 36 per cent. of the length of the tail_—Forma arctica ( Vahhi typica).
bb. Length of the head usually less than 22 per cent. of the total length and less than 36 per cent. (most usually less than 33 per cent.) of the length of the tail.— Forma borealis (gracilis, auctt.).
B. Length of the head less than 29 (28) per cent. of the length of the tail—Subgenus Lycen- che'ys.
a, Height of the body at the beginning of the anal fin less than 5 per cent. of its total PSHE Larsncks wraps oe gett ig Sas Marita sve ras Lycodes murena.
b. Height of the body at the beginning of the anal fin more than 5 per cent. of its total
NSTI Heke ecto Neder soos were a hae es Lycodes Sarsii.
* Under this name Lonnberg (‘Notes on the Fishes collected during the Swedish Arctic Expedition to Spitzbergen and King Charles Land, 1898,” Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1899, Bd. 24, Afd. iv. no. 9, p. 24) described a specimen with all the characteristics of Lycodes reticulatus.
+ “Contribution to the Knowledge of the Genus Lycodes, Reinh.—II. Lycodes gracilis, M. Sars,” Vid. Selsk. Skriften, Christiania, I, Math.- Natury. Kl, 1899, no. 6, pp. 5 and 10,
58 Prof. F. A. Smitt on the Genus Lycodes.
However, I may remark that I have only seen one specimen of each of the last two species, which Professor Collett once kindly lent me. From my own observations [ thus cannot extend the knowledge of their relation to each other; but, to judge from the latest observations of Prof. Collett, it seems very probable that here also far too great a weight is given to the colour-differences, while too little heed has been paid to the significance of the evolutional changes of form ; for if we compare the measurements given by Collett * for Lycodes Sars? we shall tind :—
a hy Su laa | 1) eee Oo =, |] Sir isa aas 5 4 Potal lenoth in “millimetres... 2.'. is Sales weet ele © Sek 54:7 | 153:4 Length of head in per cent. of total length .......... 166 | 146 Height of body. gg >i sad Ds ibe ceed: 75 60 Distance of snout from dorsal in per cent. of totallength) 25:8 | 22-9 ANUS‘ s,; Fe 81:5 | 28-1 Length of head in per cent. of length GEA? & te se | Q4:4- |) 20:3 | Distance of snout from dorsal in per cent. of lenzth of
bail Cas nae he eee breitegenas ariel: Ocenia | 38:2 | 31:9 Distance of snout from anus in per cent. of length of|
tail {a Feet aan oe Pier me tet ee ou Soir tO | Peon Length of head in per cent. of distance from snout to
dorsal} Gest ac. RR Ree sme Aah Moat is Aon te 64:2 | 63:3 |
All these changes from fry to mature stage (with the exception of the last one, which, however, is much too small to permit of any trustworthy conclusion). thus point in the direction from the characteristics of Sarsi? to those of murena, and make it not improbable that, with a fuller knowledge of the latter species, it will be found preferable to regard the two ‘species’’ as local or evolutional forms
originating from the same source,
Stockholm, October, 1899.
* Zc. i. (1898), p. 11. + According to Collett (7. c. p. 18) these figures should be 66:7 for
Lycodes murena and 55°5 for L, Sarsi.
On Butterflies from Nyasaland. 59
VIII.—On a Second Collection of Butterflies obtained by Mr. Edward M. de Jersey in Nyasaland. By A. G. But er, Ph.D. &c.
THE present collection was sent off from Likoma on May 23rd of the present year, and consists of forty-five species of Butterflies obtained in April and May. The following is a list of the species :—
Nymphalide. 1. Precis simia, Wallgr.
3 2 2, Matope, 13th April.
One normal female and an interesting pair (as large as typical P. octavia, but at once distinguishable by the double instead of single black band across the end of the discoidal cell of primaries) ; the absence of the diffused pink belt on the upper surface and the heavy connected black markings
on the basal half of the secondaries below distinguish it at a glance from P. Trimenit.
2. Precis cuama, Hewits.
@, Matope, 13th April.
3. Precis cebrene, Trimen.
? 9, Likoma, 24th April and May.
4. Precis clelia, Cramer.
_ Likoma and Chisumulu (an island off Likoma), May.
5. Precis boopis, Trimen.
3 3, Mpondas, two miles north of Nyasa, 18th April ; Likoma, May.
6. Precis natalica, Felder. 3 ?, between Mandala and Matope, 12th April.
7. Hamanumida dedalus, Fabr.
@ §, between Mandala and Matope, 12th April; Likoma, May. 8. Atella phalantha, Drury. é, Chisumulu, May.
60 Dr. A. G. Butler on
9. Byblia vulgaris, Staud. 3, Matope, 13th April; 2, Mpondas, 18th April; ¢, Likoma, and g¢ g, Chisumulu, May. 10. Acrea Buxtoni, Butl. 3 3d, Kota Kota, 20th April; 9, Likoma; ¢ ¢, Chisu- mulu, May. 11. Aecrea lycia, Fabr. ? , Kota Kota, 20th April.
12. Acrwa Doubledayi, Guérin. 3, Mpondas, 18th April; ¢ g 3 3, Likoima, May.
13. Acrwa egina, Cramer. 3, Chisumulu, May. 1 strongly suspect that this is the wet phase and A. areca the dry phase of one species. 14. Acrea acara, Uewits.
od, Likoma, May.
Lycenidz.
15. Lachnocnema bibulus, Fabr.
3 2, between Mandala and Matope, 12th April; g, Mpon- das, 18th April, 1899.
16. Polyommatus beticus, Linn.
3, Kota Kota, 20th April.
17. Catochrysops asopus, Hopff.
3, between Mandala and Matope, 12th April; ¢ ?, Li- koma, May.
18. Nacaduba sichela, Wallgr. 3, Kota Kota, 20th April.
This species differs from the typical forms of Nacaduba in having no tail to the secondaries, a character which is said to be lacking in the African examples of Talicada nyseus (which, according to Staudinger, occurs both in Hast and West
Butterflies from Nyasaland. 61
Africa). Considering the numerous collections which we have received from all parts of Hast Africa, it seems a little strange that not one example of this species should have been received ; it almost makes one inclined to wonder whether the German localities are authentic. If Staudinger’s illustra- tion is correct, the species he figures is not only destitute of tails, but differs utterly in the tint of the orange patch on the secondaries ; whether African or not, it must be a distinct species from the common and well-known Indian type, and I would suggest that it should be called J’. ecaudata,
19. Zizera knysna, Trimen.
3, Mpondas, 18th April; 9, Kota Kota, 20th April.
20. Zizera lucida, Trimen.
?, Likoma, g ?, Chisumulu, May.
21. Tarucus telicanus, Lang.
3, Likoma, May.
22. Azanus natalensis, Trimen.
3d, between Mandala and Matope, 12th April.
23. Plebeivus trochilus, Freyer.
3, Likoma, May. According to De Nicéville this is a Chilades.
Papilionide. 24. Mylothris agathina, Cramer.
?, between Mandala and Matope, 12th April; gg, Kota Kota, 20th April.
25. Terias brigitta, Cramer.
Var. zoe.— ¢, Chisumulu, May. Var. candace.— § 8, Kota Kota, 20th April; Likoma, May.
26. Terias senegalensis, Boisd.
Typical form.— 9, Kota Kota, 20th April; 3g, Likoma, May. Var. bisinuata.— g 2, Mpondas, 18th April.
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27. Teracolus imperator, Butler.
Dry form.— ? , Mpondas, 18th April.
The female of this phase is new to the Museum.
28. Teracolus dissociatus, Butler. 3 3, Likoma, May. We previously only possessed one male of the wet phase of this species.
29. Teracolus pseudetrida, Westw. 3 ¢, Matope, 13th April; 9 ¢, Mpondas, 18th April.
30. Teracolus xanthus, Swinh.
& (wet phase), Mpondas, 18th April.
31. Teracolus gavisa, Waller. 2 ? (wet phase), Matope, 13th April; Likoma, May.
32. Teracolus omphale, Godart. 3 3 2 %, Mpondas, 18th April.
33. Teracolus callidia, Grose-Smith.
3, Matope, 13th April; ¢, Likoma, 26th April; 3 3 2 2, Likoma and Chisumulu, May. Three of the females are of the yellow-tipped type.
34. Teracolus mutans, Butler.
g, Matope, 13th April; ¢, Mpondas, 18th April.
I find that the Nyasa species is undoubtedly distinct from the Natal one, that 7. mutans is the wet phase, of which T. rhodesina is the intermediate, and of which I have recorded the dry phase (as probably intermediate). 7. argillaceus, the representative of 7’. vesta in South Africa, seems to stand alone in the group as regards the colouring of the under surface in its dry phase. T'. mutans is, in fact, the Kast Central representative of the more northerly 7. catachrysops, from which it differs above in the distinctly broader and larger spots of the discal series on the upper surface of the | secondaries and the different character of its intermediate and dry phases on both surfaces.
Butterflies from Nyasaland. 63
35. Catopsilia florella, abr. 3 2 ¢, Kota Kota, 20th April; ¢ g, Likoma, May.
All the specimens of this species had evidently been long on the wing and were much worn and shattered.
36. Belenots severina, Cramer.
Var. tnfida.— 9 , Matope, 13th April.
37. Belenois mesentina, Cramer.
& 6 ?, Mpondas, 18th April; @ 9, Kota Kota, 20th April; 6 ¢ 2 ?, Likoma and Chisumulu, May.
One pair from Mpondas consisted of mere fragments, but all the others were in tolerably good condition.
38. Herpenia ertphia, Godart. ¢ ¢, Likoma, g g, Chisumulu, May.
39. Pupilio demodicus, Esper. 3 3 2, Kota Kota, 20th April.
Hesperiide. 40. Tugiades flesus, Fabr. 9, Kota Kota, 20th April.
41. Pyrgus spio, Linn. 3, Likoma, May.
42. Oxypalpus ruso, Mab. 3 3, Likoma, May.
4°. Baoris inconspicua, Bertol.
g 2, Kota Kota, 20th April; ¢ $, Chisumulu, May.
44, Parnara mathias, Fabr. 3 3, Mpondas, 18th April; Kota Kota, 20th April.
45. Farnara delecta, Trimen,
3S, Kota Kota, 20th April.
64 Mr. F. D. Morice on new or doubtful
1X.—Descriptions of new or doubtful Species of the Genus Ammophila (Kirby) from Algeria. By F. D. Morice, AURSE
THE notes following should have formed part of an account which Mr. Saunders and myself are now preparing of Hyme- noptera taken in Algeria by the Rev. A. E. Haton in 1893-97 or by me in 1898. They are published now as the larger work cannot be ready for some time, and I have promised Herr Kohl, who is engaged on a monograph of Ammophila, to describe as speedily as possible some of my captures in that genus which he considered to be new.
‘The species to be dealt with comprise three (possibly four) of the group Psammophila, one of Parapsammophila, and five of Ammophila (sensu stricto).
All are from Biskra. Mr. Eaton took several others of this genus, and I a few, elsewhere; but all the latter appear referable to well-known species.
A few preliminary explanations may here be given as briefly as possible :—
(a) In numbering the abdominal segments I have not reckoned the propodeum.
(2) ‘Lhe measurements of petioles &c. have been made according to the methods used by Kohl in his monograph of Sphex, with the help of a camera lucida. By “length of petiole” I mean, as he does, the apparent length of that part of the first ventral plate which is completely visible when the object is viewed directly from above, reckoned from (¢. e. not including) the muscle uniting it with the abdomen ¢o the base of the first dorsal plate.
(c) The term ‘ tarsal pecten”’ may be here explained. The female anterior metatarsus swells at its apex outwards into a sort of lobe in which are set three spines, one very stout and considerably bent, the others, lying under it, straighter and more slender. Between these three apical spines and the base of the metatarsus runs an even row of (usually) four other spines, which form the ‘ pecten.”” ‘The metatarsus bears many other more or less spine-like hairs or bristles both exter- nally and internally, but these form no part of the definite series constituting the “ pecten,” and one soon learns not to confuse them with it.
(d) The following terms may also need some definition, as authors have not always employed them in the same senses. By “pilosity ” I mean longish erect hairs, pale or dark, scattered or dense, but never (in clean specimens) matted into a felt-
Species of the Genus Ammophila (Kirby). 65
like mass. By “ tomentum,” very dense shorter and more de- cumbent hairs, matted closely together, with a silvery or more rarely a golden glitter, frequently combined with pilosity and lying under it. By ‘ pubescence,” a down of still shorter fine and even hairs, never matted, giving a smooth silky or velvety look to the surface which it covers. When the pubescence is quite microscopical and noticeable only by its faint shimmer in certain lights, the surface may be called “‘ pruinose ” (frosted). A single row of longish even hairs
I call a “ fimbria ” (fringe).
Group PSAMMOPHILA, Dhb. 1. Psammophila masinissa, sp. n.
Nigra, abdomine atrocyaneo, alis violaceis; tegulis mandibulis pedumque armatura (preter unguiculos rufos) nigris, hirsutie nigra. Vertex punctatus, microscopice rugulosus. Pronotum in medio impressum, mesonotum antice sutura mediana longitu- dinali instructum, ambo punctata et antice saltem subtiliter trans- versim rugulosa. Scutellum punctatum, elevatum, subtilissime longitudinaliter striolatum, in medio plus minusve depressum. Propodeum concinne undulatim (in medio fere transversim) striatum. Petiolus brevis, apicem versus dilatatus, antennarum articulis 2+ 3 vel tarsorum posticorum articulo secundo subsequalis, metatarso postico multo brevior.
Long. 16-17 mill.
Biskra (Haton). Three females (29 iii.-3 iv. ’97).
Mr. Eaton took also at Biskra (7 11. 95) what at present I believe to be only an aberrant form of masinissa 2, but with several conspicuous peculiarities. It is very much larger than the type specimens (long. 24 millim.), the thorax more shining and its sculpture more pronounced (e. g. the scutellum is clearly and even strongly bituberculate), the blue tint of the abdomen a shade brighter, &c. The neuration also is curious, the second transverse cubital nervure in both wings being sharply and angularly bent inwards, and the third strongly (but in a curve, not angularly) outwards. This gives a most peculiar appearance to the cubital cells, but one which I suspect to be a result of “ neuration gone wrong ”’ (as so often happens in Ammophila) rather than a specific character.
At any rate, I am not prepared to found a separate species on this isolated and probably abnormal specimen.
Possibly it may turn out that mas¢nissa=atro-cyanea, Eversm., but André describes the (2) propodeum of that species as not striated, which it most evidently is in all the specimens before me.
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Mr. F. D. Morice on new or doubtful
2. Psammophila micipsa, sp. 0.
Nigra, abdomine haud cyaneo, alis violaceis; unguiculis rufis, hir- sutie nigra vel fusca. Sculptura pracedenti fere similis, sed punctis minus crassis, propodei striis magis obliquis, petiolo multo longiore, antennarum articulis 2+3+4, vel metatarso postico, subzequali.
Long. 15-17 mill.
Biskra (Eaton). Two females (7-24 iii. ’97). In general appearance like the last, but with much longer petiole and perfectly black abdomen.
3. Psammophila gulussa, sp. n.
Bicolor, alarum leniter flavescentium venis aurantiacis; mandibulis, tegulis, armatura pedum, et abdominis segmentis basalibus 3 vel 4 post petioluam (in ¢ obscure) plus minusve rufescentibus. Pecten tarsalis (2) pallidus. Mas nigro-hirtus, facie et dorso abdominis antice argenteo-tomentosis ; 2 albo-hirta, facie humeris pleuris coxisque tomento argenteo denso ornatis. Mesonotum dense punctulatum, in 9 leniter transverse rugulosum. Propo- deum oblique subtiliter striatum. Petiolus in utroque sexu metatarso postico vel antennarum articulis 2434445 distincte
. longior.
Long. 20-22 mill.
Biskra (Eaton). One male (30 iii. 97), one female (31 ili. 97).
The petiole in this species is fully as long as in tyder. The male and female were taken in the same spot on two following days, and I feel sure they belong to one another.
Group PARAPSAMMOPHILA, Taschenberg. 4, Parapsammophila monilicornis, sp. n.
Nigra, alarnm leniter flavescentium venis ochraceis, costa subcosta tegulisque in medio brunueis ; mandibulis in medio, antennarum, femorum tibiarumque basibus, pedum armatura, abdominisque segmento primo, obscure plus minusve rufescentibus. Caput thoraxque mediocriter pallide-pilosa, facies sub pilis argenteo- pubescens. Clypeus ante apicem gibbose prominens, carina me- diana longitudinali instructus. Facies quam in A. armata, Illiger, angustior, quam in A. divite, Brullé, multolatior. Oculiad clypeum paullulum convergentes. Petiolus metatarso postico subzequalis, reliquum abdomen pro longitudine latum, piriforme. Pronotum collariforme (i. ¢. pane usque a basi autice perpendiculariter declive). Mesonotum breve, antice fortiter declive. Scutellum et postscutellum alte convexa. Caput et pronotum punctata ; meso-
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notum oblique, scutellum et postscutellam longitudinaliter, pro- podeum fere transversim, striato-rugosa. Antennarum articuli 7 apicales infra valde turgido-dilatati, duo ultimi breves, tertius quarto sesqui longior.
Biskra (Morice). Six males (v.—vi. ’98).
The unusual structure of the antenne and broad (almost female-like) abdomen make this, at least in the male, a very distinct species. Unfortunately I did not meet with the other SeX.
One of my specimens has the antenne 14-jointed! (see
Ent. Month. Mag., Nov. 1899).
Group AMMOPHILA (sensu stricto).
5. Ammophila pecilocnemis, sp. n.
A, Heydeni, Dhb., simillima, sed in utroque sexu tibiis posticis apicem versus fortius incrassatis perque trientem basalem lexte rufis, petiolo toto rufo, abdominis segmentis apicalibus conspicue viridi-cyanescentibus, ¢ genitalium stipitum apicibus certe latioribus, Q pectine (ut videtur) minus robusto, facile distin- guitur.
Biskra (Zaton). Seven specimens (¢, 19, 20 iii, 5 iv. 95 5 22, 25-iv. 97: 9, 29 ui., 3 iv., ’97).
The coloration of the tibiz in this species agrees with that in éherica as described by André. The latter, however, is treated by von Dalla Torre as a synonym of Heyden?, from which pecilocnemis is certainly structurally distinct. Also, according to André, tberica has the petiole black, and of the following segments only the fifth above and the sixth entirely are black, whereas in all the specimens before me the petiole is red, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth segments are of a beautiful metallic blue without a vestige of red.
6. Ammophila rugicollis, Lep. (=rubtginosa, Lep.) ?
A male taken by Mr. Eaton at Biskra (3 v.97) seems to agree well with Lepelletier’s description of rugicollis, and a female from the same place (2 v. ’93) with that of rudiginosa. The two are, I think, certainly the sexes of one species; and M. Robert du Buysson tells me that rugécollis and rubiginosa are synonyms, though I see that v. Dalla Torre’s catalogue keeps them distinct.
I am in some doubt, however, as to the determination of Mr. Haton’s captures, because M. du Buysson has kindly sent mea male from Tamatave of what he considers to be
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rugicollis, which is very like the Algerian male in most respects, but, besides differing from it in a much darker colora- tion and much more flavescent wings, has also the strigosities of the mesonotum distinctly less coarse and closer, and the first dorsal segment of the abdomen only a little longer than the second, while it is quite twice as long in Mr. Eaton’s insect. Whether the two are really specifically distinct, I do not venture to say without more material. At present I coufine myself to describing Mr. Eaton’s specimens.
Caput nonnihil incrassatum, subleve, sparsim punctulatum. Facies (2) juxta oculos margine elevato. Thorax valde rugosus vel strigosus (preecipue in ¢), pro- et mesonotum cum mesosterno transversim, scutellum postscutellumque longitudinaliter, propo- deum ac pleure oblique (fere transversim).
2. Rufa sunt—caput cum antennarum dimidio basali mandibulisque preeter apices nigros ; thorax pedesque, nigro parce (hi parcissime) variati ; abdominis segmenta duo basalia (superne plus minusve infuscata), etiam tertii basis obscure, omniumque margines apicales. Cetera nigra vel furva, abdominis dorso nonnihil cyanescente.
do. Pictura minus leta. Caput thoraxque maximam partem nigra ; rufescunt tamen—antennarum scapi infra, mandibule ut in 9°, pronotum evidenter, obscure quoque latera mesonoti metapleura- rumque apices, tegule alarum, ac spiracula propodei. Abdomen pedesque fere ut in 2 sed nigredine magis extensa, tarsis fuscis. Caput thoraxque preecipue in lateribus mediocriter pallido-pilosa. Facies, tempora, humeri, insertiones alarum, metapleurarum apices, coxeeque posticee, plus minusve albo-tomentosa vel saltem pubes- centia. Ceterum corpus solita pruina vel pubescentia ornatum (in 3 ditius). Petiolus metatarso postico multo longior. Clypeus haud emarginatus. Pronotum antice fortiter truncatum. Ale leniter flavescentes fere hyaline. Pedumarmatura minus robusta, pecten tarsalis 2 brevior (nisi fallor) quam in A. Heyden,
Long. 23-25 mill.
7. Ammophila levicollis, André ?
Mr. Eaton has taken one male and one female, and I one male and two females, all at Biskra and all in May, except Mr. Haton’s male (29 ii. 97, “ visiting Antirrhinum ramosissimum ”), which seem to agree pretty closely with André’s description except in some very trifling details as to the colour of the abdomen.
I am not quite certain that Mr. Eaton’s (March) male, in which the tarsi are nearly all quite red, whereas in all the other specimens they are fuscous, belongs to the same species ; but being so early a specimen, it may perhaps be immature. I cannot see that structurally it differs from my own male, though superficially it certainly does so.
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The species comes very near Heydeni; but, apart from having the posterior femora and tibie largely red, the wings are clearer, the strige of the mesonotum less strong and tending to become obsolete on the centre of its disk, the labrum—which is usually (perhaps always ?) black in Heydent —and fully half the mandibles bright red, the female tarsal pecten pale and thin, and the clypeus not in the least emar- ginate at the apex centrally. ‘he male genitalia seem to me formed much as in Heydent, certainly not as in pactlocnemis described above. The apex of the abdomen has a decidedly blacker tinge than in the latter species, where it is almost as brightly blue as in nasuta.
8. Ammophila albotomentosa, sp. n.
Bicolor, capite et thorace nigris, abdomine pedibusque maximam partem pallide rufis. Mandibule preter apices nigros, clypei apex, scapus, alarum tegule cum venis (basalibus saltem) ruta. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus pedumque posticorum basi- bus anguste nigro-lineatis, apice in ¢ immaculato, in 2 superne nigro. Caput (preter areolam nudam extra utrumque ovellum posticum bene definitam) thoraxque totus dense argenteo-tomen- tosa ita ut vix aut sculptura aut integumenti color appareat. Abdomen cum pedibus plus minusve cano-pruinosum, apice medio- eriter pallido-piloso. Temporaalbo-fimbriata. Al fere hyaline, Antenne tenues. Petiolus segmento dorsali primo circiter quinta parte longior, Clypei apex nonnihil emarginatus.
Long. circ. 20 mill.
The male and female described above have every appear- ance of belonging to the same species, a very beautiful one, and quite distinct from anything known to me in nature or from descriptions. My specimen was taken at the foot of the ‘“‘ Montagne de sable,” Mr. Eaton’s “ on the sandhill nearest the baths and tramway at Ilammam-es-Salahin,” 2. e. prac- tically on the same ground.
The silvery clothing of the body is very thick and con- spicuous, much more so than in Heydeni &c. It is inter- rupted in both sexes on the vertex by an exactly similar naked space adjacent on each side to the posterior pair of ocelli, so definite and symmetrical that | think it is probably a constant character. As compared with Heydeni the present species seems to be smaller and more slender, with a slightly longer petiole, thinner antenne, and clearer wings. ‘lhe prothorax is of the usual shape; otherwise the species somewhat re- sembles that next following.
Biskra. One male (31 v. ’98, Morice), one female (26 iv. 97, Eaton).
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9. Ammophila producticollis, sp. n.
Bicolor, capite et thorace nigris; abdomine rufo, basi haud nigro- lineata, segmentis vero 2 vel 3 apicalibus infuscatis. Antennarum articulus 1 (totus) et 2 (partim), mandibule preeter apices nigros, labrum clypeique margo latus, alarum hyalinarum tegule cum stigmate et magna parte nervorum pallide aurantiaco-rufa. Pedes rufi, posticorum basibus superne nonnihil infuscatis. Caput thoraxque densissime splendideque argenteo-pubescentia vel tomentosa; temporum prosterni femorumque anticorum (9 ) fimbrize longze et sequabiles.
Pronotum longissimum, evidenter haud latius quam longius. 6. Pro- et mesonotum antice transversim, scutellum longitu- dinaliter, propodeum oblique (fere longitudinaliter) strigosum. Mesonotum antice lineis 3 impressis longis vel suturis divisum. © strigis (quantum video) nullis, sed mesonoto ut in mare lineis impressis diviso atque etiam circa has ita depresso ut pene trisul- catum vel bicarinatum yvideatur. Clypeus apice in medio exeiso.
Long. 17 mill.
Biskra (Haton). Male, 5 v.97; female, 16 v. ’94.
The two sexes are very similar except in the seulpture of the thorax; this, as stated above, differs widely, and it is not without some hesitation that I put the two together. They were taken, however, in exactly the same locality (near the Fontaine Chaude) and in the same month (May).
The male cannot be dolichodera, Kohl, since its pronotum is very strongly strigose ; while of dolichodera the author ex- pressly says “ Kragenwulst ohne Querrunzeln, glatt.” Nor can the female be his longicollis, which has the same part “ wie das Dorsulum mit derben Querriefen besetzt”’ ; while in producticollis ¢ both pronotum and dorsulum are apparently quite smooth. It remains as just a possibility that producti- collis g is the unknown male of (longicollis, and producti- collis 2 the unknown female of dolichodera; but on the whole I think this so unlikely that it will be safer to treat the Algerian species as new.
Both this and the last species occur among the glittering sands of the hottest Sahara, and have that peculiar and beautiful silvery clothing which characterizes many of the specially desert insects, and is no doubt “ protective.”
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X.— Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Coleoptera from South and West Africa, of the Section Serricornia, and of the Families Erotylide, Endomychide, and Lan- guriide. By H.S. Gornam, F.Z.S, &e.
THE beetles of which this paper gives an account were prin- cipally collected in 1896 by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall in Natal and near Salisbury, in Mashonaland. One species (Hedybius amenus) had already been described by me in Distant’s ‘ Naturalist in the Transvaal’ from that district. The Lycidz have also been previously described by Mr. Bour- geois. Mr. Marshall sends several very closely allied species ; and in general the species of small Coleoptera are very similar from widely separated parts of the African continent, so that I have found it convenient to include in this paper certain species which have been known to me for some time from the western parts, as they really’ form part of one vast fauna, differing, indeed, in genera from their nearest allies in their respective families, but widely distributed in the African continent, both as regards these genera and even in many instances as to the species.
I have also received from Mr. Marshall a number of Cassidee and Coccinellide from the same countries, which will form the subject of another paper.
Section SERRICORNIA., Fam. Cleride.
Philocalus compressicornis.
Tillus compressicornis, Klug, Abhand. Berl. Akad. 1842, p. 273, t. i. fio. 3. Hab. Natal; Mashonaland, Umfuli River, Gadzima (Marshall). Three specimens. Klug’s examples were from Herr Krebs’s collecting and probably from Natal, though referred to as “vom Kap.” Westwood’s Tillus uniformis from Gambia may possibly be the male, but it is not (as placed in the Munich Jatalogue) a Macrotelus, Klug= Monophylla, Spin.,—a generic name which only includes the American J. terminatus. Philocali are very rare in collections; I had not seen this insect before.
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Phleocopus undulatus, sp. n.
Nigro-piceus, robustus, valde pubescens, fortiter punctatus ; elytrorum maculis duabus basalibus, una humerali, una lineari scutellari san- guineis ; fascia tenui mediana valde dentata, maculaque subapicali suturam haud attingente testaceis.
Long. 14-15 millim.
Mas, antennarum articulo ultimo elongato, falciformi; abdominis segmento quinto emarginato.
Femina, antennarum articulo ultimo dimidio breviori.
Hub. Natal; Mashonaland, Umfuli River, Gadzima (Marshall) ; Zambesi (coll. Gorham).
Head clothed with golden-brown pubescence, thickly, coarsely, and rugosely punctured; antenne of the pitchy- black colour of the whole body, the terminal joint long and falcate, much longer in the male, equalling the preceding eight joints. The thorax is longer than wide, shining, distinctly but sparsely punctate, with a deep but vague central channel ; anterior constriction ill-defined. Elytra at the base scarcely wider than the thorax, wider at the apex ; the punctuation is cellular and confluent, coarse for half their length, not so coarse and worse defined beyond the fascia; the fascia is rendered irregular by coarse punctuation, it has a double undulation, sometimes it reaches the margin and at others it does not; there are two deep blood-red not conspicuous marks at the base and a yellowish spot at the apex. The scutellum is clothed with golden-yellow pubescence. The femora are coarsely punctured ; the tibiz are also punctured and have caring on their sides. The body beneath is shining, sparsely and rather obsoletely punctured; the fifth segment in the male is broadly and angularly emarginate, exposing the membrancus base of the sixth, and it has deep strong punctures round the margin, the sixth ventral plate being very smooth and shining.
This insect has been known to me for many years from specimens from Natal. It is apparently allied to P. flavo- notatus, Bohem., but seems to differ in the colour of the antenne, which are entirely dark, in the apical spot not being double, by the larger size, &c.
Mr. Marshall has sent three specimens, two being from Gadzima, one of which is a male.
Trichodes tugelanus, sp. n.
Niger, subceruleus, elongatus, subparallelus, pubescens; capite prothoraceque creberrime confluenter punctatis; elytris auran- tiacis, fasciis duabus latis apiceque nigris; creberrime rugose
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confluenter punctatis, punctis in seriebus vix congestis ; antennis brevibus, articulis quatuor basalibus rufis (supra nigro-notatis), clava valida, articulo apicali lato, apice intus acuminato; pedibus nigris, femoribus tibiisque cerulescentibus, unguibus rufis, simpli- cibus.
Long. 10-11 millim.
Hab. Natal, Tugela River, Weenen (Marshall).
Elongate, parallel; head and thorax dark steel-blue, thickly rugosely punctate, the latter half as long again as wide, the front margin straight, the base rounded ; there is no constriction, but the disk is depressed a little behind the front and there is a somewhat carinate bright line down the middle. Elytra scarcely wider than the thorax; they have three orange bands narrowly interrupted at the suture, the first and second united along the margin: the first occupies the base and shoulder, but is rounded off on each side of the scutellum ; the second is undulate, concave towards the base ; the third orange band is subapical, cut out in front at the suture. The abdomen and body beneath are blue.
The pattern of the elytra of this insect is almost identical with that of the North-American 7’, apivorus. It is really allied to Clerus lepidus, Walker, a species described from examples taken by J. K. Lord in “ Egypt,” and figured by C. Waterhouse in ‘Aid to the Identification of Insects,’ t. Ixxvi., also noticed by him in the index to vol. i. of the same publication, p. 12, and of the variety examples of which, without a central orange band, are in my collec- tion from ‘‘Tajura, Straits of Bab-el-Mendeb.” Both this insect and 7’. tugelanus are aberrant, if, indeed, they can be referred to Zrichodes. The cultriform apical joint of the antenne, though short, almost square, yet acuminate on its inner side, agrees with that genus better than with Philocalus. Two Trichodes only have yet been recorded from South Africa, viz. T. aulicus, Klug, Spin., and 7. Dregei, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 50, unless, as M. Chev- rolat seems to think (cf. note, p. 16, 4. ¢.) J. aulicus, Klug, is a different species from 7’. aulicus, Spin. t. xxxi. fig. 4, in which case there are three. These Cape Colony “ T'richodes”’ are very scarce; I possess two examples only, which appear to be distinct species, and neither of them agrees with the figure in Spinola, the base of the elytra having only a narrow line of red in one and being wholly dark green in the other, besides other differences. Insects labelled “ Cap,” g, h, &c., trom old collections, must be received with reserve as to the locality, as any South-African locality was often so designated,
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T. zahare, Chevy. (1. c. pp.16, 51; Rev. Zool. 1861, p. 152), I have not seen. The Egyptian and North-African species of Trichodes are at present ill defined *.
Three examples of TT. tugelanus were obtained by Mr. Marshall.
Do.icHopsis, Gorh. Dolichopsis, Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1877, p. 154.
Dolichopsis was proposed by me for two species of very Dasytid appearance, but pertaining to the Necrobiides, from tlle Cape Colony. Of each species I have since then ob- tained fresh examples, but without more precise locality.
Dolichopsis auronitens, sp. n.
Subcylindricus, lete viridi-auronitens, longius griseo-pubescens ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter creberrime punctatis; elytris creberrime et confluenter fortiter punctatis ; antennis pedibusque testaceis.
Long. 5—-7°5 millim.
Hab, Natal, 6576, 6677, 6718 (Marshall).
The larger of three examples before me is rather smaller than the larger examples of D. haplocnemodes; the head and thorax are more finely and the elytra more coarsely punctate. It is also more cylindrical. The legs and antenne are testa- ceous, the claws and the extreme tip of the latter infuscate. The colour varies a little from grass-green with a pale golden reflection to brassy. Being more convex, it is even more like the species of the Melyrid genus Haplocnemus than the type. ‘The pile is very long and thick in fresh specimens.
Three examples.
Corynetes analis, Klug.
Corynetes analis, Klug, Mon, Cler., Abhand. Berl. Akad. 1842, p. 348 fT.
Corynetes pallicornis, Spin. Mon. ii. p. 95, tab. xliii. fig. 3 [analis].
Hab. Natal (Plant), Estcourt, Frere (Marshall) ; Caffraria ({Krebs).
The identification of this with Corynetes abdominalis, Fabr. Syst. Jit. 1) p-266, is an error, that insect being from ‘‘ India,” and also having the whole abdomen pale; and no doubt Fabricius’s description refers to some wholly different insect at present unidentified.
The records from Senegal need, I think, confirmation.
* See description of PAzlocalus pretiosus, Gorh. Ann. Mus, Ciy. diGenovya, xvii. 1883, p. 602 (Abyssinia).
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Corynetes concolor, sp. n.
Niger, supra ceeruleus ; capite prothoraceque crebre distincte punc- tatis; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis; pubescens; antennis pedibusque nigris; tibiis subcerulescentibus.
Long. 5-7 millim.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall).
In form and sculpture and as regards size very like C. analis, but immediately distinguished from it by the colour of the legs and antenne.
‘The punctuation of the head and thorax is less confluent, and hence under a strong glass the surface looks more even. The elytra have the series of punctures somewhat irregular ; those near the suture are geminate for half their length from the base, but not distinctly so, and they are similar in C. analis. ‘The pubescence is similar to that of C. analis.
Four specimens were obtained by “ beating”” by Mr. Mar- shall near Estcourt.
Opetiopalpus rubricollis, Klug. Opetiopalpus rubricollis, Klug, Mon, Cler., Abhand. Berl. Akad. 1837- 40, p. 352.
Hab. Natal, 3602-3 (Marshall).
‘l'wo examples of an Opetiopalpus which appears to be the insect indicated by Klug under this name were sent by Mr. Marshall. They are much smaller than the species which I possess as O. collarts, being only two millim. in length or a little over. he elytra are blue-black ; the legs pale, with darker femora, and the claw-joint dark. They are the smallest examples of an Opetiopalpus | have seen.
Fam. Melyride.
Charopus cyanopterus, sp. n.
Nigro-subenescens, antennarum basi, femorum apice tiblisque testa- ceis ; elytris cyaneis, crebre leviter punctatis, parum nitidis. Long. vix 3 millim,
Hab. Natal, Frere (.Varshall).
Head black, with an eneous reflection, as wide as the thorax, a little shining, smooth ; antenne almost simple, the three basal joints yellow, the basal joint just touched with dark above, the fourth and fifth dark, but pale at their bases and tips. Palpi black. Thorax subquadrate, rounded at the sides and base, scarcely any hind angles; the surface finely
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aciculate, with an eneous tint. Elytra steel-blue, greenish at their bases in one example, very finely coriaceous, and with very short, scarcely visible pubescence. ‘The legs are black ; the tips of the femora and the tibie are yellow, in one example the hind tibize are fuscous. The hind body projects beyond the elytra in both examples.
Two specimens of this insect, which is rather like the European C. pallipes, but larger and more brightly coloured, were obtained. Sexual difference not apparent.
DINOMETOPUS, gen. nov.
Corpus oblongum, subparallelum. Elytra abdomen haud tegentia. Caput (maris?) fronte eroso-excavata; erosionis marginibus elevatioribus, antice laminato-reflexo, lamina sulcata. Antenne vix serrate, fere simplices. Palpi maxillares apice subuliformi. Pedes longi; tarsi tibiarum fere longitudine, distincte quinque- articulati, antici (maris?) articulis longis subequalibus haud multo obliquis.
I propose this name for a singular Melyrid having at first sight very much the appearance and size of Anthocomus fasciatus, but of which the head is excavated somewhat in the manner of some Hedybii. The genus Cephaloncus, West- wood, from the Canary Islands, is another example of this curious structure of heads in this subfamily, but has, according to Westwood, the excavation situate on the back of the head and different in form. 'roglops has the crown of the head hollowed out, but has 4-jointed front tarsi in the male.
Kiesenwetter has described as a Malachius a very similarly constructed insect from Japan, M. foveifrons, K.; but it is necessary in classifying this subfamily to describe the sexual differences in the tarsi, in the antenne, and form of the elytra where they exist.
Of the remarkable insect I describe here from Natal there are three specimens only, presumably males (as the heads are usually simple or only impressed in the females of Melyrids) ; the thorax is produced in a lobe-like form towards the base and is much depressed before the base. The elytra are not much expanded, nor are they convex nor in any way contorted at their apices as in many Malachit or Anthocomi.
Dinometopus natalensis, sp. n.
Niger, capite favo, elytrorum margine laterali antice, fascia lata ad suturam interrupta, apiceque tenui flavis; tibiarum apicibus et
from South and West Africa. Gl
tarsis plus minusve flavescentibus ; antennis basi flavis, articulis nigro-maculatis.
Long. 4+ millim, 4.
Mas? capitis occipite profunde excavato-eroso, erosionis margine antico laminato-reflexo, lamina sulcata, intus sub lamina nigro- maculata.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall).
Head yellow, scarcely wider than the thorax across the eyes; the antenne are about as long as would reach to the extremity of the elytra, black, but pale at the base, yet only the basal and second joints are clearly so, and they are both spotted with black above; they are scarcely serrate. The thorax is longer than wide, the front angles much depressed, the front margin broadly receiving the base of the head, narrowed towards the base very suddenly; its disk much depressed before the base, the margin only a little reflexed ; punctuation not visible. The elytra are somewhat parallel, being very little wider at the apex than the base, finely coriaceous, black, faintly brassy ; the lateral margin as far as a very broad fascia, only extending half across the elytra, and the extreme apical margin are yellow. The legs are nearly black, only the tips of the femora and the tarsi are sometimes obscurely yellow. The abdomen shows two or three segments beyond the elytra. The pubescence is very sparse and not easily seen without a strong lens.
Three examples, apparently all males.
Attalus ? ornatipennis, sp. n.
Lete flavus, sat latus; capite nigro, fronte anguste flava, levi; prothorace suborbiculare, glabro, aurantiaco ; elytris flavis, basi et annulo postice aperto nigris, breviter pubescentibus, crebre haud profunde punctatis ; metasterno nigro.
Long. 35 millim. 9.
Mas, tarsorum anticorum articulo secundo superne producto, tertium et quartum obtegente.
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshal?).
Head black, smooth, shining, with the mouth and front bright orange-red. ‘The antenna are yellow, feebly, scarcely serrate; the thorax is as wide as the head and rather broad, glabrous, and deep orange, almost blood-red, its basal margin broadly reflexed, without any hind angles, slightly impressed near the middle of the base. Hlytra a little broader than the thorax and a good deal widened behind, thickly clothed with grey short pubescence; in the male the black ring is open behind like a horse’s shoe, distinctly, closely, finely punctured.
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The legs and antennze are deep yellow, and the apex, the suture, and the margins of the elytra have a tendency to this red colour, which is no doubt more conspicuous in the living insect. ‘The tip of the prolonged second tarsal joint in the male is blackish, as in several other species; the claws are curved, with short pads, that give them the effect of being thickened at their bases when closed.
Two males and one female only oceurred in December 1894, and a male and a female in January 1895, in sweeping to Mr. Guy Marshall.
Anthocomus apricus, sp. n.
Niger, tenuiter pubescens, antennarum articulis secundo ad quin- tum, elytrorum lateribus in medio et apice tibiisque flavis; tarsis fuscis, ad basin dilutioribus ; antennis serratis.
Long. 4 millim. 9.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall).
Head black, shining, the membranous base of the labrum alone yellow, narrower than the thorax; the antenne are a little longer than the head and thorax, yellow as far as the filth or sixth joint, but the basal joint marked with black above, the fourth to the tenth joints acutely serrate. The thorax is half as wide again as long, of the usual form, trun- cate in front, the sides and base rounded, without angles, entirely black and shining. Elytra very closely and very obsoletely punctured, rather shining, clothed with upright black hairs, especially on the apical half, black, with the margin in the middle and the apex broadly orange-yellow, the yellow returning a little up the suture. ‘he body beneath and the femora black; the tibia and bases of the tarsi yellow.
The examples, three in number, appear to be all females ; at least there is no sexual character in either the antenna or tarsi. The claws appear to have membranous short pads.
PAGURODACTYLUS, gen. nov.
Corpus subparallelum, pubescens. Antenne leviter serrate. Tarsi uinque-articulati, unguiculi anteriores ineequales, anteriore multo q q ? fo) longior1.
This new genus of Malachiide is sufficiently characterized by the unequal anterior claws, a structure not known in any other genus of the subfamily. ‘The tarsi are rather long, especially the hind pair; the front pair have the joints all oblique and produced at the apex beneath, the third and
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fourth joints very short, the two basal joints longer, but short, and the claw-joint longer than the two basal ones taken together ; the claws are thin, the anterior one of the front pair (2. e. the inner one, as set on a card) twice as long as the other. From the four specimens before me I cannot state if this is a sexual difference, probably it is not. he antennee are simply formed, with joints two or three times as long as wide (excepting of course the second) and feebly serrate from the second to the tenth. In other respects the insect is allied to Attalus and Anthocomus.
Pagurodactylus vitticeps, sp. n.
Niger, pube erecta tenuiter vestitus, punctatus; antennarum basi pedibusque pallidis, bis femoribus anticis et intermediis externe posticis totis, illis articulo basali nigrescentibus; capitis fronte et occipite interdum conjuncte ferrugineo-maculatis.
Long. 23-3 millim.
Hab, Natal, Estcourt (Marshall).
The head with the rather prominent eyes is a little wider than the thorax ; it is thickly and strongly punctured, with the mouth and front, and a spot on the crown, rusty red ; these marks are often joined, forming a vitta. The thorax is small, narrower than the elytra at the base, flattish and impressed near the hind angles; shining, but with erect hairs and thickly punctured, the base and sides margined, but only the former conspicuously so. The elytra deeply subrugosely punctured, with long fine erect hairs, widening a little, but not much, towards their apex. The antenne are as long as the elytra, their first and second joints touched with black above, the third quite pale, the fourth partly so; the fourth to the tenth joints are gently serrate, becoming gradually longer; the apical joint is a little longer than those preceding it, narrow and acuminate. ‘The palpi are blackish at the tip. ‘The legs are pale, with the exceptioa that the upper edges of the middle and front femora, or sometimes the whole, and the whole of the hind femora and the hind tibie are dark, nearly black.
Four examples in which [ can detect no sexual difference.
Apalochrus nitens, sp. n.
Leete viridis, elytris vel viridibus vel cxruleis; antennarum basi pedibusque flavis, his tarsis nigris.
Long. 6 millim. ¢ @.
Mas, tarsis anticis articulo secundo apice superne elongato ; tibiis intermediis incrassatis, intus erosis,
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Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall).
This species is evidently very much like A. azureus, Erichs., but appears to have darker antenna, and the tarsi are dark, excepting the first joint and the basal part of the second joint of the anterior tarsi in the male. In the female the same joint 1s wholly dark.
Tledybius amanus.
Hedybius amenus, Gorham, in Distant’s Naturalist in the Transvaal, p. 197, tab. 1. fig. 2, 2.
Mas, capite antice excavato-eroso, erosione ima et basi nigra ; pone oculos elevato, quasi cornuto ; antennis longioribus, articulis tertio et quarto compressis, intus modice expansis, subtus nigro- maculatis, superne linea tenuissima aurea, quinto ad apicalem superne nigro-maculatis ; prothorace transverso, plaga magna et punctis duobus basalibus nigris.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall).
The specimens from which this insect was described were two females. I have now the advantage of having several examples of both sexes before me, and I think there are three closely allied species all from Estcourt. The very extra- ordinary structure of the head is not precisely alike in these, and I associate the male described above with //. amenus from the spotted antenne, and from the form and amount of the black markings upon the head and the thorax, and from the hind tarsi being blackish in both sexes.
The front of the head is yellow, slightly more prominent in the male than in the female, the excavated erosion is pubescent at the back, and a spur of golden hairs, with a ridge of hairs connecting it with the sides, is to be seen at the bottom; on each side but in front of the eye a few yellow sete are found ; the elevated portion which forms the back of the eye and supports it is yellow and is not separated from the black temples by a deep sulcus as it isin H. Marshalli ; moreover, the black mark, and indeed the whole disk, is shining and not opaque. These considerations lead me to believe we have here three closely allied but distinct species, and that we cannot assign either of them to A. erosus, Erichs., to which, however, they are obviously also allied.
Another male differs somewhat, in the coloration of the antenne: the third to the sixth joints have each a black line above, the seventh has only an interrupted line, the apical joints being yellow, and the thorax lacks the two basal dots ; too much reliance therefore must not be placed on the black markings.
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FHedybius anceps, sp. n.
Lete flavus, capitis dimidio basali nigro; prothorace subquadrato vel toto flavo, vel punctis duobus parvis nigris; antennis pedi- busque flavis, tarsis posticis infuscatis ; elytris viridi-czruleis, creberrime leviter punctatis.
Long. 6-65 millim. <Q.
Mas, capite antice excavato-eroso, erosione ima tota nigra, supra oculos alte elevato, quasi cornuto ; antennis longis, vix serratis.
Femina, antennis multo brevioribus, leviter serratis.
Hab. Natal, Esteourt (Alarshal/).
This insect is so very closely allied to 47, amenus, that I think it only necessary to call attention to the observed differences, which are that the thorax is not transverse, in some males there is a slight denticulation in the margin, in others it is quite simple; the antenne are longer in the male and unspotted, but with the extreme apex black ; the elevated ridge borders the whole inner side of the eye, passing into the frontal elevation.
Obs.—It is perhaps not correct to say that the second joint of the front tarsi in the male overlaps the third, but it is certainly distorted and raised above the very short third joint, and is black at its tip.
The Hedybit which I have seen from the Cape of Good Hope, which at all resemble the above, have the heads quite differently formed in the males, and have smooth and shining elytra, wrinkled and substriate.
FHedybius Marshalli, sp. n.
Lete flavus, capitis basi, prothoracisque disco opaco maris, nigris, nigredine marginem anticam haud attingente, femine macula irregulari subdivisa et metasterno nigris; antennis, palpis, pedi- busque totis flavis.
Long., ¢ 6°5, Q 6 millim.
Mas, capite antice excavato-eroso, erosione ima nigro-notata ; pone oculos elevato, quasi cornuto, nigro opaco ; antennis longioribus.
Femina, occipite plano, depressiusculo ; prothoracis disco nigro maculato.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall).
Very closely allied to H. amenus, to be distinguished from it by the wholly yellow antenne and legs, and by the head having less black at its base in either sex, but especially by the elevated canthus of the eye, which rises like a short horn, being separated from the temples by a deep groove, yellow at the bottom; so that the eye and its horn are quite separated
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from the black templar portion. The disk of the thorax is smooth but dull, it is yellow, but in the male a large patch, rather narrower in front than at the base, occupies the greater part and covers the base for nearly its whole width. The thorax is a little less wide than the head in the male, and in that sex the edge is notched below the middle. The scutellum is black ; the elytra are blue or with a green metallic tint as in 47. amenus and very closely and finely punctured. All these three Hedybii were found either on the Acacia
horrida or by sweeping on grass, and no doubt on flowers and herbage generally.
PHILHEDONUS, gen. nov.
Corpus oblongum, postice modice expansum. Antenne breves, in utroque sexu leviter serrate. Tarsi longi, maris 4-articulati. Caput (maris) carina transyersé bidentaté. Prothorax -(maris)
antice dentato-productus. Relique plerumque ut in Hedybio, Erichson.
Philhedonus coronatus, sp. n.
Niger, ore, antennarum basi, thoraceque rufis, hoe punctis duobus interdum confluentibus nigris; elytris cxruleis, creberrime minute punctatis, pube brevi tenuiter erecta vestitis.
Long. 5°5-6 millim.
Mas, capite carina transversa, bidentata, postice instructa; pro- thoracis margine antico dentato-producto; tarsis 4-articulatis.
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Jarshall).
The head is black, the labrum blood-red, and the palpi are blackish. ‘The antenne are rather shorter than they usually are in female Hedybiz; their third to the tenth joints are subequal, and not or scarcely longer than wide, there is no — apparent difference in those of the male; the first four joints are yellow, but in the male and sometimes in the female the third and fourth are infuscate internally. The head in the male has at its base a ridge which is bituberculate on each side, the outer tubercule being the larger, and both are yellow at their summits; the thorax in this sex has the middle of the front margin acutely produced and turned upwards, with a tuft of black hairs at its tip. The disk of the thorax is very smooth and shining, blood-red, with either two nearly confluent black dots or with a single larger spot nearly reaching the front margin; its front margin in the female is truncate, faintly bisinuate, the sides and base together round and finely margined. ‘The scutellum is transverse, black, and
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punctured. The elytra are ample, widened behind, deep blue or bluish green, obsoletely sulcate at the base; near the suture closely and finely punctured. The abdomen is black, like the body, but the membranes joining the segments are almost scarlet, so that when distended they appear margined with red. Also the vesicles which these insects can project when alarmed, in common with the Malachti and Hedybi’, are red. The legs are entirely black, the tarsi four-fifths of the length of the tibie.
Obs.—This very distinct genus is the only one yet described of the larger Malachitdes with four-jointed tarsi in the male— a character found in the small Kuropean Treglops and Colctes. I have no doubt the anterior production of the thorax in the male is a stridulating apparatus.
One male and three females were obtained by Mr. Marshall.
Fam. Lycide.
Lyeus Distant’, Bourgeois.
Iycus Distanti, Bourgeois, in Distant’s Naturalist in the Transvaal, p. 196, t. i. fig. 3, &.
@. Minus, attamen modice expansus, mari similiter coloratus, sed subtus saturatiori; abdomine, lateribus et segmentis duobus apicalibus exceptis, nigro, margine humerali multo minus elevato- reflexo.
Long. 12 millim.
Hab. Natal, Malvern. @ 9.
This species, described by M. J. Bourgeois, appears to differ from L. elevatus, Guérin-Mén., Bohem. Ins. Caffr. 1. fase. 2, p. 428, by lacking the lateral black mark, as well as by the shorter rostrum and some differences in form. The male of our insect has the abdomen wholly yellow. The female was not met with by Mr. Distant, and is now described for the first time. The single male sent by Mr. Marshall has the black apical portion of the elytra less contracted than in the single example taken by Mr. Distant at Pretoria, but which struck me when I saw it as a good deal shrivelled, not altogether in a normal condition. I have not seen L. elevatus.
Lycus terminatus, Dalm. (Acantholycus, Bourg.) Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury. ¢ ¢.
Several examples. 6*
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Lycus sinuatus, Dalm. (Hap/olycus, B.) Hab. Natal, Tugela River.
Lycus, sp. flab. Natal, Karkloof.
Lycus haagi, Bourg. (Lopholycus, B.) Lycus haagi, Bourg. Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, p. 166.
flab, Natal, Tugela River, Weenen (Marshall); Transvaal, Barberton.
Fam. Lampyride.
Lampyris nigripennis, Bohem. Hab, Natal, Tugela River.
Lampyris tinctoria, sp. n.
Ochracea, capite, antennis, elytrorum basi, geniculis, tibiis, tarsisque nigro-fumosis.
Long. 14 millim. <6.
Hab. Mashonaland, Gadzima, Umfuli River (arshall).
Parallel, the thorax as wide as the elytra at the base, as long as or a little longer than wide, delicately carinate, rather strongly so near the base, the disk rather strongly ‘ honey- comb” punctured in front, the sides and basal half obsoletely so; scutellum elongate ochraceous; the elytra are opaque, with a smoky patch on their bases, not reaching the outer margin, and shading off indefinitely on the apical side; wings smoky. ‘The body beneath is ochraceous; the femora out- wardly and at the knees, the tibiz and tarsi entirely smoky black.
The antennz are black, but inclined to be fuscous at their base; the mouth and palpi are ochraceous, fuscous in parts.
Three examples.
Lampyris imbecilla, sp. n.
Pallide fusco-testacea, antennis, pedibus, prothoracisque disco in- determinate subfuscis ; elytris nitidis, distincte tricostatis, quam abdomen quadrante brevioribus, debilibus, fuscis.
Long. 13-14 millim. od.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Jarshall). Narrow, obscurely coloured. ‘Thorax as long as wide, the
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hind angles right, the whole surface obsoletely, but rugosely, punctured, the disk shining, channelled in the middle only, scarcely carinate, but with a smooth line in front, of a dirty bone-yellow, but the basal portion within the rather straight sulci ochraceous, the central channel is wide, but short. The elytra are shorter by a fourth part than the abdomen, they are attenuated and shrivelled (which is probably their normal condition from their being very thin); the body beneath is bone-colour, the margins of each segment are paler. This insect is about the size of, and somewhat like, the European L. Lareynied. The shortening of the elytra is a character shared with LZ. Huddi, Gorh., but not to the same degree. Lampyris natalensis. Lampyris natalensis, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. p. 442.
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, at light) ; Lake Nyasa (coll. Gorham).
To this I refer three specimens from Salisbury which have the disk of the thorax with a nearly square black spot placed posteriorly, but not touching the base, and the elytra fuscous with the suture and margins pale.
Lampyris troglodytes, Lampyris troglodytes, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. p. 444. Hab. Natal, Tugela River (Marshall).
Four examples.
Fam. Telephoride.
Telephorus (Cantharis) cireumdatus. Telephorus (Cantharis) circumdata, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. p, 456.
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). Ichthyurus, sp. ?
Malthinus australis, Péringuey. Hab. Natal, 4944 (Marshall).
A single female labelled with M. Péringuey’s name belongs to this genus, but cannot be identified by that sex alone.
PROSTHAPTUS, gen. nov.
Corpus parvum, quasi Malthodis. Antenne 11-articulate, maris tertio incrassato, quam secundus duplo longiore, quarto ad septimum parum elongatis, subequalibus, octavo quam septimus sesqui longiore, tribus ultimis debilibus, quam precedentes multo
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minoribus. Prothoracis margo lateralis in medio dentato-plicatus Femora compressa, intermedia et postica curvata. LElytra abbreviata.
This name is proposed for a singular Telephorid resembling a very small Malthodes, but with the antenne of the male remarkable for the three small apical joints, which spring rather from one side of the oblique termination of the large eighth joint: the three basal joints are somewhat distorted, the third being a little swollen and with a minute linear impression on its inner side. ‘The femora are a little widened and compressed, the intermediate and hinder pairs being bent. The antenne of the female are quite simple.
Prosthaptus claudus, sp. n.
Parvus ; Malthodis minimi, L., statura, fuscus; coxis, femorum basi, tibiisque dilutioribus, subtestaceis ; antennis (maris) flavis, apice nigris, (femine) basi tantum testaceis.
Long. 3 millim. 6 Q.
Mas, antennis parum distortis, articulo tertio incrassato, extus fusco-tincto, octavo precedente sesqui longiore, tribus ultimis parvis.
Femina, antennis simplicibus.
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall).
The head is black and shining, with the antennal sockets and the epistome and mouth yellow; the antenna are about as long as the head, thorax, and elytra taken together, yellow in the male, with only the outside of the third joint, the tip of the eighth, and the three small apical joints blackish, in the female they are fuscous with the base indeterminately yellow. The thorax is small and transverse, as wide as the head, smooth, the lateral margin with a tooth-like projection (somewhat as in Plectonotum, a Central and South American genus), and the hind angle rather prominent. The elytra are as in Malthodes, about half as long as the body, rather opaque, fuscous; the wings are amply developed, covering the hind-body, and are fuscous. The legs are of normal length; the femora appear to be very much compressed, and the middle and hind pair to be curved and distorted.
Many genera of Telephoridz with the antenne very singu- larly distorted or abnormally formed have now been described, but nothing like the present genus is known to me from the African continent. It appears to connect certain forms which I have placed near St/’s with Malthodes ; it is a small, obscurely coloured insect, but of interesting structure.
Two males and one female were obtained by sweeping.
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Section PSEUDOTETRAMERA.
Fam. Erotylide. Subfam. Lawevrrrpes. PROMECOLANGURIA, Fowler.
Promecolanguria Marshalli, sp. n.
Elongata, parallela, subdepressa, nigra, subnitida; capite elytrisque cyanescentibus, illo crebre ac distincte punctato, his profunde crebre punctato-striatis ; prothorace oblongo, postice vix angustato, latitudine fere duplo longiori, subtilius concinne punctato, medio vage canaliculato rufo, antice indistincte nigro-maculato; an- tennis articulis sex basalibus pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus et genibus plus minusve infuscatis ; lineis abdominalibus nullis.
Long. 7 millim,
Hab. Natal, 2008, 8947 (Marshall).
Promecolanguria was proposed as a genus by Fowler for Languria dimidiata (Guérin, Icon. R. A., Ins. p. 314), and is also given in my table of genera (P. Z.8. 1887, p. 361).
There are no abdominal lines ; the eyes are not very coarse, the facets being only just visible, but the depressed form and the oblong and parallel-sided thorax, with finely neatly mar- gined sides, the prosternal process rather long, truncate, and margined with a thickened edge, give these insects a very distinct appearance among the Languriides. I suspect that Languria lyctoides, Fowler (Comptes rendus Soc. Ent. Belg.) belongs to the genus.
The species obtained by Mr. Marshall is very like an insect I have received from the Cape Colony, but has the thorax quite differently shaped from the Langurias I have seen from that Colony. ‘The underside is not so coarsely punctured as that of L. dimidiata; the abdomen is quite finely punctured. ‘T'wo specimens.
d
Promecolanguria trogositotdes, sp. n. Sordide flava, capite prothoraceque, antennis pedibusque piccis ;
illo basi, his basi tarsisque flavis. Long. vix 6 millim.
Hab. Natal, 3748, 3509 (Marshall).
This insect is similar in form to P. Marshalli, but is smaller, the thorax is a little more contracted towards the base and shows only a very faint trace of canaliculation towards its base; the puncturing is fine and like that of P. Marshalli. The head is either black with a metallic
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tinge, or pitchy, finely and thickly punctured; the antenne with four or five joints at the base pitchy red, gradually passing into the black club, insensibly thickened from the seventh joint, but the club is clearly three-jointed. ‘The thorax is pitchy, becoming yellow in the basal half, with a slight metallic tint. The elytra are punctate-striate (as in P. Marshalli) ; there are eight striz, apart from the marginal one, which is on the reflexed edge; their apex is simple, the sutural angle is a right angle, and there is no mucro.
Subfam. Dacwrpes. AMBLYSCELIS, Gorham. Amblyscelis nigrinus, sp. n. Breyiter oblongus, subcordatus, nitidus, niger, crebre fortius punc- tatus ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctulatis ; antennis
pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus piceis. Long. 4 millim.
Hab. Natal, 7252, 7253, 219, 220 (Marshall).
Black, shining ; legs and antenne and palpi yellow, the femora pitchy or nearly black ; tibiee very strongly dilated in their apical half. Head and thorax closely and strongly punctured, the punctures not confluent. Antenne of the form and length usual in the genus, rather slender, their length about equal to the width of the head, the two basal joints nodiform, the third elongate, the club composed of three strongly transverse joints. The thorax very little narrowed in front, with deflexed front angles, the hind angles almost right angles, the disk convex, the sides very finely margined ; the base and apical margin not margined. Elytra narrowed to the apex, presenting almost a uniform outline with the thorax, finely striate, with close but small punctures, the striz and punctures continued to the apex ; the interstices even, with small, rather sparse punctures. Underside thickly, not deeply nor coarsely, punctured ; pro- sternal process very wide at the truncate apex and margined ; coxal lines on the ventral basal segment, which appear raised.
This species has quite the appearance of a T'riplax. As Crotch remarks, the African species which have been referred to that genus are not typical.
Amblyscelis Conradti, sp. n.
A, nigrint statura et summa similitudine, niger, nitidus, crebre fortius punctatus ; elytris profundius punctato-striatis, interstitiis
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fortius punctulatis ; labro, antennis, palpis, pedibusque luteis, illis articulis quinque ultimis nigro-piceis, clava laxe articulata. Long. 4 millim.
Hab. W. Africa, N. Cameroon, Johann Albrechtshdhe (L. Conradt).
Of the same size and extremely like A. nigrinus, but rather broader, more like a 7ritoma, the antenne are longer, their third joint is almost as long as the two basal ones taken together ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth are elongate, the seventh and eighth bead-form; the three apical joints form a lax club, tne first two are strongly transverse, the apical one round and yellowish at the tip. The body beneath is pitchy, but nearly black, strongly and deeply punctured. The legs with their coxe are entirely luteous yellow.
Sent to me by Dr. Kraatz for description.
Amblyscelis brunneus, sp. n.
Oblongus, subparallelus, totus brunneus, parum nitidus; capite prothoraceque creberrime, distincte haud profunde punctatis ; elytris striato-punctatis, subcrenulatis, interstitiis haud punctatis, subopacis.
Long. 4°5 millim.
Hab, Natal, Estcourt, Frere (Marshall).
This insect is very like the species described by me as A. pallidus (‘Notes from Leyden Museum,’ 1888, p. 146) from the Congo, but on comparing them closely it is rather larger than the single exponent of that species in my possession, and the interstices of the elytra are not finely punctulate as