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NOYITATES Z00L0GICAE

H Journal of Zoolo<3\>.

EDITED BY

The Hon. WALTEE EOTHSCHILD, Ph.D.,
Dr. ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN.

Vol. XIV.

No. 1.

Pages 1—342. Plate I.

Issued, March 20th, at the Zoological Museum, Tring.

PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON to. V1NEY, Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

1907.

Vol. XIV.

NOVITATES Z00L0GICAE.

EDITED BY

WALTER ROTHSCHILD, ERNST HARTERT, and KARL JORDAN.

CONTENTS OF NO. 1.

1. ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNI-

THOLOGY OF THE LOWER AMAZONS .

2. ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM TEFFfi,

RIO SOLIMOES, BRAZIL ....

3. NEW SPHINGIDAE

4. TROIDES ALEXANDRAS spec. nov. .

5. NEW DEEPANULIDAE, THYRIDIDAE, URA-

XI I DAE AND GEOMETRIDAE FROM
BRITISH NEW GUINEA ....

6. AMERICAN TUY11IDIDAE, CRAXIIDAE, AND

GEOMETRIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM

7. THE ELAND OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA

(PLATE I.)

8. TWO NEW INDIAN ST' HI SGI DAE .

9. NEW ZYGAEXIDAE IN THE BRITISH

MUSEUM

10. SOME NEW SIPHON APTER A ....

11. FURTHER NOTES ON ilACRUl'VS MAGNUS

12. ON THE BRITISH SUBSPECIES OF CABABTTS

YIOLACEUS ... ...

13. MISCKLLANEA ORNITHOLOGICA .

14. OBITUARIES (KUHN, OCKENDEN).

C. E. Ilellmayr

1-

-39

C. E. Hellmayr

40

-91

Walter Rothschild

and K. Jordan

92

-95

Walter Rothschild

96

. 97-

-186

W. Warren

. 187-

-323

II. Lydehher .

. 324-

-326

George Hampson

327

George Hampson

328

X. C Rolhschihl

. 329-

-333

Walter Rothschild

333

Ernst Hartert .

. 334-

-335

Ernst Hartert .

. 335-

-339

Ernst Hartert .

. 340-

-342

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.
Vol. XIV., 1907.

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE

H Journal of Zoology.

IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM.

EDITED BY

The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.,
Dr. ERNST HARTERT, and Dr. K. JORDAN.

Vol. XIV., 1907.

(WITH SEVEN PLATES.)

Issued at the Zoological Museum, Thing.

PRINTED BY HAZELL, ;WATSON & V1NEY, Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

1908.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV. (1907).

MAMMALIA.

FACES

1. The Bland of British East Africa. R. Lydekker. (Plate I.) . . 324—326

2. Further Notes on Maeropus magnus. Walter Rothschild .... 333

3. Description of a New Tree Kangaroo. F. Forster and Walter Rothschild. 50(1

4. On a New Race of Orycteropus. Walter Rothschild ..... 506

5. Correction. R. Lxdekker 508

AVES.

1. Another Contribution to the Ornithology of the Lower Amazons. C. E.

Hellmayr 1 — 39

2. A Collection of Birds from Tefl'e, Rio Solomoes, Brazil. C. £. Hellmayr 40 — 91

3. Miscellanea Ornithologica. Ernst Hartert 335—339

4. On a Collection of Birds made by Mr. W. Hoffmanns on the Rio Madeira,

Brazil. C. E. Hellmayr 343—412

5. Notes on Papuan Birds. Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert . 433 — 446

6. List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. A. S. Meek in the Mountains on

the Upper Aroa River and on the Angabunga River, British New
Guinea. Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert . . . 447 — 483

7. Notes on African Birds. Ernst Hartert 484 — 503

8. Some Notes on Cassowaries. Walter Rothschild. (Plates V., VI., VII.) 504 — 505

COLEOPTERA.
1. On the British subspecies of Carabus violaceus. Ernst Hartert . . 334 — 335

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LEPIDOPTERA.

PAGES

1. New Sphingidae. Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan . . . 92 — 95

2. Troicles alexandrite. Walter Kothschild 96

3. New Drepamdidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae, from British New

Guinea. William Warren 97 — 18(5

1. African Thyrididrie, Uraniidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum.

William Warren 1-w — 323

5. Two New Indian Sphingidae. G. F. Hampson ....... 327

6. New Zygaenidae in the British Museum. G. F. Hampson .... 328

7. New American Salumiidae and Ceratocampidae. Walter Rothschild . 413 — 432

8. A New Species of Sphingidae. Walter Rothschild ..... 507

9. Some New lUmantopterinae, a subfamily of Zyga midae Walter Roth-

schild 507 — 508

SIPHONAPTERA.

1. Some New Siphonaptera. N. C. Rothschild 329 — 333

OBITUARIES.

Heinrich KiJHN 340

George Richard Ockenden ........... 341

LIST OP PLATES IN VOLUME XIV.

Plate I. Taurotrayus oryx pattersonianus. Colour-type by A. C. Fowler from drawing
by J. Smit.

„ II. Macropus hayenbecki. Colour-type by A. C. Fowler from drawing by J. Smit.

„ III. Anoplops melanosticta <J, and A. hoffmannsi J1?. J. G. Keulemans del.
et lith.

,, IV. Dendrolayus matschiei.

„ V. Casuarius jamrachi. Colour-type by A. C. Fowler from drawing by J. G.
Keulemans.

„ "VI. Casuarius unappendiailatus mitratus. Colour-type by A. C. Fowler from
drawing by J. G. Keulemans.

„ VII. Casuarius doyyetti. Colour-type by A. C. Fowler from drawing by J. G.
Keulemans.

The Plates representing Lepidoptera which were intended to be issued with the present volume
will form part of Volume XV., which volume will contain at least 13 Plates.

ERRATA.

p. 84. line 15 from top, read: Chelidoplera instead of Chelidophera.

p. 237, lines 13, 20, 23 from bottom, read : Oliyimi castaueiiniroiiiila instead of 0. caslaneiventr

p. 4o4. line 14 from bottom, read : mux<r},, nl>r<>t }. ,i instead of mitsucheuhrnrln.

p. 4.04, line 13 from bottom, read: mttsschenbroekii instead of muschenbrockii.

p. 47*. line 20 from top, read : craesirostis instead of crtutivestrii.

2'6 Mfi.1907

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE.

Vol. XIV. MARCH, 1907. No. 1.

ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOG-Y
OF THE LOWER AMAZONS.

By C. E. HELLMAYR.

IN the last volume of this periodical, 011 pp. 353 — 385, I reported apon a collection
of birds from the vicinity of Para, brought together by Mr. W. Hoffmanns.
Since that time the Tring Museum received two further consignments from the
same indefatigable collector, containing several new forms and others of considerable
interest.

After leaving Para, Mr. Hoffmanns went to Santarem, on the left bank of the
Rio Tapajoz, and collected for several weeks at two small villages in the neigh-
bourhood of that town, called Itaituba and Vrucurituba. According to one of
his letters, the first of these places is situated in dense primeval forest, while
Urncurituba is partly surrounded by " campos."

In March and April Mr. Hoffmanns made another stay at Obidos, on the north
side of the Amazons. Although the number of birds sent is very small, amounting
to only about a hundred skins, this little collection is of great interest, proving as
it does that the fauna of Obidos is to a certain extent different from that of
Santarem. Even from the few species obtained on this occasion, it becomes evident
that the broad sheet of waters of the Lower Amazons separates the ranges of
several representative species. As already stated by Bates,* many typical Guianan
forms are found near Obidos which apparently do not occur on the sonth bank of
the great river ; while in the avifauna of Santarem we meet with a good many
Upper Amazonian elements, among them being also such species as inhabit the banks
of the lower Rio Madeira. The difference is illustrated in the present collections
by the following instances : —

Santarem. Obidos.

Cercomacra nigrescens approximans. Cercomacra tyrannina.

flypocnemis cantator peruvianas. Hypocnemis cantator cantator.

Momottis momota nattereri. Momotus momota momota.

The material at our command is, of course, far too incomplete to justify any
attempt at drawing definite conclusions. A thorough exploration of the Lower
Amazonian valley is one of the greatest desiderata of neotropical Ornithology, and
would certainly yield a rich harvest to the naturalist interested in the problems
of geographical distribution. It, must be remembered, however, that nowhere is
travelling more expensive and more difficult than on the Brazilian Amazons ;
and under due consideration of these circumstances, Mr. Hoffmanns is to be con-
gratulated on having so successfully performed his laborious task.

* * The Xaturalid on the Amazon, new edition, 1S02, p. 131.

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The following account is divided into two chapters, the first dealing with the
birds from Santarem, the second with those obtained at Obidos. As in my former
papers on neotropical birds which appeared in this periodical, I have quoted only
the original descriptions and such references as strictly pertain to the fauna! district
in question.

I. BIRDS FROM SANTAREM.

1. Turdus fumigatus Licht.

Cfr. Nov. Zool ziii. (1906) p. 353.

Morula fumigaia, Chapman & Riker, Auk 18110. p. 135 (Santarem).

No. 423. ? ad., Itaituba, 10. i. 06. " Iris brown, bill black."

Like the one previously seut from Prata, Para, this specimen has a large white

patch in the anal region, otherwise it agrees with ordinary T. fumigatus of East

Brazil.

2. Troglodytes musculus clarus Berl. & Hart.
Of. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 270.

No. 559. ? ad., Urncuritnba, 9. ii. 06. " Iris brown."
Identical with specimens from Para and British Guiana.

3. Thryophilus albipectus albipectus (Cab.)

Thryoihoru* albipeetut Cabania in Schoniburgk, Reisen Brit. Guiana iii. (1848), p. 073 (Cayenne).
Thryophilui taettioptera Ridgway, Pror. I'.S. Mus. x. 1887 (publ. 1888) p. 518 (Diamautiua,
Santarem).

No. 460. cT ad., Itaituba, 18. i. 06. "Iris brown."— Wing 65, tail 46, bill
19i mm.

This specimen, which tallies well with Ridgway's description, belongs certainly
to the same form as a large series from British Guiana, Rio Branco and the
('ama River, Venezuela, which I had previously compared with Cabanis' type of
T. albipectus in the Berlin Museum. There is no appreciable difference in the colour
of the npper surface, and the lower parts in No. 460 are exactly as in a specimen
from the C'aura, throat and middle of the breast being white, foreneck and sides
buff, deepening into pale brownish on Banks ; the under tail-coverts tawny. Mr.
Ridgway describes T. taenioptera as having narrow dusky bars on the back ; while
our specimen from Santarem has no trace of these markings. This discrepancy,
however, seems of very little importance in view of the great variability of that
character shown by our C'aura series (12 skins).

The S ad. from Barra do Rio Madeira, mentioned in Verkandl. Zool. Botan.
Gesellsch. Wien 1901, p. 769, as probably belonging to the form found in North-
east Pern, proves to be only an extreme, dark-coloured specimen of '/'.</. albipectus ;
there are several similar examples in the series from the C'aura River. On the
other hand, skins from Pern apparently represent a distinct race, differing from
'/'. a. albipectus by their shorter tail, slightly shorter bill, and much darker ochraceous
under parts, the throat alone being whitish.

What I said (/.<•) about the geographical races of T. albipectus requires,
therefore, some modifications. Having examined much additional material, it
seems to me that the following forms ought to be recognised : —

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a. T. albi pectus albipectus (Cab.). British Guiana, Cayenne ; Caura River, in

East Venezuela ; North Brazil : Rio Branco, and Lower Amazonia from
Para to Barra do Bio Madeira.
Upper parts warm rnfescent brown ; throat white, rest of under surface buff,
deepening into ochraceona on flanks and crissum.
Wing, $ 63—138, ? 60—64 ; tail 46-52 mm.

Examined : 1 ad. Cayenne (type of species) ; 4 Forte do Rio Brauco ; 4 British
Guiana; 1 Pani; 1 Santarem ; 12 Caura River ; 1 Barra do Rio Madeira.

b. T. albipectus hjpoleucua Berl. & Hart. Middle Orinoco from Ciudad Bolivar

to Atnre (for characters see Nov. Zool. ix. 1902. p. 6).
Examined : 16 specimens (including the type).

c. T. albipectus bogotensis Hellm. On the upper Orinoco : Perico, Maipures ;

and in Bogota collections.

Differs from a and b by its much brighter rufous-brown upper parts, and by
having the whole lower surface (except the white throat) deep ochraceous, passing
into rnfescent brown on flanks.

Wing 65—69 ; tail 48—52 ; bill m— 19 mm.

Examined : 5 Bogota skins (including the type) : 1 $ ad. Perico, 1 $ ad.
Maipures.

d. T. albipectus venezuelanus (Cab.)

Thryothorus venezuelanus Cabanis, .l/«.«. Heinean. i. (185U) p. 78 (Venezuela).

Near Puerto Cabello, North Venezuela.

Differs from T. a. bogotensis by its duller and darker upper parts, distinctly ashy
grey sides of the neck, and by having the foreueck and middle of the breast much
paler, buffy ochraceous.

Wing 60, 64 ; tail 40, 43 ; bill 16, 17J mm.

Examined : 1 ? ad., S. Esteban, near Puerto Cabello (Mas. H. v. Berlepsch) ;
1 av. imm. from Venezuela (type of T. venezuelanus Cab.), kindly lent by
Oberamtmann Heine.

The distinctly ashy grey sides of the neck render this form easily recognisable
among its affine.s.

e. T. albipectus snbsp. North-east aud Central Peru ; and on the Rio Jurna

in North-west Brazil. Occasionally found in Bogota collections.

Differs from T. a. venezuelanus by the much duller, dark olive-brown colour
of the pileum (without any rnfescent tinge), aud by having the whole under surface
(except the white throat) deep ochraceous, as in T. a. bogotensis, from which it
ma)', however, be distinguished by its much shorter tail, shorter bill, and the
colour of the pileum, which in bogotensis is bright rufous brown, like the back.
There is scarcely any grey on the sides of the neck.

Wing 60—65 ; tail 40-44 ; bill 16—17 mm.

Examined : 4 Nauta, N.E. Peru ; 1 ¥ ad. Upper Ucayali ; 3 3 S ad.
Chuchurras, Huanuco, Peru ; 2 Rio Jama ; 2 Bogota collections.

f. T. albipectus rufiventris Scl. Central Brazil : Goiaz and Mattogrosso south

to the Rio Grande, northern frontier of S. Paulo.
For characters see I.e.

Examined : 1 c?, 2 ¥ ¥ , Cuyaba ; 2 cJ S, Goiaz ; 1 d ad. Bio Paranahyba, Goiaz ;
1 $ ad. Leopoldiua, Rio Araguay, Goiaz ; 1 ¥ ad. Bio Grande, S. Paulo.

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g. '/'. albipecttts galbraithit i Lawr.) Isthmus of Panama.

Differs from T. ». rufiventria by its much shorter tail, and by having the ear-
coverts almost uniform white without dusky streaks.

Examined : •"> adults from Panama (including 2 topotypes, received from
Lawrence, in Mas. IL v. Berlepsch ; and in coll. Boucard, actually in the Paris
Museum).

4. Polioptila livida livida (Gm.)

Motacilla livida dunlin. S>/sl. Nat. 1. ii. ( 1788) p. 981 (ex Daubcnton, PI. ail. 705 Bg. 3 (= ?).—

Madagascar— errore! We substitute Cayenne).
Polioptila livida Hellmayr, Verhandi. Zool. Bot. <>'.-■. Wien, 1903. p. 'J-':", (crit.)

tptila buffoni Sclater. I'.Z.S. 1861. p. 127 (part. : descr. and hab. : " Guiaua," sc. Cayenne).

No. 561 (?)jr., Urucnrituba, 10. ii. 06. " Iris black."

Agrees perfectly with a large series from Cayenne and Surinam. This form is
characterised by the wholly white outermost rectrix, the broad white edges to the
tertials almost reaching to the shaft, and by the greater upper wing-coverts being
margined with whitish (not with bluish grey, as in all other forms).

In Nov. Zool. viii. 1901, p. '.550, I recorded a female from Para (Schnlz coll. —
Mus. H. v. Berlepsch), and Dr. Goeldi (Ibis L897, p. 161) observed the species
near Arnapa, South Guiana. These were the only records of P. I. litida for Brazil,
hitherto.

Since the publication of my synopsis of the genus * I have examined a large
amount of additional material, and it may be worth while to say a kw words about
the conclusions arrived at. Mr. Ridgway f having disentangled the complicated
synonymy of the Central Americau forms of the P. nigriceps group, I can confine
myself to those found in South America, of which the following are to be recognised :

a. P. livida livida (Gm.). Cayenne, Surinam ; South Guiaua (North Brazil):

Am:i|a ; and Lower Amazonia : from Para to Sautarem.

(if this form I have now a splendid series before me, and I rind the characters
pointed out above quite constant.

Examined: 5 £6 ad., 1 6 imm., 3 ??, Cayenne (G. K. Cherrie coll.);
4 <$ 6 ad., 3 ? ? imm. from Paramaribo ; 1 ? jr. from Santarem ; 1 ? ad. Pani.

b. P. livida innotata Ilellin. British Guiaua, and Rio Brauco (Forte do S.

Joaquim) in Nortb Brazil.
Like a, this form has the outermost tail feather wholly white, but the upper

wiug-coverts are margined with pale bluish grey, and the white edges to the tertials
much narrower. The tail feathers, too, are much narrower.

Examined : 4 3 i ad., 4 ? ? Rio Branco ; 6 $$ ad., 4 ? ? British Guiana.

e. P. livida plunibeiceps Lawr.

Ma plumbeicepi Lawrence, Proc. Acad. Philad. ( 1865), p. 37 (Venezuela),
sharpe, Cat. Bird* Brit. Mut.x. (1885) p. 449 (Venezuela).
/' nigriceps am icularit Hellmayr, .Y<<<\ Zool. rii. (19o >i p. '•:;>> (Bogota).

Venezuela south to the Orinoco valley, westwards to Columbia (Cauca valley).

Mr. Ridgway distinguished P. anteocularis of Bogota from P. plumbeicepi of

Venezuela, on account of its larger dimensions and paler chest ; these differences,

* "Rerrei, h. Lief, is (1903) pp. 16-29.

t JJirde North and Middle America iii. p. 710 2.

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however, do not hold good when a series from both countries is compared. I have
before me 26 Bogota skins of both sexes, 1 (?,2 ? ? from the Cauca valley, 18 adults
of both sexes from Cumana, and 14 adults from the Orinoco valley, and fail to see
how they can be separated into two forms. There is no difference in the shade of
grey on the chest or in the amount of white on the lateral tail feathers between
Venezuela and Bogota examples ; nor can they be distinguished in size, as will be
seen from the following measurements. I agree, however, with Mr. Ridgway, that
this form is quite distinct from P. nigriceps Baird, of Western Mexico, which I had
not seen when writing my monograph of the genus.

8 <?(? ad., Cumami : wing 47 — 52 ; tail 40—52 ; bill 11 — 13 mm.

8 SS ad., Orinoco valley : wing 48— 52 i ; tail 48—52 ; bill 11$— 12$ mm.

1 c? ad., San Fernando- Apnre, Venezuela : wing 50 h ; tail 48 ; bill 11$ mm.

16 S<5 ad., Bogota : wing 48—52 ; tail 48—53 ; bill 12— 13$ mm.

1 d ad., Cauca valley : wing 52 ; tail 48$ ; bill ] 2 mm.

(I. P. Uvula parvirostris Sharpe. Southern tributaries of the Peruvian Amazons :
Ucayali, Huallaga, etc.

e. P. Uvula maior Hellm. Andes of North Peru.

f. P. livida leueogastra (Wied). Eastern Brazil from Bahia to Pernambuco.

The females of all these forms {a,— J ) have a distinct black postocular patch,
sharply defined against the white or greyish white lower portion of the ear
coverts. This dusky auricular patch is altogether wanting in the female of
P. nigriceps of Western Mexico.

5. Granatellus pelzelni pelzelni Scl.

Granatellus pelzelni Sclater, P.Z.S. 1864, p. GOG pi. 37. fig. 1. closer, orig. £ ad. (Destacamento do
Ribeirao, Rio Madeira).

Nos. 441, 400. c?c? ad., Itaituba, 13, 27. i. 00. " Iris brown, feet greyish bice,
bill greyish black."— Wing 54; tail 51$, 52 ; bill 10, 11 mm.

No. 489. S jnv., Itaituba, 20. i. 06. "Iris brown."— Wing 55; tail 54$;
bill 11 mm.

No. 490. ? ad., Itaituba, 20. i. 00. " Iris brown, feet grey."— Wing 54 ; tail 52 ;
bill 11 mm.

The S S ad. agree with the type from the Rio Madeira and with a large series
from the Orinoco region in having the forehead and crown black, a large, broad
white postocular stripe, and by the grey flanks being separated from the rosy red
middle of the belly by a distinct white stripe. The ? is also perfectly identical
with those from the Caura River.

G. p. paracusis thus appears to be entirely confined to the Para district, like
so many other forms.

6. Pachysylvia thoracica semicinerea (Scl. and Salv.)
Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 355.

No. 446. S ad., Itaituba, 15. i. 00. " Iris white, feet brownish grey, bill grey."
—Wing 58 ; tail 49 : bill 14 mm.

This bird fully confirms what I said (I.e.) about the affinities of this "species.'
It has the chest even more distinctly shaded with yellowish than the r? from Parti,

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mentioned in my Former article, and the linck is of a brighter, more yellowish green
tinge, just as in /'. /. griseivt ntris t Berl. & Hart.).

/'. /. semicinerea lias a ranch wider range than was hitherto supposed. ])r.
Lorenz, of Vienna, having kindly sent me Natterer's series of Hylophilus, I was
much surprised to find that the two specimens from Borba andSalto do Girao, Bio
Madeira, recorded by Yon Pclzelu * s.n. Hylophilus tkoracicus, belonged to the
present form, agreeing in every way with onr male from Santarem.

Notwithstanding its grey Bides of the head, P. t. semicinerea is quite distinct
from P. pectoralis (Sel.), which also occurs on the Amazons, whence Natterer sent a
specimen to the Vienna Museum. I have, besides, examined a ? collected by Garbe
near Santarem, belonging to the Museu Panlista, Brazil.

T. Tachycineta albiventer (Bodd.)

Hirvndo albiventer LSoddaert, Tail. PI. enl. p. 32 (1783. — ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 546 fig. 2. Cayenne).
Tachycineta albivenlris Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1890, p. 266 (Santarem).

No. 488. <J ad., Itaitnba, 26. i. 06. " Iris black."
No. 555. ? ad., Urncnritaba, 8. i. 06. " Iris brown."
Not different from Cayenne specimens.

8. Coereba chloropyga (Cab.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 356.

Coereltt chloropyga Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1890, p. 260 (Santarem).

No. 588. ? ad., Urncurituba, 27. ii. 06. " Iris brown."

This specimen agrees fully with others from Para and Bahia, being in everv
way typical of C. chloropyga. The back is pale olive-grey, the rump dull pale
olive-yellow, and there is no wing-speculum.

9. Euphonia chlorotica chlorotica (Linn.)

Tanagra chlorotica Linnaeus, SyaL Nat. ed. xii. 1. (1766) p. 317 (ex Brisson.— " Cayania'').

wi'a chlori'lioi Chapman & Riker, An'.-, lsnj, p. 2)17 (Santarem).

No. 457. S ad., Itaitnba, 17. i. 06. "Iris brown."— Wing 55 ; tail 32; bill
8 mm.

Agrees with an adult S from Cayenne (Brit. Mm ex coll. Sclater) except in
being a little more violet on throat and uape.

10. Euphonia violacea lichtensteinii (Cab.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 350.

I-'."I>!< ' Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1890, p. 200.

No. 498. • '. ad., Itaituba, 27. i. 06. -Iris brown."— Wing 57 ; tail 32 ; bill
10J mm.

No. 500. eJ ad., Itaituba, 28. i. 06. "Iris In-own.-'— Wing 55"; tail 31 ; bill
In nun.

Identical with specimens IV.un Para.

• /.,!,■ OrnWi. Bratil. ii. (1868) p. 70, note 1.

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11. Calospiza mexicana boliviana (Bp.)

[Tanagra mexicana Linnaeus, Syit. Nat xii. 1. p. 315 (17G6. — ex Brisson : Cayana (excl. syn.

Hernandez — Mexico)] .
Callospisa boliviana Bonaparte, C. Rend. Ac. Sci. Paris xxxii. p. 80 (1851. — Guarajos, East Bolivia,

coll. D'Orbigny. — Type in Paris Museum examined).
Calliste boliviana Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1807. p. 571 (Capim River) ; Chapman & Riker,

Auk, 1890, p. 267 (Santarem).
Callilteflaviventris (nee Viellot !) Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Brasil. xii. (1809) p. 207 (Guapore, Borba,

Barra do Rio Negro).

No. 499. ? ad., Itaituba, 28. i. 00. " Iris brown."

This specimen agrees perfectly with others from Para (coll. Steere — Mob. Tring)
and those collected by batterer near Borba, Rio Madeira, and on the banks of the
R. Guapore.* "When lately in Paris I compared some of these skins with Bonaparte's
type, and found them identical. All have the shoulder-patch of a dark azure blue,
only some of the innermost smaller wing-coverts being slightly tinged with turquoise
blue. Examples from N.E. Peru, East Ecuador and Bogota have, as a rule, this
patch quite uniform azure blue, but some of them agree with the Brazilian ones. In
the intensity of the yellow belly there is no constaut difference between specimens
from various localities.

Three skins from Barra do Rio Negro (=Man;ios) differ in having the shoulder-
patch decidedly more mixed with turquoise blue, thereby forming the transition to
C. m. mexicana, of Cayenne and Surinam, C. m. media Berl. and Hart, of the Orinoco
valley, and C. m. tieilloti (Scl.) of Trinidad. In these three forms, however, the
shoulder is uniform nile blue, without any trace of azure blue, and in the two first
named the belly is very much paler yellow.

12. Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafr. & D'Orb.

TaehyphomtB luctuosus Lafresnaye et D'Orbigny, Syn. Ar. i. in Mag. Zool. 1837 cl. ii. p. 29
(Guarayos, Bolivia) ; Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1890, p. 207 (Santarem).

No. 526. S ad., Itaituba, 31. i. 08. " Iris brown."

Not different from Bolivian specimens, perhaps a little more glossy on the lower
surface.

13. Pitylus grossus (Linn.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 359.

Pitylus grossus Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1890, p. 267 (Santarem).

No. 517. 8 ad., Itaituba, 30. i. 06. "Iris light brown."
No. 519. ?, Itaituba, 30. i. 06. "Iris brown."

14. Sporophila castaneiventris Cab.

Sporophila castaneiventris Cabanis in Schomburgk, Reisen Brit. Guiana iii. (1848) p. G79 (Cumaka,
coast of British Guiana) ; Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1890, p. 268 (Santarem).

Nos. 531, 556. c? t? ad., Urucurituba, 0, 9. ii. 05. " Iris brown."

No. 464. ? , Itaituba, 18. i. 00. " Iris brown."

The males are not different from Gniauan and Upper Amazonian skins, except
for the tail being a very little shorter. The female also agrees very well with those
from other localities.

* I am much obliged to Dr. von Lorenz for kindly sending mc the whole series of the Vienna Museum.

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15. Sporophila lineoli (Linn.)

Loxla Ihieola Linnaeus, Sylt. Nat. xii. 1. (1766) p. 'Mi (" Asia "— errore ! We accept Surinam as
the typical locality : ofr. Nov. Zool. i\. p. 26).

Nos. 529, 538, 558, 578, 580, 5S3. <$<$ ad. Urncnrifcnba, Santarem, 4, 5, 0, 24,

2;"). ii. 06. " Iris brown."

All these specimens arc typical V lineola, with a broad white stripe along the
middle of the forehead and erown, and with the tinder parts pure white, without any
blackish cross-lines.

Of this form, I have examined 47 J J ad. in the Museums of Tring, Vienna,
Turin and Berlepsch from the following localities : Camacusa, Rio Carimang, Auuai,
British Guiana ; Cayenne ; Bahia; Mattogrosso ; S.E. Bolivia (Borelli coll.) ; Salts;
Rio Xie, a tributary of the upper Kio Negro : Caicara, Orinoco ; and Samiria,
N.E. Peru. There are no differences between specimens from the various localities,
but the series appears to be quite distinct from S. bouvronides (Less.), with which
S. ocellata Scl. & Salv., >s'. trinitatis Sharpe, and S. amazonica Sharpe are synonymous.

10. Sicalis columbiana goeldii Berl.

gotldii Berlepsch, Bull. B.O.C. xvi. (May 1906) p. 97 (Santarem).
Sycalis columhiana (nee Cabanis!) Pelzeln. Zm- Ornith. Brasil. iii. (1869), p. 231 (Barra do Rio
Xegro) ; Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1890. p. 2(W (Santarem).

4 c?c? ad., 2 c?c? juv., 1 ? ad. from Umcnrituba, 6, 11, 13, 25. ii. 00. "Iris
brown, feet greyish or greyish brown, bill greyish yellow, above darker." Nos. 532,
533, 534, 500," 576, 581," 582. 1 S ad., 1 '<$ juv. from Itaitnba, 18, 22. i. 00.
'• Iris brown." Nos. 450, 480.

S. e. goeldii is apparently the representative of S. c. columbiana in the Amazonian
basin. The specimens collected by Natter er near Manaos (= Barra do Rio Negro)
belong to this form, and in the Paris Museum there are two adult males from the
Yana-yaco River, a tributary of the Ucayali, Eastern Peru, collected by J. Hanxwell.
I found them perfectly identical with some of Natterer's specimens.

The 6 $ ad. from Santarem, Manaos and Eastern Peru exhibit all the characters
pointed out by Count Berlepsch, and the ? also differs slightly from those of
S. c. columbiana and S. <\ leopoldinae. The differences between the three forms are
best shown by the following short rtfsume.

a. Sicalis columbiana columbiana Cab.
Sycalh columbiana Cabanis, .Vus. Eeinean i. (1S51) p. 147 (Porto Cabello, Venezuela).

Hab. I enezuela : Porto < labello (teste ( tabanis) ; Aitagracia, west of Angostura
(Ciud. Bolivar), on the middle Orinoco; Snapure and La Priciou on the ('aura River,
a southerly tributary of the Orinoco.— The locality Trinidad, sometimes assigned to
this form, is erroneous.

J ad. Upper pails uniformly light yellowish green, rump scarcely brighter than
the buck; forehead and vertex as far as above the posterior angle of the eye dull
reddish orange. Under surface bright yellow, but without any orange tint, shading
into greenish on the sides of the chest. Cheeks light yellow, ear-coverts dull
greenish. Bill stoni and strong. Wing (7 SS ad.): 00—63, tail 43—40; bill
1"— 11 mm.

? ad. The g] [mens from the Orinoco district agree well with Cabanis1

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description, the chest and sides being always more or less tinged with pale brownish,
the former with faint indications of dusky shaft-lines. Wing (7 ? ? ad.) : 60—61 ;
tail 42 — 44 ; bill 10—11 mm.

b. Sicalis cobimhiiiiiii Ii'OjinhlinKi' Hellm.
Bull. Brit. Or,,. CI. xvi. (April 190C>) p. 85 (S. Leopoldina, Goiaz).

Nab. Central Brazil : near S. Leopoldina on the upper Rio Aragnay, Goiaz.

S ad. Differs from that of S. c. columbiana in its smaller size, very much
smaller and weaker bill, slightly more yellowish green back and decidedly brighter,
fiery orange-red frontal patch. The under surface is of the same bright yellow,
but the sides of the chest lack the greenish tinge ; the cheeks are yellowish olive
like the back, as in «S'. c. columbiana.

Two <$S ad. measnre : wing 58 ; tail 40 ; bill 9A — 10 mm.

? ad. Differs from that of the typical form in being smaller, the bill especially
so, and in being paler everywhere. The upper parts are paler and more greyish
brown, the lower ones more whitish, the chest and sides very slightly shaded with
brownish.

Two ? ? ad. : 55, 57 ; tail 41 ; bill 9 mm.

c. Sicalis columbiana goeldii Berlepsch.

Bab. Lower Amazons : Paricatnba, Urncurituba and Itaituba, near Santarem ;
Manaos ; Eastern Pern : Yana-yaeo, a tributary of the Ucayali River.

S ad. Differs at a glance from the two foregoing forms by having the lower
parts of a much brighter, orange yellow colour, which is spread also over the cheeks
and ear-coverts. The fiery orange-red of the forehead extends over the whole vertex ;
the nape and the rump are much brighter, of a golden olive yellow ; and the quills
are more distinctly edged with pale yellowish on the inner webs. The bill is stout
and large, as in S. c. columbiana.

Ten J cf ad., Santarem and Manaos (including the types) measnre : wing
58—63 ; tail 42—45 ; bill 11—1'.' mm.

Two Jc? ad., Yana-yaco, East Peru : wing 59, Go ; tail 40J, 43 ; bill 11 mm.

? ad. Agrees in the paleness of the uuder parts with that of S. c. leopoldinae,
but has longer wings and a very much larger bill. Besides, the flanks are washed
with bnffy yellowish, the axillaries and under wing-coverts more yellowish, and the
inner webs of the quills more distinctly edged with yellowish white. Wing 59;
tail 42; bill 11 mm.

17. *Myospiza aurifrons (Spix).

Tanagra aurifrons Spix, Av. Bins. ii. (1825) p. 38. tab. L. fig. 2 (''in provincia Bahia." — ! V) ; cfr.

Hellmayr, Abhandl. Ahad. MiiTwheii, vol. xxii '■'> (1906) p. 673.
Colurniculus peruanus anct. (nee Bonaparte !).

No. 403. ? fere ad. Itaituba, Santarem, Is. i. 06. "Iris brown."— Wing 58 ;
tail worn ; bill 12 mm.

Agrees well with specimens from Upper Amazonia, but seems to be somewhat
smaller. This, however, may be due to its being in very worn plumage. Additional
examples are required to prove whether the Lower Amazonian form is really
identical with that found in Peru, etc., or not.

I have shown, in the paper quoted above, that the proper name of this species
is M. aurifrons.

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Not yet recorded from the Lower Amazons, though collected by Natterer near
Manaos, and at Borba, Rio Madeira.

18. Faroaria gularis gularis ( Linn.)

Tanagra gularis Linnaeus, Syst . Nat. xii. 1- (1766) p. 316 (ex Brisson. — "America." We substitute

( 'ay: ran a* typical locality).
Paroaria gularis Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 18G7. p. 572 (Mexiana) ; Chapman & Riker, Auk,

1800, p. 268 (Santarem).

No. 422. ? ad., Itaituba, 10. i. 06. "Iris yellow."

No. 462. Adult (not sexed), 18. i. 00. " Iris red."

No. 421. S juv., Itaituba, 10. i. 00. " Iris yellow."

Besides these, we possess tour adnlt specimens from the Lower Amazons : one
each from the Toeantins and from Mexiana Island, collected by A. 11. Wallace ; one
6 ad. from Boa Vista and another from Espiritu Santo, both obtained by Prof. Steere.
They agree perfectly with Cayenne examples, except in having a slighter, smaller
and slenderer bill ; this, however, is not likely to be a constant character. P. g.
cervicalis Scl. of Eastern Bolivia and Mattogrosso differs only in having no black
whatever ronnd the eye. I have examined a specimen from Mojos in Eastern
Bolivia (D'Orbigny coll., Mus. Paris), and several examples collected by Natterer
in Western Mattogrosso. Those obtained by the same traveller near Borba, Rio
Madeira, represent, however, typical gularis.

19. Cacicus cela (Linn.)

Cfr. Nov. ZnoJ. xiii. p. 350.

Camicus /a metis Riker & Chapman, .1«7.-, 1890, p. 269 (Santarem).

Nos. 428, 429. c?c? ad., Itaituba, 11. i. 00. "Iris light blue, bill greenish
white."

20. Molothrus bonariensis bonariensis (Gm.)

Tanagra bonariensis Gmelin, Syit. Nat. l.ii. (1788) p. 898 (" Bonaria.'' — ex Daubenton, PI. nil. 710).
Molothrus serieem PelzelD, Znr Ornith. Brasil. iii. (18G9) p. 200 (Santarem).
Molothrus bonarien Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1890, p. 269 (Santarem).

No. 557. ? juv., Urucuritnba, 9. ii. 06. " Iris brown."— Wing 93 ; tail 73J ;
bill I'h mm.

The form found near Santarem is typical M. bonariensis. I have examined an
adult cJ in the Vienna Museum, which agrees in size with specimens from Buenos
Aires and South Brazil (wing 109, tail 82, bill 19| mm.). In the vicinity of Para,
however, M. b. atronitens Cab. takes its place. This is a mncli smaller bird,
with a weaker, slenderer bill. The Vienna Museum possesses a pair from Cajutubn,
near Para (Natterer coll.) which I am unable to distinguish from Trinidad and
Tobago examples (cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 20).

21. Leistes militaris (Linn.)

Emberiza militaris Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 178(1758 — "in America, Asia." — as typical locality

accepted Surinam : cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 21).
Lei U - militaris Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. iii. (I860), p. 19(1 (Santarem).
/•■ ' d guiam n tis Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1890, p. 269 (Santarem).

Nos. 528, 529, 530, 535, 556. 3 c?c? ad., <? juv., ? ad., Urncnritnba, Santarem,
4. 5, 0, 7. ii. 06, •' Iris brown, bill grey or greyish black."

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The wings of the males measure : 100, 09, 98 ; the tall 01 — 03 mm.

The specimens are in freshly moulted plumage, with broad pale brown edge to
the feathers ; the bill in the dried skins appears pale horn-colour, the lower
mandible being almost brownish white. Natterer considered a bird with a brown
bill and of rather large size, which he had obtained at Santarem, to represent the
true L. militaris, and separated specifically those with black bills and of rather
smaller dimensions, collected on the Rio Madeira and near Para, as L. erythrothorax.
This distinction, however, cannot be upheld, for both snjrposed forms are to be found
together in Surinam, on the Orinoco, in Bogota collections and elsewhere. The pale
bill seems to indicate immaturity.

22. Todirostrum maculatum signatum Scl. & Salv.

[Todus maculatus~Desmaxe&t, Hist. Nat. Tun//, etc. pi. 70 (1805 — no locality : we substitute Cayenm ).]

Todirostrum signalum Sclater & Salvin, Ibis 1881, p. 2IJ7 (N.E. Peru).

Todirostrum maculatum (nee Desmarest) Riker & Chapman, Auk 1890, p. 269 (Santarem).

No. 504. t? ad., Itaituba, 29. i. 00. " Iris yellow."

It agrees with several topotypical specimens from Nauta. The feathers of
the forehead and vertex are slate-grey, with small dusky spots and narrow white
lateral edges. A series of true T, m. maculatum from Snrinam and British Gniana
has the front and anterior portion of the crown distinctly black, with the white
edges more pronounced. Specimens from Para belong also to the typical form.

23. *0rchilns ecaudatus (Lafr. & D'Orb.)

Todirostrum ecaudatum Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny, Syn. Ac. i. in Mag. Zool. cl. ii. p. 47 (1837—
Yuracares, N.E. Bolivia).

No. 474. S ad., Itaituba, Santarem. 21. i. 00. " Iris brown."
Not yet recorded from the Lower Amazons, but known to occnr in Venezuela
and ou the island of Trinidad.

24. *Stigmatura budytoides (Lafr. & D'Orb.)

Oulicicora budytoides Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Syn. Ar. i. in Mag. Zool. cl. ii. (1837), p. 5G
(Valle grande, East Bolivia).

No. 543. ? ad., Urucuritnba, Santarem, 7. ii. 00. " Iris brown, feet and
bill black." Wing 52 ; tail 59 (in moult) ; bill 10 mm.

This specimen agrees with those collected by Natterer on the upper Rio
Madeira, the markings ou the wiugs and tail being yellowish white. In the type
from Eastern Bolivia they are pure white, but this is not likely to be a constant
character.

The locality Santarem extends the range of the species far to the north, it
having previously been only known from the headquarters of the southern tributaries
of the Amazons (Ucayali, Rio Madeira, etc.). Like Serpophaga caudata, it appears
to be an inhabitant of the banks of great streams.

25. Phaeomyias murina murina (Spix).

Platyrhynchus mwinus Spix, Ar. Bras. ii. p. 14 pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1825— Brazil) ; cfr. Berlepsch and
Hellmayr, Journ.f. Ornith. 1905, p. 2.

No. 585. ? ad., Urncurituba, Santarem, 20. ii. 00. " Iris brown."
Not different from Bahia skins, perhaps the belly a little paler yellow.

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-1'. Euipidochanes poecilocercus Pelz.

EmpidocJianci eta Pelzeln, Zur Ora Brasil. ii. (1868) p. 181 descr. orig. ? (Rio Amajau,

Rio Negro).
Cfr. Rcrlepsch & Hellmayr, Journ./. Ornith. 1905, p. 27.

No. 437. ? ad., Itaitnba, 12. i. 06. "Iris brown, bill and feet black."
Wing 55 : tail 48 : tars. 16J ; bill 14 ram.

This is perhaps the most interesting bird in Mr. Hoffmanns' collection. Hitherto
but a single specimen was known, an adult ? procured by Nattererin the district of
the Rio Negro. Count Berlepsch and I published some notes about the typical
example and described the peculiar shape of the three outer primaries, in our paper
on little known types of neotropical birds, quoted above.

The specimen sent by Hoffmanns has the outer primaries of the same curious
shape, and agrees in general coloration with the detailed MS. description I had
drawn up from the type, differing only iu its duller, more greenish brown upper
parts, cinnamomeous under tail-coverts, more whitish throat, and in having the bill
entirely black (not pale brownish at the base of the lower mandible). These slight
differences are probably individual.

27. Onychorhynchus coronatus (P.L.S. Mull.)

Uutcicapa coronata P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. 1776, p. 1G8 (ex Daubenton, P. enl. 289.—

Cayenne).
Todus regius Gmelin, Syit Nat. i. 1 (1788), p. 445 (also based on Daubenton, PI. enl. 289).
Muscivora regia auct.

No. 575. (c?) ad., Urncnritnba, 13. ii. 06. " Iris brown."
No. 570. c? jr., Urncnritnba, 12. ii. 06. " Iris dark brown."
They are practically identical with specimens from .Surinam and from the Canra
River, Venezuela. The back is of a dull dark brownish olive, and the upper tail-
coverts and chest are crossed by numerous blackish tranverse lines.

Specimens from East Pern upon which O. castelnaui Dev. was established are
not different either. Deville, when describing this form, compared it with several
examples of O. swainsoni (Pelz.), as 1 satisfied myself by examining the series
in the Paris Museum. The two mounted specimens collected by the Castelnan
expedition are the only ones of true O. coronatus that exist in the French national
collection.

28. Pipra fasciicauda Hellm.

Pipmfcuciieauda Hellmayr, Ibis 1906, p. ? (nom. emend, for P.fatciata Lafr. et D'Orb.— type ex

Yuracares, East Bolivia).
Piprafaet tola Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1867, p. 579 (Rio Tocantins).

No. 430. S ad., Itaitnba, 13. i. 06. "Iris white." Wing 64; tail 31;
bill 11 mm.

No. 448. <J imm., Itaitnba, 15. i. 06. " Iris white."

The <J ad. agrees in size and coloration with specimens from Minas and
S. Paulo. The occurrence near Santarem is particularly interesting, as both Natterer
and Riker procured there P. a. aureola. P. fasciicauda had never been collected on
the Lower Amazons since the time of Wallace, who obtained it on the Rio Tocantins.
There can be no longer any doubt that his specimens were correctly referred to that
Bpecies by Sclater <fc Salvin.

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29. Attila thamnophiloides (Spix).

Muaeicapa thamnophiloides Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 19 pi. xxvi. fig 1. (1825 -" in locis sylvaticis a.
Amazonum.")

No. 510. S ad., Itaituba, 30. i. 06. " Iris light brown."
Specimens from Surinam are not different.

30. Lipangus simplex (Lcht.j.

Cfr. Nov. Zoo!, xiii. p. 364.

No. 455. $ juv*., Itaituba, 10. i. 06. "Iris brown.*'

31. Furnarius minor Pelz.

Furnarius {Opetiorhynchws) minor Pelzeln, Sitzungsber. Ahad. Wien xxxi. (1858) p. 321 [Brasilien,

sc. Rio Madeira ; cfr. Orn. Brasil. i. (18G7) p. 35].
Furnarius minor Riker & Chapman, .1«/.-, 1891, p. 20 (Santarein).

Nos. 433, 4711, 530, 537, 545, 504. 2 AS ad., Itaituba, 12, 19. i. 00 ; 1 i ad.,
1 (? jnv., 1 ?, and one immature bird, not sexed, from Urucurituba, 6, 7, 10. ii. 06.
" Iris red or brownish yellow."

This series does not differ from Upper Amazonian skins. All have a distinct
pale ciunamomeous spot on the inner web of the first primary, near the base.

32. Synallaxis gujanensis gujanensis (Gin.)

MotaeiUa gujanensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. (1788) p. 988 (ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 686. fig. 2.—

Cayenne).
Synallaxis guianensis Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 26 (Santarem).

Nos. 473, 475. c? ¥ ad., Itaituba, 21. i. 06. "Iris brown-red, bill black,
below grey."

Exactly like specimens from Surinam, British Guiana and Para (Layard coll.,
Mus. Brit.). Others from the Caura River and from Bogota collections are also
not different. The typical form has the middle of the abdomen distinctly whitish,
the foreneck and chest washed with buff, and the sides of the body pale brownish.

On the Rio Madeira a closely allied form takes its place. This is S. gujanensis
inornate, Pelz., which differs in having the whole under surface (except the white
throat) considerably darker, uniform brownish buff, without any white in the middle
of the belly.

33. Synallaxis rutilans amazonica n. subsp.

Three ? ? ad., Itaituba, 22, 27. i. 06. Nos. 481, 493, 495. "Iris brown, feet
grey, bill black." Wing 60—61 ; tail 66 ; bill 13i — 14 mm.

The examination of a large amount of materia) revealed the interesting fact
that three distinct forms had hitherto been united under the name of S. rutilans,
and that <S'. omissa Hart., of Para, was evidently also a geographical race of this
group. Thus, we have to distinguish the following forms :

a. Synallaxis rutilans rutilans Temiu.
Synallaxis rutilanB Temminck, PI. col. livr. 28, tab. 227. fig. 1 (Sept. 1823.—'- Br&il ") ; Pelzeln, Zur
Ornith. JJr,,,,/. i. (1867) p. 36 (part. : Rio Xegro and Marabitanas) : Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit.
Mus. xv. (1890) p. 57 (part. : spec. a ex Oyapoc, Cayenne) ; Berleps;h & Hartert. Nov. Zool. ix.
(1902) p. 60 (Nericagua, Orinoco ; Caura R., Venezuela).

Hab. N.W. Brazil: Rio Xegro, Marabitanas (Xatterer). Venezuela: Xeri-
cagua, Orinoco (Cherrie) ; La Union, La Pricion, Nicare (Andro), Suapure (Klages)
on the Caura River. French Guiana : Oyapoc (Verdey).

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Adult. Forehead as far as the anterior border of the eye, superciliary region,
sides of the bead and neck, foreneck and breast bright ferruginous; crown, occiput
and back uniform rich brown (about "raw amber" of Ridgway's Nomencl., pi. iii.
fig. 14), shading into fuliginous on the rump and upper tail-coverts.

Of this form I have before me eight specimens from the ('aura River, one
d ad. and two ? ? ad. from Nericagua, Orinoco, and one pair (c? ? ad.) from
Marabitanas, upper Rio Negro. Besides these, I examined in the British Museum
an adult bird from Oyapoc, ( 'avenue, received from Madame Verdey of Paris.
Dr. Sclater doubted the correctness of the locality, but, judging from the make of
the skin, I think there can be no question that the bird really came from Cayenne.
In these fourteen specimens the ferruginous front and sides of the head are
sharply denned against the brown colour of the vertex and occiput, and there is
no trace of rufous on the back. The upper tail-coverts and the adjoining feathers
of the ramp are always dull fuliginous.

N.B. — In order to ascertain to which form the name S. rutilans strictly applies,
I wrote to Dr. van Oort, of Leyden, asking for particulars about Temmiuck's type.
My friend, however, informed me that this valuable specimen is not in the Leyden
Museum. There was, then, a possibility that Temminck might have described one
of Natterer's specimens. Natterer obtained the first example of any form of this
group near Irisanga, S. Paulo, in December 1S~2. According to lets, 1833. p. 546,
the collections made by him from October 1*22 to December 1>24 did not reach
Vienna until September 1827, while Temmiuck's description and figure of
S. rutilans was already published in September 1823 ; from this it is evident
that none of Natterer's skins can have formed the basis of his account, and it
appears that the type is lost. Although the plate in the Planches coloriies could
be referred with equal certainty to the Amazonian representative, the description
(cfr. " toutes les parties superieures du corps, le bas-veutre et l'abdomen ont nue
teinte olivatre . . . ") is only applicable to one of the brown-backed forms ; and
since, at Temmiuck's time, no collecting was done in Mattogrosso, except by
Natterer, I feel justified in restricting the term rutilans to the northern subspecies,
of which specimens are much more likely to have come into the hands of the great
Dutch ornithologist. Moreover, the Berlin Museum possesses an example of the
present form, which, according to information received through Prof. Reicheuow,
may possibly be Temmiuck's type, who, in the text of S. cinerascens, says : "ces
trois especes [sc. S. rutilans, S. albescens and .$'. cinerascens] font partie des Musees
des Pavs-Bas, de Vienne et de Berlin."

b. Synallaxis rutilans amazonica n. subsp.

Sijiiallaxia rutilans (nee Temmiuck !) Sclater & Salvin, I'.Z.S. 1867. p. T.jo ( Xeberos, Chyavetas) :
iidem, Z.c. 1873. p. 269 (Xeberos, Chyavetas, Chamicuros) ; Taczanowski, P.Z.S. 1882. p. 26
(Yurimaguas); idem, Orn. Perou ii. (1884) p. 132 (Peru); Chapman & Riker, Auk, 1891,
p. 26 (Santarem) ; Sclater, Oat. Birds Brit. Mux. xv. (1890) p. 57 (part. : specimens c—e).

Hab. A'. Brazil, Lower Amazons : Santarem (Hoffmanns & Biker). N.E. Peru :
Xeberos, Chamicnros, Chyavetas (Bartlett), Yurimaguas (Stolzmann).

Adult. Litters from the typical form in having not only the front and sides
of the head ferruginous, but also the whole top of the head as well as the mantle
of this colour. There is but a slight brownish admixture on the occiput to
be seen iu some specimens. Bump and upper tail-coverts are fuliginous or slaty

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blackish, iu strong contrast with the ferruginous back. In other respects it does
not differ from S. r. rutilans.

Type in Tring Museum : ? ad., Itaituba, Santarem, 22. i. 06. No. 481. Wing 61 ;
tail 66 ; bill 14 mm.

Of this form, I have before me three specimens from Santarem, and four from
Chamicuros, N.E. Peru (Bartlett coll.) ; and I examined three others from Peru,
in the British Museum. I am nnable to see any differences between the Peruvian
and Santarem skins. The ferruginous back serves to distinguish them at a glance
from the two other forms. Even the young birds have a considerable amount of
rufous on the mautle.

c. Synallaxis rutilans tertia n. subsp.

S. rutilans (nee Temm.)Pelzeln, Oni. Brasil. i. (1867) p. 36 (part. : Engenho do Grama aud Irisanga).

Hab. Central Brazil : Engenho do Gama, Mattogrosso ; Irisanga, northern
S. Paulo (Natterer).

Adult. Very similar to S. r. rutilans, which it resembles in having the fore-
head and sides of the head only ferruginous aud sharply defined against the brown
cap, but differs by the more rufescent olive-brown tinge of the upper parts ; by the
lateral interscapular feathers being exteriorly broadly edged with ferruginous ; and
particularly by the rump and upper tail-coverts being bright rufescent olive-brown
like the back, and not fuliginous.

Type in Vienna Museum: No. 20198. ¥ ad., Engenho do Gama, Mattogrosso,
August 16, 1826. Collected by J. von Natterer.— Wing 63; tail G4i ; bill 13£ mm.

There are three examples of this form in the Vienna Museum, all obtained by
Natterer. One is a young bird, which differs from the adult only in being paler.

It is very interesting that S. r. tertia, though inhabiting a very remote district,
should more resemble the typical form than does the representative of the Amazonas
valley.

(L Synallaxis rutilans omissa Hart.

Synallaxis omissa Hartert, Bull. Brit. Oni. CI. x>. p. 71 (1901. — Para); Hellmayr. Nov. Zool. xiii.

(1906) p. 365 (Prata, Para) ; Snethlage, Journ.f. Ornith. 1906. p. 023 (Para).
S. nililitus (nee Temminck), Sclater & Salviu, P.Z.S. 1867. p. 574 (Para) ; Sclater, Cat. Birds

Brit. Mas. xv. (18'JO) p. 57 (part. : specimen b, Para) ; Snethlage, I.e. p. 523 (Pani, Rio Capitn,

R. Guarua).

Hab. N.E. Brazil: vicinity of Para, (Wallace, Steere, Hoffmanns).

This is undoubtedly a geographical form of the S. rutilans group, although, at
first sight, it looks rather different. The bill is of exactly the same shape : short
and thickish ; the tail equally short and uniform blackish ; the coloration of the
wings is the same as in S. rutilans and allies ; and there is also the characteristic
dull black patch on the throat. It differs, however, at a glance by the lack of
rufous on the head aud under parts. The whole lower surface (except the blackish
throat-patch), the top and sides of the head as well as the upper tail-coverts are
uniform dull fuliginous; the back is a little more brownish, aud some of the lateral
interscapular feathers show slight ferruginous edges on the outer webs. Immature
birds have also the chest aud sides of the neck slightly washed with pale ferruginous.

According to Dr. Snethlage (in litt.) 6'. r. omissa alone occurs iu the Pani
district.

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34. Philydor pyrrhodes (Cab.)

Anabates pyrrhodes Cabauis : ia Schomburgk, Beisen Brit. Guiana iii.(1848) p. G89 (coast of British
Guiana).

No. 456. c? iinru., Itaituba, 10. i. 06. -'Iris brown."— Wing 89; tail 69;
bill 18 mm.

This bird is indistinguishable from a British Guiana specimen, while others
from the Orinoco River arc much deeper ochraceous below, and a little more
mfescent on the back.

35. Xenops genibarbis HI.
Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 366.

No. 42T. ? imm., Itaituba, 11. i. 06. " Iris browu."

Slightly different from a Para skin. I hope to discuss the various geographical
races of X. genibarbis on another occasion.

36. Dendromis eytoni (Scl.)

Ofr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 283.

Dendrornit eytoni Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 27.

No. 524. $ ad., Itaituba, 31. i. 06. " Iris brown, bill greyish black."— Wing
116; tail 106 ; bill 42 mm.

Agrees well with Para examples, but is perhaps a shade more rusty on the
abdomen. The basal half of the lower mandible is dirty yellowish.

37. Dendroplex picus (Gin.)

0 'us Picus Gmelin, Syst. Nat 1. ii. (1788) p. 384 (ex Daubenton, Pl.enl. 605.— Cayenne).
Dendroplex picus, Riker & Chapman. Auk, 1891, p. -'7 (Santarem).

No. 477. ? ad., Itaituba, 21. i. 06. " Iris pale brown."— Wing 100 ; tail 87;

bill 34 mm.

Agrees best with specimens from Barcellos and Obidos, collected by Natterer,
being not appreciably different from topotypical Cayenne skins. About the
geographical variation of I>. picus cfr. Meuegaux & Hellmayr, Man. Soc. Hist.
Mat. Autun xix. (1906) pp. 108—109.

38. Nasica longirostris (Vieill.)

Dendrocopus longirostris Tieillot, Nouv. Did. xxvi. ( 1818) p. 1 17 (ex Levaillant— " Bre'sil").
Nasica longirostris Riker & Chapman, Auk 1891. p. 27 (Santarem).

Nos. 425, 430, 573. ? ad., <$ jr., <$ juv., Itaituba and Urucnrituba, 11, 12. i.,
12. ii. OH. " Iris reddish brown."

Apparently not different from Orinoco specimens. The Tring Museum
possesses also a young bird, collected by Prof. Steere near Camolins, Lower
Amazons.

39. Thamnophilus major semifasciatus (Cab.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 283.

T lie! -us (nee Gould !) Riker .<• Chapman, ,1«/,- 1891. p. 28 (Santarem).

No. 507. cJ ad.. Itaituba, Santarem, 29. i. 06. « Iris red, feet greyish blue,

bill black."

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Agrees with typical specimens from Para and Venezuela, the three outer tail-
feathers being banded with white on the inner webs.

In T. m. borbae Pelz. only the two outer rectrices have a white apical margin
aud two very small white sjiots to the edge of the inner web.

40. Thainnomanes caesius glaucus Cab.

Thanmonianes glaucus Cabanis, Arch. Naturg. 13. i. ( 1847) p. 230 (Cayenne).

No. 435. ? ad., Itaituba, 12. i. 06. " Iris brown, feet black, bill above black,
below grey."

Identical with a large series from Surinam, British Guiana, Orinoco, etc., the
whole breast aud abdomen being bright ferruginous, and the back warm olive-
brown with a large white interscapular patch. In Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 308 the
distribution of the three forms of Tkamnomanes is given. The specimen sent
by Mr. Hoffmanns extends the range of T. c. glaucus on the Lower Amazons
considerably to the east.

T. c. kqffmannsi appears to be confined to the Para district.

41. Myrmelastes luctuosus (Lcht.)

Lanius luctuosus Lichteustein, Fere. Dull. 1823. p. 47 (Pani).

ThamnophUus luctuosus Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bra*, ii. (1868) pp. 70, 141 (Tapajoz) ; Chapman &
Riker, Auk 1891. p. 28 (Santarem).

No. 426. ? ad., Itaituba, 11. i. 06. " Iris brown."

No. 568. ? ad., Urucurituba, 11. ii. 00. "Iris browu."

Both specimens have the crest dark rufous, as described by Pelzelu aud
Chapman. The description of T. luctuosus apud Tschudi (Faun. Peruan. Aoes,
p. 172), cpuoted by Chapman, is referable to T, melanochrous Scl. & Salv.

J/, luctuosus is strictly confined to Lower Amazonia from Para to Borba, Rio
Madeira. About the systematic position of the species cfr. Menegaux & Hellmayr,
Bull. Philomat. Paris, 1900. p. 34.

42. Formicivora grisea grisea (Bodd.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 369.

Formicivora grisea Chapman & ltiker, Auk 1891, p. 29 (Santarem).

No. oil. ? ad., Itaituba, 29. i. 00. "Iris brown." Identical with bpccimeiis
from British Guiana aud Pani.

4:;. 'Formicivora bicolor Pelz.

Formicivora bicolor Pelzeln, Zur Oruith. Brasil. ii (1808), p. 150 (Engenho do Gama, Mattogrosso ;
Ribeirao, Salto Girao and Borba, Rio Madeira).

No. 438. £ ad., Itaituba, 12. i. 00. "Iris brown."— Wing 53; tail 50 ; bill
14}- mm.

No. 445. rj ad., Itaituba, 15. i. 06. "Iris brown, feet and bill black."
Wing 54} ; tail 50^ : bill 15 mm.

No. 444. ? ad., Itaituba, 15. i. 06. "Iris brown, feet blue-black, bill black."
Wing 52 ; tail 51 ; bill 131 mm.

No. 458. ¥ ad., Itaituba, 17. i. 06. " Iris brown, bill and feet black."— AYiug
53 ; tail 47 ; bill 14 mm.

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The males agree with one of Natterer's typical specimens from Salto do Girao,
Rio Madeira, the three onter rectriees being white for more than half of their
length. The females are uniform chestnut below ; the top of the head and nape
very dark smoky grey, the back dull black.

The examples from Cosnipata, S. Pern, are mnch larger, especially the tail
being longer, and the female is of a darker chestnut on the underpays. Should
additional Bpecimens confirm these differences, they must be separated sub-
specifically.

F. bicolor has not previously been recorded from the Lower Amazons.

44. Cercomacra sclateri Hellm.

Cfr. Nov. Zool. siii. p. 370.

No. 440. 6 ad., Itaituba, 12. i. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."— Wing
64 ; tail 65 ; bill 18 mm.

Agrees with the <? ad. from Para, though the lower parts are a shade
darker, but much lighter and more bluish slate-colour than in the type of
C. sclateri.

45. *Cercomacra nigrescens approximans Pelz.

[/'. n nostola nigrescent Cabauis & Heine, Mus. Heinean. ii. (1859), p. 10, descr. orig. £ (Cayenne)].
I i.i,i approximate Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brazil, ii. (18G8), p. 158 (Engenho do Gama,

Mattogrosso).

No. 439. 3 ad., Itaituba, 12. i. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."— Wing
07 ; tail 02 ; bill 17 mm.

No. 4S5. ? ad., Itaituba, ','4. i. 06. " Iris greyish brown." — Wing 08 ; tail 59 ;
bill 18 mm.

Not before recorded from the Lower Amazons.

They agree exactly with typical specimens from Mattogrosso, being very
different from our series of C. tijrannina of Para, especially the female, which has
the front and sides of the head as well as the under parts of a deep ferruginous red
(cfr. Menegaux and Hellmayr, Bull. Soc. Philomat. Paris, 1906, p. 41). The male
is of a much darker slate-grey colour on the lower surface, and the white margins
to the upper wing-coverts are narrower and more restricted.

Through the kindness of Oberamtmaun Heine I was enabled to examine the
type of P. nigrescens, and found it to belong to a Cercomacra species of which
the Tring Museum had received large series from Cayenue and Surinam. Although
very closely allied to C. approximans, they appear to represent a distinct form.
The males are darker, more blackish slate-grey, and the wing-coverts usually
uniform black, though sometimes with slight white apical margins. The females
agree with C. approximans in the coloration of the head and under parts, but the back
is rather more slaty olive (not so brownish), and the tail more blackish. Moreover,
in ' '. nign set ns the bill is, as a rule, a little broader and longer. The range of the
two subspecies is thus as follows : —

a. C. nigrescens nigrescens (Cab. & Heine). Cayenne and Surinam.

b. ('. nigrescens approximans Pelz. East Ecuador : Mapoto, Machay (spec, in

Mus. v. Berlepsch examined). North Pern ; Iluambo, Chirimoto (spec,
in Mus. Berlepsch examined), Gnayabamba (Baron coll. ; c? ? in Brit. Mus.
exam.), Pebas (Castelnau & Deville coll. — a large series in Paris Museum

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Compared). Central Peru: Ropaykimba, Garita del Sol (<? in Mns.

Berlepsch examined). W. Brazil : Mattogrosso and Engenho do Gama

(Natterer coll.— a large series in Vienna Museum exam.). North Brazil :

Santarem.
Both C. n. nigrescens and C. n. approximans are perhaps snbspecies of
C. tyrannina, but their distribution is not qnite in accordance with what we might
expect. C. tyrannina has an uninterrupted range from Eastern Colombia (Bogota
coll.) through the Orinoco and Rio Negro district to British Guiana, but reappears
in Para, while in Surinam and Cayenne C. n. nigrescent apparently takes its place !
Yet it is remarkable that C. tyrannina nowhere occurs together with any form
of the C. nigrescens group.

40. *Hypocnemis cantator peruvianus Tacz.
[Formicarius Cantatar (sic!) Boddaert, Tabl. PI. en!., p. 44 (1783— ex Daub. PI. enl 700, f. 2—

Cayenne).]
Hypocnemis cantator, peruvianus Taozanowski, Orn. Plrou, ii. p. 61 (1884 — Yurimaguas, North

Peru).

No. 508. S ad., Itaituba, 29. i. 06. " Iris brown, bill black, below greyish
white."

No. 522. 3 imm., Itaituba, 31. i. 00. Soft parts as above.

No. 515. ? ad., Itaituba, 30. i. 00. Soft parts as above.

These specimens agree very well with skins from North Peru. The S 3 of
this form differ from typical II. c. cantator by having a large concealed white
dorsal patch, and by the interscapular feathers being coarsely spotted with black
and distinctly edged with white. In the ? ? , the anterior portion of the back
shows faint blackish spots and a few buff longitudinal streaks, while it is uniform
dull olive brownish in the typical form.

Not yet recorded from Santarem.

47. *Hypocnemis leucophrys angustirostris (Cab.)

[Pithyt leucophrys Tschudi, Arch. Naturg. 10. i. (1844), p. 278, descr. orig. £ (Peru).]
Conopophaga angustirostris Cabanis : in Schomburgk, Reisen Brit. Guiana iii. (1848), p. 685,
descr. orig. $ (" Kiistenwalder vou Brit. Guiana ").

No. 453. $ ad., Itaituba, 10. i. 00. " Iris dark red, feet bluish black."
No. 491. S imm., Itaituba, 20. i. 00. " Iris brown."
No. 454. & juv., Itaituba, 10. i. 06. " Iris brownish grey."
No. 487. ? ad., Itaituba, 20. i. 00. " Iris brown."
Nos. 452, 486. ? ? juv., Itaituba, 10, 25. i. 06. " Iris greyish brown."
The adults agree perfectly with Gnianan specimens, while typical //. I. leucophrys
of Peru, Colombia and Merida is of a much darker slate-grey colour below in
the male sex. The females of the two forms are not distinguishable.

The young birds sent by Mr. Hoffmanus undoubtedly belong to this species,
and not to //. lugubris (Cab.), as is proved by their dusky under mandible and
by the indications of the ferruginous superciliary stripe. The latter is altogether
wanting and the under mandible is always yellowish white iu the female of
//. lugubris.

Having examined eighty-five specimens of //. leucophrys, I cau distinguish two
forms :

a. II. leucophrys leucophrys (Tsch.), ranging from S.E. and Central Peru to
Colombia (Bogota) and N.W. Venezula (Merida, Tachira).

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b. 11. Uucopkrys angustirostris (Cab.), Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana,
South Guiana (Counany-Goeldi), west to the Orinoco region ; Amazonia :
from Santarem west to the Rio Madeira (Borba) and Rio Jimia (Garbe—
Mus. Panlista).

48. Hypocnemis myotherina ochrolaema Hellm.
B. m. ochrdaema HellmayT, Bull Brit. Orn. CI. xvi. (June 1900), p. 109.

Nos. 450, 513. 6 6 ad., Itaituha, 16, 31. i. 06. " Iris dark red, feet grey, bill
black."— Wing 64 ; tail 37, 40 ; bill 17 mm.

No. 520. ? ad., Itaituha, 31. i. 06. " Iris brown, feet light grey, lull black.
—Wing 62 : tail 38 ; bill 17 mm. Type of the subspecies.

The 6 of this new form resembles that of II. m. melanolaema Scl. in the
paleness of the nnderparts, but breast and abdomen are even lighter, nearly white
in the middle. The white band across the forehead (behind the black frontal edge)
is more distinct, and the white eyebrow much better defined and considerably
broader, especially above and behind the ear-coverts, where, in //. m. melanolaema,
only a narrow, dull greyish white stripe is to be seen.

The ¥ has the breast and abdomen of the same dark ochraceons colour as that
of //. m. melanolaema, but is readily distinguishable by having the entire throat
deep ochraceons like the rest of the under-snrface (not white), as well as by its
entirely black bill. There are no blackish spots on the foreneck, which are more or
less pronounced in //. m. myotherina and H. m. melanolaema, and the back is of a
duller, more greenish brown hue.

Having had the opportunity of studying a considerable amount of material,
I think it useful to give a short review of the three forms of the II. myotherina
group, which, owing to lack of sufficient series, were not well understood hitherto.

a. Hypocnemis myotherina myotherina (Spis).

Thamnophilw myotherinus Spix, Av. Bras. ii. (1825) p. 30, pi. xlii., fig. 1 = 6 (part. : descr. of

male only ; no locality given).
Uyioihera thamttophiloides Voigt, Thierrelch i. (1831), p. 4u4 (new name based on Spix's

figure).
Eypocnemh elegam Sclater, P.Z.S. 1857, p. 47 (ex "Bypocnemist" idem, I.e. 1855, p. 147.-

Bogota, coll., descr. orig. $ ).

Hah. From Eastern Colombia (Bogota coll.) through Eastern Ecuador to the
north bank of the Amazons (Pebas, Nauta), N.E. Pern; also found on the Caura
River, a southerly tributary of the Orinoco, Venezuela.

6 ad. Breast and abdomen uniform grey (Ridgw. Nomencl. ii. 6). Pale band
behind the black frontal edge and superciliary stripe rather indistinct, greyish
white, the latter uot continued along posterior edge of the black ear-coverts.

? ad. Lower mandible yellowish white or yellowish grey. Throat pure
white, bordered below by a number of small blackish spots, and sharply defined
against the deep ochraceons colour of the breast and abdomen.

Wing 62—67 ; tail 3*— 43; bill 17—18 mm.

Material. --'Jo' ad., 2 66 jr., 5 ? ?, Bogota coll. :6 6 6 ad., 2 66 jr., 3 ? ?,
Easi Ecuador ; 2 6 6 ad., 1 6 jr., 0 ? ?, Caura River, Venezuela ; 6 * ad., Pcb;is
(Castelnan coll., Mus. Paris); 6i ad., Rio Tigre, near Nauta (Hauxwell coll.,
Mus. Berlepsch).

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Spix' type is nnfortnnately lost, but his description run only refer to the
present form, as he calls the colonr of the nnder parts " cinerea," which term does
not fit my 77. m. ockrolaema, also found on the Amazons, where Spix and Martins
travelled. Probably the Bavarian ornithologist described a specimen obtained on
the Rio Solimoens, where the dark-bellied form might be expjected to occur, ns it is
found on the Peruvian Amazons near Nauta, etc.

I can see no differences between specimens from Bogota, Eastern Ecuador,
the Caura River and others from Pebas and Nauta on the Amazons. The males
have the belly always uniform dark grey without any paler shade in the middle.
The ¥ ? from the north side of the Marafion are quite as dark ochraceous on the
under parts as those found in Bogota collections, hence H. elegans becomes a
synonym of II. m. myotherina.

b. Hypocnemis myotherina melanolaema Scl.

Ilypocnemisi melanolaema Sclater, P.Z.S. 1854. p. 254, pi, Ixxii. fig. 2. descr. orig. <J ad. ("in

Peruvia, Chamicurros').
77. melanosticta Sclater, I.e. p. 254, pi. lxxiii. descr. orig. <J jr. efc. ? (" in Peruvia, Chamicurros ").

Hal). From Northern Peru, south of the Amazons, through Central Pern to
Northern Bolivia.

cf ad. Differs from the typical form by the much paler colonr of the breast
and abdomen, which are whitish grey, only the flanks being monse-grey (Ridgw.
Nomencl. ii. f. 6). Superciliaries as in 77. m. myotherina.

¥ ad. Like II. m. myotherina, with the under mandible yellowish grey and
with the throat white, but breast and abdomen much lighter, pale ochraceous buff
(Ridgw. v. 10), sometimes passing into buff in the middle of the belly.

Wing 03—68 ; tail 38—45 ; bill 1GJ— 18 mm.

Material : 4 S <5, 4 ? ? ad., S. Mateo, North Bolivia (Mns. Berlepsch) ; t? ad.,
Chnchnrras, Huiinnco, C. Peru (Hoffmanns coll., Mus. Tring) ; S ad., ? ad.,
Yurimagnas ; S ad., Pern (ex Verreaux — type of 77. melanolaema Scl.); 2 $ $
ad., 1 $ jr., 1 ?, Chamicuros (Brit. Mus.), 1 ?, Chyavetas (Brit. Mus.); 1 S jr.,
1 ? ad., Pern (ex Verreaux — types of 77. melanosticta Scl).

The type of 77. melanolaema (Mus. Brit, ex coll. P. L. Sclater) agrees perfectly
with the series of 6"6" ad. from Bolivia and Pern ; as do also the original examples
of 77. melanosticta with other specimens in corresponding plumage.

In the male sex of this form the under parts are always much paler grey than
in 77. m. myotherina. The females are also readily distinguishable by the consider
ably lighter, ochraceous-buff belly ; the throat is always pure white and bordered
below by some blackish spots, and the under mandible is light coloured.

It is an interesting fact that the birds from Chyavetas, Yurimagnas and Chami
enros belong to the pale-bellied form, while on the north bank of the Amazons
another representative takes its place.

c. Hypocnemis myotherina ochrolaema Hellm.

Hub. Lower Amazons : Itaitnba, near Santarem.

(J ad. Very similar to that of II. m. melanolaema , bnt nuderparts still paler
nearly white in the middle of the breast and abdomen ; and superciliaries purer
white, broader, and extended along the upper and posterior margin of the
ear-coverts.

¥ ad. Breast and belly deep ochraceous, as in II. m. myotherina, bnt readily

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known by having the throat also ochraceous, ami by the under mandible being
black like the upper one.

The birds collected by Natterer near Borba, on the lower Rio Madeira,
belong probably also to this form.

40. Myrmotherula ornata hoffmannsi Hellm.

il. o. hoffimumi Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xvi. (April 190G), p. 84.

No. 512. c? ad., Itaituba, Santarem, 29. i. 06. " Iris brown, feet greyish
blue, bill black."— Wing 53; tail 39 ; bill 15 mm.

No. 521. ? ad., Itaituba, 31. i. 00. "Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 51 ; tail 36; bill 14i mm. Type of subspecies.

The c? ad. is very much like that of M. o. ornata of Bogota, but is of a
clearer, more bluish slate-grey on the head and mantle ; the chestnut-red patch
on the rump is less extended, the brownish wash on the flanks more restricted,
and the cheeks and malar region are of a darker cinereous colour. The upper
tail-coverts are olive grey in the new form, pale brown in M. o. ornata.

The ?, however, differs very strikingly from the same sex of the typical
form. The throat, instead of being black with large white spots, is bright
ochraceous like the cheeks and malar region ; the apical spots on the upper
wing-coverts are buff instead of pure white. While the typical form has the
whole back (except the nape and pileum) and rump nuiform bright chestnut-rufous,
in the new form there is only a small irregular spot of this colour in the middle
of the back, the rump being mainly olive-brown. In other respects the ? of
M. o. hoffmannsi agrees well with Bogotd skins. The top of the head and the
mantle are olive-grey, the tail and the outer edges of the quills are also olive-grey,
and the colour of the abdomen exactly the same as in .1/. o. ornata.

50. Myrmotherula axillaris axillaris (Vieill.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 368.

Myrmotherula axillaris melanogastra Chapman & Riker, Aide 1891, p. 28 (Santarem).

No. 451. $ ad., Itaituba, 1(1 i. 00. "Iris brown."

No. 474. ? ad., Itaituba, 21. i. 00. "Iris brown."

Identical with examples from Par^, and Cayenne. Chapman (I.e.) says that the
specimens from Santarem are intermediate between " M. a. melanogastra " of Bahia
and UM. axillaris " of Bogota. Bogota, skins, however, belong to M. a. melaena (Scl.),
while those from the Lower Amazons represent typical .1/. axillaris. Near Bahia,
again, a different form is found, which has much less white on the flanks. This
is entitled to the name M. a. luctuosa Pelz. Cfr. my revision of Spix' types,
p. 665.

51. * Conopophaga nielanogaster (Menetr.)

Cvuiijuijihuna mrhmof/asi, r Mrin'trii-s, Mini. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. (6) i. (1835) p. 537, pi. 15 fig. 2

(= {J ad.) (Cuyaba, Mattogrosso).
C. >" byi Allen, Bull. A mer. Mus. ii. (1889) p. 90 descr. orig. (= ? ) (Reyes, N.E. Bolivia).

No. 505. & ad., Itaituba, 20. i. 00. " Iris reddish brown, feet greyish bine, bill
black."— Wing 84; tail 44 ; tars. 33 ; bill 20 mm.

No. 514. $ juv., Itaituba, 30. i. 00. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black."

The adult male agrees perfectly with Menetries' types, kindly lent by

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Dr. Bianchi. This species is quite new to the fauna of the Lower Amazons,
though it was collected near Borba, on the Rio Madeira, by Natterer. It is the
largest and finest member of the genus, and readily known by its bright chestnut
back. Perhaps it is nearest to the recently described C. roberti Hellm., but, besides
being very much larger, differs from it in many ways. The bill is much stronger
and entirely black ; there is no white on the under parts, the whole breast being deep
black, and the silky white superciliary stripe commences above instead of behind
the eye.

C. rusbyi Allen is doubtless the ? of C. melanogastra, the description agreeing
perfectly with Natterer's hen birds from Borba.

In the young bird the crown is dull black, with irregular, pale rufous bars, the
back of a clearer chestnut than in the adult, and crossed by some blackish bauds.
Breast and abdomen are pale fulvous, barred and spotted with blackish; and the
upper wing-coverts have a blackish apical margin, followed by a ciuuamomeous
subtermiual baud.

52. Phoethornis rupurumii amazonicus Hellm.
FhaMhornis rupurumii amazonicus Hellrnayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xvi. (April 1906) p. 8'2.

No. 468. ¥ fere ad., Itaituba, 19. i. 00. " Iris, feet and bill black, base of lower
mandible light green." Type of subspecies. — Wing 44 ; rectr. mod. 47 ; r. submed.
37; r. ext. 18; bill 28 mm.

No. 571. c? ad., Urucurituba, 12. ii. 06. Soft parts as above, but base of lower
mandible yellowish green. — Wing 46; rect. med. 49, r. submed. 30, r. ext. 19;
bill 28A mm.

No. 492. S jnv., Itaituba, 26. i. 06. Soft parts as in No. 468.— Wing 45 ;
rectr. med. 45|, r. submed. 32, r. ext. 18 ; bill 25 mm.

This interesting new form is a near ally of P. r. rupurumii of British Guiana
and the Orinoco region, the proportions of the tail feathers being exactly the same
in both, but it differs at a glance by its buff under tail-coverts and by the pale
cinnamon apical margins to the three outermost rectrices (on each side). In a series
of more than twenty skins of P. r. rupurumii, both the crissnm and the apical
margins to the rectrices are pure white ; only the outermost pair shows there
sometimes a faint isabelline tinge.

In the type specimen (No. 468) the whole under surface is strongly washed
with buff, and the snperciliaries as well as the broad malar stripe are of a bright
golden bnff. The S ad. (No. 571) is much duller underneath, more buffy greyish,
but the under tail-coverts are even brighter buff than in the type.

The third example is a yonng bird with rufous edges to the feathers of the
crown and back. It is considerably darker, more brownish on the under parts, and
the lower mandible lacks almost entirely the blackish tip which, in the two other
specimens, occupies a little less than the apical half. The under tail-coverts and
the three outer tail feathers are exactly as in the adults.

P. squalidus (Temm.), of S.E. Brazil, differs from the new form by its much
darker, almost wood-brown (Ridgw. Nomencl. iii. 19) under parts, aud by the lack of
the blackish subterminal area on the outer rectrices. Besides, the middle pair of
the tail feathers is much more elongated.

]'. squalidus, P. r. rupurumii, and P. r. amazonicus undoubtedly form a
natural group,_being characterised by the scaly appearance of the throat, etc. etc,

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53. Phoethoruis ruber ruber (Linn.)
Cfr. Nov. Zoal. xiii. p, :.7.V

No. 526. ? iniru., Itaitnba, 31. i. 06. "Iris Mack, bill Mack, base of lower
mandible yellowish green." — Wing 35; rectr. mod. 33, submed. 27, ext. 15;
bill 25J, black tip of lower mandible 11 mm.

An immature bird with long wings and wide rufous tips to the tail feathers.
This plnmage Las been described by Gould as a distinct species, P. eremita, but it is
now well understood that these birds are merely the young of the short-winged,
broad-taihd form.

The Santarem specimen agrees in every way with those from Surinam, Para,
. and. like them, has the lower mandible widely tipped with black.

54. Agyrtria albiventris albiventris (Less.)
Iris Lesson. Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouches p. xxxiv, 209, pi. 76 (1829. — "la Guiane").
Nos. 553, 5G5. 3 S imm. in moult, Urucuritnba, 8, In. ii. 06. " Iris Mack."
Nos. 501, .502. $ ad., $ imm. iu moult, Itaitnba, 28. i. 00. "Iris black."
Besides these, we possess an adult and a young bird from Espiritn Santo, Pani,
collected by Prof. Steere.

The Lower Amazonian specimens are somewhat intermediate between .1. u.
albiventris and .1. ". nigricauda (Ell.) of Bahia. They agree with the former in
dimensions and in the bronzy-green central tail feathers; but the outer rectrices are
steel-black, with scarcely any green at the base and with very indistinct greenish
grey tips, as in the Bahia form. The under tail-coverts are white, with short
blackish brown shaft-stripes at the extreme base, as is also the case in some
specimens of .1. a. nigricauda.

The specimens collected by Natterer near Barra do Rio Negro (Manaos) and
Barcellos, and recorded by Pelzeln s. n. -1. albiventris* represent the typical form,
the four outer rectrices being bronze-green on their basal half, and the under tail-
coverts being pale brownish with white margius, just as in a large series from
British Guiana, Surinam, etc. The specimens from Mattogrosso, however, belong to
A. a. nigricauda or a very closely allied form. I have to thank Dr. von Lorenz for
sending me Natterer's whole series for comparison. About the nomenclature of
.1. albiventris cfr. Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zoo/, ix. p. 83.

•">•">. Hylocharis cyanus viridiveutris Perl.
Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 870.

Nos. 447, 407, c? juv., ?, Itaitnba, 15, 19. i. 06. "Iris black."

56. Thalurania furcata furcatoides Gould.

Cfr.iVbl'. Zool. xiii. p. 377.

Th i vie i ( lhapman & Biker, Auk, 1891, p. 30.

Nos. 166, 182, 7'!-. ¥ V, Itaitnba, 19, 22, 30. i. 06. '•Lis black."

i">7. Nyctidromus albicollis albicollis (Gm.
Gmelin, Sysl. Nat. 1. ii. (1788) p. 1030 (ex Latham : Cayenne).
■V>. - Riker & Chapman, .!«/., 1801, p. 30 (Santarem).

No. 432. <!, ad., Itaitnba. 12. i. 06. "Iris brown."

Agreeing in size and coloration with specimens from Surinam.

* On. Brasil i. -

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58. Chloronerpes flavigula (Bodd.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 301.

Chloronerpes flaeigularis Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 30 (Santarem).

No. 431. (c?) imm. (without tbo red malar stripe), Itaitnba, 12. i. 06. "Iris
brown."

This specimen, like the one from Prata previously sent by Mr. Hoffmanns,
has a very strong and large bill, but this appears to be merely individual variation,
as another 3 from Para does not differ in this respect from typical examples of
Cayenne, British Guiana, etc.

59. Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.)

Picus cruentatus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. ml. p. 43 (1783.— ex Daubenton, Pl.enl. 091, fig. 2. — Cayenne).
Nos. 471. 472. S ? ad., Itaitnba, 20. i. 06. "Iris yellow."
Both are typical, having broad white superciliaries and a distinct golden-yellow

nuchal band.

We received also an adult 3, collected by Prof. Steere at Marea de Legna,

Para, which agrees in every way with that from Santarem.

00. Veniliornis ruficeps ruficeps (Spix).

Picus ruficeps Spix, Av. Bros. i. (1824) p. 03 pi. lvi. fig. 2, 3 (" in sylvis fluminis Amazonum").
Chloronerpes affinis seh/si (nee Malherbe ! ) Chapman & Riker, Au!; 1891, p. 30 (Santarem).

Nos. 442, 476. c? ad., ? ad., Itaitnba, 13, 21. i. 06. "Iris brown."

We possess also an adult S from Benevides, Para, collected by Prof. Steere.

The three examples represent typical J", r. ruficeps. Cfr. the detailed account in my

revision of Spix' types, p. 600 ff.

61. Celeus jumana (Spix).

Cfr. Nnr. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 301.

No. 479. (? ad., Itaitnba, 22. i. 06. " Iris red, bill yellowish green."

Not different from Par;i specimens except by having the upper tail-coverts rufous.

62. Crocomorphus flavus (P. L. 8. Mull.) snbsp,

Pirn* flams P. L. S. Mliller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 91 (1770. — ex Daubenton, PI. ml. 509.— Cayenne).
Celeus citrinus Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 31 (Santarem).

No. 443. ? ad., Itaitnba, 15. i. 06. "Iris red."

Mr. Chapman has already alluded to the differences of the Amazonian birds,
when compared with typical C./hrns of Cayenne, and very likely they constitute
a distinct form. The material at my command, however, would not justify any
separation, as I have only four specimens from Amazonia for comparison. Yet it
should be mentioned that they differ from a large series of skins from British Guiana
and the Orinoco region by having very little or no rufous at all on the wings. Iu
this respect they seem to agree with the Bahia form, C.f. subflavus Scl. & Salv., of
which, unfortunately, no specimens are available.

63. Campephilus trachelopyrus (Malh.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 300.

CeopMoeus tracheolqpyrrhus (sic) Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 30 (Santarem).

No. 483. ? ad., Itaitnba, 22. i. 06, " Iris light yellow."— Wing 180 ; tail 124;

bill 44 mm.

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84. Ceophloeus lineatus (Linn.)

Picus lineatua Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1 (17(j(">) p. 174 (ex Brisson. — Cayenne).
Ceophloeus lineatua Hiker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 30 (Santarem).

No. 509. ? ad., Itaituba, 20, i. 00. "Iris whitish yellow."
65. * Picumnus borbae Pelz.

Picumnu) lorluir Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Brazil, iii. (1869) p. 334 (Borba, Rio Madeira).

One (J ad. from Itaituba, 29. i. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill grey." No. 503.—
Wing 48; tail 24 ; bill 11J mm.

This specimen agrees very well with Pelzeln's types kindly lent by Dr. von
Lorenz, of Vienna, except in being a little brighter yellowish below, and in having
slightly shorter wings and tail.

The types (2 $S ad.) measnre : wing 50£, 51 ; tail 24, 25 ; bill 12 mm.

New to the Lower Amazons.

66. Piaya rutila (111.)

Cuculus rutilus Illiger, Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 1812, p. 224 [ex Gmelin, C. cayatau var. (3. (and y

errore ! ) : ex Brisson, Cayenne].
Piaya minuta Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 159 (Santarem).

No. 449. ? jr., Itaituba, 15. i. 00. " Iris red." Not different from specimens
of various localities.

67. Pteroglossus aracari aracari (Linn.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905), p. 300.

Pteroglossus u-ieili Riker & Chapman, Aid; 1891, p. 159 (Santarem).

No. 566. <J ad., Urucnrituba, 11. ii. 06. "Iris brown, feet greenish black, bill
black, lower mandible yellowish white."

Black cnlminal stripe narrow, as in examples from Pani and South Brazil.

The form of Cayenne, Surinam, and British Guiana, erroneously called
P. aracari in the Cat. Biro's xix. 138, ought to stand as P. aracari atricollis
(P. L. S. Mull.).

68. Pteroglossus inscriptus Sws.

Pteroglossus inscriptus Swainson, Zool. Illustr. I. ii. pi. 90 (1820-21. — "from the interior of
Guyana"); Riker & Chapman, Aid- 1891 p. 159 (Santarem).

No. 523. c? ad., Itaituba, 31. i. 06. "Iris reddish blue, feet olive green, bill
yellow and black."

The Tring Museum received, some years ago, a female collected by Mons. A.
Robert near,,S. Lonrenco, State of Pernambuco, which extends the range of
the species far to the south-east.

69. Monasa nigrifrons (Spix).

Bucco nigrifrons Spix, Ar. Bras. i. p. 53 pi. xii. 6g. 2 (1824. — " in sylvis flum. Solimoens").
Monasa nigrifrons Riker & Chapman, Auk,' 1891, p. 159 (Santarem).

No. 424. cJ in moult, Itaituba, 10. i. 06. "Iris brown." Not different from
Upper Amazonian skins.

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TO. Urogalba dea amazonum Scl.

[Alcedo Dea Linnaeus, S//st. Xat. x. p. 116 (1758.— ex Edwards, Oni., tab. 10— Surinam).]
Urogalba amazonum Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855. p. 14 ("in Brasil. Boreali, Pari, et. fl. Amazonum") ;

Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1867. p. 582 (Para).
Urogalba paradisea Sclater, P.Z.S. 1857. p. 262 (Ega).

No. 525. c? fere ad., Itaitnba, 31. i. 06. " Iris brown."— Wing 91 ; bill 50 mm.

Besides this, the Tring Museum possesses two adult birds from Magoary, Island
of, Marajo, collected by Prof. I. B. Steere. One of them (<?) agrees perfectly with
the type of U. amazonum, in having the forehead and broad superciliaries creamy
white, and the middle of the crown pale brown, but has rather shorter wings. A
specimen from Para, (coll. Wallace) and another from Ega (coll. Bates) are identical
with the typical example as regards coloration. The former is quite as large as
the type, while the latter agrees in size with Steere's skins. The second specimen
(?) from Magoary, and the S from Santarern, sent by Mr. Hoffmanns, differ from
all these birds in the following way : The crown is decidedly darker brown and
mixed with purplish blue feathers (as in typical U. dea dea), only the frontal edge
being pale brownish, and there is but a narrow whity-brown superciliary line.

It is evident from the foregoing that the colour of the bead varies somewhat,
and that the greater size is not a reliable character. The presence of the whitish
superciliary stripe, however, in combination with the invariably much smaller
smoky-brown chin-spot, renders V. d. amazonum a fairly well differentiated form.

V. amazonum was originally described from Para, but afterwards Dr. Sclater*
doubted the correctness of this locality, suggesting that Upper Amazonia was its
true " patria." This, however, is not the case, and there can be no doubt whatever
that U. d. amazonum represents the typical form on the south bank of the Lower
Amazons and Kio Solirnoens. The British Museum contains a specimen collected
by Wallace near Para— this locality being indicated on Wallace's original label — and
another from Ega, obtained by H. W. Bates.

On the other hand, the examples secured by Natterer and Wallace at Barra do
Rio Negro, on the north side of the great river, and those sent by the first-named
naturalist from Marabitanas and S. Carlos, upper Rio Negro, agree in every way
with a large series of typical U. d. dea from the Guianas ; as does also an adult
bird from Iqnitos, N.E. Pern, on the uorthern bank of the Maranon. The two
young birds from Salto Girao, Rio Madeira, mentioned by Pelzeln t appear to
belong to U. d. amazonum, as the smoky-brown chin-spot is very small. Adult
specimens, however, should be examined.

The range of the two forms, accordingly, is as follows :

a. Urogalba dea dea (Linn.)

Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana, west through the Rio Negro region to the
north bank of the Amazons (Barra do Rio Negro, Iqnitos).

b. Urogalba dea amazonum Scl.

South bank of the Amazons from Para to Ega, R. Solimoens ; perhaps also
occurring on the southern tributaries of the Amazons : Rio Madeira, etc.

* Mono;/''. Jacamar.* and Pull Birds, p. 6.

t SlU-BeriohU Akud. Wien (math, physih. CI.) xx. (1856) p. 504,

96;

104;

56 in in

95 ;

168$;

56| „

91 ;

162;

61| „

91;

incomplete ;

55 „

92;

!>

56 „

89;

144;

.-,ii „

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Measurements :

WiDg. Tail. Bil

1. Mus. Brit., adult, Bara — ex Brandt, type of

U. amazonum Scl. ......

2. Mus. Brit., adult, Burn— Wallace coll.

3. Mns. Tring, 3 ad., Magoarv, Para, Steere coll. .

4. „ ,, ¥ act. ,, ,, ,, ,,

5. „ „ i fere ad., Santarem, Hoffmanns coll.
0. „ Brit., Ega — Bates coll. ....

N.B. — There can be no question that dea must be accepted as the specific
appellation for this species.* Although Linnaeus quotes with a query Seba's
" Avis paradisiaca ternatana," his diagnosis and the locality, both apparently taken
from Edwards, refer exclusively to the Urogalba. Count Salvador! f has lately
written upon the subject, but as he belongs to the small baud of ornithologists who
begin their nomenclature with the twelfth edition of Liunaeus, his conclusions need
not be taken into consideration.

71. Momotus momota nattereri Sol.

[Ramphastoi Momota Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1 (17G6) p. 152 (ex Edwards and Brisson, excl. syn.

Marcgrave — Cayenne accepted as typical locality — ex Brisson).]
Momotus nattereri Sclater P.Z.S. 1857. p. 251. [" Yungas in Bolivia (d'Orb.) ; Goyaz, Brazil

(Natterer)"] ; Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 158 (Santarem).

No. 4S4. ? ad., Itaitnba, 22. i. 06. " Iris yellowish red."— Wing 130 ; tail 238 ;
bill 38 mm.

The specimen differs from a good series of MI. m. momota by lacking the rufous
nape-patch, agreeing in this respect with M. m. ignobilis Berl. This form, however,
has the under parts almost uniform oil-green, while in the Santarem bird there is a
strong ochraceous tinge all over the abdomen. A typical specimen of M. in. nattereri
from Southern Mattogrosso is practically identical with the ? sent by Mr. Hoffmanns.

72. Brotogeris versicolurus (B. L. S. Mull.)

Psittaais verricolurut P. L. S. Miiller, Naturiynt. Suppl. p. 75 (1776. — ex Daubenton, PI. enl 359.—

" Cajenne '').
Brntor/eri/s vireecene Pelzeln, Zur OrniOi. Brasil. iii. (1869) p. 2G0 (Villa de Tapojoz = Santarem) ;

Riker i- Chapman, Aid; 1891, p. 160 (Santarem).

No. 580. (J ad., Urucurituba, 26. ii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill pale grey."

Nos. 401 , 465, 460, 494, 510. ? ? , Itaituba, 1 8, 19, 20, 29. i. 00. " Iris brown "
or (No. 494) " light blue, bill greyish or reddish white."

The Tring Museum possesses also an adult bird from Benevides, July 25th,
collected by Brof. Steere.

About the nomenclature of this species cfr. my revision of Spix' types, p. 587.

73. Brotogeris tuipara (Gm.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905. p. 302.

Brotogeryt tuipara Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 1G0 (Santarem).

Nos. 574, 577, 579. c? ad., ? ad., c? juv., Urucurituba, 13, 24. ii. 00. " Iris
brown, bill greyish white or greyish yellow."

* Toche, Orrnth. Mimber. xii. 1904, p. 57. t Ma (1901) p. 552,

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These specimens agree well with those from Para.

In the young male the primary coverts are green, but oue of the bastard-ijuills
shows already the orange colour of the adult plumage.

74. Strix flammea subsp.

No. 554. ¥ ad., Urncurituba, 8. ii. 06. " Iris brown."

A very large, fine specimen, which does not quite agree with any of the
neotropical forms, of the Barn Owl. Very likely it represents an undescribed
subspecies, but it would be not scientific to describe it from a single example.

75. Busarellus nigricollis (Lath.)

Fako nigricollis Latham, Ind. Orn. i. (1790) p. 35 ("Cayana").
Busarellus nigricollis Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891, p. 161 (Santarem).

No. 549. ¥ ad., Urncurituba, 8. ii. 06. " Iris brown."

70. Elanoides furcatus (Linn.)
Falco furcatus Linnaeus, Sysl. Nat. xii. 1. p. 120 (1766.— ex Catesby & Brisson : Carolina).
No. 560. S ad. Urucuritnba, 9. ii. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey."

77. Hoplopterus cayanus (Lath.)

Charadrius cayanus Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. (1790) p. 749 (ex Bufllon and Daubenton : " Cayaua ").

No. 551. ¥ ad., Urucuritnba, S. ii. 06. " Iris brown, feet reddish yellow, bill
black."

Apparently not before recorded from the Lower Amazons, though Natterer
collected specimens near Mauaos.

The record of the African Hoplopterus spinosus from the Capim River, Para,*
is, of course, a mistake.

78. Carbo vigua (Viell.)

Hydrocorax ulgua Vieillot, Noun. Dirt, viii. (1817) p. 90 (ex Azara : Paraguay).

No. 584. S ad. in nuptial plumage, Urncurituba, 26. ii. 06. " Iris light blue,
bill black, below greyish white."

II. BIRDS FROM OBIUOS.

1 . Thryophilus albipectus albipectus (Cab.)

Cfr. supra, p. '2.

No. 589. c? in moult, 12. iii. 00. " Iris grey-brown, feet light bluish grey, bill
greyish black." Quite as pale on the lower parts as Cabanis' type from Cayenne.

2. Dacnis cayana cayana (Liim.)

Vide Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 356.

No. 646. S ad., 20. iv. 06. " Iris reddish brown." Wing 63 ; tail 42 mm.

In size, and in the deep black colour of the throat, this bird agrees with others
from Cayenne, Para and the Caura valley. Specimeus from Ueara, Bahia and
Pernambuco are also perfectly similar.

* lUs, 1903, p. 500.

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On the other hand, skins from Minas, Rio, S. Taulo and Paraguay are decidedly
larger, the wing measuring from 68 to 71, the tail from 40 to 48 mm. The throat
patch is deep black, as in the northern birds. This southern form is apparently
entitled to the name />. cayana cyanater Less.*

3. Tachyphonus cristatus cristatus ((tin.)
Tauagra cristate (Jmelin, Sijxt. Xat. 1. ii. p. X98 (1788— ex Brissou et Buffon : Cayenne).

Nos. 584, ii 14. 3<$ ad. 7. Hi., 10. iv. 06. " Iris brown, bill and feet black."
The differences between T. c. cristata, of Cayenne, and T. c. cristatellus, of
Bogota, etc., as pointed out by me in Nov. Zool. xii. p. 275, are apparently not
constant. We have lately received an adult $ (and I have seen others) from Eastern
Ecuador with the crest of the same reddish orange tinge as our Cayenne specimen,
while the two Obidos skins, which ought to belong to the Cayenne race, agree in the
bright orange-red colour of the crown with the series from Bogota, etc. They are,
however, quite different from T. c. brunneus {brasiliensis Scl.), the crest being much
shorter, lighter, and bordered in front and laterally by a very distinct fulvous buff
line, which is but slightly indicated in the East Brazilian form.

T. e. cristatus is new to the Lower Amazonian fauna, though it was collected
near Borba, Rio Madeira, by J. Natterer.

4. Tachyphonus luctuosus Lair, et D'Orb.
Cfr. supra, p 7.

No. 611. <J ad. 31. iii. 00. No. 037. ? 10. iv. 06. " Iris brown."

The male has an ivory-white patch on the basal half of the lower mandible.

5. Sporophila castaneiventris Cab.

Cfr. supra, p. 7.

No. 6U3. <J ad., 28. iii. (»J. " Iris and bill black."— Exactly like specimens from
British Guiana and Santarem.

0. Sicalis columbiana goeldii Berl.

C£r. supra, p. 8.

No. 592. t? ad., 12. iii. 06. " Iris brown, feet greyish brown, bill greyish yellow."
Perfectly similar to the topotypical examples from Santarem.

7. Pipra erythrocephala (Linn.)
Cfr. Ibis 1906, p. 20.

Three <J<J ad., 30. iv. 06. "Iris white, bill greyish yellow." Nos. 057, 658,
659.

The crowu and sides of the head are even brighter orange than in specimens
from Trinidad and Cnmana.

In my revision of the genus Pipra (I.e.) I mentioned Para and Rio Capim
among the localities of P. erythrocephala, but Miss Snethlage (in lift.) has since
informed me that this species does not incur in the Para district, and that the
i 'iipiin examples, collected by Dr. Goeldi, belong to /'. rubrocapilla. Layard's
specimen was lost, and there is only one Wallaciau skin in the British Museum,

* Dacnis cyanater Lesson, Traitid'Crn. 1S3I. p. 458 (*'dn Breuil").

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aid to be from Para, but with no original label. As Wallace collected also on the
Rio Negro and on the island of Mexiana, a mistake with regard to the locality
might have occurred. Anyhow, there is no proof as yet that P. erythrocephala is
found south of the Amazons, where P. rubrocapilla evidently takes its place.

8. Chiroxiphia pareola pareola (Linn.)

Cfr. Nov. Zoul. xiii. p. 363.

No. 653. t? ad. 28. iv. 06. " Iris dark brown." Identical with Pari examples.

9. Sittasomus amazonus Lafr.
Siltasomus amazonus Lafresnaye, Bee. Hag. Zool. 1850, p. 590 ("ad summum Auiazonum").

No. 618. ? ad. (erroneously marked " 3 "), Obidos, 4. iv. 06. "Iris brown." —
Wing 72 ; tail 75 ; bill 14 mm.

Agreeing perfectly with specimens from British Guiana and the Caura valley,
Venezuela. Typical Upper Amazonian skins are not available for comparison.

10. Glyphorhynchus cuneatus cuneatus (Lent.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905), p. 280.

No. 652. c?, 18. iv. U6. " Iris dark brown."

11. "Dendrornis guttata sororia Berl. & Hart.

[DendrocolapUa guttatus Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Berliner Akad. 1818-19. p. 201 (1820— Bahia)].
Dendrornls rostripcdlens sororia Berlepsch & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 03 (1902 — Maipures, Orinoco).

No. 606. S ad., Obidos, 29. iii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill bluish grey."—
Wing 110 ; tail 99 ; 2,11 mm.

This specimen agrees perfectly with our large series from Surinam, Cayenne
and the Orinoco region. The upper mandible (in the dry skin) is uniform blackish,
the under parts are fulvous brown, and the light stripes on the foreueck and breast
have very distinct blackish margins.

U. g. guttatoides (Lafr.) [= rostripallens Des Murs] has the upper bill partly
pale-coloured ; the lower surface is much more rusty, and the dusky margins to the
feathers of the foreneck and chest are much less distinct. The specimens collected
by Natterer near Manaos and on the upper Rio Negro belong to this form.

U. g. sororia is new to the Brazilian avifauna.

12. Nasica longirostris (Vieill.)

Cfr. supra, p. IB.

No. 599. ? fere ad., 28. iii. 06. " Iris pale brown, bill greenish yellow."

13. Dysithainnus murinus (Scl. & Salv.)

Thatmiophihts murinus (Natterer Ms.) Sclater and Salvin, P.Z.S. 1807. p. 75(3 (Cayenne ; Marabitanas
et Barra do Bio Negro; Xeberos. — We accept Barra '!■> Rio Negro as typical locality).

No. 647. <$ vix ad., 21. iv. 06. " Iris light grey, feet grey, bill greyish black."
Differs from specimens collected by Natterer on the Rio Negro, only by its

somewhat larger dimensions and by having both the upper and under parts of

a rather darker grey.

This species seems best placed iii the geims Dysithamnus, near D. schistaceus, etc.

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14. Cerconiacra tyrannina (Scl.
Pyriglena tyramuna Bolster, P.Z.S. 1855. p. 90. pi. 98 (Bogota coll.).

No. 655. cJ ad., 29. iv. 06. " Iris greyish brown."

No. 651. ? ad., 28. iv. 06. •' Iris grey-brown."

These specimens are in every respect typical C. tyrannina, .agreeing with our
extensive series from Bogotii, the Orinoco region, British Gaiana and Para. It is
highly interesting to find this form on the north bank of the Amazons, while on the
opposite side of the great river, near Santarem, another representative of this group
(C. n. approximans, l'elz.) is met with.

15. *Myrmeciza longipes griseipectus Berl. & Hart.

[Dryiuophila longipe* Swaiuson, Zool. J, mm. ii. p. 152(1825 — "some part of Brazil,'' errore. —

Trinidad substituted as typ. locality ; cfr. Nov. Zuol. xiii. p. 33).]
Myrmeciza ewainsoni griseipectus Berlcpsch & Hartert, Nov. Zu,,l. ix. p. 70 (1902— Caicara, Orinoco).

Nos. 650, 654. 3 S ad., 28, 29. iv. 06. ''Iris reddish brown, feet yellowish
grey, bill black."— Wing 69, 60 ; tail moulting; bill 19 mm.

No. 035. ? ad., 15. iv. 06. " Iris brown."— Wing 65J ; tail 54^ ; bill 18J mm.

The St$ agree perfectly with others from the Caura Biver and British Gaiana.
Typical birds from the Orinoco valley have the grey colouring on the foreneck
rather darker and somewhat more extended, but this difference is very trifling and
not quite constant.

J/. /. griseiventris, which was known from British Guiana, the Orinoco region
and the Rio Meta, Eastern Colombia, is quite new to the Brazilian avifauna.

16. Myrmeciza ferruginea (P. L. S. Hull.)

Turdus ferrugineus P. L. S. Muller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 141 (1770— based on " Merle a cravate, de

Cayenne," Daubenton, PI. enl. 500. fig. 2. — Cayenne).
Turdus cinnamomeus Gnielin, Syst Nat. 1. i. p. 825 (1788— based on the same).
Myrmeciza cinnamomea auct.

No. 641. ? moulting, 19. iv. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet blue-black, bill black,
below grey."

Agreeing well with other females from Surinam and British Guiana

IT. Hypocnemis cantator cantator (Bodd.)

Formicariw Cantatar (sic!) Boddaert, Tabl. PI. ml. p. 44 (1783— based on '• Le Carrilloncur, de
Cayenne," D'Aubenton, PI. cul. 700. f. 2. — typical locality, therefore, Cayenne.)

No. 643. S vix ad., 18. iv. 06. " Iris brown."

No. 640. ? ad., 18. iv. 06. " Iris brown."

Identical with a large series from Cayenne. In the 6 8 the upper back is
cinereous, with a few indistinct dusky dots, and a very small, concealed white dorsal
spot ; in the ? ¥ it is uniform pale olive brownish.

Two SS ad. collected by Natterer near Hanaos (Barra do Bio Negro), belong
also to the typical race, which on the south bank of the Amazons is replaced by
H. c. peruvianas. Cfr. supra, p. 19.

18. Myrmotherula axillaris axillaris (Vieill.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 368.

No. 696. J ad., 7. iv. 00. " Iris brown."

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19. Phoethornis rupurumii amazonicus Hellm.
Cfr. supra, p. 23.

No. 636. ¥ ad., 15. iv. 06. " Iris black, feet greyish red, bill black, base of
lower mandible yellow." — Wing 44 ; rectr. med. 45A ; r. subnied. 33 ; r. ext. 18 ;
bill 24£ mm.

Agrees perfectly with the typical examples from Santaretn.

20. Agyrtria niillerii (Bourc.)

Trochilua .Millerii Bourcier, P.Z.S. 1847, p. 43 (" le Brc'sil, Rio Negro, rapportu par M. Xatterer ").

No. 593. ? ad., 16. iii. 06. " Iris black, bill black, base of lower mandible
light red." — Wing 45 ; tail 25; bill 17 mm.

Except in being slightly smaller, the specimen agrees with sexed ? ? of
A. millerii from the Orinoco. Forehead and vertex are covered with glittering pare
green or golden-green feathers ; chin and throat pure white without any metallic
srjots. A. affinis, A. nitidifrons, A. millerii and A. viridiceps seem to form a
natural group, representing each other geographically.

The present specimen extends the range of A. millerii considerably to the
east. The most easterly locality hitherto known was Mauaos, where Natterer
collected several specimens.

21. Agyrtria albiventris albiventris (Less.)

Cfr. supra, p. 24.

No. 604. 8 ad., 28. iii. 06. " Iris black, bill black, base of lower mandible red."
—Wing 53 ; tail 30 ; bill 19 mm.

This specimen is typical albiventris, having the base of the four outer tail-
feathers distinctly bronze green. The under tail-coverts are dark brown with
broad white edges.

Cfr. the remarks supra, p. 24.

22. Chlorestes caeruleus (Vieill.)

Cfr. Nov. Zuul. xiii. p. 377.

Nos. 587, 594, 595, 610, 634, 656. 3 88 ad., 1 8 km, 1 ?, 1 juv., II, 15,
16, 31. iii., 15. 29. iv. 06. " Iris black."

23. Nyctibius grandis (Gin.)

Caprimulgus grandis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. 1029 [1788 — "Cayenna" — ex Brisson (ex
Marograve) et Daubenton, PL oil. 325].

No. 621. ? ad., 6. iv. 06. "Iris reddish black, feet whitish grey, bill black."
Wing 364 ; tail 250 mm.

Agrees in size and coloration with several specimens from Surinam. These
have the following dimensions : wing 367, 368, 370 ; tail 235, 240, 200 mm.

Skins from South Brazil require comparison.

24. Chloronerpes fiavigula (Bodd.)

Cfr. >><pra, p. 25.

No. 019. 8 ad., 28. iii. 00. " Iris black, bill bluish black."
Bill short, as in Cayenne examples.

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25. Celeus ochraceus (Spix).
Picut o ' Spix, Av. Bras. i. (1824), p. 59 tab. li. fig. 1 ("in \\lvis Anuaomtm'").

No. 600. ? imm., 2.7. iii. 06. "Iris reddish blue, bill black, below greyish
white."

The blackish spots ou the mantle are distinctly heart-shaped. Some of the
breast tent hers are margined with rusty— evidently a sign of immaturity.

The Triug Mnsenm possesses an adult S from S. Lourenco, state of
Pernambuco, collected by Mous. A. Robert. This has the same ochraceous
colour of the plumage as Amazonian specimens, but the black markings on the
back are more transverse, thus showing an approach to C. flaxteseens (Gm.), of
South-east Brazil.

C. ochraceus is evidently the northern representative of C. Jlacescens, and
seems to be not uncommon on the Lower Amazons. Natterer* and Riker f obtained
it near Santarem, and Bliss Snethlage \ recently met with it in the Scrra of
Monte Alegre.

26. Celeus elegans elegans (P. L. S. Mull.)

Picut elegans P. L. S. Mutter, Natursyst. SiljppL, P- 92 (177(5. — ex D'Aubenton, PI. enl. 524.—

Cayenne). Cfr. Xov. Zoul. xiii., p. 39.
Celeus cinnamomeus Pelzeln. Zur Orn. Bras. iii. (1869), p. 251 (Barra do Rio Negro).

No. 04^. 6 ad., Obidos, 10. iv. 00. " Iris red, bill pale grey."

Since writing my notes in j\ror. Zool. xiii. pp. 39-40, I have examined much
additional material, and it seems that the distinction between ('. e. elegans of
Cayenne and C. e. reichenbachi auct. of British Guiana, etc., cannot be upheld.

It is true, the specimens from Cayenne are considerably darker, more
chestnut, on both the upper and lower parts, than any other examples I have
seen ; but the amount of pale spotting ou the back and upper wing-coverts does
not appear to depend upon locality.

The S from Obidos, a ? from Manaos (Natterer coll.), and four skins from
Forte do Bio Branco (Natterer) have the top of the head and crest ochraceous-
bnff as the Cayenne birds, while in the cinnamon-rufous colour of the plumage
they agree with those from Surinam, British Guiana and the Orinoco delta. In
two of the Rio Branco skins, the back and upper wing-coverts are uniform, in
the two others they are distinctly spotted with pale yellowish like the examples
from Obidos aud Manaos. Lately, we have received a S from Demerara, which
also has spots on the upper parts !

Without much larger series from the various localities it is impossible to
say whether there are any local races or not.

C. e. elegans is only known from the north bank of the Amazons, and it
appears that the great river forms the southern limit of its range.

ft reichenbackii apud Pelzeln (Urn. Bras. iii. p. 251), from Mattagrosso, is
certainly different from the present form. The single specimen, however, being
not quite adult, I prefer to wait for additional material before separating it.

• ivlzdn, Zur Orn. Brazil, iii. (1SG!>), p. 260.

t Auk, 1891. p. SI.

t Journ. I'. Ornith. lsniG, p. 410.

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27. Piaya cayana cayana (Linn.)
Cuculus cayanus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 170 (1766.— ex Brisson ; Cayenne).

No. 631. <S in moult. 10. iv. i>6. " Iris brownish rod, bill yellowish green."
This specimen agrees perfectly with a series from Surinam and British
Guiana — i.e. P. c. guianensis (Cab. & Heine), cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 44. Additional
material, however, has convinced me that this form canuot be separated from
typical P. c. cayana (Linn.), the supposed distinguishing characters not being
constant. On the other hand, the examples from Pani (cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 298)
differ by their considerably lighter, cinnamou-rufous upper parts, and paler, whitish
grey (not cinereous) thighs and crissum. Their proper name is probably
P. c. pallescens (Cab. & Heine), but the types should be examined. Anyhow,
they belong to a form distinct from true P. cayana.

The range of the two first races of my review (Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 43) would
accordingly be as follows : —

a. Piaya cayana cayana (Linn.).

Pyrrhoeoccyx guianensis Cab. <S Heine, Mux. Hon. iv. (1862), p. 85 (Guiana).

Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana west to the Orinoco valley, and south to the
north bank of the Amazons (Obidos).

b. Piaya cayana pallescens (Cab. & Heine).

Pyrrhoeoccyx pallescens Cabania & Heine, Mtts. Hein. iv. (1862), p. 80 (" Nord-Brasilieu ").
N.E. Brazil: vicinity of Para and Maranhao.*

28. Selenidera piperivora (Liun.)

Ramphastoa piperivormi Linnaeus, Si/st. Nat. xii. 1. p. 150 (1766. — ex Brisson— " Cayana ").
Selenidera piperivora Pelzeln, Zm- Ornith. Bras. iii. (1809), p. 230 (Barra do Rio Negro).

No. 632. ¥ ad., 10. iv. 06. " Iris brownish red, feet green, bill black, red
at the base."

Perfectly identical with other females from British Guiana and Surinam.
This species occurs only on the north side of the Amazons.

29. Monasa nigra (P. L. S. Mull.)

Cuculus uitjer P. L. S. Miiller, Natursysi. Suppl., p. 90 (1770.- ex Buffon, sc. Duubeuton,

PI. enl. 512 — Cayenne).
Monasa alia Pelzeln, Zar Omith. Brasil. i. (1807), p. 22 (Barra do Rio Negro).

No. 602. 6, 28. iii. 00. " Iris brownish red."

No. . ?, 18. iv. 00. "Iris brown."— Wing 135 ; tail 125 ; bill 37 mm.

Both specimens are in moult. They do not differ from a large series of skins
from Surinam, British Guiana and the Caura valley.

.1/. nigra is another of those Guianan forms the range of which extends to
the north side of the Lower Amazons, but which are not found on the south
bank of that river.

* I examined a specimen belonging to the Museum of Sophia, Bulgaria, and found it perfectly
identical with our Para series.

f This name appeared first in the tenth edition of the Syxt. Nat. p. 103, and then again in
the Mm. Ad. Frid. Prodromal ii. (1761), p. 17. The diagnosis, given in both cases, is, however,
nut sufficient to recognise the species.

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30. Galbula galbula (Liun.)

.lAci/n Galbula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 182(17GG. — ex Brisson and Marcgrave. — "Brasilia,
Cayana." — As typical locality fixed Cayenne : ex Brisson).

No. 590. c? ad., 12. iii. 06. Nos. 598, 024. ? ? ad., 27. iii., 0. iv. 06. "Iris
brown, liill black."

These specimens arc perfectly identical with others from Cayenne, Surinam, etc.

31. Galbula albirostris albirostris Lath.

Galbula albirostris' Latham, Ltd. Oritith. i. p. 245 [1790 — "in America australi " — we substitute

Cayenne as typical locality].
i,. chalcocephala (nee Deville) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. i. (1807), p. 24 (pt. : Barra do Rio

Negro).

No. 648. $ ad., 24. iv. 00. " iris brown, bill yellow, apical portion of upper
mandible black."— Wing 76 ; tail 70 ; bill 38 mm.

Agrees with a large series of the typical form from Cayenne, British Guiana
and the Caura valley. All these specimens have the basal third or half of the
upper mandible clear yellow.

Examples from North-eastern Peru, Eastern Ecuador aud the upper Rio
Negro (Guia, Marabitanas), however, form a well characterised geographical
race which is entitled to the name G. a. chalcocephala Deville.t The upper
mandible is always wholly black, and the colour of the foreneck and chest very
much darker, cinnamon-rufous (Ridg., Nomencl. iv. fig. 16) instead of ferruginous
(iv. fig. 10). Moreover, the wings are rather longer (81 — 84 against 72 — 76 mm.
in the typical form), and the bill as a rule slightly longer (42 — 43 against
36—30 mm.).

Two females from Barra du Rio Negro (Wallace & Natterer coll.) show
all characters of G. a. albirostris, but are much smaller than any other example
1 have seen.

32. Momotus momota momota (Linn.)

Ramphastos Momota Linnaeus, Syst Nat. xii. 1. p. 152 ^1700— based on Edwards & Brisson (excl.
syn. Marcgrave)— Cayenne (ex Brisson) accepted as typical locality).

No. 616. ? ad., 2. iv. 06. No. 627. S ad., 7. iv. 06. No. 601. av. imm. 28. iii. 06.
" Iris light red, feet and bill black."

These birds agree perfectly with our series from the Guianas, etc. All have
a large chestnut patch on the nape. M. m. parensis Sharpe differs from them by
its much more ochraceous under-parts, and by the nape-patch being of a decidedly
darker chestnnt.

It is an interesting fact that the typical Goianan form occurs on the north
bank of the Amazons. Ou the opposite side of the great river it is replaced by
M. VI. milt, i, a (see above, p. 28).

33. Pyrrhura picta amazonum Hellm.

[Psittacus picius P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl., p. 75 (1770. — ex Daubenton, /'/. cnl. 144. —

i lyenne.]
Pyrrhura picta amazonum Hellunyr, Bull. 13. O. C. xix. (Oct. 1906) p. 8.

No. 585. 6 ad., 9. iii. 06. '"Iris brownish red."— Wing 122 ; tail 110 mm.

* Latham's description refers undoubtedly to the above species. The conflicting statement: "bill

v. 1 1 1 , i icepl the based' the upper mandible, which is dusky," is certainly a lapsus calami or a misprint,
and it should "i lepl thi tip of the upper mandible."

.'.' Mag. /,•■'. 1819, p. 55 (" .Mission de Sarayaeu, riviere L'cayali'').

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No. 630. c? ad., 9. iv: 06. " Iris brownish red."— Wing 120i ; tail 108 mm.

No. 586. ? ad., 11. iii. 00. " Iris yellow."— Wing 124 ; tail 110 mm. Type
of subspecies.

No. 625. ? fere ad., 6. iv. 06. " Iris yellow." Wing 124 mm. ; tail incomplete.

This new form differs from P. p. picta of Guiana, etc., by lacking the crimson
patch on the bend of the wing, and by the green edges of the fonr central tail
feathers being confined to the basal third or half, while in the typical form they
reach almost to the tip. Iu both these respects the Obidos specimens agree
with P. picta luciani Dev. of Upper Amazonia, and could be mistaken for the young
of this form. But even quite young birds of P. devillei have always a few red
feathers and scarcely any blue on the frontal edge, while my new form shows a
well-defined pale blue band across the forehead, reaching as far back as the
anterior margin of the eye. It shares this peculiarity with P. p. picta, in which,
however, the blue frontal band is about twice as broad. The broad frontlet is
also the best character to distinguish immature specimens of P. p. picta (with
very little red on the bend of the wing) from P. p. amazonum.

Thus there are three geographical forms, the characters and range of which
may be summarised as follows :

a. Pyrrhura picta picta (P. L. S. Mull.)

Adult. Forehead as far back as the posterior margin of the eye pale blue.
Bend of the wing light red. Four central tail feathers laterally broadly edged with
green, except on the apical fourth. Ear-coverts dirty whitish or greyish buff.

Young. Forehead and tail as in the adult. Bend of the wing green, with only
a few scattered red feathers here and there.

Hab. Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana, west to the valley of the Gaura River,
a tributary of the Orinoco, East Venezuela.

N.B. — The locality " Trinidad " is doubtless erroneous.

Material : 2 Cayenne, 6 Surinam, 4 Brit. Guiana, 4 Caura River.

b. Pyrrhura picta amazonum Hellm.
Conurus roselfrons (nee Gray) Allen. Bull. Essex List. viii. 1870, p. SI. (Santavem).

Adult. Forehead as far as the anterior margin of the eye pale blue. Bend of
the wing green, only in one specimen some of the feathers slightly edged witli red.
Four central tail feathers on the basal third or half narrowly margined with green.
Ear-coverts bright brownish buff.

Hab. Lower Amazons : Obidos, Santarem.

A female from Santarem, forwarded by Prof, von Ihering (Garbe coll. — Mus.
Panlista, Brazil), agrees in every respect with our Obidos series. The specimen in
the Berlin Museum, said to be from Pard,* belongs most probably also to
this form.

c. Pyrrhura picta lucianii (Dev.)

Conurus Lucianii Deville, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 210 ("la riviere des Amazones ").

Adult. Forehead and more or less of the pileum as well as the lores and a
ring round the eye clear red. Bend of the wing greeu, sometimes with a few

• Conurus oyatiovterut Finsoh, Papageiet i. p. 511.

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scattered ivil feathers. Four central tail feathers narrowly margined with green
on their basal half.

Young. Top of the head very dark brown, forehead with only a few small red
feathers : in more advanced plumage witli a distinct red frontal band. Otherwise
like the adult.

Jl'ih. Upper Amazonia : from Northern Pern south to the River Junta, in
North-west Brazil.

Material : T Shannsi, near Yurimaguas (Garlepp) ; 2 Palcazu, Huanuco, Peru
(Hoffmanns coll.); 1 ad. Rio Jurna, North-west Brazil (Garbe coll.): all in the
Tring Museum.

34. Psittacula deliciosa Ridgw.

Psittacula deliciosa Ridgway, Proa U.S. Nat. Mus. x. (1887) p. 545 (1888.— Piamantina Creek,
Santarem, Lower Amazons) ; Chapman & Riker, .!»/-. 1891, p. 160.

No. 588. S ad., Obidos, 12. iii. 00. " Iris whitish yellow, feet light greyish red,
bill whitish grey." Wing 79 ; tail 40 mm.

This is, as far as 1 know, the first specimen in any Enropean collection.
P. deliciosa is an excellent form, and not to be confounded with P. g. guianensis* (Sws.)
and /'. ij. cyanocMora]\H.&rtl. It differs from both in the following particulars:
The emerald green lower back shows on the anterior portion a distinct turquoise
blue shade, which is altogether absent in the two allied forms; the greater upper
wing-coverts, instead of being glaucous green, are delicate turquoise blue with a
darker, more ultramarine-blue shaft-streak, only the concealed inner web being
yellowish green like the back ; the secondaries (except the tertials) are for the
greater part pure ultramarine blue, with a narrow yellowish green margin to the
apical half of the outer web. In both, P. g. guianensis and P. g. cyanochlora
the secondaries are (like the primaries) entirely green, there being scarcely a
faint bluish tinge at the extreme base of some of the outermost feathers. In
the coloration of under wing-coverts, the males of the three forms are perfectly-
alike, the under primary coverts being dull bluish green, the rest dark hyacinth blue.

On the other hand, P. viridissima Lafr. of Venezuela,} united by Salvadori
and Ridgway to P. guianensis, diners at a glance by having only a patch on the
innermost under wing-coverts hyacinth blue, all the rest being emerald or glaucous
green. The various forms of Psittacula will be discussed by me on another occasion.

35. Rupornis magnirostris magnirostris (Gm.)
Falco magnirostris Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 282 (1788.— ex Daubenton, /'/. enl. 4G4.— Cayenne)

No. 596. S juv., 20. iii. 06. " Iris yellowish red."

Agrees well with specimens from British Guiana and Surinam in corresponding
plumage.

30. Busarellus nigricollis (Lath.)

Falco nigricollis Latham, [ml. O™. i. p. 35 (1790.— "Cayana").

No. 015. ? imm., 2. iv. 00. " Iris light brown, feet greyish yellow, bill black."

* Six specimens from Surinam in the Tring Museum, and an adult <J from British Guiana in the
British Museum,

t Four specimens from Forte do Rio Branco, North Brazil, in the Vienna Museum, kindly lent me Iry
Dr. von Lorenz.

t Sixteen ^ J from Cnmani, and Altagracia, Orinoco.

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37. Harpagus bidentatus (Lath.)

Falco hidentatus Latham, Lid. Orn. i. p. 38 (1790. — " Cayana").

No. 645. <? ad., 20. iv. 00. " Iris light yellow, bill greyish black."

38. Hypotriorchis rufigularis (Dand.)

Falco rufigularis Daudin, Tniitc d'Orn. ii. p. 131 (1800.— ex Latham: Cayenne) [cfr. Nov. Zool ix.
(1902) p. 115].

Nos. 617, 623. c?¥ ad., 2, 6. iv. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet yellow, bill
black."

39. Pisorhina choliba crucigera (Spix).

[Strix choliba Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. vii. p. 39 (1817.— ex Azara, No. 48 : Paraguay).]
Stria crucigera Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 22. tab. ix. (1824.-" juxta flumen Amazonum").

No. 605. ? ad., 29. iii. 06. " Iris light yellow."

About this form cfr. Abhandl. Bayer. Akad. Wissensch. ii. Kl. vol. xxii. 3.
p. 575.

40. Dendrocygna discolor Scl. & Salv.

Dendrocygna discolor Sclater & Salvin, Nomenel. Ar. neotrop. p. 101 (1873.— "Venezuela, Guiana et
Brasilia." — type ex Surinam ; cfr. Cat. Birds Brit, Mug. xxvii. p. 162).

No. 620. ? ad., 6. iv. 06. " Iris brown, feet pale greyish red, bill rather
darker." ,

This specimen is perfectly similar to another from Trinidad. In both the
lower hindneck is huffy grey, abruptly contrasted against the chestnut of the back.

41. Ortalis motmot (Linn.)

Phasianus Motmot Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 271 (1 7(56. —ex Brisson : "Brasilia, Guiana." — As
typical locality accepted Cayenne ; cfr. Nov. Zool. ix. (1902) p. 120).

Nos. 607, 609, 628, 639. <?(?, 29, 31. iii., 8, 17. iv. 06. " Iris brown, feet red,
bill greyish black. Skin on neck light red."

No. 629. ? ad., 8. iv. 06. " Iris brown."

These birds are practically identical with a large series from Surinam, British
Guiana, etc.

0. motmot is also a Gnianan species, but seems to occur on both banks of the
Lower Amazons. Natterer collected it near Mangos, and the American Museum
of New York received it from Santarem (cfr. Auk 1891. p. 162).

42. Crypturus erythropus (Pelz.)

Thiamin erythropus Pelzeln. Verhandl. zool.-botan. Gesellsch. Wien, xiii. pp. 1127, 1129 (1863. —
Barra do Rio Negro).

No. 649. " ? " jr. Obidos, 26. iv. 06. " Iris light brown, feet yellowish red,
bill black, below grayish." — Wing 164 ; bill 30 mm.

Like the type of T. longirostris in the British Museum, this specimen has the
wing coverts, secondaries, middle and lower back, including the upper tail coverts,
strongly barred with buff or rufescent, and diners only by the ground colour of the
crown being more slaty, less blackish. It answers well to Pelzeln's description of
the female of C. erythropus (I.e.).

This species is new to the fauna of the Lower Amazons, though collected by
Natterer near Manuos and on the Upper Rio Branco.

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ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM TEFFE, RIO
SOLIMOES, BRAZIL.

By C. E. IIELLMAYR.

AFTER leaving Obidos, Mr. W. Hoffmanns went to Telle (Ega), on the south
bank of the Bio Solimoes, where be was at work from the last week of
May to the end of Jnne. Although the collection is not a large one, it proves
to be of considerable interest, showing once more how much remains to be done in the
ornithology of the Amazon valley. The Rio Solimoes is even less known than
the Lower Amazons, though visited by several naturalists. The Bavarian expedition
ninler Spix and Martins obtained a few specimens at S. Paulo d'Olivenea and near
Tabatinga. Count t'asteluau transmitted a good many birds from Fonteboa and
Ega to the Paris Museum, but only a few species were mentioned in the ornitho-
logical portion of the Expedition dans les parti?* centrales de FAnbriqiie du Slid,
while the greater part remained uuworked in the French national collection.
Mr. II. W. Rates spent more than four years in Ega and its neighbourhood,
and thongh chiefly interested in entomology, managed to bring together a fair
number of ornithological specimens, which, however, were never reported upon.
The only paper that seems to have been published on his material appeared in
the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1857, pp. 267-68, wherein Mr. Sclater
records twenty-three species of birds as having been collected near Ega. Natterer
obtained some birds on the "lake" Manaqneri, which were duly enumerated by
von Pelzeln in his well-known work " Zur Ornitholoyie. Brasiliens." Lastly, Mr. G.
Garlepp, on his way to Pern, made a short stay at Fonteboa and Tonantius, where he
procured specimens of twenty-six species, an account of which was published
by Count Berlepsch in the Journal fur Ornithologie, 1889, pp. 97-101.

The avifauna of Teffe differs essentially from that of the Lower Amazons,
agreeing more closely with that met with on the banks of the Rio Marauon, in
Northern Pern. Other remarks on the zoogeography of the Amazon valley I defer
to a later occasion.

In the preparation of this paper I have been greatly assisted by Count von
Berlepsch and Dr. Lorenz von Libnrnan, who most kindly lent me many specimens
for comparison.

1. Turdus hauxwelli Lawr.

Turdut hauxwelli Lawrence. Aim. Lye. Nan York, ix. p. 2G5 (18G9 — Pebas, X.E. Peru).

No. 727. <? ad., 31. v. 0G. " Iris light brown, bill greyish green." — Wing 113 ;
tail 96 ; bill 20 mm.

This bird agrees well with topotypical examples from Pebas. T. hauxwelli is
an excellent form, not to be confounded with T. fumigatus Lcht., from which it
differs in many important points. The upper parts are much duller and darker,
about " mummy-brown" (Ridgw. iii., fig. 10), without any ochreons hue ; foreneck,
breast, and sides, instead of beiug bright ochraceons brown, are "wood-brown," a
little more rnfesceut than Ridgway's pi. iii. fig. 19 ; the under tail-coverts dark
brown on the basal and pure white on the apical portion, without any trace ot

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ochreons or fnlvons colouring; the middle of the abdomen pure white; the axillaris
and under wing-coverts much duller, and the inner web of the quills nearly uniform
greyish brown.

2. Turdus ignobilis debilis Hellm.

Tardus ignobilis debilis Hellmayr, Journ.f. Ornith. 1902, p. 56 (type ex Rio Madeira).

No. 787. c? juv., 9. vi. 00. " Iris brown, feet and bill greyish brown."
This is quite a young bird, agreeing with another specimen from East Ecuador
in corresponding plumage.

3. Troglodytes musculus clarns Berl. & Hart.

T. in. clarus Berlepsch & Hartert, Nov. Zoo/, ix. p. H (1002— type ex Bartica Grove, British Guiana).

No. 783. c? ad., 8. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet brown, bill greyish black."
Identical with specimens from Para and British Guiana.

4. Leucolepia modulator rufogularis (Des Mors).

[Thri/othorus modulator TJ'Orbigny, Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 230 (1838 — Yuracares, North Bolivia).]
Saroehalinus rufogularis, Des Murs in Castebtau's Voyage — Oiseaux, p. 4'J, tab. xvii. fig. 1 (1855 —
Sarayacii, Peru).

No. 895. c? ad., 24. vi. 00. " Iris dark brown."— Wing 73 ; tail 45 ; bill 19 mm.

No. 894. ? juv., 24. vi. 06. " Iris dark brown."

No. 881. juv., 23. vi. 00.

The adult bird agrees with specimens from North Pern, except in having a
slightly longer tail. As regards coloration, examples from North Peru (including
the type of S. rufogularis Des Murs, belonging to the Paris Museum), Teffe, and
from the valley of the Rio Junta, W. Brazil, are perfectly identical among them-
selves. All have the throat, foreneck, front and sides of the head of a deep
ferruginous red, and the abdomen decidedly rufescent brown.

The two typical specimens of T. modulator from Yuracares (Paris Museum)
and a ? from Northern Bolivia (in Count Berlepsch 's collection) differ from this
series by the much lighter tone of the ferruginous portions of the plumage, and by
having the abdomen almost pure olive brown with scarcely any rnfescent tinge. It
seems therefore advisable — for the present at least — to keep the two forms separate,
though it is not improbable that additional specimens from Bolivia might prove
them to be identical.

A third nearly allied form, L. modulator salvini (Sharpe), occurs in Eastern
Ecuador. It differs from the two others chiefly by having the ear-coverts uniform
dark sepia brown (instead of rufous). I have examined five specimens, including
the types.

5. Donacobius atricapillus (Linn.)

Turdus atricapilha Linnaeus, Sytt. Nut. xii. I. p. 2'J5 (17fiG— ex Brisson : " Cap b. spei "— errore !
We substitute Cayenne as the typical locality).

Nos. 804, 800. rj ? ad., 11. vi. 06. ;' Iris yellow, feet greyish green, bill black.
A large naked patch on each side of the neck bright yellow."

No. 805. S juv., 11. vi. 06. " Iris grey, feet and bill as in the adults."

In the Catalogue of Birds vi. p. 304, uo mention is made of the naked patch on

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the sides ni' the neck, though this peculiarity has boon noticed by Prince Wied (cfr.
Beitr. Natyrg. Brasil. 3. ii. 1831, pp. 662, 664).

]>. albovittatus Lafr. & D'Orb.* is nothing bni the young of D. atricapillus.
I compared the type in the Paris Museum, and found it perfectly identical with
another specimen from S. Esteban, Venezuela (Mns. Berlepsch). Both birds are
still in the fluffy juvenile plumage, and show a broad white superciliary stripe.
This is also present, though less pronounced, in various specimens from Bahia
and Bogota ; in the 3 juv. from Teffd there are several small whitish feathers
to be seen above the ear-coverts. It is true I have not yet seen adult specimens
from Bolivia, but they are not likely to be different, as a series from Paraguay aud
S.W. Brazil (Mattogrosso) is not distinguishable from a good number of skins
from Bahia, Cayenne, Venezuela, etc., in the Tring Museum.

6. Vireo chivi (Vieill.) snbsp.

Sylvia chivi Vieillot, Noun). Diet. xi. p. 174 (1817 — ex Azara : Paraguay).

Nos. 72f>, 759,760. 3 3 ad., ? imm., 31. v., 6.vi.06. " Iris brown, bill greyish
black, feet bluish grey."

The back is bright yellowish green and the cap pure (bluish) cinereous. The
adult birds have the following dimensions : Wing 64, 67 ; tail 44, 49 ; bill 13£,
14 mm.

I defer the discussion of the geographical variatiou of this species to a later
occasion, bnt cfr. my remarks in Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 11.

7. Dacnis flaviventer Lafr. & D'Orb.

Dacntijlaviventer Lafresnaye et D'Orbignv, Syn. Ar. i., in .1%. Zool. 1837. cl. ii. p. 21 ("Ynracari-a,
rep. Boliviana '').

No. 768. 3 ad., 7. vi. 06. « Iris yellowish red, feet bluish grey, bill black."—
Wing 63* ; tail 42; bill 12 mm.

No. 711. ? ad., no date. -'Iris yellowish red."— Wing 59; tail 411 ; bill
11| mm.

I cannot detect any difference between the 3 from Teffe and another from
Bogota collections. As far as I know, this species has not yet been recorded
from Colombia.

The ? resembles very much that of I), angelica, but is easily distinguishable
by the pale brownish (not greenish) upper parts, without any bluish tinge on the
pilenm, by the dull greyish brown throat and the light yellowish bnff abdomen.

8. * Cyanerpes caerulea cherriei Berl. & Hart.

Cyanerpet caerulea cherriei Berlepsch & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 16 (1902— Munduapo, Orinoco).
Caen ba caerulea (nee Linnaeus !) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. i. (1867) p. 25 (part. : Salto do Girao.
Marabitanas, Guia, Rio Iranna, and Barra do Rio Negro).

Nos. 730. 914, 33 ad., 1. vi. 06. '-Iris dark brown, feet light yellow, bill
black."— Wing 52J, 53; tail 26>, 27 ; bill 16, 17 mm.

Nos. 721, 747,748, 766, 799, 871. ?? and c?c?juv. (in female plumage),
30. v., 3, 6, 11, 20. vi. u6. " Iris dark brown, feet green or greenish grey."— Wing
53—55 ; tail 261-20 : bill 16—17 mm.

* Si/it Av. i. iu Mag. Zool. 1&37. cl. ii. p. 19 (Chiquitos and Guarayos, East Bolivia).

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The adult c?cJ, as well as three others from Marabitanas, Manaos, and Salto do
Girao (upper Rio Madeira;, kindly lent by Dr. vou Lorenz, agree perfectly in colour
and dimensions with the types from the Orinoco. The females from Teffe differ from
those of the upper Orinoco and Rio Negro only by their paler, more lmff, less
ochraceons throat, ft c. cherriei is evidently the representative of the ft caerulea
group in the plains of the great Amazonian forest region which extends from the
banks of the npper Rio Orinoco to north-eastern Bolivia. In the mountains of
Bolivia and Peru it is replaced by ft c. microrhyncha (Berl.). I am unable to
separate some specimens from S. Augnstin,* Yungas of Bolivia (3500 ft.), and
others obtained by Mr. W. Hoffmanns near Poznzo, province Huannco, Central
Peru (elev. 3000 ft.), from a series of Colombian skins, though the latter have,
as a rule, rather longer bills. ft c. microrhyncha differs from ft c. cherriei by
its much longer wings and tail, its stronger and longer bill, and by having the
anterior portion of the crown, as well as the malar region, distinctly paler blue.

The range of these two forms is accordingly as follows : —

(a) ft caerulea microrhyncha (Berl.). Mountains of N.W. Venezuela (Merida),
Colombia, Ecuador, Pern, and North Bolivia, above about 3000 ft.

(b) ft caerulea cherriei Berl. & Hart. Plains of the Amazonian forest regiou :
on the banks of the upper Orinoco (Munduapo, Nericagna), Rio Negro (Marabitanas,
Guia, Rio Ioanna, Manaos), Rio Solimoes (Tefte), and Rio Madeira (Salto do
Girao).

9. Cyanerpes nitida (Hartl.)
Coereba nitida Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1847. p. 84 (" le P,'rou ").

No. 906. ? ad., 25. vi. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet yellow, bill black."— Wing
54 ; tail 31 ; bill 13i mm.

Agreeing with a ¥ from the I 'aura Valley, Venezuela, but lacking the pale
blue band across the forehead.

The ¥ of ft nitida differs from that of ft c. cherriei by its longer tail,
considerably shorter and less curved bill, bright yellow (not greyish green or
dusky) feet, whitish (not yellowish) breast, and more bluish green stripes on
the chest and sides of the body.

10. Euphonia olivacea Desni.

Euphonia olivacea Desmarest, Hist. Nut. Tangaras, etc., pi. xxvii. (1815— Cayenne — $ ) [Cfr. Nov.
Zool. ix. (1902) p. 17].

No. 868. S ad., 20. vi. 06. No. soft. ? ad., 20. vi. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet
bluish black, bill black."

I am unable to perceive any differences between typical Cayenne skins and
those from Upper Amazonia.

11. Calospiza mexicaua boliviana (Bp.)

Cfr. supra, p. 7.

Nos. 710, 712. 6 ¥ ad., Teffo, 29. v. 00. " Iris dark brown, bill and feet black."
—Wing 74£, GO ; tail 52; bill 8£, 9J mm.

In the female the shoulder patch is uniform dark azure blue, as in specimens

* Not from the Rio Beni, as ei'roneousl.v Mated in Xov. Zonl. xiii. fl90(!) n. 9.

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from Peru and Ecuador, while the ' has a few tm-qnoise-blne feathers intermixed
towards the inner margin. In my paper on Santarem birds I noticed that this
peculiarity is not uncommon in specimens from Brazilian Amazonia.

12. Phoenicothraupis rubra peruviana Tacz.

[Tachyphomu ruber Vieillot, Nouv. Diet xxxii. p. 359 (1819.— "tie de la Trinity").]
Phoenicothraupis peruvianas Taezanowski, Orn. Pirou li. p. 49S (1884.— Peru : Yurimaguas and
Mont. ■

Nos. 705j 901. ? ad.. 24. v., 25 vi. mi. " Iris dark brown, feet yellowish grey,
bill brownish black, below light greyish."

Unfortunately Mr. Hoffmanns sent us no males, but I have examined a
specimen of this sex in the British Museum, collected by Mr. H. \V. Bates near Ega.

Besides these, there are six examples: 2 S c? ad., 1 S juv., 3 ? ? from
Chamicnros, Ynrimagnas and Xeberos, North Pern, obtained by Mr. E. Bartlett, in
the Tring Museum. This series is very uniform, and constitutes without doubt a
form distinct from true P. r. rubra (Vieill.) of Trinidad and Coraana. .Some years
ago, I also compared Natterer's specimens from Borba and Mattogrosso with an
adult 3 from Ynrimagnas in Count Berlepsch's collection, and found them to be
identical.

According to the material at hand there are three geographical races of
P. rubra to be recognised.

a. P. rubra rubra (Vieill.)

c? ad. Red crest bordered on each side by a distinct dusky margin. All the
nndersurface rosy red, middle of abdomen but slightly paler than chest and throat ;
sides of breast and flanks shaded with brownish.

? ad. Upper parts pale brown, lower ones nearly uniform brownish bull,
lightest in the middle, more brownish on chest and sides.

Bab. Trinidad and N.E. Venezuela : Cumana.

b. P. rubra peruviana Tacz.

S ad. Dusky lateral margins to the crest barely indicated. Throat and
foreneck bright rosy red; breast ami abdomen mainly dull cinereous, washed with
pale rosy along the middle line.

? ad. Under-parts paler as in P. r. rubra, usually distinctly whitish on
throat and middle of belly. Back as a rule darker brown.

Hub. North and Central Peru (Monterico, Ynrimagnas, Chamicnros, Xeberos);
N.W. Brazil : Teffe (Bates and Hoffmanns), Rio Jnrna* Mattogrosso and Borba,
Rio Madeira (Natterer) ; f Lower Amazons : Santarem. %

c. P. rubra rhodinolaema Salv. & Godm.

S ad. Differs from P. r. peruviana by having the throat and crest of a
ranch brighter, more scarlet red. The dusky margins to the crest are rather better
defined. ? ad. Not distinguishable from the ? of /'. r. peruviana.

Hub. Bast Ecuador: Sarayacu (types examined).

[hering, Bevista Mvt. Paulitt. vi. 1906, p. 432 B.n. /'. rhoiiwlaema,
I Pelzeln, Our On,. Brat. iii. (1869), p. 212. s.n. J', rubra,
I Chapman au.l Itiker, Auk, 1890, p. 207, BJL 1\ rh,«linolaema.

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13. Tachyphonus surinamus napensis Lawr.

[Tardus surinamus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 297 (17(36.— ex Brisson : Surinam).]
Tachyphonus Napensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York viii. (June 18G4), p. 42 ("Napo
River," East Ecuador).

No. 742. c? ad., 2. vi. 00. '• Iris dark brown, feet and bill black."
This specimen differs from a nnmber of skins from Bogota collections and the
Rio Napo by having a somewhat shorter and stouter bill, and a decidedly darker
rump and coronal patch which are deep tawny (Itidgw. v. fig. 1) instead of ocliraceons
(v. fig. 7). The tufts on the sides of the chest are pure white, as in T. s. napensis.

14. Ramphocelus nigrogularis (Spix).

Tanagra nigrogularis Spix, Av. Bras, ii. p. 35. tab. xlvii. (1825. — "ad flumen Solimoeus in sylvis
pagi St. Pauli ").

Nos. 673, 774. 6 S ad., 20. v., 7. vi. 00. " Iris dark red, feet and bill black,

base of lower mandible white."

Nos. 775, 674. S fere ad., ¥ ad., 7. vi., 20. v. 06. " Iris red or dark brown."
These specimens are topotypical. Others from Pern and East Ecuador do not

differ in any way.

15. Saltator maximus (P. L. S. Mull.)

Tanagra maxima P. L. S. Muller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 159 (1776.— ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 205. —

Cayenne).
Saltator magims auct.

Nos. 818, 841. ? ? . 13, 16. vi. 05. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill black."
16. Guiraca rothschildii Barfcl.

Ofr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905) p. 277.

No. 899. rj ad., 25. vi. 06. " Iris dark brown."

No. 807. ? ad., 12. vi. 06. " Iris brown."

These specimens agree perfectly with our series from British Guiana, Para, aud
the Orinoco region.

IT. Sporophila castaneiventris Cab.

Cfr. supra, p. 7.

No. 786. cJ ad , 9. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."
Exactly like our specimens from Santarem.

18. Myospiza aurifrons (Spix).

Tanagra, auri/ruus Spix, Ar. Bras. ii. p. 38 tab. L. fig. 2 (1825. — "in provincia Bahia." — crrore !

We substitute Rio Solimot'ns as typical locality).
Coturniculus peruanm auct. (nee Bonaparte!) [Cfr. Hellmayr, Abhandl. Bayer, afiad. Wissensi

ii. Kl. Bd. xxii., iii. Abt. (1906), p. 673.]

No. 675. ? ad., 20. v. 06. "Iris greyish brown, bill greyish black."
Similar to specimens from the Peruvian Amazons, while others from Oosnipata,
South Peru, are rather larger.

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19. Ostinops decumanus (Pall.)
Cfr. AV. Zool xiii. (1906) p. 19.

No. 704. ?, 24. v. 06. " Iris light blue, feet black, bill whitish grey."

20. Amblycercus solitarius solitarius (Vieill.)

Oa mens solihmtu Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. v. p. 364 (181(5.— ex Azara : Paraguay).

( 'at »i ». nigerrimus Spix, Av. Urns. i. p. liii tab. lxiii. fig. 1 (1824.—" ad ripam 11. Amazonnm").

Nos. 817, 821, 822. Two ? ? in moult, and oue young bird, not sexed. 10,
14. vj. 06.— Bill 20—31 mm.

I cannot perceive any differences between the Teffe specimens and some others
from Paraguay and Peruambuco.

In my revision of Spix's types (p. 612) I rejected the name C. solitarius as
uncertain, because in Vieillot's description no mention is made of the whitish colour
of the bill. I fiud now, however, that in young birds the bill is almost entirely
blackish, the extreme tip alone being dull whitish. There is, therefore, no reason
for not accepting Vieillot's term.

21. Lampropsar tanagrinus tanagrinus (Spix).

Icterus tanagrinus Spix, Av. Bra*, i. p. 67. tab. lxiv. fig. 1 (1824. — " in locis sylvaticis Parae").

No. 859. ? ad., 18. vi. 06. "Iris brown, feet and bill black."— Wing 102 ;
tail 04 ; bill IS mm.

Compared with four specimens from Mumlnapo, Upper Orinoco, and 1 c? ad.
from Guauoc.o, Orinoco delta (L. t. guianensis Cab.), this bird is much duller and
less glossy everywhere. I alluded to this difference in my revision of Spix's types,
p. 016; there is, however, a regrettable pen-slip, for it should read: " Sechs 6 <$
von Munduapo . . . und zwei 8 6, Guanoko . . . unterscheiden sich durch viel
lebhafteren und mehr sta/Wblauen (not ' griiublauen ') Glanz," etc.

22. Todirostrum guttatum Pelz.

Todirostrum guttatum Pelzelu, Zur Urn. Bratil. ii. p. 172 (1808. — Barcdlo.s aud Poiares on the
Rio Negro).

No. 784. ? ad., 9. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."— Wing 44 ;
tail 29 ; bill 13 mm.

Differs from the types only by its slightly longer wings.

A very near ally is T. pictum tSalv., of which the Triug Museum has lately
received a series from near Paramaribo. It is easily distinguishable from
'/'. guttatum by its duller green back, by having the throat, cheeks, and lower
ear-coverts white (not bright yellow), aud by lacking the yellow superciliary stripe.

23. Todirostrum maculatum siguatum Bel. & Salv.

Vide ■'•qua, p. 1 1.

No. S89. 6 ad., 23. vi. 06. " Iris pale yellow, feet dark grey, bill black."
Agrees with specimens from Nauta, the top of the head being plumbeous with

minute black centres to the feathers. As in one of the Peruvian skins before me,

there are a few white dots in the middle of the forehead.

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24. Todirostrum latirostre (Pelz.)
Euscarthmm latirostre Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras. ii. p. 173 (1868. — Borba, Rio Madeira).

Nos. 740, 852. ¥ ? ad., Teffe, 2, 1 7. vi. 06. " Iris light greyish brown, feet
greyish brown, bill black."

These specimens tally well with a detailed MS. description drawn from the
type in the Vienna Museum.

T. latirostre is certainly most nearly allied to T. f. fumifrons (Hartl.), of
Bahia, and T.f. penanli Hellm., of Surinam and Cayenne ; from both of which it
differs in having the upper wing-coverts edged with deep ochraceous (instead of pale
sulphur yellow), and the abdomen white (not yellow). In the shape of the bill
these three forms are very unlike the members of the genus Euscarthmus, to which
they were referred by most authors, but agree very nearly with Todirostrum
poliocephalum (Wied).

25. Mionectes oleagineus oleagineus (Lcht.)
Muscicapa aleagiiiea Lichteustein, Vera. Dubl. p. 55 (1823. — Bahia).

No. 690. ? ad., 22. v. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet grey, bill black, below
more brownish."'

26. Tyrannulus elatus (Lath.)

Sylvia data Latham, hid. Orn. ii. p. 549 (1700. — ex Daubenton, PL eid. 708, fig. 2.— Cayenne).

No. 826. ? ad., 15. vii. 06. " Iris white."

Agreeing perfectly with ? ? from Cayenne and Surinam. Cfr. my revision of
Spix's types, p. 640, where I have pointed out that T. reguloides Ridgw. is based
upon a ? of T. elatus.

27. Orchilus ecaudatus (Lafr. & D'Orb.)

Todirostrum ecaudatum Lafresuaye et D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. iti Mag. Zuol. 1837. cl. ii. p. 47,
(Yuracares, East Bolivia).

No. 668. ? ad., 20. v. 06. " Iris white, feet pale brown, bill black."— Wing
33 ; tail 14 ; bill 10 mm.

28. Elaenia albiceps parvirostris Pelz.

\Muscipeta albiceps Lafresnaye et D'Orbigny, >S;/«. Av. i. in Mag. Zool. 1837. cl. ii. p. 47 ("Rio de
Janeiro, imp. Brasil., Yungas, rep. Boliviana et Taona, rep. Peruviana." — Yungas of Bolivia*
to be considered as typ. locality).]

Elainea parvirostris Pelzeln, Zur OrnitJi. Brasil. ii. (18H8) pp. 107, 178 (type ex Curytiba, Parana,
S.E. Brazil).

Nos. 767, 824. S ad., adnlt (not sexed) : 7, 14. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet ami
bill black, under mandible paler."— Wing 66, 07; tail 59 ; bill loj, 11 mm.

They agree perfectly with specimens from Merida, Bogota coll. and Quiribana
de Caicara, Orinoco. Both are adult birds with a concealed white crown patch.

Natterer obtained examples of this form near Borba, Kio Madeira, and at

* The original description refers undoubtedly to the white-bellied form (cfr. "pennis verticis param
elongatis basi albis " and " subtus sordide albescens, gutture pectoreque ciuerascentibus "). There are only
several specimens from Yungas and one from Tacna in the Paris Museum, and as the latter is a young
bird the former ought to be considered as the types.

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Barcellos ou the Bio Negro. In the British Jluseum there are skins from Pebas
(Hauxwell) aud Chyavetas Bartlett).

/•;. albivertex Pelz. is, of course, totally different from E. a. parvirostris Pelz.

29. Ramphotrigon raficauda (Spix).
Platyrhynchui ruficauda Spix. Av. Bras. ii. p. 9 tab. xi. fig. 1 (1825.— "insylvis fl. Amazonum").

No. 888. ? ad., Telle, 23. vi. 00. "Iris greyish brown, feet blackish brown,
bill black."

This bird is topotypical. A series from the Canra valley does not differ in
any way.

30. * Rhynchocyclus poliocephalus poliocephalus Tacz. A

Rhynchocychis poliocephalus Taczanowski, Orn, Pirou ii. p. 285 (1884.— Nauta, N.E. Peru- type in
Museum Berlepsch examined). [Cfr. Hellmayr, Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Get. Wien, 1903, p. 207.]

No. 800. ? ad., 11. vi. 06. "Iris whitish yellow, feet blue grey, bill black,
below pale grey." — Wing 55; tail 45; bill 12 mm.

Agrees perfectly with two specimens from Eastern Peru, the underparts being
of a rather bright yellow, and the throat mainly yellowish. The back is a little
brighter green, aud the grey cap more mixed with green thau in ii!. p. sclateri.

This form is new to the Brazilian fauna.

31. Myiodynastes solitarius (Vieill.)

Tyrannua solitarius Vieillot, Nouv. Did. xxxv. p. 88 (1819.— ex Azara no. 196.— Paraguay).
No. 833. S in moult, 15. vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet greyish black, bill black."
Identical with examples from Sonth Brazil aud Paraguay.

32. Myiobius erythrurus fulvigularis Salv. & Godm.

[Myiobius erythrurus Cabanis, Arch. Natitrg. 13. i. p. 249, pi. 5, fig. 1 (1847.— "Guiana, Cayenne ").]
Myiobius fiilvigularis Salvin & Godman, Biol. Cento. A met: ii. p. 58 (1889.— Santa Fe", Veragua).

No. 750. S fere ad., 3. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet brown, bill blackish brown."

This bird agrees best with a S from Samiria, N.E. Peru. Both differ slightly
from a series of Costa Rica and Chiriqui by having the pileum and back of a rather
lighter olivaceous grey, and the lower parts a shade paler ochraceous. The forehead
is washed with buff, though less strongly than in true M. e. fulvigularis of Central
America. A Bogota skin and an adult bird from S. Mateo, North Bolivia, are
perfectly identical with those from the Amazons.

Specimens from British Guiana, when compared with others from Costa Pica,
etc., look at first rather different, the forehead being pure olive grey like the crown,
the throat more whitish, and the rest of the nnder-snrface considerably paler
ochraceous. A series of skins from the Caura Valley, however, presents a large
amount of individual variation in the intensity of the lower parts, some being quite
as pale as those from British Guiana, while others are even darker than M. e.
fulvigularis of Central America. The same applies to the colour of the throat.
Norn- of the Canra specimens, however, shows auy buff tinge on the forehead.

The specimen from Para, (cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 362) has the forehead slightly-
tinged with buff like those from the Amazons, but differs from all examples of
.1/ ('. erythrurus and M. e. fulvigularis by having the whole back strongly suffused
with cinnamon. Perhaps it represents a distinct form.

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33. Empidonax lawrencei Allen.

Empidoiiax lawrencei Allen. Bull. Amen: Mus. ii. p. 150 (1889. — hab. igu., but c£r. Nnv. Zool. xiii.
p. -25).

No. 861. S ad., 19. vi. 06. " Iris browu, bill black, below yellowish white."—
"Wing 66 ; tail 58 ; bill 13A nirn.

No. 793. ? ad., 10. vi. 06. " Iris browu, bill black, below greyish yellow." —
Wing 57* ; tail 52£ ; bill 13£ mm.

In coloration, these specimens agree perfectly with our series from Trinidad
and Venezuela, except that the throat is more whitish in No. 861. Both skins
have the foreneck and chest strongly washed with dull olive green, the middle of
the abdomen being bright sulphur yellow. The female is much smaller than
the male.

34. Pipra rubrocapilla Temm.

Pipra rubrocapilla Terumiuck, Bee. PI. col. tab. 04, fig. 3 (1821. — "Bre'sil,"as typical locality,
fixed : Bahia).

Nos. 716, 720. 6 6 ad., 30. vi. 06. "Iris white, bill reddish or greyish
white."

Nos. 698, 809, 872. ? ?, 23. v., 12, 20. vi. 06. "Iris yellowish white or
brownish grey."

After examining much additional material, I do not thiuk it possible to
separate the Para form, discussed iii Ibis, 1906, p. 13, aud Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906)
p. 362.

As a rule, the Para birds have the forehead aud crown of a lighter, more
orange-red tint, but I have lately seen some specimens from Bahia with the
head quite as pale. The SS from Teffe" agree better with those from Para.
P. rubrocapilla seems to replace P. erythrocepkala on the south bank of the
Amazons. Near Tonautins, on the north side of the River 8olimoes, G. Garlepp
obtained the latter species.

35. Pipra leucocilla leucocilla (Linn.)

Pipra. leucocilla Linnaeus, Mus. Ad. Frul. ii. Prodr., p. 33 (17U4. — hab. ign.— as typical locality
accepted : Surinam).

Nos. 819, 756. $ ad., $ juv. (in plumage of ?), 5, 13. vi. 06. "Iris
yellowish red."

Agreeing in size with specimens Irom the Caura Bivcr. Cfr. Ibis, 1906,
p. 22 ff.

36. Pipra hoflfrnannsi n. sp.

Nos. 740, 741, 769, 896. 6S ad., 1, 2, 7, 24. vi. 06. "Iris brownish red
or red, feet brown, bill black, below grey."— Wing 58J,— 00£ ; tail 28J — 30; bill
8 — 9 mm.

Nos. 667, 830. ¥ ? ad., 20. v., 15. vi. 06. " Iris red or brown, feet black, bill
black, below grey."— Wing 55, 59 ; tail 29 ; bill 9 mm.

Nos. 729, 739, 831. 6 3 juv. (in plumage of ?), 1, 31. v., 15. vi. 06. "Iii

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brown or reddish brown, feel brown, bill black, below greyish." — Wing 56 — 50 ;
tail 28—30 ; bill 8J— 9 mm.

(? ad. Feathers of the forehead and crown blackish at the base, slightly
lamelliform and bright blue on the apical portion, forming a well-defined cap.
The colour is between " smalt bine " and " ultramarine bine " of Ridgway's Nomencl.
pi. ix. figs. 8 and 9, the posterior border of the cap being rather duller blue
than the rest. Lores, sides of the head, occiput and back deep velvety black.
Lesser and median upper wing-coverts velvety black, the latter with very narrow,
greenish apical margins; greater series dull black' with well-defined, though
narrow, dark green edges along the outer web. Quills dull blackish, outwardly
margined with dark green, these edges passing into dark smoky grey on the outer
primaries. Rump washed with dark, dull verditer blue (Ridg., Nomencl. pi. ix.
fig. 22). Upper tail-coverts dusky, margined with dull verditer bine on the tips.
lilt-trices dull black, exteriorly edged with green, especially on their basal half.
Throat deep velvety black like the back; sides of the chest dull black, slightly
mixed with dark greenish ; on the sides of the breast and abdomen this colour
gradually passes into a dull blackish green. Middle of the breast and belly, as
well as the lower tail-coverts, dirty yellowish. Axillaries and under wing-coverts
luliginous, somewhat shaded with greenish or yellowish ; feet dark brown ; bill
black, lower mandible pale greyish.

? ad. Resembles the ? of P. coronata Spix, but has a larger bill, and
differs also by having the middle of breast and abdomen as well as the under
tail-coverts pure pale yellow, this colour being in strong contrast with the dark
green flanks. The throat seems to be rather more yellowish, less greyish.

Type in Tring Museum : 6 ad., Tefte, 7. vi. 06. W. Hoffmanns' coll.,
No. 769.

The four c?c? present very little variation, the general colour being a deep
velvety black, and the cap being of the same shade of blue in all specimens.
In two examples the verditer blue of the rump is somewhat suffused with
greenish. They differ from the <? 3 of P. coronata, of which a very large series
from Upper Amazonia (including Spix' types), Eastern Ecuador and the upper
Rio Negro (Marabitanas, etc.) has been examined, in the following points : The
blue cap is much shorter, not being continued over the occiput and nape, and of
a much darker shade; the back, sides of the head, and throat are deep velvety
black (almost as in /'. coronata velutina Berl.) instead of dull brownish black ;
the rump is washed with dull verditer blue (not with violet) ; the greater upper
wing-coverts, the quills and rectrices are distinctly edged with green; the middle
of the breast and abdomen dull olive yellow, the sides dark green (instead of
all the under-surface being dull brownish black with a faint lilac gloss on the
belly). The bill, too, is decidedly larger and stronger. P. koffmannsi could at
first be mistaken for an immature stage of P. coronata, but the large bill, the
deep velvety black colour of the plumage, and the perfect similarity of the four
males from Tefle, render any such supposition impossible. In addition to these
differences, the ¥ ? are also more yellow below, and have a stronger beak than
those of /'. coronata, of which I have seen many from the Rio Negro and the
Peruvian Amazons.

I have named this interesting new form after Mr. \V. Hoffmanns, to whom
the Tring Museum is indebted for so many valuable specimens from various
parts of tropical America.

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37. Hadrostomus minor (Less.)

Querula minor Lesson, TraM d'Orn. p. 303 (1831. — Cayenne — $ juv.).

Nos. 828, 839. $ ? ad., 15. vii., 10. vi. 00. "Iris brown, bill and feet
black."

Differ from Ecuadorian and Bogota skins only by their rather longer wings.
The $ is a little purer grey on the abdomen, the ? decidedly paler ochraceous
on the lower parts, but these are not likely to be constant characters.

38. Lipangus simplex (Lcht.)

Muecicapa simplex Lichtensteia, Vera. Dubl., p. 53 (1823. — Bahia).

No. 840. ? ad., 17. vi. 00. "Iris yellowish brown, feet and bill black."
Agreeing with skins from British Guiana, the Orinoco region and Bogota

collections.

Typical birds from Bahia are somewhat different. Cfr. Nov. Zool. xii. (1905)

p. 295.

39. Cotinga maynana (Linn.)

Ampelis maynana Linnaeus, Syst. Xal. xii. 1, p. 298 (1766.— ex Brisson : "in Maynauensi
regione ").

No. 734. c? ad., 2. vi. 00. " Iris yellow, feet black, bill blackish grey."
This specimen agrees perfectly with two others from Samiria, N.E. Pern,
collected by J. Hauxwell.

40. Attila spadiceus spadiceus (6m.)

JSuscicapa spadicea Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. 937 (1788.— ex " Yellow-rumped Flycatcher,"
Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds 2. i. p. 354. — Cayenne).

No. 757. ? ? km., 5. vi. 00. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill black." —
Wing 80 ; tail 00 ; bill 20 mm.

This specimen agrees perfectly with the type of the species, kindly lent by
the authorities of the Vienna Museum, and with two other skins from Cayenne
(one in Vienna, the other in the British Museum). The throat and foreneck are
nearly uniform dull russet, with a slight tinge of ferruginous, the sides and top
of the head decidedly darker, deep ferruginous brown ; the middle of the abdomen
is dirty buff, the tail deep tawny (a little deeper than Ridgw., Komencl. v. fig 1).
Axillaries and under wing-coverts are dull ochraceous, the upper wing-coverts
have broad, tawny ochraceous (Ridgw. v. 4) apical margins ; the back is deep
russet brown, rather browner than the head, the rump ochre yellow, tinged with
ochraceous anteriorly aud on the tips of the upper tail-coverts.

The ? from Barra do Rio Negro, collected by Natterer, is rather darker
on the head aud neck, and has the tail of a dull mars brown (Ridgw. iii. 13)
with scarcely any rnfescent tinge. I have, however, very little doubt that it
belongs to the same species as the examples from Cayenne aud Teffe.

On the other hand, the birds from Bahia (three in the British Museum)
seem to constitute a different form. They are larger, and the throat and chest
show broad dark ferruginous flammulations on a yellowish buff ground. More
material of this difficult species will probably enable us to distinguish several
geographical races.

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Another very nearly allied and perhaps barely separable form is Attila
rufigularis Pelz.,* the type of which is before rue. In size and general
coloration it agrees with the specimens from Cayenne and Teffe, discussed above,
but the throat and sides of the head are of a much clearer and brighter
ferruginous (without any brownish admixture), the axillaries and under wing-
coverts lighter ochraceous, and the middle of the abdomen is more extensively
white. The type being a young bird, I cannot say how much of these differences
is due to immaturity.

The ? from Tetfe has the entire bill black, while in all the other specimens
(including the type of A. rufigularis) the base of the lower mandible is whitish
or pale brownish.

41. Synallaxis albescens albigularis Scl.

[Synallaxis albescens Temmiuck, See. PI. ml. livr. ;S8. tab. 227, fig. 2 (1823. -S. Brazil).]
Synallaxis albigularis Sclater, P. Z. S. Land. 1858, p. G3 (Rio Xapo, East Ecuador).

No. 855. ? ad., 18. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet greenish grey, bill black."
This bird agrees well with a large series from various localities in northern

South America, but has a rather long bill. For characters of S. a. albigularis,

see Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 28.

42. Synallaxis gujanensis gujanensis (Gm.).

Motacilla gujanensis Omelin, Syst. -V"'. 1. ii. p. 988 (1788. — ex Daubenton, PL enl. tab. G86, fig. 2 :
" Le Rouge-queue, de Cayenne ").

Nos. 874, 680. c? ad., ? jnv., 21. vi., 21. v. 06. " Iris yellowish brown (c? ad.),
greyish browu (? jnv.), bill greyish black."

Lower parts pale bully brownish as in specimens from Cayenne, Para and
Sautareni, aud much less brightly coloured than in S. g. inornata Pelz. from the
Rio Madeira.

43. Synallaxis mustelina Scl.

SynaUaxis mustelina (Natterer MS.) Sclater, P. Z. S. London 1874, p. 14 (Rio Madeira — type in

Vienna Museum, No. 201G7).
Synallaxis Jrenata Snethlage, Joiuu.f. Ornith. 1906. p. 523 (Santarem).

No. 061. ? ad., 19. v. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill black."—
Wing 58 ; tail incomplete ; bill 17 J mm.

This specimen agrees perfectly with the type (from the Rio Madeira) and
with several examples, collected by Bartlett on the Ucayali, Eastern Peru. All
these birds have a very distinct blackish loral stripe. This feature not being
mentioned in the published descriptions, Miss Snethlage was misled to rename
the species as S. jfrenata.

44. Synallaxis rutilans amazonica Hellm.

Cfr. supri, p. 14.

Nos. 879, 905. 3 S ad., 21, 25. vi. 06. " Iris brown."
Agreeing well with our series from Sautarem and Eastern Pern. The top
of the head and the mantle are bright chestnut rufous, the occiput being but

* Or*. BratU, ii. pp. 06, 170 (1808.— Salto do Giiao, K. Madeira).

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slightly mixed with brownish ; the rump olive-brown, the upper tail-coverts
fuliginous. Both are adult birds with a large blackish throat patch.

S. r. amazonica is apparently widely distributed all along the south bank of
the Amazons.

45. Automolus infuscatus infuscatus (Scl.)

Anabates infuscatus Sclater, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xvii. p. 468 (185G. — " in Peruvia orientali ").
Anabates sclateri Pelzeln, Silzungsber. Alcad. Wien xxxiv. p. Ill (1859. — nom. emend, pro
A. infuscatus: cfr. Berl. & Hellm. Journ.f. Ornith. 1905, p. 30).

Nos. 695, 902. c?c? ad., 22. v., 25. vi. 00. "Iris brownish grey, feet greenish,
bill greyish black, below greenish grey." — Wing 94, 95 ; tail 80, 85 ; bill 22,
23 mm.

These birds agree with typical Peruvian skins in having the pileum olive-brown
like the back, only the forehead being slightly tinged with rnfescent. According
to our present knowledge, there are three geographical races of this species to
be recognised, the characters and ranges of which are as follows :

a. Automolus infuscatus infuscatus (Scl.)

Ad. Top of the head pure clear olive-brown like the back, only the forehead
slightly tinged with rnfescent.

Hab. North Pern : Xeberos, Chyavetas (Bartlett), Ynrimaguas (Stolzraann),
Shanusi, near Yurimaguas (G. Garlepp). S.E.Peru: Cosnipata (Whitely). N.W.
Brazil : Teffe" (Hoffmanns).

b. Automolus inuscatus cervicalis (Scl.)

For synonymy see Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 335.

Ad. Top of the head distinctly washed with rnfescent, hence somewhat
contrasting with the olive-brown colour of the back.

Hab. Cayenne (four skins in the Tring Museum) ; British Guiana : Bartica
Grove, Camacnsa (Whitely) ; Surinam (C. Bartlett) ; Venezuela : Nericagna on the
Orinoco ; La Pricion, La Union and Nicare on the Oanra River (Cherrie aud Andre
coll.). North Brazil : Marabitanas, upper Rio Negro (Natterer).*

N.B. I have lately examined four skins from the latter locality, and found
them identical with our series from Venezuela and Guiana. On the other hand,
I have not yet seen any from Ecuador, and therefore cannot say whether they
belong to A. i. infuscatus or to the present form.

Young birds are nearly uniform rnfescent brown on the npper parts, the middle
of the belly is paler than in the adults, and the feathers on the foreneck show
slight dusky edges.

c. Automolus infuscatus paraensis Hart.

Ad. Differs from both the foregoing forms by having the top of the head dark
greyish brown (with only a faint olive hue), and the back of a duller brown.

Hab. Lower Amazonia : Benevides (Steere), S. Antonio do Prata [= Igarape"-
Assu] (Robert, Hoffmanns, etc.), Para (Natterer, Snethlagef), Rio Capim
(Snethlage +), all localities in the Para district ; Borba, lower Rio Madeira (Natterer).

For synonymy see Nov. Zool. xiii. (1905) p. 279.

* Automolvs sclateri Pelzeln, Xur Ornith. Brazil, i. 18G7, p. 41, part.
f Automolus sclateri Snethlage, Journ.f, Ornith. 1906, p, 524.

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16. Ancistrops strigilatus (Spix).

Than Spix, Av. Urns, ii. p. 26. tab. xxxvi. fig. 1 (1s2j.— no locality).

Nos. 892, 094. ? ad., <J ad., 2:!. vi.. 22. v. 06. " Iris brownish grey, bill and
feet grey."

Thi'M' l.inls are to bo considered topotypical. Although Spix gives no locality,
his specimen was certainly obtained on the Brazilian Amazons. An example from
the Napo, East Ecuador, differs from the Teffe birds by 1 icing rather more blackish
on the head and mantle, and by the olive greyish stripes on the sides of the
belly being more distinct.

In this species, the S3 are always much larger than the ? ?, as will be
seen from the following measurements :

S ad., Teffe': wing 101; tail SO; bill 22 mm. — ?, Teffe' : wing 91 ; tail 70 ;
bill 22 mm.

S ad., Rio Juruti (Mns. Paulista) : wing 100 ; tail 81 ; bill 22 mm.

? ad., Rio Jnrna (Mns. Panlista) : wing 87 ; tail 77 ; bill 22 mm.

47. Xenops genibarbis genibarbis 111.

Xenops genibarbis Illiger, ProJr. Syst. Mamm. et Av. p. '213 (1811. — Cametii, Lower Amazons).
Neops rufieaudut Yieillot, Analyse Ornith. elan. p. 08 (1816. — "la Guiane," sc. Cayenne).
Xenops approximans Pelzeln, Sih. Ber. Akad. Wien. mathem. Naturwiss. CI. xxxiv. pp. 113, 133
(1859. — Rio Madeira, Rio Negro, etc.).

No. 903. (J ad., 25. vi. 06. " Iris brown."— Wing 07 ; tail 48 ; bill 15 mm.

The determination of this specimen involved a complete revision of the
geographical forms of X. genibarbis. In addition to the large series in the Tring
Museum, I had the advantage of studying Natterer's specimens kindly lent by
Dr. Lorenz, of Vienna, and I examined also several examples in the British
Museum. Pelzeln had already recognised that the Amazonian form was quite
distinct from the one inhabiting South-east Brazil; but unfortunately he considered
the latter to represent true X. genibarbis and separated the former as X. approximans.
Specimens from Parti and Santarem, Lower Amazonia, however, prove to be
inseparable from those of Cayenne (N. ruficaudus) and Amazonia (A", approximans).
Both these names are, therefore, pure synonyms of X. genibarbis, while the small,
short-billed race of S.E. Brazil requires to be rebaptized. The geographical forms
of the group have to stand as follows :

a. X. genibarbis genibarbis 111.

Hub. < 'avenue ; Brit. Guiana ; Venezuela on the Orinoco and Caura Rivers ;
Colombia (Bogota collections; Antioquia) ; Eastern Ecuador; and the whole of the
Amazonian basin from Pant to the eastern slopes of the Andes in Pern.

Characters. Bill strong and stout ; ground-colour of the nnderparts earthy
brown, sometimes, especially in young birds, with a slight rufescent tinge; throat
dirty white, the feathers edged or freckled with dusky ; foreneck distinctly mottled
or spotted with whitish. Crown, as a rule, striated with buff or whitish.

Obs. Two topotypical birds from the Lower Amazons (Para and Santarem)
have the crown warm rufescent browu with scarcely any light striatious, which
arc always more or less pronounced in the majority of my specimens from other
localities. Quite similar examples, however, are before me from Bogotd, and
Gaavabamba in North Peru, while others from the same places have the pileum

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distinctly striated. I have examined four of the specimens npon which von Pelzeln
based his X. approximans ; two of them (<? ad., Rio Icanna; 3 ad., Rio Negro)
differ in no way from ordinary genibarbis, whereas the two others ( ? , Rio Negro ;
3, Borba) are rather duller and more rufescent on the lower parts. Both are
3'onng and agree in the tone of the under-snrface with an immature bird from the
Caura River. I am unable to see any constant differences between specimens from
Cayenne, Orinoco, and Amazonia. The length of the wing varies from 03 to 67 mm.
in the males, from 00 to 04 mm. in the females ; the bill measures 14 to 15i mm.*

b. X. genibarbis littoralis Scl.
Xmops litlorulis Sclater, P.Z.S. 1861. p. 379 (Esmeraldas, Western Ecuador).

Ilab. Western Ecuador.

This form differs from X. g. genibarbis chiefly by having the lower parts
tinged with greenish olive; the throat is more yellowish, the pileum always
uniform brown, the back of a purer, less rufescent brown, and the whitish spots
on the foreneck much less numerous. Wing 60 — 04; tail 40 — 49 ; bill 14 — 15 mm.

Material : 12 specimens (of both sexes) from Western Ecuador.

c. X. genibarbis mexicanus Scl.
Xenops mexicanus Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856. p. 289 (Cordova, Eastern Mexico).

Hub. Central America from Eastern Mexico (Vera Cruz) down to Panama.

Differs from X. g. littoralis, with which it shares the coloration of the
foreneck and crown by its much brighter, warm rufescent-brown underparts
and back. Bill large and stout, as in X. g. genibarbis and X. g. littoralis. Wing
01—07 ; tail 48—52 ; bill 14—15 mm.

Material : 20 specimens from Eastern Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Chiriqui,
Vcragua, and Panama.

d. X. genibarbis pelzelni n, snbsp.

X. genibarbis (nee Illiger) Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Brasil. i. (18G7) p. 41 (Rio de Janeiro, S. Paulo).

Ilab. South-eastern Brazil : from Bahia to S. Paulo.

Type in Vienna Museum : No. 19,321. 3 ad., Ypanema, S. Paulo, August
1821. Collected by J. von Natterer.

Differs from the three foregoing races by its smaller bill, which is not
ouly considerably shorter, but also very much narrower and weaker. The wings
are much shorter. The throat is uniform buffy white without any dusky edges
to the feathers, the light spotting on the foreneck is altogether absent or
scarcely indicated by a few pale brownish shaft-lines ; the ground-colour of the
underparts decidedly brighter, about " wood-brown " (Ridgw. Xomencl. iii. fig. 19) ;
the light cross-band on the uuder-surface of the wing buff (instead of ochraceous
buff) ; the top of the head always uniform rufescent-brown without pale shaft-
stripes. Wing 55—58 ; tail 47—49 ; bill 12— 12* mm.

Examined: 1 3, 1 ? ad., Registre do Sai (prov. Rio) ; 1 3 jr., Rio de Janeiro:

1 3 ad., Ypanema— Mus. Vindob. ; 3 ad., Rio de Janeiro (Mus. Brit, and Triug) ;

2 ad., Bahia (Brit. Mus.).

• Examined : 1 3 ad., Trata, Pari ; 1 ? jr., Itaituba, Santarem ; 1 3 ad , Teffe ; 1 3 ad., 1 ° jr.,
Kio Negro ; 1 3 ad, It. Icanna ; 1 3 jr. Borba : types of X. ajppTOSevmaru Telz. ; 2 J (J, 1 ? , Cayenne ;
2 3 3, 1 ? . Cawacusa, Brit. Guiana ; 4 3 3, 4 ? ? , Caura, Venezuela 2 3 3, 2 ? ? , Upper Orinoco ;
I Bogota skins ; 1 ad., East Ecuador ; 2 °. ? , Guayabamba, North Peru.

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48. Sclerurus caudacutus brunneus Bel.

[Thamnophilua caudacutus Vieillot. Nouv. Dirt. Hi. p. 310 (1816.— "Be trouve k la Gimme,"

sc. Cayenne).]
Sclerurus brunneus Sclater, P.Z.S. London 1857. p. 17 (BogoU coll.).

No. 710. Immature bird (not sexed), 80. v. 00. " Iris dark brown, feet brown,
bill black."

This bird is absolutely identical with a pair from Marabitanas, Rio Negro,*
collected by Natterer. Specimens from Bogota (including the type of S. brunneus)
and Northern Pern (Yurimaguas and Chyavetas, E. Bartlett coll.) differ from the
three Brazilian skins only by being very slightly darker brown on the back and
abdomen. The type of S. brunneus, which is quite a young bird in fluffy plumage,
beloDgs without doubt to the same form as those from Upper Amazonia, since an
adult from the Rio Meta, east of Bogota (Wheeler coll., Mns. Brit.), agrees in
every particular with the latter.

I was always very much interested in the species of this puzzling genus, and
having had the opportunity of studying a good number of specimens and of
examining several types, I think it useful to give a short resume of the results
arrived at with regard to the forms of the 5. caudacutus-gtaap. In the Pro,:
U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. 1889 (pnbl. 1890) pp. 21—31, Mr. R, Ridgway published a
review of the genus Sclerurus, which was of great assistance to me. I have,
however, to differ from his conclusions in several points, especially in nomenclature.

According to the material examined, the following geographical forms of
S. caudacutus should be recognised :

a. Sclerurus caudacutus caudacutus (Vieill.)

Hab. Cayenne ; British Guiana.

Typical locality : Cayenne.

I have but a few words to add to Ridgway's description {I.e. p. 27). In the
single Cayenne specimen before me the chin and upper throat are white without
dusky edges ; the feathers of the lower throat pale tawny, margiued with dark
brown at the tips. In seven skins from British Guiana (Rio Carimang, Takutn B.,
Mernme Mts., R. Atapnrow, Quonja and Camacusa) the whole throat is pale tawny
with scarcely any trace of brown edges. A series from Cayenne is required to
confirm the constancy of this difference or otherwise.

In other respects the specimens are very uniform inter se. The upper
parts are Vandyke or rnfescent brown, passing into dull rufous brown on the
upper tail-coverts only ; sides of head and neck, as well as chest, dull russet
brown. Wing 90—97 ; tail 04—71 ; bill 22—24 mm.

b. Sclerurus caudacutus umbretta (Lcht.)
ifyiothera umbretta Lichtenstein, Verz. DubL Berliner Mns. p. 43 (1823— Bahia).
Sclerurus laurem i ttulgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. 1889. p. 29 (1890.— Bahia).

' ' ''"''/""■'"•' Wied,5«>. Naturg. Bmsil. 3. ii. p. 1106 (1831,-part. : descr. J only hab

part. : ? Belraonte, Bahia). *

Uab. Eastern Brazil from Bahia to Parti,t west to Borba, J on the lower Rio
Madeira.

Typical locality : Bahia.

• Oilerunu caudacutus vav., Pelzeln, Zwr Orn.UK Brat. ii. (1868) p. 86 (Marabitanas)
t Merurus cavdaeutus (nee Vieillot) Hellraayr, Kor. Zool. xii. 1905. p. 279 (learapc-Assfi Part)
Sclater ft Salvin, P.SS.B. 1867. p. 573 (Capta, River.-specirnen examined). P ' ''

{ Selentrvs caudacutus Pebeln, Zur Ornith, BrasU. ii. (1868) p. 86 (part.: Borba).

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Adnlt. Very similar to S. c. caudacutus, but differs by the throat being pnre
white, each feather with a narrow, brown apical margin ; by having the chest
decidedly less rnfescent, dull tawny brown (much like the colour of the sides of
the head and neck) ; the breast and abdomen bistre brown (not rnfescent as in
S. c. caudacutus), and the back likewise much less tinged with reddish.

Of this form I have before me the type of M. vmbretta, kindly lent by
Dr. Reichenow ; the typical specimen of S. lawrencei (an undoubted Bahia skin),
which Dr. Allen most obligingly sent for examination ; a Bahia skin in the British
Museum ; one ? ad. from Igarape-Assii, Parti ; and an immature <? from Borba,
belonging to the Vienna Museum.

Although the original specimen of Lichtenstein is a young bird in fluffy
plumage, I have not the slightest doubt that it is specifically identical with
the type of S. lawrencei Ridgw. It differs from the latter by its somewhat darker
back, smaller size, and by having only the chin white, while on the throat this
colonr is almost entirely hidden by the brown apical portions of the feathers.*
This specimen corresponds exactly with Ridgway's description of the S of Tinactor
fuscus Wied, and I feel almost sure that the latter is also a young bird of
>>. c. umbretta. Ridgway's assumption that it was obtained "in the forests of the
river Itabapnana, between the parallels of 21° and 22° south latitude, apparently
a tributary of the Paraguay " (l.c. p. 29), is a very unhappy one, for Wied never
travelled in this part of Brazil.

It is, moreover, quite evident from the account in Wied's Beise nach Brasilien i.
(ed. in 4°) p. 160, that the river Itabapnana referred to is the river of that name
forming the boundary between the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Espiritu
Santo, in Eastern Brazil ; and it seems much more probable that the so-called ?
of Tinactor fuscus (— Sclerurus scansor Me'ne'tr.) was obtained in this locality,
inasmuch as Menetries met with the red-breasted form (scansor) in the province of
Rio de Janeiro ; while the S might have been secured on the River Belmoute, in
Southern Bahia, the second locality mentioned by Wied.

The ? from Pani and the Bahia specimen in the British Museum agree in all
essential points with Ridgway's type, except that the foreneck is rather more
distinctly washed with tawny, and the belly of a more reddish hue. The young
3 from Borba is even more rnfescent on the lower parts, and thereby forms the
transition to S. c. caudacutus.

In <S'. c. umbretta the upper parts are warm bistre-brown, passing into
burnt-umber (Ridgw., Nomencl. iii. fig. 8) on lower rump and upper tail-coverts.
Forehead, sides of the head, and neck are cinnamon (Ridgw. iii. fig. 20), the chest
of the same colour or a shade brighter.

Measurements.

Wing. Tail. Rill.

1. Mns. Berlin. Av. juv., Bahia. Type of .1/. umbretta

Lcht

2. Amer. Mus. New York. No. 43,120. Adult,

Bahia. Type of S. lawrencei Ridgw.

3. Mns. Brit. Adult, Bahia

4. Mus. Tring. ? ad., Igarape-Assu, Para. Robert coll. .

5. Mus. Vindob. No. 20,232. S juv., Borba, 8. i. 830.

Natterer coll 89 TO 22

* The same difference between adult and young bird9 is to be found in S. e. (rW|MW.|

90

69

211 mm.

100

73

23 „

9G

67

23 „

92

66

22i „

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c. Sclerurus caudacutua brunneus Scl.

Hub. East Colombia : Bogota coll. ; Rio Meta, between Villavicencio and
Mediua (Wheeler). East Ecuador: Sarayacu Buckley); Santiago (Festa). North
Peru: Yurimaguas, Chyavetas (Bartlett), Iquitos (Whitely). N.W. Brazil:
Marabitanafi (Natterer), Teffe (Hoffmanns), Bio Jurua (Garbe).

Typical locality: Bogota collcclioiis.

Adult. Hitlers from both the foregoing races by having the forehead and
sides of the head raw umber (Bidgw. iii. fig. 14) like the upper surface, without
any rufescent tinge, and by lacking the cinnamon on the foreneck, which is scarcely
shaded with tawny.

The type of S. brunneus, a young bird, of the well-known Bogota make, has
only the chin white, while the throat feathers show broad brown tips, almost
concealing the white bases. In adult birds the whole throat is white, each feather
with a narrow brown apical margin, just as in S. c. umbretta.

Measurements.

1. Mus. Brit. Av. ju v., Bogota. Type of S. brunneus

2. Mus. Brit. Ad., Rio Meta, East Colombia (Wheeler)

3. Mus. Brit. Ad., Yurimaguas, N. Peru (Bartlett)

4. Mus. Brit. Ad., Chyavetas, N. Peru (Bartlett) .

5. Mus. Tring. Av. imm., Teff£, Brazil (Hoffmanns)

6. Mus. Viudob. S, Marabitanas, Rio Negro (Natterer)

7. Mus. Yindob. ?, Marabitanas, 26. iv. 831 (Natterer)

d. Sclerurus caudacutus scansor (Menetr.)

Oxypyga scansor Mom-tries, Mem. Ac. Set. St. Pitersbg. (6) i. p. 520. tab. 11 (1835.— "dans la
province de Rio de Janeiro, surtout dans les vieilles capouaires pres de Sumidorio . . .")

.- TinactoT fuscut Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Brazil. (3) ii. p. 1106 (1831.— part. : $ .— hab. part. : ?"in
den TJrwaldern am Flusse Itabapuana ").

umbretta (nee Licbtenstein) Ridgway, Proc. C.s. Wat. Mus. xii. 1889. (1890) p, 22j
Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xv. p. 114.

Hub. S.E. Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro to Rio grande do Sul and west to
Chapada, Mattogrosso ; also in the Argentine province of Misiones.

The occurrence in Peru requires confirmation. It must also remain doubtful
whether the birds from Minas Geraes, mentioned by Meuetries (I.e.) and Rcinhardt,*
belong to the present form or to S. c. umbretta of Bahia.

Typical locality : Rio de Janeiro.

Adult. This form is very different from the three preceding ones, being easily
recognisable by the bright ferruginous foreneck and bright chestnut rump and
upper tail-coverts. The sides of the head arc dark brown, the feathers of the
throat white with broad dark olive-grey or blackish olive apical margins. The
forehead is mummy-brown like the pilenm and back, without any trace of
rufescent.

The Tring Museum possesses a good series of this form from S. Paulo and
Parana, which I compared with one of Mem-tries' original examples in the Paris
Museum, collected by himself in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro.

• VUlatfl;. Meddcl. Kj<phcnhivn 1870. p. 3SC : >*>'. eautlacntvs (Lagoa Santa).

Wing.

Tail.

Bill.

86

60

21 1 mm

93

69

99

94

70

99

1 !>

89

—

21| „

92

08

23 „

92

63

991

3 !>

87

60

91

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40. Sittasoinus amazonus Lafr.

Ofr. supra, p. 31.

No. 680. S ad., 22. v. 06. " Iris brown, feet black, bill bluish black."—
Wing 83; tail 77; bill Is mm.

Agrees with the Obidos specimen except ill having the lower parts ratlin-
paler and more greenish. It is a well-known fact that in this genus the S3 are
always considerably larger than the ? ? .

50. Glyphorhynchus cuneatus castelnaudii Des Murs.

Glyphorhynchus castelnaudii Des Murs in Castehtaii's Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 47. tab. xv. fig. 2
(185G.* — Santa Maria, Pern).

No. SOS. ? jr., 11. vi. 06. " Iris brown, bill and feet black."

51. Dendrornis guttata guttatoides (Lafr.)

Nasica guttatoides Lafresnaye, Bee. et Mag. Zool. 1850. p. 387 (Lorette, N.E. Peru.— cfr. Ment'g. &

Hellm. Mem. Soc. Hist. not. Autun xix. (1906) p. 99).
Dendrornis rostripallens Sclater, Cat. Amur. Birds. 1802. p. 1G4 (Ega).

No. 728. S ad., 3. v. 06. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill grey." —
Wing 116 ; tail 98 ; bill 38 mm.

No. 840. (c?) ad. (erroneously marked "?"), 16. vii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
bluish grey, bill yellowish grey." — Wing 110 ; tail 103 ; bill 40 mm.

Like our series from Bogota, East Ecuador and Peru, these specimens have
the lower parts strongly suffused with ochraceons, and the feathers of the foreneck
only margined with blackish. Both are adult birds with the bill long and slender,
the lower mandible being (in the dry skins) grey, the upper one whitish horn-
colour except at the base.

Messrs. Berlepsch & Hartert (No®. Zool. ix. p. 63) say : " The specimens from
Munduapo and Nericagna come very close to true D. rostripallens in having the
maxilla partly pale-coloured and the under-surface of the body more rnfescent."
I rind, however, that those from Munduapo agree in all essential characters with
typical D. g. sororia of Maipures, etc., except in having the lower parts a shade
more ochreons. On the other hand, an example from Nericagna appears to me
to be nndistinguishable from D. g. guttatoides, having the under-surface of the
same rnfescent tinge, the blackish margins much less pronounced than in sororia,
and confined to the feathers of the foreneck. Furthermore, the upper mandible
is not mainly blackish as in sororia, but pale greyish horn-colour, as in several
specimens of guttatoides. The range of these two forms would, thus, be as
follows :

a. D. guttata sororia Berl. & Hart.

Hab. Cayenne (Chcrrie coll. — Mus. Tring) ; Surinam : Paramaribo (Chnnkoo
coll. — Mus. Tring) ; Brit. Guiana : Quonja, Bartica Grove. North Brazil, Lower
Amazons : Obidos. Venezuela : on the Orinoco River, up to Maipures and
Munduapo ; and on its southern tributary, the Caura Itiver.

Thirty-one examples examined.

b. 1). guttata guttatoides (Lafr.).

< 'entral Peru : Monterico, La Merced. East Peru : Sarayacu, Ucayali.
North Peru : Iquitos, Nauta, Samiria, Pebas, Loreto, Cavallo-Coche', Yurimaguas.

* Cfr. Woodward & Slierborn, Ann. Mar/. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. (1901) p. 104.

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N.W. Brazil: Tefite ; Rio Junta (Garbe coll. — Mns. Panlist.); Barra do Rio
Negro, and Harabitanas, npjior Rio Negro (Natterer). Venezuela : Nericagna on
the npper Orinoco R. East Ecuador ; Sarayaon, Rio Napo (spec, in Mns. Tring).
Colombia : Bogota coll. (many specimens in Mns. Berlepsch, Brit., and Tring).
Thirty-five specimens examined.

52. Cyrnbilanius lineatus lineatus (Leach).

Lanius lineatus Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 20. tab. vi. (1814. — Berbice, Brit. Guiana).

No. 911. J ad., 26. vi. 06. "Iris red, feet bluish grey, bill black, below
grey."

Differs from Gnianan specimens by having the nnderparts less closely barred
with black.

53. Thamnophilus canadensis loretoyacuensis Bartl.

[Lanius canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. 1. p. 134. descr. orig. ? (1700.— ex Brissou, Ornith. ii.

p. 171. pi. 18. fig. 3 : "Canada" — errore. — we substitute Cayenne).]
Thamnophilus loretoyacuensis E. Bartlett, P.Z.S. 1882. p. 374 (Loretoyacu, N.E. Peru).
Thamnophilus atricapillus (nee Gmelin!) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brazil, ii. (18G8) p. 75 (part. : Rio

Negro : Poiares, S. Izabel and R. Anoajai'i).

No. 792. 8 ad., 10. vi. 00. "Iris brown, feet bine-black, bill black."— Wing
76 ; tail 62 ; bill 20| mm.

Nos. 770, 777. ? ad., 8. vi. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet bine-grey, bill black,
below grey-bine."— Wing 70, 74 ; tail 04, 02 ; bill 20 mm.

These specimens as well as those collected by Natterer on the Rio Negro*
agree perfectly with Bartlett's types from Loretoyacu in the British Musenm.

'/'. <*. loretoyacuensis is very closely allied to T. c. canadensis, but differs, in the
male sex, by the much duller and darker rnfesceut brown ground-colour of the back,
which, moreover, is strongly mixed with blackish. In abraded plumage, the rnfesceut
brown edges to the feathers of the mantle become almost entirely worn off, and the
mantle then appears nearly uniform blackish. Moreover, the under tail-coverts, in
this form, are black, except the white apical third.

The females differ from those of T. c. canadensis by their considerably darker
rufous brown back with traces of blackish mottlings, and by having the foreneck
more coarsely striped with black.

I may remark in this connection that the type specimens of T. leucauchen Scl.,f
said to be from the " Rio Negro," are of the unmistakable Cayenne-meke. In our
large series of '/'. c. canadensis from Cayenne, Surinam, etc., there are several
specimens with the sides of the neck quite as white, aud with the back of exactly
the same tinge as the 8 type of T. leucauchen. This name must, therefore, be
regarded as a strict synonym of the typical form.

The range of the two recognisable geographical races of T. canadensis is,
according to our present knowledge, as follows :

a. T. canadensis canadensis (Linn.)

Cayenne, Surinam, Brit. Guiana ; Trinidad; Venezuela : Cumana (large series
in Tring), on the Orinoco River up to Mnuduapo and Maipures, on the Caura River, a

1 am much indebted to Dr. von Lorenz, of Vienna, for the loan of these specimens,
j- Edinb. Acw Philos. Journ. (new ser.) i. (1855), p. 211.

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southern tributary of the Orinoco. North Brazil : Forte S. Joaipum, on the upper
Rio Branco, near the frontier of British Guiana.

N.B. — The specimens from the Rio Branco are practically identical with those
from British Guiana.

b. T. canadensis loretoyacuensis Bartl.

Eastern Peru : Upper Ucayali (Bartlett), Loretoyacu (Hauxwell). N.W.
Brazil : Teffe (Hoffuianus) ; Poiares, >S. Isabel and Rio Amajau, Rio Negro
(Natterer).

54. Thanmophilus nigricristatus subradiatus Berl.

[Thamnqphilus uigricristatus Lawrence, 1'rur. Acad. Philad. 18G5. p. 107 (Liou Hill, Panama

Railroad).]
Thamnqphilus subradiatus Berlepscb, Journ.f. Ornith. 1887. p. 17 (Upper Amazonia : type ex Iquitos,

N.E. Peru, in Mus. v. Berlepsch examined).

Nos. 912, 811. c? ad., ? : 2(3. vii., 13. vi. U6.— " Iris yellowish grey (<J),
whitish yellow (?) ; feet bluish grey, bill black."

These specimens agree well with others from N.E. Peru. In the c? the pileum
is mainly black, though some of the occiput feathers show white marginal spots near
the base ; the forehead is slightly mixed with white.

c? ad. — Wing 78 ; tail 66 mm. The female is in moult.

55. Pygiptila stellaris (Spix).

Thamnqphilus stellaris Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 27. tab xxxvi. fig. 2 (1825 — Para).
Cfr. Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiii. (1905) p. 367.

No. 693. S ad., 22. v. 06. — " Iris brownish grey, feet dark bluish, bill black,
below bluish grey." — Wing 77; tail 41 ; bill 21 mm.

No. 887. <? imm., 23. vi. 06. Soft parts as above, but " feet blackish." — Wing
77 ; tail 39i ; bill 22 mm.

No. 692. ? ad., 22. v. 06.—" Iris brown, feet and bill bluish grey."— Wing 76 ;
tail 40J ; bill 2H mm.

The SS differ from a topotypical Para example only by having the throat
of the same cinereous colour as the rest of the under-surface instead of whitish
gray. The ? is practically identical with one from Para.

56. Dysithanmus schistaceus heterogynus n. aubsp.

No. 847. c? ad., 17. vi. 06. " Iris red, feet bluish grey, bill black."— Wing 67 ;
tail in moult ; bill 11 h ; graduation of tail 8 mm.

No. 838. S juv., 16. vii. 06. " Iris grey, bill black, below bluish grey."— Wing
67 ; tail 57 ; bill 18 mm.

No. 812. ? ad., 12. vii. 06. " Iris red, bill black, below light grey."— Wing 62 ;
tail 50 ; bill 18$ mm. Type of subspecies.

Nos. 857, 866. ? ¥ in mouit : 18, 19. vi. 0(3. " Iris red or yellow, feet blue-grey,
bill black, below grey."— Wing 64, 64i ; tail 50, 52 ; bill 18J mm.

S ad. Resembles the c? of U. s. schistaceus (D'Orb.) of North Bolivia, in having
the bend of the wing and the upper wing-coverts uniform schistaceous without auy
white, but differs by the considerably darker grey colour of the plumage. The tail
seems to be less graduated. There is no white interscapular blotch.

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? ad. Differs at a glance from the ? ? of D. s. schistaceus (D'Orb.) and JJ. s.
capitalis (Scl.) by the coloration of the underparts, which are uniform bright
ochraceous (a little paler than Ridgway's plate v. fig. T). Axillaris and quill lining
are much brighter, ochraceons buff (Ridgw. v. fig. 10), instead of pinkish buff, and
the back is rather more rofescent brown.

The female of D. s. heterogynus bears a certain resemblance to that of Tkamno-
philus incertus Pel/., of the Pars' district, but besides having a shorter tail and a
stronger bill, it is much less rufous throughout, and differs at once by the sides of
the head being pale brownish with narrow whitish shaft-lines on the ear-coverts.
In the ? ? of T. incertus and T. polionotus Pel/., the whole sides of the head are
uniform deep ferruginous, like the throat and foreneck.

It may be useful to give a short review of the "species" allied to D. schistaceus,
as they were not well understood hitherto. I have examined the series in the
British Museum and in the collections of Tring, Vienna and Count Berlcpsch, as
well as several specimens in the Paris Museum.

a. Dijsithamnus schistaceus schistaceus (D'Orb.)

Thamnqphilus schietaa us D'Orbigny, Voyage, Oisi awe, p. 170 (1838— Yuracares, E. Bolivia).
ThamnophiluB inornatus Ridgway, Proc. U.S.Nat. .Mus. x. 1887. p. 522 (1888— Diamantina, uear
Santarem).

Hab. East Bolivia : Yuracares (D'Orbigny), W. Brazil : Salto Girao and
Borba, on the Rio Madeira (Natterer) ; Lower Amazonia : Santarem (Riker).*

c? ad. Uniform schistaceous, darker above, paler below. The two outer tail
feathers sometimes with a slight, white apical margin. Under wing-coverts and
narrow edge along inner web of quills white. Graduation of tail 8 to 12 mm. — Wing
63—67 ; tail 52—55 ; bill 18, 19 mm.

? ad. Cap ferruginous, in strong contrast with the pale olive-brown back.
Underparts pale brownish buff, more buff on throat and middle of abdomen, more
brownish on foreneck and sides of the body. — Wing 64, 65; tail 51 — 55; bill
19 mm.

Material: 1 $ ad., Yuracares, coll. D'Orbigny. (Type of species. — Mas. Paris.)
2 S3, 2 ? ¥ from North Bolivia (G. Garlepp coll.) in Bins. Berlepsch ; 1 <$ fere ad.
Salto do Girao (Natterer), 2 <$<$, 2 ? ? ad., Borba (Natterer coll.) in Mus. Vienna.

I compared some of Natterer's specimens with the type in the Paris Museum
and with the Boliviau skins in Count Berlepsch's collection, and found them
identical.

b. Dysitkamnus schistaceus snbsp. (Doubtful form).
Dytithamnui schistaceus Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 224 (part. : a, b, c, i.)

Hob. North Pern (south of the Amazons) : Chyavetas (Bartlett), Yurimaguas
(Bartlett), Maynas (POppig).

S ad. Two 6 8 from Chyavetas and Yurimaguas in the British Museum, and a
third iu the Vienna Museum, collected by Pbppig in the province ..I' Maynas, differ
from tin. /'. s. schistaceus by being considerably darker slate-grey and by having
the feathers on the forehead and crown centred with blackish. The tail is not quite
so much graduated.— Wing 65 — 66 ; tail 50—52; bill 20 mm.

'/. inornatus is most likely the same as D. .». schutaaue, the fauna of Santarem being essentially
that of the Ki" Madeira.

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? ad. Two females from Chyavetas (British Museum) are not different from
those of true D. s. sckistaceus.

I refrain, for the present, from naming this apparently nndescribed form, as
the three S 6 examined by me are very old skins of rather poor quality.

c. Dysithamnus sckistaceus capitalis (Scl.)

Thamnophiltis capitalis Sclater, P. Z. S. London 1858, p. 65 (Rio Napo, East Ecuador) ; Cat. Birds

Brit. Mus. xv. p. 106 (Ecuador and Iquitos, Peru).
Dysithamnus sckistaceus (uec D'Orbigny) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mm. xv. p. 224 (part., spec, e, f,g,

h, j, fc, : Iquitos, Pebas, Sarairia) ; Goodfellow, Ibh, 1902. p. 64 (Archidona, East Ecuador).

llab. East Ecuador : Rio Napo (type), Zamora (Festa), Sarayacu (Buckley),
Archidona (Goodfellow). N.E. Peru (north of the Amazons) : Iquitos (Whitely),
Samiria, Pehas (Hauxwell).

S ad. Of the same dark slate-grey colour as b., but readily distinguishable by
having the top of the head black.— Wing 64—68 ; tail 50—54 ; bill 19 mm.

? ad. Not distinguishable from that of D. s. sckistaceus. Wing 04—66; tail
51—56; bill 18—19 mm.

Material: 1 6 jr., Rio Napo. (Type of T. capitalis, Mus. Brit.); 2 <?<? ad.,
Sarayacu, 1 8 ad., Archidona (Goodfellow)— Mus. H. v. Berlepsch and Tring ;
5 S cJ, Iquitos— Mus. Berlepsch and Brit. ; 1 c? ad. Pebas— Mus. Brit. ; 5 ? ? , East
Ecuador— Mus. Brit, and Berlepsch ; 3 ? ? , Iquitos— Mus. Brit, and Tring ; 1 ¥ ,
Samiria — Mus. Brit.

Although placed in another genus by Mr. Sclater, T. capitalis is merely the
northern form of D. sckistaceus, which it represents on the north bank of the Peruvian
Amazons and on the Rio Napo. The S £ ad. from East Ecuador and Iquitos have
the whole top of the head black, otherwise they agree with those from Chyavetas
and Ynrimaguas. The birds from Iquitos, referred to I), sckistaceus in the Gat.
of Birds, are absolutely indistinguishable from those named T. capitalis. The
S from Pebas is somewhat intermediate between b and c; the pileum is mainly
black, but the feathers show narrow slaty margins.

Specimen dot I), sckistaceus (Cat. B. xv. p. 224) from Chamicuros, however,
is quite different, and belongs to Thamnomanes glaucus Cab.
'/. Dysithamnus sckistaceus heteroyynus Hellm.

Teffe, Brazilian Amazons. See above.

e. Dysithamnus dubius Berl. & Stolzm. Ibis, 1894, p. 393.

Hub. Central Peru : La Merced, Chauchamayo (Kaliuowski) ; Chuchurras,
prov. Huanuco (Hoffmanns).

This is probably also a geographical form of D. sckistaceus, but without
knowing the ? it would be uusafe to use a trinomial appellation.

The $ from Chuchurras in the Tring Museum agrees nearly with that of
D. s. heteroyynus, but the tail is less graduated, and the bill much more slender
and more strongly hooked. Wing 04 ; tail 49 ; bill 20 mm.

57. Dysithamnus ardesiacus ardesiacus Scl. & Sal v.
Dysithamnus ardesiacus Sclater & Salvia, /'. Z. S. 1867. p. 756 (based ou D. schistaceus Sclater
(uec D'Orb.), /'. Z.S. 1858. p. 66, 22'-'.— Rio Napo, East Ecuador).
No. 730. cf ad., 1. vi. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet grey-blue, bill black.''—
Wing 73 ; tail 50; bill 15J mm.

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No. 810. i ad., 12. vi. 00. " Iris light brown, feet greyish brown, bill black."—
Wing 69; tail 49; bill 17 mm.

No. 735. ? ad., 1. vi. 06. "Iris dark brown, bill black, below grey." — Wiug
73^ ; tail 55 ; bill 17 mm.

These birds represent typical 1). ardesiacus. .No. 810 has the throat feathers
black, broadly margined with schistaceous at the tips, jnst as specimens from East
Ecuador and Northern Peru. In No. 730 the throat is almost uuiform schistaceous,
except a few blackish dots here and there. No. Sill shows a small concealed white
dorsal spot, which is altogether wanting in the two other skins.

Cfr. Hellmayr, Verkandl. zool. hot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1903, pp. 215— 216.

New to the Brazilian fauna.

58. Thamnomanes caesius persimilis subsp. nov.

Nos. 074, 772. <?<? ad., 21. v., 7. vi. 00. "Iris brown."— Wing 09, 70; tail
61,04; bill 17, 18 mm.

No. 099. (? fere ad., 24. v. 06. " Iris brown."— Wing 09 ; tail 001 ; bill 18 mm.

Nos. 672, 688, 773. ? ? ad., imm. "Iris brown."— Wiug 71; tail 01, 631,
65; bill 17, 17i mm.

S ad. Very much like T. c. kqffmannsi Hellm., of Para, but differs in the
darker bine-grey colour of the plumage ; by lacking the white streaks on the throat
and ear-coverts, and by having the edge of the wing dark bluish slate-grey (instead
of white). T. c. caesius (Temm.), of Bahia, which agrees in the two last-named
characters, is of a much darker, dull blackish slate-grey colour throughout.

? ad. Indistinguishable from that of T. c. glaucus Gab., but very different
from the females of T. c. caesius and T. c. hofmannsi by having the breast and
abdomen deep ferruginous, only the throat and foreneck being brownish mixed
with buff

Type of the subspecies : c? ad. Teffe, 21. v. 06, No. 074 in the Tring Museum.

The three cTcT sent by Mr. Hoffmanns present very little variation.

In the type (No. 074) the general colour is an intense bluish grey, the axillaries
and under wing-coverts are cinereous, chin and throat quite uniform without any
pale streaks. The two other c?c? have white axillaries and under wing-coverts ; a
few narrow whitish lines on the chin, and the plumage of a rather lighter blue-Tey.
In none of the three specimens is there any trace of a white dorsal spot. In the
type the entire bill is deep black, while the others have the lower mandible pale
brown.

The three females agree in every respect with a large series of T. c. glaucus,
and have a large concealed white patch in the middle of the back. The upper parts
are perhaps somewhat less rnfesceut.

In the followiug lines I append a short resume of the characters and ranges of
the four known forms of Thamnomanes, which I hope will prove to be useful to the
students of this rather difficult group. I may remark that the females of all
these forms possess a distinct white interscapular blotch.

a. T. caesius caesius (Temm.)

'' '/'" catiia Tc-mminck, Sec. PI. col. livr. ;!. tab. 17. tig. 1, 2 (Oct. 1820.— South-east Brazil ; cfr.

-Voi'. Z-mI . xii. p. 285).

Hob. South-eastern Brazil : Bahia (Wied, Wucherer, Kammerlacher) ; Rio
Iritiba and Villa Nova de Beuevente, Espiritu Santo (Wied;.

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Oba. The specimens from Salto do Girao (Rio Madeira) and Rio Jurud,,
W. Brazil, mentioned by me as belonging to this form (Nor. Zool. xiii. p. 368),
are probably referable to T. c. persimilis. When I examined them (both are
adult <?iJ) I did not know that there was in the interior of Brazil a nearly
allied form without a white dorsal patch.

$ ad. Uniform drill, blackish slate-grey, the bases of the interscapular feathers
scarcely paler cinereous than the apical portions. Edge of the wing dark slate-grey.
Axillaries and under wing-coverts pale grey.

i ad. Upper parts light olive-brown, with a large concealed white inter-
scapular blotch. Throat and breast pale buft'y brown, abdomen and under tail-
coverts tawny ochraceous (Ridgw. Nomencl. v. fig. 4).

Material: 8 c?c? ad., 3 ?? from Bahia, in the British, Tring, and Vienna
Museums.

b. T. caesius hoffmannsi Hellm.
Cfr. Nov. Zuol. xiii. p. 367.

llnh. District of Para.

S ad. Above plumbeous (rather darker than Ridgw. ii. 15), below cinereous.
Throat variegated with white, ear-coverts with narrow white shaft-lines. Edge
of the wing, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white.

? ad. Exactly like the ? of T. c. caesius.

Material : 3 <?<? ad., 1 6 jr., 3 ? ?, Para.

c. T. caesius per&imilis Hellm.

Hah. Envirous of Teffe, on the south bank of the Rio Solitudes, Brazil.

c? ad. Above rather deeper plumbeous than T. c. hoffmannsi, nuderparts deep
bluish plumbeons, nearly as dark as the back. Ear-coverts aud edge of the wing
uniform slate-grey. Throat dark plumbeous, only the chiu sometimes with a
few indistinct whitish shaft-lines.

? ad. Differs at a glance from the ? ? of T. c. caesius and '/". c. hoffmannsi
by having the breast and abdomen of a much deeper ochraceous or ferruginous
colour, the throat and foreueck alone being pale brownish, mixed with buff.

Material : 2 SS ad., 1 6 vix ad., 3 ? ? from Teffe.

This bird appears to have a peculiarly restricted range, as in North-east Peru
and Northern Bolivia the next form, '/'. c. glaucus, is met with.

d. T. caesius glaucus Cab.
Thamnomanet glaucus Cabanis, Arch.f. \T«turtj. 13. i.p. '230 (1847.— Cayenne).

Huh. Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana, thence through the Orinoco region
(Manduapo, Bichaco, and Canra River) to the Rio Negro (Marabitanas, Rio Icanna,
Barcellos, Manaos), to Eastern Ecuador, North-east Peru (Yurimaguas, ( 'hamicuros,
Pebas, etc.), aud Northern Bolivia (Yuracares). Also found in Bogota collections.

$ ad. Differs at once from all the preceding forms by the presence of a large,
concealed white interscapular patch. Edge of the wing dark slate-grey. General
colour as in T. c. persimilis.

? ad. Exactly like that of T. c. persimilis.

1 am unable to detect any differences between specimens from Cayenne,
Guiana, etc., aud others from the Rio Negro, Peru, aud Yuracares, Bolivia.. All

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the many specimens examined possess the characteristic while dorsal patch, which
is altogether wanting in the 3 3 of T. c. caesius, T. c. hoffmarmsi, and T. e.
persimilis.

Material : 3 <?(?, 2 ? ? , Cayenne ; 2 3 3, 2 ? ? , Snrinam ; 3 ? , Brit. Guiana ;
4 33, 3 ? ?, Orinoco ; 11 33, 10 ? ?, Caura River; 7 <?d\ 5 ? ?, Rio Negro ;
<? ?, Rio Nap i, Ecuador ; 3 ¥ , Bogota ; 1 3 ad., 1 c? juv., 3 ? ? , Pebas ; 2 cJ c? ad.,
1 3 juv., Yuracares, Bolivia (D'Orbiguy coll. — Paris Museum).

Obs. Whether the ? from Santarern, recorded supra, p. 17, belongs to this
or to the preceding form cannot be decided until adult males come to hand.

59. Myrmelastes fortis (Scl. & Salv.)

Percnostola forth Sclater & Salvin, /\<?.S. 1867. p. 980 (Pebas and Chyavetas, E. Peru).

Nos. 781, 883. 3 3 ad., 8, 23. vi. 06. "Iris red or red-brown, feet and bill
black, bare skin behind the eye light blue." — Wing 83, 84 ; tail 70, O'J ; bill 23, 22;
tarsus 32, 331 mm.

No. 884. ? ad. 23., vi. 06. " Iris red-brown," soft parts as above. — Wing 82 ;
tail 07 ; bill 23 ; tarsus 32 mm.

These skins are exactly similar to others from N.E. Peru ; perhaps the wings
average slightly shorter. One of the males has the first primary narrowly edged
with white.

About the systematic position of the species cfr. Meuegaux and Hellmayr, Bull.
Soc. Pkilomat. Paris, 1906, p. 32.

Prof. von. Ihering has lately recorded a specimen from the Rio Jnruil.*

60. Cercomacra sclateri Hellm.

Ctrcomacra sclateii Hellmayr, Not. Zool. xii. p. 288 (Chyavetas, Peru).

No. 850. 3 ad., Teffe, 17. vi. 00. " Iris grey, feet blue-grey, bill black."
Agrees in the 2>»leness of the coloration with the examples from Para and
Santarem, but has slightly longer wings.

61. Formicivora bicolor Pelz.

Cfr. Nov. Zool. supra p. 17.

No. 851. ? ad., 17. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill black." — Wing
63; tail 50; bill 14 mm.

Agrees perfectly with the females from Santarem, in being uniform chestnut
below, and iu having the apical half of the three outer tail feathers white.

62. Rhamphocaenus melanurus amazonum n. snbsp.

Rhamjjhocaenus melanurus (nee Vieillot !) Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1867. p. 751 (Chyavetas, Peru).
R. albiventrit Sclater, Jbis. 1883, p. 95 (part. : Chyavetas ; but not the diagnosis !) : Taczanowski,

Orn. IVr.u, ii.(lH84) p. 53 (part.: Tarimaguas); Sclater, Cat Birds Brit. Mas. xv. (1890) p. 260

(p.-trt. : spec. /', g from Chyavetas and Santa Cruz, Peru).

No. 863. 3 ad., 20. vii. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill black, below
pale grey." — Wing 52 ; tail 53 ; bill 23 mm. — Type of the subspecies.

Resembles /.'. m. albiventris Scl. of Surinam and British Guiana, in having the
cheeks and ear-coverts pale brownish streaked with whitish, but is slightly larger,

• Revitt. 3fus. Pautift. vi. 1904 (publ. 1905). p. 412.

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much darker brown on the upper parts with no rufous whatever on the uape and
sides of the neck, and has a distinct, though faint buffy wash on the sides of
the breast and abdomen.

In the type from Teffe the head aud back are of a deep sepia brown. Three
specimens from the Peruvian Amazons : an immature c? from Ynrimaguas (Tring
Museum), a nearly adult bird from Chyavetas, and a <S from Santa Cruz (in the
Brit. Museum) differ slightly by having the upper parts rather brighter and clearer
brown, but as none of them is quite adult, this trifling variation may be due to age.
In other respects they are perfectly similar to the Teffe' specimen. They measure as
follows : Wing 52, 53, 49 ; tail 40, 52£, 47 ; bill 23—24 mm.

The geographical forms of R. melanurus were not well understood hitherto.

Mr. Sclater refers to R. albiventris specimens from Surinam, S. Esteban in
Venezuela, Eastern Ecuador, and Chyavetas in Peru. From his diagnosis {Ibis.
1883. p. 05) : " gastraeo albo," it is evident that he intended to separate the white-
bellied form which occurs in Surinam, Cayenne, and British Guiana. Of the two
examples indicated as the " types " in the Cat. Birds xv. p. 201, only the one from
Surinam belongs to R. m. albiventris, while the bird from S. Esteban, Venezuela, is
referable to R. m. trinitatis.

Both R. m. melanurus and R. m. trinitatis differ from R. m. albiventris and
R. m. amazonum by their deep ochraceons sides of the neck, while R. m. sticttirus
Hellm., of Mattogrosso, is at once recognisable by having the three outer tail
feathers tipped with pure white (not with smoky grey). I hope to discuss all these
forms on another occasion.

03. Hypocnemis cantator peruvianus Tacz.

Cfr. Nov. Zool. supra p. 19.

Nos. 790,837,886. S6 ad., 10, 23. vi., 10. vii. 00. "Iris brown, feet grey,
bill black, below grey."

Nos. 830, 849. ? ? ad., IT. vi., 10. vii. 00. Soft parts as above.

Identical with specimens from N.E. Peru (Samiria, Pebas, etc.) and Eastern
Ecuador (Rio Napo). One of the S c? has the flanks darker ochraceous than all the
other skins before me.

64. Hypocnemis poecilinota griseiventris (Pelz.)

[Hypocnemis poecilinota Cabanis, Arck.f. Naturg. 13. i. p. 212. pi. 4. fig. 2 (1847. — Brit. Guiana).]
Pithy* griseiventris Pelzelu, Zur Oiiiith. Braeil. ii. p. 167. descr. orig. °. (1868. — Villa Maria and

Engenho do Gama, Mattogrosso ; Borba, Rio Madeira).
Hypocnemis poecilinota griseiventris Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 372 (crit.)

No. 071. t? ad., 20. v. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet grey-blue, bill black." —
Wing 70i ; tail 451 mm. ; bill damaged.

No. S85. t$ juv., 23. vi. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet grey-blue, bill black." —
Wing 66 ; tail 45), ; bill 18 mm.

Nos. 670, 744. ? ? ad., 20. v., 2. vi. 00. "Iris brown, feet grey-blue, bill
black."— Wing 67, 08 ; tail 43, 47 ; bill 18 mm.

The d ad., like that from Borba, discussed by me I.e. 371, has the upper tail-
coverts ciuereous, with a broad black subapical baud aud a narrower white apical
margin, and the median rectrices are washed with grey on the base. The throat,
however, is quite as dark slate-grey as the rest of the underparts.

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Tin' ? J agree very well with (batterer's typical examples, except in being
decidedly less rufescent above. In fact, the colour of the back is exactly t ho same
as in the ¥ of //. p. vidua Hellm. //. p. griseiventris can, however, easily be
distinguished by the pale ferruginous chin spot, front and sides of the head, etc.
It is also rather larger, especially the tail longer, and the bill stronger.

No. 885, a young male, has the general plumage of the female, but some
newly-grown feathers on the upper wing-coverts are black margined with white, as
in the adult c?.

Telle is quite a new locality for //. p. griseiventris, which hitherto was only
known from Borba (liio Madeira) and Mattogrosso.

65. Hypocnemis leucophrys angustirostris (Cab.)

Cfr. supra, p. 19.

Nos. 779, 858, 778. r? c? ad., 6 inim., 8. vi., Is. vii. 06. -'Iris brown, feet
bluish grey, bill black."

These birds have the belly of the same clear slate-grey as topotypical
specimens from British Guiana. The forehead seems to be less extensively
white, though one <J ad. from the Caura River is hardly different on this score.

GO. Myrniotherula surinamensis inultostriata >Scl.

[Sitta euriiiamennii Ginelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 442 (1788. — ex Latham, Surinam).]
ityrmotherula multostriata Sclater, P.Z.S. 1858. p. '-'!4. pi. 141. fig. 2 (J), 3 ( ? ) (Ucayali, East
Peru).

No. 701. ? ad.', 10. vi. 06. ''Iris brown, bill black, below greyish." — Wing
48 ; tail 24 : bill 13| mm.

This specimen agrees perfectly with females from North-eastern Peru, having
the head above broadly striped with black, and the underparts buff with narrow
but very distinct black shaft-stripes on the foreneck and breast (cfr. Menegaux
and Hellmayr, Bull. Soc. Pkilom. Paris, 1900, p. 48).

Having now examined 5 cS 6 ad. and 9 ? ? of M. s. multostriata, I feel quite con-
fident as to the distinctness of this form, though the S ci differfroin M. s. surinamensis
only by their slightly shorter tails and rather more densely striped under-surface.
It appears that there occurs in Upper Amazonia another species of this group,
which is most nearly allied to M. longicauda Berl. & Stolzm. of ( Vntral and South-east
Peru, but distinguishable by its much shorter tail, etc. The British Museum
possesses three c?c? ; one collected by Bartlett on the Upper Ucayali, the two others
said to be from the Bio Napo, East Ecuador. More material is required to settle
the true status of this form.

M. S. multostriata seems to be new to the Brazilian avifauna. I suspect,
however, that the specimens from the Bio Jurua, recorded by Von Ihering s.u.
M. surinamensis* will also turn out to belong to it.

07. Myrmotherula hauxwelli hauxwelli (Scl.)

Formicivora hauxwelli Sclater, P.Z.S. 1857. p. 131. p. 126, fig. 2 (East Peru).

Nos. 732, 733, 761, 843. $ 6 ad., 1, ii, 16. yi. 06. "Iris dark or blackish
brown, feet bluish black, bill black, below greyish blue." — Wing 52 — 54A ; tail
23— 25J ; bill 13—14 mm.

■ Soviet. Blot. Paitlat, \l p. 140.

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No. 890. (? imm., 23. vi. 06. Soft parts as above.

All these specimens differ from Para birds {M. h. hellmayri Snethl.) by the
presence of a large, concealed white dorsal patch.

M. hauxwelli is a very near ally of M. guttata, as pointed ont in Nos. Zool.
xiii. p. 309, where, however, the differences between the males are not properly
stated, for the former species, besides its slate-grey abdomen, is characterised by
several other distinctions. The markings on the wings, upper tail -coverts and
rectrices are much smaller and pure white (not fulvous as in .1/. guttata), the quills
are edged with schistaceous (not with rufescent brown) and the rump is pure
slate-grey.

68. Mynnotherula axillaris axillaris (Vieill.)

Cfr. supra p. 22.

No. 785. c? ad., 9. vi. 06. No. 897. ? ad., 24. vi. 06. " Iris brown, bill
black."

The S belongs to the typical form with slate-grey upper parts and not to the
black-backed M. a. melaena (Scl.) of which the Tring Museum possesses specimens
from Iquitos, N.E. Peru. The females of the two forms are not distinguishable.

69. Myrmotherula longipennis Pelz.

Myrmotherula longipennis Pelzpln. Zvir Ornith. Brasil. ii. p. 153 (1868— Marabitanas and Rio
Negro).

No. 771. <5 ad., 7. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet bluish black, bill black." — Wing
58 ; tail 32J ; bill 14 mm.

This bird has the belly of the same dark slaty grey colour as a series from
Cayenne, but the malar region is paler grey and the ear-coverts narrowly striped
with silvery white as in the Para specimens (cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 369), which,
however, have the middle of the abdomen whitish grey. Yet it must be remarked
that in a <J from the Catira River, Venezuela, the belly is quite as pale, while others
from the same locality do not differ in this respect from the Cayenne skins. More
material is required to settle the question whether there are any geographical races
of this species or not.

70. Myrmotherula menetriesii (D'Orb.)

Myrmotherula Menetriesii D'Orbigny, Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 184 (1838 — Yuracarus, Bolivia); cfr.

Meneganx & Hellmayr, Bull. Soc. philomat. Paris, 190(5, p. 51.
Myrmotherula brevicavda juruana Ihering, Revist. Mus. Paulist. vi. 1904, p. 440 (1905. — Rio Junni

W. Brazil).
M. longipennis Sclater, Cat. Hints Brit. Mus. xv. p. 241 (part., specimens p and q : Rio Javari and

Chamicuro'. E. Peru).

Nos. 700, 749, 755, 910. SS ad., 23. v., 3, 5, 26. vi. 06. " Iris brown or grey,
feet and bill black."— Wing 5H— 54 ; tail 27-30; bill 13A- 15 mm.

No. 898. S imm., 24. vi. 06. " Iris greyish brown."

Nos. 731, 751, 770, 904. ? ? ad., 1, 3, 7, 25. vi. 06. "Iris brown, feet, grey-
blue, bill black, below grey."— Wing 51-54 ; tail 29—30; bill 14 mm.

The S 6 ad. differ somewhat inter se in the markings of the tail. One
(No. 910) has the rectrices uniform light grey with narrow white apical margins,
exactly as the types of M, boliviano, Berl., and the original example of M. menetriesii

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in the Paris Mnsenni ; while in the three others the white ends are followed by a
more or less distinct black snbapieal band, more pronounced on the onter rectricea
than on the inner ones. The two S S in the British Museum agree perfectly with
these specimens.

The ? ? correspond well with Count Berlepech'a description.* No. 731 is
rather darker on the nnder-parts than the three others. The colour of the upper
surface varies from olive grey to dull olive.

Although mixed up with .1/. longipennis in the Catalogue of Birds, M. menetriesii
is quite distinct from it, and much more nearly related to .1/. cinereiventris,
as correctly pointed out by Count Berlepsch. In fact, it seems to be its southern
representative, but the exact range in Peru of the two forms is not yet satisfactorily
established. M. cinereiventris is known to me from Pebas and Ljuitos, on the
north bank of the Maranou, and also from Chyavetas, south of that river, where
Bartlett collected several specimeus, while of M. menetriesii the British Museum
possesses an adult <?, said to be from Chamicnros. The rj of M. menetriesii differs
from that of M. cinereiventris merely by having the middle of the throat and
foreneck extensively black. The ? ? of the two forms I am unable to distinguish.

Prof. Ihering has kindly sent me the type of M. brevicauda juruana, and I
found it to agree with the types of M. boliviano,.

The range of M. menetriesii is, according to our present knowledge, as follows :

North Bolivia : San Mateo (Garlepp). East Bolivia : Yuraeaivs (D'Orbigny).
X.E. Peru: Chamicnros (Hauxwell). N.W. Brazil: Rio Jurna (Garbe) ; Teffe
(Hoffmanns) ; Rio Javari (Bates).

The (? of the present species differs from M. longipennis Pelz. by its much
shorter wings and tail, much paler, clear cinereous (Ridgw. pi. ii. 16) instead of
deep slate-grey coloration, whitish grey (not black) chin and considerably smaller
white shoulder-patch. The middle and greater npper wing-coverts are clear
cinereous with a sharply defined black auteapical spot which is followed by the
white tip (in .1/. longipennis they are black tipped with white and scarcely edged
with slate-grey along the outer web); the primary coverts show distinct white
apical margins which are entirely absent in M. longipennis; the axillaries and under
wing-coverts pale cinereous, not deep slate-grey, etc., etc.

The ? ? of the two species are altogether different, that of M. longipennis
having the back warm wood-brown (Ridgw. t. iii. fig. 13), the upper wing-coverts,
the outer web of the cpiills and the edges of the rectrices bright russet, the abdomen
white, etc., etc. It is, moreover, much larger.

71. Myrmotherula haematonota (Scl.)

Formicivora haematonota Sclater, P.Z.S. 1857. p. 48 (Chamicnros, Peru), descr. juv.

Myrmotherula pyrrhonota Sclater & Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873.— Rio Negro and

Oyapoc, Cayenne), descr. adult.
ifyrmotkt rula pyrrhonota amazonica Ihering, Revist. .!/».«. Paid, vi. 1D04-. p. 440 (1905.— Rio Jurna).

No. 909. <? fere ad., 20. vi. 00. "Iris light brown, feet bluish grey, bill
black."'— Wing 54 ; tail 40; bill 13i mm.

No. 90S. ? juv. 26. vi. 06. Soft parts as above.— Wing 51; tail 41 1; bill
14 mm.

The examination of a large amount of material revealed the fact that the two
supposed species, M. haematonota (with less rufous on the back and with '■ a longer

• Jtntrn.f, Ornith. 1901. p. :w.

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tail ") and M. pijrrhonota (with the whole back rnfous chestnut and with " a shorter
tail ") are merely young and adult of a single form. As will be seen from the
measurements given below, there is no difference in the length of the tail between
Peruvian examples (haematonota) and those from more eastern localities when series
of both are compared. Thus, we have only to deal with the other supposed
characters — viz. the intensity and the extent of the rufous colour on the back, and
the coloration of the apical spots on the upper wing-coverts.

The Tring Museum possesses a very instructive series from the Cauva River,
Venezuela. On comparing these ten specimens we find that the fully adult S S have
the whole back and rump deep chestnut rufous, and the apical spots on all the upper
wing-coverts pure white,* while in immature birds the rufous is paler and coufined
to the upper back (the rump being brown) and the wing spots are always buff or
fulvous. Those with the least amount of rufous on the back and with bright
fulvous spots on the wing-coverts are undoubtedly the youngest, as is proved by the
fluffy texture of the feathers. The type of F. haematonota (from Chamicnros) is a
young bird, and agrees in colour and size perfectly with several of our Caura
specimens, while the two other examples of M. haematonota in the British Museum
are even younger, there being but a slight rufous admixture in the middle of the
back. On the other hand, a nearly adult S from north-east Peru in the Paris
Museum, collected by Count Casteluau, has the wing spots (except on the greater
series) white and the whole back deep chestnut rnfous, just like the type of
M. pyrrhonota from Marabitanas ! The type of M. p. amazonica kindly lent by
Prof, von Ihering is absolutely identical with several skins from the Caura.

I cannot find any constant difference between ? ? from Peru, Marabitauas,

Venezuela, etc., either in size or in colour.

Measurements :

Wing. Tail.

3 cf S ad., Marabitanas (including the type
of M. pyrrhonota) . . . .47 —49 ; 35—37 mm.

1 3 ad., Sta. Barbara, Rio Negro .
1 S imm., Borba, Rio Madeira

4 <$S, Nericagua and Mnndnapo, Orinoco
7 SS, Caura River, Venezuela
1 S, Rio Jnruii (type of M. p. ama zonica

Ihering) . . . . . . 49J ; 30

3 $$ jr., Chamicnros and Chyavetas,

North Peru (including the type of

F. haemotonota Scl.) ... 51 —53 ; 37, 38, 41 „

1 c? ad., N.E. Peru (Casteluau coll.,

Mus. Paris 50 ; 35£ „

72. Gymnopithys salvini (Berl.)

Pithya salvini Berlepsch, Journ. fur Ornith. 1901. p. 98 (S. Mateo, N. Bolivia); Ihering, Revist.
Mus. Paul. vi. p. 443, tab. xvi. fig. 2 (1905.— Rio Juriui).

No. 089. S ad., 22. v. 06. " Iris greyish browu, feet bluish black, bill black."
—Wing 75 ; tail 45 ; tars. 231 ; bill damaged.

No. 069. 6 imm., 20. v. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet bine-grey, bill black."
—Wing 74 ; tail 47 ; tars._25 ; bill 17i mm.

* Only a few on the greater scries are very slightly tinged with buff..

47 —49 ;

35-

-37

50 ;

36

53 ;

40

50 —52 ;

37,

38

48i—50 ;

37-

-40

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Nos. G07, 882. ? ? ad.. 22. v., 22. vi. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet grey, bill
black, below grey."— "Wing 77, 72 ; tail 50, 40 ; tars. 25 ; bill 18, 17$ mm.

This is one of the most interesting Bpeciea in the collection. Hitherto only
two specimens were known, an adult S (the type) in Count Bcrlepsch's Museum,
obtained by G. Garlepp in Northern Bolivia, and an immature <$ from the Bio
durua, sent by Garbe to the Mnsen Paulista.

The adult c? collected by Mr. Hoffmanns agrees with the type except that the
white bands on the rectrices are confined to the inner webs. The second male has
the general colour of No. 689, but there are still some brown feathers of the juvenile
plumage to be seen. This specimen is particularly interesting, as it seems to
indicate that the young bird, before attaining the coloration of the adult (?, moults
into a transitional plumage, since the newly-grown greater upper wing-coverts and
inner secondaries show a narrow white apical margin and a distinct black sub-
terminal band, while they are uniform schistaceous in the adult o<J.

The ? of this species, which has not yet been described, is coloured as follows :
Nasal feathers cinnamon rufous with black tips; lores, sides of the head (including
a broad superciliary stripe), throat aud foreueck deep cinnamon rufous (Ridgw. iv.
fig. 16), passing into reddish cinnamon on the middle of the breast ; rest of uuder-
surface pale olive-brown, under tail-coverts slightly washed with cinnamon.
Forehead aud crown mainly black, the feathers of the former ferruginous at the
base, those of the latter narrowly edged with dull rufescent brown ; occiput dull
cinnamon rufous, clouded with dusky. Back pale olive-brown, each feather with
a broad (about H to 2 mm.) black snbterminal bar and a rather narrower cinuamon-
rufons apical band. These markings are more sparingly distributed aud less
pronounced on the rump. The feathers of the upper back are pale cinnamon-
rufous on the basal half, as in the female of G. leucaspis (Scl.). Upper tail-coverts
clear cinnamon rufous, each feather with a distinct Muck snbterminal bar. Lesser
aud median upper wing-coverts olive blackish, broadly edged with deep cinnamon
rufous ; greater series dark olive-browu or blackish, with a broad cinnamon-rufous
margin on the tip aud along the outer web. Quills dark brown, outwardly
rufescent brown, the secondaries with a broad, pale cinnamon apical band, followed
by a narrow blackish line. Tail-feathers clear cinnamon rufous, crossed by six
to seven black bands. Bend of the wing cinnamon rufous. Axillaries and under
wing-coverts pale olive-brown. Bill black, lower mandible whitish.

Count Berlepsch (I.e.) snggested that Pithys lunulata Scl. & Salv.* might be
the ? of G. sahini. After comparing our specimens with the type in the British
Museum, I am led to believe that such is uot the case. The bird from the Ueayali
agrees with the <? ad. of G. sahini in the colour of the throat and sides of the head,
but the upper parts are olive-brown, as in the ? of this species, aud marked in the
same manucr. The light bands on the back and the margins of the wing-coverts
are, however, buff (not cinnamon-rufous), the rectrices dark brown with three to four
white cress-bands on the inner web, and there is a very small whitish inter-
scapular patch. It must also be remembered that Taczanowski described a similar
specimen (marked ?) obtained by Stolzmann near Yurimaguas, North Peru,t and
it is, therefore, probable that G. sahini and G. lunulata are nearly allied, but
distinct species.

• P. Z. S. 1873. p. 276, tab. xxvi. (Sarayncu, Ucayoli, East Peru).
Orn. I'ervil ii. p. 75.

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73. Phlegopsis nigromaculata (Lafr. et D'Orb.)

Myothsra nigromaculata Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in Mag. Zool. 1837. cl. ii. p. 14
(Guarayos, Eastern Bolivia).

No. 705. c? ad., 26. v. 06. " Iris reddish brown, skin round the eye light red,
feet and bill black."— Wing 93 ; tail 61 ; bill 22 mm.

No. 900. ? ad., 25. vi. 06. u Iris dark red, bill and feet black."— Wing 88 ;
tail 60 ; bill 21 mm.

The two specimens agree perfectly with others from Bolivia and north-eastern
Peru (Ucayali) except in being a shade more brownish on the upper parts. In the
male the tail is uniform chestnut rufous, and the bend of the wing largely mixed
with white ; while the female has no white at all on the shoulder, and a narrow, but
very distinct, lanceolate black shaft-streak on all the rectrices near the tip.
Neither of them shows white spots on the nape.

These birds are very distinct from P. paraensis,* of Para, of which I have now
examined eight specimens. The back is very much paler, light yellowish or greyish
olive-brown (instead of warm rufesceut brown); the black spots are very much
larger and not margined with cinuamomeous at the tips; the greater wing-coverts
have broad blackish shaft-stripes which reach almost to the base of the feathers,
while in P. paraensis there are only .large oval snbapieal spots surrounded by a
pale cinuamomeous line ; the flanks are considerably paler, being pure olive-brown
(not rufescent brown) ; the bill is much stronger and the tail decidedly longer.

This is apparently the first record of the species for Brazil, but I suspect that
the specimen from the Bio Jnrua, recorded by von Ihering,t s.n. Phlegopsis
nigromaculata bowmani, will also turn out to belong to the true P. nigromaculata.

P. bowmani Bidgw., to which I refer four specimens from Boiba, j differs from
the Teffe birds principally by having the wing-coverts much brighter, of a fine
golden olive, and by the black markings on the back and wings being transverse
instead of longitudinal.

74. Forniicarius colma Bodd.

Formicarius r„l,„a Boddaert, Tabl. PI. e»l. p. 44 [1783— e.x Daubenton, PI. ml. 703, fig. 1 (= ?ad.)

— Cayenne].
Fnrmicariua nigrifrom auct. (cfr. my revision of S;,ix' types, p. G20).

No. 834. S juv., 15. vii. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet brown, bill black."'

75. Formicarius analis analis (Lafr. et D'Orb.)

Myothera analis Lafresnaye et D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in .!/»;/. Zool. 1837. el. ii. p. 14 [Turacares
et Chiquitos (Bolivia)].

No. 795. cJ in moult, 10. vi. 06. '• Iris and feet brown, bill black."

Differs from a Peruvian specimen (( 'hanchamayo district) by its much stronger

bill, darker brown pileum and darker, more slate-grey abdomen. Topotypieal

Bolivian birds are not available for comparison.

* Orn. MonaUber. xii. 1004, p. 53.
f Revitta Slut. Paul. vi. p. 4 3.
I Or it. MonaUber. xii. I i i|. ;> "I

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76. "Threnetes leucurus (Linn.)
ZVo hilus leucurus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. !. p. 190 (17t»i"i — ex Edwards & Brisson : Surinam).

No. 827. 6 ad., 25. vii. 06. '-Iris black, feet yellowish grey, bill black."—
AVing 6H; tail 36} ; bill 29* mm.

No. 891. ? imm, 23. vi. 06. " Ins blaek,feet yellow, bill black."— AVing .',4 ;
tail 32 ; bill 20 mm.

These birds differ from typical Surinam specimens merely by having the
abdomen more washed with rusty buff, less greyish white in the middle. The
light portions of the rectrices are pure white, as in 7'. leucurus of Surinam and
British Guiana.

It is remarkable that this species, hitherto snpposed to be confined to the
Guianas, reoccurs on the south bank of the Rio Solimoes, where we should expect
to meet with its Upper Amazonian representative, 7'. cernnicauda Gould, which
has lately been found in the Para district (cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. (1905), p. 374).
I must confess I am at a loss to understand the singular distribution of these
two forms.

T. leucurus is new to the Brazilian fauna.

77. Glaucis hirsuta (Gm.)

Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. (UlOG) p. 374.

No. 87C. 6 ad. moulting, 27. vi. 06. " Iris black, feet yellow, bill black,
below yellow." Agreeing with Bahia skins.

78. Phoethornis philippii (Bourc.)

Trochilus philippii Bourcier, Ann. Sue. Agrie. Lyon x. (1847), p. 623 (1847 — "Bolivia ').

Phaethornis filippii Berlepscb, Journ.f. Ornith. 1880. p. 100 (Fonteboa).

P. bourcieri (nee Lesson !) Ihering, Revist. Mus. raid. vi. (19U5) p. 443 (Rio Jurua).

No. 745. 8 ad., 2. vi. 06. "Iris black, bill black, below red."— AVing 59 ; med.
rectr. 63 ; snbmed. rectr. 37 ; outermost rectr. 27 : bill 34 mm.

No. 762. 8 vix ad., 6. vii. 06. " Iris black, bill black, below red."— AVing 62 ;
rectr. (as above) 72, 39, 29 ; bill 33 mm.

Mus, Paulist. No. 3674. Adult, Rio Jurua, ix. 02. E. Garbe coll.— AVing
59 ; rectr. 62, 37, 25 ; bill 32 mm.

The second specimen is an immature bird, the feathers of the crown and back
being margined with buff, while in the two other examples these parts are uniform
golden green.

This very rare species was only known hitherto from two specimens : the type
said to be from Bolivia, and an immature bird collected by Garlepp near Fonteboa,
Rio SolimOes. It was, therefore, with great pleasure that we met with two
additional examples in Mr. Hoffmanns' lot. Soon after the receipt of these, Prof,
von Ihering forwarded to us the specimen recorded by him as P. bourcieri,
and we found it identical with the Teffe" examples. P. philippii is a very near
ally of P. bourcieri (Less.), of the Guianas and the Upper Rio Negro, agreeing
with it in the straightness of the bill and in the shape of the tail, bnt differs at
a glance in coloration. The nnder-surface, instead of being greyish bull', is bright
ochraceous (between Hidgway's Xomencl., pi. v. figs. 7 and 10), the upper tail-

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coverts have ranch brighter, ochraceous (not. buff) bars and edges, and the tips
to the four outer tail feathers (on eacli side) are deep cinnamon-rnfons (instead
of buff).

79. Phoetliornis ruber ruber (Linn.)
Cfr. Nov. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 375.

No. 820. <? ad., 13. vi. 00. " Iris black, feet yellow, bill black, below yellow."
Black tip of lower mandible 8 mm. long. — Wing 29 ; tail 29 ; bill 23 mm.

No. 715. Av. juv., 30. v. 06. " Iris black, feet yellow, bill black, below greenish
yellow." Black tip of lower mandible 7 mm. — Wing 32 ; tail 33 ; bill 22 mm.

The first of these specimens is a fully adult male with a broad dark purplish
brown pectoral band. The tail feathers are bronze brown, very narrowly fringed
with buff or whitish on the tips. In the young bird (No. 715) wings and tail are
much longer, the rectrices more pointed, and ending in long, bright cinnamon-
rufous tips.

In the extent of the black tip to the under mandible, the Teffe birds agree
with others from Eastern Bolivia and Mattogrosso, while in skins from Eastern
Brazil (Bahia, Rio, Pernambuco) and Cayenne nearly the entire apical half
(9 — 11 mm. long) is black. In a series from Para, however, this black stripe
varies from ~h to 11 mm., and I have therefore little hesitation in referring the
birds from Western Brazil and Bolivia to the typical form.

According to our present knowledge, the following geographical races of
P. ruber are to be recognised :

a. Phoetliornis ruber ruber (Linn.)
Ilab. Cayenne ; Surinam ; Brazil : from Para west to Teffe on the Rio
Solimoes; east through Pernambuco and Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, thence through
Goiaz and Mattogrosso to Eastern Bolivia (Guanai, San Augnstin).

b. Phoethornis ruber longipennis Berk & Stolzm.

Phaethornis rufigaster longipennis Berlepsch & Stolzmann, P. Z. S. 1902. ii. p. 19 (Chanchainavo).
Hab. Chanchamayo district in Central Pern.
Exactly like P. r. ruber, but with much longer wings, 41 1 — 43A mm.

c. Pkoethornis ruber niffricinctus Lawr.

Phaethornis nigricinciut Lawrence, Ann. Lye. X. H. New York vi. p. 260 (1858 — Ecuador).

Hab. Eastern Ecuador : Rio Napo, Sarayacn ; N.E. Peru : Pebas (Hauxwell),
Chyavetas, Chamicuros (Bartlett), Ynrimaguas (Stolzmann).

Topotypical Napo specimens have only the extreme tip of the lower mandible
(1 — 2 mm.) dusky. Quite similar examples occur on the Peruvian Amazons,
where, however, others are also met with in which the blackish tip is scarcely
shorter than in P. r. ruber.

(I. Phoethornis ruber episcopus Gould.
Phuithoriiis episcopus Gould, P. Z. S. 1857. p. 14 (Demcrara).
Eremita whitelyi Boucard, Genera Bumming Birch, p. 390 (1895 — " Canela Mountains, British

Guiana " — the type is from the Canuku Mountains).
Phaethornis caurensis Simon et Dalmas, Omis xi. p. 208 (1901— Caura R., Venezuela).

Hab. British Guiana : Camacusa, Bartica Grove, Aunai, Canuku Mts. ;
Venezuela: Snapnre and Nicare, on the ('aura River; and near Nerieagua ami
Mnnduapo, on the Upper Orinoco.

r to )

6 ad. Differs from thai of /'. r. ruder by its much broader and deeper, velvety
black pectoral band with purple gloss (instead of dark purplish brown), and by
having a distinct coppery gloss on the nnder-sarface of the tail.

? and juv. As a rule distinguishable from the corresponding plumages of
J', r. ruber by its more coppery tail, but single specimens are sometimes scarcely
different I examined the type of Boncard's /.'. wkitelyi, now in the Paris Museum,
and found it to be identical with /'. r. episcopus. it is a ? in the "eremita" plumage,
i.,\ with long cinnamon-rnfons tips to the rectrices, etc.

Mono. Simon is now convinced that his /'. caurensis is inseparable from
/'. /-. episcopus. Two adult 6 6 from the Canra in the Tring Museum are absolutely
identical with others from Annai (British Guiana), and Mnndaapo, Orinoco.

80. Phoethornis sp.

No. 681. <? jnv., 21 v. 06. " Iris black, feet brown, bill black, below yellowish
red."

This bird belongs to one of the many forms of the group of P. affinis and
P. malaris, but cannot be identified with any of them. I hope to discuss the
various races of this section on a future occasion.

81. Agyrtria fluviatilis laeta Hart.

Agyrtria fluviatilis laeta Hartert, Journ.f. Ornith. 1000, p. 3C0 (Naata, Peru).

A. fluviatilis (nee Gould) Berlepsch, Journ./. Ornith. 1889, p. 100 (Tonantins, Rio Solimoes).

No. 708. Imm., 28. v. 06. " Iris and feet black, bill black, base of lower
mandible red." — Wing 52 ; tail 30 ; bill 21] mm.

This bird agrees in every respect with the typical specimens from Nanta.
A.J', laeta differs from A. f. fluviatilis of Eastern Ecuador only by its smaller size,
shorter wings and bill. The coloration of the central rectrices mentioned by Hartert
is, however, not a reliable character. The range of the two forms is as follows:

a. Agyrtria fluviatilis fluviatilis (Gould).
Thaumatias fluviatilis J. Gould, Introd. Trockil. p. 154 (1801 — " Banks of the River Xapo ").

Hah. Eastern Ecuador : Zamora, Eio Pastaza (Baron), Gualaquiza, Zamora
(Festa).

12 adult birds from East Ecuador : wing 57 — 58 ; bill 23 — 25 mm.

b. Agyrtria fluviatilis laeta Hart.

Hah. N.E. Peru: Pebas, Nanta, bjuitos, Lower Ucayali ; N.W. Brazil:
Tonantins and TeffiS on the Eio Solimoes.

10 $$, Peruvian Amazons: wing 52 — 54 (two from Pebas 56) ; bill 21 — 22 mm.
4 ? % , Peruvian Amazons : wing 50 — 52; bill 20 — 21 mm.
1 imm. from Teffe : wing 52 ; bill 21 \ mm.

82, Chlorestes caeruleus (Vieill.)
Cfr. viL,:;i, p, 33.

Nos. 714, 758. 6 6 ad., 2'.'. v., 5. vi. 06. "Iris and feet black, bill black,
below red."

Xos. 087, 707. ? ?, 21, 28. v. 06. " Bill black, below pale red."
Identical with the specimens from Obidos.

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83. Thalurania sirnoni Hellm.
Ikalurcuiia sirnoni Hellmayr, Hull. Brit. Ora. CI. six. (Oct. 10.10) p. 8.

No. 004. S ad., 10. v. 06. " Iris, feet, and bill black."— Wing 53 ; tail 37 ;
bill 20$ ; caud. grad. 11 mm. Type of species.

No. 005. S ad., 19. v. 00. "Iris, feet, and bill black."— Wing 54 ; tail 37i ;
bill 20 ; caud. grad. 12 mm.

No. 070. ? ad., 20. v. 00. " Iris, feet, and bill black."— Wing 50 ; tail 32 ;
bill 22 mm.

$ ad. Upper parts dark shining green, slightly tinged with bronze on the
occiput and upper tail-coverts. Interscapular region, when seen from in front,
blackish, with a hardly perceptible greenish hue. On the base of the forehead
a narrow edge of glittering green feathers. Chin, throat, and ear-coverts glittering
golden green, this colour ending in a straight line across the lower throat ; breast
and abdomen, as well as a large spot on the shoulder, glittering royal-purple
(Rido-w. viii. fig. 7). Under tail-coverts steel black, with broad white edges.
Lesser wiug-coverts glittering blue, remainder of the upper wing-coverts bronze
green ; quills purplish brown ; tail bluish black.

The second $ ad. differs from the type by having the top of the head and the
npper tail-coverts much more tinged with bronze.

? ad. Agrees with that of T. balzani Sim. in the small size and in the pale
greyish underparts, but has a slightly longer beak. The ? ? of '/'. jelskii Tacz.
and T. tsckudii are larger and have the under-surface much darker, more smoky
grey.

The S of this new form, which I have dedicated to Mous. Eugene Simon,
of Paris, the great authority on Humming birds, resembles T. jelskii, of Central
Pern and Northern Bolivia, but is considerably smaller ; the green of the throat
is more golden, the under tail-coverts are much more broadly edged with white ;
the interscapular region appears blackish (not bluish green), when held against
the light ; and there is a narrow glittering green frontal edge, barely indicated
in T. jelskii. In most of these characters, as also in the small size, the new
form agrees with T. balzani Sim., of the plains of Eastern Bolivia, which, however,
is easily recognisable by its pure white under tail-coverts.

For the present I refrain from employing trinomials for any of these
Thaluraniae, which, together with T. nigro/asciata, T. tsckudii, T. refulgens,
etc., will ultimately prove to be geographical representatives of the T. furcata
group, but 1 think it useful to say a few words about the distribution of those
forms that are found in the Upper Amazonian region.

(1) T. nigro/asciata (Gould), which, in the S sex, is so well characterised by
the green of the throat being drawn to a point over the chest and separated from
the blue abdomen by a distinct velvety black line, inhabits the north bank of the
Peruvian Amazons (Iquitos, Pebas) and its northern tributaries, such as the Bio
Napo, Zamora, Gualaquiza, Pastaza, etc., etc. It also occurs on the Upper Bio
Negro (Cobati, Guia, Marabitanas, and Bio Icanna), and is not uncommonly met
with in the Bogota trade-collections. I have seen many specimens from Iquitos,
Pebas, etc., and Eastern Ecuador, and Dr. Lorenz, of Vienna, kindly sent me
the series obtained by Natterer on the Rio Negro, and several Bogota skins for
comparison.

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the Marafion, at elevations from 1200 to 1500 metr. It seems to be rather common
i:i the valley of Huayabamba, where Messrs. G. Garlepp and 0. T. Baron procured

a large number of specimens. Mons. Baer met with it near Naevo Loreto. I
compared our series from these localities with Gould's types iu the British
Museum, and found them perfectly alike. I doubt, however, whether the original
examples were really obtained " in the neighbourhood of the River Ucayali." * The

8 of T. tschudii is easily recognisable by the green colour of the throat being
separated from the purple-blue abdomen by a distinct greenish-blue area, which
is bordered laterally by a velvety black line. Messrs. Berlepscb and Hartert t
recorded this species from the Upper Orinoco, aud the specimens from there are
certainly very much like the Peruvian ones, especially on the underparts. Mosl
of them are, however, immature, and the only adult 8, which is much damaged by
the shot, seems to have a violet baud across the interscapular region. I feel sure
that if a scries of adult 8 8 could be compared, the distinctness of the Orinoco form
would become apparent.

(3) T, jelskii Tacz. inhabits the Andes of Central and South-eastern Peru,
aud of North Bolivia. The Tring Museum possesses this form from La Gloria
(Chanchamayo), elev. 1100 metr.; Carabaya, 1000 metr.; and a series from San
Angnstin, Eastern Bolivia, 1200 metr. Here belong also all the Bolivian specimens
iu the British Museum, recorded by Salving s.n. T. tschudii, and the examples
obtained by D'Orbigny near Santa Cruz § and preserved in the Paris Museum.
The 8 8 of T. jelskii differ from T. tschudii by the green throat being immediately
followed by the royal purple colour of the breast and abdomen.

(4) T. balzard Sim. replaces the foregoing species in the lowlands of Eastern
Bolivia. The Tring Museum received a good series from Salinas, on the banks of
the Bio Beni. The 88 ad. of T. balzard are at once known by their pure white
under tail-coverts, which occasionally show a few very small blackish discs near
the base.

84. Anthracothorax nigricollis (Vieill.)
Cfr. Nov. Zool. xui. (1906) p. 377.

Nos. 682, 723. 86 ad., 21, 30. v. 06. " Iris, feet and bill black."
No. 713. ? ad., 29. v. 00. Soft parts as above.

85. Nyctibius grandis (Gm.)

Cfr. supra, p. 33.

No. S44. ? imm., 10. vi. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet yellowish grey, bill
black."— Wing 364 ; tail 250 mm.

Agrees with the Obidos specimen.

86. Nyctidromus albicollis albicollis (Gm.)
Gmelin, Sy$t. Nat. 1. ii. p. 1030 (17«8.— ex Latham: Cayenne).
Nos. 867, Mil, 704. 8 ? and an immature bird, not sexed : 20, 11, 0. vi. 00.
"Iris dark brown (8 J ), black (No. 764); feet greyish; bill black."

* P.Z.S. I860. p. 312.

f Nov. Zool. Ix. (1902), p. 86.

X Cat. Birds Brit. Mux. x\i. p. B3.

J Omitmyafitroata Lafr. & D'Orbigny, Si/n. At: ii. in Mag. Zool. 1838, cl. ii. p. 27.

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Agreeing in size with <a series from Cayenne, Surinam, Trinidad, etc.
The southern form, N. a. derbyanus Gould, is larger, especially the tail much
longer, and the nppei parts of a much clearer, paler brown.

87. Chlorouerpes capistratus (Main.)

Chloropicus capistratus ' (Natterer MS.) Malberbe, Moiiogr. Pic. ii. p. 140, pi. Ixxxiii. fig. 4, 5 (1862
— " Bre'sil."— Natterer coll.— as typical locality accepted : Rio Negro).

Nos. 702, 753. ? ad., ? imm., 24. v., 3. vi. 06. " Iris white or pale grey, feet
greyish green, bill black."— Wing 138 ; tail 78, 80 ; bill 20, 27 mm.

Specimens from the Rupuunni River, British Guiana, differ by the much paler,
yellowish or yellowish white (instead of deep golden yellow) ground-colour of the
lower parts. Additional material is required to show whether the Guiauan birds
are separable.

88. Chrysoptilus punctigula guttatus (Spix).

Cfr. Hellmayr, Abhaiidl. Buyer, akad. Wiesensch. ii. Kl. BJ. xxii. Abth. iii. (1906) p. 006 f.

Nos. 865, 853, 701. (<?) ad., ? ad., 6 jr. 19, 17. vi., 23. v. 06. " Iris brown,
feet grey or greenish grey, bill black. "— J : wing 111; tail 72; bill 22 mm. — ?:
wing 114; tail 74; bill 24i mm.

These birds seem to belong to C. p. guttatus. The ? ad. agrees perfectly with
the characters given by me I.e., while the 2 3 <3 have the back dull greenish
(instead of golden yellow), hence more like Bogota skins. The latter, however,
differ by having the rnmp much brighter yellow and more coarsely spotted with
black, and the belly is also of a clearer, brighter yellow. C. speciosus Malh., based
upon a specimen from the Peruvian Amazons, is perhaps identical with guttatus of
Spix. If such be the case, the Bogota form would probably require a new name.

89. Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.)

Picas cruentatus Boddaert, Tab!. PI. ail. p. 43 (1783. — ex Daubenton, PI. en!. 694, fig. 2. — Cayenne).

Nos. 737, 738, 703, 705, 873. S <$ ad., 1. v., 1, 0, 20. vi. U6. " Iris yellow,
feet grey or black, bill black."

All five specimens are typical .1/. cruentatus with broad superciliaries, creamy
above the eye and golden yellow in the posterior portion.

9ti. Celeus jumana (Spix).

Cfr. Hellmayr, Abhandl. Bayer, uk.nl. Wissensch. ii, Kl. xxii. Bd. Abtb. iii. (1906) p. 603.

No. 685. (?) ad., 21. v. 00. "Iris red, feet black, bill pale grey."— Wing
153; tail 103; bill 29£ mm.

The inner webs of the quills are regularly and broadly barred with blackish
grey and pale yellow, as in specimens from Para, Santarem, and the Orinoco region.
Both the ? from Teffd ami the $ from Itaituba, Santarem (see supra, p. 25) have
the upper tail-coverts bright rufous brown, while they are yellow with pale rufous
brown edges in a series from Para. ' . citreopygius Sri. & Salv. of Eastern Ecuador
and Peru has also rufous brown upper tail-coverts, but differs at a glance by the
uniform isabelline rufous inner webs of the remiges.

* Chrysojpicui capistratus Bonaparte [CmspP Voluer. ZynoA. (repr. from Ateiteo Ualia.no, No. 8,
Maggio ]s54), p. 9, uo. 151] is a pure tinmen nudum.

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91. Celeus grammicus (Malh.)

Ptcus grammicm Mallierbe, Mim. Soc. Roy. Liigi 1845, p. 69 (" Br&il."— coll. Natterer iu Miu.
Vindob.—ae. Rio Madeira and Rio Negro ; cfr. Pelzeln. Urn. Srasil. iii. 1869. p. 252).

No. 703. ? ad., 24. v. 06. "Iris dark red, feet black, bill whitish grey."—
Wing 120; tail 80; bill 22$ mm.

Differs from Orinoco examples by having the feathers of the crown centred
with black, and the throat narrowly, but distinctly striped or banded with the
same colour.

92. Croconiorphus flavus (P. L. S. Mull.) subsp.
Cfr. supra, p. 25.

No. 802. ? fere ad. 12. vi. 06. "Iris dark red, feet greyish green, bill
yellowish green."

In the coloration of the wings this specimen agrees perfectly with the one
from Santarem, mentioned in my former paper, except that the inner webs of the
remiges are paler, more isabelline. The birds from the Brazilian Amazons most
likely constitute a geographical form of < '. jhtnix, but I should like to see more
specimens before separating it.

93. * Picunmus flavifrons Harg.
Picumnus Jlavifrom Hargitt, Ibis 1889. p. 22'.i (Sarayacu, East Peru).

No. 683. <J ad., 21. v. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill black, base of
lower mandible whitish." — Wing 50£ ; tail 25 ; bill 11 mm.

Mus. Brit. <? ad., Sarayacu, East Peru, July IT, 1865. Bartlett coll. Type
of the species.— Wing 50 ; tail 23 ; bill 11 mm.

The Tefte bird differs from the type, the only known specimen, by having the
tips to the sinciput feathers of a rather darker golden yellow; the ear-coverts not
quite so dark, more sepia brown ; and the blackish bars on the chest somewhat
broader. These slight differences, however, are quite within the range of individual
variation in allied species.

P.Jhn/rons Harg. is a very near ally of P. awifrons Pelz. (from Mattogrosso
and the Upper Rio Madeira), but can easily be distinguished by having rounded
spots on the belly (instead of narrow longitudinal stripes). The back is perhaps
somewhat more greenish.

I am very doubtful whether P. wallacii Harg. is really distinct from P. auri-
frons. The type and only known specimen is a young bird, as is proved by the
fluffy texture of the feathers on the uuder-surface. In the tinge of the golden yellow
tips to the feathers of the sinciput it agrees perfectly with the S from Tefte, and it
does not differ from the type of P '. Jtamfrbns, except by having the ground-colour
of the head of a paler and dnller brown, and the ear-coverts buff (instead of blackish
brown). Both these variations may be merely signs of immaturity. Anyhow,
further specimens are required to establish the validity of /'. wallacii.

J' /In ri fronts is new to the Brazilian avifauna.

04. Coccyzus melanocoryphus Vieill.
/, melanocoryphus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 271 (1817.— ex Azara, No. 267. — Paraguay).
Nos. 782, 70(5. $$ ad., in rather worn plumage : 8, 10. vi. 00. " Iris brown,
feet bluish grey, bill black."

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95. Capito aurovirens (Cuv.)

Bueco Auro-virena Cuvier, Rerjne Arum, i. p. 458 (1829. — sx Levaillant, Hist. Xat. Couroucous iii.
Suppl. p. 44, fig. E.— "Bresil").

Nos. 662, 864. 6 ad., <? jr., 19. v., 19. vi. 06. "Iris red, feet grey-blue, bill
black, base of lower mandible whitish or pale grey." — Wing 89, 9U ; tail 69, 66 ;
bill 21, 23 mm.

No. 835. ¥ ad., 16. vii. 06. " Iris red, feet greenish grey, bill black." — Wing
85 ; tail 66 ; bill 22 mm.

Nos. 663, 666. ? ? imm., 19. v. 06. " Iris yellowish grey, feet greenish grey,
bill black."

Not different from Peruvian skins.

The adnlt male has the base of the lower mandible white ; the back is of a
purer olive-green, the cheeks and ear-coverts are more blackish and the abdomen
clearer greenish than in the other specimens.

This species has already been recorded for Brazil by Prof, von Ihering, who
received several examples from the Rio Jnrua.*

96. Capito amazonicus Dev. & Des Mars.

Capito amazoniciis Deville and Des Jlurs, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1840. p. 171 (Santa Maria aud Ega, Upper

Amazons).
C. auratus var. amazonica Pclzeln, Zur. Ormlh. Bra*, iii. (18C9), p. 230 (Rio Negro, near Castanheiro ;

Marabitanas ; Rio Xie).

Nos. 717, 842. SS in moult, 30. v., 16. vi. 06. " Iris red, feet blue-grey, bill
greyish black."— Wing 84, 85; tail 53—54 ; bill 23i mm.

No. 778. ? ad., 30. v. 06. " Iris red, feet green, bill black."— Wing 83 ; tail
56 mm.

This species differs at once from C. auratus (Dum.) and its geographical races
by the bright scarlet (instead of orange) throat.

The specimen mentioned by Pelzeln f as being intermediate between the two
species is, thanks to the kindness of Dr. Lorenz, now before me. It belongs
undoubtedly to C. amazonicus, and does not differ from average specimens of this
species, though the colour of the throat has faded into a rather paler scarlet, the
bird having been exposed to the light for a long time. The other examples obtained
by Natterer on the Rio Negro, agree with those from Teffe, except that the female
from Marabitanas has small black spots on the throat, this being uniform scarlet
in the female sent by Mr. Hoffmanns.

Comte de Dalmas % has pointed out that C. amazonicus is the proper name of
the red-throated species, while the C. punctatus of the Catalogue of Birds ought
to be called C. auratus (Dumont).

It may be interesting to say a few words about the geographical forms of the
orange-throated species, the distribution of which is very peculiar. In addition to
the fine series of the Tring Museum, which comprises most of the specimens
formerly in Comte de Dalmas' collection, I have before me the four examples from
Barcellos, Rio Negro, collected by Natterer, aud on studying this material I arrive
at the following conclusions.

* Rerist. Mus. PaulUt. vi. 1904 (1905), p. 11(5.

f Zur Orn. Bras. iii. p. 240, note 1.

I Bull. Soc. Zool. France xxv. 1900. p. 178.

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a. Capita auratus auratus (Duniont).

Bab. From Central Peru (Poznzo ami Chnchnrras, prov. Huannco) * northwards
through North Peru and Eastern Ecuador to Colombia (Bogota collections).

6. Tbroat orange (Ridgw. Nomencl. vi. fig. 3) ; feathers of lower back edged
with snlphnr-yellow (Ridgw. vi. 14). Forehead and crown dull brownish olive.

?. Throat much paler than in the 6, about deep chrome (Ridgw. vi. 9) and
densely covered with coarse black spots except on the chin, which is uniform
whitish. Feathers of lower back, forehead and crown as in the cf .

Examined: 5 66, 5 ?? from Cbuchnrras and Poznzo, prov. Huannco,
C. Peru (Hoffmanns coll.); 1 6 ad., Valle, Upper Huallaga (G. Garlepp coll.);
4 66, 4 ? ?, Rio Napo, Eastern Ecuador; 3 66, 3 ¥ ¥, Bogota collections.

The specimens from East Ecuador have, as a rule, the forehead aud crown
paler and less brownish, but those from Bogota are exactly like the Peruvian ones.

b. Capito auratus intermedins Berl. & Hart.
Nov. Zool. ix. (1902), p. 98 (Nericagua).

JIab. Only known from Nerieagna, Upper Orinoco ; and from S.E. Peru and
North Bolivia.

6. Differs from that of the foregoing form by having the throat of a deeper
orange (between Ridgway's " cadmium orange " aud " orange," Nomencl. vi. figs. 2
and 3), the forehead distinctly clearer, more saffron yellow (Nomencl. vi. fig. 4) and
mixed with orange, and the edges to the feathers on the rump rather brighter, more
lemon yellow (Ridgw. vi. fig. 11).

? . Throat entirely unspotted, and of a mnch deeper colour than in the ¥ of
C. a. auratus, beiug fully as bright as in the 6 of this form. Forehead wax yellow
(Ridgw. vi. fig. 7). Rnmp as in the 6.

Examined: 1 6, Nericagua; 1 ? (type), Nerieagna ; 1 g, Marcapata, S.E. Pern;
1 6 ad., Pillon, North Bolivia.

I am unable to distinguish the Marcapata and Bolivian 6 6 from the typical
Orinoco specimen, and I must confess that I do not know how to explain the
singular distribution of this form.

c. Capito auratus aurantiicinctus Dalm.

Capito aurantiicinctus Dalmas, Bull. Soc. Zool. France xxv. (1900), p. 177 (Caura Valley).
Capito auratus (nee Dumont) Pelzeln, Zur Omith. Bras. iii. (1869), p. 239 (Barcellos).

Hab. Venezuela : Canra Valley (E. Andre coll.). North Brazil : Barcellos on
the Rio Negro (Natterer).

6. Throat deep orange, like C. a. intermedins, but easily distinguishable by
having the whole middle of the abdomen as well as the edges to the feathers of
the rnmp deep cadmium yellow (Ridgw. vi. fig. 6).

? . Throat deep orange and entirely unspotted, as in the ? of C. a. intermedins
but easily recognisable by the feathers of the rump beiug edged with cadmi
yellow. The middle of the abdomen is also washed with pale cadmium.

Examined: 3 6 cS (including the type), 2 ? ?, Canra River, Venezuela • 2 66
2 ¥ ? , Barcellos, Rio Negro.

The 2 66 from Barcellos differ from the Venezuelan ones by having the spots
on the flauks coarser and of a deeper black.

* A good series ia the TriDg Museum, colleoted by Mr. W. Hoffmanns.

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97. Pteroglossus flavirostris mariae Gould.

[Pteroglossus flavirostris Fraser, P. Z. S. 1S40. p. 61 (ex Gould : P. azarae (nee Vieillot !) Monogr.
Rhampli. ed. i. (1834) pi. 17.— no locality).]

Pteroglossus Marine Gould, Monogr. Shamphasl. ed. 2. pi. 30 (1854. — "the woods clothing the
sides of the Lower Amazons, whence many specimens have been sent by Mr. Hawkswell "
(sic)— errore ! We substitute Peruvian Amazons as the typical locality).

No. 452. ? ad., 3. vi. 06. " Iris red, feet blackish grey, bill yellowish white,
lower mandible brown." — Wing moulting ; tail 135 ; bill 79A mm.

The examination of the material in the British Museum, and of the smaller,
but much more carefully labelled, series in the Tring collection, convinced me that
Gould was perfectly correct in separating P. mariae from typical P. Jlavirostris.
Although there is no constant difference in size between the two forms, the coloration
of the bill serves to discriminate them at a glance.

In P.f. flavirostris the lower mandible is yellowish except a narrow elongated
patch of ochraceous along the cutting edge, while in P. f. mariae the whole
mandible is ochraceous brown. This observation, which is based on a large number
of skins, is fully corroborated by the notes made by Messrs. Cherrie, Klages and
Hoffmanns from freshly killed birds. In six specimens of P. f. Jlavirostris from
the Orinoco and Caura the under mandible is stated to be " pale primrose yellow,
with an elongated stripe of ochraceous along the cutting edge," while Mr. Hoffmanns
calls the colour of the lower jaw in three specimens of P. f. mariae " light
brown."

The range of the two forms is as follows :

a. P. f. Jlavirostris Fras.

South Cayenne : Oyapoc (Verdey) ; Venezuela : Nericngna and Mimduapo,
Orinoco (Cherrie), La Vuelta (Klages) and La Pricion (Andre") on the Caura River.
N.W. Brazil : Marabitanas, Rio Xie and Man;ios on the Rio Negro (Natterer).
East Ecuador : Rio Napo (Goodfellow, etc.). Colombia : Bogota collections.

Examined : 1 Rio Napo, 2 Sarayaeu (Bins. Brit.), 1 Coca, Rio Napo
(Goodfellow. — Tring Mus.), 4 Bogota skins (Brit. Mns.), 1 Oyapoc, Cayenne *
(Brit. Mns.), 1 3 Nericagna, <$ ¥ Munduapo, 1 S La Pricion, 2 ? ? La Vuelta
(Tring Museum).

b. P.f. mariae Gould.

Rio Soliinoes: Teffe (Hoffmanns, Bates), Mauaqueri t (Natterer); N.W. Brazil :
Rio Javari (Bates) ; Peru : Samiria on the Amazons (Hauxwell), Chuchurras,
province of Huanuco (Hoffmanns), etc.

Examined: 2 Teffe' (Brit, and Tring Museums), 1 Rio Javari (Brit. Mns.),
4 Rio Amazons (Mns. Brit., including the types of P. mariae), 6 ¥ Samiria (Mus.
Brit.), S ? , Chuchurras, Hminnco (Tring Museum).

98. Pteroglossus humboldti Wagl.

Pteroglossus Humboldti Wagler, Syst. An. Genus Pteroglossus sp. 4 (1827.— " Brasilia"— Mus.
Monac. — descr. £ ad.).

No. 845. ? ad., 17. vi. 06. "Iris light red, feet green; upper mandible
yellow, culminal ridge and a row of spots along cutting edge black ; lower mandible
black, margined with yellow at the base." — Wing 127 ; tail 144 ; bill 81 mm.

* This is a typical Cayenne skin, the legs being tied together, etc.
f P. Jlavirostris apud 1'elzeln, Zu.r OrnUh. ISrusil. iii. 18611, p. 237, note 3.

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99. Selenidera langsdorffii (Wagl.)

Plerogloisia Langsdorffii Wagler, Syst. .It-. Genus Pteroglossus sp. 12(1 82 7. — "Brasilia." — Mus.
Monac. — dcscr. J ad).

No. 696. 6 ad., 22. v. 06. " Iris grey-brown, feet, bine-grey, bill black, base
of both mandibles greenish." — Wing 132 ; tail 115 ; bill 65 mm.

Differs from two S <$ from Huanuco, Peru, only by its rather brighter, more
chrome-yellow nuchal band.

loo. Monasa morphoeus peruana Bel.

[Monasa morphoeus Halm, Vo'gel aus Alien, etc., Lief. xiv. tab. 2 (182:1. — Brasilien).]
Monasa peruana Solater, P. '/.. S. 1855. p. 104 ("in Peruvia Orientali in regionibus fl. Aniazonum
superioris: Chamicurros ").

No. 678. ? ?, 21. v. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet black, bill red."
Agrees with North Peruvian skins in the small amount of white on the
forehead and chin.

101. Chelidophera tenebrosa teuebrosa (Pall.)

Clr. Woo. Zool. xiii. (1906) p. 381.

No. 679. cJ in moult, 21. v. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet and bill black."
Agreeing with Surinam specimens.

102. Galbula cyanicollis Cass.
Cfr. I.e. xii. (1905) p. 29G.

No. 829. ? moulting, 15. vii. 06. " Iris brown."

This bird differs from Pani ? ¥ by its paler ochraceons lower parts and much
less violet blue admixture in the malar region. It may be a young female.

103. Jacamerops aurea (P. L. S. Mull.)

Alcedo Anna P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 94 (1776. — ex Vosmaer : Berbice, Brit.
Guiana) ; cfr. Nov. Zool. ix. (1902) p. 104.

No. 677. S in moult, 19. v. 06. " Iris, feet and bill black."

Agrees best with a specimen from Bogota collections in having the forehead

pure golden green, while this is always more or less suffused with bluish in a

series from British Guiana.

104. Ceryle superciliosa superciliosa (Linn.)

Alcedo superciliosa Linnaeus, Sysl. Nat. xii. i. p. 179 (17GG. — ex Edwards : " America." As
typical locality substituted : Surinam ; cfr. Nov. Zool. ix. (1902) p. 104).

No. 856. (c?), 18. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet dark grey, bill black."
Rather pale on the lower parts.

105. Trogon curucui Linn.

Trogon Curucui Linnaeus, Sytt. Nut. xii. 1. p. 1G7 (170(1.— ex Brisson and Marcgrave : Brasilien
(excl. Byn. Hernandez) ; cfr. my revision of Spix' types, p. 696).

No. 832. cJ ad., 15. vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet black, bill yellowish grey."

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106. Ara severa (Linn.)

PsMacus sevens Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 97 (1758. — "in Indiis." — errore ! We substitute
Amazons as the typical locality).

Nos. 754, 798. ? ? ad., 2, 10. vi. 00. " Iris yellow, feet and bill black."

107. Conurus leucophthalmus (P. L. S. Mull.)

PsMacus leucophthalmus P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 75 (177C. — ex Daubenton, PI. enl.

407.— Cayenne).
Conurus callogenys Salvadori, Cut. Birth Brit. Mus. xx. p. 188 (1891. — Eastern Ecuador) ; Ilia

1900, p. 454.

Nos. 788, 877. S 3 ad., 9, 21. vi. 00. " Iris yellow, feet greyish yellow, bill
yellowish white." — Wing 178, 175 ; tail 107, — mm.

No. 803. ? ad., 11. vi. 06. "Iris yellow, feet grey, bill yellowish grey."—
Wing 170; tail 156 mm.

The first of these specimens has a number of red spots on the cheeks and
below the eye ; in No. 877 there is a small spot jnst under the eye and another
near the base of the lower mandible ; while No. 803 shows but one small red
feather on each side of the neck.

We have also adult SS from Surinam, Descalvados in Mattogrosso and
S. Paulo, with red spots on the cheeks and sides of the neck. On the other
hand, an ad nit ? from the Rio Napo, East Ecuador, has no trace of red on the
sides of the head and neck !

Thus, it is evident that the presence of these red markings is a purely
individual character, and cannot be relied npon for distinguishing C. callogenys
Salvad., which, however, is said to be " much larger," the wing measuring about
190 mm. Salvadori (I.e.) gives only Eastern Ecuador as its habitat, though he
refers to it three specimens from Santa Crnz, Peruvian Amazons ! Other
examples from North Peru (Iquitos) and Bogota, however, are referred to
('. leucophthalmus. This singular distribution at once raised my suspicion, and
a careful examination of the fine series in the Tring Museum and of other
material in the Munich and Vienna Museums convinced me that the size is
as variable as the red spots on the sides of the head. The largest specimen I
have seen, an adult male from Belem do Desealvado, State of S. Paulo, collected
by Mr. A. Hempel, has the wing 190 mm. ( = types of C. callogenys) ; in three
skins from Bernalcue, Paraguay (Munich* Museum) the length varies from
177 to 185 mm. On the other hand, a ¥ from the Rio Napo (typical locality of
C. callogenys) measures on the wing only 175 mm.; an adult bird (not sexed)
from the Upper Huallaga, 175 ; and a S from Pozuzo, Huanuco, Peru, 174 mm.
Therefore there can be no longer any doubt that C. callogenys has been based
on exceptionally large specimens of C. leucophthalmus, and that the characters
assigned to it are of no geographical significance. At the same time a good
series from Cayenne (the typical locality of C. leucophthalmus) should be compared,
since the few specimens I have seen from Dutch and FrenchGuiana are of rather
small size. If the difference be constant, Sclater's term C. propinquus would
become available for the large southern birds.

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108. *Psittacula passerina crassirostris Tacz.

[Psitlticvs pmsttrinut Linnaeus, Syst. Xat. x. p. 103 (1758. — ex "America").]

I'sittncuht missirnslris Taczanowski, P. Z. S. London 1883, p. 72, descr. orig. juv. (Yurimaguas,
North Peru).

No. 825. S ad., 15. vii. 00. " Iris light yellowish grey, feet aud bill light
grey."— Wing 78 ; tail 38; bill 13 mm.

No3. 789, 794. SS juv., 10. vi. 06. "Iris brown, feet and bill greyish
white."

No. 726. ? ad., 31. v. 06. "Iris yellow, bill and feet greyish yellow."—
Wing 75 ; tail 37 ; bill 12J mm.

The adult c? differs from those in the British Museum, collected by Hauxwell
near Samiria and Nauta on the Peruvian Amazons, by its slightly more yellowish
green underparts, and by the back being a shade lighter green. The blue under
the wings and on the rump is of exactly the same tinge.

The ?, which was unknown hitherto, has no bine whatever in the plumage,
t lie axillaries and under wing-coverts being yellowish green like the under-surface ;
the rump as well as the upper wing-coverts and the exterior secondaries are light
parrot-green like the back. It differs from th e ? of P. p. passer/ na by its shorter
wings, larger and higher bill, and by having the forehead and sides of the head purer
green like the back (not yellowish).

P. p. crassirostris is new to the Brazilian fauna.

I append a short review of the various forms allied to P. passerina, which,
owing to lack of material, are very unsatisfactorily treated in the Catalogue of
Birds. As pointed out in my report on the birds from Obidos, P. deliciosa Ridgw.
is an excellent form. The fine series in the Tring Museum enables me to prove
that P. guianensis (Sw.) and P. viridissima Lafr. are perfectly distinct, and the
examination of four specimens from the Rio Brauco tends to show that P. ojanochlora
Hartl. is also separable. It appears to me that the following forms ought to be
recognised :

a. P. passerina passerina (Linn.) Had. Ceara, N.E. Brazil.

b. P. passerina vivida Ridgw. llab. Eastern Brazil from Bahia to Santa

Catharina, thence westwards through S. Paulo to Paraguay.

I have not sufficient material before me to form an opinion about the
distinctness of these two forms. Two S S ad. from Ceara in Count Berlepsch's
collection are certainly more yellowish green on the back and more yellowish on
the front and sides of the head than any other specimen I have seen, with the
exception of the type of P. Javescens Salvad. (ex Bolivia), which is obviously
identical with P. p. passerina as restricted by Mr. Ridgway (Proc. U.S. Mas. x.
}). 538). Though the distribution (N.E. Brazil and Bolivia) might at first appear
extraordinary, it would not be the only instance of a species ranging from the
campos of Eastern Bolivia through the dry districts of the interior of Brazil to
the north-eastern provinces ; for I have lately ascertained— by direct comparison of
the types— that Xothura marmorata Gray (ex Bolivia) is the same as N. boraquira
(Spix) of Bahia and Piauhy* Yet the examination of a good series of fresh skins
from Bolivia and Ceara may prove P. p. passerina and P.Jtavescens to be
separable.

* See my revision of Spix' types, p. 705,

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Ridgway {I.e.) states that he has seen specimens from Para of trne P. p.
passerina, but as no Psittacula has been found recently in this district, the locality
requires confirmation.

Of P. p. vivida I have examined fifty specimens in the Mnsenms of Triug,
Vienna, Berlepsch and Munich : from Bahia, Rio, S. Paulo, Santa Catharina and
Paraguay.

c. P. passerina crassirostris Tacz.

Hab. Northern Peru : Yurimagnas (Stolzniann), Samiria and Nauta(Hanxwell).
N.W. Brazil : Teffe, on the Rio SolimOes (Hofl'manus).

c? ad. Differs from P. p. passerina and P. p. vivida by its larger and higher
bill, shorter wings, and by having the rump, axillaries, and under wing-coverts
rather lighter blue, more " ultramarine blue " (Ridgw. Nomencl. ix. 9) instead of
smalt blue (Ridgw. ix. 8).

? ad. Characters given above.

Three S <S from Samiria and Nauta, Pern, measure as follows : wing 80J,
78, 77 ; tail 38, 37, 38 mm.

d. P. delieiosa Ridgw.

Hab. Lower Amazons : Santarem (Riker, Garbe) ; Obidos (Hoffmanns).

d ad. Easily knowu from the three preceding forms by having the lower back
and rump light emerald green, tinged with delicate nile-blne on the anterior
portion. Upper tail-coverts much more yellowish green ; greater upper wing-
coverts delicate nile-blue, passing into ultramarine blue along the shaft (instead
of being uniform ultramarine). Axillaries and under wing-coverts considerably
darker, intense hyacinth-blue. Secondaries ultramarine blue, narrowly edged
with light green on the apical half of the outer web (as in P. p. passerina and
P. p. vivida). Wing 79 ; tail 40 mm.

¥ ad. (No. 3418 Mus. Paulista, Santarem, January 1903. E. Garbe coll.).
Differs from the ¥ ¥ of P. p. vivida only by its smaller size. Wing 77 ;
tail 39 mm.

Material : 1 S ad., Obidos ; 1 ? , Santarem. For the loan of the ? I am
much indebted to Prof. H. von Ihering, of S. Panlo.

e. P. guianensis gaianensis (Sws.).

Agajmmis guianensis Swainson, Anim. in Menag. p. 320 (1838 — Demarara).

Hab. British Guiana : Demerara (Swainson), Annai (Whitely) ; Surinam :
near Paramaribo (Chunkoo coll.).

3 ad. Like P. delieiosa, with the axillaries and under wing-coverts intense
hyacinth-blue, but differing at a glance by haviug the lower back and rump pure
emerald green (without any nile-blue tinge), the greater upper wing-coverts glaucous
green, and the secondaries dull bluish green (instead of bright ultramarine blue).

Wing 78—83; tail 41—43 mm.

¥ ad. Not distinguishable from that of P. delieiosa.

Wing 78—80 ; tail 39— 40A mm.

Material : 3 S cf ad., 1 $ jnv., 2 ¥ ¥ from Surinam in the Tring Museum ;
1 $ ad., Auuai, Brit. Guiana (H. H. Whitely, jr., coll.), in British Museum.

The $ ad. from British Guiana has, like those from Surinam, all the under
wing-coverts and axillaries uniform hyacinth blue, and it seems to me, therefore,
extremely doubtful whether the locality of the Esseqnibo specimen in the American

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Museum of New York, mentioned by Ridgway (/'roe. U. S. Nat. M^ns. x. p. 544)
as agreeing with the types of P. mridissima Lafr. (from Caracas), is reliable.

f, P. guianensis cyanochlora Haiti.
PtiUacvia cyanochlora Hartlaub, P.Z.S. 1885. p. 615 (Rio Branco).

Hab. Forte do S. Joaquim, on the apper Jtio Branco, North Brazil (Natterer).

cT ad. Differs from that of the foregoing form ouly by its smaller and weaker
bill and by having the under-snrface as well as the lower back and rump decidedly
more yellowish green.

Wing Si i, 81 ; tail 40, 41 mm.

? ad. Differs from that of P. g. guianensis only by its smaller bill. — Wing 78 ;
tail 4(H mm.

Material: 2 c?c? ad., 2 ?? from S. Joaqnim, Rio Branco, in the Vienna
Museum. I am much indebted to Dr. von Lorenz for sending me these valuable
specimens.

A larger series might perhaps prove this form to be inseparable from e, but for
the present it must be maintained as distinct.

g. P. guianensis mridissima Lafr.
Ptittacula viridunma Lafresnaye, See. Mug. Zool. 1848. p. 172 (Caracas).

Hob. Venezuela : from Cumana to Caracas, south to the Orinoco valley
(Altagracia, Cindad Bolivar) ; Northern Colombia : Valle Dnpar and Valencia in
the plains south of the Sierra de Santa Marta.

S ad. Differs at once from all the preceding forms by having the under wing-
coverts aud axillaries glaucous green except a patch of dark hyacinth blue on
the under secondary coverts. Otherwise it agrees with the $ of P. g. guianensis,
the greater upper wing-coverts being glaucous green, the secondaries dull greenish
blue towards the base, and the rump bright emerald or Paris green.

Wing 78—84 ; tail 37—44 mm.

? ad. Not different in coloration from that of P. g. guianensis, but averaging
rather larger.

Wing 79—84 ; tail 41—40 mm.

Material: 12 £3, 4 ¥ ¥ from the state of Cumana; 3 S <$ ad., 1 c? jnv.,
6 ? ? from Altagracia and Cindad Bolivar, Orinoco, all in the Tring Museum.
1 cT ad., Carupano, Cumana (Goering coll.), a series of so-called " Orinoco " or
" Trinidad " skins, and 3 o J ad. from Valencia ami Valle Dupar, North Colombia
(Simons coll.), iu the British Museum.

Twenty-five adult males show the coloration of the under wing-coverts as
described above, only in one specimen from Valle Dnpar the outer under wing-
coverts are also suffused with hyacinth blue, the tips of the feathers being,
however, glaucous green. The locality " Trinidad " rests on trade skins only, aud
as no Psittacula has been found on the island by any of the recent travellers, it is
more than doubtful.

In'.'. Brotogeris sanctaethomae (P. L. S. Mull.)

Pliitacut ft. ihmmie. P. L. S. Mailer, Natursysl. Sitppl. p. HI ( 1770.— ex Daubenton, PI. oil. 456, fig. 1.

— " Insel St. Thomae." — errore ! We substitute Brazilian Amazon* as the typical locality).
Brotngerys (sic) tut auct.

Nos. 814, 813, 854. S ? ¥ : 13, 13, 10. vi. 00. " Iris yellowish white, feet
greyish yellow, bill pale brown."

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These specimens agree well with an adult g from Nauta, N.E. Peru, collected
by Ilauxwell. None of them has a yellow streak behind the eye.

110. Pionites leucogaster xanthomerius (Scl.)

IPrittacut leucogaster (Illiger MS.) Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. p. 70. [1820.—" Brasilia"].
Caica xanthomeria (G. R. Gray MS.) Solater, P.Z.S. 1857. p. 2C6 (Rio Javari).

No. 706. c? ad., 24. v. 00. " Iris yellowish red, feet and bill greyish white." —
Wing 143; tail 81 mm.

This bird differs from our series of P. I. leucogaster (Kuhl) of Para by having
the flanks and thighs bright yellow (instead of green). The tail feathers are also
yellow, except the basal half of the middle pair. A specimen from the Rio Jama
in Count Berlepsch's collection has the base of all rectrices green, only the tips
being yellow, while in the typical specimens from the Rio Javari the tail is
green as in P. I. leucogaster.

P. I. xanthomerius replaces the latter form on the middle Amazons and its
southern tributaries, and is, therefore, more properly called by a trinomial
appellation.

111. Asturina nitida (Lath.)

Falco nitidus Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 41 (1790. — "Cayana").

No. 823. ? ad., 14. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet yellow, bill black."

Less closely barred with grey on the lower parts than several specimens from

Surinam.

112. Rostrhamus sociabilis (Vieill.)

Herpetoikeres sociabilis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, xviii. p. 318 (1817. — ex Azara no. 16. — Corrientes,
between 27° and 30° south latit.) ; cfr. Hellmayr, Abhandl. a kail. Wissensch. Miinchen 1906,
p. 509 note.

No. 706. ? jnv., 27. v. 00. " Iris dark red, feet yellowish grey, bill black,
cere whitish yellow."

This bird belongs to the long-tailed species with the base of the rectrices,
upper and under tail-coverts white.

Although Azara describes only the young bird, there can be no doubt that
the name II. sociabilis refers to this species, this being proved by an adult from
Corrientes, coll. D'Orbigny, in the Paris Museum (cfr. my remarks I.e.).

113. Pisorhina choliba crucigera (Spix).

[Strix choliba Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. vii. p. 39 (1817.- ex Azara No. 48.— Paraguay).]
Strix crucigera Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 22. tab. ix. (1824.—" juxta flumen Araazonum ").

No. 743. Adult (not sexed), 2. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill greyish
yellow."

On the geographical races of this species cfr. my revision of Spix' types)
p. 575.

114. *Porzana hauxwelli Scl. & Salv.

Porzam hauxwelli Sdater & Salviu, Exotic Ormth. p. 105, tab. liii. (18C8. — Pebas, Peru).

No. 724. ? ad., 31 v. 06. " Iris dark red, feet reddish yellow, bill black."—
Wing 01 ; tail 25 ; tarsus 35J j bill 20 mm.

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This specimen agrees well with others from the Peruvian Amazons except in
being a very little smaller. The Tring Museum possesses also one Bogota skin,
which differs from the Amazonian one by being more brownish green on the back,
and by the brighter ferruginous ground-colour of the abdomen with the cross-bands
broader and of a deeper black. These, however, are uot likely to be constant
differences. These two specimens extend the range of the species considerably to
the north and east.

New to the Brazilian fauna.

115. Creciscus exilis exilis (Temm.)

Rallus exilis Temminck, Ree. Pi Col. livr. 87. pi. 523 (1831. — "envoye au Muse'e de Paris par
M. Martin,'' no locality given. We substitute Cayenne, whence Martin sent many birds to the
Paris Museum).

Nos. 816, 907. c?c? ad.. 13, 20. vi. 06. " Iris red or yellowish red, feet brown,
bill black or blackish grey." — Wing 74, 75 ; tail 35 ; bill 18, 19i mm.

These two birds differ from a Merida specimen by their much stronger and
longer bills, longer tail, darker sepia-brown back, smaller chestnut patch on the
nape, and more cinereous foreneck. With the scanty material at my command I
cannot say whether these differences are of any importance, nor whether the birds
from Teffe or that from Merida represents typical C. exilis. This question can only
be decided by the examination of a series from Cayenne.

Rallus cinereus Vieill.,* quoted iu the Cat. of Birds as a synonym of C. exilis,
can scarcely belong here, no mention being made of the large chestnut rufous nape
patch.

110. Aramides cajanea (P. L. S. Mull.)

Fuliea cajanea P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 119 (1776.— ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 352. —
Cayenne).

No. 797. ? imm., 10. vi. 06. "Iris yellow, feet light red, bill greyish green."
Agreeing with specimens from various localities of northern South America.
There is a dull rufescent brown patch on the occiput. Cfr. my revision of
Spix' types, pp. 712-13, where I have pointed out that A. cayanea (sic) and
" snbsp. A. chirieote" of the Cat. of Birds are based on individual variation, the
presence or absence of the brown patch on the occiput being of no geographical
significance.

117. Crypturus cinereus (Gm.)

Cfr. Nov. Zuol. xiii. (1906) p. 385.

No. 880. ? , 22. vi. 06. " Iris yellow, feet brown, bill brown."

This specimen does not differ in coloration from Guiana and Surinam skins,

and seems, therefore, to belong to typical C. cinereus, described from Cayenne.

An adult ? from Maipures, Orinoco, is much paler and more rufescent brown

everywhere.

118. Crypturus brevirostris (Pelz.)

Tinamus brevirostris Pelzeln, Verhandl. zool.bol. Gesellseh. Wien xiii. pp. 1128, 1130.(1863. — Barra
do Rio Negro).

No. 848. ? ad., 17. vi. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black, below grey."—
Wing 141 ; biU;23jnm.

* iXouv. Diet, xxviii. (1819) p. 65G.

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This specimen, which agrees perfectly with von Pelzeln's description, is of
particular interest, proving as it does that C. brevirostris is a very distinct species.
As far as I know, the types collected by Natterer were the only examples in .
existence.

Onr Teffe' specimen, apparently an adult bird, differs from a large series of
C. rariegatus (Gm.) from British Guiana, Caura and Para by its considerably
shorter wings and much smaller, shorter bill. Besides this, there are very striking
differences in coloration. The top of the head, which is uniform slate-black in
C. variegatus, is chestnut rufous, each feather with two black cross-bands ; lores
and all the sides of the head are bright ferruginous (instead of blackish slate-
colour) ; the sides of the breast and abdomen, instead of being broadly barred with
black, show but a few narrow cross-lines, the lower flanks alone being regularly
banded. The chest is distinctly paler ferruginous than in C. rariegatus ; the back
including uropygium and upper tail-coverts is pale olive-brown with broad black
bands (instead of black with numerous, narrow ochreons cross-lines as in the allied
species) ; the ochreons bars on the upper wing-coverts are three to four times
broader, being about 3 to 5 mm., while in C. rariegatus they are not more than
1 mm. wide.

In other respects, particularly in the pale brown legs and in the deep rufons
colour of the hindneck, sides of the neck and jngnlum, C. brevirostris agrees with
C. variegatus. Even young birds of the latter species are much larger than the
? from Teffe, from which they differ — in addition to the characters given above
— by the presence of white spots on the foreneck and upper wing-coverts.
For the sake of comparison I append the measurements of several skins of
C. variegatus.

Six adults from British Guiana and Caura Valley : wing 100 — 162 ; bill
29—33 mm.

Two young birds from British Guiana and Para : wing 159, 158 ; bill 30,
32 mm.

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NEW SPHINGIDAE.

T.Y the Hox. WALTER ROTHSCHILD and K. JORDAN.

1. Clanis stenosema spec. nov.

?. Near C. bilineata Walk. (lSGfi). Body deeper ochraceons below. Mid- and
hindtibiae white above as in bilineata, spurs also as in that species.

Wings, above. — Pale costal space of forewing much longer than in bilineata,
extending basad to near the first line, and its distal edge being also more
oblique and more straight than in bilineata ; grey snbapical patch larger than

in bilineata. Hindwing centrally broadly black from base to near apex, costal

margin pale Imff, abdominal margin buff, distal margin brownish tawny-ochraceous.

Underside.— Oblique apical line of forewing more straight than in bilineata;
besides the Mack streak situated behind cell there is an ill-defined black patch upon
the cross-veins ; the three vestigial discal lines more oblique than in bilineata.

Tenth abdominal tergite as in bilineata, the two lobes rather broader.

Vaginal armature also almost the same as in that species, postvagiual plate
feebly rounded in middle ; a small tubercle in front of vaginal oriBce.

Length of forewing : TO — 73 mm.

J/ab. Kalim Bnngo, Nias (R. Mitschke).

2 ? ?.

2. Polyptychic calcareus spec. nov.

cT. Body fawn-colour, sides of palpi ami head chestnut. Palpi long, rounded
at apex, the joint slightly open. Tongue long and strong. Tibiae spinose ; foretibia
with several prolonged spines at the apex ; spurs of mid- and hindtibiae very long,
the long apical one of hindtibia surpassing the tibia in length ; first hindtarsal
segment twice as long as the tibia. Numerous spines at the apices of the
abdominal tergites.

Wings, upper side. — Forewing dark fawn-colour ; a slight stigma and a faint
snbapical patch blackish ; distal margin sinuate below apex, then evenly rounded,

hindmargin slightly sinuate before angle. Hindwing salmon-buff, distal margin

washed with blackish brown.

Underside salmon-buff, washed over with brown ; apical third of forewing
blackish brown, this area gradually shading off. Cell of hindwing about one-third
the length of the wing, cross-veins oblique, the lower angle of cell being acute,
R- from centre.

Genitalia : Tenth tergite very broad, hardly narrowing apicad, apex bisinuate,
with the lateral angles produced into a black, obtuse lobe each ; tenth sternite a
very low ridge which appears sinuate on account of the edge being centrally bent
upwards. No friction-scales. Harpe only slightly Darrowing apicad, the apex
obtuse, bent dorsad, the dorsal edge feebly dentate, the proximal dorsal corner
bearing a large tooth. Penis-sheath without free external process, but with a
patch i>f thorn-like teeth all pointing towards the right-hand side; a spinose
process within the sheath.

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Length of forewing : 30 rum.

Ilab. Masasi, German East Africa, January — February 1905.

1 <?.

The scaling of the specimen has much suffered. It is therefore possible that
well-preserved individuals may be somewhat different in colour from the one here
described. The enormous tibial spurs and the long first hindtarsal segment are
very striking characteristics, by which calcareus will easily be recognised.

3. Likoma creuata spec. nov.

tj. Body and wings grey-buff, forecoxa, metauotum and underside of head
mummy-brown. Paronychium with two slender lobes on each side. Tongue
vestigial. Lines of forewing, above, umber-brown, not sharply marked ; four in
proximal half, the interspace between the third and fourth partly filled in with
brown, a small stigma on cross-veins ; three lines on disc, the first and third
consisting of half-crescents which are open proximally, the second discal line
broad, band-like, ill-defined ; a triangular distal marginal patch mummy-brown,
widest costally at SC3, its proximal edge almost straight ; a small apical dot and
a hindmarginal one also murnmy-brown, the latter preceded by a black-brown dot ;

fringe chestnut. Apex of hindwiug rounded, the fringe white, chestnut at the

veins, a bar before anal angle chestnut, proximally bordered with white-grey ; an
indistinct patch at abdominal margin brown.

Underside. — Forewing russet in proximal half ; three lines of half-crescents
on disc, the central one broader and less distinct than the others, marginal patch

much paler than above, extended to costal margin, where it is widest. Hindwing

with three lines between tip of cell and margin, curved like the latter, composed
of half-crescents ; anal angle chestnut.

Tenth tergite broad proximally, prolonged into a slightly spatulate process,
which is broader than in Likoma apicalis and pointed ; sternite very broad,
emarginate, the angles very strongly rounded. Gasper with small patch of
friction-scales which are mostly bidentate, not differing much from the other
scales of the clasper except in being smaller and of a brownish tint ; ventral
edge of clasper sinuate below apex ; harpe extending to near this sinus, triangular,
with a short, obtuse, free tip. Penis-sheath without free apical process, with a
rather large patch of small teeth instead.

Length of forewing : 25 mm.

Ilab. Megaua, British East Africa, August 6th, 1S96 (C. S. Betton).

1 cJ.

4. Chromis meeki spec. nov.

c??. Close to C. keliodes Meyr. (1889). Frons the same colour as occiput
and thorax, not paler, and first segment of palpus the same colour as secoud.
Underside of body more uniformly testaceous-red. The two subbasal lines of
forewing less straight ; hindniargiu narrowly blackish brown. Extreme base of
hindwiug black, marginal baud strongly augulate before centre ; no semidetached
spot before anal angle.

The upperside of forewing in fresh specimens of 8 green, in S brown flashed
with olive.

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flab. Biagi, Upper Mambare River, British New Guinea, end of January to
April 1906 (A. S. Meek).
A series.
C. heliodes occurs also in the same locality.

5. Panacra pulchella spec. nov.

3 ■ Head yellowish green, a dorso-lateral line, two spots on frons, and a central
white-bordered spot on occiput green-black ; thorax yellowish green, with green-
black and grey stripes ; two bright creamy lines at side ; abdomen dorsally
green-black, along centre two grey lines, from which emanate oblique grey or
yellowish lines ; side of abdomen proximally greenish yellow, blackish on fourth
segment, variegated with tawny, white, and yellowish green scales on segments
5 to 7. Underside of body pure white centrally ; a brown mesial line on segments
2 to 5 of abdomen, the line widened at apex of each segment.

Wings, above. — Fore wing black-green, the interspaces between the lines paler
green ; a conspicuous creamy line parallel to costal margin, touching lower angle
of cell, not reaching apex of wing or base, giving off two spurs on costal side ;
a halfmoon on cross-veins also creamy ; a snbmarginal greenish creamy line
touching margin at apex, and a similar postdiscal line which neither reaches

costal nor inner margin. Hindwing orange-red, with a black distal border;

fringe greenish cream between the veins as on forewing.

Underside. — Forewing orange-red from base to disc ; stigma black, on disc
a creamy angled- shaped sj>ot corresponding to the distal portion of the central
line of npperside ; distal area brown, scaled green, especially at costal and near

distal edge ; some creamy postdiscal spots and a row of buff admargiual ones.

Hindwing greyish green, irrorated with black ; a dot each at base of cell and at
upper angle white ; costal edge huffish yellow ; a broad stripe in front of abdominal
margin extending from base to distal edge orange-red ; an indistinct median line
black ; an ill-defined submargiual baud of blackish and orange-red spots.

Length of forewing : 30 mm.

Hab. Biagi, Upper Mambare River, British New Guinea, 5000 ft., March 1906
(A. S. Meek).

4 33.

Nearest to P. micholitzi R. & J. (1893), which Mr. Meek also obtained at the
same place.

6. Hippotion chloris spec. nov.

3. Body above green, below grey washed with green ; segments 4 to 6 of
abdomen with two white glossy apical dots on each side. Segments 1 and 2
of palpus laterally convex.

Wings, above. — Forewing washed with green, the lines green, nearly the same
as in II. celerio L. (1758), but the discal ones less longitudinal ; three inner lines
on disc separated from the outer lines by a pale green interspace corresponding to
the silvery band of celerio, the line extending from the apex of wing to the inner
margiu more or less black, ending in a black spot ; marginal band greyish irrorated

with black ; distal edge undulate ; costal edge the same colour as distal margin. ■

Hindwing more extended black than in celerio, a discal band and a longitudinal
streak behind cell, uniting before anal angle, ochraceous buff ; black submargiual
band continuous with the blackish abdominal border.

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Underside as in celerio, but washed with green, and the ground-colour only
very slightly reddish on forewing and without a red tint on hindwing.

Length of forewing : 28 mm.

Hab. Njoro, British East Africa (A. T. Cholmley).

1 S in the British Museum (the six other species here described are in the
Tring Musenm).

The specimen stands intermediate between Hippotion and Basiothia. It has
the look of being a hybrid between H. celerio and B. medea. But as the hindwing
is more extended black than in either species, and as there is no trace of yellow
in the basal area of the underside of the forewing, we believe H. chloris to be an
independent species.

7. Rhagastis rubetra spec nov.

(??. Third segment of palpus triangular, as in R. acuta Walk. (1856), the
apical tnft both on the outer and inner surface longer than in that insect. Centre
of head and thorax and the markings of forewing, on upperside, mummy-brown.
Underside of wings and sides of breast ferruginous ; underside of abdomen pinkish.

Wings, above. — Forewing similar to that of R. velata Walk. (1866), the
markings prominent ; three subbasal lines, more or less coufluent, the interstices
being filled in with mummy-brown, a patch distally of apex of cell, followed before
inner margin by some clots representing lines ; halfway between this patch and
apex a large costal patch composed of three lines with the interstices partly filled
in, these lines continued by some dots situated on the veins, more numerous and
merged together at sinus of inner margin ; snbmarginal area more evenly greyish

than in velata, the distal edge of wing and fringe mummy-brown. Hindwing

brown, a small, ill-defined patch near anal angle clayish ; fringe white between
the veins.

Underside as in R. acuta, deeper ferruginous.

Clasper of <? with two or three large friction-scales. Penis-sheath without
free processes ; on left side an oblique row of small teeth.

Hab. Nias.

One pair.

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TROIDES ALEXANBRAE spec. nov.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, l'n.U

Mli. A. S. MEEK has added another very interesting discovery to the
many made by him in the Papuan Subregion. In January 1906, while
travelling from the north-east coast of British New Guinea inland to the head-
waters of the Mambare River, he met with a species of Troides unknown to him,
ami obtained a single ?, which he sent me. Mr. Meek remarked in his letter
that the insect reminded him very much of Troides victoriae from the Solomon
Islands. It is indeed a new species, standing intermediate between Troides
victoriae and Troides titkonus, thus bridging over the gulf that separated T. victoriae
from T. titkonus, T. priamus, T. goliatk, aud T. ckimaera.

?. Body as in T. titkonus. Wings more elongate than in that species. On
forewing a small patch of white streaks in cell, and two parallel rows of white
spots on disc ; the proximal row consists of six spots, extending from R1 to SM-,
the first two and the last spot small, the other three arrowhead- or wedge-shaped,
spot M1 — M- being the largest, measuring 9 mm. in length, and 4i mm. in width ;
the spots of the distal row are all small, the first standing in the subcostal fork;
there is also a long streak of rather dispersed white scales before the subcostal
fork ; vein SO3 stands proximally of apex of cell, the stalk of SO1-5 is longer
than in T. titkonus : the upper angle of cell is obtuse, R1 standing nearer lower

than upper angle ; fringe spotted white from R2 backwards. Hindwing : SCJ

not quite so far distal as M2; a small spot in cell and seven large jiatches on
disc grey-white, slightly yellow on upperside, distinctly yellow distally on under-
side ; these patches separated from each other by broad black lines situated on
the veins and joining the black marginal band, the distal half of the wing appearing
grey-white streaked with black ; the patches bear each a round black spot, except
the first, second, aud sixth, in which the spot is vestigial or missing.

Mr. Meek intends going again to the country where he found this female,
and we hope that he will succeed in obtaining a good series of both sexes. The
male was seen by him high in the air, but he could not get it. It had elongate
wings like the female.

On account of the relationship of this new species with Troides victoriae we
think the name alexandrae to be very appropriate.

There is possibly another species of Troides in existence in New Guinea, an
insect standing in between T. paradisea aud T. goliatk, with the hindwing of the
male less reduced than in T. paradisea.

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NEW DBEEANUEIDAE, THYRIEIDAE, VEANIIDAE AND
GEOMETBIDAE FROM DRITISH NEW GUINEA.

By W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S.

THE insects here described were collected by A. S. Meek at Biagi (= Biaghi),
on the Upper Mambare, River, at an altitude of 5000 ft., from the end
of January to April 1906. The Mauibare River flows from the Owen Stanley
Range north-eastwards.

Family DBEPANULIDAE.
1. Callidrepana discipunctata Warr.

The S of this species is dark fulvous brown, thickly sprinkled with lustrous
scales, especially before outer line, which is deep olive-brown edged by a lustrous
line; a marginal lustrous line; a row of small snbmarginal brown dots on veins;
the inner line is sometimes fairly plain, slender and dark brown.

Hindimng: with the costal half always yellowish.

One specimen has a large cloudy black-brown blotch towards the end of
cell of forewing, while two others have the ground-colour paler brown.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

8 (?<J along with 2 ? ? as large and pale as the type.

2. Holoreta cervina spec. nov.

Forewing : fawn-colour with a decided olive tinge, with short transverse
dark strigae ; no inner line, but a brown costal spot at two-fifths ; a red-brown
oblique line, faintly curved from apex to middle of inner margin, preceded on
costa by a short dark streak ; the apex in one example filled with black scales ;
fringe black-brown ; a white dot at middle and lower end of discocellular.

Ilindwing : costal area pinkish ; the brown line crossing at one-third ;
discal dots and fringe as in forewing.

Underside bright red, yellowish towards costa of forewing, with some dark
scales between the veins ; the line thick and black, externally grey-edged in
upper half of forewing ; hindwiug with the line nearly central, and the spots
between veins stronger.

Face, pectus, and forelegs bright scarlet ; vertex brownish ; thorax olive
fawn-colour, the shoulders pale grey ; abdomen olive fawn with a reddish tinge ;
underside and legs scarlet.

In the smaller & the underside of forewing is suffused with black ; in the
¥ the red tints of the underside show through and almost obliterate the olive
tinge of the upperside.

Expanse of wings : S 40 — 48 mm. ; ¥ 48 mm.

2 <?<?, 1 ?.

Nearest to //. unilinea Warr. from Ron Island.

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3. Oreta patiens Warr.

The ? of this species is evidently very variable iu coloration, though constant
in size and markings. The original ?, described in Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 62 (1906),
is dull greyish olive freckled with darker; of 4 ? ? lately received from Biagi,
not one agrees with the typical form ; two are ranch paler, yellowish olive,
with the Hues reddish brown, and the hindwing pinkish-tinged ; the third is
dull reddish, with a blackish, red-edged line and dark speckling towards apex,
the hindwing being deep red; the fourth alone is nearest the type in coloration,
being uniform dark olive-brown, with the lines hardly visible, the hindwing
brownish ochreous, greyer towards base.

The 2 <?<? received with the ? ? scarcely differ from the type £.

4. Oreta sulphurata spec. nov. ami ab. fasciata nov. and ab. obsoleta nov.

5. Foreioing : pale yellow; the base of costa reddish ; two pale brown lines
from inner margin to vein 6 and the subcostal veiu, oblique outwards parallel
to outer margin, at one-half and three-fourths, the outer curving outwards above ;
outer margin purplish grey, widening downwards, edged by a brown submargiual
line, which on veins 2 and 3 forms a small black-brown pink-edged blotch, and
a smaller one on inner margin; fringe dark brown.

Hindwing : with the two brown lines from one-fourth and one-half, not
reaching above cell; apex with a slight purplish grey tinge ; fringe brown above,
yellow below, middle.

Underside without lines; base of costa bright red; the marginal border
dark brown edged inwardly with orange-red, very slight in hindwing.

Face, pectus, and forelegs deep red ; vertex, thorax and abdomen yellow.

In the second <^, ab. fasciata, the interval between the lines is rilled up
with pinkish brown, forming a central fascia stopping short at the cell in both
wings, and showing a pale cell-spot in forewing ; in the third, ab. obsoleta,
only the outer of the two Hues is visible, and the marginal blotch is obsolete
above middle of forewing, pinkish brown below, and at apex of hindwing ; the
black spots absent.

?. Foreioing: greyish pink with an olive tinge; the lines purplish, reaching
costa ; the first curved inwards to one-fourth of costa, the second curving into
apex ; the first edged inwardly, the second more plainly outwardly with yellowish ;
no marginal shade, but the two spots purplish on veins 2 and 3.

Hindwing : with costal area yellowish ; the lines straight, not marked
above cell.

Underside deep yellow ; the base of costa, the outer line, and a marginal
shade red ; in the hindwing the outer line is red, and the outer margin reddish
tinged.

Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings ; the rest as in the $ .

In both sexes, but more plainly in the ?, the forewing bears a horizontal
yellow streak from line to line between veins 6 and 7.

Expanse of wings : £ 26 mm. ; ? 30 mm.

3 cf<J, 1 ?.

Apparently the representative in New Guinea of the Queensland species
pusilla 6, roseola ?, and fuscimaryo ?, which will probably prove to be, as in
the present case, forms of one species.

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5. Peridrepana verticata spec. nov.

Forewing : white, semitransparent ; crossed by five grey bands, all nearly
parallel to the outer margin, and marked on the veins with darker grey linear
dashes ; two antemedian, of which the basal is very obscure ; one postmedian,
broadest of all ; two submarginal, the outer of which is a lunulate-deutate line,
with the teeth touching the grey marginal line ; fringe grey ; discocellular
marked by a white crescent with some grey scaling round it ; costal edge yellow.

Hindwing : with all the bauds present ; the last three meeting at anal angle.

Underside white ; costa of forewing yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; upper part of face, vertex, antennae,
and forelegs brownish ferruginous.

Expause of wings : £ 30 mm. ; ¥ 35 mm.

A series of c?c? and 1 ?.

In forewing 9, 10, 11 are stalked and G, 7, 8 also stalked from the depressed
end of cell, 11 leaving areole at one-half, 10 just before end, 9 anastomosing
with 8 ; in hindwing vein 7 from abont one-half of cell anastomoses strongly
with 8 ; tongue and frenulum present ; antennae bipectinate ; hindtibiae with
two spurs.

6. Teldenia illunata spec. nov.

Forewing: shining white; costal edge greyish ochreous ; beyond the middle
a nearly vertical double grey lnnnlate-dentate line, of which the inner arm is
slightly the darker ; sometimes this line seems to run quite straight to costa,
at others to be incurved to a small dark spot ; a single grey submarginal line
indented between veins 5 and 6 and again between 2 and 3 ; grey or blackish
marginal spots between veins, sometimes absent ; fringe white beyond a very fine
grey marginal line.

Hindwing : like forewing.

Underside white ; costa of forewing ochreous.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white; face brownish grey; palpi and lower
part of face deep brown.

Expause of wings : 26 mm.

3 <?t?,4 ??.

7. Tridrepana fulvata ab. olivacea Warr.

The ? of this aberration is uniform fawn-colour, with the lines a little
darker, and with an olive-brown blotch at lower end of cell round the lower
white spot of discocellular; the three or four black submarginal spots below
apex conspicuous.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

1 ?, with a long series of c?c?, all with dark central fascia and hindmargin.

Along with them came also a long and beautiful series of the ab. fasciata,
all being c? <S but one.

8. Urogonodes colorata spec. nov.

(?. Forewing i olive brown, the lines and shades dark purplish brown; the
scales whitish at their tips, giving a frosted appearance to the wing, especially
in outer half; three dark brown costal spots, from which the lines rise; the

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inner and median bent in cell, then thickened and forming a blotched space to
inner margin ; outer angled acutely on 6, then inwardly oblique ; all very obscure ;
cell-spot of lustrous scales edged with brown; a red and brown blotch at anal
angle with white scales on it : a patch of white scales beyond angle of outer Hue;
fringe red-brown, with the tips shining white.

Hindwimg; dull red-brown, brighter red towards costa ; traces of two dark
lines from middle of inner margin to middle of wing ; fringe as in forewing.

Underside red ; costa of forewing golden brown ; some pearly scales before
the excision ; traces in both wings of a black blotched outer line.

? redder, with the grouud-eolonr paler olive, especially beyond outer line
towards costa, where the underside bears a large olive yellow blotch.

face, palpi, forelegs, and pectus bright red ; thorax and abdomen con-
colorous with wings in each sex.

Expanse of wings : 30 — 35 mm.

G SS, 2 ? ¥.'

A form of the S occurs in which the whole of the forewing is dull olive or
greyish olive, without any darker shading, the lines hardly marked. The species
is separated from U. scintilla/is, besides its larger size, by the much blunter angle
in the outer margin of hindwing.

9. Urogonodes flavida spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, towards base diffusely pinkish browu ; the inner line
placed as in colorata, red-brown, only distinct at costa; outer line absent except
for a brown spot on costa ; cell-spot as in colorata ; costal area between the two
lines grey-brown ; outer margin with a reddish brown border, broader at apex,
and hardly reaching inner margin ; fringe red-brown.

Hindwing : yellow, with two straight pink lines, antemedian and median,
the interval between them also pink but paler ; a marginal brown-red border.

Underside yellow, with the marginal border of both wings blood-red, and
the base of each wing diffusely of the same colour.

Face and forelegs bright red; vertex brown ; thorax pinkish grey; abdomen
yellow (greased).

Expause of wings : 27 mm.

1 ?.

Family THYRIDID'AE.
10. Addaea fulva spec. nov.

Forewing : ochreous washed with pale fulvous in £, with deep fulvous in ? ,
and covered with fulvous coalescing striae ; a thick oblique fascia from middle
of inner margin to cud of cell, fulvous only in S, dark brown in ¥, obscurely
curved above to a costal triangle; sometimes a faint band between it and outer
margin ; costal edge brownish dotted with pale ochreous ; fringe with basal half
dark brown, apical half paler.

Hindwing : similar, paler, especially towards costa, the striae plainer.

Underside paler, with the striae brown and very concise.

Head, thorax in front, and base of patagia deep fulvous or browu; tips of

ui, metathorax, and abdomen pale ochreous; the dark bar of hindwing
continued across dorsum.

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Expanse of wings : 22 mm.
9 <?(?, 8 ? ¥.

Resembles A. striola Feld., but darker in ground-colour ; the apex of forewiug
more acute and outer margin more sinuous.

11. Addaea maculata Warr.

This species was described from a <? only, from the Angabunga River,
British New Guinea (cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 63). From Biagi, Mambare River,
there have now arrived 7 examples, including 2 c?cf, which latter are very different
from the more strongly marked ? ?. The brown central fascia is much thinner,
stopping short at vein 2 ; the bent outer line is fine and brown above middle,
thick and dark brown in the inbent portion below ; the dark brown snbmarginal
line is very fine and hardly visible ; lastly, instead of the grey-brown or black-
brown conspicuous blotch on inner margin, there is a much slighter pale brown
tinge, containing some dark brown striae ; fringe pale brown.

In the hindwing the markings remain as in the ?, but much paler brown.

In size the (J is a little smaller than the ?.

12. Banisia dohertyi ab. longistriata nov.

In Nov. Zool. xii. p. 410 I described an aberration of the $ of this species
from the Solomon Islands, which was distinguished by black transverse markings
on both wiugs ; 1 have now to record an aberration of the ? , which is marked
by a cloudy blackish horizontal streak running from base to outer margin of
forewing along the snbmedian fold.

3 (J cj and 7 ? ? , another ? being an example of the aberration nigriflexa.

13. Banisia lateralis spec. nov.

Forewing : brownish ochreous, with rather deeper brown reticulation, and
with square black blotches; darker basal, antemedian, postmedian, submargiual,
and apical fasciae are visible ; the postmedian forked at middle to inner margin ;
the apical running from costa to middle of outer margin ; this and the lower
half of submargiual and the outer fork of postmedian are marked by black
quadrate spots between veins ; the middle of wing is marked by a large blackish
blotch, filling end of cell and the base of interval between veins 2 and 3 ; fringe
concolorous.

Hindwing : similar ; the middle fascia complete and narrow at inner margin.

Underside with most of the markings repeated, but not the large blotch of
forewing.

Head and shoulders brownish ; thorax, patagia, and abdomen shining
ochreous ; dorsum tinged with brown ; first three segments of abdomen with
square black lateral spots

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 ?.

Perhaps a form of B. ordinaria Warr., but the coloration is different.

14. Banisia vermiculata spec. nov.
Forewing : rnfons ochreous, crossed by numerous closely placed wavy lines
pf pale brick-red, forming slight reticulations, the whole wing uniformly coloured

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along the costa can be seen some slight darker spaces indicating the commencement
of fasciae ; fringe dee]) rufous.

Hindwing : with ground-colour paler, especially in costal half of wing.

Underside paler, the eross-lines sparser but plainer.

Head, thorax, and abdomen deep rufous ; anal tuft of 6 pale.

Expanse of wings: 22 mm.

1 3, 1 ?.

15. Herdonia papuensis spec, now

Forewing : glossy whitish, washed with very pale greyish olive, some roundish
spots and elongated blotches above inner margin only remaining white ; in the
imter area beyond two-thirds three darker curved streaks leave the costa, partially
interlaced, with the intervals between them paler, united and narrowed and
hardly darker between 5 and 4, then becoming bifid, the outer part broadening
and ramifying to onter margin between anal angle and vein 3, brown with
dark edging, the intervals paler ; costa at base and towards apex paler, before
apex marked by a long shallow black-brown blotch ; fringe pale olive, with brown
mottling beyond veins 2 and 3.

Hindwing : white, the fringe and extreme outer margin olive ; crossed by
three dark brown lines edged by black-brown ; one close to base, broader and oblique
outwards from vein 1, sinuous; second narrow from before middle of costa to
two-thirds of inner margin, nearly straight, but widened at each end ; third also
narrow, curved from before apiex to anal angle.

Underside like upper, but the markings plainer, the basal line of hindwing
longer.

Face, palpi, and forelegs dark olive-brown ; vertex and shoulders paler olive ;
patagia still paler ; thorax and abdomen shining whitish ; second dorsal segment
with a dark brown baud.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 ?.

In the forewing veins 7 and 8 are short-stalked; and in hindwing vein 7
rises before the end of cell.

16. Hypolamprus biplagiata spec. nov.

Forewing : dark fulvous, speckled with grey ; costal edge snow-white dotted
with black in basal half, and with a black dash beyond middle ; a row of dark
spots visible above and below the snbmedian fold ; a submargiual curved line of
blackish spots, that above vein 5 large and square, with some black marks
obliquely beyond it towards outer margin ; apical half of outer margin clouded
with dark ; fringe fulvous with black chequering.

Hindwing: with basal area white, streaked with fulvous on inner margin;
outer two-thirds pale fulvous with darker streaks, between vein 2 and anal angle
forming a quadrate deep brown blotch with the edges black; inner margin and
fringe whitish ; fringe brownish, below vein 2 white.

Underside dull fulvous, with transverse spots between the veins, plainest in
the hindwing; forewing with a brown costal >}»>t before middle and a triangular
black, c beyond middle,

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Head and prothorax, and the anal half of abdomen fulvous ; patagia. meta-
thorax, and basal segments of dorsum shining whitish.
Expanse of wings : <? 17 mm. ; ? 20 mm.
1 <?, 2 ? ?.

17. Hypolamprus fuliginosa spec. nov.

Forewing : dull smoky black, covered with granular whitish grey spots,
which are really arranged in double lines between the darker fasciae, which are
more or less obscured ; a ferrnginons patch at base in the submedian interval,
and the costa in apical third of the same colour, below which the white spots
are absent ; veins towards onter margin lined with whitish dots ; fringe concolorons.

Hindwing : without any red tint ; the costal area whiter ; the rest of wing
black speckled with white.

Underside black thickly peppered with whitish ; costa of forewing yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the dorsum with a strong reddish gloss ;
palpi black, with the extreme tip whitish.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 ?.

A species of peculiar appearance. The outer margin of hindwing is straight
from vein 7 to anal angle.

18. Hypolamprus grandis spec. nov.

Forewing : flesh-coloured ochreons, the markings deep red-brown ; these
consist of three fasciae, the first broad at base, the second antemedian, nearly
vertical ; the third oblique from beyond middle of inner margin to two-thirds of
costa, where it is broader and forked ; from the outer arm a brown slender streak
runs below costa, curving quite slender to outer margin ; inner margin below
vein 1 red-brown throughout ; the ochreous areas contain traces of very fine
reticulated lines, a connected streak of which from inner margin before anal angle
is often conspicuous ; fringe concolorons ; the cell aud costal area above it, as far
as outer fascia, are overspread with grey scales.

Hindwing : with two red-brown streaks to inner margin at one-third aud
two-thirds.

Underside paler, the markings less brown.

Head and face deep red-brown ; thorax aud patagia grey-brown ; abdomen
red-brown, with the basal segments paler.

Expanse of wiugs : 44 mm.

2 «?<?.

Like //. stylophora Swinh., but immensely larger.

19. Hypolamprus laticosta spec. nov.

Forewing: pale ochreons, with faint pale brownish double or X-shaped short
streaks between veins ; a broad chestnut brown subcostal stripe, the costa itself
paler brown, the costal edge dark with pale ochreons intervals ; a pale brown
obliqne mark near base, a vertical one before middle from median to inner margin,
a lyre-shaped blotch at three-fourths below vein 2, and a rectangular mark before
outer margin lying on vein 5 ; three dark spots at end of cell in a brown shade ;
fringe brown.

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Ilindwing : with apex brownish; the other markings as in forewing, but
much fainter.

Underside with the double dark marks very concise and clear, and the intervals
pale ami regular, those of hindwing circular with brown centres ; an oblique black-
brown subcostal streak from apex.

Eead and prothorax dark brown; mctathorax and abdomen pale ochreous,
the latter with a In-own dot on penultimate segment.

Expanse of wings : 22 nun.

■.' Si.

Forewing with blunt subfalcatc apex and outer margin bulged below middle ;
hindwing snbdentate at vein 7.

20. Letchena albicollaris spec, now

An almost exact mimic, of Canaea semitessellata Wlk.; distinguished at once
by the face and shoulders being glossy white, aud also by the costa of forewing
being alternately ochreous and brown, whereas in Walker's species the costa is
uniformly brown ; the antennae, of course, will always separate the two species,
those of Letchena being simple, while those of Canaea are nuipectinate.

3 c?(?, accompanied by 4 <S S of Canaea semitessellata.

21. Letchena composita spec. nov.

Forewing : reddish fulvous, more or less overlaid with grey-brown, and crossed
by short dark reticulations ; a large reddish patch from two-thirds of costa to
beyond cell, outwardly edged by a curved line of darker spots ; below it between
vein 4 and the submedian fold are three hyaline white spots, that between 2 and 3
large and conical in shape ; fringe dark fuscous.

Hindwing : with outer margin and a central fascia broadly grey-brown ;
space on each side of the fascia fulvous yellow, the interval between veins 4 and 5
with five small round white hyaline spots, between 3 and 4 with two, and that
between 2 and 3 with only one spot ; the dark reticulations are plainer than in
forewing ; inner margin and base of costa whitish.

Underside duller ; the hindwing yellower, with a dark central blotch, but no
fascia.

Head and prothorax dark grey-brown ; patagia and abdomen brown and
fulvous red mixed.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 ?.

Nearest to Letchena uwgitlatu AVarr., but the margin of forewing merely
rounded.

22. Pharambara lucida spec. nov.

Forewing : shining whitish ; the markings pale olive-brown ; basal, antemedian,
and postmedian fasciae all projecting outwards in cell, separated by a pale curved
space with a brownish line in middle ; the projection of the postmedian is prolonged
across snbmarginal fascia to join an oblique coal-black subapical blotch running
to middle of outer margin and followed before apex by a white tadpole-shaped
mark containing a brownish speck ; fringe grey-brown in basal half, paler towards
the tips.

Hindwing: pale ochreous, snlfuse.1 with rufous grey, except towards inner

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margin, with three darker fasciae, partly black-dotted, the inner one strongly marked
and narrowed at iuner margin ; the intervals with fine lines.

Underside ochreous tinged with fnlvous ; costa of forewing with regular grey
blotches separated by pale intervals minutely dotted with dark ; along subcostal
vein a fulvous orange stripe and below it in outer half a lustrous silvery stripe
joining the white apical blotch, the outer half of wing above median shining
blackish grey ; the brown fasciae plain only on inner margin ; a black cell-spot
beyond second fascia ; some black and white streaky scales at end of cell, and
beyond it below subcostal vein : hiudwing washed with fulvous; the veins fulvous ;
the fascise brown and broken up.

Head, palpi, forelegs, and shoulders brownisli ; thorax and abdomen shining
ochreous ; patagia grey at base ; dorsum with second segment dark grey, the third
paler but marked with grey in middle ; prae-anal segments fuscous, fulvous at
sides ; anal tufts ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 S.

Closely resembling P. nitens Butler, for which it might easily be mistaken.

23. Siculodes rufistrigata spec. nov.

Forewing : whitish, covered with minute rufous vermicnlations ; a red-brown
curved line at one-fourth, indented on median nervure ; a red-brown submarginal
line, thickened at the veins, emitting a spur to outer margin at middle, running
to anal angle and connected inwardly with a furcate mark on snbmedian fold
beyoud middle ; an ocelloid spot at end of cell ; two submarginal dots below apex
and one below vein 4 ; fringe white chequered with rufous ; costal edge red-brown,
dotted with white ; costa grey towards base.

Hindwing : with the red markings thicker and more complicated, forming
four or five partially parallel streaks to inner margin.

Underside whiter, with all the red markings plainer ; costa broadly red-brown
for two-thirds ; subcostal and median veins with shining scales.

Thorax and abdomen white, slightly ringed with rufous ; head wanting.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 a.

24. Striglina condensata spec. nov.

S. Fore/vim; : yellow, crossed by rows of fulvous spots between the veins ;
the yellow ground-colour is restricted to the basal third of wing and a triangular
patch on costa before apex, the outer two-thirds being suffused with greyish black,
crossed by lines of deeper spots, the grey scales forming a blotch ou inner margin
before anal angle below vein 2 ; a small brown-grey curve close to base and a
dark round spot on snbmedian fold beyond it ; fringe dark grey, fulvous-tinged
beyond vein 5, where the extreme margin itself is also fulvous.

Eindwing : with basal fourth yellow, without the dark curved mark ; the
suffused outer area not so dark and containing a large diffuse fulvous patch below
middle of outer margin, beyoud which the grey fringe is also fulvous ; fringe of
inner margin yellowish.

Underside duller, greyer fulvous, the dark suffusion present only in forewing.

Head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, pectus, and forelegs fnlvous ; abdomen beneath
and the other legs yellow ; penultimate segments of dorsum grey-black ; foretarsi
fuscous.

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In the ? the fulvous tints are replaced by fiery red, and all the dark markings
are intenser ; the broad central fascia is flushed with leaden purplish throughout,
and the fringes of both wings are broad and iron-grey ; the apical half of patagia,
the metathorax, and sides of the basal segments of abdomen are all dark instead
of fulvous.

Expanse of wings : J 22 mm.: ? 27 mm.

8 <?<r, i ?.

A small condensed mimic of S. xanthoscia Warr.

25. Striglina costirufata spec. nov.

Forewing : red, like S. reversa and ncintillans, bnt without, the blackish costa ;
crossed by curved rows of deeper spots with slightly paler spaces between them ;
of these rows two basal, two median, and a postmedian are more or less marked
with black, the two median forming a black blotch at inner margin ; costa with
nine black spots ; black dots at ends of veins ; fringe pinkish.

Until wing : similar ; the dark spots less conspicuous ; inner margin and fringe
pale ochreons.

Underside paler, reddish ochreons, with the spots showing deeper ; costa with
the black spots of npperside ; the marginal dots black.

Head, thorax, abdomen, pectus, and forelegs red ; abdomen beneath and legs
ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

2 SS.

20. Striglina dentifascia spec. nov.

Forewing : deep orange-red at base dotted with yellow, crossed by four
curved rows of dark marks ; in the marginal area the orange-red is obscured, except
towards costa, by blackish suffusion ; between them a plumbeous lilac-grey irregular
fascia, its inner margin running from one-third of costa towards middle of inner
margin, above which it crosses to join the outer margin ; this starts from three-fifths
of costa, runs outwards at right angles along vein 5, forming a tridentate projection
towards outer margin, and is then incurved across submedian interval to anal angle ;
the costa above it black and orange-red ; at the end of cell touching the basal area,
of which it seems to form a projection, is an oblong vertical black-edged cell-spot ;
fringe pale grey ; the inner half paler than the outer, but traversed by a dark line.

Hindwing : without the plumbeous suffusion; inner margin and fringe pale
ochreons.

Underside dull rufous, darker along margins before the grey fringes.

Head, palpi, and thorax orange-red ; patagia and dorsum grey, the former
pale ; a red line down middle of dorsum ; alidomen beneath and legs rufous
ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

1 <?.

Evidently representing a third species distinct from condensata and xanthoscia.

27. Striglina ignefissa spec. dov.

Forewing : grey-brown, washed with fiery-red towards base and darkened with
blackish in tin' anal fourth ; the wing is crossed by pale yellow red-edged transverse
streaks, of which a. straight autemedian and curved postmedian are conspicuous,

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forming complete lines ; three others near base and one submarginal from costa
to middle are also generally plain ; the rest are broken up into short transverse
dashes ; the median vein throughout and the snbmedian in part are finely yellow;
at the anal angle is a small grey patch on the blackish suffusion ; fringe rnfons
grey, with a slender pale basal line, the basal half darker than the apical.

Hind/ring : with the median vein yellow, and all the streaks partially
fractured ; inner margin and fringe conspicuously pale ochreons.

Underside uniform dnll brownish ochreous, with the streaks fine and pale ;
costa of forewing red at base ; outer half of fringe darker brown.

Pectus, front of forelegs, palpi, head, and prothorax fiery orange ; patagia,
metathorax, and dorsum shaded with brown ; dorsum with a yellow red-edged
central line.

Expanse of wings 24 — 28 mm.

12 <J<J.

28. Striglina metallifera spec. nov.

Forewing : dull greyish fulvous, crossed by curved series of darker spots
between veins bearing specks of shining metallic scales, the veins themselves
slightly paler ; costa diffusely smoky grey-brown ; fringe concolorous, with minute
metallic dots at end of the veins.

Hindwing : similar, but the area above snbmedian fold with a diffuse black
cloud, the inner margin below it and the fringe pale glossy ochreous ; in one
example the black cloud is absent.

Underside pale ochreous, the spots hardly visible, except below costa of
forewing, and the marginal dots.

Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish fulvous ; anal half of dorsum blackish
in the examples which have the black cloud on the hindwing.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

3c?(?.

Allied to S. scintillans, but of quite different coloration.

29. Striglina nigripuncta spec. nov.

S. Forewing : greyish straw-colour ; costa with five brown spots, increasing
in size and depth of colour towards apex ; from the third a curved irregularly
edged olive-grey central band descends ; the fourth and fifth are confluent below
costa, giving rise to an interrupted submarginal band ; the whole wing is crossed
by slight grey and brown reticulations ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with the submarginal band narrower but plainer and continuous,
edged by darker reticulations ; above the anal angle in snbmedian interval is a
round black spot.

Underside with the dark markings much clearer.

Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour ; palpi dark brown.

? greyer, especially towards outer margin ; the costal spots grey instead of
brown, and the fasciae broken up; a straight grey-brown bar from apex to two-fifths
of inner margin, where it is somewhat broader, continued across hindwing at one-
third from base ; the black spot above anal angle as in the <5 ; the markings of
the underside inconspicuous.

Expanse of wings: (J, 38mm.; ?, 44mm.

4 <S<5, 1 ?.

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The ? has the apex of forewing produced upwards and pointed, and the anal
angle of both wings prominent. S. variegata Warr., also from New Guinea, to
which it is nearly related, has the costal blotches black and no distinct oblique
bar in the ?.

30. Striglina xanthoscia Warr.

Hitherto cf cJ only of this species have been seen; but now along with 26 S3
there have come 4 j 5 ; these differ from the <$ <$ in coloration and fringe exactly
as the 5 of S. condensate, Warr. differs from its 3, being deep orange-red instead
of fulvous, with the fringe grey and broad, and expanding 32 mm.

Family URANIIDAE.
Subfamily MICRONIINAE.

31. Cyphura albisecta spec. nov.

Forewing : wholly grey-black, the outer half of wing with wavy black striae ;
costa whitish with thick black strignlae ; a straight oblique white band of uuiform
width from two-fifths of costa to fonr-fifths of inner margin; fringe blackish, the
extreme margin of wing being pale.

Hinduting: white, with a black submarginal fascia, very broad at costa,
narrowed below vein 4 to anal angle, the margin white with two black spots below
the tail ; fringe white from vein 6 to 4, elsewhere black with a black marginal line ;
a faint brown curved streak from inner margin above anal angle.

Underside like upper, but the markings of the forewing black.

Vertex, centre of face, and palpi externally black ; the rest white.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 <?, 1 ?.

32. Cyphura atranientaria spec. nov.

Forewing : smoky-blackish, with a small white triangular space at base, the
upper edge of which runs down the middle of cell to a little beyond the discocellnlar,
where it is bent at right angles and goes straight to two-thirds of inner margiu ;
fringe black.

Bindwing : white with a broad black outer band, the inner edge of which runs
from about middle of costa to inner margin above anal angle, before which it is
slightly curved; outer margin narrowly white from apex, with two large black spots
and traces of another smaller below the tail; a black marginal line except in the
projection above tail ; fringe white above tail, black below.

Underside with the black band of bindwing much broader and touching margin
except between veins 4 and 6, where the fringe also is white.

Vertex, middle of face, and palpi externally black; all the rest of body
white.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

3cJc?, 1 ?.

33. Cyphura multistrigaria spec, nov., and ab. dealbata nov.

Forewing : white, with the marginal area from three-fifths of costa to four-
fifths of inner margin smoky grey-brown covered with black strigae, and witli
a cloudy pale space running from below apex to anal angle ; costal area above

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middle of cell with long black wavy strigae, the subcostal vein clouded with
brown; two narrow pale brown oblique lines cross the wing from one-third and
one-half (or sometimes two-thirds) to before and beyond middle respectively, both
sometimes partially or entirely obsolescent ; fringe black.

Hindwing : white, with a fuscous black snbmarginal band bent at vein 4 and
narrowed to anal angle ; a straight pale brown line from below one-third of costa
joius it at aual angle ; outer margin white, with two large black spots before tail ;
marginal line black ; fringe white.

Underside like upper, but without any trace of lines.

Vertex and face in middle black ; base of shoulders fuscous ; all the rest
white.

Expanse of wings: S, 48 mm. ; ?, 54 — 60 mm.

id1, 4??.

In the aberration dealbata only the margin is fuscous, the strigae being clear
on a brownish white ground, and the band of hindwing is paler.

34. Cyphura semialba spec. nov.

Forewing : with the basal half white, the outer dull greyish-black, the limiting
line running straight from just before middle of costa to four-fifths of inner margin ;
from one-third of costa an oblique grey bar runs, narrowing and becoming obsolete
before middle of inner margin ; in the smaller specimen this bar is very slight;
costa in basal half white with black striae ; a dark narrow shade before outer
margin ; fringe blackish.

Hindwing : white, with a blackish submarginal border, the inner edge of
which is straight till just before aual angle, above which there is a faint brown
shade ; outer margin white with two large round black spots below tail ; fringe
white, beyond a black marginal line except from 0 to 4.

Underside with the dark areas black, the bar from costa of forewing reduced
to a slight cloud.

Head, thorax, aud abdomen white, only the vertex and centre of face black.

Expanse of wings : 38 — -44 mm.

35. Stesichora zebrata spec. nov.

Forewing : white ; the costa marked with sparse but large black striae ; from
the subcostal vein to inner margin the wing is crossed by six oblique thick brown-
grey stripes of which the first, second, aud fourth are wider than the others, the
sixth being partially sometimes strigose ; marginal line black ; fringe white ; in
the only ? specimen received there is an additional thin line near base.

Hindwing : with four stripes, the first three broad, the fourth strigose, all bent
below middle towards aual angle, where they are joined by a grey streak along
vein 1 ; marginal line black from apex to vein 4, where it is thickened ; three
black spots on margin below tail ; fringe white.

Underside white, the stripes showing through.

Head, except face, thorax, aud abdomen white; face aud palpi externally
black.

Expanse of wings : 60 mm.

4c? cf, 1 ?.

( no )

Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE.

36. Chaetoceras parvidens spec. nov.

Forewing: dull greyish fawn-colour, of the same tint as Chm'tocerns cnxhiaia
(described as an Epiplema), with which it may be easily confounded ; lines often very
indistinct, but marked by black spots between veins, the two on the folds always
more distinct than the others ; the fonr spots from apex distinct ; cell-spot obscnre ;
fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with the lines also marked by spots, the outer ending in a doable
blotch on inner margin, as in casbiata, and with a pale cell-spot; but the outer
line is farther from outer margin, and the angle at 4 is therefore much more
obtuse ; the spot below lower tooth is a black dot only, not a spot with lustrous
scales, and not showing on the underside ; the teeth at veins 4, 6, 7 are quite
small and blunt.

Underside of forewing grey, of hindwing whitish, both slightly black-speckled.

Face and palpi blackish; thorax and patagia grey like wings; abdomen
paler, with a pair of black spots or a bar at base : vertex and antennal shaft
whitish.

Expanse of wings: 35 mm.; one specimen expands only 30 mm.

4c? cf.

37. Chaetoceras strigulosata spec. nov.

Forewing: bone-colour, tinged with pale olive-grey except along the two folds,
and covered throughout with fine dark grey striae ; inner line marked only by a
Spot on submcdian fold ; traces of a double waved brown outer line at two-thirds,
not reaching above vein 0 ; cell-spot black ; fringe ochraceons, with a slightly
darker marginal line at base ; three or four dark dots from apex to vein 4 before
margin ; costa thickly striated with dark-.

Hindwing : less densely striated, especially in cell, and without the grey
tinge ; the double outer line acutely angled on vein 4 ; a black line from tooth
to tooth ; a brown streak into lower tooth with a dark spot at its base, preceded
by some lustrous scales ; a dark line on discocellular, ending at bottom in a
black spot,

Underside cream-colour, with slight fine speckling, tinged with grey-brown
in forewing at base and along costa.

Face and palpi black ; head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreotis, the dorsum
with a faint brownish tinge.

Expanse of wings : 3D mm.

6c!c?,4??.

38. Chaetoceras striolata spec. nov.

Forewing : like strigulosata, but larger, the ground-colour whiter, with a slight
brownish not greyish tinge, and striated with brown ; costa with a few striae ;
first line diffuse and obscure, with a brown spot on submedian fold; cell-spot
large, black ; the outer double line brown, the external arm thick, luuulate
dentate, separated by distinct white spaces between the veins from the diffuse
brown submarginal shade : three black submarginal spots from apex ; fringe
ochreous; the veins pale ochreous.

Hindwing: as in strigulosata; but the grouad-eolour whiter, and the bands
and striae browner and more distinct.

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Underside whitish, with sparse brown speckling ; forewing brownish at base
and along costa ; cell-spot black in both wings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish ; face and palpi black ; vertex and shaft
of antennae white, the pectinations brown.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

3cJc?.

In the hindwing all the examples show a black spot above, as well as below,
the streak in lower tail.

39. Chaetoceras sulphurata spec. nov.

Forewing : costal streak and basal area cream-colour ; the costa with short,
even, dark striae, the base with light grey striae, bounded by a faint pale brown
curved inner line ; cell-spot black in a central area of pale yellow ; outer line broad,
dark brown, from subcostal vein at two-thirds to vein 4, then incurved, reaching
inner margin a little beyond middle, followed by a broad lilac-grey band not
reaching above vein 6 ; au obscure dark brown patch from apex to middle of outer
margin, ed"ed inwardly by dark lunules between the veins, starting from apex,
the whole with transverse striae ; extreme margin and fringe yellowish ; the cell
from inner Hue and space beyond to outer line often shows as a long pale yellow
blotch, especially in the greyer ? ?.

Hindwing : basal half yellow ; a slight cloudy basal band ; a fine brown line
on discocellular with a dot at each end ; the broad outer band edged by a fine black
line and acutely angled on vein 4, followed by a pale space of ground-colour
before the mixed brown and lilac marginal area ; a fine black line from tooth to
tooth, and a blackish spot below lower tooth.

Underside of forewing pale ochreous, tinged with grey and striated with
brownish along costa and broadly along outer margin ; hindwing cream-colour,
with some brownish striae along margin; cell-spots black in both wings.

Face and palpi brown-black ; thorax and abdomen cream-colour ; anal segments
of dorsum marked with grey ; vertex and autennal shaft white, the i)ectiuations
yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

A series including both sexes.

Outer margin of forewing evenly curved, of hindwing with prominent teeth
at 4 and 7, a smaller one at 0.

40. Chaetoceras transnigrata spec. nov.

Closely allied to the two preceding species, but the ground-colour greyer,
thickly striated ; the lines brown, more distinct, and marked by black blotches
and spots ; inner line with a black spot in cell, as well as a larger one on submedian
fold ; outer line hardly double, the outer edge distinct to costa, and marked by
black spots between veins, those on the folds large and diffuse ; that beyond cell
followed by another, snbmarginal ; the three spots from apex large and black ;
cell-spot black ; fringe coucolorous.

In the hindwing the outer line is angled on vein 4, and preceded above and
below the angle by a black shade.

Underside whitish, irregularly speckled ; the forewing suffused with grey all
over ; a black spot on submedian fold of hindwing above anal angle.

( 112)

Pace and palpi black ; vertex and autenual shaft white ; thorax and abdomen
like wings.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.
4c? <J, 1 ?.

41. Dirades brunnea spec. nov.

Forewing : brown ; the ground-colour split up into three longitudinal wedge-
like streaks from base to onter margin by two dark grey patternless similar spaces
along the folds ; costal streak above subcostal vein dark fuscous, the edge dotted
with white ; across the middle of the wing runs a dark brown curved fascia with
still darker edges, not visible except across the brown portions ; two slight black
dots close before apex ; fringe dark grey, with paler basal and dividing lines.

Hindwing : brown, with a large snow-white semi-oval costal blotch from near
base to before apex, below which the deeper brown fascia runs as far as submedian
fold, its dark edges slightly protruding into the white ; the furrow grey, with the
tuft of hairs ochreous and broad ; from the base of tuft to base of wing a long
hyaline slit lies in a pale triangular space ; along outer margin from 7 to 4 a broad
dark grey lustrous belt, really formed of three coalesceut lunules, containing pale
dots at the vein ends.

Underside of forewing dull cinereous ; of hindwing white, with the basal and
apical costal tufts grey ; the marginal line and fringe also grey from apex to
vein 4, below white.

Face, palpi, and forelegs black ; vertex and base of antennae snow-white ;
shoulders dark fuscous ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown ; the anal tuft ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 S.

The outer margin of hindwing is bent at vein 7, and again below vein 4.

42. Dirades semicarnea spec, nov.

Forewing: whitish grey, somewhat glossy, shaded with darker in the basal
area, along costa, and before apex, and thickly dusted with dark grey atoms ; a
slight cloudy grey cell-spot, preceded by a small pale space; outer line at quite
two-thirds, blackish edged with pale, angled outwards below 8 and inwards on the
cell-fold, where it is marked by a dark spot, then ontcurved and interrupted, endino-
beyond middle of inner margin in a horseshoe-shaped spot, which is rilled up
with dark grey and outwardly edged with black ; a subniarginal line of black
spots between veins from apex to anal angle, those below middle elongated ; anal
angle in <S tinged with flesh-colour, in ? with blackish and pink ; fringe dark grey.

Hindwing : in S dull flesh-colour, with an outer white line straight from
costa to vein 5, then bent inwards, internally dark-edged, and with the veins
across it white ; vein 4 edged with black scales from base, the inner margin
below vein 1 the same ; the furrow between and the contained pencil of hair white ;
submarginal black dots minute, that between 4 and 5 on a white spot: in ? dark
grey, above the middle blackish ; the two lines whitish, both angled on vein 4,
the space between them, except on inner margin, black, with the veins grey ; base
below middle also black ; submarginal dots black.

Underside of forewing pale grey, of hindwing in S white, in ? whitish, with
greyer margin.

( 113)

Face and palpi blackish grey ; vertex and antennae white ; thorax and abdomen
dark grey, the latter with a dark ring at base and iu the c? paler towards anus.

Expanse of wings : c? 26 mm. ; ? 28 mm.

1 c?, 1 ?.

43. Epiplema adornata spec. nov.

Forewing : chalk-grey, slightly speckled ; the markings dark brown, consisting
of a central fascia and a subapical blotch on outer margin ; inner edge of fascia
curved from below one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; outer from
below middle of costa, obliquely curved outwards to below 4, then incurved and
irregularly crenulate to two-thirds of inner margin ; the brown of the fascia is
broken up by patches of the pale ground-colour and the pale veins ; it is followed
at a narrow interval by a brown line ; a subapical spot, which is dark brown-grey,
edged inwardly by a waved black-brown line from vein 7 to 3 ; a submarginal
shade is shown by a brown costal cloud, and a double patch of brown striae
before anal angle ; fringe grey beyond a dark marginal line, dark-flecked beyond
veins.

Hindwing : with the markings restricted to the upper two-thirds of wing
above vein 4, and to the inner margin below vein 1, the intervening space whitish ;
dark, pale-edged lunules along margin.

Underside whitish, with slight speckling along costa and towards apex.

Face and palpi black-brown; thorax and abdomen grey like wings; vertex,
shoulders, and shaft of antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 22 to 25 mm.

3 ? ?.

Outer margins of wings slightly crenulate ; hindwing with sharp teeth at
4 and 7 ; apex of forewing truncate.

44. Epiplema aequisecta spec. nov. and ab. flavicata nov.

Forewing : dark brown or brown-grey, more or less speckled ; costa finely
black-dotted ; first line very indistinct in $ ; black and outcurved iu ¥ , with basal
area black-brown ; outer line vertical, thick and well-marked, from a little beyond
middle of costa to a black-brown blotch at three-fifths of inner margin, followed
in ? by a black-brown cloud widening below to anal angle ; marginal area at
middle diffusely darker, edged inwardly by a fine curved line, often very obscure;
fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with basal line biangulate, black ; discal mark thick, black, and
angled along 5; outer line orange, dark-edged on both sides, bluntly angled at
vein 4, with a black blotch on its inner edge from 2 to 4 ; a series of dark, paler
edged, dull lustrous submarginal lunules from upper tooth to vein 2 ; space below
snbmediau fold pale ochreous, unmarked, excejit by the outer line.

Underside of forewing grey-brown, of hindwing whitish, tinged with brown
towards apex, all the brown areas with black speckling : hindwing with outer
line, cell-spots, and lunules marked.

Vertex, thorax, and abdomen brown ; face and palpi black.

Expanse of wings : S l'Jmm.; ? 22 mm.

3 c?c?,l ?•

Forewing with apex depressed ; outer margin vertical from 8 to 0, incised
from 6 to 4, then gibbous to anal angle : hindwing with the usual two teeth at

4 and 7.

8

( 114 )

3 ($6 from the same locality are possibly a distinct species, Wit I prefer at
present to refer to them here as ;m aberration : though ninch fainter, the markings,
where visible, are practically identical, Wit the ground-colour of all three, above and
below, is dull yellow, which has suggested the name flamcata.

■io. Epiplema bipunctigera spec. nov.

I'm 1 1 ring: greyish fuscous, striated with darker and sprinkled with lustrous
bluish scales (which are probably more numerous when fresh) ; a paler oblique,
slightly curved band at one-third, from subcostal vein to inner margin, iuwardly
darker edged ; an outer similar band oblique from two-thirds of costa to vein 4,
then incurved and dark ; apex and a marginal shade brownish, like the fringe ;
cell-spot formed by two black dots at ends of discocellular, connected by some
lustrous blue scales; a patch of grey scales at anal angle.

Hindwing : brown ; outer line thick and dark, angled on vein 4, concave on
each side; apex and marginal streak darker; a deep fulvous line edged with
lustrous scales from tooth to tooth, and a black spot below lower tooth ; cell-spot
as on forewing.

Underside of forewing fuscous with coarse black speckling, the costa
ochreous ; of hindwing whitish ochreous, with dark striae and a blackish marginal
border to below middle; a pair of black dots on each discocellnlar.

Head dark brown ; collar whitish : thorax and abdomen like wings ; abdomen
beneath and legs whitish ; forelegs and pectus fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 'M mm.

1 ?.

Forewing with outer margin bulged between o and 4, insinuate from 7 to 4 :
hindwing with very slight teeth at 4 and 7, a blunt tooth at o, and crenulate
to anal angle.

40. Epiplema caligata spec. nov.

Forewing : grey, speckled with darker ; crossed in middle by a bent fascia
with dark edges ; inner edge dark brown acutely angled on vein 4, then oblique
inwards to one-third of inner margin, the upper arm obsolete above subcostal vein,
but marked by a grey spot on costa at one-fourth ; outer edge sinuous, from
two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, convex outwards above
middle, concave below, preceded below subcostal by a broad dark brown band;
a row of dark submarginal spots from costa to below middle of outer margin,
and traces of a dark submarginal shade on costa and inner margin; fringe grey.

Hindwing : with both edges of the fascia bluntly angled oil vein 4 ; a slight
submarginal shade ; faint Innules from upper to below lower tooth and a fulvous
shade between the teeth.

Underside grey thickly black-speckled.

Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen grey ; vertex and autennal shaft
snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

2 ? ?.

The second specimen is paler grey than the type, and the brown edges of
the fascia consequently are much plainer.

Forewing truncate at apex, slightly hollowed out beyond cell : hindwing
with two short teeth at 4 and 7.

( US)

47. Epiplema facilis spec. nov.

Fore icing : slaty grey, densely striated with brown ; lines dark brown, thick ;
first nearly straight, at one-fourth ; outer from two-thirds of costa, outenrved to
vein 2, then vertical to three-fourths of inner margin, edged outwardly with
ferruginous ; cell-spot black ; three black snbmarginal spots from apex ; fringe
concolorons.

Hindwing : similar, but the outer line is bluntly angled on vein 4 ; a slight
dark spot below lower tooth.

Underside pale slate-colour, bluer in hindwing ; both wings with numerous
speckles.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; fillet white ; face black.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 ?.

Hindwing with short blunt teeth at 4 and 7.

48. Epiplema foedicosta spec. nov.

Forewing: whitish, with slight grey striae and speckling; the costal area
with a dull grey-brown tinge ; the costal edge finely black-dotted, with a large
cloudy blackish blotch beyond middle and three small black spots before apex ;
lines obscure, first close to base, curved ; outer very indistinct, from the large costal
blotch, vertical and wavy, to the outer edge of a slightly marked brownish
flattened spot on inner margin ; from the outer of the three small costal spots
an indistinct snbmarginal line to anal angle, preceded by a brownish cloud on
inner margin, and marked by small brownish dots between veins ; a blackish
blotch on outer margin between veins 0 and 3, with deep black inner edge, and
with a small black dot above it ; two rufous spots on discocellular ; fringe whitish,
grey beyond the blotch.

Hindwing ; white ; a dark spot near middle of base ; cell-spot oblique,
blackish ; space between cell and submedian fold speckled with dark ; inner
margin with dark striae ; outer line bluntly angled on vein 4, edged by two
dark shades above the angle, and with a small blotch on the inside below ; a
small dark cloud at apex ; a thin black line from tooth to tooth, and two bluish
lunulcs below lower tooth, preceded by some lustrous grey scales.

Underside of forewing washed with pale brown and coarsely speckled ; a
small dark blotch on outer margin ; hindwing white, with a few black specks along
costa.

Face and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen whitish ; vertex snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

2 cJcJ.

Forewing with outer margin slightly indented beyond cell ; hindwing with fine
teeth at 4 and 7 ; antennae thick, with deep clavate teeth.

49. Epiplema funesta spec. nov. and ab. subrufa nov.
Forewing : dull grey, densely speckled with fuscous ; costal area above
subcostal vein rather paler ; a very tine curved black line at one-third, touching
or running close to the black cell-spot ; outer line broad, forming a band, at
three-fifths, well curved outwards in middle and outwardly edged by a blackish
line ; an indistinct submarginal shade, plainest at costa and above anal angle ;

( 116)

veins finely pale towards onter margin ; fringe grey ; three black costal spots
before apex.

Hindi ring : blackish, the speckling and striae coarse and close; a black line
close to base ; outer line bluntly angled on vein 4 ; some slight dark lnnules at
lower tooth.

Underside uniform dull fuscous ; the costa of forewing ochreous.

Face and palpi black ; vertex and shoulders pale grey ; thorax and abdomen
like forewing ; underside and legs pale ochreous.

Expanse of wings : <S 28 mm. ; ? 32 mm.

1 <?, 1 ?.

Forewing excised from 7 to 4, then straight and oblique ; hindwing toothed at
7 and 4, less so at 0 ; margin straight from 4 to anal angle.

The c? is darker, without striations or speckling, and smaller; the outer line
fine and indistinct ; the fringe darker, with a slight ferruginous line at base ;
underside of hindwing dull ochreous with dark speckling aud a smoky brown
submarginal shade.

The aberration subrufa differs from the type in being rufons speckled with
darker instead of fuscous ; the dark costal spots visible, but the lines, though
traceable, very obscure; fringe red-brown ; hindwing rather darker, with equally
obscure markings. Underside ochraceous ; forewing with a dark cloud towards
base, leaving costa and margin pale ; hindwing as in the type c?, but more
ochraceous.

Expause of wings : 30 mm.

3 <?<?.

These three insects may represent a distinct species ; it is difficult, in the case
of New Guinea forms, to decide on first acquaintance, especially if the series is
small, to what rank to assign them.

50. Epiplema sulcata spec. nov.

Forewing : whitish, thickly grey-speckled, in the ? tinged with darker grey ;
cell-spot dark, followed beyond middle by a broad vertical darker fascia, of which
the inner edge is diffuse and the outer obscurely angulated on vein 5 and concave
on each side, the lower end below vein 2 filled up with bright brown, the costal
end grey ; snbmargiual line vertical, blackish grey, formed of elongated blotches
between veins ; a row of distinct black lnnules from costa before apex to vein 2 ;
fringe grey, dark-dotted.

Hindwing : with an inner aud outer line, both bluntly angled above vein 4,
dark brown in ¥ , ferruginous in <?; a row of dark lunules, with brown or ferruginous
edges, before outer margin, the ground-colour of c? being reddish grey, aud of ?
purplish fuscous; space between vein] and the submedian fold whitish, without
scaling.

Underside of forewing in S pinkish ochreous, of hindwing whitish ; in ?
brownish, of hindwing ochreous, becoming browu along costa ; antemedian and
pi isi median tufts of hair on costa of hindwing, ochreous in J, dark grey in ?.

Face and palpi black-brown ; vertex aud auteunal shaft white ; thorax pale
grey; abdomen ochreous in <$, dark fuscous in ?.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 <J, 1 ?.

( 117 )

The teeth at veins 4 and T of hindwing are much stronger in ? than in c?.
In both sexes there is a conspicuous furrow running longitudinally from base to
outer margin along and beyond cell in both wings above, with a corresponding
ridge on the underside ; this, being paler, shows more clearly in the darker ? .

51. Gathynia nigella spec. nov.

Forewing: costal margin broadly velvety-black; rest of wing blurred grey,
separated into two wedge-shaped areas by a brownish-black wedge running between
cell and submedian interval ; the inner margin below vein 1 also black ; traces of
two darker transverse lines parallel to outer margin, antemedian and postmedian ;
fringe black.

Hindwing: with more than costal half blackish brown, with two short thick
very black lines beyond cell ; the costa itself at base also black ; inner margin
below vein 1 black ; the furrowed space white, the enclosed pencil of hairs slightly
ochreons.

Underside of forewing dull dark grey, with a blackish cloud on outer margin
at middle ; of hindwing whitish, greyer towards margin.

Head and thorax deep black ; abdomen grey ; vertex snow-white ; antennae
dark.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 3.

Homoplexis gen. nov.

Forewing : short and broad ; costa straight, convex before apex ; outer margin
curved, as long as inner margin, which is straight.

Hindwing : truncate from 8 to 7, then straight to a slight tooth at 3, thence
curved to anal angle in ? ; in the <$ the area below submedian fold is shortened,
and contorted, without scales, and contains a large tuft of hairs, much as in
Dirades.

Nenration as in Epiplema.

Type : Homoplexis planimargo Warr. (Epiplema).

52. Homoplexis planimargo.

Epiplema planimargo Warr., Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 74, $ (190G).

The c? of this species does not differ from the ¥ except in the hindwing, where
the fold is whitish and the pencil of hairs ochreons.

2 <?c?, 1 ?.

The insect is superficially not at all unlike \Fterotosoma bilineata Warr.,
but the abdomen of c? is quite normal, without tufts.

Paroecia gen. nov.

Forewing : short and broad ; costal and outer margin curved, the latter hardly
obliqne.

Hindwing : broad ; hindmargin bluntly toothed at 7 and 4, vertical and faintly
concave between, then creuulate to anal angle.

Antennae of <S bipectinate ; forewing of c? with a fovea near base above vein 1.

Nenration as in Epiplema.

Type : Paroecia acupicta spec. nov.

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53. Paroecia acupicta spec, now

Forewing: whitish grey, covered with excessively fine brownish striatums;
lines brown, furry-looking ; first curved close to base, enclosing the fovea; second
at middle, passing over discocellnlar, and hardly marked below median ; third
marginal, edged inwardly by black spots between veins, inwardly angled on vein 7,
thinning to a point at anal angle ; fringe brown, with ferruginous base.

Hindwing : without marginal line ; fringe as in forewing.

Underside of forewing dull bluish grey, of hindwing bluish white, both with
large and small speckles.

Head, thorax, and abdomen above grey like wings; face and palpi blackish;
abdomen below white.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

1 6.

54. Platerosia albipennis spec. nov.

Forewing: white, slightly striated with red-brown; costa with short striae;
markings red-brown ; some brown spots in basal area and along subcostal vein ;
a brown horseshoe-shaped spot at middle of inner margin, with the centre whitish ;
its outer edge joined by a curved and crennlate white line from costa at middle,
edged on each side by brown shading ; a patch of brown scaling before anal angle
and a less conspicuous one on costa at three-fourths indicate the snbmarginal
shade; a row of brown spots from below apex to below middle of outer margin,
confluent below vein 6 and followed by a brownish grey cloud, which runs out into
the white fringe ; marginal line waved, brown ; fringe mottled with brown.

Hindwing : with a double brown outer line from costa to vein 4, there bluntly
angled, marked by a brown blotch between veins 3 and 2 and another on inner
margin ; the whole wing slightly grey-speckled, more strongly at apex ; marginal
line brown, fine, preceded by an interrnpted thicker snbmarginal.

Underside white, with fine brown striae along costa and outer margin in
both wings.

Face, palpi, and collar black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white ; the dorsum
with pairs of dark curved marks, sometimes confluent.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

2 <?<?.

Family GEOMETRIDA E.

Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE.

Gerusia gen. nov.

cT. Forewing : costa straight ; apex blunt ; outer margin bluntly dentate at
6 and 4, below 4 very oblique, the anal angle obtuse.

Hindwing: broad; apex squarely rounded ; outer margin denticulate, bent at
vein 3 ; anal angle rounded.

Antennae of 8 stoutly bipectinate to near apex ; palpi porrect, stont, heavily
scaled, terminal segment minute ; tongue present ; frenulum present ; hindtibiae
with four spurs ; foretibiae with a pencil of stiff hairs from the femoro-tibial joint
and a broad, blunt, curved, claw-like process from end on outer side.

The forewing has a patch of black scales at base of submedian vein beneath,

( HO )

covered by a long pencil of black Lairs from base; and the hindwing has a
corresponding patch of black scales along the upper half of cell above ; below the
median vein of hindwing from base to two-thirds the wing membrane is hyaline
white.

Nenration : forewing, cell longer than half of wing; discocellnlar vertical,
very faint, slightly concave outwards ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second
at eight-ninths ; radials normal ; 7, 8 stalked from the bend, 9, 10 stalked jnst
before, 11 free, anastomosing at a point with 12, 9, 10 anastomosing with 11,
9 again with 8 : hindwing, costal anastomosing with subcostal shortly in basal half
of cell ; 7 and 3 from before ends of cell ; radial from centre of discocellnlar.

Type : Gerusia virescena spec. nov.

55. Gerusia olivescens spec. nov.

Forewing : glossy cream-colour, speckled with olive ; the lines and shadings
deep olive-green ; lines as in viridescens, but thicker and more strongly marked ;
basal patch wholly olive, separated from first line by a narrow line of pale
ground-colour ; median shade diffuse, incurved below middle and ontcurved again
to inner margin near outer line ; a deep olive-green cloud along submedian interval
from beyond basal line to beyond outer line ; outer line dark greeD, with a diffuse
shade in the angle, followed by a costal triangle of green edged by the pale
submarginal line ; a grey-green patch on the margin from 7 to 4, and another
below middle reaching outer line and traversed by the luuules of submarginal line ;
two blackish green spots before this line on each fold ; fringe olive-green, with
pale spots on the veins.

Hindvoing : with the lines as in viridescens, but all deep olive-green; costal
half dull blurred grey-green, with a pink tinge.

Underside dark olive, with all the pale spaces sulphur-yellow ; some red
scales between veins 2 and 4 on cacli wing, and orange and yellow dots along cell
of hindwing ; spots at anal angle of hindwing yellow.

Palpi olive-green externally, white within and above ; face olive-green, pale
below ; vertex and antennal shaft white ; prothorax olive-green ; apical half of
patagia, metathorax, and two basal segments of abdomen greenish white ; rest
of dorsum olive-green with the segmental rings white ; abdomen beneath, legs,
and pectus ochreous dotted with green.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

2 at.

Differs from the type species, virescens, in having no dark scales on either wing
at base, and the pencil of hairs from base of forewing smaller and paler.

56. Gerusia rasimargo spec. nov.

Forewing : almost exactly like that of G. viridescens, but the lines pale
olive-brown, and the costa olive-brown at base ; a snow-white streak from apex
to the hyaline spot on vein G ; fringe olive-brown ; outer margin smoothly rounded,
without trace of teeth or crenulations.

Hindwing : costal half paler green, rust-coloured towards apex ; lines brown,
runch as in viridescens but more distinct ; an additional bent shade just beyond
postmedian line; space below middle not hyaline white; fringe olive-brown;
outer margin well rounded, with hardly an judication of teeth.

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Underside of both wings yellow, speckled with brown : the lines dark brown;
costa and base of cell of forewing dark olive-brown ; inner margin of forewing
whitish ; two hyaline white spots between veins C and 7 towards apex.

Palpi and face olive ; basal segment of antennae and base only of shaft
white, the rest along with the pectinations dark fuscous ; vertex greenish white ;
shoulders dark olive; thorax and patagia greenish ochreous ; abdomen yellowish
ochreous with pairs of dark dots ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs yellow, the
legs much dusted with fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 J.

Differs from the type species, and from olitescens, not only by the smooth
outer margins, but also by the entire absence of the pencil of hairs and patches
of dark scales. The anastomosis of costal and subcostal of hindwing is common
to all.

57. Gerusia virescens spec. nov. and ab. viridirnacula nov.

Forewing : pinkish ochreous, overlaid with very pale green and covered with
fine black atoms ; the lines olive-green, indistinct ; first curved from one-fifth
of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, marked by a dark spot on snbmedian
vein ; median outenrved from about middle, becoming obsolete below ; outer line
from two-thirds of costa, oblique outwards and sharply angled on vein 0, then
oblique inwards, vertically curved from vein 2, marked by dark dots on veins ;
Bubmarginal line white, preceded by a greener shade, angled inwards at G to
angle of outer line and there marked by a hyaline white spot, on the two folds
preceded by two blackish spots ; fringe olive-brown, with broad pale yellow
chequering at the veiu-ends ; cell-spot green; central area often more suffused
with green than the rest of wing.

Hindwing : above middle dull whitish with a pinkish tinge, speckled with
green, below hyaline white, green-speckled ; a broad straight antemedian line,
curved lunulate-deutate postmedian, and waved snbmarginal ; marginal area below
4 dull grey-green, its inner edge straight ; fringe olive-brown, with basal line
and teeth pale yellow ; cell-spot green ; base of cell below subcostal vein with a
long patch of black scales.

Underside of forewing ochreous, green-speckled ; the lines broadly green, the
apex and anal angle green ; in cell some rust-coloured scaling ; margin below
middle yellow, inwardly limited by a curved reddish line ; inner margin whitish ;
the pencil of hairs from base black : hindwing sprinkled with green ; the cell
dull pink ; antemedian line dark at inner margin ; marginal area below middle
darker green with a brown patch containing two pale ochreous spots.

Palpi externally greenish, white within and below ; face dark green, white
below ; vertex and thorax pale olive-green ; abdomen greenish ochreous mixed
with pink, with pairs of green dorsal spots ; abdomen beneath and legs cream-
rolour speckled with grey-green; foretarsi greenish, with pale joints; antenual
shaft white.

Expanse of wings : 40 — 44 mm.

11 cJc?.

In three of these — ab. viridirnacula — the sinus of outer line across the
gubmedian fold is filled with a large round blackish gree blotch.

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Palaeodoxa gen. nov.

Forewing : shaped ranch as in Therapis; the apex blunt; the crater margin
indented below it and elbowed at vein 0, then faintly curved and passing into
inner margin without forming a real angle.

Hindwing : with apex rounded ; outer margin slightly excised between veins
0 and 7 and deeply between 6 and 4, which are both bluntly toothed ; inner
margin and outer margin below 4 forming a single curve.

Antennae of <5 strongly bipectinate almost to apex, the outer series of
pectinations longer than the inner; palpi upturned, second segment long and
heavily scaled, third quite short; tongue weak; frenulum present; hindtibiae
with four spurs.

Neuration : forewing, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical, oblique
below ; first median nervule at four-fifths, second close to third ; lower radial
from a little above middle of discocellular, upper from upper end; 7, 8, 9 stalked
from a little before end ; 10 and 11 from cell, 11 anastomosing with 12 : hindwing,
discocellular biangnlate, the lower outer angle slight ; subcostal upcnrved from
base, approximating to costal shortly, before middle of cell; 7 and 3 from before
angles of cell ; radial from the slight outward angle.

Type : Palaeodoxa subignea sp. nov.

58. Palaeodoxa subignea spec. nov. and ab. suffusa nov.

Forewing : olive ochreous, marked with strong dark striae, more or less
obscured by olive-brown suffusion ; the basal patch, a broad curved inner line at
one-third, and a broad postmedian fascia, edged inwardly by a sinuous median
line and outwardly acutely angled above vein 5 — all rich olive-brown ; an irregular
olive-green submarginal shade from a large praeapical blotch, containing a pale
spot on vein 6 ; a purplish brown shade on outer margin from apex to middle ;
a shade of similar colour edges the dark brown markings ; cell-spot vertical,
narrowly pale, with deep olive edging ; veins pale across the dark spaces, and
dark across the pale.

Hindwing: blurred pink in costal half, fiery orange at anal angle, red-brown,
olive, and ochreous between, crossed by dark striae ; a dull pearly waved line
with dark edges across middle of wing to above anal angle, and traces of a
zigzag pale submarginal line ; inner margin, in basal two-thirds, ochreous with
darker reticulations and olive suffusion.

Underside of forewing purple-grey to an oblique dark-edged pearly lustrous
postmedian line ; the cell yellow, crossed by a brown line ; marginal third yellow,
with dark brown striae, and fulvous at apex ; inner margin below vein 2 blurred
pearly grey : hindwing redder, with the same two lines, the outer angled before
iuner margin ; the broad marginal area reddish and grey.

Collar, face, palpi, base of antennae, legs, and abdomen beneath deep orange-
red, the legs yellow-spotted ; thorax and patagia pinkish grey, the shoulders
darker ; abdomen dull reddish mixed with olive ; vertex and basal segment of
antennae in front white.

Expanse of wings : 44 — 48 mm.

3 c?cj.

In the larger example, ab. sujfus a, the paler ochreous tints are hidden by a

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purple-grey suffusion, and on the underside the wings are greyer, with the
marginal area of forewing deep fulvous instead of yellow.

Thauinatographe gen. nov.

Forewing: narrow; costa straight till close to apex; outer margin oblique,
bent at vein 5, nearly as long as inner margin, which is also straight.

Eindwing : short and rounded; costa straight; outer margin strongly excurved,
slightly elbowed at vein 3, irregularly crenulate.

Abdomen elongate, stout, the aual segment squared ; thorax densely scaled ;
antennae bipectinate to two-thirds in both sexes : palpi short, thickly scaled, first
and second segments dentiform in front, third short ; tongue absent ; frenulum
absent; pectus and femora woolly; legs short, hindtibiae with four short spurs.

Nenration : forewing, cell less than half of wing ; discocellnlar vertical ;
first median nervnle just before end of cell ; second and third on a long stalk;
vein 5 from a little above middle of discocellnlar, 6 from upper angle; 10, T, 8, 9
stalked from close to 6; 11 free: hindwing, costal and subcostal approximated
shortly at base, 7 from before end of cell, 6 from the depressed end; discocellnlar
inangulate ; 5 from the upper end close to 6 ; 3, 4 stalked ; 2 at three-fourths.

Type : Th. singularis spec. nov.

A genus standing quite by itself.

59. Thauinatographe singularis spec. nov.

(J. Forewing: pinkish ochreous, grey-brown along costa and outer margin,
pink along inner margin ; a diffuse green patch at base between subcostal and
snbmedian veins, crossed by a curved black line indented on median, limited by
the same two veins ; cell-spot thick, red-brown ; outer line from three-fourths
of costa, blackish, zigzag on subcostal, then marked by vein-dots to 4, thence
Insinuate to 1, from which it runs sharply oblique to middle of inner margin;
submarginal line whitish, strongly zigzag above middle, below approximated to
outer line ; outer margin greenish below vein 4 ; fringe pale green chequered
with darker.

Hindwing : with a strongly marked black line from base of costa oblique to
middle of discocellnlar, then horizontal, boldly curved at three-fourths of wing
and vertical to vein 1 ; the enclosed space brightly white in cell, below it whitish
green at base, then pinkish and green ; costal area black-brown to submarginal
line, which is strongly waved and preceded by a greenish shade ; outer margin
pinkish and green, paler before margin, which above middle is marked with
blackish lnnnles ; fringe pale green ; inner margin below vein 1 and the fringe
pale pinkish ochreous.

Underside of forewing in the main like upper, but band beyond outer line
dark brown, and with a brown streak inwards along submedian fold ; the costa
not darker : hindwing with the strong black line starting beyond middle of costa
and simply sinuous, followed by a broad brown baud, the whole basal area whitish.

? throughout paler, less pink than the <$.

Head and thorax green varied with pinkish ; abdomen ochreous speckled
with darker ; autennal shaft in i pure pinkish ochreous, in ¥ speckled with black.

Expanse of wings : S 48 mm. ; ? 58 mm.

2 $$, 1 ?.

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Subfamily PSEUDOTERPNINAE.
Co. Actenochroma amethystina spec. uov.

Forewing : deep violet, with darker violet shading in the neighbourhood of
the two lines ; these are very pale green ; two near base, the outer bent in cell ;
postmedian broad and oblique outwards to 6, then slender, hinnlate-dentate
inwards to two-thirds of inner margin ; a deep violet cell-spot on lower half of
discocellnlar, followed by a large snow-white spot, and often preceded by a smaller
one; the two lines white on costa; in the outer line a white spot on inner edge
above vein 6 ; an erect yellow mark below vein 2 beyond inner line ; beyond this
mark and on each side of the discocellular are beds of lustrous scales ; fringe
violet chequered with pale green between the veins ; two or three white costal
dashes before apex.

Hindwing : with outer line broad throughout, with darker green speckling;
blotches of pale green with darker speckles beyond and below cell, and along
inner margin.

Underside of forewing bright red in and below cell, shaded and spotted with
blackish, becoming red-brown in marginal area ; costa and lines dull green, black-
speckled ; a white spot in cell on inner line and below costa on outer ; the spot
beyond cell hyaline white ; apex pale green : hindwing with a broad green outer
band, and some green shading along margin ; the white spot beyond cell marked.

Palpi red ; head dull violet ; shoulders and patagia pale shining green edged
with violet; thorax and abdomen pinkish violet; tufts of metathorax and dorsum
pale green ; abdomen beneath pinkish ochreons ; legs dull green spotted with dark ;
pectus olive ochreons, blotched with vermilion ; antennae pink dotted with black.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

12 c?cJ.

61. Hypochroma corrosa spec. nov.

Forewing : moss-green, speckled with black ; the black forming a band between
outer and submargiual lines, the edges rounded externally between veins and running
into the lunnles of submargiual line ; lines much as in //. leprosa described below ;
distinguished at once by the whole of central area, except costal, and the marginal
below vein 2 being filled with brown, the veins marked across it in green ; some
brown scales at base of wing ; cell-spot linear, blackish ; some brown scaling on
each side of submargiual line towards costa.

Hindwing : mainly brown, the green being confined to the space between
veins 2 and 4, the whole well speckled ; tufts green and prominent ; those of
the submargiual line brown : apical fringe brown.

Underside of forewing greenish ochreons, orange towards base, of hindwing
entirely orange ; both wings with broad blackish margin, leaving apex of forewing
ochreons ; cell-spot of forewing black, large; costa with black striae ; fringe dull
yellowish.

Head and thorax green ; face with a dark bar ; palpi and forelegs blackish ;
metathorax, tips of patagia, and dorsum brown mixed with green ; dorsum with
pairs of small tufts ; abdomen below and legs yellow; pectus reddish.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

IS.

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02. Hypochroma leprosa spec, now

Forewing : moss-green, covered with dark speckling, which is confluent ami
forms a kind of shade before first and after outer line, marked with ferruginous
between the veins ; lines black ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of
inner margin, roundly outcurved above and below median vein and angled below
vein 1 ; outer line lunnlate-dentate, from two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner
margin, vertical to vein 4, then oblique, approaching first line on inner margin ;
cell-mark black, linear, oblique ; both lines separated from the shade by a narrow
space of nnspeekled green ; snbmarginal line a row of green dark-pointed lunnles ;
marginal spots black; fringe green; ferruginous marks in outer shade elongate,
absent between 3 and 4, and expanded into a blotch between 1 and 2.

Hindi/ring : without the shades ; the tufts on inner margin and towards base
green and large.

Underside of forewing dull olive tinged with red, of hindwing dull dirty
yellow ; a diffuse obscure blackish snbmarginal cloud on both wings, and black
cell-spot in forewing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen moss-green and black ; dorsum with pairs of dark
6pots ; abdomen beneath and legs dull olive-yellowish ; pectus reddish-tinged ;
foretarsi black and ochreous.

Expanse of wings : S 48 mm. ; ? 52 mm.

2 <?cJ, 1 ?.

The ¥ is more strongly marked and dusted with black throughout ; the
shoulders and tufts of hindwing black ; costal half of central area of hindwing
pinkish-ockreons, undusted.

63. Hypochroma lichenosa spec. nov.

Forewing : moss-green, like leprosa, but with less dark dusting, and the lines
more obscure ; the dark scales before inner and beyond outer line mixed with pink ;
cell-spot dark with a few pink scales ; submarginal line marked mainly by dark
patches on the two folds.

Hindwing: similar; the tufts green and prominent.

Underside of both wings dull white, greenish towards outer margin ; costa
of forewing pinkish ; base and inner margin of hindwing yellow ; both wings
with black snbmarginal fascia, the margin in forewing speckled ; cell-spot of
forewing black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen moss-green slightly dark-speckled ; abdomen
with small tufts injpairs ; anal segment and underneath and legs pale ochreous ;
foretibiae green, black-mottled.

Expanse of wings : S 48 mm. ; ? 52 mm.

3 c?c?, 1 ¥.

In the ? the basal half of hindwing is darker, more speckled ; the submarginal
line of forewing plainer, whitish, and the whole central area of forewing whiter,
with less dark scaling.

Both this and leprosa belong to the group containing muscosaria Guen. and
hgpochromaria Guen. from Australia; they are distinguished from each other by
the undersides.

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04. Hypochroma purpurissa Warr.

The ¥ of this species, described in Nod. Zool. vol. xiii. p. 77 from a S, is
much larger and darker ; suffused in both wings with dark olive slate-colour aud
heavily black-speckled ; the first line preceded and the outer followed by pale
pearly scales ; the apex of forewing remains pale blnish white.

Head, thorax, and dorsum similarly darker.

Expanse of wings : 60 mm.

1 ?, along with 4 S S.

65. Hypochroma rufivaria spec. nov.

Forewing: pale shining green, witli a blnish tinge in parts, and striated with
dark green ; costa striated with dark green and with two triangular blackish spots ;
lines dark green ; first vertical, from the first black spot, curved above and below
median ; outer angled on vein 6, toothed on 4 aud 3, then interrupted, ending on
inner margin in a dark spot close to inner line, the space between them dark green ;
a blackish green, angled line close to base ; submargiual line deep green, angled
outwards on veins 5 and 2, preceded by a variable band of pinkish ochreons ;
cell-spot crescentic, of the same colour, edged with blackish ; patches of it also
appearing sometimes in submedian fold before inner line, on inner margin between
the two lines, and in the tooth of outer line on vein 4 ; costa often tinged with the
same colour ; fringe pale bluish green, mottled with blackish beyond veins.

Hindwing : without inner line ; submarginal preceded by blotches of pinkish
ochreons, the cell and space beyond similarly coloured and spotted with black, aud
a patch of it on inner margin near base ; fringe of inner margin bright orange.

Underside pale fulvous in forewing, tinged with reddish below cell and towards
outer margin, with coarse black striae becoming confluent in places ; cell-spot
black ; a greenish-ochreons blotch on margin between 3 and 4 ; fringe greenish-
ochruous broadly mottled with black ; hindwing orange-fulvous with deeper
postmedian band and marginal fascia, the latter with black striae, aud a black
blotch beyond cell ; cell-spot linear, small, black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green ; face with a broad ferruginous bar ;
palpi ferruginous, pale beneath ; shoulders tinged with fulvous ; dorsal tufts green ;
anal tuft and abdomen at sides orange ; beneath with legs aud pectus yellow
ochreons ; forelegs greenish fuscous, with paler joints.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

8 c?<?.

QQ. Pingasa nieeki spec. nov.

Forewing : very pale delicate green, with faintly deeper green striations ;
costa with minute dark strigae ; lines finely black, edged by pinkish scales ;
first angled above and below median, the lower angle acute ; outer at two-third:;,
oblique outwards to 6 and there angled, vertical to 3, then oblique inwards, marked
on the veins by black dashes ; submarginal line preceded by a brown and pinkish
shade, darkest on costa aud broadest on the folds, where it contains some whitish
scales, aud is followed by brownish pink ; black marginal dots between veins ;
fringe pale green ; cell-spot pink.

Hindwing: without inner line; some pinkish scales at base and along inner
margin.

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Underside greenish white : forewing with some broad fuscons striae in and
below cell ; cell-spot fuscous ; both wiugs with broad black submarginal band.

Palpi pink above, white below; face pale green above a black bar, pink below
it; vertex and abdomen pale green; thorax deeper green; dorsal tufts pink;
abdomen below, pectus, and legs greenish white; forelegs fuscous, spotted with
black.

Expanse of wings : c? 4s mm. ; ? 52 mm.

5<J<J, 1 ?.

The ? is more strongly marked ; the lines are red-brown, and the shade before
submarginal line reddish brown and well marked, the line itself pale and clear.

Subfamily GEOMETK1NAE.
67. Anisoganria bijugata spec. nov.

Forewing: dark green, slightly transparent ; costal edge finely and interruptedly
fuscons ; a white spot at base of costa and another just beyond ; several double
white striae at middle and some small streaks towards apex ; a large curved white
spot at end of cell ; a postmediau and two submarginal rows of large white spots
between the veins, those between 3 and 4 angled inwards, interrupted below 3 ;
between 2 and 3 represented by a single spot of the middle series, on submediau
fold by three single spots, the two inner series ending in a single large square spot
at three-fonrths of inner margin ; the basal and antemedian lines represented
only by the two white costal spots and two on inner margin ; the green intervals
marked by slight whitish Hecks and small dots on the veins ; marginal line dark
green ; fringe fuscous-green, with white spots at base between the veins and at
tips beyond them.

Hindwing : with the series of spots less interrupted ; the other spots larger
and along inner margin more numerous ; the green without pale flecks ; a red spot
before apex.

Underside pale green, with the white spots showing through ; costa of forewing
yellowish in basal half with dark dots; the subcostal vein and discocellular blackish,
marked beneath towards apex by blackish lunnlate marks ; black marginal lunnlea
between veins above vein 2 : hindwing with a small black spot before apex between
veins 7 and S, and black marginal dots above vein 2.

Face and palpi green above, white below; vertex and shoulders white with
centre green ; thorax green ; patagia with basal half green, apical white ; abdomen
green, with a row of white dorsal spots aud interrupted white lateral lines ; abdomen
underneath aud legs white ; tarsi spotted with black.

Expanse of wiugs : 35 mm.

12 examples, all 6 S.

GS. Anisogamia desolata spec. nov.

Forewing: semitransparent deep green, with minute whitish scales scattered
over it ; costa rather broadly ochreous, with strong fuscous striae ; the base greener
before a whitish spot, from which a very tine curved inner line runs to a brown
spot at one-third of inner margin ; outer line line, lunulate-dentate, whiter below
costa and there toothed along the veins; submarginal also lunulate-dentate,
but only distinct below costa ; cell-spot white, vertical ; fringe brown, with rather
large white spots in the teeth at cuds of veins.

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Ilindiving : the same, without inner line ; the apex marked by a large
red-brown blotch beyond outer line reaching vein 5, speckled with black and
inwardly crossed by a blackish line.

Underside whitish green, the lines showing through ; costa of forewing yellow,
speckled with brown ; a brown subcostal spot before outer line, and two before the
submarginal, with a whiter space between them : hindwing with a black blotch
at apex edged with paler green and smaller than on upperside.

Palpi fuscous externally ; face dark green, white below ; basal segment of
antennae aud spot behind each eye white; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green;
metatborax green, traversed by a pale line aud edged with a ring of fuscous and
whitish scales ; dorsum with white spots, fifth and sixth segments with patches
of fuscous and pale scales ; anal tuft white, marked above with pink ; abdomen
below and legs whitish-green ; foretibiae dark fuscous, with the joints white.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 8.

09. Anisogamia fragmentata spec. nov.

Forewing: semitransparent dark green ; the costa broadly and diffusely white,
with fine fuscous strigae ; base powdered with white ; discocellular fuscous, in an
oval whitish ring ; lines fine, whitish, edged with fuscous, denticulate outwards on
veins ; first oblique from one-sixth of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, the teeth
blunt ; outer from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, outcurved
between 0 and 2, ending in a square white blotch on inner margin, across which it
becomes fuscous ; the outer and two submarginal lines, otherwise marked only by
white dots, form a large white triple blotch from below 5 to 3 ; marginal line purple
fuscous above 3, green below it, interrupted by white dots at the vein-ends ; fringe
greenish below, purplish grey above middle, with slightly paler flecks beyond veins,
white beyond 3 and 4.

Hindwing : with base and inner margin powdered with white ; a triple white
blotch at apex as well as between 3 and 4.

Underside pale green, the white markings showing through ; costa of forewing
yellow, with some dark marks towards apex.

Palpi purplish red above, white below ; face green above, white in lower half ;
vertex white ; collar purplish ; shoulders, patagia, and basal half of dorsum green ;
thorax fuscous ; metathorax fuscous in a white ring ; anal half of dorsum, abdomen
beneath, pectus, and legs white; foretibiae reddish ; the tarsi black aud white.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

2c?J.

This species is evidently allied to apkrias Meyr., and is a small likeness of
A, insperata Wlk.

70. Anisogamia gracililinea spec. nov.

Forewing: deep green, slightly transparent, with faint aud fine pale freckling;
costa chocolate-brown speckled with yellow ; the same tint extending along base
of wing and inner margin, except between the two lines ; these are white and very
slender ; first from one-fifth of costa to two-fifths of iuuer margin, waved, aud
excurved below middle; outer line from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of
iuuer margin, augled inwards on the cell-fold, then outcurved to submedian fold ;
at costa it is followed by a large loaf-shaped blotch of pinkish white containing

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red-brown and green scales ; two rows of pale submarginal dots before the dark
green marginal line, the inner yellow, the outer white ; veins before margin pale,
and ending in a yellowish spot ; fringe dark grey ; cell-spot whitish, linear.

Hindwing: with outer Hue only, followed at apex by a large black and pale-
speckled blotch.

Underside pale green, the lines showing through ; a black blotch at apex of
both wings and at anal angle of forewing.

Palpi purplish fnscous above, pale below and at ends of segments ; face green
above, white below ; vertex green edged with purplish and ochreons scales ; collar
and basal segment of antennae purplish ; shoulders and patagia deep green ; thorax
pale green ; metathorax with two dark green spots and a double pinkish brown
tuft ; dorsum green speckled with paler, the segments ringed with purple and pink;
anal tuft ochreous ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs whitish ; foretibiae black,
with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 t?.

71. Anisogamia hilaris spec. nov.

Forewing : bright green ; costa white, thickly flecked with brown ; basal and
subcostal areas with a few white scales ; lines white ; first from one-sixth of costa
to one-third of inner margin, curved outwards above and below median ; outer line
luuulate-dentate. at three-fourths, the lunules below costa, between 3 aud 4, and
below 2 more strongly marked; two submarginal rows of pale spots between veins,
the inner complete, the outer interrupted ; margiual line deep green, interrupted by
white spots at the veins; fringe with basal half green, apical half grey; marginal
spots at 3 and 4 produced into fringe ; npper half of discocellnlar fiuely white.

Hindwing : without inner line ; the inner margin dappled with white ; outer
lines with the lunules and spots more developed at costa and between 3 and 4 ;
upper half of discocellular green.

Underside of wings whitish green ; costal half of forewing bright green ; costal
edge yellow.

Thorax and dorsum deep green, the latter with white spots ; the metathorax
also marked with white ; vertex and autenual shaft white, the pectinations fuscous ;
face green above, white below ; palpi olive-green above, white below ; abdomen
beneath and legs white; foretibiae aud tarsi olive fuscous, forefemora bright yellow.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

3 a.

72. Anisogamia innuba spec nov.

Forewing: semitransparent sea-green; costa brownish pink with fuscous
markings ; the veins rather darker, slightly speckled ; a broad diffuse obscurely
marked pale band at two-fifths, preceded on inner margin by a red-brown white-
edged spot ; marginal border pinkish brown, its inner edge starting at five-sixths
of costa, projecting inwards in middle and approaching margin below vein 3; this
edge is darker and more speckled, the outer area being smooth, with the veins
deeper ; marginal line dark red, with paler spots at the vein cuds ; fringe greenish
grey.

Hindwing : green, with outer border as in forewiug.

Underside iridescent green ; marginal border pale pinkish grey, its inner edge
broadly purple, stopping short in the hindwing at vein 3 ; marginal line purple.

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Palpi greenish, the terminal segment externally red-brown ; face greenish,
white below ; vertex pinkish speckled with brown ; antennae annotated with
green ; shonlders and patagia, a spot on metathorax, and the dorsal spots green ;
thorax and dorsum pinkish brown ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs whitish ;
foretarsi black with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

3 ? ?.

Outer margin strongly dentate.

73. Anisogainia orbimaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : dark green, semitranspareut, with a few white speckles, especially
on the veins ; costa dark fuscous, dotted with white ; an interrupted white basal
line at one-fourth, running to a small brown spot on inner margin at one-third; three
rows of white spots between veins before margin, betweeu 2 and 4 developing into
thicker white bracket-shaped marks, with some fuscous scaling between them, and
below 2 obsolete ; large white marginal dots at the vein ends ; fringe green.

Hindwing: similar, with the white dots on the veius plainer; at apex above
vein G a large round pinkish blotch edged with deep red ; more rarely the blotch is
wholly brown-black.

Underside pale iridescent green, without markings except the apical blotch of
hindwing, which is black-brown.

Palpi and bottom of face red and white ; face green with a white spot on each
side ; vertex green, with the basal segment of antennae white ; a white spot behind
each eye ; thorax and abdomen green, the latter dusted with white scales ; anal
tuft and underside white.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

0 <?<?.

74. Anisogainia stellata spec. nov.

Forewing: dark translucent green ; costal edge dark fuscous with a few small
white dots ; veins darker dotted with pale ; the intervals with obscure translucent
greyish flecks and spots ; a round white spot on upper half of discocellular ; three
rows of white spots towards apex above vein 4 ; those of the inuer row confluent
into a streak from 8 to 5 ; those of the middle row small ; those of the marginal
row lanulate, the upper two large, those beyond cell smaller and wedge-shaped, that
between 3 and 4 large and double ; the spots below 2 and along inuer margin small
and irregular ; large white spots at end of veins before the dark green marginal
line ; fringe grey-green, with white flecks at base between the veins and at tips
beyond them.

Hindwing : with curved rows of large spots throughout, and a curved greener
band at one-third and two-thirds ; a postmediau luuulate-dentate whitish line with
spots before and behind, followed below vein 4 by three angled marks ; betweeu
costa and vein 0 this line is followed by pink-edged fuscous spats between the veins ;
marginal marks and fringe as in forewing.

Underside iridescent green, with the spots all showing through, especially the
cell-spot of forewing ; costa of forewing yellow with fuscous brown dashes ; marginal
and submarginal green lunules below costa: hindwing with large purplish subapical
spot ; the costa at base broadly whitish.

0

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Face iiinl palpi green above, white below; vertex green; fillet white; thorax
and abdomen green speckled with white; middle segments of dorsum brownish;
abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs white; forctarsi black, with the joints white.

The female has the apical spots confluent to form a yellowish white apical
triangle, with the centre on costa green, reaching to vein 3, below it marked by
green pale-edged lnunles, at anal angle containing some brown and white scales,
the corresponding spaces in the hiudwiug being greener ; the inner line of forewing
is also traceable.

Expanse of wings : 3U mm.

7 66,1 ?.

T5. Anisogamia subnigrata spec. nov.

Forewing : semitransparent, dark green, dappled with whitish scales and
freckling; costal streak above subcostal vein paler green, with a few fine white scales
at base only; the costal edge white, with regular fuscons dots ; first line obliqnely
curved outwards, from subcostal vein at one-fourth to one-third of inner margin, white,
acutely angled outwards in lower half of cell, and rounded in submedian interval ;
outer line luiiulate-dentate, parallel to outer margin, at three-fourths, the Iunules
white, rilled up externally with whitish scales, insinuate on submedian fold and in
lower half of cell; snbmarginal line similar but more regular; both interrupted
above vein 7 ; the inner line is followed and the two outer preceded by a deeper
green shade; marginal line crenulate, deep green; fringe green, with white basal
spots between the veins ; a deep green blotch on discocellular.

Hindwing : with base and inner margin densely white-dappled, the white spots
becoming confluent along submedian interval ; outer and submarginal lines not
filled up with white scales, and followed by a row of whitish marginal lunnles ; a
double fuscous mark at apex and single streak below it between G and 7.

Underside iridescent whitish green ; forewing with three black marks from
costa, one over discocellular, simple, the others zigzag on outer and snbmarginal
lines, stopping short at vein 4 : hindwing with black apical blotch ; both wings with
black marginal dots.

Palpi red above, white below ; head, thorax, and abdomen green ; lower part of
face and basal segment of antennae snow-white, the pectinations fuscous ; dorsum
powdered with white and with a fnscous spot on antepenultimate segment ; anal
tufts white, the lateral ones ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

8 6 6.

7G. Anisogamia veniplaga spec. nov.

Forewing : semitransparent sea-green ; costa pinkish ochreous with fine brown
speckling ; first line from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin,
obscurely marked, but ending in a white spot ; a large white tooth from costal
streak extends over the upper half of discocellular ; veins G and 7 bone-colour with
a pink tinge beyond the outer line, the space between G and 7 filled up with the
same in the inner half, that above 7 more slightly towards apex ; outer line marked
by minute dots on veins ; a pinkish blotch at anal angle reaching vein 2 ; white
marginal dots at end of veins ; fringe grey-green.

Hindwing; with a large pink blotch at apex reaching vein 4, internally edged
by the whitish lunulate outer line, which below the blotch is marked only by pale
dashes ou the veins.

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Underside pale green, with the pale blotches showing through ; a small black
blotch at anal angle of forewing and a large apical blotch on hindwing ; costa of
forewing yellow.

Palpi pink above, pale below ; face dark green, white below ; vertex whitish
green ; collar pinkish white ; shoulders, patagia, and basal half of dorsum deep
green; thorax and metathorax reddish edged with white; anal half of dorsum
white speckled with reddish fuscous and laterally blotched with green ; anal
segment pale ochreons ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs whitish ; foretibiae
fuscous with pale joints.

Exrjanse of wings : 37 mm.

1 <?.

77. Chlorochroma bicolor spec no v.

Forewing : blue-green, a shade greener than C. latistriga ; costal edge buff ;
the two lines dark brown, edged with buff, the inner towards base, the outer towards
margin ; the inner from one-fourth of costa straight to one-third of inner margin ;
the outer from close before apex to two-thirds, and so not parallel to outer margin
as in latistriga ; cell-spot black, small; fringe buff; marginal spots black.

Hindwing : with the line central ; else like forewing.

Underside whitish blue-green ; costa of forewiug buff with obscurely marked
dark striae ; marginal spots black.

Palpi buff, with brown tips ; vertex, antennae, and shoulders buff ; face dark
blue-green ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; in latistriga the antennae are white.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 $.

78. Chlorochroma fraterna spec. nov.

Forewing : semitransparent sea-green, excessively finely pale-dusted, so that
the whole wing appears powdery ; costa yellow ochreous ; lines shown by difference
of green tint ; first from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin, slightly
curved above and below median ; outer from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths
of inner margin, deutate-lnnulate ; interval between the lines rather darker than
the rest of wing and distinctly so along the course of the lines ; cell-spot dark
green ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : similar ; the inner line very faint.

Underside paler, whitish green, without markings.

Face and palpi above deep green ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; vertex
and shaft of antennae white; anal tufts of S, abdomen beneath and at sides, legs,
pectus, and underside of palpi white ; forelegs in front red-brown.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

2 «JJ, 1 ?.

Distinguished from C. sororcula by the dentate outer line.

79. Chlorochroma intermedia spec. nov.

Forewing : green with a blue tinge ; in markings the species is intermediate
between gigas, minor, and Jlaeilimrs Warr. on the one hand and latistriga and
ntjistriga on the other ; it differs from the former group in the greater breadth of
the lines, herein resembling the latter ; the costa of forewing is like that of gigas ;
the inner line is straight, not curved or angled, in its obliquity resembling
rujistriga ; and the outer line in hindwing is not bent, but simply curved as iu

(.132)

Jtavilimes. The cell-spots are large, aa in latistriga. Of the two examples one
is bluer green than the other, with the lines less yellow ; marginal clots distinct
in both.

Expanse of wings : 34 — 38 mm.

2 <J«T.

8U. Chlorochroma sororcula spec. nov.

Very much like C. fraterna, but slightly smaller and bluer green ; the lines
paler than the ground-colour, and straighter, not marked by a darker shade of
green ; the outer line nearly vertical, not dentate, from two-thirds of costa to
three-fourths of inner margin ; cell-spot dark green, plainer than in fraterna ;
fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with the outer line crenulate; minute dark dots at the vein ends.

All the parts of the body as in fraterna, except that the palpi above are
pale brown instead of green.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

2 <?<?, 1 ?.

81. Comostolodes ruficincta spec nov.

Forewing: deep grass-green, slightly transparent; costa deep pink, speckled
with fuscous; a fine pink marginal line, swollen into larger dots between the
veins than at their cuds, especially between 3 and 4, and on each side of anal
angle ; lines marked only by minute -white points on the veins, those on 3 and 4
of the outer line being much nearer margin thau the others; cell-spot a similar
point ; fringe grey-green.

Hindwing : similar, without first line.

Underside whitish green ; costa of forewing pink ; base of forewiug reddish.

Palpi, forelegs, fillet, and antennae red ; face, vertex, and thorax green ;
metathorax and abdomen reddish, green at the sides.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 <?.

Lioscore gen. nov.

Forewing: triangular, the apex prominent; outer margin obliquely curved,
as long as inner margin.

Hindwing: with outer margin rounded, slightly bent at vein 4; the anal
angle well marked.

Antennae bipectinate for less than one-half, the outer half filiform ; palpi
upturned, short and stout, terminal segment minute ; tongue present ; frenulum
short, with club-shaped apex ; hiudtibiae with four spurs.

Nenration as in Thalassodes.

Type : Vioscorc melanomma spec. nov.

The species I described as Loxochila meeki in Koi\ Zool. x. p. 359 must be
transferred to this genus.

82. Dioscore melanomma spec. nov.

Forewing: blue-green; costal edge white, with numerous black-brown striae;
a large, obliquely placed, irregularly shaped, chocolate-brown cell-spot, with a
smaller spot touching it above, edged with pale ; lines waved, obsolete towards
costu ; first from below one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, outcurved

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above and below median vein, whitish ; onter at three-fourths, parallel to onter
margin, serpentine, broader and whiter ; friuge deep purple, paler at base at the
vein ends, and at the tips between them.

Hindwing : without inner line, the onter curved and more sharply zigzag ;
cell-spot and fringe as in forewing.

Underside silvery whitish green, deeper green towards costa of forewing ; the
brown cell-spots edged with deep green.

Head, palpi, and thorax deep green ; abdomen paler green, whitish towards
anus, with white dorsal spots ; abdomen beneath and legs pale greenish white ;
pectus and forelegs dark green ; foretarsi fuscous, with pale joints ; antennae green,

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

2 SS.

Galactochlora gen. nov.

Forewing : costa arched ; apex square ; outer margin straight, nearly vertical ;
anal angle square.

Hindwing : broad, both angles well marked ; outer margin with a blunt angle
in middle, straight on each side.

Antennae of c? flattened, with short tubercnlate fascicles of cilia ; palpi short,
upturned, terminal segment small; tongue present ; frenulum invisible ; hind tibiae
with terminal spurs only ; anal segment of abdomen squared and loosely haired.

Nenration normal ; cell less than half of wing ; 3, 4, and 0, 7 of hindwing
stalked.

Type : Galactochlora nivestrota spec. nov.

83. Galactochlora nivestrota spec. nov.

Forewing : green, thickly powdered with white, except close before the two
lines ; costa white, thickly speckled with fuscous ; the lines fuscous at costa, then
green ; first close to base, interrupted, marked by an oblique short costal streak and
a blackish green spot on submedian fold ; outer line from two-thirds of costa to
near middle of inner margin, irregularly zigzag, acutely angled inwards on vein 5,
followed by a white diffuse cloud ; snbmarginal line white, oblique from costa to
vein 7, then straight to anal angle, where it joins a dead white marginal line ;
a broad oblique white streak from below apex to outer line above vein 6; a row
of blackish green submarginal dots between veins ; fringe white.

Hindwing : whitish-green at base, edged at one-fourth by a straight green
band with well-defined onter edge, followed by a white baud which becomes
diffuse outwardly ; snbmarginal line slightly curved from apex to anal angle ;
before it the wing is green ; marginal line white, with dark green dots between
veins.

Underside white ; costa of forewing brown-speckled ; some green marks in
cell and at apex above the oblique white line ; blackish green marginal spots on
both wings.

Palpi fuscous externally ; face deep green, below white ; vertex and antennal
shaft white ; front of shoulders and patagia green, the rest and thorax white ;
metathorax with a green bar : abdomen greased, probably white ; foretibiae fuscous
and white.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

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84. Gelasma caudipunctata spec. dot.

Forewing : grass-green ; costa with white clots ; lines white ; first from near
base to beyond one-third of inner margin, ontenrved above and below median vein ;
outer line from three- fourths of costa to nearly three-fourths of inner margin,
lunulate-dentate, oblique outwards to vein G ; white marginal dots at the ends
of veius ; fringe grey -green.

Bindwing : with outer line curved, the lunnle below vein 5 more broadly
white ; tooth at vein 4 with the spot large and running into fringe.

Underside of forewing bright pale green, whiter towards inner margin ; of
hindwing whitish green throughout.

Face, palpi above, forelegs, and pectinations of antennae olive-green ; fillet
and shaft of antennae white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green, like wings ;
dorsum with white spots; abdomen beneath, legs, and pectus white.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

3 c?c?.

85. Melochlora papuensis spec. nov.

Forewing : deep apple-green ; costa ochreous with very fine oblique red striae ;
lines very fine; first near base, purplish, ontenrved on both sides of the median,
and with dark dots on the veins, closely followed by a black cell-spot with a minute
speck above it; outer line from four-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin,
finely lunulate-dentate, the teeth marked by dark dots on veins ; fringe glossy
white with greenish base ; a red-brown spot at apex.

Hindwing: with the two dots on discoeellular plain; the outer line curved
and slightly postmedian ; fringe greenish white, with a minute red dot at the
tail on vein 4.

Underside whitish green, flushed with deep rosy at base of forewing, and
faintly in hindwing ; costa of forewing yellow ; a red spot at apex of forewing
and tail of hindwing.

Palpi and collar deep red ; face and vertex and shaft of antennae snow-white ;
thorax and basal half of dorsum green ; anal half white, with some bright red
scales at middle ; legs, pectus, and abdomen beneath whitish ; foretibia deep red.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

lc?.

86. Phorodesma sexmaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : deep green ; costa purplish grey speckled with dark ; a broad while
tooth from it to below middle of discoeellular edged with purplish ; three round
white blotches, tinged with pinkish and speckled with dark, broadly edged with
purple; one at base, a smaller one at anal angle, and a much larger one at apex ;
this last with four purple marginal spots between the veins ; marginal line between
the blotches purple ; fringe grey.

Hindwing : with large oval apical and small round anal blotch ; inner margin
narrowly purple, with the fringe white.

Underside pale green, with the blotches showing whitish ; an elongate pnrplc
snbapical and oval aual blotch on forewing and very large apical blotch on
hindwing. i

Palpi whitish, purple above; face green above, pale below ; vertex and basal
segment of antennae white; shoulders and patagia green; thorax and abdomen

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white ; basal segment of dorsum green, edged behind with pnrple ; the other
segments with pairs of purple dots ; abdomen beneath and legs whitish ; foretarsi
purple with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

1 ?.

87. Poecilostigma florediscata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale grey-green ; the costa white underlined with buff in 1 asal
two-thirds, the base itself brown ; lines dark green ; first from one-fifth of costa,
oblique and forming three curves to middle of inner margin ; outer regularly
lunulate-dentate, from five-sixths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, the teeth
deeper green ; discocellnlar marked with blackish, placed in the middle of a grey
central fascia, outwardly dentate, reaching from subcostal vein to vein 2 ; black
marginal spots ; fringe pale yellow.

Hindwing : like forewing, but the discocellnlar marked with deep red in the
midst of a flower-shaped red patch, edged with grey and speckled with ochreons.

Underside whitish-green, rather deeper below costa of forewing, which is white.

Face above, palpi, vertex, and thorax deep green ; abdomen paler green like
wings ; the dorsal segments with pairs of deep green spots ; abdomen beneath
and legs whitish ; fillet broadly white ; face below paler.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

2<?<J.

88. Pyrrhaspis glauca spec. nov.

Forewing : blue-green, slightly transparent ; costal edge yellow ; lines formed
of white spots on veins ; first oblique outwards from one-fourth of costa to one-third
of inner margin, the subcostal spot faint, that on snbmedian large; outer line
slightly curved at two-thirds, the first spot on vein 6, that on snbmedian very
large ; cell-spot deeper blue-green ; minute dark dots at the ends of veins ; fringe
whitish.

Hindwing : the same, but the outer line strongly curved.

Underside whitish green, the spots showing through.

Face, palpi, thorax, and dorsum deep blue-green ; vertex and antennal shaft
white ; anal segment of abdomen, the underside, pectus, and legs whitish.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 6.

89. Pyrrhaspis marina spec. nov.

Forewing: semitransparent grey -green ; costa narrowly white; lines as in
glauca, and formed by white spots on the veins ; the spot on vein 5 in outer line
narrow and elongate and nearer base ; below vein 3 the line is more deeply iubent,
and the white spot on snbmedian vein is large and extended to margin ; cell-spot
deep green ; fringe green, with white spots at the vein ends.

Hindwing : like forewing.

Underside whitish green, the spots showing through; costa of forewing pale.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark green ; palpi externally green ; fillet white ;
anal tnft whitish.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

2 ??.

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Strepsiclilora gen. now

Forewing : costa curved throughout ; outer margin straight, nearly vertical.

Hindwing : with anal angle produced; outer margin bent at vein 4, more
strongly in ? .

Antennae of <S bi pectinate, the apex simple; palpi slender, porrect ; terminal
segment longer in ?; tongue present ; frenulum slight; hindlegs of S with tiliiae
three times the length of tarsi, thickened with a sheath, with four short spurs.

Neuration : as in Thalassodes.

Type : Strepsichlora acutilunata spec. nov.

The species described as R/wmborista inquinata in Nov. Zoo!, x. p. 303 (1903)
should be referred here, though it differs from the type in being more thickly
scaled, in the pectinated portion of the antennae of c? being shorter and the hind-
tibia less swollen.

90. Strepsichlora acutilunata spec. nov.

3. Forewing: grass-green, towards costa with irregular brown dusting; lines
very deeply lunulate-dentate ; first whitish, edged with brown scales on each side,
forming two elongated lnnules above and two below median, and half a lunule below
vein I, the lunule above vein 1 generally obsolete, the black dots marking the
inward teeth on costal and submedian veins displaced far basewards ; outer line
still more deeply lunulate-dentate, the outward teeth purplish preceded by white
dashes, the purple inward lnnules much nearer base and often interrupted, the
lines connecting them deep green ; cell-spot purplish ; fringe green.

Hindwing : with the lines both present but very indistinct ; cell-spot small.

Underside shining whitish green ; costal third of forewing deep sea-green,
the costal edge fuscous.

Face, vertex, thorax, and dorsum green ; palpi purple above, ochreous below ;
fillet narrowly purplish ; a purple spot on metathorax, and a row of white spots
on dorsum ; antenna] shaft brown with paler annulations ; pectinations grey ;
abdomen at sides and beneath, aud the legs white.

? yellow-green ; costal edge iu middle white, with clear brown striations ; the
lnnules edged with darker brown, the two above median in inner line projected
so as nearly to touch the cell-spot, which is large, red-brown, preceded by a white
spot, the upper lunule with a brown spot on costa above it ; the double lunule
of the outer line in submedian interval is similarly intensified and inwardly marked
by a white spot ; fringes pinkish, with slight dark spots beyond the veins ;
antennae speckled brown and whitish ; palpi whiter.

Expanse of wings : $, 35 mm. ; ? , 40 mm.

7c? c?, 1 ?.

91. Tachyphyle convergens spec. nov.

Forewing: pale green, with an olive-green straight line from middle of inner
margin towards apex, before which it is recurved to costa ; on the basal side of
the line the wing is washed with bluish white, becoming greener again below
costa ; costal edge finely red ; basal line fine, purplish, angled above and below
median, and dotted on the veins and folds ; discocellular marked by minute purplish
dots at upper end and middle ; the veins white beyond the middle ; an obscure
bluish white subiuarginal shade ; fringe whitish, marked with deep red at apex and
anal angle,

( 1" )

Hindi/ring : whitish at base, the olive line crossing at one-fourth and marked
with red scales, the dark green beyond it paling again before a straight postruedian
line marked by dark vein-dots.

Underside whitish green ; costa of forewing reddish at base ; apex bright red,
that of hind wing with a fuscous spot; a reddish tinge before anal angle of
forewing.

Palpi deep red ; face and vertex silvery white ; thorax and abdomen green,
the latter whiter towards amis and darker green at middle, with minute red dorsal
points ; underside and legs whitish green ; foretibiae red.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

2 <?<?.

02. Thalassodes balteata spec. nov.

Forewing : greenish white ; with two broad deep green bands before and
beyond the middle ; the base narrowly deep green with a silvery white spot at
base of median vein ; fringe worn, probably deep green.

Hindwing -. the same.

Underside whitish green, with the dark green bands showing throngh.

Face green above, white below ; fillet white ; thorax and dorsum dark green ;
abdomen beneath and legs whitish ; antennae green.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 (?.

93. Thalerura subangulata spec. nov.

Forewing : bright green ; costa narrowly red-brown, more broadly at base ;
basal line marked by rusty brown spots, on the folds as well as on the veins, some-
times faintly connected ; two similar spots on the discocellular represent the cell-
spot ; outer line regularly dentate-lnnnlate, from four-fifths of costa to three-fourths
of inner margin, parallel to outer margin, reddish, the teeth often more strongly
marked ; margiual line coppery red, darker at the base of fringe, which is white,
with slight brown flecks beyond veins.

Hindwing : without basal line ; the outer line ending in a large red blotch,
at middle of inner margin.

Underside whitish green ; costa of forewing and marginal lines on both wings
reddish ; base of forewing also obscurely reddish tinged.

Palpi red, with terminal segment white ; face, vertex, and basal segment of
antennae white ; thorax and basal half of dorsum green; collar, a spot on meta-
thorax, and two large blotches on the praeanal segments of dorsum red-brown ;
abdomen beneath and at sides and the legs white ; forelegs red in front.

Expanse of wings : ? 30—32 mm.

5 ? ?.

The forewing has a slight angle in outer margin at vein 4.

Subfamily STERRHINAE.

Argyroscelia gen. nov.

A development of Ptychopoda-, distinguished by the armature of the hindlcgs
of the <$ ; these have a very large and dense tuft of hair from the femoro-tibial
joint as long as the tibia itself; the tarsus and tibia are externally fringed with

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hairs and internally clothed with smooth very glossy silvery scaling1, the end of the
tihia hearing a flap-like process, which is capable oflateral extension.
Type : Argyroscelia gravipes spec. nov.

04. Argyroscelia gravipes spec. nov.

Foreiving : brownish grey, slightly dusted with dark ; lines very obscure,
rather darker on costa and at inner margin, antemediau, postmedian, and two
submargiual ; cell-spot black, distinct ; fringe concolorous, with dark dots along
its base.

Hindwing : similar ; outer line marked by a black spot on inner margin.

Underside pale brownish ochreous, with the cell-spots clear.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; face ami palpi dark brown; legs
ochreous ; tibial tuft ochreous, that on femur dark pink.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

3 ii, 1 ?.

95. Chrysocraspeda analiplaga spec. nov.

Foreiving : purplish red, without distinct markings ; outer margin yellow, very
narrowly from vein 4 to 2 and interrupted at 3 where the red touches the margin,
and forming a large triangular blotch at anal angle ; the edge of the red ground-
colour is bright blood-red, a streak of this running inwards along vein 2 ; cell-spot
black ; minute red dots at end of veins ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing: with the yellow margin fairly broad to vein 3, quite narrow from
3 to anal angle ; cell-spot shining white ; fringe yellow.

Underside rosy pink, with the yellow margin and fringe as above ; cell-spot of
hindwing dull-white.

Vertex, thorax, and dorsum purple-red; face and antennae yellowish varied
with red ; abdomen at sides and beneath and the legs yellowish ; forelegs rosy.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 ?.

Outer margins of both wings rounded.

96. Chrysocraspeda fasciata spec. nov.

Forewing : blood-red ; the costa with red and yellow striae ; a slightly darker
central fascia with darker edges, the inner preceded and the outer followed by
a faintly paler line, each marked by a yellowish spot on snbmedian fold ; the red
ground runs to margin at apex, and between veins 3 and 4 ; on each side of this
space the margin and fringe are yellow. The ? has some grey scaling in middle
with darker striae and no yellowish edging to the lines.

Hindwing : brighter red ; the yellow outer margin broader and not interrupted ;
fringe of inner margin yellow; edges of fascia very indistinct ; in the ? with a
yellow baud close to base.

Underside dark grey, with the outer margins and fringes yellow, the yellow
lines visible in the t?.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish, in the ? grey-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 c?, 1 ?.

Oater margins rounded in both wiugs. Veins 10 and 11 coincident]}' anastomose
with 12, in afterwards anastomosing with 8, 9, firming a double areole.

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97. Chrysocraspeda ignita spec. nov.

Forewing : brownish slate-colonr ; the costa diffusely red beyond middle, and
qnite narrowly at base, with a cloudy red triangle before middle at the apex of
which is a yellowish cell-spot; the dark ground-colonr is broadly edged with vivid
red, forming teeth at veins 2 and 3 touching the margin, which is narrowly yellow
above, and forms a yellow triangle at anal angle ; fringe yellow, touched with red
at vein 3.

Hindwing : similar, without costal triangle ; cell-spot small, white.

Underside of forewing deep blood-red, the inner margin slaty black ; of
hindwing wholly black with the margin only blood-red ; yellow fringes and margin
as above.

Vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face reddish yellow ; abdomen beneath
whitish ; legs reddish.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 ?.

Outer margin slightly elbowed in both wings.

98. Chrysocraspeda praegriseata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull greyish rosy ; the costa and apex pale ashy grey ; the edge of
the rosy area deeper red, especially before apex, where it is irregularly waved ; a
red oblique streak from costa near base to the black cell-spot, where it is angled
and runs obliquely inwards to base of inner margin ; a slighter streak from middle
of costa running in to the deeper edge ; fringe yellowish grey; marginal line pink
below middle.

Hindwing : with darker red striae in places, a red line close to base and an
obscure snbmarginal one ; a diffuse deep red marginal shade, before which the
ground-colour is paler ; fringe yellow ; cell-spot white surrounded with deep red.

Underside slaty grey ; the costa of forewing broadly aud of hindwing narrowly
dull red ; fringes yellow.

Head, shoulders, and abdomen deep red; patagia and thorax greyish red.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 <?.

99. Chrysocraspeda purpurissa spec. nov.

Forewing : dull purplish ; lines dull red-brown, basal, antemedian, and sub-
marginal ; the first two excurved in middle aud recurved to inner margin, the
outer running near and parallel to outer margin ; all marked with brighter red
below middle ; marginal area very slenderly yellow, the dark ground-colour limited
by a deep red crenulate line, running into fringe at apex ; fringe yellow, with a red
blotch beyond vein 3 ; costa narrowly red with dark dots.

Hindwing : bright brick-red, covered with short dark transverse striae ; a black
cell-spot aud blackish snbmarginal line, the margin beyond it suffused with darker;
fringe and hindmargin narrowly yellow.

Underside dark slate-colour, the narrow margin and fringe yellow ; some obscure
snbmarginal yellow spots.

Head and thorax purple mixed with red; abdomen brick-red spotted with black.

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Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 ?.

Both wings with outer margins rounded. Veins 10 and 11 coineidently anasto-
mose with 12, 10 afterwards anastomosing with 8 and 9.

100. Chrysocraspeda uncimargo spec. nov.

Fore wing : grey-brown, striated with chocolate-brown and with a chocolate-
brown cloud at base and before the yellow margin above median vein ; a broad
chocolate mark across cell before the obliipie black discal mark; veins yellow,
finely dotted with black ami brown; costa broadly dull yellow, becoming buff before
apex and along onter margin to below middle, separated from the dark ground
by a pale yellow bracket-shaped mark ; the margin below middle yellow; fringe
yellow, brownish between veins 3 and 4.

Hindu-lug: base deep brown, followed by a curved bnff fascia ; cell-mark
linear, silvery white, touching a red-brown streak and shade, the rest of the wing
being olive-brown, with a dull yellow submargiual patch above middle ; fringe
yellowish.

Underside of forewing dull black, the outer margin and fringe yellow, the costa
red ; hindwing with cell and costal area black, the rest yellow flushed with reddish :
the linear cell-sjjot black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen bnff; sides of abdomen deep brown from base,
meeting across third segment : abdomen beneath and legs yellowish white.

Expanse of win^s : 24 mm.

2 SS.

Forewing strongly elbowed at middle, the lower half of outer margin nearly
parallel to costa; hindwing strongly but bluntly angled in middle.

101. Emmiltis delospila spec. nov. ami ab. griseella nov.

Forewing: bone-colour, slightly grey-speckled, more thickly along costa;
lines grey ; the first curved, near base, marked by three distinct black spots on the
veins ; the outer at four-fifths, with all the teeth well marked on the veins, that on
vein 0 displaced outwards ; cell-spot, and marginal spots black ; median shade
lunnlate-dentate, from costa shortly before outer line, strongly incurved below
middle to middle of inner margin ; two faint grey snbmarginal shades ; fringe
concolorous ; a black dot at base of vein 1.

Hindwing: without basal line; the autemedian inarched before the black
cell-spot ; the inner snbmarginal shade distinct and broad.

Underside clear whitish, with the outer row of dots distinct ; forewing suffused
with grey towards base and costa ; cell-spots black.

Lower half of face and palpi beneath bone-colour, above dark brown : vertex
white ; thorax and abdomen bone-colonr dusted with grey.

Expanse of wings : £ 2"> mm. ; ? 24 — 27 mm.

1 c?,5 ? ?.

Hindtibiae much thickened ; hiudtarsi short, about one-third of the length of
tibiae ; ciliations of antennae of t? long.

In the aberration griseella the grey dusting is much denser, and all the grey
lines thicker; the face is morejiroadly brown, and the wings expand only 22 mm.

1 S, 2 ¥ ¥, from the same locality as the typo.

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102. Eremocentra glareosa spec. uov. and ab. fuscisecta uov.

Forewing : greyish yellow, (lasted witb pinkish grey ; tbe lines grey, marked
by deep purple or black spots on veins ; tbe median shade distinct, and tbe
teetb of outer line prominent ; cell-spot small, cloudy, blackish ; marginal spots
between tbe veins ; fringe like wings.

llindwing : the same ; a few red scales close to base ; cell-spot whitish, oval,
sometimes within a thick black ring.

Underside paler, with the markings red, especially the cell-spots ; forewing
deep rosy at base.

Palpi red above, yellowish below ; face red above, white below: vertex, thorax,
and abdomen like wings ; dorsum with small red dots ; forelegs in front, and tuft
of hindtibiae deep rosy.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

11 6S.

One of these, rather smaller than the average, is without grey dusting, and has
tbe lines obsolete except the inner and outer, which are marked by black vein-dots
only ; but instead shows a thick fuscous dentate median shade crossing middle
of both wings, while tbe anal angle of forewing and apical angle of hiudwing are
both fuscous ; for this the name fuscisecta is j>roposed.

103. Eremocentra strarameata spec. uov.

Forewing : yellow straw-colour, dusted with red atoms ; the lines grey ; first
at one-fourth, outcnrved above and below median vein, marked by darker vein-
dots and one on subcostal nearer base ; median shade distinctly dentate-lunulate,
projecting on veins 3 and 4 ; outer line lunulate-deutate, the teeth marked black
on the veins ; praesubmarginal shade interrupted between 6 and 7, and between
3 and 4 ; black marginal spots between veins and dots at their ends ; fringe straw-
colour; cell-spot oval, marked with a black dot towards costa.

llindwing : tbe same, tbe cell-spot round, black-edged.

Underside paler ; the markings rosy, plainer in forewing than hindwing ; the
cell-spots ringed with rosy.

Palpi deep red above, ocbreous below ; face white, dull red above ; vertex and
thorax straw-colour dusted with reddish ; abdomen pure straw-colour, with a deep
rosy saddle on fourth segment ; abdomen beneath and legs pale straw ; foretibiae
in front and the tufts on hindtibiae and femora rosy.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

1 6.

Euthysana gen. uov.

Distinguished by the very long and dense curved cilia of the antennae of
the c? ; in the hindwing 6, 7 are not stalked, but from upper end of cell, as in
Entmiltis Hub. ; but the ? has only terminal spurs as in Ptychopoda Stph., with
which the hindlegs of the c? agree. The scaling of tbe discocellular spot of tbe
hindwing also is peculiar.

Type : E. incompicua Warr. (Si/mmacra).

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lu4. Euthysana inconspicua.

Symmacra incougpicua Warr., Nov. ZociL vi. p. 338, J (IhO'J)-

I (It'scribcil the species in 1809 from a single ?, placing it temporarily in
Symmacra. The insect lias not reappeared in the various consignments from New
Guinea until lately, when 4 3 <S and 1 ? have come from Biagi.

It cannot be left in Symmacra, as the hindlegs of the S are aborted, as in
Ptyckopoda, and without spurs. The S 6 are slightly smaller thau the ? ?
(22 mm.), and all alike are tinged with reddish, which was not observable in the
type specimen. The darker lines are accompanied by a pale line, following the
outer and preceding the inner.

105. Organopoda orbata spec. nov.

Forewing : very dark red-brown, the markings dark fuscous and obscure, the
whole with an olive tinge ; costal edge deep red; base, inner, median, outer, and
two sabmarginal shades thick and dark;_the median and outer incurved below
middle ; minute pale marginal dots at the vein ends; fringe reddish, dark brown
in basal half ; cell-spot large, round, white, edged with dark and with some dark
scales at middle.

Hindwing : similar ; with the basal line absent ; cell-spot four times as large
as on forewing, with a black ring at centre.

Underside of forewing dull rosy, with the lines deeper; of hindwing dull
yellow, flushed with rosy towards costa ; cell-spot reddish.

Face, palpi, collar, and forelegs deep red ; < vertex and antennae white ;
thorax aud abdomen like wings ; tufts of hindtibiae deep rosy ; fringe of tarsi
rosy ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 <J.

106. Organopoda sublucens spec. nov.

Forewing : deep red-brown, powdered with dark scales, the tips of which iu
certain lights take a lilac reflection ; the markings blackish, obscure ; inner,
median, outer, aud two submarginal shades ; the median thick ; the outer thin ;
both vertical, aud outcurved from fold to fold ; costal edge aud a marginal line
deep red, without dark or light scales ; cell-spot large, blackish ; fringe reddish.

Hindwing : similar ; the basal line wanting.

Underside dull vinous; cell-spot of hindwing deep red; inner margin of
forewing whitish.

Face, palpi, and collar deep red; thorax anil abdomen red-brown mixed with
dark scales ; vertex aud antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 ?.

107. Perixera bisecta Warr.

This species was described from 2 ? ? from the Angabunga River aud doubt-
fully referred to Perixera. I have now seen a pair from Biagi, the d of which is
a true Perixera, belonging to the section with tufted hindtibiae. The species
described at the same time, also from 2 ? ? , as P.'t indigent, must, I think, be
referred to bisecta as an aberration, without the cross-line at middle.

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108. Perixera exaucta spec. nov.

Like P. subalbescens Warr., but larger and with a very pronounced ochreons
tinge, with the lines and shades all more strongly marked than in that species,
but otherwise exactly corresponding ; in the hindwing, however, the cell-spot is
decidedly larger, round and yellow, with some orange scales before the dark ring,
which is very slight. Underneath the ochreons tinge is more evident ; the base of
costa is dull red, and the cell-spot of hindwing reddish.

2 3$.

These <J t expand 35 mm., and are as large as the ¥ ? of subalbescens.

109. Perixera? flavissima spec. nov.

Forewing : deep dull yellow, covered with olive-grey and reddish striae ; lines
slightly darker, reddish grey, obscure : first at one-fourth, rather thick, outenrved
above and below median vein ; cell-spot formed of a few white scales ; median
shade thick and dentate, projecting on veins 3 and 4 ; outer line lnnulate-dentate,
the teeth marked dark grey on the veins ; snbmarginal line pale in the midst of
a deeper band ; marginal spots purple between the veins ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing : similar ; the cell-spot white and larger.

Underside like npper.

Face and palpi reddish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen deep yellow ; forelegs
and some lateral patches on abdomen reddish.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 ?.

110. Perixera? indecisa spec. nov.

Forewing : pale luteous, thickly sprinkled with greyish purple atoms, darkest
along costa ; inner aud outer lines marked only by slight dark dashes on veins,
sometimes united by a faint grey line ; cell-spot linear, dark, followed by a faint
sinuous median shade which is sligbtly dentate externally on the veins ; marginal
purplish dots between veins and minute ones at their ends ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : the same, but the cell-spot whitish and oval.

Underside pale rosy, deeper in forewing; marginal dots reddish ; the others
showing through.

Palpi and forelegs deep red ; face brownish red, pale below ; vertex and
antennae white ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

3 ¥ ?.

111. Perixera subalbescens Warr.

In the description of this species in Nov. Zool. x. p. 368 (1903) the cell-spot of
the hindwing is stated to have a small pale centre ; this is trne as far as it goes,
but the scales are really yellow in the middle; of 4 e?<? from Biagi, lately
received, one agrees exactly with the type, the other three have the black rings of
the cell-spot in the hindwing reduced, and the central yellow scales correspond-
ingly developed into a plain round yellow spot. In 2 ¥ ? , however, from the same
locality, which are probably the other sex of subalbescens, the cell-spot of hindwing
has the black ring larger and more oval and the centre composed of pale pinkish
scales; these ? ? have a more decided brownish middle shade than the <?<?, and
expand 35 mm. to the 80 mm. of the <$.

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112. Pisoraca festiva Warr.
Perixem{?) fsstiea Warr., Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 00. $ (1906).

A series of 10 6 6 and 1 ? from Biagi shows that this insect is a Pisoraca;
the discocellnlar spots of hindwing vary mnch in colour and size.

113. Pisoraca rufiplaga ab. fasciata nov. and ab. nigriversa uov.

The insect described by me in Soc. Zool. x. p. 307 (1903) as Mesotropke !
rufiplaga,wa& that in Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 01 (1906) as Perixera? stabilata, both ? ?,
prove to belong to one and the same species, of which the hindtibia of the 6 has
the three spurs of Pisoraca. Taking 1'. rufiplaga as the type, stabilata must be
considered an aberration ; to which I now add two more.

The aberration fasciata has no dark markings (except sometimes the cell-spot,
of hindwing), but the space between median ami outer lines and the marginal space
beyond submarginal line both stand out as greyer fasciae. In the aberration
nigriversa the reddish blotches of the type are changed to black, but the blotch
beyond the cell is not represented.

A long series, including 1 6 of the type form and 1 ¥ of aberration nigriversa,
3 66, 3 ? ¥ of aberration futsviata, and 5 tJcT, 3 ? ? of Stabilata.

114. Pisoraca tenuis spec. nov.

Forewing : fawn-colour, sometimes brownish- or reddish-tinged, very finely
dusted with darker; the veins sometimes showing darker; lines obscure, marked
only by small dark dots on veins, the inner near base and the outer near margin ;
cell-spot small, linear, on upper half of discocellnlar ; fringe rather paler, with
minute dark dots at margin between the veins; a faintly darker sinuous median
shade.

Hindwing: more thinly scaled; and without inner row of dots.

Underside pale flesh-colour, redder in forewing, with the marginal dots plainer ;
the others showing through.

Face, palpi, and forelegs above dull reddish, pale below ; vertex, thorax, and
abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm.

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1 1 5. Ptychopoda biagita spec. nov.

Forewing : dull brick-red, the bands and dusting olive-ochreous ; costal streak
ochreous ; basal band curved from one-fourth of Costa to one-third of inner margin,
the area within it mainly ochreons ; outer band at three-fourths, vertical, outeurved
from 4 to submediau fold ; submarginal, more waved, to anal angle; a pale band
along outer margin ; fringe ochreous, with dark dots on base at the vein ends ;
cell-spot blackish, distinct.

Hindwing: similar; the inner margin with ochreous scales.

Underside ochreous; the dark areas slightly marked in reddish; cell-spots
large and plain.

Face and palpi externally dark purple-brown ; thorax and abdomen ochreous,
the latter belted with reddish ; vertex and antennae ochreous ; middle tibiae with

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an expansible pencil of ochreous hairs : hindfemora with a dense tuft of dark grey
and ochreons hairs.

Expanse of wings : 17 rum.

1 <J.

116. Zeugma albidisca spec. nov.

Forewing : ochreons grey, slightly dark-speckled ; lines shown by dark vein-
spots, but very indistinct, except those below middle of outer line, which runs to
near middle of inner margin; minute dark dots at the euds of the veins and on the
margin between them ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : similar, but the cell-spot large, oblong, silvery white.

Underside pale ochreous, flushed in forewing with dull pink, with outer and
submarginal pinkish bands : hindwing with three pink bauds, and the cell-spot
whitish in a pink suffusion.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; lower half of face, fillet, and antenna] shaft
white.

In the ? the ground-colour is yellowish ochreous, showing especially along the
course of the outer and submarginal lines ; the cell-spot of hindwing reduced to a
small white mark.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 <?, 1 ¥.

Subfamily HYURIOMENINAE.
117. Chaetolopha semiradiata spec. nov.

Forewing: sandy brown, dusted with dark brown; markings dark brown,
thick ; costa at base brown ; first line from one-third of costa oblique inwards
to one-fifth of inner margin, thickened below cell, diffuse outwards ; second
from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, somewhat excurved from cell
and thickened below it, diffuse inwardly ; first edged by a slightly paler space
inwardly and second outwardly ; two brown streaks before onter margin, one,
horizontal, along vein 7, the other, somewhat oblique, along vein 2 ; a fine dark
brown marginal line ; fringe pale with dark mottling beyond veins : along lower
half of cell and beyond to submarginal line a blurred grey streak from base.

Hindwing: pale brownish grey : a broad pale band just beyond middle bent
on median vein, diffuse outwardly, edged inwardly by a slight dark line ; cell-spot
grey, obscure.

Underside paler ; forewing blurred, without markings ; basal half dull grey,
edged with paler: hindwing with clear dark brown speckling ; cell-spot and outer
line distinct, dark brown; the line pale-edged outwardly.

Head, thorax, and abdomen sandy brown ; palpi externally and edge of patagia
dark brown ; dorsum with a pale Hue down the middle.

Expanse of wings: 22 mm.

1 3.

lis. Coenocalpe caliginosa spec. nov.

Forewing: dark brown, with the markings blackish ; a dark brown basal patch,
followed by a paler brown curved band; central fascia dark brown with blackish
bands at its edges and crossed by waved dark lines ; its outer edge is indented
below costa, iusiuuate beyond cell, and forms two blunt teeth projecting below

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middle; followed by a pale hand and dark praesubmaririnal shade traversed by two
dentate lines ; submarginal line pale, zigzag, obscured l>y a blackish cloud beyond
cell, and below veiu 4 becoming a more or less conspicuous pale streak; marginal
line fine, black, interrupted by pale dots on the veins ; fringe dark brown.

Hindtoing : similar.

Underside pale grey, with all the bands slightly darker.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

2 Jc?,2 ? ?.

Superficially much like Eucymatoge subradiata from the same place, but the
undersides are quite different.

119. Coenocalpe hirtivena ab. carneata nov.

Differs from the type of hirtivena Warr. in having the ground-colour of basal
and marginal areas of both wings and the whole of the body deep flesh-colour.
1 <J and 1 ¥ worn, along with several of the type form.

120. Collix suffusca spec. nov.

Foremng : olive grey-brown, with a purplish sheen in certain lights ; the lines
darker brown, double, and acutely angled outwards on subcostal vein; basal, ante-
median, and postmediau, the last widely outcurved beyond the cell-spot, which is
kidney-shaped finely edged with yellowish, the centre of velvety black erect scales ;
band beyond postmediau outwardly edged by a regularly lunulate-dentate dark line,
the teeth of which touch black lines running to outer margin, across which the
submarginal line cuts, forming bright white spots ; pale marginal dots at the end
of veins ; fringe concolorous.

Hindtoing : similar, but the cell-spot smaller, and the submarginal white dots
larger.

Underside uniform silky olive-brown ; cell-spots black; two curved series of
elongate dark brown marks, postmedian and submarginal, the former on, the latter
between, the veins.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; palpi and a lateral stripe on basal half of
abdomen ruddy.

Expanse of wings : 6 3U mm. ; ? 34 mm.

3 cJcJ, 2 ¥ ?.

Differs from the other species by the dark underside.

121. Crasilogia flavipennis spec. nov.

S. Identical with C. dispar in forewing except that the inner edge of central
fascia is not so oblique, starting more vertically, from costa ; consequently the pale
band between basal patch and central fascia is wider at costa than in dispar; and
:is the inner edge becomes oblique only from submedian fold to inner margin, the
central fascia itself is wider on inner margin than in dispar: in the hindwing
instead of the white of dispar, the costal area is yellowish white, while the
rough-haired portion of the wing below vein 7 is greyish fulvous instead of pale
grey, and the curved fringes of the cleft are olive-brown instead of black. Moreover
the shape of the hindwing is different: instead of the wing being shouldered at

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apex and the outer margin running nearly straight to the cleft, the apex and outer
margin are well-rounded and the bead at vein 4 not BO prominent.

In the ? the hindwing is wholly deep yellow, without grey shading anl ban U.

IS, 1 ?, the same size as C. dispar.

122. Crasilogia fumipennis Warr.

The species was referred to Crasilogia in the absence of the c? : cf. Nov.
Zool. xiii. p. 'J'.* ( 1906) ; and the examination of that sex confirms the position.

The forewing of the <5 does not differ from that of the ? , except in being
somewhat darker : the hindwing is trowel-shaped, with the obtuse angle of apex
and anal angle opposite each other ; the wing above is wholly covered with a mat
of raised furry seales, olive fuscous at base, the apical third, with the fringe, being
glossy ochreous.

Underneath the wiug is crossed by the same wavy lines and grey shades
as in the ?. The anal segment of abdomen is thickened, fuscous varied with
yellowish ; the anal tufts pale ochreous.

2 <?cJ, accompanied by 4 ? ?.

The S is the same size as that given for the ? in the original description,
but some of the ? ¥ from the Mambare River are 42 mm.

123. Crasilogia subflava spec. nov.

This species, of which only a ? has arrived, closely resembles fumipennis :
the ground-colour of the intervals is paler, being without the dark shades of
fumipennis, consisting of an equal admixture of olive-yellow and fuscous scales ;
the outer edge of the central fascia is less strongly crenulate, and not followed
by a distinct yellow line : the hindwing is a much paler olive-brown.

The underside, however, differs altogether : the base of the forewing and costal
area to submarginal line are dull deep yellow, the rest of the wing olive fuscous ;
the fringe yellow with fuscous mottling: hindwing dull yellow, with two curved
waved thick lines and a broad marginal border fuscous ; the yellow intervals dusted
with fuscous, hardly forming lines.

Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous and ochreous mixed.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 ?.

Lasioedma gen. nov.

Forewing : triangular ; costa straight, with a slight curve at base and before
apex ; outer margin curved, as long as inner margin.

Hindwing : in S narrowed : underside with a deep narrow furrow along the
Bubmedian fold, the space between it and inner margin swollen on both surfaces,
folded over beneath and containing a large bed of down within ; a fringe of hair
along median vein and vein 2 above.

Palpi nearly as in .. Eschrostoma Warr. ; the second segment bearded, the third
short, drooping. Antennae bipectinate.

Areole of forewing single; 10 and 11 being stalked, 10 anastomosing with
7, 8, 0.

Basal half "1' venter with a mat of rough scaling, a lateral curl of hairs
on each segment.

Tvpe : Lasioedma fioccosa spec. nov.

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124. Lasioedma floccosa Bpec. nov.

Forewing : dark brick-red; costa dotted black and white, with outwardly
oblique whitish streaks from it : lines waved, black and white, basal and
antemedian and four postruediau ; the outermost insinuate on each fold, the sinus
rilled with whitish scales ; submarginal line of white wedge-shaped marks, rilled
up with deep black below costa, beyond cell, and on submedian fold and edged
outwardly with black : cell-spot large and black ; a blackish shade along outer
half of each fold ; space from 5 to 7 between outer and submarginal lines purer
red; apex black; marginal line fine, concisely black; fringe reddish, with
blackish mottling.

Hindiving : similar in ?: in the S the Hues are less expressed, but the veins
are dotted black and white ; the swollen fold on inner margin is clothed with black
and white scales, the furrow being smooth and ochreous ; the fringe of hair on
median vein reddish.

Underside duller, with all the markings blacker and plainer, especially in S ;
the hindwing and inner half of forewing whiter; the fold and furrow in 3 glossy
ochreous.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish speckled with grey ; anal tuft of 3
ochreous ; praeaual segments of dorsum blackish.

Expause of wings : 30 mm.

10 3 3, 2 ? ?.

125. Ochyria auratisquama spec. nov.

Forewing : brownish fuscous ; all the lines silvery bluish, but apt to be
interrupted ; basal patch rather darker, crossed by two and edged by a third
bluish line ; central fascia dark brown, edged on each side by a silvery blue line,
and with a single line across its middle; the two pale bands on each side formed
of gilded yellow scales with two very fine dentate dark lines through each ;
submarginal line wavy, lustrous, preceded and followed by brown shades, the
marginal shade mixed with golden, especially below vein 4 ; fringe brown, its
basal half blotched with blue between the veins, the outer half mottled brown
and whitish.

Hindwing: pale grey, rather bronzy; the fringe rufous.

Underside olive-grey ; some bluish white scales along outer margin and fringes;
the hindwing with the curved cross-lines accompanied by whitish scales.

Head, thorax, and abdomen a mixture of brown, yellow, and lustrous blue
scales.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

4 33, 4 ? ?.

120. Ochyria prodiga spec. nov.

Very close to O.fulvietriga Warr., of which eight examples, quite typical, have
been received from the same locality as the present species. It differs in bavin"
all the markings more waved and sinuate instead of straight and exact : the lustrous
tints stronger, especially in the outer half of wing; the hindwing dark slaty
grey, like the underside of both wings. .Superficially it might be mistaken for
Xenoclystia itnipuncta, but the different antennae will distinguish it.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

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127. Onagrodes recurva spec nov.

Forewing : snuff-brown ; towards base and along costa and outer margin
broken up by brownish buff scales ; along costa there are visible oblique streaks
of brown with broader pale intervals ; at one-fourth and two-thirds there are traces
of darker dentate lines, the first obscurely curved to two-fifths of inner margin, the
outer oblique to vein 6, then incurved to two-thirds of inner margin ; submarginal
pale and waved ; cell-spot brown.

Hindwing : with outer margin broadly and inner margin more narrowly
snuff-brown ; the area within smooth dull blurred grey, containing an oval patch
of mealy ochreons scales.

Underside of forewing pale brown in costal half, with the lines obscurely
darker ; dark brown below middle, with an oval patch of ochreons scales between
veins 1 and 2 : hindwing brown, crossed by some pale lines, and with indications
of the pale patch of npperside.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all snuff-brown.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 <?.

All the wings have a tendency to curve upwards along the outer margins,
so that the short fringes are at right angles to the plane of the wing.

128. Spectrobasis differens spec. nov.

Forewing : olive-fuscous, not so dark as in maligna ; the costa, as in that
species, green for one-third from base, then pink with dark streaks ; submarginal
line not visible, but on the other hand the two lines edging the central fascia
traceable ; fringe whitish, pink only along base, mottled with black.

Hindwing : uniform fuscous, with the bauds of underside hardly showing ;
fringe fnscons.

Underside of forewing like maligna, but paler ; the costa in <$ tinged with
yellowish-ochreous as well as red : hindwing in $ with the antemedi.-tn band
narrower and better defined ; the base of postmedian white to middle ; the
submarginal formed of separate white wedge-shaped marks ; costa yellowish
ochreous ; in ? more or less overrun with red ; the bauds less marked, with
a reddish central line, the outer one yellowish.

Face, vertex, and patagia green, and the thorax also greenish, not velvety
black ; abdomen paler, ochreous with black dusting ; antennae fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

2 <?<?, 1 ?.

The larger ? mentioned iu the description of S. viridis, Nor. Zool. xiii. p. 103,
belongs to this species.

129. Spectrobasis maligna spec. nov.

Forewing : dull greenish fuscous on a pinkish ground, the pink only showing
along costa and towards apex ; costal edge with black streaks, the beginning of the
lines, separated by pinkish intervals ; the costal space above subcostal vein reddish
at base, then green to one-third; lines hardly traceable across wing below subcostal
vein, except the submarginal, which is waved and pinkish below costa : in one
specimen the veins towards margin and the extreme margin itself are reddish ;
fringe pink, with distinct black mottling.

Hindwing : fnscons, with obscurely paler antemedian and postmedian bands

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showing through, the latter sometimes forming a pinkish blotch at costa; fringe
pinkish, mottled with brown-red or fuscons.

Underside of forewing blurred grey, the costal area and outer margin red-brown
with pale speckling ; the snbmarginal Hue pale ami waved ; costa marked with
dark and light : hindwing red-brown marked with black-brown in places ; a white
straight antemedian baud, and indistinct curved and narrower postmedian double
line, tinged with brown below costa; snbmarginal white, waved, distinct.

Face, vertex, and patagia moss-green ; palpi fuscous with pale dots; shoulders
and thorax velvety black with a red tinge, sides of thorax grey ; abdomen black-
brown, ochreous towards base and marked with red on sides; legs mottled fuscous
and pink ; antennae red.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

2 ? ?.

130. Spectrobasis plumosa spec now

Differs from the other species of the genus by the absence of all pink or
reddish tints, except on the legs and shoulders, and by the longer pectinations of
the antennae of the 6.

Forewing : black-grey ; costal area greenish nearly to middle, then ochreous
with black pale-edged streaks at the lines, which are all traceable across wing,
rather darker than the ground-colour ; fringe ochreous, mottled with black.

Hindwing : dull blackish ; the pale bands slightly showing through.

Underside of forewiug dull grey; the costa greenish, with pale and dark
dusting, and the chief lines marked along it ; outer margin blackish ; a black
marginal line interrupted by the pale vein ends : hindwing dull brown, blotched
with black ; costa broadly greenish ; antemedian baud white, with a ragged streak
outwards below costa ; snbmarginal line shown by three white subapical blotches ;
outer line obscured.

Face, vertex, and patagia green ; thorax deep olive-green ; shoulders reddish
fuscons ; abdomen ochreous dusted and belted with blackish ; forelegs reddish,

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

3 38, 2 ??.

The longer pectinations of the antennae are characteristic.

131. Xanthorhoe vinosa spec. nov.

Forewing: whitish, overlaid with vinous scales ; the lines and shading darker
Vilnius ; basal patch small ; central fascia broad at costa, below vein 2 half as
wide ; the outer edge insinuate beyond cell and forming a bilobed projection
below middle, then running obliquely inwards ; the edges deep vinous, the centre
paler, and traversed by three or four waved lines ; the fascia is edged on each side
by a narrow pale band with dark line through it, the inner separated from basal
patch by a dark reddish shade ; the outer followed by a dull reddish prae-
submarginal band, darkest at costa and beyond cell ; snbmarginal line wavy,
obscurely pale ; marginal area vinous ; marginal lunnles deeper ; fringe vinous.

Hindwing: similar, but paler, especially along costa.

Underside dull reddish grey, the markings of upperside showing through.

Head and thorax dark reddish : abdomen paler, with dark bands at base.

Expanse of wings : 3G mm.

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Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE.

132. Adeta viridis spec. nov.

Foreioing: yellowish olive-green, with all the lines, which are strongly
waved, dark grey ; cell-spot blackish, on the inner edge of central fascia, of which
the onter edge is well curved and dentate between veins ; marginal line black,
interrupted by green dots at the veins ; fringe greenish, with a paler basal line.

Hindwing : paler, the markings being only darker green, not grey.

Underside pale green (in the more faded example yellow-green), with all the
markings distinct and blackish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all green ; the dorsum, especially laterally, with
blackish dusting ; abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs yellow-green.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

2 ? ¥.

133. Aniserpetes longispinata spec, no v.

Foreioing: grey, with a vinous tinge, especially at base; edges of central
fascia formed by brown-black bands, the outer band oblique outwards to below
vein 4, and there ending, the inner edge curved and waved, preceded by a line
white line and pale band, as the outer edge is followed ; centre of fascia above
median blotched with white ; submarginal line obscurely paler ; marginal line
black, interrupted by large white spots at the vein ends ; fringe grey flecked
with white.

Hindwing : with the lines less marked, visible only below median, the costal
half being pale and blurred.

Underside dull greyish rufous.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey.

Expanse of wiDgs : 16 mm.

1 ?.

Recognisable by the long oblique npper half of outer band of tlie white central
blotch, as well as by the long slender spurs.

134. Aniserpetes pallidipunctata spec. nov.

Forewing : greenish brown ; costa with two black spots at one-third and
three-fifths ; the lines from them inwardly curved, and black on the veins ; outer
irregularly crenulate, slightly bilobed ami projecting below 4, followed by a fine
white line, forming part of a grey band ; submargiual line waved, pale, followed
between 3 and 4 by a small square whitish spot; fringe pale grey, beyond a fine
marginal line.

Hindwing : less marked ; outer edge of central fascia angled outwards in
middle.

Underside brownish grey ; both wings with a dark outer line followed by a
slight pale band.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, tin: abdomen reddish-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

2 S3.

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135. Aniserpetes variotiucta spec. uov.

Forewing: ochreons, tinged with pale green and pale brick-red; the linos
blackish : the inner margin from base to outer line, the central fascia above vein ■_',
and the paler spaces of the praesnbmarginal band pale brick-red; the snbmedian
interval and lower half of praesnbmarginal band pale green ; space at base before

. filled with curved blackish lines; central fascia with two dark traversing
lines, and edged on each side by a pearly grey line, which externally forms part of
a pale band; submarginal line preceded by blackish blotches at costa and beyond
cell, and by a dark shade below 3, beyond which the marginal area is also dark,
except the apex, which is greenish : marginal line blackish ; fringe grey, flecked
with paler.

Hindwing : wholly brick-red, with the lines concisely dark ; central fascia with
its outer edge lunulate and the teeth marked dark along veins.

Underside of forewing dark grey, of hindwing rnfons with the lines grey.

Head and thorax greenish, speckled with red; the dorsum brick-red, like
hindwings ; palpi dark fnscous ; forelegs fuscous, with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : lii mm.

1 ¥.

136. Brabira ruficorpus spec. nov.

Forewing : cream-white, glossy ; costa marked with six brown spots, three
antemedian and three postmedian, the outer two smaller; cell-spot black: the
wing is crossed by numerous waved grey lines, generally very obscure, except
towards inner margin ; submarginal line pale and waved, traversing a somewhat
darker grey area, the lunules in the broad snbmedian interspace bright red;
fringe grey.

Hindwing: crossed by three broader and more evident grey lines, the inner
margin along vein 1 and the fringe at middle red.

Underside with the grey bands plainer, the forewing tinged with grey.

Head, thorax, and base of abdomen white : terminal halt' red-brown ; dorsum
with two reddish lines filled in with brown ; underside and legs white ; forelegs
mottled fuscous and white.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

3 <J<?, 1 ¥.

The hindwing is small, rounded and waved, but not produced to an angle.

137. Chloroclystis biangulata spec. nov.

Forewing: very pale greenish ; costa at base reddish; lines darker green
with pale edges, mostly indistinct, except the outer line, which is blackish green,
with some reddish scales intermixed, forming two prominent angulations, oue on
vein 6 and the other below 4, with an equally prominent inward angulation between ;
submarginal line dentate, with some of the teeth inwardly black-scaled towards
costa ; marginal line and fringe green.

Hindwing : with all the lines more distinct.

Underside pale dull green, the forewing rather greyer.
-. Head, thorax, and abdomen all pale green.

Expanse of winge : 17 mm.

1 ?.

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138. Chloroclystis continuata spec, now

Fordoing: pale greenish white ; costa dark at base and with dark sprits at
the lines ; first line inwardly oblique, thick and blotched ; outer roundly ontcurved,
the edge lnnulate ; the central space, except close to inner line, filled in with
reddish grey ; the area beyond, except above vein 0 and a small patch on outer
margin between 3 and 4, also reddish.

Hindwing : paler ; basal line thick and black, continuing that of forewing ;
outer line black, concise, ontcurved in middle ; submargmal preceded by dark
clouds ; a small cell-spot ; fringes worn, probably greenish.

Underside pale greenish, greyer in forewing ; outer line well marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green ; a broad belt of red and black scales
on second segment of dorsum, corresponding to the basal line of wings.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

1 3.

139. Chloroclystis exangulata spec. uov.

Forewing : dull grey-green, greyer than in C. invi&ibilis, covered with coarse
fuscous grey lines, which are all oblique outwards from costa, angled in cell, then
oblique and straight inwards ; the outer line is thicker, angled on vein 0 ; a pale
band with grey centre and dentate grey edge follows the fascia, and is itself closely
followed by the obscure wavy submarginal line ; marginal line black ; fringe
grey-green.

Hindwing : similar ; the outer line thick and angled at vein 6, the paler band
following it widening much to inner margin.

Underside greenish cinereous, with the outer line dark grey inboth wings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish dusted with blackish.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

1 ?.

Very much like C. invisibilis, but the course of the outer line totally different.
Whether really a Chloroclystis is doubtful, as both hindlegs are absent.

140. Chloroclystis exsanguis spec. nov.

Forewing : very pale green, with very obscure cross-lines, which are only
slightly darker edged with paler ; costa with blackish spots ; outer line rather
stronger than the rest, marked with whitish on veins ; submarginal line preceded
by slight grey clouds at costa, beyond cell, and above anal angle ; a faint rufous
grey shade from end of cell to onter margin ; marginal lunnles dark ; fringe green
with faint mottling.

Hindwing : similar, but the basal and outer lines marked distinctly with black
on veins.

Underside pale greenish grey in forewing, pale ochreons in hindwing, with
the lines grey and faint.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green like wings; dorsum ochreous-tinged!;
palpi and a ring on third segment of dorsum deep black ; abdomen laterally with
black scales.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

1 ?.

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141. Chloroclystis iuvisibilis spec. nov.

Forewing : olive grey-green, with slightly darker shades and a reddish tinge ;
lines black : first at one-third, outcnrvcd in middle, below median forming black
teeth outwards on veins ; outer line at three-fifths, oblique outwards, and strongly
projecting in middle from 6 to 4, then waved inwards, with a faintly paler outer
edge : submarginal line indistinct, preceded in placea by dark clouds ; an interrupted
black marginal line : fringe concolorous ; both lines start from black osral sputs.

Hindwing : similar; marginal line thicker.

Underside greenish cinereous, with outer line dark in both wings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green, slightly speckled ; the dorsum tinged
with red; palpi externally black, with extreme tip whitish.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

1 ?.

142. Chloroclystis miantosoma spec. nov.

Forewing : dull olive-green ; the edges of central fascia and the shade before
submarginal line olive fnscous, the other lines only darker green; costa green
spotted with dark, not pinkish as in cuneilinea Warr, ; edges of the central fascia
more inwardly curved below, the fascia itself filled up, except along costa, with
reddish; submarginal line finely waved, pale green; marginal area red-tinged; a
tine dark marginal line; fringe pale greenish with brown chequering.

Hindwing: paler green, without red scaling, except in outer half of central
fascia, the veins with black scaling, especially at edge of central fascia.

Underside greenish grey in forewing, pale greyish green in hindwing, with
traces of the lines.

Head, thorax, and basal segments of abdomen pale green; rest of abdomen
buff; third segment of dorsum with red and fuscous scaling.

Expanse of wings : 15 mm.

1 S.

Allied to C. cuneilinea Warr., but much darker, and with a different distribution
of the red tints.

143. Chloroclystis primivernalis spec. nov.

Forewing: greenish white, with suffused bands of grey ; the lines blackish;
costa and a patch on outer margin between 3 and 4 clearer green ; the lines waved
and all obliquely curved inwards, more or less parallel to outer margin; the two
edges of the central fascia thicker and darker, the outer oblique outwards to 6, and
slightly angled on 6 and 4, dentate inwards, the teeth black on the veins; band
between basal line and inner edge of fascia, and between its outer edge and the
submarginal line suffused with dark grey ; the margin also grey ; submarginal line
finely wavy, pale; marginal line deep black, interrupted at the veins; fringe dark
grey, flecked with pale green ; in the inner band of central fascia the median vein
bears a black dash.

Hindwing : with the outer half of fascia grey, the rest and the base pale ;
praesubmarginal shade entire and separated from central fascia by a pale band

Underside of forewing greenish grey, of hindwing whitish, grey-tinged; the
markings dark grey ; onter line of hindwing prominently dark.

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Head, thoraxj and abdomen black-speckled green ; dorsum olive-tinged, with
black lateral scales ; underside whitish ; forelegs black with pale joints.
Expanse of wings : 16 — -18 mm.

2 is.

Dissolophodes gen. nov.

Agrees with Tephrocly&tia in neuration ; the forewing normal; hindwing
truncate at vein 2, the anal portion below this vein shortened, slightly contorted
but smoothly scaled above, below with dense ridges of hairs along submedian fold
and vein 1 ; the abdomen with a similar large lateral tuft on segment 5 ; cell of
hindwing above clothed with very long, sparse hairs.

Type : Dissolophodes curvimacula Warr. {Tephroclystia).

144. Dissolophodes curvimacula.
Tephroclystia curvimacula Warr., Nov Zonl. xiii. p. 129, ? (190G).

A single <? of this species lately received shows the necessity of this correction.
The hindwing of the S is purplish blue, the long hairs of the cell yellowish at
base. Underside of both wings deep purple ; the fringe of forewing green with
purple flecks; tufts of the hindwing and abdomen deep purple; in other respects
like the ?.

Emmesocoma gen. nov.

An offshoot of Tephroclystia ; characterised by the cell-spot of forewing being
composed of a large tuft of raised scales ; in the hindwing the upper surface is more
or less blurred, the scaling and pattern being restricted to the inner margin below
cell and vein 2. Antennae of t? thickly and shortly ciliated. Abdomen of c? ending
in a point.

Type : Emmesocoma deviridata spec. nov.

Ochyria .' unitaeniata Warr., Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 101 (1900) must be placed in
this genus ; the type, being worn, failed to show the cell-tuft.

145. Emmesocoma deviridata spec. nov.

Very near to E. unitaeniata Warr. (Ochyria'), but without any green tint; outer
line not oblique outwards from costa, but vertical, then ontcurved to inner margin,
with no pale green baud following it, but a pale brown space before snbmargiual
line, with the veins across it ochreous, and an ochreous patch on costa ; the pale
blotch above anal angle with two thick white streaks through it.

Hindwing : with the lines and shades continued across wing, the apex with a
large grey cloud.

Underside of both wings brown, with the lines whitish, and all well marked.

Head, thorax, anil abdomen red-brown, dusted with dark and light ; underside
and legs ochreous, with reddish dusting ; forelegs fuscous, with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

1 <J.

146. Emmesocoma tenuiscripta spec. nov.

Forewing : brownish fuscous tinged with greenish ; basal patch and central
area paler than the intervening band and marginal area; basal patch limited by
an exceedingly fine whitish line oblique from one-sixth of costa to one-fourth of

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inner margin ; second line equally fine, bent in cell, then parallel to basal, the

enclosed band darker fuscous, traversed by two darker lines ; outer line from three-
fonrtha of costa to four-fifths of inner margin slenderly whitish, outcnrved, and
followed by a narrow pale-edged band; the central spare is crossed by two dark
brown dentate lines oblique from costa and more vertical below : submarginal line
undulating, whitish; marginal spots dark; fringe fuscous; cell-spot marked by a
tuft of greenish black-tipped scales.

Bindwing : pale grey, with traces ol darker grey curved lines

Underside pale greenish ochreous grey, with the lines all darker grey and
waved.

Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish fuscous ; patagia with black centres
edged with greenish ; dorsum with traces of greenish tufts.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

1 ?.

147. Eucymatoge contaminata ab. completa nov.

This differs from the type form of contaminata Warr. in having the whole of
the usually pale central fascia tilled up with dark fuscous, showing the dark waved
lines of the edges throughout and with the centre slightly paler ; but the underside
remains the same. The aberration bears a great resemblance to a small < 'osmorhoe
qaliata.

2<J(J.

148. Eucymatoge subradiata spec. nov.

Forewing : dark red-brown on an ochreons ground-colour : the lines blackish,
somewhat obscure; four waved and slightly angled lines before middle, the fourth
forming the inner edge of central fascia, followed by a dark shade ; outer edge at
three-fifths, bent outwards above middle, then incurved, preceded by a dark band and
followed by a pale band with dark central line, which is only plain below costa;
submarginal line formed of white spots at the end of long black blotches between
veins, the spot between 3 aud 4 more conspicuous than the rest ; marginal area
redder ; a fine dark marginal line ; fringe grey, blackish at apex aud anal angle,
with a fine reddish line at base ; cell-spot cloudy, blackish.

Bindwing : like forewing, but with two lines at base, both straight.

Underside whitish, tinged with grey-brown in forewing; all the veins thickly
blackish, crossed by two curved blackish lines, postmedian aud submarginal ;
cell-spots black, ; fringe reddish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish black ; abdomen pale grey beneath ; legs
pale, the tarsi fuscous ; the abdomen is short aud stout, swollen at extremity.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ?.

Cell much shorter than half of wing ; vein 11 far back towards base.

149. Micromia defulvata spec. nov.

Differs from M.fuhipuncta in the absence of the fulvous patches beyond outer
line ; the olive-yellow tinge offulvipuneta is replaced by a lustrous blue-green, and
the hindwing is more slaty grey.

Underneath the forewing is without the yellow costa of the type species, the

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underside being pale ochreons in the J ami dark grey iu the ?, with the shades
in each case deeper.

The abdomen of the c? is less strongly fulvous-marked.

2 <?<?, 1 ?.

Otucha gen. nov.

i. Forewing: costa shouldered at base and rough-haired, then straight; apex
blunt ; outer margin curved.

Hindwing : with smoothly rounded outer margin ; apical angle rounded ; anal
square.

Antennae lamellate, simple ; palpi porrect, rough-scaled, the terminal segment
small ; tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibia with four spurs ; abdomen with a pair
of long lateral pencils of hair from third segment, reaching base of anal segment.

Nenration : as in Tephroclystia in forewing, but in the hindwing the
discocellular is faintly biangulate, the radial rising from the lower angulation ;
veins G, 7 are scarcely stalked.

Type : Otucha adminiculata spec. nov.

150. Otucha adminiculata spec. nov.

Forewing : wood-brown with a red tinge and some green scales intermixed ;
the cross-lines rather darker ; basal patch and inner margin as far as outer line
velvety black-brown; basal patch followed by a broad paler band traversed by two
fine lines ; inner edge of central fascia before one-third, oblique from costa and
bent in cell to about middle of inner margin, followed by an oblique brown linear
cell-spot ; outer edge of fascia blackish from two-thirds of costa, oblique outwards,
indented below subcostal vein and widely outcurved, running inwards to 2, then
vertical, below the middle marked only by black dashes on the veins ; it is
preceded from costa by three cloudy oblique brown lines, which below middle
become waved and compressed ; beyond it a narrow band with dark centre, green
above middle, reddish and obscure below ; submargiual line shown by a row of
white dots ; marginal area dark brown, except between 3 and 4, where the paler
ground-colour runs through to the fringe ; marginal line fine, interrupted at the
veins ; fringe pale reddish, mottled with dark.

Hi nil icing : pale grey with a rufous flush, and the fringe rufous ; traces of two
dark grey curved lines before outer margin.

Underside dull rufous ochreous, with all the lines thick and dark grey ;
cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, aud abdomen reddish brown ; patagia, metathoracic tufts and a
dorsal ridge of scales dull green ; abdomen redder, with the lateral pencils dark
brown.

Expause of wings : 24 mm.

1 i.

151. Prosthetopteryx ? fulgurans spec. nov.

Forewing : pale green, with the shading purplish violet ; the subcostal vein
green to outer line ; the edge of basal patch, the centre of the pale green band
following, and the limiting bauds of central fascia purplish, all plainer on costa,
where the green lines are plainer, and inner margin which they reach vertically at
regular intervals ; the outer edge of the fascia runs obliquely outward to below

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vein 4, where it is angled and oblique to vein 2, then vertical; it is Followed by a
pale green band'; Bubmarginal line finely green, curved from costa to anal angle,
joined above middle to outer line by zigzag green lines : marginal ana purplish,
with a pale green patch below apex, and a larger one below middle; some dark
marginal luunles ; fringe worn.

J It mining : greenish white, with bare traces of grey curved lines.

Underside pale greenish, with the dark sbadings showing through.

Head and] thorax pale green; tips of patagia and the dorsum purplish;
abdomen beneath pale green.

Expanse of wings : '."J mm.

1 ?.

152. Prosthetopteryx infantilis Bpec. nov.

Fore/ring: green; basal area and central fascia reddish fuscous; basal area
small, edged by a darker curved line ; central fascia narrow, inner edge curved
parallel to basal area, outer notched at vein G, angled at 4 and incurved; followed
by an olive blotch from inner margin, contiguous as far as 4 and thence curved to
outer margin at 6 ; upper half of fascia followed by a pale green baud, beyond which
the costa is marked with fuscous, containing the pale beginning of a Bubmarginal
line ; small black marginal luunles ; fringe green, chequered with darker, at
apex whitish.

Hina 'icing : pale dirty ochreous ; the tips of the lobes and their fringes
brownish.

Underside of forewing dull grey-green, with the lines dull purplish on costa,
all becoming lost in a purplish cloud below cell : hindwing ochreous, with traces on
costa of two dark lines.

Head and thorax greenish; abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

4 <J<J.

153. Prosthetopteryx? transsecta spec. nov.

Forewing: dnll green, with leaden fuscous markings; costa at base, costal
edge, and subcostal vein for three-fourths fulvous ; basal patch leaden fuscous,
edged by a sinuous darker line and crossed close to base by a vertical white line ;
central fascia broad on costa and quite narrow at inner margin, its inner edge deeply
waved, dull olive-brown edged with darker, limited externally by a greenish
ochreous line, which is slightly incurved below middle, and traversed in middle
by an ochreous line, which is slightly ontcurved below cell, the two lines thus
approximating below ; spaces on each side of fascia dull green ; marginal area dark
fuscous green, interrupted between 3 and 4 by the paler green ground and some
fulvous scales, and traversed by a Bubmarginal series of white dots ; marginal
lunules black ; fringe rufons fuscous, the basal half darker and dark-mottled
beyond veins.

Hindwing: dull cinereous, with darker marginal border; marginal dark
lunules separated by pale dots ; fringe pale rufous with distinct black mottling.

Underside dark cinereous, with the dark and pale lines all shown : hindwing
with two pairs of pale lines ; the pale Bubmarginal dashes all distinct.

Head and collar pale green; tips of palpi whitish; shoulders green and
fulvous ; patagia fulvous at base, then green with two deep black bands ; thorax

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and anal half of abdomen pale green, basal half black-brown with two tufts ;
abdomen beneath ochreons ; legs broken, but forelegs fuscous with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ?.

The S will almost certainly show this to be a Prosthetopteryx.

154. Prosthetopteryx? vinosa spec. nov.

Foreioing : olive green, the shadings rich vinous mixed with fulvous ; base
crossed by three or four vertical vinous lines with grey scaling between them ;
central fascia traversed by two or three fine vinous lines, its outer edge formed by a
broad vinous band, nearly straight, at two-thirds, followed by a dull green band
with grey centre, which below vein 2 becomes fulvous ; marginal area blurred
purplish and fulvous, with a pale green waved submarginal line close to margin,
preceded by fulvous patches ; marginal line dark purple ; fringe mottled green and
purple ; central fascia at middle with a fulvous patch.

Hi ml/ring : shining whitish, with traces of grey lines ; the fringe dark grey.

Underside glossy pale green with the markings grey.

Head and thorax green ; abdomen wanting.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 ?.

Pseudosauris gen. nov.

S. Foreteii"] : costa shouldered at base, then straight ; outer margin obliquely
rounded.

Hindwing : narrow ; the anal angle formed at the end of vein 3, whence the
inner margin, fringed as normally, runs up for two-thirds to the end of vein 2,
which is quite short, having below it a short spatulate lobe, also fringed, reaching
about one-third of the wing.

Antennae thickly lamellate ; palpi long, thickly sealed; tongue and frenulum
present ; hindtibiae with terminal spurs ; hindfemora greatly swollen ; abdomen
with slight lateral crests beneath and long anal tufts.

Nenration of Tephroclystia.

Type : Pseudosauris miranda Warr.

The ? of this species was described by me as Tephroclystia miranda, in Noo.
Zool. x. p. 381 (1903). Its affinities are with the Tephroclystiinae rather than with
the Triehopteryginae.

The cJ, from which the above generic description was made, comes from
Biagi.

Sillophora gen. nov.

Forewing : costa in <$ strongly shouldered at one-third ; apex prominent ;
outer margin obliquely curved ; in ? normal.

Hindwing .- slightly indented beyond cell.

Forewing in S with a slender furrow through cell to outer margin marked
below by a corresponding ridge, and slightly visible also in hindwing ; vein 1
strongly sinuate; the median nervules and submedian fold slightly upcurved at
extremity ; in hindwing the costal and subcostal veins during anastomosis are raised
and swollen, the costal arching abruptly away and the subcostal depressed at end
ill' cell, 7 rising before 0 and not stalked with it ; vein 5 more or less obscured by
the furrow, otherwise the nenration agrees with that of Chloroclystis.

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Antennae with basal segment long and erect, ending in a tnft, below which the
shaft leaves it at right angles and is depressed ; the same occurs, in a modified
degree in the ?; forehead with pointed scale-tuft below; palpi porrect, the
terminal segment depressed, much longer in ? than S \ hindtibiae of $ long, with
two spars, of which the inner is three times as long as the outer ; of ? with three
spurs as in Adeta and Aniserpetes.

Type : Sillopkora albiviridis spec. nov.

This genus partakes somewhat of the characters of Pycnoloma and Ptychotheea,
this latter exhibiting the development of the cell furrow in an extreme degree
while the former shows a similar unusual development in the base of cost a of
hiudwing.

loo. Sillophora albiviridis spec. nov. and ab. completa nov.

Forewing: whitish green ; crossed by nnmerons wavy dentate greenish lines ;
the central fascia and praesubmarginal shade always darker and mixed with
fuscous : the fascia is subobsolete below middle, and less marked in the hindwing ;
marginal lines finer, interrupted ; fringes mottled.

Head, thorax, and abdomeu whitish ; the patagia and metathorax mixed with
"reeu aud grey ; the second dorsal segment with a grey belt, the rest of abdomen

pale.

In the aberration completa the interruption of central fascia of forewing below
middle is more entire, at the same time the upper part of I'aseia is much darker :
while in the hindwing the fascia is interrupted at costa and complete and blackish in
inner-marginal half ; and the middle segments, sometimes the whole, of dorsum are
blackish.

Expanse of wings : 16— IT mm.

3 $$, 8 ¥ ?, including U,-'??, of the aberrati

tion.

Stenista gen. nov.

Forewing: triangular ; costa straight, curved shortly at base and apex ; outer
margin as long as inner, more oblique below vein 3.

Hindwing : of S small aud narrow ; outer margin curved from apex to 4,
which is slightly prominent, crenulate from 4 to ■', and again from :( to 2, this last
crenulation being almost in line with the shortened inner margin, which immediately
follows vein 2, the submedian fold and vein 1 being absent ; vein 2 from near

base of cell.

On the underside the costal half of hindwing is clothed with rough semi-erect
scales, the costa itself being well curved ; hindwing of ? normal.

The rest as in Tephroclystia.

Type : Stenista commixtilinea spec. nov.

156. Stenista commixtilinea spec. nov.

The description given in Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 132 of the supposed ? of Tripteridia
albimixta really refers to the ? of this species; the 6 agrees witli it, in the
forewing, but the pale lines are greener, and the blurred space to margin between
veins '■'} and 4 is greenish ochreous aud not bntf.

Hindwing: cream-colour, with patches of lilac-grey scales at outer margin
below middle.

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Underside of hindwing ochreons, with the hairs in costal area yellower.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all ochreons ; patagia and base of abdomen with
some black scales ; the anal tnft brownish ; forelegs black, with pale joints.

Expanse of wings: <?, 17 mm.; ?, 22 mm. — not 17mm. as stated in the
original description.

It?.

157. Tephroclystia mundiscripta spec. nov.

Forgiving : whitish, crossed by two basal, two median, and two snbmarginal
bands, the first four marked on costa by black blotches, separated by small white
spaces ; the basal bands hardly marked across wing ; the median plainer and grey,
bnt the inner often interrupted, containing between them the black cell-spot ; the
two outer grey, separated by the whitish waved submarginal line, which swells into
a large white spot on submedian fold ; marginal dashes fine and black ; fringe
grey with a bright white basal line; veins towards outer margin fulvous and the
grey of apical half slightly fulvous-tinged.

Hindwing : white, with a black linear cell-spot and the veins grey ; a basal,
a double median, and double waved submarginal line.

Underside of forewiug dark grey, of hindwing whitish, with the cell-spots
black, and the dark bauds clearest on hindwing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, the dorsum tinged with fulvous; face
and palpi black.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

2c? J.

158. Tripteridia albimixta.

The insect which I described as the ? of this species, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 132
(1906), does not belong here. The real ? more closely resembles the c?, differing
as follows : the central fascia is complete, slightly curved, and of uniform width,
the outer edge of the pale band preceding it whitish and curved at costa, not,
as in the S , sharply white and angled outwards in the fascia; the baud beyond
fascia is broadly white throughout, traversed by a pale yellowish green waved line.

Hindwing : greenish yellow, with three straight dark grey bands and broad
marginal border ; the fringe greenish with pale base.

Underside wholly greenish yellow, with the lines all grey.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale olive-green instead of dark.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 ? , accompanied by a c? quite typical.

The exjianse given for the ? (17 mm.) should have been 22 mm.

159. Tripteridia subcomosa spec. nov.

<$ . Forewiug: olive-green, the markings reddish brown, interrupted to outer
edge of central fascia by the green subcostal vein ; basal patch angled below
subcostal and crossed in middle by a broad green band; central fascia broad; the
inner edge angled below subcostal, its outer irregularly rounded outwardly, angled
below 4 and incurved to the base of cleft, crossed by three or four dark lines and
slight greenish shades, becoming wholly green on inner margin ; edged on each side
by a narrow green baud with dark central thread ; marginal area brown, traversed

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by a pale sabmarginal line, and interrupted above by a broad oblique green streak
from apex ; a fine dark marginal line connecting tbe black dots ; fringe green
and brown.

Hindwing : shining pale ocbreous, almost without scales, except towards outer
margin, where there are some rufous hairs and a bed of deep black hairs along tbe
cleft between upper and middle lobes ; all the lobes well fringed with ochreous.

Underside of forewing greenish grey, with the cell and all the lines purplish;
a streak from base to cleft deep purple, the inuer margin again pale green :
hindwing greenish ochreous, with a large bed of erect ochreous hairs at base; outer
margin of upper lobe mixed with grey; anal lobe pale, with two strong black lines
edging the pale traversing vein.

Head and thorax pale green, the thorax dark-speckled ; abdomen brownish
ochreous; underneath ochreous, the praeanal segment with a broad dark belt.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

3cf<f.

IGn. Xenoclystia hirticosta spec. nov.

In Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 133 I described two species of Xenoclystia, unipuncta and

kumerata, which were superficially alike, but distinguished in the Jc? by the
enlarged shoulder in hindwing of kumerata ; both these species have now come from
Biagi, and along with them a third, which also, at first sight, might easily lie
mistaken for them, and agreeing with unipuncta in having the hindwing uormal
in the S ; but it is characterised in the <$ by the costa of forewing being fringed
with rough scales throughout, the subcostal area below it on the underside being
clothed with rough scales. The forewing above in the costal half is more varied
with red and brown scales, and the edges of the markings bright with lustrous
scales, as in unipuncta.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

6c?(?.

Subfamily ASTHENINAE.
101. Hastina fiavidula spec. nov.

Forewing : semihvaliue yellow, crossed by waved, interrupted, scarlet and
purple lines accompanied by lustrous blue scales ; a small basal patch entire ;
a double basal line, bent on subcostal vein, interrupted between median and sub-
median ; a partially triple median fascia, a little before middle, interrupted between
veius 4 and 2, then widened out into three distinct bracket-shaped marks ; two
scarlet waved and dentate submarginal lines, the inner broadly margined and partly
hidden by a purple blotch from below costa lo vein 3, the outer with the purple
blotch reaching apex and extending only to vein 6, but reappearing on margin
between 3 and 4; red marginal spots, partly confluent; fringe yellow; the inner
edge of the marginal area bears a deep sinus outwards between 4 and 2.

Hindwing: without inner lines ; median band interrupted in middle and
forming a square blotch before middle of inner margin ; submarginal lines wider
apart, the purple markings thinner.

Underside pale yellow, with the brown only showing through.

Face red; vertex white with a red spot behind ; thorax purple and red mixed ;
dorsum red, with yellow spots and lustrous scales ou each segment ; basal segments
with a large lustrous blotch ; abdomen beneath and legs yellow.

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In the ? nil the red tints are replaced by dark purple, except the face and spot
on vertex, which remain as in the c? ; the lustrous scales more conspicuous.

Expanse of wings : <S, 22 mm. ; ?, 20 mm.

A good series of both sexes.

The antennae of the S are beset with long thin fascicles of cilia. In forewing
the outer margin is vertical to below vein 4, then iubent.

Subfamily TRICHOPTEUYGINAE.

162. Sauris? bigriseata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale green, with deeper green cross-lines ; four in basal area, broad,
the outermost dentate, the second marked with blackish ; the narrow bands preceding
and following central fascia pale green with an angnlated darker green line through
them ; fascia formed of two interior and four exterior irregular]}- dentate lines
somewhat involved ; the oblique cell-spot pale green, obscure ; two thickly crennlate
submarginal darker bands ; submarginal line regularly lunnlate-dentate, the lunnles
dark green before the margin ; marginal black spots large, followed by pale spots in
the fringe, which is pale green in the yellower green example, and grey in the other.
Along the two folds, beyond middle of wing, the lines are marked with black and
the intervals partially rilled in with grey scales ; several of the lines are also marked
with black along the subcostal vein.

Hiudwing : dingy pale grey, darker at base and along outer margin.

Underside of forewing pale olive-green with indistinct streaks of brown-red
between the veins and tinged with the same along outer margin ; hindwing pale
grey finely dusted.

Head, palpi, and thorax pale green ; a pale spot behind each eye, and a black
spot at base of patagia and side of shoulders ; abdomen ochreous ; legs and pectus
pale ochreous ; forelegs fuscous ; antennae olive, becoming blackish at the tips.

Expanse of wings : 35 — 10 mm.

2 ? ?.

The description is made from the larger, yellower specimen with pale green
fringe, which has the markings clearer than the smaller one.

163. Sauris nigrifrons spec. nov.

Forewing : white, with slight greyish suffusion ; a black dash at base of
mediau vein ; basal third crossed by three double sinuate lines, the third reaching
inner margin beyond middle ; at two-fifths of costa an outwardly oblique brownish
triangle with dark margins ending in the oblique linear cell-mark ; beyond middle
a band of four dark lines, forming the outer band of central fascia, irregularly
twisted and angled, the outermost acutely below veins 6 and 4 ; above the middle
this baud is darkened with grey ; the pale band beyond with a grey thread in the
costal half only ; submarginal line double, dark, irregularly crennlate ; a nearly
marginal black line, thickened above between veins and paling below; fringe white,
with distinct square black spots beyond veins in the basal half, connected at base
above middle of wiug by a fine dark line ; on each side of vein 5 the submarginal
line is traversed by a black dash, and above vein 6 the marginal area is pale
brownish.

In the ? the centre of the outer band and the submarginal line are brown-

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tinged; there are additional black dashes across submarginal line above vein 7 and
below 3, and the lines are marked by horizontal black dashes on inner margin.

Hindwing : greyish white.

Underside dull cinereous, the lines of forewiug showing through.

Face and palpi externally black ; upper edge of face, vertex, thorax, and
abdomen white ; patagia dusted with brown ; sides of thorax and metathorax
black-brown ; basal segment of abdomen darker, and base of anal segment with
a black spot.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 (?, 2 ? ?.

164. Sauris viridata spec. nov.

Fore wing : white; the basal two-thirds overspread with olive-green, through
which the white ground reappears in places ; a waved dark grey line at one-third,
edged on each side with pale, limits the basal area, which is green and white, and
crossed by a dark line near base ; outer line at two-thirds, oblique outwards to 5,
where it is rounded and runs inwardly oblique to a little before anal angle ; the
outer half of this central fascia is more or less white ; cell-spot blackish ; a
praesubmarginal shade, obsolete above 6, marked by two black lnnnles beyond
cell, and by a black line above anal angle, green between ; marginal shade blackish
and broad from apex to vein 4, then faint and greenish ; a row of large marginal
black spots ; fringe white.

Hindwing : pale grey.

Underside greenish grey.

Palpi pale green, the tips white ; face white at top, green in middle, and
brown below ; vertex and thorax green ; a white spot behind each eye ; metathorax
white; abdomen green with pale rings, and a brown belt at base ; antennae greenish,
with an indentation near base.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 ?.

Subfamily DEILINIINAE.
165. Chrostobapta deludens spec. nov.

Foreiviny : pearl-grey, suffused with red-brown, except along a broad costal
space expanding at apex ; lines deep red-brown ; one close to base, angled in cell ;
the usual basal line oblique outwards from one-sixth of costa, angled in cell, and
oblique inwards to one-sixth of inner margin ; antemediau line at two-hi'ths,
dentate outwards on 6 and 4, concave between and thickened ; outer line at three-
fifths, similarly angled on veins (5 and 3 ; submarginal line from three-fourths of
costa, oblique outwards to vein 5, thence vertically sinuous to inner margin before
anal angle, edged outwardly with white ; the outer line in a grey shade ; marginal
area below vein 0 reddish grey ; the grey costal space speckled with red, the
costal edge pink ; fringe grey, beyond a thick deep red-brown marginal line.

Hindwing: wholly suffused with deep red-brown, with waved antemediau,
postmedian, and submarginal lines; the postmediau lying in a grey space; the
margin beyond Bnbmarginal line whitish; marginal line and fringe as in forewiug.

Underside dull pinkish white, with the markings showing through.

Head and thorax grey speckled with red; abdomen reddish speckled with
grey ; vertex whitish.

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Expanse of wiags : 20 mm.
1 ?.

This species is a wonderful mimic of some South American species of
Lipomelia.

166. Eugnesia decolorata ab. incepta nov. and ab. cumulata nov.

The c? to which I give the name incepta differs from typical decolorata Warr.
in that the olive of the two cross-lines has become dark grey and the black teeth
have developed into a black dentate line ; between 3 and 4 of each wing there
is a blackish bar from outer line to outer margin ; the specimen thus imitates
K. Uneata in appearance, but the absence of the black costa distinguishes it, as
well as the large black cell-spot. This S came from Biagi, along with a S and
3 ¥ ? of the typical form, and also 3 ? ? belonging to the aberration for which
I propose the name cumulata. They differ in being rather deeper ochreons,
with the lines more olive-green and the speckling denser and more olive ; but
especially in having a large blotch of red-brown and blackish scales overlaid
with olive on inner margin of forewing before the outer line, beyond which they
also stretch in two cases to the patches of the submarginal line ; in the third
example the blotch is limited by the outer line aud is simply red-brown, without
black or olive scales.

167. Eugnesia sordidata spec. nov. and ab. solidata nov.

Forewing : bone-colour, without any yellow admixture, as in decolorata and
varians, but with a powdering of rufous, aud the speckling blackish, not rufous or
olive ; the veins faintly brownish ; costa faintly rufous with black strigae ; lines
olive-grey as in decolorata, the inner more oblique outwards and the outer straighter
and more oblique inwards ; the base of the dark teeth on the veins being reddish ;
cell-spot blackish, small ; the black speckling more dense in the marginal area
between 3 and 4 and towards margin below costa ; black dots on margin at the
vein ends ; fringe ochreons.

Hindwing : similar, thickly speckled ; the outer line curved and thin.

Underside the same, but the speckling and lines all duller ; veins not reddish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; shoulders darker, like costal streak.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

1 ?.

The apex of forewing and the crenulation of hindwing are more acute than in
the other species.

The ab. solidata has the lines resembling those of E. Uneata, the basal line
being bounded inwardly with black and the outer outwardly, to the exclusion
of the teeth ; in the interval between veins 3 and 4 the black speckling is denser
and forms a black cloud, but hardly a well-formed line, and is not shown at all
in the hindwing.

The specimen, like the type, a ?, expands 36 mm., and was taken at the same
time and place.

168. Eugnesia varians ab. commaculata nov. and melanospila nov.

The ab. commaculata differs from the type form in being paler with less
speckling; the costa and lines all dark] grey; the outer and submarginal being
united below vein 4 in a large dull grey blotch, and the interrupted blotches

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the snbmarginal line being also dark grey and attached to the outer line ; in the
hindwing the large blotch contains a pale space on inner margin.

2 36, 3 ? ¥, along with 1 3, 5 ? ? of typical variang.

The all. melanospila lias the lines darker than in the type, though not so dark
as in ah. commaculata, and a square blackish hlotch between veins 3 and 4 between
the median and snbmarginal lines of each wing, and another on margin below
apex ; while the second and third segments of dorsum are marked with a blacker
bb itch.

Of this form only a single ? was obtained.

169. Ingena lomographata spec. nov.

Forewing : shining white, dusted with grey scales, which are densest along
the course of the lines; the first curved, at one-third; the outer at two-thirds,
sinuate, dentate-lnuulate ; cell-spot black ; costal edge deep yellow ; snbmarginal
shade thick and straight, the margin beyond it grey ; a slightly darker marginal
line interrupted by pale spots at the vein ends ; fringe dark grey, sometimes with
dark spots beyond veins.

Hindwing : paler, less thickly speckled ; the inner line absent ; spots in fringe
plainer.

Underside glossy whitish, grey along costa of forewing ; fringe dark grey, with
black spots beyond veins.

Head, palpi, and antennae dull brown ; collar, thorax, and abdomen white,
slightly grey-speckled.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

3cJc?.

170. Ninodes flavimedia spec. nov.

Forewing : basal and marginal areas dark purplish fnscons ; the central area
pale yellow, with a deeper yellow band down its middle ; edge of basal area from
just before middle of costa curved to one-third of inner margin ; edge of marginal
area from three-fourths of ccsta oblique outwards to 4, then angled and recurved
to two-thirds of inner margin ; a darker snbmarginal waved shade is visible within
the dark area ; fringe purplish fuscous.

Hindwing : with basal patch quite small; edge of marginal area straight from
two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, the pale median area much
wider ; inner margin dark-speckled.

Underside the same ; but the whole middle area deep yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fnscons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 ?.

Subfamily PLUTODINAE.

171. Plutodes connexa Warr. ah. concinna nov.

Along with seven examples of V. connexa jnst received from Biagi came
2 ? ? and 3 3 3 of another form very closely allied. From a comparison of
the two it is plain that the ? which I attributed to connexa belongs really to the
present form ab. concinna, in which the brown colouring of the 3 3 is deeper and
the grey of the ¥ ? less pink than in connexa, while the ferruginous edging with
pale lustrous scales of connexa gives place to a well-defined black-brown edging

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with steely-blue scales; the face, thorax, and abdomen id' ah. conciniia are all
darker brown.

Expanse of wings : c? 28 mm. ; ? 30 mm. ; the examples of connexa from
the same locality expand, cf 30 mm. ; ? 32 mm. ; while the type c? from the
Augabunga River was 34 mm. The ¥ from this last locality, wrongly referred
to connexa, measures 30 mm., and so does one of the lately received ¥ ? from Biagi.

In the description of connexa the smaller yellow costal blotch near base was
stated to reach the median vein, like the onter ; this is trne, as a rule, of the ¥ ?
only ; in the <$ d of both forms the smaller blotch is usually prolonged, but more
narrowly, to the submedian vein.

172. Plutodes separata spec. nov. and ab. pallidior now

3. Foreiring : pale yellow ; a small rounded blotch at base of inner margin
dark red-brown edged with black, and a large oval blotch in outer half of wing,
irregularly edged externally, and traversed by a dark curved line with paler red
beyond it ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing : with the basal blotch extended linearly along vein 1 nearly to
anal angle ; the larger blotch roughly semicircular, and much smaller than that
in forewing.

In the ¥ the blotches are all somewhat larger, especially that along inner
margin of hindwing, and grey-brown ; in both sexes the dark edging lines bear
lustrous steely scales.

Underside paler, the brown blotches showing through.

Face and dorsum red-browu ; thorax dark brown in the c? , grey-brown in
the ¥ ; shoulders and vertex yellow ; abdomen in <? ringed with blackish, with the
anal tuft yellow.

Expanse of wings : S 26 — 28 mm. ; ¥ 30 mm.

2 c?(?, 3 ¥¥.

4<?(? differ from the type exactly as P. connexa differs from its darker form
concinna, having the markings paler red-brown, edged with ferruginous only and
with paler lustrous scales, for which I propose the name pallidior.

Subfamily ABRAXINAE.
173. Abraxas omissa spec. nov.

Fore/cinq : white ; the costal and outer margins broadly and evenly black,
united by an angled bar crossing the discocellnlar, angled on the median vein and
limited below by vein 2 ; fringe black.

Hindwing : white, with a narrower uniformly enrved black border from before
apex to anal angle : base narrowly black.

Underside like upper.

Head and antennae black ; collar, shoulders, patagia, and thorax black edged
with orange ; abdomen orange with a row of large saddle-shaped black marks on
dorsum, close together in t? and actually confluent in the ¥, so that the whole
dorsum is black except at anal segment ; beneath orange with two lateral and
two ventral series of large black spots ; legs black ; femora and pectus orange.

Expanse of wings : 46 mm.

1 S, 1 ¥.

Very near to A, expectata from N. Queensland.

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Srm-AMiLY BRAOCINAE.
174. Arycanda brunneotacta spec. nov.

Forewing : dull purplish grey, finely black-speckled; the lines blackish,
donble ; the basal bent in cell, the outer ou vein C, both thicker and more blotched
towards costa ; snbmarginal also double, but more macular and interrupted, always
between 3 and 4 ; marginal lunnles black ; fringe concolorons ; both folds more or
less distinctly streaked with brown ; cell-spot curved and slender, yellow with black-
edges ; some yellow scales between the blotches of the snbniargiual line, most
distinct in the ?.

Hindwing: similar; the yellow dot in snbmargiual line always plain beyond
cell.

Underside dnll dark slate-colour, without markings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dull slate-colour.

Expanse of wings : J 40 mm. ; ? 45 mm.

1 <S, 1 ?.

Allied to fulmradiata, but much smaller and more obscurely marked.

175. Arycanda discipuncta spec. nov.

Forewing : bluish slate-colour, with no markings but a small round cell-spot ;
fringe concolorons.

Hindwing : the same.

Underside darker slate.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

1 ?.

176. Arycanda infans spec. nov.

Forewing: dull dark slate-colour, speckled with darker; lines dull blackish ;
inner line at one-fourth, outer at three-fifths, both curved, the latter lnnnlate-
dentate; median line less clear, touching the dark-edged ocelloid cell-spot,
sometimes touching basal line below middle ; beyond the outer line a diffuse
curved brown shade, followed by two submarginal lines, of which the inner is
plainer and darker, consisting of spots between veins ; marginal spots blackish ;
fringe concolorons.

Hindwing : like forewing, but without the 1 lasal line.

Underside uuiform bluish slate-colour.

Head, thorax and abdomen slate-colour spotted with blackish.

Expanse of wings ; S 30 mm. ; ? 32 mm.

1J,5??.

177. Arycanda mixtilinea spec. nov.

Forewing : dark slaty purplish, crossed by curved series of black spots and lines,
often much mixed ; two spots close to base, followed by four in an angled series ;
three lines of coalescent spots, antemedian, median, and postmediau, obliqne out-
wards above cell and inwards below it ; between the first and second one or two spots
on each side of the discocellular ; the spots and lines in the cell are often irregularly
mixed ; a series of large confluent elongate blotches between the veins, followed by

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two snbinargin.il series, the outermost narrow ; in the inner of these series the spot
between 3 and 4 is always absent ; a row of black marginal luuules ; fringe blackish,
with a paler line at base.

Hindwing: crossed by six black lines, one basal, two antemedian, straight and
complete, and three postmedian more curved and broken np into spots.

Underside dark slaty purple, without markings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish spotted with black ; the abdomen with
black riugs.

Expanse of wings : 3 36 — 40 mm. ; ? 44 mm.

0 33, 1 ?.

178. Arycanda umbrilinea spec, no v.

Forewing : dark purplish slate-colour ; from subcostal vein just beyond middle
of costa a narrow white line runs to vein 1 before anal angle, followed by a bluish
line slightly curved from costa to vein 1, the space between them dark ; fringe
concolorous.

Hindwing : uniform dark purplish.

Underside with the line of forewing bluish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 3.

179. Arycanda unicolor spec. nov.

Fore- and hindwing and all the parts of the body and undersnrface purplish
slate-colour.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.
1 3.

180. Bordeta inflammata spec. nov.

Like B. long/macula Warn, but in the hindwing the yellow interior space does
not intrude into the black outer margin ; the yellow tint at base is much brighter
and paler, and towards the margin is suffused with rich fulvous.

In the forewing the pale spots are yellower than in longimacula but much
smaller, and in 5 out of the 6 33 the smaller outer spot is altogether absent.

The same remarks apply to the underside.

Expanse of wings : 3 48 mm. ; ? 56 mm.

6 33, 5 ? ?.

181. Bursada detecta spec. nov.

Forewing : black, with a narrow yellow streak from subcostal vein beyond
middle towards the end of vein 2, but stopping short just below 3 ; fringe black.

Hindwing : black with yellow centre ; the yellow starts from base, with the
lower edge straight and the upper curved.

Underside with the yellow areas ampler ; the blotch of the hindwing reaching
costa and inner margin at base ; forewing with a yellow patch at base of cell.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black.

Expanse of wings : 32 inm.

1 3, 5 ??.

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182. Craspedosis amaura spec, now

Fort wing : black, with traces of a dull slate-coloured transverse space beyond
middle, diffuse and undefined ; fringe Mack.

Hindwing: black, with a round hyaline white patch occupying the basal half,
the base and inner margin being smoky blackish.

Underside duller.

Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish slate-colonr ; anal tuft yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 <?.

183. Craspedosis miranda spec, no v.

Foretoing : black with a deep purplish gloss in certain lights; crossed from
costal vein beyond middle to vein 1 above anal angle by a broad snow-white band,
the inuer edge of which is straight and the outer curved ; fringe black.

Hindwing : black with purplish gloss.

Underside the same ; the white band broader.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

4 <?cJ, 1 ?•

Resembles C. semiplaga Warr., but rather smaller ; the white blotch much
broader, and the tinge purplish instead of shite-colour.

184. Craspedosis purpurea spec. nov. and ab. extincta uov.

Forewing : deep purple ; a snow-white tapering streak from subcostal vein at
middle towards anal angle; in the ? the fine end of the streak sometimes touches
vein 1, bnt more often, as in the d, stops short at 2 ; in some of the <?c? the streak
is still further reduced and narrowed, in one instance represented by a single white
spot below the subcostal vein ; fringe coucolorons.

Hindwing: wholly deep purple.

Underside the same; the white streak broader and shorter, with rounded
lower end.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous.

Expanse of wings : 40 — 50 mm.

8 <Jc?, 3 ? ?.

Three out of the 8 c? c? have the white streak reduced, which I call ab. extincta,

185. Alcis ocellata Warr.
Alois papuemii ab. ocellata Warr., Nov. Zool. x. p. 388 (t903).

Among the insects received lately from Biagi are good series of Alcis papuemii
and its aberrations decolor and ocellata, and 4 i S of ab. maculata.

Among the ocellata are 2 ? ?, entirely different from the ? of papuenaix type,
so that this at all events must be considered a distinct species ; and though 1 have
not seen their ? ? I am strongly disposed to consider the other two aberrations as
specifically distinct also ; the <Jc? arc all true to their own type, without intergrades
of any kind.

The ? of ocellata is dull pinkish grey instead of olive-tinged, as in the cJ, paler
and less dusted with dark atoms, and therefore showing the lines and shading

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clearer; before the inner line and beyond the outer are patches of greyish white,
these in the latter case filling up the Innnles of submarginal line at costa, beyond
cell, and below vein 3 ; this last patch is also slightly visible in the S; the pale
submarginal blotch between veins 3 and 4, so prominent in the S, is not represented
in the ?.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

186. Apophyga griseiplaga spec. uov.

Forewing : pale ochreons, washed and dappled with brown ; costa brown with
darker blotches representing the beginning of the lines, which are, however, all
interrupted till below cell ; on the inner margin can be seen before the middle the
antemedian and median lines, and beyond it the two arms of a double onter line ;
these lines are all brown, irregularly waved, and oblique parallel to outer margin ;
marginal area deep brown, especially in middle, traversed by a darker submarginal
line edged with pale grey, and followed by brown-black blotches meeting with the
black marginal Innnles ; from vein 3 to above 4 the dark brown tiuts are interrupted
by a violet grey blotch ; fringe brown.

Hindwing : with a black-brown antemedian fascia between basal and antemedian
lines ; the cell-spot round and black, conspicuous ; the postmedian line and its
succeeding band fine, pale brown ; margin of uniform width, pale brown.

Underside uniform ochreous, with the lines slightly shown ; the dark band of
hindwing showing through.

Thorax and abdomen pale ochreous ; the basal segments of dorsum black-
brown ; face and palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 56 mm.

4 S$.

Forewing with small fovea : antennae with pectinations stiff and nearly
vertical to shaft.

187. Carecomotis perfumosa ab. nigrata nov.

Forewing: suffused all over with slaty blackish, except a loaf-shaped white
blotch from costa between median and outer lines, a small blotch on outer margin
and fringe between veins 3 and 4, and some spots at anal angle.

Hindwing : black, except inner margin narrowly, outer margin below vein 4,
and a small blotch on inner margin beyond postmedian line.

Underside of hindwing with basal two-thirds whitish, of forewing suffused
with grey.

Head and thorax grey or whitish grey, abdomen smoky black or dark reddish
grey, with white belt at base and whitish dorsal points.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 S, 1 ?.

The type from Queensland was described by me in Nov. Zool. iii. p. 402 (1896).

1 ss- Chogada illustraria Wlk. and ab. flavipars, flavilauta, and brurmeofusa nov.

A long series of this species, originally described by Walker from Australia,
received from Biagi, shows that the £ is subject to great colour variation, like
its Indian representative alienaria Wlk., while the ? in both species remains com-
paratively constant to itself. Iu the form I call flavipars the lower half of forewing

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below vein 2 is suffused with yellow ; in the form flavilauta, the whole ground-
colour o{' lioth wing's is washed with pale yellowish ; while in brunneofasa both
wings are suffused with reddish fawu-colonr.

The markings and underside remain unchanged ; the abdomen of this species is
marked by a broad black or brown belt on third segment of dorsum.

Expanse of wings : 44—48 mm.

189. Cleora semidiscata Warr. and ab. nigrilinea nov. and ab. fumosa now
Chogada umiil'^nin Warr.. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 141, $ (1000).

This species was described from a single 3 from the Angabnnga River. A
longer series of 8 c? cf and 1 ? shows it to be, like so many New Gainea insects,
very variable.

The ? is more lilac or olive-grey, being thickly sprinkled with scales of that
tint. Of the <J c?, four are typical ; one, ab. nigrilinea, is much whiter, especially in
the median area between the two lines, which are deeply aud concisely black ; the
other three vary in the opposite direction, having the median area filled by a smoky
brownish grey diffuse fascia across both wings : this aberration 1 have called
fumosa.

The ¥ expands 48 mm., and is noticeable for its very long ovipositor.

190. Elphos exalbata-

Elphoi exalbata Warr., Nov. Zoo!, x. p. 390 (1903).

The ? of this species is a peculiarly handsome insect. The pale spaces of the
J are in it amplified, and the fuscous parts lightened with yellow. All the lines
of the hindwiug are accompanied by a yellow shade, which reappears in the inner-
marginal half of fore wing, where the space on inner margin between the inner and
outer lines is filled in with yellow, and a yellow nearly vertical band rises from it to
join the black costal portion in cell. Underneath the white is much more extended
and the marginal band velvety black.

Expanse of wings : ? , 1U4 mm.

The specimen came with 4 <J<^, all in perfect condition.

191. Gasterocome subdivisa, ab. albimaculata nov. and ab. purpurea nov.

In a very long series of this insect lately received from Biagi, nearly all
typical and all d $ bnt two, there are two specimens, both $ $, which require naming
as distinct aberrations.

In the first, albimaculata, the broad horizontal pale streak from base is lost in
the general brown-black coloration of the wing, which is marked by ten white
blotches — viz. the pale streak at base, two antemediau, representing the upper and
lower parts of the antemedian pale band, one beyond the cell, three submarginal,
and three marginal, the middle one of these between 3 and 4 being bilobed and
representing the end of the horizontal streak. This blotch is also present on the
hindwiug, which shows three elongate pale streaks on inner margin below vein '■>,
and two blotches above, one in and one beyond cell.

Underside the same, but duller.

The other aberration, purpurea, has the dark coloration more amply developed

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thau iu the type, but purple violet instead of dark brown ; all the pale lines of the
type are present, but much narrower, very pale yellow, with the veins deeper yellow ;
the underside like upper, lint more blurred.

192. Myrioblephara apicata spec, no v.

Forewing : whitish, thickly grey-speckled ; lines black, marked more strongly
on the veins ; first curved at one-fourth, preceded by a red-brown cloud ; outer from
three-fifths of costa oblique outwards to between veins 3 and 4, there angled and
oblique inwards, but almost at once becoming obsolete; apical area above vein 3
fuscous, tinged with reddish ; submarginal line zigzag, preceded by blacker shading ;
fringe grey in upper half, whitish below, slightly chequered ; marginal spots slight ;
a faint dark median line from costa to cell, preceding an obscure cell-spot.

Eindwing : greyer ; outer line acutely angled below 4 and marked by black
dashes on veins ; submarginal limited by grey shades.

Underside dingy whitish, greyer towards outer margin.

Head and thorax grey ; abdomen paler grey, with a rufous tinge.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 ?.

Doubtfully referred to Myrioblephara.

193. Myrioblephara iuquinata Warr.

The species was described from a ? only, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 143 (1906). I find
that the $ attributed to M. Jiamlinca as ab. fasciata, ibid. x. p. 392, is really the &
of inquinata.

194. Myrioblephara lacteata spec. uov.

Forewing : milk-white, speckled with grey ; costa with fine dark striae ; lines
blackish in costal half, becoming grey or obsolete towards iuner margin ; median
line nearer inner than outer, which is elbowed on vein 6 and prominently black ;
the iuner preceded and outer followed by a grey shade, which is often tinged with
dull brown or chocolate; space between median and inner lines often darkened into
a fascia ; submarginal line waved, white, plainest in costal half, where it is preceded
by blackish lunules at costa, and followed as well as preceded by blackish scales
beyond cell ; cell-spot blackish ; marginal spots black ; fringe white, grey, dotted
beyond veins.

Hindwing : with the markings distinct on inner margin, becoming obsolete in
the white costal area, except at apex.

Underside dull whitish, tinged with grey in forewing, all the markings grey.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white, speckled with grey.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

4 <?<?, 10 ? ?.

Allied to M. jlexilinea and subtrita, but whiter than either.

195. Myrioblephara miscellanea spec. uov.

Forewing : ochreous, densely sprinkled with dark atoms; markings much as iu

fulvivena and proximata, but without any conspicuous blackish blotches ; lines

fulvous, the inner and outer double, the interval between them lilac grey, both

marked by black spots on veins ; all the lines starting from black costal blotches ;

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Bubmarginal waved, preceded by blackish-edged lnnnles at costa ami beyond cell,

and followed by a series of fulvous spots ; cell-spot small, 'lark grey and fulvous ;
black marginal spots between veins and slight brown spots at their ends in the
ochreous fringe.

Hindwing: with the markings, except at costa, as strong as inforewing; the
antemedian line prominently blackish.

Underside ochreous, with the lines well marked in hindwing only.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous mixed with fulvous.

Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm.

■■I cic?, 7 ? ?.

Distinguished at once by the speckled npperside.

196. Myrioblephara mollis spec. nov.

ForeiciiKj : pale grey, the scales in certain lights scintillating, varied with very
tine hairlike dark scales ; lines darker grey, marked with blackish on veins and
starting from black costal spots ; first line double, the inner arm thicker, both with
black dashes on median and subrnedian veins ; median lunnlate-dentate, the teeth
p. nniiiig backwards, followed by another similar line, each arm connected by a
black dash along subrnedian vein with the inner and outer lines respectively ; cell-
spot linear, black ; outer line ontcurved above, incurved below middle, black,
lunnlate-dentate, the teeth, as in median lines, pointing inwards, followed closely
by a diffuse grey shade ; snbmarginal pale, zigzag, between two blackish shades, the
outer of which is interrupted by a white blotch between 3 and 4 ; the two outer
lines below vein 'Z are dull rufous ; fringe pale ; marginal spots black.

Hindwing : with the lines paler, all double ; the inner lines absent.

Underside pale luteous, darker towards outer margin ; the lines obscurely
marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey ; segmental rings of abdomen pale.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

3 SS.

197. Myrioblephara proximata spec nov.

Closely allied to M. fufoivena Warr., and differing in the subjoined points: —
the fulvous markings much less prominent ; fringe of inner margin of forewing grey,
not fulvous ; fovea much more prominent and scaleless ; no uarrow black line close
to base, but the black band beyond much more si did from median vein to inner
margin ; cell-spot linear, iudistiuct ; injulvivena this is large and round ; outer edge
of central area swollen into a conspicuous blackish bilobed blotch on veius 3 aud 4,
and followed by a sinuous pale space, not marked with fulvous ; markings on inner
margin of hindwing darker aud stronger ; underside yellower ochreous.

4 $ $ ; the same size dsfulmvena.

'the differences in cell-spot and fovea will serve to separate the species.

198. Paradromulia ambigua ab, bimaculata nov.

This is a development of the ab. uniformis ; both wings have the same dull
blurred appearance as in that form, with only the white snbmarginal line shown,
bin the forewing has a large double but!' blotch on inner margin beyond outer line
leaching vein 3, and a smaller duller patch on outer margin between 3 aud 4 ; iu the

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hindwing the course of the outer line below vein 3 is narrowly buff-margined ; and
the buff patches are reproduced on underside.
2 Si.

199. Paralcidia albistrigula spec. nov.

Forewing : olive-brown, with darker, somewhat confluent, striations ; costa
with white striae ; veins pale brown ; lines pure white, edged with deep black ;
first from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, far outcurved above
median towards the cloudy black cell-spot, less below, edged on both sides with
blackish; outer line from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin,
waved and running out obliquely fo veiu 4, there bluntly angled and incurved,
vertical below vein 2, inwardly edged by a deep black line, and outwardly by
dark olive-brown ; submarginal line white, nearly straight, touching angle of
outer line ; marginal lunules black, broadly edged inwardly with white ; inner
margin mottled and striated with white ; a dark median shade sometimes
prominent; fringe in basal half olive-buff, in apical whitish, with olive-brown
mottling.

Hindwing : olive-brown, greyer towards base and paler along costa; a wavy
dark postmedian line, not reaching above vein 6 ; fringe olive-brown.

Underside of forewing pale olive, with slight grey striations along costa, and
the beginning of a black outer line ; hindwing black-speckled and with white
scaling along the two folds ; diffuse waved antemedian and postmedian Hues,
the latter edged with white ; cell-spot black ; fringes of both wings as above.

Head and thorax dark olive-brown ; abdomen paler brown, marked with dark
along the sides ; underside and legs pale olive-brown, the legs dark-speckled.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

3 «J(J.

200. Paralcidia rufitincta spec. nov.

Forewing : olive brownish, with no white markings except the three lines ;
only veins 3 and 4 clearly yellow ; costa olive with blackish striae ; inner line
marked only by the two white crescents at the end of each curve ; outer line more
finely white than in albistrigula, not so prominently angled at 4, but toothed at
6, 4, and 3 ; submarginal line thinner and interrupted above middle ; black marginal
lunules without white edging; fringe olive mottled with darker; a thick median
shade below middle.

Hindwing : pinkish grey, darker in basal two-thirds ; a dark cell-spot ; fringe
rufous grey.

Underside of forewing dull pinkish white ; costal and marginal areas olive-
brown, blacker along margin anil fringe ; a black mark on costa at two-thirds :
hindwing with basal two-thirds black, including blacker antemedian and postmedian
lines and cell- spot; margiual third greyish flesh-colour; inner margin below
submedian fold and fringe pale.

Head and thorax dark and light olive-brown ; abdomen dark brown with
blackish segmental rings; underneath dull fulvous brown, with the sides and
venter blackish in basal half.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 <J.

Possibly a form of albistrigula, but the abdomen is thinner and darker.

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201. Paralcis auropurpurea spec. dov.

Forewing : grey-brown; costa with black striae and black spots at the
beginning of the lines, and one close to base, and three in the middle; the two
basal lines bent in ccdl, then vertical; the median and outer, which latter is
partly double, oblique outwards, and bent at vein 4, both absorbed below middle
of wing in a large blackish elond, of which the inner and outer margins are
densely black ; submarginal line vertical, but inbent at vein 4, and preceded by
black blotches between veins; the marginal area darker, except a paler brown
patch between veins 3 and 4 ; black marginal lunules ; fringe blackish, with paler
base, and pale brown between 3 and 4.

In the ? the black cloud is much more extensive and all the black markings
intensified, the submarginal line and basal area paler.

Hindwing : bluish purple, paler along costa, and browner towards inner
margin, especially in c?, where the commencement of the lines is more conspicuous ;
inner margin and fringe bright yellow for two-thirds.

Underside uniform dark slate-colour; inner margin of hindwing and fringe
yellow.

Head and thorax brown-black ; abdomen yellow, with the dorsum broadly
black at base, the spots on segments diminishing in size to the fifth, where they
cease ; anal tuft and the whole ventral surface dark ; legs blackish, with yellow
joints.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 S, 1 ?.

Allied to P. coerulescens Warr.

~< »~. Paralcis cellulata spec. nov.

Forewing : white ; costa and veins pale olive-brown ; the space between
3 and 4 of the same colour except at margin ; the lines velvety black, double,
and by confluence forming bands; base narrowly black; a curved band of two
lines at one-fonrth ; a second before middle from costa to vein 4, followed by
a single line, and a third beyond middle, also stopping short rather before 4 ;
below 3 the two bands seem to unite to form a triple band about the middle ;
beyond the outer band a black costal blotch is produced narrowly ami often
interruptedly to inner margin as a praesubmarginal band ; the white submarginal
line is uninterrupted and runs obliquely to apex; marginal dark area interrupted
at apex and between 3 and 4 by white ground-colour; marginal lunules black;
fringe white, chequered with blackish.

Hindwing : cream-white, with a faint ochreous tinge, and a cloudy grey
cell-spot; a postmedian and two submarginal grey lines; black marginal lunules ;
fringe paler.

Underside pale ochreous, with the markings blurred brown or black-brown.

Face and palpi black-brown in S, pale brown like vertex and shoulders in ¥ ;
thorax and abdomen ochreous, the dorsum with grey spots ; sides of shoulders and
patagia black-brown ; abdomen beneath and legs mottled black and ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 6 3G mm. ; ? 40 mm.

4 <J(J, 1 ¥.

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203. Paralcis coerulescens ab. columnata nov.

Differs from typical coerulescens Warr. in having iu the forewing an upright
pale fulvous liar from inner margin to vein 6, immediately following the outer line
and partially obliterating the submarginal line, of which only the tip.s of the lunules
appear beyond its outer edge. In the hind wing the bar is restricted to a short
fulvous yellow blotch on inner margin separating the outer and submarginal lines.

1 <?,1 ?.

204. Paralcis ocellata ab. obliquifascia nov.

This species is subject to an intensification of markings which altogether alters
its appearance ; from inner margin of forewing between median and outer lines a
black fascia rises, curving outwards above vein 4, crossing submarginal line, to
outer margin below apex, continued across hindwing as a broad antemedian fascia ;
in the two ? ¥ seen the ground-colour on the inner side of the fascia is chauged to
whitish, and to a less degree on the outer side ; iu one of the two etc? the whole
of the rest of the ground-colour in both wings becomes pinkish fawn, without striae,
and the other lines marked iu black, while in the second c? the ground on both
sides of the fascia becomes broadly and brightly whitish. I distinguish the form
as ab. obliquifascia.

2 c? c? and 2 ? ? , together with a pair agreeing with type.

205. Paralcis pallidistriga ab. obducta nov.

Differs from the type in having the bright yellow baud of both wings replaced
by a blurred whitish band tinged with violet and pink, and ending in a whitish
blotch at apex of forewing ; the basal half of wing is paler and greyer, and in
consequence the black lines with their pale grey edging are more visible, and
the large velvety black cell-spot and a blotch below it on inner margin before outer
line are conspicuous.

1 <J.

Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE.

206. Tolmera lineata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale brown, with thick black speckling ; costal streak paler, with
short black striae on the edge ; all the veins pale yellowish ochreous ; the lines
whitish ochreous, placed exactly as in T. marcescens c?, the outer line being
nearer the middle of the wing, and the central space narrower ; submarginal line,
with its preceding shades, less marked ; marginal lunules black ; fringe ochreous,
with dark brown mottling.

Hindwing : pale greyish ochreous ; markings as iu sordida.

Underside greyish fawn-colour, strongly speckled, with the outer lines well
marked in both wings.

Head and thorax pale brown, the face paler ; abdomen like hindwing.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

207. Tolmera regulata spec. nov.

Forewing : olive-brown with a tinge of rufous and sparsely black-speckled ;
costal streak clear olive-brown, only the costal edge black-dotted ; lines while ;
first from one-fifth of costa, oblique outwards, and sharply angled on subcostal

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vein, then oblique inwards, edged on both sides with velvety Mack; the basal
area more or less blackish ; outer line at two-thirds, starting from subcostal vein
and miming slightly oblique inwards and outcurved from vein 2, white, edged on
both sides by a broad band of blackish olive curving with the line, this outer band
separated by a straight narrower band of ground-colour from an exterior band of
velvety blackish tilling up the lunules of submarginal line, which is finely white;
vein.-, all thickly olive rufous ; marginal luuules black: fringe brown; the brown
inner half of central area is sprinkled with pearly scales, especially in the ¥.

Hindwing : dull whitish at base, becoming dark grey beyond an outer curved
dark line; cell-spot dark.

Underside brownish grey, darker in forewing ; cell-spots and outer lines
blackish ; the ? is darker, more fuscous brown.

Head and thorax rufous olive like wings ; patagia mixed with blackish in the ? ;
metathoracic tuft double ; abdomen glossy, ochreous grey ; legs mottled fuscous
and ochreous.

Expanse of wiugs : S 44 mm. ; ? 48 mm.

2 t?<?,l ?.

There is a small white spot at base of forewing below median, as in

'/'. marcescens ; the antennae of the ? are pectinated.

208. Tolmera sordida spec. uov.

Forewing : fuscous with darker fuscous brown markings ; resembling the
type species T. albibasis ; but the basal line is not rounded, but angled as in
marcescens and regulata, and the outer line is not outcurved in its upper course.

Hindwing : paler than in albibasis, with the outer line not so near the outer
margin.

Underside dull greyish brown, with the markings very indistinct.

Head, thorax, and abdomen paler than in albibasis.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

3 <J<J.

209. Trochistis periculosa spec. uov. and ab. inconspicua nov.
Forewing: grey-brown, as in T. fuluplaga, and like it speckled with tine
black- and white scales ; with three darker cross-lines, basal, inner, and outer, but
all curved from costa, not straight; a bright round pinkish yellow, red-speckled
spot on inner margin before basal line, followed by a small white dot on the
submedian fold; smaller, more irregular, spots of same colour, indicating a
submarginal line, on vein 0 and between veins 3 and 4 ; cell-spot white ; fringe
concolorons.

Hindwing : similar, without basal markings ; with two liues and the red
submarginal spots.

Underside pale ochreous, with grey speckling and a brown marginal baud ;
black marginal spots as above.

Head, thorax, ami abdomen rufous brown : anal segment ochreous with a
black spot above ; abdomen beneath and legs pale ochreous.

In two examples the bright pink spots ate absent, replaced by a rufous tinge
only, but the while subbasal dot is always present ; these are ab. inconspicua.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

8 SS.

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Subfamily FIDONIINAE.
210. Chiasmia papuensis spec. nov.

<?. Forewing : cream-colour, sprinkled with dark brown scales ; Hues finely
black-brown, black-dotted on veins, accompanied by greyish olive shades; costa
and veins greyish olive ; first line at one-fifth, curved in cell, preceded by an olive
cloud ; median a little before middle, parallel throughout to basal line, starting
from a dark brown costal spot and enclosing a brown-edged ocelloid cell-spot ;
outer line at two-thirds, outcurved somewhat across cell, with distinct black spots
on veins, followed by a broad greyish olive shade; submarginal line formed of
pale lunules, outwardly black-edged, inwardly containing velvety-black crescents,
except that between 6 and T, that between 3 and 4, and the two in submedian
interval ; marginal area olive-grey : marginal lunules black ; fringe olive, paler in
apical half and mottled with darker beyond veins.

Hindwing : without inner line ; the postmedian forming a blackish band in
lower half ; cell-spot round and black.

¥ with the lines continuous, concise and brown, the olive shades reduced to
linear clouds, the veins fulvous : the postmedian of hindwing without a black
blotch.

Underside like upper, but paler and less glossy.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreons ; dorsum black-spotted.

Expanse of wings : S 24 mm. ; ? 26 mm.

A good series of both sexes.

The hindwing is slightly protuberant beyond veins 3 and 4, distinctly crenulate
throughout.

211. Chiasmia? viridochrea spec. nov.

Forewing : greenish ochreous ; the costa black-dotted ; lines thick and black,
interrupted by the pale median vein and a pale streak between 3 and 4 ; a line
close to base ; inner line consisting of three black vertical streaks, that at costa
nearer base ; preceded by three much thicker black blotches ; outer line double,
obscurely lunulate, interrupted below middle ; median line formed by a black spot
on costa, a black blotch on discocellular, and a larger one on inner margin between
the median and outer lines ; submarginal line preceded by black blotches on costa,
beyond cell, and towards inner margin, followed by larger blotches beyond cell
and at anal angle ; marginal black spots between veins ; fringe ochreous mottled
with black.

Hindwing : ochreous, without markings ; those beneath showing through only :
fringe yellower, with faint brown spots, those at veins 2 and 3 stronger.

Underside yellow ochreous ; of the forewing with the markings of npperside
showing through ; of the hindwing striated with grey-brown and with grey-brown
cell-spot and outer, submarginal, and marginal lines.

Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow ochreous, the head browner.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 <J.

Forewing without fovea ; outer margin of hindwing slightly projecting at
3 and 4.

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Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE.
212. Eutoea heteromorpha spec. nov.

Forewing: pale ochreons, semitransparent, with fine brown transverse striae ;
costal streak pale brown with the edge white ; traces of a faint curved line near
base ; cell-mark vertical, pale brown; jnst beyond it a short oblique brown streak
from costa ; at three-fourths a similar streak runs obliquely outwards, is angled
on 6, and runs obliquely inwards to middle of inner margin, followed by a brownish
Hush ; beyond the angle is a brown spot ; margin and fringe dark brown.

Hindwing : with a straight dark brown line at one-third from vein 6 to inner
margin, and an obscure series of brown vein-spots before margin.

Underside paler ochreons, slightly striated; the lines brown; forewing with
a median line in addition ; hindwing with centra] line entire, bent in middle, and a
slight snbmargiual line.

Head and palpi dark brown ; vertex and prothorax pale brown ; patagia,
metathorax, and abdomen pale ochreons ; praeanal segments brown ; segment 4
with a brown ring.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 d\

The forewing of this species has the costa well arched throughout, the apex
produced and prominent, and the outer margin concave, the anal angle square and
blunt; in the hindwing the outer margin is slightly curved, without any of the
irregular crenulations and excisions of the type species, and the neuration is the
same, except that vein 4 of the hindwing is not bent down along outer margin.

213. Nadagarodes simplex spec. nov.

Forewing : pale fawn-colonr, speckled with pale olive-brown ; inner and
median lines scarcely traceable ; outer marked only by black dashes on veins,
angled on vein 6 ; a row of dark marginal spots ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with the lines curved ; median and submarginal rather clearer.

Underside very pale fulvous ; costa of forewing with brown striations ; costa
of hindwing and cell of forewing slightly striated; onter and submarginal lines
deeper fulvous, the former marked by black vein-spots, the latter waved ; brown
marginal spots connected by a brown margiual line ; fringe pale ochreons ; hindwing
with three Hues, the cell-spot brown and small.

Face and palpi red-brown; vertex dark grey; thorax and abdomen like
wings ; forelegs fuscous ; antennae well pectinated.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

1 6.

214. Nadagarodes ? tumida spec. nov.

Forewing : grey-brown, thickly sprinkled with bluish grey scales ; the lines
dark brown; inner from nearly one-third of costa oblique inwards to near base of
inner margin ; median from middle of costa, right-angled on vein 6, and oblique
to middle of inner margin ; outer line from four-tilths of costa, bluntly angled
on 6, then luuulate-dentate to near median line on inner margin, ending in a large
round coal-black blotch ; the teeth also black-marked on veins ; submarginal line
lying between two uniformly zigzag brown lines ; dark brown marginal luuules

between veins : fringe brown ; (-ell-spot linear, brown.

Hindwing: paler towards costa, ochreons striated with olive-grey; median
line brown, straight, touching cell-spot; the rest as in forewing.

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Underside dull pale fulvous, over the whole forewing and along costa of
hindwing thickly dusted with fuscous ; the lines fuscous, the outer only plain ;
middle line browner.

Face and palpi red-brown; vertex and collar blue-grey; thorax and abdomen
brown mixed with blue-grey ; shoulders darker ; abdomen yellowish at sides,
whitish beneath ; legs and pectus yellowish ; forelegs fulvous.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 ?.

215. Petrodava gibbosa ab. rectilinea no v.

A large series of this insect was received, including 22 cfc? and 0 ? ?. The
latter all belong to the ab. subradiata, and are very dark. The <?cT include alike
the type form and the two aberrations rubra and interna, this latter in some fine
forms. One $ differs remarkably from all previously recorded Petrodava, and
may be distinguished as ab. rectilinea. It is intermediate between the type form
and rubra in colour, being uniform brownish fawn-colour, with the lines dark
brown ; the inner and median lines agree with those of the type, but in front of
the median is a nearly straight obscure line ; then instead of the usual curved and
waved outer line at four-fifths, a thick brown line starts from costa at six-sevenths,
is slightly bent on vein 6, and descends straight to before anal angle, the outline
of the submarginal being represented beyond it by black dashes between the veins ;
marginal line and fringe dark brown, in the hindwing this line is followed by a
reduced black blotch between 6 and 7 and a slight brownish shade. The underside
is deep yellow, with the lines all dark brown and distinct, especially the outer
straight one.

Subfamily ENNOMINAE.
216. Capasa flexilinea spec. nov.

Forewing : grey-green ; costal edge yellow, with two black-green spots, one at
one-third, large, the second at three-fourths, smaller ; the first represents the origin
of the first band, which below the subcostal is pale green with dark edges, obliquely
bent inwards ; its inner edge blnntly angled basewards on submedian fold and
outwards sharply on submedian vein ; the onter angled outwards on vein 4, then
parallel to inner edge, except for another angle outwards on the fold ; outer line
olive-green, fine and oblique outwards to vein 0, then angled and flexuous inwards,
below 2 vertical and pale green with dark edges, as the first line : an obscure
blackish line runs from apex to the angle of outer line and then along its outer
edge, forming a blotch between 3 and 4 and another on inner margin, throwing off
a curved line from the middle blotch to another at anal angle ; fringe pale grey-
green, fuscous at apex and anal angle.

Hindwing: with costa and inner margin yellow ; the bent green band central,
the dark submarginal line incurved and interrupted at middle.

Underside of forewing yellow at base, suffused with fulvous brown beyond, the
lines and inner margin dark olive-grey : hindwing deep yellow, with the lines and
a cell-blotch olive-grey.

Palpi fulvous ; face and tips of palpi black ; vertex, collar, and antennae pale
grey-green ; thorax and dorsum darls grey-green, like wings ; abdomen at sides
and beneath and legs deep yellow ; tarsi and front of tibiae blackish,

Expanse of wings : 40 mm,

7 c?cJ.

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217. Epitherapis nubilata Rpec. nov.

Forewing . bone-colour, suffused throughout with an olive-grey tinge, except
ou .a triangular costal space from apes to middle, and striated with dark ; lines as
in /.'. stramineata, but brownish fuscous and distinct, the basal preceded by a
pale line, and the outer followed by a grej one; a submarginal row of black
funnies, through the middle' of each of which the white submarginal line passes,
the lunule between :i and 4 being largely white ; cell-spot black ; the (dive tinge
is strongest towards apex.

Hindwing: blurred olive-grey, with the lines thickened and blackened, as in
stramineata, the inner margin only pale, with clearer speckling.

Underside of forewiug with basal two-thirds dark grey, all the lines showing ;
a small brownish cloud below apex; hindwing suffused witli olive-green, with all
the lines and the cell-spot thick and black.

Face olive ochreons ; palpi externally fuscous ; vertex white ; shoulders
brown ; thorax ochreons ; abdomen ochreons speckled all over with brown and
olive scales.

Expanse of wings : 4>> mm.

1 i.

Intermediate in size, markings, and coloration between /.'. recticisa described
below and stramineata Warr., but scarcely to be referred to either.

218. Epitherapis recticisa spec. nov. and ab. procellosa nov.

S. Forewing: greyish fawn-colour, irregularly black-speckled; the lines
darker, and black-marked at the veins ; the first from one-fourth of costa, the second
from before middle, the outer from two-thirds; the first angled in cell, the second
and third on vein 6, but the latter interrupted ; the first, is preceded and the outer
followed by a pale line, succeeded by a dark shade which runs towards apex; below
the middle the three lines are oblique and generally parallel, though sometimes
the median approaches the inner; submarginal line waved; whitish near costa,
generally preceded and followed by olive-green or olive-brown shading, above
middle followed by black spots; from the angle in cell the brown upper arm of
cond line is continued straight along below vein 0 to outer margin underlined
by a line pale ochreons streak ; fringe brownish, slightly darker at ends of veins.

Hindwing: paler and less speckled, except on extreme inner margin, where
the speckles are black on a pale ochreons streak ; a straight grey antemedian line,
and a curved postuicdian lunulate-dentate shade, and sometimes slight traces of a
curved outer line.

The ? ? are more uniform in coloration, with less speckling and obscurely
marked lines : without the sharply marked horizontal line to outer margin, but
with a large brown triangular shade on outer margin from the angle of middle line ;
in the aberration procellosa this cloud is black and reaches inner margin, giving the
insect an entirely different aspect.

Underside grey in the forewing, speckled only round the margins, ochreons in
the hindwing, showing the lines and black speckles clearly; in the i more uniformly
grey or lilac-grey with the lines reproduced.

Ileal, thorax, and abdomen like wings; shoulders edged by a straight brown
line; the metathorax with a pair of black spots; the dorsum with paired black or
brown blotches,

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Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

2 <?<?, 3 ? ?, 1 ? being- the aberration procellosa.

The species described by me in Nov. Zool. vol. x. pp. 411, 412 as Tktrapis
pallidilinea and ab. rwtata (the latter being, I believe, a distinct species), are
better placed in Epitherapis. The present species is distingnished from them by
the more prominently rounded shoulder uear base of costa of forewing.

210. Gonophaga subpulchra ab. multiguttata nov.

Of this species, originally described by me from Mackay, Queensland, and also
occurring in Sndest Island, and received from the Upper Aroa River, New Guinea,
a single S example has come from Biagi, which represents a form quite distinct
from any hitherto seen. Both wings above are dull mouse-colour, with a brown
tinge and black-speckled ; in the forewing the first line is followed by large black
spots on veins and preceded by black blotches above and below the median; the
outer line is marked throughout by black vein spots and ends, as in ab. nigromaculata,
in a large black blotch above inner margin; it is followed from the angle down-
wards by large black blotches between the veins ; the submarginal line is seen only
as white dots in the centre of each of a row of black wedge-shaped spots ; the
marginal spots are large and black, and the cell-spot is a white dot thickly edged
with black. The hindwing has only the outer lines, the submarginal being
represented by a brown shade. The tips of the shoulders are black, and the
dorsum is marked on each segment by black spots. On the underside the ground-
colour and markings are all duller, and the forewing is washed with yellowish
brown.

220. Heterodisca flamniea spec. nov.

<$. Forewing : deep orange fulvous dappled with darker ; the costal edge yellowish
with fulvous striae; lines blackish, both followed outwardly by a diffusely darker
shade, marked, the first inwardly, the second outwardly by bright white dashes on
the veins ; the first oblique outwards, slightly curved, from one-fourth of costa to
one-third of inner margin ; the second straight from costa a little before apex to
two-thirds of inner margin ; dark lines between the veins towards outer margin ;
cell-spot large, blackish ; fringe dark brown ; a black dot at base above a yellow
patch on inner margin.

Hindwing: glossy, ochreous tinged with red, the red deepening towards
outer margin ; an indistinct reddish cell-spot and curved postmedian line ; fringe
dark red-brown.

¥. Forewing: deep yellow with red-brown dappling and shading; a yellow
blotch beyond outer line on vein 4 (this blotch is also present in the <?, but being-
red is less conspicuous) ; yellow spots along margin at end of the veins, the dark
lines between them more prominent.

Underside dull yellow, with the markings and speckling dull red ; cell-spots
black ; some white scaling at apex of forewing, and a black costal spot before outer
Hue; the dark tints deeper in the ?.

Head and thorax fiery orange, red-speckled; metathoracic tuft yellow;
dorsum dull fulvous ; abdomen beneath and pectus fulvous; fore and middle legs
fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

A long series of both sexes.

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221. Hyposidra apicefulva spec, now

Forettnng : brownish fawn-colour, slightly dark-speckled and in places suffused
with deeper brownish ; lines dark brown, thick ; first from one-third of costa
vertical to snbmedian fold, (hen inbent, often preceded by a darker shade, the whole
basal area sometimes darker: outer line at two-thirds, thickened and dark above
middle, obscurely Innnlate-dentate below, shortly preceded by an obscure median
line, to which it is joined between veins 5 and 6 by a conspicuous horizontal black-
brown blotch : snbmarginal line lunulate-dentate, indistinct, generally preceded by
a browner suffusion; the apex beyond it above vein 8 always marked by a fulvous
patch of varying intensity; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot blackish; the lines are
generally all darker at costa, which is in seine cases darkened throughout.

Hindwing : with double antemedian line, and strongly marked lunulate-dentate
postmedian; the margin browner, with a snbmarginal shade which becomes
brighter, containing a white spot, on inner margin.

Underside paler, coarsely black-speckled; the lines black; inner margin of
both wings pale ochreous ; fringe brown.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; basal segments of abdomen paler,
with pairs of black spots ; metathorax with dark brown tuft.

The aberration lignata, somewhat smaller than the type, is wood-colour,
suffused with brown above and below.

Both forms concur in the possession of the black or brown blotch between
median and outer line, and of the fulvous apical blotch. I should have considered
the species as only one of the many forms of//, incomptaria Wlk., but with them
came a single ¥, with the outer margin simply curved between 4 and G, not excised
as is the case with ? ? of incomptaria. This ? is pale wood-colour, tinged with
brown in the marginal areas and strongly dark-speckled, with all markings as in
the cJcJ, except the strong black blotch, which is absent.

Expanse of wings : c? 50 — 55 mm. ; ab. lignata ; S 46 — 48 mm.; ? To mm.

11 66,1 ?.

Of the 6 6, S are referable to the type form, and the remaining 3 to ab. lignata,
to which form the ? also appears to belong.

The 66 of this species seem unusually liable to grease.

222. Mimomiza bimaculata spec. nov. and ab. praeflava nov.
Forewing : canary-yellow, with some scattered brown speckling; costal edge
pink ; lines olive-grey or brownish ; basal very obscure, from one-sixth of costa,
angled in cell, then vertical; inner line from one-fourth, bent outwards from
subcostal vein and angled in cell, then vertical, marked by a brown blotch in
submedian interval and another, rounder, on inner margin; outer line oblique and
straight from apex to two-thirds of inner margin, preceded by a large oblong black-
brown blotch reaching from vein 4 to inner margin, with a large round black-brown
cell-spot ; snbmarginal line indicated sometimes by dark spots on the folds ; fringe
yellow.

Hindwing : similar, with an inner biconcave line and a straight one just beyond
middle ; snbmarginal marked in some cases by an oblique streak from costa
touching the outer line, as well as by the two dark brown spots.

Underside deeper yellow, with the lines and blotches purple-brown varied with
some white scales : hindwing with an orange-red patch below apex and some
orange speckling along costa.

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Head, antennae, and palpi above deep black-brown ; thorax and abdomen

yellow; metathorax with a pair of brown spots; abdomen with the praeanal
segments washed with fulvous.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

T cJc?.

Of these 3 belong to the aberration praeflava, in which all the brown-black
spots are absent, the cell-spot being a large ring ; but on the underside the
lines and speckling are deep black-brown, and the oblique outer line on both wings
above is broader and browner.

The species differs from typical Mimomiza in having the antennae broad and
flattened, the segments triangular, capped by fascicles of cilia.

223. Zomia semirubra spec. nov.

Forewing : deep green ; the lines formed of bluish scales edged on each side
by thick blackish green shades ; first line waved, at one-third ; onter at three-fourtbs,
lnnnlate-dentate, insinuate on each fold and projecting towards onter margin below
middle, the outer dark edge less distinct; a blackish spot at base of costa with
some bluish scales below it, above a pink patch on inner margin; some bluish
scales before first line ; down the central area, especially round the black cell-spot,
patches of the same beyond the two sinuses of outer line and lunules along margin
between the veins ; fringe pale, darker at the veins.

Hindwing : deep dull rosy; a wedge-shaped streak of green sprinkled with
bluish atoms and crossed by a blackish line lies at anal angle between vein 1 and
the submedian fold ; cell-spot black ; fringe ochreous dotted with black.

Underside dull red; forewing with black cell-spot and two marks beyond;
hindwing with black cell-spot and striae along costal and outer margins ; fringes
of both wings ochreous, dotted with black.

Palpi and forelegs deep red ; face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen green, the
last with rust-coloured patches on dorsum.

Expanse of wings : S 30 — 35 mm. ; ? 35 mm.

28 <?<?, 1 ?.

Subfamily PROSOPOLOPHINAE.
Colpocraspeda gen. nov.

Forewing : costa arched at base and slightly inflexed at middle ; apex rounded ;
outer margin with a deep sinus between veins 7 and 4 and a slighter one between
veins 1 and 2, projecting roundly between 2 and 4 ; anal angle well marked ; inner
margin convex.

Hindwing : with rounded outer margin, containing a slight sinus beyond
each fold.

Antennae (?) simple, filiform ; patagia spreading; thorax and metathorax with
spreading tufts; palpi porrect, second segment well scaled, third short and pointed ;
tongue and frenulum present ; legs broken.

Neuration : forewing, cell longer than half of wing ; discocellular vertical ; first
median from just beyond middle, second close before end of cell ; radials normal ;
7, 8, 0, 10, stalked from the bend in subcostal; 11 free: hindwing, costal
approximated to subcostal for half of cell; 7 and 3 before the angles ; no radial.

Type : Colpocraspeda elegans spec. nov.

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224. Colpocraspeda elegans spec. dov.

Forewing: lavender tinged with green ; costa "live at base, white dotted wiih
dark green beyond; at one-third a broad olive-green streak inwardly edged with
white runs outwards to vein 2, where it is abruptly angled and turns inwards
ending at one-third of inner margin in an erect fulvous orange streak, inwardly
edged with white; outer line at three-fourths, slightly green and outwardly edged
with white, angled on vein 6 and slightly curved to a small fulvous spot at five-
sixths of inner margin ; au obscure dark median shade rises from costa midway
between the other two lines and reaches inner margin at two-thirds; space on inner
margin between inner and outer lines pale ochreoas ; the Bpace between lines above
rather deeper lavender than the rest of wing; fringe lavender.

Hindwing : very pale lavender, with the cell-spot and outer line showing
through.

Underside uniform pale lavender ; hindwing with fulvous cell-spot and faintly
marked submarginal line.

Head, thorax, and abdomen lavender.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 ?.

225. Phrudophleps violata Bpec. now

Forewing: pale green with cream-coloured striae, dense and short along costa;
base below middle brown, emitting brown streaks along lower half of cell, along
snbmedian fold, and along inner margin to outer line, which is followed by a broad
brown and fuscous band to above middle ; inner line, starting from a cream-white
costal spot, projects strongly in cell and is marked by a snow-white spot before the
dark cell-spot, then runs sharply basewards, again projects below median and
reaches inner margin at one-fourth, finely white edged with black ; the outer line at
two-thirds is curved parallel to outer margin, lnuulate-dentate, finely white with
black edges, and formiug a large white lunnle on snbmedian fold ; submarginal line
marked by two white spots obliquely placed before apex, then forming au obscurely
paler waved line through the brown shade ; white black-edged wedge-shaped
marginal spjots between the veins ; fringe green, black-tipped beyond the veins.

Hindwing : greenish white, with broad olive-green margin with distinct inner
edge ; fringe and cell-spot green.

Underside bright green; lines of forewing shown only along costa, outer line
of hindwing clear throughout; black cell-spots on both wings; on forewing a
brownish ochreous submarginal spot beyond cell ; inner margins white.

Palpi white, pale green above ; face and vertex white ; collar and thorax pale
green; tips of patagia and the metathoras whitish, with brown scales; metathorax
with an olive-brown tuft; abdomen pale green; abdomen beneath and legs bright
green ; antennae pale green, ochraceous beneath.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

3 as, 2 ? ?.

Superficially greatly resembling the type species viridis, but distinguished by
the brown streaks and smaller size; in the hindwing 0, 7, rise from the upper angle
of cell, and are not stalked as in viridis.

The antennae of the S are simply lamellate, somewhat thicker than in the ?.

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AMERICAN TEYBIDIEAE, UBANIIDAE, AND
GEOMETBIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM.

By W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S.

Family THYRIDIDAE.

1. Belonoptera cancellata spec. nov.

Forewing : brownish ochreous ; a smoky brown-black subcostal streak from
base, widening outwards and running into the projecting apex ; the costal edge
whitish grey, with dark strigae and larger spots before apex ; from the subcostal
streak a series of vertical brown parallel and equidistant lines traverses the wing
to inner margin, nine in number, of which the fifth alone is curved inwards and
not so parallel as the rest; the intervals filled with irregular brown reticulation,
and with a finer crinkled brown line down the centre of each; space immediately
below subcostal streak at margin above vein 7 white; fringe dark brown.

Hindwing : with five parallel brown lines in basal half, followed by a line
from three-fourths of costa, forking at vein 7 to anal angle and end of vein 3, witli
a middle line to end of vein 2, and an irregular crinkled line before apex; the
intervals with contorted reticulatious as in forewing ; fringe brown.

Underside paler, towards base whitish, white along inner margin of forewing ;
markings as above.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; legs and palpi brown with whitish
joints.

Expanse of wings : 56 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft., March 1904, wet season
(Ockenden).

Allied tn B. frondicula and nervicula, Guen.

Hepialopsis gen. nov.

Forewing : thrice as long as wide ; costa straight, slightly convex towards
apex, which is bluntly rounded ; inner margin somewhat lobed near base ; outer
margin obliquely curved ; anal angle obtuse and ill-marked.

Hindwing : much smaller, but of similar proportions ; inner margin quite
short, not more than one-fourth of the length of wing ; the underside with a
downwards-directed ridge of coarse scales running along costal vein from base
to apex.

Abdomen (in ?) reaching far beyond hindwings ; antennae simple; forehead
rounded; palpi porrect, quite short: tongue and frenulum present; legs short
and stout.

Neuration : forewing, cell longer than half of wing, broad at extremity ;
discocellular incurved from upper end to middle, then vertical ; all the veins
straight and simple ; vein 2 at five-sixths ; 3, 4, 5 close together round lower
end of cell; (j from the upper curve of discocellular ; 7,8,9 from round upper
angle; Id shortly before them; 11 from one-third, near base: hindwing, cell
short ; (i, 7 from upper angle ; the rest as in forewing.

Type : Hepialopsis spAingipt znnis spec. nov.

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,'. Hepialopsis sphingipeunis stpec. nov.

Foreiring : dull luteous grey, dusted with dark or ; these darker scales form
lines of ill-defined spots between the veins; the spots larger and more prominent
in and below cell ; outer margin less dusted and more luteous ; fringe luteous grey.

Hindwing : dark grey, with a slight rufous tinge ; a thick black snbmarginal
line from anal angle and two more above it and parallel ; the markings in a slight
degree recalling the hindwing of Sphinx Uijustri : fringe grey, speckled with black.

Underside like npper.

Head, palpi, shoulders, and patagia pale luteous grey : thorax and abdomen
darker, with blackish scales; the abdomen with light and dark longitudinal
streaks.

Expanse of wings : 00 mm.

1 ? from La Union, R. Hnaeamayo, Oarabaya, rem, 2000 ft., November
1904, wet season (Ockenden).

3. Iza colorifera spec nov.

Forewing : greenish ochreous, pink-tinged beyond middle, with faint reticu-
lations and some black specks ; basal area with two or three bands of grey-green,
the intervals paler ; a straight black bar from three-fifths of costa to three-fourths
of inner margin, followed by two curved series of black specks : a dark blotch at
anal angle; fringe double, the basal half pale rust-coloured, the outer ochreous,
chequered with dark beyond veins below middle.

Hind/ring : pink, with irregular lines of black dots ; the apex with dark
scaling, the black bar of forewing being continued across it; fringe ochreous, with
black chequering.

Underside dull pinkish green, crossed by bands of dark striae.

Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish grey ; palpi and forelegs rufous.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, P. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

Orneostoina gen. nov.

Forewing : with costa sinuous, straight in basal half, then protuberant, and
truncate before apex, which is produced to a blunt point; outer margin sinuous,
indented above anal angle, which is squarely lobed ; inner margin strongly sinuous,
broadly lobed at base, and concave between the lobes.

Hindwing : costa as in forewing, but shouldered at base; outer margin straight
from below apex to anal angle, which is square.

Abdomen of ? reaching well beyond hindwings ; antennae thick, lamellate ;
palpi long, porrect, slender ; tongue very feeble; no frenulum visible.

In the forewing veins 9, 10 are stalked, 11 rising near base; 5 from lower
angle of cell, 6 from the upper.

Type : Orneostoma subpulchra spec. nov.

4. Orneostoma subpulchra spec. nov.

Forevnng : with a pale brown subcostal streak underlined with dark, running
perfectly straight from base to apex ; costal area above it brownish fuscous, with
alternating darker streaks and paler interspaces ; below the streak the wing is

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whitish, with darker reticulations ; a dark somewhat fannel-shaped fascia at one-
fourth ; a dark grey triangular cloud beyond cell, its apex joined by a thread-like
line to a quadrate brown patch on middle of inner margin ; marginal area broadly
greyish fuscous, inwardly limited by a whitish space curving into apex but broad
on inner margin ; fringe with basal half brown, outer half paler, with the apices
again brown ; the basal lobe dull grey.

Hindwing : wholly brownish fuscous, with darker transverse markings between
the veins.

Underside pearly white, with the markings deep chocolate, except the hind-
margin of forewing, which is glossy grey ; fringe of forewing grey, of hindwing
chocolate.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish fuscous ; shoulders, vertex, and antennae
paler.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet
season (Ockendeu).

o. Siculodes ferrugata spec. nov.

Forewing : cream-white, traversed by a cpiantity of irregularly contorted and
ramifying dark brown streaks, alternating with pale rust-red reticulations ; costa
dark brown at base and strigulated with brown thronghout ; from the middle
of inner margin a straight dark brown line ruus obliquely outwards parallel to
outer margin to upper angle of cell, where it is inbent to middle of costa ; at the
bend it is joined to another line from costa, which runs thickening to inner
margin before anal angle ; in the basal half of wing three brown lines ramify
from the costa, the third crossing the straight oblique line below middle ; three
finer brown lines run from costa before apex, one close before outer margin, all in
places laterally connected ; fringe cream-colour.

Hindwing : with a broad central brown line and two or three beyond, faint
towards costa, but broad and ramifying towards inner margin.

Underside with the lines all much finer ; forewing with an orange subcostal
streak, and black metallic scaling at base and along upper margin of cell.

Head and thorax smoky brown-black ; abdomen cream-colour, with all the
dorsal segments brown in front ; forelegs dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 c? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

G. Zeuzerodes castanea spec. nov.

Forewing: flesh-coloured ochreous, tinged with ferruginous; costa broadly
purplish, crossed by brown striae ; outer margin more narrowly purplish ; inner
margin dark brown ; in middle of cell a dark brown blotch ; at and beyond its end
a larger blotch of the same colour, from the inner end of which a long curved
streak runs into apex below costa; the lower outer part of the large blotch is
connected with outer margin by a, purplish shading between 3 and 4, while
its inner edge is produced as a, brown band to inner margin at three-fourths.

Hindwing : ferruginous ochreous, crossed by sparse brown curved reticulations ;
a subbasal purplish diffuse baud; the apex and fringe purplish brown.

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Underside similar ; but the hind wing with a large purplish cell-spot and fiery
coppery tinge aloug outer rnargiu, aud more narrowly along costa ; {brewing also
tinged with the same colour.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown ; the dorsum with some purplish and

deep red scaling ; legs and palpi rufous ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

7. Zeuzerodes maculata spec. nov.

Forewing : black; along costa iron grey, mixed with dull red-brown stales;
I he paler intervals form white spots with grey centres in and beyond cell, and one
large obliqne white blotch in snbmedian interval before outer margin ; towards the
apex the grey scales form lines between the veins, and the costa before apex is
dotted with grey and rufous ; fringe blackish, with a row of irregular reddish
scales along base.

Bindwing : with costal half black mixed with grey ; the anal triangle cream-
white, crossed by two waved pale fulvous lines, and the fringe along it fulvous.

Underside of forewing greyish black with traces of paler waved bands; apex
with a dull flesh-coloured blotch, containing a velvety black spot with a white
dash on it; costa before apex brownish flesh-colour; fringe dark with pale flesh-
coloured scales al base ; the white blotch before anal angle conspicuous : hindwiug
as above, but the dark basal area rippled with pale grey.

Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish, the last with deep red lateral lines,
aud the penultimate segment of dorsum ferruginous ; palpi and tarsi rufous.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden).

Family URANIIDAE.

Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE.

Aphyodes gen. nov.

Forewing : ample ; costa straight, slightly curved at base aud apex, which is
bluntly rounded ; outer margin straight or slightly incurved from 0 to 3, which is
bluntly bent and strongly oblique; inner margin convex.

Hindwing : quite small ; pointed at apex and excised before anal angle; inner
margin short, the inner-marginal area contorted and folded.

Antennae lamellate, subserrate beneath, rasped above ; palpi short, porrect,
and pointed ; tongue slight ; frenulum strong.

Neuration : forewing, cell less than half of wing ; median nervure sharply
bent upwards at end, vein 3 from the bend in a straight line with the median,
vein 2 from close before it, 4 from the upturned end of cell; 5, the lower radial,
from below the upper angle ; 6, 7 stalked from the angle ; 8, '•» stalked ; 10, 11
lice, and far back: hindwing, 8 iuto the apical point, 7 aud 6 widely separated
from 8, stalked from middle of wing, 5 being stalked with 6 ; the median and
iis branches obscured ; upper surface of hindwiug covered with thick furry hair.
There appears to be a longitudinal furrow between 8 aud 7.

Type: Aphyodes piloaa spec. nov.

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8. Aphyodes pilosa spec. aov.

Forewing : pale fawn-colour, tinged witli darker, and coarsely speckled with
brown ; lines brown, thick and diffuse ; first from about one-third, curved in cell
and oblique to just before middle of inner margin ; second from three-fifths of
costa, oblique outwards, sharply angled on vein 6, then oblique to inner margin
close to inner line; a thick brown line close before margin along the excision;
apical area darker; fringe apparently darker.

Hindwing ; covered with fuscous furry hair.

Underside of forewing paler, with dense brown striatums ; hindwing fuscous,
smooth.

Face and palpi black; thorax and abdomen like forewings.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

I i from It. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry season
(Ockendeu).

9. Dirades erebata spec. nov.

Forewing: dull black; an oblique thick black line on discocellular, generally
preceded by a small whitish mark ; a pale outer line, inwardly darker shaded,
from costa before apex, at first slightly oblique outwards, vertical from G to 4,
then oblique to 2, and again vertical to inner margin a little before anal angle ;
fringe black.

Hindwing: black witli some deep brown scales along median vein from base ;
an outer curved dark line followed by ferruginous scales and containing pale dots
between the veins ; fold and inner margin white, the contained hair-tuft ochreons.

Underside blackish grey, paler in hindwing ; the fold whitish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black : the fillet white.

Expause of wings : 26 mm.

4 SS from La Oroya, Pi. Iuambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry
season (Ockenden).

I leave this species iu Dirades, with which it agrees in neuration. The
outer margin of hindwing is straight from the subapical elbow at vein 7 to the
rounded aual angle.

10. Epiplema caesiogrisea spec nov.

Forewing: slate-colour, striated finely with darker; the costa with larger
and more distinct striae ; lines diffusely darker ; first out-curved from one-third
of costa and thickened in cell, ending iu a fine inwardly oblique mark at two-thirds
of inner margin ; outer from three-fifths of costa, vertical to vein 4, then incurved,
and ending indistinctly on inner margin a little beyond first line ; a broad dark
shade from anal angle towards the bend iu outer line: marginal area deep
purplish, edged inwardly by .-i fine Mack sinuous line from vein 7 to vein 2 ;
fringe slate-colour, chequered with white between the veins.

Hindwing: with the two lines fine, ami angled outwards on median and
vein 4 ; the outer more conspicuous, preceded by a darker tint, and edged by
a line pale line outwardly; a submarginal cloud from anal angle fading towards
costa; fringe dark with pale apices; a pale dark-edged lengthened cell-spot.

Underside dull slaty grey in forewing, whitish grey iu hindwing, with brown
striae which are plainest iu the latter.

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Vertex, thorax, and abdomen slaty grey ; face and palpi black-brown.
Expanse of wings : 24 men.

1 ? from Tncnman, Argentina, 1100 in. January — February 1905 (Steinbach).
Superficially this species much resembles E. ezcoria Waorr. from Mexico,
but really the two are quite different

11. Epiplema colurnbicolor spec. uov.

Foretoing : pale dove-colour ; the costa Bpotted with black: the lines hardly
visible ; from a blackish spot at one-third a faint shade runs outwards to cell and
then inwards to one-third of inner margin, with a dark dot on snbmedian told ;
from costa at two-thirds a dull grey shade rises, ending on inner margin beyond
middle in a rounded dark blotch ; from the anal angle a blackish shade rises,
leaching vein 4 ; at the excision a chestnut-brown shade edged inwardly by two
small black lnuules ; fringe dove-coloured, mixed witli brown above.

Hind wing : speckled with dark, and with a faint rufous tinge; two rufous
lines, the antemedian curved, the postmedian angled on vein 4 ; a rufons shade
before margin from upper to lower tooth, below which there is a slight brown
spot.

Underside of forewing clouded with grey and with coarse brown-black
speckling ; the black shade from anal angle shown ; hiudwing paler, black-speckled
only along costa and outer margin.

Face and palpi black-brown : thorax and abdomen like wings, the latter much
speckled with blackish.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., .September 19U4, dry season
(Ockenden).

Forewing excised between 4 and 6, the apex depressed 'and bluntly rounded ;
hiudwing toothed at veins 4 and 7, and excised between anal angle and vein 2.

12. Epiplema ignefumata spec. nov.

Forewing : black-brown ; the lines black ; first from one-third of costa to
near middle of inner margin, sharply angled outwards on each fold; outer line
from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, angled outwards on
vein 4, concave ou each side : the included space blackish ; both lines, where they
diverge in snbmedian interval, marked with velvety black; outer margin black,
edged inwardly from vein 7 to 3 by a velvety black bracket-shaped mark ; the
slightly paler browner spaces on each side of the central fascia show traces of
dark striae.

Hiudwing : with central fascia purplish black, both edges acutely angled
outwards on vein 4, the outer followed, as it is also in the forewing, by a pale
dark-edged line ; marginal area black along veins from before apex to lower
tooth, and with black striatious below it ; a black spot below each tooth and two
smaller spots between ; the brown on each side of central fascia much paler than
in forewing, tinged with blackish again at base.

Underside dull black, with a submarginal fascia in forewing and a marginal
one in hiudwing deep ferruginous speckled with dark.

Face and palpi black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen black-brown.

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Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 3 from Oooneque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Both wings with apex truncate, veins 7, 6 and 4 toothed, the teeth of
hindwing longer.

13, Epiplema ignefusa spec. nov.

Forewing : a mixture of ferruginous and olive-brown on a dull grey ground,
covered with short dark striae, especially along the veins ; costal area pale greyish
ochreons, with dark striae ; lines very obscure, dark brown ; one or two irregularly
curved near base ; the outer line angled outwards on vein 4 ; a black curved mark
before the excision, limiting a brown shade ; fringe dark grey.

Hindwing : with inner and outer lines plainer, dark brown, interrupted by the
veins, and both angled in middle ; some blackish luuules before margin from tootli
to tooth, and a black spot below lower tooth ; fringe with a dark line near base.

Underside fawn-colour tinged with ferruginous and striated with black ;
forewing with a dark brown shade.

Face and palpi black-brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings ; vertex and
shoulders pale greyish ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 ? from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Apex of forewing depressed and truncate ; outer margin excised from 6 to 4 :
hindwing shouldered at apex, strongly toothed at 7 and 4, with a small blunt
tooth at 6.

Near E. scabra Warr.

14. Epiplema mixtilinea spec. nov.

Forewing : dark grey, with a drab undertint; costa black-dotted; lines black,
interrupted and obscure ; first from one-third of costa to near middle of inner
margin, outcurved in midwing, where its course is obscured; outer line from
two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, its middle course interrupted ;
a fine black submarginal line, thickened into a black crescent before the excision ;
marginal line dark ; fringe grey ; a darker grey shade at anal angle.

Hindwing: with an angulated inner line, interrupted across cell; an outer
line sharply angled on vein 4, followed by a dark submarginal shade ; some obscure
dark luuules before the teeth.

Underside of forewing dull fuscous grey, of hindwing dull ochreons speckled
with dark.

Face and palpi black-brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen above dark grey ;
abdomen below and legs dull ochreons.
Expanse of wings : 22 mm.
J <$ from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Forewing excised between (3 and 4, the apex depressed; hindwiug with blunt
tooth at 7 and acute tooth at 4 ; anal angle of forewing and apex of hindwing
lobed ; inner margin of forewing and costa of hindwing insinuate in middle.

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15. Epiplema reversata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull grey-brown, clouded with darker, and with oblique darker
streaks from costa, but without an}' defined lines ; a broad brown-black border
from vein T to inner margin : the fringe brown; an obscure brown cell-spot.

Hindwing : traversed from costa to inner margin by five darker shades, of
which two are antemedian : the other three, postmedian, form a dark baud ;
a narrow, straight, black-brown band along margin from vein 7 to anal augle.

Underside dull greyish brown along costa of forewing, the rest of forewing
dull black : hindwing wholly grey, with darker striae.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; face and palpi blackish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 6 from Oconeque, L'arabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Wings shaped as in E. draco and vulpina Warr.

10. Epiplema straminea spec. nov.

Forewing : straw-colour, washed with pale brown, and shaded with purplish
fuscous along inner margiu, especially at base aud anal augle ; lines fine, grey, edged
on both .sides with darker; first from one-third of costa to near middle of inner
margin, angled outwards in cell aud on submediau fold, inwards on vein 4, the
shade before it fuscous, that beyond it chestnut brown ; outer line from two-
thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, vertical but with a bend outwards
on vein 4, the shade preceding it brown, that following it fuscous ; a sinuous
brown stripe along outer margin ; an indistinct double submarginal brown shade,
ending in a purplish and blackish blotch at anal angle ; inner margin with thick
brown striatums ; fringe (worn) ochreous.

Hi itd/ring : paler, more or less brownish-tinged on costal half and below
median vein ; first line sharply, outer bluntly, angled on vein 4 ; a diffuse brown
median cloud, obscuring a brown cell-spot ; a brown submarginal shade towards
costa ; a brown marginal shade, edged by a concise dark brown curved streak
from tooth at vein 7 to 5, and a brown spot above aud below lower tooth.

Underside pale straw colour ; forewing with a diffuse dark cloud from anal
angle to veiu 6.

Head, thorax, and abdomen straw colour ; face aud palpi brown ; dorsum
tinged with brown, and with a narrow pale central line.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ¥ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905,
wet season (Ockenden).

17. Epiplema turbinata spec. nov.

Forewing : dove-colour, speckled with black ; the costa minutely striated with
dark; first line rounded, from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin;
second line from three-fifths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, slightly
incurved in middle the included space fuscous brown edged with ferruginous :
wider at both cuds and constricted in middle; some dark scales indicating a
submarginal line from a little before apex to before anal angle ; a row of minute
dark dots before apex to middle of outer margin.

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Sindwing : suffused with grey-brown and with some dark mottled scales
from base below median vein ; a pale, inwardly dark-edged, curved line from
before middle of costa to beyond middle of inner margin ; a row of small black
pale-edged lunnles from upper to below lower tooth, and traces of a dark sub-
marginal line on inner margin.

Underside pale dove-grey, the forewing coarsely black-speckled.

Thorax and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi blackish ; forelegs black with
pale mottling.

Expanse of wings : 15 mm.

1 <$ from Ocoueque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockendeu).

Outer margin of forewing with minute teeth at 7, 6, and 4, faintly concave
between 4 and 6 : hindwiug toothed at 4 and 7, and with a slighter tooth at 6.

18. Nyctibadistes nigrata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull black, with no distinct markings ; cell-spot deeper black ;
three black spots, sometimes confluent, in a line below apex close to outer margin,
with a slightly paler space before them ; fringe black.

Hindwing : with two thick dark lines ; the inner angled in middle close before
the outer, which is simply curved at three-fifths ; the included area black ; some
obscure red-brown scales along and below median vein ; a paler blotch at apical
angle, in one example reddish grey and prominent ; the fold and inner margin
pale, bone-colour.

Underside of both wings dull black, without markings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

2 S3 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry
season (Ockendeu).

Forewing elongate triangular ; anal angle well marked : hindwing with costa
hollowed out in middle beyond a prominent rounded shoulder, the costa to apex
as well as the shoulder fringed; outer margin projecting at vein 7 ; no excision
before anal angle.

19. Psamathia amplata spec. nov.

Like Ps. angulata Warr., but larger ; the outer margin of forewing in both
sexes elbowed at vein 4 and concave between it and apex, more strongly in the
? ; the lines are indistinct, except at costa ; the black point at base of wing is
absent ; fringe reddish brown.

In the hindwing the outer line is followed above inner margin by three double
dark lunules, which are most conspicuous in the ? ? ; fringe with a pale basal
line.

In both wings the central area between the lines is slightly paler, less speckled,
than the rest of wing ; sometimes the outer line of forewing is marked by black
spots above inner margin.

Underside grey, with a pale brownish tinge and fine transverse black striae
in outer half.

Face, palpi, and forelegs black-brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 40 — 44 mm.

5 c?(J, 4 ? ? from Sapucay, Paraguay, October 1904 (Foster).

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20, Saccoploca brevimargo spue nov.

Forewing : purple-brown covered with fine darker striae placed chiefly on
the veins, the brown tint showing most strongly at apex ; two deep purple-
brown lines, innch more distinct than in either excisa or consimilis, but placed
as in those species ; an oblique row of four deep brown partially connected spots
from apex to below vein 5 ; fringe purple-brown.

Hindwing : with the two lines curved and distinct.

Underside paler and duller ; the costa of forewing fulvous ; the outer margin
of hindwing and the hair-tuft beneath ochreous.

Face and palpi black-brown ; thorax dark purplish ; abdomen more cinereous.

Expanse of wiugs : 35 mm.

2 6<S, 5 ? ¥ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904,
dry season (Ockeuden) ; 1 ? from It. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft.,
June 1004, dry season (Ockendeu).

In excisa and consimilis the inner margin of the hindwing of the S is long;
in brevimargo it is quite short, aud the outer margin well rounded throughout;
the ? is the form I wrongly referred to consimilis, cf. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 9 (1904).

21. Saccoploca hendida.

Erotla h ndida Dogn., Arm. S. E. Belg. xl. p. 134 ? (1896).
Saccoploca con imilis Warr., Nov. Zool. vi. p. 9, (J only (1904 ).

The insects which I formerly considered to be the ? ? of consimilis Warr. 6 ,
should be referred to the new species above described : the real ¥ ? of consimilis
have, like those of excisa, an excavation below apex in the outer margin of
forewing, but they are consistently smaller aud darker, slightly larger than their
own <$ 3 , as is the case with excisa.

The name consimilis must sink to hendida Dogn., a typical ? of which,
through the kindness of M. Dognin, I have lately been enabled to inspect.

22. Siculodopsis pallidifrons spec. nov.

Forewing : pale dirty grey, towards costa coarsely speckled with fuscous ;
without, in the unique example, any distinct markings, though the darker Bhadiog
at middle of costa appears to form a fascia with oblique outer edge, beyond
which the costa before apex is paler aud contains a short inwardly oblique black
streak from apex ; cell-spot black; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : dark grey, speckled with fuscous, with a dark cell-spot.

Underside paler, without speckling ; forewing with the black apical streak.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty grey ; face whitish.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 S from E. Cayapas, N.W. Ecuador (Flemmiug aud Miketta).

Tricolpia gen. nov.

Closely allied to Trotorkonwia Warr., but the apex of forewing is acute,
not truncate ; the antennae of the c? are not pectinate, but lamellate and subserrate
only.

Type : Tricolpia aciduria Wlk. (Erosia) = Erosia biangula Feld,

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23. Trotorhombia metachromata.

Erosia metachromata Wlk., xxiii. p. 855 ? (18G1).
Erosia bisimiata Feld., Beise Nov. t. 128. fig. 21 J (1874).
Trotorhombia metachromata Warr., Nov. Zool. xi. p. 208 (1904).

These two forms, I find cannot really be separated. Walker's type from
S. Domingo, the form occurring also in Porto Rico (from which island there are
two examples, both ? ? , in the Felder collection), has a few whitish scales preceding
the inner and following the outer line, which are not so visible in the mainland
specimen, as typified by Felder's bisinuata, from French Guiana, and many
examples from other localities ; these also appear to show a slightly browner
tinge and more numerous striae.

Family GEOMETR1DAE.
Subfamily OENOCHROMINAE.
24. Dolerophyle nerisaria Wlk.

In Nov. Zool. i. p. 371 (1894), I made Budara eonversata Wlk. a synonym
of this species. I have lately been able to examine the type and find that
it is an ordinary Nipteria, and the name must be struck out of the synonymy.

Subfamily OYLLOPODINAE.

25. Brachyglene dispar spec. nov.

Forewing : dull olive-brown ; the costa finely, the apex broadly, blackish
to vein 4 ; all the veins orange ; fringe blackish.

Hindwing : deep orange ; the costal area, as far as middle of cell, velvety
black, the onter margin narrowly black, broadening out between vein 2 and
snbmedian fold, along which it emits a black tooth.

Underside of forewing orange, with the costa and apex, and the outer margin
narrowly black : hindwing as above.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; patagia orange.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 ? from Tucuman (Steinbach).

26. Cyllopoda gracillima spec. nov.

Forewing : purple-black, with the yellow markings very much as in
C. durnfordi Drnce, but much paler yellow ; the outer transverse streak both
shorter and narrower.

Hindwing : pale yellow, with all three margins black, the costal most broadly ;
the streak on inner margin ending in a point before base ; veins 2 and 3 with a few
dark scales.

Underside with the yellow markings all amplified ; costa of hindwing yellow
from base to two-thirds.

Head and thorax blackish ; lower half of face pale ; shoulders and patagia
marked with yellow scales at base ; abdomen with dorsum olive-fuscous, and a fine
yellow lateral line ; underside and legs creamy ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 <$ from Sapucay, Paraguay, March 1903 (Foster).

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27. Cyllopoda ovata spec, now

Foreioing : Mack; a lemon-yellow lilotcli on inner margin from base to
two-thirds, its top flattened and not reaching beyond snbmedian fold, its ends
not so pointed as in Atyriodes parapostica Dogu., the black ground-colour not
encroaching towards anal angle ; an oval lemon-yellow blotch towards apex nearly
touching costa and outer margin, narrow in S, wide and large in ? ; fringe black.

Eindtoing : lemon-yellow, with a moderately broad black margin of uniform
width fnun before apex to anal angle, close above which it ends in a point.

Underside the same, with the base of hiudwings black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen above black ; shoulders with a large yellow spot
at the sides.

Underneath and sides of abdomen yellowish, with a black lateral stripe.

Expanse of wings : <$ 38 mm. ; ? 43 mm.

1 S from E. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 31(H) ft., June 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) type; 1 ? from San Augustin, Mapiri, Bolivia, 3500 ft., June 1895
(Stuart).

28. Darna trigonata spec. uov.

Forewing : smoky black, with a large triangular orange space from base,
its outer edge running nearly straight from middle of costa obliquely to vein 3 near
outer margin, bluntly rounded to 1, thence roughly edged and narrowing off to
base of wing ; costa narrowly black ; along the orange area the black is deeper
than towards the margin ; fringe black.

Hindiving : wholly smoky blackish, thinly scaled.

Underside like upper.

Head, thorax, abdomen above and below, and legs, blackish with a brownish
tint.

Expanse of wings : 50 mm.

4 ? ? from Cushi, Huauuco Province, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Distinguished from both D. volitans and Jlammifera by the much broader
orange area of forewing.

29. Ephialtias cordigera spec. nov.

Forewing: brown-black, with a sinnous orange-yellow band beyond middle
from subcostal vein to vein 2.

Hindwing : with a large heart-shaped orange blotch in middle of wing, and
the inner margin dull yellow.

Underside similar, the orange markings more ample.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; sides of face and basal segment of
antennae white ; abdomen beneath white, with a black lateral line, above which the
sides are yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 <? from La Vnelta, R. C'aura, May 1903 (Klages).

30. Paratyria longiplaga spec. nov.

Forewing : brown-black ; the veins in places finely pale ; two elongated yellow
blotches ; the first horizontal, between median and snbmedian veins, reaching
two-thirds of wing ; the second oblique from three-fifths of costa to below vein 3,
both ends rounded ; fringe dark.

( 199 )

Hindwing : with all the margins black, the central yellow area elongate, its
lower edge sinuous.

Underside the same.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; face with yellow cheeks ; patagia with
yellow centres ; dorsum with a yellow line ; abdomen with the underneath whitish,
and a yellow lateral line.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 6, 1 ? from Rio de Janeiro (E. May).

The antennae of the S are quite shortly pubescent.

31. Phaeochlaena pictifrons spec nov.

Forewing : black, with the veins and folds broadly sulphur-colour ; a round
whitish spot on median vein touching the cell-fold above and vein 2 below ; a
double spot before apex between veins 7 and 5 ; fringe black.

Hindwing : whitish, with a broad black marginal border, continued narrowly
along costa to base.

Underside with the veins very finely paler ; a streak of pale scales from base
along costal vein ; another broader from base below cell swelling out into a large
filmy blotch embracing the end of cell ; the subapical spot larger : hindwing as
above, but the costa also white.

Palpi and base of patagia bright orange ; middle of face, tongue, and antennae
black ; sides of face pale sulphur-coloured ; collar, shoulders, and thorax black
spotted with pale sulphur; abdomen black with the basal segments whitish;
abdomen beneath, pectus, and inside of legs whitish.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 <S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet season
(Ockenden).

32. Phaeochlaena unimacula spec. nov.

Forewing : olive-brown, with all the veins and folds paler ; the apex and outer
margin dull black ; this dark margin is preceded by a broadly rounded paler space
caused by the orange of the underside showing through ; at middle of costa an
ontwardly oblique oval yellow blotch reaching lower end of cell; fringe blackish.

Hindwing : bright orange, with a broad black outer margin, running to a
point on inner margin and costa ; extreme base smoky black.

Underside of forewing with basal half above median vein, the inner margin
below submedian 'fold, the outer margin, apex, and costa beyond three-fifths dark
olive-brown ; the enclosed area orange, touching costa beyond middle and with a
narrow streak from base, which is slightly dusted with brown scales : hindwing as
above, but with the margin brown.

Head yellow ; palpi yellow internally, blackish externally ; thorax brown
(patagia and shoulders damaged) ; abdomen with an orange dorsal stripe and broad
olive-fuscons lateral stripes ; underneath creamy ochreous, like the legs.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 ? from Cuzco, Peru, January 1901 (Garlepp).

33. Polypoetes tenebrosa spec. nov.
Forewing : deep olive-brown, with all the veins and folds finely deep orange ;
fringe black.

( 200 )

Hindwing : black.

Underside deep olive blackish; forewing with base of costa ami veins on each
side of apex whitish, the base of veins 7, 8, 9 forming a spot : hindwing with
whitish streaks from base, that along costa longest.

Palpi blackish above, pale below, the basal segment yellow ; face black at
middle with the sides whitish ; collar and shoulders blackish mixed with pale
scales ; patagia black varied with deep orange ; abdomen olive-black, below, like
the pectns and inside of legs, whitish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 6 from Oconeqne, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1004, dry season (Ockenden).

34. Stenoplastis albibasis spec. nov.

Forewing : white for rather more than basal half, passing into pale ashy grey,
which towards apex is slightly olive-tinged ; costal edge grey ; on the inner
margin are two black bent lines, one from jnst before middle, the other from three-
fourths, nearly meeting at the rise of vein 2 ; the white between them purer.

Hindwing : white, with the costal and outer margins smoky fnseons, the apex
very broadly dark ; the inner margin slightly grey.

Underside of forewiDg fnscons-grey with a large diffuse white space at middle
of inner margin : hindwing as above.

Head, palpi, and basal segment of antennae yellow ; thorax white ; abdomen
grey, beneath white ; legs grey and white.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 $ from La Union, P. Unacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 2000 ft., November 1904,
wet season (Ockenden).

35. Stenoplastis? phryganeata spec. nov.

Foreiring : olive fnseons ; all the veins finely whitish ; an obliquely placed
white jiyriform blotch from before lower end of cell to middle of vein 1, followed
above by a small white spot beyond discocellular, incurved to middle of costa, where
the veins are whiter ; a submarginal row of blurred white spots between the veins,
the veins themselves being whiter along its course ; fringe dark.

Hindwing : white, with a broad blackish marginal border, narrowing towards
anal angle and very broad at apex ; fringe of inner margin smoky grey ; the costa
from base narrowly blackish.

Underside of forewing dull blackish, with a round white spot representing
the pyriform blotch of npperside : hindwing as above.

Head, shoulders, and patagia fuscous ; base of patagia with a large orange
spot at the sides; thorax whitish with a grey central line; abdomen j)ale grey;
legs and antennae fuscous-grey.

Expanse of wings : S 30 — 40 mm. ; ? 42 mm.

3 <J 3, 1 ? , from La Union, E. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 2000 ft., November
1904, wet season (Ockenden).

The wings are longer and narrower than- is usual in the genns, and the
abdomen of the <$ elongated.

In one 3 the large white pyriform blotch is reduced to a round one like that
of the underside.

( 201 )

Subfamily GEOMETRINAE.
30. Auophylla basiplaga spec. nov.

Forewing : pale green, with bone-coloured markings edged and speckled with
dull red ; the line edging the marginal pale area starts from costa shortly before
apex, is roundly curved outwards between 7 and 4, below which vein it nearly
reaches outer margin, forming a shallow curve to above vein 2, then running
iuwards and touching 2, whence it curves upwards and forms a quadrate projection
above vein 4 touching discucellular, thence descending again vertically and slightly
waved to middle of inner margin ; close to base of inner margin is a small
semicircular patch of bone-colour, edged with red; marginal line red; fringe
bone-colour.

Hinchving : similar, but the costal blotch is larger, and that at anal angle
smaller; the blotch at base is likewise larger than in forewing; a white spot on
upper end of discocellular.

Underside very pale green, with the white areas showing through.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green, the dorsum with a series of red crests.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 3 from Sapncay, Paraguay, July 1902 (Foster).

Close to A. multiplagiata Warr. from Paraguay.

37. Blechroma oppleta spec. nov.

S. Forewing: pale green, with all the grey-brown bands and shadings of
confusa Warr. so largely developed and amalgamated that only four small patches
of green remain : viz. two small triangular patches on inner margin on each
side of the end of outer band, one on costa at one-third, and a larger one on
outer margin below apex ; the course of the dark curved basal band and of the
outer and submargiual bands can be traced by the paler-edged lines, aud the
cell-spot is blackish aud distinct; marginal line formed of coalescent purplish
black lunules ; fringe grey with a whitish base, aud faint checpaering.

Hindwing : green, with base narrowly dark brown ; a curved grey band just
before middle, and the whole outer two-fifths grey-brown, containing a paler
lunulate-dentate outer line, with the teeth marked prominently on the veins ;
margin from 4 to 6 narrowly green ; marginal line fine, blackish.

In the ? all the green spaces are larger, but in no case to such a degree that
the insect can be mistaken for confusa Warr.

Underside paler green, with all the grey-brown areas duller.

Head aud thorax grey-brown ; basal segment of abdomen with a velvety
black ring ; rest of abdomen ochreous above, whitish below ; shoulders green.

Expanse of wings : $ 32 mm. ; ?.39 mm.

1 S, 1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry
season, and 1 <? from R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry
season (Ockenden).

38. Comibaena subaurea spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, striated with olive and green ; costa green ; apex
broadly green, narrowing to anal angle ; cell-spot dark green.

Hindwing : with a narrow green marginal border, its inner edge diffuse ;
rest of wiug pale yellow, with olive striae.

( 202 )

The fringes of both wings are worn, but were probably green.

Underside orange, the green borders of upperside showing through.

Face and palpi red; vertex and autennal shaft snow-white ; the pectinations
fuscous; shoulders and patagia green; abdomen pale yellow with a few striae,
and at base marked laterally with green.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 <$ from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

This species stands quite by itself.

39. Drucia circumdata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull grass-green ; costa white underlined with rusty yellowish ;
an apical and anal bright brick-red blotch connected along margin in the middle
by a fine reddish line; fringe red; cell-spot minute.

Hindwing : similar ; the apical blotch long and narrower, the anal blotch
narrowly produced along inner margin to join a semi-oval blotch on basal third.

Underside whitish green, with the red blotches partially showing through.

Face, thorax, and dorsum b rick -red ; the last with five red crests tipped with
shining scales ; abdomen beneath ant! legs whitish.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 <$ from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockendeu).

40. Halioscia atroviridis.
Oospila atroviridis Ware. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 24. (J (1904).

The ? of this species differs from the 8 in having the thick black marginal
border greatly reduced in width and wholly interrupted in the middle below
vein 4 ; the forewing bears, therefore, only a black-brown blotch between veins 4
and 6 and a larger diffuse one at anal angle, while the hindwing has a narrow
streak at apex, a square blotch on vein 5, and a small, more rounded, one above
anal angle; these markings are all repeated, but duller, on the bluish white
underside.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockendcn), along with two typical S <$.

The ? may be distinguished from that of //. procellosa Warr., which it
somewhat resembles, by the bulged outer margin of forewing.

41. Halioscia procellosa spec. nov.

Forewing: semitransparent, deep sea-green, covered with very fine dark scales
arranged in obscure striae ; costal edge ochreous, with fine dark dots ; a diffuse
round smoky blackish cell-spot, and two large marginal blotches ; one diffusely
subquadrate, from vein 7 to below vein 5, running narrowly to apex ; the other
rounded, at anal angle, reaching nearly to middle of inner margin, above not
touching vein 3 ; fringe smoky black, chequered narrowly with white between veins.

Eindunng : the same, but with both marginal blotches larger; a raised white
spot at upper end of discocellular ; across the dark blotches in both wings a faint
pale waved submarginal line can be traced.

( 203 )

Underside uniform bluish white, with the fringes dark ; costa of forewing
yellow.

Face and palpi above, thorax, patagia, and base of dorsum with the crests, all
smoky blackish ; palpi and face beneath whitish ; vertex and shaft of antennae
snow-white ; the pectinations and apex yellow ; collar and shoulders green ; anal
segments and underside of abdomen, the legs, and pectus white.

Expanse of wings : c? 42 mm.; ? 48 mm.

1 <? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) type ; 1 ? , Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

A large edition of II. congener Warr. from Rio Demerara.

42. Hydata brunneopicta spec. nov.

Forewing: yellow-green; the markings deep olive-brown; the costa fulvous
brown ; a black-brown blotch at base, reaching to one-fourth of inner margin, but
hardly extending above median vein; a small diffuse dark spot in cell, and an
ear-shaped brown dark-edged cell-spot at the end ; two fine wavy lines reversely
lunulate, the first antemediau, nearly vertical, the other postniedian and outcurved
above, the reversed lunules closely approximated on snbmedian fold ; a dark brown
snbmarginal baud ending in a wide triangular costal blotch of the same colour,
containing a small spot of pale ground-colour before apex ; a marginal brownish
shade ; fringe green, with dark brown spot at apex.

Hindwing : occupied by three broad olive-brown bands with darker edges,
leaving only narrow spaces of ground-colour : viz. a spot at base ; an antemediau
band, reaching inner margin and broader above median vein, where it is crossed
by the dark inner edge of median band ; a curved and dentate postmediau band,
preceded by the black dentate outer edge of the median band ; and a slight sub-
marginal space in upper half of wing ; fringe green shaded with brown, and with
a blackish spot at end of vein 6 which runs out into a tooth.

Underside pale dull yellowish green ; forewing with brown marks at base
and middle of costa and with the subapical triangle and snbmarginal band :
hindwing with straight central line and curved snbmarginal shade.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-brown, the last somewhat paler ; lower part
of face, palpi beneath, and fillet greenish.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 c? from R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Hindwing shaped as in transdnctaria H. S., but with a prominent tooth at
vein 6.

43. Hydata latifasciata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale hyaline green; a small patch at base of inner margin, and a
broad snbmarginal band dull blackish green ; between veins 3 and 4 this band
runs to margin, and between 6 and 7 projects towards it without touching it ;
costa whitish ochreous ; fringe whitish, darker between veins 3 and 4 ; traces
across middle of two curved grey lines.

Hindwing : wholly blackish green except a narrow marginal space before the
whitish fringe ; traces of a darker median fascia with pale edges.

( 204 )

Underside pale green with the dark markings showing through.

Head and antennae white ; thorax and abdomen oehreons, perhaps faded.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden).

The anastomosis of costal and subcostal veins of hindwing is very short, but
complete; outer margin of hindwing snbcrenulate, with stronger teeth at 4 and 6,
and a siuns between.

44. Hydata lunifera spec. nov.

Foreuring : very pale yellowish greeu, crossed by four series of large white
spots ; these spots are in the same relative position as the fine white lines in
//. malina Butler and //. tridentata Warr. (Tachycopsis) ; the antemedian, post-
median, and submarginal consist of contiguous white crescents ; the marginal row
of round spots ; fringe greenish white.

Hindwing : the same, but the spots are even broader.

Underside dull pale green, with the white spots showing through.

Face green ; vertex and anteunal shaft snow-white ; thorax and abdomen pale
green varied with white, the abdominal segments with white rings.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 S from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft, August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

45. Hydata spilosata spec. nov.

Forewing : yellow-green, thinly scaled; with patches of deeper green at base,
along costa, aud at apex, this last connected with a submarginal patch beyond
cell ; cell-spot large, deeper green, connected with the costal streak ; fringe
concolorons.

Hindwing : with base, a large ronnded blotch before middle of inner margin,
the cell-spot, and a submarginal spot beyond cell, darker green.

Underside pale yellowish green.

Thorax and abdomen yellow-green ; vertex, antennae, and face white.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 $ from Ciudad de Tucuman, 450 m., January 1002 (Dinelli).

46. Lissochlora ? nigricornis spec. nov.

Forewing : pale green, rather thinly scaled, with the costal edge paler, and at
base reddish ; two pale dentate lines : the inner from one-fourth of costa to one-
third of inner margin edged outwardly with darker, slightly grey-green ; the outer
from two-thirds of inner margin oblique outwards aud edged inwardly with darker ;
a black cell-spot ; a fine purplish marginal line, broadly interrupted at the ends of
veins ; fringe yellowish.

Hindwing: like forewing, the inner line curved.

Underside whitish green ; the cell-spots and marginal dashes very distinct ;
the outer line darker green ; costa of forewing grey at base.

Head and thorax pale green; vertex white, with a reddish line behind;
abdomen oehreons, the dorsum marked broadly with grey; antennae with shaft
white and pectinations black, these being short and stiff, and thickened at apex.

( 205 )

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 t? from Cnshi, Province Huannco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Hardly a tme Lissochlora ; the structure of the antennae differs.

47. Lissochlora venilineata "spec. nov.

Forewing : deep green; the costal edge white, underlined with yellow; all
the veins, — except the costal and subcostal with its branches, — the folds, and the
discocellnlar narrowly white ; a pale curved line at one-fourth, followed by a deeper
band of green interrupting the white veins; a dentate-lunnlate line at two-thirds,
parallel to outer margin, the dark green teeth of which interrupt the pale lines of
veins ; fringe white.

Hindwing : with both lines and the pale veins all more clearly marked.

Underside paler green, with the pale veins hardly marked ; costa of forewing
bright red, finely edged with white in apical half.

Thorax and basal segment of abdomen green ; abdomen whitish ; face and
palpi bright red ; vertex white, green behind ; antennae white, with the pectinations
greenish fuscous ; forelegs fuscous in front.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

1 <J from Limbani, Carabaya, 9500 ft., April 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

48. Melochlora condensata spec. nov.

Forewing: deep grass-green; lines darker, olive-green; first, nearly vertical,
from one-fourth of costa to before one-third of inner margin, with slightly paler
inward edge ; outer line from five-sixths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin,
nearly straight, outwardly edged with paler ; fringe pale green, with a dark spot at
apex ; cell-spot small, black.

Hindwing : with curved broad dark shade near base just before the minute
black cell-spot ; outer line straight just beyond middle, edged with pale bluish
green ; friuge pale green.

Underside pale green ; forewing with cell-spot and broad well-defined black
snbmarginal cloud, reaching vein 6, but constricted at vein 4 ; a black dot at apex
in the fringe : hindwing with diffuse straight blackish blotch near base, not touching
either margin ; a black blotch on costa before apex, produced as an indistinct
curved green shade across wing.

Face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen ochreons ; palpi and antennae black and
white ; collar, shoulders, patagia, and belt on basal segment of abdomeu green ;
abdomen, palpi beneath, pectus, and legs ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

1 <S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Smaller and darker than M. intermedia Warr., from which it is distinguished
by the very different underside ; the hindwing is also more distinctly angled at
middle.

49, Melochlora minor spec nov.

Forewing: deep apple-green, paling slightly towards outer margin; fringe
yellow-green ; a darker postmedian shade is faintly perceptible.
Hindwing : the same.

( 206 )

Underside paler green; fringe yellow.

Face and palpi red-brown above, ocbreons below; vertex and shaft of antennae
white; collar, shoulders, and patagia green; thorax and abdomen above and below,
pectus, and legs ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 c? from R Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) {type); 2 <S <S from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September
1904, dry season (Ockenden).

50. Miautonota imitans spec. nov.

Forewing : pale green ; the costal edge yellowish, shortly red at base ; two
fine white lines, as in M. nigrisquama Dogn. ; first near base, slightly bent on
median vein, obsolete before costa; second straight from inner margin at two-thirds
to vein 0, parallel to outer margin, almost imperceptibly curved between veins ;
cell-spot blackish ; marginal line rust-red, interrupted by pale spots on the veins;
fringe yellowish with dull red spots beyond veins.

Hindwing : with the outer line bent on vein 4 ; no distinct cell-spot.

Underside whitish green, yellower green towards costa of forewing, which is
yellowish; fringe yellow with the marginal line reddish; cell-spot of forewing
visible.

Face and palpi externally dull red; antennae white at base, then reddish; fillet
white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green ; a single dorsal spot on second segment
and double blotch on fourth and fifth segments black-brown.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 cf from Tinguri, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

M. nigrisquama Dogn. has the face green ; no red marginal line ; and a black
blotch only on basal segments.

51. Miantonota sellata spec. nov.

Exactly like M. decorata Warr., but the outer line in both wings is finely
dentate-lunnlate instead of being straight.

Face, thorax, and dorsum green like the wings; fillet white; second dorsal
segment with a brick-red blotch with paler centre ; fourth, fifth, and sixth segments
with three contiguous brick-red blotches, that on the fourth with a whitish centre;
anal tuft, abdomen beneath, and legs whitish.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

2 S3 from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft,, March 1905, wet
season (Ockenden).

Near also to M. xaliria Dogn., but larger.

52. Racheolopha astigrna spec. nov.

Foremng : deep grass-green ; costa bone-coloured, speckled with black ; a bone-
coloured marginal border, stained with flesh-colour and speckled with black, except
along inner edge ; the border runs from costa to vein 4 nearly uniformly wide, its
edge rounded between the veins ; from 4 to 2 it is much narrower, and then forms
an elongated blotch along inner margin marly to middle; marginal line black
interrupted above; fringe flesh-coloar, slightly grey-chequered; no cell-spot.

( 207 )

Hindi/ring: with the border amplified at apex, starting from just beyond middle
of costa and angled internally at vein <i, I he blotch at anal angle mncb smaller.

Underside whitish green, the pale borders showing through ; costa of forewing
ochreons, flesh-coloured towards base.

Face, palpi, and forelegs dull reddish ; vertex and antennae whitish ; collar
red ; thorax green ; abdomen ochreons, the dorsum and crests reddish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden) {type); and 1 c? (worn) from Tinguri, Carabaya, S.E. Pern,
3400 ft., January 1905 (Ockenden).

Distinguished by the entire absence of cell-spots.

53. Racheolopha fimbripedata spec. nov.

Forewing : semi-hyaline green, with a minute black cell-spot ; costa brownish
yellow ; a dull red-brown marginal border from vein 6 to inner margin, narrow
between veins 3 and 4, forming a bilobed projection between 4 and 6, and a longer
bilobed blotch below 3 ; both edges darker ; the marginal line interrupted by yellow
at the vein-ends and reaching apex ; fringe yellowish, chequered with brown.

Hind-wing : with an elongated blotch at apex and anal angle, narrow between
3 and 4 ; the green runs in beak-like on vein 0; the anal blotch shows four slight
curves ; fringe as in forewing.

Underside dull yellowish green with brown blotches showing at apex of
hindwing and anal angle of forewing, and slightly beyond veins 4 and 6.

Face and palpi red-brown; vertex and antennae white; collar dull red; thorax,
patagia, and sides of abdomen green ; dorsum reddish brown with the crests darker ;
abdomen beneath and pectus greenish white.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 <$ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockendeu).

Near R. arpata Schaus and extensata Warr. ; the hindtibia bears a fringe of
long pale hairs.

54. Racheolopha leucostigma spec. nov.

Forewing : grass-green ; costa bone-colour, thickly grey-speckled ; a bone-
coloured marginal border, starting as a small semicircle from 7 to 6, forming a
bilobed rounded projection from 6 to 4, a simple shallow lunnle from 4 to 3, and
a larger rounded blotch at anal angle reaching to two-thirds of inner margin ; the
two larger blotches are filled with dark grey scales, and tbe inner edge throughout
is dark grey ; marginal line dark grey, interrupted at the veins ; fringe bone-colour,
chequered with grey beyond veins ; cell-spot blackish.

Hindwing : with the marginal border broad and elongate at apex, smaller at
anal angle, narrowest and angled between 2 and 3 ; the central grey scaling con-
tinuous ; cell-spot silvery white, oval, at top end of discocellnlar.

Underside pale yellowish green; costa of forewing yellowish ochreous speckled
with grey, wholly grey at base.

Face and palpi dull reddish brown ; vertex and antennae whitish ; thorax and
sides of abdomen green ; dorsum red-brown with metallic crests and hairs ; anal
segment,, abdomen beneath, ami legs whitish ochreous.

( 208 )

Expanse of wiugs : 24 mm.

2 c?c? from Tingnri, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 34o0 ft., January 1905, wet season
(Ockenden) (type); and 1 S from La Oroya, 1{. Iuambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft.,
March 1905 (Ockenden).

55. Racheolopha plurimaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : green ; costal stripe brownish grey ; at apex and anal angle two
bone-coloured blotches stained with flesh-colour and thickly edged with red-brown ;
the upper one large, reaching to below vein 4, nearly semicircular in shape, the
veins across it marked with red-brown scales ; the lower one flattened, reaching to
vein 2 and crossed near the angle by a red-brown mark; marginal line formed of
black-brown lunules beyond the blotches and red-brown between ; fringe bone-
colour, mottled with dull red-brown beyond veins 2, 3, and 4 ; cell-spot blackish.

Hindwing : with a lengthened apical blotch reaching vein 4, traversed by a
red-brown submarginal line, veins G and 7 being thickly marked with red-brown
speckling; anal blotch as in forewing, but smaller, connected with a semi-elliptical
blotch occupying basal half of inner margin ; cell-spot minute ; fringe and marginal
line as in forewing.

Underside pale green, the marginal markings showing through ; costa of
forewing reddish grey at base.

Head, palpi, and antennae dull red-brown ; thorax green ; abdomen pinkish
ochreous, with red-brown basal ring; the crests varied with red-brown.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 6 from Pozuzo, Hnanuco, Peru, 800 — 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

Nearest to 11. rosipara Warr., which has no anal blotches.

56. Racheospila fallax spec. nov.

Forewing: grass-green; the costa white; cell-spot red-brown, rather large;
a deep flesh-coloured semicircular blotch from apex nearly to vein 4, broadly edged
inwardly with red-brown ; a small flattened blotch at anal angle, the lower half of
which is whitish ; a red-brown marginal line ; fringe pale red-brown with white
flecks at veins.

Hindwing : with the apical blotch narrower, not reaching vein 5, whitish
crossed by pink shades ; the anal blotch like that of forewing ; cell-spot small,
red-brown ; inner margin narrowly red-brown.

Underside whitish green, darker in costal half of forewing ; costa itself
yellowish ; cell-spot and apical blotch of forewing red-brown ; marginal lines and
mottling of fringes red-brown in both wings.

Face and palpi deep red-brown, the lower part of face whitish ; vertex and
anteuuae white ; fillet, shoulders, and patagia green ; thorax and dorsum brick-red ;
second, third, and fourth segments of dorsum each with a whitish saddle, that on
third with a red centre ; abdomen beneath and legs whitish ; forelegs marked with
dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 6 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet season
(Ockenden).

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57. Racheospila pulchrifimbria spec, do v.

Forewing : uniform green ; costal edge white, diffusely underlined with deep
reddish and before apex crossed by three or four red spurs from the red streak,
which itself on each side of the middle is interrupted by white spots; a marginal
row of semi-elliptical snow-white spots between the veins, edged inwardly by a
deep red dentate-lunulate line, before which the green is stained with vinous ; each
marginal spot is followed by a corresponding white spot in the fringe, the rest of
which is vinous ; the spots above the middle are rounder than those below.
•- Hindwing : with the marginal spots all rounder.

Underside pale green, with the marginal markings and fringe all dull.

Palpi white with a few reddish scales externally ; face olive-green, with a red
line above; fillet and antennae snow-white, the back of vertex scarlet; thorax,
shoulders, and patagia green ; dorsum deep red, each segment but the second with
a large snow-white spot, that on basal segment small ; anal tuft white ; abdomen
at sides and beneath white, like the legs.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

1 S from Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewyn Valley, Surinam, April 1905 (Klages).

I have seen specimens of this species from various localities before ; hitherto
it has, I thiuk, been passed over as a form of sigillaria Guen., but both that species
aud sitellaria Gn. have only three white dorsal sjjots.

58. Racheospila semiornata ah. brunneilinea nov.

Differs from the type-form of semiornata Warr. in that both lines of the
forewing are marked by brown spots on the veins, partially connected, and ending
on inner margin in brown blotches reaching to subniedian fold, the outer line not
connected with the blotch at anal angle, which is smaller thau in the type-form.

In the hindwing these two brown extremities of the lines are united along the
inner margin and form a shallow blotch.

1 $ from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet
season (Ockendeu).

50. Rhodochlora unicolor spec. nov.

Forewing : apple-green ; costa fiuely white, red at the extreme base : inner
line marked by a red dot on the median and submedian veins and on subniedian
fold ; these iu the ¥ are connected by a waved red line ; cell-spot red ; outer line
lumilate-deutate, red, parallel to outer margin, not reaching above vein 0, and
marked mainly by the red teeth on the veins ; this line plainer in the ? , where the
luuule between veins 1 and 2 is thick and filled up with yellow scales edged
with red ; fringe pale green, with a red spot at apex.

Ilindwing : with the usual yellow basal area green like the rest of wing ; the
purple subbasal band pear-shaped, broader below, aud edged with yellowish,
reaching from middle of cell to vein 1, aud larger in ? ; outer line marked by
red teeth on veins ; fringe pale green.

Underside whitish green, especially in hindwiugs; cell-spot of forewing
reddish ; a faint green ceutral baud on hindwing; costa of forewing red at base.

Palpi bright red above, white below ; face orange, edged with red ; vertex and
antennae white.

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Thorax green; abdomen whitish green; pectus, abdomen beneath, and legs
white ; knees and tibiae spotted with black.
Expanse of wings : S 50 mm. ; ? 60 mm.

2 <?(?, 1 ? from Agnalani, Carabaya, Peru, 9000 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

Distinguished by t lie green base of hindwings.

60. Tachyphyle albisparsa spec. nov.

Forewing: deep apple-green, paling along outer margin ; from three-fifths of
inner margin a bluish white line runs, slightly curved, parallel to hindmargin,
fading our above 6 ; a faint bluish white inner line, obliqne outwards : Bpace
between the lines dusted with bluish white scales; cell-spot black; fringe pale
green, dark at apex.

Hindwing : with the line straight and central.

Underside paler green, washed with whitish in hindwing ; marginal area and
fringe in both wings whitish.

Head white ; thorax green ; abdomen greenish ochreons, beneath white ; legs
white, with black knees.

Expanse of wings: <S 30 mm.; ? 40 mm.

3 c? J, 1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905,
wet season (Oekenden).

61. Tachyphyle lucens spec. nov.

Forewing: glossy deep green; lines thick, deeper green ; first curved, at
one-third ; second from three-fifths of inner margin, slightly curved, towards
four-fifths of costa, before which it becomes obsolescent ; a lilac-grey lustre
precedes the first and follows the second line and also fills the central area below
middle ; fringe pale green ; cell-spot minute, black and round.

Hindwing: with straight central line and dark green cell-spot; costa whitish;
fringe pale green.

Underside shining whitish green, deepening towards outer margin ; the fringes
and extreme margin pale green ; a dark grey-green cloud in fringe at anal angle
of forewing and apex of hindwing, and a small grey spot on submedian fold of
hindwing beneath the base of vein 2 ; hindwing yellowish green towards base ;
inner margin of forewing white.

Vertex, face, palpi, and base of antennae snow-white ; shoulders and patagia
green ; thorax and abdomen ochreons, probably green when fresh.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

1 d from Poznzo, Huauuco, Peru, 800 to 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

02. Xenopepla flavinigra spec. nov.

Forewing: dark olive-brown, crossed by three pinkish brown lines curved
parallel to hindmargin; the inuer and outer denlate-lunulate j the inner at
one-fourth, the teeth pointing basewards ; the outer at two-thirds, the teeth
pointing outwards; submarginal line simply curved, starting from a pinkish brown

costal space, followed by a liner one slightly dentate close before the margin ;
fringe with basal half dark, apical half whitish between the veins, wholly dark

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beyoud them : from beyond middle of costa a tawny orange stain thus obliquely
In before snbmarginal line above vein 3, the two lnunles of outer line between
4 and G being edged internally by two yellow lunules and externally by two yellow
blotches, with a third below between veins 3 and 4.

Hindwing : similar, but the tawny and yellow colouring less extended.

Underside dark olive-fuscous with a golden-yellow blotch beyond cell in each
wing, that in the hindwiug much narrower.

Head, thorax, and abdomen deep olive-fuscous ; abdomen below dull brown.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

1 6 from Cnshi, Hnanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Subfamily STERRHINAE.
63. Anisodes coenosata spec. nov.

Forewing : yellow, with transverse red striations, much obscured by an olive-
grey suffusion which extends from base along costal half of wing to apex and
embraces the two snbmarginal shades, the inner of which also encroaches upon the
course of the outer line, which is marked by black vein-dots ; cell-spot large,
formed by a coal-black ring with olive-grey centre ; marginal spots small and
black ; fringe mottled, olive-grey and yellow; the veins with olive scales.

Hindwing : like forewing ; the lower half also crossed by olive-grey antemedian
and median bands ; cell-spot larger.

Underside dull yellow, without speckling ; base of forewing above submedian
fold dull rosy purple ; outer line, dentate-lnnulate, and the interrupted praesub-
marginal band purple rosy : fringe yellow ; cell-spot diffusely black : hindwing with
ova] black cell-spot and outer and marginal series of reddish spots.

Head, thorax, and abdomen clouded with olive-grey ; the face pale yellow with
the top reddish ; abdomen paler, more yellow.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 d from Cnshi, Hnanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Hindlegs without fringe ; hindtibiae with only terminal spurs.

64. Anisodes flavistigma spec. nov.

Forewing: pale greenish ochreons, faintly dark-speckled; the lines dull
purplish, faint, oblique outwards below costa, then inwards parallel to outer
margin : first at one-fourth, bent in cell ; median at three-fifths, roundly bent from
costa to vein 2 ; outer at three-fourths, angled on vein 6, and marked darker on
veins; an annular cell-spot, the centre yellowish with dark edge ; purplish marginal
spots between veins ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : like forewing ; the cell-ring larger.

Underside paler, the disc of forewing greyish ; outer line marked by vein-dote.

Pace brownish ; palpi greenish, with terminal segment brownish ; thorax and
abdomen dull green ; vertex and auteunal shaft white.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 r? from Sapucay, Paraguay, September 1904 (Foster).

Apex of forewing acute ; outer margin oblique, without crenulation ; hindwing
toothed at vein 4, with minute crenulatious ; hindtibiae with terminal spurs only.
A very distinct species.

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65. Anisodes gracililinea spec. nov.

Forewing : bone-colour; the lines and shades lnteous grey; costa broadly of
the same colour ; the whole wing with a few very tine dark atoms ; all the lines
oblique parallel to outer margin ; first line very fine, angled sharply in cell, marked
by brown sjx>ts on veins and in cell ; a subcostal brown spot nearer base ; cell-spot
olive-brown ; median shade obscurely dentate, from qnite two-thirds of costa
to before middle of inner margin ; outer line lnnulate-dentate, the teeth darker
on veins ; snbmarginal line obscure between darker luteous grey shades ; black
marginal spots between veins and minute dots at their ends ; fringe bone-colonr.

Hindi/ring : like forewing, but the cell-spot oval, black-edged, with a white
centre.

Underside of forewing with all markings rosy; the base suffused with dull
rosy as far as mediau shade : hindwiug pale ochreous with the markings brown-red.

Head, thorax, and abdomen bone-colour ; dorsum spotted with black.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

3 $ 6 from Cushi, Hminuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Hindtibia of <? with a median spur. AVings shaped as in lancearia Feld.

66. Anisodes griseomixta spec. nov.

Forewing: pale yellowish ochreous, finely speckled with blood-red; the inner
and outer lines marked by purplish red vein-spots ; the inner Hue, the dentate
median shade, and the praesnbmarginal shade smoky olive-grey, the last interrupted
between veins 3 and 4, and 0 and 7 : cell-spot with purplish red edge and white
centre ; marginal spots large, purple-red ; fringe yellow, mottled with reddish
beyond veins.

Hindwing : the same, but without inner line.

Underside paler, with all the markings dull rosy ; cell of forewing also dull
rosy.

Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish ochreous dusted with red ; dorsum with
red spots.

Expanse of wings : 26 — 28 mm.

3(5(J,3 ¥ ¥,from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904,
dry season (Ockenden).

Hindtibia of <J with a median spur.

67. Anisodes ignea spec. nov.

In shape of wings and in markings exactly like A. Jimbripedata Wlk, but the
ground-colour is bright deep yellow, with the speckling orange-red ; first line
marked by black spots on folds as well as on veins ; median shade diffuse, marked
with dull smoky olive, dentate throughout, and incurved below vein 4 ; outer line
marked by black points on veins ; snbmarginal line hardly marked, but preceded by
an interrupted band of smoky olive ; marginal spots black ; fringe deep orange.

Underside dull fulvous, with all markings darker.

Head and thorax deep yellow and orange ; abdomen paler yellow, with the
dorsum streaked with orange; hind femur and tibia fringed with deep yellow hairs ;
tibia with terminal spur only.

Expanse of wiugB : 40 mm.

1 6 from Oconeipie, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

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68. Anisodes khakiata spec nov.

Forewing : bone-colour, covered with sandy brown speckling; crossed by two
lines of the pale ground-colonr, curved more or less parallel to the outer margin,
from one-third and three-fourths of costa to one-third and two-thirds of inner
margin respectively, the first edged outwardly, the second inwardly with brown ;
the first line is acutely angled outwards on the subcostal vein ; cell-spot pale with
dark edging ; black marginal spots between the veins ; fringe pale, with an
interruptedly brownish base ; veins slenderly pale.

Hindwing : like forewing ; the basal area rather paler; outer line bulged
outwardly in middle as in forewing.

Underside of forewing washed with dull rosy ; costal and marginal areas
speckled witli pale ; outer line dentate-luuulate, paler-edged ; cell-spot grey,
diffuse ; marginal lunnles dull rosy ; fringe yellowish : hindwing ochreous speckled
with dull rosy ; markings as in forewing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen sandy brown, the last with a pale dorsal stripe ;
palpi, face, and forelegs reddish.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

3 cTc? from Cnshi, Huanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Allied to Anisodes fulgurata Warr., but without the zigzag marginal lines.

09. Anisodes latifasciata spec. nov.

Forewing : quite pale straw-colour, dusted with minute dark atoms ; inner
line marked only by three small dark spots on the veins ; cell-spot a flattened oval,
the centre whitish with a dark ring; median shade sharply dentate and sinuous,
from two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin; outer line lunulate-dentate,
below costa acutely dentate, from five-sixths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ;
space between these lines deep red to vein 5, with some scattered brown-red scales
above, where the lines are more conspicuous ; the praesnbmarginal and marginal
shades marked by deep red blotches beyond cell separated by two lunules of the
pale snbmarginal line ; some slight reddish marginal spots between veins and
smaller ones at the vein-ends ; fringe straw-colour.

Hindwing : with basal line slightly marked ; the red fascia as in forewing
to vein 5, the part above with very slight scaling ; no red blotches beyond cell in
the marginal area.

Underside glossy straw-colour, with traces of the fascia, lines and blotches, all
purplish grey ; costa of forewing yellowish with grey dusting near base, which is
also spread over the whole base of wing ; cell-spot distinct.

Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour ; top of face pale brown ; a reddish
spot at back of vertex in the middle ; a pair of spots on thorax, and reddish blotches
in front of each segment of dorsum.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft,, July 1904, dry season
(Oc-kenden).

70. Anisodes parciscripta spec. nov.

Forewing : sandy yellow, covered with coarse grey speckling ; the lines formed
of dark grey speckles ; the first indistinct, at one-fourth, bent in cell ; median
shade from two-thirds of costa to middle of iuuer margin, diffuse and slight I v

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waved, the inner edge touching a small snow-white cell-spot ; outer line lannlatc-
dentate, the teeth marked darker on the veins; black marginal spots betv
veins : fringe concolorons, mottled with grey.

Eindwing : without first line.

Underside yellow, very sparsely speckled ; the median shade and outer line
distinct on both wings, purplish grey ; base of forewing and eosta suffused and
sprinkled with purplish grey.

Head, thorax, aud abdomen concolorons with wings ; face deep brown.

Expause of wings : 40 mm.

1 ? from Agualani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., August IO114, dry season
(Ockendeu).

71. Anisodes parvidens spec. nov.

Forewing: bone-colonred, finely speckled with olive aud reddish; costal and
outer marginal areas tinged with olive luteons : the lines of the same hue ; inner
line at one-fifth, obscnre, bent in cell, aud marked by dark points inwardly on
veins ; median shade obscurely dentate, oblhpie from two-thirds of costa to before
middle of inner margin; outer line fine, lunulate-dentate, the teeth marked by-
purple spots on veius ; praesnbmarginal shade olive-grey, interrnpted above aud
below middle ; submargiual line pale, waved ; purplish marginal spots between the
veins, and minute dots at their ends ; fringe bone-colour; cell-spot miunte.

Eindwing : like forewing ; but the cell-spot larger, irregularly oval, with
purplish edging and whitish centre.

Underside bone-colour ; the cell-spots and outer and marginal series of spots
brown-red ; forewing from base to median shade dull grey with a faint reddish
tiuge ; slight speckling along costal and outer margins.

Head, thorax, and abdomen bone-colour; top of face brownish; thorax and
dorsum spotted with blackish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The tooth at vein 4 of hindwing is slightly prominent; hindtibia with one
median spur, and no fringe.

72. Anisodes radiata spec. nov. and ab. connexa nov.

Forewing : yellowish ochreous, thickly speckled with rusty brown, sometimes
with a redder tinge ; inner line very undefined, but marked by dark dots on veins ;
median shade nearly straight, diffuse and oblique, from two-thirds of costa to before
middle of inner margin, just beyond the cell-spot, which is brown-edged with a
centre of pinky white scales ; outer line parallel to outer margin, from four-fifths of
costa to two-thirds of inner margin, lunulate-dentate, the dark brown teeth showing
clearly on a paler band of yellow ground-colour following it ; submargiual line
interrnpted, the shades preceding and following it sometimes conspicuously brown
and well defined; marginal spots dark brown, sometimes placed in pale yellow
marginal blotches ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing : the same ; the cell-spot somewhat larger.

Underside less speckled, with the lines and bands rosy-tinged ; the base of
forewing dull rosy ; inner margin whitish ; cell-spots of both wings deep rosy.

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Head, thorax, and abdomen like wing's ; face with a dull rosy bar a) top :
forelegs reddish in front.

Expanse of wings : 38 — 40 mm.

3 cJc? from Cnshi, Huanueo, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

A third example from the same locality, to which I give the name of al).
conncxa, is slightly smaller (35 mm.). It is distinguished by having in both wings
the median and praesubmarginal shades dark purplish brown, broad and diffuse,
connected by a similarly coloured streak running from cell-spot, the centre of which
is silvery white, along vein 5 to margin ; the rest of each wing is yellower, being
less densely speckled, than iir the typical form ; the teeth of the outer line and
the marginal spots all well defined. On the underside the markings are deeper
rosy and broader.

The species is closely allied to A. lancearia Feld. ; but the forewiugs are less
acute, and the hindmargin, and consequently the transverse markings, less oblique ;
the ground-colour also is a warmer yellow.

73. Anisodes ruficeps spec. nov.

Differs from magnidiscata Warr., in having the vertex and shaft of antennae
concolorons with the rest of body instead of white ; also the costal edge of forewing
is not paler. In the hindwing the round white cell-mark is slightly larger.

2 <$ <$ from Cnshi, Huanueo, Pern, 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

Of the same size as, and, except in the above-mentioned points, exactly like a
typical J example of magnidiscata also from Cnshi.

74. Anisodes scintillans spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, thickly speckled, and along the costa suffused, with
pale olive-brown ; the lines accompanied by olive-brown shading ; first line from
one-sixth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, angled on subcostal vein at
one-third, then oblique inwards ; the olive shade not visible above the subcostal
vein and marked on its inner edge with purple-brown spots on the veins ; the spot
on costa from which the line starts at one-sixth is preceded by another obliquely
below it on subcostal ; median shade thick, olive-brown, from two-thirds of costa
to just beyond middle of inner margin, slightly bent at vein 6, passing a little
beyond the cell-spot, which is brown-edged with a centre of lustrous silvery scales ;
outer and subniarginal lines curved parallel to onter margin : the outer lunulate-
dentate, the brown teeth on the veins shown up by a pale band of uuspeckled
yellow, as in A. radiata ; the submarginal interrupted to form pale yellow spots
preceded and separated by a baud of dark brown ; a row of brown marginal spots ;
fringe yellow, flecked with brown ; a horizontal brown shade from cell to margin
between veins 4 and 5.

Hindwing : like forewing, but the cell-spot distinctly larger, the metallic
scales grey.

Underside pale yellow with all the markings and speckling dull rosy.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, washed with deeper ; top of face
brownish ; collar dull red, and a spot at back of the pale yellow vertex ; pairs of
similar spots on thorax and base of abdomen ; antennae yellow, the shaft red-
Bpeckled ; abdomen at sides and beneath and legs yellow ochreons ; forelegs red.

Expanse of wings : 44 nun.

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1 c? from Agnalani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., August 1904, dry season
(< Ickenden).

A handsome species with ample wiugs ; hindlega with femora and tibiae
fringed with yellow hair ; the tibiae with a median spur.

75. Anisodes spiculifer spec, now

Forewinq : straw-colour, speckled with fine violet scales, which are denser
alon^ costal area ; lines purple-brown, thick and concise ; first vertical at one-
fonrth ; outer curved parallel to onter margin and slightly irregular, from beyond
three-fonrths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, followed closely by a faint
waved violet line; cell-spot small, silvery white, with dark edge; from beyond it
along vein 5 a spearhead-like purple mark rims into fringe, swollen in the inner
half of marginal area beyond outer line, and there containing a bed of silvery white
scales ; some dark purple spots on margin between veins, joined by a partial
marginal festoon ; fringe concolorons, mottled with faint violet.

Hindwing : similar, the cell-spot stronger.

Underside yellower, the forewing rosy-tinged in cell and along costa; inner
lines faint ; outer line with the outer arm dark and waved, the inner dull rosy ;
the mark on vein 5 dull rosy.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; upper part of face rosy ; the dorsum
rosy-tinged ; palpi externally and forelegs in front deep rosy.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 c? from Cnshi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 m. (Holl'manns).

Hindtibia with a middle spur.

76. Cnemodes viridiplaga ab. vacuata nov.

Like typical viridiplaga Wlk., but without the green discal markings ; the
cell-spot represented in both wings by a short dark line ; the median shade is
reddish grey and indistinctly double. From C. indignaria Guen., which it
resembles superficially, it may be at once distinguished by the difference in tin1
onter line and in the cell-marks.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 <J from Sapueay, Paraguay, September 1904 (Foster), accompanied by
typical viridiplaga and several examples of indignaria.

77. Deinopygia devestita spec. nov.

Forewing: ochreous, tinged with grey; first line blackish, curved, at one-
fourth ; outer line at two-thirds, squarely projecting between 3 and 4, then incurved,
preceded by a dark fuscous uniformly broad band ; a broad grey submarginal cloud
in the pale marginal area ; fringe slightly darker than ground-colour.

Hindwing : without basal Hue ; outer line of band projecting at both 6 and 4.

Underside ochreous, with pale greyish brown suffusion ; the lines obscurely
shown.

Face and palpi dark brown ; vertex and antennae whitish ; thorax and
abdomen ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 1.5 mm.

1 <$ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

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In this species the lateral tufts are present at the base of the lengthened anal
segment, and the inner margin of hindwing is folded and furrowed, but the outer
margin of the hindwing is simply rounded, without excision or sinns.

78. Dichromatopodia canidiscata spec. nov.

Foretoing : dark purplish brown, crossed by two fine yellowish lines ; the
inner slightly ontcurved at one-fourth ; the outer from three-fourths of costa to
two-thirds of inner margin, bent at right angles on vein 6, and vertical above
inner margin ; fringe hardly paler, beyond a dark marginal line ; cell-spot dark,
followed by a curved patch of grey scales.

Hindwing : without inner line ; outer line bluntly bent on vein 6 ; cell-spot as
in forewing.

Underside dull liver-colour, dusted with whitish ; outer lines and cell-spots
dark.

Head and thorax purple ; abdomen greyer.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 c? from Sapncay, Paraguay, September 1 904 (Foster).

This and the following species from Tucuman appear to me to be quite distinct
from any of those described from Central America or from the northern parts of
South America.

79. Dichromatopodia concomitans spec. nov.

Forewing : greyish liver-colour, deeper in the central area and especially in
its outer half, where a dark median shade runs near and parallel to outer line ;
lines very fine, pale ; first vertical, but faintly ontcurved, at one-fourth ; outer
from four-fifths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, excurved from costa to
below vein 2, then vertical ; cell-spot a short grey line ; a fine dark marginal line
interrupted at the veins ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with no inner line, and the cell-spot black and round ; the rest
as in forewing.

Underside brick-red, paler in hindwing ; cell-spots black, distinct ; outer line
reddish brown.

Head and thorax dark ; abdomen paler, each segment ringed with dull
blackish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 d from Tucuman, Argentina, 1100 m., January — February 1905 (Steinbach).

80. Dysephyra flavida spec. nov.

Forewing : yellow, slightly dusted with grey-brown ; the lines grey, very
obscure ; the inner at one-fourth, vertical ; the outer and submarginal lunulate-
dentate, parallel to each other and the outer margin, at two-thirds and five-sixths ;
fringe yellow ; a slight brown-grey cell-spot.

Hindwing : similar, but without inner line.

Underside uniform dull yellow ; inner margin of forewing whitish ; lines
scarcely visible.

Face and palpi whitish below, brownish above ; vertex and antennae brown ;
thorax and abdomen yellow ; abdomen below, pectus, and legs dull yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 6 from La Union, ('aura R., October 1902 (Klages).

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81. Eminiltis serratilinea spec. nov.

Forewing : chalk-white, speckled with black in basal third; crossed by five
blackish serrated lines ; the first antemedian, angled in cell, followed by the
distinct black cell-spot; the other four at eipial distances apart and parallel to
one another, the outermost somewhat interrupted; a r<>\v of black marginal
Innules ; fringe white.

Ilimhcing : like forewing, with one antemedian and only three postmediau
lines.

Underside white, with the markings hardly showing ; veins of forewing dark.

Face and palpi black, whitish below ; collar brown ; vertex and antennal
shaft white ; thorax and abdomen white peppered with dark, the abdomen with
dark belts.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 S from La Union, R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 2000 ft., January 1905,
wet season (Ockenden).

82. Haemalea nigricostata spec. nov.

Forewing : cream -colour, finely speckled with rufous ; costa purplish at base,
thinuing out beyond middle; lines brownish, faint; first near base, bent in cell ;
second, median, at nearly two-thirds, vertically waved ; outer line quite near outer
margin, thick from costa, bent outwards in middle, but slightly insinuate beyond
cell ; distinct purplish marginal lunules between veins ; fringe cream-coloured ;
cell-spot purple.

Hindwing : without first line ; the anal angle strongly produced.

Underside cream-colour, with au iridescent pearly gloss ; cell-spot, outer, and
marginal lines of forewing distinct.

Face and palpi brown above, pale below; vertex snow-white; collar purple;
thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

2(?<? from Dominica, West Indies (E. A. Agar).

83. Haemalea subcuprea spec. nov.

Forewing : dark liver-colour, slightly grey-tinged along costa ; crossed by
three darker lines, the first at one-third, the third at two-thirds, the median
halfway between, beyond a black cell-spot ; submarginal line shown only by the
darker shade preceding it ; dark marginal spots ; fringe with apical half rufous.

Hindi/ring : without inner line ; the basal area paler.

Underside coppery brown, darker in forewing, with all the lines shown.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; fillet pale ; abdomen beneath shining
whitish.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

:S S3 from Pozuzo, Huannco, Peru, 800 — 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

84. Haemalea umbrimedia spec. nov.

Forming : pale lilac grey, dusted with darker ; lines and markings dark
brown; first line at one-fourth, angled on subcostal vein, then slightly oblique
inwards; median line at two-fifths; parallel to it, followed by a diffuse reddish

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brown shade which fades off before onter line ; the dark cell-spot close beyond
the line ; outer line from three-fourths of costa to four-fifths of inner margin,
waved, insinuate on both folds ; praesnbmarginal shade dark brown, darkest
beyond cell and submarginal interval, faint and linear above 6 ; extreme margin
whiter ; marginal line thick, deep brown ; fringe reddish grey.

Hindming : with inner third grey; outer area, beyond the straight antemedian
line, suffused with reddish brown ; outer line dentate-lunulate ; submarginal only
marked at anal angle by a double -brown spot.

Underside pinky white ; marginal line dark brown ; outer line marked in
fore wing.

Face, collar, and shoulders red-brown ; vertex white ; thorax, patagia, and
abdomen pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

2 c?<J, 1 ? from La Oroya, It. Iuambari, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., September,
1904, dry season (Ockenden).

The c? is paler than the ?, with the middle shade quite narrow.

The species is closely related to H. comminuta Warr. from French Guiana.

85. Hemipterodes brunneosticta spec. nov.

Forewing : dull brown, covered with pale yellowish striations ; cell-mark
linear, white ; lines coarse, purplish brown ; first at one-fourth, vertical ; second
from middle of costa to before middle of inner margin, approaching first line,
followed on inner margin by an indistinct pale patch with a dark border round it ;
outer line from three-fourths of costa to above middle of outer margin, paler-edged,
and cutting off a pale apical triangle ; marginal line red ; fringe yellowish.

Hindwing : uniformly strewn with red-brown speckles on a pale ground ; an
indistinct dark middle shade ; cell-spot linear, white.

Underside rufous ochreons, with dull purplish brown median shades and
marginal borders.

Face and vertex brown ; thorax and abdomen speckled, brown and ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 S from Tiuguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft, August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

86. Heterephyra luridata spec. nov.

Forewing : flesh-colour, dusted with bright red, but this paler ground-colour
is much restricted by patches of smoky fuscous suffusion ; costa broadly fuscous ;
the whole of inner margin beyond basal line below vein 2 fuscous, joined to the
costal streak by a narrower band across the discocellular ; a quadrate apical fuscous
blotch reaching vein 4, but containing a smaller square at apex flesh-colour ;
first line at one-fourth, wavy, red, preceded by two red dots, one in cell and one
below it ; median line at two-thirds and outer at three-fourths, parallel to each
other, lunulate-dentate, insinuate beyond cell and incurved below middle ; marginal
line dark fuscous ; cell-mark linear, brown, along the discocellular; fringe worn.

Hindwing : wholly smoky fuscous, except a narrow basal area and a trilunate
space from anal angle to vein 3 along outer margin ; the three lines all present,
but obscure ; cell-spot formed of two black dots at the ends of discocellular,

Uu lersi le reddish ochreous, with traces of the lines,

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Head and dorsum fuscous ; thorax and anal Begment of abdomen flesh-colonr ;
tufts of hindtibiae reddish ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 6 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Carabaya, Pern, 8100 ft., September 1904,
dry season (Ockenden).

Near to //. commaculata Warr., but certainly distinct.

B7. Heterephyra rubella spec, no v.

Forewing: pale brick-red, dusted finely with grey; lines olive-grey, obscure;
first at one-fourth curved ; outer and snbrnarginal at two-thirds and five-sixths,
lunulate-dentate, parallel to outer margin ; cell-mark small, white, with a grey edge ;
marginal line fine, deeper red, interrupted at veins ; fringe concolorons.

Hindwing : without inner line.

Underside uniform pink ; inner margin of forewing white.

Face and palpi above brown-red, palpi below white ; fillet and antennae white ;
thorax and abdomen above like wings ; abdomen below white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ¥ from Dominica, West Indies.

88. Hyriogona mixta spec. nov.

Forewing: thinly scaled, yellow, speckled throughout with red, with traces
of inner, median, and outer red lines, but all very shadowy and indefinite; beyond
the outer line an interrupted submarginal cloud ; fringe yellowish.

Hindwing : thickly speckled with red, bnt without lines.

Underside almost entirely dull orange.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

1 cJ from Tingnri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1004, dry season
(Ockenden).

Hindwing almond-shaped, blunt-pointed at vein 4 ; beneath clothed with long
rough scales before anal angle.

89. Lipomelia segmentata spec. nov.

Forewing: dark brown with a semicircular flesh-coloured patch on basal half
of inner margin, and a horseshoe-shaped patch of greyish ochreous at apex between
veins 7 and 4, its outside edge containing three small triangles of the brown ground-
colour; cell-spot a shining white point; traces of a darker outer line starting
vertically from costa at three-fourths ; fringe rufous brown.

Hindwing: flesh-coloured ochreous, speckled with black ; a dark brown marginal
border, beginning wide from before apex and narrowing below 6 to a point at anal
angle, with a fine waved line iuside it from vein G.

Underside of forewing deep flesh-colour, darker towards outer margin ; the
semicircular patch at base of inner margin pale ; hindwing rather paler, with
the brown marginal border as above.

Thorax and abdomen flesh-colonr ; shoulders and head brown.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 $ from Poznzo, Huanuco, Peru, 800— luOOm. (Hoffmanns).

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Paradmeta gen. nov.

Forewing : costa curved ; apex rectangular ; outer margin crenulate, vertical
to a slight tooth at vein 4, thence oblique.

Hindwing : with crenulate outer margin, toothed at 6 and 4, with a sinus
between.

Antennae of c? thickened and flattened, the segments triangular, ending
in tuberculate fascicles of cilia ; palpi porrect, thickly haired, terminal segment
obscure ; hindtibia aborted ; tongne and frenulum present.

Neuratiou : forewing, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical above,
oblique below ; first median nervule at five-eighths, second well before end of cell ;
radials normal; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free, 10 anastomosing with 11 and 8, 9,
forming a double areole : hindwing with veins 0, 7 from end of cell, vein 3 from
before lower end.

Type : Paradmeta perstrigata spec. nov.

90. Paradmeta perstrigata spec. nov.

Forewing: pale lilac-grey; first line denoted by seven black dots, the three
regular ones on the veins, one on each fold, one subcostal, and one on inner margin ;
cell-spot small, shining white ; median line lnnulate-dentate, from beyond middle
of costa incurved to middle of inner margin ; outer line at five-sixths, parallel to outer
margin, marked by black dots on veins, below 2 forming a fine line; the two sub-
marginal shades beyond this line form two oblique black-brown streaks not reacuing
vein 3, and a roundish brown blotch, followed by a diffuse shade, beyond cell ; a row
of black-brown marginal crescents between veins ; fringe coucolorous, with a black-
brown middle line, also forming crescents.

Hindwing : coarsely speckled with black-brown ; cell-spot white, with a brown
edge ; a thick black-brown streak from costa to inner margin just beyond it ; outer
line luuulate-dentate, most distinct towards each margin, and marked by black
dots on veins ; the snbmarginal shades marked by black-brown lunular blotches,
interrupted between veins 2 and 4 ; marginal black marks between veins, and
black spots beyond them in the fringe.

Underside of forewing dark grey with a reddish tinge, of hindwing whitish
with grey margin ; cell-spots black ; middle, outer, and snbmarginal lines shown.

Face and palpi black-brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; dorsal
segments each with a pair of thick brown marks.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 S from Sapucay, Paraguay, October 1904 (Foster).

Parazeuxis gen. nov.

Differs from Anisodes Guen. in the structure of palpi and hiudlegs ; the palpi
are porrect, the second segment thick and hairy, the terminal quite short; the hind-
legs are aborted ; the femur, tibia, and tarsus being all short and of about equal
length, fringed with pale hairs, which on the tarsus form a large spreading brush ;
from the femoro-tibial joint rises a long slender pencil of hairs. In the forewing
veius 7, 8, 9, 10 are stalked from shortly before end of cell and 11 rises some
distance before, 10 anastomoses with 11 and again with 8, 9, forming a double
areole.

Type : Parazeuxis punctifera Dogn. {Anisodes).

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Pareupithex gen. nov.

This genus is allied to Deinopygia Warr., but differs as follows :

In the hindwing veins 6, 7 are uot stalked as in Deinopygia ; the genus may
therefore be considered as an off-shoot of Em mi It is rather than of Ptychopoda.

The forewing has the anal angle produced into a hook, clothed with a bed
of rough curled hairs, the inner margin below also having a tuft of hairs ; outer
margin longer than inner margin. The hindwing towards anal angle is similarly
clothed with rough hairs above and below, the anal angle being produced as a blunt
lobe, the outer margin just above it indented only, not excised.

The structure of the hindlegs and of the abdomen coincides with Deinopygia.

Type: Pareupitkex eupitheeiata Guen. {Acidalia).

91. Tricentra bisignata spec. nov.

Forewing : liver-coloured, with three thick darker lines placed as in the closely
allied species T. quadrigata Feld. ; the two folds marked with bright red, from
before first line to median, and extended diffusely to submarginal, the intervals
between 2 and 3, 3 and 4 also tinged with red; a snow-white mark on discocellular
swollen below ; fringe and extreme outer margin beyond the straight dark edge
of ground-colour, yellow.

Hi nrf icing : similar : the white cell-mark larger and broadened at base along
median vein ; another snow-white mark from base along median nearly touching
the outer ; cell area between the spots deep bright red, the area beyond and below
cell sprinkled with red scales.

Underside dull greyish rosy, with pale marks on discocellulars ; fringe and
margin yellow ; outer line alone visible.

Head, thorax, and dorsum liver-colour ; abdomen at sides and beneath, and
legs ochreons ; antennae bright red.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 3 from Tinguri, Carabaya, Pern, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Distinguished from quadrigata Feld. by the double white spot of hindwing.

92. Tricentra citrinaria spec. nov.

Forewing : dull golden yellow, suffused from the base outwards with olive
fuscous, the costa except quite close to base and the outer margin remaining yellow ;
first line blackish, obscure, from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin,
slightly waved, but, vertical from the subcostal bend ; second and third lines
indicated only by the paler shade of fuscous, starting close together from the
subcostal vein at two-thirds, outcnrved to vein 4, forming a bilobed projection
towards margin below middle, then incurved and waved, the inner to two-thirds
of inner margin, the outer to close before anal angle ; a yellowish projection
from costal streak over the discocellular ; a concise fuscous curved streak from
costa before apex to middle of inner margin : fringe dull yellow.

Hindwing: with the two outer shades of forewing; the submargiual streak
fine at apex, thickening to anal angle ; cell-spot formed of two white dots, one
at each end of discocellular.

Underside dull ochreons in marginal area, suffused with dark violet grey from
base to outer shade ; the cell-marks- represented by pale spots.

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Head and thorax olive fusccms ; abdomen yellow, dorsally tinged with fuscous.
Expanse of wings : IT mm.

1 J from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1004, dry season
(Ockeuden).

93. Tricentra laciniata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull vinous ; a linear discocellular mark, a slight curved line from
costa near base, and the costal margin beyond middle, dull yellow ; outer lunulate
line from four-fifths of costa to middle of outer margin, then skirting the margin
to anal angle, pale yellow ; fringe (worn) probably yellow.

Hindwing : without first line ; the outer line submarginal.

Underside dull rosy, with the margins broadly, and discocellular lines narrowly,
pale yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen vinous red.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

1 c? from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

94. Tricentra mimula spec. nov.

Forewing : violet, with the markings reddish, but very obscure ; first line
simply curved, near base; outer and submarginal, lunnlate-deutate, ontcurved
above and incurved below middle ; a deep red diffuse cell-spot, containing towards
its upper end a brilliant point ; outer margin narrowly and fringe pale yellow, the
red running out into the fringe at vein 3.

Hindwing : redder, with traces of the lines ; cell-spot a pale linear mark ;
fringe and outer margin yellow.

Underside dull violet ; the outer margins and fringe yellow ; a yellow linear
cell-mark visible on hindwing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen violet, the abdomen darker.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, It. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

Very close to T. flatistigma Warr. from British Guiana ; but the costal edge
of forewing is not white, and the vertex and auteunal shaft are red, not white ; the
cell-mark, too, is different.

Subfamily HYDRIOMENINAE.
95. Anapalta costimaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale grey with a brownish tinge, suffused with darker grey, these
tints along the costa forming irregular blackish blotches ; markings much as in
,1. psgroid.es, but the inner edge of central fascia not so straight, the outer edge not
nniformly curved, but flattened above median and lunate only below it ; the band
beyond it filled with dull tawny brown ; a short yellowish brown marginal mark
from 3 to 4, running out into the fringe at 3 ; the rest as in psyroides.

Hindwing : yellow, grey-tinged at base; the apex and a patch at anal angle
dark ^rey ; cell-spot and outer line marked, the latter more clearly on inner margin.

Underside of forewing fuscous black, with a broad yellow fascia at two-thirds,
which below vein 3 is clouded with grey ; a yellowish marginal spot between

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3 and 4 ; the fringe chequered with yellowish : hindwing yellow, with apex broadly
and onter margin narrowly black; cell-spot and outer line black ; fringe yellowish,
mottled with black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey ; the edges of the face, shoulders, and
patagia pale yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

3 cJ<J from Cushi, Province Hnanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Allied to psi/ra Druce and psyroides Warr., but clearly distinct.

96. Anapalta psyroides spec. uov.

Forewing : pale grey with a yellowish tinge, suffused with darker, sometimes
blackish, grey; the lines dark with pale edgings; edge of basal patch and inner
edge of central fascia each margined with a pale grey line ; the latter angled in
cell, then vertical ; central fascia with two darker bauds on either side, containing
between them a large black cell-spot ; its outer edge lunate and regularly curved
from three-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; the pale band following
it is yellowish grey from costa to vein 3 : snbmarginal line irregularly waved,
whitish, with blackish grey shades on each side, the outer becoming again paler
grey before the distinct black marginal line, which is interrupted by white spots
at the vein ends ; fringe dark grey, paler externally.

Hindwing : pale yellow, with apex and inner margin dull black, the latter
interrupted above anal angle by a yellowish line ; the yellow ground-colour reaching
outer margin between 3 and 4 ; cell-spot and fringe blackish.

Underside of forewing blackish, with a broad yellowish fascia from costa to
vein 3; the cell, especially along subcostal vein, marked with yellow; costa before
apex white : hindwing as above, the fringe chequered dark and light.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark and light grey, the head parts somewhat
tinged with yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

2 SS from Cushi, Hnanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

This is quite distinct from the Central American A. psyra Druce.

97. Calocalpe furva spec. uov.

Forewing : browuish fuscous, crossed by numerous waved lines, parallel to
outer margin ; the central fascia rather darker, narrow, and with the outer edge
not angled at veins 4 and 6 ; the cell-spot black, near the inner edge ; snbmarginal
line pale, internally dark-edged, swollen into a larger pale spot on Bubmedian fold ;
marginal black tunnies between veins ; fringe pale grey.

Hindwing : browner, with the Hues obscure, except the pale snbmarginal.

Underside paler, browner grey, without speckling ; cell-spots black, followed
by three curved dark postmedian lines ; snbmarginal line of forewing distinctly pale,
with a dark shade preceding it.

Head, thorax, and abdomen coucolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 4* mm.

1 cJ from Sapncay, Paraguay, December 1902 (Foster).

In the shape of outer line this species agrees with Scotosia cunctata Snell.,
which 1 have not seen ; bnt that is much smaller, and no mention is made of any
fringe of hairs along the fold of hkidwing, which could hardly have escaped notice.

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98. Coenocalpe crypsichroma spec. nov.

Forewing: delicate pale grey, crossed 1)}' many fine and faintly marked
lniiulate lines ; of these two are curved and limit the slightly darker basal field ;
the inner edge of central fascia from nearly one-third of costa to one-third of
inner margin, also curved ; outer edge at three-fourths, lunulate, and bent at middle
of wing ; this edge is preceded by three or four and the inner followed by one
fine waved line ; this last and the innermost of the outer series form elongate
rings ; cell-spot black ; the fascia itself is slightly darker grey and is limited
by paler grey bands on each side ; three fine submarginal lines, that edging the
pale band lunulate and marked basewards by grey dots on veins ; fringe with basal
half darker grey, dotted beyond veins, apical half whitish tipped again with grey.

Hindwing : whitish, with slight cell-spot and traces of a darker outer line ;
fringe greyish.

Underside of hindwing wholly, of forewing along costal area tinged with
bright brick-red ; cell-spots and outer lines well marked.

Head and thorax grey like forewing ; abdomen whiter, beneath reddish-tinged.

Expanse of wings : S 30 mm. ; ? 25 mm.

1 6, 1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., April— May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The ? is throughout rather darker than the c?, and decidedly smaller.

99. Erebochlora chamaeleonis Schaua and ab. pallidistria nov. and

subinnotata nov.
In his description of this species, Tr. Am. Ent. Soe. xxvii. p. 271 (1901),
Mr. Schaus mentions the outer pinkish band from costa to vein 4 of the forewing
beneath, but not the pink costal blotches which precede it. Out of ten specimens,
7 cJ<J, 3 ? ? (eight from Limbani and the other two from Tinguri, Carabaya),
all but one show these plainly. It is evident, even from this short series, that
the species is very variable. The white edging of the outer lunulate line, spoken
of by Schaus, is often absent ; on the other hand, some examples show a thin or
thick white crescent in the middle of the cell, sometimes followed by other pale
marks. The insect called by me E. albistrota (Xoc. Zool. xii. p. 331) is evidently
an extreme example of this aberration ; auother, which may be known as
pallidistria, has a broad pinkish green smear from base running through cell to
submarginal line, obliterating the markings; in one example this streak starts
from middle of cell only, and is interrupted beyond cell. In the ? ? the dark
pink or pale-edged line on the underside of the hindwing runs in the middle of a
broad pink band, and this is the case likewise in one 3. On the other hand, one S,
ab. subinnotata, has the whole underside olive fuscous without any trace of pink
or white scales along costa.

100. Eriopygidia ? leucocyma spec. nov.
Forewing : deep olive-green ; the lines white, broad ; first at one-sixth,
vertical, subangulated ; second at one-third, angled outwards on mediau vein,
obscurely lnnulate-dentate ; third at two-thirds, lunulate-dentate, inangulate beyond
cell, outenrved between veins 5 and 2; submarginal line much interrupted, waved
and distinct from costa to vein 0, where it is joined by an obliipie white streak
from below apex, marked by faint lunnles below middle ; veins white at margin ;
fringe green.

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Bindwing : oraDge-red ; the base its far aa end of cell and inner margin to
postmedian line dull olive-green ; the postmedian line thick and waved from inner
margin to vein 4 ; cell-spot dark olivu ; apex and anal angle with some olive
scales ; fringe greenish grey.

Underside dnll fnlvous and grey, the fulvous predominating in (brewing; both
wings with white postmedian Hue, within which the ground is greyer.

Head and thorax dark green ; abdomen greenish ochreous ; face paler,
probably faded.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, It. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

A handsome species, placed provisionally in Eriopygidia.

101. Eriopygidia niiniata spec. nov.

Forewing : olive-green, with darker green markings ; basal patch small,
edged by a pale green line; inner edge of central fascia waved and straight,
from beyond one-third of costa to near middle of inner margin ; outer edge from
two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, insinuate beyond cell and
forming a rather sharp ontward tooth between veins 3 and 4, and blunter ones
obliquely below ; the fascia is traversed by a median dark shade beyond the black
cell-spot, and is marked by a white costal spot at the commencement of both outer
lines ; band before fascia wide, with a darker green centre ; snbmarginal line pale,
waved, preceded by a series of dark green lunules, and followed by dark green
patches at apex, beyond cell, and above anal angle ; a pale green oblique apical
streak ; pairs of large black marginal spots at the vein ends, coalescing above middle
to form lunules between veins ; fringe rufous green, chequered with black.

Hindtoing : bright orange-red, tinged broadly along inner margin from base
to outer line with olive, and with an interrupted series of similar coloured blotches
olong hindmargin ; cell-spot olive ; fringe red.

Underside dull brick-red ; cell-spots black ; an obscurely marked outer line
followed by a paler space ; marginal line dark ; apex of forewing pale : hindwing
greenish along inner margin.

Head and thorax green ; face paler, but perhaps faded ; abdomen pinkish
ochreous, tinged laterally with pale green ; abdomen below and legs dull red ;
foretibiae and tarsi dark fuscous with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden).

Nearest to E. interna Warr. {Spargania), but the red hindwiugs of quite a
distinct tinge, the underside of wings without any yellow.

Two other species described by me as Spargania should be removed to
Eriopygidia — viz. colorata and semipallida. The latter appears to be identical
with C. cyllene Drucc, and the name mnst sink.

102. Eriopygidia rubriviridis spec. nov.

Forewing : olive-green, with various shades and lines of darker green ; basal
patch small, dark green, passing into blackish green, edged by a fine curved whitish
line, dentate inwards on the veins ; edges of central fascia pale whitish green,

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lnimliite outwards and dentate inwards, from eosta at two-fifths and three-fifths,
nearly meeting just beyond middle of inner margin ; the outer edge curved
throughout ; the fascia itself dark green with lines of blackish green and a blackish
cell-spot ; the broad space between basal patch and central fascia dark green in
the middle, passing iuto paler yellowish green with darker lines at the sides ;
space beyond central fascia olive-green, with three waved dark green lines, the
outermost blackish green, before the whitish irregularly lunulate submarginal line,
which is followed by blackish green patches in places in the dark green marginal
space ; a marginal row of large black lunules, those below the middle each
divided into two ; a paler green oblique shade from apex ; fringe olive-green,
with darker base.

Hindwing : with inner marginal half olive fuscous; a broad dark brownish
marginal fascia ; rest of wing reddish orange, interrupting marginal fascia in
middle ; a row of marginal black lunules ; fringe greenish black.

Underside dull greyish orange ; outer edge of central fascia marked by a
whitish shade ; apex of forewings thickly strewn with blackish scales, becoming
grey towards apex itself ; cell-spots blackish ; an interrupted marginal black line ;
fringes greenish grey.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale greenish.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

2 S <$ from River Tanampaya, Bolivia, 1894 (Garlepp).

103. Hammaptera definita spec. nov.

Forewing : whitish dusted with grey ; the lines and shading dark fuscous ;
basal patch small, pale, edged by two dark straight lines ; band following broad,
its centre filled up with grey, edged outwardly by a dark line, separated by a pale
band with grey centre from the central fascia; this has its inner edge curved at
one-third ; the outer edge, which projects bluntly at veins 0 and 4, at two-thirds,
concave beyond cell, and incurved below middle, distinctly defined outwardly by a
white dark-margined line ; the fascia dark fuscous, containing a dark cell-spot and
traces of lines ; a broader pale band edged by another blackish line precedes the
dark marginal area, which is traversed by a pale waved submarginal line ; pairs of
small dark dots at the ends of the veins ; fringe dark above, paler below.

Hindwing : whitish, becoming grey along outer margin and slightly along
inner margin also.

Underside whitish, grey-speckled to outer line, which is followed by a broad
pale band, beyond which the marginal area is dark, especially the quadrate apical
blotch ; cell-spots black.

Thorax and abdomen greyish ; vertex and face pale ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 6 from Sapucay, Paraguay, September 1904 (Foster).

The fold on abdominal margin of hindwing is very restricted.

104. Hanirnaptera obtusaria spec nov.

Forewing : suffused with olive fuscous, the pale ground-colour appearing only
beyond outer line and in the edging lines of the basal area and central fascia ; all
the lines beginning as oblique dark spots on costa, the intervals reddish fuscous ;
basal patch small, limited by three dark lines edged by a pale one, wavy and

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Vertical ; inner edge of central fascia from one-third of costa, oblique outwards
and rounded in cell, then oblique inwards, waved throughout, approaching basal
patch on inner margin, and edged by a pale line ; the band between fuscous like
the fascia; outer edge at two-thirds, bluntly rounded at veins 0 and 4, but not
angled ; the fascia dark fuscous, paler in centre aud traversed by deeper lines, with
a black liuear cell-spot ; pale band beyond fascia edged by a dark lunulate inwardly
dentate line ; marginal area fuscous tinged with reddish, the submarginal luuules
pale-edged, and filled in with dark in lower half of wing ; black marginal spots iu
pairs at the ends of the veins ; fringe reddish fuscous.

Ilindwing : cream-coloured, grey-tinged at base, with black dashes just above
anal angle ; black spots in pairs at the vein ends below middle, beyond which the
fringe is blackish, becoming pale towards apex.

Underside of forewing dull fuscous, with black cell-spot, pale outer band, and
submarginal row of white spots : hiudwing whitish, speckled with grey, aud with
traces of curved lines.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish fuscous ; the basal dorsal segments pink ;
the anal white, black tipped.

Expanse of wings : 3S mm.

1 $ from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Feru, 6400 ft. (Bottger).

The abdominal fold in hiudwing is slight.

105. Opisogonia obtusa spec. nov.

Forewing : luteous, suffused with pale brown ; basal patch hardly darker than
ground-colour, edged by a black line at one-sixth ; central fascia limited by two
brown bands, each containing three crinkled lines, the iunermost of the first and
outermost of the second blackest : the first is slightly antemedian, the second
postmediau and outcurved at costa ; below the middle these bands coalesce, forming
annuli above inner margin ; pale spaces before and after fascia with indistinct
darker lines across them ; snbmargiual ill-marked, the lunules followed by black
wedge-shaped marks to margin ; marginal line crenulate ; fringe brownish.

Hindi/ring : dingy whitish, with a brown flush ; a dark curved postmedian
line, and traces of other lines along inner margin ; fringe like wing.

Underside dull greyish ochreous, dusted with grey-brown ; the outer lines
and cell-spots marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

1 S from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 6000—10,000 ft. (Bottger).

The angle at vein G of hiudwing is much blunter than in herrichiata tsnell.

106. Orthonania densilineata spec. nov.

Forewing: ochreous tinged with pale brown and crossed by grey lines placed
so thickly as all but to hide the ground-colour ; lines at base slightly curved, also
the two inner lines of central fascia ; the outer edge is formed by five straight
grey lines, oblique and parallel to outer margin ; the central area forms a grey
triangle above median, containing the black cell-spot, and is narrowed to a line
below middle : the third and fourth of these lines are generally darker than the
others ; the outermost is edged by a pale line of ground-colour, followed by a grey
line dotted darker on the veins; marginal area grey-brown, traversed by a fine,

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hardly waved, white submarginal line; a fine dark marginal line ; fringe brown-
grey, with base and apes paler.

Hindwing : with all the lines repeated, but obsolete towardg costa, except the
submarginal shades and lines ; cell-spot distinct.

Underside thickly powdered with grey ; cell-spots black ; a broad pale
submarginal band between two dark bauds.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 6 and 7 ? ¥ from Limbani, < 'arabayn, Tern, 9000 to 10,000 ft., February to
May 1904 ; 1 6 from Oconeqne, July, and 1 6 from R. Huacamayo, June of the
same year (Ockenden).

In the 6 the outer edge of central fascia is slightly ontcnrved at middle. The
strongly ciliated, subscrrate antennae distinguish the 66 from Coenocalpe.

107. Perizoma cainptogrammaria spec. nov.

Forewing : ochreous grey, paler beyond central fascia ; the markings darker
grey in the ¥, dark fuscous in the 6 ; the usual paler band between basal patch
and central fascia of the same tint as the fascia, its edges curved, parallel and
waved ; central fascia twice as wide on costa as on inDer margin, its outer edge
wavy and nearly straight above median and with two prominent teeth below it,
preceded in upper half by three dark crinkled lines, the lower portion with one line
on each side ; cell-spot large and dark ; beyond the fascia a rather broad pale
band, with a fine and a zigzag sandy-grey line, ending in a thin, dark, curved
shade filling up the lunules of the submarginal line ; veins pale, with dark edges
towards margin ; margin crenulate, with dark spots ; fringe pale, with concise dark
mottlings beyond veins.

Hindwing : with basal two-thirds darker grey than marginal third, edged
by a darker band, preceded by a line beyond the small dark cell-spot; margin
rather darker, with pairs of spots at the vein ends ; fringe pale grey.

Underside like upper, but the dark markings much more decided.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, much darker in 6-

Expanse of wings : 6 30 mm. ; ? 35 mm.

2 6 6, 1 ¥ from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9000 ft., February and March 1904
(Ockenden).

108. Perizoma interlauta spec. nov.

Forewing : white, suffused with dull buff ; a purplish fuscous basal patch
with the edge concave outwardly, sometimes oblique, crossed by two or three
darker lines; a slight brown spot on costa just beyond middle, and a short fuscous
streak just before apex ; on inner margin two slight brown marks, one at middle,
the other near anal angle ; cell-spot darker buff ; the edges of the buff area are
whitish ; fringe bull'.

Hindwing : dull cream-colour, with some dark markings on inner margin
above anal angle.

Underside suffused with smoky brown, darker in forewing : hindwing with
black cell-spot and snbuiarginal curved row of dark vein-dots.

Head, thorax, abdomen, and palpi all dark fuscous, like basal patch.

Expanse of wings : 6 18 mm. ; ¥ 19 — 23 mm.

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1 ? from Oconeqne, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (Ockenden),
type; 1 S, 1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, 6000 ft.. November 1901, wet
season (Ockenden^.

Mnch resembling P. basiplaga Sclians from Mexico, for which I have previously
mistaken it, but Mr. Schaus assures me that his species is different.

]"'■». Perizoma strictifascia spec. nov.

Forewing : ochreons ; the shadings fuscons ; these are the basal patch, the
edge of which is rounded ; the centre of the band between basal patch and central
fascia, and the central fascia itself, which is twice as broad in cell as on costa
and tapers off to a round spot below vein 1, where the lunate edges meet on
inner margin ; the pale lumilate-dentate dark-centred bands on each side of the
fascia have their teeth pointing towards each other; the veins towards outer margin
are broadly pale ; at the apex is a pale ochreons triangular blotch, the apex of
which reaches vein 5, edged inwardly on costa by a fuscous blotch, and outwardly
by a fuscous blotch along outer margin ; between veins 3 and 4 a white horizontal
spot before margin; a row of dark marginal lunnles between veins; fringe worn ;
cell-spot black, distinct.

H.indwing : whitish ochreons, with a dark cell-spot and traces of obscure
grey bands.

Underside much duller : the forewing with the markings showing through :
hind wing speckled with ochreons, with a dark cell-spot, dark waved postmedian
line, and obscure snbmarginal shade.

Head and thorax fuscous, like markings of forewing ; abdomen like hindwing.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 6, 1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The ? is darker, with the lines and veins flesh-pint.

110. Plemyriopsis facetata.

Phibalapteryx facetata (luen., Phal. ii. p. 439 (1857).

Erotia ditthieta Wlk., xxiii. p. 844 (1861).

Plemyriopsis distincta Warr., Nov. Zool. ii. p. 118 (1805).

There can be no doubt that these two species are identical. The coloration
is very variable; but I have lately seen a brown specimen answering exactly to
Guenee's description ; this typical form, however, seems to be of rarer occurrence
than those more nearly resembling Walker's distincta.

111. Psaliodes catenifera spec. dot.

Forewing: deep red-brown; basal patch narrow, edged by a very fine while
line, which is acutely angled outwards on subcostal vein, then obliuue inwards,
forming lunnles between the veins, concave outwards ; inner edge of central fascia
from two-fifths of costa to one-half of inner margin, white, forming lunnles
concave inwards ; the space between the lunnles above and below median vein
filled up with blackish, the white edges widely divergent on costa and inner
margin ; outer edge of central fascia at two-thirds, angled outwards on vein 4,
uniformly dentate-lunnlate ; the cell-spot dark ; space beyond rather paler, containing

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two wavy dentate obscure lines ; margin again deep brown before the deep brown
fringe, which is tipped with whitish.

Hindwing : silky white, tinged with vinons towards outer margin ; marginal
line dark vinons, projecting beyond veins into the whitish fringe.

Underside deep vinons ; costa and apex of forewing purplish fuscous speckled
with pale ; the outer and snbmarginal lines marked on costa by yellow spots :
hindwing with a zigzag yellowish snbmarginal line followed by two more obscure
lines ; cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen vinous brown, marked with black.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 (? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

112. Psaliodes duplicilinea spec. nov.

Forewing: brown; crossed by inwardly oblique double white lines; first close
to base, slightly curved beneath costa, followed by a very fine, scarcely perceptible,
whitish line; second from two-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, broad,
but not so oblique as the first and third, preceded by a fine white line ; third
at two-thirds, broad, followed by a fine line, from which at vein 5 a flue streak
runs straight to apex, and another just below it runs out halfway to outer margin,
and then to inner margin parallel to outer margin ; a pale, slightly crenulate,
marginal line ; fringe brown, darker in basal half ; the brown is deepest along
the edges of the lines, and in lower half of wing is slightly freckled with whitish
scales.

Hindwing : dingy cream-colour, tinged with brownish along outer margin
and fringe, and with a darker blotch at anal angle ; an obscure grey cell-spot
and outer line.

Underside of forewing blurred lilac-grey, the costa, apex, and outer margin
ochreous speckled with brown; the lines cream-colour; an oblique brown streak
from apex : hindwing ochreous speckled with brown, with a brown cell-spot, curved
central, and waved snbmarginal line.

Head and thorax dark brown; abdomen paler brown, with whitish segmental
rings.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 S from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

113. Psaliodes exilis spec. nov.

Forewing : white, with blackish grey lines and shading ; costa with minute
black and white dots ; basal patch and central fascia edged with white lines
traversed by a dark thread ; edge of basal patch and inner edge of fascia both
curved ; outer edge at three-fifths of costa, roundly bent inwards above vein 4 and
upcurved at end of cell, forming three outward curves- below median, the lower
half of fascia much narrower than the costal; an ill-defined whitish snbmarginal
line, followed by an equally ill-defined whitish patch on margin between 3 and 4 ;
the marginal third powdered with white ; fringe white, chequered with black.

Hindwing : dull dark grey, with obscure dark cell-spot and flexuons outer line,
followed by a whitish line, and a second line above anal angle only.

Underside paler, blurred and freckled with white; both wings with a tawny

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brown costal streak before apex reaching to vein ."> ; cell-spot of hindwing large
and marked by lirown scales.

Face and palpi fuscous ; vertex, thorax, and base of abdomen white ; patagia
white, banded with fnscons; abdominal segments on dorsum dark grey ; legs
mottled black and white ; antennae aunnlated black and white.

Expanse of wings : 18 mm.

1 S from R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., Jnne 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

An nnnsnally delicate insect for the genus.

114. Psaliodes nivestrota spec. nov.

Forewing: brown, peppered all over with white, and crossed by three broad
white lines, the edges of which are rather browner; the first curved, close to base ;
the second oblique, from two-fifths of costa to one-third of inner margin ; the third
at two-thirds, slightly ontcurved and lunnlate from vein 5 to 2, traversed towards
its enter edge by a brown Innnlate line ; a darker streak, interrupted by the white
lines, through cell and beyond, ending in a diffuse lunate-edged brown patch
below apex, above which the beginning of a whitish snbmarginal line is seen ;
veins towards margin pale, dotted with brown ; fringe (worn) brown and white.

Hindwing : dirty whitish, greyer along margin.

Underside of forewing grey, darker dotted towards costa, with a diffuse orange
subcostal streak : hindwing whitish, striated with brown, with a dark cell-spot and
sinuons postmedian line.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, speckled with white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 95o0 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

115. Rhodomena alterata spec. nov.

Forewing: like R. grandimacula Warr., pale yellow-green, with seven dark
costal spots ; first at base, second close beyond ; from the third, which in
grandimacula is small, a broad brown somewhat sinuous fascia runs to one-third
of inner margin ; from the fourth and fifth, which are large, two lines of dark
veiu-spots run, the outer excurved ; the sixth and seventh, which in grandimacula
are small, are both broad and extend to vein li, where they are joined together;
a slender upright brown blotch at anal angle ; fringe green, spotted with brown.

Hindwing: dull grey, with a reddish tinge.

Underside dirty white and smeared with grey, especially in disc of forewing;
the costal spots marked ; hindwing with dark central line and cell-spot.

Head and thorax pale green ; palpi shining blackish green ; metathorax
brown-black ; abdomen ochreons grey.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 3 from Cushi, Huannco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

110. Rhodomena grandimacula spec. nov.

Fore/ring: very pale yellow green, the costa with only six black spots,
the apical one being absent, and the third very small ; the fourth and fifth are
large and subquadrate; snbmarginal line marked by a liver-coloured blotch on
vein 5, and two smaller ones on each side of vein 2 ; an oblong black blotch

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from base of vein 2 to inner margin, preceded by a spot on median and snh-
median veins ; a small spot at base of veins 3 and 4 ; fringe pale green with deep
brown-black spots beyond veins.

Hindwing : yellowish white ; fringe white, with dark spots beyond veins.

Underside duller, pale green; forewing suffused with grey in basal two-thirds,
except along costa, where the intervals between the black spots are pale green ;
outer third pale green with the submarginal spot and line hardly marked :
hindwing pale green, with dark cell-spot and curved postmedian line, the sub-
marginal line only partially visible.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green ; face and vertex paler.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 t? from Cnshi, Huanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

117. Rhodomena parcinotata spec. uov.

Forewing: dark grey-green, slightly darker freckled; costa witli seven black
marks, four before middle, three beyond ; the first at base ; the next three giving
rise to three outwardly bent obscure lines, the middle one only marked distinctly
on inner margin ; from the sixth an interrupted subterminal line rises, marked
from 6 to 4, and above inner margin ; pairs of minute dark dots at the ends
of veins ; fringe pale green, flecked with darker beyond veins.

Hindwing : pale grey, rather darker along outer margin ; fringe paler.

Underside dull greenish grey, paler, more purely green, at apex of forewing ;
costa with a black triangular mark before apex and a black blotch before it, from
which a generally distinct outer and more obscure submarginal shade run across
wing, and are repeated on hindwing.

Head and thorax concolorous with wings; abdomen rusty green; palpi,
antennae, and metathoracic tuft dark metallic green ; face below paler.

Expanse of wings ; 40 mm.

2 (?c?: one from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) type; the other from Cnshi, Hiuinnco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

118. Rhodomena purpurissa spec. nov.

Forewing : pale olive-green along 'costa and outer margin ; costa marked
with seven oblique vinous purple blotches, representing bands, separated by
similarly shaped green intervals, each traversed by more or less complete
streaks of vinous scales ; the first dark blotch at base, the second close beyond,
the whole base narrowly green ; the seventh small, apical, inwardly oblique ;
the sixth consisting of two elongated lunules continued nearer outer margin as
a submarginal baud of similarly shaped lunules ; below vein 0 and in the lower
half of cell the other dark blotches expand into a vinous purple area occupying
the whole wing, the green interspaces reappearing along inner margin and as
green dots along the median vein ; pairs of fine black dashes at margin at the
ends of the veins, which are themselves finely lined with black ; fringe green,
with vinous flecks beyond the veins.

Hindwing : silky white.

Underside pale glossy green, in forewing with a grey-green sheen in basal
two-thirds; the costal area and marginal third paler; the third, fifth, sixtli and
eeventh dark costal spots are marked, the fifth being continued as a dark

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curved band across wing, and the sixth and seventh coalescing to form a triangle:
hindwing with small dark cell-spot, wavy curved outer, and slight snbmarginal line.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green ; the thorax and patagia spotted
with purple ; the dorsum purple-tinged ; terminal segment of palpi dark metallic
green.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 6 from Cnshi, Hiulnnco, Pern, 1000 m. (Hotl'manns).

119. Rhodomena roseostriata spec. nov.

Forciriiiii : pale yellowish green, with a broad diffuse rosy stripe along each
fold to snbmarginal line ; costa marked with seven large velvety black blotches,
of which the middle three project below the subcostal vein, forming parts of
irregular black bands which are all interrupted across the cell : the first reappearing
as an erect pointed blotch from inner margin at one-fourth, the second as a much
larger blotch reaching middle of cell and constricted on submedian fold ; the
third and fourth as two finer streaks joined below vein 1, the inner long and
nearly vertical, the outer bent outwards towards a triangular oblique blotch
between veins 4 and 6 ; beyond this is a large blotch whose pointed upper end
touches the apical spot; and from the anal angle rises an irregular black blotch
reaching vein 3 ; margiual black dashes at the ends of all veins except vein 1 ;
fringe yellow-green, with black chequering beyond the veins.

Hindwing: greyish white, with a slight pinkish tiuge ; a continuous black
crenulated marginal line ; fringe pale, with darker chequering beyond veins.

Underside of forewing blurred blackish grey, with the apex only green and
showing the black costal blotches clear: hindwing blackish grey with black
cell-spot and postmedian and snbmarginal bands, the latter interrupted.

Palpi externally black ; face, thorax, and patagia pale green ; abdomen
greyish ochreons ; two spots at top of face, one in centre of vertex, and the
bases of shoulders and patagia black; legs all blackish, with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 S from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Oekenden).

120. Rhopalista impuber spec. nov.

This species, in appearance, is a facsimile of Rh. undulosa Warr. from Castro,
Parana, Brazil ; but in reality the hindwing of the c? above is simple, without the
characteristic tuft of hairs in the submedian fold ; on the underside there is a
fringe of hairs along the submedian fold. A more important point of separation
is the abnormal neuration in the c? hindwing : the radial rises below the middle
of discocellular, and veins 2, 3, 4 rise close together from near end of cell and are
shortly curved downwards to the truncate outer margin.

Expanse of wings : S 40 mm. ; ? 34—30 mm.

4 S3, 2 ? ? from Cnshi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 id. (Hotl'manns).

The ? has a dark grey submarginal band on the underside of hindwing which
shows through above.

Trotocalpe gen. nov.

Foreiving : costa arched at base and slightly shouldered at one-fourth, then
straight, shortly depressed at apex, which is bluntly ronnded ; outer margin bluntly

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toothed at vein 4, concave above and strongly oblique below, the anal angle scarcely
marked ; inner margin convex.

Hindwing : with both augles rounded ; outer margin faintly elbowed at
vein 4.

Antennae lamellate, simple; palpi porrect, long, decumbent; tongue and
frenulum present.

Nenration as in Perizoma.

Type : Trotocalpe albilunata spec. nov.

Allied to Plemyriopsis, Rhinura, and Urocalpe; differing from the two first
in the hindwing, from the last in the fore wing.

121. Trotocalpe albilunata spec. nov.

Forewing : dark lilac-grey with darker, browner, grey markings ; basal patch
crossed by two pale curved lines and edged by a third which is insinuate between
median and submedian veins ; at middle of wing a dark fascia, slightly bent
inwards below median, edged on each side by a dark line, sometimes with the
appearance of two lines ; snbmarginal line biconcave, the elbow in the middle
on vein 4 pointing outwards ; preceded by a very regularly deutate-lunulate line,
the teeth of which point basewards ; a dark marginal line ; fringe pale grey ; all
the pale lines marked on costa by a whitish dot.

Hindwing : dark grey, without markings ; cell-spot and marginal line dark ;
fringe pale.

Underside shining purplish brown, the inner marginal area blurred, the
markings distinct only towards costa, which is marked by white spots ; a white
crescent towards outer margin, bisected by vein (5 ; some pale lustrous scales
before the dark marginal line : hindwing frosted with whitish scales, with dark
median, postmedian, and submarginal lines ; cell-spot with a whitish ring.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; palpi and thorax darker.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

3 c? c? from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft. (Bottger).

Subfamily ASTHENINAE.
122. Cambogia basaliata spec. nov.

Forewing : deep yellow, crossed by irregular reddish brown lines ; basal patch
small, brown-black ; lines forming outer band of central fascia dentate-lunulate,
the lnnules marked with black-brown, those of the outermost line elongated and
blacker, projecting on veins 6 and 4 and insinuate between, the space between 3 and 4
filled up with black ; the two snbmarginal shades swollen into blackish brown
patches at apex and beyond cell, and less prominently at anal angle ; cell-spot large,
black ; brown marginal dashes at end of veins ; fringe yellow.

Him/winy : without the basal dark blotch ; cell-spot large and black ; the rest
as in forewing, but the snbmarginal dark markings less developed.

Underside like upper, but duller throughout.

Head, thorax, and abdomen deep yellow ; face brownish yellow ; basal half of
patagia and second segment of dorsum black-brown ; legs dull yellow.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

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123. Cambogia cinerascens spec, now

S. Fore/ring : ash grey ; the lines generally indistinct ; inner at one-third,
outer at two-thirds, oblique outwards from costa, bent below subcostal vein, then
oblique inwards parallel to outer margin, with a median line between them, all
wavy; the outer is followed by a waved yellow line; the space between median
and outer lines sometimes darker grey, with an additional line in the middle, all
three blackish and lnnulate between the veins; the two lunules above and below
vein 0 of the outer line often black, with a blackish oblique streak from them
into apex ; marginal area with traces of two or three lnnulate oblique lines ; the
space between 3 and 4 ash grey, the area above and below it pinkish; a Muck
cell-spot ; marginal black dots before fringe, which is glossy pinkish grey with
pale base.

llinihring : with the yellow line central ; the basal area dark grey, its outer
half darker aud edged with dark lines ; postmedian and submarginal dark lnnulate
lines; the marginal area darker grey; the whole outer half of wing slightly
pinkish-tinged.

Underside duller; the lines all marked; basal areas up to outer lines grey,
beyond paler and pinkish.

Face brown ; fillet whitish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen grey; the abdomen
paler, but the basal and middle segments much darker.

? with the ground-colonr yellowish, the grey areas of the c? less strongly
marked ; the lines more numerous and clearer ; the paler areas suffused in parts
with pinkish and ochraceons.

Expanse of wings : <J 30 mm. ; ? 30 — 34 mm.

2 SS, 1 ? from Oconeqne, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 100 4, dry season
(Ockenden) type ; and 1 ? from La Oroya, E. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September
1004, dry season (Ockenden).

This last ¥ is smaller, yellower, and less strongly marked.

124. Carnbogia ciocolatina spec. nov.

Forming : chocolate-brown ; costa with some slight oblique yellowish streaks ;
the wing crossed by some darker brown lines, of which two limiting a central
fascia containing a dark cell-spot are slightly plainer ; submarginal line formed
of sulphur-coloured striae aud speckles, swollen into a round yellow blotch
between veins 4 and 0 aud a narrower oblong one between 1 and 2 ; a dark margiual
line ; fringe yellow aud brown.

Hi ml wing : with the brown more broken up by sulphur-coloured striae, the
submarginal line developed into a broad bent fascia ; two or three darker lines
near base before the black cell-spot; fringe mottled yellow and brown.

Underside with all the colours paler and blurred.

Head, thorax, abdomen, and antenuae brown ; vertex, abdomen beneath, and
legs pale sulphur-colour.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

1 S from C'nshi, Huannco, Peru, 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

Hindwing with outer margin, crenulate, the sinus beyond cell deeper, the tooth
at vein 4 slightly prominent.

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125. Cambogia condensata spec. nov.

Forewing : like C. lilacina Warr., but tbe lilac-grey diffusion more grey and
less lilac, more broken np into broad waved lines, showing the deep yellow ground-
colour between, the central fascia below the middle becoming velvety black,
the edges of the fascia and basal patch marked witli dull lustrous scales;
marginal area yellow, with three distinct waved orange lines ; fringe yellow ;
cell-spot black.

Hindwing : wholly yellow ; the base with three or four orange waved lines,
not lilac-grey as in lilacina.

Underside like upper; the forewing, except marginal area, dull purplish rosy.

Face, vertex, and thorax brownish yellow ; abdomen yellow with the dorsum
dull orange ; fillet and antennae snow-white.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 t? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft, May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

120. Cambogia contraversa spec. nov.

Forewing : yellowish straw-colonr, slightly freckled with brown ; the lines
chocolate-brown ; three outwardly oblique slightly curved lines before middle,
the first close to base, the third from one-third of costa to middle of inner margin,
the middle one from costa halfway between the other two, but approaching third on
inner margin ; the intervals with less marked brown lines, the middle one forked ;
beyond the cell-spot three outwardly curved brown lines, all uniting on inner
margin with the third antemedian line; the inner two narrow and well curved,
the outer line thick and angled on vein 4, thence oblique and straight; three
submarginal lines of wedge-shaped marks between veins ; the veins slightly brown,
especially vein 4; a distinct brown marginal line; fringe yellow, finely dark
beyond veins, more thickly beyond vein 4.

Hindwing : with three thick brown antemedian lines, the two inner straight
and almost conjoined, the outer angled on vein 4 ; three brown lines at base before
the brown cell-spot ; the other lines as in forewing.

Underside paler, with cell-spots and outer lines well marked, the others more
obscure.

Face, shoulders, and base of patagia brown ; palpi yellow with terminal
segment brown ; fillet and antennae white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen brownish
yellow, the basal and 5th and Gth segments ringed with brown.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ? from Oconeipie, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Forewing with outer margin elbowed at vein 4 and concave above ;
hindwing toothed at 4.

127. Cambogia haematodes spec. nov.

Forewing : bright blood-red, with a curved pale yellow band at one-third,
a narrower, more undulated and partially interrupted deutate-lunulate band at
two-thirds, and a still slighter submarginal line of the same colour ; in the red
basal area are a few yellow scratches ; the submedian fold yellow, but interrupted
iu middle between the two bands ; the submarginal yellow line throws out on each
side lateral yellow streaks between the veins ; costal area deeper yellow, the

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intervals purple ; the central area with some purple scales below middle ; fringe
pale yellow.

Hindwing : with a central waved pale yellow band, and some slender yellow
streaks before margin; fringe yellow, tinged with red beyond middle tooth.

Underside with all the tints paler.

Face purple ; fillet, collar, and antennae yellowish ; vertex, shoulders, patagia,
thorax, and dorsum blood-red ; abdomen beneath and legs yellow; forelegs red in
frout.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 ¥ from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Outer margin of hindwing deeply crenulate, the teeth at veins 4 and 6
somewhat more prominent than the rest.

128. Cambogia imitata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, crossed by numerous brownish lunulate-dentate Hues ;
a dull broad grey-brown subcostal stripe, almost reaching costa beyond two-
thirds, and a brown stripe along vein 4 to margin ; the cell-spot, the three outer lines
of central fascia, and the marginal line dark brown ; the outer edge of fascia is
bluntly angled ou veins 0 and 4, theu oblique inwards ; rive autemedian brownish
lines, bent above middle, then oblique inwards ; the inner line of central fascia
below middle forms annuli with the inner of the three outer lines ; all the veins
brownish ; the outer lines diffusely marked ; fringe yellow, spotted with brownish
beyond veins.

Hindwing : paler, especially along costa ; before middle a straight band of
three dark brown slightly waved lines beyond the black cell-spot, which is preceded
by three or four curved brownish lines at base; outer half as in forewing, but
without dark stripes to margin.

Underside duller yellow, with the brown markings all likewise duller.

Head, thorax, and dorsum dark brown ; vertex yellowish brown ; palpi
brown ; antennae distinctly anuulated brown and white ; abdomen below and legs
yellow.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Outer margins crenulate ; hindwing bluntly toothed at middle.

129. Cambogia inconspicua spec. nov.

Forewing : fawn-colour, grey-speckled ; costa mottled dark and pale ochreons ;
lines slightly darker, but very inconspicuous; a pair near base, curved in cell
before the black cell-spot; an outer and a submargiual line, indistinctly lunulate-
dentate, parallel to outer margin ; black marginal dots between veins ; fringe
concolorous.

Hindwing: with a black cell-spot, a minutely waved median, and two or three
submargiual lines.

Underside rather paler, with all the lines indistinctly expressed.

Thorax and abdomen fawn-colour ; face and vertex ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 6 from Dominica, West Indies (E. A. Agar).

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130. Cambogia lavendula spec. nov.

Forewing : ]>ale lilac-grey ; costa marked with contiguous brownish-black spots,
indicating the origin of the lines, which are all more or less interrupted along
the subcostal area: two antemedian sinuous brown lines, with traces of lines of grey
striae between them ; cell-spot brown, minute ; an outer fascia of three dark-brown
crinkled lines, of which the outermost is brownest and angled outwards on vein 4 ;
a submarginal flexuous line, and a large brown blotch on margin between veins
3 and 4 ; black spots between veins along outer margin united by a fine marginal
line ; fringe vinous.

Hindwing; with all the lines marked, but more obscurely ; the whole wing,
except towards costa, dusted with brownish grey ; cell-spot black.

Underside of forewing and costa of hindwing suffused with vinous grey, which
is deepened towards costa of forewing; all the lines partially marked ; cell-spots
black.

Head, shoulders, and prothorax dark brown-black ; thorax, patagia, and basal
segment of abdomen lilac-grey ; rest of dorsum suffused with vinous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 c? from R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 3100 ft., June 1004, dry season
(Ockenden) type ; 1 c? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry
season (Ockenden).

Forewing with apex produced, acute ; outer margin oblique, as long as inner
margin ; hindwing toothed at vein 4.

131. Cambogia lucivittata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, crossed by three pairs of fine sinuous silvery lines ; in
the median pair the space between veins 3 and 4 is marked with some brown scales;
a short silvery line before apex ; a series of fine marginal purple dashes at the ends
of the veins ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing : with the basal pair of lines absent, but with a red basal spot.

Underside of forewing with costal half rosy, emitting three rosy streaks beyond
middle parallel to outer margin and nearly reaching inner margin : hindwing with
three fine red lines in outer half.

Face pale olive-browii ; fillet white ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen yellow ;
antennal shaft white dotted with red on each segment.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm. and 20 mm.

1 c? from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft., (Boettger) (type) ;
1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3,100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

Iu the smaller example from La Oroya the yellow is rather deeper, the silvery
lines are purplish tinged, and each dorsal segment of abdomen is banded with
purplish.

Near C. argentijilata Feld., but with fewer lines.

132. Cambogia mediostrigata spec. nov.

Forewing : grey freckled with reddish brown ; the lines thick, reddish brown ;

two, obscure, close to base ; an antemedian at one-third, bluntly bent in cell jnst

before the large black cell- spot, then vertical and outwardly concave ; from costa

above cell-spot an oblique outwardly convex line to vein 4, thence incurved and

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vertical to about middle of inner margin, followed by a similar line, which, however,
in its upper half is convex inwardly; two submarginal lines, the inner straight,
the outer curved, to vein 4, then incurved parallel to the postmedian lines, the outer
very obscure, being crowded out ; a dark marginal line, swollen into spots between
veins; fringe grey-brown, with the base ochreous ; costal edge with pale dots;
a horizontal, slightly curved, blackish streak from base running along cell above
median vein and between 3 and 4 to outer margin.

Eindwing : with four lines, all parallel and bluntly angled outwards, the first
on the median vein, the other three between 3 and 4 ; the last is very obscure :
a black cell-spnt on the first.

Underside rufous ochreous, less rufous in hindwing ; all the lines marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; the dark streak of
forewings is continued across the middle of patagia and thorax.

Expanse of wiugs : 22 mm.

1 S from Ocoueque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

133. Cambogia nigriceps spec. nov.

Forewing : wood-brown ; the lines dark grey, all swollen laterally on costa into
blackish coalescent blotches, so that the costal area appears dark ; between veins
3 and 4 the outer line and submarginal shades are swollen into black blotches and
continued interruptedly dark to inner margin and anal angle ; two slight lines
close to base and an anteruedian, bracket-shaped one at one-fourth ; beyond the
black cell-spot two lines forming the outer band of central fascia run, oblique
outwards from costa to vein 6, vertical to below 4, then waved inwards, both more
or less blackened; two submarginal lines, also oblique outwards to vein 7, then in
the main parallel to the outer lines ; black marginal dots between veins united
by a very fine black festooned line; fringe wood-brown, slightly dark-chequered
towards anal angle.

Hindwing : pale fawn-colour speckled with dark grey ; cell-spot black on
a slight anteruedian line ; a broad blackish central shade, outwardly Innate-edged ;
two submarginal blackish shades ; all the markings stronger along inner margin;
marginal dots, line, and fringe as in forewing.

Underside reddish fawn, with all the markings blackish and distinct.

Head and shoulders black ; collar, thorax, and legs fawn colour ; abdomen
missing ; antennae above ringed black and white, below pubescent.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9600 ft, May P.IU4, dry season (Ockenden).

Hindwing with outer margin crenulate, slightly toothed at 4.

134. Cambogia nigrinotata spec. nov.

Forewing : jiale yellow ; the veins and finer lines marked by orange-red scales ;
costal streak broadly smoky black, the costal edge with small yellow dots ; space
between veins 3 and 4 also smoky black ; a thick straight blackish line near base,
preceded by one and followed by two waved orange-red lines; cell-spot black and
large ; postmedian band consisting of three lines of blackish luuules, the outer
two coalescing to form horseshoe-shaped blotches separated from the inner line
by a pale space ; outer band formed of red lunules separated by a yellow line from
a row of black lunules, followed by a row of broad yellow lunules, ending in smaller

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red ones ; fringe yellow, with chirk spots at base beyond veins, and black-mottled
beyond 3 and 4.

Hindwing : with the markings less distinct ; space between 3 and 4
blackish, but not the costa.

Underside straw-colour, with the markings expressed ; the black of upperside
becoming fnscous ; cell-spots black and distinct.

Face brown ; fillet and base of antennae white ; vertex and collar deep
ferruginous ; shoulders and base of patagia black-brown : tips of patagia, thorax,
and abdomen yellow varied with orange ; third segment of dorsum brown-black.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

2 SS from Ocoueque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

135. Cambogia pallidicosta spec. nov.

Forewing : red-brown ; costal streak creamy grey, broadening beyond middle,
with fiue dark speckles ; cell-spot black, distinct ; before it a whitish line, vertical
and concave outwards ; beyond it a white line runs obliquely outwards to vein 4,
and then is incurved, reaching inner margin vertically at two-thirds ; fringe deep
red-brown, with a fine yellow basal line and whitish apices.

Hindwing : paler towards base and along costa ; cell-spot black, followed by a
wavy whitish central line, inwardly marked with fuscous scales ; some obscure
darker striae.

Underside redder, less brown ; the outer line well shown in both wings.

Face, thorax, and abdomen red ; vertex and shoulders creamy grey.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 S from (Jushi, Province Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

136. Cambogia percisa spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, with lilac-grey wavy cross-lines parallel to the oblique
outer margin; in the basal half of wing and including the central fascia these
lines are thickened and confluent, obscuring the ground-colour except on costa ;
the edge of the fascia is angled on vein 6, then straight and oblique to inner
margin ; cell-spot large and black, with some pale scales round it ; space between
veins 3 and 4 lilac-grey, and the costa beyond two-thirds, but not reaching ajiex ;
fringe yellowish, beyond a fine grey marginal line.

Hindwing : like forewing, but only the basal third grey, containing a large
black cell-spot ; a pale yellow band beyond it, which is visible, but less prominent,
in forewing also.

Underside like upper, but altogether paler.

Face and thorax lilac-grey ; vertex and antennae yellow ; abdomen yellow,
ringed with grey on dorsum.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

1 £ from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1004, dry season
(Ockenden).

137. Cambogia perstrigata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale lilac-grey along costa, pale brick-red below, with fine dark
speckling ; lines dark brown; two basal and an autemedian line just as in A. medio-
striyata ; the three beyond middle are all outcurved from costa and partially sinuous

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to vein 4, then incurved ami slightly Innate I'd wren veins; the fourth line, that
before margin, is hardly visible ; an obliquely edged brown subapieal shade ; cell-
spot black ; marginal line black, swollen between veins ; fringe dark brown, with
pale base, and chequered with pale in outer half; a blackish curved streak from base
along cell and between veins :i and 4 to onter margin.

Rindimng : wholly brick-red, with the four lines as in . 1. mediostrigata.

Underside dull rufous ochreous, much speckled with grey ; all the lines
brown.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; the black streak continued across
middle of thorax and patagia.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 ? from Limbaui, Caiabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Whether this can be the ? of mediostrigata must be left for the present.

138. Cainbogia planetaria spec. nov.

Forewing : reddish fawn-colour, crossed from base to margin by series of
round white dots on the veins, representing the transverse lines ; as in C. stellataria,
described below, the double spots on the folds in the course of the outer line are
large and conspicuous, those of the Submarginal line also being somewhat larger ;
a row of white marginal spots ; cell-spot white; fringe worn, probably mottled red
and white.

Hindwing : similar : the basal area not spotted ; the spots towards margin
all larger.

Underside of forewiug blurred reddish, with whitish dusting ; of hindwing
whitish with red lines.

Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish fawu ; fillet white ; dorsum spotted with
white.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 S from Cnshi, Hnanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (HorTtnauus).

139. Cambogia stellataria spec. nov.

Forewing : dull chocolate brown ; the costa and all the veins covered from
base to margin by uniform pale yellow dots, representing a succession of pale lines ;
among these two larger double spots on the two folds in the series representing
outer line are conspicuous, while those of the inner submarginal series are lunulate
in shape and slightly larger ; cell-spot blackish ; fringe pale yellow, strongly
mottled with brown beyond veins.

Hindwing : similar, but without prominent yellow spots ; the basal half only
speckled with pale.

Underside duller ; the outer line pale and almost uninterrupted ; basal area
before it and apical region without spots ; marginal area with alternate waved
reddish and pale lines ; hindwing pale yellow, traversed by reddish lines ; cell-spots
marked.

Head, thorax, and dorsum red ; fillet pale yellow ; anal segment of abdomen
and underside pale yellow ; antennae anunlated red and yellow.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 <? from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns;.

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140. Cambogia vinosata spec. nov.

Forewing : bright yellow ; basal area crossed by four or five sinuous vinous
lines, the outermost containing the large vinous black cell-spot; following a band
of clear yellow, the onter half of wing is suffused with deep vinous, shading into
black internally and along the inner edge and between veins 3 and 4 to margin ;
the outer margin is yellow, with a row of vinous marginal spots, preceded by two
thick vinous lnnnlate lines, before which in the submedian interval is a pure yellow
blotch ; the costal edge is also marked with three yellow spots ; fringe yellow,
vinous black at middle and apex.

Hindwing : with the base yellow, a spot on inner margin and the cell-spot
vinous ; the vinous blotch of forewing is here restricted to a blotch from inner
margin to median, continued between 3 and 4 to outer margin ; the yellow mar-
ginal area traversed by two thick waved vinous lines ; the rest as in forewing.

Underside the same, but the vinous tints all dull; the cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen vinous; palpi, vertex, and collar yellow; the
vertex with a vinous spot in centre ; abdomen beneath and legs pale yellow.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet season
(Ockeuden).

Subfamily EUCESTIINAE.

141. Callipia balteata ab. confluens nov.

Differs from the type-form of balteata Warr. in the greater extent of the red
coloration of forewing. The thick central black band is widely interrupted in
middle, so that there remains of it only a rounded blotch above middle and an
oblique triangular mark on inner margin ; the red suffusion starts broadly from
base, nearly touches inner margin, and runs up to subcostal vein on each side of
the two black blotches, being bounded outwardly by a curve, whereas in the type-
form the outer red line is straight. The yellow mottlings of the fringe run through
to the tips, and are not restricted to the base. Beneath the same extent of red
is shown, and the yellow striae and tine pale veins are strongly marked.

Expanse of wings : 65 mm.

1 $ from Agualani, Carabaya, Peru, 9000 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockeuden).

Perhaps this redder form prevails at the higher altitudes ; the darker type-form
was taken at 0500 ft.

142. Callipia fulvida spec. nov.

Closely allied to C.Jiayrans Warr., from which it may be distinguished by the
following points : the ground colour is fulvous instead of orange-red ; the inner
edge of the black marginal border runs, slightly diverging from outer margin, to
the subcostal streak, where it is preceded at the upper end of discocellular by a
small black blotch ; the veins end in pale spots only, not in streaks. In the
hindwing the fringe of inner margin is black. On the underside the pale marginal
patches in both wings are narrower ; and the central band of hindwing is narrower
and paler.

Expanse of wings : 65 mm.

2 SS from Agualani, Carabaya, Peru, 9000 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockeuden).

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143. Cophocerotis cinerea spec. nov.

Forewing : dull ashy grey; costal area broadly pale, with blackish striae;
a paler space, without striae along the second fifth, edged by a thick black mark
at each end, and with a double black fleck at middle ; a smaller pale patch at nearly
three-fourths, edged inwardly by darker scales, from which a pale curved line rises
that can be just traced across wing ; fringe pale grey, with darker line along middle
and at the tips ; a faint dark cell-spot.

Hindwing : with a pale postmedian line strongly ontcurved in middle, followed
by a finer pale submarginal line; a dark cell-spot; fringe pale, spotted with grey
beyond veins.

Underside of forewing dark grey ; the costa pale ochreons, with black striae ;
a triangular patch of brown striae running to a poiut at apex ; from its inner edge
the limit of the dark grey area runs straight to anal angle, leaving the margin pale
grey, like the whole hindwing, which is striated with blackish, most thickly along
inner margin ; a blackish bent middle line ; fringe of both wings pale grey with
dark spots in the basal half beyond the veins.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; centre of patagia darker.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 c? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockeuden).

144. Eudule ockendeni spec. nov.

Forewing: deep coppery red ; the markings black; these are two irregular fasciae,
a large apical and small anal patch, a narrow marginal line, and the fringe ; the
basal fascia consists of a triangular blotch above median and an elongated diamond-
shaped blotch between median and submedian veins, which remain red ; the central
fascia consists of a quadrate blotch above median vein and a wide flattened one
below, into which the basal blotch runs on the fold ; the inner margin below sub-
median vein is black throughout ; the apical blotch has a curved inner edge, aud is
sharply cut off above vein 4, followed by a small black spot below it.

Hindwing : wholly black.

Underside like upper.

Head, thorax, body, and legs all black.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 <$ from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockeuden).

Costa of forewing sinuous, arched at base and insinuate before apex.

Near E. phwaria Staud. (Polyomma).

Subfamily TKICHOPTEltYGINAE.

145. Dyspteris aequivirgata spec. nov.

Forewing : pure white ; the markings dark green ; a broad green costal stripe
from base to apex, leaving the costal edge diffusely whitish, more broadly just
beyond middle ; four dark green transverse oblique streaks from inner margin, all
fairly broad and with well-defiued margins ; first, nearly straight, from one-fourth
of inner margin to lower edge of costal streak at one-third ; second, broadest of all,
curved from middle of inner margin to costal streak before apex ; third from three-
fourths of inner margin, curved nearly parallel to second, ending in a point on

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vein 7 ; fourth snbmarginal, slightly waved, also ending on vein 7, so that the
white band between second and third green streak runs with a uniform curve to
apex ; fringe (worn) white.

Hindwing : with base green, and two short broad green bands not reaching
costa ; fringe white.

Underside with the costal stripe of forewing diffnsely edged below ; first streak
absent ; second obsolete below 2, much thickened above, and produced into a
biangnlate projection on veins 3 and 4 ; third and fonrth diffuse and interrupted ;
hindwing with base and a narrow band before middle green.

Head, shoulders, patagia, and the front half of each dorsal segment green ;
thorax and rest of abdomen white ; abdomen below and hindlegs white ; fore and
middle tarsi dark green.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

1 S from E. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3,100 ft., Juue 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

A neater insect than amata Cram. ; the outer margin of forewing more curved
and shorter, so that the wing is narrower. The markings are deeper green and
better defined, and the white purer.

140. Dyspteris extremata spec. nov.

Forewing : white ; markings blue-green ; a broad costal stripe, somewhat
diffusely edged below, leaving the basal half of costal edge whitish ; four oblique
green streaks from inner margin : first at one-fourth, narrowing upwards to costal
stripe at two-fifths; second from middle, oblique and slightly sinuous to a projection
from lower edge of costal stripe at two-thirds ; third from two-thirds, very broad at
origin, ending in a point at vein 7, where it coalesces with the fourth, which starts
narrow from anal angle and thickens upwards; green marginal luunles, above
middle absorbed in outer streak ; fringe white below middle, green above.

Hindwing : with base and three narrow bauds green, the outermost curved
above to costa.

Underside with costal stripe of forewing broad and well defined, cut by a white
line at two-thirds, which is edged with green spots between veins, and continued
as a green interrupted line to middle of inner margin ; a large green blotch beyond
middle on vein 2, and another close to margin from 4 to 7 ; marginal lunules
distinct, and above the middle enlarged ; hindwing with a slight green line before
middle ; the markings all deep green.

Head, shoulders, and patagia green ; thorax, tips of patagia, and abdomen
white ; the last with green belts ; abdomen beneath white ; fore and mid tarsi
green.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 ? from Obydos, Amazons, October, November 1904 (de Mathan).

The antennae of this ? are as strongly pectinated as in the S.

Differs in having the third streak the broadest, not the second.

147. Dyspteris subcoerulea spec. nov.
Forewing: bluish green ; a small whitish cell-spot; a faint whitish line from
two-thirds of inner margin running parallel to outer margin, but scarcely perceptible
except at its rise ; costa with four or five brown dashes before .apex ; a purple-
brown marginal line; fringe whitish, with purple-brown spots beyond the veins.

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Hindi/ring: with fairly distinct straight white line beyond middle, and a faint

pale cell-spot ; fringe and margin as in forewing.

Underside bright bine-green ; the markings as above.

Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs bine-green ; antennae ochreous, bronzy green
above.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 ? from ObydoSj Amazons, October, November 1904 file Mathan).

Antennae lamellate, snbserrate, finely pubescent ; palpi long, decumbent.

148. Rhopalodes derufata spec. nov.

Forewing : whitish ; the lines and bands all pale olive-green ; only the central
fascia finely dusted with black scales, especially along cell and snbmedian fold ; the
cell-spot black ami distinct ; in the marginal area beyond tin' distinct pah'
snbmarginal line are two blackish spots, one between veins (i and 7, the other
between 4 and 5 ; the marginal spots, which arc black above middle, become olive-
green below; the pale band preceding central fascia projects angularly into it on
the two folds, the angles being marked with black ; similarly, on the outer edge
the pale band is sharply indented basewards beyond cell.

Hindwing : cream-colour, tinged with greyish olive.

Underside olive-grey, the outer line aud cell-spot dark.

Head aud thorax olive-green ; abdomen like hindwings ; palpi externally
blackish.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

1 S from Sapncay, Paraguay, December 19n2 (Foster).

This is like Rh. mriegata Warr. from Brazil, but differs iu being entirely
without red scaling.

SrnFAMiLY TEPHROCLYSTIINAlv
14'.i. Eucymatoge biumbrata spec. nov.

Foreioing : pale slaty grey, crossed by many fine dark lines, all angled below
subcostal vein, then inwardly oblique and parallel, slightly dotted with darker on
the veins ; the interval between the two containing the black cell-spot is filled up
with rather darker grey as far as vein 1, tinged beneath the cell-spot with brown ;
aud the line preceding the snbmarginal is thickened and blackened from vein 6
to 2 ; snbmarginal line indicated by darker white-tipped spots, the outer margin
generally being clouded with darker grey; marginal line very fine; fringe pale
grey chequered with darker.

Hindwing : with alternate dark and light wavy grey lines, plainer towards
inner margin.

Underside dark grey, slightly paler in hindwing ; all the lines uniformly dark,
and towards outer margin dotted on veins.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey : palpi dark grey ; dorsum, except at
base, distinctly brown-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 ? from Limbani, (Jarabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden)
type: 1 $ from Ilnancabamha, Cerro do Pasco, Pith, 6400 ft. (I'ottger).

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The description was made from the Limbani ? , the c? being a mnch wasted
specimen; the two oblique parallel blackish shades in outer half of wing will
always distinguish it ; outer margin of hindwing truncate from 3 to anal angle.

150. Eucymatoge brunneodorsata spec. nov.

Foreirimj : chalk-grey, with a slight greenish tinge ; the lines indistinct,
except along costa and inner margin ; costa with five black spots, the fourth much
the largest; from the third the inner edge of central fascia, slightly outcurved in
middle, runs to inner margin, from the fourth its outer edge, which is strongly
outcurved from 6 to 2 ; two or three carved lines in the fascia, and those marking
basal patch and the interval beyond can be faintly traced ; the fascia is followed
by a pale baud with grey centre ; snbmargiual line pale, preceded and followed by
olive shading at costa, beyond cell, and at anal angle, where the shades are large
and browu ; fringe pale with olive mottling.

Hindwing : with a line near base, a broad middle shade, with a thin line on
each side of it, a broad postmedian and marginal shade pale green ; the first three
dark brown-black below median veiu ; marginal line dark, interrupted ; fringe as in
forewiug.

Underside of forewiug dark greenish grey with obscure markings ; of hindwing
whitish, with the five bands clear.

Head black ; thorax and base of abdomen like wings ; rest of abdomen
red-brown.

Expanse of wiugs : 22 mm.

1 ¥ from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

151. Eucymatoge costirufaria spec. nov.

Foreicing : dark grey ; the costa broadly, the median vein and its branches,
and the praesubmarginal shade dull red-brown ; a dark line twice angled close
to base; two lines angled outwards in cell before the large black cell-spot, three
slightly waved beyond the spot, before a thick black outer line which is angled
on vein C, and followed by a pale band with a grey central line; submarginal
line white, regularly zigzag; the ground-colour between the lines along both folds
is whitish ; marginal line fine ; fringe grey with darker cherpaering.

Hindwing : grey ; the inner margin with the commencement of lines which
are red-brown.

Underside dark grey, with all the lines well marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey with a rufous tinge ; the dorsum red-brown ;
palpi dark brown, very long.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 c? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden)
type ; 1 ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockendeu).

152. Tephroclystia albicaruea spec. nov.

Forewing : white, overspread with dull greyish flesh-colour, the costal half of
central fascia alone remaining white; costa with two black spots close to base,
indicating the lines of basal patch ; a longer dark blotch beyond, giving rise to the
darker centre of the band before central fascia, the dark limiting lines of which

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start from Mack triangles at two-fifths and three-fifths of costa; the inner edge
straight and oblique, the outer ontbent between veins 6 and 2; the fascia below
median greyish flesh-colonr, above it white with a black cell-spot ; marginal area
greyish flesh-colour, with traces of a paler Bubmarginal line, preceded and followed
in places by dark clouds, especially towards anal angle ; a dark marginal line ;
fringe (worn) greyish flesh-colour.

Hind winy : white, with indications of black waved lines ; two across middle
more conspicuous ; a grey blotch on inner margin near base ; marginal line black,
crenulated.

Underside of forewing dull dark grey with a rufous tinge ; of hiudwing white ;
the lines and cell-spots darker in both.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white; two black spots on lower part of face;
base of shoulders and patagia, centre of metathorax, and the middle segments
of dorsum black; underneath dull grey ; tarsi mottled dark and light grey.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 c? from Cushi, Hujtnnco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Hiudwing with inner margin short ; outer margin bent at vein 3.

153. Tephroclystia albifusca spec. nov.

Forewing : white ; the shadings fuscous, varied in parts with reddish brown ;
costa with five dark brown blotches ; two at base indicating basal blotch and centre
of the following interval ; two at two-fifths and three-fifths, from which spring the
edges of the central fascia, and one towards apex at the commencement of the
praesnbmarginal shade ; the central fascia edged on each side by a pale band with
a dark centre ; the inner edge oblique and carved below costa, the outer wavy and
preceded at middle by a rufous patch ; the inner marginal half of wing whiter than
the rest ; marginal area greyish fuscous varied with rufous, through which the
pale waved submarginal line runs, sometimes preceded by blacker spots; black
marginal lunules between veins; fringe mottled dark and light grey; cell-spot
black.

Eindwing : like that of T. albicarnea, but the marginal dark Hue thicker.

Underside with the forewing dark grey, and the hiudwing white ; both with
the lines and cell-spots plain; the markings clearer and more defined than in
albicarnea.

Head and thorax white ; face white or grey ; palpi grey ; base of shoulders and
patagia laterally only, and a spot in middle of patagia black ; metathorax white ;
dorsal segments all dark grey, laterally blackish.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

1 S from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden),
type; 1 ¥ from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1004, dry season
(Ockenden).

This species is undoubtedly closely allied to '/'. albicarnea described above, but
as certainly distinct.

154. Tephroclystia analiscripta spec. nov.

Forewing : dull luteous grey, tinged witli dull red-brown along costa and onter
margin, and across the basal field; central fascia rather darker grey, containing a
conspicuous black cell-spot, and with the outer edge, which is bluntly bent on

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vein G, marked by black clashes on veins ; the whole wing crossed by wavy grey
lines ; bands preceding and following fascia paler with a grey centre ; submarginal
line wavy, pale grey ; marginal line finely dark, interrupted at the veins; fringe
mottled light and dark grey.

Hindming : grey, with the markings repeated, bnt all very indistinct, except
along inner margin, where the darker shades are dull red-brown, with one more
conspicuous spot at anal angle.

Underside grey, with black cell-spots and very indistinct markings.

Head, collar, shoulders, base of patagia, centre of thorax, and the whole of
dorsum red-brown ; patagia and underside of abdomen grey ; palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

2 3<5 from Tingnri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1004, dry season
(Ockenden).

In some respects like T. panda Druce from Central America, but much
smaller.

155. Tephroclystia arenaria spec. nov.

Foreioing : glossy pale sandy, the gronnd really being cream-colour, which is
only faintly visible across wing beyond the different cross-lines, which themselves
are only traceable in certain lights ; the lines forming the inner and outer edges of
central fascia at one-third aud three-fourths can be generally seen, especially the
outer, which is more conspicuously followed by a pale line ; beyond this a broader
praesubmarginal band of sandy tint rises from a dark costal shade, the snbmarginal
line itself being represented by a series of large cream-coloured spots between
veins ; an interrupted dark marginal line ; fringe glossy, pale ochreous and white.

Hi mt 'icing : cream-coloured, with commencements of lines along inner margin
and the outer lines complete but fine.

Underside of forewiug shining pale grey, the spots of snbmarginal line showing
plain ; hindwiug cream-colour, with the marginal line only.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : IT mm.

1 S from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Nearest to T. subalba Warr. from Mexico ; it might easily be mistaken for a
Sterrhid.

150. Tephroclystia atricoUaris spec. nov.

Foirwing : luteous grey ; the costa marked by thick dark grey outwardly
oblique lines alternating with the paler intervals ; below the subcostal the lines
are all oblique, tinged with rufous, and masked ou veins by dark dashes ; a
rufous streak from cell to outer margin between veins 5 and 6 ; cell-spot black
and large, the cell itself with dark grey scales ; submarginal line marked by white
spots preceded and followed by black spots, that on snbmedian fold larger ; a fine
dark marginal line ; fringe very pale grey, with large distinct brownish mottlings
beyond the veins. The whole wing has a powdery look.

Hindwing : pale grey, darker towards outer margin : inner margin below
median vein and vein 2 with thick brownish grey lines and a dark triangular
mark at base ; marginal line thick, blackish, interrupted at veins ; fringe as in
forewine.

Underside of forewing dark grey, of hindwing shining white; (brewing with

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lines only visible towards apex ; cell-spot black ; hindwing with costa and outer
margin grey ; the lines marked by series of dots on veins.

Palpi externally dark brown ; face and vertex ochreons, with brownish centre ;
collar, shoulders, and patagia white ; base of patagia and prothorax velvety black ;
abdomen grey sprinkled with darker, brownish on dorsum.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 6 from Cnshi, Huanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

157. Tephroclystia atromaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : a mixture of black, whitish grey, and rufous ; the cross-lines and
shadings blackish, the intervals grey ; bands edging central fascia whitish, with
dark centre ; a rufous streak from base along lower half of cell ; another along
inner margin and submedian vein ; a broad oblique brown and rufous streak from
outer edge of central fascia at vein 0 to apex ; veins 2, 3, and 4 pale rufous ; those
above middle forming pale rufous spots before outer margin ; inner half of central
fascia broad and dark below median, narrow and interrupted with white towards
costa ; outer half broad and dark at costa, narrower and interrupted by the rufous
streaks below; submargiual line white, waved, preceded at costa, beyond cell, and
between veins 1 and 3 by velvety black blotches ; a streak of white and blackish
scales between 3 and 4 ; black marginal dashes between veins ; fringe grey mottled
with black beyond veins, sharply white at base.

Hindwing : cream-white ; a blackish blotch on inner margin at base and the
commencement of dark lines along inner margin ; marginal line black, interrupted ;
fringe white, black-spotted beyond veins.

Underside of forewing blackish grey, the inner margin blnrred ; hindwing
white, glossy, with the lines blackish, well marked on costa and inner margin, and
dotted on veins ; cell-spots black ; fringe of forewing mottled black and white ;
of hindwing white.

Face and palpi black ; top of face in middle and vertex white ; collar, shoulders,
and patagia mixed black and white ; metathorax black ; dorsum brown, with a
broad black belt on second segment and narrow segmental rings ; sides and anal
segment black ; legs black chequered with white.

Expanse of wings : 25 mm.

1 S from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1004, dry season (Ockenden).

158. Tephroclystia candidata spec. nov.

Forewing : chalk-white ; crossed by grey lines, which are angled below
subcostal and then run obliquely inwards parallel to outer margin, all marked
more broadly on costa ; basal patch qnite small, edged by a curved grey line ;
edges of central fascia at one-third and two-thirds, the outer angled on vein 6,
from there to vein 3 thickened aud blackish ; the fascia with three or four waved
grey lines through it, all plainest on costa ; band before fascia twice as broad on
costa as on inner margin, containing a central grey band with a line on each side,
reduced on inner margin to one thick line ; band beyond fascia broad, with a grey
central line, and edged outwardly by a grey line ; submargiual line indistinct, but
preceded and followed at costa and beyond cell by some brown and black dentate
markings; marginal line dark grey; fringe white; cell-spot grey.

ffindwing : with grey cell-spot and beginnings of lines along inner margin.

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Underside white, with the cell-spots marked on both wings, and on forewing
the outer edge of the fascia and the praesubmarginal shades.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; basal and last three segments of abdomen
blackish ; legs blackish, with white joints.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

2 ? ¥ from Limbani, Oarabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Both examples are considerably worn. The wings are narrow aud elongate,
the forewings with prominent apex.

159. Tephroclystia discretata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull white ; the lines and shades dull grey, towards the outer
margin with a rufous tinge; two dark excurved bands, each of two lines, limit
the central fascia, containing in its white centre the rather prominent dark
cell-spot ; the fascia is preceded and followed by a pale baud with grey centre ;
submarginal line slender, waved, preceded by a distinctly deeper shade ; an
interrupted marginal line ; fringe rufous.

Hindwing : whitish, with obscure transverse grey lines ; marginal area and
fringe grey ; cell-spot grey.

Underside of forewing grey, of hindwing whitish ; lines in both indistinct.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the last with the second and praeanal
segments of dorsum rufous ; palpi grey.

Expanse of wings : 16 mm.

2 S6 from Sauto Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, 0500 ft., October 1902, dry season
(Ockenden).

1G0. Tephroclystia erecticoma spec. nov.

Forewing : wood-brown, the lines darker ; a diffuse dark patch at base ; central
fascia rather narrow, edged by two dark lines, the inner slightly curved, the outer
bent at vein C>, consisting of two distinct lines ; cell-spot large, of black erect scales ;
the broad spaces before and beyond fascia with very obscure markings ; submarginal
line waved; marginal line black, interrupted; fringe brown.

Hindwing ; crossed by thick dark lines, the outer ones slightly dentate, all
darker and obscured below middle ; costal and apical areas ochreous ; cell-spot small.

Underside of forewing dull brown, of hindwing ochreous, where only the
markings are plain ; cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown-black.

Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

1 cJ, 1 ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

I have made the description from the ?, which is better preserved than the c?.

101. Tephroclystia evacuata spec. nov.

Forewing: pale brown, with some slight blackish dusting towards base; the
bands preceding and following central fascia narrow, white, and dentate, with a
black zigzag central line ; middle of fascia paler than the sides, above the median
vein leaving a white space with the black cell-spot on its inner edge ; costal edge
and costal vein both finely and interruptedly marked with black ; basal area mixed
with white and blackish scales ; submarginal line white, swollen between 3 and 4 ;

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some white scales before apex; marginal line black, interrupted at veins; fringe
chequered brown and white.

Hindwing : white ; two antemedian thick grey lines, with the thin black cell-
spot between them ; two thick postmedian lines coalescing to form a brownish grey
shade; two submargiual dentate dark grey lines, the outer the stronger; a thick
black marginal line interrupted by white dots on the veins ; apical area clouded
with brown-grey ; fringe as in forewiug.

Underside pale ochreous, crossed by alternate bands and lines of blackish grey ;
fringe mottled, ochreous and dark grey ; cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen luteons speckled with white ; abdomen beneath
pale speckled with black ; palpi yellowish buff.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

In the neighbourhood of T. conchtplicata Warr., from Mexico, but smaller and
browner, the underside characteristic.

162. Tephroclystia galenaria spec. nov.

Forewing : pale grey, crossed by darker grey lines, forming blackish dashes
on the veins ; the pale bands limiting the central fascia and that crossing it in
the middle, all plain with a thick dark-grey centre, and, like the dark lines,
all more waved than usual, being outcnrved in midwing ; the cell-spot dark ;
submargiual line regularly waved, pale grey ; the veins in outer half of wing
pale grey, interrupting the dark marginal line ; fringe glossy grey, dark mottled
in basal half beyond veins ; veins at lower end of cell marked slightly with ochreous
when fresh, but this tint is soon lost.

Hindwing: paler grey, without markings towards costa; those along outer
margin distinct, and lunnlate-dentate, forming dark dashes on veins.

Underside glossy, dark grey in forewing, whitish grey in hindwing, with the
dark and light spaces distinct.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey, varied with darker.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 6, 2 ? ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) ; also 1 c? from Cushi, Hnanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Wings broad ; the uniform dark and light grey speckling is suggestive of the
dappled feathers of the guinea fowl.

163. Tephroclystia lugubris spec. nov.

Forewing : dark fuscous, with three pale lines across wing, each with a thick
middle thread, one on each side of central fascia, and one in its middle, the last
the whitest ; submargiual line waved, whitish, indistinct ; cell-spot dark, oblique,
preceded by whitish scales ; a dark marginal line interrupted by dots of white
scales at the veins ; fringe dark fuscous, mottled with darker, and with a pale base.

Hindwing : paler, crossed by alternate thick and thin dark grey lines, which
are strongest on inner margin, the costal half being blurred grey.

Underside of forewing blurred dark grey ; the lines marked on costa ;
submargiual line pale ; fringe cljeqneretl with white : hindwing whitish, crossed
by six dark grey lines.

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Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish fuscous ; collar and shoulders paler.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

1 d from (Jushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

164. Tephroclystia luteonigra spec. nov.
Forewing : buff ; crossed obliquely by the usual lines, which in places
are darkened by blackish scales, the costal area above subcostal vein always
remaining buff; space between basal patch and central fascia occupied by three
oblique black lines ; subcostal space immediately before and above the black
cell-spot, the curved outer lines of fascia beyond cell, and the space obliquely
beyond to apex are blackish, across which the paler lines show white ; veins 1, 2,
3, and 4 dotted black and white ; space between 2 and 4 buff without black
speckling; submarginal line interrupted, consisting of white spots, preceded by
black shades and joined externally by black dashes with the black marginal lines
between veins ; fringe whitish, chequered with dark.

Hindwing : whiter ; crossed by six curved darker lines, marked black on the
veins, the two outermost luuulate-dentate, with a white line between ; the marginal
area buff ; cell-spot small, black.

Underside paler buff, with the lines all marked greyish and black ; cell-spot
plain ; the outer edge of central fascia and the praesubmarginal shade are thickest
and darkest.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all buff, slightly mixed with white scales ; the
dorsal crests strong ; tip of palpi brown ; legs dark fuscous, with pale joints.

Expanse of wings : 2G mm.

2 ? ? from (Jarabaya, Pern, June — August 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

In one example the metathorax and base of abdomen are coal-black, and the
markings of the underside of wings blacker.

Akin to T. lutulenta and conduplicata Warr.

165. Tephroclystia lutulenta spec. nov.

Forewing : dull olive luteous, somewhat thinly scaled ; the outer half of wing
from just beyond the large black cell-spot of a darker hue than the basal ; the
central fascia with three lines to each edge, those of the outer edge closer together,
all broader and darker on costa ; bands on each side clear, without lines ; sub-
marginal line fine and waved, paler than ground-colour ; basal line fine and dark,
close to base ; marginal line finely black, interrupted at the veins ; fringe olive
mottled with darker.

Hindwing : like forewing, with all the lines plain ; the submargiual preceded
by dark scales in the lunules.

Underside with the ground-colour paler, and the markings darker and plainer.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; the face paler ; palpi yellowish ;
antennae subserrate, ciliated.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 3 from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft. (PiJttger).

166. Tephroclystia melanograpta spec. nov.
Forewing : dingy grey with a slight luteous tinge, crossed by darker grey
lines, bent below costa, then oblique; costa marked with five dark blotches, the
spaces between them with a darker central line ; the third and fourth give rise

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to the lines limiting the central fascia, the slightly paler centre containing the
black elongated cell-spot; Bnbmarginal line pale grey, not waved ; a dark marginal
line interrupted at the veins; fringe dingy grey mottled with dark.

Hindwing : dingy grey, with the base paler; a small dark cell-spot and the
nsual outer lines, the postmedian being plainest.

Underside paler, more lnteous ; costal and outer margins darker in forewing ;
hindwing with cell-spot and thick postmedian line ; veins in both wings dark
beyond middle.

Head and palpi luteous grey ; shoulders and patagia brown ; thorax and
abdomen pale grey ; abdomen with a black lateral streak, broadest at base ; anal
valves large.

Expanse of wings : 15 mm.

1 6 from C'ushi, Hiuinnco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

An inconspicuous insect. A very much worn ¥ from Santo Domingo,
Carabaya, Pern, October 1902 (Ockeuden) may be the same insect, but the black
lateral line of abdomen is not visible.

167. Tephroclystia nigripennis spec. nov.

Forewing : dark flesh-colour, except at costa, darkened with brownish ; basal
patch, central fascia, and praesubmarginal shade, all purplish black at costa,
becoming brownish on inner margin ; cell-spot large and black, followed by two
dark lines in fascia ; pale bands on each side of central fascia distinct, dull
flesh-colour, with darker centre ; snbmarginal line waved, indistinct ; fringe dark
brown.

Hindwing : wholly purplish black, crossed by five or six lines ; the base pale,
the fringe dark.

Underside dark purplish grey with traces of the lines ; inner margin of
forewing bronzy ochreous.

Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish black.

Expanse of wings : 14 mm.

1 <$ from Rio Colorado, Peru, 25UU ft., August— September 1902 (Watkins).

108. Tephroclystia parcinotata spec. nov.

Forewing : lnteous grey, with a slight olive tinge ; without any distinct lines
or markings, except the pale band which edges the central fascia externally and
traces of a pale snbmarginal line ; cell-spot black, distinct ; a dark marginal
line ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : whitish, the inner margin only showing traces of lines.

Underside of forewing dull grey, of hindwing whitish ; lines of forewing
visible beyond middle, of hindwing throughout; cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; abdomen below and pectus pale.

Expanse of wings : c? 20 mm. ; ? 24 mm.

1 <?, 2 ? ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 950U ft., May l'J04, dry season
(Ockeuden).

169. Tephroclystia regulella spec. nov.

Forewing: olive ochreons, crossed by a regular series of blackish grey lines,
bent below costa, then oblique and parallel; cell-spot blackish, large ; snbmarginal
line hardly marked, but followed by black dashes to the black lunules forming the

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marginal line ; fringe i»ale, mottled with olive, with a narrow dark line close
to base.

Hindwing : with the space along inner margin below median and vein 2, like
forewing ; the rest white without markings ; a small cell-spot.

Underside of wings glossy ochreous ; forewing greyish towards costa, where
also the lines are marked; hindwing with six faint curved lines across wing,
plainest ou inner margin.

Palpi greenish fuscous with some white scales ; face brown ; thorax and
abdomen olive ochreous, with the dark lines of the wings repeated across them.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 c? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft, May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

170. Tephroclystia rubellicincta ab. birufata nov.

The type of this species is a ? ; the amount of red in the forewing varies
much, and sometimes appears to be nearly obsolete, so that it is possible that
madura Dogn., described from 2 S <S , in which no mention is made of any red
tints, may be the same species. In all cases, however, the second segment of the
abdomen and the penultimate segment are marked with red. The hindwing is
whiter and less strongly marked with lines than the ?. For one very pale cf,
however, which may prove specifically distinct, in which the red tints are more
extensive than usual, I propose the name birufata as an aberration. In this the
centre of the band before central fascia is broadly red, and the first three lines
of the fascia itself are red, not grey, and the whole of the praesubmarginal shade
is of the same colour ; while on the abdomen the second and praeanal segments
are broadly red.

This S comes from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 feet, (Bbttger).

171. Tephroclystia rufivenata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale olive from base to central fascia, with a dark curved line
close to base, and two close together before the fascia, these lines edged with
whitish ; inner edge of fascia evenly curved at one-third ; outer at two-thirds,
but strongly excurved from subcostal vein to 2, on which it is indented, thence
curved ; inner half of fascia brown-black ; outer edge interruptedly blackish ;
discocellular marked by a straight oblique black bar touching the inner band,
followed by a round white patch with a dark dot at middle, and edged outwardly
by a strongly marked black dentate line; subcostal and median veins and all the
nervules pale rusty, the space between 2 and 4 more or less smeared with rust-
colour ; a broad oblique pale streak from apex to central fascia at vein 6 ; prae-
submarginal shade brown-black, interrupted first by the oblique streak, and again
between 2 and 4 ; submarginal line wavy, white, marked by a large white spot
between 3 and 4 ; marginal area ferruginous and blackish ; marginal line black ;
fringe mottled black and white.

Hindwing : luteous grey, with traces of straight dark grey lines, plain only
on inner margin, where the anal angle is dark ; fringe glossy, ochreous grey.

Underside of forewing blurred grey in inner marginal half, towards costa with
the lines and intervals dark grey and whitish ; hindwing whitish, dark-speckled,
with five dark brown lines, the outer two dentate, with finer lines between, all
very concise ; cell-spots black ; fringe of forewing dark mottled, of hindwing pale.

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Head, shoulders, and patagia cream-coloured, spotted with black; palpi fuscous
thorax and abdomen deep rust-coloured; the latter with a black belt at base, black
dorsal spots tipped with white, and the anal segments black.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 cJ from Cushi, Huanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

172. Tephroclystia sticticata spec, no v.

Foreioing : olive-grey, powdered with fine whitish scales; the lines very fine,
brown, marked by blackish dots on veins ; cell-spot linear, black ; lines edging
central fascia somewhat more conspicuous ; submarginal line pale, emphasised by
black dashes between veins, that on the submedian fold forming a round black
spot, and those on each side of vein 5 larger and longer ; fine dark dashes from
the teeth to margin ; fringe brownish grey.

Hindwing: pale lnteous, with a mealy appearance; below median whiter, with
traces of dark double lines ; cell-spot grey ; marginal line darker.

Underside of forewing blurred grey ; the lines distinct only on costa, the
outer line blackish, as is the cell-spot; submarginal pale; hindwing whitish, with
distinct cell-spot and outer line ; outer margin darker.

Head, thorax, and abdomen luteous grey ; second segment of abdomen with
a dark ring ; the dorsum brown.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

Several cJcT from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 70UU ft., July l'JU-i, dry season
(Ockenden).

Distinguished by the mealy luteous hiudwings.

173. Tephroclystia viduata spec. uov.

Forewing : blackish grey ; the usual lines darker aud beyond middle black-
dotted on the veins ; the two narrow bands on each side of central fascia and
a broader band at its middle beyond the black cell-spot, traversed by two black
lines, paler ; the submarginal line close to margin aud very obscure ; a black
marginal line with pale spots at the vein ends ; fringe blackish.

Hindwing : paler, more transparent towards costa ; all the lines reproduced
on inner and outer margins, but darkest on the former.

Underside glossy grey, blacker in forewing, whiter in hindwing, with all the
lines blackish and black-spotted on veins.

Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish grey ; the face and collar paler grey.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 6, 1 ¥ from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1UU4, dry season
(Ockenden).

The pale bands, as described above, are plain only in the ¥ ; the c? is more
obscurely black all over ; in both sexes the abdomen is loug aud slender.

174. Trichoclystis venulata spec, no v. and ab. lucidior nov.

Forewing: grey; the lines and markings more brownish grey; the darker
lines aud paler intervals forming alternating light and dark dashes on veins ;
central fascia, especially its two limiting bauds, darker than the ground-colour,
its inner edge acutely angled in cell before the linear black cell-spot, which
stands in a paler middle space; the pale-grey baud beyond with a thick grey

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traversing line; submarginal line pale, faintly waved, preceded on submedian

fold by a dark blotch ; a (lark marginal line ; fringe grey with a whitish basal
line.

Bindwing : with the markings only shown on inner margin, the costal half
of wing being wThitish.

Underside of forewing dark grey in costal half, white along inner margin ;
the pencil of hairs yellowish grey : hindwing white with the markings pale grey ;
in the ¥ the whole forewing below is grey.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; dorsum with a dark streak on
middle segments, the two basal segments and the anal segment remaining
pale grey.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

3 c?c?i 1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

This species differs from the type of the genus T.peregrina Warr. in having the
wings narrower and elongate, instead of short and broad ; the hair pencil is yellow,
not black.

In appearance it much resembles Tephroclystia atricollaris Warr. and
sticticata AVarr., which both have a dark blotch before submarginal line on the
submedian fold.

A S from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 6400 ft. (Bottger), is larger
(24 mm.) and much more brightly marked, all the pale tints being lighter ami the
dark ones darker. It may stand for the present as ab. lucidior ; like many
other species from Huancabamba, it probably represents a well-marked local
form.

Subfamily HETERUSIINAE.

175. Erateina semilugens spec. nov.

Closely allied to E. dilectaria Dogn. (Heterusia), but the white streak from
base of forewing and the white discal area of hindwing so thickly clothed with
slaty black scales as to appear smoky grey, the veins across the latter black ; the
inner margin of forewing with no white streak.

On the underside the basal streak and base of costa of forewing and the
discal space of hindwing are silvery white, and the course of the submedian vein
of forewing is marked with silvery scales ; the ground-colour in both wings is
rich purplish plum-colour.

On the npperside of hindwing the centre of cell and the whole lower half
of the marginal border are clothed with long hairs.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

1 c? from Cushi, Hininuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

176. Erateina xanthyala spec. nov.

( 'losely resembling E. comata Druce, but distinguished as follows : ground-
colour olive-brown rather thau olive-fuscous ; the hyaline space longer and
narrower, yellowish, edged with orange scales, and the veins across it orange, the
lowest portion, between veins 3 and 4, produced further hindwards, in the ?
reaching halfway to vein 2, and in both sexes produced above vein (i towards costa ;
the three pale costal dashes yellowish instead of white.

Underside with the yellow striae in both wings mixed with deep purple red ;

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the hyaline blotch of forewing produced as in comata to costa, but strongly
orange-tinged; the yellowish costal blotch at two-thirds not oblique inwards, as
in that species, but outwards, deeper coloured, and continued to middle of wing
by yellow spots on veins 6, 5, 4 ; the outer pale zigzag band of hindwing greyer
and more diffuse.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 J, 1 ?, from between R. Inambari and Limbaui, S.E. Pern, March 1904
(Ockenden).

177. Heterusia consobrina spec. nov.

Much resembling II. ovaliplaga Warr., and from the same locality, but
differing as follows : the cream-white transverse marking on forewing is narrower,
especially the terminal portion lying between veins 2 and 3, which is hardly
separated from the costal part.

In the hindwing the white projects angularly into the black marginal
border on vein 4, the border being thus broader on costa aud inner margin than
iu the middle, whereas in ovaliplaga it is of uniform width and evenly curved.

Underside of both wings vinous-brown speckled with yellow, darker at anal
angle of forewing ; in the hindwing the space at anal angle is white with a
patch of red scales, the border obliquely cut from vein 3 to anal angle.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 6 from Pozuzo, Hnanuco, Peru, 800 — 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

178. Heterusia plenilimes spec. nov.

Forewing : black, with two yellowish costal spots at one-third and two-thirds ;
the black at base powdered with white scales ; a white blotch on inner margin from
near base to two-thirds, its upper edge parallel to costa. the outer nearly vertical ;
fringe (worn) black.

Ilind wing : white with broad black marginal border ; the extreme base dark.

1'nderside of forewing with base of costa thickly striated with white; the
yellow costal spots much swollen ; the apex with some blue-grey speckles; the white
blotch mi inner margin reaching from base nearly to anal angle ; hindwing with the
dark border interrupted by white scales at anal angle.

Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish powdered with white; abdomen beneath
white.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 $ from Pozuzo, Huanuco, Peru, 800—1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

This species must be near to Hiibner's conduplicaria.

179. Heterusia restricta spec nov.

Foreuring : black, with three very pale yellow costal spots, that nearest base
narrow and inconspicuous, the other two broad ; on the middle of inner margin
an oblique, narrow white blotch with rounded top, its edge on margin equidistant
from base and anal angle ; fringe chequered black aud white.

Hindwing: with base and inner margin smoky black, and fully the outer halt
of wing black, the white fascia between them generally with a black cell-spot, and
projecting a little into the outer border across cell ; fringe chequered.

Underside of forewing black ; the base bluish grey with long thick black striae;

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apical area with bluish grey scaling ; the second and third costal spots large and
white ; two small spots before apex ; a triangular bluish white patch on inner
margin much larger than above ; fringe black, broadly chequered with white :
hindwing with base black-speckled ; a large black costal spot at one-third ; the
black border with some bine-grey scales at apex and much interrupted with white
at anal angle.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the segmental rings whitish ; abdomen
at sides and beneath, like the legs, whitish, grizzled with grey, the tarsi black-
mottled ; palpi beneath white.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

2 cTc? from Minas Geraes, October 1900 (Kennedy).

Distinguished by the position and shape of the white blotch of forewing and
the broad black border of hindwing.

180. Heterusia separata spec. nov.

Forewing : deep orange at base, the edge of the orange area curved from
one-third of costa to vein 1 beyond middle, then angled basewards ; rest of the
wing olive-brown containing an orange abbreviated fascia, separated from the basal
area by a baud of even width ; this fascia reaches vein 2 and externally is angled
inwards on vein 4 ; the basal area is slightly dusted with olive scales along costa
and inner margin.

Hindwing : orange, paler along costa and broadly dusted with olive along inner
margin ; outer margin olive-brown, almost interrupted at vein 5 by the orange
ground-colour, which projects into it between 4 and 6.

Underside the same, but paler, the inner margin of hindwing wholly yellow,
and the outer margin quite interrupted at 5, where the fringe also is pale.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous dusted with olive atoms; palpi brown,
white beneath.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

2 (J <S from Rio Palcazu, Province Huannco, Peru (Hoffmanns).

181. Heterusia trifoliata spec. nov.

Forewing : blackish olive, thickly powdered with buff scales in basal half, with
a curved buff blotch beyond middle, from below costal edge to vein 2, its inner edge
smoothly curved, its outer irregular and from vein 3 to 1 nearly vertical ; fringe
concolorons.

Hindwing : with the blotch trilobed, the upper lobe resting on costa beyond
middle, the outer running nearly to outer margin between G and 4, the lower
abbreviated ; base of wing paler olive, thickly buff-mottled.

Underside of forewing with base dull buff, the basal half of costa thickly
clothed with pale hairs ; the buff streak beyond middle much swollen, with a pale
spot below it at anal angle : hindwing yellower buff, with a brown cell-spot and
antemedian line interrupted across cell; marginal area dark brown with a deep
sinus beyond cell and a smaller one at anal angle.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown speckled with buff; abdomen beneath and
legs pale buff.

Expanse of wings : 2S mm.
■S from Cushi, Hiuiuuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

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Sibkamily OURAPTERYGINAE.
18~\ Phrygionis flavilimes spec. dot.

Forewing : grey-brown, more rufous towards outer margin, with three parallel
oblique lines ; the firsi close to base, formed of steely si-ales ; second from one-fifth
of costa to one-third of inner margin, deep yellow, bent at costa, narrow, edged
inwardly by raised steely scales, and with a few beyond it on subcostal ; third line
from two-fifths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, pale yellow, broad, inwardly
limited by steely scales; extreme outer margin yellow, broader in middle, thinning
out at. either extremity ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing : with outer margin at middle fulvous ; the sinuous band continuing
the third band of forewing orange fulvous, pale yellow ou costa, edged inwardly
by embossed metallic spots from vein G to above 2, then by a tine line, and outwardly
by a lustrous violet-blue line ; margin and fringe from vein 3 to anal angle, and still
more broadly from apex to vein G pale yellow ; in the fulvous tail a long oval black
spot with metallic centre and a smaller black spot below it ; the outer margin
darkened before the yellow marginal streak in both wings.

Underside pale pearl-grey, darker towards outer margin ; extreme margin
and fringe yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wiugs : 44 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, September 1004, dry season (Ockenden).

Much resembling appropriata Wlk., and in some respects also the figure of
jiolitata Stoll. ; but distinguished from all other species by the pale yellow edging
of the wings before the yellow fringe.

Subfamily DEILINIINAE.
183. Lomographa modesta spec. nov.

Forewing : white ; the costal edge finely yellowish ; lines pale grey, diffuse ;
first vertical from just before middle of inner margin to median vein at lower angle
of cell; outer line from three-fourths of inner margin also vertical, slightly
incurved before costa, lunulate-dentate, followed by a fringe of grey scales, which
makes it appear double; marginal area beyond a pale space dusted with pale grey
scales ; marginal line very fine ; fringe grey.

Hindwing : with the outer line and shade curved ; no cell-spots : fringe grey.

Underside wholly white ; fringe white with the tips alone grey.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; face and palpi dark brown ; antennae
brownish ; legs white, externally yellow ; the forelegs brown in front.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 6 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The same size and shape as L. nubimargo Warr.

184. Lomographa penumbrata spec. nov.

Forewing: white ; the costal edge finely dark; crossed by three lnteous grey
lines starting from dull blackish costal triangles, and disposed almost as in
,i,<(, ijiki/ii Warr., viz. from one-third, three-fifths, and five-sixths of costa to one-half,
three-fourths, and seven-eighths of inner margin respectively ; hut whereas in

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inaequata the second line is flexuons and the third straight, in this the second
is straight and the third bent outwards at vein 6 ; further, before the black
marginal line there is a narrow grey shade broadest beyond cell, which tinges
the fringes also grey, except at apex and anal angle.

Hindwing : with two narrow lines only towards outer margin, approaching one
another before anal angle, the inner straight, the outer curved; fringe pale.

Underside white ; forewing with an apical grey cloud from five-sixths of costa
narrowing to end of vein 2, containing a roundish white blotch at apex.

Face and palpi black-brown; vertex, thorax, and abdomen white; legs white,
the tarsi dark fuscous.

Expanse of wings : <J 30 — 35 mm.

2 (fij from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft. (Bottger).

185. Lomographa sincera spec. nov.

Forewing : white, the costal edge white ; lines grey, ill-marked ; first from
before middle of inner margin to base of vein 2 ; outer at two-thirds, thick, slightly
projecting outwards on vein G and below 4 ; marginal area faintly dusted with grey ;
fringe white ; no cell-spot or marginal line.

Hindwing : without inner line ; the outer bent on vein 3.

Underside pure white.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; face and palpi dark brown ; antennae
brown, with basal third pale ; legs white ; forelegs brown in front.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

1 ? from Tingnri, Carabaya, Pern, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season (Ockenden).
The lines are placed exactly as in L. modesta Warr., but the insect is decidedly

smaller, and the fringes wholly white.

186. Lomographa sordidata spec. nov.

Forewing : white with a slight luteons tinge ; costal edge finely yellow ; lines
dull grey; first very obscure, slightly curved, at one-third; outer diffuse, indistinctly
crenulate, from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, slightly bent
at veins (i and 4, followed after a pale space by a black speckled marginal area ;
marginal line finely black, swollen into spots between veins; a small black
cell-spot ; fringe pale grey with white base.

Hindwing: without inner line; the rest as in forewing, but the marginal
line not swollen into spots.

Underside white ; costa of forewing yellowish ; cell-spots showing through.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; face and palpi brown ; forelegs brown.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

2 SS from Sapncay, Paraguay, September 1904 (Foster).

Akin to /.. discolorata Warr., also from Paraguay, but whiter, with narrower
wings and distinct cell-spots.

Subfamily PALYADINAE.

1ST. Aplogompha riofrio ab. obscura nov.

Differs from the usual typical form of riofrio Dogn. in the basi-costal patch of
forewing not being sharply cut off along the median vein, bnt diffusely edged
and externally continued to inner margin ; the hindwing is crossed by three

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complete scries of grey-brown striae, which are usually only marked or suggested
on the abdominal margin.

I Underside the same.

1 cf from Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 0500 ft. (Bottger).

188. Argyrotonie rnetallicata spec. nov.

Foremng : dark mouse-colour, thickly dusted with shining metallic scales;
cell-spot oval, black in a yellow ring, the costal half of the black centre concealed
by a boss of metallic scales, the whole placed in a larger rounded brown shade,
of which the lower half is covered with a bed of bright metallic scales ; beyond the
cell-spot the metallic scales arrange themselves into a curved wavy-edged belt
followed by a broad band of chocolate-brown, clear itself of bright scales, but
edged outwardly by a shining bluish silvery line curving from costa before apex
to anal angle ; the extreme margin and fringe paler ; base of fringe rufous.

Hindwing : with centre marked by a large blotch of metallic scales followed
by a straight lustrous belt from apex to anal angle ; the margin with five embossed
spots, the three below middle large, the two above it qnite small; margin, especially
about apex, rufous-tinged.

Underside creamy white with a bluish tinge; both wings with a smoky brown
submarginal fascia, very broad in forewing and narrow in hindwing; forewing with
a large black discal spot.

Head, thorax, and abdomen mouse-colour; face and palpi browner.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 J from R. Cayapas, N.W. Ecuador (Flemming & Miketta).

Nearest to A. tencbrosa Warr.

180. Berberodes fulvicomosa spec. nov.

S. Closely allied to B. cassiteris Warr., from which it will be found to differ
as follows : The dark margiual border of forewing is wider, and contains a sinus
on its inner edge between veins 3 and 4, which does not exist in cassiteris ; similarly
in the hindwing the border from apex to vein 4 is wider, but stops short therej
whereas in cassiteris it is continued narrowly to the anal angle, followed by a dark
fringe ; in fulvicomosa the fringe below vein 4 is, like the margin itself, white ; the
anal angle is more amply lobed, and clothed and fringed with gilded yellow hair
scales, instead of black, the black blotch on the abdominal margin above the lube
being much smaller, with the tuft of black hairs less developed. Further, the
silvery washing of the outer two-thirds of the hindwing is neither so dense nor
so brilliant, the wing membrane remaining semi-transparent.

The costa of forewing is not so rigidly straight as in cassiteris, and (he
outer margin, instead of being uniformly curved, is more vertical to vein 3, thcu
visibly inbent.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 S from R. Huaeamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry season
(Oekenden), taken under identical conditions with a S of the same size of
B. cassiteris. No ? of either species were received from this locality; but from
La Oroya, It. Inambari, caught in September of the same year, come two ? ?,
slightly differing inter se, but both, judging from the bend in outer margin of

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forewing and from the breadth of the marginal border, referable to fulvicomosa.
One of them, indeed, is identical with the S, except that it, of course, lacks the hair-
clad lobe and silvery washing of the hindwing ; the other, though exactly like
the first beneath, shows the dark marginal border of upper side mnch broader,
especially in the hindwing, where it extends uniformly from apex to anal angle ;
and the three series of pale yellow spots are here coalescent into lines and tinged
with grey, and the white ground-colour is striated with grey. I take this to
be merely a dark form.

100. Ophthalmophora ? bimaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : jmrplish fuscous, with triangular yellow blotches just beyond
middle on costa and inner margin, their apices pointing outwards ; fringe
concolorous.

Hindwing : with a lustrous metallic submarginal line from anal angle, where
it is very faint, curving round from costa to base of veins 0, 7, preceded on costa
by a large dull orange blotch, containing a lustrous spot on costa and limited
towards base by a diffuse line of metallic scales running to one-third of inner
margin ; the narrow marginal area beyond the curved lustrous line is also dull
orange ; the fringe grey ; between veins 6 and 7 a small embossed metallic spot
on a black ground in a yellow ring ; above vein 4 touching the lustrous line another
embossed spot of silvery scales mixed with black ; below vein 4 the wing is dusted
with paler, and a few metallic scales.

Underside dull grey-brown, the yellow blotches of forewing and the orange
blotch on costa of hindwing showing faintly.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; abdomen below and
pectus whitish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 ¥ from Sapucay, Paraguay, October 1904 (W. Foster).

Most probably an Ophthalmophora.

191. Ophthalmophora crepuscularia spec. nov.

Forewing : deep velvety olive-brown, the fringe a little paler.

Hindwing : with base narrowly of the same tint, edged by an obliqne narrow
lustrous whitish line with darker outer edge, widening on costa ; rest of wing,
except costal and outer areas, deep brown flecked with olive scales ; a metallic
violet snbmargiual line from anal angle curving round on costa and ending in a
thickened blotch at vein 6 ; the space between its end and the basal line, as well
as the marginal area, dull fulvous; around metallic eye between veins 6 and 7,
with fine yellow orbit and black pupil containing an embossed violet spot ; a
smaller similar spot before submarginal line above vein 4 : fringe brown.

Underside of forewing purple-brown, with base and inner margin whitish ; of
hindwing white, with margin and fringe purple-brown.

Head and thorax purple-brown : the abdomen cinereous ; underside of abdomen
ami legs pale.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

1 S from Tinguri, Oarabaya, Tern, 3400 ft., August 1004, dry season
(G. R. Ockenden).

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192. Ophthalniophora trimaculata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale mouse-grey, browner in the central area between the two
lines; costa pale yellow, expanding into two flattened triangles, a smaller one at
one-third, and a larger at two-thirds; the first precedes an obscure inner brown
line, running parallel to outer margin ; the second precedes a double brown outer
line with a paler centre; the space between these lines on inner margin contains
a flattened yellowish white blotch; cell-spot a minnte pale dot; marginal ana
between apex and vein 3 paler than the rest and limited by a waved obscure shade ;
marginal line diffuse, purplish, running irregularly into the yellow fringe.

Hindwing : base mouse-grey, edged by a yellowish white line, which forms
a square spot on costa at one-fonrth ; a lustrous submargiual line curving round
from costa to vein 0 and preceded on costa by a triangular yellow blotch ; below
its end three small metallic embossed spots on a black ground in a yellow ring, the
lowest one minute ; interval between these and the lustrous line mouse-grey, beyond
the line greyish fulvous ; the fringe dull yellow ; centre of wing pale brick-red
thickly dusted with darker red atoms ; cell-spot red ; inner margin and fringe pale.

Underside pale grey dappled with darker in outer half; costa of forewing
beyond middle broadly, of hindwing throughout narrowly, yellowish ; fringes
yellowish.

Thorax and abdomen mouse-grey ; head more ochreous grey ; underneath pale
grey like the wings ; forelegs fuscous in front.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 <S from Sapucay, Paraguay, October 1904 (Foster).

Nearest to the Peruvian 0. contrariata "Warr., but smaller and neater.

193. Opisthoxia croceata spec. uov.

Forewing : pale yellow, with the costa narrowly and the outer margin broadly
deep .buff; from the base of inner margin a broad brown streak runs obliquely
upwards below the median vein to beyond the lower angle of cell, where it is
abruptly angled and bent upwards and inwards beyond cell to the subcostal vein,
below which it is marked by a metallic dash ; a submarginal metallic streak
consisting of spots between veins, more or less confluent below middle, the
uppermost one above vein 7 elongated ; fringe buff.

Hindwing : with a submarginal metallic line from anal augle curved round
from below middle of costa, approachiug its own course between veins 2 and 3, then
running up to middle of inner margin ; the basal space within this line pale yellow,
the marginal space beyond it deep buff, tinged with darker along the inner course
of the line and along inner margin ; base of wing brown edged with whitish ;
between veins 6 and 7 an oval embossed metallic spot in a black ring ; a similar
but smaller spot before margin above vein 4, where the submargiual metallic line
is interrupted.

Underside whitish with a pinkish tinge ; costa of both wings yellowish ;
outer margin of forewing grey-brown.

Head, metathorax, and basal segment of abdomen brown ; thorax and abdomen
yellowish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 cj from La Oroya, R. Inanibari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

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104. Opisthoxia ockendeni spec nov.

Very much like 0. arge.ntieincta Warr., with which it may easily be
confounded.

Slightly paler red; the discal pale streak absent ; from the lower edge of the
costal pale streak an obscure dark bar runs straight to inner margin before anal
angle ; the pale streaks along costa and inner margin both edged internally with
blackish scales. In the hindwing there are two embossed spots, the additional one
being submarginal above vein 4 ; the metallic marginal line which curves round
inwardly to vein 0 is obscurely continued by scattered shining scales to anal angle.

Underside not so white as in argenticincta, the marginal border of forewing
fawn-grey instead of blackish.

Expanse of wings : 34 mm.

1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Subfamily BRACOINAE.

195. Saiigala aenea ab. rubrimacula nov.

Forewing : with a deep bine gloss, except along the margins ; across the end
of the cell and the bases of veins 2, 3, and 4 a red somewhat bilobed oblique blotch
instead of the few red scales of the type-form; underneath the red blotch is still
larger, the red streak at base of costa is well defined, and the hindwings have a
red spot at base ; the red lateral marks of abdomen also present.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

1 c? from Pozuzo, Huannco, Peru, 800— 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

The red spot is of a different shape from that in S. antiphates Druce.

196. Sangalopsis angustiplaga spec nov.

Forewing: brown-black, with an oblique deep red narrow blotch starting
from subcostal vein at middle of wing and nearly reaching vein 2, enclosing the
discocellular, veins 3 aud 4 marked in black across it ; fringe with the tips rufous.

Hindwing : brown-black.

Underside of forewing with the red blotch broader and straighter ; apex,
inner margin, and base paler brown : hindwing paler brown, with a darker broad
margin, the edge starting from costa just beyond middle, running vertical to middle
of discocellular, then outcurved to anal angle.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 c? from Cnshi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns), type: 1 c? from
Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft. (Bottger).

197. Siosta grandis spec nov.

Differs from S. bifasciata Latr. in its larger size and the different shape of
the red blotch of forewing, which is only about half the width of that in bifasciata,
the two edges parallel and both well defined. The same difference in width is seen
on the underside, where both blotches are more developed. The underside of the

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hindwing [a deeper black, and the vein-; do not, as in bifasciata, -how darker than
the ground-colour.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

A series of ejej from Zamora, Ecuador, 3000—4000 ft. (O. T. Baron).

Subfamily NEPHODIINAE.
198. Astyochia interlineata spec, no v.

Forewing : hyaline, very scantily clothed with whitish scales; veins towards
margin and marginal line finely brown ; two faintly darker waved lines, one just
before middle, the other snbmarginal ; between them and beyond the cell-spot a
thicker line, curved below costa and touching submarginal line on inner margin ;
costa greyish ; fringe white ; an inner line near base is visible on the inner margin.

Hindwing: with two waved lines, postmedian and snbmarginal, and the
cell-spot dark.

Underside hyaline, the markings as above; costa of forewing dark at base.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; antennae grey.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

1 3 from Cushi, Huiinuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

In the possession of the broad line between the waved lines of forewing this
species agrees with A. signata Warr., but in that the broad line is repeated in
the hindwing.

190. Astyochia transvisata spec. nov.

Forming : hyaline white, transparent ; costal edge finely black ; two grey lines ;
first at about one-third, outcurved across wing ; outer from two-thirds of costa,
lmmlate-dentate, curved outwards to vein 6, then parallel to outer margin ; cell-
mark grey ; fringe white; veins before margin finely dark.

Hindwing : with the lunulate-dentate line close to margin ; cell-spot grey ;
veins dark before margin only.

Underside iridescent white.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

'■i SS from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, Cm mi ft. | BOttger).

This species is noteworthy as having in the forewing the neuration of Astyochia
without the characteristic hair-tuft of hindwing. 1 have seen other examples,
in which, owing to their condition, the tuft might have been abraded ; but the
present pair are quite fresh and perfect.

200. Nephodia interposita spec. nov.

Forewing: dark greyish fawn-colour wit h darker freckling, semi-transparent ;
two tine darker cross-lines, placed as in K perilla Druce ; the veins and linear
cell-mark rather darker : marginal area decidedly darker, containing towards costa
a short submarginal line.

Hindwing: white, Blightly gjeyish along inner and outer margins; fringe
grey.

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Underside of {brewing paler, with the outer line marked and continued across
the white hiudwing.

Head and thorax concolorons with forewings ; abdomen pale ochreons ;
antennae blackish.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 S from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, Timid ft., July 1004, dry season
(Ockenden), type ; 1 c? from Oushi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

The same size as N. perilla Druce, from which it is separated by the white
hindwings, and smaller than impunctata Th.-Mg., which has greyish white
hindwings.

201. Nipteria albithorax spec. nov.

Of the same size, shape, and appearance as N. minor Th.-Mg., with which at
first sight it might appear identical, but distinguished by the following poiuts :
in the (brewing the costa is darker grey throughout ; the outer line runs nearer
cell-spot, rising from costa at two-thirds instead of four-fifths, is quite straight and
thick, and diffusely clouded at costa ; the inner line, from nearly one-third instead
of one-fourth, is also clouded at costa and rnns straight, not bent on subcostal
■vein ; the outer margin is indented below apex ; the fringe dark grey above middle,
and grey spotted with darker below : the hindwing shows no dark line above.

Underside with the lines in both wings thick and diffuse ; costa of forewing
with thick black striae.

Vertex, shoulders, and patagia conspicuously white, the patagia blackish at
base ; in N. minor these are dull grey.

1 <? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft,, October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden).

202. Nipteria brevistriga spec. nov.

Forewing ; semi-transparent, pale blurred grey ; costal area above subcostal
vein olive-ochreous, with fine dark speckling, and two short black streaks ; the
first oblique outwards at one-fourth, the outer oblique inwards beyond three-
fourths ; from the base of this last a very obscure straight grey line runs to
two-thirds of inner margin ; close beyond the outer black streak is a similar slight
grey line showing through from beneath ; a grey cell-spot on upper half of
discocellular ; apical and marginal areas clothed with olive-ochreous scales having
a somewhat gilded appearance ; fringe of the same colour, flecked with dark beyond
veins, with a faint dark basal and middle line.

Hindwing : with a thick curved grey postmediau line, stopping short at
submcdiaii fold ; cell-spot grey ; the whole wing clothed with olive-ochreous scales ;
a darker shade before outer margin.

Underside with the olive-ochreous areas densely covered with black confluent
striae ; of the two outer streaks on costa of forewing the outer one is black and the
inner grey ; cell-spots aud lines black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-ochreous ; antennae, vertex, shoulders and
base of patagia fuscous ; rings of abdomen fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 <5 from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1004, dry season
(Ockenden).

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203. Nipteria contecta spec. nov.

Forewing : blurred lnteons grey, more lnteons along costa and towards apex ;
costa blackish at base and spotted with black thronghonl ; a small black cell-spot ;
no lines marked, bnt the outer Hue visible by transparence; fringe concolorons,

with minute black dots at the vein-ends.

Hindwing : with the line more visible; cell-spot and marginal spots as in
forewing.

Dnderside of forewing black-speckled along costa and outer margin ; the line
very obscurely grey, slightly sinuous, from costa just before apex to middle of inner
margin, passing through a fulvous cloud before outer margin, the space immediately
beyond the line being pale yellow; some black scales at apex : hindwing speckled
all over, with a faint fulvous tinge ; the line thick, straight across wing from below
middle of inner margin to vein 6, then npcurved to before apex.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorons ; legs and antennae fuscous grey.

Expanse of wings : 44 — 40 mm.

1 <?, 2 ¥ ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry
season (Ockenden).

204. Nipteria curtistriga spec. nov.

Forewing : dull white, with a few dark speckles along costa; the outer margin
with a greyish brown tinge ; costa marked by three dark spots : first before one-
third, the second before two-thirds, oblique outwards ; the third at three-fourths,
oblique inwards ; a dark cell-spot ; fringe white, distinctly chequered with
black.

Hindwing : with black cell-spot and curved dark-grey postmedian line.

Underside of forewing olive-tinged and fuscous speckled along costal and apical
regions ouly, of hindwing speckled throughout ; of the costal marks of forewing
the outermost is strongly marked and the second faintly j in hindwing there is a
dark spot in and below cell near base.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; shoulders brown ; antennae black.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 <? from Cnshi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns), type; 1 S, 1 ? from
Oconeqne, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Apparently related to N. brevistriga Warr. and laevipenms Warr.

205. Nipteria flebilis Warr. ab. subpallida nov.

This form is very much paler than the typical ; the lower half of forewing,
the linear space beyond the outer line, and the whole of the hindwing being whitish
grey ; underneath both wings are whitish, with the darker tints of the typical form
much reduced or absent ; on the other hand the costal half of outer line of
forewing and the two parts of the central line of hindwing, above and below the
cell, are black and thick.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 J from R. Colorado, Pern, 2500 ft., August and September 1002 (Watkius).

;206. Nipteria fumilinea spec nov.

Forewing : shining white : the veins grey ; the costal edge narrowly grey to
middle; a grey vertical line, slightly outcurved, at one-third; a grey outer line

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from four-fifths of costa curved to two-thirds of inner margin, where it is thicker ;
fringe white.

Hindwing : the same, with outer line only, and very faint.

Underside white, with the veins dark".

Head, thorax, and abdomen white; collar with a yellow fringe; antennae
lilaclc ; tarsi fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 60 mm.

1 ¥ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 31U0 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The antennae of this ? are finely snbserrate, and I refer it to Nipteria rather
than to Lciicula.

207. Nipteria fumosata
Nipteria fumosata Warr., Nov. Zoo!, xii. p. 57 ? (1905).
Nipteria pallidilinea Warr. ,, p. 58 <?.

These turn out to be sexes of the same species.

208. Nipteria laevipennis spec. nov.

Forewing : smooth pale grey, semi-transparent ; the cell and the marginal area
darker grey ; costal area above subcostal vein pale straw-colour in the outer half of
wing, with a black funnel-shaped mark at two-thirds reaching vein 5, followed by
four small black spots before apex ; the basal half black with a pale straw-coloured
blotch at one-fourth ; fringe straw-colour, broadly flecked with black beyond veins ;
cell-spot scarcely marked.

Hindtoing : paler, ochreous grey, with a very faint dark cell-spot and curved
postmedian line ; fringe as in forewing.

Underside rather darker ; forewing with a dark shade from base through cell
to outer margin ; the three black costal blotches distinct : hindwing straw-colour
flecked with black ; cell-spot and postmedian line darker, and a cloudy submargiual
shade.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; the shoulders and base of patagia
fuscous ; abdomen with darker segmental rings ; forelegs, palpi, and antennae
blackish.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 ? from Ocoueque, Garabaya, Peru, 7000 ft, July 1904, dry season
(Uckenden).

209. Nipteria perpusilla spec. nov.

Forewing : semi-transparent greyish white, the costal edge darker ; a large
smoky black cell-spot ; a thick dark line parallel to outer margin from three-
fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, incurved just below costa and
outcurved above inner margin ; the marginal area beyond it above middle darker ;
fringe blackish.

Hindwing : like forewing ; the marginal area not darker.

Underside rather duller ; space beyond cell-spot of forewing more distinctly
white.

Thorax and abdomen grey ; face and vertex yellowish ; palpi blackish.

Expanse of wings : 24 mm.

1 ¥ from It. Huacamayo, Carabuya, Peru, 3100 ft., June 1904, dry season
(Uckenden).

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210. Nipteria subustata spec. now

On the apperside exceedingly like .V. contecta, but darker grey, without any
luteins tinge; costa darker at base and marked with black striae rather tlian spots ;
a very obscure outer line marked by dark vein-dots from before apex to two-thirds
of inner margin; fringe dark grey, hardly spotted beyond veins.

Hindwing : with cell-spot only; fringe paler, with the spots plainer.

Underside of forewing pale, except along costa and outer margin; cell-spot,
and line plain, the latter with the teeth marked darker on the veins ; marginal area
from costa to vein 2 filled in with a fulvous grey cloud; fringe dark grey, with
pale tips : hindwing with the line well marked, straight from submedian fold at
two-thirds to vein 0, then upcurved to costa, the whole wing darker grey and
speckled with blackish ; inner margin narrowly pale.

Head and thorax dark grey; patagia and abdomen paler, the latter with black
segmental rings.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 <S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, 8.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wvi season
(Ockenden).

211. Nipteria translineata spec. nov.

Forewing: white, densely dappled with blackish grey; the veins finely black ;
a slight blackish patch at base, followed by an indistinct line; first line at one-third,
vertical, blackish, forming two large outward curves above and below the median
vein, preceded by a narrow area of pure white; outer line at two-thirds, running
obliquely outwards from costa to vein 4, shortly and obscurely toothed on the veins,
then boldly dentate-lunulate to inner margin, followed by a pure white space ;
cell-spot black, following the course of the discocellular ; abroad irregular white
band from apex to anal .angle; marginal area dark from vein 0 to 1, but whitish
between 3 and 4 ; a black marginal line ; fringe white, with black chequering
beyond veins.

Hindwing: white, with a blackish lunulate-dentate snbmarginal line; a black
cell-spot, and some dark shading towards margin ; marginal line black ; fringe
white, with dark mottling.

Underside like upper; the shadings of forewing duller, those of hindwing
clearer.

Head and thorax dark grey ; abdomen whitish, with dark segmental rings ;
legs fuscous ; antennae black.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

2 ¥ ? from Agualani, Carabaya, Pern, 9000 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

By its markings this insect recalls some species of the North American genns
Nepytia Hulst; veins 6 and 7 of hindwing are short-stalked.

212. Nipteria umbriliuea spec. nov.

Forewing: testaceous grey, with darker speckling; Ithe costa darker, with
slight striae; a dark cell-spot; a dark diffusely scaled outer line, slightly curved
from apex to two-thirds of inner margin; apex and outer margin shaded with
darker ; fringe coucolorous, with dark spots beyond veins in costal half of wing
only; veins slightly darker.

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Hindwing : with the liue running from middle of abdominal margin to the
outer margin at vein 7, rather thicker and more diffuse than on fore wing ; cell-spot
dark.

Uuderside of forewing with costal and apical areas brownish tinged, with dark
striae, inner marginal half quite pale grey without striae; the line dark brown :
hindwing coarsely black-speckled, especially along the course of the thick black
line ; costa striated with dark.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; shoulders and segmental rings of
abdomen blackish ; a brown lateral stripe on abdomen ; legs dark.

Expanse of wings : 45 mm.

2 <J <? from Hnaucabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft. (Bottger).

Forewing with slightly pointed apex. Belongs to the group including
dispansa Warr. unilinea Warr. and consersata AY Ik. (Budara).

Zamaradopsis gen. aov.

Allied to the genera Hydatoscia and Neotherina, with which it agrees in the
possession of a foveal bar in the forewing of the S, and in the thin scaling and
semi-transparent wings; but the antennae are quite simple, lamellate, instead of
bipectinate.

Type : Zamaradopsis tenera spec. nov.

213. Zamaradopsis tenera spec. nov.

Forewing : pale semi-hyaline green, obscurely speckled with darker ; the costa,
lines, cell-spot, and marginal area pale pink ; first liue curved from one-third of
costa to two-fifths of inner margin, where alone it is distinct ; outer line from five-
sixths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin dentate-lunulate, toothed outwards
at 6 ;i nd 4, from 4 to 3 running close to margin, and curved in again towards inner
margin, marked with red spots on veins; fringe pale.

Hindwing : similar.

Underside pale green, with the costa of forewing and apex deep pink ; the
outer line dark at costa.

Head, collar, and antennae pink; thorax and abdomen pale green, the dorsum
pinkish tinged.

Expanse of wings : 27 mm.

1 c? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9o00 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

A species of unusual appearance, superficially recalling the Eastern genus
Zamarada.

Subfamily ASCOTINAE.

214. Bronchelia curvilinea spec. nov.

S, Forewing : white, thickly striated with brownish fuscous ; lines thick,
blackish ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-fifth of inner margin, ontcurved
above median, preceded by a thick shade; median shade thick ami blotched to
vein 4, then incurved, and below vein 2 coalescing with outer line to form a blotch ;
outer liue from two-thirds of costa outenrved to 6, then lunulate-dentate inwards ;
space beyond it above vein 4 blackish, bounded above 6 by the white submarginal
liue, and between 4 and 0 extended to outer margin; submarginal line bounded
inwardly by a blackish spot between 2 and 3, and by an oblique blotch from inner

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margin to ~' ; marginal border with thicker and darker striae; a row of black
marginal lnunles between veins; fringe grey, brown between 4 and 6.

Hindi/ring: with the lines duller; a thick straight antemedian, donble
lonnlate-dentate postmedian line, and donble sabmarginal shade enclosing the white
line, the inner shade with a black blotch beyond cell ; cell-spot small.

Underside white, striated only in costal half of forewing with grey ; cost a with
dark blotches; the double inner line, the median shade, and the apical quadrate
blotch all marked above median and vein 4; cell-spot black: hindwing with sub-
marginal blackish blotches on veins 6 and 7 touching each other; a black cell-spot.

Head, thorax, and abdomen white; antennae fuscous.

? white, finely peppered with grey ; the lines single, and very distinct ; the outer
line strongly curved ; marginal area white, without blotches, except the two
preceding submargiual line on inner margin; fringe white; hindwing with sinuous
grey inner line, and lnnulate-dentate postmedian ; submargiual shade hardly
marked.

Underside of both wings wholly white.

Expanse of wings : <? 5(i mm. ; ? TO mm.

1 6, 4 ¥ ? from Ciudad de Tucuman, April 1903 (Monetti).

A very distinct species, marked, especially in the ¥, by the strongly outenrved
outer line of forewing.

-15. Bronchelia gramilosaria spec nov.

Forewing: dull whitish, covered with grey, partially confluent, granulations;
these are thickest towards base and along outer margin, where the ground-colour
also is somewhat darker; lines dark grey, indistinct, but marked with black on
the veins ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-sixth of inner margin, curved, and
preceded by a pale line ; median shade from before middle, angled outwards beyond
the black cell-spot, and reaching inner margin at one-third, black-marked on all the
veins; outer line from costa a little beyond middle to middle of inner margin,
ontcurved, and indicated by black arrow-headed marks on the veins, followed by a
slight grey shade; submargiual line pale, lnnnlate, somewhat interrupted, traversing
the darker grey marginal border; black marginal luuules between veins; fringe
pale grey.

Hindwing: paler; the antemedian line cloudy; the rest as in forewing, but
the outer half is faintly tinged with flesh-colour.

Underside dull cream-colour, with a narrow, black, nearly marginal border in
both wings; forewing only speckled with black, and with a black cell-spot; costa
lnteous, blotched with black; fringe and extreme outer margins pale, with the
marginal luuules black.

Head and thorax olive-grey; abdomen paler, like hindwing.

Expanse of wings : 00 mm.

1 S from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockeudcn).

216. Bronchelia nigriplena spec. nov.

Forewing: chalk-white, without, or with very slight speckling along margins
only ; lines as in puellaria Guen., but all blacker and more distinct ; the first more
vertical; the apical blotch much blacker, and continued to hindmargin, not paler

beyond submargiual line.

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Hindwing : with the luuulate-dentate postmcdian line and accompanying

series of grey lunules very distinct ; the subinarginal blotch beyond cell black and
conspicuous.

Underside white with only the costa of forewing striated ; the quadrate apical
patch abruptly cut off at vein 4 ; in a second example there is a narrower grey-
brown cloud from it to vein 2, and a blackish streak, swollen between veins, from
apex to vein 4 of hindwing.

Face, palpi, and antennae brown ; thorax and abdomen chalk-white.

Expanse of wings : S 56 to 65 mm.

2 c?cf, the larger (type) from Sauto Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, 6500 ft.,
December 1902, wet season (Ockenden) ; the smaller from Patino cue, Paraguay,
February (Montforts).

217. Bryoptera deformipennis spec. nov.

c?. Forewing: white, with a flesh-coloured tinge, except along the two folds;
costa striated with grey and a few grey speckles about the wing ; lines black, thick
and interrupted ; first at one-fourth, incurved below, preceded by a grey shade ;
outer from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, black-marked on
veins, angled on vein 4 and insinuate above ; median line thicker, strongly angled
outwards within the angle of outer line ; outer line followed by olive-grey blotches
at costa, beyond cell, and in submedian interval ; praesubmarginal shade marked
only at costa and beyond cell, and below try grey dots on veins ; outer shade
complete, of olive-grey lunules, the extreme margin again pale, with black marginal
spots ; fringe flesh-colour.

Hindwing : with an olive streak at base ; the median line thick, curved to the
black cell-spot, preceded by an olive shade, and rising just above outer line, from
which an olive blotch runs to the base of snbmarginal line. The wing is triangular
in shape, the costa, as long as costa of forewing, straight and produced to a blunt
point, the outer margin also being but slightly curved.

Underside dull pinkish ochreous with traces of a brown snbmarginal cloud.

Head, thorax, and basal half of abdomen white, the last with olive-grey bauds ;
anal half pale fawn without markings ; palpi externally with fuscous scaling.

Expanse of wings ; 30 mm.

1 (? from La Oroya, Ii, Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

In what I believe to be the ? of this species, all the grey markings are
decidedly olive-green, the wings are more thickly speckled, and the pinkish shading
more concise. The apex of hindwing is slightly more produced and prominent thau
in the ? of any other species of Bryoptera, and the scaling of the abdomen agrees
with that of the <J. The underside, however, differs, being dull grey with a darker
cell-spot and central line, and broad darker grey marginal border, with the fringes
white, much as in B. discata Guen.

This ?, which is of the same size as the i, is from La Union, R. Huacamayo,
Carabaya, Peru, 2000 ft., December 1904, wet season (Ockenden).

218. Bryoptera subnigra spec. nov.
Forewing : white, shaded and striated with olive-grey ; the lines black,
irregular; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, crinkled and
strongly outcurved, preceded by a broad brownish yellow shade ; outer line, from

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three-fourths ofcosta to three-fifths of inner margiD, irregularly waved and curved
to submedian fold, thence vertical, followed by a broad brownish yellow shade;
median line thick, outenrved round the blackish cell-spot to below vein 2, thence
vertical, followed from vein 6 by an olive-brown cloud filling up the space between
it and outer line ; snbmargiual line white, broad and waved, between two interrupted
brownish grey shades, the outer one always with a dark blotch on vein 5; dark
marginal spots between veins ; fringe whitish.

Hindwing: with an olive patch at base, the middle line and its accompanying
shade broad and straight, reaching vein G, and preceding the black cell-spot; outer
line with a thick olive blotch from submedian interval to inner margin at base of
outer line ; fringe of inner margin fawn-colour.

Underside smoky olive-black; apex of forewing and fringes paler; inner
margin of forewing whitish.

Head, thorax, and two basal segments of abdomen whitish grey ; the second
segment with a pair of spots on dorsum ; abdomen fawn-colour, with a broad
blackish lateral stripe; face dark above, pale below; palpi blackish, with the
tips white.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

3 t?J from Pozuzo, Huauuco, Peru, 800—1000 m. (Hoffmanns) type; 1 <S
from La Union, R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 2000 ft., December 1904, wet
season (Oekendeu).

219. Catoria linearia spec. nov.

Forewing: chalk-white, with numerous olive-grey fleecy striae, which are
densest along costa and outer margin ; the lines olive-grey, blackish on the veins,
and starting from black costal streaks, at one-fourth, one-half, and nearly three-
fourths ; the basal curved to near base of inner margin ; the median interrupted
below and touching cell-spot above ; the outer lnnulate-dentate, the teeth black and
well-defined throughout, the lunules clear only above inner margin ; snbmarginaJ
line ill-defined, but with grey shades on each side ; blackish marginal spots ;
fringe white.

Hindwing: with dark, nearly straight, antemedian and well-defined dentate-
lunulate postmediau line ; cell-spot black ; the rest as in forewing.

Underside of forewiug suffused with grey, with a broad cloudy dark-grey
marginal border, narrowing downwards, leaving a white spot at apex and a whitish
blotch between 3 and 4 ; cell-spot dark ; costa blackish, with pale dotting : hindwing
with only the costa grey, and a snbmargiual baud from apex to middle.

Pace white, with two black spots ; palpi black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen
white, with a few grey scales ; the tips of the shoulders grey.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

Fairly common from Peru, but all 8 S.

220. Cymatophora flaviceps spec. nov.

Like C. limosa Dogn. (Tepkrosia), but always with the vertex and top of
face yellow ; on the underside both wings have a dark snbmarginaJ fascia, some-
times strongly developed, of which there is no mention in the description of limosa.
As a rule the ground-colour is paler, more grey than in limosa.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm. M. Uoguin gives 34 — 38 mm. for his species.

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1 S from Pozuzo, Huauuco, Pero, SOD — 1000 in. (Hoffmanns)!

Besides the present example I have seen a <5 from Charaplaya, Bolivia, and
5 ? ? : 2 from Paramba, Ecuador, 2 from Santo Domingo, Peru, and 1 from Lita,
Ecuador; the yellow is more developed in the ? ¥, in one case including not only
the collar, but the pectus beneath, face, and forelegs.

221. Cyinatophora munda spec. nov.

Forewing : in central area pale grey dusted with darker ; in basal and marginal
areas dark grey, with some pale grey intermixed ; the lines limiting the central
area whitish ; first at one-fourth, oblique outwards to subcostal, there angled and
oblique inwards, indented on median vein ; outer from three-fourths of costa to two-
thirds of inner margin slightly sinuous, parallel to outer margin ; a dark cell-spot ;
submarginal line indicated only by double dark luuules beyond cell and on sub-
median fold ; costa dotted with dark and light ; fringe grey.

Hindwing : with outer two-fifths dark, limited by a straight pale line ; basal
area pale grey, with darker central cloud and cell-spot.

Underside similar, but the difference in shade not so marked ; apex of forewing
pale.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 S from Cushi, Huanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Differing from others of the genus by the absence of distinct lines ; hindwing
with outer margin strongly crenulate.

222. Hymenomiina biuotata spec. nov.

Forewing: grey, finely dusted with dark atoms, and slightly yellowish-tinged;
costa finely dotted with dark, and with dark spots at the rise of the lines ; these all
marked by black spots on veins, and curved parallel to outer margin; first from
nearly one-third of costa to close to base of inner margin ; median a little before
middle ; outer from two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, black from
vein 2 to inner margin, followed by a slight dark shade, which is also darker
from 2 to inner margin ; submarginal line of the ground-colour, the luuules between
4 and 0 filled up with black, and in a less degree those below vein 3; the grey
shade following darker spotted below costa ; marginal spots black ; fringe
concolorous with wings.

Hindwing : like forewing, but without basal line ; the outer line with its shade
forming a similar black curved blotch on inner margin.

Underside dark brownish grey in forewing, pale grey in hindwing ; both wings
with black cell-spots ; costa of forewing yellowish striated with dark.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; dorsal segments of
abdomen with pairs of black spots ; face black above, pale below ; palpi externally
black.

Expanse of wings : $ 3o mm. ; ¥ 40 mm.

3 $S, 1 ? from Oconcqne, t'arabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July rj(J4, dry season
(Ockenden).

The ? is more uniformly grey, with the markings generally darker, the blotches
less conspicuous.

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223. Hymenornima densata spec. nov.

Forming : whitish entirely suffused with dark fuscous and speckled with
darker; Hues thick and black ; first from one-fourth of costa outcurved above, then
inwards to one-sixth of inner margin, preceded by a thick broken shade; outer
line from two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin, angled inwards below costa,
then outcurved to vein 2, not dentate, forming a deep inward sinus across
submediau interval ; median shade obscure, parallel to outer line, passing just
beyond the black cell-spot ; the outer line is followed by a thick dark shade much
mixed with ferruginous; submarginal line sharply luunlate, pale, white just below
vein 4, where it is preceded by a black blotch; all the lunules filled up with
blackish, over which are sprinkled pale scales; externally the lunules arc joined by
black dashes with the black marginal lunules, between which the veins are marked
with ferruginous ; fringe pale at base, mottled heavily with dark.

Hindwing: with basal half whiter, containing a thick black basal mark, a
straight autemedian black line, and cell-spot; outer half as in forewing.

Underside dull dark grey, with median and outer lines marked strongly with
black and thickened on veins, the outer nearly straight, not corresponding with the
line above ; marginal area of forewing darker, and with a still darker middle shade ;
hindwing with the shade just marked; cell-spots black.

Head and thorax dark like forewing; abdomen paler, but much mottled with
blackish on dorsum, and with a black ring near base.

Expanse of wings : 32—35 mm.

1 S from La Oroya, II. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) type ; 1 <S from Pozuzo, Huauuco, Peru, 800 — 1U00 m. (Hoffmanns).

Near extersaria Warr. and rufata Warr., darker than either, with no distinct
pale patch at middle of outer margin ; the outer line not dentate ; fovea
inconspicuous.

224. Iridopsis grisescens ab. superscripts nov.

Forewing : pearl-grey, without speckling or suffusiou, and in consequence with
all the lines distinct and not obscured as in the typical form ; the two arms of basal
line uniting on inner margin ; the median line also double, the two arms forming
a darker fascia across wing, the space between them being tinged with fuscous ;
a distinct olive-tawny shade beyond outer line, which is present, though much
obscured, in the type ; submarginal line indistinct, but followed by a darker shade,
which beyond cell is blackish and joined inwardly by two black streaks above and
below vein .5 with outer line ; marginal spots large and black ; fringe grey.

Hindwing : still paler, the basal half whitish; all the lines black and distinct;
cell-spot large .and crescent-shaped, black.

Underside as in the type.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 S from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 0000—10,000 ft. (Bdttger),
3 other typical c?<? from the same locality, and 1 ¥ from Limbani, Peru, are
all of about the same size, and therefore larger than the type which came from
(Juito; but a second ? from Limbani, paler than the rest, agrees in size with
the type.

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225. Iridopsis pallescens spec. nov.

Forewing : dull whitish, sprinkled with grey and blackish scales ; costa with
short vertical brown striae and black dashes at the commencement of the lines ;
lines black ; first from one-third of costa, bent in cell, then sinnons and inwardly
oblique to one-fonrth of inner margin ; outer line from three-fonrths of costa,
roundly projecting outwards on vein 5, then sinuate inwards to middle of inner
margin ; median shade indistinct, passing close beyond the discal spot and nearly
tonching outer line at inner margin ; a brown shade preceding inner line and another
following the outer; marginal area grey and brown with a whitish waved sub-
marginal line, the apical area above vein 4 slightly darker ; black marginal spots
between the veins ; fringe grey.

Hindtmng : with basal two-thirds paler; median line very faint; outer line
finely black, angled outwards on the cell-fold, then arched to inner margin ; cell-
spot oval, of white raised scales ; marginal area as in forewing.

Underside pearly white; costa of forewing striated and spotted with dark
fuscous ; a black cell-spot and narrow smoky fuscous blotch at apex, the extremity
of which remains white.

Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white, with some darker speckling.

Expanse of wings : 37 mm.

1 $ from Sapucay, Paraguay, September 1 904 (Foster).

226. Iridopsis submarginata spec. nov.

Indistinguishable above from /. syrniaria Guen., except in one particular : the
upper part of outer line is not curved obliquely outwards from costa nor forms any
projection between 4 and 6, but runs straight and slightly waved from costa to
vein 5 as in chalcia Oberth. and rectura Dogn.

On the underside both wings have a black marginal border, narrowing before
middle ; the forewing with a large black cell-spot ; both wings pure satiny white.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 S from La Vuelta, Caura Eiver, Venezuela, May 1904 (Klages).

227. Melanoscia arctiata spec. nov.

Forewing : dark olive-fuscous, with the lines and numerous irregular specklings
buff; the veins finely and interruptedly buff: first line nearly vertical, bread, at
one-third, preceded by one or two fine broken marks from costa ; outer line broad,
from apex to two-thirds of inner margin, joined on vein 6 by a short broken streak
from costa at five-sixths ; a much-interrupted pale median line, plainer above vein 4
and forked to costa, with the inner branch broader ; base of veins 2, 3, 4 with some
buff speckling ; some irregular snbmarginal buff spots ; fringe dark, mottled with
buff at the vein-ends.

Hindwing ; fulvous, black-speckled, with an antemedian and median band,
the latter followed by another less strongly marked, dull fulvous ; the marginal
border broadly olive fuscous ; fringe fulvous.

Underside like npper, but all the pale spaces more strongly marked and of the
same tint in both wings, yellow buff.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous and bnff ; abdominal segments black
tinged with buff ; vertex wholly buff; face buff with black centre; antennae bull'

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with black mottling* ; underside of abdomen yellowish buff; legs and palpi fuscous
mottled with buff.

Expanse of wings : 80 mm.

2 <? <? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry
season (Ockenden).

An unusually marked species, slightly recalling some Aretidae.

228. Physocleora albiplaga spec. nov.

Forewitiq : blackish fuscous with the space between median and order lines
white; lines black, thick, starting from black costal triangles, the first obscured by
the dark basal suffusion, preceded below median by a brown band ; median line
close beyond basal ; outer line from three-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin,
nearly vertical to 4, then inbent, followed by a broad brown band ; submargiual line
grey, lunnlate, traversing the middle of the dark marginal area, which is grey
again along outer margin ; marginal black spots between veins, united by a black
line ; fringe dark flecked with paler ; the white middle band is freckled with dark
scales along costa and more broadly above inner margin.

Hindi/ring : similar, but without basal line ; the white middle space black-
speckled throughout.

Underside blackish fuscons, with cell-spots and outer lines shown ; the middle
space paler, in the forewing forming a quadrate white blotch below costa.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish fuscous ; second segment of abdomen
with a white ring.

Expanse of wings : 18 — 20 mm.

2 <SS, 2 ? ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, ( 'arabaya, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft.,
October 1904, wet season (Ockenden), and 1 S from Tingiiri, ('arabaya, Pern,
3400 ft., August 1004, dry season (Ockenden).

Allied to P. martena Schans, from Brazil, from which it is distinguished by the
white middle space.

229. Physocleora bella spec. nov.

Forewing : white ; the costa black-dotted, blackish from base to first line ;
lines dark, from three black costal >p<>ts at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths ;
first nearly vertical; middle fine, outcurved round the blackish cell-spot; outer
line marked by black teeth on veins, angled on vein 0, insinuate in submediau
interspace, to two-thirds of inner margin; this line is followed by a broken grey
shade below costa and above inner margin, and by a fuscous grey blotch between
veins 3 and 4 ; snbmarginal line white, ill-defined, between two dark grey diffuse
shades ; marginal black spots between veins ; fringe whitish, chequered with grey
beyond veins above middle.

Hindwing : without first line; the cell-spot large and round, the postmediau
line and shade strongly outcurved beyond it.

Underside ochreons-white ; the forewing grey-tinged from base to beyond
middle; the marginal border black, preceded by a pale curved space; costa at
middle with black dots; fringe ochreous-white ; cell-spot black: hindwing with
cell-spot black, and a black apical patch.

Head, thorax, and abdomen .white, this last ringed with grey and slightly
tinged with ochreons ; face, palpi, and forelegs black.

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Expanse of wings : 21 ram.

1 S from Oconeqne, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (Ockenden),
type; 1 c?, 1 ¥ from Tingnri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) ; 2 c?c?, 6 ¥ ¥ from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September —
October 1904, dry season (Ockenden); 1 S from La Union, R. Huacamayo, Pern,
2000 ft., November 1904, wet season (Ockenden) ; 1 <$ from Santo Domingo,
Carabaya, Pern, 0500 ft., December 1902, wet season (Ockenden) ; 2 ¥ ¥ from
R, Colorado, Peru, October 1902 (Watkius).

This species seems widely distributed in Pern, but appears to be undescribed ;
it is most nearly allied to P. mniopkilaria Gueu.

230. Physocleora bicolor spec. nov.

Forewing : whitish as far as outer line, with a slight grey tinge at base;
marginal third lilac-grey, with a rust-coloured band beyond outer line, the
submarginal line paler between darker shades ; the inner and median lines are
rusty-grey and indistinct, both bent in cell, then oblique inwards parallel to
outer margin ; the outer line is black, slightly toothed on the veins, and angled
outwards on vein 0 ; marginal spots black; cell-spot small, before the median line ;
fringe grey.

Hindviing : without basal line.

Underside pale grey ; middle and outer liffes dark grey ; marginal area smoky
blackish, darkest in forewing.

Vertex and thorax pale grey ; face and palpi dark brown (abdomen broken).

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

1 ¥ from Valencia, Venezuela.

231. Physocleora conspersa spec. nov.

Forewing whitish, speckled with olive-grey ; the three lines at even distances
apart and all curved parallel to one another, starting from dark costal spots; the
outer line darker than the other two, marked with black dots on veins, and followed
by a dull rusty shade, a slight tinge of the same colour preceding first line ; sub-
marginal line ill-defined, but preceded and followed by a dark grey shade; the
inner shade starting from a fourth dark costal spot ; marginal dark spots between
veins; fringe grey, spotted with darker; cell-spot inconspicuous.

Eindwing : similar, but without first line.

Underside paler; forewing with all the lines and shades thick and blackish;
costa blackish at base ; cell-spot black : hiudwing with the lines finer.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with rusty.

Expanse of wings : 17 mm.

1 ¥ from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Pern, 0500 ft., October 1902, dry season
(Ockenden).

From the upperside alone this might be taken for a pale form of ferruginata,
but the undersides are totally unlike.

232. Physocleora ferruginata spec, nov.

Forewing : whitish, thickly speckled with dark grey; the first line preceded
and the outer followed by a rusty band, the median vein and all the nervules
towards outer margin also of the same hue ; all three lines are indistinct ; the

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snbmargiual is pale and waved, Hie lunnles filled up with grey; cell-spot and
marginal spots black ; fringe rusty grey.

Hindwing : without basal line, the other two distinct, blackish j marginal
lunules black.

Underside lnteons grey ; forewing with a blackish cloud before oell-spot, and
the marginal area black beyond outer line; fringe brownish grey spotted with
black ; hindwing with both lines and the cell-spot blackish and a slight snbmargiual
shade.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; basal segments of dorsum rusty ; face and
palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 10 mm.

1 ? from Tinguri, C'arabaya, Pern, 3400 ft., August 1901, dry season (Ockenden).

Easily distinguished by the rusty grey coloration.

233. Physocleora flaviplaga spec. nov.

Exceedingly like P. bella described above, differing as follows : the lines arc
finer, and the grey submarginal shades more concise; instead of the dark fuscous
blotch across veins 3 and 4 beyond the outer line there is a dull yellow blotch, ami
vein 0 is slightly marked with yellow. In the hindwing the postmedian line and
shade are nearly straight instead of being strongly ontenrved round the cell-spot ;
the cell-spots are much smaller; lastly, the dorsal segments of abdomen have much
darker rings.

■ Expanse of wings : 21 mm.

1 c? from La Union, R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 2000 ft., November 1904,
wet season (Ockenden).

This agrees well with the description of P. tascaria Sehaus from Brazil, as
regards the upperside; but the undersides are quite different.

234. Physocleora fiexilinea spec. nov.

Foreioing : pale grey, dusted with darker ; costa black-dotted, and with black-
spots at the beginning of the lines ; first and second lines thick and blurred on
costa, the first curved inward to touch the fovea, the second enclosing the cell-spot,
but more or less obsolete beneath ; there are also traces of two short lines from
costa close to base ; outer line blackish, at two-thirds, vertical to vein 4, then bent
inwards to snbmedian fold, thence again vertical, followed by three olive-brownish
blotches, one on the snbmedian interval, one between 3 and 4, and one on vein 0 ;
between and beyond the last two the praesubmarginal shade forms a double
blackish blotch, while the shade following the line is interrupted between 3 and 4 ;
large black marginal spots between veins connected by a black line ; fringe pale
grey, mottled with dark.

Hindwing : without basal line ; cell-spot black.

Underside dingy grey, with dark cell-spot and outer line ; basal half of wing
and marginal area dull fuscous : hindwing paler grey, with all the lines thick
and dark-.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dingy grey ; face blackish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 $ from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9000 ft., February and March 1904
(Ockenden).

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235. Physocleora grisescens spec. nov.

In markings agreeing almost precisely with P. bella, but the wings, instead
of being chalk-white, are whitish grey, densely covered with darker grey striae ;
the lines and shades all dark grey ; only the outer line being marked with black
dots on veins ; fringe mottled dark and light grey.

Underside like that of bella. The dorsal segments of abdomen are much
darker grey.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

3 <?c?, 2 ? ¥ from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, 0000 ft., November-
December 1902, wet season (Ockenden) ; and 1 cf from R. Inambari, Carabaya,
Pern, 0000 ft., November 1901, wet season (Ockenden).

236. Physocleora pulverata spec. nov.

Foreiving : whitish dusted with grey, most thickly along costa and outer
margin ; lines starting from dark grey costal spots at even distances apart, and
curving parallel to one another, marked by dark grey spots on veins, and generally
interrupted below middle ; cell-spot dark grey ; snbmarginal line pale grey, very
obscure ; black marginal dots between veins anjl an interrupted fine black marginal
line ; fringe chequered pale and dark grey.

Hindwing : with the lines and cell-spot plainer.

Underside of forewing clouded with dark smoky grey for two-thirds ; the
marginal border blackish, preceded by a pale curved space ; fringe white ; cell-spot
blackish : hindwing white, with the apex narrowly dark ; cell-spot small, black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish ; forelegs fuscous in front.

Expanse of wings : <5 22 mm. ; ? 24 mm.

1 cf, 1 ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The ? is rather more plainly marked, showing the outer line double, and the
white of the underside clearer.

237. Physocleora pygmaeata spec. nov.

Forewing: dirty whitish, irregnlarly dusted with blackish atoms; lines very
indistinct, marked in places by black dots on veins and rising from grey costal
spots ; cell-spot blackish, distinct ; outer line followed by a slight rusty brown
shade ; snbmarginal line diffuse, preceded in costal half only by a dark grey shade,
the marginal area beyond it dark grey throughout ; marginal spots black ; fringe
dark grey.

Hindwing : with the lines rather plainer ; the marginal area scarcely darker.

Underside of forewing dark grey from base to beyond cell-spot, followed by a
pale grey interval before the dull black marginal border : hindwing pale, with the
marginal border narrower ; cell-spots blackish ; fringes pale.

Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, speckled with dark.

Expanse of wings : 12 mm.

1 c? from La Union, R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 2000 ft., November l'.t04,
wet season (Ockenden).

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238. Physocleora subochrea spec, nov.

Forewing : cream-colour, tinged with ochreons ; the lines very faint, pale
brown, starting from grey spots on costa, the outer line marked also by grey
spuis nn veins 1, 3, and 4, and followed by a pale brown shade; cell-spot and
marginal spots grey ; fringe ochreons.

Hindwing : with cell-spot darker ; the outer shades somewhat plainer.

Underside of forewing greyish ochreons, of hindwing cream-colour, withont
any markings except the grey cell-spots.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi dark brown ; a brown
spot mi anal segment of dorsum.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

1 S from Castro, Parana, S.E. Brazil, October 1902 (E. D. Jones).

239. Physocleora taeniata spec. nov.

Forewing : white, towards base and along costa tinged with smoky fuscous,
and with a few dark speckles ; basal line curved, blackish, sometimes interrupted ;
median line marked only by a blackish spot on costa above the black cell-spot ;
outer line black, with black teeth on veins, outcurved from vein 7 to snbmedian
fold below cell-spot, and followed by a broad brown outwardly dentate and dark-
edged baud ; submargiual line white, irregularly waved, preceded by a row of
contiguous black wedge-shaped spots between veins and followed by a dark grey
shade which is partially interrupted between 3 and 4 ; marginal spots black ;
fringe dark grey, flecked with pale.

Hindwing : without first line ; cell-spot black and large.

Underside of forewing diffusely black to cell-spot; marginal area beyond the
black outer line black ; space between white : hindwing white with round black
cell-spot ; a slight dark anternedian line, and macular postmedian and submarginal
lines ; veins towards hindmargin dark, blotched towards apex.

Face, palpi, and forelegs blackish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen dark grey,
the abdomen ringed with blackish ; anal tuft ochraceous and fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 22 nun.

1 d from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Pern, 6000 ft., March 1902, wet season
(Ockenden), type ; 1 <J from La Oroya, H. Inarnbari, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft.,
October 1904, wet season (Ockenden).

Larger, darker, and more strongly marked than P. punctilio Schans, to which
it is nearly allied.

240. Stenalcidia castaneata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale pearly grey ; costa finely dotted with blackish, and with black
spots at the rise of the lines ; lines black ; first from one-fourth of costa, Bharply
angled on subcostal vein, then curved inwards to inner margin close to base ;
outer line from beyond two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, lnnnlate-
deutate, angled on vein 6, then curved parallel to outer margin ; the inner line
is preceded below median vein, and the outer followed to vein 7 by a band of
chestnut-brown contiguous blotches on a creamy ground ; median line obscure and
interrupted, starting from a dark costal spot and approaching outer line towards
inner margin; submarginal line sharply toothed, the teeth above middle filled up

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with black, indistinct below; black marginal spots between veins; fringe cream-
colour, tinged with brown.

Hindwing : the same, without basal line, the brown fascia only reaching
vein r>.

Underside of forewing uniform dark grey, of hindwing dnll white with a dark
grey costal stripe ; marginal lines dark ; fringes white ; costa of forewing ochreons
dotted with black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey; face black above, pale below; palpi black
with white tips ; metathorax and second and third segments of dorsum chestnnt
brown ; anal segment with a black spot.

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

4 c?c? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, TnQO ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The colouring is like that in Isandria venusta Warr., but the tints are
differently disposed.

241. Synecta latilinea spec, now

Forewing : chalk-grey, with a slight bluish tinge ; lines thick, dark slaty grey ;
first from one-fifth of costa, bent in cell, inenrved to close to base of inner margin ;
median from costa just before middle to one-third-of inner margin, outcurved above,
angled below vein 2, where it all but touches outer line, then inwardly obliqne ;
outer line from nearly three-fourths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, sinuous,
angled outwards on vein 4 and again on vein 1, above which it is insinuate;
submarginal line interrupted from 3 to 4 ; apical region slightly tinged with
slate-colour ; fringe slaty grey.

Hindwing : without basal line ; the antemedian straight ; the rest as in
forewing.

Underside dnll smoky cinereous, the basal half slightly paler.

Face and palpi black edged with yellowish ; vertex, collar, shoulders, ami
basal segment of dorsum yellow; patagia pale; thorax and abdomen slaty grey;
antennae grey ; legs lnteous grey ; hair pencil of hindlegs luteons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 S from ( 'ananche, Cundinamarca, Colombia, June 1903 (de Mathan).

Remarkably like P/n/socleora capruma Schaus from Brazil in several points.
but altogether different in others.

242. Stenotrachelys excurvaria spec, now
Forewing : dirty whitish, in the basal and marginal regions suffused with
fuscous mixed with pale ferruginous, and with the central field merely speckled
with fuscous and washed with brownish along costa ; lines blackish ; first from
before one-third of costa, sharply angled inwards above and outwards below the
subcostal vein, then curved inwards to one-fifth of inner margin, preceded by a
fuscous line ; outer line from beyond two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner
margin, angled outwards on vein 8 and inwards on vein 7, then outenrved parallel
to outer margin to snbmedian fold, followed by a dark line ; median liue cloudy,
running outside the dark cell-spot and approximated to outer line from below
vein 3 ; submarginal Hue lunulate, the lunules filled up with darker fuscous, the
line itself very taint ; veins pale ochreons towards outer margin ; marginal liue
black, creuulate; fringe fuscous, spotted with black beyond veins.

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Hindwing : similar, bnt without first line.

Underside duller and greyer ; cell-spots and outer lines blackish ; marginal
area darker, especially towards apex of forewing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi black.

Expanse of wings : <? 44 mm. ; ? 50 mm.

2 SS, 1 ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden), and 1 ? from Agualani.

Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE.

243. Callipseustes bivittata spec, now

Forewing : dark olive ; the costa with faintly paler and darker striae ; a black
obscure cell-spot ; two pale converging bands, the inner from one-fourth of costa
oblique outwards to one-third of inner margin ; the outer from beyond three-fourths
of costa oblique inwards to three-fourths of inner margin ; the first band whitish
in outer half, buff in the inner, with a darker line between ; the outer band
reversely coloured, the buff half wider ; marginal area above anal angle paler and
greyer, with a double black blotch above it along vein 4 ; submarginal line white
and fine, visible only at costa and above inner margin ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing i dull luteons whitish, tinged with greyish olive at base, with a
dark cell-spot, a dark straight olive line from above anal angle to vein 6, with dots
on veins, and some dark anal striae ; fringe olive-grey.

Underside of forewing olive-fuscous, with the pale bands showing through
from below costa, especially the outer one : hindwing olive-ochreous speckled with
blackish, with outer line of vein-spots ; cell-spots black iu both wings.

Head, thorax, and abdomen deep olive ; anal tuft ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 c? from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

244. Callipseustes convergens spec. nov.

8. Forewing : brownish grey, with darker speckles and striae ; first line
straight and oblique, from before one-third of costa to quite two-fifths of inner
margin ; second from two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, the two
lines converging ; the space between dark fuscous, containing a black cell-spot, and
edged on each side by a narrow white line, the outer followed by a broad whitish
space ; submarginal line pale, indistinct, bluntly angled on vein 4 aud preceded
by a dark brown shade ; lower half of marginal area pale, edged inwardly by dark
brown, and separated from the dark upper half by a dark fuscous conical streak
along vein 4 ; fringe shining brownish.

Hindwing : whitish, tinged with grey-brown aloug inner margin, and slightly
along outer margin ; a dark outer line from above anal angle to vein C preceded
by a dark cell-spot ; a short dark streak at anal angle ; fringe glossy grey.

In the ? the forewing is more unicolorous grey-brown, the central area hardly
darker than the rest, and much broader on inner margin, its outer white edge not
followed by a pale space : the hindwing more thickly sprinkled with grey-brown.

Underside duller, with the markings obscure ; the outer line followed by a
series of dark spots on veins.

Head and thorax concolorous with forewing ; abdomen paler, like hindwing.

Expanse of wings : S 20 — 30 mm.; ? 34 mm.

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3 66 from Oconeqne, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden) ; 1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

245. Callipseustes hocina.
EUkritua hocina Dogn., Ami. S. E. Bebj. xliii. p. 252, 6 (1809).

Three c? c? of this species from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, collected by Ockenden
in July 1904, and 2 66 from Cushi, Hminnco, Peru, collected by Hoffmanns, have
lately been received. Along with them came 2 ? ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru,
9500 ft., collected by Ockenden in May of the same year, which differ from the
66 in having the forewing more unicolorous grey-brown, with the central area
hardly darker than the rest of the wing and much broader on inner margin, its
outer white edge not followed by a pale space ; the hindwiug is also more thickly
sprinkled with grey-brown.

These Peruvian examples would seem to be somewhat larger than the typical ;
the ? ¥ expand 33 mm., the 66 varying from 26—30 mm. M. Dognin gives
22 mm. for his 66 from Ecuador.

240. Callipseustes latiorata spec. nov.

Forewing : like pullaria Dogn. in coloration and markings, but the dark
fascia is twice as wide, its outer edge starting from beyond middle of costa, with
a less prominent, more broadly rounded, projection below middle, the dark cell-spot
being contained in the fascia and not standing beyond its outer edge ; the basal
area is nearly as dark as the central, especially in the 6 6, which have the marginal
area in both wings paler grey, with strong fine black striations, forming in the
hindwing a cloudy submarginal shade.

Expanse of wings : 6 25 mm. ; ? 26 — 32 mm.

3 66, 2 ?? from E. Colorado, Pern, 2500 ft., August— September 1902
(Watkins); and 1 ? from La Oroya, It. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904,
dry season (Ockenden).

247. Callipseustes peninsulata spec. nov. and ab. continens nov. and

ab. conferta nov.

Forewing : pale olive-green, striated with black ; these striations are more
abundant in the basal and lower marginal areas ; costal striae denser and more
regular; an irregular dark olive fascia jnst before middle, with a continuous white
edging ; the edges start from costa at one-third and one-half, and unite above
middle of inner margin ; the inner edge forms a slight indentation into the
fascia above and below median vein ; the outer is indented in cell and projects
strongly on vein 4, bisinuate inwards below ; the inner edge is preceded and the
outer followed by a broad pale flesh-coloured band; basal patch represented by an
indefinite dark olive blotch on inner margin; an interrupted pinkish white sub-
marginal line followed by three black blotches above veins 2, 3, and 4, with
patches of black striae beyond them ; fringe olive-green, darker beyond veins ;
cell-spot blackish, placed on the outer edge of fascia.

Hindwing : cream-colour, speckled with grey, below the costal area washed
with olive-ochreous ; a dark grey cell-spot, crenulate outer line not reaching above

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veiu 6, and submarginal series of spots on veins ; some dark grey striae alonn-
inner margin ; fringe dark grey.

Underside olive-ochreons, with a more or less uniform fawn-coloured tinge,
and speckled with fnscons ; an outer row of dark vein-dots on both wings and
distinct black cell-spot on hindwing, the dark fascia of forewiug showing through ;
fringe greenish fawu, with dark chequering.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green, the abdomen greyer, the dorsum
darker, and anal tufts nchreous.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

2 6 6 from Cushi, Hiianneo, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns), type, both in perfect
condition ; and 1 6 from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockcuden), somewhat faded, with all the pale markings whiter, the fascia rather
broader, touching inner margin, and without the white linear edging.

ab. continens uov.

Differs in having the fascia much broader, especially above, the inner edge
straight below median, the outer evenly lunulate ; no white edging line, but the
flesh-coloured band well marked ; submarginal line marked with pale only
at costa.

1 6 from Cushi, Huauuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

ab. conferta nov.

Still darker than continents ; the flesh-coloured bands almost obscured by the
deep olive suffusion and dark striae : hindwing wholly dark fuscous olive, with
dense dark striae ; the outer line visible, and edged with paler.

Underside fawn-colour only along costa of forewiug, the rest olive-ochreous,
densely packed with olive-fuscous striae.

Head and thorax olive ; abdomen fuscous-olive.

1 6 from Cushi, Huauuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmauns).

The range of aberration in this insect appears considerable, and may possibly
include even the very differently marked and distinct-looking bkittata described
above.

248. Callipseustes seniifimbriata spec. uov.

Forewing : remarkably resembling that of C. peninaulata ab. continens, but
the fascia still broader, and paler olive in colour, the dark striations and cell-spot
showing through it, the basal and submarginal areas being nearly as dark olive.

Hindwings : smooth, olive-ochreons grey, black-speckled towards base only,
except in one instance, where the speckling is general and an outer line is present;
the wing has a thick fleshy appearance, the outer margin showing a tendency to
curve underneath, and being entirely destitute of fringe.

Underside of forewing olive fawn-colour, with a bent postmedian ochreous-
yellow band between veins 0 and '.'. edged by the black dots of outer line above
middle: hindwing clothed throughout with olive-ochreons or rufous mealy scales,
slightly black-speckled near base, and with a black cell-spot.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green.

Expanse of wings : 32—34 mm.

4 6 6 from Cushi, Huauuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

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249. Callipseustes trisecta spec. nov.

Forewing : pale greenish ochreous (perhaps olive-green when fresh) with
darker olive striatums ; a dark olive central fascia, occupying on costa the middle
third of the wing, its inner edge oblique and nearly straight to beyond middle
of inner margin, its outer parallel to inner edge as far as vein 4, there bent
nearly at right angles and running vertically to inner margin at three-fourths ;
the fascia is finely edged on each side with whitish ; two dark horizontal marks
before outer margin on each side of vein 4 ; fringe (worn) greenish.

Hindwing : pale greenish ochreous, greener in basal area before the dark
flexnons outer line ; cell-spot dark grey.

Underside dingy ochreous speckled with olive, with outer series of dark vein-
spots, and a dark cell-spot on each wing, the fascia showing through.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dull olive, the aual tufts ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 22 mm.

1 £ from Ciudad de Turanian, April 1903 (Mouetti).

250. Ischnopteris albipennis ab. obumbrata nov.

Differs from the type form in having no white scales whatever in forewing ;
the basal and marginal areas wholly dull grey-green; the central area rilled with
dull red-brown, which tint also extends over the lower half of the marginal area
and is sometimes mixed with green.

In the hindwing the inner margin below median vein and vein 2 is smoky
black, and the marginal border thicker and blacker, containing on its inner edge
a distinct curved black line ; the veins black in the white area.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale green ; anal tuft yellowish.

Expause of wings : 39 mm.

2 $ $ from La Oroya, It. Inambari, Peru, 3100 feet, September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Smaller than the type and differing in both wings : it may be a distinct
species.

251. Ischnopteris discolor Warr. S.

The ? only was described in Nov. Zool., xi. p. 557 ; the c? differs as follows :
Forewing : dark mossy green in basal and marginal areas ; central area, except
along costa, dark purplish fuscous ; a broad baud before submarginal line diffusely
purplish red ; first line from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin, angled
outwards on subcostal vein and submedian fold and again close above inner margin,
preceded by a line of greenish white scales ; outer line from three-fifths of costa
to two-thirds of inner margin, sinuous, oblique outwards and broadly rounded at
vein 5, deeply insinuate in submedian interval, and again outwardly rounded on
submedian vein, followed by a pale green line, mixed with whitish scales below ;
submarginal Hue pale green, forming zigzags at costa, and an upright whitish
mark at anal angle, interrupted between ; marginal lunules black ; fringe mossy
green ; cell-spot black; before it from middle of costa a thick dark mediau line
can be seen, angled outwards on median and approaching outer line on inner
margin.

Hindwing: ochreous, tinged with grey, gradually darkening to outer margin;
cell-spot obscure, followed by a dark curved postmedian line, bent in on vein 4 ;

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a diffuse dark snbmargiual shade; marginal Hue black, lunular; fringe olive-
yellow.

Underside exactly like that of the ?.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dark green, on basal half of abdomen mixed with
reddish grey; beneath, the basal half is pale yellow-ochreous, the anal half dark
fuscons ; antennae ferruginous, green at base.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 cf from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 feet, April 1904, dry season
(Ockeuden).

252. Ischnopteris inconspicua spec. nov.

Forewing : dull grey-green, dusted with darker; markings darker, but all very
obscure ; first line oblique outwards from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner
margin, angled sharply outwards on subcostal vein and snbmediau fold ; median
line at one-third and outer just beyond and before middle, both oblique outwards
and crenulate to middle of wing, then oblique inwards, but their lower course is
very much obscured ; snbmarginal line whitish, waved, with a darker green shade
preceding it, and forming a white spot on costa ; friuge worn, grey-green.

Hindwing : dull smoky grey, with dark cell-spot and dark curved postmediau
and snbmarginal shade.

Underside pale luteous, dusted with grey-green, with grey submarginal shade
and cell-spot.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-green ; dorsal tufts blackish ; forelegs dark
fuscons, with the joints ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

2 iJ(J from Sapncay, Paraguay, October 1904 (Foster).

Intermediate between I. xylinata Guen. and /. zurra Dogn., agreeing witli
the former iu markings of forewing, and with the latter in the coloration of
hindwing.

253. Ischnopteris ornata spec nov.

Forewing: moss-green at base, moss-green mixed with pink in marginal half;
a broad fascia before middle olive-fuscous ; its inner edge oblique outwards from
one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, angled below median ; outer edge
from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, indented in cell, and projecting
iu middle, edged by a pale green line, and on costa by a white spot ; cell-spot
black ; snbmarginal line whitish, diffuse, indented from 5 to 3, preceded by
darker blotches at costa, beyond cell, and above inner margin; the pink coloration
is mainly disposed along the two folds and immediately beyond the snbmarginal
line; large dark marginal spots between veins; fringe olive flecked with pink;
in the outer half of the dark fascia there is visible a still darker thick median
shade.

Hindwing : yellow ; inner margin below median vein dark olive, ending in a
large blackish green anal blotch reaching vein 6, containing traces of a dark
postmediau line, marked in one case on costa as well ; fringe yellow in upper half
of wing, fuscous in lower.

Underside yellow; forewing with costa and apex dull reddish; an oblique
median and broader subapical blackish band ; a small yellowish marginal blotch
below apex ; inner margin lustrous grey : hindwing black-speckled, with cell-spot
and diffuse narrow submarginal band.

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Head, thorax, and ubdomeu green varied with darker greeu ; tufts of meta-
thorax and dorsum reddish grey.

Expanse of wings : 44 — 48 mm.

2 c?c? from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Related to /. chryses Druce, but much handsomer.

254. Ischnopteris stenoptila spec, nov,

Forewing : very narrow and elongate, three times as long as broad, lilac-grey,
the basal, apical, and anal areas ochreons darkened by olive-brown striations ; basal
area especially thickly dark speckled, edged by a blackish outwardly crenulate
line from one-fifth of costa oblique to one-third of inner margin, above which
it forms a dark point; outer line fine; blackish, from middle of costa, oblique
outwards to vein 4 at three-fourths from base, then lunulate-dentate inwards to
middle of inner margin, but interrupted betweeu 4 and 2 by the lilac-grey ground,
which runs out between those veins to outer margin ; at costa and inner margin
this line is followed by cloudings of olive-brown striae, continued diffusely to outer
margin ; no distinct submarginal line, but a black oblique streak from below apex
to vein 0; a dark olive-brown spot on costa before middle and a blotch in middle
of submedian interval indicate the median shade/; veins generally dotted with
dark olive-brow.il ; dark marginal spots between veins; fringe concolorons.

Hindwing : deep orange, with a large irregular black blotch at anal angle
ending squarely towards apex at vein 4 ; a slight dark mark on costa before
apex and small cell-spot; fringe orange.

Underside of both wings orange ; the hindwing marked as above, the forewing
with a larger blotch from anal angle not reaching costa but preceded beyond cell
by a short black streak, and with the black blotch in the submedian interval ;
costa and apex of forewing pinkish fawn-colour with dark striae.

Head, thorax, and abdomen , like wings; legs fawn-colour, the tarsi mottled
with black.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 ? from Onaca, Santa Marta, June — August (Eugelke).

The outer margin of forewing is deeply crenulate, and the antennae are quite
three-fourths as long as the wing. The long narrow wings will distinguish the
species.

255. Ischnopteris versipennis spec. nov.

Forewing: almost precisely the same as in /. projectata Warr. ; the basal
patch, central fascia, and marginal third all dull reddish fuscous ; the bands on
each side of fascia, and the submargiual line, especially at its extremities, green ;
the outer edge of fascia forming the same outward projection below median vein.

Hindwing ; like that of /. chryses Druce, black with a broad bright yellow
apex.

Underside of both wings like that of chryses.

Head and thorax mixed blackish and dark green ; abdomen dark cinereous,
with the dorsal crests well marked ; abdonieu below dull ochreons ; pectus greenish
ochreons ; legs mottled black aud ochreons.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 S from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.B. Tern, 3100 feet, October 1 90 4, wet
season (Ockeuden).

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Mimornrna gen. nov.

Like Oenoptila Warr., but the forewing of tbe 6 has a large triangular scale-
covered fovea at base, tbe median vein being upcurved above it : in the type-species
tbe inner margin of forewing is convex ; tbe outer margin of hindwing bluntly
elbowed at middle, tbe margin above tbe elbow convex, below it straight; tbe
anal angle squared ; the costa at base is shouldered, covering the fovea.

Antennae filiform, scarcely pubescent : palpi porrect, slender, like tbose of
Mimoprora Warr., but shorter ; hindtibiae much swollen, containing a pencil of
hairs, with two short terminal spurs and one, rather longer, middle one ; a peculiarity,
as far as 1 know, unique amoiiLr the Selidoseminae.

Nenration : forewing, cell longer than half of wing; discocellular vertical,
faintly concave ; median and subcostal veins both slightly indexed at extremity;
first median nervnle at one-half, second at seven-eighths; lower radial from a
little above middle of discocellular, upper from upper end of cell ; T, 8, 9 stalked
from the bend in subcostal; In and 11 apparently out of 12; at all events, in
tbe unique specimen I cannot detect a trace of either rising from cell and
anastomosing with 12: hindwing, costal and subcostal approximating so closely
at middle of cell as to appear to anastomose ; 3 and 7 from just before end
of cell.

Type : Mimomma oekriplaga spec. nov.

The type-species superficially resembles Petelia j>ur[>nr<-u Warr.

256. Mimomma ochriplaga spec. nov.

Forewing : ochreous, much suffused with brown, the basal and subcostal
regions palest ; costa distinctly brown ; first line outcurved above and below
median vein, from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin; outer line
from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, angled outwards on
vein 4, inwards on vein 2, thence vertical, marked by black pale-tipped spots on
veins ; lower half of the central space brown, containing an obscure central shade,
which is plainer in tbe paler costal half, beyond the distinct round black cell-spot ;
marginal area brown, except at apex, anil just beyond outer line on inner margin ;
small black marginal spots at the ends of the veins; fringe brown.

Hindwing: brown, with the apical fourth ochreous, except at the actual
apex, which is brown ; cell-spot round and black ; outer line as in forewing.

Underside ochreous ; the cell-spots large and black ; outer line marked in
forewing only; outer margin brown, complete in forewiug, restricted to apex in
hindwing ; fringe brown.

Head, outside of palpi, and antennae brown ; thorax ochreous ; abdomen
ochreous, with the dorsum brown.

Expanse of wings : 23 mm.

1 c? from Tingnri, Carabaya, Pern, 3400 feet, August 1904, dry Beason
(Ockenden).

257. Nuniia timaudrata spec. nov.

Forewing: dull grey-green, speckled with dull purple, especially the costal
edge; an ouler straight darker green oblique line from three-fourths of costa to
three-fifths of inner margin; a brown spot near ba.se of cell; cell-spot white;
fringe deeper green.

Hindwing : with white cell-spot and central dark line.

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Underside paler green, with outer lines marked darker, but curved, and not
corresponding to those of npperside.

Head, thorax, and abdomen dull green ; face and palpi with a slight rufous
tinge ; basal joint of antennae white, the shaft and plumes black and white.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 <$ from between S. Cruz de la Sierra and S. Jose de Cbiqnitos, Bolivia, end
of July 1904 (Steinbach).

258. (Enoptila radiata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull orange-fulvous, almost wholly obscured by lilac-brown suffusion
and with coarse scattered black scales : the suffusion is deepest along the margins
and along the course of the three lines, and the space between veins 3 and 4 ; the
orange-fulvous ground-colour being restricted to the cell and space beyond, and
a submarginal baud ; first line at one-fourth, vertical, outwardly angled above
and below median, the inward angles on the veins marked by black spots pale-
tipped towards base ; outer Hue from three-fourths of costa to four-fifths of inner
margin, outcurved in middle, marked by distinct black vein-spots outwardly white-
tipped, followed by a thick lilac-brown shade ; a tlyck, nearly vertical lilac-brown
shade dentate-lunulate outwards, beyond the large black cell-spot ; fringe lilac-
brown in basal half, paler in outer half, formed of long-stemmed trifid-pointed
scales.

Hindwing : similar, without inner line, with the fulvous ray through cell to
margiu conspicuous.

Underside paler and duller, with a dark submarginal shade and black
cell-spots.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 ? from Limbaui, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Near to (E. mbconfma and subfasciata Warr., but larger.

259. (Enothalia auropurpurata spec. nov.

Closely resembles (E. nummifera Warr., but always smaller ; in the forewing
the large yellow spot below the cell in the submediau interval and the smaller one
above anal angle are quite wanting; in the yellow blotch beyond cell, which is
round and well-defined, the outer line in its passage through it forms a central
dark spot ; on the underside the yellow areas are ampler ; in the forewing the
costal space above median vein is yellow for two-thirds from base ; in the hindwing
the whole basal two-thirds is yellow.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm. ; (E. nummifera expands 40 mm.

3 ?? from La Oroya, R. Iuambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., October 1004, and
March 1905, dry season (Ockenden).

No 3 6 have as yet been received.

200. (Enothalia nigriceps spec. nov.

Forewing : dingy fawn-colour, with fine and dense dark striations ; the costa
narrowly black-brown ; the two lines marked merely by black white-tipped spots
on the veins ; the inner at one-fourth, the outer from costa just before apex

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in two-thirds of inner margin, angled outwards on vein 4 ; the white spots on
vein 1 are enlarged ; that in the outer series reaching iuner margin ; cell-spot and
marginal spots small and black ; fringe coucolorous.

Hindwing : similar, but without first line.

Underside greyish white, paler in hindwing; dark diffuse submargiual shades,
containing an obscure outer line ; cell-spots black.

Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings ; head, palpi, and antennae black,
shoulders whitish.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 d from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet
season (Ockenden).

Distinguished by the black head and dark C0Bta ; otherwise it is much like
CE. inornata Warr. from Brazil.

261. Sphacelodes brurmeata spec. nov.

Fore wing : pale lilac-grey, suffused, except along outer margin, with dull
purplish grey, and covered with fine and long dark striations, which in places
become partially confluent ; lines dark olive-brown, thick ; first from before one-
fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin ; second from two-fifths of
costa to middle of inner margiu, slightly bent outwards ; third from three-
fourths of costa to shortly before anal angle, incurved below costa and straight
from below 6, followed by a paler line ; cell-spot olive-brown ; beyond the pale
line some irregular olive-brown shades with ragged edges expanding above vein 6
and running into apex ; a fine dark marginal line ; fringe grey, with the tips
and a basal line paler.

Hindwing : olive-brown, with some dark striae and two slightly paler diffuse
bands of dull flesh-colour, postmedian and submargiual; outer margin deeper
brown ; marginal line interrupted at veins; fringe brown with pale base ; cell-spot
white.

Underside bluish grey, speckled with fine black atoms ; the forewing
iridescent blue below median vein; a broad purplish-brown marginal border;
fringe and extreme outer margiu of forewing bluish grey ; fringe of hindwing
brown.

Head and abdomen pale grey ; thorax purplish grey ; anteuuiu and (apparently)
vertex white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen beueath cream-coloured.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 ? from Santa Lucia (Branch).

Quite distinct from any of the forms of Sph. vulneraria Hub.

~!6.'. Thysanopyga bnmneonotata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale grey, thickly striated with dark grey ; the lines dull reddish-
brown, thick and diffuse, indistinct above subcostal vein; first slightly curved at
one-fourth; second before middle nearly straight, with a slight bend on median;
third waved from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin ; marginal
area broadly red-brown ; a waved blackish line from costa before apex to below
vein 6, the space included with some whitish scales; cell-spot black; fringe
grey-brown.

Hindwing : without inner-line, and with the cell-spot while and distinct.

Underside dull pale grey, with a diffuse darker border to both wings.

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Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown ; the patagia mixed with grey; anal
segments of abdomen and underside grey ; fillet and antennae white.

Expanse of wings : 39 mm.

1 ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100 ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden).

263. Thysanopyga strigata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale stone-grey, with rust-coloured transverse striae, which are
darker and more fuscous along costal edge ; the inner and median lines are very
obscure, consisting only of aggregations of striae ; the first, at one-fourth, is angled
in cell ; the median passes over the black cell-spot; outer line sinuous, black, from
three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, indented on each fold, and
followed by an interrupted brown cloud; snbmargiual line pale, but ill-define 1 ;
beyond it the striae are more fuscous ; marginal dots black ; fringe grey.

Hindwing : with an inconspicuous pale cell-spot; the marginal area and the
median shade rust-coloured ; outer line dark only on inner margin.

Underside dull creamy-whitish ; cell-spots black; traces of cloudy subuiarginal
bands.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; antennae fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 S from Ciudad de Tucuman, Argentina, April 1903 (Monetti).

Subfamily SCOTOPTERYGINAE.
264. Catascia terranea spec. nov.

Foretmng: whity-brown, dusted with darker in marginal fourth, suffused with
dull brownish fuscous in the basal three-fourths, and striated with darker, the
striae clearer along costa; an indistinct. brown shade outcurved at one-third, and
traces of another nearer base ; edge of the dark area from costa at three-fourths,
straight and vertical to vein 4, there angled and incurved to four-fifths of inner
margin ; the space between the two shades somewhat deeper fuscous and with a
large cloudy cell-mark ; a submarginal shade from costa before apex to vein 6 :
obscure marginal dark spots between veins ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : paler, with a diffuse curved line at three-fourths, the marginal
area still paler ; a small dark cell-spot.

Underside pale greyish ochreons, speckled with fuscous, with the outer line
thick and luuulate on both wings ; the snbmargiual shade represented on costa of
forewing ; cell-spots grey.

Head and thorax dark fuscous ; abdomen paler.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 S from Onernavaca, Mexico, September 1904 (Dr. Gadow).

A dingy-looking insect, recalling haydenata of North America.

Subfamily FIDONIINAE.

Hemicopha gen. nov.

Forewing : broad ; costa straight, curved only at base and before apex ; outer
margin curved, as long as inner margin.

Hindwing: triangular: in ? with apes rounded and anal angle squared; in

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6* aborted, quite narrow, with a Remi-clefi sinus in outer margin ami the neuration

distorted.

Antennae of c? thickened, with two rows of tnberculated fascicles of cilia,
of ? simple ; palpi shortly porrect, thick and lilnnt, rough-scaled ; tongue and
frenulum present; forehead prominent.

Neuration: forewing, cell less than half the length of wing, broad; disco-
cellular biconcave outwards : first median nervule at four-fifths, second from close
to third; lower radial from the angle of discocellular, above its middle, upper
from upper angle of cell; 7, 9, 10, stalked, 8 apparently missing: 11 free,
approximating to and sometimes touching 12 at a point: hindwing of ? with
costal anastomosing with subcostal for nearly whole length of cell ; 0, 7 stalked ;
medians as in forewing ; no radial ; of & with costal and subcostal anastomosing
to three-fonrths of wing, where, they separate into two down-curved nervules ;
median vein straight to the marginal sinuation, which is almost a cleft, no
median nervules visible, nor discocellular; submedian fold well developed;
vein 1 short.

Type : Hemieopha xanthomelaena spec. nov.

This partial abortion of the neuration in hindwing is, I believe, unique in
the Fidoniinae.

265. Hemieopha xanthomelaena spec. nov. and ab. praefulvata nov.

Forewing: dull fulvous; the basal third, the inner margin, and the outer
margin beyond outer line purplish-black, the apex itself dull fulvous ; in the
basal dark area is a curved dark line, and another parallel to it in middle, beyond
a dark cell-spot ; in the 3 this dark suffusion is much reduced and thinner,
being confined to the inner margin and a narrow shade beyond outer line, and
the three lines are clear, waved, and brown, the cell-spot remaining black ; fringe
dark beyond the dark shading, fulvous towards apex.

Hindwing : wholly dull purplish black with two darker waved lines beyond
middle, and a dark cell-spot ; in the & these are hardly visible.

Underside dull black ; forewing with two bright yellow spaces, one fascia-
form in middle, nut reaching inner margin, the other at apex ; the yellow area
is larger in the S , extending along costa nearly to base ; hindwing in $ dusted
witli yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all dark ; the palpi, base of antennae, and collar
fulvous- tinged, more conspicuously in $.

Expanse of wings : $ 22 mm. ; ? 24 mm.

2 S3, 3 ? ? ; the ? ? and 1 $ from R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, .Tune 1904,
and 1 <?, much worn, from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, September 1904,
all in the dry season at 3100 ft. (Ockenden).

ab. praefulvata

Along with the five examples referable to the typical form came two which
must be considered' as an aberration, 'praefulvata ; in these the whole of the
forewing beyond middle line except along inner margin, which remains dark to
the anal angle, is dull fulvous, with all the lines, and especially the outer line,
distinct ; on the underside the whole outer two-thirds of wing is deep orange-
fnlvons with a black conical projection from the anal angle.

Expanse of wings: 27 mm.

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2 ? ? from R. Hnacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, taken at, the same time and height
as the type-specimen (Ockenden).

In some of the ? ?, both of type and aberration, the underside of the hindwing
shows traces of a pale curved middle baud with some fulvous striae.

Mesobomba gen. nov.

Forewing : costa straight, strongly convex at apex, which is depressed and
bluntly produced ; outer margin strongly sinuate, gibbous between 2 and 4, and
insinuate beyond each fold ; anal angle distinct.

Hindwing : with outer margin at middle strongly gibbons with a sinus on each
side ; antennae of ? simply pubescent ; tongue and frenulum present ; palpi short ;
hiudtibiae with four spurs.

Nenration : forewing, cell less than half of wing ; discocellular, apparently,
vertical; first median nervule close to end of cell, second and third stalked; the
two radials close together from upper end of cell; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 anasto-
mosing, and becoming coincident with 12 : hindwing, costal and subcostal
anastomosing for three-fourths of cell ; 3, 4, and 6, 7 stalked; no radial.

Type : Mesobomba J/ai:i fascia spec. nov.

The type-species is not at all unlike the description of Pkaludia Janeiro, Schaus,
from Rio Janeiro, which I have not seen ; but the diagnosis of the genus does not
tally at all.

260. Mesobomba flavifascia spec. nov.

Forewing : violaceous purple ; the markings broad and diffuse, deep brown-
black ; basal area purplish, containing a deeper curved inner line, running in
towards base of inner margin ; a diffuse pale yellowish fascia across middle of wing
with some dark striae on its outer edge, forming a kind of outer line ; a broad
submargiiial dark fascia, edged in parts with ochreous scales; marginal line and
fringe dark pnrjile.

Hindwing : with the three bands more distinct ; some yellowish scales between
first and second.

Underside dull brownish purple ; the yellow fasciae clear ; that of forewing
broad at costa and quite narrow on inner margin ; that of hindwing constricted in
middle; base of hindwing yellow.

Face and collar yellowish ; head and thorax purplish ; abdomen missing.

Expanse of wings : 19 mm.

1 ? from La Union, R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 2000 ft., November 1904,
wet season (Ockenden).

Pygmaeopsis gen. nov.

Forewing : elongate-triangular ; costa straight ; apex depressed, bluntly
ronnded ; outer margin obliquely curved ; anal angle distinct.

Hi n<l wing : small; outer margin ronnded; anal angle square; inner margin
incurved and slightly furrowed.

Antennae quite three-fourths as long as forewing, thick, pubescent ; palpi
short, porrect ; tongue and frenulum present ; hiudtibiae thickened, with four spurs.

Neuratinn : forewing, cell quite half as long as wing; discocellular vertical ;
first median nervule at five-eighths, second close before third ; lower radial from
above centre of discocellular, upper from npper end of cell; 7, 8, 9, in, 11 stalked

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from one-half, 1" and 11 coincident, anastomosing, and becoming coincident with
12: hindwing, with costal and subcostal approximating shortly near base ; 3 ami 7
from before angles of cell; no radial.

Type : Pygmaeopsis purpurea spec. nov.

"207. Pygmaeopsis purpurea spec. nov.

Forewing : purplish grey; the lines and shadings velvety brown-black; base
brown-black, its edge curved at one-fourth ; a median sinuous line a little beyond
middle ; outer line at three-fourths, followed by a broad shade widening to anal
angle, with diffuse edge; brown-black marginal dashes between the veins; fringe
purplish grey : costa fulvous red, dotted with black, and with black spots at origin
of lines; some fulvous scaling in the disc.

Hindwing : with only the marginal area purplish grey, all the rest brown-
black, with traces of a dark median line and fulvous band.

Underside dark purplish grey, with the lines thick and darker; a submarginal
line also present, which is scarcely visible above.

Thorax and abdomen dark purplish grey ; face and palpi velvety black with
fulvous red edging.'

Expanse of wings: 16 mm.

1 cT from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Ockenden).

268. Tephrinopsis atomosaria spec. nov.

Fore/ring : ochreons, densely dusted with grey-brown atoms, the thickening
of which forms three cross-lines; the first curved, at oue-fonrth, indistinct, especially
towards costa ; the second in middle, parallel to onter margiu ; the outer at three-
fourths, also parallel; this is edged outwardly, as the first is inwardly, by a paler,
unspeckled line; marginal line hardly darker; fringe coucolorons, with darker
middle line.

Hindwing : with two outer lines only, both indistinct.

Underside paler, with onter line only visible, and minute dark cell-spots.

Head, thorax, and abdomen coucolorons.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 c?, 2 ¥ ? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The cT is darker than the ? ? .

269. Tephrinopsis lugubris spec. nov.

Forewing,: dull slaty grey, dusted with olive ; the lines thick, olive, swollen
on costa, which is narrowly ochrcous, dotted with black ; first line at one-fifth,
second at two-fifths, preceding the dark cell-spot, both bent, below costa, then
vertical ; outer line at two-thirds, bent on vein 6, then parallel to onter margin,
followed by a shade of brownish olive before the very indistinct submarginal line ;
dark marginal spots ; fringe concolorons, with pale base, especially at apex.

Hindwing : without first line ; inner margin short.

Underside much paler, with grey striations ; marginal area dark purplish grey ;
the lines iudistinct ; costa of forewing yellow, with sparse striae.

Thorax and abdomen coucolorons with wings ; head and palpi dark brown.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

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1 S from T). Colorado, Peru, 2500 ft., August— September 1902 (Watkins).
Forewing with large fovea ; antennae of c? with segments ending in tubercnlate
fascicles of cilia.

Subfamily ENNOMINAE.

270. Acrotomodes leprosata spec. nov.

Forewing : liver-colour at base and along margins, rather bright brown in the
disc, throughout thickly strewn with grey flakes, and crossed by two brown lines,
median and postmedian, both angled acutely outwards below costa, then oblique
inwards, irregularly crenulate between veins ; a brown blotch on costa before apex ;
the outer line is followed by an irregular series of black spots edged with pale
scales, of which two are large and conspicuous ; one elongated, velvety black, above
vein 7, the other round and black on snbmedian fold ; a brown patch between
3 and 4 contains two or three black spots; fringe dark brown.

Hindwing : liver-colour, without the brown tinge; costal area pale; the two
lines basal and antemedian.

Underside reddish fawn, black-speckled ; costal area of forewing paler, lilac-
grey, shading into ochreons ; inner margin white 5,110 distinct outer line, but the
two black spots both marked ; marginal area fulvous-red.

Face, palpi, forelegs, and antennae red-brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen
lilac-grey, the dorsum flaked with grey scales.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

1 6 from La Oroya, E. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., .September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Also from Ucayali, Peru, and San Ernesto, Bolivia.

In this species the forewing has no fovea.

271. Anisoperas cervinicolor spec. nov.

Forewing : pale fawn-colour, crossed by two olive-grey lines ; first from one-
fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, bracket-shaped, preceded by some
pale scales ; outer line from five-sixths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin,
roundly projecting at middle, followed by some pale scaling ; marginal area some-
what paler ; fringe fawn-colour ; cell-mark brown, linear, closely followed by a
slight brown median shade which nearly touches outer line on inner margin.

Hindi/ring : with outer line only.

Underside much paler, whity-brown, with rufous speckling ; outer line
indistinct.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 ? from Ciudad de Tuciiman, Argentina, January 1902 (Diuelli).

The <$ , of which I have seen an example in M. Dognin's collection, is rather
smaller in point of size (36 mm.), paler, more ochraceous in colour, and with the
black lines shaded on each side with grey.

272. Apicia colorifera spec. nov.

Forewing: cream-colour, washed with pale green and towards onter margin
with flesh-colour, speckled and striated throughout with olive-green ; basal patch
suffused and striated with slaty grey, edged by an irregular line of purple scales,

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angled outwards on the veins ; cell-spot black, distinct, beneath an oblique purplish
costal streak ; a quadrate purplish spot beyond it at fourth-fifths, from which the
olive-brown outer line arises, running out along vein 7, acutely angled before apex,
then straight ami obliqne to three-fifths of inner margin ; it is preceded by a mossy-
green shade, thick and diffuse above middle, thinning ont towards inner margin;
externally the line is finely edged with pale, and followed by a dull suffasion ot
flesh-colour, varied with long" olive-green striae towards outer margin; the apex
with darker scaliug ; fringe greenish, paler at base and tips.

Hindwing : similar, but with the costal area whitish, and no dark basal patch;
the line straight and central, from vein li to inner margin; cell-spot black.

Underside densely striated ; forewing yellow to outer line, then dull reddish
brown, grey at apex and inner margin ; hindwing less yellow ; the line at two-thirds,
curved parallel to outer margin ; cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen cream-colour, speckled with greenish fuscous ; face
and shoulders greenish ; vertex whitish.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 6500 ft., December 1902, wet
season (Ockenden).

Forewing with apex shortly produced ; outer margin bluntly elbowed at vein 4 ;
hindwing with outer margin curved.

273. Apicia fusilinea spec. nov.

Forewing : dull yellow, coarsely speckled with fuscous, along the course of
outer line and in apical area tinged with rufous ; first line at one-third, thick,
bluntly angled outwards on median vein ; cell-spot black ; outer line black, from
three-fifths of inner margin straight towards apex, angled on vein 7, and retracted
to costa, preceded by a broad vinous fuscous shade, and followed by a less con-
spicuous and irregular grey shade, beyond which are dark spots below veins 2, 4,
and 0 ; fringe darker.

Hindwing: with the line central, thick, vinous fuscous, not extending above
vein 7 ; marginal area with a rufous flush.

Underside like upper, but paler and duller.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 ? from Salta, Argentina, April — November 1903 (Steinbach).

Evidently related to the species described further on as .1. leprosa from
Paraguay ; but larger, yellower, and more coarsely marked.

274. Apicia ? lacteata spec. nov.

Forewing: cream-white, speckled with black atoms; lines fine, blackish,
mainly composed of confluent speckling ; first at one-third, bent in cell, then curved
inwards, plainest on inner margin, where it is preceded by a slight brownish shade ;
outer line from five-sixths of costa, shortly obliqne outwards, angled on vein 7,
then oblique inwards to three-fifths of inner margin, slightly and unevenly curved,
followed by a grey shade; a minute blackish cell-spot: extreme outer margin and
fringe pale brown.

Hindwing: with outer line sinuous, parallel to outer margin: inner line
faint, straight, preceding the small cell-spot and approaching outer line on inner
margin.

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Underside similar ; cell-spots and outer lines only marked, the latter accom-
panied by dark dashes on veins.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; collar, face, and palpi brown-speckled.

Expanse of wings : 3."> mm.

1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Apex of forewing acute ; outer margin hardly bent at vein 4.

Of doubtful position till the S can be compared.

275. Apicia leprosa spec. nov.

Forewing : fawn-colour, coarsely dark-speckled ; first line obscure, from one-
fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, bluntly angled on median vein ;
cell-spot black ; an oblique dark costal streak above it ; outer line dark, thin,
oblique and straight from three-fifths of inner margin towards apex, acutely angled
on vein 7 and retracted to costa, followed by a pale and then a darker line ; beyond
the line and close to it is an irregular grey shade swollen into projecting spots
below veins 2, 4, and 6, these spots in some cases blackish ; above the angle of the
line is a black double costal spot; the black speckling is stronger towards anal
angle ; veins sometimes paler ; marginal half of wing generally tinged with darker.

Hind wing : with the line central, not marked above vein 7; the costal area
pale; cell-spot black.

Underside yellowish white, thickly speckled, darker towards outer margin,
especially in hiudwing, where the ground-colour is whitish; outer line and sub-
marginal shade marked in (brewing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen speckled ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

3 ? ? from Sapucay, Paraguay, September 1901, July 1902, and October 1904
(Foster).

276. Bassania annulifera spec. nov.

S. Forewing : yellowish olive ; the space between the two lines paler, with a
faint lilac-grey tinge towards outer line; the lines darker olive; first from one-third
of costa, outcurved above, then inwardly oblique to one-fourth of inner margin,
obscurely edged inwardly with paler ; outer line from middle of inner margin,
oblique and slightly crenulate between veins, towards apex, close before which
it is curved to costa, followed throughout by a paler line; cell-spot round and
whitish with a dark centre; submarginal line hardly visible; fringe rust-coloured.

Hindwing : with the costal and outer marginal areas more lilac-grey ; the
yellowish-olive tinge confined to the inner marginal area and the hairs that clothe
the base; fringe broadly rust-coloured.

Underside of hiudwing, the cell, and costal area of forewing beneath pale
brick-colour, slightly speckled with grey ; rest of forewing pearly white ; outer
margin and apex of forewing olive; outer line marked by a short black line from
costa before apex ; fringe reddish.

Thorax, patagia, and abdomen olive like wings; head, shoulders, and pectus
bright fulvous ; forelegs speckled, olive-grey and white ; antennae white.

?. Forewing: coloured like the c? of B. forth Warr. ; reddish chestnut taking
the place of the yellowish olive of the c?, the paler shades reddish grey; the outer
line deep purple followed by a bluish-grey line; cell-spot ochreous with dark
centre ; fringe reddish.

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Hindwing: darker, reddish grey.

Underside pale lilac-grey, dark-speckled; hindwing flushed witii yellowish
olive; forewing with the pale areas pinkish; fringe of forewing deep rust-colour,
of hindwing lilac-grey.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 c? from Tingnri, Carabaya, Pern, 3400 ft., August 1004, dry season
(Ockenden), type; 1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9000 ft, February—
March 1904 (Ockenden).

In thee? the outer margin of forewing is evenly curved; in the ? more
gibbons with the apex produced.

Distinguished from forth Warr. by the pale scaled discal spot, and inwardly
oblique first line of forewing.

277. Bassania olivacea spec, now

Forewing : pinkish ochreons, covered with fine olive striae ; along the costa and
at base and beyond the outer line the wing is suffused with olive, the marginal
area being conspicuously dark but fading out before outer margin, which is again
pinkish ochreons ; the inner liue is very faint, except at inner margin ; the outer,
distinct, sinuous, and obscurely double, rises from just beyond middle of inner
margin and above the cell is curved on to costa ; submarginal line or shade rarely
plain ; fringe pinkish ochreons ; cell-spot black in a small clear space.

Hindwing : pale ochreons, tinged with yellow towards abdominal margin, the
marginal third olive-tinged and speckled with black ; a straight postmedian line
and slight submarginal shade are sometimes visible, but generally very faint.

Underside shining pale ochreons, the upper half of wing suffused with dull
olive, except a pale patch beyond the cell, containing the small cell-spot ; outer line
marked only in costal half: hindwing dull pinkish ochreons, tinged with olive and
dark-speckled ; cell-spot black, distinct.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, the thorax rufous-tinged.

Expanse of wings : 50 mm.

2 cf <S from Oconeque, Carabaya, July (Ockenden).

Nearest to the type-species amethy&tata Wlk. in shape of wing, bnt at once
distinguished by the dark olive shade beyond outer line and the underside of
wing, as well as by the sinuous and stronger line ; meropia Drnce has the line
crenulate, the wings shorter and broader, and all t lie markings darker.

27S. Certima rufula spec. nov.

Forewing: dark reddish fawn-colour, without markings; a blackish cell-spot;
costa obscurely speckled with darker and tinged with purplish; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : the same.

Underside much paler, except along outer margins ; cell-spots black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; .abdomen beneath, pectus, and legs
like underside of wings ; forelegs fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 <$ from Dominica (E. A. Agar).

The antennae are more thickly lamellate than usual ; the palpi thickened and
flattened, rather longer than usual ; outer margin of both wings uniformly curved,
without crenulation.

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Crypsicrocis gen. nov.

Like Acrotomodes Warr., but distinguished by the presence, on the underside of
the forewing of 6 at base, of a tuft of yellow hairs, as in the genus Lygris in the
Hydriomeninae.

Type : Crypsicrocis marcida spec. nov.

279. Crypsicrocis marcida spec. nov.

Forewing: yellow ochreous, tinged with darker in places, and speckled with
brown ; lines very obscure ; a curved brownish shade at one-fourth ; a slight
ocelloid cell-mark ; outer line from two-thirds of inner margin oblique towards apex,
before which it is sharply retracted to costa and marked with red-brown ; an
interrupted grey submarginal band followed by dark specks : fringe yellowish.

Hindwing : with the ochraceous line straight, just before middle; submarginal
shade grey on costa, then ochraceous.

Underside yellow; forewing with a red-brown marginal border speckled with
black : hindwing with the edge only of the band, reaching jnst below middle ; tuft
at base of forewing yellow.

Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish ochreous?

Expanse of wings : 32 mm.

1 cj from La Union, R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Pern, 2000 ft., November 1904,
wet season (Ockenden).

Dasystole gen. nov.

Forewing : costa straight ; outer margin obliquely curved, creunlate.
Hindwing : with outer margin crenulate.

Vertex, face, and pectus roughly haired ; shoulders ample ; patagia long,
reaching beyond thorax; palpi porrect, hairy beneath, not reaching in front of face,
the terminal segment short and smooth; antennae simple, ligulate; tongue and
frenulum present.

Neuration : foiewing, cell longer than half of wing; discocellular vertical;
first median nervule at two-thirds, second at seven-eighths ; lower radial from a little
above centre of discocellular, upper from upper end of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from
bend in subcostal; 10 and 11 free; 11 approximating to but not touching 12; 10
anastomosing with S, 9 : hindwing, costal and subcostal approximating near base ;
6, 7 from top end of cell ; no radial ; medians as in forewing. Scaling thick and
coarse.

Type : Dasgstolc thoracica Wlk. {Homoptera).

Akiu to the Australian genus Qastritia Guen., one species of which Walker also
described among the Noctuidae as Xylina serrata, misled, no doubt, by the stout
build and shaggy scaling.

Two other species must be transferred to this genus: AzeUna munita Dogn.,
Ann. S. E. Belg. xliv. p. 233 (1900) and AzeUna albisecta Warr., Nov. Zoo/, xi.
p. 5G6 <J (1904).

280. Dasystole crenulata Bpec. nov.

Forewing: pale grey, dusted in ? with rather coarse olive-green scales, and
sutt'used from base to outer line with a dull pinkish- brown tinge ; first line from one-
fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, forming a deep outward curve on each sidu

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of the median vein, dark olive-green, bnt in S only plain at extremities, the curves
tilled in with whitish scales; outer line oblique and regularly Innnlate-dentate,
dark olive-green, from costs Bhortly before apex to four-fifths of inner margin,

edged outwardly by a white line and preceded by a series of dark olive-green
Innules, separated by the veins; extreme outer margin pinkish grey, like the fringe,
the base of which is narrowly whitish, both strongly lnnulate-dentate ; cell-spot
annular, greenish, with a whitish centre.

Eindwing : dingy whitish grey, speckled with greenish grey in ?, brownish
grey in <$ ; a diffuse grey cell-spot with dark grey nucleus; outer line grey,
dentate-lnnnlate, beyond which the marginal area is greyer.

Underside whitish in ?, ochreons in 3, suffused with rufous-olive and
thickly speckled with dark green; cell-spots large, dingy green in ?, blackish in <$;
outer line of forewing followed by a band of reversed greenish-grey Innules
enclosing pale ceutres ; veins rufous towards outer margin ; inner line double ;
Innules before outer line greenish grey ; the underside is altogether darker in
the cJ.

Thorax, face, and pectus very woolly, greenish grey; the face whiter with a
black line above; second and third segments of palpi black; autennae speckled
black and white ; abdomen pinkish white, coarsely black-mottled ; legs whitish with
coarse fuscous greenish mottling : hiud femur in S with dense tuft of ochreons and
black hairs.

Expanse of wings : $ 48 mm. ; ? 52 mm.

1 S from Agualaui, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

1 ? from Limbaui, Carabaya, rem, 9500 ft., April 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

281. Dasystole thoracica.

Bomoptera thoracica Wlk., Hel. xiii. p. 1007, (J (1857).

A single d example of this species has been received from Ecuador expanding
34 mm.

282. Dectochilus tristis spec. nov.

Forewing: greyish brown, slightly speckled with dark; the lines black and
tine ; first from one-fourth of costa, oblique outwards and obtusely angled in cell,
then vertical or outwardly oblique to one-third of inner margin ; outer from four-
fifths of costa, oblique outwards and angled on vein 7, then slightly flexuons and
sometimes marked with pale spots on veins, to three-fourths of inner margin ; both
lines are preceded by a diffuse dark-brown shade ; cell-spot black ; submarginal
line brownish grey, zigzag ; fringe coiicolorous.

Eindwing: paler; with outer line only, nearly straight, from two-thirds of
costa to three-fourths of inner margin ; cell-spot blackish.

Underside greyer brown, more uniform in colour, with dark speckling ; outer
line and cell-spots distinct in both wings ; a submarginal cloud at costa of forewing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. Face, palpi, pectus, and femora
all very woolly.

Expanse of wings : S 44 mm. ; ? 48 nun.

2 6 6, 1 ? from Cushi, Iluanuco, Tern, 1900m. (Hoffmanns),

The ? is paler, with less brown admixture throughout.

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283. Drepanodes flavibasis spec. nov.

Forewing : dee]) purple-brown ; the basal tliird deep dull yellow, filled with
purple-brown spots ; costal edge bright orange-red; outer liue red-brown, apparently
running from apex to middle of inuer margin, but really the liue is angled on 7 and
retracted to costa, where it is marked by a small but distinct white spot ; from
apex to midwing this line is followed by a pinkish-ochreous streak, which from
middle runs more broadly and duller to anal angle; outer margin beyond this pale
area olive-brown, its inuer part purple-brown ; the space beyond outer line on inner
margin also purple-brown ; the whole of the space beyond outer line below vein 4
dull lustrous ; fringe olive-brown ; cell-spot obscure, blackish.

Hindwing : with basal third dull yellow, aud costal area white; the apex
broadly dull fulvous, striated with purple ; rest of wing purple ; the red-brown line
central, touching the black cell-spot ; a waved snbmarginal baud, distinct only
in lower part of wing ; fringe olive-brown.

Underside of forewing ochreons overlaid with olive-brown and striated with
black; hindwing paler, with less striation ; cell-spots black; outer line marked
in both wings by black spots on veins ; marginal border dull purple ; fringe olive-
brown ; apex of forewing slightly lilac-grey. *

Face, palpi, forelegs, vertex, and collar dull purple ; thorax yellowish ; abdomen
ochreons, yellower along dorsum, which is also blotched with purplish.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 ? from Tinguri, Carabaya, Pern, 3400ft, August 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Underneath, this ? can scarcely be separated from a ? of meticulata Guen.
from Paraguay, but the npperside is utterly different. Moreover, the apex of
forewiug is much more shortly produced, aud slightly directed upwards, the costa
not being convex at apex.

284. Euclysia intermedia spec. nov.

Forewing: pale stone-grey, suffused, when fresh, with olive as far as the outer
line, before which the suffusion deepens, and covered throughout with slender dark
striae; costal edge paler; inner line hardly marked, from about one-fourth of costa
to one-third of inner margin, the basal area within it somewhat paler; outer line
obscure, slightly paler, forming a curve concave outwards from four-fifths of costa
to anal angle, with a deeper olive shade on each side of it, darker before middle, and
externally forming two semi-oval brown or reddish dark-edged blotches on veins
2 and 3 ; a small black cell-spot ; fringe paler.

Hindwing : with the whole outer half, except the margin above middle, suffused
with a deep olive shade containing traces of a submargiual zigzag outer edge ;
fringe pale ; cell-spot small, black.

Underside pale stone-colour, slightly speckled, with a broadish wavy-edged
olive snbmarginal band on both wings, aud an olive-grey cloud ou margin of
forewing at the angle.

Vertex, face, aud palpi olive ; thorax aud abdomen pale stone-colour.

Expanse of wings : ;">2 mm.

1 <$ from Tinguri, Carabaya, 1'crn, 3100 it., August 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

Outer margins without crenulation. Intermediate between restricta Warr. and
maculata Warr.

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Euphemia gen. nov.

Forewing : costa nearly straight, convex just before apex j inner margin
convex; outer margin irregular; bluntly toothed at 6, insinuate beyond Cell and
at submedian fold, gibbous between, more or less vertical from apex to 3, then
strongly oblique.

Hindwing : with outer margin well rounded ; insinuate beyond the folds and
bent at 6; the inner margin amplified into a flap.

Antennae (8) simply lamellate; palpi porrect, rough-haired, the terminal
segment depressed and smooth; tongue present; frenulum long and slender;
femora hairy ; hindtibiae with four long spurs.

Neuration : forewing, cell half as long as wing; discocellnlar vertical; first
median nervule at two-thirds, second shortly before third ; lower radial from a little
above middle of discocellnlar ; upper from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked from
two-thirds; 11 free: hindwing, with costal and subcostal shortly approximated
at base ; veins 6, 7 from upper angle ; vein 2 not far before 3 and 4.

Type : Euphemia ?nollis spec. nov.

The genus does not seem to bear any immediate affinity with any other.

285. Euphemia mollis spec. nov.

Forewing: slaty grey, with tine transverse darker striae; eosta paler, broadly
dull yellowish ; basal and marginal areas deeper grey, ill-defined ; basal line diffuse,
fromoue-third of costa to one-half of inner margin, projecting out wards in submedian
interval ; outer line waved, parallel to outer margin, from three-fourths of costa
to three-fourths of inner margin ; the intervening space pale grey, subtransparent,
with a black cell-spot ; a yellow spot on costa before apex; extreme outer margin
narrowly and interruptedly pale ; fringe dark grey, whitish beyond the two folds.

Hindwing : wholly dark grey, with a deeper thick line curved from beyond
middle of costa to inner margin above anal angle, towards which it is deflexed ;
fringe and extreme outer margin pale yellow, the fringe chequered with dark.

Underside like upper, but duller.

Thorax aud abdomen pale grey ; head, palpi, and antennae ferruginous.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

2 S8 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, 3100ft, March 1905, wel
season (Uckeudeu).

286. Eusenea nucleata spec nov.

This species is very much like E. rotundata Warr. from Venezuela. The larger
white cell-spot, pyriform in shape, with a black dot in centre, will always distinguish
it. The outer line is more oblique and straight ; along the outer margin is a broad
brown cloud ; the margin itself shows slight elbows at veins 3 aud (5 ; a single
white submarginal dot above vein 6. The hindwing is dark brown, with a darker
postmedian shade, but no distinct line ; one white dot above vein (i.

Underside fulvous-brown ; inner half of forewing shining white ; cell-spot with
the black centre larger ; a dark, straight outer line from costa to vein 4 in forewing,
waved and crossing the hindwing to a paler patch above anal angle ; an obscure
pale cell-spot.

Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous ; legs fulvous, with white joints ; antennae

aud a very fine frontal line white. (

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Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

4c?c? from La Oroya, U. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100ft., October 1904, wet
season (Ockenden).

287. Eustenophasma constricta spec. nov.

Resembles E. fuscata in coloration, but smaller ; the first line fine and dark,
slightly bent outwards at costa and inwards at inner margin, preceded by a paler
band tinged with purplish grey ; the outer line in its sinus between 1 and 3
approaching more closely to inuer line, so that the central dark olive-fnscous fascia
is there much constricted; costal area beyond outer line whitish grey to apex,
containing a bilobed brownish blotch, which is scarcely visible in fuscata : in the
hindwing the outer line is irregular, starting from inner margin further from anal
angle, forming a sinus inwards with obscure denticulation to vein 4, vertically
projecting between 4 and 6, and again curved inwards to costa ; cell-spot distinct.

Underside much paler, more lilac-grey, especially in the hindwing, darker
along the margin, with the lines regularly lunulate-dentate and nearer outer margin
than above.

Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 <5 from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

288. Eustenophasma fuscata spec. nov.

Differs from E. violacea in being without any violaceous tints.

Forewing : olive-fuscous ; first line placed as in violacea but quite simple, pale
ochreous, slightly bent outwards at costa ; outer line shaped much as in violacea,
but edged with whitish at costa and marked by white dots on the veins, the inward
sinus between veins 1 and 3 entire, not broken by a tooth at vein 2 ; space between
the lines darker fuscous ; an oblique pale streak from costa before apex towards
aDgle of outer line ; a darker cloud at anal angle ; fringe coucolorous, with dark
basal and dividing lines ; cell-spot black.

Him/winy : with a dentate-lnnulate outer line, much as in violacea, but at anal
angle nearer the outer margin ; basal three-fourths darker than the marginal area :
a slight dark cell-spot ; costal area whitish.

Underside dull speckled fuscous ; the margins darker, especially at apex of
forewing ; the outer line marked in forewing, not corresponding to that of upperside,
dotted with white on veins ; a whitish oblique streak lrom costa before apex.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 33 mm.

1 $ from Cushi, Huanuco, Pern, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

289. Eustenophasma violacea spec. nov.
Forewing : blackish at base, the central area olive-brown, the outer olive-brown
varied with dull lilac-grey ; basal patch and central fascia with inwardly oblique
parallel edges, the intervening space lilac -grey, traversed by a thick brownish line;
outer edge of central fascia oblique outwards from three-fourths of costa to vein 0,
then bluntly angled and sharply oblique inwards, lunulate-dentate, to just beyond
middle of inner margin, with a fine lilac-grey edging, followed by a thick olive-
brown shade ; the inner edge of central fascia and the cell-spot darker brown than
the rest of fascia; a flattened costal blotch before apex, margined with bluish white

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and bilobed externally ; marginal area with a double diffuse lilac-grey cloud, the
two united at vein 6 ; the extreme margin olive-brown with a very fine lilac-white
marginal line ; fringe with basal half olive-brown, outer half paler.

Hindwing : from base to the lnnnlate-deutate outer line dull brown, thickly
covered with black, coalescent, striae ; the costa narrowly whitish ; the outer line
is at three-fourths, and projects in upper part of wing ; the marginal area restricted,
otherwise like that of forewing ; fringe of inner margin whitish.

Underside olive-brown peppered with bluish-white scales ; the dentate outer
lines and cell-spots only marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen above dark olive-fuscous; anal tuft and abdomen
beneath grey.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

2 S S from Cnshi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

290. Eutomopepla uniformis spec. nov.

Forewing: olive-brown, finely freckled with darker; costa finely yellowish
ochreons, dotted with dark ; a black cell-spot; submarginal line indicated by a black
costal blotch before apex and a fine dark shade at anal angle ; fringe above middle
concolorons, below pale ochreons, brown-chequered beyond veins.

Hindwing : with broad purplish-black shade along outer margin from anal
angle to middle tooth, and very faint traces of darker median and submarginal
lines; costa grey; fringe ochreons from apex to tooth, then rufous, with the tips
pale ; inner margin and friuge white.

Underside dull bluish white, the outer half of both wings mouse-colour.

Head and abdomen mouse-colour ; basal segments of abdomen and thorax
olive-brown ; shoulders pale ochreons ; legs ochreons, broadly mottled with
purplish fuscous.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

2 <?c? from Sapucay, Paraguay, August 1901, and September 1904 (Foster).

Goniocampa gen. nov.

Forewing : costa straight, slightly curved at base and just at apex, which is
produced ; outer margin concave from apex to vein 4, thence sinuous to the distinct
anal angle, before which it is somewhat indented.

Hindwing: strongly angled in middle; the apical and anal angles both
well marked.

Abdomen short ; antennae of <S with triangular segments, ending in tuber-
culate fascicles of cilia ; of ? subserrate ; palpi porrect, very slender, basal
segment rough-haired ; tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibiae thickened, as
far as can be seen without a pencil of hairs, and with two pairs of approximate
spurs.

Nenration : forewing, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical above,
oblique below ; first median nervule at one-half, second close before third; lower
radial from slightly above middle of discocellular; upper normal; T, 8, 9, 1"
stalked from before end of cell ; 11 free just before them, anastomosing with 12,
10 anastomosing also with 11: hindwing, costal and subcostal approximating
shortly along base of cell; 3 and 7 before angles of cell; no radial.

Type : Goniocamj/a fallax spec* nov.

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291. Goniocampa fallax spec, no v.

Forewing : bone-colour, with a rufous-grey tinge, and speckled with olive aud
purple ; costal edge, fringe, and marginal line dark purple, this last swollen between
veins, and preceded by slight purple patches beyond cell and at end of vein 2 ;
cell-spot purple ; the only line visible is submarginal, starting obliquely from costa
at three-fourths, bent below 6, and continued to inner margin parallel and close
to outer margin, marked only by dark dots on veins; beyond it below vein 6
is a double purplish spot, touching the upper patch.

Hindwing : with marginal line purple and thick ; fringe purplish; outer line
marked by dots on veins, angled parallel to outer margin.

Underside white ; the forewing, except on inner margin, speckled with
fuscous ; both wings with a purple marginal band, in some cases complete, in
others interrupted; in one case with only the dark marks of the uppers id e
represented.

Head dull purple ; thorax and abdomen white dusted with darker ; the
abdomen with pairs of dark spots on each segment.

Expanse of wings : 6 22 mm. ; ? 27 mm.

1 c?, 3 ? ¥ from La Union, R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, 2000 ft., November
1904, wet season (Ockenden).

The species somewhat resembles certain of the genus Hacmalea.

292. Gyuopteryx immaculata Warr

Hitherto I have seen only the solitary S from which the description was
originally made, Nov. Zool. iv. p. 493 (1897); 1 can now describe the ? from a
single, but epiite perfect specimen. As usual, the apex of forewing is more
prominent than in the S ; the yellow ground-colour is somewhat deeper, and the
marginal area darkened with grey-brown ; a dark shade from the outer line at
vein 4 runs to inner margin before anal angle, with a slight blackish mark between
3 aud 4 aud again between 1 and 2 ; this submarginal shade is slightly visible in
the paler hindwing ; from the costa of forewing at three-fifths an obscure grey-brown
line runs to outer line at vein 4.

Beneath, the wings are bright deep yellow : the marginal area in forewing only
being brown, containing a pale ochreous-grey patch at apex ; in the hindwing the
cell-spot and two lines are present as in the 6 , but very faint.

Face, palpi, and antennae dark brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 37 mm.

Dominica.

298. Gynopteryx uazadaria ab. inapicata nov.

This form stands to nazadaria Wlk. in the same relation as seriaria Guen.
does to glad/aria Guen. ; that is to say, the lines are marked by series of round
dark-brown spots, the lines themselves being dark marked on the underside aud
merely suggested above; but it is distinguished from all other forms by the absence
of the apical blotch ; the outer line of spots ending in a somewhat larger spot on
vein IS, and vein 7 being without one. The hindwing has the middle line aud
cell-spot much fainter ; the submarginal shade variable in clearness, marked by
darker points on veins aud irregularly zigzag between.

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The outer margin of both wings is curved.

Of the two specimens one is ochreous cream-colour as in nazadaria, the
other washed with yellowish; both are alike beneath, ochreous, washed with
pale brownish, as far as the submarginal lines; the lines continuous, black, and
distinct. Palpi, antennae, and forelegs brownish; face aud vertex, especially the
latter, whitish.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

2 3 S from Huancabaruba, L'erro de Pasco, Peru (Buttger).

294. Hypagyrtis pallidaria spec, no v.

For. wing : pale dull ochreous, thickly fuscous-speckled, tinged in parts with
pale olive-brown; lines indistinct, brownish; first quite close to base, outcurved ;
second, median, at two-fifths, oblique outwards to top of discocellular, there sharply
angled, aud running vertically to middle of inner margin ; outer line from two-thirds
of costa, bent on vein (i, then incurved to two-thirds of inner margin, sometimes
partially double ; a diffuse olive-brown shade from end of cell to outer margin,
where it reaches from apex to below middle ; an obliqne dark shade from apex,
containing white spots between veins, the upper three distinct ; a dark-grey blotch
beyond outer Hue betweeu veins 3 and 4 ; fringe pale, varied with dark.

Hindwing : paler, less speckled ; with a large grey cell-spot and waved
outer line.

Underside similar ; the lines plain only at costa, where the apical dark shade
and white spots are conspicuous : hindwing with large oval blackish cell-spot aud
traces on margins of an inner as well as the outer line.

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous with dark speckling.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 (J Pozuzo, Huanuco, 800 — 1000 m. (Hoffmanns).

In forewing vein 5 rises from top end of discocellular, and vein (5 is stalked
with 7, 8, 9. The species is certainly a Hypagyrtis, and in fact is not unlike some
specimens of the North American subatomaria.

295. Isochroinodes ferruginea spec. nov.

Forewing : ferruginous ochreous, striated with dark ; the lines thick, dark
brown ; placed much as in the following species, I. siennata, but the outer line
not so oblique, starting from costa further from apex ; costa broadly brown-black ;
basal and marginal areas almost wholly filled up with brown-black, the space
between 2 aud 4 with a grey-black blotch as in siennata ; cell-spot black ; a dark
crennlate marginal line ; fringe brown, darker beyond veins.

Hindwing : with basal and marginal areas brown-black; central space narrowly
ferruginous ochreous ; a yellow spot on inner margiu beyond onter line.

Underside dull ochreous, suffused with dull grey ; outer line distinct, dark
grey ; the marginal areas dark grey, the apex of forewing pale.

Head, thorax, aud abdomen brown-black.

Expause of wings : 28 mm.

1 cJ from La Oroya, H. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season
(Oekenden).

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290. Isochromodes siennata spec. nov.

Forewing : wood-brown, brighter in the <$, thickly strignlated with fuscous ;
the lines dark brown ; first outcnrved above median vein, then straight ; outer
sinuous from four-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; marginal area with
a dull greyish-black blotch between veins 2 and 4 ; cell-spot small ; fringe pale
brown with dark chequering beyond veins.

Hindwing : with outer line only, inbent beyond cell and ontcurved below,
followed on inner margin by a bright white spot.

Underside pale ochreons, slightly dark speckled ; outer line blackish ; marginal
area in forewing grey ; the ? is yellower ochreons with denser speckling.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 3, 2 ¥ ? from Oconeqne, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1004, dry season
(Ockenden).

297. Melinodes ignea spec. nov.

Forewing : yellow, thickly speckled with fulvous orange ; the veins finely
brown ; lines black-brown ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner
margin, bent at right angles on subcostal vein ; outer from three-fourths of costa
to two-thirds of inner margin, obtusely angled on vein 6, then straight ; the first
line is preceded and the outer followed by a brownish-grey shade containing white
dashes on veins, the outer broader and running straight to apex ; submarginal
line marked by a series of black spots on veins ; cell-spot black ; fringe concolorous,
with pale tips.

Hindwing : with outer line only, slightly curved ; costal area broadly white j
cell-spot and submarginal spots as in forewing.

Underside very pale yellow freckled with greyish ochreons ; the lines marked
by thick greyish shades, not reaching in forewing below submedian fold ; outer
shade accompanied by a series of black vein-dots ; cell-spots deep black.

Head, thorax, and dorsum yellow varied with fulvous ; abdomen beneath,
pectus, and legs pale yellowish ; palpi externally and forelegs brownish.

Expanse of wings : 32 — 34 mm.

3 c? c? from C'ushi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

298. Melinodes reversa spec. nov.

Forewing : deep yellow, dappled with olive-grey ; the lines accompanied by
irregular tawny-brown shades, and marked by black dashes on veins, those of
the inner line white-tipped basew ards, those of the outer externally, that on vein I
always expanded into a conspicuous white dash ; the outer line is sinuous, excurved
above and incurved below, the tawny shades of the lines becoming confluent below
vein 2 ; submarginal line marked by olive-grey blotches on the veins ; the tawny
shade of outer line is produced externally on inner margin, between veins 3 and 4,
and above vein 0, where it extends to the submarginal costal blotch ; fringe dull
yellow, flecked with olive ; cell-spot diffuse, olive-grey.

Hindwing : with outer line only and the submarginal line of spots ; costa
pale yellow.

Underside paler yellow, with the markings duller.

Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, varied with olive-grey.

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Expanse of wings : 36—38 mm.

3 c?c? from Cushi, Hiii'muco, 1 '■•ni. [900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Closely resembling .1/. mera Drnce, hut the course of the onter line is different.

299. Melinodes subapicata ab. latimargo nov.

Distinguished from the type-form by the much broader dark marginal area,
the outer line being nearer the centre of wing and more strongly curved.

2 ? ?, one from Poznzo, Huannco, Pern, 800 — 1000 m. (Hoffmanns), type;
the other from La Oroya, E. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904] dry season
(Ockenden).

This will, I think, most probably prove to be a distinct species.

300. Melinodes snbspurcata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale yellow, densely speckled with olive tawny, the basal area and
marginal area of both wings somewhat tinged with tawny ; the veins tawny : costa
of forewing speckled with brown on basal half; lines dark brown; first from
one-third of costa to one-third of inner margin, bent on subcostal vein, then
straight, slightly oblique outwards; outer line from four-fifths of costa to two-
thirds of inner margin, bent on vein 0, marked, like inner line, with darker dashes
on veins, and followed by white acute points ; cell-spot obscure, dark ; traces of
darker submarginal blotches suggesting a line, especially below costa ; space
between veins 3 and 4 filled in with olive-grey ; fringe olive-grey.

Hindwing : with the line just beyond middle, slightly bent outwards in middle.

Underside dull greyish ochreous, speckled, especially in forewing, with greyish
fuscous ; the lines dull grey-brown.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; vertex pale ochreous : face aud palpi
externally grey -brown, lower half of face paler.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

3 $$ from Charaplaya, Bolivia, June 1901 (Simons).

301. Meticulodes amniculata spec. nov.

Closely resembling M. periculosaria Oberth. and differentiated mainly by the
outer line of forewing aud by the underside. In Oberthiir's species the outer line
is fine and fiexuons ; in amniculata it is evenly curved parallel to the outer margin,
and forms a regular succession of lnnules betweeu the veins ; the angle of the
inner Hue in cell is not so close to the white cell-mark as in periculosaria ; the
marginal line in the present species is thick and black, the fringe dark grey,
with a paler base; in periculosaria the marginal line is fine, and the, fringe dull
grey-brown. In the hindwing the outer line iu amniculata is straighter, and
preceded on inner margin by some white streaks.

Underneath the present species is thickly suffused aud strignlated with
blackish, the inner margins on both wings paler aud the markings indistinct ; in
periculosaria the forewing is pale grey above the median with the cell clouded
dark grey aud a black marginal blotch from below apex to vein 2, the inner
half of wing from base to margin much whiter; and the hindwing is tinged
with brown.

Expanse of wings : 48 mm.

1 <S from Cnshi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

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302. Meticulodes consimilis spec. hov.

Forewing : pale grey, dusted with darker ; the basal area, costal half of
central area, and the outer marginal border darker grey ; first line from one-fonrth
of costa oblique outwards and bluntly bent in cell, startiug again from median vein
at one-fourth and oblique outwards, as m fraterna Warr., to middle of inner margin,
edged outwardly with black ; outer line from three-fourths of costa, parallel in
the main to outer margin, forming slight luuules between the veins, that on
submedian fold the largest and that between 3 aud 4 projecting, edged inwardly
thickly with deep black ; the interval between the lines below median vein very
dark purplish grey, almost black ; a whitish oval space on discocellnlar containing
two minute superimposed black dots ; the inner half of marginal area pale whitish
grey (in one specimen with a darker grey cloudy line beyond the outer line), the
outer half with its inner edge slightly darker and crenulate ; a small white
submarginal dot above vein 0, and a black one above 2 ; fringe luteons grey,
denticulate at veins.

Hindwing : pale grey with a darker grey, pale-edged outer line, elbowed on
submedian fold, preceded by a darker grey shading ; fringe and outer margin
dark grey.

Underside dark brown-grey with a faint rufous tinge; forewing with outer
line double, blurred ; inner marginal half glossy whitish ; cell-spot white :
hindwing more speckled thonghout, but the inner half whitish ; a black white-
centred cell-spot, and black white-edged outer line.

Head and thorax dark grey ; abdomen paler grey.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

2 S3 from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

Differs from scitaria Oberth. and fraterna Warr. by the absence of the
ferruginous tints of the underside and of the yellow or fulvous spot beyond cell of
forewing on upperside, and by the pale grey, not blackish, fringe.

303. Meticulodes fraterna spec. nov.

Very near M. scitaria Oberth., from which it may be distinguished by the
following points. The inner line below the median vein is outwardly, not inwardly,
oblique, running out to middle of inner margin ; the outer line at vein 0 has no
inner arm continued straight as a black line to inner margin ; the outer arm runs
as in scitaria, except that the projections above vein 4 and on the submedian fold
are more rounded, less angular, than in scitaria ; in fraterna again the space
beyond cell to outer line is bronzy fulvous ; in scitaria 'only the narrow space
between the two arms of the outer line is pale yellowish ; on the underside the
coloration is less bright, the ferruginous apical areas paler, and the outer line
is single.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 S from Pozuzo, Huanuco, Peru, 800—1000 m. (Hoffmanns), type ; 1 c?
from Tinguri, Carabaya, Peru, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season (Ockenden); and
1 cJ from La Oroya, P. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

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3ii4. Meticulodes hoffmannsi spec. nov.

Closely allied to .1/. castraria Schaus from South Brazil, bat larger, and the
costa of forewing is straight throughout, whereas in castraria it is visibly inflexed
beyond the middle. In the forewing the inner line is much more obscure and in
its lower course obsolete, so that the interval between the two lines cannot be
called V-shaped, and remains of the brown-grey ground-colour ; the outer line
is fine, preceded by a slight tawny shade, concave outwards from costa to median
and again below, the submedian interval being marked by a rounded protuberance,
but otherwise without lnnules between the veins ; the pale streak, which in
castraria fills the whole cell to outer line, is here restricted to the cell itself,
at the end of which is an oval white spot containing two minute black- dots one
above the other ; in the hindwing the outer line is not uniformly curved, with a
white line following it, bat elbowed on submedian fold and above vein 4 waved,
and merely edged throughout witli whitish.

Beneath the markings are much duller, especially the ferruginous costal tints.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 c? from Cnshi, Hminuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

305. Microgonia mexicata ab. incolorata nov.

Forewing : with the ground-colour very pale lilac-grey, instead of deep lilac as
in the type ; the marginal area olive-tinged.

Hindwing : olive-ochreous, sometimes distinctly yellowish.

The lines in both wings are finer, and the white spot on inner margin beyond
outer line of forewing generally dull and inconspicuous.

Underside of forewing tinged with yellow from base to outer line, not merely
yellow towards apex only ; marginal areas shining pearly whitish.

Thorax and abdomen cream-colour ; head and shoulders pale yellowish.

5 SS from Sapncay, Paraguay, August and October 1901, and December 1902
(Foster).

In colour approaching M. gilva Schaus ; as far as I have seen, a southern
form only.

306. Microgonia mundata ab. crassior nov.

GueneVs type of mundata was from Brazil, and, as far as 1 have seen,
southern specimens generally agree in being quite pale, with fine lines and no
markings except towards anal angle of hindwing. Examples from Peru and
Ecuador and other more northern localities differ in size (56 mm. instead of
40 mm.) and in colour, being suffused with ochraceous fawn-colour, thickly and
coarsely speckled with darker, instead of being pale biscuit-colour with almost
invisible striae ; the lines are diffuse and thick, instead of slender, the outer line
in both wings being sometimes double with a pale centre ; the marginal area in
both wings is traversed by a thick zigzag submarginal shade ; in one strongly
marked instance of this the pale underside bears also an irregular blackish
submarginal band.

This form, which at first sight appears ijuite distinct, I propose to call
aberr. crassior,

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307. Microsema flexilinea spec. nov. and ab. nubilata nov.

<$. Forewing : pale ochreons, generally covered with fine linear brownish
striae and dusted with coarse black speckling ; lines brown-black ; first at one-third,
bracket-shaped, angled in cell before the black cell-spot, and again on snbmedian
fold ; the extreme base sometimes rather darker ; outer line from costa just before
apex to two-thirds of inner margin, always with a slight bend outwards in middle
and edged by a fine pale line ; fringe concolorons.

Hindi/ring : with costal area paler ; the line central, just beyond cell-spot.

Underside whitish ochreons, with sparser speckling ; lines as above, but thick ;
that on hindwing faint, joined on inner margin by a fine dentate-lunulate line
running to costa before apex.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

? paler ; the outer line triple, the line itself fine and marked by dots on the
veins, preceded by a brown line and followed by a pale one as in the e?.

Expanse of wings : <? 30 — 33 mm. ; ? 40 mm.

The aberration nubilata has the central area beyond inner line filled in with
a diffuse fuscous-brown cloud.

5 <S<$, 1 ? from Sapncay, Parguay, July— December 1901—1904 (Foster).

Of these 2 c$S represent the aberration.

308. Mimosema venata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale fawn-colour, speckled with fine dark atoms ; the veins all
finely dark ; costal edge red ; lines thick, red-brown ; first oblique outwards from
about one-fourth of costa to middle of inner margin ; outer straight from three-
fourths of costa to four-fifths of inner margin ; a red-brown oblique streak on
discocellnlar ; marginal line finely dark ; fringe concolorons, red at base.

Hind winy : with the outer line only, from three-fourths of costa to anal angle ;
discal mark as in forewing.

Underside dull whitish, speckled with grey, most thickly in costal half of
forewing and towards apex ; outer line aud cell-spots hardly marked.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., April 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

309. Mychonia brunnea spec. nov.

Forewing : rufous ochreons, speckled with grey ; costal edge white with black
dots ; lines brown ; first at one-third, bent below costa and slightly oblique
outwards ; outer from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, forming
a bluntly rounded projection above vein 0 towards outer margin, as in M. flexilinea,
then incurved and slightly waved, parallel to outer margin; at costa edged with
black scales, which extend along vein 7 to costa before apex, forming a rough
semicircle ; fringe dark brown with pale tips ; cell-spot blackish.

Hindwing : paler, with the outer line only, sinuous, parallel to outer margin.

Underside paler, especially in hindwing, the speckling darker; the lines all
marked : the outer line blackish at costa of forewing.

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Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; abdomen beneath whitish.

Expanse of wings : 35 mm.

1 ¥ from Oconeque, C'arabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

31o. Mychonia cervina spec. nov.

forewing : reddish fawn-colour, palest in the marginal area, darkest in the
central ; lines deeper fawn-colour, marked by brown spots on veins ; first from
quite one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, bent on subcostal vein, then
vertical, edged by a faintly paler line towards base; outer line from five-sixths of
costa, oblique outwards and bluntly angled above vein 6, then incurved but nearly
straight to two-thirds of inner margin, edged outwardly by a distinct whitish line ;
a faint brown cell-spot; costa dotted with pale and dark ; snbmarginal line marked
by a white line from costa to angle of outer line ; fringe with basal half reddish
fawn, tipped with whitish.

Hinduring : quite pale fawn-colour, with a faint outer line, dotted on veins,
before which the inner margin is rather darker.

Underside paler, speckled with fuscous ; the outer lines and cell-spots marked.

Face, palpi, and vertex dark brown ; thorax concolorous with forewing,
abdomen with hindwiug.

Expanse of wings : 20 mm.

1 J from Oconeque, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

As in the Oconeque specimens of aberrations lutea mAJlexiMnea of corticinaria
H. S., the outer margin of forewing is hardly elbowed ; so that, though I have
described the example as a separate species, owing to the difference in the lines
and the coloration, it may eventually prove to be only a form of corticinaria.

311. Mychonia corticinaria H. S. and ab. lutea nov., flexilinea nov., and

nigromaculata nov.

This species is evidently very variable, not only in coloration and markings,
but even in the shape of the wings. The type is recorded from Brazil ; this has
the excision in the outer margin of forewing well marked. I have seen 2 S S from
Loja, Ecuador, agreeing well in this respect. On the other hand, nearly all the
Peruvian examples seen are not only larger on the average, but show the excision
much less deep, and in some cases entirely absent, the vertical distance from apex
to vein 4 appearing greater. This Peruvian form I distinguish as ab. lutea.
The species described by me as Asestra ustularia, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 132, $ (1904),
from ('hulumani, Bolivia, is, I find, merely a synonym of corticinaria. Asestra
albitumida Warr., Nor. Zool. vii. p. 208, S (1000), from Loja, Ecnador, is certainly
an aberration. Perusia sitperstes Warr., Nov. Zool. xi. p. 166, S (1004), from
Santo Domingo, < 'arabaya, Pern, described from a specimen without perceptible
elbow at vein 4, is another aberration, in which the lines are continuous instead of
being represented by vein-spots, and the ground-colour is lemon yellow.

Another form, for which 1 propose the name Jlexilinca ab., agrees with
guperstea in having continuous lines, but the gronnd-colour is creamy ochreons,
and the lines sometimes end on inner margin in brown blotches as in superstes,
or in white ones as in albitumida,

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Of the typical oorticinaria II. S. and the ab. albitumida Warr. I have seen
? ? corresponding exactly with the 6 <S ; a third very distinct form, of the ? only,
has the ground-colour warm ochreous, thickly black-speckled, with both lines thick
and black at their extremities on costa and inner margin.

The types of this, which I have named nigromaculata, are from Limbani,
Carabaya, Peru. Those of ab. lutea are from Cushi, Huannco, Pern, 1900 m.
(Hoffmanns), three examples, also a single example from Oconeque, ( larabaya,
Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (Ockeuden), differing from the Cushi specimens
in having scarcely an elbow at vein 4.

Of ab. flexilinea the type, a $ , is from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Carabaya,
Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry season (Ockenden), the lines ending in brown
shades; 2 ef<? from Oconeque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season
(Ockenden), have the lines ending in white blotches as in albitumida, while other
two, one from Oconeque and one from Cushi, have the lines simple, the Cushi
example agreeing with the examples of lutea from the same place in having the
elbow at vein 4 much stronger.

312. Mychonia melanospila spec. nov.

Forewing : dark fawn-colour, with two dark cross-lines ; first at one-third
angled in cell before the black cell-spot, then oblique inwards ; outer line from
five-sixths of costa, bluntly angled on vein 7, then oblique to two-thirds of inner
margin, brown edged by a pale line ; the middle space tinged with brown ; a diffuse
blackish blotch at anal angle reaching vein 4 ; fringe brown.

Hindwing : with the line central, beyond the black cell-spot.

Underside paler, dirty whitish, with thick speckling, more or less suffused
with pale brown ; cell-spots black ; outer lines marked by black vein-spots ;
marginal area purplish grey ; inner margin of forewing white.

Head, thorax, and abdomen brown.

Expanse of wings : 28 mm.

3 SS from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry
season (Ockenden).

Near M. exci&a Warr. from Mexico.

313. Mychonia violacea spec. nov.

Forewing: greyish flesh-colour; the lines, formed by spots on the veins,
dark purplish, edged on costa with white, and ending at inner margin in obscure
pale yellowish blotches ; basal half of fringe deep violet-brown, outer half white
tipped with grey ; cell-spot fuscous.

Hindwing : whitish, with an outer row of spots; fringe whitish with purple base.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Underside paler, speckled with fuscous, with the outer lines marked.

Expanse of wings : 30 mm.

A second specimen is olive-grey instead of flesh-colour ; the lines becoming
obsolete before inner margin ; the inner line marked by a vertical purplish-brown
shade ; the costa strongly dotted white and purple ; fringe at base rust-colour.

Both examples are <J <j from Cushi, Huannco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

In this species the excision below apex of forewing is deeper even than iu
typical oorticinaria H.S,

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314. Nematocainpa interrupts spec. nor.

Forewing : bone-colour, covered with rust-red speckliiigr, more strongly in the ? ;
eosta and lines red-brown ; first line at one-third, thick, vertical ; outer line oblique
outwards from two-thirds of costa to vein 5, where it touches a small snbmarginal
spot, which is again connected with a red-brown spot on outer margin ; the line
ends at two-thirds of inner margin as a short curved streak to veiu 2 ; between
2 and 5 the line is obsolete, except in the ? , where there are faint traces of it
only ; a dark black-brown snbmarginal blotch before anal angle touching another
from outer margin ; marginal line thick, black-brown ; fringe reddish brown ;
cell-spot minute.

Hindwing : with marginal line black-brown, and crcnulate ; a black cell-spot,
followed by a sinuous red-brown outer line, which is distinct only in the ¥.

Underside suffused throughout in the ? with pale brownish, in the c? only
in costal half of forewing ; cell-spots and marginal lines dark brown ; fringe
pale brown ; costa of forewing in S brown at base ; a deeper rusty cloud at
two-thirds of costa before a distinctly white apical blotch.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; dorsum with a double red-brown
stripe.

Expanse of wings ; S 20 mm. ; ? 24 mm.

2 c?<?, 1 ? from Tingnri, C'arabaya, Pern, 3400 ft., August 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

Belongs to the group including benescripta Warr. from Chiriqni, eonfusa Warr.
from Peru, and falsa Warr. from French Guiana.

315. Paracomistis analiplaga nom. nov.

Cabira lignicolor Warr., Nov. Zool. xi. p. 125 (1904).

Since the description of this species was made I have seen several other
examples, and am satisfied that the original reference to Cabira, of which ochro-
purpuraria H.S. is the type, was wrong. The transfer to its proper genus
Paracomistis will necessitate an alteration in its specific name as well, the original
type-species of that genus being already named lignicolor.

316. Paracomistis orbiferata spec. nov.

Foreiving : pale ochreons, with fine brown speckling ; costa sometimes dark
in basal third ; inner line hardly marked, except by black dots on median and
submedian veins ; outer line smoky grey, marked throughout by rather prominent
black vein-spots, those on veins 5 and 6 much displaced basewards, from five-sixths of
costa to just beyond middle of inner margin ; a large round black cell-spot, followed
by a very obscure brownish median shade, which approaches outer line on inner
margin ; black dots at end of veins on margin ; fringe ochreous.

Hindwing: without basal line; the median shade rather stronger, preceding
cell-spot.

Underside paler, with brown speckling towards costa of forewing, where the
outer line forms a blackish smudge : cell-spots smaller and black ; marginal spots
black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; legs ochreons, externally, like the
palpi, fuscous ; antennal pectinations fuscous, the shaft annnlated dark and light.

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Expanse of wings : S 25 — 28 mm.

2 SS, one from Oconeone, Carabaya, Pern, 7000 ft., Jul}* 1904, dry season
(Ockenden), type ; the other from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft.,
September 1904, dry season (Ockenden).

The type is the larger and paler of the two.

317. Paragonia densicornis spec. nov.

Extremely like 1J. longidens Warr., but the gronud-colour paler, greyer, more
speckled with dark ; the lines more distinct ; the subapical costal spot not white,
but of the ground colour, with slightly paler edging. The two points in which,
however, it differs especially are, first, that the outer margin of hiudwing is
crenulate from apex to middle, instead of being straight ; and secondly the tuber-
culate processes of the antennae of the <•? are much shorter, though capped with
a similar curved bristle ; the antenual shaft also appears darker.

Expanse of wings : <5 52 mm.

1 & from Sapucay, Paraguay, September 19U4 (Foster). I have seen several
others from the same locality, but passed them by in mistake for longidens, which
comes from Ecuador and Peru.

318. Paragonia inornata spec. nov.

Forewing : dull greyish brown, speckled with fuscous, the costal area above
subcostal vein somewhat paler ; the lines lunulate-dentate, the lunnles in part
filled in with dull olive and whitish scales; first line vertical from one-third of
costa to one-fourth of inner margin, faint towards costa ; a small black cell-spot
of raised scales, followed by an obscure, nearly vertical, brownish median shade ;
outer line from three-fourths of costa, obliquely curved outwards to vein 7, there
angled and oblique inwards to two-thirds of inner margin, interrupted entirely
between veins 2 and 4 ; submarginal line marked by black spots on the veins ;
costal area between outer line and apex darkened with olive and grey scales, but
these do not form a definite blotch ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing : with cell-spot and three slightly marked darker shades, median,
postmedian, and marginal.

Underside pale dull brownish ochreous, speckled with grey ; a broad sub-
marginal slightly browner baud ; marginal area dull lilac-grey.

Thorax and abdomen like wings ; shoulders paler and brighter ; head and collar
grey-brown.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 $ from Pi. Cayapas, N.W. Ecuador (Flemming & Miketta).

The outer margins of the wings are without crenulations, as in occiduata,
Guen. and planimargo Warr. ; the forewing shortly falcate, and both wings angled
at vein 4; the S of planimargo, which it most resembles, is paler and has a large
white costo-apical blotch.

319. Paragonia pubicornis spec. nov.

Also, like the preceding species densicornis extremely like /'. longidens, not
differing in colour or markings ; but as in densicornis the outer margin of
hiudwing is crenulate above middle ; and secondly the antennae differ still more

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strongly, being simply subserrate and pubescent, with shorter and straighter
bristles.

The single 6 is from Poznzo, Huanuco, Peru, 900 m. (Hoffmanns), whence also
four examples of typical longidens.

320. Pergama delauta spec. nov.

Like P. speciosata Gnen., but very much smaller and paler ; the grouud-colour
beyond the dark central fascia being white; an olive patch on outer margin from
vein 7 tn 4 and a smaller one at anal angle, the two united by an outwardly curved
shade beyond which the margin is yellowish ; a short dark olive cloud oblique
inwards from before each patch, the upper reaching vein 4, the lower touching
vein 2 ; fringe olive.

Hindwing white, washed with yellowish and faintly grey-speckled; no distinct
outer line, but a curved grey streak from apex towards anal angle and a short brown
one from the angle to vein 3; a distinct blackish line of marginal Iunules.

Underside without any reddish fulvous marginal blotches, the white grouud-
colour being merely washed with yellowish and striated with fuscous in the
hindwing, the two streaks dark brown, the curved one with an inner pale edge ;
in the forewing the costa is concisely white, the rest of the wing blurred white
with the dark markings showing through ; apex whitish preceded by three connected
olive streaks pointing basewards, the upper and middle one limiting a yellow
brown-streaked patch, the middle aud lower a white blotch; the margin below
middle also yellow.

Head white or whitish grey ; thorax aud abdomen olive-ochreons ; shoulders
grey.

Expanse of wings : 36 mm.

1 S from La Union, Caura Biver, October 1902 (Klages).

In the British Museum are two ¥ ? from Guatemala, from the Godman
and Salvin collection, rather larger than this S, but certainly the same species and
not differing in colour from the 6 ; the ? of speciosata {decora Butler) differs
decidedly from its c?.

321. Pergama dissimilis ab. perfusa nov.

Typical dissimilis Warr., has the basal two-thirds of forewing dark leaden
fuscous, and the marginal third pale ochreous : in the aberration the whole wing
is pale leaden grey, with the two brown lines alone marked.

The hindwing aud the underside of both wings remain as in the type.

Head, thorax and dorsum pale grey like the forewing, without any dark
admixture.

Expanse of wings : 36 — 42 mm.

4 c?c? from Sapucay, Paraguay, November , 1904 (Foster), accompanied by
others of the typical form, and by three ¥ ¥, which correspond, except in their
smaller size, with typical ¥ ¥ of pumaria Feld. (= amauda Druce).

322. Pero coraciua spec. nov.
Like 1'. clysiaria Feld. in markings, but the ground-colour much darker,
deep olive-fuscous ; the pale triangular space on costa of forewing smaller, clouded
with grey striae and brownish-tinged, except round the white discal spot, where

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it is yellow ; the outer liue preceded by a brown shade ; snbmarginal dots black
and white: hindwing also much darker; the white hyaline cell-spot large and
conspicuous, followed by a small dull yellow patch ; the liue more strongly
dentate.

Underside grey uniformly striated with darker, without any tinge of brown ;
the marginal and snbmarginal blotches blacker.

Expanse of wings : 40 mm.

1 g from Sapucay, Paraguay, November 1904 (Foster).

The smaller size and deeper ground-colour distinguish the species at ouce.

323. Pero inferna spec. nov.

Forewing : deep purple-black, except the marginal area beyond outer line below
the apical black patch, which is dull grey-brown, thickly striated with dark brown ;
the two lines, shaped nearly as in xi/lonaria, are edged, the first outwardly, and the
second inwardly, with deep velvety black ; cell-spot small, formed of pale yellow
scales ; a purplish black apical shade from costal end of outer liue to end of vein 3 ;
fringe purplish black, below 3 brownish.

Hindwing : black; the outer line visible, and marked above anal angle by au
angled streak of tawny scales, some of which spread along margin aud basewards
along vein 1 ; a yellow snbmarginal dot above vein 6.

Underside dull purple black; cell-spots white, small in forewing, larger, with
black centre, in hindwing ; outer line traceable in both wings, on costa of forewing
marked by a small pale spot ; a whitish snbmarginal cloud between veins 2 aud 3 ;
a white snbmarginal dot in hindwing above vein 6.

Head, thorax, and abdomen all black ; tibiae and tarsi ochreous, those of the
forelegs only mottled with dark.

Expanse of wings : 52 mm.

1 t? from Limbani, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., April 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

324. Pero lactelineata spec. nov.

Forewing : pale grey, tinged with fulvous in basal area, paler, more pinkish
grey in the marginal, the central field dark brown ; first line from one-fourth of
costa to one-third of inner margin, shortly oblique outwards and rounded at end in
cell, then vertical with two faint curves ; outer line from three-fourths of costa to
three-fifths of inner margin, incurved from vein 4 to 2, and ontcurved on submediau
fold ; costal portion of iuner line followed by a dull yellow costal patch bounded
outwardly by an oval white cell-spot ; in the sinus of outer line a dark grey cloud ;
apex marked with a brown and grey triangle ; a slight fulvous cloud before anal
angle, edged on each side with paler ; fringe grey below vein 6, brown above it ;
a black white-tipped dot before margin on each side of 0.

Hindwing : dark grey, the costal area whitish ; a straight white line beyond
middle inwardly dark-edged : a dull blackish cell-spot ; anal area fulvous; a black
submarginal dot on each side of vein 2, aud a black-and-white one above 6.

Underside pale grey, washed with fulvous and speckled with black ; iuner
margin of forewing glossy white ; cell-spot aud outer line, which is straight, white ;
costa black-speckled; apex blackish; hindwing with a broad irregularly waved
whits line, inwardly dark-edged, expanding into a white blotch ou inner margin ;
cell -spot black ; snbmarginal black-and-white dots ou both wings.

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Head and thorax pale fnlvons grey ; abdomen brown above, pale grey beneath ;
anal tuft white ; legs mottled pale and grey-brown.
Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

1 c? from Poznzo, Huaunco, Peru, SOU — 1UUU m. (Hoffmanns), type. Also
from Palcazn, Peru, and from French Guiana.

Forewing with a slight blunt tooth at vein 0, ronnded below ; hindwing
rounded; antennae pubescent.

325. Pero inaculicosta.
Azelina maculicoaia Wan-., Nov. Zool. iv. p. 488, £ (18'.i7).

The ? of this species is wholly dark wood-brown, speckled with darker ; the
usual pale costal patch of the S scarcely lighter than the rest of the wing : the
outer margin of the forewing forms an acute tooth at apex, a prominent one at
vein 0, and a large nasiform projection beyond 4 and 3, below which to vein 2 it is
incised. The hindwing likewise has a much more promiueut tooth at vein 3 than
the cJ. The outer line of forewing, instead of being blackish, is marked by a tine
whitish line.

The example from which this description is taken came with two typical £ <$
from Sapucay, Paraguay (Foster), the ? dated October 1900, the <$<$ .September
1002 and October 1904".

320. Pero ? simplex spec. nov.

Forewing: uniform greyish fawn-colour, dusted with dark atoms; the veins
finely darker; lines brown; first thin aud hardly visible, forming three outward
curves, of which the upper one projects, as usual, beyond the others towards an
indistinct dark cell-spot; outer line slightly curved, from three-fourths of costa to
two-thirds of inner margin, edged outwardly by a fine pale line and inwardly by
a broad brown shade of uniform width ; some black submarginal dots ; fringe
concolorous ; the central area is slightly browner than the rest of wing.

Hindwing : with the outer line less distinct.

Underside paler, greyer brown, dusted with black ; the outer line marked only
below costa of forewing.

Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings.

Expanse of wings : 42 mm.

2 ? ? from Sapucay, Paraguay, October 1901 and January 1905 (Foster).
Apex of forewing acute ; outer margin strongly bulged below middle ; a very

slight tooth at vein 6 : hindwing rounded.

327. Perusia prasina spec. nov.

Forewing : whitish green, thickly brown-speckled ; costa rufous and fuscous,
bright ferruginous at base; crossed by two lines of brown spots on veins ; first
from two-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, consisting of five spots, one
on subcostal, median, and submediau veins and one on vein 2 and inner margin,
the spots below middle slightly connected by grey shading ; outer line from an
oblique brown costal streak at five-sixths to close before anal angle, the spots
more ferruginous, the two on veins 6 aud 7 uearer margin than the rest, and none at
nil on vein 5 ; beyond the costal streak are two brown costal spots ; fringe green.

Hindwing : with slight brown cell-spot, aud a submarginal row of dark spots
parallel to outer margin.

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Underside whiter green ; forewing with costal area striated with brown, and
with a brown apical blotch on costa ; both wings with large brown cell-spots and
snbraargiual series of spots, these last often obsolete in whole or in part.

Head and antennae brownish ; back of crown, thorax, and abdomen green.

Expanse of wings : 30 — 35 mm.

4 cj (J from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

328. Perusia viridis spec. nov.

Forewing : bright green, sparsely speckled with ferruginous ; costal edge
fuscous with grey speckles, in one example bright ferruginous ; crossed by two
rows of spots, as in prasina, but much less promineut and often absent ; the first
generally represented only by a spot on subcostal and submedian ; the outer row,
instead of going to anal angle, is bent inwards, so that the lowest spot on vein 1
is close to the corresponding spot of the inner series ; the costal blotches before
apex smaller and duller ; fringe yellow.

Hindwing : without cell-sjwt ; the submargiual series represented by spots on
costa and at anal angle.

Underside pale yellow, with cell-spots and submargiual spots brown ; these
generally obsolete in forewing, except at costa ; costa of forewing brown-speckled
towards base ; the inner margin whitish.

Head, thorax, and abdomen green ; anal segment and tufts, abdomen at sides
and beneath, legs, aud palpi greenish drab ; forelegs brown in front ; collar fuscous
like costal streak ; bright ferruginous in the example with ferruginous costa.

Expanse of wings : 30 — 35 mm.

4 S$ from Cushi, Huanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns).

The occnrrence of two green Perusia from the same locality is interesting ; the
two sjiecies are palpably distinct.

329. Polla albipuncta Warr.

This species was described from a S {Proc. U. S. Nat. Mtis. xxx. p. 554 (1906)).

The ? has the blunt elbows in the outer margin of both wings developed into
strong angulations, that in the hindwing almost forming a tail. The apex of
forewing is produced, and the margin beneath it concave. The white dots of the
outer lines are scarcely visible, and the white markings on costa before apex of
forewing less obvious.

1 ? from Sapucay, Paraguay, September 1900 (Foster).

330. Polla inquinata spec. nov.

Forewing: dark reddish-fawn, darkest towards anal angle; costa dotted with
black ; inner line shown only on inner margin near base, where an oblique curved
black streak runs to base of vein 2, marked on the three veins by faint white dashes ;
cell-spot black ; from two-thirds of costa an oblique bluish-white streak runs
to vein 7, is there sharply angled, aud continued as a sinuous series of white spots
on veins to just beyond middle of inuer margin, the spots on veins 3, 2, 1 followed
by black blotches ; from just before apex a bluish-white line runs inwards to the
augle of outer line, is then interrupted, and reappears on veins 3, 2, 1 as three
large submargiual black blotches, in the ? united to form a zigzag black marking ;
inner margin with scattered black striae ; fringe concolorous.

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Hindwing : darker ; with a blackish shade close to base, a diffuse blackish
central shade, marked by white dashes on veins, following the black cell-spot, and
developing into a large black patch on inner margin ; a zigzag black snbmarginal
marking from anal angle.

Underside duller, paler, the hindwing with a faint bluish-white flush, both
black-speckled ; a brown marginal border on both wings, in the forewing with the
black zigzag anal streak shown, and a black mark on costa before the slightly
paler apex ; cell-spots black.

Face brown ; vertex whitish ; shoulders, patagia, and thorax very pale
ochreous ; abdomen brown, with the basal and anal segments of dorsum blackish
marked.

Expanse of wings : 44 mm.

1 c?, 1 ¥ from La Oroya, E. Inambari, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., September
1904, dry season (Ockenden).

c? with outer margin of both wings curved ; ¥ with it strongly angled at
middle, and the apex of forewing acutely produced, as in Folia albipuncta Warr.

331. Polla nigriseriata spec. nov.

Forewing : greyish brown, thickly sprinkled with black striae ; lines very
obscure ; first oblique inwards, to one-fifth of inner margin, with a dark mark
on costa at one-third, below which it is angled ; a brown streak at two-thirds,
oblique outwards, angled on vein 7, then oblique inwards to middle of inner
margin ; an inwardly oblique white streak from costa just before apex emitting
fine white lines along veins 7, 8, 9, and marked by small white dots on veins
6 and 5, below which two divergent series of black spots on veins run to inner
margin, the outer one to anal angle, those of the inner row sometimes minutely
tipped with white ; cell-spot black ; fringe concolorous.

Hindwing: with the two series of black spots and an antemedian dark line
from inner margin, all obsolete above vein 4 ; cell-spot black ; costa whitish grey.

Underside paler ; outer line marked by bluish-white vein-dashes on forewing,
and becoming distinctly luuulate-dentate on hindwing; marginal area beyond it
browner with traces of a snbmarginal series of white dashes in hindwing, less
distinct on forewing, but connected at anal angle by a black zigzag line ; cell-spots
black.

Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; shoulders and base of
patagia pale ochreous ; legs mottled fuscous and whitish.

Expanse of wings : 38 mm.

2 <$<$ from Sapucay, Paraguay, November 1903, and October 1904 (Foster).
Evidently allied to F. toraria Schaus from Brazil ; perhaps a dark form of it.

332. Polla olivacea spec. nov.

Forewing : dull olive-green on a dark iron-grey ground, which shows up in
proportion as the olive scales are abraded ; costa finely streaked with black ; inner
line visible only as an iron-grey oblique streak from one-half of inner margin to the
origin of vein 2 ; two white costal streaks before apex, meeting on vein 7 ; the
inner, representing outer line, marked with dark at costa, angled on vein 7, and
produced to middle of inner margin as a sinuous row of white vein-dots, which are
plainer above middle ; fringe olive-green ; cell-spot black.

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Hindwing : much more striated with blackish ; a streak at base and the
cell-spot black ; costa iron-grey ; no distinct line ; fringe rufous.

Underside dull lilac-grey, the marginal border darker ; cell-spot black ; fringe
rufous.

Head blackish ; shoulders and patagia pale ochreous ; dorsum iron-grey, the
third and fourth segments and anal tuft olive ; abdomen below paler ; legs mottled
fuscous and ochreous.

Expanse of wings : 4U mm.

1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Carabaya, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904,
dry season (Ockenden).

333. Pyrinia angulimargo spec. nov.

Forewing : pale ochreous, suffused with olive ; costa with dark-brown striae ;
a purplish-brown blotch at end of cell, with the discocellular marked by pearl-grey
scales along its centre ; a smaller brown spot on the submedian fold, obliquely
below it, preceded by a faint oblique shade ; outer line thick and diffuse, purple-
brown, from two-thirds of inner margin towards apex, interrupted at vein 5, and
retracted to costa at four-fifths ; this line lies in a purplish shade, the inner edge of
which is marked by a pale line ; on the costa the line is edged externally by
a slight lustrous streak ; marginal area dark chestnut-brown, containing a fine
submargiual line, swollen into black spots on veins 4, 3, 2 and 1, the last much
larger and edged with pale scales ; fringe purple-brown.

Hindwing : with a double purple-brown central line, with some pearly scales
in the middle, aud a purplish shade beyond ; outer area tawny brown, darker
at apex.

Underside yellow, striated with reddish ; the two middle spots of forewing aud
middle band of hindwing red-brown; marginal border of forewing deep red-brown,
forked at inner margin ; of hindwing pale brick-red.

Head aud palpi red-brown ; thorax aud abdomen pale ochreous, the aual half
browner.

Expanse of wings : 26 mm.

1 3 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft, September 1904, dry season
(Ockenden).

The outer margin of hindwing is truncate from apex to vein 6, thence straight
to anal angle.

The antennae are armed with tuberculate fascicles of cilia.

334. Sicya obscurissima Th.-Mg.

Slcija obscurissima Th.-Mg., Bull. S. E. Fr. p. 92 (1894).
Pscustoplaca diversicolor Warr., Nuc. Zool. ii. p. 164 (1895).

This species is a true Sicga, though differing so much in colour from others of
the genus, and my genus Pseustoplaca was quite unnecessary.

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THE ELAND OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

By R. LYDEKKER.

(Plate I.)

IN The Field newspaper for 19u6 (vol. cviii. p. 579) I gave a brief description
of the head of an eland killed by Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Patterson on the
Laikipia plateau, in British East Africa,* for which I proposed the name
Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus. This head, forming the subject of Plate I.,
together with the body-skin, Colonel Patterson subsequently presented to the
British Museum (Natural History), the former being now exhibited iu the West
Corridor of the building in the Cromwell Road.

Taking as a basis of comparison the two specimens of the striped eland shot
by Mr. F. C. Selous in Mashonaland, and exhibited in the same corridor, under
the name of Taurotragus onjx livingstonei, I stated that the eland of British East
Africa was distinguished by having " an incomplete white chevrou similar to,
although rather smaller than, the one found in the Sudan eland (7'. derbianus
gigas), while only a narrow stripe in the middle line of the face, above and
between the eyes, is dark brown, the sides of the forehead being rufous. On the
lower part of the face there is a larger dark brown area thau iu the ordinary
striped eland, although there is a rufous fawn-coloured patch on each side above
the nostril." At the time of writing this passage I was uuaware that Mr. Selous f
had already recorded the occurrence of an incomplete white chevron in some of
the elands from the south of the Zambesi, as exemplified by the two male heads
from Mashonaland, figured in Plate I., figs. 1 aud 3, of the first of the two works
cited in the footuote. Further details are therefore necessary to demonstrate the
distinctness of the British East African race. So far as my present information
goes, the races and species (?) of eland may be arranged as follows: —

1. The Southern race, T. oryx oryx%: Whole body aud limbs pale fawn-
coloured, without white stripes on the body, no white chevrou on the forehead,
or dark knee-bauds or dorsal stripe ; face of old bulls wholly brown, with a large
"bush" of blackish-brown hair on the forehead; in the cows the middle line of
the face brown, and the sides paler.

Although extinct iu Cape Colony (the type locality), this race, according to
Mr. Selous, survives in the South Kalahari Desert, and iu East Africa apparently
extends about as far north as lat. 23° S. — that is to say, Matabeleland.

North of lat. 23° S., according to the same observer, certain individuals
in a herd show more or less distinct white body-stripes and dark knee-bands,
thus passing into —

2. The Zambesi race, T. onjx livingstonei, of which the type locality is

* Owing to erroneous information, it was stated that the locality was Portuguese East Africa ;
the mistake was cone ted in the next issue of The Field.

t A Hitnttr'.i Wanderings in Africa, p. Umi (lS'JO), aud iu linden's Great and Small Game of
Jfrisa, p. 436 (18.1'J).

J I prefer the Dame T. oryx tyj)i&Mt but thi^ is inadmissible in Kocitaiet.

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Sesheke, north of the Victoria Falls of the Central Zambesi,* which presents the
following characteristics : Body-colour a deeper fawn on the back, marked with
eight or nine vertical white stripes, more conspicuous in young than in aged
animals, a dark dorsal stripe, and dark brown bauds above the knees, which tend
to fade with age ; forehead of old bulls with a dark brown "bash," and typically
no white chevron (teste the plate in Livingstone's Sot/t/i Africa).

This race apparently extends southwards of the Zambesi to Mashonaland, as
exemplified by the mounted male and female in the British Museum (Natural
History). It is noticeable, however, that the bull now shows no dark knee-bands ;
but probably they have faded out. In Mashonaland, as exemplified by the two
bulls already referred to as being figured in Mr. Selous's book, an imperfect
white chevron may coexist with a dark brown " bush " on the forehead, thus
leading on to — ■

3. The British East African race, T. oryx pattersonianus, which has the
following characteristics (so far as these can be determined from a single specimen):
Body pale rufous fawn, marked with three distinct white stripes on the withers,
and faint indications of other stripes farther back ; small dark knee-bands and dark
dorsal stripe; forehead of adult bulls without a "bush" of long hair, a narrow
stripe in the middle line of the forehead above and between the eyes black, the
sides of the forehead bright rufous, and an incomplete white chevron below the eyes ;
lower part of face dark brown, with a fawn patch on each side above the nostril.

[Here it may be well to mention that an eland-head from Portuguese East
Africa — apparently an adult bull— in the possession of Mr. P. B. Vander Byl,
has the face coloured similarly to that of the British East African race, but
without the white chevron, although lacking the frontal "bush." I am informed,
however, by Capt. Stevenson Hamilton that two }'Oung elands recently caught in
Portuguese Africa had the white chevron. It may be added that a few of the bull
elands at Woburn Abbey show a chevron, which is, however, bnff instead of white.]
From the country between British East Africa and the Bahr-el-Ghazal province
of the Sudan no specimens of eland are available ; but it seems quite probable
that in this district a race may exist in some degree connecting T. o. pattersonianus
with the one provisionally known as —

4. The Sudan Eland, Taurotragus derbianus gigas, of which a head is figured
by Mr. Kothschild in vol. xii. PI. XII. of this journal . The leading characteristics
of this head, in addition to the large size of the horns and the broader ears (as
contrasted with those of all the races here classed as T. oryx) are the following :
Forehead of adult bulls wholly chestnut, and without a "bush"; an incomplete
white chevron below. the eyes, and the rest of the front of the face blackish brown,
with the exception of a white patch over each eye, including the eyelid ; lips
white, sides of face fawn, with a band of chestnut running from between the horn
and the ear to the throat, and a white gorget in the middle of the lower part
of this band. Sides of fore-part of neck fawn, followed posteriorly on each side
by a broad oblique blackish band narrowing towards the chest, with a narrow
line of white near its hind border; a black stripe along the middle line of the
neck and another on the throat. Body-striping unknown.

* In his original description of Taurotragus liviiigstonei (Prnr. Zool. Soc. London, 18G4, p. 104),
Dr. Sclater refers first to elands from Usagara, German East Africa, and then to others obtained by
Sir J. Kirk just north of the Zambesi. I consider it, however, admissible to take as the type of this form
the elands obtained by Livingstone at Sesheke, as has already been done by Mr. Selous.

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5. The Seuegambian Eland, Taurotragus derbianus. According to Mr.
Rothschild (op. cit.) there are no characters by which the head of the Sudan
eland can be distinguished from the typical T. derbianus of Senegauibia, and it
is therefore highly probable that both should be included nuder the present name.
The body of derbianus is characterised by the bright chestnut ground-colour of
the coat and the profuse white striping, the number of stripes being usually fourteen
or fifteen, so far as is known. Black knee-bands are present.

So far as the races included under the specific title of T. oryx are concerned,
it will be clear from the above that there is complete gradation in the matter
of colouring from the Cape to the British East African animal — a gradation which
ought to be met with in all cases where we have to deal with races or subspecies,
although it has often been eliminated by differentiation. If, as suggested,
something approaching a similar gradation will eventually be found to connect
the British East African with the Sudan eland, it may be advisable to regard
T. derbianus merely as a race of the southern species, with the designation of
T. oryx derbianus.

Whether or no snch a gradation, or partial gradation, really exists, it is quite
apparent that elands (which were probably once a northern type, since their
remains occur in the Pliocene of Southern Europe and India) show a modification
from a broad-eared, chestnut-coloured, forest-dwelling animal, profusely marked
on the body with white stripes, white streaks on the face, a black neck, and
black-gartered legs, to one in which the whole colour (with the exception of the
face) is pale tawny while the ears are narrow, this latter type being evidently
adapted to a semi- or complete desert existence. In the matter of gradation (with
one gap) from one type of colouring to another as we proceed from north to
south (irrespective of whether this gradation is or is not complete), elands present
us with a condition exactly paralleled by that which occurs respectively in the cases
of the giraffe and the bonte-qnagga. Three such parallel instances occurring in
the same country are assuredly sufficient to demonstrate that protection is the
main factor in the evolution of the colouring of great game animals.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE.

Head and neck of the type specimen of Taurotragus oryx patter 'sonianus,
from the Laikipia plateau, British East Africa, preserved in the British Museum
(Natural History).

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TWO NEW INDIAN SPHINGIDAE IN THE BRITISH

MUSEUM.

By Sir GEORGE HAMPSON, Bakt., F.Z.S., etc.

1. Marumba microta spec. nov.

Foretibia with long carved claw at extremity.

<$. Plead and thorax red-brown, the head rather paler, except palpi ; antennae
whitish ; abdomen red-brown. Forewing grey-brown suffused with purplish
rnfons and with slight dark irroratiou ; a black and rufous snbbasal spot on vein 1 ;
an oblique brown medial line, diffused on outer side ; postmedial area somewhat
greyer ; an indistinct slightly curved subterminal line with two conjoined red-brown
spots on it at inner margin ; a small dark brown spot on termen below apex defined
by a grey lunule on inner side and with a very indistinct triangular brown shade
below it from termen to the subterminal line ; cilia dark brown. Hindwing
purplish red-brown with indistinct darker shade on termen near tornus ; cilia
dark brown with slight whitish tips towards tornus ; the underside rather redder,
with indistinct oblique medial line and curved postmedial line.

Expanse, 44 mm.

Hab. Godavery District, Madras (Hearsey).

1 i.

2. Marumba poliotis spec. nov.

Foretibia with large curved claw at extremity.

(J. Head and thorax grey-white, the head and tegulae tinged with rufous;
metathorax with two slight tufts of blackish scales ; tarsi ringed with black ;
abdomen grey-white dorsally suffused with rufous except at base and with fine black
dorsal line expanding into a small spot on penultimate segment. Forewing grey
suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with black ; the basal and terminal areas
browner and the postmedial area whiter ; some blackish suffusion before the whitish
antemedial line, which is defined by blackish on outer side, oblique from costa
to median nervure, angled inwards in submedian fold, then excurved and angled
inwards to inner margin ; a dark medial line excurved from costa to median nervure,
then incurved to near antemedial line ; a small pale rufous discoidal spot, slightly
defined by blackish ; postmedial line dark ; excurved from costa to vein 5, then
incurved and sinuous ; subterminal line indistinctly double, excurved below costa,
then oblique, dentate and with small somewhat dentate black marks on its outer
edge, the mark below costa extending as a streak to termen and the mark at vein 4
larger ; slight black marks on termen at the extremities of the veins. Hindwing
grey suffused with brown : postmedial line excurved and indistinct from costa
to vein 4, then incurved and witli whitish patch beyond it in submedian interspace,
ending at tornus ; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, the postmedial
line fine, a curved dentate subterminal line with slight brownish band beyond it
becoming terminal below vein 4.

Expanse, 54 mm.

Hab. Ganjam.

1 3.

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XETT ZYGAEXIBAE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

By Sir GEORGE HAMPSON, Bart., F.Z.S., etc.

1. Artona pluristrigata spec. nov.

?. Head and tliorax black and fulvous yellow; abdomen with the basal part
black, with two orange bands, the terminal part orange; wings black. Forewing
with yellow fascia from base below costa, two in intermedian interspace and one
on inner area ; two streaks in end of cell and streaks between the veins of terminal
area. Hindwing with the basal half yellow traversed by the black veins ; the
terminal area black with short yellow streaks between the veins of apical half.

Expanse, 24 mm.

Hub. Pnln Lant (Doherty).

1 ?.

2. Nesace virescens spec nov.

3. x\ntennae of male with long branches ; forewing long, the apex produced.
Greenish black ; abdomen with fulvous lateral tufts on proximal segments ; wings
semihyaliue.

Expanse, 22 mm.

llab. Petropolis, Brazil (H. Doer).

1 3.

3. Caementa glaucotis spec. nov.

Pampa myetica Druce (nee Wlk.), Bin!. Centr. Am., Het. i. p. 40 (1884).

3- Antennae of male with the branches short; hindwing with the costa
excised before middle, the discocellnlar between veins 0 and 7 very oblique.
Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black ; wings semihyaliue black, with a grey-blue
tinge, the veins black.

Expanse, 20 mm.

lltb. Vera Paz, Guatemala (Champion).

1 <J.

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SOME NEW SIPHONAPTERA.

By the HON. N. 0. ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S.
Thauniapsylla gen. nov.
Allied to Tschnopsyllus Westw. (1833).

Head semicircnlar, being very short, Maxilla triangular and pointed in
side-view (Fig. 1). Prothorax, apart from comb of teeth, extremely short.
Mesonotum long ; metanotum short, with a comb of short and widely separate
teeth. Abdomen broad, resembling Pulex. Hindcoxa very long, without distinct

wax

Fig. 1.

apical excision behind. The short bristles at the edge of the tibiae of even size,
as in Ctcnopsi/llits musculi, etc.

A very remarkable bat-flea, which, in the pointed maxilla, is a connecting
link between the genera Tschnopsyllus and Ctenopsyllus.

1. Thaumapsylla breviceps spec. nov.

Head. — The labial palpns consists of five segments, reaching to half the
length of the forecoxa. The forehead bears one long bristle at the antennal
groove and numerous very tiny hairs along the frontal edge (Fig. 1).

Thorax. — The comb of the pronotum projects downwards over the sternite,
and consists of thirty-two teeth. The mesonotum bears numerous short bristles,
which are stout like most of the bristles on the body, besides a postmedian row
of five longer ones on each side ; before the apex there are two or three thin
spines close together. The metanotum bears two rows of bristles and a few
additional hairs on the back, with a comb of six to eight short spines at the apex.
The epimernm of the metathorax bears numerous short stout bristles.

Abdomen. — The first tergite bears a comb like the metauotnm, and two rows
of bristles, the other tergites having only one row.

Legs. — The forecoxa is very densely covered with short stout bristles, one
bristle at the hinder edge being much prolonged. The hindfemur bears four or
five ventral bristles from the base to the middle. There are four long bristles
on the hinder side of the hindtibia. The fifth tarsal segment is short and
triangular.

modified Segments.— <S . The clasper is ovate, the finger small, halfmoon-
shaped, the manubrium tapering, being nearly straight and directed obliquely

downwards. ? . The eighth tergite bears four bristles beneath the stigma and

about sixteen farther down. The stylet is very short.

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Length : 6 2 ram. ; ? 2-2 mm.

We have a series of this species taken off spirit specimens of Roussettus collaris
from Cape Colony, and another series off Roussettus atramineus from Knysna,
Cape Colony.

2. Ctenophthalmus ansorgei spec, now

? . This species is similar to C. caucasica Tasch. (1880). The rostrum is rather
short, being about two-thirds the length of the forecoxa. There are three genal
spines. The pronotal comb consists of sixteen teeth. The mesonotnm bears two
rows of bristles and numerons short hairs on the back. There are three rows on the
metanotnm, besides an abbreviated fourth row. The epimernm of the metathorax
bears six to eight bristles. The abdominal tergites have three rows of bristles,
the first row consisting of a few hairs only, except on the first tergite, the row
on this segment extending nearly as far down as the second row. The seventh
tergite bears three apical bristles, the upper one being two-fifths and the lower
one two-thirds of the length of the central one. The sternites of segments 3 to 6
bear one row of bristles and ventrally a small number of hairs in front of this row,
these additional hairs being arranged in a row on the posterior sternites.

The legs are the same as in C. caucasica.

Modified Segments. — ?. The seventh sternite (Fig. 2) has a deep but rather
narrow sinus, the upper lobe being much narrower than in C. caucasica. The

eighth tergite bears six or seven long bristles and several short ones, as shown
in the figure. The aual sternite bears four bristles on each side.

Length : 2-8 mm.

We have two ? ? taken off Georychus bocagei by Dr. W. J. Ansorge at Bihe,
Angola, on November 21st, 1904.

3. Ctenophthalmus triodontus spec. nov.

<??. Distantly related to C. caucasica Tasch. (1880); distinguished by the
modified segments of the abdomen, the tarsi, and the bristles of the abdomen.

Head. — There is a comb of three spines at the ventral edge of the gena.
The frontal portion of the head bears two rows of bristles, the anterior row
containing four bristles and the second row three long ones.

Thorax. — The pronotal comb consists of sixteen spines. The metathoracic
epimernm bears from eleven to thirteen bristles.

Abdomen.— There are two rows of bristles on the tergites, the first tergite
bearing in addition a few dorsal bristles representing a third row, the following
tergite also bearing one or two additional bristles. The seventh tergite has three

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bristles at the apex. The sternites of segments 3 to T bear a row of long bristles
and several shorter hairs in front of this row.

Legs. — The third segment of the foretarsns and the fonrth of the hindtarsus
are nearly as broad as they are long. The first hindtarsal segment is two-thirds
the length of the tibia.

Modified Segments. — 8. The clasper (Fig. 3) is produced into a large ronnded-
triangnlar process bearing several long bristles at the ventral edge and near the

Fig. 3.

apes ; the finger is nnnsnally long and slender, being apically rather abruptly

but not strongly dilated. ?. The seventh sternite of the ? is deeply sinuate,

the upper lobe being rather narrow (Pig. 4, vii. st.). There are no bristles above
the stigma of the eighth tergite (viii. t.). The stylet is very slender.

V// )t

VW jf

Fig. 4.

Length : 8 2-8 ; ? 3-2 mm.

One 8, two ? ? in the British Museum. The locality and host are not known,
the writing on the label being obliterated by the alcohol. Probably an African
insect.

4. Ctenophthalmus congener spec. nov.

8. The rostrum reaches very little beyond the centre of the forecoxa, being
much shorter than in C. assimilis Tasch. (1880). There are three genal spines.
The pronotal comb consists of eighteen teeth. The mesonotum bears two rows of
bristles, and on the back many additional small hairs. The metathorax and
abdominal tergites each bear two rows of bristles. The epimernm of the metathorax
bears six bristles (3, 3). The 7th tergite has three apical bristles, the lower being

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one-half and the upper two-fifths the length of the middle one. The fifth hindtarsal
segment bears a subbasal pair of bristles on the ventral surface and fonr lateral
pairs, the third being very small.

Modified Segments. — S. The upper edge of the clasper bears a nnmber of
long bristles. The process (P) of the clasper (Fig. f>) is short, being almost

Fig. 5.

square and bearing one bristle at the joint with the finger. The finger (F) is long,
being widest at the apex ; its hinder edge is bisinuate. The ninth sternite
resembles that of C. rissimilis ; the apex of the ventral arm, however, is more
sqnare.

Length : ? 26 mm.

We have one t? collected by Mr. W. Baer at Niesky, Silesia, on Febrnary 24th,
1899, off Hypudaeus glareolus.

5. Ceratophyllus anisus spec. nov.

3. This species is similar to C. sciurorum. The rostrum is somewhat shorter
than in that species. There is no long bristle immediately behind the base of the
antenna. The mid- and hindfemora each bear a subventral row of three or four
bristles on the innerside, besides a subapical pair. The short hairs on the ventral
surface of the tarsi are less numerous than in C. sciurorum. The first hindtarsal

Figs. G and 7.

segment bears on the anterior side four pairs of bristles inclusive of the apical
pair.

Modified Segments. — J. The greatest difference between this species and
C. sciurorum is shown in these segments. The eighth sternite is very long and

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slender, being slightly curved and bearing ventrally at the apex two pairs of
bristles (Fig. 7, viii. st.). The eighth tergite bears eight bristles above and two
below. The process P of the clasper is narrow, being almost pointed (Fig. 6).
The finger is broader at the apex than in S. sciurorum. The bristles are also
different. The inner arm of the ninth steruite is strongly curved. The bristles on
the central widening of the horizontal arm are numerous.

Length : 2-5 mm.

We have one <5 from Yokohama, Japan, takeu off Felis sp. by Mr. Allan
Owston on June 28th, 191)2.

FURTHER NOTES ON MACROPUS 3IAGNUS.
By THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

WHEN I described, from a living animal in my collection, what I believed
to be Macropus magnus of Owen (cf. Noc. Zool. xii. p. 509, 1905), I
stated that until the death of the animal we could not be certain if it was really
M. magnus. This reservation has turned out to be very wise. In the early part
of this year I received an adult pair of kangaroos much resembling large Macropus
ruj'us, but the female was of the same colour as the male, both being of a bright
reddish buff with blue-grey faces, and the undersides much paler whitish buff.
The fur is short and woolly, as in M. rufus, but even softer and more silky to
the touch. These animals, like the previously mentioned supposed M. magnus,
were sent from some portion of Northern or North- Western Australia. When this
winter began all three unfortunately died, and the examination of the skulls,
now that the animals have been prepared, has at last cleared up the long-
standing mystery of Macropus magnus. The formerly described animal turns
out to be a new species, while the pair received afterwards belong to the true
M. magnus. In the male skull the palatal foramina, owing to captivity, have
become abnormal, the left one being tilled up by an osseous thickened mass,
while the right one is divided in two by an osseous septum ; but the high and
sharply developed cusps of the molars are more strongly developed than in the
type, and the other distinctive characters separating M. magnus from M.- rufus
are very conspicuous.

I have now received a second specimen of the kangaroo I formerly wrongly
identified with M. magnus, and, as the skull proves it to be distinct, I have much
pleasure in namiug it after Mr. Karl Hagenbeck, from whom I received the pair
of true M. magnus, as follows :

Macropus hagenbecki sp. dov.
Macrojmt magnus Rothschild (nee Oweu), Nov. Zool. xii. p. oJ'J (1905).

llib. Some portion of Northern or North-Western Australia.

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ON THE BRITISH SUBSPECIES OE CARABUS
VIOLA CUUS.

By ERNST HARTERT, Pn.D.

Carabus violaceus is one of the most interesting species of the fascinating
geuns Carabtts, because it presents a great many local forms, especially iu the
Alps, and in its distribution from east to west.

Carabus violaceus violaceus has the upper surface of the elytra uniformly
covered with fine granulations, without any striations, and the margins of the
elytra are of a beautiful reddish violet. This form inhabits North-Eastern
Germany, eastwards apparently to Russia and Austria, Denmark and portions of
Scandinavia. Numerous other forms are spread over the more south-eastern
countries and over the Alpine districts.

In the west, in the plains of West Germany and of the greater part of
France, C. v. violaceus is replaced by forms of a totally different appearance ;
in these the elytra are sharply striated with about a dozen elevated lines, between
which granulations are visible. This is Carabus violaceus purpurascens. One is,
at first sight, inclined to think that violaceus and purpurascens are two different
species, as they differ so strikingly, and because, according to Erichson and other
authorities, in certain parts of South-West Germany both occur in the same
localities. Moreover, the forceps of the male is straighter and more blunt iu typical
violaceus; more pointed, tajiering, and more curved in purpurascens. We are,
however, assured by Paul Born and other specialists that various forms present
complete intergradation between the two extremes, and that their distribution
is not the same ; it is quite possible that, iu this and other cases, single
occurrences of one or the other form in the area of a different subspecies is due to
involuntary transportation (with moss, vegetables, etc.), or that such specimens are
atavistic aberrations, and we may, for the present, accept the dictum that violaceus
and purpurascens are representative subspecies of each other.

A very fine form, close to purpurascens, but with a greenish golden border
to the elytra, is not rare on the French side of the Pyrenees. Mr. Rothschild
and I caught it under stones near Canterets (Hantes Pyrenees), and about
1500 metres high, near the Hospice de Luchon (Haute Garonne), aud Rondna
sent it me from Gedres.

In England we would expect a form like or near purpurascens, but this is not
the case ; British specimens are widely different from the striated forms, and closely
resemble violaceus. From the latter (a series from Silesia, North Germany, and
Austria, examined) they differ, however, by the elytra being less finely, more
roughly, and somewhat more irregularly granulated, thus appearing much less
smooth. The forceps of the male is blunt as in German C. v. violaceus, not so
much pointed and curved as in purpurascens aud fulgens. The size of the British
form is rather variable. Other constant differences 1 have, so far, not noticed.
I name the British form :

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Carabus violaceus sollicitans subsp. uov.

Type: ?. Ashridge near Triug, 8. viii. 1900, caught by Arthur Goodson;
in my collection.

In addition to the type I have examined, specimens from Ashburne in
Derbyshire (C. F. R. Jourdain), Oxford (Shipp), Cowley in Oxfordshire (Shipp),
Knighton, Colchester, Dursley (Shipp), Wilstone near Triug (A. Goodson), Eustou
(Karl Jordan), Wells in Somerset, and the Forth district in Scotland (W. Eagle
Clark). All these examples showed the same characters.

MISCELLANEA ORNITHOLOGICA.

CRITICAL, NOMENCLATORIAL, AND OTHER NOTES, MOSTLY ON
PALAEARCTIC BIRDS AND THEIR ALLIES.

By ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D.

PART IV.*

MUSCICAPA MUGIMAKI Temm.

UNFORTUNATELY, ornithologists have universally employed the specific name
luteola for a well-known Flycatcher nesting in East Siberia, from the mouth
of the Amur to Lake Baikal. Evidently nobody took the trouble to examine
critically the original description of Muscicapa luteola Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso— Asiat.
i. p. 470), or he would have seen that the bird described there is the Red-breasted
Flycatcher, or its Siberian representative, Muscicapa parva albicilla. The bird
hitherto known as M. luteola must henceforth be called M. mugimaki Temm. (cf.
Vogel pal. Fauna, i. pp. 487, 402).

Notes on the genera CRYPTOLOPHA, ABRORNIS, TICKELLIA and

PHYLLOSCOPUS.

Though always inclined to " lump" genera — the use of genera being to enable
us to find our way through the otherwise chaotic mass of forms, but not to make
our studies more iutricate and difficult — I believe that we are justified in separating
the genera Crgptolopha and Abrornis ; these two genera are easily distinguished by
their tails, Crgptolopha having twelve rectrices, Abrornis only ten. Moreover, the
bill in Abrornis is comparatively much shorter and wider, the rictal bristles are
longer and stronger, and its members lay — as far as it is known— spotted eggs,
while the known eggs of the species of Crgptolopha are white, without spots.
Tickellia should also be separated from Abrornis, with which it agrees iu having
only ten rectrices. The bill is, however, very different, being very broad and bluntly
pointed, and the tail-feathers are long and narrow. Only one species, however,
belongs to the genus Tickellia — i.e. T. hodgsoni. Dr. Biauehi (iu a review of the
genera Crgptolopha, Abrornis, and Tickellia in the Bull. Acad. Tmpe'r. Sci.
Petersburg, ser. v. vol. xxiii. p. 65) includes in the genus Tickellia also Abrornis

* For Part I. see Nov. Zool. 1904, pp. 136-60 ; for Part II., Nov. Zool. 1905, pp. 407-503 ; for Part III.,
Nov. ZooL 1906, pp. 386-105.

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albigularis and Julvifacies. It is inconceivable why this was done, as these last
two forms are as typical Abrornis as schisticeps and superciliaris. Evidently
Bianchi was not acquainted with these forms, and wrote about them not from
antojitic knowledge and study, but only from what he had found in other books.
This shortcoming is apparent in various instances in his article. Had he actually
examined all these forms, such an experienced, keen-eyed and careful ornithologist
could not have made such mistakes. It is, in my opinion, a grave error to
write and to make firm statements about forms one does not know, unless this is
unavoidable. Of course, when writing a monograph about a certain family, say a
volume of the Catalogue of Birds or of the Tierreick, all named forms must be
mentioned, and, although it is impossible to examine every one of them, some
conclusion must be arrived at. Otherwise it is, as a rule, wiser not to say anything
about a species not known to the writer.

A greater difficulty than the limitation of the genera Abrornis and Tickellia is
the differentiation between the genera Phylloscopus and Cryptolopha. Both have
twelve rectrices and the bills in both vary very much. Formerly the former genus
was placed among the Sylviidae, the latter among the Muscicapidae. The result
has been that certain forms, which are neither the most typical Phylloscopi nor very
typical ( 'rgptolophae, were partly placed in the one, partly in the other genus ;
this has been done frequently. Thus, to quote ouly one example, Phylloscopus
trochiloides has always been placed in this genus (respectively Acantlwpneuste, a
subgenus not recognised by me) ; while a form merely differing by its much brighter
coloration and perhaps slightly shorter wings, ricketti of Slater, has been described
as a Cryptolopha, and has quietly rested in the latter genus until now. There are
naturally several ways to get over our difficulty : either to form some more genera
for the less typical and somewhat intermediate forms, or to unite Cryptolopha and
Phylloscopus, if we cannot admit the status quo — I mean, if we cannot be content
with the last-named two genera. I have considered all mauners. Pleske, Gates,
and Sharpe {Handlist, iv.) have taken the first-named course, distinguishing between
Phylloscopus, Acanthopneuste, Oreopneuste, Reguloides and Cryptolopha. This
arrangement is, however, unsatisfactory, because of great inconsistencies iu it : for
example, if all these genera are admitted, why then is sibilatrix, a bird quite as
different from a Chiffchaff or "Willow-wren as borealis, left in Phylloscopus s.s. ?
There are no sharp limits for these genera, and the inevitable result is that certain
forms are placed by one writer iu this, by another iu another genus. Therefore,
this way out of the difficulty is not advisable. If uniting Phylloscopus and Crypto-
lopha, on the other hand, we find most divergent extremes iu such an assembly,
and, I believe, we can still admit the two groups, as between the widest-billed
Phylloscopus and the nearest Cryptolopha there is still a gap, the latter having,
combined with a wider bill, stronger rictal bristles, and, as a rule, a longer first and
shorter second primary, while the former has a narrower bill — though varying
greatly from the narrow beak of a Ph. tristis to the wide one of a vuignirostris,
occipitalis, trochiloides, or of the small-sized Reguloides group — and usually a
less-developed first and more prolonged second primary. Under this arrangement
we have to place iu the genus Phylloscopus, iu addition to forty-one palaearctic
forms treated of iu my book, Die Vbgel iter put. Fauna, i. p. 501 lb, the following
forms : Ph. ricketti, tricirgata, cantator, kinabalmnsis, olicacca, presbytia, sarosi-
norum, Jloris, water stradti, everetti, giulianetti,Julviventris, and nigrorum ; while in
Cryptolopha we place : burkii, tepkrocepiialus, valeniini, intermedia, affinis, xantho-

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schtstosjerdoni, castaneiceps, sinensis, butleri, montis,Jloris, xanthopygia, grammiceps
and polioqew/s.

Mr. Bianchi quite misunderstood the form called tephrocephalus by Anderson.
He renamed it Cr. burmanica (in the review of Cryptolopha misspelt "brumanica"),
thongh the original description, the figure in the " Yunnan Expedition," and
the locality clearly indicate that the so-called burmanica is the bird named
tephrocephalus by Anderson, and transferred the name tephrocephalus to a slightly
different form inhabiting Southern Kansu, which we recently received from the
Tsin-ling Mountains (Tai-pai-shan) in some numbers. The mistake could hardly
have been made if full importance had been given to the distribution of burkii,
tephrocephalus and mlentini, as I have named the new form from Kansu and
Tsin-ling-shan in my Yog. Pal. Fauna iv. p. 407, where I distinguished between
( '/•. b. burkii, Cr. b. tephrocephalus and Cr. b. valentini, which represent each other
geographically and are therefore subspecies.

On p. 57 Mr. Bianchi renamed a bird Cryptolopha harterti, which I had
described as Acanthopneuste Jloris {Nov. Zool. 1898, p. 114), because I had already
distinguished a bird as Cryptolopha montis jloris. I, however, do not consider this
to be necessary, because my Acanthopneuste jloris is a Phylloscopus, my Cryptolopha
montis Jloris a Cryptolopha. Therefore, C. harterti is a synonym of Jloris. On p. 60
my i 'ryptolopha ivaigiuensis is again enumerated, although I have at length explained
(.\nr. Zool. 1903, p. 473) that the bird to which I gave that name is the Gerygone
neglecta of Wallace. On the same page is distinguished my butleri from the Malay
Peninsula, but it is erroneously spelt with two tt. As the last species of the genus
Cryptolopha in Bianehi's review we find Oustalet's dejeani. This figures also
among the Cryptolophae in Sharpe's Handlist, but it has nothing to do with these
Flycatchers, beiug, in fact, the bird known from the Eastern Himalayas under
the name of Oligura castaneoventris (Burton). I am greatly obliged to Messrs.
Trouessart and Mdnegaux for sending me the type and various other specimens from
Ta-tsien-lu. They agree perfectly with Himalayan examples, and therefore the range
of Oligura castaneoventris extends from Sikkiin eastwards to the mountains of
Szetschwan.

The wrong position assigned to Oustalet's species shows again how unfortunate
it is to write about birds with which one is not acquainted. In this case Professor
Oustalet had, moreover, corrected his error, and placed his dejeani in the genus
Oligura in 1901, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. iv. vol. 3, p. 286, where he also
figured it on pi. xi. Judging from the description in Cat. B. vii., he still thought
it different from castaneoventris, but in this conclusion he was again wrong.

Of the genns Phylloscopus (including Acanthopneuste, Oreopneuste, and
Reguloides) we have two excellent memoirs — viz. the systematic monograph of
this genus, by Seebohm, in vol. v. of the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. pp. 37-75, and
the review of the forms inhabiting the Russian possessions, by Pleske, in the
Ornithograpkia Rossica. Probably these works are the best of their respective
authors. That of Seebohm is certainly the best in the Cat. B. v., and is free from
those flights of fancy about development and origin which we fiud in most of the
author's' later works; while Pleske's review exhausts almost everything that can
bo said about Russian Phylloscopi np to the time of his writing, and contains very
few errors indeed. There is also an excellent and useful review of the Indian species
in Oates' B. oj India, vol. i., as far as it goes.

The generic name of this genus is Phylloscopus Boie, 1826, and not " Phyllo-

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pseuste," 1822, as Oberholser pretended, for Meyer {Ziis f Ber. zu Meyer f Wolfs

Taschenb. i. p. 95) did not use this name at all in a generic sense.

The specific name of the Chiffchaff is collybita, Vieill. 1817, a name which,
nevertheless, should grammatically read " collybista." This is another instance of
the liarm done by those who " correct " the spelling of names according to Latin or
Greek orthography and grammatical rules — very often people who kuow less of
ancient languages than others. The custom of " correcting " names leads to incon-
sistency and vacillation : everybody knows that " nifiyaster" is bad and corrects it
into "riifiventris" or " rhodogaster" — according to taste— and that names like
melanotus, rufocentris, and others are incorrect; but very few know that collytyta
should really be collybista. It is the same with the unfortunate alteration of the
gender of specific names : everybody knows that Edoliisoma is a neuter, and it is
an unpardonable blunder to treat it as a femininum ; at the same time, however,
an evident masculine, Nucifraga, has always been looked upon as a femininum,
Ammomanes, undoubtedly a masculiuum, has beeu treated as femininum, and all
through the Catalogue, of Birds the gender of Halcyon is wrongly handled.
Therefore, I contend that specific and subspecific names should in no way be altered,
and especially should their gender not be made to correspond with that of the
genera, if this had not been done by their author who invented them, or if associated
with another generic name.

The Chiffchaff has mostly beer, called Phylloscopus ryfus. Bechstein, however,
did not create the name Motacilla rufa for this bird, but he erroneously referred
Gmeliu's "Motacilla rufa et lotharingica" here.

A strange muddle has been made by some ornithologists with the name Sylvia
sylvestris Meisner, lv„'4. This name was given by Meisner to the Chiffchaff, which
was correctly separated from the Willow-wren. The song of the Chiffchaff was also
correctly described by him. In 1851 Piissler gave some nido- and oological notes
about a bird he heard singing like a Willow-wren, but which attached to its song
the "chiffchaff, chiffchaff" of its congener. This bird he called " Silvia meisneri"
without obtaining or describing it. Apparently for no proper reason, our German
brother ornithologists have frequently attached the name " Sylvia sylvestris Meisn."
to such birds with "hybrid song," although the names "5. meisneri" and
" S. sylvestris " were correctly quoted as synonyms by Seebohm in vol. v. of the
( 'at, B. Brit. Mus.

Two somewhat allied forms must bear the names Phylloscopus a/finis (Tickell,
1833) and Ph. subajfinis (Grant, 1900). Their distribution is apparently not
sufficiently known, and, though they agree in structure, we could not at present say
whether they represent each other geographically and can be called subspecies. The
synonymy and nomenclature of these two forms has been wonderfully involved by
Messrs. Sharpe and Bianchi. Almost at the same date as by Grant, Ph. subajfinis was
described by Bianchi under the name of Oreopneuste davidi, but Grant's name has
some mouths' priority. Without knowing whether the species is valid or not and
where it belonged, Dr. Sharpe renamed Bianchi's davidi, calling it Oreopneuste
bianchii (Zoo/. Record, xxxvii. Aves, p. 54, because an Oreopneuste davidii existed
already as a synonym of Phylloscopus armandi, placed in Oreopneuste by Sharpe.
Thus in the Hand//*/, vol. iv. p. 214, PA. subajfinis appears under two numbers,
with three names.

Another unquoted synonym of Ph. subajfinis is Oreopneuste a/finis Oustalet
(Ois. Chine, p. 207), a name antedated by Tickell's afuiis. It is true that Oustalet

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himself recently declared his affinis to be a synonym of Tickell's Ph. affinis, but
this is qnite an error. I have examined the type and other specimens from Ta-
tsien-ln, and they certainly belong to subaffinis, and not to Ph. affinis Tick.

Among the synonyms of Phylloscopus affinis, in the Cat. B. Brit. Mm. v.
p. 65, figures also Abrornis acanthizoides Yerreaux (JStoud. Arch. Mus. Paris, Bull.
vi. p. 37, 1870). This bird was placed in the genus Oreopneuste by David and
Onstalet (Ois. Chine, p. 266). Unfortunately, it is neither an Abrornis nor a
Phylloscopus, but an eastern form of Horornis brunnescens. In fact, it is so closely
allied to II. brunnescens that many ornithologists will not hesitate in placing it as
a synonym of the latter, but, at the same time, the bill is slightly smaller, and the
under surface more tinged with lemon yellow in Chinese examples, than in true
Himalayan brunnescens, and therefore we must recognise two subspecies, //. brun-
nescens brunnescens, from the Himalayas, and //. brunnescens acanthizoides, nesting
in the Tsin-ling Mountains, and occurring — at least in the winter — as far south
as Fokien.

Phylloscopus sindianus is a very little known form, described by the pains-
taking and careful Brooks from winter-specimens obtained in Sind. Pleske referred
also Caucasus examples to Ph. sindianus, but in error. Ph. sindianus is only with
difficulty separable from tristis,* and is the form found in the Kwen-ltin. The
birds nesting in the Caucasus are Ph. lorenzii Lorenz (described from Sewertzow's
MS.), and, having no yellow on the under wing-coverts, are considered by me as
a subspecies of neglectus. I have long hesitated whether neglectus and lorenzii were
not to be placed as subspecies of the collybita group, but it is said that a form of
collybita {abietina), as well as one of neglectus (i.e. lorenzii), breed together in the
Caucasus. This forbids our concluding that they represent each other geographi-
cally, and consequently I must adopt the course taken in my book, where I
recognised the following forms :

Phylloscopus colhjbita collybita : Western and Southern Europe generally.

Phijlloscopus collybita abietina : Scandinavia and East Europe generally.

Phylloscopus collybita tristis : Petshora, Ural and Siberia.

Phylloscopus collybita sindianus : Kwen-liin Mountains.

Phylloscopus collybita canariensis : Western Canary Islands.

Phylloscopus collybita exsul : Lanzarote.
On the other hand :

Phylloscopus neglectus neglectus : Trauscaspia, Buchara, and Persia.

Phylloscopus neglectus lorenzii : Caucasus.

* By an oversight sindianus is, in my book, separated from tristis by two Canarian forms.

(7*0 be continued.)

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OBITUARIES.

Br ERNST HARTEKT, Ph.D.

HEINRICH KUHN.

DURING the year 1906 we lost one of onr most esteemed correspondents, the
ardent and indefatigable collector Heinrich Kiihn.
He was born on February 8th, 1860, in Erlbach, in Saxony, as the son of a
" Bergrat " or mining councillor. He was always enthusiastically interested in
zoology, and in 1882 he went to the Far East, in the company of Mr. Carl Ribbe,
to collect zoological specimens. They visited the Arn Islands, New Guinea, Celebes,
especially south and east Celebes, which was at that time very little known;
but the most important work perhaps was done on the large island of Banggai or
Bangkai. Kiihu's early work was highly appreciated in Europe ; and several
butterflies — for example, Pieris kilhni, Hestia kiihni, Jolaus kihkni, Amblypodia
kiikni — were named after their discoverer. Mr. J. Ruber described the lepidoptera
in volume i. of Iris (Dresden, 1884 — 1888), and in that same volume Mr. Kiihn
wrote three articles :

1. " Excnrsionen im ostindischeu Archipel " (pp.4 — S).

2. "Instinct oder Ueberlegung ? " (p. 118).

3. " Zur Kenutniss indischer Lepidoptereularven" (pp. 179 — 183).
Probably Kiihn did not reap the full benefit of his work, as he did not retnrn

to Europe, but remained in the East, while the collections which Ribbe and Kiihn
made were put on the market by Ribbe senior.

For a number of years nothing was heard of our friend as a naturalist, as
he remained at Toeal, on the Key Islands, where he erected a sawmill and planted
cocoaunts for commercial purposes ; but this occupation seems not to have been
too lucrative, and did not fully satisfy Kiihn's tastes ; he therefore offered his
services as a natural history collector to Mr. Rothschild about ten years ago,
and we have received from him the zoological results of many trips to little-known
islands, together with valuable material from the Key Islands, where he resided.

Mr. Kiihn visited the Arn Islands, and collected there most of the birds known
from that group ; he collected for the Tring Museum on the Timorlaut or Tenimber
Islands, on Banda, and on Dammer. He then explored systematically the long
chain of islands known as the South-East Islands, which stretches from the Key
Islands to Ceram, as well as the so-called South- West Islands, betweeu Wetter
and Tenimber. Several of the latter had never been visited by a European
collector before, and are inhabited by fearless, lawless, and hostile tribes. The
most interesting expedition, however, was probably that to the Tukang Besi
Islands, south of Celebes, which had never been touched by a collector before,
though the collections were less rich than we had expected, owing to these islands
being very thickly populated and under cultivation. The birdskins and lepidoptera
collected by Heinrich Kiihn were frequently discussed, and formed important
additions to our series. His name will often be found, among others, in the
monograph of Ckaraxes and in the monograph of the Sphingidae by Drs. Walter
Rothschild and Jordan, and in the "Notes on Papuan Birds," by Dr. Rothschild

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and myself, in Novitates Zoologicae. The following articles in our Journal are
entirely based on Kiihn's collections : —

1. "List of the Geomctridae, Epiplrmidae, Drcpnnulidite, and Tht/rididae
collected on the Key Islands by Mr. II. Kiihn," by W. Warren (Nov. Zool.
1898, p. 421)

2. "The Birds of Damnier Island in the Bands Sea," by E. Hartert (Nov.
Zool. 1900, p. 12).

3. "The Birds of the Banda Islands," by E. Hartert (t.c. p. 551).

4. " On the Birds of the Key and South-East Islands and of Ceram-Lant,"
by E. Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1901, pp. 1, 93 ; 1903, pp. 232).

5. "On a ( 'ollection of Birds from the Timorlant Islands," by E. Hartert
(Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 163).

6. " On the Birds collected on the Tukang-Besi Islands and Baton, south-
east of Celebes, by Mr. Heinrich Kiihn," by E. Hartert (Nov. Zool. 19i)3, p. 18).

7. "The Birds of the South-west Islands Wetter, Roma, Kisser, Letti, and
Moa," by E. Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1904, p. 174).

8. "On the Birds of the Wand of Babber," by E. Hartert (Nov. Zool, 1906,
p. 288).

9. " On the Birds of Luang," by E. Hartert (Nov, Zool. 1906,- p. 302).
The following species and subspecies have been named in our Journal in

Kiihn's honour : Birds — Gen/gone kiihni Hart., THcrurus kiihni Hart., Pitta kiihni
Hart., Dammcria henrici Hart., Geocichla peronii audacis Hart., Hypotaenidia
kuehni Rothsch., Myzomela kuehni Rothsch,, Pachycepkala kuehni Hart., Dicrurus
kiihni Hart., Calornis kuehni Hart. Lepidoptera — Agathia kiihni Warr., Chaero-
campa kuhni Rothsch., Phalacnoides kiihni Rothsch. Coleoptera — IAtocentS kuehni
Jord., Xenocerus kuehni Jord., Xenocerus kenrieus Jord.

Three years ago Heinrich Kiihn came to Europe, visiting his aged mother
in Germany, staying for a week in Tring, and at last marrying an English lady
in Loudon. He went out again to the sunny East, full of plans for future
explorations. A tragic fate, however, carried him off at a comparatively early
age. He, who had successfully and unflinchingly faced and resisted the dangerous
climate of New Guinea, Wetter, and other places, and hostile native tribes, was
attacked by a cancerous growth and succumbed to this treacherous disease in
the hospital at Soerabaya on July 26th, 1906.

We have lost in Kiihn a pleasant correspondent, and science one of its devoted
followers, who would have done more valuable service to our beloved science had
he lived longer.

GEORGE RICHARD OCKENDEN.

Another serious loss is the death of George Richard Ockenden, who died
during an expedition in the Andes of Peru.

George Richard Ockenden was born at Brighton on March 25th, 1868. In
1900 he made an arrangement with Mr. \V. F. H. Rosenberg, of Loudon, to
undertake an expedition to Peru for the purpose of collecting zoological specimens.
Mr. Ockenden was one of the most painstaking and conscientious collectors, and
one of the most successful hunters of moths who ever collected in tropical countries.
The sight of his collections of moths, as they arrived by many thousands from
Santo Domingo and other places in S.E. Pern, in the most perfect condition,

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richer in species than any other collection from those countries and in grand series,
was one never to be forgotten by a naturalist. The number of novelties is astonishing,
and the new Geometridae, Thyrididae and Vraniidae have been described by Mr.
W. Warren in Nocitates Zoologicae, 1904 and 1905, while Mr. Rothschild named
a new Hawk-moth, Xylophanes ockendeni, in his honour.

In addition to lepidoptera Ockenden also collected successfully birds, mammals
and reptiles. Mr. Boalenger has described from his collections six new batrachians,
two lizards, and two snakes, and the female of the rare and curious frog Ceratohyla
bubalus, which carries its egg on the back. The nursing habits of this species
were not formerly known. Many valuable birdskins collected by Ockenden have
enriched the series in the Tring Museum. Mr. C. E. Hellmayr has described
already two novelties from his collections — viz. Dysithamuus aroyae and Turdus
fuscata ockendeni.

During his last trip, marching eastwards from Tirapata, he was attacked by
typhoid fever. For several days he continued his journey by easy stages, but
at last he became so seriously ill that further progress was impossible. He and
his wife were in a serious plight, in a solitary empty house, almost without the
necessities of life, the luggage having gone in advance. Fortunately Mr. and
Mrs. Brown, of the Inca Mining Company, hearing of Ockenden's position, kindly
sent a vehicle and had them brought back to their house at Tirapata. Here
everything in their power was done, but Ockenden's state became rapidly worse.
As there were no doctors and no proper medicines at Tirapata, a special train
was chartered to take the patient to the Puno Hospital. Neither the doctors
nor the devoted nursing of his wife, however, could save him, and on March 25th,
1906, he passed away.

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I- AGES

1. ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE BY

MR. W; HOFFMANNS ON THE RIO

MADEIRA, BRAZIL. (Plate III.) . . C. E. tiellmayr . 343—412

2. NEW AMERICAN SATVRNIIDAE AND CE-

RATOCAMPIDAE Walter Rothschild . 413—432

3. NOTES ON PAPUAN BIRDS .... Walter Rothschild and

Ernst Uartert . . 433—44(3

4. LIST OF COLLECTIONS OF BIRDS MADE BY

A. S. MEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS ON THE
UPPER AROA RIVER AND ON THE
ANGABUNGA RIVER, BRITISH NEW

GUINEA Waller Rothschild and

Ernst Eartert . . 447—483

5. NOTES ON AFRICAN BIRDS.— I. . . . Ernst Hartert . . 484—503

6. SOME NOTES ON CASSOWARIES (Plates V.,

VI., VII.) Walter Hothschild . 504

7. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TREE KANGAl;< l( I

(Plate IV.) F- FoBrster and

Walter Rothschild . 50G

8. ON A NEW RACE OF ORYCTEROPUS . . Walter Rothschild 506

9. A NEW SPECIES OF SPHINGIDAE . . . Walter Rothschild . 507

10. SOME NEW HIMANTOPTERINAE, A SUB-
FAMILY OF ZYGAENI DAE .... Walter Rothschild . 507

CORRECTION />'. "Lydekker . . 508

19 NOV. 1907

Novitates Zoological.

Vol. XIV. NOVEMBER, 1907. No. 2.

ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE BY MR. W.
HOFFMANNS ON THE RIO MADEIRA, BRAZIL.

By C. E. HELLMAYR.

(Plate III)

AFTER leaving Teffe, Mr. Hoffmanns, whose name is already familiar to the
readers of this journal, went to Hnmaytha, a small village on the left bank
of the Rio Madeira, where he collected for abont ten weeks. A fortnight was
spent at Paraizo, on the opposite side of the river, but only a few birds were
obtained. Mr. Hoffmanns then proceeded to Borba, on the right bank, farther
down the Rio Madeira. Owing to bad health, however, he was obliged to give
up his work after several weeks, and to return home. Although the collection
of birds thus gained is far from being exhaustive, it contains much valuable
material and several novelties, the most remarkable being the strikingly distinct
Anoplops hoffmannsi Hellm. A large series of the charming Pipra nattereri, hitherto
only known from a single male and some females in the Vienna Museum, was
secured under considerable difficulties ; and a number of other s]>ecies discovered
by Natterer and never obtained since, likewise fell to Mr. Hoffmanns' gun.

As far as I am aware, the only ornithological collecting ever done on the
Rio Madeira is due to the late J. Natterer. This celebrated naturalist, when on
his way from Mattogrosso to the Amazonas, stopped at several places on the upper
part of that river (near Salto Girao, Ribeirao, etc.), and made a stay of more than
six mouths at Borba, then the capital of a province. The results of his researches
are embodied in Pelzeln's Ornithologie Br asi liens, a work which 1 had frequently
to consult in the preparation of this paper.

As Mr. Hoffmanns has returned to his old hunting-grounds, we may Boon
expect further collections, which will afford us more ample material for the
consideration of the zoogeographical position of the Rio Madeira, and 1 will confine
myself to a few remarks on certain differences which seem to exist between the
avifauna of Hntnaytha aud that of Borba. Hnmaytha has a number of species
widely distributed in North and East Peru aud Eastern Ecuador, but nut known
from the Lower Rio Madeira. Such are : Pipra eaelesti-pileata, Dendrexetastes
devillei, Tkamnomanes cacti//* persimilis, Myrmotherula h. hauxwelli, Aunjdops
salvini, A. melanosticta, Ramp/iastos cuvieri, Pteroglossus beaukarnae&ii, Galb/da
tembacea cyanescens, Prionirhynchus platyrkynckm pyrrholaemus, Conurus wed-
dellii, Pyrrhura picta lucianii, < 'rypturus bartletti, etc.

in other cases the Upper Amazonian Bpecies found near Humaytha are replaced
ou the Lower Rio Madeira (Borba) by closely related forms. For this the following
examples may be cited :

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BOBBA. lllMAYTHA.

Turdua fumigatus. T. kauxwelli.

Dendrornis guttata eytoni. Dendrornis guttata guttatoides.

Thamnopkilus punctuliger. Tkamnopkilus polionotus.

Sclatcria xcliistmra leucostigmu. Sclateria schistacea humaythae.

Hypocnemis myotherina ochrolaema. Bypocnemis myotkerina melanolaetna.

Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani. Pklegopsis n. nigromaculata.

Formicarius ruficeps amazonicus. Formicarius eolma.

Picumnus borbae. Picumnus aurifrons.

Penelope superciliaris superciliaris. Penelope jacguagu.

In my former article (anted, p. 1) I said that [taitnba is a small village near
Santarem. This, however, is a mistake, Santarem lieinuc Bitnated on the River
Amazons, while Itaituba is a place on the Rio Tapaj6z, about 250 kilometres
from Santarem.

During his sojonrn in Amazonia Mr. Hoffmanns met with much kindness
from Europeans and Brazilians alike, and especially we wish to thank the Imperial
German consul Mr. L. Nommeusen, and Mr. Scholz, the owner of the well-known
firm " Scholz & Co.," who have rendered much valuable service to our indefatigable
traveller.

1. Turdus hauxwelli Lawr.
(,'f. supra, p. 40.

No. 1 190. i ad., Hnmaytha, 30. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, hill black." —
Wing 114 ; tail 91 ; bill 191 mm-

This bird is typical T. hauxwelli, and shows no approach to T. fumigatus.
It differs from our Title specimen solely by its rather darker upper parts and
in being rather paler, less olive on the foreueck and sides of lie' breast. In both
examples the middle of the belly is pure white, and the under tail-coverts are
dark olive-brown with long white tips. In Journ. f. Ornitk. 1902. p. 66, I have
pointed out that the specimens of T. fumigatus collected by Natterer in the interior
of Brazil (at 8. Vicente and on the Rio Guapore in Mattogrosso, and near Borba,
right bank of the Rio Madeira) are entirely typical ; and as Mr. Hoffmanns now
sends us T. hauxwelli from the left bank of that river, it cannot be considered
as established that these two forms are really geographical representatives, though
as yet they have not been found together at any locality.

The range of T. hauxwelli, thus far known, is as follows :

N.E.Peru: I'ebas (Hauxwell ; Castelnau & Deville *), Samiria (Hauxwell),
Nauta, Chamicuros, Santa Cruz on the Ueayali (Bartlett), Iqnitos (Whitely).
N.W. Brazil: Telle (Hoffmanns); Rio Jurua (Garbe) ; Hnmaytha on the Rio
Madeira ( Hoffmanns). N.E. Bolivia : Reyes on the Rio Madeira (Rusby t)-

2. Turdus phaeopygus phaeopygus < lab.
Cf, Nov Zool. xiii. 1906. p :t53; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. (1868) p. 93 (Borba).

No. 1101. <J ad., Hnmaytha, 30. viii. 06. " liis pale browu, feet grey, bill

black."

Specimens in ili>* Paris Museum examined.
i Morula fumigati havxicelli Allm. Bull. Amor, Mu$, ii. 1889, p. 78,

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Agrees well with skins from British Guiana. Natterer collected an adult
bird at Borlia, and Dr. Rushy procured specimens near the falls of the Rio Madeira
in Bolivia.

I have shown in Journ. f. Ornith. 1002, pp. 63-5, 69, and in Nov, Zool.xm.
1906. p. 4, that T. j>. pkaeopygoides Seeb. is a well-characterised form, and certainly
not the " winter plumage " of T. p. pkaeopygus, as supposed by Sharpe.*

3. Heleodytes turdinus hypostictus (Gould).

[Opetiorynchos turdinus Wied, Reise Brasil. ii. p. 148 (1821. — Rio Doce, Espiritu Santo ; Rio Catol£,

Bahia. — Cfr. my revision of Spix' types, p. 626).]
Campylorhynchus hypostictus Gould, P. Z. S. 1855. p. 08 (Rio Ucayali, Eastern Peru).

Nos. 983, 982. S ¥ juv., Humaytha, 24. vi. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet
grey, bill blackish, below greyish white."

This is the Amazonian representative of H. t. turdinus (Wied), from which it
differs by its generally smaller size and by having the spots on the lower parts
more numerous and distinctly guttiform, while they are heart-shaped in the Basl
Brazilian race. Within Brazilian limits it was first recorded from Santarem, by
Riker and Chapman.f Professor von Ihering received a specimen from the Rio
Jurna f ; and Natterer collected two ? ? near Borba on the Rio Madeira, which
were erroneously determined as C. variegatus. §

4. Thryophilus albipectus subsp.

Cf. supra, p. 3.

No. 986. ? ad. in very worn plumage, Humaytha, 25. vii. 06. " Iris brown,
feet bluish black, bill black."— Wing 65 ; tail 43 ; bill 19 mm.

This specimen agrees in size with our series from Peru (form e of my review,
I.e.), but is so horribly worn on the under parts that their real coloration cannot
even be guessed. Further material is required to settle the question to which
form the birds from the Rio Madeira should be referred.

5. Thryothorus genibarbis juruanus Ihering.

[Thryothorus genibarbis Swainson, Anim. in Menag. p. 322 (1838. — Brazil).]

Thryothorus genibarbis juruanus Ihering, Revist. Mus. l\iul. vi. p. 431 (1905. — Rio Jurua,
N.W. Brazil).

No. 1015. 3 ad., Humaytha, 29. vii. 06. " Iris dark red." — Wing 68 ; tail 58 ;
bill ISf mm.

No. 988. ¥ jr., Hnmaytha, 25. vii. 06. "Iris brown." — Wing 63; tail 60;
bill IS mm.

No. 1051. ? juv., Humaytha, 4. viii. 06 "Iris greyish brown." — Wing 68;
tail G2A ; bill 19 mm.

These specimens belong undoubtedly to the form recently separated by Professor
von Ihering. Although the characters put forward in the original description do
not hold good, there are other differences by which the Amazonian race may lie
distinguished from T. g. genibarbis of Eastern Brazil. The wings are decidedly
longer, and the under parts paler, the sides of the belly alone being of a dull
fulvescent brown. In true T. g. genibarbis, of which the Tring Museum possesses

* Mmogr. Thrushet, i. p. 214. t Rerist. Xus. Paid. vi. 1905. p. 430.

t Auk, 1890. p. 137. § l'elzeln, Zur Ornith. Bratil. i. 1867, p. 49.

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a fair series from Bahia and Pani, tin- breast and abdomen are rnneli brighter,
ochraceous, paler in the middle. The barring of the (inter tail-leathers varies iii
individuals from the same locality, the dusky bars being Bometimes restricted
to the inner webs, sometimes extended over both webs. The type from the
Rio Jnrua which I have examined is an immature bird, and agrees in size with
No. 988.

It may be added that the adult cf, collected by Natterer near Burba, on the
right bank of the lower Rio Madeira, belongs to T. g. genibarbis. It is perfectly
similar to examples from Para, which differ from Bahia skins solely by their
rather thicker and larger bills.

6. Leucolepia modulator rufogularis (Des Mars).

Cf. supra, p. 41.

No. 1222. cf ad., Humaytha, 12. ix. 06. "Iris greyish brown, feet dark grey,
bill black."— Wing 72 ; tail 41 ; bill 19 mm.

Differs from our Teffe' specimen by having the belly, particularly in the middle,
less rufescent, though much more so than in Bolivian skins [/,. m. modulator
(D'Orb.)]. The ferruginous colour below is confined to the throat and foreneck, as
in the types of L. modulator, while in the Peruvian and Teffe birds it extends
over the middle of the chest.

7. Grauatellus pelzelni pelzelni Scl.

Cf. supra, p. 5.

No. 1346. cf junior, Borba, 17. xi. 06. "Iris brown, feet grey, bill blackish

grey-"

No. 1379. ? ad., Borba, 22. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill greyish black."
These specimens agree perfectly with others from Santarem and the (.'aura
valley, Venezuela.

8. Cyclarhis gujanensis gujanensis (Gm.).

Tanagra gujanensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. 893(1788. — ex ISuffon : "Guyane," sc. Cayenne).
Cyclorhis guianensis Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii (1868) p. 74 (Borba).

No. 1297. cf imm., Humaytha, 26. ix. 06. "Iris pale yellow, feet light grey,
bill blackish."- Wing 74 ; tail 60; bill 17; mm.

No. 1337. ? jr., Borba, 15. xi. 06. " Iris pale yellow, bill blackish grey." —
Wing 69 ; tail 54; bill 19 mm.

Though not quite adult, these specimens undoubtedly belong to C.g. gujanensis,
the chest, flanks, and crissum being distinctly washed with cinereous, and the
middle of the belly white without any buff tinge. They agree perfectly with skins
from Cayenne, Surinam, and Para.

9. Dacnis cayana cayana (Linn.).

( !f. supra, p. 29.

Dacnis cyanocephala Pelzeln, Orn. Brasil. i. (1867) p. 25 (Borba).

Nos. 1254, 1255, 1271, 1272, cfcf, ?? ad., Humaytha, 17, 20. ix. 06. "Iris
reddish brown, i'rft reddish grey, bill black." — cfcf ad.: Wing 64, 64A ; tail
44, 42 mm.

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No. 14(33. S ad., Borba, 11. xii. 06. "Iris reddish brown."— Wing 65;
tail 44 mm.

The S <5 agree in size and coloration with others from Cayenne, Para, etc.

10. Cyanerpes caerulea cherriei Berl. & Hart,

Cf. supra, p. 42.

Caereba caerulea (nee Linnaeus) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. i. (1867) p. 25 (Salto do Girao).

No. 1148. S ad., Humaytha, 23. viii. 00. " Iris black, feet yellow, bill black."
—Wing 55 ; tail 28| ; bill 1(5 mm.

Agreeing in size and coloration with the specimens from Teffe, the Rio Negro,
and Orinoco (types).

11. Euphonia melanura Scl.

Euphonia melanura Sclater, Contrib. Ornith. 1851. p. 80 (Barra do Rio Negro — Wallace coll.).

Nos. 1370, 1371. cJ ad., 6 jnv., Borba, 20. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill
black."— Wing 63, 59| ; tail 35, 34 ; bill 9A, 0 mm.

The adult 6 is rather deeper yellow on the forehead and uuder-parts than
a series from the Ucayali (Peru), Maipnres (Orinoco), and Bogota collections, but
agrees with them in dimensions, size of the bill, and in the extent of yellow on
the forehead. The type of E. melanura from Manaos differs from all the other
specimens examined by its smaller size, much smaller bill, and smaller yellow
frontal patch. Additional examples from the typical locality are required to
confirm the constancy of these divergencies.

E. melanura is easily distinguishable from E. riolucea lirliteiisteinii (cfr. mipni,
p. 6) by its much larger size, entirely black tail without any white markings, and
by having the yellow of the forehead extended over the anterior portion of the
crown.

12. Euphonia laniirostris Lafr. & D'Orb.

Euphonia laniirostris Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Sijn. Av. i. in Mag. Zool. 1837, cl. ii. p. 30
(" Yuracares, Bolivia").

No. 935. S ad., Humaytha, 16. vii. 06. "Iris brown, bill and feet black." —
Wing 61 \ ; tail 35$ ; bill 9 mm.

The specimen agrees perfectly with the type from Yuracares and with the
three S 6 ad. collected by Natterer near S. Vicente, Villa Maria and Villa Bella,
in Mattogrosso.* As pointed out by Dr. J. A. Allen,t this species is quite distinct
from E. crassirostris, of Colombia, Venezuela, etc. The five adult S 6 before me
differ from a very large series of the latter species by having the nnder-snrfaee
and the patch on the forehead much darker, deep cadmium yellow (instead of
chrome yellow), the back, wings, and sides of the head purple (instead of steel blue),
and by their much shorter and quite differently shaped bill.

13. Calospiza cayana cayana (Linn.).

Tanagra cayana Linnaeus, Syst Nat. xii. 1. p. 315 (1766.—" in Cayana "—based on Brisson, " Le
Tanagra verd, de Cayenne," Ornith. iii. p. 21. tab. iv. fig. 3).

Nos. 1252, 1263. ? ¥, Humaytha, 17, IS. ix. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish
black or bluish grey, bill bluish black."

* For the loan of these birds I am much indebted to the authorities of the Paris and Vienna
Museums.

f Bull. Amer. Mm. iii. 1891. p. 351.

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14. Calospiza mexicana boliviana (Bp.).
Of. supra, p. 7.

No. 13T4. <J ad., Borba, 20. i.\. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."

Agreeing with specimens from Santarem and I'sini.

15. Calospiza nigrocincta (Bp.).

Aglaia nigvo-cincta Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. hand, 1837. p. 121 (pul)l. Juue 1N38.* — "that
portion of Brazil bordering on Pern ").

No. 12TG. ? imni., Hnmaytha, 21. is. 06. "Iris brown, feet grey, bill black."

16. Tanagra episcopus coelestis Spix.

[Tanagra episcopus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 12. i. p. 31G (1760.— ex Brisson : •■ Brrsil " ; cf. Nov.

Zool. xii. 1905. p. 273).]
Tanagra coelestis Spix, Av. Bras, ii. p. 42. tab. lv. fig. 2 (1825. — Fonteboa, Rio Solinwes fixed as

typical locality ; cfr. my revision of Spix' types, p. G76).
T. episcopus Pelzeln, Zur Oi-nith. Bros. iii. 1869. p. 208 (part. : Borba).

No. 1329. c? ad., Borba, 13. xi. 06. "Iris brown, feet ami bill black."—
Wing 00; tail 65; bill 141 mm.

When studying Spix' types in the Munich Museum I had only a female and
a young male from Borba before me, which appeared to be intermediate between
T. e. episcopus and T. e. coelestis. The adult male now sent by Mr. Hoffmanns
enables me to state that the birds from the lower Rio Madeira are typical
T. c. coelestis. The specimen agrees in every respect with onr series from Iqnitos,
Nanta, Loretoyacn and other places on the Peruvian Amazons. The patch on the
shoulder is almost pure white, and the greater upper wing-coverts are tipped
with whitish.

IT. Ramphocelus nigrogularis (Spix).

Cf. supra, p. 45.

R. nigrigularis Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. iii. 1809. p. 210 (Borba).

No. 1376. $ ad. in moult, 20. xi. HO. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."
18. Phoeuicothraupis rubra peruviana Tacz.

Cf. supra, p. 44.

No. 1233. $ ad., Hnmaytha, 13. ix. 06. "Iris brown, feet pinkish grey, bill
blackish grey."

Nos. 1128, 1129. S$ vix ad., Hnmaytha, 21. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
brownish grey, bill greyish black."

No. 1118. ? ad., Hnmaytha, !'.». viii. 06. "Iris brown, feel yellowish grey,
bill brownish black.

The males differ slightly from two topotypical Peruvian specimens by their
rather lighter, clearer scarlet throat and foreneck, and by having the middle of
breast aud abdomen decidedly paler pink. It remains to be seen whether these
trilling differences are constant.

* Of. Bolster, I'.Z.S. 1893. p. 437.

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10. *Lanio versicolor (Lafr. it D'Orb.).

Tachyphonus versicolor Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Si/n. Ar. i. in Mag. Zool. 18;S7. cl. ii. p. 28 (Yura-
cares, Bolivia).

No. 1063. S, Humaytha, 8. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet greyish brown, bill
black."— Wing 82; tail 70 ; bill 13A mm.

This bird agrees perfectly with specimens from Poznzo and Chnchnrras,
province Huauueo, Peru. Typical Bolivian skins are not available for comparison.

L. versicolor differs from its nearest ally, L. atricapillus, of which the Tring
Museum possesses a very large series from Cayenne, British Guiana, Eastern
Ecuador and Bogota collections, by its much smaller size, much weaker and shorter
bill, and in many details of coloration. The rump and upper tail-coverts are bright
chrome yellow (not deep ochraceous), the throat is olive-green (not deep black),
the pileum washed with the same colour instead of being uniform jet black ; the
upper wing-coverts except the outermost of the greater series are white (instead of
dull black) ; all the uuder-surface is bright saffron yellow, scarcely passing into
a deeper shade on foreneck and under tail-coverts ; the axillaries and under wing-
coverts are pnre white (not pinkish buff). In L. atricapillus the lower side is
orange ochraceous, deepening into ochraceous on anal region and under tail-coverts,
and the foreneck is more or less extensively deep tawny.

L. versicolor is new to the Brazilian fauna.

20. Tachyphonus cristatus (Gm.) subsp.

Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905, pp. 274-5, and supra, p. 30.

No. 1183. S ad., Humaytha, 29. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 82; tail 72 ; bill 134 mm.

This bird differs from our large series of T. c. cristatus by its much smaller
bill, and by the crest lacking the fulvous-buff lateral border which is but slightly
indicated in front. Additional specimens are required to show if the Humaytha
form is separable. The examples from Borba t secured by Natterer should also be
re-examined.

21. Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafr. & D'Orb.

Cf. supra, p. 7 ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bins. iii. 18G9. p. 213 (Borba, Salto Grirao).

Nos. 954, 951, 1039, 1040. $ $ ad., ? ? : Humaytha, 19. vii., 2. viii. 06. "Iris
brown, bill and feet black."

Nos. 1327, 1378, 1436. $$ ad., ? : 13, 22. xi., 2. xii. 06. "Iris dark brown,
feet and bill black."

This series agrees with topotypical examples from Bolivia.

22. Eucometis penicillata penicillata (Spix).

Tajiiagra petiicillaia Spix, Ar. Bras. ii. p. 30. tab. xlix. fig. 1 (1825. — no locality).
Eucometis penicillata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. iii. 1869. p. 212 (Borba).

Nos. 927, 958, 960, 981, 954. <S S ad., ? ? ad., S juv., Humaytha, 15, 19, -,'4.
vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet brown or grey, bill black, below brown."

These birds agree perfectly with an example from Borba which I had

t Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. p. 213.

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previously compared with Spix' type. The throat is white, somewhat shaded
with cinereous towards the foreneck, the elongated feathers of the pilenm are

extensively white on (heir basal portion, ami the feet blackish brown. Specimens
from the Dcayali (Santa Croz) and Peruvian Amazons (Loretoyacu) in the Tring
Museum differ by their paler brown legs, by having the forehead and occiput of
a clearer olive-grey, and especially by the throat being slightly washed with lmffy.

23. Cypsnagra ruficollis pallidigula n. snbsp.
I „ \agra ruficollis Lichtenstein, Fere. Jhihl. Berliner Mus. p. 30 (182:?. — S. Paulo).]

No. 1290. 6 ad., Eumaytha, 24. ix. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet and bill
black." — Type of the subspecies. — Wing 79; tail 62; bill 14| mm.

No. 1273. ? ad., Knmaytha, 20. ix. 06. "Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 78 ; tail 63; bill 14 mm.

These two birds differ from a very large series of time ( '. r. ruficollis (Lcht.)
from S. Paulo, Goyaz, Mattogrosso and Bahia in having the throat and foreneck
light bnff (Ridgw. Nomencl. v. 13) instead of deep cinnamon-rufous. The rump
is pure white (not creamy buff); the breast, abdomen and lower tail-coverts are
considerably paler, creamy white, and there is no trace of the ochraceous patch on
the flanks always to be seen in the typical form. The bill is rather shorter, stouter,
and more convex.

Both specimens are in perfect adult plumage, with the head, back and wings
of a deep glossy black. The British Museum possesses two skins of the new form,
said to be from Bahia (Luschuath). This locality, however, is certainly erroneous,
both examples being of the unmistakable handsome Ceara-make. The pale-
throated form would thus appear to be rather widely distributed in the more
northern districts of Brazil, where it evidently replaces the typical race.

In young birds of the latter, the throat is also much paler than in adults, of
a dull ochraceous yellow, but such specimens can always easily be distinguished
from C. r. pallidigula by the dull brownish black coloration of the back, etc., and
by the presence of a narrow bnffy yellow superciliary streak. It may be worth
mentioning that the birds collected by D'Orbigny in the province of Chiqnitos,
Eastern Bolivia, beloug to the dark-throated, typical form of Southern Brazil. I
am much indebted to my friend M. Menegaux, of the Paris Museum, for the loan
of these specimens.

24. Nemosia flavicollis centralis n. subsp.

No. 1253. c? ad., Humaytha, 17. ix. 06. "Iris brown, feet plumbeous, bill
black, below yellow." Wing 72; tail 55; bill 14 mm. — Type of subspecies.

Intermediate in size between N. f. flavicollis (Vieill.) and S.J. melanoxantha

(Lcht.); but bill quite as long and strong as in the latter form; yellow of the
rump extended far up to the middle of the back, as in N. f. insignis Sri. ; under
parts pure white, as in N. f. flavicollis, with but a few blackish cross-bands on the
foreneck. Differs from all the known races of N. flavicollis by having the head,
mantle and shoulders deep velvety black (instead of brownish black).

In the type from Humaytha, the rump, throat and crissum are of the same
clear citron yellow as in N. f. melanoxaitl/ia, while an adult male from Tilotilo,
Northern Bolivia, which in other respects perfectly agrees with it, has these parts

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of the plumage rather deeper yellow, more like X. f. flwoicollis. As the geo-
graphical variation of this widely spread species was not well understood hitherto,
I take the opportunity of presenting a condensed review of the various forms into
which X. j/tirirolli.f may easily be divided. In addition to the fine series in the
Tring Museum I have studied the material in the Vienna and Berlepsch Museums,
as well as several important specimens in the British Museum.

a. X . iltirirolli* jlitrifolUs. Vieill.*

Ntmosia flavieollii Vieillot, Nouv. Dirt. xxii. p. 491 (1818. — " l'Amerique me'ridionale ").
.V. auricollii Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856. p. Ill (Cayenne [type] and East Peru : river Ucayali).

Hab. Cayenne (Mns. Vindob., Brit, etc.). Venezuela: Suapure and Nicare,
Caura River (Andre & Klages coll.). N.W. Brazil : Marabitanas, Upper Rio Negro
(Natterer). Eastern Fern : Chamicuros (Hauxwell & Bartlett coll.).

<5 ad. Size rather small, bill short and slender. Head, back, upper wing- and
tail-coverts dull brownish black ; rump, throat and crissuin golden yellow ; rest
of nnder-parts white, foreneck with more or less numerous irregular blackish
cross-bars.

Obs. I am unable to find any constant differences between specimens from
Cayenne, ('aura It., Marabitanas and Eastern Peru. The amount of blackish cross-
bars on the foreneck and sides of chest varies a good deal in examples from the
same localities. For instance, in five adult males from the Caura the chest is
strongly barred, while two others from the same place show but a few dusky bands.
As a rule, there is no yellow supraloral streak, and the whole throat is yellow.
Among the specimens obtained at Marabitanas by the late Dr. Natterer, there are,
however, three or four in which the former is slightly indicated, and in one of them
the middle of the lower throat is white, thus pointing towards .X. /'. albigularis Scl.

Material. Wing. Tail. Bill.

1 . d ad., ( layenne (ex Becoeur, in Vienna

Museum) 70 51 § 12 mm.

2. S ad., Cayenne-make. Type of

X. auricollis Scl. Brit. Mus. . 71 53J 13 „

3. S ad., Oyapoc, Cayenne (ex Mme

Verdey, in Brit. Mns.) . . 65A,
4 — 8. J cf ad. & imm., Marabitanas, Rio

Negro. Vienna Mus. . . 04 — 70

9 — 13. <$<$ ad., Caura River, Venezuela.

Tring Mus 63—66

14 — 16. c?d ad., Chamicuros, East Pern.

Tring & Brit. Mus. . . . 65—69
17,18. ¥?, Marabitanas, Rio Negro. Vienna

Mns 58, 62 47, 50 12 „

19. ? ad., Chamicuros, East Peru. Tring

Mns .03 50 12

20,21. ??, Caura River, Venezuela. Tring

Mns 59J, 01 40',, 18 12A

* Tanagra sj>e<uUfera Temminck [I't. col, Livr. (J, tab. 36. fig. 1, 2 (1821. — "& la Guyane <*t an

Bresil")] apparently covers both N. /. JlavicvUis and N, f. insigni$t but cannot be referred with
certainty to either.

50 1

13

50— 52 A

12

48 J— 51 J

12-1 2 A,

50—53

12— 12A

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b. N. flaxicollis centralis Helltu.

Hab. Western Brazil : Hnmaytha, Rio Madeira (Hoffmanus); Engenho do
Gama, Rio Guapore, Mattogrosso (Natterer). N.E. Bolivia: Tilotilo (Buckley).
c? ad. Head, mantle, etc., deep velvety black; middle of the upper back,

ramp, throat and < .-rissum bright lemon-yellow ; rest of under-jiarts white,
foreueck handed with blackish. Bill strong and rather longer than in .X. f.
flavicollis.

(M.s-. As stated above, an adult male from Tilotilo differs from the type by
having the yellow portions of the plumage of a deeper, more golden yellow tint.
A young male from Mattogrosso, in the garb of the female, apparently belongs to
this form.

Material. Winy. Tail. Bill.

1. S ad., Hnmaytha, Rio Madeira. Type of the sub-

Bpecies 72 55 14 mm.

2. <? ad., Tilotilo, N. Bolivia (Buckley coll., Brit. Mus.) 73! 56 damaged.

3. $ jtiv., Engenho do Gama, Mattogrosso (Natterer,

Vienna Mus.) 70 57 13i mm.

c. N . Jtavicollh melanoxantha (Lcht.).
Sylvia melanoxantha Lichtensteiu, Verz. Dubl. Berliner .!/»*. p. 34 (1823. — Bahia).

Hab. Bahia, Eastern Brazil.

$ ad. Head, mantle, etc., brownish black, as in N. f. Jlamcollis, from which it
differs in its considerably larger size, stronger bill and decidedly paler, more lemon-
yellow rump, throat and crissum. The foreneek is crossed by numerous blackish
transverse hands, as in N.f.Jlavicollis ; the yellow of the rump sometimes extended
to the middle of the upper hack, as in N.f. insignia.

Fifteen cJc? ad. from Bahia measure: wing 72 — 78; tail 57 — 61; bill
13J — 14J mm.

Five ? ? from Bahia measure : wing 65| — 68; tail 52 — 55; bill 13 mm.

(I. ,\. Jlamcollis insignis Scl.

Nemosia insignis Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856. p. llu ("South Brazil.'' — Tbe type is a skin of the well-
known 7?/o-make).

Hab. South-east Brazil, vicinity of Rio de Janeiro : Cabo Frio (Wied),
Sapitiba (Natterer).

S ad. Exactly like N. f. mcluiio.r<iiitliii} but with only a few blackish cross-
hands on the sides of the foreneek, and the middle of the abdomen faintly tinged
with pale yellowish. The yellow of (he rump is always extended far up to the
middle of the mantle.

Obs. This form is perhaps not properly separable from the foregoing one,
since such specimens as described above may occasionally also he found in Bahia
collections. I am, however, unwilling to unite the two forms until their identity
is unquestionably proved.

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Material. Wing. Tail. Bill.

1. Mus. Brit, c? ad. Rio-skin. Type of

Ar. insignia 74 58 14§ mm.

2. Mus. Brit. $ ad. Rio-skin ... 74 57 14 „
3—6. Mus. Brit. $$ ad. Rio de Janeiro.

A. Fry coll 74—75 57—60 Yi\— 15 „

7, 8. Mus. TriDg c?<?ad. Rio-make . 75, 75^ 58 144—15 .,

9, 10. Mus. TriDg &$ imm. Rio-make . 77, 73| 60 \\\ „

11. Mas. Vienna S ad. Sapitiba, Rio . 77 57 134 „

12— 14. Mus. Vienna ?¥ Sapitiba, Rio . 66— 68J 56A— 58£ 13— 13£ „

15. Mus. Tring ? ad. Rio-make . . 69 55 13 „

N.B. — Another distinct, and apparently nndescribed form inhabits the Merume
Mountains, in British Guiana. It agrees in size with A'. /'. imignis, but the rump,
throat and crissum are golden yellow, as in A. /'. J/nricollis. Count Berlepseh
possesses an adult and an immature male, and in the British Museum there
are two immature SS ; all collected by the late H. Whitely, juii., on the Merume
Mountains.

25. Schistochlamys atra (Gm.).

Tanagra atra Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. 898 (1788.— ex Daubeuton, PI. oil. 714 fig. 2— Cayenne).

Nos. 1265, 1295. S ad., c? juv., Humaytha, 18, 25. ix. nil. "iris reddish
brown or brown (juv.), bill black, bluish at the base, feet black."

26. Sporophila castaueiventris Cab.

Cf. supra, p. 7.

No. 1199. <? ad., Humaytha, 31. viii. (Hi. " Iris, feet and bill black."
No. 1215. ¥ ad., Humaytha, 0. ix. 06. "Iris black, feet bluish grey, bill
dark grey."

27. Volatinia jacarina jacarina (Linn.).

Tanagra Savanna Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 314 (170G — ex Marcgrave : Eastern Brazil).

No. 1132. 8 ad., Humaytha, 21. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."
Agrees with specimens from East Brazil in having the axillaries under

wing-coverts and a distinct patch on the base of the primaries white, but is

slightly smaller, with a much smaller, weaker bill.

28. Myospiza manimbe (Lcht.).

Fringilla Manimbe Lichtenstcin. Verz. Dubl. /■'< Hint r Mus., p. 25 (1823. — Bahia).

No. 1259. 3 ad., Humaytha, 17. ix. no. " Iris brown, feet and bill grey."
Identical with Bahia specimens. It is very interesting to find this species
at Humaytha, where we should rather have expected M. aurifrons (Spix),* which
was collected by Natterer in the Rio Madeira district, t These facts suggest
that the two forms are specifically distinct.

* .If. peruanm auct. neo Bonaparte. C'f. my revision of Spix' types, p. 673.

■(• Cotnriiicidus jienanus Pelzeln, Urn. Braiil, iii. p. 230 (Rio Maniore and Borba).

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29. Cacicus haeruorrhous haemorrhous (Linn.)?
Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. L905. p. 279.

One & ml., Bumaytba, 25. ix. 06. "Iris pale blue, feet black, bill pale green." —
Wing 209, tail 125, bill 40 mm.

This specimen agrees in the glossy black coloration of the plumage with
C. h.haemorrkoua of Cayenne, Surinam, British Guiana, Para, etc., but is very much
larger, and has a stronger, more powerful bill. In our huge series of the typical
form the wing varies from 170 to 190 mm.

The birds from the Rio Madeira most likely represent a distinct form.

30. Lanipropsar tanagrinus tanagrinus (Spix).

Cf. supra, p. 46.

Lampropsar tanagrinus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Jims. iii. 1869. p. 200 (part. Borba).

No. 074. ? ad., Eumaytha, 22. vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."—

Wing '.14, tail 86, bill 18 mm.

No. 11528. ? ad., Borba, 13. xi. 06. "Iris, feet, and bill black."— Wing 100,
tail 95, bill 17 mm.

The Humaytha bird agrees perfectly with our ? from Tefte. The specimen
from Borba is rather more glossy ou the pileum and, in this respect, approaches
L. t. guianensis Cab., from which, however, it differs by the nnder-surface being
duller and mure of a greenish sheen.

31. *Platyrhynchus coronatus coronatus Scl.

Platyrhynchui coronatus Sclater, P.Z.S. 1858. p. 71 (Rio Napo, Eastern Ecuador).

Nos. 1057, 1058, 1086. cTcT ad., Humaytha, 7, 14. viii. 06. " Iris dark brown,
feet grey-brown, bill black."

No. 1059. ? ad., Humaytha, 7. viii. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet grey-brown,
bill black, below grey."

Nos. 1307, 1308. ?, cf juv., Paraizo, 15. x. 06. "Iris black, feet grey,
bill black."

In coloration these birds agree perfectly with the type and several other
specimens from Eastern Ecuador in the British Museum, but have rather shorter
tails. Skins from British Guiana (Ournmee, Bartica Grove), Oyapoc in French
Guiana (Verdey) and Albina, Surinam (C. Bartlett) are practically identical with
those from the Hio Madeira, though they were referred to /'. c. superciliaris
by Mr. Sclater.f

The latter form, of which I have examined a very large series from Costa Rica,
Chiriqui, Panama, and North-west Ecuador, differs from /'. c. coronatus as here
understood by having the back bright olive-green (instead of dull greyish or
brownish green), the under-parts sulphur-yellow (instead of straw or maize-yellow —
Ridgw. vi. 17, 21) and the chest washed with greenish (not with buffy brown).
I am unable to find any constant differences between Central American specimens
and those from North-west Ecuador.

The six examples from Humaytha present some variation as to the intensity
of the colour of the nnder-surface, one adult male (No. 1057) being much brighter,

t Cat. Birdt Brit. Mils. xiv. p. 68.

Wing.

Tail.

Bill

62

32

12

62, 58J

29,27

13

564

25

13

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about maize-yellow, while the others are of a pale straw-yellow underneath. The
adult dd have a large golden yellow coronal patch bordered laterally by a broad
tawny stripe. In the female from Hnmaytha the crown is mainly tawny ochraceous,
though a few feathers in the middle show some yellow at their base, while the
two birds from Paraizo have the crown entirely tawny ochraceous. The range
of the two races of P. coronatus is, accordingly, as follows :

(a) /'. coronatus coronatus Scl.

Eastern Ecuador : Napo {fide Verreaux), Sarayaeu (Buckley), Santiago *
(Festa); Brazil: Hnmaytha and Paraizo, Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns), N. Bolivia :
Falls of the Rio Madeira (Rugby) ; British Guiana: Ourumee, Bartica Grove
(Whitely) ; Cayenne: Oyapoc (fide Verdey) ; Surinam: Albina (C. Buckley).

(b) P. coronatus superciliaris Lawr.

Costa Rica, Chiriqui, Panama, and south to Western Ecuador : Rio Peripa*

(Festa), Lita, Cachyjacu t (Miketta).

Measurements of P. c. coronatus Scl. :

Mus. Brit, (d) ad., Ecuador: type of the

species 62 mm.

Mus. Brit. 2 (d d ) ad., Sarayaeu, East

Ecuador

Mus. Brit. ( ? ) Sarayaeu, East Ecuador
Mus. Brit, and Tring, 2 d d ad., Ourumee,

Brit. Guiana 55, 56 24, 26 12, 13

Mus. Brit. 2 dd ad., Bartica Grove, Brit.

Guiana ......

Mus. Brit, (d) ad., Oyapoc, Cayenne .

Mus. Brit. ? , Albina, Surinam .

Mus. Tring, 3 d d ad., Hnmaytha, Rio

Madeira ......

Mus. Tring, ? ad., Hnmaytha, Rio Madeira 54
Mus. Tring, ? , d juv., Paraizo, Rio Madeira 54, 52|

P. c. coronatus is quite uew to the Brazilian fauna.

32. Euscarthmus zosterops Pelz.

Euscarthmus zosterops Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. p. 173 [1868. — Marabitanas (Rio Negro), Borba
(Rio Madeira)].

Nos. 1334, 1459. d ad., and adult (not sexed), Borba, 14. xi., 11. xii. 06.
" Iris light yellow or yellowish white, feet grey, bill greyish black."

These specimens differ from the two types collected by Natterer near
Marabitanas and San Carlos on the Rio Negro, J in their smaller size, especially
the tail being much shorter, in having the pale edges to the upper wing-coverts less
distinct, and the ear-coverts dull greenish instead of greyish. An adult male from
Borba (Natterer coll.) in the British Museum, however, is considerably larger,

* P. coronatus Salvad. & Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino riv. No. 362 (1899), p. 4 (part.).

f P. coronatus Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. 1902. p. 607.

\ For the loan of them I am greatly indebted to Dr. Lorenz, of Vienna,

56, 55

26, 254.

13, 121

54

23

124

55

24

12

55, 55 i, 6o

24,24,25

12-13

54

...ii

12

54, 521

22,214

12

FiDg.

Tail.

BiU.

52

48

12 rum

51

48

12 „

50 k

43

1H „

45

33

11J „

•'"i

38

12 „

47

34

12 „

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though still smaller than the types, and the ear-coverts are dull brownish. Should
additional specimens from Borba prove these slight differences to be constant, the
name /•.'. zosterops must be restricted to the Rio Negro form, for in Pelzeln's

original diagnosis the lores and car-coverts arc described as greyish.

Mus. Vindob., No. 17738, <J ad., Marabi tanas,

March 13th, 1831

Mus. Vindob., No. 17730. 6 ad., S. Carlos,

February 14th, 1831
Mus. Brit., A ad., Borba, February 12th, 1830
Mus. Vindob., No. 1774n, ? irum., Borba,

June 23rd, 1830

Mns. Tring, No. 1459, i ad., Borba, December

11th, 1906

Mus. Tring, No. 1334, adult, Borba, November

14th, 1906

33. Mionectes oleagiiieus oleagineus (Lcht.).

ifuscieapa oleaginea Liehtenstein, Verz. Dull. p. 55 (1823. — Bahia).
Minn., i. oleagineus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868. p. 104 (Borba).

No. 1154. ? (?) ad., Humaytha, 24. viii. 06. "Iris browu, feet grey, bill
blackish grey."

34. Ramphotrigon ruficauda (Spix).

Cf. supra, p. 48.

Rhgnchocyclus ruficauda Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868, p. 110 (Borba).

Nos. 1188, 1228. A ? ad., Humaytha, 30. viii., 13. ix. 06. " Iris brown, feel
black or bluish black, bill black."

35. Pitangus lictor (Lcht.).

Lauius lictor Lichtenstein, Verz. Dull p. 49 (1823.— Pari).

No. 990. (? imm., Humaytha, 26. vii. 06. " Iris browu, feet and bill black."
Agreeing perfectly with our series from British Guiana, Suriuam, Venezuela, &c.

36. Onychorhynchus coronatus (P. L. S. Mull.).

Cf. supra, p. 12.

No. 926. S ad., Humaytha, 15. vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet yellow, bill black,
below yellow."— Wing 78, tail 63, bill 24 mm.

This bird, a very adult male, agrees in coloration with another <S ad. from
( Ihamicnros, N. Pern (Bartlett coll. — Mus. Brit.). Both differ from a series of true
O. c. coronatus of Cayenne, Santarem, and the ('aura valley by their decided!)
brighter ochraceous under-parts and by having the npper tail-coverts uniform,
not, barred with dusky. The types of O. castelnaui Dev.* show the same bright
tint of the lower surface. The female has the upper (ail-coverts uniform, while
in the male they are narrowly barred with dusky on their apical portion. An

* Rev. Mui/ /mil. 1849. p. 66 (" mission de Sarayaou, I'ainpa del Sacramento," Eastern Peru).

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immature male from near Paramaribo (Triug Museum), however, lias the bright-
coloured belly, and a specimen from British Guiana (Mas. Brit.) the uniform
upper tail-coverts of the Upper Amazonian form, which therefore Joes not
appear to be separable.

37. Myiobius barbatus barbatus (Gm.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 362.

Myiobim barbatus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868, p. 113 (Borba).

No. 1195. ?, Humaytha, 31. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet black, bill black,
below yellowish."

Identical with several specimens from British Guiana.

38. Pyocephalus rubinus rubinus (Bodd.).

ifttscicapa rubinus Boddaert, Tubl. PI. enl. p. 42 (1783. — ex BufFon : " Pays <les Amazones ').

No. 950. S ad., Humaytha, 18. vii. Oil. '• Iris brown, feet and bill black."
Nos. 943, 962. <$ 3 imm., Humaytha, 17, 20. vii. 06. "Iris brown, feet and
bill black."

No. 1005. S .juv., Humaytha, 27. vii. 00. " Iris brown, feet aud bill black."

39. Empidochanes fuscatus bimaculatus (Lafr. & D'Orb.).

I M,i cipetafv icata Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Brasil. 3. ii. p. 1)02 (1831. — Rio de Janeiro) ]
Muscipeta bimaeulata Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in Mag. /.ad. 1837. cl. ii. p. 48 (Ynngas
of Bolivia) ; cf. Bert. & Hellm., Journ.f. Ornith. 1905. p. 21-2.

No. 1110. ? juv., Humaytha, is. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 65$ ; tail 65$ ; tars. 17i ; bill 13 mm.

This specimen agrees perfectly with our series from Goiaz and from the interior
of S. Panlo, the throat and the middle of the belly being white, the back warm
brown with a strong rnfescent tinge on the nropygium. Young birds in corre-
sponding plumage of E.f. cabanisi (Le'ot.) (= arenaceus Scl. & Salv.) are of a much
duller earthy brown on the upper parts.

40. Empidonax lawrencei Allen.

Cf. supra, p. 49.

Empidochanes fuscatus (nee Wied!), Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 18o8. p. 115 (part.: spec,
ex Borba).

No. 1185. ? ad., Humaytha, 29. viii. 00. " Iris brown, feet black, bill black,
below yellowish white." — Wing 04 ; tail 50 ; bill 13 ; tars. 15 mm.

Differs from our large series * by its paler foreneck, this being scarcely shaded
with greenish. In the coloration of the upper parts it, is perfectly identical with
examples from Trinidad.

Thanks to the kindness of my friend Dr. Lorenz, of Vienna, 1 was enabled to
examine the specimen from Borba mentioned by Von Pelzeln (I.e. note '), aud
found it to belong to the present species.

* Specimens from Trinidad, Cunrana, Caura River and Teffe, Hio Solimues.

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41. Muscivora tyrannus (Linn.).

ifutcicapa Tyrannus Linnaeus, Sysi. Nat. 12. i. p. 325 (1766. — ex Briason: "Canada" [errore I] et
"C(ii/>»»"." accepted as typical locality).

No. 1234. 6 ad., Hnmaytha, 14. ix. 06. "Iris brown, fee( and bill black."

42. Pipra aureola flavicollis Scl.

[Punts Aureola Linnaeus. Sysl. Nat. x. p. 191 ( 1 7 f> S . — ex Edwards).]

Pipra flavicollis Solater, Catch, to Ornilh. for 1851, p 14.5 (1852.— " Barra do Rio Negro"—

locality doubtful ; cf. Ibis, 1906. p. 8).
Pipra aureola (nee I, inn.), Pelzeln, Zur Oniitli. Bras. ii. 18G8. p. 12(> (part. : Borba).

Nos.967,973, 1137, 1091. 66 ad., Hnmaytha, 21, 22. vii ; 1(5, 22. viii. 00.
" Iris pink or whitish, feet reddish brown or reddish black, bill black." — Wing 62i
—04 ; tail 26i— 29 ; bill 9i — 10 mm.

No. 1166. 6 vix ad., Huruaytha, 25. viii. 06. "Iris yellowish white, feet
reddish brown, bill black."— Wing G4± ; tail 30; bill 10 mm.

Nos. 1040, 966, 1000. 6 jnv., ¥ ? ad., Hnmaytha, 21. vii., 10, 23. viii. 00.
"Iris white or pink, feet dark red or reddish grey, bill greyish or reddish black." —
Wing 63—04; tail 30; bill 10 mm.

This series fully confirms what I said * about the characters of this well-marked
form. The five c? c? in the present collection differ from twenty 66 ad. of
P. a. aureola from Cayenne, Surinam and Para by having the sides of the head
(except a narrow red margin along the upper and posterior border of the ear-
coverts), the throat and foreneck pure bright yellow [about cadmium yellow,
Bidgw. vi. 6]. Moreover, the forehead, as far as the anterior margin of the eye,
is uniform bright orange yellow, and the middle of the abdomen vermilion red,
the flanks alone being black. In P. a. aureola there is but a narrow red line
along the middle of the belly, and the feathers of the forehead are much darker,
more orange-yellow, and broadly tipped with red.

One of the males (No. 1091) has a white patch on the outer web of the
outermost rectrix, just as iu Sclater's type specimen.

The female, which was unknown hitherto, is indistinguishable from that of
P. a. aureola.

P. a. flavicollis agrees with P. fasciicauda (fasciata anct.) iu the bright
yellow sides of the head and throat ; but the latter species is easily recognisable
by its yellow abdomen, by the under tail-coverts being yellow with black tips
(instead of uniform black), and by the presence of a wide yellowish white band
across the tail.

It appears, however, that /'. a. aureola, I', a.flavieollis and P. fasciicauda
are geographical representatives. The range of the first-named form is given
in extenso in Ibis, 1906, p. 6, where I also pointed out that specimens from
Santarem differ in no way from topotypical Surinam examples. From Itaitnba,
on the left bank of the Tapaj6z, about, four or five days' journey south of
Santarem, Mr. Hoffmanns sent us I', fasciicauda. Wore information about the
distribution on the Tapajoz of these two forms is, therefore, much required.

P. a.flavieollis is only known as yet from Borba, on the right, bank, and
from Hnmaytha, on the left bank of the Rio Madeira. The original locality,
Maniios, is most probably erroneous.

* Ibis, 190b. p. 8.

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4:!. Pipra caelesti-pileata Goeldi.
/'ijini caelesti-jiileata Goeldi, Compt. Hunt. Six. Couijr. Internal. Zool. Berne, p. 54!) (May 25th,
1905.*— upper Rio Puriis, W. Brazil).

Nos. 1232, 11(37, 1108, 1201, 1202. <? c? ad, Humaytha, 18, 20, 31. viii.,
13. ix. 06. " Iris brownish red or dark red, feet dark brown, bill black." — Wing
57—59; tail 27—20; bill 8—9 mm.

No. 1214. c? jr., Humaytha, 0. ix. 00. "Iris reddish brown, feet blackish
brown, bill black."— Wing 58 ; tail Z1\ ; bill 9 mm.

No. 1120. ? ad., Humaytha, 20. viii. 00. " Iris red, feet brown, bill greyish
black."— Wing 56J ; tail 20 ; bill 9 mm.

When Dr. Goeldi showed me the types of his P. caelesti-pileata, two years
ago, I somewhat hastily concluded that they belonged to the same form as the
skins from Peru upon which I had founded my P. exquisita.f The fine series
sent by Mr. Hoffmanns, however, proves beyond doubt that the two forms are
perfectly distinct.

Compared with the three <$ S ad. from Ghnchurras, the specimens from
Humaytha differ in the following details : the upper parts are of a much darker
green (a shade lighter than "French green," Ridgw. x. 19, — while they are
bright grass green, Ridgw. x. 4, in P. exquisita') ; the sides of the head and the
throat blackish green (instead of dull bice-green [Ridgw. x. 10]) ; the green on
the foreneck and sides of the chest is likewise more intense ; the yellow in the
middle of the belly paler, duller, and less extended ; the under tail-coverts decidedly
paler yellow. The most striking difference, however, consists in the colour of
the pileum, which is delicate nile- or turquoise-blue (Ridgw. ix. 23 and 20) in
P. exquisita, intense azure-blue (Ridgw. ix. 15) in P. caelesti-pileata.

There is but little variation in the six males from Humaytha. In two
specimens, Nos. 1232 and 1107, the azure-blue crown is bordered behind by a narrow
line of ultramarine blue, which is but slightly indicated or even wanting in the
other examples. In No. 1232 the sides of the head and the throat are almost black
with a faint greenish sheen, and the crown is a shade darker.

The type of P. caelesti-pileata from the Rio Purus, most obligingly lent by
Dr. Goeldi, agrees in all essential points with our Humaytha series, except in being
of a decidedly clearer and brighter green on the upper parts. This, however, is
not likely to be a constant character, as an adult male from Chyavetas, North
Pern (coll. Bartlett — Brit. Mus.) is practically identical with the birds from the
Rio Madeira. Moreover, the female from Humaytha shows the same light green
coloration as the Purus specimen. I am unable to find any difference between
our female from Humaytha and that of P. exquisita from Chuehurras.

Although P. exquisita, P. caelesti-pileata aud P. hoffmannsi evidently
represent each other geographically, I refrain, for the present, from employing
trinomials, since they are most probably only subspecies of the wholly black
P. coronata. Further researches are required to clear up the relations of all
these forms aud their geographical distribution. The range of the three blue-
capped species lately described is as follows :

a. P. exquisita Hellm.

Only known from ( 'huehurras, a village on the Rio Pozuzo, province
Huanuco, Central Peru, altitude 1200 ft.

* Although dated " sorti de presse le -.3 uiai 1905," the volume does not seem to have been issued
until October or November 1905.
■) Ibis, 1906, pp. 35, 36.

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b. P. caelrsti-pileata Goeldi.

Western Brazil: Humaytha, Rio Madeira; Uby Cachoeira, near the junction
of the Rio Poms with the Rio Acre. Northern Pern: Chyavetas (Bartlett).

c. J', hoffmannsi Hellm.

North Brazil: Teffe, on the Rio Solinioes.

44. Pipra nattereri Scl.

Pijpra nattereri Sdatar, P.Z.S. Land. 1851. p. Git. tab. 39 (Borba, Rio Madeira); Pelzeln, Zur
Ormth. BratiL ii. 1868. p. 127 (Borba).

Nos. 1389, 1390, 1391, 1392, 1395, 1401, 1402, 1407, 1437. 66 ad., Borba,
24 25 26, 2T. xi., 4. xii. 06. " Iris white, feet yellowish red or greyish red, bill
blackish, below grey."— Wing 50-52 ; tail 25—26 ; bill 8J— 9 mm.

Nos. 1398, 1399, 1400, 1405, 1424. SS juv., Borba, 25,26,27, 29. xi. 06.
" Iris white or yellowish white, feet greyish brown, bill blackish, below grey."

Nos. 1456, 1457. S S juv. (in the plumage of the female), Borba, 11. xii. 06.
" Iris whitish yellow or pale bluish grey, feet greyish yellow."

Nos. 1382, 1406, 1458. ? ? ad., Borba, 23, 27. xi., 11. xii. 06. " Iris greyish
white, feet yellow or greyish brown, bill blackish grey or grey."— Wing 50; tail
26—27 ; bill 9 mm.

This splendid species was hitherto only represented by four specimens, one
<? ad. and three ? ?, collected by Natterer, some seventy years ago. As will
be seen from the above, Mr. Hoffmanns sent us a large series. Must of the
males, however, are in moult, and there are but four specimens in perfect
plumage. I have very little to add to Dr. Sclater's original description. The
top of the head and the rump (including the upper tail-coverts) are of a delicate
milky-white colour with a beautiful opalizant gloss, the cap being laterally-
bordered by a narrow pale blnish line, less prouounced on the anterior portion.
The back is grass-green, the sides of the head, throat, and foreneck duller and
more yellowish green, the rest of the under-parts bright yellow. The remiges
are distinctly edged with yellowish white on the inner webs.

In the females, the rump is grass-green like the back, the cap bluish
Teen, and the olive-green colour of the foreneck is continued along the sides of
the breast and abdomen.

Six specimens wear the plumage of the female, but on the cap and rump
some milky-white feathers are already to be seen.

45. Pipra stolzmanni Hellm.

Pipra stolzmanni Hellmayr, Ibis 1906. p. 4-4 (Marabitanas, upper Rio Negro).

Pipra virescens (uec Pelzeln !), Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868. pp. 128, 187 (part. : Borba).

Nos. 1306, 1310. SS ad., Paraizo, right bank of the Madeira, 15, 16. x. 06.
" Iris yellowish white, feet black or dark grey, bill black."— Wing 49, 51 ; tail
2H, 23; bill 9 mm.

Nos. 1339, 1429, 1445, 1160. <$ $ (in moult), Borba, 16, 30. xi.; 5, 11. xii. no.
" Iris yellowish white, feet black, bill black or blackish grey."— Wing 481 — 49J ;
tail 20, 22 ; bill '■> mm.

These specimens show that strncture of the tail as described by me I.e. In
two of them, the outermost rectrices are equal, and about 3 mm. shorter than the

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longest. The two d 3 from Paraizo aud two others from Borba have a few
minute, pale yellowish dots on the anterior portion of the crown, only to be seen
when the feathers are raised.

46. *Neopipo cinnamomea (Lawr.).

Pipraf cinnamomea, Lawrence, Proc. Acad. N. Set. Philad. 1868. p. 429 (" Upper Amazon ").
Neopipo rubicunda, Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. Loud. 1869. p. 438. tab. xxx. fig. 3 (Chaimcuros,
Eastern Peru).

No. 1136. rj ad., Humaytha, 22. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet dark grey, bill
greyish brown."— Wing 49 ; tail 35| ; tars. 12J ; bill 7 mm.

The specimen agrees well with the types of N. rubicunda in the British
Museum.

In general coloration, this species has a striking likeness to Mi/iobius
eryikrurus Cab., but is easily distinguishable by its golden yellow (c?) or cinnamon
( ? ) vertical spot, aud by its blackish (not brownish white) feet. In structure,
the two species are, of course, widely different.

N. cinnamomea is quite new to the Brazilian fauna.

47. Chiroxiphia regina Scl.

Chiroxiphia regina (Natterer MS.), Sclater, Ann. <£• Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xvii. p. 469 (1856. — Borba,
Rio Madeira) ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brazil, ii. 1868. p. 129 (Borba).

Nos. 1134, 1135. SS ad., Humaytha, 22. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet greyish
red, bill black."— Wing 71, 74£ ; tail 34 ; bill 1) mm.

No. 1168. c? juv., Humaytha, 26. viii. 06. "Iris brownish red, feet greyish
red, bill black."

Nos. 1169, 1206. ? ? ad., Humaytha, 26. viii., 4. ix. 06. "Iris dark brown
or reddish brown, feet greyish red, bill black." — Wing 70, 71; tail 34£, 36;
bill 10 mm.

Nos. 1313, 1318. c? ad., S imm., Paraizo, right bank of the Rio Madeira,
23, 28. x. 06. " Iris brown, feet yellowish red, bill black."— Wing 70, 69 ; tail 33 ;
bill 9—10 mm.

The males from Humaytha differ from those obtained at Paraizo by the crest
being more golden yellow and the black frontal band much broader. The females
may easily be distinguished from those of the C. pareola races by their much darker
and greener under-snrfacc, the throat and foreneck being bright olive-green and the
rest of the belly but a little lighter green. In the females of the C. pareola-iovms,
the throat and foreneck are of a dull greyish green, and the remaining nnder-parts
pale yellowish, more or less washed with greenish on the flanks.

C. rei/ina is still very rare in collections, and had been met with hitherto
by two naturalists only, as far as I know. Natterer secured specimens at Borba,
on the lower Uio Madeira, and on the " lake " Manaqueri, Rio SoIimOes ; while
Bates received several skins from the Rio Javari.

48. Scotothorus arnazonum arnazoiium (Scl.).
Heteropelma arnazonum Sclater, P.Z.S. Loud. 1860. p. 466 (Chamicuros, Eastern Peru).

Nos. 1227, 1261, 1277. <? ad. (in moult), ? ad., aud adult (not sexed),
Humaytha, 13, 17,21. ix. 06. "Iris grey-brown or greyish yellow, feet and bill
black."

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No. 1130. ? juv., Humaytha, 21. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet grey-bine, bill
black."

These birds differ from our Para series (S. a. wallacii) by having (he crown
decidedly rufescent brown, and the throat as well as the foreueck more strongly
suffnsed with brownish. The back is either pale dull greenish, as in S. ". wallacii,
or bright brownish green, as in several specimens of S. a. amazonum from the
Orinoco (Mnuduapo and Nericagna).

49. Schiffornis major Pes Murs.

Schiffornis major (Bonaparte MS.) Dea Murs, in Castelnau's Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 66. tab. 18. fig. 2

( 1 856.*— Sarayacu, Eastern Peru).
Heteropelma rufum Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Email, ii. p. 185 (1868— Rio Amajaii [Rio Negro] and

Borba [Rio Madeira] ).

Nos. 1340, 14o."). i S ad., Borba, 17. xi., In. xii. 06. "Iris brownish grey,
feet dark blnish grey, bill black."— Wing 821, 85; tail 02, 04; bill 14). mm.

The examination of a good series of specimens in the Mnsenms of Vienna,
Paris, London and Tring, including the types of S. major and II. rufum, shows
beyond doubt that these two supposed species are based on individual variation
of a single form. Of three sexed ? ? from Fonteboa, Rio Solimoes, Brazil,
collected by the Castelnau Expedition — in the Paris Museum— one has the top
of the head cinereous mixed with rnfons, the former colour predominating, and
the sides of the head cinereous ; in the second example the front and sides of
the head are rufons, while the feathers on the vertex and occiput are partly rnfons
and partly cinereous ; in the third specimen the forehead and sides of the head
are dull greyish brown, the rest of the crown rufous. On an island in the
Bio Amajaii Natterer shot a rufous-headed <?, and another 6 with the head partly
rufous and partly grey, out of the same flock! Moreover, the two adult $&
from Borba, sent by Mr. Hoffmanns, aud two SS from Samiria, N. Peru, in
the British Museum, differ in no way from each other, the whole head being
ferruginous except a small amount of greyish round the eye. There is no
difference in size between the two supposed species.

50. Heterocercus linteatus (Strickl.).

Elaenia livteata Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1850. p. 121. tab. fig. sin. (part.: ^— "from the

upper branches of the Amazon River ").
Heterocercus linteatus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868. p. 125 (Borba).

Nos. 1142, 1123. rJcJ ad., Humaytha, 20, 23. viii. 00. " Iris brown, feet ami
bill black."— Wing 87 ; tail 52, 53 ; bill 121, 13 mm.

No. 1223. 3 jr., Humaytha, 20. viii. 00. "Iris brown."— Wing 84), ; tail
52; bill 13 mm.

No. 1152. ? ad., Humaytha, 24. viii. OG. " Iris brown."— Wing 84 ; tail 51 ;
bill 13 mm.

This extremely rare species is only known with certainty from the Rio
Madeira, where Natterer obtained three specimens near Borba. The adult male
in the British Museum, formerly in Or. Sclater's collection, was received from
Bates without any further commeut than " Upper Amazons." The exact locality
of the type, now in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia,

• Cf. Woodwarl & Sherborn, Ann. Mag. Kat. flirt. (7). viii. 1901, p, 164.

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is not, known either, it having been sent to Mr. E. Wilson " from the upper brandies
of the Amazon river."

The female differs from the males in lacking the fiery-red crown-spot and
the blackish jugular band ; by having the top of the head brownish olive-green
like the back (not deep black) ; the sides of the head sooty grey instead of deep
black ; the throat dull bnffy greyish (not silky white) and by the chest being
dull pale cinnamomeons like the belly (instead of being dark hazel). From the
? of H. jfamtertcx it may at once be distinguished by the dull brownish olive,
instead of bright oil green, colour of the upper parts.

51. Tityra semifasciata semifasciata (Spix).

Parhjirhynckus scmifaseiatus Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 32. tab. xliv. fig, 2 (1825 — "in provincia Pant ").

Nos. 1301, 1362. t?ad.j ?, Borba, 19. xi. 06. "Irish yellowish red, feet
black (<S), bluish grey(¥), bill greyish red, apical portion of upper mandible
black."

Cf. my revision of Spix' types, p. 668.

52. Pachyrhamphus niger niger (Spix).

Pachyrhynchus niger Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 33. tab. xlv. fig. 1. (1825 — no locality). Cf. Hcllmayr,

Abhandl. Ahad. Munchen CI. ii. Bd. xxii. Abt. iii. p. 669.
P. polychropterus Pelzeln, Zar Ornith. Brasil. ii. 1868. p. 121 (part. : Borba).

Nos. 961, 987, 1008. S6 ad., S jr., Humaytha, 20, 25, 28. vii. 00. "Iris
brown, feet and bill black."

No. 1017. ¥, Humaytha, 30. vii. 06. "Iris brown, feet black, bill black,
below grey."

No. 1368. ?, Borba, 19. xi. 06. "Irish brownish grey, feet plumbeous, bill
black, below light grey."

One of the adult males (No. 987) agrees with specimens from the Rio Napo
and from Nauta, Peruvian Amazons, in being uniform glossy black on the upper
and under parts, but there is a slight slaty suffusion on the vent and under tail-
coverts. Iu the two other males the under-surface is duller, more sooty blackish,
and the upper tail-coverts show cinereous edges and transverse bars.

In a large series of skins from Trinidad, Venezuela, British Guiana, Surinam
and Bogota-collections, the lower parts are still lighter, slate-grey, more or less
washed with blackish on the throat and foreneck, and occasionally freckled with
whitish in the middle of the belly ; and the rump as well as the upper tail-
coverts are nearly uniform cinereous. If these birds are not referable to
P. n. cinereiventris* then they must have a new name.

The females of P. n. niger and P. n. cinereiventris (?) differ from those of
P. a. atricapillus and P. a. marginatum iu their larger size, by having the back
strongly washed with brownish, and by the pilenm being brownish like the
mantle. In P. a. atricapillus and its southern ally the back is of a pure light
olive-green and the pilenm distinctly rufescent, forming a well-defined cap.

53. Lathria cinerea (Vieill.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905. p. 295.

Lipaugus plumbeus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. 1868. p. 122 (Borba).

No. 1114. ?, Humaytha, 19. viii. 00. "Iris and feet grey, bill black."

* Cf. Cberrie, Mus. Brooklyn Insiil. Arts and Sciences, Science Bull. vol. i. 190G. p. 190.

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54. Lipangus simplex (Lcht.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905. p. 295.

Lipaugus simplex Pelzeln, Zur Oniilh. Bras. ii. 1868. p. 123 (Borba).

No. 1444. Adult (not sexed) : Borba, 4. xii. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish
grey, bill black."

55. Laniocera hypopyrra (Vieill.).

Cf. Nov Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 364.

No. 1410. ?, Borba, 27. xi. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet bluish grey, bill
black."

56. Attila tharnnophiloides (Spix).

Cf. supra, p. 13 ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868. p. 96 (Borba).

No. 1453. ? ad., Borba, 10. xii. 06. "Iris light brown, feet blnisb. grey,
bill black."— Wing 89; tail 82 ; bill 21 mm.

Agreeing with specimens from Santarem and Surinam.

Qracula foetida Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 108 (1758 — " America, Rolander.'' — Surinam supplemented
as typical locality. Cf. Nov. Zool. ix. 1902. p. 58).

57. Gymnoderus foetidus (Linn.).

ist. Nat. x. p. 108(1758 — " America, Roland(
Nov. Zool. ix. 1902. p. 58).

No. 1021. ?, Hnmaytha, 30. vii. 06. "Iris grey, feet black, bill blackish
grey."

58. Synallaxis sp.

No. 1243. ? ad., Hnmaytha, 15. ix. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black." —
Wing 55 ; tail 70 ; bill 12J mm.

Nearest to S. hypospodia Scl., from Bahia, but differs by its thicker bill,
narrower cinereous frontal band, much duller,] less brownish back, and by
lacking the white apical edges to the feathers of the throat, which appears nearly
uniform blackish. Additional specimens are required to establish the status of
this form.

50. Synallaxis gujanensis inornata Pelz.

Synallaxis inornata Pelzeln, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wien xx. p. 160 (1856— Salto do Girao) ; Pelzeln,
Zur Ornith. Brasil. i. 1867. p. 36 (Salto do Girao, Borba).

No. 065. ? ad., Hnmaytha, 21. vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black." —
Wing 62 ; bill 15 J mm.

This specimen is very little darker on the under parts than some of onr
Cayenne skins. Perhaps S. g. inornata cannot be separated, but a larger series
from the Rio Madeira should be compared before condemning it. Of. supra, p. 13.

60. Siptornis gutturatus (Lafr. & D'Orb.).

Anahates gutturatus Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. ii. in Mag. Zool. 1838. cl. ii.p. 14(Yuracares,
N. Bolivia) ; cf. Mene'g. & Hellm., Mim. Soe. d'llist. Nat. Autun xix. 1906. p. 76.

No. 1065. c? ad., Hnmaytha, 9. viii. 06. "Iris whitish grey, feet greenish
yellow, bill greyish black." — Wing 68 ; tail 64 ; bill 15$ mm.

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Agrees with our series from the ('aura River, Venezneln. The chestnut of
the pileum and wings seems to lie a little more intense, but this is certainly an
individual character.

61. Automolus ochrolaemus turdinus (Pelz.).

[Anabates ochrolaemus Tschudi, Arch. Noting. 10. i. p. 295 (1844— "Waldregion von Peru" ; cf.

Faun. Peruan. Ares p. 240).]
Anabates turdinus Pelzeln, Sitzungsber. Ahad. Wicn xxxiv. p. 110 (1859— "Brasilia" : viz. Barra do

Bio Negro and Borba ; cf. Zur Urnith. Bras. i. 1867. p. 41).

No. 1447. ? (?) ad., Borba, 5. xii. 00. " Iris dark brown, feet pale bluish
grey, bill black, below grey."— Wing 88 ; tail 78 ; bill 22 mm.

Differs very markedly from an adult male collected by Cherrie near Mnn-
dnapo, Orinoco River, by its paler, less ochreous underparts, and much duller,
brownish olive (instead of bright rnfesceut brown) back.

Some time ago, however, I carefully compared Natterer's typical specimens
from Mauaos and Borba, kindly lent by Dr. Lorenz, with a fair series from
British Guiana, the Orinoco River, and Bogota collections, mostly in fount
Berlepsch's Museum, and was unable to find any constant differences between
the examples from these widely separated localities.

A. o. turdinus differs from the more western A. o. ochrolaemus (Tsch.), of
which I examined the type belonging to the Neuchatel Museum, and another
specimen from the Huallaga in Count Berlepsch's collection, merely by having
the throat and malar region buff, almost whitish on the chin instead of deep
ochraceons.

62. Philydor pyrrhodes (Gab.).

Cf. supra, p. 1G.

Philydor pyrrhodes Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 18G7. p. 40 (Salto do Girao).

No. 1071. cT ad., Humaytha, 11. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet yellow, bill
greyish black."— Wing 93, tail 67 ; bill 18 mm.

Lower surface deep tawny ochraceous, as in an adult male from Munduapo,
Orinoco River. The birds with paler, more ochraceous underparts are undoubtedly
immature.

63. Xenops genibarbis genibarbis 111.

Cf. supra, p. 54.

Nos. 993, 1028, 1072, 1177. ? ad., ? ? jr., Humaytha, 20, 31. vii., 11, 28.
viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet brown or grey, bill dark grey." — Wing 031, 04, 61,
62 ; tail 49, 49, 46, 49; bill 14—15 mm.

No. 1446. ? imm., Borba, 5. xii. 00. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill
blackish grey." — Wing 03 ; tail 48 mm. ; bill damaged.

This series fully bears out what I said I.e., the Madeira specimens being in
every respect similar to the topotypical birds from the Lower Amazons.

64. Dendrornis guttata guttatoides (Lafr.).
Cf. supra, p. 59.

Nos. 1022, 1007, 1002. 6 ad., c? imm., ¥ ad., Humaytha, 27, 30. vii., 7. viii. 06.
"Iris brown, bill yellowish grey."— Wing 124, 124, 115; tail 102, 104,103;
bill 40J, 42, 39 mm.

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These liinls agree perfectly with others from Tefie1 ami Northern Peru.
The bill is very pale greyish, nearly whitish on the apical portion of the upper
mandible; the throat bright bnff; the feathers of the foreneck are distinctly
edged with blackish ; the spots on the head bnff, and the longitudinal stripes on
the nape more bnffy yellow. The breast and abdomen are strongly washed with

rusty, as in a male from Nericagua, Upper Orinoco. Not yet recorded fi 1 the

Rio Madeira.

65. Dendrornis guttata eytoni (Scl.).

Deudrocolaptes eytoni Sclater, P.Z.S. Lomf. 1853. p. CO. tab. 57 (Capim River, near Pard).
Dendrornis eytoni PelzelD, Zur Ornith. lira*, i. 1807. p. 45 (Borba, Rio Madeira).

No. 1387. c? ad., Borba, 23. xi. 00. "Iris brown, bill black."— Wing 123;
tail 113; hill 43 mm.

Besides this bird, I examined seven specimens collected near Borba by the
late Dr. Natterer, and preserved in the Vienna Museum. The series agrees with
a number of skins from Pari (topotypical) in the deep black bill and in the
bnffy white throat ; but it differs by the light markings on the crown and upper
back being of a brighter huff, and by the breast and abdomen being much
more suffused with rusty. In both these respects the Borba birds form the
transition to IK g. guttatoides, thereby proving that D. g. eytoni is to be looked
upon as a geographical form of the 1>. guttata group. A male from Itaituba
is exactly intermediate between the birds from Para and those from Borba.
For the present it seems not advisable to separate the latter from D. g. eytoni,
since some Para specimens have the spots on the head and najie quite as bright
buff. It would be interesting to examine the specimen from Salto Theotonio,
mentioned by Pelzeln s.n. I), eytoni; it most probably belongs to the preceding
form.

00. Dendroplex picus (Gin.).

Cf. supra, p. 16.

Dendroplex 2>'tcus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. llrasil. i. 1807. p. 46 (Salto Theotonio, Borba).

No. 1452. S ad., Borba, 7. xii. 00. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill
grey."— Wing 93 ; tail 78* ; bill 28 mm.

Agreeing with a specimen from Itaituba, Tapaj6z. Both are slightly more
rnfescent underneath than typical Cayenne skins, but cf. Meneg. and Hellm.,
Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Autun xix. 1906. pp. 108-9.

*07. Dendrexetastes devillei (Lafr.).

Deudrocolaptes Devillei Lafresnaye, Iter. May. Zool. 1850. p. 102 (Sarayacu, Peru) ; cf. Mi'm';;aux
and Hellmayr, Mini. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Autun xix. 1906. p. 111.

No. 1038. c? ad., Ilumaytha, 2. viii. 06. "Iris light brown, feet and bill
greenish grey." — Wing 105 ; tail 109 ; bill 32 mm.

This specimen agrees well with others from East Peru. The differences
between IK devillei and If. temmincki are fully stated /.<•.

The Tring Museum has lately obtained a copy of the rare Leveque edition
of the Supplements aux ceucres de Bvffon, of which Lesson's little-known book,
Description des Mammiferes et des Oiseaux forms one volume, published in 1^47.
In this work, on p. 281, Lesson describes a bird from Cayenne under the
name Dendroeolaptes (Orthoeolaptes) rufigula, which is undoubtedly the same

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as />. temmincki, and, as his name has the priority by fonr years, the latter
species has to stand in future as Dendrexetastes rufigula (Loss.).

The range of the two species of Dendrexetastes* is, according to our present
knowledge, as follows :

a. IK rufigula (Less.). Cayenne; Surinam: near Paramaribo (Chunkoo coll.) f ;
British Guiana : Mines district f ; North Brazil : Barra do Rio Negro (Natterer). |

b. J). (Iccillci (Des Mars). Eastern Pern : Sarayacn (Casteluau and Dcville),
Iquitos (Whitely), Samiria (Hauxwell) ; N.W. Brazil : Humaytha, Rio Madeira
(Hoffmanns).

1>. dexilhi is thus for the first time recorded from Brazil.

68. Nasica longirostris (Vieill.).
Cf. sttpri, p. 16.
Nasica longirostris Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 18G7. p. 44 (Salto do Girao, Borba).

Nos. 1174, 1184. c? ad., ? ? imm., Humaytha, 27, 20. viii. 06. "Iris light
brown, feet grey, bill greyish yellow."

Nos. 1341, 1443. ? ad., ? juv., Borba, 10. xi., 4. xii. 06. "Iris brown or

yellowish brown, feet grey, bill yellowish grey."

69. Xiphornis procurvoides (Lafr.) or snbsp. ?

Xiphorhynchus procurvoides Lafresnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1850. p. 376 (Cayenne).
X. trochilirostris (nee Lcht.) Pelzeln, Zur Orn. Bras. i. 1807. p. 44 (part. : Borba).

No. 1442. ? ad., Borba, 4. xii. 06. " Iris brown, feet plumbeous, bill
brownish red." — Wing 95 ; tail 91 ; bill 65 mm.

This specimen differs from typical Cayenne skins and others from British
Guiana by being rather more olive on the lower parts, and by having the creamy
shaft-stripes on the foreneck and chest laterally margined with black. The
dusky edges to the throat-feathers, too, are less numerous and less distinct. A
series from the Rio Madeira is required to confirm the constancy of these
characters or otherwise.

To A", trochilirostris (Lcht.), which is confined to Bahia in Eastern Brazil,
the Borba bird has not the least resemblance. X venezuelensis Chapm., of
Venezuela, Colombia, etc., is another very distinct form. I shall hope to discuss
the various races of the A. trochilirostris group on an early occasion.

70. Deconychura longicauda (Pelz.).

Deadrocincla longicauda Pelzeln, Znr Ornith. Bras. i. p. 60 (1867. — Borba, Rio Madeira ; Barra do
Rio Negro, and Marabitanaa).

No. 1363. $ ad. in moult, Borba, 19. xi. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish grey,
bill blackish grey." — Wing 110 ; tail 105 ; bill 27 mm.

This bird agrees perfectly with one of Pelzeln's typical specimens in the
British Museum. As I have pointed out in the Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xiv.
(Feb. 19114) p. 52, this species is congeneric with Dccowjchura ti/pica, erroneously
described by Cherrie as having only ten rectrices.

Dr. Lorenz having kindly sent me the type and only known specimen of

• I have not yet had an opportunity of examining D. paraensis L. Lorenz, from Para.

t Two specimens in the Tring Museum.

J The locality, Colombia, is no doubt erroneous.

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Sittasomus stictolaemus Pelz.,* I find that it has nothing whatever to do with
Sittasomus, 1 icing in every structural detail a typical meruher of the genus
Deconyehura.

Thus we have four species, the characters and range of which are as follows :

a. D. typica Cherrie.

Hab. Costa Rica and Chiriqui.

Rump brown like the back, upper tail-coverts only chestnut rufous. Pale
spots on foreneck rather large and conspicuously edged with blackish ; breast
with numerous buff shaft-stripes or spots. Baud of the wing distinctly washed
with cinnamon rufous.

63 (Chiriqui; Pozo Azul, Costa Rica): wing 98, 101 ; tail 100, 107;
bill 24, 25* mm.

? (Pozo Azul) : wing 90 ; tail 94 ; bill 24 mm.

b. J>. longicauda (Pelz.).

Hab. British Guiana : Bartica Grove, Mernme Mountains ; North Brazil :
Marabitanas, Rio Negro ; Barra do Rio Negro ; Borba ; Ega.

Similar in coloration to IK typica, but with much larger and heavier bill,
longer wings and tail ; the pale spots on the foreneck less boldly marked, and
breast and abdomen uniform, without spots.

<$S : wing 107—111 ; tail 105—113 ; bill 27—29 mm.

? : wing 102; tail 106 ; bill 25 mm.

c. D. secunda Hellm.

Hab. Coca, Rio Napo, East Ecuador.

Differs from the two foregoing forms by having the rump chestnut rufous,
like the upper tail-coverts, and the bend of the wing olive-brown. The pale shaft-
lines on the crown are narrower ; the nnder-parts marked as in 1>. longicauda.

Type ( ? ) : wing 84* ; tail 90 ; bill 20 mm.

d. I), stictolaemits (Pelz.).

Hab. Borba, Rio Madeira.

Like D. secunda, with the rump chestnut rufous and the bend of the wing
olive-brown, but very much smaller, also differing in several details of coloration.
The back is rather more rufescent brown, the nnder-snrface earthy brown (without
any olive hue), the buff spotting on the foreneck somewhat less distinct, etc.

Type ( ? ad.) : wing 75 ; tail 72 ; bill 10 mm.

71. Dendrocincla fuliginosa (Vieill.).

Dendrocoptts fuliginosut Vieillot, Knur. Dirt. xxvi. p. 117 (1818. — ex Levaillant : Cayenne); cf.

Me'ne'gaux and Ilellmayr, Mem. S,„\ tl'l/ixt. Nat. Antun xix. 190G. p. 119.
Dendrocincla fumigata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1807. p. 42 (Borba).

No. 1085. juv., Hnmaytha, 14. viii. 06. "Iris grey, feet greyish brown,
bill black."

Though quite young, this bird undoubtedly belongs to the species in qnestion,
which '<ad already been collected by Natterer near Burba, on the lower Madeira.

* Zur Ornith. Brazil, i. 1867. P- 6U (Borba),

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72. Dendrocincla merula (Leht.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1005. p. 281.

Dendrocincla merula Pelzeln, I.e. p. 42 (Borba, Sal to Theotonio).

No. 1020. ? vix ad., Hnmaytha, 30. vii. 06. "Iris and feet grey, bill
black, below yellowish." — Wing 105 ; tail 89 ; bill 26 mm.

In coloration of the plumage practically identical with an immature male
from Igarape-Assu, Par;!.

73. Cymbilanius lineatus lineatus (Leach).

Cf. supra, p. 60.

Cymbilanius lineatus Pelzeln, I.e. p. 74 (Borba).

Nos. 1010, 1074, 1023. $S ad., ?, Humaytha, 28, 31. vii. 11. viii. 06.

" Iris red, feet and bill black."

No. 1314. ? ad., Paraizo, 23. x. 06. " Iris red, feet and bill dark grey."
Nos. 1323, 1335, 1330, 1340. 6S ad., ? , 3 juv., Borba, 13, 14, 16. xi. 00.

"Iris red, feet plumbeous, bill black."

74. Thamnophilus major borbae Pelz.

[Thamnophilus major Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. iii. p. 313 (1810.— ex Azara : Paraguay).]
Thamnophilus borbae Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. p. 140 (1868. — Borba).

Nos. 939, 971, 979, 1036. J <5 ad. and imni., Humaytha, 17, 21, 23. vii.
2. viii. 06. " Iris red, feet grey or plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 97, 95, 90, 91 ;
tail 80, 77, 72 ; bill 27—28J mm.

Nos. 940, 955. ? ? Hnmaytha, 12, 19. vii. 06. " Iris red, feet pale plumbeous,
bill black."— Wing 90, 91 ; tail 74, 70; bill 26 mm.

No. 1342. ? ad., Borba, 16. xi. 06. "Iris red." Wing 92; tail 72; bill
26 mm.

These specimens are practically idenlical with the types collected by Natterer.
The Si differ from those of T. m. melanurus Gould, of Peru and Eastern Ecuador,
by having the two outer tail-feathers narrowly tipped with white, and the
females may be distinguished by the rather lighter ferruginous brown of the
upper parts, and by having the under tail-coverts white, tinged with pale
cinnamon ou their ajiical portion. In the ? ? of T. m. melanurus the under
tail-coverts are uniform bright cinuamomeous brown.

For the characters and range of the geographical races of the T. major
group, cf. my revision of Spix' types, pp. 654-5.

75. Thamnophilus polionotus Pelz.

Thamnophilus polionotus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. p. 147 (1868. — Marabitanas and Barcellos,
Rio Negro) ; cf. Hellm., Nov. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 338.

No. 1125. <$ ad., slightly moulting, Humaytha, 20. viii. 06. "Iris light
brown, feet bluish black, bill black." — Wing 73 ; tail 60i ; bill 19 mm.

This specimen differs from an adult male, collected by Mr. Andre1 on the
Caura River, by its stronger bill, much lighter schistaceons nnderparts, and in
having the axillaries and under wing-coverts broadly tipped with white (instead
of uniform dark slate-colour). By its generally paler coloration it approaches
T. juruanus Ihering, from the Rio Jnrua, which species, however, has the median

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and greater ripper tail-coverts uniform black, while they are marked with large white
apical spots in the Hnmaytha bird. '/'. punctuliger Pelz., from Borba, agrees
in this respect, but has a distinct coucealed white interscapular spot, of which
there is no trace in T. polionotus, from Hnmaytha, Bio Negro, ('aura, etc.

76. Thamnophilus amazonicus Scl.

Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 36G.

T. amazonicua Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868. p. 77 (Salto do Girao, Borba).

Nos. 1344, 1350, 1386, 1427. S ad., S juv., ? ? ad., Borba, 16, 17, 23,30. xi. 06.
" Iris brown or greyish brown, feet bluish grey, bill black." — Wing, cj 72, ? 72, 68;
tail, cf 00, ? 60J, 59 mm.

Perfectly identical with specimens from Para. The Tring Museum possesses
also an adult male found in Bogota collections, which is not different either.

77. Thamnophilus doliatus subradiatus Berl.
Thamnophilw nigricristatus subradiatus Hellmayr, supra, p. Gl.

No. 1068. <$ ad., Hnmaytha, 9. viii. 06. " Iris whitish grey, feet and bill
black." — Wing 75 ; tail 62 mm. ; bill damaged.

No. 1186. ? juv., Hnmaytha, 30. viii. 06. "Iris greyish white, feet grey,
bill blackish grey."

The adult male differs from our Teffe specimen by having the forehead more
densely striped with white, and particularly by the crest-feathers being distinctly
white at their base, though to a less extent than in T. d. doliatus (Linn.).

T. nigricristatus Lawr., T. subradiatus and allies are evidently all geographical
representatives of T. doliatus, and, therefore, more properly designated by
trinomials.

78. Pygiptila stellaris (Spix).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. 190G. p. 367.

Pygiptila maculipcnnis Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 18G8. p. 70 (Salto do Girao, Borba).

Nos. 923, 931, 949, 1296. <S ad., ? ? ad., ? juv., Hnmaytha, 14, 16, 18. vii.,
26. ix. 06. " Iris brown or brownish grey, feet plumbeous, bill bluish black."

Nos. 1360, 1365, 1377, 1439, 1440. S c? imm., ¥? ad. et imm., Borba,
19, 22. xi., 4. xii. 06. " Iris brownish grey, feet plumbeous, bill greyish black."

Agreeing with specimens from Para, Teffe, and Venezuela. The young has
a much smaller, entirely black bill, while in the adults the lower mandible is
always pale greyish horn-colonr.

79. Dysithamnus schistaceus schistaceus (D'Orb.).

Tliamimjihilus schistaceus D'Orbigny, Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 170 (1838. — Yuracares, East Bolivia);
Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. 1868. p. 77 (Salto do Girao, Borba).

Nos. 922, 1054. rJc? ad., Hnmaytha, 14. vii., 6. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet
greenish or bluish grey, bill black."— Wing 06, 64 ; tail 50$, 52 ; bill 18, 17 mm.

No. 956. d imm., Hnmaytha, 9. vii. 06. " Iris reddish yellow, feet plumbeous,
bill black." Wing 63 ; tail 51 ; bill 17 mm.

Nos. 1004, 1094. ? ad., ? imm., Hnmaytha, 27. vii., 16. viii. mi. "Iris
greyish brown, feet plumbeous, bill black, below grey." — Wing 64 ; tail 57, 53 ;
bill 18, 17 mm.

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No. 1353. <S ad., Borba, 17. xi. 06. "Iris yellowish red, feet plumbeous,
bill black."— Wing 65 ; tail 54 ; bill 17 mm.

This series fully bears out the distinctness of D. s. heterogynus Hellm.
(cf. supra, p. 61). The males are constantly paler schistaceons below than that
from Teffe, while the females differ at a glance by having the under parts buffy
brownish or buffy yellow instead of bright ochraceous. The back, too, is of a
lighter, less rnfescent brown.

80. Dysithamnus niurinus (Scl. & Salv.).
Cf. supra, p. 37.

No. 1045. (<?) juv., Humaytha, 3. viii. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet
plumbeous, bill black."

81. Dysithamnus ardesiacus saturninus (Pelz.).

[Dysithamnus ardesiacus Sclater & Salvia, P. Z.S. 1867. p. 756 (based on D. schistaceus Sclater (nee

D'Orbigny), P. Z. S. 1858. pp. 66, 222-Rio Napo, East Ecuador).]
Thamnophilus saturninus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. BrasU. ii. p. 147 (1868. — Cayenne ; Borba and Serra

CaraumAn ; — Borba accepted as typical locality, cf. Hellm., Verliandl. zoo!, hot. Gesellsch. Wien,

1903. p. 216).

No. 1416. S ad. in moult, Borba, 29. xi. 06. "Iris brown, feet plumbeous,
bill black."— Wing 80 ; tail 60 ; bill 18 mm.

With but a few specimens from Borba before me, I caunot say with certainty
if the birds from the Rio Branco, Cayenne, British Guiana and the Caura River
are really quite identical with D. a. saturninus. Adult males of the various
localities present little difference in coloration except that those from Borba have
more white at the base of the interscapular feathers, and are decidedly darker
schistaceous on the belly. The latter are, however, larger, with a much longer
tail and rather stronger bill. Should additional specimens from the Rio Madeira
confirm these characters, the northern birds were to be separated as a smaller,
paler race.

Wing. Tail.

Two c?c? ad., Borba (including the type of

D. a. saturninus') 80, 75 60, 58 mm.

Two ? ? ad., Borba

Seven adult and immature S S from the Caura River
Two ? ? from the Caura River ....
Two 3 S ad., British Guiana .....

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Four <J S ad., Cayenne

Two ? ? „ „

One S ad., Serra Carautmin, Rio Branco .

82. Thamnomanes caesius persimilis Hellm.

Tli a nam manes caesius persimilis Helluiayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 64 (1907 — Teffc).
T. caesius (nee Temminck), Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. 1868. p. 80 (Salto do Girao) ; Ihering,
Eevist. Mus. Paul. vi. 11)05. p. 440 (Rio Jurua).

Nos. 1053, 1US4. Si ad., Humaytha, 6, 14. viii. 06. "Iris dark brown,
feet aud bill black."— Wing 71, 74 ; tail 63, 64 ; bill 17, 171 mm.

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These skins agree perfectly with the typical series from Teffe. Both specimens
have the under wing-coverts and a distinct edge along the inner web of the
primaries white. There is no trace of a white interscapular hlotch.

No. 1053 has a few minute whitish apical dots on the median and greater
upper wing-coverts.

T. c. persimilis apparently ranges all over Western Brazil from the Rio
Madeira to the south bank of the main valley of the Amazons. The bird obtained
on the Jurna and mentioned by Ihering s. n. T. caesius is also referable to the
present form.

83. Myrmelastes luctuosus (Lcht.).

Cf. supra, p. 17.

Thamnophilus luctuosus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii. 1868. p. 7lj (Borba).

Nos. 1139, 1140. c? ? ad., slightly moulting, Humaytha, 22. viii. 00. "Iris
brown, feet plumbeous, bill black." — Wing 80, 78 ; bill 21 mm.
Identical with specimens from Para and .Santarem.

84. Cercomacra nigrescens approximans Pelz.

Cf. supra, p. 18.

Nos. 1338, 1450. <?c? ad., Borba, 16. xi., 7. xii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 67, 66 ; tail 63, 59 ; bill 18 mm.

No. 1354. (<?) juv.j Borba, 17. xi. 06. "Iris grey, feet pale plumbeous, bill
black."

The adult males agree fully with those from Santarem and Central Peru in
the Tring Museum.

85. Formicivora rufa (Wied).

Myioihera rufa Wied, Beitr. Notary. Bras. 3. ii. p. 1095 (1831.— Interior of Bahia).

Nos. 1237, 1257. Si ad., Humaytha, 14, 17. ix. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet
and bill black."— Wing 54, 51 ; tail 57, 53 ; bill 15, 14| mm.

No. 1285. c? vix ad., Humaytha, 22. ix. 06. " Iris brown, feet blackish grey,
bill black."

No. 1238. <S jnv., Humaytha, 14. ix. 06. " Iris dark brown."

No. 1236. ? ad., Humaytha, 14. ix. 06. "Iris brown, feet blackish grey, bill
black."— Wing 51 ; tail 53 ; bill 14 mm.

No. 1260. S jnv., Humaytha, 17. ix. 06. "Iris brown, feet bluish black,
bill black."

According to Mr. Hoffmanns' observations this species never occurs in the
" vargem " or on the "terra firms," but lives exclusively in the campos, where
also the six above specimens were shot. They agree with a female from Itapura,
Rio Tiete, state of S. Paulo, in having the flanks rather bright ochraceous
buff. In a series from Bahia and Goyaz the sides of the belly are somewhat
paler and duller.

F. rufa was already known to occur in the Amazonian region, flfr. Chapman *
having recorded a specimen from Santarem, procured by Williams.

* Auk, 1891. p. 29.

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86. Formicivora bicolor Pelz.

Formkivom bicolor Pelzeln, Zur Ornilh. Bras. ii. p. 156 (18G8. — Engenho do Gaum, Mattogrosso ;
Ribeirao, Salto Girao and Borba, llio Madeira).

No. 1326. (J ad., Borba, 13. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 52, tail 47, bill 14| mm.

Nos. 1336, 1355, 1360. ? ? ad., Borba, 15, 17, 22. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet
and bill black."— Wing 53, 51, 54 ; tail 50, 52, 51 ; bill 14—15 mm.

Practically identical with specimens from the Rio Tapajoz (cf. supra, p. 17).

87. Ramphocaenus melanurus amazonum Hellm.

Ramphocaenus melanurus amazonum Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 06 (1907. — Telle).

No. 1030. cJ ad., Humaytha, 1. viii. 06. "Iris light brown, feet and bill
grey." — Wing 541, tail 50, bill 22 mm.

Nos. 1364, 1366. S ¥ ad., Borba, 22, 29. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet plumbeous,
bill blackish, below grey." — Wing 54, 51 ; tail 40 ; bill 25, — mm.

These specimens agree perfectly with the type from Teffe. The head aud
back are of the same dull sepia brown, in No. 1030 perhaps a little lighter ;
the cheeks and ear-coverts whitish, the latter washed with pale brownish on the
posterior end, the sides of the neck creamy bnff (Ridgw. Nomencl. v. 11); the
under parts white with a delicate pale creamy buff tinge across the foreneck and
on the sides of the breast and abdomen. The outermost pair of tail-coverts shows
a long, dull smoky-greyish apical spot.

According to our present knowledge, in South America, east of the Andes,
the following geographical forms of the R. melanurus group are to be distinguished :

a. R. melanurus melanurus Vieill.

Ramphocaenus melanurus Vieillot, Xouc. Diet, xxix. p. 6 (1819. — " Bresil, par Delalande fils," i.e.

Eio de Janeiro).
Troglodytes rectirostris Swainsou, Zool. Illustr. i. (Vertebrosa) Pt. 3. pi. 140 (1820-21.— "Brazil ").
Thryothorus Gladiator Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. 3. ii. p. 751 (1831.— S.E. Brazil).

Ilab. Eastern Brazil : S. Panlo (Ignaj^) ; Rio de Janeiro (Delalande) ; Bahia
(Wucherer) ; Pernambuco (W. A. Forbes) ; C'apitn River, south of Para (Wallace).

Adnlt. Top of the head and back bright russet brown, the latter scarcely,
if any, paler than the cap ; cheeks and ear-coverts rufesceut buff, sides of the
neck much deeper, ochraceous buff (Ridgw. v. 10); sides of the breast and belly
deep ochraceous buff. Wing 46 — 52 ; tail 44 — 49 ; bill 21 — 22i. mm.

Examined. 1 ad., Rio de Janeiro, collected by Delalande, type of R. melanurus
(Paris Museum); 2 cS 3 ad., Iguape, S. Paulo (Krone coll., Tring Museum); 5 adults
and young, Bahia (Wucherer and Kammerlacher coll., Mus. Brit, and Vienna); 1 ad.,
Pernambuco (W. A. Forbes coll., Brit. Mus.) ; 1 ad., Capim River, Para (Wallace
coll., Brit. Mus.).

N.B. — The bird from Para agrees in every respect with the examples from
Bahia and S. Paulo.

b. U. melanurus trinitatis (Less.).

Ramphocaenus trinitatis Lesson, ffe». Zool. 18;i9. p. 42 ("in insula trinitatis").

Bab. Island of Trinidad; Venezuela: Suapure aud La Pricidn, ('aura River
(Klages and Andre coll.), Munduapo aud Nericagua, Orinoco River (Cherrie coll.),

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Cnmana (Caracciolo coll.), S. Esteban, near Puerto Cabello (Goering and Starke
coll.). Colombia : Bio Meta (Wheeler coll.)- East Ecuador: Rio Napo (Petit coll.).

North Brazil : Rio Amajaii, a tributary of the lower Rio Negro (Natterer coll.).

Adult. Differs from R. m. melanoma in having the back smoky or earthy
brown, in decided contrast to the rnfescent pilenm ; and the cheeks, ear-coverts,
and sides of the neck deep ochraceous. — Wing 48— 54; tail 43 — 48; bill 21 — 23 mm.

Material. 1 <?, 1 ? , Caparo, Trinidad (Andre1 coll.) ; 7 (ad. and young) ( lamana ;
1 ad., S. Esteban (Starke coll., Mns. v. Berlepsch) ; 1 ? ad., S. Esteban (Goering
coll., Brit. Mus.) ; 1 ad., Villaviccncio, Rio Meta, Colombia (Wheeler coll.,
Brit. Mus.) ; 7 (ad. and young) Caura River (Andre and Klages coll., Mus. Tring) ;
<? jr., c? ad., ? ad., Munduapo and Nericagua, Orinoco ; 1 ad., Rio Napo (Mus.
Tring) ; 1 c? ad., Rio Amajau (Natterer, Vienna Mus.).

Obs. There is no constant difference between specimens from the above
localities, though, as a rule, those from the north coast of Venezuela (Cnmana,
S. Esteban) are paler underneath, the foreneck and sides of the body alone being
bright buff. In the others the under parts are for the greater part deep ochraceous
buff, as in R. m. melanurus. The $ from the Rio Amajau and several specimens
from the Caura, however, agree exactly with those from Cnmaml.

The bright ochraceous sides of the head serve to distinguish this form at a
glance among the other South American races. About the subspecific name
cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 32.

c. R. melanurus albiventris Scl.
Eamphocaenus albiventris Sclater, Ibis, 1883. p. 95 (Surinam).

Ilab. Surinam (C. Bartlett) ; Cayenne (Jelski) ; British Guiana : Bartica
Grove, Camacnsa, Quouja, Aunai (Whitely jr.).

Adult. Differs from the two preceding forms in having the whole under-surface
pure white, the innermost flanks alone being pale greyish. The sides of the head
are whitish, the posterior portion of the ear-coverts washed with pale brownish,
and the sides of the neck are but slightly tinged with pale ochraceous buff. Upper
parts as in R. m. trinitatis. Wing 47 — 50 ; tail 45 — 49 ; bill 20J — 22 mm.

Material. 1 ad., Surinam (C. Bnckley coll. : Brit. Mus. type of 11. albiventris) ;
c? ? , Aunai (Tring Mus.) ; <J Bartica Grove, 1 ? Qnonja, 1 adult Camacnsa, all
collected by Whitely, and one adult from British Guiana (without any further
locality, Quelch coll.), in the British Museum.

Obs. I have pointed out (supra, p. 67) that the specimen from Surinam is
to be considered as the type. The one from S. Esteban, erroneously registered
as such in the Cat. Birds xv. p. 261, turned out to belong to another form (see
sub R. m. trinitatis).

d. R. m. amazonum Hellm.

Cf. supra.

Ilab. Western Brazil: Teffe, Rio Solimoes (Hoffmanns); Ilumaytba and
Borba, Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns). North Peru: Chyavetas, Santa Cruz (Bartlett),
Ynrimaguas (Bartlett & Stolzmann coll.).

Adult. Agrees with A'. ///. albiventris in the sides of the head being white,
shaded with pale brownish on the posterior portion of the ear-coverts; but the
top of the head is dull sepia brown like the back, the sides of the neck are much
paler, crenmy-bnff (Ridgw. v. 11), not, ochraceous ; and the foreneck as well as

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the sides of the bell}' have a delicate, pale creamy buff hue. Wing 52 — 54, tail
49—53, bill 22—25 mm.

Material. 1 J" ad., Telle (type), 1 c? ad., Hurnaytka, c? ¥ ad., Borba (Mns.
Tring); 1 c? Yurimaguas, 1 ad., Santa Cruz, 1 av. juv., Chyavetas (Mns. Tring
and Brit.).

e. 11. m. stieturus Hellm.
Rhamphocaenus stieturus Hellniayr, Verhandl. :.<>->l. botan. <!, tell h. Wien. 1902. p. '.i7 (Mattogrosso).

Hab. Western Brazil, Mattogrosso : Villa Bella de Mattogrosso, Engenho
do Gama and San Vicente (Natterer).

Adult. At once recognisable from all the preceding forms by having (lie
three outer pairs of rectrices tipped with pure white. Upper parts as in /,'. m,
trinitatis, but back lighter, clear earthy brown ; cheeks and ear-coverts rufesceut
buff as in li. m. melanurus, sides of the neck pale ochraceous buff, decidedly
lighter than in a and b. Under parts exactly as in pale-bellied specimens of
li. m. trinitatis, foreneck and sides being washed with bright cream-buff (Ridgw.
v. 11). Wing 50—51, tail 41—45, bill 22— 24} mm.

Material. 8 adults, of both sexes, from Mattogrosso (Natterer coll., Vienna
Museum).

88. Sclateria argentata (Des Murs).

Herpsilochmus argentatus Des Murs in : Castelnau's Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 53. tab. 17. fig. 2 (June
18oG.— Nautu, N.E. Peru).

HelerocTiemis albiventris Pelzeln, Zur Omith. Brasil. ii. p. 101 (1868.— Engenho do Gama, Matto-
grosso ; Guajara-guacu, GrirSo and Borba, Rio Madeira ; Marabitanas, Eio Negro).

Nos. 1027, 1137. S3 ad., Ilumaytha, 31. vii., 27. viii. DO. "Iris brown, feet
greyish yellow, bill black."— Wing GO, 701 ; tail W},, 51 ; bill 23, 24 mm.

These specimens agree well with others from Maipures, Orinoco River (Tring
Museum) and the Peruvian Amazons (British Museum). Thanks to the kindness
of Dr. von Lorenz, I have been enabled to examine the series upon which Pelzeln
founded his If. albiventris. This consists of adult males from Girao and Guajara-
guacu, females from Borba and Marabitanas, and four examples from Mattogrosso,
two of each sex. The S <? from the two first-named localities are those described
by Pelzeln as the adult <Jcf, and agree with our specimens from Humavtha
and Maipures in having the under-snrface white with the sides of the neck as well
as of the breast and abdomen schistaceous. Hence //. albiventris becomes a strict
synonym of //. argentatus. The two c? $ from Mattogrosso considered by Pelzeln
to represent the plumage of the immature $, differ by having the schistaceous
colour of the sides more extended, and by the feathers of the chest being
distinctly edged with cinereous. Although I do not take these characters to
be signs of immaturity, yet a larger series of specimens is required to establish
the status of the Mattogrosso form.

S. argentata is a very near ally of <$'. naevia (Gm.), differing solely by the
coloration of the under parts. In structure the two species arc practically identical.

80. Sclateria schistacea humaythae Hellm.
Sclateria /" lacea humaythae Hellmayr, /.'«//. /;. ". (_'. \ix. (Febr. 1907) p. 51.

Nos. 053, 1002, 1012, 1077, 1120. 6S ad., Ilumaytha, 19, 27, 2'.'. vii, 12. viii,
13. ix. nO. " Iris grey or greyish brown, feet greyish yellow or gre\ ish brown, bill
black."— Wing 70—73, tail 51—55, bill 20— 21 J, mm.

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Nos. 1146, 1175. c?c? juv., Humaytha, 23, 28. viii. 06. "Iris grey, feet
grey-brown, bill black."

Nos. 997, 1013, 1014, 1066, 1007, 1231. ? ?, Hnmaytha, 27, 20. vii., 9. viii.,
13. ix. 06. "Iris grey or greyish brown, feet grey or yellowish grey, bill black,
below greyish."— Wing 67—70, tail 50—54, bill 20—22 mm.

No. 1315. ? iuiin., Paraizo, 24. x. 00. Soft parts as above. — Wing 701,
bill 21 mm.

<S ad. In coloration similar to S. s. leucostigma (Pelz.), but the tail considerably
shorter.

¥ ad. Top of the head and back pale brown, sometimes with a slight nifesccnt
tinge on the latter; upper wing-coverts warm rufescent brown, with large, rounded,
apical spots of fulvous; quills dusky, exteriorly edged with rufescent brown. Tail
dull dusky, the two outer rectrices occasionally with a narrow buff apical margin.
Lores and sides of the head ochraceous buff, on the posterior portion of the ear-
coverts a distinct patch, of pale brown. Malar region, sides of the neck and the
whole uuder-surface bright ochraceous, deepest (about " tawny ochraceous," Ridgw.
v. 4) on the sides of the neck and belly, paler, more ochraceous buff (Ridgw. v. lU)
on the throat and middle of the abdomen. Axillaries and under wing-coverts
pale ochraceous buff clouded with greyish.

Type of subspecies: No. 1067, ? ad., Humaytha, 0. viii. 06.
The adult males of this interesting new form do not differ in coloration from
a good scries of S. s. leucostigma from British Guiana, < 'avenue, and the Rio Negro
district. The under parts are of the same light cinereous, passing into whitish
grey in the middle of the abdomen, and the upper surface shows exactly the
same shade of slate-grey. The size of the white apical spots on the wing-coverts
is rather variable. In two specimens they are quite as large as in our series from
the Guianas, in two others decidedly smaller, though still considerably larger than
in 8. s. schistacea. The under mandible is whitish, as in S. s. leucostigma. From
this form the present series differs, however, at a glance by its shorter tail.

The females are readily distinguishable from those of all the other forms
by having the top of the head pale brown like the back (not slate-colour). More-
over, the lores are buff (not greyish) ; the sides of the head ochraceous buff with
a brown patch on the posterior end of the ear-coverts (instead of being uniform
dark slate-grey) ; the malar region is ochraceous (not slate-grey) ; the under-
surface bright ochraceous (instead of deep ferruginous) ; and the back much
]>aler, light rufescent brown (uot dee]) rufous brown).

The under mandible is whitish as in S. s. leucostigma, while in the shortness
of the tail the new form agrees with S. s. subplumbea..

In Not: it. Zool. xiii. 1900. pp. 344-7, I gave a review of the four geographical
forms then known, to which S. *. caurensis Hcllm.,* from the Caura It., Venezuela,
aud S. s. humaythae are to be added now.

0o. Sclateria schistacea leucostigma (Pelz.).

/'. , i tola ' \tigma Pelzeln, /.m- Ornith. tim*. ii. p. lilo ( 18iiK.— liarra do Rio Negro, Marabitanas,

Rio V.ui|":. i layenne),

Noi 13;:.'. & ad., Borba, 20, xi. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet pile yellowish
red, bill black." — Wing 72; tail On ; bill 21 nun.

♦ Bull, Br, I. Or,,. CI xix. p. 9.

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This bird agrees, in size and coloration, with onr series of S. s. leucostigma,
except iu having rather smaller white apical spots on the wing-coverts. From
the Hnmaytha skins it differs by its longer tail and by the under mandible being
partly greyish.

iU. Hypocneniis cantator peruvianus Tacz.
Cf. supra, p. 67.

No. 018. ? ad., Hnmaytha, 13. vii. 00. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black, below
grey."— Wing 54 ; tail 38 ; bill 1CA mm.

Sides of the belly pale ochraceons, as iu a female from Tefle, while another skin
from this locality has them much darker. The Humaytha bird, however, differs
from all females of II. c. peruvianus by having the mantle less mottled with
blackish and buff.

92. Hypocuemis punctulata (Des Blurs).

Rkopotera punctulata Des Murs in: Castelnau's Voyage, Oiseaux, p. 53 (June 1856.*— " Haut
Amazone," sc. Peruvian Amazons) ; cf. Me'neg. & Hellm., Bull. Soc. Philom. /'»/■;..■, 1906,
p. 47.

Rhopothera guttata Des Murs, I.e. tab. xvii. fig. 3 (December 1856*).

Nos. 1092, 1109, 1209. $S ad., Humaytha, 8, 10. viii., 4. ix. 00. " Iris brownish
red or grey, feet grey, bill black."— Wing 58, 59, 01 ; tail 29, 30, 30£ ; bill
16 — 16£ mm.

No. 1203. S vix ad., Hnmaytha, 31. viii. 00. " Iris brown, feet dark grey, bill
black."— Wing 58 ; tail 29 ; bill 16A mm.

No. 933. S jr., Humaytha, 16. vii. 00. "Iris and feet grey, bill black."—
Wing 57 ; tail 28i ; bill 17 mm.

Nos. 930, 932, 1194. ? ? ad., ? imm., Humaytha, 10. vii., 31. viii. 00. " Iris
and feet grey, bill black."— Wing 56—58 ; tail 281—31 ; bill 10! mm.

Except in averaging slightly smaller, these specimens agree with a series
from the Peruvian Amazons and the Caura valley.

//. punctulata differs from //. v. naevia (Gm.) and H. n. theresae (Des Murs)
by its much shorter tail, grey (not wax-yellow) feet, black (not brown) upper tail-
coverts, white (instead of slate-grey) lores, cheeks and ear-coverts, and by having
the rump not uniform brown, but black spotted with white ((?) or buff (?).
Moreover, in the adult males the flanks are never ochraceons buff, but earthy brown
or greyish; and the females have the throat, foreneck, and middle of the breast
white, the sides and the crissum alone being buff, while iu those of //. n. naevia
and // n. theresae all the under-snrface (except the white throat) is of a deep
buff yellow (Ridgw. vi. 19). The range of II. punctulata, thus far known, is as
follows :

North Peru: Pebas (Castelnau and Deville), Ljuitos (Whitely). West Brazil :
Humaytha, Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns) ; Rio Amajau, a tributary of the Rio Negro
(Natterer); Rio Javarri (Bates). Venezuela: La Pricion, Canra valley (Andre).

N.B. — The so-called Bogota skin in the British Museum (H. naevia Sclater,
Cat. Birds xv. ii. 291, spec, h) belongs to 11. naevia theresae, agreeing in every
respect with Peruvian examples. Though certainly not a Bogota skin, its make
is entirely unknown to me.

* Cf. Woodward & Sherborn, Ann. Mag .Vw. II, .it. , -) viii. 1901. p. 16*.

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93. Hypocneinis poecilinota griseiventris (Pelz.).

Pithys grist 'wentrit Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. p. 107 descr. $ (1868. — Viila Maria and Engeuho

do Gama. Mattogrosso ; Borba, Rio Madeira).
Cf. sujrri, p. 67, and Nov. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 37:2.

Nos. 1101, 1143, 1104. cf cf ad., Hnmaytha, 17, 23, 25. viii. 06. " Iris brown,
feet plnmbeons, bill black."— Wing 67$— 69 ; tail 45—46 ; bill 17$— IS in in.

No. 1117. 3 vix ail., Hnmaytha, 19. viii. 06. .Soft parts as above. — Wing 71$ ;
tail 40 ; bill 17| mm.

Nos. 1182, 1230. ? ? ad., Hnmaytha, 29. viii., 13. ix. 00. "Iris brown."—
Wing 66, 68; tail 43, 44; bill 18 mm.

Nos. 1384,1350, 1420, 1434, 1404. cf cf ad., Borba, 19, 23,29. xi., 2, 11. xii. 06.
" Iris brown, feet plumbeous, bill black. "— Wing 09 — 72 ; tail 45 — 47 ; bill
17 — IS mm.

No. 1343. cf juv., Borba, 10. xi. 06. "Iris greyish brown, feet plumbeoas,
bill black."

Nos. 1323, 1418, 1423, 1433. ? ? ad. and imm., Borba, 13, 29. xi., 2. xii. 00.
" Iris grey or greyish brown, feet plumbeous, bill black." — Wing 60 — 69; tail 47 ;
bill 18 mm.

In the males the upper tail-coverts are slate-grey with a black snbterminal
band and a white apical spot ; only in one from Hnmaytha (No. 1143) black tipped
with white as in II. p. poecilinota and H. p. lepidonota. The cinereous wash on
the base of the central tail-feathers, however, is not a constant character, for it
is not present in quite a number of specimens. The colour of the under parts
is also rather variable, some examples being quite as dark as //. p. lepidonota,
while others agree with 11. p. poecilinota.

The two females from Hnmaytha are rather darker cinereous below than those
from Borba. In No. 1 182 (Hnmaytha) the throat is cinereous like the rest of the
under parts; in the others much paler greyish white, or even white {e.g. in No. 1433).
The forehead and sides of the head are clear ferruginous, and there is always a
large concealed white interscapular patch.

94. Hypocnemis leucophrys angustirostris (Oak).

C£ tuprdt, p. 19.

lli/l"iciieniis leucophrys (neo Tscliudi) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. 1808, p. 88 (Borba).

Nos. 921, 925, 945, 1003. cf cf ad., Hnmaytha, 14, 15, 17, 27. vii. 06. "Iris
brown, feet plumbeous, bill black." — Wing 68—71 ; tail 45—40 ; bill 17—18 mm.

Nos. 920, 928, 947, 948, 970, 98] ? ? ad. and imm., Hnmaytha, 14, 16, 18,21,
23. vii. 06. " Iris brown or reddish brown, feet grey or blackish, bill black." —
Wing 05—09; tail 42—40; bill 17—18 mm.

The males have the belly of the same clear slate-grey as specimens from
British Guiana, Cayenne, Itaituba, and Telle, hence much lighter than in
//. I. leucophrys, of the Andes. The white frontal band is fully as broad as in
Guiana skins.

In the female of this species the lower mandible is always dnsky or brownish
black, the upper wing-coverts show small but well-defined buff apical spots, and
there is a very distinct, clear ferruginous superciliary stripe above the eye and along
the upper margin of the deep black eaF-coverts.

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05. Hypocnemis niyotherina ochrolaema Hellm.

Hypocnemis myolherina ochrolaema Ilcllmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xy\. (June 190'.) p. 100 (Itaituba,

near Santarem, Lower Amazons) ; idem, supra, p. 20.
Hypocnemis myiotherina (nee Spix) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brat. ii. 18G8. p. 88 (Borba).

Nos. 1394, 1419, 1461. c?<?ad., Borba, 24, 29. xi., 11. xii. 06. "Iris (lark-
red, feet grey or pale bluish grey, bill black." — Wing 62 — 64 ; tail 39 — 41'. ; bill
17 — 17J mm.

Nos. 1393, 1435. ? ? ad., Borba, 24. xi., 2. xii. 06. " Iris red, feet light grey
or bluish grey, bill black."— Wing 61, 62 ; tail 39, 40 ; bill 17 mm.

Two of the males agree perfectly with those from Itaituba, while the third
slightly points to //. m. melanolaema, having the breast a shade greyer and the
snperciliaries rather narrower.

The females are entirely typical, the throat being ochraceous like the belly,
and the whole bill black. They differ from the type merely by their larger white
interscapular patch. In No. 1435 the under parts are even deeper ochraceous than
in the type from Itaituba.

*96. Hypocnemis myotherina melanolaema Scl.

Hypocnemis melanolaema Sclater, P.Z.S. 1854. p. 254. tab. Lxxii. 6g. 2 descr. <J ad. ("in Peruvia,
Chamicurros ") ; cf. supra, p. 21.

Nos. 1121, 1172. <?c?ad., Humaytha, 20, 26.>iii. 06. "Iris dark red, feet grey,
bill black."— Wing 63J, 64 ; tail 37, 39' ; bill 17 mm.

No. 1116. <? imm., Humaytha, 19. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet plumbeous, bill
black."— Wing 63 ; tail 39 ; bill 17 mm.

Nos. 1163, 1165. ? ad., ? imm., Humaytha, 25. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
light grey, bill black.'*— Wing 63, 62 ; tail 39, 42 ; bill 17 mm.

No. 1311. S vix ad., Paraizo, 16. x. 06. " Iris brown, feet bluish grey, bill
black."— Wing 05; tail 39 ; bill 16| mm.

The specimens from Humaytha are practically identical with others from
Chuchurras (Hnaunco, Central Peru) and San Mateo (North Bolivia). The males
show exactly the same clear cinereous colour of the under parts, and the snperciliaries
are equally narrow and ill-defined, while the females also agree with one from
Bolivia in having the throat white, the rest of the lower surface ochraceous buff,
and the under mandible dull whitish.

The male from Paraizo, though not quite adult, appears also to belong to the
present form.

H. m. melanolaema is new to the Brazilian avifauna.

97. Hypocnemis lugubris (Cab).

Myrmonax lugubris Cabauis, Arch. Naturg. 13 i. p. 211 (1847.— no locality indicated ; the type is
said to be from Pari ; cf. Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Ac. Berol. 1854. p. 'J2).

Hypocnemis lugubris Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Jinn. ii. 1868. p. 88 (Borba).

Heterocemis {?) hypoleuca Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Mus. x. 1887. p. 523 (1888.— Diamantina, near
Santarem, Lower Amazons), descr. $ .

Hypocnemis lugubris and //. hypoleuca Riker & Chapman, Auk, 1891. p. 29 (Santarem).

No. 1381. cf ad., Borba, 22. xi. 06. " Iris reddish brown, feet bluish black, bill
black."— Wing 73 ; tail 44; bill 18J, mm.

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No. 1309. ? inarm, Borba, 20. xi. 06. "Iris brown, feet grey, bill blackish
grey," below yellowish. — Wing 68; tail 44; bill 19 mm.

There can be no doubt, I believe, that //. kypoleuea Ridgw., based on a
specimen from Santarem, is merely the female of //. lugubris, although Mr. Chap-
man (I.e.) states that a typical example sent to I>r. Sclater was pronounced by this
gentleman to be the female of a nearly allied, but distinct species. It. should be
noticed that the type of //. kypoleuea was "taken July 11th, 1S^T, in company
with'' an adult male referred by Mr. Chapman to //. lugubris, and it seems
more than probable that these two specimens were a mated pair. Moreover, there
is not the slightest doubt that the Santarem form is true II. lugubris, since an
adult male from that place in Count Berlepsch's collection (W. A. Schulz coll.)
proved to be indistinguishable from the type of the species kindly lent by
Dr. Reichenow, of Berlin.

In the females there is a certain amount of variation as regards the coloration
of the sides of the head. Adult birds have the cheeks and ear-coverts dull black
with a few rufescent buff shaft-lines, while they are mainly cinnamon or rnsset
brown in immature females. That this difference is due to age is proved by a
small series of specimens from Borba, in which both extremes as well as an
intermediate stage are represented.

//. lugubris is a very fine and distinct species. The male resembles in general
coloration //. myotkerina melanolaema, but is larger, has a much longer and
differently-shaped bill, and lacks the white dorsal patch and the white edges
to the upper wing-coverts. The female, however, is much more like that of
II. leucophrys, with which it shares the white nudcr-surface, but it differs by its
whitish lower mandible, by lacking the ferruginous superciliary stripe and by
the apical spots to the upper wing-coverts being much darker, about cinnamon
buff, and much less distinct.

The dimensions of the specimens examined by me are as follows :

1. Mus. Berlin. S ad., " Para." Type of M. lugubris I 'ah.

2. „ Berlepsch. <? ad., Paricatuba, near Santarem,

June 20, 1893. W. Schulz coll. .

3. „ Tring. J ad., Borba, November 22, 1906 .

4. „ ,, ? imm., Borba, November 20, 1906

5. ,, Vienna, cf ad., Rio Madeira, one day's journey

above Borba, November 23, 1S29. Natterer
0. „ Vienna. ? ad., same locality and same date „

7. „ ,, ? imm., Borba, March 3, ls30 . ,,

8. „ „ ? ad., Borba, July 13, 1830. . „

9. „ Brit, ? ad., Borba, February 17, 1830 . „
10. ,, Vienna, cf ad., "Rio Negro, im Arme Anave-

hana,"Jnly . Natterer coll 70 411 IS „

These ten skins are, as far as I know, the only specimens in European
collections, from the localities it would appear that the species has a rather
limited distribution. I do not believe that the type really came from Para ; it is
more likely to have been obtained somewhere on the Lower Amazons.

Wing.

Tail.

Bil.

73

48

19 mm

74

47

19 „

73

44

181 „

68

44

19 „

70

43

19 „

68i

41

19 „

08

43

20 „

08

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08. Hypocnemis melanopogon Scl.

~Bypocnemia melanopogon Sclater, P.Z.S. 18,ri7. p. 1.10 ("in Pcruvia orientali, Chamicurros" —
erroi'e ! the type is from Guiana, cf. Scl., Culal. Amerie. Birds, 18G2. p. 188).

Nos. 1040, 1069, 1133. S $ imm., Hnmaytha, 3, 0, 21. viii. 00. "Iris grey,
feet plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 03—04 ; tail 30—37 ; bill 17 mm.

Nos. 919, 020. ? ? imm., Hnmaytha, 14, 16. vii. 06. " Iris pale blue, feet and
bill blackish." — "Wing 61, 03; tail 30, 37 ; bill 17, 20 mm.

No. 1408. c? fere ad., Borba, 27. xi. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet plumbeous,
bill black."— Wing 60 ; tail 36 ; bill 20 mm.

No. 1454. ¥ perad., Borba, 10. xii. 00. "Iris light bluish grey, feet plumbeous,
bill blackish grey."— Wing 04 ; tail 37 ; bill 17J mm.

These specimens fully agree with our large series from Cayenne, British
Guiana, and the Orinoco district. There is no trace of a white interscapular
patch, and the tail-feathers are but narrowly margined with white at the tips,
this border being about \ to 1 mm. wide. An adult male and two females from
the island of Mexiana, in the delta of the Amazons, and the specimens obtained
by Natterer on the Rio Negro (near Poiares, Marabitanas, and at the junction of
the Rio Amajau) belong likewise to this form, being in every respect typical.

In the Cat. Birds, xv. p. 200, an immature male (c) from Chamicuros
(Hauxwell coll., received from J. Gould) is registered as the type of II. melanopogon.
If this were correct, II. maculicauda Pelz. would become a synonym of II. melano-
pogon, since the specimens a — d of Sclater's list turn out to belong to the former
species, all having broad white tail-ends and a large concealed white interscapular
blotch ! A glance at the original description of //. melanopogon, however, shows
that Dr. Sclater, in the first place, describes a male with the throat black, while
the $ jnv. from Chamicuros is in the garb of the female — viz. under parts white
with olive-grey mottlings on the foreueck ! Furthermore, no mention is made of
the conspicuous white dorsal patch (characteristic of 77. maculicauda), and the
terms " Cauda nigra rectricibua omnibus anguste albo terminatis " apply also
mnch better to H. melanopogon auct. Although Mr. Sclater states : " I have two
specimens of this species in my own collection," he unfortunately does not say
where they come from ; but on turning to his Cat. of Amer. Birds, 1802. p. 188, wc
find the following entry : " a. Guiana : type of the species, as described I.e." This
very specimen is still in the British Museum (;' of Sclater's list, Cat. Birds xv.
p. 291), and bears on the back of its label a note from Dr. Sclater's hand, " No. 115],
a of Cat:'

Now this skiu answers exactly to the original diagnosis of the male as given
I.e. p. 130, and has, indeed, the middle of the abdomen whitish (''ventre medio
albicante"), which is a sign of immaturity. It is thus evident that the specimen j
is the real type of II. melanopogon, and that the skin from Chamicuros, "c" (which,
as shown above, belongs to II. maculicauda) was erroneously attributed to the
same species by Sclater in P.Z.S. 1857. p. 130, and subsequently. The nomenclature
of II. melanopogon and II. maculicauda thus remains as it stood hitherto. Their
range is as follows :

a. H. melanopogon Scl.
Type locality : Guiana.
Hab. Cayenne: Rio Appronague* (Cherrie coll. in Tring Museum), Oyapoc*

* Specimens examined by me.

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' ad. in British Museum i, Camopi ' (Geay coll.— J ? in Paris Mnsenm). British
Guiana: Camacuaa,* Bartica Grove,* Rio Rupununi,* Onramee' (H. Whitely coll. —
Mus. Brit., Berlepsch, and Tring). Venezuela: Orinoco Valley* (Altagracia,
Oaicara, Qnivibana de Caicara, Perico, Maipnres, Mundnapo — Cherrie coll.), Caura
River* (La Union, Nicare, Snapure — Amliv and Silages coll. — Dins. Tring). North
Brazil: Mexiana island* (Wallace— Mns. Brit.), Poiares,* Marabitanas* ami
Kin Amajau, nil mi the Rio Negro (Natterer coll. — 51ns. Vienna); Borba* and
Humaytha,* Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns).

b. II. maculicauda Pelz.

I m's maculicauda Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. p. 81), lfil (18G8— Villa Maria, Engenho
do (lama ami Mattogrosso, West Brazil); Solater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. 1890. p. 291
(Mattogrosso, Nauta) ; Ihering, Revist. Mus. Paul. vi. 1904 (publ. 1905), p. 44'.' (Juruii).
//. melaiinjiiiffiiii (nee Sclater) Sclater, I'. Z. S. 1 s.">7. p. 13 I (part. : specimen ex ( lhamienroe); Sclater
& Salvia, I'.X.s. 1866. p. 186 (Cashaboya, Ucayali) ; idem, I.e. 1873. p. 276 (Cashiboya); Sclater,
( '>it. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. 1890. p. 290 (part, specimens a — tl : Rio Javari, Elvira, Cliamicuros,
Cashaboya).

Typo Ideality : Villa Maria, Mattogrosso, West Brazil.

I I'il>. West Brazil : Villa Maria,* Engenho do Gama,* Villa Bella do
Mattogrosso,* Mattogrosso (Natterer coll. — Nine specimens in Vienna Mnsenm),
Rio Jurna* (Garbe coll. — Mns, Panlist.); Olivenca,* Rio SolimOens (Hahncl coll. —
Mns. Berlepsch). Eastern Pern: Nanta,* Elvira* (Hauxwell coll. — Mns. Brit.),
Cliamicuros * (Hanxwell coll. — Mns. Brit.), Cashaboya,* Rio Ucayali (E. Bartlett
coll.— Mns. Brit.) ; Rio Javari* (Bates coll.— Mus. Brit.).

99. Myrmotherula pygmaea (Cm.).

Muscicapa pygmaea Gmclin, Syst. Nat. 1. ii. p. 933 (1788— ex Daubenton, PI. ml. 831. fig. 2 —
Cayenne).

No. 1383. 6 iuim., Borba, 23. xi. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet plumbeous,
bill grey."

Nos. 915, 969, 1073. ?? ad., ? juv., Humaytha, 13, 21. vii., 11. viii. 06.
" Iris brown, l'eet green, bill black or greyish black."

Slightly larger than Cayenne specimens, but otherwise not different.

100. Myrmotherula suriiiamensis multostriata Scl.
Cf. •», ra p. 68.

No. 978. <? ad., Hnmaytha, 23. vii. 06. '-Iris brown, feet black, bill black,
below grey."— Wing 48; tail 23i ; bill 14 mm.

Agrees perfectly with the type from the Ucayali River in the British Museum.

The characters of this form have been pointed out by Menegaux and Hellmayr
in the Bull. Soc. Philomat. Paris, 1906, pp. 48-49. Its distribution thus far known
is as follows :

Eastern Pern : Ucayali River (Bartlett), Samiria (Hanxwell), Pebas, Nauta
(Castelnan and Deville). N.W. Brazil: Humaytha, Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns),
Rio .lunia (Garbe), Teffe, Rio Solimoeus (Hoffmanns).

I hope to discuss the geographical races of M. surinamensis and its allies
more fully on another occasion.

* Specimens examined by me,

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101. Myrmotherula hauxwelli hanxwelli (Scl.).

( If, supra, p. C8.

Nos. 1075, 1171. 3 ad., S fere ail., Humaytha, 11, 26. viii. 06. " Iris brown,
feet plnml us, liill black." — Wing 52, 53 ; tail 25; bill 14 mm.

Nor. 1047, 1055, 1083. ?? ail., Humaytha, 4, 8, 14. viii. 06. "Iris brown,
feet grey, bill greyish black."— Wing 51— 52 ; tail 24; bill 14 — 1 4 J. mm.

Identical with specimens from Teffe, Itio SolimSens, and Eastern Pern. All
have a distinct, concealed white interscapular patch.

102. Myrmotherula axillaris axillaris (Vieill.).

Cf. suprd,, p. 69 ; Pelzcln, Orn. Bras. ii. 18G8. p. 82 (Borlm).

Nos. 1052, 1150. (Jc? ad., Humaytha, 5, 24. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet and
bill black."

No. 952. ? ad., Humaytha, 19, vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet blue-black, bill
black."

Nos. 1307, 1420. SS ad., Borba, 19, 30. xi. 00. "Iris brown, bill and feet
black."

No. 1428. ? ad., Borba, 30. xi. 00. "Iris grey-brown, feet plumbeous, bill
black, below grey."

There is no appreciable difference between the males, but the female from
Humaytha is very much darker on the lower parts, deep buff-yellow (Ridgw. vi. 19),
while that from Borba agrees with a series from Cayenne. The colour of the under-
snrface, however, is very variable in specimens from the same locality, and therefore
not a reliable character.

103. Myrmotherula longipennis Pelz.
Cf. supra, p. 69.

No. 1333. S ad., Borba, 14. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet greyish brown, bill
black."— Wing 03 ; tail 30 ; bill 15i mm.

Agrees in coloration with the adult male from Telle discussed I.e., but is rather
larger, the wing being fully as long as in a specimen from Cayenne.

104. Myrmotherula garhei Ih. (?)

Myrmotherula garbei Ihering, Revist. Mus. Paul. vi. 1904. p. 441. pi. xv. fig. 1 (100a — Rio Juru;i).

No. 996. c? ad., Humaytha, 27. viii. 00. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."
—Wing 50 ; tail 28 ; bill 13.1 mm.

Differs from the figure of the type and from a detailed description in my
note-book by being rather smaller and by having the upper tail-coverts uniform
cinereous, not tipped with black. Besides, the feathers on the sides of the chest
are mostly cinereous, with a broad black snbapical spot, which, however, is
completely hidden by the cinereous tips ; the rectrices uniform dark plumbeons,
and the quills distinctly edged with pure white along the inner web. However,
I do not lay much stress on the last-named character, as it is very variable in a
series of the allied M. longipennis.

Whether referable to M. garbei or not, the bird from Humaytha is quite
distinct from M. longipennis and M. minor.

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105. Myrniotherula cinereiventris Bel. & Salv.

Afyrmotherula cinereiventris Sclater & Salvin, P.Z.S. 1867. p. 7.r><> (Cayenne, Surinam, etc.— type
ex Cayenne, cf. Cat. Ii BrtT. Mits. xv. p. 244).

No. 1414. rj ad., Borba, 28. xi. 06. " Iris brownish grey, feet plumbeous, bill
black."— Wing 51 ; tail 25 ; bill 14J mm.

Agrees in the clear cinereous coloration with specimens from Cayenne anil
Para, but lacks the black snbapical baud on the rectrices. in the middle of the
lower throat there are a few minute, blackish spots to be seen, thus indicating
the close relation to M. menetriesii, to which I have called attention in my paper
on the birds sent by Mr. Hoffmanns from Tefle (supra, p. 69).

106. Myrmotherula assimilis Pelz.

Myrmotherula assimilis Pelzeln, Zm- Orntih. Bras. ii. p. 152 (1SGS. — Rio Amajati, a tributary of the
Rio Negro ; Poiares, Rio Negro ; Borba, R. Madeira) ; Hellmayr, Verliamll. zool. but.
Gesellsck. Wien, 1003, p. 212.

Nos. 024, 017. S ad., c? imm., Humaytha, 13, 14. vii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 53, 52 : tail 30^ ; bill 14 mm.

Nos. 910, 034. ?? ad., Humaytha, 13, 16. vii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 53 ; tail 30; bill 14 mm.

As I have pointed out l.c, this species, though united to M. cinereiventris
by Mr. Sclater, is quite distinct, and differs at a glance by the presence in both
sexes of a large, concealed white dorsal patch. Besides this, the males may
immediately be recognised by the colour of the npper wing-coverts, which are dull
plumbeous with narrow white apical margins to the median and greater series.
In M. cinereiventris the lesser and median coverts are black tipped with white,
and the greater ones clear cinereous with a white tip, which is preceded on the
outer web by a distinct black snbapical spot. The females of M. assimilis may
also be distinguished from those of M. cinereiventris by their mnch purer grey
upper parts and by the median and greater upper wing-coverts being distinctly
edged with clear buff.

I have examined specimens from the following localities :

North Brazil : Rio Negro below Poiares (Natterer — cf ad. in Brit. Mus.) ;
Rio Amajau, tributary of the lower Rio Negro (Natterer — 2 <?<?, 2 ? ? in Vienna
Mus.) ; Santarem, Lower Amazons (Garbe — 1 ? ad. in Triug Museum); Borba, Rio
Madeira (Natterer— 1 ? ad. in Brit. Mus.) ; Humaytha (Hoflrnanus in Tring Mus.).
North Pern : Nauta (Hauxwell— 2 c? c? ad., 2 8 S juv., 1 ? ad. iu Mus. H. v.
Berlepsch).

107. Myrmotherula haematonota (Scl.).

Cf. supra, p. 70 ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bros. ii. 18l'>8. p. 81 (Borba).

Nos. 1390, 1415. <?cT imm., Borba, 25, 28. xi. 00. " Iris yellow, feet grey, bill
black."— Wing 52, 51 J ; tail 44, 41i ; bill 14 mm.

No. 1438. ? ad., Borba, 4. xii. 00. " Iris yellow, feet brownish grey, bill
black."— Wing 51; tail 42; bill 14£ mm.

Nos. 942, 1040, 1082. cT juv., SS vix ad., Humaytha, 17. vii., 4, 14. viii. 00.
"Iris yellow, feet grey, bill' black."- Wing 51—52; tail 30, 37, 40; bill 134,
14 mm.

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Nos. 1048, 1050. ? ad., ? jnv., Hnmaytha.— Wing 52, 51; tail 39; bill
14 mm.

Two of the males and the two females from Humaytha have the whole back
uniform chestnut, rufous, like specimens from the Orinoco, Caura, etc., in the Tring
Museum, while in No. 942 and in the skins from Borba there is only on the upper
back a limited area of a paler, more cinnamon rufous shade to be seen.

The female from Borba agrees perfectly with others from the Orinoco district,
the throat being uniform ochraceoos, breast and abdomen of a rather bright
ochreons or buffy brown. Those from Humaytha, on the other hand, are decidedly-
paler and duller, less ochreons, on the belly, resembling one from Teffe. In
No. 1048, as well as in several females from Eastern Peru, Rio Jnrua, Teffe, etc.,
the throat is light buffy and scarcely freckled with dusky, while No. 1050 has
large buffy-white stripes with distinct black lateral edges.

108. Anoplops* salvini (Berk).

Pithys salrlui Berlepsch, Journ.f. Ornith, 1901. p. 08 (San Mateo, North Bolivia).
Gymnopithys salvini Hellmayr, supra, p. 71.

Nos. 1102, 1103,1094, 1111. SS ad., Humaytha, 17, 18. viii. 00. "Iris brown,
feet plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 72—75; tail 45-49; tars. 23- 25^ ; bill
17 — 18 mm.

Nos. 991, 1180. S$ imm., Humaytha, 20. vii., 28. viii. 06. "Iris brown,
feet plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 74, 75 ; tail 47, 49 ; tars. 24, 25J ; bill
18 mm.

Nos. 1100, 992. SS jnv., Humaytha, 20. vii., 25. viii. 00. "Iris brown,
feet plumbeous, bill black."— Wing 74, 72 ; tail 49, 40 ; tars. 25, 24 ; bill Ml,
18 \ mm.

Nos. 989, 1100, 1144, 1145, 1101, 1102, 1178. ? ? ad. and imm., Humaytha,
20. vii., 17, 23, 25, 2S. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet plumbeous, bill black, below
pale greyish."— Wing 71J— 75] ; tail 45—47 ; tars. 24—25 ; bill 17—18 mm.

The adult males agree perfectly with the one from Teffe" previously secured
by Mr. Hoffmanns. Most of the secondaries show a very narrow whitish apical
margin ; the upper wing-coverts are uniform schistaceous, but in No. 1102 a single
feather of the greater series is edged with white at the tip. My assumption that
there is a transitional plumage in this species thus falls to the ground. In one
specimen (No. 1102) both webs of the two outer rectrices are barred with white,
while in the others the white cross-lines are confined to the inner web.

The series of females exhibits a certain amount of individual variation.
No. 1100 is perfectly similar to those from Teffe, described above on p. 72. The
six other examples agree in general coloration, but differ by the restriction of
the cross-markings on the back. Nos. 1102 and 1144 possess the pale
cinnamomeons dorsal patch as well as the cinnamomeous cross-bars in the
middle of the mantle, but the blackish subterminal bands are only slightly
indicated. In Nos. 1145, 1101, 1178, and 989 the back appears nearly uniform,
for only a few feathers have an obsolete, very narrow, pale cinnamon margin,
followed by a hardly perceptible dusky line ; the bases of the interscapular feathers

* Gymnopithys Bp. {Ann. Sri. nat. Zool. (4) 1. 1864, p. 132) is a pure nomrn nudum, no diagnosis
being given nor any species mentioned. The next available generic name is Anoplops Cab. & Heine.
'Mns. Heinean. ii. July 1859, p. 9, type: Tuning rufyula Bodd.). I quite agree with Salvin and (iodman
(Biol. Crntr. Amer. ii. 1S92, p. 'I'll) as to the limits uf the genera Pithy s and Anoplops (Gymnopithys'),

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show scarcely any trace of cinnamon. The under mandible of the females is always
whitish.

No. 992 is a young male in change of plumage, pilenm, mantle and foreneck
being covered with the fluffy, dull mummy-brown feathers of the nestling plumage.
There is scarcely an indication of the white supraloral streak.

109. 'Anoplops inelanosticta (Scl. & Salv.).
(Plate III. fig. 1.)
Pithyi m lanesticta Sclater & Salvia, P. Z. S. 1880. p. ICO (Sarayacu, East Ecuador).

Nos. 1099, 1113. S ad., S fere ad., Humaytha, 17, 18. viii. 00. " Iris reddish
brown or dark red, feet blackish brown, bill black."— Wing 82, 81 ; tail 55, 54 ;
tars. 27, 20 ; bill 19J, 111 mm.

No. 1200. c? imm., Humaytha, 31. viii. 06. " Iris red-brown, feet plnmbeons,
bill blackish grey."— AVing 79 ; tail 53; tars. 27J ; bill 18J mm.

Nos. 1079, 1112. ? ad., ? imm., Hnmaytha, 18, 28. viii. 06. "Iris brown or
dark red, feet black-, bill blackish, below grey." — AVing 79, 77 ; tail 54, 53; tars.
27, 20 ; bill 18$ mm.

In all specimens " a wide naked space round the eye light blue."

tJ ad. Feathers of the forehead and crown dirty whitish grey, with the webs
dissolved, the barbs being loose and distinctly individualised ; those on the occipnt
somewhat lengthened, forming a loose, pendent crest. Shafts of the feathers
of the pilenm whitish at the base, dusky on their apical portion. The remaining
upper parts uniform russet, brighter on the upper wing-coverts and almost light
chestnut-brown on the outer webs of the quills ; rump and upper tail-coverts
rather lighter, more tawny olive, the latter with a narrow, irregular black shaft-
streak. Eeetrices blackish, the central pair deep russet-brown on its basal portion ;
the remaining ones broadly margined with the same along the outer web. Cheeks,
malar region, ear-coverts, lores and a broad superciliary stripe deep black, this
colour thus surrounding the naked eye-ring. Throat mottled with blackish and dull
olive-brown ; rest of the under parts dull raw umber-brown, slightly tinged with
rnfescent on the flanks and under tail-coverts, each of the latter with one or two
black cross-bars and a narrow whitish or bnffy apical margin. Axillaries and under
wing-coverts pale olive-brown ; inner webs of the qnills distinctly edged with pale
cinnamomeons. Feet black. Upper mandible black, lower one horny whitish
except the mandibular rami, which are likewise black.

The other adult male agrees exactly with the above description, while an
immature male has the upper and under tail-coverts uniform brown, and is rather
more rnfescent on the lower parts.

? ad. Differs from the males iu having the ground-colour above clearer, more
tawny (dive, and by the feathers of the upper back, the wing-coverts as well as
the innermost secondaries being crossed by a very distinct black subterminal bar,
which is followed by a narrower, pale cinnamomeous apical margin.

In an evidently immature female these cinnamomeous edges are brighter and
more distinct, the wing-coverts more rnfescent brown, with the blackish subapical
bands on the greater series less pronounced, and the pilenm is more brownish.
A. melanosticta was hitherto known only from a single nnsexed specimen, obtained
by E. Buckley at a place called Sarayacu, in Fast Ecuador. The type agrees with

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the females from Hnmaytha in general coloration, but tlie pileuui and crest are even
browner than in the younger bird, the belly is much darker, deep sepia brown with
a slight rufescent tinge, and the black bars on the interscapulium and upper wing-
coverts are broader. Whether these differences are of any importance cannot
be decided until more specimens of both sexes from Ecuador come to hand.
New to the Brazilian fauna.

110. Auoplops hoffmaunsi Hellm.
fl'late III. figs. 2, 3.)
Atioplqpa hoffmaimsi Hellmayr, Bull. lint. Orn. CI. xix. (Fub. 1907), p. 52 (Borba, Rio Madeira).

No. 1417. S ad., Borba, 29. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black ; naked
ring round the eye light yellowish green." — Wing 81J; tail 54; tars. 27 ; bill
18i mm. Type of the species.

No. 1431. ? ad., Borba, 2. xii. 06. " Iris light yellow, feet bluish black, bill
black, below grey ; naked ring round the eye light yellowish green." — Wing SI ;
tail 53; tars. 26 i ; bill 17J mm.

Feathers of the forehead and lores rather stiff and erect, those of the pileum
much lengthened, narrow, decurved, and forming a distinct, loose crest. A broad
naked space round the eye pale yellow in the skins. Tail rounded, the outermost
rectrix being about 4 to 6 mm. shorter thau the longest.

<? ad. Forehead, lores and occiput deep black ; feathers of the crest black, dull
chestnut at the concealed base. Back, lesser and median upper wing-coverts pale
dull olive ; upper tail-coverts and greater wing-coverts rufescent olive-brown.
Quills dusky, bright russet on the outer webs ; innermost secondaries rufescent
olive-brown. Tail-feathers dark brown, slightly more rufescent along the outer
webs Cheeks, malar region, throat and foreneck pure white ; rest of the under-
surface dull slaty, abdomen and sides of the breast washed with olive brownish.
Under tail-coverts pale olive-brown, with a narrow whitish apical margin.
Axillaries and under wing-coverts sooty-brown ; inner webs of the remiges broadly
edged with clear cinnamon. Bill and feet black.

¥ ad. Differs in having the forehead and crest dark chestnut, the shaft of the
feathers alone being blackish. The back is bright olive-brown, the wings and tail
much more rufescent brown than in the male. The feathers of the upper back as
well as the wing-coverts are crossed by a broad black snbterminal bar followed by
a narrow cinnamomeous apical margin. Cheeks, malar region, throat and foreneck
white, as in the male. Chest and middle of the breast ochreous, broadly banded
with black (two black bars on each feather) ; sides of the breast and abdomen
uniform warm olive-brown ; under tail-coverts light olive-brown, with several
alternative blackish and ochreous cross-bands. Axillaries light olive-brown ; under
wing-coverts tawny, irregularly barred with blackish. The three innermost
secondaries show a distinct black subterminal bar and an obsolete buff apical
margio. Bill black, lower mandible whitish.

This remarkable new bird, although aberrant in coloration, is certainly
congeneric with .1. rufi.gu.la (Bodd.), tin- form of wing and tail as well as the shape
of the nostrils (a narrow, longitudinal, slit-like opening, overhung by abroad, rather
thickened membrane) being perfectly similar in the two species. It differs, however,
by the rather stiffened, erect frontal feathers and tin' distinct crest, in which respecl

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it resembles A. cristata (Pelz.).* In structural characters it agrees exactly with
the description of Rhegmatorhina gymnopi Eidgw.,t a Bpecies which I have not yet
met with.

111. Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigroniacnlata (Lafr. & D'Orh.).
Cf. supra, p. 73.

No. 1043. c? ad., Humaytha, 3. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black." —
Wing 95$ : tail 66 ; bill 20J mm.

Nos. 1024, 1044. ¥ ? ad., Humaytha, 31. vii., 3. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet
and bill black. Naked ring round the eye yellowish red." — Wing 90, 89;
tail G3; bill 20$, 19J mm.

These specimens agree exactly with those from Telle. The back is covered
with large, oval black spots, very narrowly margined with pale brownish at the
tip ; the upper wing-coverts have broad, black shaft-stripes which reach almost to
the base of the feathers, and the inner secondaries likewise show broad, black
subapical spots surrounded by a distinct cinnamomeous apical margin. There are
no white spots on the nape in any of the skins.

In Nos. 1043 and 1044 the ground-colour of the back is of the same shade
as in the TerTe, birds, pale olive-brown with a greyish "cast"; while No. 1024 is
much brighter above, more yellowish olive, thereby approaching P. n. bowmani.

112. Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani Ridgw.

Phletjtijisi* bowmani Ridgway, Proa. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 1887. p. 524 (1888. — Diainantina near

Santarem, Lower Amazons).
P. nigromaculata (uec Lafr. & D'Orb.) Pelzeln, Orn. Brazil, ii. 1868. p. 'JO (part. : Borba).

Nos. 1385, 1432'. ? ? ad., Borba, 23. xi., 2. xii. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet
and bill black. Bare space round the eye bright red." — Wing 851, S6| ; tail
58, 60 ; bill 10 mm.

These specimens, which answer well to Ridgway's diagnosis, differ from the
preceding ones by their smaller size, and by the shape of the black markings on
the upper parts. These are much shorter and broader, thus producing a transverse
pattern, while they are decidedly longitudinal in P. n. nigromaculata. The ground-
colour of the back as well as that of the lesser and median wing-coverts is much
brighter, a fine golden-yellowish olive. In both specimens there are several small
black-and-white spots on the sides of the nape.

P. ii. nigromaculata, P. n. bowmani, and P. n. paraensis Ilellm. arc undoubtedly
geographical representatives, and therefore more properly designated trinomially.
Their range is as follows :

»
a. I', nigromaculata nigromaculata (Lafr. & D'Orb.).

North Bolivia: Guarayos (D'Orbigny), San Mateo (Garlepp, Mus. H. v.
Berlepsch). Eastern Pern: Rio Ocayali (Hauxwell, Garlepp). X.W. Brazil:
Teffe" (Hoffmanns), Rio Jnrua (Garbe), Eumaytha, west bank of the upper Kio
Madeira (Hoffmanns), t

* Pithyi oristata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Urns. ii. 1868. p. 166 (Rio Vaopfi, uppei Eio Xogro).
t Proe. U.8, Xii'. Mus. x. 1887. p. 625 (1888— Diainantina, near Santarem, Lower Amazons).
J The locality Bio Nape Eastern Ecuador, does nol rest on reliable authority.

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b. P. nigromaculata bowmani Ridgw.

Lower Amazons : Diamantica, near Santarem (Itiker) ; Borba, on the east
bank of the lower Rio Madeira (Natterer, Hoffmanns).

c. P, nigromaculata paracusis Hellm.

N.E. Brazil : District of Para (Natterer, Robert, Wallace, Snethlage).
Cf. also Oraith. Monatsber. xii. 1904. pp. 53-5.

113. Phlegopsis erythropterus (Gould).

Formicarius erythropterus Gould, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hi*!. (2) xv. p. 345, dosor. <$ vix ad. (May 1855.

— " Interior of Demerara " — locality most probably erroneous !).
Formicarius triviltatus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857. p. 4G, descr. J (" in ripis rl. Amazonum "). Cf.

Hellmayr, Verhandl. xool.botan. Gesellsch. Wien, 1903, p. 215.

No. 1159. <$ ad., Humaytha, 25. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet and bill black,
bare space round the eye red." — Wing 95 ; tail 67 ; tars. 32 mm. ; bill damaged.

This is apparently the first perfectly adult male. Both specimens in the
British Museum, the type of P. erythropterus and that from Sarayacu, East Ecuador,
are immature, having the upper tail-coverts black banded with chestnut-rufous,
while they are uniform deep black in the Hnmaytha bird. Otherwise the three
skins are identical.

As I have pointed out I.e., P. erythroptera and P. tritittata are merely male
and female of a single species. This is proved by a young male (in transitional
plumage) from the Rio Icanna, where it was shot by the late Dr. Natterer,
July 11, 1831, together with an adult female, which is indistinguishable from
the type of F. tricittatus. I am greatly indebted to my friend Dr. Lorenz, of
Vienna, for the loan of these valuable specimens.

114. Phlegopsis borbae Hellm.
Phhgopsis borbae Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Om. CI. xix. (Feb. 1907) p. 53 (Borba).

No. 1421. S imm., Borba, 29. xi. 06. "Iris yellowish brown, feet and bill
black ; wide naked space round the eye light greyish yellow." — Wing 89 ; tail 59 ;
tars. 30 ; bill 22 mm.— Type of species.

Top of the head, nape, sides of the neck, cheeks, and ear-coverts chestnut-
rufous ; feathers on the forehead, especially the lateral ones, somewhat elongated
and erect ; lores white, forming a conspicuous patch in front of the eye ; eyelid
with black feathers on both the upper and under margin, those on the former
rather lengthened and somewhat stiff ; along the upper border of the naked
eye-ring a narrow, but very distinct black superciliary line. Back russet, rather
more olive-brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; feathers of the upper
back with slight blackish apical edges. Wing-coverts bright " burnt-umber "
(Ridgw. iii. 8), the innermost of the greater series with a narrow blackish apical
margin ; quills " burnt-umber," dusky ou the inner web. Tail black. Throat,
foreneck and chest ferruginous, rather duller on the latter ; in the middle of the
foreneck a few obsolete olive-blackish dots ; the ferruginous colour is bordered
below by au irregular blackish transverse band across the breast; rest of under-
pays olive-brown with a faint rnfescent tiuge ; middle of the breast somewhat
mottled with greyish. Inner webs of the remiges distinctly edged with pinkish
cinnamon.

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Mr. Hoffmanns unfortunately obtained only a single immature example of this
apparently distinct species. In general appearance it resembles the female of
P. erythropterua (Gould) = P. trivittatus (ScL), but lias a much shorter tail and
a stronger bill. The erect feathers ou the forehead and lures are mnch longer.
Besides, there are several striking differences in colour. In P. erythropterua the
whole back, including the upper tail-coverts, is deep chestnut-brown, the lores
and the feathering of the eyelids are chestnut-rufous, like the crown ; there is
no black superciliary line ; all the lower surface is bright chestnut-rufous ; the
upper wing-coverts and inner secondaries have broad white apical margins, and all
the rcmiges (except, the " tertials " and the first primary) show a distinct white
streak in the middle of the outer web, the wing thus being thrice-banded.

115. Foraricarius colma (Bodd.).

Formicarius Colma Boddaert, Tabl. PI, enl. p. 44 (1783. — based ou KLe Colma, de Cayenne";

Daubenton, PI. enl. 703. fig. 1. = ? ad. !— Cayenne).
F. nigrifrons Gould, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist. (■>) xv. p. 344 (May 1855. — Cliamicuros, East Peru).
F. nigrifrom glaucqpectus Ridgway, Pro: U.S. Mus. xvi. 1893. p. 673 (1894.— British Guiana).

Nos. 1079, 1170. S ad. (c?) imm., Hnmaytha, 12, 20. viii. 00. "Iris dark
brown, bill and feet black."— Wing 84, 87£ ; tail 50£ ; bill 20, 19 mm.

Both specimens have a broad frontal band of glossy black, and are practically
identical with the type of F. nigrifrons from Chamicnros (Brit. Mus.). On
examining more than twenty adult males from Cayenne, British Guiana, and
Upper Amazonia (West Brazil, Pern, East Ecuador, and Bogota coll.), I fail to
see any constant differences by which F. colma and /•'. nigrifrons could be separated,
though, as a rule, skins from Amazonia have a smaller bill, and the black of the
throat rather deeper and extended over the chest. So many specimens, however,
are indistinguishable that I cannot — for the present at least — recognise more than
one form.

I have pointed out in my revision of Spix's types (pp. 619-20) that F. colma
of Boddaert is the earliest name for the black-fronted species. The figure in
Daubeutou's work upon which it is based represents the white-throated female.

110. Formicarius ruficeps amazonicus Hellm.

Formicarius ruficeps amazonicus Hellmayr, Om. Monaisber. x. p. 34 (1902. — Borba, Rio Madeira).
Formicarius ruficeps Hellmayr, Nov, Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 373 (Pari) ; Pelzoln, Zur Ornith. Bras. ii.
1868. p. 00 (Borba).

Nos. 1441, 1409, 1425. 66 ad., $ imm., Borba, 27, 30. xi., 4. xii. 06. "Iris
dark brown, feet grey-brown, bill black." — Wing NO, 84, 86 ; tail 52 ; bill
19—21 mm.

In my report on the birds collected by Mr. Hoffmanns in the district of Para
{I.e.) I somewhat hastily declared F. r. amazonicus to be inseparable from true
F. r. ruficeps, as the alleged colour differences proved lo lie variable. However,
on re-examining our material, which has since been considerably augmented, I find
that the birds from Pari and the Kin Madeira differ from the Sonth Brazilian
ones by their decidedly shorter tails, and the northern form is, after all, to be
upheld.

The range of the two races is a> follows i

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a. F. r. rujiceps (Spix).

S.E. Brazil from Bahia south to Sta. Catharina : Bahia (specimens in Tring,
Vienua, etc.); Bio de Janeiro: Neu Freiburg (Bnrmeister), Cantagallo (Euler),
Bio (Meuetries) ; Espiritu Santo : Mucuri (Wied) ; S. Paulo ; Iguapc (Krone),
S. Sebastiao (Revesz coll. — Mas. Tring), Ubatuba (Tring) ; Santa Catharina (? ad.
in Mns. H. v. Berlepsch.).

Measurements :

Wing. Tail.

Mns. Munich. Adult, Brazil, lype of species. . . 90 57 mm.

Four SS ad., S. Paulo 85—89 55— 57 mm.

Two ? ? ad., S. Paulo 86, 84 57, 50 mm.

Three t?c?, Bahia 85J— 88 55— 57 mm.

b. F. r. amazonicus Hellm.

North and Western Brazil : Para (Natterer) ; Igarape-Assii (Bobert), Prata
(Hoffmanns) ; Borba on the Bio Madeira (Natterer, Hoffmanns) ; Villa Bella de
Mattogrosso, on the Bio Guapore (Natterer).

Measurements :

Wing. Tail.

Two SS ad., Pani 82, 84 50

One ? ad., Para 85 49

Three S6, Borba 84—80 52

117. Formicarius analis analis (Lafr. & U'Orb.).

Myoihera analis Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Sijn. Av. i. in Mag. Zool. 1837. cl. ii. p. 14 (Yuracarfes and
Chiquitos, Eastern Bolivia) ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Brasil. ii. 1868. p. 90 (Salto do Girao,
Borba).

Nos. 957, 968, 1006, 1031. c?c? ad. and imm., Humaytha, 19, 21, 27. vii.,
1. viii. 06. "Iris brown, feet greyish brown, bill black." — Wing 90 — 94; tail
56— 57i; bill 20A— 21 mm.

Nos. 941, 1037. ? ¥, Humaytha, 17. vii., 2, viii. 00. "Iris brown, bill black."
—Wing 94, 95 ; tail 50, 60; bill 21 mm.

No. 1348. ? ad., Borba, 17. xi. 06. Soft parts as above. — Wing 91 ; tail 55;
bill 21 mm.

Two males and one female from Humaytha have the sides of the neck dull
greyish or olive-brown, like specimens from Teffe, Yijnitos and Sarayacn, Peru,
and agree well with the original description of M. analis. In No. 1006 there is
just a faint vinaceous tinge to be seen on the posterior portion of the ear-coverts,
while Nos. 968 and 941, as well as the female from Borba, have the sides of the
neck decidedly pale vinaceous-cinnamon (Ridgw. iv. 15). The same variation is
to be observed in two specimens from Pani : one in the Paris Museum, obtained by
Mons. Baraquin, has the sides of the neck greyish brown, like several skins in
the Humaytha series ; the other in the British Museum, collected by Dr. Wallace,
has them clear vinaceous-cinnamon, like the Borba bird !

The examples from Humaytha, Teffe, etc., are bistre brown, those from Burba
and Para rather darker and more rufescenf brown on the upper parts.

Skins from British Guiana and Cayenne, F. a. crissa/is (Cab.), however, differ
very conspicuously from all the Brazilian ones by having the sides of the neck

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much brighter and deepei vinaceons, and by their larger beak. The upper
surface is exactly of the same toue as iu the Borba and Para specimens.

There is no constant difference between F. a. anulis and F. a. crissalis in the
development of the white loral spot.

The rauge of the two forms is accordingly as follows :

(a) F. a. anulis (Lafr. & D'Orb.). Eastern Bolivia : Ynracares, Chiquitos
(D'Orbigny), Yungas (Rusby). Pern: Chanchamayo (Sclmuke coll. — Mus. Triug.),
Sarayacu on the Ucayali (Whitely), Chyavetas, Xeberos (Bartlett), Huambo
(Stolzmaun), Shanusi, near Yurimaguas (Garlepp), Iquitoa (Whitely). Brazil :
Salto do Girao (Nattercr) and Borba, Rio Madeira (Nattercr, llolfmanns) ; Telle
Rio Solimoens (Hoffmanns) ; Para (Wallace, Baraquin).*

(Jj) F. a. crissalis (Cab.).

Myrmornis crissalis Cabanis, Journ. J. Ornith. 1861, p. 96. (Roraima, Brit.
Guiana). — Cayenne ; British Guiana : Roraima (Schombargk), Camacusa, Rio
Carimang, Rio Takutu (Whitely).

118. Corythopis torquata anthoides (Pnch.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1902. p. 293.

Corythopis anthoides Pelzeln, Znr Oniilli. Brasil. ii. 18G8. p. 92 (Borba).

No. 1187. ? ad., Humaytha, 30. viii. 06. '• Iris brown, feet grey, bill black,
below yellow." — Wing 63 ; tail 47 ; bill 14 mm.

Agrees with a female from Cayenne in having the pileum olive-brown like
the back.

110. Threnetes leucurus (Linn.).
Cf. tupra, p. 74.

No. 1009. S ad., Humaytha, 28. vii. 06. " Iris black, feet greyish white,
bill black, below white at the base." — Wing 65 ; tail 35i ; bill 3U mm.

No. 1018. ? ad., Humaytha, 30. vii. 06. " Iris black, feet whitish yellow,
bill black."— Wing 57 ; tail 33 ; bill 28 mm.

Nos. 1312, 1319. ? ad., ? jun., Paraizo, 19, 28. x. 06. "Iris black, feet
yellow or pale grey, bill black." — Wing 61, 56 ; tail 35, 3H ; bill 30 mm.

These specimens agree with those from Teffe, previously sent by Mr. Hoffmanns,
the sides of the belly and, iu the females, also the foreueck being distinctly
washed with pinkish buff, but the middle of the breast and abdomen are pure
greyish white, as iu typical birds from Surinam.

In the adult c? 3 (from Humaytha, Teffe and Surinam) before me, only the
two outer pair of rectrices have black markings, while in the females the two
following ones are also more or less black on their basal half. The light portions
of the tail-feathers are always pure white.

12n. Glaucis hirsuta (Gm.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. 19U0. p. 374.

Nos. 1288, 1289. <? ? ad., Humaytha, 2 1. ix. 06. "Iris black, feet yellow, bill
black, below yellowish green."

Nos. 1351, 1347. cT juv., ? imm., Borba, 17. xi. 06. " Iris black, feet greyish
yellow, bill black, below yellow."

• Specimens from Eastern Ecuador in the liritisli Museum very likely represent a distinct form.
Cf. Ridgway, Proe. U.S. Mni. ivi. p. 674.

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121. Phoethornis ochraceiventris Hellm.

Phoethorids affinis ochraceiventris Ilellmayr, Bull. II. 0. C. xix. (Feb. 1907). p. 54 (Humaytha).

Phoethornis sp. Elcllmayr, snjna, p. 7fi (Teffe, Rio Solimdes).

Phoethornis holivianus Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xvi. 180*2. p. '273 (part, specimen f . : " Brazil ").

No. 1147. Adult, Humaytha, 23. viii. 06. "Iris and feet black, bill black,
below red." — Wing 04; rectr. mod. 72, submed. 43, ext. 27; bill 41 mm. — Type
of species.

No. 1155. S vix ad., Humaytha, 24. viii. 06. "Iris black, bill black, below
red." — Wing 02 ; rectr. med. 70, submed. 43, ext. 26i ; bill 43 mm.

No. 681. cJ juv., Teffe, Rio Solimoes, 21. v. 06. " Iris black, feet brown, bill
black, below yellowish red." — Wing 64; rectr. med. 70, submed. 41, ext. 27;
bill 43 mm.

Adult. Upper surface bronze green ; forehead and crown dull smoky, barely
glossed with greenish ; feathers of the rump with a subterminal dusky bar and
fringed with buff; upper tail-coverts bronze green, their apical third or fourth
ochraceons buff crossed by one or two blackish bars. Upper wing-coverts dull
bronze green, quills purplish black. Tail-feathers bronze green at the base
which is followed by a broad blackish zone ; the four outer pairs of rectrices
edged with pale cinnamon on the tip, the elongated portion of the central pair
pure white. Superciliary and malar stripe bright buff, lores and ear-coverts
smoky black. Entire under-surface ochraceons buff (Ridgw. v. 10), purest and
deepest on the abdomen ; feathers of chin and throat with dark grey centres, but
there is no pale median stripe on the throat ; under tail-coverts ochraceons buff
with an indistinct greyish shaft-stripe. Axillaries dull bnffy greyish, under
wing-coverts sooty black. Upper mandible and extreme tip of lower jaw black,
rest of the latter bright red.

This new form is most nearly allied to P. moorei Lawr., of Easteru Ecuador
and Peru, but differs by having the apical margins to the four outer tail-feathers
clear ciunamon (instead of buff), and the under-surface deep ochraceons buff
(instead of greyish buff or greyish drab). It also bear3 a certain likeness to
P. mctlaris (Nordm.), of Cayenne, with which it agrees in size and in the strong,
powerful bill ; it can, however, very easily be distinguished by the ochraceous
buff (instead of greyish drab) under parts, clear cinnamon (not pinkish buff)
edges to the outer rectrices, and by the lack of the buff stripe along the middle
of the throat.

The 3'onng male from Teffe (previously sent by Mr. Hoffmanns) and a skin
in the British Museum, said to be from "Brazil" (Campbell), agree perfectly
with the adults from Humaytha. P. holivianus Gould, to which the latter
specimen had been doubtfully referred by Salvin, differs at a glance by its much
shorter, weaker bill, pale buff lower surface, a very distinct buff stripe along
the middle of the throat, nearly uniform ochraceous-buff upper tail-coverts, etc.
Six specimens of P. holivianus (including the type) measure : wing 57 — 02 ;
rectr. med. 63—70 ; bill 35§— 37 mm.

In Sov. Zool. xiii. 1900. p. 374, I have shown that the name superciliosus
cannot be employed for the species with white under tail-coverts, afterwards
described as P. fraterculus Gould (ex Cayenne) and P. guianensis Bone,
(ex Demerara), aud I proposed to replace it by Pelzeln's term affinis. Unfor-
tunately in so doing I relied upon the so-called types of /'. affinis from the

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Rio Negro, kindly lent by the authorities of the Vienna Museum, and did not
look up the original description in the Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der
Wissensch. Wien sx. 1856. p. 157, this periodical not being in the Tring library.
I have, however, lately had the opportunity of consulting this work, aud find
that Pelzeln did not describe Natterer's specimens from the Rio Negro, but
suggested P. a/jiitis as a new name for Trochilus mperciliosus Wied,* which he
considered to be different from the true T. mperciliosus of Linnaeus. As Wied's
description is undoubtedly referable to P. pretrei (Del. & Less.), Pelzeln's term
affinis becomes a synonym thereof, while the species with white under tail-coverts,
P. superciliosus anct., is to be called P. fraterculus Gould.

At present I am not in the position to say whether P. moorci, P. ochracei-
ventris, aud P. boUtianus are more nearly related to P. malaris or to P. fraterculus,
aud must leave the final decision of this intricate question to fatnre investigations.

122. *Phoethoruis hispidus (Gould).

Trochilus (?) hispidus Gould, P. Z. S. Part xiv. 184G. p. 90 (1846— " Peru ? "— erroro ! The type

was obtained in Bolivia by Bridges ; cf. Monogr. Trochilhl. i. pi. 22).
Phaetornis aulhojiliilus (nee Bourc. & Muls.) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1867, fig. 27,56 (Engenbo

do Gama, Western Mattogrosso).
Trochilus superciliosus (nee Linnaeus !) Lafresnaye et D'Orbigny, Syn. A v. ii. in May. Zool. 1838.

cl. ii. p. 32 (Yungas andGuarayos, Eastern Bolivia).

Nos. 984, 976, 1011, 1050. SS ad., Humaytha, 23, 24, 28. vii., 4. viii. 9(3.
"Iris and feet black, bill black, below yellow." -Wing 59—00; tail 02—09;
bill 32—35 mm.

Nos. 977, 1081. ? ? ad., Humaytha, 23. vii., 12. viii. 06.— Wing 53, 54 ; tail
62, 57 ; bill 32, 33 mm.

No. 1357, jnv., Borba, 17. xi. 06. "Iris and feet black, bill black, below
yellowish green."

This series is perfectly ideutical with two topotypical Bolivian skins, collected
near Salinas, Beni River, by Mr. Maxwell Stuart. The edges to the rump feathers
are hoary, those of the upper tail-coverts more whitish. I examined, some years
ago, the specimen obtained by Natterer, and lately I have also compared one of
D'Orbigny's examples (from Guarayos) in the Paris Museum. Both belong to
the present species.

P. hispidus is new to the Brazilian avifauna.

123. Phoethomis philippii (Bourc).
Cf. supra, p. 74.

No. 1210. ¥ ad., Humaytha, 4. ix. 06. " Iris and feet black, bill black, below
red." — Wing 58; med. rectr. 61 ; submed. rectr. 35 ; extern, rectr. 20; bill 32 mm.

No. 1430. Adult, not sexed, Borba, 1. xii. 00. " Iris black, feet brown, bill
black, below red." — Wing 50 ; med. rectr. 62 ; submed. rectr. 34 ; ext. rectr. 23 ;
bill 31| mm.

These specimens agree perfectly with those from Tefie' in coloration, but
have slightly shorter wings. P. philippii thus appears to be widely distributed
over Brazilian Amazonia, and the original locality, Bolivia, was, after all,
perhaps correct. The rauge of the species is, according to our preseut knowledge,
as follows :

* D, itr. Xatimj. Brazil. 4. i. 18IS2. p. 116 (Pallia).

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Bolivia (fide Reichenbaeh). N.W. Brazil: Fonteboa (G. Garlepp), Teffe
011 the Rio SolirnOes (Hoffmanns) ; Rio Jurua (Garbe) ; Borba and Humaytha,
Rio Madeira (Hoffmanns).

124. Phoethornis ruber ruber (Linn.).
Cf. supra, p. 75.

No. 098. (S) ad., Humaytha, 27. vii. 00. "Iris black, feet yellow, bill black,
yellow below." — Wing 28 ; rectr. med. 30, submed. 29, ext. 16 ; bill 22 mm.

No. 1268. ?, Hnmaytha, 19. ix. 00. "Bill black, below yellowish green."—
Wing 35 ; rectr. med. 31, snbmed. 27, ext. 16; bill 21 A mm.

These specimens agree with those from Teffe, Para, etc. The black tip to
the lower mandible is about 8 mm. long.

125. Eupetomena macroura macroura (6m.).

Trochilui macrourus Gmelin, Si/st. Nat. 1. i. p. 487 (1788. — " in Jamaica " ex Sloane — errore ! We
accept Cayenne as typical habitat, ex Brisson : Om. in. p. 726. tab. 36. fig. 9. where the species
is well described and figured).

Eupetomena mac. prasina E. Simon, Cat. Trochilid. p. 9 (1897.— Guiana et Mattogrosso).

Nos. 1249, 1251, 1267. c? ? ? imm., Humaytha, 17. ix. 06. "Iris, feet and
bill black."

These specimens are identical in coloration with a large series from Cayenne,
Para, Goyaz, Minas Gerafa's, and S. Paulo, the back and abdomen being pure
golden green with scarcely any bluish tinge. I regret to say that Mons. Simon
has renamed the typical form as E. m. prasina. The birds found in Bahia
collections, which have the abdomen dark greenish blue and the back likewise
decidedly bluish green, however, are certainly different, and, if not referable
to Ornismya hi rundinacea Less.,* must receive a new name.

126. Florisuga mellivora (Linn.).

Cf. Nov.'Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 375 ; Pelzeln, Zur Omith. Bras. i. 1867. p. 30 (Borba).

No. 1283. (c?) juv., Humaytha, 22. ix. 06.
No. 1422. ? ad., Borba, 29. xi. 06.

127. Agyrtria albiventris albiventris (Less.).

Cf. siqyra, pp. 24, 33.

No. 1352. av. imm., Borba, 17. xi. 00. " Iris and feet black, bill black,
below greyish red." — Wing 55 ; tail 30| ; bill 20 mm.

This bird is entirely typical, the base of the four onter tail-feathers on each
side and the central pair being bright bronze-green, the under tail-coverts pale
brownish with broad white edges.

128. Hylocharis sappbirina (Gm.).

Cf. Nor. Zool., xiii. 1906, p. 376

No. 1331. S juv., Borba, 14. xi. 00. "Iris and feet black, bill black,
below red."

* Mist. Nat. Ois.-movelies, pp xii, 98, tab. 25 (1829.— Bresil),

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120. Chlorestes caeruleus (Vieill.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 377.

Nos. 975, 1097, 1016. 6 3 ad., Humaytha, 22, 29. vii., 16. viii. no. "Iris
ami feet Mack, bill black, below red."

Nos. 1019, 1064. ? ¥ ad., Humaytha, 30. vii., 9. viii. 06. Soft parts as above.

13n. *Thalurania balzani Sim.

Thalurania lahani E. Simon, Nov. Zool. iii. p. '2o'.l (18%.— " Yungas de Bolivie ").

Nos. 1413, 1404. $ vix ad., 3 imm., Borba, 27, 28. xi. oil. "Iris, feet
and bill black."— Wing 53, 51 ; tail 32, 32> ; fnrca 5, 7 ; bill 21 mm.

These specimens a;„'ree iu every respect with our series from Salinas and
Reyes, Rio Beni, Northern Bolivia. The under tail-coverts are pure white ; the
golden green colour of the throat terminates in a straight line, being immediately
followed by the royal purple of the belly, and the interscapular region, when
viewed from in front, appears almost blackish.

This record extends the range of T. balzani considerably to the north-east :
it is probably found all aloug the Rio Madeira.

The species is new to the Brazilian fauna (cf. supra, p. 7S).

131. Anthracothorax nigricollis (Vieill.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 377.

Nos. 1089, 1088. 3 ? ad., Hnmaytha, 14. viii. 06. "Iris, feet and bill
black."

132. Psilomycter theresiae theresiae (Ha Silva).
Cf. Nov. Znol. xiii. 190G. p. 378.

Nos. 1250, 1275. ? ad., ? jun., Hnmaytha, 17, 21. ix. 00. "Iris and feet
black, bill black, below light red."— Wing 55 ; tail 33J, 31J ; bill 19J, 20 mm.

Nos. 1332, 1358, 1373. 3 3 imm., Borba, 14, 18, 20. xi. 06. "Iris black,
below red."— Wing 55—57 ; tail 32—33 ; bill 19—20 mm.

All the specimens belong to the typical form, haviug the under tail coverts
shining green, or white spotted with green. No. 1250 is cmite adult, and has
the tail and the lower surface uniform green, while in the others the four outer
rectrices are edged with white at the tip, and there is always more or less
of whitish in the middle of the abdomen.

This record extends the range of P. t. theresiae far to the south. The most
southerly localities known hitherto were Barra do Rio Negro (Natterer) and Para
(Hoffmanns).

133. Hydropsalis torquata (Gm.).

Caimmulyus lorquatus Gmelin, Sysl. Nat. 1. H. p. 1032 (1788.— ex Brisson : ex Marcgrave—
Eastern Brazil).

No. 1281. 3 jr., Humaytha, from the campos, 22. ix. 00. "Iris and feet
dark brown, bill black.". — Wing 165 mm.

Agrees with South Brazilian specimens (Bahia, S. Paulo) except in being

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rather darker grey on the back. Mr. Hoffmanns also sent ns an egg which is
pinkish bnff, spotted with greyish lilac and vinaceous.

Hnmaytha is quite a new locality for this species, which was only known
hitherto from South-eastern Brazil (Bahia, Bio, S. Paulo).

134. Caprimulgus maculicaudus (Lawr.).
Stenopaia maculicaudus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. New Yuri.' vii. p. 459 (1862. — Pard).

No. 1287. ? ad., Hnmaytha, 24. ix. 00. "Iris, feet, and hill black."— Wing
120 ; tail 95; bill 10J mm.

This bird agrees exactly with a detailed description in my note-book drawn
up from a Demerara specimen in Count Berlepsch's Museum. Both are females
without white spots in the tail.

Although still very rare in collections, this species appears to have a
very extensive range. The types, two males, were obtained near Para by
Mr. von Schulte-Buckow, and a female was taken by the late Henry Whitely
in the vicinity of Cosnipata, S.E. Peru. Count Berlepsch possesses an adult
male of the well-known Bogota make, and another specimen of the same pre-
paration was in the Kiel Museum.* Dr. Sclaterf records an adult male secured
in British Guiana by Mr. Qnelch, and a female from the same country is, as
mentioned above, in Count Berlepsch's collection. Two other females, one in the
British, and one in the Liverpool Museum, are of unknown origin.

Stenopsis platura Pelz.,} of which I have examined the type, a young female,
also appears to be referable to the present species. It differs from other females
only by its rather larger size (wing 132, tail 100 mm.). Prof, von Ihering, §
however, gives much greater dimensions for a male from Cachoeira, S. Paulo :
wing 141, tail 114 mm.

135. Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.).

Cf. supra, p. 79.

U. hirundinaceus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras, iii. 18G9. p. 248 (Salto do Girao, Borba).

No. 1119. cf ad., Hnmaytha, 19. viii. 00. "Iris yellow, feet blackish grey,
bill black."

Identical with the specimens from Teffe.

130. Veniliornis ruficeps haematostygma (Malh.).

[Picta ruficeps Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 63. tab. lvi. fig. 2, 3 (1824— "in sjlvis fluminis Amazonum ").]
Mesopicus haematostygma Malherbe, Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 72. tab. 61. fig. 2—5 (1862.— type
ex Engenho do Gama, Mattogrosso— Vienna Museum).

No. 930. (cf) juv. Hnmaytha, 10. vii. 06. " Iris brown, feet greyish green, bill
greyish black."

About this form cf. my revision of Spix' types, pp. 010-11.

* Berlepsch and Levcrkiilin, Omis vi. 1S90. p. 2».

f Hull. Ii. O. V. v. (Feb, lsiiG), p. 2:5.

\ P. Z. 8. Load, 1866. p. 5si) (Ypauema, S. Paulo).

§ Revist. Mus. Paul. iii. p. 271.

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137. Celeus jumana (Bpix).

Cf. supra, p. 79.

No. 1151. ? ad., Ilnmaytha, 23. viii. 06. "Iris dark rod, feet black, bill
yellowish green." — Wing 156; tail 98; bill 31 mm.

Upper tail-coverts rufous brown, lower back and rump yellow washed with
cinnamon, j nst as in the Teffe specimen.

138. Celeus grammicus (Malh.).

Cf. supra,, p. 80 ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornitli. Bras. iii. 1809. p. 252 (Salto do Girao).

No. 023. ? ad., Huinaytha, 14. vii. 00. "Iris dark red, feet dark green, bill
greenish white." — Wing 124 ; tail 77 ; bill 20i mm.

Feathers of the head and crest uniform cinnamon-rufons without black central
streaks, as in specimens from the Orinoco.

139. Crocomorphus flavus (P. L. S. Mull.) subsp.

Cf. supra, p. 80.

Celeus citrhms Pelzeln, I.e. p. 252 (Borba).

No. 1080. ? ad., Huinaytha, 12. viii. 06. " Iris reddish brown, feet greenish
grey, bill yellow."— Wing 132 ; tail 88 ; bill 24 mm.
Identical in coloration with the female from Teffe.

140. Picumnus aurifrons Pelz.

Pieumnus aurifrons Pelzeln, Zur Ornitli. Bras. iii. p. 334 (1809. — Engenlio do Gama, Caioara,
Salto do Girao).

No. 1212. cf imm., Huinaytha, 0. ix. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black." —
Wing 49; tail 20; bill 11 J mm.

No. 1213. <J jnv., Humaytha, 0. ix. 06. " Iris brown."— Wing 49 ; tail 23J;
bill 91 mm.

Although immature, the first-named specimen already shows the golden yellow
tips to the sinciput, and the rounded white apical spots to the feathers of the
crown and occiput. It agrees well with Natterer's original specimens from the same
district, except that the dusky markings on the lower parts are duller and more
obsolete.

141. Picumnus borbae Pelz.

Pieumnus borbae Pelzeln, I.e. p. 334 (1809. —Borba, Rio Madeira).

No. 1325. (cf) ad., Borba, 13. xi. 00. " Iris brown, feet plumbeous, bill greyish
black."— Wing 50 ; tail 24 ; bill 11 J mm.

Differs from the Itaituba specimen (cf. supra, p. 20) by its paler yellowish
under parts, with the markings less blackish, and by the tips to the frontal feathers
being of a brighter red.

142. Droinococcyx phasianellus (Spix).

Macropus phatiandha Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 53. tab. xlii. (1824. — Tonantins, Itio Solimoes, Brasil.) ;
Pelzeln, Z.c. p. 270 (Borba).

No. 1397. cf , Borba, 25. xi. 06. " Iris yellow, feet greyish brown, bill greyish
black."— Wing 162 ; tail 215 ; bill 24 mm.
Cf. my revision of Spix' types, p. 600.

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143. Ramphastos cuvieri Wagl.

Ramphastos Cuvieri Wagler, Si/sl. Av. Gen. Ramphastos sp. 5 (1827.— "in Brasilia versus flumen
Amazonum ").

Nos. 904, 1320. <? ad., ? ad., Hnraaytha, 28. x. 06. "Iris brown, feet
green, bill black, basal band and stripe along culraen greenish (<?), light bine
(?). Bare space round the eye blue."— Wing 234, 238; tail 168, 157 ; bill 179,
1 GO ram.

They agree perfectly with specimens from Chamicuros, Peru. In neither of
them is there a reddish spot on the upper inaudible.

144. Ramphastos culminatus Gould.

Ramphastos culminatus Gould, P.Z.S. 1833. p. 70 (''Mexico."— errore !) ; Pelzeln, Zur Qntillt.
Bras. iii. 1869. p. 234 (Borba).

No. 1126. ¥ imm., Humaytha, 27. viii. 06. "Iris brownish red, feet pale
plumbeous, bill black, basal band and culminal stripe yellowish green." — Wing 184;
tail 143; bill 123 mm.

Agreeing with specimens from the Upper Orinoco (Nericagna, etc.).

The characters of this species are fully stated by Couut Berlepsch, Journ. f.
Or nit h. 1889, p. 310.

The only example obtained by Mr. Hoffmanns was shot in the campos of the
hinterland of Humaytha.

145. Pteroglossus flavirostris mariae Gould.

Cf. supra, p. 83.

No. 1150. ¥ imm., Humaytha, 23. viii. 06. "Iris dark red, feet green,
bill yellowish white, lower mandible pale brown." — Wing 125 ; tail 128 ; bill
7S£ mm.

Agrees in size and coloration with the Teffe- specimen, and confirms the
distinctness of P.J', mariae. The under mandible is uniform brownish ochraceous.

146. Pteroglossus beauharnaesii Wagl.

Pteroglossus Beauharnaesii Wagler, Tsis, 1832. p. 280 (" Brasilia, prov. Para ").

No. 1124. ¥ ad., Humaytha, 20. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet plumbeous, upper
mandible reddish grey and bluish, lower one yellowish white."

Not different from Peruvian examples except in having fewer and smaller
black spots on the throat and cheeks.

147. Bucco hyperrhynchus Scl.

Bucen hyperrhynchus Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855. p. 193. tab. cv. (Jan. 185G. — Upper Amazons).

Nos. 938, 937. ? ad., <J imm., Humaytha, 16. vii. 06. " Iris dark red, feet
and bill black."— Wing 121i, 115 ; tail 98, 97 ; bill 46, 42 mm.

These birds belong to the large-billed form with broad white forehead. A
female from Palheta, Para, obtained by Professor Steere, appears also to be
referable to B, hyperrhynchus.

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148. Bucco macrodactylus (Spix).

Oyphoa macrodactylut Spix, Ar. lim*. i. p. 51. tab. xxxix. fig. 2 (1824.— " in sylvis flum.

Amazonum ").
Bucco macrodactylus, Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1867. p. 22 (S. Joao do Crato).

Nos. 1131, 1197, 1205. i 3 9 , Humaytba, 21, 31. viii., 1. ix. 06. "Iris reddish
or pale brown, feet and bill black."

No. 1131 is much brighter buff on throat and bell)- than the two others,
and agrees in that respect with specimens from Eastern Ecuador and Bogota
collections.

140. *Bucco tamatia pulmentum Scl.

[Bucco Tamatia Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 405 (1788.— ex Daubenton, PI. ail. 74i*>, fig. 1.— Cayenne).]
Bucco pulmentum Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855. p. 194, tab. cvi. (Jan. 1850.— Upper Amazons).

No. 1170. ? ad. in worn plumago, Humaytlia, 28. viii. 00. "Iris red, feet
brownish grey, bill black."— Wing 75 ; tail 60; bill 24 mm.

Agrees with the type and other Upper Amazonian skins in the British
Museum. B. t. pulmentum is but a slightly differentiated geographical form
of />. t. tamatia, from which it may be distinguished by its much paler throat, which
is light buff yellow (Ridgw. vi. 19) instead of deep tawny. There is generally more
rufous on the forehead and vertex than in the typical race, but this is by no
means constant.

As far as I know, this is the first record of B. t. pulmentum for Brazil.
I suspect, however, that the specimens obtained by Natterer in western Mattogrosso
and near Borba, on the Rio Madeira, which are enumerated in Pelzeln's work *
s.n. B. tamatia, will also turn out to belong to the present form.

150. Bucco chacuru Vieill.
Bucco chacuru Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. iii. p. 239 (1816.— ex Azara No. 261 : Paraguay).

Nos. 1235, 1245, 1262. Si ad. (in worn plumage), Humaytha, 14, 16, 18. ix. 06.
" Iris yellow or pale brown, feet dark grey, bill red."— Wing 82 — 85, tail 71 — 74,
bill, 31, 34, 35 mm.

No. 1247. ¥ ad. (in worn plumage), Humaytha, 16. ix. 00. "Iris greyish
yellow, feet black, bill red."— Wing 86; tail 70; bill 31 J mm.

According to Mr. Hoffmanns this bird is exclusively found in the " campos."

These specimens do not differ from a series of Paraguay and South Brazilian
skins except by lacking the blackish cross-lines on the breast and foreneck, the
flanks alone being banded with dusky-brown. The under parts are nearly pure
white in the Humaytha birds, not washed with buff or ochreous, as in southern
specimens. The plumage of the former is, however, so much worn that I cauuot
say if these differences are of any value.

151. Malacoptila rufa (Spix).

Bucco ru/us Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 52, tab. xl. fig. i. (1824.—" in syWis fl. Amazonum ").

No. 1256. ? ad. (slightly moulting), Humaytha, 17. ix. 06. "Iris dark red,
feet grey, bill black."— Wing 88; tail 67 ; bill 27 mm.

Differs from a female from Para by its deeper ferruginous frontal band and
rather more rnfesceut brown back.

* Zur Ornith. Brasil. i. 18G7. p. 22 (Engenho do Gama, S. Vicente, Borba).

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152. Nonnula sclateri Helltn.
Nonnula sclateri Ilellmayr, Bull. B.O.C. xix. (Feb. 1907), p. 55 (Humaytha).

No. 1003. ? ad., Humaytha, 16. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet grey, bill black."—
Wing 62 ; tail 531 ; bill 22 J mm. — Type of the species.

Upper parts warm brown, rather duller on the head ; distinct frontal edge and
lores deep ochraceous buff ; cheeks, ear-coverts and temporal region uniform dark-
grey ; malar region and sides of the neck dull olive-brown. Quills blackish,
the secondaries exteriorly edged with pale buff-brown ; rectrices dusky, with very-
narrow edges of a paler brown along the outer web, central pair uniform brown.
Chin bright ochraceous buff, throat and chest greyish fulvous, sides of the belly paler,
more brownish buff; middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts white. Axillaries,
under wing-coverts, and quill-lining ochraceous buff. Eyelid slightly protruding,
bright red, with but a few feathers of bright buff here and there.

This new species, which is named after Mr. P. L. Sclater, author of an excellent
monograph of the Puff-birds, belongs to the group of N. rubecula (Spix), from the
wood region of S.E. Brazil, and N. eineracea (Scl.), from the Rio Javari; but
is distinguished at a glance by its much smaller size, deep ochraceous buff frontal
band, lores, and chin, by lacking the white patch below the eye, so conspicuous
in both the allied species ; and especially by the eyelid being bright red and
almost entirely bare, while in its affines it is black and covered with numerous
feathers of pure white.

Unfortunately Mr. Hoffmanns sent only a single specimen of this nunlet,
the discovery of which adds another striking form to the many peculiar types
of the Rio Madeira district.

153. Chelidoptera tenebrosa tenebrosa (Pall.).

Cf. supra, p. 84.

No. 1284. ?, Humaytha, 22. ix. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet and bill black."
Identical with Surinam examples.

154. Urogalba dea amazonum Scl.
Cf. supra, p. 27.

Galbula paradisea (nee Linn.), Pelzeln, Zur Orniih. Bras. i. 18C7. p. 24 (part : Salto do Girao, Rio
Madeira. — specimens examined).

No. 1244. c? ad., Humaytha, 16. ix. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 90 ; tail 144 ; bill 52$ mm.

In my report on Mr. Hoffmanns' collection from the Rio Tapajoz I had already-
observed that two young birds from the Rio Madeira, obtained by Natterer, seemed
to belong to U. d. amazonum, and this supposition is fully confirmed by the specimen
in the present consignment. It agrees with our male from Margoary and the three
examples in the British Museum in having the top of the head very pale brown
and distinct whitish superciliaries. The smoky-brown chin-spot is perhaps a trifle
larger (though still decidedly smaller than in U. d. dea), but of exactly the same
tint. It is, therefore, evident that U. d. amazonum inhabits not only the Para
district, but is also found all along the south bank of the Amazons and on its
southern tributaries.

Miss Suethlage* has lately published some very interesting notes about this
form, which seems to be fairly common in the Para district.

* Jo-urn. f. Ornith. 1900. p. 519.

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155. Galbula cyanicollis ('ass.

Cf. supra, p. 84.

No. 1060. e? ad., Humaytha, 7. viii. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet and bill
yellow, apical halt' of upper mandible black." — Wing 78 ; tail S3 ; bill 41 i mm.

No. 1061. ? ad., Humaytha, 7. viii. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet and bill
yellow, apical half of upper mandible black." — Wing 70 ; tail 73 ; bill 37 mm.

Both specimens differ from our Para series by having the checks and malar
region pure golden green instead of blue. In this respect they agree with
G. a. albirostris and G. a. ckalcocepkala ; the throat in the male, however,
is deep ferruginous, like the belly, not white, as in the males of the two last-
named forms.

156. *Galbula tombacea cyanescens Dev.

[Galbula tombacea Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 55, tab. lviii. (1824 — " in sylvis fl. Amazonum ").]
Galbiihi cyanescent Deville, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1849. p. 5G (" les borjs de l'Amazone ").

Nos. 944, 903. iS ad., Humaytha, 17, 20. vii. 06. "Iris and feet brown,
bill black."— Wing 82i ; tail 98 ; bill 44, 48 mm.

These skins agree with others from Central Peru (Chanchamayo, Huannco)
and the Rio Jurua in having the forehead and crown shining green with bluish
reflections, but the chin and upper portion of the throat .are mostly greyish white,
while in the Peruvian and JuruA birds there is only a small smoky-grey spot
on the chin.

I hope to discuss the geographical variation of G. tombacea on another occasion,
meanwhile cf. the remarks in my revision of Spix1 types, pp. 001, 602.

6r. t. cyanescens is new to the Brazilian fauna.

157. Ceryle torquata torquata (Linn.).

Alcedo torquata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 180 (1766. — ex Brisson : Mexico and Martinique —

we accept Mexico as typical locality).
Ceryle torquata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. linn. i. 18G7. p. 23 (Borba).

No. 1403. ? ad., Borba, 26. xi. 06. " Iris black, feet grey, bill black."

158. Ceryle americana americana (Gm.).

Alcedo americana Omelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 451 (1788.— ex Daubenton, PI. ml. 591. fig. 1. 2—

Cayenne).
Ceryle americana Ptlzeln, I.e. p. 23 (Rio Guapore, Borba).

No. 1305. ? ad., Humaytha, 30. ix. 00. " Iris dark brown, feet and bill black."

159. Ceryle superciliosa superciliosa (Linn.).

Cf. 8Uj)ra, p. 84 ; Pelzeln, I.e. p. 24 (Borba).

No. 1223. <S juv., Humaytha, 12. ix. 06. " Lis brownish black, feet pale
yellowish, bill black."

Identical with Surinam examples. ,

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160. Trogon atricollis atricollis \rieill.

Trogon atricollis Vieillot, Nottv. Did. viii. p. 318 (1817. — ex Levaillant, Couroucous, pi. 8. —
" Guyane, Surinam et a la Trinite ").

No. 1020. c? ad., Humaytha, 31. vii. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet grey, bill
yellowish green."— Wing 109i mm.

Differs from a large number of males by the coppery golden instead of bronze-
green central tail-feathers.

161. Urospatha martii martii (Spix).

Prionitcs martii Spix, Ar. Bras. i. p. 04. tab. lx. (1824. — "in sylvis Parae " ; cf. my revision of

Spix' types, p. Gil).
Momotus martii Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1867. p. 19 (Borba).

No. 1411. ? ad., Borba, 27. xi. 06. "Iris dark red, feet and bill black."—
Wing 150 ; tail 206 ; bill 44^ mm.

Differs from a series of skins from the Rio Napo, Eastern Ecuador, in having
the upper back not pure green, but slightly suffused with ochreous. The material
in the Tring Museum fully bears out what I said (I.e.) about the differences between
U. m. martii and U. m. scmirufa (Scl.).

The ? from Humaytha, three <$ <$ and one ? from Coca on the Rio Napo,
and an adult male from La Merced, Chauehamayo, Central Peru, have the tail
mainly green, and the central rectrices not spatulated; while in a large series of
U. m. scmirufa from Bogota collections, Western Ecuador, Costa Rica, etc., the
tail-feathers are nearly uniform blue, and the middle pair invariably spatulated
in the adults. Even young birds (without the rakets) of the western form can
always be recognized by their blue tail. — Cf. also Berlepsch, Journ. f. Ornith.
1889. p. 308.

162. 'Prionirhynchus platyrhynchus pyrrholaemus Berl. & Stolzin.

[Momotus Platyrhynchus Leadbeater, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 02 (1833. — "Brazil." — errore !).]
Prionirhynchus platyrhynchus pyrrholaemus Berlepsch & Stolzmann, P. Z. S. Lund. 1902. vol. ii.
Part i. p. 35 (Oct. 1902.— La Merced, Central Peru).

No. 1225. cJ ad., Humaytha, 12. ix. 00. "Iris dark brown, feet and bill
black.''— Wing 114; tail 198 ; bill 37 mm.

Count Berlepsch and Dr. Stolzmann (I.e.) jwinted out that specimens from
Peru (Borgona, La Merced) and Bolivia differed from the Central American ones by
having the central rectrices not spatulated, and the series in the Tring Museum
clearly proves the constancy of this character. We have the following examples :
1 cf, 1 ?, La Merced, Central Peru, Schunke coll.; 1 S , Chanchamayo, Central Pern,
Schuuke coll. ; i , Suuo, Rio Napo, ? , Coca, Kio Napo, Eastern Ecuador, Goodfellow
and Hamilton coll. ; and the male sent from Humaytha by Mr. Hoffmanns : none of
which has the middle pair of the tail-feathers ebarbed ; whereas in fourteen adults
from Western Ecuador (Uualea, S. Domingo, Paramba, etc.), Rio Dagua (Colombia),
Panama, Chiriqui, and Costa Rica they are always spatulated.

The other character mentioned by Berlepsch and Stolzmann, however, is
apparently not constant, for all our six specimens of P. p. pyrrholaemus have
the chin yellowish green or bluish green, as in the western forms.

As shown by Dr. Hartert,* the original locality, " Brazil," assigned to

* Nov. Zool. viii. 18'JS, pp. i;i7— J'.is.

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Mbmotus platyrhynckus by Leadbeater was doubtless erroneous, his description

being evidently referable to the large raket-tailed form found in Western Ecuador
and Western Colombia.

Accordingly, we have three distinct races :

a. P. platyrkynchus platyrhynckus (Leadb.).

Western Ecuador (S. Domingo, Gualea, Paramba, Lita, etc.) and Western
Colombia: Rio Dagna (Rosenberg), Remedios (Salmon), etc.

b. P. platyrhynckus minor Hart.

Panama, Chiriijtii, Costa Rica, Nicaragua (Rio Grande: Richardson coll. in
Tring Museum).

c. P. platyrhynckus pyrrkolaemus Berl. & Stolzm.

Upper Amazonian district: Eastern Ecuador (Coca, Rio Napo — Goodfellow) ;
Peru : Borgona, Chauchamayo, La Merced (Kalinowski and Schunke coll.); North
Bolivia (G. Garlepp coll. — Mus. H. v. Berlepsch) ; West Brazil: Humaytha, Rio
Madeira (Hoffmanns).

P. p. pyrrholaemus is new to the Brazilian fauna.

163. Conurus aureus (Gin.).

Psittacus aureus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 329 (1788— ex Brisson: ex Edwards, Glean, v. tab. 235.
" supposed to be a native of Brazil ").

Nos. 1220, 1221, 1242, 1260, 1274. c? c? c? , ? ?, Humaytha, 11, 15, Id, 20.
ix. 06. "Iris greyish brown or pale brown, feet and bill black."

These birds agree perfectly with a series from Bahia and Mattogrosso.

The Tring Museum also possesses a pair collected by Professor J. B. Steere
near Boa Vista in the Para district, in September 1879, and several specimens
obtained by Mr. G. Garlepp at Descalvados, Mattogrosso.

164. Conurus weddellii Dev.

Conurus Weddellii Deville, Rev. May. Zool. 1851. p. 209 (" Pebas, sur le Haut-Auuizoue ").
Conurus canibuccalis Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 48 (1907. — Humaytha).

No. 1076. <$ ad., Humaytha, 11. viii. 00. " Iris yellowish white, feet and bill
blackish." — Wing 147 ; tail 123; bill 2.3 mm. Type of C. canibuccalis Rothsch.

No. 1192. ? ad., Humaytha, 30. viii. 00. " Iris yellowish white, feet and bill
blackish."— Wing 139; tail 120; bill 24 mm.

These birds agree exactly with several others from Elvira, on the Peruvian
Amazons, in the British Museum collection. By some unaccountable oversight
for which I am partly responsible, they have been described by Mr. Rothschild
as belonging to a new species.

Not yet recorded from the Rio Madeira, but Natterer obtained a series at
the sugar-mill of Captain Gama on the Rio Guapore, farther to the south.

165. Pyrrhura picta lucianii Dev.

Conurus Luciami Deville, Rev. Ma,j. Zool. 1851. p. 210 ("la riviere des Amazones ').
C Lueiani Pelzeln, Zur Oruilh. Urns. iii. 1869. p. 259 (Ribeirao, Salto Theotonio).

No. 1204. <S imm., Humaytha, 18. ix. 06. " Iris brown, feet and bill black."—
Wing 119 ; tail 97 ; bill 16J mm.

In addition to this specimen I have before me three of those obtained by
Natterer on the Rio Madeira and kindly lent by Dr. von Loreuz. Unfortunately

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these birds are even younger than our female from Hnruaytha. Nevertheless I
have very little doubt that the i'onr skins belong to P. p. luciardi and not to the
newly-described P. p. amazonum, although none of them have any red on
the forehead. This is proved by the colour of the ear-coverts, which are pale bnffy
brownish (not clear golden buff, as in P. p. amazonum) and by the very small
amount of bluish on the forehead. Besides, in No. 1264 there are some bright red
feathers to be seen above the eye and lores !

160. Brotogeris sanctithomae (P. L. S. Mull.).
Brotogeris sanctaethomae (lapsu), supra, p. 88.

Nos. 972, 1041. J? ad., Humaytha, 22. vii., 2. viii. 06. "Iris yellow, feet
light grey, bill brown."

No. 1309. ? imm., Paraizo, 15. x. 00. " Iris yellowish white, feet pale grey,
bill brown."

Agreeing with specimens from Teffe' and Northern Peru. None of them have
a yellow streak behind the eye.

107. Ara macao (Linn.).

Plittacus Macao Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 9G (1758 — " in America meridionali '').
Sittace macao Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras, iii. 1809. p. 254 (Rio Mamore, Cachoeira do Bananeira,
Ribeirao, Borba).

No. 1042. S , Humaytha, 2. viii. 00. " Iris yellow, feet black, bill black, tip
whitish."

168. Ibycter ater (Vieill.).

Daptrlus ater Vieillot, Analyse Ornith. diem. p. 68 (1816 — "le Bre'sil" ; cf. Nov. Zool. ix. 1902.
p. 111).

No. 1345. <$ ad., Borba, 16. xi. 06. " Iris brown, feet yellow, bill dark
plumbeous."

169. Micrastur brachypterus (Temm.).

Falco brachypterus Temminck, flee. PI. col. tab. 116 (juv.), 141 (adult) (1822.—" au Bresil, a la

Gujane, et au Paraguay ").
Micrastur brachypterus Pelzeln, I.e. p. 7 (Borba).
Micrastur sciuitorauatus and M. melanoleucus auct.

No 1448. ? juv., Borba, 6. xii. 06. " Iris greyish brown, feet yellow, bdl
blackish grey."

I quite agree with Mr. Ridgway * that the description of Sparvius semitorquatus
does not apply to the present species, but the name S. melanoleucus Vieill. t cannot
stand either (cf. my revision of Spix' types, 1906. p. 570). The next available
specific name is the one given above.

170. Micrastur gilvicollis (Vieill.).

Sparvius gilvicollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. x. p. 323 (1817.— loc. ign., we substitute : Cayenne).
Micrastur gilvicollis Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1867. p. 7 (Borba).

No. 1412. ? imm., Borba, 27. xi. 06. "Iris whitish grey, feet yellow, bill
blackish grey, cere yellow." — Wing 184; tail 145 mm.

* Proc. Acad. N.S. Pkilad. 1875. p. JS4. t -v<"»'- Diet. x. 1*17. p. 327.

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This is an immature bird of M. concentricus — as defined by Mr. Ridgway — with
the outer and inner toe of equal length, and agrees in coloration with specimens, in
corresponding plumage, from Pozuzo (Pern), Para and Cayenne. When lately
in Paris, I examined the types of S. gilvicollis Vieill. (locality unknown) and Nisus
concentricus Less. (Cayenne — Poiteau coll.), and found them both to belong to the
same species. The correct name of this bird is, therefore, M. gilvicollis.

171. Rupornis magnirostris magnirostris (6m.).

Cf. supra, p. 38.

Astur macrorhynchus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1807. p. ("> (Borba).

Nos. 995, 128U. S ad., ? jr., Humaytha, 20. vii., 21. ix. 06. " Iris and feet
yellow, bill black."

In coloration like specimens from British Guiana, Surinam, etc., bnt somewhat
larger.

172. Busarellus nigricollis (Lath.).

Cf. supra, p. 38.

No. 1300. Adult (not sexed), Humaytha, 28. ix. 06. "Iris dark brown, feet
greyish white, bill black."

173. Leucopternis schistacea (Snndev.).

Asturina schistacea Sundevall, Oefo. Ic. Vet. Ahad. Fiirh. 1849. p. 132*

Uruoilinga schistacea Sclater, Tram. Zool. Hoc. Load. iv. 18G2. p. 261. tab. 58 (Rio Javarri • interior
of Bolivia) ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1807. p. 2 (Borba).

No. 1078. ? ad., Humaytha, 12. viii. 06. " Iris and feet yellowish red, bill
black, cere yellowish red." — Wing 285 ; tail 192 mm.

No. 1032. c? imm., Humaytha, 1. viii. 06. " Iris and feet yellow, bill black,
cere yellow." — Wing 265; tail 180 mm.

No. 1032 differs from the adult bird in having the axillaries, under win°--
coverts and the edge of the wing banded with blackish and white, the thighs closely
barred with plumbeous and white, and the under tail-coverts white at the base.
The tail-feathers have two white cross-lines (besides the apical margin, which,
however, is worn off in our specimen) and the base of the inner webs also white.

174. Ictinia plumbea.
Falco plumbeus Gmeliu, Syst. Nal. 1. i. p. 283 (1788— ex Latham : Cayenne).

No. 1126. cf ad., Humaytha, 12. ix. 06. "Iris pale brown, feet yellow, bill

black."

175. Pulsatrix perspicillata (Lath.).

Strix perspicillata Latham, Ind. Ornith. i. p. 58 (1790. — Cayana — ex "Spectacle Owl," Latham,

Gen. Sy?i. Birds Suppl. p. 50. tab. cvii. = av. juvenis !).
Athene torquata Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. i. 1867. p. 8 (Borba).

No. 946. $ ad., Humaytha, 17. vii. 06. "Lis yellow, feet grey, bill greyish
yellow."— "Wing 320 ; tail 200 mm.

Agreeing with specimens from Gniana, Surinam, etc.

P. pulsatrix (Wied) from Eastern Brazil is quite distinct (cf. Berlepseh,
Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 4, 5, and Dubois, Syn. Ac. p. 892, pi. xvi.).

* I have not been able to verify this Quotation.

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176. Syrnium superciliare Pelz.

Syrnium mperciliare Pelzeln, Verhandl. tool. hot. Getellsch. Wien, 1803. p. 1125 (Mattogrosso).

No. 1449. ¥ ad. (slightly moulting), Borba, 7. xii. 06. " Iris brown, feet pale
yellow, bill yellowish green."— Wing 250 ; tail 150 ; bill 33| mm

This bird agrees well with von Pelzeln's description, except that the cross-
bands of the tail-feathers are white, tinged with pale greyish brown on the outer
webs. In general coloration this species bears a strong resemblance to S. hylopkilum
(Temm.) from S.E. Brazil, and S. albitarse Scl. from the mountains of Merida
and Colombia, but differs at a glance by its more blackish upper parts, there
being but narrow wavy lines of dull rufous ; by the much darker rufous facial
ruff ; by the white (not ferruginous) tail-bands ; and by having no transverse
markings whatever on the abdomen. The thighs, too, are much darker, deep
tawny (instead of buff), etc., etc.

177. Pisorhhia watsonii (Cass.).

Ephialtet Watsonii Cassin, Proc. Acad. Pkilad. iv. p. 123 (Dec. 1848. — " South America") ; Journ.

Acad. P/iilad. ii. pt. ii. Jan. 1852. p. '.15. tab. xii. fig. 1.
Scops USta Sclater, Train. Z. S. Lund. iv. p. 265. tab. HI (1862. — " Ega, on the Upper Amazon

[H. W. Bates].")

No. 1096. S ad., Humaytha, 16. viii. 06. "Iris yellow, feet greyish \ellow,
bill greyish green." — Wing 167 ; tail 90 ; bill 20J mm.

This bird agrees perfectly with several specimens from Eastern Ecuador.
Cassia's account and figure leave not the slightest doubt that he described the
species afterwards named S. usta by Mr. Sclater (cf. also Berlepsch, Bull. B. O. C.
xii. 1901. p. 10).

It is scarcely to be understood why Mr. II. B. Sharpe* should have treated
it as a "subspecies" of Pisorhina choliba (= his Scops brasilianus), since a
geographical form of the latter, P. c. cruciyera (Spix), occurs in the same district
where P. watsonii is met with.

This species may be distinguished by the much longer ear-tufts, which are
almost uniform black, with only a i'vvf minute dots of buff along the inner
web of the feathers. The pileum is also mainly blackish, the back and tail
are much darker, blackish brown, with very narrow buff vermiculatious : the
upper wing-coverts entirely lack the large buff spots so conspicuous in P. c.
crucigera and allies ; and the lower parts are deep fulvous (not white with buff
patches), etc., etc.

Some specimens show a distinct nuchal collar of bright buff. The Tring
Museum also possesses two adult birds obtained by Mr. E. Andre near Snapure
in the ('aura valley, Venezuela.

ITS. Geotrygon montana (Linn.).

Columba monlana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. 1. p. 281 (1700. — ex Edwards [and Brisson]. — Jamaica).

No. 994. d imm., Humaytha, 26. \ ii. 06. "Iris yellow, feet light red, bill
reddish grey."

Nos. 985, 1001, 1201. ? ? juv., Humaytha, 25, 27. vii., 4. ix. 06. " Iris yellow,
feet dark red, bill greyish red."

* Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 111.

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1 79. Colnmbula picui (Temm.).

Columba picui Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. ei Chill, i. p. 435, 4'.>x (1813.— ex Azara No. 324.—
Paraguay).

No. 1127. ? ad, Hnmaytha, 21. viii. 06. "Iris greyish white, feet reddish
blue, bill black."— Wing 91 ; tail 75 ; bill 12 mm.

Agreeing with females from Bahia ami Buenos Ayres.

The species has not yet been recorded from Bio Madeira, but Natterer obtained
examples cm the Bio (Juapcuv and at other places in western Mattogrosso.

180. Penelope superciliaris superciliaris Temm.

Penelope superciliaris Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Ball. iii. p. 72 (1815.—" Bresil et plus particu-

lierement daus le district de Para ").
Penelopi superciliaris var., Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bra . iii. 1869. p. 283 (Borba).

No. 1388. J ad., Borba, 23. xi. 06. "Iris and feet dark red, bill black, bare
skin of the throat red."— Wing 250 ; tail 298 ; bill 32 mm.

Like a young bird from Igarape-Assu, Para, this specimen has the foreneck and
chest strongly glossed with bronze green, and scarcely any indication of ashy
superciliaries. Skins from Bahia, S. Paulo, and Minas Geraes are rather duller,
more greenish ash on the foreneck and chest, and, as a rule, possess a broad ashy
white eyebrow. Since, however, the latter is barely apparent in one of my Bahia
examples, this character would seem to be of little value. Moreover, Temminck,
who based bis description upon Para specimens, sent by Sieber to Count von
HofFmannsegg, expressly says : " nne . . . bande composed de plumes blanches,
part de la raciue du bee . . . et abontit ... a Toreille." About the distinctness
of P. 8. jacupemba Spix, cf. Abkandl. Akad. Wissenseh. Mitnchen, (ii. Kl.) Bd. xxii.
3. 1906, p. 690—091.

181. Penelope jacquacu Spix.

Penelopi jacquagu Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 52. tab. lxviii. (1825. — "in sylvis fluminis Solimoens ").
Penelope Bolimana Pelzeln, Zur Omith. Bras. iii. 1809. p. 282 (Salto do Girao).

Nos. 1239, 1240, . J ad, ?? ad., Hnmaytha, 17. viii., 15, 10. ix. 06.

" Iris brown, feet red, bill grey or black."

Perfectly identical with specimens from Hnanueo, Peru, which had previously
been compared with Spix' type in the Munich Museum.

This species differs at a glance .from the preceding one by lacking the
cinnamon-rufous edges to the scapulars and secondaries.

Abont the nomenclature cf. my revision of Spix' types, p. 088.

182. Tinamus serratus serratus (Spix).

Pezw serratus Spix, A v. Bras. ii. p. 61. tab. lxxvi. (1825.—" in sylvia campestribus fl. Nigri ").
Tinamu brasilii mil (nee Lath.) Pelzeln, I.e. p. 291 (Cachoeira da Bananeira, Borba).

Tina mill maj„r (nee (imelin !) Salvaclori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xxvii. p. 502 (part. : ? only !).

Nos. 1189, 1193. ? ? ad., Hnmaytha, 30, 31. viii. 06. " Iris brown, feet pale
plumbeous, bill grey." — Wing 230; bill 32 mm.

Nos. 1207, 1208. Young in down, Hnmaytha, 4. ix. 00. "Iris black, feet
greyish black, bill black."

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The adult birds agree exactly with the female from S. Pedro, Upper Rio Negro,
in the British Museum (coll. Natterer), and with an adult from the Caura valley,
Venezuela, in the Tring collection. The forehead, pileum, and ear-coverts are
clear cinnamon-rufous, the remainder of the sides of the head ochraceous-buff ;
the foreneck and chest pale greyish brown, and the middle of the abdomen plain
white without dusky cross-lines.

For characters and nomenclature of this species cf. Abhandl. Akad. Wissensch.
Mii lichen (ii. Kl.) Bd. xxii. 3. 1900, p. 099—701, 719.

183. Tinamus guttatus Pelz.

Tinamus guttatus Pelzeln, Verhandl. zool. bvtau. GesellscJi. }\'ifii 18G3, pp. 1120, 1128 (Borba :
S. Carlos, Rio Negro ; Pari ; Rio Vaupe — we fix Burba as the typical locality).

Nos. 1100, 1181, 1217. (?<?¥, Hnmaytha, Is, 29. viii., 11. ix. 06. " Iris brown,
feet greenish, bill black or blackish grey." — Wing 185 — 190 ; bill 30 — 31 mm.

The top of the head is dark cinereous, some of the feathers being narrowly
fringed with blackish ; the under parts (except the white throat and the variegated
foreneck) are rather pale brownish buff, almost white along the middle of the
abdomen. In Nos. 1006 and 1217 there are no white dots on the lower back and
rump, while they are very well pronounced in No. 1181.

A specimen from the island of Maraj6, near Par;i, has the top of the head
blackish, and the under surface much brighter and more ochreous buff.

The uumerons white spots on the wings and the clear chestnut under tail-
coverts render this species easily recognizable among its affines.

184. Crypturus cinereus (Gm.).

Cf. Nor. Zool. xiii. 1906. p. 385.

Tinamus cinereus Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. 1869. p. 292 (Borba).

Crypturus cinereus Schlegel, Sfus. Pays-Baa viii.: Tinami (1880). p. 20 (Pale variety from Borba
discussed).

No. 1218. £ imm., Hnmaytha, 11. ix. 06. "Iris dark yellow, feet greyish
brown, bill dark grey."

Nos. 1000, 1198. ¥ ? juv., Hnmaytha, 28. vii., 31. viii. 06. '-Iris yellow,
feet brown, bill dark grey."

The first-named specimen is practically identical with others from British
Guiana and .Surinam, and I doubt, therefore, the possibility of separating a "pale
variety" from the liio Madeira.

The young birds are more brownish than the adults, and distinctly, though
narrowly barred with rufesceut buff on the back, upper wing-coverts, and outer webs
of the secondaries.

185. Crypturus soui (Herm.).

Tinamus soui Hermann, Tab. Aff. Anim. pp. 104, 2.'!5 (1783.— ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 82'.* —

Cayenne).
Tinamus pilealus Pelzeln, Zur Ortdth. Bras. iii. 1809. p. 294 (Borba).

Nos. 1115, 1122, 1190. ? ¥ ad. et imm., Humaytha, 19, 20, 31. viii. 00. " Iris
light brown, feet grey or greyish brown, bill dark grey or blackish grey.*'

Agreeing with specimens from British Guiana, the Caura valley, and the
Orinoco in the deep ochraceous or tawny ochraceous under parts, but without any

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chestnut on the upper tail-coverts. Skins from north-east Brazil ( Para, Pernatn-
buco) arc similar in the latter respect, differ, however, by their much paler and
duller ochraceons lower surface. Cf. my remarks in Xov. Zool. xiii. 1 1X1(5. p. 385.

186. Crypturus parvirostris Wagl.

Cryplurus jtarciro.ilris Wagler, Syst. Ac. Crypturus, sp. 13(1827. — Brasilia).

Nos. 1219, 1241, 1248, 1269, 1270, 1278, 1286. ? ¥ ad. and iiaiu., Hiimaytha,
11, 15, 16, 2n, 21, -j:{. ix. 06. " Iris light In-own, feet and l>ill clear red."

These specimens are not different in coloration from a series of skins obtained
by Mons. Robert in Pernambueo and Baliia, and others collected near Victoria,
S.Paulo, by Mr. Adolph Hemjiel, but have considerably shorter wings (106 — 110
mm.). C. parvirostris differs from C. tataupa by its smaller size, much smaller and
weaker bill, pale brownish chest, and bright red legs.

Adnlt birds have the top of the head pure sehistaceons, and the upper parts
bright chestnut brown ; in young birds the former is mainly pale brown, and the
back much duller, and less castaneons.

187. Crypturus adspersus adspersus (Temm.).

Tinamus adspersus Temminck. Hist, Nat. /'«/. • / Ball. iii. p. 585 (1815.— Para — coll. Hoffniannsegg).
T. undulatus (nee Temm.) Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. lints, iii. 1869. p. L'02 (part. : Borba).

No. 1301. ? ad., Humaytha, 20. ix. 06. "Iris light brown, feet greyish green,
bill greyish black."— Wing 177; bill 29$ mm.

I gave a review of C. adspersus and its allies in my revision of Spix' types,
Abhandl. Mad. Wissensch. Miinchen, Kl. ii. Bd. xxii. 3. 1906. pp. 702—705, 720.

The present specimen differs from typical examples in having the black cross-
markings on the back rather broader and more regular, thus pointing towards
( '. a. radiatus (Gray), which, however, is much brighter cbestuut above, with the
bars still broader and blacker.

188. 'Crypturus bartletti Scl. & Salv.

Crypturus bartletti Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. Load. 1873. p. 311 (Santa Cruz on the Ucayali river,
Eastern Peru).

No. 1095. $ ad., Humaytha, 16. viii. 06. " Iris light brown, feet greenish
yellow, bill grey." — Wing 140 ; bill 22$ mm.

Nos. 1034, 1035. ? ? ad., Humaytha, 1. viii. 06. "Iris and feet brown, bill
greyish brown, paler below."— Wing 142, 145; bill 22A, 23 mm.

Nos. 1033, . S juv., juv. (not sexed), Humaytha, 1. viii. 06. " Iris

brown, feet and bill brownish grey."

These specimens agree exactly with the types in the British Museum. The
male has the nape and mantle uniform, while the lower back, rump, and upper
tail-coverts show irregular black bars on an olive-brown ground ; the inner median
and greater wing-coverts are likewise broadly, though not very distinctly, banded
with pale buff; the breast is dull ochraceons buff (Uidgw. v. 10), on the sides
washed with olive-brown and finely vermiculated with dusky. In the females the
whole back is regularly banded with black and olive-brown (No. 1035) or deep
ochreous-brown (No. 1034), all the upper wing-coverts (except those along the
bend of the wing) have broad buff (No. 1035) or deep ochraceons (No. 1034)
cross-bars ; the breast is much deeper, more ochraceons, and uot only the flanks,

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but also the sides of the breast are banded with dusky olive or blackish. The
pileum, too, is rather duller blackish, being obscured by brownish edges to the
feathers.

The young bird (No. 1033), besides being much smaller, differs from the adult
ones by its paler under parts, clear olive-brown (not blackish) upper wing-coverts,
and by having white dots on the latter as well as on the foreneck, while the
feathers of the breast and abdomen show broad white apical bands followed by a
subterminal liar or spot of black. In the white spotting it resembles the young
of C. variegatus, which, however, has the neck all round deep ochraceons-rufons.
C. bartletti is most nearly allied to C. parvirostris Pelz., and apparently its
southern representative. In fact, the two species are perfectly alike in size of
the bill, proportions, pattern of the wings, back and under wing-coverts, etc., but
C. bartletti is easily distinguishable by having the top of the head uniform black,
the hindneck, sides of the head and neck dull brown (instead of deep ferruginous)
and the foreneck brownish (not deep ferruginous like the chest).
C. bartletti is new to Brazil.

189. Crypturus strigulosus (Temm.).

Tinamus strigulosus TemmincU, Hint. Nat. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 594, 752(1815. — "dans la province
de Paftt "— Sibcr coll.); Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. 1869. p. 293 (Borba).

No. 1107. S ad., Humaytha, 18. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet pale grey, bill
blackish grey, below yellowish." — Wing 155 ; tail 27A mm.
This bird answers well to Temminck's original description

190. Rhynchotus rufescens catingae lteis.

[Thiamu srufescens Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 552, 747 (1815. — "Bresil" — Mus. Paris.]
Rhynchotus rufescens catingae Reiser, Anzeiger Akad. Wissensch. Wicn 1905. do. xviii. p. 324 (1905.
— Piauhy, N.E. Brazil).

Nos. 1224, 1282. $ ? ad., Humaytha, 12, 22. ix. 06. "Iris pale yellow, feet
greyish brown, bill blackish, below yellow." — Wing 170, 190; bill 39, 41J mm.

As far as I can judge from Iteiser's short diagnosis, these birds seem to belong
to his It. r. catingae. They differ from a good series of specimens from Bahia,
southern Mattogrosso, S. Paulo, and Buenos Aires in their shorter wings and by
having the under parts much darker and more greyish. The flauks are barred
with black, as in ordinary R. r. rufescens. This is quite a new locality for the
species. Both specimens have been shot in the campos of the hinterland of
Humaytha.

191. Butorides striata (Linn.).

Ardea striata Lirmaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 144 (1758. — Surinam : Rolander).

No. 1304. cf juv. Humaytha, 29. ix. 00. " Iris yellow, feet yellowish green,
bill black, below yellow."

192. Tigrisoma lineatum (Bodd.).

Ardea lineata Boddacrt, Tabl. PI. enl. p. 52 (1783.— ex Daubenton, PI. ml. 8G0 : Cayenne).

No. 125S. ? juv., Humaytha, 17. ix. 06. "Iris pale brown, feet greyish
green, bill yellowish grey."

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193. Zebrilus pumilus (Bodd.).

Ardea pumila Boddaert, Tabl. PI. nil. p. 54 [ITS:!.— ex Daubenton, PI. enl. 898. "Le Crabier,
des Philippines" ( = rufoiis phase) — errore ! wo substitute Cayenne :i- typical Ideality. J

No. 1299. Adult (blackish phase), Huuiaytha, 28. ix. 06. "Iris yellow, feet
greyish black, bill brownish black." — Wing 188 ; tail 56; lavs. :\~,\ ; bill 47 mm.

Differs from three other specimens in the same plumage by having the ground-
colour of the lower parts whitish or butty white (instead of bright buff) ami by-
its rather louger, heavier bill.

Cf. Ornis. xiii. Part i. (June 1905) p. 56—58.

I'M. Aramides cajanea (P. L. S. Mull.).
Cf. saprd,, p. 90.
Aramides ruficollu Pelzeln, /.ur Ornith. Brae. iii. 1869. p. 310 (Borha).

No. 1204. (? imm. Humaytha, 1. ix. 06. ''Iris reddish brown, feel dark red,
bill yellowish green."

This bird agrees perfectly with our very large series. I have examined the
two specimens (one from Borba, the other from the Rio Curicuriari) mentioned by
Pelzeln s. n. A.'ruficollis, which differ by the under parts being much darker,
more chestnut. As, however, similar examples occur in Cayenne, Surinam, etc.,
along with pale-bellied ones, this variation appears to be purely individual.

195. Creciscus viridis viridis (P. L. 8. Mull.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. xii. 1905. p. .'504.

No. 1138. t? ad., Humaytha, 22. viii. Oti. "Iris light red, bill black, feet
red."— Wing 80 ; tail 30 mm. ; bill (damaged).

196. Eurypyga helias (Pall.).

Ardea Heliat Pallas, Neue Nord. Beyir. ii. p. 4k. tab. iii. (1781. — Brasilien).

Nos. 1297, 1301, 1303, one without number. ? ad., ? ? imm. S imm.,
Humaytha, 20, 27, 29. ix. 06. " Iris red or yellowish red, feet yellowish grey, bill
grey, below yellow."

197. Psophia leucoptera Spix.

Psophia leucoptera Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. G7. tab. Ixxxiv. (1825. — "in sylvis campestiibus 11. Rio
Negro "—errore !) ; Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. 1869. p. 2'JO (Cachoeira das Pederneiras, Rio
Madeira).

Nos. 1157, 1158, 1291. <5 ad., ami two adult birds (not sexed), Humaytha,
24. viii., 20. ix. 06. " Iris brownish red or dark brown, feet bluish green, bill
yellowish green."

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NEW AMERICAN SATUBNIIDAE AND CERATO-

CAMP1DAE.

By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Pn.D.

1. Rothschildia chiris spec. nov.

c?. Similar to K. aurota I Iram. (1775). Branches of the antenna a little longer.
Claspers much more extended tawny. Legs and metanotum less white. Ground-
colour more or less deep chestnut, at least in centre of wings on upperside.

Forewiug : white (sernitrausparent) discal line straight from costa to two-thirds
of hindmargin, strongly undulate, its black border broad, not sharply defined on
basal side, the blackish brown line outside the white line less shaded with white
scales than in R. aurota; the broad whitish pink lobate band very distinct ; the
halfmoon situated outside the black subapical submarginal spot rilled in with two

black spots ; vitreous patch triangular, the proximal margin incurved. Hindwing :

the submarginal spots all black, the upper ones alone being faintly reddish ; the
vitreous patch triangular, with the proximal edge incurved.

On underside the pinkish white subapical area of forewiug separated from
the pinkish white band by two patches of the ground-colour; the halfmoon which
stands outside the black subapical spot bears a black dot, not a red one ; the
submarginal spots of hindwing black, except the five upper ones, which are reddish.
Upper lobe of clasper much wider than in the various forms of R. aurota, the lower
lobe on the contrary reduced to a slender non-spatnlate process.

Hab. S. Domiugo, Carabaya, South-East Pern, 6000 ft., June and July, dry
season (G. R. Ockenden).

2SS.

2. Rothschildia orizaba peruviana subsp. nov.

S. Similar to the c? of the preceding subspecies. The discal line of both
wings still more strongly dentate. The transparent spot larger, on the basal side
incurved or straight. All the submarginal spots of the underside of the
hindwing red.

Hab. Carabaya, South-East Pern : La Oroya, Rio Inambari, 3100 ft, and
Tingnri, 3400 ft.

5 SS.

3. Rothschildia orizaba equatorialis subsp. nov.

cT bright tawny, ? ochraceous; the disc also in d more or less ochraceous
between the buff submarginal spots and the white-shaded pinkish fuscous discal
area. Discal line of both wings strongly dentate, the pinkish fuscous area situated
outside the same broader than in Mexican specimens, and the white scaling of this
area less dense. On forewiug the halfmoon situated distally to the black subapical
spot filled in with red ; the white line standing proximally to the subapical spot
straight. The proximal edge of the transparent spot rounded, rarely almost
straight, the spot rather small on hindwing, with the proximal edge strongly

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rounded. The snbmarginal line of hindwing better defiaed than in Mexican
individuals.

Iliib. Western Ecuador : Balzaparnba (Haensch), Chiuibo and Paramba
(Rosenberg), S. Javier at the Rio Gachabi (Fleniming i Miketta), Quevedo
(Buchwald), S. Domingo de los i'olorados (Goodfellow).

4. Rothschildia orizaba cauca snbsp. nov.

S. Dark chocolate-tawny. Transparent spots smaller tliau in Central
American specimens of this species, that of forewing proximally almost straight,
standing widely separate from the autemedian band and distally not quite reaching
to the white discal line; the latter not qnite so strongly dentate as in R. o. Orizaba,
at least not so deeply incurved between the two median veins, being also thinner
and a little farther from the margin than in that subspecies ; the pink discal
scaling wider, but not so prominent as in R. o. orizaba ; the halfmoon situated
distally to black subapical spot rilled in with reddish, and the white line at the

proximal side of that spot nearly straight. The transparent spot of the hindwing

triangular, the anterior and posterior sides being of the same length, the proximal
side rounded and much shorter; the pinkish scaling outside the discal line not
prominent ; the upper submarginal spots very large, reddish.

Underside: the costal margin of forewing of the same dee]) chestnut colour as
the central area of the wiug, there being hardly a trace of grey scaling aloug the
costal edge ; the pinkish grey area of both wings much extended, the subapical
portion of the area on the forewiug not being distinctly separated from the discal
portion; the snbmarginal spots of forewing ill-defined on their proximal side, the
upper ones of the hindwing large, those in the first four cellules more or less
merged together in pairs ; the submarginal line black also at apex of wiDg.

Hab. Cauca valley, Colombia.

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5. Rothschildia orizaba bogotana subsp. nov.

cT. Brighter tawny than the preceding subspecies. The abdomen beneath
almost entirely white like the claspers. The transparent spot of the forewing
triangular, with nearly straight sides, the proximal and distal sides being of the
same length, while the costal side is only half the length, the spot just touching
the black discal line, as on hindwing, and standing widely separate from the
antemedian baud; pink scaling of the disc more concentrated and less extended

in width than in R. o. cauca. On the hindwing the transparent spot rounded

off distally, the straight proximal side being longer than the costal side ; sub-
marginal spots all of nearly the same size, the upper ones reddish.

On underside the discal scaling more pink than in I!, o. cauca, the
submarginal spots of the forewiug all well defined, and the hindmarginal area
paler than in cauca.

Hab. Santa Fe de Bogota.

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6. Rothschildia orizaba meridana subsp. nov.
6 ?. Similar to bogotana. The underside of the abdomen much less extended
white. The proximal side of the transparent spot of the forewing only one-third
longer than the costal side, sometimes not longer than that side, being often

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incurved. Ou the hindwing the proximal side of the transparent spot shorter than
the costal side, which is as long as, or longer than, the hind side.

Hab. Merida, Venezuela (Briceno).

A series of both sexes.

7. Rothschildia orizaba triloba subsp. nov.

d. Transparent spot ou both wings deeply incurved on proximal side ; in
forewing the apex of the spot projecting beyond the rufous border of the discal
line, and the lower lobe almost twice the length of the upper one, the lower lobe
being also in the hindwing much longer than the upper.

Hab. Tuis and Carreblanco, Costa Rica.

2(?<J.

8. Rothschildia aurota andensis subsp. nov.

c? ? . Body and median area of wings tawny chestnut, much darker than in
/.'. aurota aurota. The ruesouotnm posteriorly with a more or less distinct white
belt, which sometimes merges together with the belt of the metanotum. The
grey-pink discal area of both wings more prominent. The white discal line on
the whole less strongly undulate, its black border less conspicuous (on account of
the deep ground-colour). The hindwing somewhat shorter.

Hub. ( 'arabaya, South-East Peru : La Oroya, Rio Inambari, 310U ft. ;
Tingnri, 3400 ft. ; La Union, 2000 ft.

A small series.

9. Rothschildia aricia xanthina subsp. nov.

<?. White patch on abdomen larger than in R. a. aricia. Collar usually with
a distinct tawny line. Wings more pervaded with yellow ; the discal line on both
wings more deeply incurved between the median veins ; the submarginal area of
forewing yellow from R2 to M2, or at least bearing three orange-yellow patches.

Hab. ('arabaya, South-East Peru : S. Domingo, 6000 ft, and Oconeque,
7000 ft.

A series of S3.

10. Rothschildia jorulla inca subsp. nov.

6 . Pinkish discal area farther extending forward, deeply dentate on the fore-
wing, far less dilated posteriorly ou the hindwing than in R.j. jorulla Westw. (1853)
and aroma Schaus (1905), more sharply defined, being distinctly dentate. The
white discal line thinner than in the two Central American subspecies mentioned,
its tawny outer border on forewing also thinner, especially towards the costa. The
posterior submarginal spots of the hindwing larger than in jorulla and aroma.
Anal hook (of S) slender in side-view.

Hab. Carabaya, South-East Peru : La Union, Rio Hnacamaya, 2000 ft., and
La Oroya, Rio Inambari, 3100 ft. (G. R, Ockenden).

2 <?<?.

11. Rothschildia prionia spec. nov.

d. Closely related to 7?. jorulla Westw. (1853), differing essentially in the
genitalia. Discal line of both wings strongly dentate, even more so than in West
Mexican jorulla, both the white line and its red border broad ; the pinkish grey

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band outside the discal line of the forewing extending costally to near the apical
patch, which is brighter pink than in the allied species ; the costal angle of the

transparent spot of forewing rounded oft', the proximal edge of the spot, oblique.

The transparent spot of hindwing large, more than twice as long as broad, its basal
end obliquely truncate anteriorly and rounded off posteriorly; the pinkish grey
discal hand narrow, hardly at all dilated posteriorly, dentate, as on forewing ; the
posterior submarginnl spots small, except the last one, which is large above aud
beneath. Tenth abdominal tergite (of 6 ) slender in side-view, the apical pro-
cesses short and acutely pointed. The apical lobe of the clasper broad. The penis-
sheath with three black teeth, two standing on the soft portion, and one at the
strongly chitinised apex on the left side.

Length of forewing : 57 mm.

Hab. Maceo, North-East Brazil.

1 <?.

Besembling also R. joritlla Irbam Gner. (ISC!)), but the discal line of the
forewing is much more dentate, both wings are rather narrow, t lie transparent
spot of the hindwing is longer, and the pinkish grey discal area of the hindwing
is less dilated behind aud more distinctly dentate, aud the genitalia are ipiite
different

1~. Rothschildia erycina nigrescens subsp. nov.

?. Central area of both wings much washed with black: the pinkish discal
area narrower than the space from this band to the margin of wing ; outside
this pinkish area, which on forewing extends to the tip of the transparent spot,
there is a brownish black band, which extends forward to R1 on hindwing.
Between this band and the margin the forewing bears Vandyke-brown patches,
followed by a drab band, while the hindwing has a row of large black double
spots, outside which there is a row of heavy black bars ; transparent spots smaller
than in R. e. erycinas. The underside shows similar differences from R. e. erycina
as the upper.

Hub. Tuis, Costa Rica.

1 ?.

13. Rothschildia erycina rnartha subsp. nov.

?. Similar to the preceding subspecies, but approaching R. erycina erycina.
Central area of both wings more shaded with black than in erycina, but less
than in nigrescens ; discal pinkish area of hindwing broader than the marginal
area, the brown baud outside this area narrower than in nigrescens and some-
what lighter blown ; the black snbmargiual spots of hindwing smaller than in
nigrescens, and the bars situated distally to them thinner. Transparent spots
still smaller than in nigrescens.

Ibili. Onaca, Santa Marta, 2200 ft. (Chas. Engelke).

1 ?.

14. Rothschildia erycina vinacea subsp. nov.

cJ¥. Brighter wine-red than 11. e. vryeiua; the black borders of the aute-
median and discal lines wider; the transparent spots larger. Forewing: the
patch at the apex of the transparent spot black ; the pinkish discal ares
narrower, bordered distally by an undulate, creamy or nearly white, line between
ll3 and M2 ; outside this creamy line- a blackish browu line, which is narrower

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than in nigrescem and martha. On hindwing the spots situated just ontside

the pinkish diseal area deeper brown than in erycina, the submarginal spots
also somewhat more blackish ; cm anderside, at ontside of pink area, a blackish
patch in centre and another before anal angle.

Huh. A long series of both sexes from various places in Carabaya, South-
East Peru (G. R. Ockenden).

15. Rothschildia erycina luciana subsp. nov.

?. Antenna blackish brown. Ground-colour of wings dirty tawny, the central
area being only faintly tinged with red ; the white antemedian and diseal lines
broad, the diseal one of forewing non-dentate from costa to transparent spot ;
the tawny ochraceons border of this line also broad. Forewing : the disc at tip
of transparent spot only slightly darker than the apical costal area; the greyish
diseal area distally bordered with dirty tawny ; the white line extending from
apex of wing towards the transparent spot posteriorly farther away from the blackish
postdiscal line than in the other subspecies ; the clayish drab admarginal band
dilated into lobes on the proximal side midway between the veins from It1 to M2.
Hindwing : black proximal border of transparent spot very thin, as on fore-
wing; submarginal spots black, but not large; submarginal bars situated outside
them olive-brown.

Hub. iSta. Lucia (S. Branch).

1 ?.

16. Dysdaemonia platydesmia spec. nov.

c??. Iii shape similar to D. pinto Westw. (1S53). Base of forewing and
the bands dark brown or bright chestnut ; between base and apex of cell there
is one broad band which stands nearly at right angles to the hind margin aud
reaches costal margin at apex of cell, the band being less oblique than the two
narrow bands which replace it in D. pinto and kadeni H.S. The pale inter-
space situated at the proximal side of this band much dusted with white
posteriorly. The short discocellnlar band joining the antemedian baud in front.
On disc a broad band corresponding to the double band of I), kadi ni, deepest in
colour at its proximal edge, slightly paling in its centre. The black diseal line
curved or angulate as in kadeni and reaching inner margin at two-thirds, but
the point of curvature lying a little farther back than in kadeni (at or just in
front of M'); this line as well as its pale outer border in costal region better
defined and narrower than in the allied species. Distally to the diseal double
line a white blotch at inner margin and two between R3 and M3. Distal

margin from near apex to about centre of the same colour as the bands.

Hindwing as in Brazilian pluto.

Underside nearly as in kadeni ; the marginal band of forewing tawny.

Antenna more feebly pectinate than in the allied species, the pectinations
of all segments being shorter than the segments themselves in both sexes.

Unit. Peru and Costa Rica, in two subspecies.

16a. Dysdaemonia platydesmia platydesmia.

Bands of forewing very dark chocolate ; the ? somewhat brighter than the
<$ ; the white diseal band of hindwing very faint towards costal margin. Under-

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side of ? pervaded with tawny, especially on hindwing ; {brewing with a blackish
discal hand broadly bordered with creamy buff on both sides.

Hub. La Union, Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, South-East Pern, 2000 ft., November
and December, 1904 (G. R. Ockeuden).

One pair.

\(\b. Dysdaemonia platydesmia castanea Bnbsp. nov.

?. Larger than the preceding. Upper- and underside extensively pervaded
with chestnut ; bands of forewing and anterior half of outer margin of both
wings bright chestnut. White band of hindwing extended to costal margin.

Underside : the black discal band of both wings mure sharply defined than
in the previous subspecies, there being an indistinct tawny band at its proximal
side ; the marginal area of forewing with two large, connected, buff patches at
the median veins ; the black marginal line of hindwing broad.

Body chestnut.

Hub. Tuis, Costa Rica.

2 ? ?.

17. Dysdaemonia pluto andensis subsp. nov.

<$. Similar to Brazilian specimens of pluto. Forewing : distal margin more
rounded between R3 and M2, the marginal area wider betweeu these veins, the
double line bordering this area more straight ; the discal band which touches

the lower angle of cell narrower. On hindwing the upper portion of the white

discal baud much nearer the margin, the blackish discal band very wide, being
abont twice as broad as in Brazilian pluto.

Underside : almost uniformly brown, without prominent speckles of brown
and buff. Forewing with traces of three fuscons bauds in central half, uniting
behind ; a clayish ochraceous margiual band from the lobe backwards. On hind-
wing the basal half hardly paler than the outer half, with a faint fuscous central
band ; a faint trace of a black spot at apex of cell ; a clayish ochraceous patch
at apex of SO2, another at apex of tail and a few speckles of the same colour
along the margin in front of and behind the tail ; marginal line thin.

Bab. S. Domingo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, 6000 ft., July 1002, dry season
(G. R. Ockenden).

1 £.

18. Dysdaemonia boreas brasiliensis subsp. nov.

<??. Differs from J), boreas boreas Cram. (1775) in the curved submarginal
line of the upperside of the hindwing fading away towards the tail.
Hah. Rio de Janeiro and farther south.

Machaerosema nom. nov.

Rhcscyntis Hubuer, Verx.-bek. Schmett. p. 157 (1822?) (partim).

The type of Rhescyntis being armida Cram. (1779), a new name is necessary
for the genus composed of hippodamia Cram. (1777), martii Perty (1834), norax
Drnce (1879), and the new species described below. Name-type : hippodamia.

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19. Machaeroseina hermes spec. nov.

$ . Forewing much narrower than in M. hippodamia "ram. (1777), measuring
38 mm. from hind angle to costa, and 85 mm. from base to apex.

Upperside greyish olive, the markings placed nearly as in hippodamia, the
antemedian double-line and the median line olive, feebly marked, the median
line not accompanied by additional lines ; the postdiscal line deep olive-brown,
with a greyish olive outer border, upon which follow large olivaceous brown
confluent patches which are dusted with dispersed white scaling ; the black

subapical costal spot smaller than in hippodamia. Mindwing much more rounded

than in hippodamia. the abdominal margin being shorter, the outer border of the
thin olivaceous black postdiscal line greyish olive, the band of transverse submarginal
spots much paler than in hippodamia, being pale greenish buff.

Underside almost uniformly olive ; on forewing the discocellular bar and
two lines in outer half, and the discal line of hindwing olive-black ; the distal
border of the postdiscal line on both wings olive like the ground of the wings.

Hab. British Guiana.

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Grammopelta gen. nov.

$. Nearest to Machaerosema. Antenna dentate. Forewing with four sub-
costals, the first branching off from the second near apex of wing, stalk of third
and fourth subcostals and of the first radial from upper angle of cell ; cell shaped
as in hindwing, the acute lower angle projecting farther distal than the upper

angle. Hindwing rounded, costal margin somewhat longer than abdominal

margin.

20. Grammopelta cervina spec. nov.

Body and wings clayish fawn-colour, slightly irrorated with fuscous speckles ;
beneath slightly paler than above.

Upperside with the following dark sepia-brown lines : on forewing a very
oblique line across snbmedian vein at one-third, a second on the discocellalars, a
slightly curved discal line from two-thirds of costa to four-fifths of inner margin,
a submarginal line vanishing below apex, the veins also being partly streaked
with brown ; on hindwing the markings as on forewing, but the discal line quite
straight.

Underside marked as above, but the oblique line across the snbmedian vein
absent and the other Hues somewhat paler brown ; at apex of forewing a patch
of white dispersed scales, slightly marked also on upperside.

Apex of forewing somewhat produced, rounded off, the distal margin evenly
incurved, not lobate or dentate.

Length of forewing : 63 mm. ; width : 31 mm.

Hub. La Oroya, Rio Inambari, Carabaya, South-East Peru, 3100 ft., September
1905 (G. R. Ockeuden).

lc?.

21. Rhescy litis championi columbiana snbsp. nov.
&. Body and wings of a more blackish hue than in Central American
specimens, especially the markings ; the outer third of underside more grey.
Hab. Santa F<5 de Bogota.

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22. Rhescyntis cymonia spec, nov.

3 ? . Body ami legs blackish brown, somewhat russet in pale specimens;

soles of tarsi clayish ; antenna lmft' ; stigma-spots of abdomen creamy buff.

Upperside : forewing blackish brown, shaded with walnnt-brown ; the costal
area from base to discal line greyish, speckled with brown-black, this area almost
extending to hindmargin at base, the wider basal portion being limited by the
antemedian liue; an elliptical black discocellnlar spot with grey centre; a black
postdiscal line, strongly excnrved below costa, twice angulate below middle,
bearing on outer side whitish spots on the veins, which spots form a discon-
tinuous line in pale specimens ; a black snbapical spot contiguous with a doable
drab-colonred patch, which is followed backwards by a white-edged, drab,
undulate line, the white borders extending also partly around the snbapical
patches; apex reddish; an oblique reddish brown streak below apex, widened to
a large submarginal patch, the marginal area being almost entirely of the colonr
of this patch, or the patch gradually fading away ; between the postdiscal line
and cell there is another line, which is broad, beiug distinct only at costal margin

in the dark specimens. Hindwing : a blackish brown broad line beyond middle,

a black postdiscal line with pale outer border, angulate below third radial ; a
more or less continuous row of black, white-edged submarginal spots ; disc
blackish between the discal and postdiscal lines ; a blackish discocellnlar spot ;
tail triangular iu S, resembling that of 7?. armida Cram., indicated by a small
notch in ? .

Underside blackish, more or less pale brown from base to discal line, irrorated
with blackish all over ; a broad blackish discal line across both wings, followed
by a more or less indistinct postdiscal liue ; in submarginal area dispersed white
scales corresponding to the white borders of the submarginal markings of upper-
side, beiug more distinct on hind- than on forewing, and easily rubbed away ;
the area proximally to these markings washed with white, especially on hindwing.

Length of forewing : S 65 — 70 mm. ; ? 70 — 78 mm.

Ilab. S. Domingo, Carabaya, Sonth-East Peru, 6000 ft., and Chirimayo,
South-East Peru, 1000 ft. (G. R. Ockenden), also from Marcapata and Chau-
chamayo.

3c?c?, 2? ?.

Nearest to sylla Cram. (1779) ; smaller, forewing proportionately broader, the
postdiscal line of forewing continued to costa, more strongly biangnlate below
middle, etc.

23. Rhescyntis ponderosa guianensis subsp. nov.

t?. The lines iu basal half of forewing thinner than in E. ponderosa pon-
derosa Rothsch. (1895), described as Arsenura ; the postdiscal line double; the
interspace between this liue and the discal one wider than the marginal area.

Halt. British Gniaua.

1 <J.

The species is nearest to It. batesi Feld., but is easily recognised by tin-
large buff spot situated on the (brewing in front of the third radial vein within
the postdiscal double-line.

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24. Citheronia fenestrata spec. nov.

cT. Head, upper- and underside of thorax, legs, base and apex of abdomen
above ferruginous, rest of upperside of abdomen more or less deep brown, under-
side of abdomen yellow. Two spols at bases of antennae and a transverse black-
edged baud on metanotnm yellowish white.

Upperside of wings like abdomen. At base of forewing a white spot
including a black line ; one or two patches near base aud two below apex of cell
ferruginous, ill-defined, sometimes very faint, between which there is a shadowy
fuscous antemcdian line ; at apex of cell a rounded yellowish or ferruginous
patch ; a black discocellular bar centred by a grey line; beyond this bar usually
some ill-defined yellowish or ferruginous patches ; on disc a row of three or
four transparent spots as in C. principalis Walk. (1855); beyond these spols a

shadowy band, aud before margin a ferruginous yellow zigzag line. Hindwing

with a pale yellow patch at, and beyond apex of cell, consisting of two to four
spots ; discocellular bar black with grey centre, situated in the yellowish patch ;
below apex of cell a deeper yellow or ferruginous patch, and before margin a
zigzag line as on forewing.

Underside : forewing tawny-olive, more fuscous distal ly ; fuscous discal and
yellowish submarginal zigzag line vestigial on both wings ; hindwing pale yellow
like underside of abdomen, fuscous distal ly and along costa.

LeDgth of forewing : 45 — 55 mm.

Ilab. South-East Peru (type), Upper Amazons, and British (iuiana.

6t?c?.

Nearest to C. principalis Walk. (1S55), but very much darker, the hindwing
bearing a yellowish wdiite central patch which is absent from principalis.

25. Citheronia collaris spec. uov.

?. Body, tibiae and apex of tarsi dark hair-brown, face, palpi aud anterior
side of forecoxae rufescent ; upperside of head, collar (except a thin mesial line),
a spot on metanotnm, and the underside of the body yellow ; abdomen somewhat
indistinctly washed with yellow at the base and sides, the tip also being-
yellowish.

/ pperside of wings dark brown, slightly russet, with an ecrn-drab gloss.
Forewing with a spot at base, an interrupted antemedian line, a large apical
patch consisting of two discal and two snbmarginal spots which are almost
completely united, a discal spot before M1 aud traces of a spot before IIs and
of a double spot before SM1 all yellow ; apex of cell bordered by a yellowish

tawny halfriug ; a tawny submarginal zigzag line. Hindwing small for a ? ,

the anal angle almost rectangular, the outer margin much less rounded than in
the ? ? of other species ; mstal area as far backwards as centre of cell cinnamon
rufous; a submarginal zigzag line tawny; at costal margin beyond middle traces
of two yellow spots; a sharply defined, band-like, yellow spot from lower angle
of cell to near abdominal edge.

Underside for the greater part yellow; custal area of forewing, except at
apex, a large discocellular spot, some patches on disc, the costal margin of
hindwing and a small discocellular Bpot, ami ou both wings a sharply defined
distal marginal baud, which measures 10 mm. in width on the forewiug and

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12 mm. on the hindwing and includes a yellowish zigzag line, all fawn-colonr,
being slightly vinaceons.

Length of forewing : •>- mm.
„ „ hindwing : 32 mm.

Hub. Paramba, Western Ecuador, June 1899.

1 ?.

20. Citherouia consobrina Bpec. nov.

<?. In colour close to C.mexicana aroa Schaus (1902). Hindwing distinctly
produced at anal angle, with a discal baud which terminates at anal angle in
a fuscous patch. Light markings of underside sulphur-yellow ; hindwing washed
with ferruginous and yellow below cell. Hair-scales of clasper, except at apex,
short ; apex of clasper produced into a slender process ; harpe much longer than
in C. mexicana aroa ; penis-sheath blade-like, being long, narrow, pointed.

Hub. La Union, Rio Hnacamayo, South-East Pern, 2000 ft. (G. R. Ockenden).

5 c?cJ.

27. Citheronia armata spec. nov.

S ? . Foretibia of both sexes produced into a long apical process. Body and
the vein-streaks of both wings chestnut red in 6, ferruginous in ?. Frous,
except a thin mesial line, two spots on the pronotum, in 6 the mesonotum
except four lines, nearly the whole pectus, part of the metanotum, the bases of
the abdominal segmeuts and the underside of the abdomen yellowish cream-
colour, except the stigma-spots and two rows of ventral spots as well as the last
segment.

Upperside, forewing: a basal spot, a large median costal patch including
six red dots and continued to hindmargin in S, a row of discal spots and at the
distal margin a row of long arrowhead-shaped spots which merge together to
a zigzag line except the upper ones, all yellowish cream-colour ; the red veins
accompanied by black streaks, which before the outer margin are separated from

the veins by the creamy markings. Hindwing yellowish cream-colour; a

discocellular spot chestnut-red ; outer fourth, in ¥ outer third, occupied by
chestnut-red (<?) or ferruginous (?) vein-streaks and pairs of black streaks,
which are edged with yellowish cream-colonr, this latter colour occupying the
greater part of the submarginal area between R2 and SM2 ; fringe creamy in c?,
ferruginous in ? .

Underside similar to upper; the creamy colour rather more extended ; both
wings with a rounded chestnut-red or ferruginous discocellular spot.

Length of forewing : 6 33 mm. ; S 40 mm.

Hub, Caldos, Minas Geraes, February, 2 S S (coll. J. Arp) ; Sapucay,
Paraguay, November (W. Foster), 1 ? in Mns. Tring.

28. Citheronia hamifera spec. nov.

(J? Similar to C. brissoti Boisd. (1868). The veins of the forewing very
slightly reddish. Hindwing always with a tawny marginal band on upperside,
the discal line of the underside being obsolescent or ill-defined and the costal
margin more or less tawny or fuscous. Harpe (of <?) very large, curved upwards
to the dorsal margin of the clasper, forming nearly a semicircle.

Hub. Trinidad ; British Guiana ; South-east Pern.

Perhaps the extra-Brazilian representative of ('. brissoti.

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28a. C. hamifera hamifera.

Forewing tawny in <$ , more fuscous in ?; yellow submargiual band of hind"
wing above vestigial, or at least narrower than the tawny marginal band, sometimes
the upperside of the hindwing all tawny, with only a vestige of yellow.

Hab. Trinidad and British Guiana.

10 (?<?, 2 ? ?.

284. C. hamifera fuscalis subsp. nov.

Forewing of <$ fuscous ; the yellow submargiual band of the hindwing above
broader than the tawny marginal baud.

Hab. La Union, Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, 2000 ft.
(G. R. Ockenden).

2 a.

29. Citheronia laocoon lobesis subsp. nov.

S. The reddish brown colonr of the upperside of the forewing so much
extended that the yellow area is reduced (as iu some ? S of C. laocoon) to a large
discocellular patch, below which there are some small yellow spots, and to a very
large subapical patch continued backwards by a row of widely separated spots —
namely, a small spot, a larger one, two small ones, and again a larger one, the last
standing at the hiudmargin ; the reddish brown distal marginal area narrower at

apex and wider behind than in Braziliau laocoon <$<$. On hindwing the subbasal

tawny patch merged together with the rather ill-defined discal band.

On underside the costal margin and disc of forewing more extended tawny than
in laocoon ; discal line of hindwing shadowy.

Hab. Bebedero, Costa Rica (J. Underwood).

1 c?.

30. Eacles imperialis oslari subsp. nov.

cJ. As broad-winged as Atlantic specimens of imperialis Drury (1773).
Hindwing on both sides with a broad discal line, which is wider in front than
in all the specimens of E. i. imperialis which we have seen, the discal liue of
the underside of the forewing also being continued to the hiudmargin. Antenna
as in imperialis.

Hab. Nogales, Arizona, July 1903 (E. Oslar).

4 <?«?.

31. Eacles imperialis tucumana subsp. nov.

c?. Similar to E. i. magnified Walk. (1855); the forewing very acute, the
discal line broad above and below, being continued to the hindmargin. Hindwing
also with a broad discal line on both sides.

Hab. Tucumau, N.W. Argentina.

1 <J.

32. Eacles imperialis decoris subsp. nov.

S. Similar to E. i. imperialis. Antenna the same, i.e. more segments are
pectinated than in E. i. magnified Walk. (1855) from South America. Forewiu"-
narrower than in E. i. imperialis, but much less acute and falcate than in
E. i. magnified. The process situated between the clasper and the anal segment
larger than in imperidlis : the penis-sheath without a tooth on the dorsal surface.

2!)

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?. The diseal line of both wings as broad as in E. i. imperialis, being broader
than in magnified ; the basal area yellow, but the antemedian line nearly as broad
as in imperialis.

Hab. Guatemala (type) and Vera Cruz.

8 (?c?, 2 ? ?.

33. Eacles masoni fulvaster Bubsp. nov.

cJ. Ground-colonr deeper yellow than in the Central American form of masoni,
the reddish tawny colour more extended, the yellow patch at the apex of the cell
of forewing larger, the anterior discocellular spot of the fore wing absent; underside
of abdomen and face more or less shaded witli reddish fawny. Genitalia very
different: anal tergite without a tubercle or process on the dorsal surface; clasper
truncate at apex, bearing a strongly chitinised, obliquely transverse ridge close to
tip ; penis-sheath with uumerous conical teeth on the soft portion.

Ilab. La Union, Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, liUUO ft.,
December 1904 (G. R. Ockenden).

4 63.

34. Eacles callopteris spec. nov.

3. Body as in E. masoni masoni Schaus (lsO(i). Wings, upper side : forewing
much narrower than in the two subspecies of E. masoni ; postdiseal line nearer to
margin, and, like the marginal band, of a rose-pink colour ; disc proximally to the
postdiseal line yellow from the costa to the hindmargiu, this yellow area very ill-
defined on the proximal side, rest of wing yellowish tawny, with a delicate rosy
pink hue ; at basal third an indistinct rosy pink line ; one discocellular spot,

which is round, transparent, bordered with rosy-pink. Hindwiug narrower than

in /.'. masoni, longer behind than in front, the distal margin less rounded than in
masoni, the snbbasal patch, discal line and marginal baud rosy-pink, the round
discocellular spot as in E. masoni.

Underside yellow, irrorated with brown and pink speckles ; costal margin
of forewing, marginal band aud postdiseal line of both wings pinkish ; discocellular
spot of forewing larger than that of hindwiug, with a minute dot in front, which
is indicated also on the upper surface.

Anal tergite (of 3) sinuate at apex. Clasper ending in a slender process, the
ventral margin bearing a lobe before this process; dorsal basal process of clasper
long. Penis-sheath armed with many conical teeth on the soft portion, bearing
a dentate ridge on the reverse side.

Hab. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, GUUU ft., July 1902
(G. R. Ockendeu).

1 3.

Apparently nearest to E. acuta Schaus (1905) from British Guiana, which
we know only from the description.

35. Othorene klagesi spec. nov.

3. Upperside of thorax and wings olivaceous walnut-brown ; head, npperside
of abdomen and sides of metanotum more or less ferruginous, underside of abdomen
aud sides of breast buffish clay, somewhat viuaceous.

Wings, upperside: forewing with a white spot at the base ; before apex from
costa parallel to margin aud extending to about middle an ecru-drab shade.

( 425 )

Hindwing ferruginous tawny from base to abont centre, or the whole wing of
that colour, except the costal and distal margins.

Underside: ochraceons from base to disc, this colour gradually shading into

drab in apical third. Hindwing drab, distally fawn-colonr, more or less viuaceous

clay-colour from abdominal margin into cell, both wings having a faint trace
of a brown discal line in costal region.

Length of forewing : 35 mm.

Hab. Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Surinam (8. M. Klages), and
British Guiana.

2 Si.

36. Othorene polybia longispina subsp. nov.

S. In colour almost identical with 0. p. polybia Cram. (1782), = suboehreata
Schaus (1904), from the Gnianas, but the discal line on the underside of the
wings rather more distal in position. Genitalia different ; the dorsal process
of the anal tergite much longer ; the anal sternite flat, truncate ; ventral edge
of clasper with a short obtuse lobe instead of the hook found in 0. p. polybia ;
a bundle of black spines in proximal half of the ventral edge of the clasper and
another bundle of long spines basally at the dorsal edge, these latter spines
projecting almost to the apex of the process of the anal tergite.

Hab. La Union, Rio Huacamayo, South-East Peru, 2000 ft., December 19U4
(G. R. Ockeuden).

4 a.

37. Othorene carabaya spec. nov.

<?. Agrees in colour and shape of the wings best with 0. arpi Schaus (1892),
the forewing being a trifle more elongate than in 0. polybia Cram, and the distal
margin of the hindwing less rounded. The autemedian line of the forewing either
joins the discal line at or behind the second median vein, or there remains a narrow
interspace before the hindmargin rilled in with white ; in the former case the lines
either stop short at the second median vein (name-type) or are continued as one
to the hindmargin. The chief difference is found iu the genitalia — which deviate
remarkably from those of 0. polybia Cram., arpi, and janeira Schaus (1892). The
anal tergite is sinuate at the apex and bears just above this sinus two small sharp
hooks as in 0. polybia, but there is no dorsal process ; the aual sternite is flat, short,
broad, and truncate ; the clasper bears a number of black spines ventrally in the
basal half, there being no dorsal bundle of such spines ; the harpe of the clasper
is long, ending in a sharply pointed black hook which almost extends to the apex
of the clasper ; the penis-funnel, situated beneath the penis-sheath, is compressed,
bearing a mesial dentate ridge.

Hab. S. Domingo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, 6000 ft. (G. R. Ockeuden).

A series of $$.

38. Othorene ocellata spec nov.

S. Tawny, ochraceous, patagia and basal and distal areas of npperside of
forewing shaded with viuaceous.

Wings, above: forewing with two lines as in (>. jason Boisd. (1872) and

nisa Druce (1904) ; a white discocellular spot, usually double. Hindwing reddish

tawny, the distal and costal margins paler.

Underside : forewing red from base to disc, distal marginal art a viiuueous

( 42<; )

bordered by a deep vinaceous discal line, costal area from apex of cell to discal line

yellowish tawny; a large black discocellular spot centred with white. Hindwing

vinaceous buff, the costal margin darker ; a feeble discal line from near apex
to about middle of disc.

Genitalia : Anal tergite sinuate at apex, each lobe bearing two black transverse
teeth ; on npperside of the tergite a large, pale, transversely folded, proboscis-like
projection. Claspei large, sole-shaped or truncate, with a basal ventral ridge which
terminates in an obtuse tooth. Penis-sheath produced into one or two apical
processes.

Hub. Pern and Venezuela.

Two subspecies.

The large, black, white-centred discocellular spot on the underside of the
forewing easily distinguishes this insect from its near allies, the genitalia, moreover,
being very different.

38a. Othorene ocellata ocellata.

c?. Less than twenty segments of the antenna pectinate. White discocellular
spot of forewing transverse, at least on the underside. Clasper long, sole-shaped,
snbacuminate. Penis-sheath with one conical apical process.

Hab. Carabaya, South-East Peru ; La Oroya at the Rio Inambari, Tinguri
and Santo Domingo (G. R. Ockenden).

A series.

386. Othorene ocellata bidens subsp. nov.

ct. Antenna with more than twenty segments pectinate. Black discocellular
spot of underside of forewing rounded, with rounded white centre. Dorsal process
of anal tergite longer than in the preceding subspecies ; the clasper truncate,
much shorter than in (7. o. ocellata, with an additional low ridge, which ends at
the ventral margin before the apex. Penis-sheath with two long apical processes,
the one conical, the other spatulate, being dentate at the edges.

Hab. Merida, Venezuela (Briceflo).

2 <J<J.

39. Othorene adusta spec. nov.

<S . Body orange-buff on upperside, head and underside of body creamy buff,
slightly vinaceous. Sides of mesonotum and the basal and distal areas of forewing
shaded with vinaceous fawn-colour.

Wings, above : forewing with a straight autemodian and a nearly straight
discal line, both brownish black, the area between these two lines orange, as are
also some large patches situated outside the discal line between 3. radial and

hindmargin. Hindwing much more rounded, especially at anal angle, than

in 0. jason Boisd. (1872), nisa Druce (1004), and the species described above,
orange-buff from base to the faint discal line aud as far backwards as middle
of cell ; rest of wing tawny, being somewhat reddish below apex of cell.

Underside : forewing orange-ochraceous shaded with brown towards apex,
the costal margin from base to three-fourths, and the distal marginal area except
a triangular space at hindmargin vinaceous fawn-colour ; on discocellulars a

faint brownish spot. Hindwing creamy buff, the costal and distal margins

broadly vinaceous fawn-colour ; a brownish shade from costal margin near apex
parallel to distal margin, gradually fading away between the median veins.

(427 )

Genitalia : the general structure as in O. nisa, with which 0. adusta
occurs together, but different in the detail. Anal tergite broad, flat, slightly
curved downwards, the tip feebly sinuate. Lateral portion of the clasper feebly
chitinised, sole-shaped, the ventral portion incrassate, convex on the ventral
surface, concave inwardly, bearing a number of short conical teeth at the edge ;
from the dorsal edge of the clasper there projects a very long slender process,
lying above the anal tergite and being recurved at the apex, which is obtuse; a
second long slender process between clasper and the small anal sternite, this second
process also extending above the anal tergite, being sharply pointed ; in 0. nisa
the first process is only slightly cnrved and has a pointed tip, while the second
process is bent downwards and then upwards again, both processes being longer
than in the new species.

Bab. S. Domingo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, 6000 ft., July 1902 (G. R.
Ockenden).

1 <?.

40. Othorene purpurascens intermedia subsp. nov.

c? like that sex of O. p. purpurascens Schaus (1906) from the Guianas, but
the blackish antemedian and discal lines of the forewing more distinct, and the
clasper acuminate, not truncate or sinuate at apex.

¥ similar to that sex of O. verana Schaus (1900) from Mexico and Guatemala,
but the ground-colour deeper and the lilacine shading along the lines more
pronounced.

Ilab. Tnis, Costa Rica.

One pair.

41. Othorene pelias spec. nov.

?. Head, upperside of thorax and base of abdomen ochraceons, the abdomen
gradually shading into pinkish buff behind ; underside of body dirty pinkish
buff, the legs washed with fawn-colour ; patagia edged with fuscous. No
projecting scent-organ at apex of abdomen.

Upperside of wings clayish ochraceons. Forewing with an antemedian and
a discal line, both straight and blackish, the distal marginal and the basal areas
pink-buff ; a rouuded white discocellular spot at lower angle of cell ; the whole
wing, which is more elongate than in O. boisduvali Donm. (1859), minutely

irrorated with fuscous ; hindmargin thinly edged with fuscous. Hindwing ovate,

being distally evenly rounded, ochraceous, shading into clayish at distal margin ;
a diffuse blackish distal line, not quite extended to abdominal margin, curved,
situated at one-third the distance from lower angle of cell to outer margin ;
fringe white.

Underside clayish pinkish buff, distal marginal area greyish ; the discal
line as above, but broader ; disc shaded with fuscous towards costal margin,
being more densely irrorated with fuscous speckles than the rest of the wings ;
forewing buff at base below cell.

Length of forewing : 52 mm.

Hab. Reyes, Bolivia (Maxwell Stuart).

1 ¥.

42. Othorene tristygma amazonica subsp. nov.

S. Similar to O. tristygina plateada Schaus (1900) from the Guianas ; the
blackish markings rather more pronounced, the forewing beneath bearing a large

( 428 )

block angle-shaped discocellular spot. TLe long process and the fork of the
clasper more strongly dentate.

Hah. Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1900 (S. M. Klages).

1 S.

43. Othorene vinacea spec. nov.

$. Head, tliorax, and the extreme base and tip of abdomen tawny ochraceons,
patagia and abdomen vinaceons, underside of body vinaeeons buff, the coxae partly
ochraceons ; 1:5 segments of the antenna pectinate.

AVings, upperside : forewing vinaceous buff in distal marginal and basal areas,
the median area which extends close to the tip of wing being tawny ochraceons; no
lines, but the whole wing faintly speckled with fuscous ; no distinct discocellular

spot. Hindwing vinaceous red, deepest in tint between apex of cell and

abdominal margin ; distal edge nearly straight.

Underside : basal half of forewing and abdominal area of hindwing vinaceous
red, rest of wings vinaceous pink ; no markings, but costal area of hindwing and
distal area of forewing more or less irrorated with fuscous.

Anal tergite divided into two short lobes, which bear each a small conical
tooth on the upperside ; anal sternite flat, triangular. Clasper modified, bearing
a scent-organ ; on inner side a black thorn-like process, and another longer one
near base. Apex of penis-sheath widened, resembling the involucre of an Arum

lily.

Length of forewing : 32 mm.

Hub. S. Domingo, Carabaya, South-East Peru, 6000 ft., January and July
(G. R. Ockenden).

3 cfcJ.

44. Othorene catoxantha spec. nov.

S ?. Similar to 0. subangulata H. S. (1855), larger, forewing more pointed,
with the antemcdian and discal lines more prominent; the underside of forewing
yellow instead of red. Antenna in cf with 16 or 17 pectinated segments, in ?
with 23 to 25.

Length of forewing ; cJ 35 — 38 mm., ¥ 48 mm.

Ilab. Foute Boa, Upper Amazons (S. M. Klages) ; La Oroya and Tinguri,
Carabaya, South-East Peru (G. R. Ockenden).

A series.

(>. acuta Sehaus (1905) is a closely allied species which is paler and smaller,
the hindwing bearing above a large red patch instead of being all red, and the
black discocellular spot of the underside of the forewing having a white dot.
We have acuta from Venezuela aud also from Carabaya, South-East Peru.

45. Othorene diluta spec. nov.

? . About twenty segments of the antenna pectinated. Body creamy buff,
upperside of abdomen washed with pink.

Wings, upperside: forewing in shape resembling that of 0. crocata Boisd.
(1872), but more elongate, with the tip more pointed ; creamy buff, distal
marginal area slightly shaded with fuscous, especially along the fuscous discal
line, which extends from apex to two-thirds of hindmargin ; a diffuse fuscons

antemedian line, angulate in cell ; on discocellnlars a faint fuscons patch.

Hindwing rosy red, shading into creamy buff at distal margin.

( 429 )

Underside creamy huff. Forewing rosy from cell to hir.dmari.nn ; discal line

as above, becoming rosy behind. Hindwing with incurved costal margin as

in 0. crocata Boisd. (1872), pelota Schaus (1906), invalid n Schaus (1900), and
others ; a broad fuscous line from near apex to centre ; the wing palest
behind.

Length of forewing : 32 mm.

Hab. Rio Pilcomayo to Rio Grande, North Argentina, December 1903
(J. Steiubach).

1 ?.

40. Adelocephala hypoxantha spec. nov.

J. Collar, upperside of abdomen, and sides of breast ochraceous ; npperside of
thorax, legs, underside of abdomen, and both sides of wings fawn-colour.

Wings, above, minutely speckled with drab. Forewing narrow, the hind-
margin comparatively long ; a faint trace of an antemedian line and a more distinct

broadish discal line hair-brown ; a rather large discoeellnlar spot blackish.

Hindwing elongate-ovate, the distal margin strongly and almost evenly rounded ;
basal area washed with ochraceous ; a diffuse discoeellnlar spot fuscous.

Undermle. similar to upper, both wings shaded with ochraceous at base below
cell ; discal line of forewing still less distinct than above and the cell more or
less fuscous.

Length of forewing : 27 — 30 mm.

Hab. Tncuman (J. Steinbach).

A series.

47. Adelocephala affinis spec. nov.

$1. Almost exactly like the Brazilian A. cinerea Schans (1900); the pale
distal marginal area of both wings broader and the genitalia very different, the anal
tergite of the S terminating in a short sharp hook, being somewhat dilated proxi-
mally to this hook and bearing two small tubercles or vestiges of tubercles on this
widened portion. The clasper bears a dorsal process which is slender, very feebly
chitinised, and lies above the anal tergite ; between the clasper and the anal sternite
there is a lanceolate or triangular, flat, black process ; the clasper of the right side
has a long slender basal ventral process which projects auad, being somewhat
twisted ; this process represented by a small tooth on the left-side clasper.

Hab. Venezuela, the Guianas, Upper Amazons, and Pern.

Perhaps a representative of A. cinerea, bnt the genitalia are so different that
we think it wiser to treat the insects as being specifically different till we are
acquainted with an intermediate form.

47«. Adelocephala affinis affinis.

S. Collar more ochraceous than in A. cinerea ; hindwing more rounded. Anal
tergite without distinct tubercles on upperside, the widened portion being merely
impressed mesially. Upper process of clasper very thin, almost thread-like ; the
black inner process elongate-triangular, produced into a rather long point, the
ventral edge serrate.

?. Pale marginal area of both wings half as wide again as in A, cinerea.

Hab. Merida, Venezuela.

Several ejej, 1 ?.

( «0)

4'b. Adelocephala affinis photophila Bubsp. dov.

S. Distal margin of hindwing straight or even slightly incurved, the wing
resembling in shape that of A. cine/en -. pronotnm ami centre of mesonotnm much
less ochraceous than in A. affinis affinis. Anal tergite with two small tubercles on
upperside; dorsal process of clasper widened near its origin, then narrowed again ;
this process much broader, and the black internal process of the clasper very much
shorter thau in the previous subspecies. The ground-colour is either pinkish brown
or more olivaceous, the forewing being devoid of a discocellular spot or bearing a
white spot, which is sometimes double.

?. Deeper in colour than our ? of A. affinis affinis, especially the body less
bright ochraceous.

Hub. Aroewarwa Creek, Surinam and Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons (S. M.
Klages).

A long series of S <? and some ? ? .

48. Adelocephala hemirhodia spec. nov.

cf. Head pinkish ochraceous buff, thorax hair-brown, slightly purplish,
abdomen ochraceous pink.

Wings, npperside. Forewing dark hair-brown, with a slight pink tint, very

densely irrorated with hair-brown, distal marginal area shaded with grey, no lines,

but a diffuse fuscous stigma.- Hindwing buff pink, the outer edge shaded with

hair-brown ; fringe whitish, a deeper pink discocellular spot.

Underside of forewing dull pink-red ; costal margin and distal marginal area
washed and speckled with hair-brown, there being a shadowy fuscous line at the

proximal side of the marginal area ; a dark hair-brown bar on discocellulars.

Hindwing buff pink, irrorated with hair-brown along costa ; the costal edge almost
straight, slightly rounded near base, but not incurved beyond middle.

Genitalia : anal tergite slightly narrowing towards tip, the latter black, a little
widened, obtuse, slightly incised mesially, each lobe subtruueate in side view, the
upper angle being feebly acuminate. Clasper small, with long hairs, a long, thin,
black, pointed process dorsally at base, not extending to apex of anal tergite. Anal
sternite triangular, the apex being somewhat rounded.

Length of forewing : 25 mm.

Hah. Tncnman (J. Steiubach).

1 S.

40. Adelocephala sabulosa spec. uov.

$. Upperside of thorax dark brown; abdomen lighter in colour; underside
pinkish.

Wings, upperside. Forewing variable in ground-colour, dark brown or

clajish, very densely speckled with blackish; a blackish line from apex to two-
thirds of hindmargin, slightly incurved below centre ; the distal marginal area
bordered by this line greyish; no autemedian line; a white bar on discocellulars,

often separated into two spots. Hindwing pinkish brown or pinkish viuaceons,

with a faint trace of a fuscous discal line.

/ 'nderside dull vinaceous buff. Forewing dull reddish in centre ; costal

edge shaded with fuscous ; a discocellular spot and a discal line blackish
brown; distal marginal area greyish vinaceous buff, with a few blackish

( 431 )

speckles. Hindwing fuscons in costal third from base to discal line, the latter

thin, blackish, not reaching abdominal margin ; rest of wing greyish vinaceons
bnfl' ; costal area speckled with black; costal margin rounded at base, then slightly
incurved.

Genitalia : anal tergite narrow, divided into two short slender processes, which
are rounded above at the tip ; anal sternite long, gradually tapering to a point
On each side of the penis-sheath a long, nearly membranaceous, truncate process
covered with minute hairs. < 'lasper much reduced, the distal portion mem-
branaceous, being modified into a scent-organ.

Length of forewing : 25 mm.

Hab. Tucuman (J. Steinbach).

2 33.

50. Adelocephala lanaris spec. nov.

8 . In shape and colour very close to A. brevis Walk. (1855). Antenna with
16 pectinated segments. Forewing less elongate, the distal marginal area wider,
the discal line thinner and more distinctly edged with grey ou the proximal side.
Hindwing more rounded, especially at the anal angle, the reddish patch smaller.
Ou underside the forewing elayish behind, not ochraceous ; a diffuse subcostal
fuscous cloud from middle of cell to apical fourth of wing ; apex of forewing and
the hindwing more brownish thau in A. brecis, and more speckled with fuscous ;
the discal line of hindwing less sharply marked.

Genitalia quite different : anal tergite compressed, wide in vertical direction,
mesially deeply impressed, being bicarinate ; apex sinuate in dorsal aspect, each
short lobe irregularly dentiform, the real apical edge being straight ; anal sternite
divided into two strongly chitinised, black, triangular plates. ( 'lasper with strongly
developed scent-organ, the distal half of the clasper being reduced and mem-
branaceous, bearing long wool; inside the clasper a curved lamella, the edge of
which is more strongly chitinised and ends in a short thorn, this chitinised edge
forming almost a semicircle ; at base of clasper a thorn-like process. Penis-sheath
obtusely acuminate ; beneath the sheath two further thorn-like black processes.

Hab. Bahia.

2 33, ex coll. Felder.

51. Adelocephala anthonilis analis subsp. nov.

3 . Forewing broader than in A. a. anthonilis, the two lines wider apart, the
discal line standing farther away from the cell ; wool of the clasper ochraceous, and
the long ribbon-like process of the clasper gradually tapering, uot being widened
before apex.

Hab. La Union, Rio Huacamayo, South-East Peru, 2000 ft. (G. It. Ockenden).

0 3 3.

52. Adelocephala homoea spec. nov.

3 . Similar to A. anthonilis ; larger ; body and wings washed with vinaceons,
being pale vinaceons bull'.* Forewing more elongate, the hind angle more rounded,
the two lines as widely separate at hindmargiu as in A. anthonilis analis, but the
proximal line more oblique, reaching costal edge nearer to apex of cell ; costal and
distal margins of hindwing less rounded. Anal tergite and the ventral process of

* Ridgway, Nomencl. Colours, PI, f>. No. 15.

( 432 )

the clasper broader, the long ribbon-like process of the clasper much widened
beyond the middle, the thorn-like apical portion being long; the long hair-scales
of clasper concolorons with the abdomen, not being ochraceons as in the Peruvian
form of A. antkonilis.

Length of forewing : 38 mm.

Hab. S. Domingo, Carabaya, South-Hast Pern, 6 » ft. Mi. If. Ockenden).

4 <?<?.

53. Adelocephala tibialis spec. nov.

c?. Fore- and midtibiae ending in a naked process. Antenna with 27 pectinated
and 11 simple segments. Collar, base of abdomen and underside of body pinkish ;
upperside of thorax wax-yellow, patagia edged with pink, abdomen clayish, the
bases of the segments creamy, anterior coxa rose-pink.

Wings, upperside : forewing chrome-yellow, a discal line running from tip
of wing to three-fifths of hindmargin, diffuse on outer side, and the distal and
hindmargins pink ; a small white stigma situated in a pink ring. — Hindwing
pink.

Underside like body, creamy white, flushed with pink; the discal line of
forewing just visible ; costal edge of hindwing rounded at base, then slightly
incurved.

Length of forewing : 19 mm.

Hab. Estanzia Cooper, Alto Paragnay (Th. Inslay).

1 <J.

Resembling A pamala Schaus (1900) in colour, but easily recognised by the

armed tibiae.

54. Anisota oslari spec. nov.

9. Head, front, part of thorax, breast and upperside of abdomen ochraceons ;
mesonotum, underside of abdomen except the edges of the segments, and the
legs clayish buff.

Wings, above : forewing clayish buff, basal area and a discal line very faintly
grey; stigma white, rounded; no fuscous irroration ; distal margin more straight
and hind angle less rounded than in A. stigma F. (1775) Hindwing clay-
colour, washed with reddish, especially in costal half; no line on disc; costal
edge distinctly longer than abdominal edge.

Underside clay-colour, washed with reddish, especially in proximal half of
forewing and costal half of hindwing ; no markings.

Length of forewing : 35 mm.

Hab. Nogales, Arizona, July 1903 (E. J. Oslar).

2 ? ?.

Mr. Oslar says he " obtained these two specimens from chrysalids dug from
the roots of the century or mescal plant." Nearest to assimilis Druce (1S80),
of which only the S is known.

( *33 )

NOTES ON PAPUAN BIRDS.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and ERNST HARTERT, Ph.P.

(Continued from Volume X. 1903. p. 480.)

[Fur the localities mentioned in these notes see the " Introduction " to this series of
articles in Nov. Zool. 1901. pp. 55 — 61, and the maps, Pis. II. and III. in the same
volume of this Journal. The former portions of 1 his series are as follows:
Vol. viii. pp. 55 — 88 (Introduction, 1'ittidae, Psiltaci), and pp. 102 — 102 (C'ohtmbae,
Megapodiidae, llallidae, Liraicolae, Alcedinidae) ; Vol. x. pp. 65 — 116 (Pnntdiseidae,
Corvidae, Laaiidae, Dicruridae, Oriolidae, Artamidae, Stumidae), pp. 196 — 231
(Meropidae, Coraciidae, Podargidae, Caprimulgidae, Cypselidae, Campephagidaei
Nectariniidae, Dicaeidae, the genus Mij-jimda, .Uotacillidae, Sylviidae, Timeliidae) '
and pp. 435 — 480 (Meliphugidae, the genus Zosterops, flimmUniiliw, Miisckapidae,
additions to Dicaeidae, Laniidae, and Timeliidae). We hope to continue the
subject shortly.]

XXX. ODCULIDAE.

Cuculus saturatus Blyth.

CuciVus saturatus Blytb, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal y\\. p. 942 (1843 : ex Hodgson, MS. ; Nepal).

8 fere ad., Pig6n in the St. David's or Mapia group, north of Arfak,
October 1896. W. Doherty coll.

2 ? ? jnv., Punatch or Bras, in the St. David's or Mapia gronp, October 1896.
W. Doherty coll.

8 ad., Mysol, 16. i. 1900. H. Kiihn coll. (No. 1776.)

2 88 fere ad., 1 ? ad., Milne Bay 12. xii. 1898, 17. i. 1899. A. S. Meek coll.
(Nos. 2168, 2174, 2181.)

1 8 ad., Avera, Aroa River, 9. iii. 1903. A. S. Meek coll. (No. A. 386.)

The Genus CACOMANTIS.

The species of the genus Cacomantis are not too well known and their
nomenclature has so often been changed that it is not easy to name a Cacomantis
The Papuan forms were well explained by Salvadori in the immortal Ornitologia
della Papuasia, far less" clearly in vol. xix. of the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Their
nomenclature has afterwards been involved, because partially wrongly interpreted
by Finsch in Notes Leyden Museum xxii. pp. 81 — 89, thongh some valuable notes
on types and others were added.

The species inhabiting New Guinea — as far as they are known to us —
may be distinguished as follows :

Upper snrface deep bluish schistaceous, underside bright chestnut-rufous.
Wing about 115 — 120 mm. Young unbarred above and below : C. castaneiventris.

Upper surface bluish schistaceous, underside dirty clouded chestunt-brown
Wing about 137 — 142 mm. Young unbarred above, barred below : ('. excitus.

Upper ^surface pale greyish olivaceous,* underside pale grey, washed with

* There appears to be a clerical error in Cat. II. lint. Mus. xix. p. 272, where the head is said to have
barely a trace of grey, while, as a rule, it is almost entirely grey with only a tiDge of olivaceous.

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buffy cinnamon, under tail-coverts cinnamon buff. Young barred above and
below : C. rario/osus.

Upper surface olive-brown with a bronzy gloss ; underside rufous-cinnamon,
more or less washed with grey or almost entirely grey, uuder tail-coverts bright
rufous cinnamon. Young barred above and below : C. assimilis.

Cacomantis assimilis assimilis (Gray).

(In onr former writings we accepted [Nob. Zool. 1901. p. 185; 1903. p. 5]
for this cuckoo the name insperatus of Gould. That bird, however, is described
as blue-grey above, and it came from Australia, where the present form has not
been found. Dr. Finsch used the name dumetorum of Gould, but the same
objections as to insperatus are to be made to the term dumetorum : it is described
as blue-grey above, and occurs in New South Wales. Neither of the two names
can therefore be accepted for a bird which is above olive-brown with a bronzy gloss
which does not come from New South Wales. The nomenclatures of Shelley and
Finsch are thus erroneous, and we must follow Salvadori, who accepted the next
early name — assimilis of Gray.)

Ouadus assimilis Gray, P.Z.S. 1858. pp. 184, 195 (Aru Islands).

Cacomantis infaustus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 23(1802 : Mysol. Finsch [Notes Leyilen

Museum xxii. p. 81] accepts the name infaustus for the bird correctly to be called castaneiventris ;

the description, however, does not fit castaneiventris, but an immature assimilis).

We have the following specimens belonging to C. assimilis :

3 immature birds from Dobbo and Kabroor, Aru Islands, collected by H. Kiihn.
6 adult and 4 young birds from the Key Islands, collected by H. Kiihn. These

were formerly mentioned under the name of C. insperatus (Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 239).

1 S ad., Kisoei, 3 fairly adult o ? Teoor, 2 ad. 1 juv. Gorom, also enumerated
as C. insperatus, I.e.

2 c? ad., 1 med., 3 jav., Mysol, January 1900 (Nos. 1771, 1773, 1775, 1873,
1979, 1980). Collected by H. Kiihn.

1 ad., 2 juv., Obi Major, collected by Lucas (No. 4) and Waterstradt.

4 ad., 5 med., 3 jnv., Batjan, Doherty and Waterstradt coll.

1 S ad., 1 ? juv., Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea, December 1896, W. Doherty
coll. " Iris purplish brown, darker inwardly. Feet orange, claws black. Bill
black, gape and base of lower mandible reddish."

3 tf ad., 1 ? juv., Mafor, May and June 1897. W. Doherty coll.

1 d ad., Simbang, Kaiser Wilhclm's Land, 18. viii. 99. Dr. Nyman coll.

2 3 ad., 2 ? juv., Avera, Aroa River, January to March 1903. A. S. Meek
coll. (Nos. All, 252, 432, 458.)

1 S ad., Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north side of Owen Stanley Mountains,
January 1896. (No. A 2317.) A. S. Meek coll.

1 ad., 1 med., 1 very young, Milne Bay, east coast of British New Guinea,
December 1898, April 1897. (Nos. 2176, 2479, 2482.) A. S. Meek coll.

1 $ ad., Collingwood Bay, June 1899. (No. 2557.) A. S. Meek coll.

Cacomantis assimilis websteri Hart.

Cacomantis websteri Hartert, in Webster's Through New Guinea p. 370, and Ibis 1899. p. 278
(New Hanover).

Besides the type specimen we have now two more, which were preserved
in spirits, aud both are also slaty grey on the under surface, with hardly a suspicion

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of a rufous tinge. One has the tinder tail-coverts grey with rufous tips and bars,
the other mfons but grey towards the base.

This seems to be a fairly distinct subspecies of assimilis. In onr large series
of assimilis, as enumerated .above, there are only two or three specimens which are
uniformly grey underneath, and in those the grey is paler than in the ivebsteri.
Moreover, the under tail-coverts in the former are brighter and always rufous.
It would be a very strange thing if all three adult New Hanover specimens were
aberrations ! Moreover, the young specimen from New Hanover is darker than
any of onr young G. a. assimilis.

So far we are quite at ease ; but there are also Cacomantis of this group
on New Ireland, New Britain, and on the d'Entrecasteanx Islands. About these
we are not at all certain. Years ago we have discussed the specimens from
Fergusson Islands, and we still find that tbey have longer bills than nearly
all assimilis from other places. The few skins before us from New Ireland
(three adult ones) are grey underneath, almost without a rufous wash, and their
tails are very long. This has already been pointed out by Finsch. Their under
tail-coverts are uniform cinnamon rufous. One from Duke of York Island (coll.
by Kleinschrnidt) is more rnfons underneath. Few of the tails are complete,
and we consider this material too meagre to deduct any conclusions from. The
questions are :

1. Are the birds from New Ireland, Duke of York, and New Britain the
same as C. a. websteri?

2. Are they a closely allied form, different from websteri, and still more
so from C. a. assimilis ?

3. Is the form from the d'Entrecasteanx Islands another uew subspecies, standing
somewhat between websteri and assimilis, differing from the former by its larger
bill and mostly more rufous undersurface, from the latter by its larger bill ?

We are inclined to think that the Fergusson form requires a name, and that
the one from New Ireland, etc., may perhaps be united with websteri.

Cacomantis castaneiventris Gould.

Cacomantis castaneiventris Gould, Ann. & Mag. J\'at. Hist. (3), xx. p. 2G9 (18G7 : Cape York,

Australia).
Cacomantis infauslus (nou Cabanis & Heine !) Finsch, Notes Leyden Museum, rxii. p. 81.

1 <J ad. Cooktown, May 1900. Olive coll. (No. A 75.)

1 ad. Cooktown, without date. Olive coll.

1 ad. Mountains of British New Guinea, no exact locality. E. Weiske coll.

1 ad. " Between Rivers Laroki aud Vauapa," Owen Stanley Mountains.
E. 'Weiske coll.

1 " ? " ad. Kotoi district, 4000 ft., 13. viii. 1898. A. S. Anthony col!.

3 c? ad. Avera, Upper Aroa River, January, February 1903. (Nos. A 177, 207,
313.) A. S. Meek coll.

1 cT, 2 ¥ ¥ , 1 unsexed, all ad., 1 £ juv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November
and December 1904, January 1905. (Nos. A 1874, 1884, 1916, 1977, 2105.) A. S.
Meek coll.

3 cJ, 2 ¥ ad., 1 S juv. Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north side of Owen
Stanley Mountains, February to April 1900. (Nos. A 2379, 2402, 2537, 2614, 2665,
2727.) A. S. Meek coll.

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1 <?, 1 ? ad., 1 6 jnv. Milne Bav, January, Febrnary 1S99. (Nos. 2200, 2236,
2330.) A. S. Meek coll.

Salvadori (Aggiunte Orn. Pap. I. pp. 48, 49) has separated a northern form,

which, he says, is distinguished by somewhat smaller size, longer bill, and lighter
nuder-snrface, under the name of C. arfakianus. Its distribution is said to be
the Arfak Peninsula, Salwatti, Mysol and Aru, while ft castaneioentrit inhabits
S.E. New Guinea and the Cape York Peninsula. Dr. Finsch says (I.e. p. 82)
that he agrees with Shelley in not considering arfakianus a distinct species. As
we have not seen a series of the latter, we cannot venture to decide about this, but
we are a priori convinced that Salvadori is a better judge than either Shelley
or Finsch, as the former had compared examples of both forms, while Shelley
had before him only adult specimens of the true castaneiventris, and Finsch
evidently only such of the northern form, from Am, Mysol, Salwatti, and the
Arfak Peninsula. The young bird from Key and other young ones mentioned
by Fiusch are evidently young assimilis.

Our series, .as enumerated above, is very constant, though there is certainly
some individual variation in the brightness and intensity of the colour nuderneath.
The young of C. castaneicetitris differs entirely from that of ft assimilis. While
the latter is above dark olivaceous brown with rufous crossbars and spots, and
beneath also heavily barred, that of ft castaneiventris has the npperside chocolate
brown with an olivaceous bronzy shine, without bars, the uuder-surfaee pale rusty
brown, the tail dark slate with edges and bars. From this plumage they moult
straight into that of the adult bird.

We have, however, a very peculiar bird, obtained at Wanumbai, on Kobroor
Island, Aru Group, 31. viii. 1900, by Heinrich Kilhn. This is above like the young
of ft castaneiventris, but the underside is creamy white, with parts of the flanks
and some few patches rufous-chestnut, as fresh leathers appear here and there.
Is this the juvenile plumage of C. c. arfakianus t Or is there a third, hitherto
unrecognised, subspecies on the Aru Islands ? Only the comparison of a series
of adult and young birds from Arfak as well as from the Aru Islands, with our
series from British New Guinea can decide these questions.

Cacomantis excitus sp. now

Supra saturate schistaeeus, alis nitore aeiieo-virescente, rectricibus chalybeis,
albo terminatis, lateralibus albo notatis ut in formis congeueribus similibns.
Meuto, gula snperiore, capitisque lateribus schistacco-ciucreis, collo autico, pectore,
abdomine plus minusve sordide castaneo-bruuueis ; alarum flexuris albis, plus
minnsve rnfescente lavatis, remigum pogoniis intends basin versus late cineras-
cente-albidis, ut in congeneribus ; subcaudalibus saturate ciunamomeo-rufis. Al.
137—142; caud. 132—140; culmen 21—23 mm.

llab. In montibus Novae Guiueae meridioualis oricntalis.

This most interesting new form is nearest to Cacomantis meehi from Isabel
Island, Solomon Archipelago, but differs at a glance by its much smaller bill
(culmen 21— 23, against 26 — 28 in ft mee/ti), linker, more or less dirty or clouded
chestnut-brown under-surface, as well as darker, more slaty chin and throat. It
is doubtless a subspecies of ft meeki from Isabel. The latter is evidently a form
representing ft addendus from Kulambangra and New Georgia, but we find it
difficult to decide to which form of New Guinea it is nearest allied. Evidently

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G. simus and sckistaceigularis of the Fiji Islands aud New Hebrides are their
representatives. Probably the representative on New Guinea is castaneiventris,
but we prefer, in order to avoid an error, to name the new form binomially,
Cacomantis excitus.

The type is No. A 2104, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 16. ii. 05. " Iris brown
(light brown), feet yellow (chrome yellow, lemon yellow, dirty yellow), bill black."
We have the following skins in addition to the type :
<J, Avera, Aroa River, 21. ii. 03. (No. A 202.) A. S. Meek coll.

2 (?(J, Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north side of Owen Stanley Mountains,
10. ii. 00. (Nos. A 2426, 2362.) A. S. Meek coll.

1 ad., Aroa River. E. Weiske coll.

The following young bird appears to belong to this form :

1 nestling, Mt. Knntsford 11,000 ft., 19. viii. 1898. A. S. Anthony coll.
Upperside brown, unbarred, with rusty edges to the feathers, reetrices (quite short,
not yet half-grown) bluish slate-black, the middle ones edged, the lateral ones
also barred with rufous, underside barred.

Cacomantis variolosus (Horsf).

Cueidus variolosus Vig. & Horsf., Trans. Linn. Sue. London, xv. p. 300 (18'20 : Australia).
Cueulus symbonomus Miiller, Verh, Nat. (resell., Land- en Volkenk., p. 177 ( l8ii'J-44 : Timor).

Salvadori, Om.-Pap. I. p. 340, and Finsch, Notes Leyden Alus. xxii. p. 89,
reject the name variolosus, probably because the type is a young bird : an arbitrary
proceeding which, if followed, would — like the introduction of philological scruples —
go far to endanger stability in nomenclature.

Besides a series from Australia, the Key Islands, Ceramlaut, Batjan, Kisser and
Obi, we have an adult bird shot by William Doherty near Dorey, in June 1897,
and two young ones from German New Guinea, shot by Dr. Nymau and Captain
Webster.

Chrysococcyx meyeri Salvad.

Chrysococcyx meyeri Salvadori, Aim. Mus. Civ. Gen., vi. p. 8'2 (1874 : Arfak).

1 ? ad., Arfak (Mori), 29. iv. 1875. Beccari coll. (Specimen f of Salvadori's
list, Orn. Pap. i. p. 346.)

1 S ad., Kapaur, 3000 ft,, December 1896. W. Doherty coll.

3 c? ad., 3 ? ad., Bihagi, head of Mambare River, March 1906. A. S. Meek
coll. (Nos. A2515, 2552, 2599, 2611, 2612, 2653.)

1 <J ad., Aroa River, 5000 ft, January 1900. E. Weiske coll.

2 c? ad , Avera, Aroa River, 28. i., 28. ii. 03. A. 8. Meek coll. (Nos. A 142,
323.) '

1 ? ad., 1 <S juv., head of Aroa River, 24, 27. iv. D5. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos.
A 2115, 2130.)

1 <S ad., 1 ? ad., 1 juv. Owgarra, Augabuuga River, 6000—8000 ft., 16. xi.04 ;
17, 10. i. 05. (Nos. A 1857, 1963, 1973.)

1 ?, Kone District, British New Guinea, June 1898. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 cj ad., Mt, Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 7000 ft., 12. viii. 1896. A. S.
Anthony coll.

2 ? ad., Milne Bay, British New Guinea, 9. ii., 12. iv. 1899. A. 8. Meek
coll. (Nos. 2286, 2460.)

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The adult male has the crown and forehead metallic green, while in the
female the forehead and often the crown nearly as far as the nape, are chestnut.

The young in first plumage is very different : Upper surface yellowish brown,
head and hind-neck with an ashy tinge. Quills dark brown, basal half of primaries
edged and washed with chestnut rufous ; bases of all the quills Imlf, washed with
cinnamon-red. Rectrices brown with a wide blackish subtiTiuinal bar ; lateral
ones : outer web with two blackish and a white patch near the base, inner web
with blackish base, three distinct and an indistinct blackish and three more or
less sharply defined white bars on the basal half. Under-snrface greyish buff,
under wing-coverts cream-coloured. Bill black, base of lower mandible light, feet
very light brown, iris brown.

Chrysococcyx ruficollis (Salvad.).
Lamprococcyx ruficollis Salvadori, Ann. .]/»«. Vic. Gen., vii. p. 913 (1875 : Hatam, Ai-fak).

3, Aroa River, 5000 ft., January 1000. Ernil 'Weiske coll.

1 6, Owgarra, Augabnnga River, 0000— 8000 ft., 14. xi. 04. A. S. Meek coll.
(No. A 1847.)

2 cJ?, Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north-east side of Owen Stanley
Rauge, 16, 17. ii. 06. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. A 2435, 2441).

" Iris reddish brown, feet greenish slate, bill blackish slate."
This series of six specimens, evidently all adult, differ from other species of
Chri/sococcyx by the sides of the head and neck being cinnamon rufous, the throat
and JDgnlum more or less strongly washed with rufous-cinnamon ; the throat and
iu"ulnm as well as the rest of the under-surface and under tail-coverts are barred
with purplish or sometimes greenish bronze, the bars on the throat being narrower
and sometimes evanescent. The upper surface is dark bronzy green, more or
less washed with dark purplish bronze. Outer rectrices black, tips, four bars on
outer webs and two (sometimes incomplete) bars on inner webs white, the latter
partly edged with cinnamon ; second pair blackish, inner webs with a round
white spot at the tip and usually two rufous-ciunamon bars, central pair dark
metallic green with ill-defined black base and black subapical bar.

This rare species was hitherto only known from the type from Arfak. It
wonld, of course, be desirable to compare a series from the latter place with our
series, but at present there is no reason to doubt their identity.

Chrysococcyx poecilurus Gray.

Chrysococcyx poecilurue Gray, P.Z.S. 1861. pp. 431, 437 ("Myaol & New Guinea ") (Type from
Mysol in Brit. Museum).

1 <J ad., Mysol, 13. i. 1900. Heinrich Kiihu coll. (No. 1772). "Iris
chocolate, eyelids carmine, feet dark plumbeous, bill black."

1 <J ad., 2 ? ad., 1 S juv., Fergusson Island, May and June 1897. A. S. Meek-
coil. (Nos. 349, 391, 421, 555.)

The young is paler, less greenish above, nnder-snrface, including the under
wing-coverts, white, throat washed with dirty bull'.

1 ? ad., Snngey Bark, Kobroor, Aru Islands, 29. viii. 1900. Heiur. Kiihn coll.
(No. 2259).

We have also specimens from Cape York, collected by D'Albertis and Meek,
and one from Atapnpn, Timor, collected by Everett.

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Chrysococcyx plagosus (Lath.).

Cumins plagosus Latham, Iml. tint.. Supph p. xxxi. (1801 — Australia).

1 ? , Ron Island, July 1897. W. Doherty coll. " Iris reddish, feet iron-grey,
bill black."

1 ?, St. Aignan, Louisiade Islands, 28. viii. 1897. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 910.)

5 c?fJ, 1 ?, Woodlark Island, April 1897. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 188, 193,
214, 210, 217, 217a.) Nearly all these specimens have the head and neck aliove
metallic green, but they appear to be more or less immature, and therefore we have
no doubt that they belong to C. plagosus.

1 juv., Owen Stanley Mountains, 11,000 ft., 23. viii. 1895. A. S. Anthony coll.
This bird we believe to belong to Ch. plagosus, though we are not certain about
this. It is above dark metallic green, underneath greyish, the feathers of the
throat and jugulnm with ante-apical white bars, the sides of the breast and abdomen
and the under tail-coverts distinctly barred with bronzy brown, the middle of
the abdomen white. Under wing-coverts with bronzy brown bars, the nsnal bar
across the underside of the wing white with a buffy tinge. The feet are orange
in the skin.

1 <J, Aola, Guadalcanal', 4. v. 1887. C. M. Woodford coll.

1 (?, 2 ? ?, Gnadalcanar, April, May 1901. A. 8. Meek coll. (Nos. 2959,
3044, 3122.)

1 ?, Isabel, Solomon Islands, 20. vi. 1901. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 3400.)

All these specimens from the Solomon Islands have hardly any coppery colour
on the head and mantle, but again most of them are not fully adult. We therefore
(in concord with all other ornithologists) cannot separate them from C. plagosus.
Larger series might, however, show that Australian specimens have longer wings
than those from New Guinea and the Papuan Islands.

In Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 258 we recorded a male of C. plagosus from Bougain-
ville, but this specimen is a ( '. lutidus, an error which we herewith correct.

Calliechthrus leucolophus (Mull.).

Cuculus leucolophus S. Muller, Verh. Nut. Gesrh. Ned. Ind., " Land- en Volkenkunde," p. 22 ( 1S44
Lobo Bay).

Known from New Guinea, Salwatti, Waigin and Mysol. We have the
following specimens :

2 without labels, Dutch New Guinea. (Preparation of Bruijn's hunters.)

1 3, North coast of Dutch New Guinea, between 130" and 137° long. (Bruijn's
hunters.)

2 cJ<J, Kapanr, December 1890, February 1897. William Doherty coll.
1 inn., Constantinhafen, Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. Kubary coll.

3 '<? ? , Milne Bay, 18, 20. iii., 9. iv. 1899. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 2383, 2479,
2450.)

1 ad., 1 immat., Mountains of British New Guinea. (Purchased.)

1 immat., Brown River, British New Guinea. E. Weiske coll.

2 immat., Mount Cameron, Owen Stanley Mountains, August 1890. A. 8.
Anthony coll.

4 d> <$ , 1 ¥, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 1903. A. S. Meek
coll. (Nos. A 83, 123, 274, 381, 431.)

1 cJ, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 28. x. 04. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 1807.)

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2 33, 1 ?, Bihagi, bead of Mamliare River, February, March 1006. A. S.
Meek coll. (Nor. A 2443, 2597, 2657.)

1 ad., Sattelberg, German New Guinea, January 1905. C. Wahnes coll.

Eudynamis orientalis cyanocephalus (Lath.).

(For a review of the genus see Hartcrt, Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 235-238.)
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 237.

1 ? ad., " Popo inland, W. district," 5. vi. 1896. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 3 ad., Mount Cameron, Owen Stanley Mountains, 19. viii. 1896. A. S.
Anthony coll.

We must, from its size (wing 2n6 mm.), regard the male specimen as a
cyanocephalus. The female is quite typical, and proves the occurrence of this
form in S.E. New Gninea.

Eudynamis orientalis rufiventer (Less.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 238.

1 3 ad., 1 cf jnv. Arfak preparation. No exact, locality.

2 33, 1 ?, "Talandjang" (?), Dutch New Gninea. (Ex Bruijn.)
2 ¥ ?, Taraway, May 1884. (Ex Bruijn.)

cf ¥ ad., Ron Island, July 1897. W. Doherty coll.

1 3 ad., "Southern New Guinea"? D'Albertis coll., original label lost.
1 3 ad., Yule Island, November 1875. D'Albertis and Tomasinelli coll.
(Wing 195 mm.)

Eudynamis orientalis alberti snbsp. nov.

Eudynamis orientalis snbsp. nov.? Rnthsehild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 257.

1 cf ad., (iizo, Solomon Islands, 31. x. 03. A. S. Meek coll. (No. A 696.)

2 3 ad., Choisenl, Solomon Islands, December 1903. A. S. Meek coll.
(Nos. A 886, 1041.)

Besides being smaller (wings 180 — 185 mm.), the upperside, especially the
head and mantle, are deeper and more of a bluish black, and we therefore no
longer refrain from naming this form.

Type : 3 ad., Gizo, 31. x. 03. (No. A 696.)

We hope to see the females of this form before long.

Named in honour of Mr. Albert Meek.

Eudynamis orientalis salvadorii Hart.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1900. p. 232 ; 1903. p. 238.

3 ad., New Ireland. Collected by a missionary. Type of K. o. salvadorii.
3 ad., New Britain. Bought from the " Linnaea " in Berlin.

¥ ad., New Ireland. Collected by a missionary.

¥ ad., New Britain. Kleinschmidt coll. (Ex Mus. Godeffroy.) (No. 15553.)

Microdynaniis parva (Salvad.).
Eudynamis parva Salvador!, Ann. Mus, Cir. Gen. vii. p. 98t! (1875 — ? Tidori, Beccari coll.).

3 ad. Kon Island, July 1897. W. Doherty coll. " Iris scarlet, feet slaty-grey,
bill black."

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1 juv., Mount Maori, near Humboldt Bay, January 1809. J. M. Dumas coll.

1 juv., near Humboldt Bay. J. Dumas coll.

1 (? ?), Sattelberg, German New Guinea, December 1905. ('. Walines coll.

1 c?, 2 ??, Milne Bay, 30. i., 14. ii., 18. iv. 1891). A. S. Meek coll.
(Nos. 2213, 2316, 2478.)

1 c? ad., Kone district, British New Guinea, June 1898. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 c? ad., Oriori district, British New Guinea, 20. i. 1896. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 juv., Kotoi district, British New Guinea, August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 S, 2 ¥ ? or juv., Owen Stanley Mountains. Emil Weiske coll.

It is possible that there is a northern, darker, and a southern, lighter and
more rufescent form of M. parva, but the present material is not sufficient to decide
this question, as there is great variation between the specimens from one place. It
is certain that the adult male has the crowu and monstachial stripe glossy bine-
black, and that it moults into this plumage from a barred juvenile dress without
black crown or monstachial stripe. The adult female has been described as having
a broad greenish black collar at the back of the neck, but probably this is wrung,
and the female has no black collar, the birds with the latter being juvenile males
in moult. The evidently young birds as well as the old ones differ strikingly in
the shades of colour. A larger series, with trustworthy sex-notes and dates, from
different places, is desireil to clear up the questions raised above.

Scythrops novaehollandiae Lath.

ScyOwops noraehoUamliae Latham, huh Orn. i. p. 141 (17110 — Australia).

1 ad., Arfak (?), native skin.

1 ? ad., Duke of York Island, June 1880. Th. Kleinschmidt coll. (No. 4679.)
Ex Mus. Godeffroy.

S ? , Trobriaud Islands, 12, 15. iv. 1895. A. S. Meek coll.

2 Nicura, British New Guinea, August 1893. Lix coll.

1 <$, Ynle Island, 3. vi. 1875. D'Albertis coll. (No. 192.) Specimen /' of
Salvador's list in Orn. Pap. i. p. 374.

Centropus menbeki menbeki Less. & Gain.

Caitropus menbeki (sic) Lesson & Gamier, Voy. Coquille, Zool. Alias pi. 33 (1826 — N.W. New
Guinea).

<$ ad., Mysol, 1. xii. 1883. Guillemard coll.

2 e?c?, 1 ?, Mysol, January 1900. Heinr. Ktihu coll. (Nos. 1871, 1872, 2059.)
1 <$ ad., 2 not sexed, Andai, Arfak. Bruijn coll.

1 ad., Hatam, Arfak, February 1877. Ex Bruiju.
1 ?, Arfak. Bruijn coll.

1 cf, Arfak. Bruijn coll. Specimen g of Salvador's list, Orn. Pap. i. p. 37>.
cJ ? , Dorei, Arfak, June 1897, October 1896. W. Doherty coll.

2 <$S, 1 (?), Takar, October and November 1896. \V. Doherty coll.
1 S , Kapaur, November 1896. W. Doherty coll.

1 c?, Awek, Jobi Island, April 1<875. Ex Bruijn. Specimen u of Salvador's
list, t.c. p. 378.

c? juv., ? ad., Snrui, Jobi Island, January 1883. Ex Bruijn.

1 juv., Kaririri, Jobi Island. Bought from native by \V. Doherty.

1 ad., Triton Bay, 25. vii. 1896. (Japt. Webster coll. (No. 291.)

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1 S, Sattelberg, 20. vii. 1897. E. Nyman coll.

1 ? , Fly Biver, 31. v. 1877. D'Albertis coll. (No. 34). No. «3 of Salvadori' s
list, I.e.

1 c?, Mailu, British New Guinea, 5. viii. 1895. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 <J, 1 (?), Mount Cameron, Stanley River, 2000 ft., 20. ix. 1896. A. S.
Anthony coll.

The amount of greenish gloss varies. Some examples, especially those
from the Fly River and Jobi, show a lot of bluish, almost purplish gloss, thus
approaching the Am form. The specimens collected by Anthony have very
huge bills. A better series from the Mountains of British New Guinea should
be compared to show if there is auy constant difference.

Centropus menbeki aruensis Salvad.

Centropus aruensis Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 317 (1878— Aru Islands).

<$ ad., Soengej Wanumbai, Kobroor Island, Am Islands, 3. ix. 1900. Hch. Kuhu
coll. (No. 443.)

This specimen is very typical, showing a strong, almost purplish blue gloss
on the entire upper surface and tail.

1 6 ad., Trangau, Aru Islands, 20. ix. 1900. Hch. Kuhu coll. (No. 2448.)

This example is not so typical, showing very little of a blue sheen, thus being
similar to some specimens of C. in. menbeki. There is no other difference than
the blue gloss, and single specimens are sometimes not separable, therefore
ft menbeki menbeki and C. menbeki aruensis are only subspecies.

Centropus violaceus Qnoy & Gaim.

Centropus violaceus Qnoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Znol. i. p. 299 (1830— New Ireland).

1 c? ad., New Ireland. Collected by a missionary.

Differs from ft menbeki in the uniform purple or violet-bine colour, perfectly
black bill, but light (reddish) bare skin round eyes and yellow feet. Probably
subspecies of menbeki.

Centropus chalybeus (Salvad.).

Nesocentor chalybeus Salvadori, Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 915 (1876 — Misori).

2 ? ¥, Korrido, 1879 (Misori). Ex Bruijn coll.

Differs from C. menbeki and agrees with violaceus in having a quite black
bill. The bare facial skin and feet are dark, the gloss dark steel-bine. Probably
subspecies of menbeki and the rest. About the names Korrido (Kordo) and Misori
see Koe. Zool. 1901. p. 58.

Centropus nigricans (Salvad.).

PolopMw nigricans Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen.ix. p. 17 (187G— Naiabui and Yule Island).

cS fere ad., Naiabui, British New Guinea, October 1875. D'Albertis coll.
Specimen c of Salvadori's list, Orn. Pap. i. p. 390.

3 jun., Nicura, British New Guinea. Lix coll.

1 cJ ad., Fergnsson Island, D'Entrecasteaux group, 12. x. 1894. A. S. Meek
coll.

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Centropus ateralbus Less.

Centropus ateralbus Lesson, Ferussac's Bull. Sc. Nat. viii. p. 113 (1828— New Ireland).

2 ad., 2 semi-ad., New Ireland. Collected by a missionary.

? ad. New Britain, 3. vii. 1886. Knbary coll.

<J juv., New Britain, 25. v. 1880. Knbary coll. Native name : " A kamuk."

2 S c? ad., Blanche Bay, New Britain. Otto Finsch coll.

Centropus bernsteini Schleg.

Centropus bernsteini Schlegel, Ned. Tijdschr. v. Dierk. hi. p. 251 (1866— (?) Salwatti,

1 ad., Sattelberg, German New Guinea. C. Wahnes coll.

1 c? juv., Stephansort, German New Guinea, December 1899. G. Nyman coll.

XXXI. STRIGES.
Ninox theomacha (Bp.).

Spiloglaux theomacha Bonaparte, Gmnpt. Rend. xli. p. 654 (1855— Triton Bay).

1 ? , Arfak (one of Bruijn's skins).

1, Ambernoh River. J. Dumas coll.

1 ?, " North coast British New Guinea," 8. xi. 03. H. G. Liverey coll.

1 <$, Aroa River, 5000 ft. E. Weiske coll.

2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February 1903. (Nos. A 191, 285.) A. S. Meek
coll.

4 8S, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November 1904, January
1905. (Nos. A 1805, 1806, 1819, 1825, 1951.) A. S. Meek coll. "Iris orange-
yellow, feet lemon-yellow, bill slate, darker at base."

1 S, Waigiu, 28. xii. 02. J. Waterstradt coll.

1 ?, Mysol, 26. i. 1900. (No. 1909.) H. Kiihn coll.

It is quite possible that there are two or three subspecies united here under
N. theomacha. The specimens from Dutch New Guinea are perhaps a little smaller,
and so is certainly that from Mysol, which, moreover, is less rufons, more
chocolatine, underneath. If the Mysol bird differs, its name will be N. t. hoedti
Schleg. 1871.

Ninox dimorpha (Salvad.).

Athene dimorpha Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova vi. p. 308 (1874 — Sovong).

1 ad., 1 pull., Dutch New Guinea (from dealers).

1 ad., Ambernoh River. J. Dumas coll.

1 ad., Mount Victoria, Owen Stanley Range, 5000—7000 ft., April— June 1896.
Native coll.

1 ad., Babooni, British New Guinea, September 1903. A. E. Pratt coll.

1 <?, Milne Bay, British New Guinea, 3. ii. 1899. (No. 2251.) A. S. Meek
coll.

1 c?, Collingwood Bay, British New Guinea, 15. vi. 1899. (No. 2613.) A. S.
Meek coll.

" Iris bright yellow, feet lemon-chrome, bill dark slate, zinc-colour along the
culmen,"

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Ninox variegata (Quoy & Gaini.).

Noctua variegata Qnoy & < J.iiniard, Voy. Ash"! Zool. i p. l'i'i. pi. i. (1833 — Xew Ireland).
We have two specimens collected on New Hanover by ("apt. Webster.

Ninox goldii goldii Gurney.

Ninox goldii Garney, Ib'u 1883. p. 169 (S.E. New Guinea. Probably this is erroneous, as in many
other cases with Goldie's birds, and the types were from Fergusson Island). (Cf. Nov. Zool.
1896. p. 24R.)

Ninoa goodenovimeis De Vis, Report on Birds from Brit. New Guinea (Government Report) 1890.

Besides the examples from Fergnsson we liave now two from Goodenough,
1 c? ad. 1 juv. The latter has more white on the scapulars and wing-coverts, and
the inner secondaries have large round white spots on the inner webs, these spots
getting larger towards the base. The under-sarface is not bright rusty rufous
spotted with white, as in the adult bird, but whitish with brown longitudinal spots
and pale rust)' tips to the feathers. Ninox goodenoviemis is undoubtedly the same
as goldii.

We cannot find that the description of Ramsay's N. terricolor (JProc. Linn. Soc.
N. S. Wales, iv. 1879. p. 466) can apply to Ar. goldii. The description is very
confused, but that of the tail and wings does not fit AT. goldii, moreover the
measurements are considerably smaller. We therefore think that N. terricolor
must be a species or subspecies not yet known in Europe.

Ninox rufa humeralis (Bp.).

Athene humeralis Bonaparte, Cotisp. i. p. 40 (1850 — "Oceania." Ex Hombr. et Jacq., Voy. Pole
Sud, Alias, pi. iv. fig. 1. ''New Guinea").

1 jnv., moulting to adult plnmage, Dutch New Guinea. Ex Boucard.
(No. 46.)

1 ad., Ambernoh River, Dutch New Guinea. J. Dumas coll.

1 ad., Brown River, British New Guinea. E. Weiske coll. 1898.

1 jun., Mt. Kebea, 4000 ft., June 1902. A. E. Pratt coll.

1 cJ, 1 ?, Milne Bay, 13, 17. ii. 1899. (Nos. 2300, 2344.) A. S. Meek coll.

1 ? , Collingwood Bay, 28. v. 1899. (No. 253(1.) A. S. Meek coll.

" Iris lemon chrome, light lemon, pale yellow. Feet light lemon chrome.
Bill : blnish enamel down centre on top, sides blue-slate, uuder-iuaudible bluish
enamel.''

The downy young is white.

Ninox ? ?

A young owl in light cinuamon down, with wings and tail developed, which
are brown with rufous bars, does not seem to belong to any owl we know of.
Possibly it is the young of a hitherto unknown Bpecies, It is from British
New Guinea, and was bought from Messrs. Burns, Philp & Co.

Ninox connivens connivens (Lath.).

Falro connivens Latham, 1ml. Orn, Suppl, ii. p. 12 (1801 — Australia).

This is an Australian large form with very distinct bars on the tail. We
have specimens from <'iiirns and other places in Queensland,

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Ninox connivens occidentalis Rams.

Ninox connivens occidentalis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales i. (2) p. 1086 (1886— N.W.
Australia).

A more western form, smaller, with the stripes on the underside more rusty.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 210.

Probably N. peninsularis Salvad. from Cape York is a closely allied form
of this species.

Ninox connivens assimilis (Salvad. and D'Alb.).

Ninox assimilis Salvadori and D'Albertis, Ann. Mm. Civ. Genova vii. p. 809 (Southern New
Guinea).

Very much smaller than the Australian allies, and with the bars on the
tail less conspicuous, becanse they are only of a paler brown than the rest ol
the tail.

We have only one specimen of this owl, without reliable locality, but doubt-
less from the mountains of British New Guinea, purchased from Messrs.
Mcllwraith & Co., in London. Wiug 260 mm.

Ninox connivens rufostrigata (Gray).

Athene rufostrigata G. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1860. p. 344. (Gilolo).

Quite like N. c. assimilis, with the bars to the tail equally inconspicuous,
but much larger.

We have two specimens from Morty (J. Dumas coll.), wings about 285 mm.,
one 6 ad. from Batjan (J. Waterstradt coll.), wing about 278, a pullus from Batjau
(Doherty coll.), and a bird, marked S, obtained on Obi Major by Waterstradt's
hunters ; this is at first glance a puzzling bird, agreeing in size with our assimilis,
but the primaries are not fully grown.

Strix tenebricosa arfaki Schleg.

Strix arfaki Schlegel, Notes Leyden Museum i. p. 101 (1879— Arfak).

Mr. Meek sent a series of eight specimens from the Upper Aroa River. The
males agree with other males from the mountains of British New Guinea, while
the females are considerably larger. Strix arfaki is merely a darker and somewhat
larger Papuan form of the North Australian Strix tenebricosa Gould.

1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, 4. vi. 03. (No. A 601.) Wing about 293 mm.

2 <?c?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, above 6000 ft., 9, 13. i. 05. (Nos. A 1969,
1985.) Wings about 255 mm.

1 rj, 4 ? ?, Head of Aroa River, 4000—6000 ft., April aud May 1905. (Nos.
A 2132, 2133, 2139,2161, one without number.) Wing, <$ 255 mm., ? 285—305 mm.

1 ? (? 6 !), Collingwood Bay, 8. vi. 1899. (No. 2585.) Wing 270 mm.

"Iris black, brown, dark brown, bluish black. Feet dirty greenish slate,
vandyke-brown, smoky brown. Bill blackish horn, black, slate on top, light
brown underneath."

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A quite young bird, not yet. fully srnwn (No. A 2088"), has on the npperside,
which is strongly mottled with black, some broad "l- huffy white shaft-lines and
is less decidedly cross-barred, the bars running together and forming irregular
blackish markings. Eleven females — apparently adult, but possibly not so —
(Nob. A2012, 2044, 2050, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2061, 2076, 2087, 2089, B 115)
are all much more brown above. Each feather has a white or bnffy white
shaft-line (not merely a white shaft), the inner web is black, sometimes quite
uniform, but mostly with large rufous spots or cross-markings ; sometimes
both webs are black with rufous markings. The outer web, however, is
generally brown with some blackish mottlings. The under-surface is always
strongly marked with somewhat harpoon-shaped cross-lines, which are broader
than in the males. Another specimen marked "female" (No. 105) has under-
neath narrow cross-lines as in the males; the upper surface is less deep and
more of a rusty brown, the outer webs of the feathers uniform, some with a
greyish tinge, the inner webs with large black cross-patches and rufous spots.
I suspect that this specimen is really a male. A very young bird (B 3), obtained
on Yule Island, 14. x. 04, has the middle of the chest and the ground-colour of
the abdomen bnffy white, and may possibly not belong to <S. plumbeus but to
another species or subspecies. Count Salvador! has considered specimens from
Port Moresby as belonging to S. cervinus Gould, which is said to be a northern
form of <S. australis, but its distinctness is doubtful. Mr. Meek describes the
iris of the males as dark red or yellowish, that of the females as pale yellowish
and dark red ; bill slaty blue with black ridge, bluish slate, or slate-colour ; feet
greenish yellow, sage-green, or dirty yellow.

An egg from Owgarra (26. xii. 05) has a very thick shell with numerous
little pits, as if from the point of a needle, and is of a greenish buff-colour,
almost without gloss. It measures 32-5 x 25 mm.

2. Turnix maculosus (Temm.).

Hemipodius mncuhixiix Temminck, Pig. el GaUin. iii. pp. 361, 757 (1815 — Australia). (Cf. Nov.Zool.
1904. p. 177.)

6 ? , Upper Aroa River, 6. xii. 04. (Nos. B 92, 93.)

'' Iris pale yellowish white. Feet sage-green. Bill : 3 , greenish yellow
? , greenish yellow, brownish towards the tip."

3. Ptilinopus superbus (Temm. & Enip).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 102.

2 (?(?, Avera, Aroa River, 2D. i., 16. xi. 03. (Nos. A23, A236.)
2 6 6, Upper Aroa River, 18. i., 20. iv. 05. (Nos. B 173, 230.)

4. Ptilinopus pulchella (Temm.).

Cf. Nov.Zool. 1901. p. 102.

1 (J, Bubnni, Aroa River, 23. iv. 05. (No. B244.)

5. Ptilinopus coronulatus coronulatus Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 102.

2 6S, Upper Aroa River, January' 1905. (Nos. B 131, 181.)

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6. Ptilinopus iozonus iozonus Gray.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 104.

4 cf cf , Upper Aroa River, January 1905. (Nos. B 156, 171, 172, 180.)

7. Ptilinopus gestroi gestroi D'Alb. & Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1(101. p. 105.

5J(?, Avera, Aroa lliver, February 1903. (Nos. A 250, 293 296.)

1, Owgarra, Augabunga River, 6000—8000 ft., without data.

8. Ptilinopus rivolii bellus Scl.
Cf . Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 107.

4 cf cf, 2 ¥ ?, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 79,
116, 130, 244,275, 357.)

2 cfcf, 2 ??, Owgarra, Augabunga River, 6000—81 ft., November 1904,

January, February 1905. (Nos. A 1832, 2027, 2047, one without label.)

2 cf 3, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2160, 2190.)

9. Ptilinopus perlatus zonurus Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 106.

2 cfcf, Upper Aroa River, January, February 1905. (Nos. B 170, 223.)
10. Megaloprepia magnifica poliura Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. Ill

2 cfcf, 1 ?, Upper Aroa River, January 1905. (Nos. B 179, 203, 204.)

1 cf , Avera, Aroa River, 25. i. 03. (No. A 97.)

11. Carpophaga chalconota Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 113.

2 33 2 ? ?, Owgarra, Augabnuga River, November, December 1904, January
1905, 6000—8000 ft. (Nos. A 1890, 1915, 1920, 1989.)

1 cf, 1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, 16, 23. iii. 03. (Nos. A 425, 452.)

cf 2 , Head of Aroa River, 14, 28. v. 05, 4000—6000 ft. (Nos. A. 2183, 2259.)

12. Columba albertisii (Salvad.).

Gymnophapa alberligii Salvadori, Arm. ilus. Civ. Gen. vi. p. 86 (1874) ; Nov. Zool. L901. p. 117.

cf , Upper Aroa River, 13. i. 05. (No. B 164.) " Iris pinkish red, skin round eye
vermilion; feet dark pinkish red; bill base dark red; tips flesh-colour ; lower

mandible with greenish white sides."

13. Macropygia amboinensis cinereiceps 'Prist r.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 125.

3 cfcf, Avera, Aroa River, January— February 1903. (Nos. A 105, 169, 219.)
1 S, Owgarra, Augabunga River, 16. xii. 04. (No. A 1906.)

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Strix candidus Tick.

Strix candidus Tickell, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal ii. p, 672 (1833 — "Throughout Bengal and the
upper provinces in tracts of long grass. . . .").

(J?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 6000— 8000 ft., 29. i. 05, 22. xi. 04. (Nos.
A 1888, 2031.) A. S. Meek coll. " Iris .lark brown. Fuel smoky brown ; black
and horn-colour. Bill light horn-colour."

This species is new to the Papuan region. The two specimens shot by
Sir. Meek are fine adult birds. The first primary is very dark, most of the
outer web being deep brown, and the white spots on the upper surface are
very small and longitudinal. The contention of ornithologists, so far, is that
the "grass-owls" from India to the Philippines and Australia are one and the
same. Our material is very meagre, and not sufficient to show whether several
races are separable or not.

Strix flammea meeki snbsp. nov.

Differs from the Australian Strix ./iammea delicatula Goold by the colour
of the tail, the outer two pairs of rectrices being pure white, without or with
a few tiny, obsolete spots, the rest cream-colour or pale buff with a few dusky
spots and three or four very narrow dusky cross-bars. The spotting on the
nape is not so large as, more delicate than in, S. f. delicatula. In the narrow
bars and very light tail it resembles S. f. sumbaensis Hart., but the latter has all
the rectrices barred, or only the outermost pair white, almost without or with
a few obsolete spots ; moreover the bill of S. f. sumbaensis is decidedly thicker
and higher, also slightly more arched than in S. f. meeki.

Type of S. f. meeki : c? ad., t'ollingwood Bay, north-east coast of British
New Guinea, 5. ix. 06. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 2791.)

Besides the type specimen we have two more skins :

S ? ad., Collingwood Bay, 5. ix. 06. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 2789, 2790.)
The underside is of a beautiful silky white with some small dusky spots, almost
of the shape of arrow-heads. The inner webs of the outer remiges are white,
shaded with yellowish buff aloug the shaft and spotted with dusky uear the
tip only. The face-disk is white, with a rust-red spot in front of the eye.
Cnlmen 35—36, wing 292—293, metatarous about (iO, tail 103—113, height of
upper bill at nostril 10 mm. (about 11 in S. f. sumbaensis ■

There is only one record of a " Barn Owl " from New Guinea, and that is
one obtained near Port Moresby by Goldie. Count Salvador! recorded it as
" Strix delicatula."

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LIST OF COLLECTIONS OF BIRDS MADE BY A. S. MEEK
IN THE MOUNTAINS ON THE UPPER AROA RIVER
AND ON THE ANGABUNGA RIVER, BRITISH NEW
GUINEA.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and ERNST 1IARTERT, Ph.D.

rpHE following is a list of the remarkable collections of birds made by
J- Albert S. Meek at the places named in the title of this paper. The exact
situation of these places and the adventures of Mr. Meek during his trips have
been described in Nov. Zool. 1905. pp. 448 to 454, and 1906. p. 61.

1. Synoicus plumbeus Salvad.

Synoeem pbimbew Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xiv. p. 152 (1894— Vakena, mountains of

British New Guinea).

7 c??, Upper Aroa River, December 1905, January 1904. (Nos. B 90, 103,
HM, 10S, 113, 115, 144.)

?, Yule Island, October 14, 1904. (No. B 3.)

9c??, Owgarra, Augabunga River, January and February 1905. (Nos. A 2012,
2033, 2037, 2058, 2059, 2069, 2076, 2088, 2089.)

Count Salvadori described this remarkable form from a single adult male.
Mr. Meek sent us twenty-three specimens. The variation in this bird is most
remarkable. Only one (No. B 90) agrees with Count Salvador's description,
being below plumbeous grey with faint huffy edges to the feathers, the chin a
little paler. The feathers of the upper surface are plumbeous grey with brown
borders, some of the feathers of the back and inner secondaries mottled with
black near the tips. Forehead grey ; crown brownish grey in the middle, and
with two parallel stripes of blackish spots. Wing 90 mm. Hartert has seen
the type in the Genoa Museum, which is similar to our bird.' though still a
little more greyisli above, being more uniform. Another male (Upper Aroa
River, 28. xii. 04, No. B 113) is similar above ; but whereas only a few white
shaft-lines are indicated in the specimen No. B 90, every feather of the back
has the shaft distinctly white, ami the nnder-surface is not plumbeous grey
but pale rufous-cinnamon, with a plumbeous grey wash in the middle of the
feathers, and many, especially those on the sides, with somewhat harpoon-shaped
black cross-lines, the latter evidently remains of the juvenile* plumage. Six
other males, evidently all more or less immature (Nos. A 2033, 2037, 2055, 2069,
B 103, 144), are much more mottled with black above, and their ground-colour
is more brownish, while the under-snrfaee is somewhat rufous bully washed with
plumbeous grey, each feather with three or more narrow, somewhat harpoon-shaped
cross-lines, the throat uniform bull'. One other male (No. B 104) is again [ess
mottled with black on the upper surface, but much more rufous than the first
two specimens described above, each feather being grey with a white shaft and
broad rufous borders barred with dark brown and with a few black mottliugs.

» The Americans have introduced the term " Juvenal " ; but there is no need for this novelty, juvenile
being an English word. — E. H.

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14. Macropygia nigrirostris Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 126.

<??, Upper Aroa River, 3. xii. 04, 5. i. 05. (Nos. B 84, 136.)
<?, Head of Aroa River, 26. v. 05. (No. A 224n.)

15. Reinwardtoena reinwardtsi griseotincta Hart.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 1'27.

2 c?(?, 1 ?, Aroa River, 29. xii. 04, 12. xi. 05. (Nos. B 69, 219.)

1 ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 28. xii. 04. (No. A 1940.)

16. Geopelia tranquilla Gould.

GeqpeUa tnmquiUa Gould, P.Z.S. 1844. p. 56 (Australia) ; Salvadori, Orn. Pap iii p 154 (Hall-
Bay). r r v

c? ?, Upper Aroa River, 20. i. 05. (Nos. B 177, 178.) "Iris bluish white;
feet pale flesh-eolonr spotted with brownish purple ; bill slaty bine."

Possibly there is a larger and a smaller race in Australia, in which case our
birds would be the small form {G. platida of Gould). Oar two examples show
a very light, almost pure white throat, while Australian specimens have a grey
throat, If this character should be constant, the Papuan form would have to
be separated.

17. Phlegoeuas beccarii (Salvad.).
Cf. Nov. Zool 1001. p. 131.

2 cJc?, 3 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 533 541 554
504, 585.)

2 c?<?, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, January, February 1905, 6000—
8000 ft, (Nos. A 2068, 2107, 2025.)

2W, Head of Aroa River, May 1905, 4000—6000 ft. (Nos. A 2231, 2232.)
" Iris brown ; feet dark purplish red ; bill black."

18. Phlegoenas rufigula rufigula Bp.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 131.

The new material from British New Guinea convinces us that it would be
rash and not profitable to separate these birds from rufigula, the apparently
smaller extent of the grey band on the sides of the occiput being mostly due to
preparation, while, on the oilier hand. /'. r. helviventris from the Aru Islands,
which has no such grey band at all, is a very well marked subspecies.

3 <$<$, 1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, January — March 1903. (Nos. A 158, 315,
356, 358.)

1 ?, Upper Aroa River, 3. xii. 04. (No. B 83.)

"Iris pinkish brown; feel purple; bill purplish with slate tips."

19. Trugon terrestris leucopareia (Meyer).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 19U1. p. 132.

2 ? ?, Upper Aroa River, 29. xi., 3. xii, 04. (Nos. B 68, 86.)

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20. Otidiphaps cervicalis Rams.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 132.

S ¥ Avera, 5, 6. iii. 03. (Nos. A 364, 374.)

1 ?, Upper Aroa River, 27. i. 05. (No. 197.)

21. Hypotaenidia brachypus alberti subsp. nov.

2 cfcJ, 4 ? ? ad., 1 ? juv., 2 pull., Owgarra, Angabunga River, February
1905. (Nos. A 2045, 2051-2054, 2060, 2071, 2075, 2081.)

" Iris chocolate-brown ; bill dark horn-brown, reddish at base ; feet fleshy grey."
Type <? ad., 6. ii. 1905. (No. A 2051.)

Top of head, hind-neck, and anterior portion of back bright chestnut, rest
of back black with broad brown borders and more or less nnmerous white
lateral spots to the feathers. The long and soft scapulars black, with wavy bars
of white ; secondaries and greater upper wing-coverts similar, but generally with
more or less olive-brown edges ; primaries blackish brown, with a few white
speckles to the edges of the outer webs. Lesser wing-coverts olive-brown ; throat
dirty or creamy white; sides of head, jugulum and breast slaty grey; rest of
abdomeu and flanks dull black, with numerous narrow white bars ; under tail-
coverts black with wide buff tips and a few buff bars. Under wing-coverts dark
slate-colour with narrow white edges. Winy; in the adult males 93"5 — 95, in the
females 93—90 ; bill 26—30-5 ; tail 38—40 ; metatarsus 30— 31-5 mm. Females
similar to males, but apparently the abdomen more whitish in the middle, the
bars a little wider. The younger bird is more olive above, the breast lighter
grey with a rusty tinge. The pullus is covered with glossy black down, and
after this first downy stage follows one in which the upper surface is covered
with dull black feathers, while the underside is slate, whitish along the middle.

This most interesting new form differs from Hypotaenidia brachypus exsul
Hart, of Flores {Nov. Zool. 1898. p. 50) in the extent of the bright chestnut
colour of the head, which reaches to the anterior part of the interscapnlium, the
shorter wing and more regularly barred larger wing-coverts. This last character
is perhaps somewhat doubtful, as they are less barred in one of our females of
H. b. alberti, and as the type and unique specimen of H. b. exsul is evidently
somewhat immature.

H. b. exsul differs very considerably from 11. brachypus brachypus in the
following characters : the crown is uniform, without black spots, the rufous-chestnut
of the crown extends farther to the back, the back is darker, throat more whitish,
size smaller. It is, indeed, doubtful if it is a subspecies, but we believe this
is correct, and it certainly expresses the close relationship of these forms if we
treat them trinomially.

This is a most valuable addition to the Papuan fauna.

22. Rallicula forbesi Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 142.

4 <$ <$, 2 ¥ ?, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March, .June L903. (Nos.
A 34, 111, 185, 186, 470, 581.)

2 di, 1 ¥,1 pull., Owgarra, Angabunga liiver, November 1904, February
1905. (Nos. A 1852, 1853, 2079, 2080.)

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4 <J<?,4 ¥?, Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. 2140— 2143, 2154
—2156, 2217.)

1 ?, Bubuni, Aroa River, 14. v. 05. (No. B 259.)

The ? from Bubuni has more and larger spots than females from other
places, but the specimens vary a little in this respect. The pullus is a lovely
creature : the down on the head is rufous with very small black tips, so that
the head appears nearly uniform rufous, while the rest of the upper surface is
mixed black and rufous brown, each down being blackish at base and tip, with
a rufous brown aute-apical baud. The underside is paler. " Iris dull amber ; feet
and bill black."

23. Salvadorina waigiuensis Rothsch. & Hart.
Salvadorina uxtigiuenas Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. i. p. 683 (1894— Waigiu.).

1 cJ, Avera, Aroa River, 12. iii. 03. (No. A 404.) " Iris dark brown ; feet
dirty yellow ; bill smoky horn-colour."

For a long time the type has remained unique. The next person to rediscover
this remarkable duck was Giulianetti, who shot it on Mount Mnsgrave, 12,200 ft.
high. He collected also the pullus {Ibis, 1897. p. 392). Mr. Emil Weiske sent us
a male, shot on the Aroa River, 4000 ft. high, in 1899. He describes the iris as
" brown, bill and feet yellowish.'' Mr. J. Livery obtained specimens in the
" Mountains of British New Guinea, 2800 ft. high." In the Tring Museum we have
thus now five specimens. They agree fully with the type, except that the one from
Meek has the sides of the head, throat, and nape more blackish, almost pure black.

For the Ardeiformes, Accifitres, and Striges (Nos. 24 to 30) see anted,
p. 443, continuation of "Notes on Papuan Birds." The Ardeiformbs and
Accipitres will follow next year.

31. Ceyx solitaria Teinm.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 145.

3 ¥ ¥, Aroa River, December 1904. (Nos. B 94, 108, 110.)

32. Syma torotoro meeki Rothsch. & Hart.

Nm: Zool. 1901. p. 147 (Milne Bay and other places in British New Guinea).

2 SS, 1 ?, Upper Aroa River, October 1904— January 1905. (Nos. B 20, 142,
145.)

33. Halcyon macleayi Gard. & Selby.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 153.

<S ¥ , Head of Aroa River, 10. ii., 6. v. 05. (Nos. A 1 780, B 216.)
? juv., Bubuni, Aroa River, 18. iv. 05. (No. B 235.)

34. Tanysiptera dea galatea Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool 1901. p. 160.

2 <J<J, Upper Aroa River, December 1904— January 1905. (Nos. B 116, B 155.)
? , Bubuni, Aroa River, 19. v. 05. (No. B 265.)

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35. Chalcopsittacus scintillatus chloropterus Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 65.

1 <S, Upper Aroa River, 28. xi. 04. (No. B 61.)
This specimen has no golden shaft-streaks above.

36. Eos fuscata Blyth.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 65.

S ¥, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 6000—8000 ft., 5. i. 05. (Nos. A 1959,
1960.)

4 c? c?, 2 ¥ ?, Avera, Aroa River, January, February 1903. (Nos. A 51, 156,
157, 162, 103, 172.)

37. Lorius hypoenochrous devittatus Hart.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 66.

<S ¥, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 6000—8000 ft., December 1904. (Nos.
A 1942, 1943.)

1 <?, Head of Aroa River, 25. v. 05. (No. A 2226.)

1 S, Bubnni, Aroa River, 24. v. 05. (No. B 272.)

Specimen B 272 has an indication of the black band, as it is found in
typical hypoenochrous.

38. Lorius lory erythrothorax Salvad.

Cf. Nor. Zool. 1901. p. 66.

2 ? ? , Avera, Aroa River, 22. i. 03. (Nos. A 48, 49.)

39. Trichoglossus haematodus massena Bp.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 70.

1 (J, Avera, Aroa River, 12. ii. 03. (No. A 228.)

40. Glossopsittacus goldiei (Sharpe).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 71.

2 6S, 4 ? ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 6000— 8000 ft., December 1904,
January 1905. (Nos. A 1930, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1975, 1976.)

" Iris brown, feet ashy blue, bill black."

41. Charmosynopsis wilhelminae (A. B. Meyer).

Cf. No,: Zool. 1901. p. 71 ; 1905. p. 253.

2 SS, 1 ¥, Owgarra, Angabunga liiver, December 1904, January 1905. (Nos.
A 1924, 1958, 2004.)

4 d<$, 2 ¥ ?, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, April 1903. (Nos. A3,
4, 38, 40, 217, 474.)

c? ¥, Head of Aroa River, 28. v. 05. (Nos. A 2257, 2258.)

" Iris chrome yellow, feet green slate, bill dull red.''

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42. Charmosynopsis placentis subplacens (Sel.).
Of. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 71 ; 1905. p. 253.

3 cf <?, 1 ? , Avera, Aroa River, February, March, 1903. (Nos. A 193—195, 352.)
<J, Head of Aroa River, 23. iv. 05. (No. B 245.)

Specimen No. 352, ?, has the wings, tail, aud interscapular)- region marked
with irregular patches of golden yellow.

43. Charmosynopsis pulchella (Gray).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1001. p. 72.

3 (J<J, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, January 1903. (Nos. A 30, 50, 78, 77, 138.)
" Iris reddish yellow, feet orange yellow, bill bright reddish yellow."

44. Charmosyna stellae A. B. Meyer.

Cf. Nov. Zool 1901. p. 72.

3 (J<J, 2??, Avera, Aroa River, January 1903. (Nos. A 60, 95, 112,
113, 125.)

4 SS, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, February 1905. (Nos. A 2091,
2092, 2096—2098.)

1 ? imm., Head of Aroa River, 11. v. 05. (No. 1799.)
" Iris bright red, feet yellowish red, bill bright red."'

45. Oreopsittacus arfaki grandis Grant.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 72.

2 <S<$, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, December 1904, January 1905.
(Nos. A 1923, 1988, 2000.)

" Iris umber, dark brown, brown ; feet ashy bine, slate ; bill black."
This large form represents O. arfaki arfaki in British New Guinea, and is
evidently to be treated trinomially.

4(i. Neopsittacus musschenbrockii (Schl.).

NanmJfs muschenbrockii Schlegel, Nederl. Tifdschr, Dierfomde, iv. p. 34 (1871).

4 <$<$, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, liooo— 8000 ft., October, December
1904, Jaunary 1905. (Nos. A 1812, 1931, 1972, 1992, 1993.)

"Iris crimson, light red, dull pale red; feet ashy blue, slate; bill yellow."
N. pullicauda, which is quite distinct, is probably a form of higher elevations,
but we have no definite notes about its exact distribution.

47. Cyclopsitta diophthalmus coccineifrons Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zoo!. 1901. p. 74.

2 (?<?, 2? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 319, 320
403, 468.)

3 ?, Owgarra, Augabuuga River, 5, 12. ii. 05. (Nos. A 2049, 2074.)
cJ, Bubuui, Aroa River, 19. v. 05. (B 266.) (Albinistic specimen.)

" Iris blood-red, or dark chocolate ; feet greenish slate ; bill slate, slaty black

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at base." The differences mentioned us belonging to this bird are all very slight.
The red colour of the head is apparently a deeper or richer red and the
green on the nape lighter, the yellow band on the head more distinct than in
G. clioptkalmus dioptkalmus, but at the most is a very poor subspecies.

48. Cyclopsitta melanogenia suavissima Scl.

Cf. Nov. Zoo!. 1901. p. 74.

3 c?cJ, 5 ¥ ¥, Aroa River, October 1904. (Nos. B 6, 10-13, 21, 23.) "Iris
dark brown, feet light dirty green, bill black."

49. Nasiterna bruijni orientalis De Vis.

Cf. Nor. Zoo!. 1901. p. 79. No. 54.

3, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, January 1905. (No. A 2021.)
3 S3, 2 ¥ ¥, Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 2136, 2196,
2204, 2242, 2243.)

The character of the orange tips to the tail-feathers mentioned by De Vis
apparently holds good in the majority of specimens. The orange-yellow colour
of the head is in most specimens of a more ruddy brownish tinge.

50. Nasiterna pusio Scl.
Cf. Nov. Zoo!. 1901. p. 81.

1 3, Upper Aroa River, January 1905. (No. B139.)

51. Geoffroyus personatus aruensis (Gray).

Cf. Nov. Zoo!. 1901. p. 84.

1 cJ, Upper Aroa River, 10. i. 05. (No. B 154.)

52. Psittacella inadaraszi A. 13. Meyer.

Cf. I lots, 1897. p. 59.

3 S3, 3 ¥ ¥, Avera, Aroa River, January — March, May, June 1903. (Nos.
A 5, 107, 248, 341, 563, 577.)

2 S3, 1 ¥, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November, December 1904, January
1905. (Nos. A 1870, 1922, 1986.)

1 3, 2 ¥ ¥, Head of Aroa River, April 1905. (Nos. 2125—2127.)
" Iris red, feet slate-blue, bill chalky blue."

53. Psittacella brehmi pallida A. B. Meyer.

Cf. Ibis, 1897. p. 58.

1 3, Avera, Aroa River, U. vi. 03. (No. A 593.)

2 S3, 2 ¥¥, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November 1904, January 1905.
(Nos. A 1862, 1867, 1876, 2040.)

2 S3, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2165, 2195.)
"Iris red, feet ashy blue, bill pale chalky hlue."

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54. Aprosmictus chloropterus Rams.

Cf. Nov. Zocl. 1901. p. 87.

3 3 3 ad., 1 3 juv., 2 ? ? Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March
1903. (Nos. A 100, 245—247, 253, 448.)

2 38 ad., 1 3 jnv., Upper Aroa River, January, February 1905. (Nos.
B199, 201, 209.)

2 33 ad., Bnbuui, Upper Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. B 246, 274.)
" Iris dark yellow, cardamiue, feet black, bill black, base of upper mandible

bright red."

(For the Cuculidae (Nos. 55 to 60) see anted, p. 443, contiuuation of " Notes
ou Papuan Birds.")

61. Podargus papuensis Quoy and Gaini.

Cf. Nor. Zoal. 1903. p. 198.

3 ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November 1904. (Nos. A 1878, 1879.)
3 ?, Avera, Aroa River, 11. iii., 2. vi. 03. (Nos. A 401, 587.)

? Head of Aroa River, 15. v. 05. (No. A 2186.)

62. Podargus ocellatus Quoy and Gaim.

3 ?, Avera, Aroa River, 12. iii. 03. (Nos. A 406, 407.)
" Iris chocolate, feet horn-colour, bill smoky horn-colour."
1, Upper Aroa River, 14. x. 04. (No. B 2.)

63. Aegotheles insignis pulcher Hart.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 202.

9 3 ?, 1 jnv., Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 537, 550, 552,
555, 559, 565—567, 570, 576.)

12, Owgarra, Angabuuga River, October, November, December 1904, January
1905. (Nos. 1800, 1802, 1835, 1849, 1850, 1886, 1897, 1903, 1934, 1935, 1057,
1961.)

22, Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. 1787, 1790, 2114, 2129,
2131, 2137, 2145, 2146, 2157, 2158, 2159, 2163, 2172, 2173, 2179, 2181, 2182,
2218, 2233, 2248, 2249, 2254.)

There is a wonderful variation in colour in this beautiful bird. The type
and several other specimens obtained by Mr. Meek are cinnamon-rufous, with the
back without a sign of buff or whitish spots, and with the rectrices only
obsoletely barred. Others are less rufous, more brownish ; others again very
dark brown, with the head and parts of the underside almost blackish ; and
most of these have the top of the head and the back covered with small
roundish white spots, surrounded by a blackish line, the sides of the breast
marked with fine white zigzag lines, and the tail with about eleven strongly
marked blackish cross-bars. The length of the wing varies from 160 to 180 mm.
The coloration and size do not depend on the sex, though the smaller birds
are mostly females. A quite young bird, still with fluffy down to some of the
feathers of the back, is exactly like the type specimen, i.e. bright cinnamon
rufous, with unspotted back and obspletely barred rectrices. The iris is marked

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as brown, light brown or brownish yellow, bill smoky brown or horu-colonr,
feet light horn or flesh-colour. This form is doubtless a subspecies to
A. insiynis from Arfak, which is very similar. The latter is hitherto unique in
the Genoa Museum.

64. Aegotheles salvadorii Hart.

Cf. Nov. Zool. x. p. 200 (1903).

6 (J?, Avera, Aroa River, January, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 32, 94, 132,
534, 542, 592.)

7 cf¥, Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November, December 1904,
January 1905. (Nos. A 1803, 1808, 1811, 1851, 1892, 1979, 1997.)

10 (??, 1 pull., Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 1783, 1997,

2116, 2122, 2151, 2191, 2192, 2197, 2206, 2211.)

" Iris brown, feet light horn, bill smoky brown, dark horn."

No. 2191 is the nestling of bird No. 2184. It is all over of a creamy white.

" Feet white, bill white, with light smoky tips."

65. Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus Horsf.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 202.

1 cf, Upper Aroa River, 24. i. 04. (No. B 48.)

66. Collocalia esculenta (L.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 203.

Two, sex uncertain, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 26. xi. 04; 15. ii. 05.
(Nos. 1887, 2083.)

cf ?, Head of Aroa River, 16. v. 05. (Nos. A 2188, 2189.)

67. Macropteryx mystaceus mystaceus (Less.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 203.

cf ? , Avera, Aroa River, 15, 21. iii. 03. (Nos. A 423, 445.)
¥, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 3. i. 05. (No. A 1954.)
cf ¥ , Aroa River, 19. i. 05. (Nos. B 175, 176.)

68. Microeca papuana A. B. Meyer.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 470.

1 cf , 3 ¥ ¥, 1 unsexed, Owgarra, Angabunga River, November, December 1904,
January, February 1905. (Nos. A 1860, 1941, 1971, 2034, 2064.)

1 cf, 3 ¥ ¥, Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 21 17, 2121, 2118,
2215.)

5 cf ¥, Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 578, 580, 582, 583, 584.)

69. Microeca flavovirescens Gray.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 471.

cf, Upper Aroa River, 27. x. 04. (No. B 19.)

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70. Microeca flavigaster Gould.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 471.

3 cfcf, 3 ? ?, Upper Aroa River, November, December, 1904, January 1905.
(Nos. B 43, 44, 45, 46, 85, 140.)

71. Gerygone palpebrosa Wall.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 472.

2 cfcf, Upper Aroa River, 23. i. 05. (Nos. B 186, 187.)
1 cf, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 22. v. 05. (No. B268.)

72. Gerygone chrysogaster Gray.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 472.

1 ? , Upper Aroa River, 3. i. 05. (No. B 132.)
" Iris dark red, feet light slate, bill black."

73. Gerygone cinereiceps (Sharpe).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 473.

1 cf , Upper Aroa River, 3. i. 05. (No. B 133.)

74. Gerygone albigularis cinerascens Sharpe.

Gerygone dnerateeiu Sharpe, /own. Linn. Sor. London xiii. p. 494 (S.E. New Guinea, probably Port
'Moresby) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 221.

2 cfcf, 1 cf young, Upper Aroa River, 10. xii. 04, 3. i. 05. (Nos. B101,
102, 134.)

The young bird is olive-brown above and uniform yellow underneath, including
the throat; the white spots on the forehead are absent. There is a yellow line
running from the base of the bill to and over the eye, being faintly tinged with
white at the base of the bill. Bill only about 5-5 mm. long.

75. Gerygone cinerea Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 474.

1 cf , Head of Aroa River, 26. v. 05. (No. A 2241.)

76. Cryptolopha giulianettii (Salvad.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 475.

1 cf , Owgarni, Angabunga River, 26. i. 05. (No. A 2031.)

2 cfcf, Head of Aroa River, 12, 28. v. 05. (Nos. A 2177, 2256.)

" Iris brown ; feet slate, vandyke-brown ; bill black, lighter towards base of
under-mandible."

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77. Heteromyias armiti De Vis.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 467. PI. XIII. fig. 3.

1 c? ad., 1 $ jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 17. xii. 04, 12. ii. 05. (Nos.
A 1910, 2072.)

8 <? ? ad., 1 ? jnv., Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 1795, 2113,
2144, 2148, 2209, 2212, 2221, 2227, 22:34.)

78. Monachella muelleriana (Schleg.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 479.

c? ?, Owgarra, Augabnnga River, 20. xi. 04, 3. i. 05. (Nos. A 1875, 1953.)

1 ? , Head of Aroa River, 2. v. 05. (No. A 2162.)

79. Poecilodryas hypoleuca (Gray).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 468.

3W, Upper Aroa River, 6. xii. 04 ; 3, 9. i. 05. (Nos. B 91, 130, 153.)

80. Poecilodryas leucops albifacies Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 469.

5c??, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, April 1905. (Nos. B226, 243, 247, 250,
252.)

The specimens from Cape York (Queensland) have not only the chin, but
nearly the whole throat, for about 1 cm., white, and the pileum is slightly more
blackish. This form may be named :

Poecilodryas leucops albigularis snbsp. nov.
Type No. 1992. c? ad., Cape York, 21. vii. 1898. A. S. Meek coll.

81. Poecilodryas cyanus subcyanea De Vis.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 470.

3 c?c?, 1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, May 1903. (Nos. A 481, 521, 543, 558.)

2 c?c?, 1 ? ad., 1 c? jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 19. xi. 04. (Nos. A 1871,
1872, 1935, 2063.)

5 c?? ad., Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 21 49, 2175, 2168,
2222, 2223.)

82. Poecilodryas bimaculatus (Salvad.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 468.

2 c?c?, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 5, 19. iv. 05. (Nos. B 225, 238.)

83. Poecilodryas sigillata De Vis.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 470.

c??, Head of Aroa River, 9 v 05. (Nos. A 1789, 1790.) "Iris dark brown,
bill and feet black."

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84. Megalestes albonotatus Salvad.
Cf. Noi>. Zool. 1903. p. 467.

6 <? ? , Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November 19u4, January 1905. (Nos.
A1863, 1881, 1980, 1981, 1990, 2039.)

85. Aethomyias spilodera guttata Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. L903. p. 475.

2 <?<?, 1 ?, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, April 1905. (No. B241, 251, 256.)

86. Todopsis cyanocephalus bonapartii Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 477.

21c?? ad., 1 3 juv., Upper Aroa River, September, October, November,
December 1904, January 1905. (Nos. B 13, 14, 25', 26, '-'7, 28, 35, 36, 40, 41, 100,
125, 126, 129, 141, 146, 147, 200 j three without number.)

The female of this form has the blue of the head of a more purplish tinge than
those of T. cyanocephalus cyanocephalus.

87. Todopsis wallacei Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 477, 478.

? , Upper Aroa River, 29. xii. 04. (No. B 1 1 4.)

4 c??, Bnbuni, Upper Aroa River, April, Mav 1905 (Nos. B229, 231, 233,
269.)

88. Clytomyias insignis oorti snbsp. nov.

[Clytomyias insignis, Sharpe Notes Leyden Museum i. p. 30 (1878. — Arfak Mountains).]

3c??, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, January, February 1905. (Nos. A 2022,
2023, 2090.)

3 c?c?, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 1784, 1785, 2171.)

1 c?, 2 ? ?, Bihagi, head of Mambare River, February, March 1906. (Nos.
A 2437, 2438, 2529.)

Clytomyias insignis was hitherto unique in the Leyden Mnsenm, the type
being a single female obtained in 1876 by Bruijn's hunters at Tjobonda in the
Arfak Mountains. Dr. E. D. van Oort has kindly compared some of our specimens
with the type, and as all our specimens are alike it is evident that the birds
from British New Guinea belong to a different subspecies, which we are pleased
to name after Dr. van Oort of the Leyden Museum. Hartert has also examined
the type in Leiden.

The upper-surface of our new subspecies is slightly more brownish, less grey ; the
throat is ochraceous, not white, the under-snrface is light ochraceons, in two
females paler, more creamy buff; the flanks are but slightly deeper in colour,
and some of the flank-feathers are darker, somewhat tinged with olive, along
the middle. The under tail-coverts are dnll ochraceous brown, while those of the
type of C. insignis arc " dusky with chestnut tips." The rectrices are slightly
brighter in colour. " Iris brown ; feet smoky horn-colour, light horn ; bill black,
base of under-mandible pale brown."

Type of C. i. oorti : <$, No. A 2171, head of Aroa River, 4. v. 1905.

Evidently Clytomyias and allied genera have only 10 rectrices !

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89. Malurus alboscapulatus naimii (Salvad. and D'Alb.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 478.

1 c?, Owgarra, Angabuuga River, 30. x. 04. (No. 1816.)

2 c?(£, Upper Aroa River, November 1904, January 1905. (Nos. B51, 128.)

1 cf changing plumage, 6. xii. 04. (No. B89.) Underside black, spotted
with white.

1 c? changing plumage, Upper Aroa River, 24. xi. 04. (No. 52.) Upperside
black and brown, underside white.

2 ? ?, Upper Aroa River, December 1904, January 1905. (Nos. B 88, 189.)
Upperside black, underside white, with a few black edges to the feathers ou
the breast.

1 ? , Upper Aroa River, 2. xii. 04. (No. B 98.) Upperside black, underside
white with one or two black spots.

All the specimens with perfectly black underside are marked " S." It
seems that the females as well as the young males are white underneath.

90. Rhipidura atra Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 465.

2 <5S, 2 ? ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November, December 1905,
January, February 1906. (Nos. A 1837, 1921, 1951, 2062.)

2 (?<?, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2219, 2225.)
2 cTc?, Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 486, 580.)

91. Rhipidura threnothorax S. Mall.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 463.

(?,Bnbnni, Upper Aroa River, 19. iv. 05. (No. B239.) "Iris dark brown,
feet slaty black, dirty white under-mandible."

92. Rhipidura setosa gularis S. Mull.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 464.

1 ? , sexed <?, not quite adult, Upper Aroa River, 5. i. 05. (No. B 137.)

93. Rhipidura hyperythra Gray.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 464.

? , Bnbini, Upper Aroa River, 8. iv. 05. (No. B 230.)

94. Rhipidura rufidorsa Mey.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 465.

J, Avera, Aroa River, 3. vi. 03. (No. A 596.) This specimen is evidently
abnormal, the rectrices being creamy white with a grey tinge, and the feet are
very pale. The iris was dark brown. The rump and upper tail-coverts are
also lighter. The crown is more rufescent, but this is probably due to immaturity.

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95. Rhipidura auricularis De Vis.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 465.

$ ? ad., Owgarra, Angahuuga River, November, December 1904. (Nos.
A 1873, 1917.) " Iris brown, feet black, bill black, underneath light horn."
2 <S6, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. 1792, 1793.)

96. Myiagra rubecula (Lath.).

Tndus rubecula Latham, hid. Orn., Suppl. p. xxxii (1801. — Australia). — This name has been
largely adopted, though its diagnosis is poor and has been thought to be insufficient by
Salvador!.

<? ?, Upper Aroa River, 8. xii. (14. (Nos. B 96, 97). " Iris dark brown, feet
dark slate, bill blue slate."

The specimens appear to be somewhat pale and short-winged, and a good
series may prove their distinctness from the Australian form. Our examples
are, however, very worn.

97. Machaerirhynchus xanthogenys xanthogenys Gray.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 476.

2 cJ 8, 2 ? ? , Upper Aroa River, 3. xii. 04, 1. i. 05. (Nos. B 81, 127, 34, 107.)
8, Bubnni, Upper Aroa River, 7. iv. 05. (No. B227.)

98. Machaerirhynchus nigripectus Schleg.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 476.

2 cJcJ, 2 ? ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, October, November 1904, February
1905. (Nos. A 1817, 1854, 1864, 2108.)

<??, Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A571, 588.)

99. Arses telescophthalmus henkei Mey.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 461.

3 8 ad., 1 8 juv., 1 ?, Upper Aroa River, October, December 1904,
January 1905. (Nos'. B 4, 5, 9, 99, 168.)

100. Monarcha guttula (Gam.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 456.

3 8 ? , Upper Aroa River, October 1904, January 1905. (Nos. B 7, 29, 198.)

101. Monarcha axillaris Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool 1903. p. 458.

1 ?, Head of Aroa River, 19. v. 05. (No. A 21 91.)

1 ?,Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 21. v. 05. (No. B267.)

8, Avera, Aroa River, 27. v. 03. - (No. A 557.)

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102. Monarcha chrysomela aruensis Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 459.

3 cJ<J, Upper Aroa River, 29. xii. 04, 12. i., 3. ii. 05. (Nos. B 117, 163,
206.)

Specimens from German New Guinea (Simbang and Sattelberg, cf. Nov. Zool.
x. 1903. p. 459) are much more golden yellow than birds from British New
Guinea, the difference being very marked in the female. They are certainly
not arue?mis, but will probably be found to agree with aurantiacus when more
material is available for comparison.

103. Monarcha melanopsis (Vieill.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 455.

2 ? ?, Upper Aroa River, November 1904. (Nos. B 33, 62.)

104. Monarcha periophthalmicus Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 455.

1 cj, Bnbuni, Upper Aroa River, 17. iv. 05. (No. B234.)

105. Peltops blainvillii (Less, and Gam.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 454.

<?, Bnbuni, Upper Aroa River, 29. iv. 05. (No. B 255.)
S, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 16. ii. 05. (No. A 2101.)

106. Graucalus caeruleogrisea (Gray).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 203.

3 c?(?, Avera, Aroa River, January, February 1903. (Nos. A 104, 183,238.)
" Iris dark brown, feet and bill black."

107. Graucalus longicauda De Vis.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 204.

2 ? ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 15. xi. 04, 24. i. 05. (Nos. A 1848,2026.)
" Iris dark brown, feet and bill black."

108. Graucalus axillaris Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 206.

<?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 4. xi. 05. (No. A 2048.)

109. Edoliisoma melas meeki Etothsch. & Hart.

Edoliisoma melat meeki Rothsch. & Hart. Nov. Zool. x. 1903. p. 207 (Brit. New Guinea and the Fly
River).

<?, Avera, Aroa River, 8. ii. 03. (No. A 221.) " Iris dark brown, feet and bill
black."

$, Upper Aroa River, 31. xii. 04. (No. B 121.)

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110. Edoliisoma moutana minus snbsp. nov.
Cf. Nov. Zoo!. 1903. p. 207. No. 17.

<??, Avera, Aroa River, January, February 1903. (Nos. A 21 1 , 222.)

$, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (No. A 1797.) "Iris dark brown, bill
and feet black."

We have now about 14 males and several females, which we could compare
with 4 males from Arfak. It thus becomes evident that the birds from British
New Guinea form a smaller subspecies than the northern ones. The wings of
onr males from British New Guinea measure only 128 to 132, those of four males
from Arfak 136*5 to 141-5 mm. We name the smaller race Ed. montana minus.
Type : 3 ad., Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north side of the Owen Stanley
Mountains, 29. iii. 1906. (No. A 2672.)

From this latter locality we have also received several specimens.

111. Lalage karu polygrammica (Gray).
Cf. Nor. Zool. 1003. p. 210.

3, Avera, Aroa River, 24. ii. 03. (No. 286.)

3, Bubuui, Upper Aroa River, 29. iv. 05. (No. B 254.)

112. Eupetes caerulescens nigricrissus Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 230.

? , Upper Aroa River, 30. x. 04. (No. B 24.)

113. Eupetes castanonotus pulcher Sharpe.

Cf. Nor. Zool. 1903. p. 229.

3 <?c?, 3 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 254, 280,
361, 370, 438, 446.)

3, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 27. iv. 05. (No. B 253.)

This series fully bears out the difference which we pointed out iu 1903, I.e.

114. Eupetes leucostictus loriae Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 230, 231.

1 ?, Head of Aroa River, 26. v. 05. (No. A 2119.)

4 3 3, Avera, Aroa River, February, March, May 1903. (Nos. A. 164, 391,
523, 553.)

4 3 ? ad., Owgarra, Angabunga River, November 1904, January, April,
May 1905. (Nos. A 2029, 2043, 2247, 1268.)

1 3 juv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, 25. i. 05. (No. A. 2030).

" Iris of adult dark brown, feet dark brown, bill black."

Two specimens marked as females (Nos. 2119, 2043) differ in no way from the
malts, except that one of them is browner above.

115. Drymoedus beccarii Salvad.
Cf. Nor. Zool. 1H03. p. 229.

?, iu moult, Avera, Aroa River, 22. ii. 03. (No. A 27o.)
6, Upper Aroa River, 25. i. 05. (No. B 190.)

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These two birds are paler beneath, not ro rusty, otherwise they resemble those
from Arn. The type came from Arfak, but we have, unfortunately, no specimens
from there.

116. Ifrita coronata Rothsch.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 226.

4 $$, 2 ? ? , Avera, Aroa River, May 1903. (Nos. A 489, 497, 498, 524, 527,
535.)

2 d<S, 6 ? ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, November, December 1904, January
1905. (Nos. A 1880, 1898, 1899, 1984, 1907, 1904, 2011, 2024.)

3 (?c?, Head of Aroa River, April 1905. (Nos. A 2120, 2153, one without
original label.)

"Iris chocolate brown, brown; feet green slate; bill, upper mandible black,
lower light horn."

The only difference in the sexes is the rufous instead of white superciliary
line of the females. In some of the males the superciliaries are tipped and edged
with light blue.

117. Crateroscelis murinus (Scl.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 226.

3 $ $, 3 ? ? , Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 1903. (Nos. A. 154,
223,229, 261,288, 471.)

1 ¥ , Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 4. iv. 1 905. (No. B 224.)

1 ? juv., Upper Aroa River, without date or number.

The females are tinged with ochraeeous on the whole abdomen, while in the
males the middle of the breast and abdomen, as well as the throat, is white. In
two of our specimens the throat too is pale ochraeeous, these examples thus bearing
a close similarity to our G. rufobrunnea from Humboldt Bay {Nov. Zool. 1903,
p. 225). It is by no means impossible that the latter is a merely a younger
specimen of C. murinus, but further research is required.

118. Crateroscelis pectoralis Rothsch. & Hart.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 227.

4 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February, May 1903. (Nos. A 179, 511, 513, 562.)

2 <$<$, 1 ?. flea.l of Aroa River, May U}05. (Nos. A 1794, 2164, 2169.)

The males are slightly larger (wings 62 to 64 mm., instead of 56 to 59 in the
females), the dark band across the chest is darker and much more conspicuous,
while in the females it is paler and less distinct. In two of our females the
throat is slightly tinged with buff.

119. Amalocichla brevicauda (De Vis).

Cf. Nor. Zool. 1903. p. 226.

c? juv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, 22. i. 05. (No. A 2016.)
4 ^? ad., 1 6 juv., Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2220, 2237,
2238, 2239, 2245.)

" Iris brown, feet slate, bill black."

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The female has a shorter wiug, and the pectoral band is more rusty brown.

Two young liinls agree with the one described in Not. Zool. x. p. 220, with
the exception of the under tail-coverts, which are huff or whitish buff, instead of
rufous.

120. Megalurus macrurus rnacrurus (Salvad.).
(if. Nov. Knit. 1 90S. p. 225.

6 <? ? , Owgarra, Angabnnga River, December 1904, February 1905. (Nos
A189:!, 1894, 10D2, 1937, 1946, 2056.)

2 ? ?, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2205, 2253.)

1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, February, May 1003. (Nos. A 196, 569.)

121. Cisticola exilis Vig. & Horsf.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 225.

2SS, 1 ?? Upper Aroa River, December 1904. (Nos. B 82, 119, 124.)

122. Sericornis nigrorufa Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool 1903. p. 228.

4c??, Avera, Aroa River, February, May, Juue 1903. (Nos. A 243, 495,
539, 574.)

1 ?, Head of Aroa River, 13. v. 05. (No. A 2180.)
" Iris brown, feet dark brown, bill black."

No. 495 is a very young bird. On the npperside it is exactly like the adult
bird, but the feathers of the underside are slightly duller in colour, and have
more or less distinct dusky edges or tips. The bill is much shorter, and both
mandibles appear to be entirely black.

123. Sericornis perspicillata Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 228.

t?, Avera, Aroa River, 17. v. 03. (No. A 48.5.)

2 c?cf, 1 <?? Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November 1004, January, February
1905. (Nos. A 1830, 1074, 2100.)

?, Head of Aroa River, 12. v. 05. (No. A. 2178.)

"Iris brown, reddish brown, feet smoky brown, bill black."

124. Sericornis olivacea Salvad.

Sericornis olivacea Salvador!, Ann. Mux. Civ. Genova xxxvi. p. 100 (1X90 — Moroka).
Sericornis pueilla Rothsch. & Hart,, Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 228 (Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range, 2000—
4000 ft.).

In 101)3, when describing 8. pusilla, we had only one example of S. olivacea
from Mt. Cameron to compare. We have now received four specimens from the
Aroa River, and, finding them more or less bridging over the gap between our
one S. olivacea from Mt. Cameron and the type of S. pusilla, we come to the
conclusion that they must belong to the same form. In fact, the only differences
between the specimen from Mt. Cameron and our pusilla was the smaller size
and less distinct stripes on the under-surface ; both these characters do not
hold good.

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2 (?(?, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February and March 1903. (Nos. A 180,
251, 412, 439.)

" Iris dark brown (light brown), feet smoky brown or smoky slate, bill dark
brown."

Wiug of c?, Mt. Cameron, 54 ; cJc?, Avera, 52, 53; ? ?, Avera, 48, 51 ;
??, Mt. Gayata, 50-3 (not 51) mm.

125. Sericornis arfakiana Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 228.

4 c??, 1 c? juv., Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 482, 487,
572, 573, 599.)

3 (J?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, November 1904, Jaunary 1905. (Nos.
A 1831, 1843, 1970.)

1 ? ad., 1 ? jnv., Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 2128, 2246.)

Nos. A 573 and 2128 are evidently youug birds ; they are much more

oehraceous brown, both above and below, entirely lacking the olive shade above

of the adnlt birds ; the throat is rufous ochraceons, and so are the sides, the

middle of the abdomen ouly being dull sulphur-yellow.

126. Pratincola caprata aethiops (Scl.).

Poecilodri/as aethiops Sclater, P. Z.S. 1880. p. 66. PI. VII. fig. 1. (New Britain).
Pratincola caprata atrala Rothsch. <fe Hart., Nor. Zool. 1903. p. 468 (Mt. Scratchley).

3 cfcf, 2 3 juv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November 1904.
(Nos. A 1820, 1877, 1894, 1939, 1947.)

1 ? (sexed " S "), Avera, Upper Aroa River, 24. ii. 03. A. S. Meek.
(No. A 287.)

Apparently the large form of black Pratincola from New Guinea must after
all be separated from the Ceylonese atrata, as the females appear to be greyer
and paler, and have white under and upper tail-coverts. Possibly the black of
the males is deeper and more glossy, hut larger series should be examined.
Our specimen (No. A 287) has white tail-coverts, and so have the two supposed
young males.

127. Artamus maximus Meyer.

Artamus maximus Meyer, Silziingsber. k. Akatl. Wiss. Wieii, lxix. p. 203 (1874 — Arfak).

3 cj J, Owgarra, Angabunga River, December 1904. (Nos. A 1900, 1901,
1938.)

2 S ad., 1 6 juv., Avera, Aroa River, March 1903. (Nos. A 334, 335, 336.)
" Iris dark brown, feet slate, bill chalky blue."

128. Melanopyrrhus anais orientalis (Schleg.).

Gracula <i,iui< orientalis Schlegel, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. iv. p. 52 (1871 — Boudey in New Guinea).

S, Upper Aroa River, 30. xii. 1904. (No. B 120.)

tJ, Lower Aroa River, 1905. (No. B 258.)

"Iris bright clear yellow, feet pale yellow, bill straw-yellow."

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129. Mino dumontii Less.

Miiw Dumontii Lesson, Voy. Cnq., Alias, Zool. p. 25 (182(5 — Dorei).

?, Upper Aroa River, 22. i. 05. (No. B 184.)

130. Pomareopsis bruijni (Salvad.).

Orallina bruijni Salvadori, Ann. Mut. Cm. Gen. vii. p. 929 (1875 — Aifak).
Pomareopsis eemiatra Oustalet, Ass. 8e. de France, 1880. p. 173 (Arfak).

2 ? ?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November 1904. (Nos. A 1846, 1869.)
2 SS, Avera, Aroa River, 21 i., 5. iii. 03. (Nos. A 31, 367.)
" Iris brown, feet blue slate, bill pale chalky blue."

131. Pitta atricapilla atricapilla Qnoy & Gaim.

Pitta atricapilla Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe i. p. 258. pi. 8. fig. 3 (1830— Dorei).

Pitta novaeguineae Miiller & Schlegel, Verb. Nat. Gesch. Netln-l. Ovens. Bez., Zool., Arts, Pitta, p. 19,

20 (1839-44— Dutch New Guinea).
Pitta atricapilla atricapilla Itothsch. & Hart., Nov. Znol. 1901. p. 62.

Cuvier has not described a Pitta atricapilla, therefore this name must be
used for the New Guinea form.

2 dS, 1 ¥, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904. (Nos. B 30,
96, 111.)

132. Mellopitta lugubris (Scbleg.).

Melampitta lugubris Schlegel, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 47 (1871 — Northern New Guinea).

1 <?, 2 ? ¥, Avera, Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 491, 516, 502.)

2 c?c?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 30. xii. 04, 9. v. 05. (Nos. A 1791,
1946.)

133. Ailuroedus stonei Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 60.

cS, Upper Aroa River, 4. ii. 05. (No. B 207.)

6 ? , Bnbnni, Upper Aroa River, April 1905. (Nos. B. 237, 257.)

" Iris dark brownish red, feet blue slate, bill blue slate."

134. Ailuroedus melanotis melanocephalus Rams.

Cf. Nov. Znol. 1903. p. 67.

5 6 ? , Avera, Aroa River, January 1903. (Nos. A 52, 80, 81, 129, 230.)

2 c? <S, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 1788, 2224.)

" Iris dark hazel, dark red, feet pale blue slate, bill pale slate, horn-colour."

135. Amblyornis inornatus (Schleg.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 69.

$ juv., Avera, Aroa River, 17. v. 03. (No. A 484.)

(J, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 16. ii. 05. (No. A 2106.)

" Iris brown, feet slate, bill black."

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136. Amblyornis subalaris Sharpe.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 69.

3(f(J, Avera, Aroa River, February, May 1903. (Nos. A 314, 314a, 500.)
" Iris brown, feet greenish slate, bill burnt umber, black."

1 c? ad., 2 <?c?jnv., Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 2123,
2124, 2193.)

1 3 ad., 3 juv., Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. B 264, 271.)

137. Loria loriae Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 70.

? , Avera, Aroa River, 17. v. 03. (No. A 479.)

2 SS, Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 1798, 2250.)
" Iris brown, feet green slate, bill black."

138. Parotia lawesi Rams.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 71.

2 33 juv., Avera, Aroa River, 27. i., 21. v. 03. (Nos. A. 122, 536.)

3 juv., Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 15. v. 05. (No. B. 260.)

139. Lophorina minor Rams.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 72.

3 juv., 2??, Avera, Aroa River, January, February 1903. (Nos. A 131,
136, 144.)

2 ? ? , Owgarra, Angabunga River, 16. ii. 05. (Nos. A 2102, 2103.)

3 juv., Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 24. v. 05. (No. B273.)

140. Drepanornis albertisi cervinicauda Scl.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 75.

S, Avera, Aroa River, 9. i. 03. (No. A 225.)
? , Head of Aroa River, 25. v. 05. (No. A 2228.)

141. Falcinellus meyeri (Finsch).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 70.

3 juv., Avera, Aroa River, 25. i. 03. (No. A 103.)
3 juv., Head of Aroa River, 25. v. 05. (No. A 2230.)

142. Astrapia stephaniae (Finsch & Meyer).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 76.

3 juv., Avera, Aroa River, 18. v. 03. (No. A 499.)
? , Head of Aroa River, 27. v. 05. (No. A 3251.)

143. Diphyllodes rnagriinca hunsteini Meyer.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 78, 79.

2 ? ? , Avera, Aroa River, January 1903. (Nos. A. 62, 208.)

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144. Phonyganimus keraudreni jamesi Sharpe.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 87, 88.

6c??, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 82, 99,
117, 127,128,2:52.)

(3 c??, Upper Aroa River, October, November 1904. (Nos. B 17, 18, 31, 37,
38, 39.)

<?, Owgarra, Angabvmga River, 12. ii. 05. (No. A 2070.)

c? ¥ , Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 16, 17. v. 05. (Nos. B 262, 263.)

? , Head of Aroa River, 23. v. 05. (No. A 221 6.)

145. Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothsch.

Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothsch., Bull. B. O. C. xiv. May 1904. p. 79 (Avera, Aroa River).

c?, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 15. v. 05. (No. B201.)
This specimen is slightly darker than the type and others.
P. dichrous monticola differs from P. (Urinous dichrous in being much paler
rufous both above and below.

140. Pitohui ferrugineus clarus (Meyer).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 98.

?, Avera, Aroa River, 1. iii. 03. (No. A 331.) "Iris silvery grey, feet pale
blue, bill black."

147. Pitohui cristata (Salvad.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 98.

6c??, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 182, 265, 269, 408,
430, 450.)

148. Pitohui nigrescens schistaceus (Rchw.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 98.

2 c?c?, Avera, Aroa River, January, May 1903. (Nos. A 96, 531.)

2 c?c?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, January 1905. (Nos. A 1995, 2017.)
? , Head of Aroa River, 29. iv. 05. (No. 2138.)

" Iris brown, feet and bill black."

149. Pinarolestes megarhyncha despectus Rothsch. & Hart.

Pinarolestes megwrhyncha despectus Rothsch. & Hart., Nov. Zool. 1903. x. p. 100 (Milne Bay).

7 c??, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 7, 133,
201,210, 318, 385,402.)

c?, Upper Aroa River, 16. iv. 05. (No. 232.)

? , Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 25. iv. 05. (No. 1? 249.)

c?, Head of Aroa River, 12. v. 05. (No. A 2176.)

15n. Pachycephala soror Bel.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 103.

3 c? ad., 1 c? jnv., 3 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos.
A 173, 227, 310, 338, 346, 383, 388.)

?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 16. ii. 05. (No. A 2110.)

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Three females from Arfak are above much mure brownish olive, the head
brown, whereas in birds from British New Guinea the upper parts are darker olive,
the head greyish brown.

Fresh material should be compared from Arfak, in order to show if these
differences are constant enough to warrant the separation of two forms.

151. Pachycephala schlegelii obscurior Hart.

Cf. Nov. Znol. 1903. p. 103.

2 6<S, 2 ¥ ¥, Avera, Aroa River, March, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 377, 378,
530, 579.)

1 c?, 3 ¥ ¥, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, October 1904, January 1905. (Nos.
A 1*14, 1815, 1841, 1966.)

152. Pachycephala rufinucha garnblei Rothsch.

Cf. Nor. Znol. 1903. p. 1H4.

6 c??, Avera, Aroa River, January, May 1903. (Nos. A 135, 494, 514, 532,
544, 545.)

5 <S ¥ ad., S jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November, December 1904,
January 1905. (Nos. A 1826, 1889, 1909, 1987, 1991, 2042.)

¥ ? jnv., head of Aroa River, 30. iv. 05. (No. A 2152.)

No. 2152 is quite a young bird. It is dark olive-green above with chestnut
patches, the rump still chestnut rufous, the rufous feathers evidently being those
of the first plumage, the olive-green ones that of the next, and the underside
uniform cinnamon rufous. No. 1909 is also young, being like the former on the
npperside, but having the underside, below the breast, mixed with dirty whire.
Neither has any nape patch, and iu one the forehead is tinged with rufous

153. Pachycephala leucogastra leucogastra >Salvad. & D'Alb.

Pachycephala leucogastra Salvadori & D'Albertis, Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 822 (1875 —
Mount Epa).

5 (? ad., 2 ¥¥, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904, January,
February 1905. (Nos. B 47, 53, 95, 183, 188, 196, 221.)

J ¥ ad. " Iris reddish brown (dark brown), feet bluish slate, bill black."

This is the first time we have received specimens of this very rare Pachycephala.
The male in fresh plumage has the crown black, the back ashy grey, slightly
lighter on the rump. The underside, with the exception of the wide Mack
praepectoral collar, is white. In worn plumage the back is more brownish, and
the dark shafts of the feathers, which are less in evidence in freshly moulted birds,
become very conspicuous. The female, in fresh plumage, is grey above, without
any black on the crown, the throat white with black shaft-lines ; a band of grey
with blackish streaks across the lower throat, just before the breast : the abdomen
white with a creamy tinge ; under tail-coverts white. Wing, £, about 88 — 89 nun.

We have now the following subspecies of this group :

P. 1. leucogastra Salvad. & D'Alb., 1875 : British New Guinea. Mountains.

[Wing, <S ad., 88 — 89 mm. ; back ashy grey ; sides of chest white ; abdomen
white; bill shorter. ¥: above grey; throat with dark shads; pale grey prae-
pectoral collar ; abdomen creamy white.]

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P. I. meeki Hurt. 1898 : Rossel Island, Lonisiades.

[Wing about 82 mm. ; back much more blackish, slate-colour or slaty grey,
the black therefore less sharply defined ; sides of chest grey ; middle of abdomen
white ; bill longer. ? : above brownish grey ; throat creamy white ; grey prae-
pectoral collar ; abdomen creamy buff.]

P. I. tianduana Hart. 1901 : Tiandu Island, Little Key group.

[Wing, 6 ad., about 83 — 86 mm. ; back brownish slate or brownish grey ;
sides of chest pale creamy grey ; abdomen rich cream-colour ; bill stronger.
? : above brown ; throat and rest of underside with deep brown shaft-stripes ; no
greyish praepectoral collar.]

P. 1. arctitorquis Scl. 1883 : Tenimber Islands.

[Wing, <S ad., about 78 — 80 mm. or more ; back brownish grey, not as dark
as in P. 1. tianduana ; sides of chest as in tianduana ; praepectoral collar not so
wide ; abdomen creamy ; bill as in tianduana. ? : like that of tianduana, but
more rufous above.]

P. I. kebirensis A. B. Meyer, 1883 : Babber and Dammer Islands.

[Exactly like P. I. arctitorquis, but the female has the crown not cinnamon,
but ashy grey ; the males do not seem to differ.]

More material in fresh plumage is desirable, in order to find out how the males
of Itebirensis differ from those of arctitorquis. The birds from the other South-west
Islands (Moa, Dammer, Roma) seem to be the same ; but the few examples before
us from Moa are rather small, and the females from Roma are rather greyish
above ! Cf. Noc. Zool. 1904. pp. 212, 213.

154. Pachycephala nioroka Rothsch. & Hart.

Pachycephala morolca Rothsch. & Hart., Nov. Zool. 1903. x. p. 106 (Moroka district, British New
Guinea).

3 6S, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angalmnga River, November 1904, January 1905. (Nos.
A 1839, 1882, 2003, 2035.) " Iris dark brown, bill and feet black."

In Nov. Zool. 1903 we described this species from a single nnsexed specimen.
We have uow the pleasure of recording four more examples from the Upper
Augabuuga River.

The upper surface is olive-brown ; lores and crown to nape slate-grey ;
ear-coverts brown with paler shafts ; quills deep brown, primaries narrowly edged
with brownish grey, secondaries with wider olive-brown outer edges ; tail olive-
brown ; throat white with dark grey mottlings to the tips of the feathers ; .across
the chest an ill-defined wide pale greyish brown band ; abdomen, under wing-
coverts, and inner edges of wings white. The sexes are alike : the wings of the
males about 83 — 85, that of the female nearly 88 mm. long.

155. Pachycephala griseiceps griseiceps Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 105.

3J?, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 328, 457, 461.)
¥, Upper Aroa River, 27. xii. 1904., (No. B 112.)

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156. Pachycephala hyperythra salvadorii Rothsch.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 107.

3c??, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 297, 384, 440.)
cf, Bubuni, Upper Aroa River, 21. i v. 05. (No. B242.) "Iris dark brown,
feet light brownish white, bill black."

With the help of these properly sexed examples it becomes evident that
P. h. salvadorii, though easily distinguished by the colour of the upper- and
underside, has the ear-coverts asby slate in the adult male, more or less ochraceous
in the females. The colour of the ear-coverts is, therefore, not a distinguishing
character of this subspecies.

157. Pachycephala leucostijrma Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 107.

1 cf, 1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, March 1903. (Nos. A 368, 415.)

2 ? ? , Head of Aroa River, April 1905. (Nos. A 2135, 2150.)

1 cf, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, January 1905. (Nos. A 1965, 2028.)

" cf , Iris dove-colour, feet slate-colour (slaty blue), bill black (vandyke-brown);
?, Iris brown (dull green, dull yellow), feet slate-colour (blue slate), bill black."

The females agree well with three from Arfak, except that they are somewhat
more whitish and less yellowish on the under-surface, and the wings mostly less
edged with rnfons. Probably our Arfak examples are less adult, but a series, also
of males, would be necessary from Arfak to decide whether the South-eastern form
is quite the same or not.

It has beeu supposed that we knew the adult male, which was like the female,
but this is evidently not the case. Of the nine Arfak (Hatam) specimens which
Salvador! had when he wrote the (>>■». dilla Papuusia (vol. ii. p. 234), seven were
sexed as females. The two sexed as males are evidently immature, as they are
described as more rufous. Of the three before us one has no indication of the sex,
the others are marked as females (" parampnan "). The two birds sexed as males
by Meek differ very much in colour, but agree entirely in shape ami dimensions.
"We have therefore no doubt that they are the genuine males of Pachycephala
leucostigma, hitherto only known from females and immature males.

The adult males are as follows :

Upperside olivaceous brown, head greyish, the feathers being slate-grey with
olivaceous edges; quills deep brown, outer edges greenish olive-brown, paler on
the primaries, brighter and wider on the secondaries; rectrices olive-brown with
olive-green borders ; upper wing-coverts olive-brown, some of the median and
larger ones with pale brownish buff tips. Feathers of the throat dirty whitish buff,
tips narrowly edged with olive, bases dark grey ; breast and abdomen pale huffy
olivaceous brown, under tail-coverts washed with rusty rufous. Under wing-coverts
and inner lining of quills rusty buff.

158. Pachycephala poliosoma (Sharpe).

Pachycephalopsispoliowma Sharpe, .[mint. Linn. Soc.,Zool.xvi. p. .'is l ( 1882— Astrolabe Mts.) ; Cat.
B. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 220. pi. ix.

cf ?, Head of Aroa River, May L905. (Nos. A2167, 2170.)
cf , Owgarra, Angabunga River, 12. xi. 05. (No. A 2073.)

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4 <? ? , Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2166, 2208, 2210, 2224.)
<? ?, Bnbnni, Upper Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. B 248, 270.)

159. Pachycare flavogrisea (Mey.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 108.

6c??, Avera, Aroa River, January, March 1903. (Nos. A 41, 42, 74, 90, 155,
421.) " Iris in <J dark hazel, dark brown, dark plum red, ? light brown, feet
smoky brown, bill black in both sexes."

We have already expressed our opinion (Ac.) that the specimens with the
auricular patch of olive are females. The yonng birds evidently also have this olive
patch, thus resembling the adult females. If our theory about the sexes is correct,
then we must, however, admit that many of our examples — even those " sexed " by
good collectors — are incorrectly marked, but nevertheless we are inclined to think
that we are right in this case.

16U. Chaetorhynchus papuensis Meyer.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 110.

6c??, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 19(J3. (Nos. A 137, 234,
263,362, 371,436.)

?, Bnbuni, Upper Aroa River, 18. iv. 05. (No. B236.)
c?, Head of Aroa River, 7. v. 05. (No. A 1786.)

161. Oriolus striatus Quoy & Gaim.

Orioht.i striatal Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe i. p. 191. pi. ix. 2 (1830 — Dorei).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 111.

? , Avera, Aroa River, 3. iii. 03. (No. A 351.)

162. Climacteris placens Scl. (?an subsp.).
Climacteris placens Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873. p. 693 (Arfak).

3 c?<?, 2 ? ? , Owgarra, Angabunga River, January 1905. (Nos. A. 2013, 2014,
2015, 2038, 1963.) " Iris dark red, feet green slate, bill black " in both sexes.

Also some from Bihngi, head of Mambare River.

It would be necessary to compare a series from the Arfak Mountains to decide
whether the form from the Owen Stanley Range differs from that of Arfak. The
one female we were able to compare from Arfak has the feathers of the crown tipped
with chestnut, while in those from Owgarra these tips are much lighter rufous.
There is, however, a good deal of variation in the colour of these feathers, but still
more in that of the abdomen. While the abdomen in most specimens is heavily
spotted — each feather having a light yellowish brown, almost buff, centre and a
blackish border — it is almost uniform yellowish brown in some evidently very old
males. Doubtless the most heavily spotted female (No. A 2601, from Bihagi,
12. viii. 06) is immature, and so is apparently our Arfak example.

163. Neositta albifrons (Bams.).

Sitella albifrons Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Sue N. S. Wales viii. p. 24 (1883— Astrolabe Mts.).

c? ? , Owgarra, Angabunga River, February 1905. (Nos. 2066, 2067.) " Iris
straw-yellow, feet chrome-yellow, bill pale yellow with black tips."

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The females have the head all ronnd, nape and throat ashy white, most feathers
with a more or less distinct grey shaft-line : in most specimens the upper tail-coverts
are pnre white, only the lateral ones having wide black median stripes, while in one
every feather has a blackish shaft-stripe, these stripes being wider on the longest
coverts, which are also washed with brown. One, evidently younger, female has
the head light brownish grey, each feather with a blackish shaft-stripe. Round the
eyes, in both sexes, is a bare yellow ring, which has evidently been yellow in life,
like the bill and feet. The males have larger dimensions, the wings beiug longer.
The top of the head is blackish grey with hoary whitish margins to the feathers,
the throat and jugulum are white with very broad blackish central areas, or one
might say blackish grey with wide white edges to the feathers. The males measure,
wings 81 to 85 ; females, wings 77 to 80-5.

In addition to the skins from Owgarra, mentioned above, we have now
received :

2 3 S and 4 ? ? from Bihagi, at the head of the Mambare River, on the north-
eastern side of the Owen Stanley Mountains.

164. Cinnyris aspasia aspasia Less.

Cf. Nnv.Zool. 1903. p. 211.

1 i, 4 ??, Upper Aroa River, December 1904, January, February 1905.
(Nos. B87, 123, 157, 182, 210.)

165. Cinnyris frenata frenata (S. Mull.).

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 213.

<? ? , Upper Aroa River, January, February 1905. (Nos. B. 151, 222.)

166. Dicaeum geelvinkianum rubrocoronatum Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 215.

4 S S, Avera, Aroa River, March, April 1903. (Nos. A 198, 460, 467, 475.)
6 <$S, 3 ? ?, Upper Aroa River, December 1904, January, February, 1905.
(Nos. B 109, 143, 148, 149, 150, 169, 185, 205, 215.)

167. Oreocharis arfaki (Meyer).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 479.

1 c? ad., 1 c? jnv., 2 ? ad., Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November,
1904, January 1905. (Nos. A 1818, 1834, 1964, 1996.)

168. Melanocharis bicolor Rams.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 216.

When enumerating the various forms of Melanocharis (I.e.) in 1903 we did
not fully understand them, for want of material, and made some great mistakes,
mixing up " Urocharis longicauda" with Melanocharis. We now give a new
and more correct list of our specimens, which belong to the following forms :

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169. Urocharis longicauda (Salvad, .

Melanocharis longicauda Salvadori, Ann. Mas. Cir. Htn. xvi. p. U'.l (1880 — Arfak).

In this species the second primary is somewhat narrower, largely emarginated
or notched on the end of the inner web, and the tip conspicuously curved inwards.
(S ad. : above glossy greenish black, tail black with greenish edges, outermost
rectrix with the basal two-thirds of the outer web and a more or less sharply
defined spot within the distal fourth of the inner web white. Under-surface olive-
yellowish, clearer in the middle of the abdomen, more washed with grey on the
throat and chest ; nnder wing-coverts white, mostly washed with yellow, axillaries
sulphur-yellow, or whitish yellow, inner margins of quills white. Wing in two
Arfak specimens (c?) 62—64, in the examples from British New Guinea
64'5 — 67 mm. A female from the Aroa River is exactly like the male, except
that the upper surface is olive-green. Wing 67 mm. Another female from
Arfak has the wing only about 63, and the second primary less curved and
less emarginated than in the male.

We know this species from Arfak and British New Guinea. In 1903 we
mistook it for Melanocharis niger. Whether it is desirable to create a new
genus for this species, which only differs by having a more emarginate second
primary and the tail some millimetres longer, is more than doubtful. Probably we
should not have confounded it with Melanocharis niger if it had not been separated
generic-ally, but we never thought of another " genus." Subtile splitting of
genera advances our knowledge in no way, but makes progress more difficult !

Possibly the Arfak form is smaller, but more material is required to prove this.

We have the following specimens :

2 c? cT, 1 ? , Arfak, July. Native coll.

1 <?, Kotoi district, 4000 ft., 13. viii. 98. A. 8. Anthony coll.

1 <?, Eafa district, 1000—3000 ft. (Purchased from Mcllwraith, Eacharn& Co.)

1 c?. Said to be from Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range (?), 2000—4000 ft.
E. Weiske coll.

1 S without exact locality. E. Weiske coll.

2 <?<?, 1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, January and March 1903. A. S. Meek coll.
(Nos Al, 411, 413.) "Iris, S, brown (light brown), feet, bill black. ?, iris
burnt umber."

Melanocharis niger niger (Less.).

Second primary only very slightly emarginated near the tip, and not so
curved. Colour almost the same as that of "Urocharis" longicauda, bat upperside
of male more blue-black, underside not yellowish, but more olive, only the middle
of the abdomen being pale yellowish. Outer web of outer rectrix not white
towards base, though sometimes with narrow white edge, inner web not with
a white spot, but only with an irregular grey ante-apical shade.

Waigiu, Arfak Peninsula, Kapaur, north coast of Dutch New Guinea to
Humboldt Bay.

We have the following specimens :

1 6, 1 ?, Waigiu, November, December 1902. J. Waterstradt coll.

1 i ad., Sroong, 24. iv. 75. Bruijn coll. (No. j of Salvadori's list in
Orn. Pap. ii. p. 284.)

1 S, 2 ? ?, Arfak, from native hunters.

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1 <?, Dorey, Jnne 1897. W. Doherty coll.

2 <?(?, 2 ??, Kapaur, December 1896, January, February 1897. W.
Doherty coll.

1 cJ, Maori Mountains, Humboldt Bay, 3000 ft., January 1899. J.
Dumas coll.

Melanocharis niger chloroptera Salvad.

Like M. niger niger, but the male with the outer webs of the remiges and
greater upper wing-coverts olive-green.
Am Islands.
We have six specimens {Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 216).

Melanocharis bicolor Rams.

8. Above and below blue-black, under wing-coverts white, axillaries pale
sulphur-yellow. Outer rectrices with grey ante-apical patch, outer web in the
middle, inner web near the tip with white edge. Under tail-coverts mixed with
greenish or whitish. ? and c? jnv. apparently indistinguishable from that of
M. niger.

British New Guinea, German New Guinea, and along the north coast to the
Amberuoh River, thus evidently meeting M. niger along the northern coast.

We have no specimen from Jobi, where a form (M. unicolor Salvad.) occurs
which seems entirely to resemble M. bicolor, except that the under tail-coverts
are entirely black.

We have before us the following series :

4 cJcJ, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February and March 1903. (Nos. A 257,
273, 316, 321, 344.) "Iris, <?, light brown (dark brown), feet black (slate,
dark slate), bill black. ? similar."

7 SS, 1 ?, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904, January, February
1905. (Nos. B 58, 80, 106, 118, 138, 195, 217, 220.) A. S. Meek coll.

6 ?, Kotoi district, August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 ?, Kone district, June 1898. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 S, Ori-ori district, January 1895. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 (?, Mailu district, July— August 1895. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 S, Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, August 1896. A. S. Anthony coll.

1 S, 2 ? ?, said to be from Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range, collected by
Emil Weiske (bought from Mcllwraith & Eacham in London).

2 d<$, Mountains of British New Guinea. Emil Weiske coll.

1 (J, 1 ¥, Milne Bay, February and April 1899. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos.
2355, 2461.)

1 <?, Sattelberg, 27. vi. 99. E. Nyman coll.

1 ? , Simbang, 4. ix. 99. E. Nyman coll.

2 c?c?, 1 ?, Ambernoh River. J. Dumas coll.

4 c? eJ, 4 ? ? , Takar, October— November 1896. W. Doherty coll.

1 ?, Tana Mera, October 1896. W. Doherty coll.

[We have also a specimen of the evident " make " of one of the native
hunters of Dutch New Guinea. It moults from the olivaceous plumage of the
young to the black one of the old male. Its locality is not known, but as it
is a rather good, full skin, it may have come from Tana Mera or thereabouts,
whence the best made skins used to come.]

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170. Melanocharis striativentris Salvad.

Mt&anocharit s&riativentru Salvadori, Aim. Mvs.CKv. Genova (2) xiv. p. 151 (181*4 — Muroka, Owen
Stanley Mts.).

3 jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 15. ii. 05. (No. A 2084.)

3, Head of Aroa River, 28. iv. 05. (No. A2134.) "Iris brown, bill and
feet black."

AVe have further received five males and a female from Bihagi, at the head
oftheMambare River, collected in February and March 1906. The female does
not differ from the male, except that it is slightly duller, a little less greenish,
in colour.

Our frieud Count Salvadori has kindly compared two of our specimens with
the type.

171. Rhamphocharis maculata (Rothseh. & Hart.).

Eafa maculata Rothsch. & Hart., Woo. Znol. x. 1903. p. 448 (Owen Stanley Range, B.N.G.).

c??, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 11, 16. i. 05. (Nos. A 1978, 1998.) "Iris
brown, feet black, bill dark brown."

These two birds agree fully with the type, except that the spots and white
tips of the feathers on the underside are not quite so large.

Hartert has compared the type of " Eafa maculata " with those of
Rhamplwcharis crassivestris in the Genoa Museum, and can fully corroborate
Salvadori's opinion, that maculata belongs to the genus Rhamphocharis.

Recently we have received the adult male and other examples from Bihagi,
head of Mambare River. Its upperside is olive-green, the base of the feathers
grey, separated from the olive-green tips by a blackish zone, but the general
appearance of the upper surface is uniform olive-green, only the crown and upper
tail-coverts being darker. Wings slaty black, outwardly margiued with olive-
green, inwardly with brownish white or whitish brown. Rectrices slaty black,
bases to the outer four white, shafts whitish from below. Uuder-surface light
grey, very faintly tinged with greenish. Under wing-coverts and axillaries white.
"Iris brown ; bill and feet blackish." Wing 71, tail 50, cnlmen 20, metatarsus
18-1 mm.

Young birds are uniform olive-brown above, the females uniform brown below,
young males evidently brownish grey. The under wing-coverts are dark brown
along the middle.

Perhaps Rhamphocharis maculata is only the southern representative of
Rh. crassirostris which is found at Arfak.

172. Pristorhamphus versteri Finsch.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 217.

3 ? , Avcra, Aroa River, Febrnary, March 1903. (Nos. A 176, 375.)

3 3 3, 2 ??, 2 3 jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, October, November,
December 1904, January, February 1905. (Nos. A 1844, 1855, 1856, 1967,
1999, 2094.)

"Iris brown, bill and feet black" in both sexes.

1 3 jnv., Head of Aroa River, 30. iv. 05. (No. A 2147.)

The young male is like the adult female, except that the bill is not so wide
and thick, the wings are shorter, ami the throat and chest, are more ashy olive.

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173. Myzomela rosenbergi Schleg.
Of. Nov. Zonl. 1903. p. 221.

1 <?, 4 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 47, 68, 69,
86, 220.)

7 <?<?, 2 ¥ ?, 1 S juv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, December, 1904, February
1905. (Nos. A 1833, 1866, 1896, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1925, 2082, 2111.)

174. Myzomela nigrita nigrita Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 221.

4c??, Avera, Aroa River, January 1903. (Nos. A 63, 64, 87, 215.)
The wings of these specimens measure from 53 mm. to 56 mm.

175. Myzomela adolphinae Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 219.

2 cJc?, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, January, February 1903. (Nos. A 203, 212,
214,216.)

2 c?cT, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, November, December 1904, January
1905. (Nos. A 1836, 1928, 2010.)

" Iris brown, feet slate, bill black."

176. Myzomela cruentata cruentata Meyer.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 22-2.

4 Si, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, January, March 1903. (Nos. A 45, 46, 56,
57, 84, 395.)

177. Myzomela eques nymani Rothsch. & Hart.

Myzomela eques nymani Rothsch. & Hart., Nov. Zool. x. (1903) p. 223 (Simbang.,Ger. N.G.).

tiJc!, Upper Aroa River, November 1904. (Nos. B 54, 65, 66, 67, 70, 75.)
Mr. Meek sent no female to compare with the type ? from German New

Guinea. The males agree with others from British New Guinea. We have no

male from German New Guinea.

178. Myzomela obscura meeki snbsp. nov.

3 <?c? 2??, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904, February 1905.
(Nos. B 59,64, 71, 122, 208.)

Most similar to the form called by us (Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 224) M. obscura
fumata from the Aru Islands, but differs in being paler, less brown, especially
on the under-surface — so that the sooty gular patch is much more conspicuous —
and on the under wing-coverts. In one of the males the dark gular patch has
a distinct crimson tinge. The bill is slightly less bulky ; the wing, apparently,
averages a little less. Differs from M. obscura obscura in being much less
brown, more greyish. M. obscura grisescens Hart. {Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 235) is
larger, with the gular patch much less conspicuous and more elongated, also
still slightly more grey on the upper surface.

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Wing 3 about 69 — 7m (rather worn) ; wing ? about 62 mm.

Type of M. obscura meeki : ? , 6. ii. 05. (No. B 208.) This female has been
selected as the type because it is in the best plumage.

In our list of the specimens of the genus Myzomela {Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 224)
we have explained that we adopted the name fumata for the Aru birds, though
it was originally given to a specimen from Ontanata in South New Guinea,
because generally the birds from the southern lowlands of New Guinea are like the
Aru forms. For the same reason we have given a new name to the form found by
Meek, as it is not at all probable that the Myzomela from the high mountains
on the Upper Aroa River is the same as that from the lowlands on the southern
coast of Papua.

Formerly we kept separate as two species the simplex group and the obscura
group, also cineracea from New Britain, for want of sufficient knowledge about
it. Hartert is now inclined to unite all these forms as subspecies of one species,
and even albigula and pallidior. If this be correct the forms of this group would
be distributed as follows :

Northern Queensland to Cape York : obscura Gould, 1842.

Northern Territory of" South Australia" : grisescens Hart., 1005.

Mountains of British New Guinea : meeki Kothsch. & Hart., 190".

Lowlands of Southern New Guinea (Ontanata) and Aru Islands ( ? ) : fumata
Bp., 1850.

St. Aignan, Louisiade Islands : pallidior Hart., 1898.

Eossel, Louisiade Islands : albigula Hart., 1898.

New Britain : cineracea Bel., 1879.

Mysori Island in Geelvink Bay : rubrobrunnea Mey., 1874.

Obi, Central Moluccas : rubrotincta Salvad., 1878.

Morty, Northern Moluccas : mortgana Hart., 1903.

Batjan, Northern Moluccas : simplex Gray, 1860.

179. Melithreptus lunulatus albogularis Gould.
Cf. Nov. Znol. 1905. p. 235.

4 33, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904. (Nos. B 42, 49,
50, 79.)

Specimens from New Guinea agree with ours from Australia. Mr. Meek
collected a nice series at Cape York.

180. Glycichaera fallax Salvad.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 435.

3 ?, Upper Aroa River, October 1904. (Nos. B 15, 10.)
" Iris light grey ; feet slate; bill light brown."

181. Glyciphila modesta Gray.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 435.

6 3 ?, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904. (Nos. B 60, 72, 73,
74, 77, 78.)

" Iris brown ; feet and bill light brovyn."

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182. Oedistoma pygmaeutn Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 436.

5c??, Upper Aroa River, November 1904, January 1905. (Nos. B 63, 152,
159, 160, 167.)

183. Melilestes polioptera Sharpe.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 437.

5 ? , Head of Aroa River, 28. v. 05. (No. A 2260.)

184. Melilestes iliolophus iliolophus Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 438.

6 ? . Upper Aroa River, November 1904, January 1905 (Nos. B 56, 162).

185. Melilestes megarhynchus (Gray).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 436.

<?, Head of Aroa River, 14. v. 05. (No. A 2185.)

This is a somewhat variable species. Three birds from Waigiu are rather
greyish olive below and have the throat more whitish. Birds from British New
Guinea are more greenish olive below, Arfak skins being similar, while from
Mysol we have three skins, two of which agree with birds from British New Guinea
and Aru Islands, the third having more grey on the sides of the breast, much like
the bird from Waigiu. We do not, however, feel disposed to say confidently that
any local forms can be separated, our material not being very large.

186. Melipotes gymnops fumigatus Mey.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 439.

6 c? 9 , Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November and December 1904, January
and February 1905. (Nos. A 1859, 1838, 1891, 1932, 1982, 2065.)

187. Melidectis torquatus emilii Mey.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 439.

3 c? 9 , Head of Aroa River, May 1905. (Nos. A 2187, 2202, 2203.)

4 <J9, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November 1904, February 1905. (Nos.
A 1829, 1860, 1861, 2109.)

188. Melirrhophetes ochromelas batesi Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 440.

2 cJc?, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November and December 1904. (Nos.
A 1858, 1908.)

2 c?cJ, 1 9, Head of Arra River, May 1905. (Nos. A2213, 2235, 2230.)

189. Melirrhophetes belfordi De Vis.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 440.

2 SS, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, November, December 1904. (Nos.
A 1883, 1933.)

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190. Ptilotis salvadorii Hart.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 443.

<J, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 26. i. 05. (No. A 2032.)

191. Ptilotis praecipua Hart.
Cf. Nob. Zool. 1903. p. 443.

11 (J? and jnv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November, December
1904, February 1905. (Nos. A 1809, 1840, 1885, 1904, 1919, 1926, 1927, 1929,
2046, 2093, 2095.)

Younger birds have the feathers of the underside margined with yellowish
olive instead of white.

192. Ptilotis meekiana spec. nov.

Supra pallide olivaceo-viridis, longitndinaliter fusco macnlata, uropygio snpra-
caudalibusime fere unicoloribus. Remigibus fuscis, exterins virescente, intns albido
marginatis. Subalaribns fnscis, virescente margiuatis. Rectricibus fuscis, exterins
virescente marginatis. Gulae plumis cinereis, pallide flavo marginatis, pectoris
abdominisque plumis viresceutioribus, marginibus latioribus. Subalaribns pallide
fuscis, flavescente marginatis.

$ ? ad. Upperside of a somewhat pale olive-green with longitudinal blackish
brown markings, the feathers being blackish brown, widely margined with dull
olive-green, the rump and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform olive-green. Wings
dark brown, outside margined with olive-green, inwardly margined with whitish buff.
Rectrices dark brown, the outer webs margined with olive-green, inner webs and
tips of outer pairs very narrowly edged with buffy white. Ear-coverts dull olive.
Feathers of throat and jugulum ashy grey with pale sulphur-yellow margins, the
feathers of the abdomen more olive and with wider yellow edges, sides of abdomen
less yellow, more olivaceous. Under tail-coverts olive-brown with very pale yellow
margins. Under wing-coverts greyish brown with broad pale yellow tips and
margins. " Iris light or silvery grey ; feet slaty or chalky blue ; bill black
or blackish grey."

c?, wing 83 — 88, tail 72-5 — 77, tarsus about 24 — 25, bill (culmen) about 20 mm.
?, wing 76, tail 66, tarsus 21, bill 18 mm.

3 i $, Head of Aroa River, 20, 23, 28. v. 05. (Nos. A 2199, 2214, 2255.)

2 <?<?, 1 ?, Bihagi, head of Mambare River, 11. iii. 06. (Nos. A 2591,
2593, 2595.)

Type : (?, A 2199, head of Aroa River, 4600 ft., 20. v. 1905.

This new species has, as far as we are aware, no very near ally. We sent
a specimen to our friend Count Salvadori, who wrote that he never saw anything
like it.

193. Ptilotis??

cJ, Head of Aroa River, 4000 — 6 it., 15. v. 05. "Iris brown, feet slate,

bill black."

This specimen is very peculiar, li closely resembles Ptilotis analoga orientalis,
but it is much larger and darker, the upper surface deeper and more brownish
green, the underside darker. The wing measures 96 mm. ! We have a very similar

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specimen from Trinity Bay, North Queensland, which is much like the Aroa bird,
but paler, and with a larger beak. We await more material before passing onr
judgment on this single male from the Aroa River.

194. Ptilotis cinerea Scl.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 444.

c?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 13. xi. 04. (No. 1845.)
195. Ptilotis plumbea Salvad.

Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 444.

S, Avera, Aroa River, 3. vi. 03. (No. 597.)

3c??, Owgarra, Angabunga River, December 1904, February 1905. (Nos.
A. 1988, 2085, 2086.)

2 <?c?, Head of Aroa River, 21. v. 05. (Nos. A 2200, 2207.)
" Iris light brown, pale umber; feet slaty blue ; bill black."

196. Euthyrhynchus fulviventris (Rams.).
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 451.

? , Upper Aroa River, 22. x. 04. (No. B 8.) " Iris light yellowish red, feet
very light brown, bill light brown."

197. Zosterops crissalis Sharpe.
Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 452.

6c??, Owgarra, Angabunga River, November 1904. (Nos. 1821—1824, 1827,
1828.)

(For the Ploceidae — three species — see continuation of " Notes on Papuan
Birds " in the next volume of Noe. Zool.)

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NOTES ON AFRICAN BIRDS.

I.
By ERNST HARTERT.

DURING the last seven years the Tring Museum has been greatly enriched
with African birdskins. While formerly Africa was poorly represented
at Tring, the African collections from some portions of the continent and
neighbouring islands are now surpassed by no others, and altogether it is probable
that, next to the British and Berlin Museums, we have now the biggest collection
of African birds. Besides numerous smaller lots bought or exchanged from mnsenms,
dealers, or travellers, we received since 1900 :

1958 skins from the Escarpment, Kikuvu Mountains, collected by Doherty.

720 collected by the late A. W. Eriksson in Damaralaud and on the Limpopo.

289 from S. Thome, taken by A. Mocquerys.

1079 from the Lower Niger, collected by W. J. Ansorge.

368 from Southern Angola, collected by C. H. Pemberton.

292 from the Amambara Creek, Niger, collected by Braham.

1533 from Southern Ethiopia and N. Somaliland, collected by Sapphire

291 from Northern Abyssinia, from G. Schrader.

Over 5000 from Angola, collected by W. J. Ansorge.

208 from Erythrea, from Beccari, jun.

1525 from Oscar Neumann's travels.

792 from Uganda, collected by Rudolf Grauer.

Few of these collections have been properly studied, most of them have so far
only received casual attention, though new forms have from time to time been
described by Neumann and myself.

It seemed desirable to give lists of these collections, because many species were
taken in new localities, while others are nndescribed or give important clues to
the nomenclature, affinities or distribution of forms, or, in some cases, serve to clear
up questions and to correct errors.

Work in African Birds is now comparatively easy, since Reichenow's great work
Die Voyel Afrikas is complete, and since parts of Shelley's Birds of Africa have
appeared. Nevertheless many questions are as yet unsettled in Africa, the
geographical forms of many species have not yet received sufficient attention —
chiefly because collections from the various districts are housed in various countries
and have not been compared side by side — and it seemed especially interesting
to see what the conclusions of an impartial observer were in cases where authorities
like Reichenow, Shelley, Sharpe and others disagreed, if such conclusion could
be arrived at from the material preserved at Tring and otherwise available to the
author for comparison. I hope soon to continue this article.

My thanks are due to those of my colleagues who kindly lent me material
for comparison or allowed me to study the collections under their care.

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1. Textor albirostris albirostris (Vieill.).

Coccdhraiistes albirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 535. "Afrique." — Yieillot
mentions nothing of a white base to the quills, only " un peu de blanc au pli de l'aile et sur le
bord exterieur de quelques pennes ailaires." The statement about some white on the bend of
the wing is probably inexact, some white bases of feathers having shown through. We may
therefore suppose that the type came from Senegal, whence most African birds were brought
to France in olden times, and we may follow the usual custom of accepting the name of
albirostris for the Senegambian form.

Textm- smeijnhnsis Shelley, B. Africa i. p. 34 (lH'.Mi — Gambia). Cf. Reichenow, Vbg. Afr. iii. p. 3.

Distinguishing characters : Base of quills blackish, not white or even whitish
grey. Base of bill highly swollen, rough, and white in adult males — whether
throughout the year or only during the breeding season I cannot say, bnt probably
this peculiarity is not restricted to the breeding season. Shelley described younger
birds or females as senegalensis.

Distribution : Seuegambia to Northern Abyssinia, Bogosland, the White Nile,
Sennaar, and Chartum.

We have trade-skins from Senegambia, one from Bogos (collected by Jesse),
fine skins taken in February, March, and December in Salamona, Erythrea (collected
by G. Schrader), one from the Setit district in Erythrea (collected by Roberto
Gentile, received in exchange from the Florence Museum), and a pullns from
the Blue Nile (10. x. 1850, A. E. Brehm coll.). The pullus has the bill whitish,
less mature ones of both sexes have it blackish, fully adult males black with
white base and swollen base to culmen.

Lesson ( TruM c/'Orn. 1831, p. 433), Riippell, Heuglin, and I (Bull. B.O.C.
xii. 1902. p. 77) mention the extraordinary development of a long and erect penis,
though an anatomical investigation of this growth has never been made.
Cf. Bull. B.O.C, I.e., what the Kafirs of the Transvaal think of it.

2. Textor albirostris scioanus Salvad.

Textor scioanus Salvadori, Ann. Mia. Civ, Genova, 1884. p. 195 (Daimbi, Shoa).

Distinguishing characters : Like T. a. albirostris, but with a distinct whitish
wash at the base of the quills. Bill red or reddish brown with blackish tip,
apparently only sometimes swollen at base. It is very strange that a few specimens
from Shoa have the bill swollen at base, while in a series we have seen from
the Hawash region and Somali not one has a swollen bill.

The following of our specimens appear to belong to T. a. scioanus :

1 S ad., 1 " ? " juv., between Dawa and Aituola in Northern Somaliland, 24, 25.
ii. 1S95. Dr. Doualdsou Smith, coll. (Nos. 525, 529.) Bill 3 ad. " vermilion."

1 d ad., 1 ? juv., Awara Malka (near Aukober), 22. vi. 03. Zapphiro coll.

1 ? juv., Karaba. 22. v. 03. Zapphiro coll.

1 ? juv., Housso River (? Hoursso or Hullo), north of Harar, 7. v. 03.
Zapphiro coll.

4 <$ ad., 1 ? ad., 2 juv., Kassam River (tributary of the Hawash), June 1903.
Zapphiro coll.

1 cf ad., Bulga, 14. vi. 03. Zapphiro coll.

3 S ad., Dire Ela, north of Harar, 21. v. 03. " Iris blue-white, bill red."
Zapphiro coll.

1 6 ad., 2 juv., Mnlu, May 1903. Zapphiro coll.

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None of these, thongh the males are apparently in fnll dress, and had,
according to their labels, strongly developed testicles, has a swollen bill.
It is, however, almost sure that they are scioanns, and I do not believe that
a special form with swollen bill inhabits Shoa, in which case these birds from
the Hawash region would require a new name.

3. Textor albirostris intermedins Cab.

Textor intermedins Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 18G8. p. 413 (Terra typica: Kisuani). Cf. Reichenow,
Vo'g. Afr. iii. p. 4.

This form apparently never develops a swollen base to the culraen. It
has a distinctly white base to the quills, nearly half the quills being white,
while Cabanis said that the base is only whitish. The so-called intermedins
in the British Museum are all typical scioanus.

It seems to inhabit northern German East Africa from the coast to the
Kilimanjaro (Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 1905. p. 335). There is a S from Yonte,
Jnbaland, collected by Mr. Jackson, in the British Museum.

4. Textor albirostris nyansae Neum.

Textor albirostris nyansae Neumann, Journ. f Orn. 1905. p. 335 (Kaviroudo).

Base of quills black as in T. a. albirostris, but bill coral-red as in
T. a. scioanus and intermedins.

Hab. Kaviroudo. Mr. Jackson collected specimens at Kikuyn, Njemps,
and Baringo.

5. Textor albirostris niger (Smith).

Bubalornis niger Smith, Rep. Exped. C. Afr., App. p. 52 (1836 — " northward of the 25th degree

of south latitude ").
Cf. Reichenow, Yog. Afr. iii. p. 5.

Easily distinguished from all the other forms of the species by the extent
of white bases to the primaries, which extend over at least half the feathers.

The white edges to the outer webs of the primaries are wider, the bill is red

and has no swollen base. We have 2 cJcf shot at Hector Spruit, Barberton,
Transvaal, on 20. xi. 1901 by Lt.-Col. W. Giftard.

1 6 ad., Otjimbinque, Damaralaud, 26. ix. 1864, Anderssou coll.

1 S ad., Limpopo, 24. vi. 1886, A. W. Eriksson coll.

2 SS, Gambos, Veth en v.d. Kelleu coll.

1 S juv., Fort Quilenges, Benguella, 23. i. 05, Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll.
(No. 272.)

6. Dinemellia dinemelli dinemelli (Rtipp.).

Cf. Reichenow, Vbg. Afr. iii. p. 7.

Mr. Zapphiro sent us a tine series :

1 <?, 3 ¥ ?, Balassire, September and October 1901.

1 ¥, Harawa, 6. x. 02.

IS, 1 ¥, Kafra, 28. xii. 01.

1 S, Ladjo, 9. v. 03.

1 ¥, Herer, 20. ii. 01.

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2 ¥ ? , Laga Arba, 2. vii. 03.
1 cj ad., Karaba, 21. v. 03.

1 <?, Mnln, 26. v. 03.

2 ? ?, Bissidimo, September 1902. (No. 77, shot at nest, with four eggs.)
The eggs are of a very pale blue (held against the light and when looking

through the hole they appear more greenish), strongly marked with dark ashy and
paler grey underlying spots and patches, and look just like brightly coloured gigantic
eggs of Passer domesticus. They measure 25-5 x 18-0, 26-6 x 10-6, 26 x 18-9,
26-7 x 19-7 mm.

Dinemellia bdluni Rchw. is very distinct by its larger size, pale bill, and
some slight colour-differences. It seems to be a subspecies, representing D. d.
dinemelli in East Africa, from about the Tanganyika to the Victoria Nyanza.

7. Plocepasser mahali ansorgei snbsp. now

Snbspeciei Plocepasser mahali mahali dictae simillimus, sed caudae apicibus
albis mnlto latioribus hand difficile distiugneudus.

Hab. Benguella. Typus : $ ad., Wawayella, Benguella, 12. vii. 04. W. J.
Ansorge coll. (No. 292.)

The skins from Benguella differ conspicuously from South African P. mahali
mahali in having much wider white tips to the rectrices. On the lateral rectrices
the white tips extend on the inner webs for about 10 to 12 mm., while in
P. m. mahali they are only 1*5 to 2-5 mm. wide. The white tips to the greater
upper wing-coverts are generally wider, thus forming a very wide and conspicuous
bar, the back and upper wing-coverts, and especially the ear-coverts, are
generally somewhat darker, more blackish ; but these differences are very slight,
while the wide tips to the rectrices are very striking and constant. Dr. Ansorge
sent the following specimens :

1 t? ad., 2 ? ? ad., 1 $ juv., Wawayella, Benguella, 12. vii. 04. " Iris
red-brown or brown, bill sepia-brown ( ?) or black-brown (J), feet purplish grey
or sepia-brown. Iris, feet, and bill in this species seem to vary greatly." (Nos.
291 to 294.)

1 d ad., Katenge, Benguella, 18. vi. 04. " Iris mahogany, feet light brown,
bill black." (No. 05.)

c? juv., Sandpits, Benguella, 10. vii. 04. " Iris orange-red, feet slate, bill
black-brown." (No. 277.)

The young bird resembles the adult ones in every way.

2d"? ad., Kipachango (Quileuges), Benguella, 20. i. 05. " 6 bill black,
? bill light brown." (Nos. 304, 305.)

1 c? ad., Kimahole River (Quileuges), Benguella, 29. i. 05. (No. 332.)

1 cJ, Kasimo River (Quileuges), Benguella, 3. ii. 05. (No. 3322.)

1 ¥ ad., Kitoko River (Quileuges), Benguella, 4. ii. 05. (No. 3333.)

8. Plocepasser mahali mahali Smith.

Cf. Reichenow, Vug. Afr. Hi. p. 11.

<J¥, Griqnalaud, May 1871. T. Atmore coll.

3 d 6 ad., Limpopo, 24. vi., 5. vii., 19. viii., 1886. A. W. Eriksson coll.

1 ? ad., Windhoek, 16. x. 1877. A. W. Eriksson coll.

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1 (?), Darnaraland, Andersson coll.

1 (cf) ad., Pretoria, Distant coll.

1 (?) ad., " Transvaal." (Purchased from Whitely.)

1 ( ? ) ad., " Natal." (Purchased from Whitely.)

The bill is black in the males, brownish in the females.

9. Plocepasser mahali melanorhynchus Riipp.

Cf. Reichenow, Yog. A/r. iii. p. 12.

Differs from P. m. mahali in the brown under wing-coverts, generally
slightly shorter wing, and the colour of the bill, which is deep black in both
sexes. Mr. Zapphiro sent a series from the Hawash region, and from near Harar.

10. Plocepasser mahali pectoralis Peters.

This is of course also a subspecies of mahali, representing the latter iu
S.E. Africa from the Rufiji River to Inhambaue.

11. Plocepasser rufoscapulatus Biittik.

Plocepauer rufoscapulatut Biittikofer, Notes Ltyden Museum x. p. 238. pi. ix. (1888 — Kasinga
River).

This species has hitherto only been known from a single male collected on
the Kasinga River, in Southern Bengnella, discovered by Mr. P. J. Van der
Kellen. Dr. Ansorge sent us a series of 6 males and 2 females.

3 cfcf, 1 ¥, Canduc River, Benguella, 23. viii. U4. "Iris blood-red; bill iu
both sexes bone-white, with faint pinkish tinge iu front of nares and in the
middle of the under-mandible ; feet pale flesh-colour." (Nos. 755, 756, 757, 782.)

1 cf ad., Caluneva River, Benguella, 24. viii. 04. (No. 782.)

1 cf, 1 S ad., Quando River, Benguella, 11. ix. 04. The female has the bill
"black"! (Nos. 920, 930.)

2 ? ?, Pedreira River (Bihe), Angola, 8. xi. 04. (Nos. 563, 580.)
1 cf ad., Losili River (Benguella), 16. ix. 04. (No. 997.)

1 cf juv., 1 ? ad., C'alumbambe (Bihe), Angola, 29. xi. 04. (Nos. 808, 809.)
Dr. Ansorge collected this bird also recently on the Quipungo River and at

Baugwa Bamba, in Mossamedes.

The males have a more distinct black line under the eyes ; the bill in the

adult males is white, while the females have, with the exception of one, a black

bill. The wings of the males measure 97-5 to 102 and 104 mm., those of the

females 94 to 96 mm.

12. Plocepasser superciliosus (('retzschm.).

Cf. Reichenow, VtSg. A jr. iii. p. 1-4.

We have a male from Loko, on the Beuue (E. Hartert coll.), several from
Gambaga (Col. Qiffard coll.), and one male from Adarte, Erythrea, and a female
from Ali-Beret, Erythrea, both collected by G. fSchrader.

As 1 have explained in Nov. Zuol. 1904. p. 458, the name "Passer ruppeli"
(sic) Up., Consp. Av. i. p. 510, must be added as a synonym to P. superciliosus

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13. Sporopipes squainifrons daniarensis Rchw.

Snbspeciei Sporopipes squamifrons squamifrons dictae persimilis, sed statura
minore, dorso pallidiore distinguendus. Hal)., Benguella.

The specimens collected by Dr. Ansorge are strikingly smaller and the
colour of the npperside is somewhat paler.

Dr. Ansorge sent four specimens :

2 c?c? ad., 1 ? ad., 1 <$ jnn., Huxe, Bengnella, 2, 6. vii. 04. "Iris brown-
ochre, feet grey- violet, bill pink, bat extreme tip of upper bill brown, and root
of lower whitish grey.

The bill measures 9 to 99 mm., against 95 to 105 in S. squamifrons
squamifrons, the wing 54 to 55, against 57 to 60 in S. squamifrons squamifrons.

We have a series of S. s. squamifrons from Damaraland (Anderssou),
De Wet's Drift on the Vaal River (Ayres), Modder River, Transvaal (Gnillemard),
Rhenoster River (Guillemard), Pretoria (Distant), Limpopo (Eriksson).

1 had just described this bird as a new subspecies in MS. when Prof.
Reichenow's new name appeared in the Appendix to his book (p. 838, 1905).

14. Sporopipes frontalis (Daud.).

Cf. Reichenow, Viig. Afr. iii. p. 17.

2 c?c? ad., 1 ?, Adarte, Erythrea, 7, 26. xi., 1. xii. 99. G. Schrader coll.

1 <? ad., Chadi-Saati, Erythrea, 4675 ft. high, on the Mareb River. G.
Schrader coll.

15. Malimbus rubricollis rubricollis (Swains.).

Ploceus rubricollis Swainson, Anim. in Menag.p. 30G (1838 -ex Vieillot, Oix. Chant, p. 72. PI. 43,
where the present species is described as the J of Malimbus cristatue. The types were brought
home by Perrein from Malimbe, in the south of the present German colony of Kamerun).

This form ranges from Kamerun to the Congo. We have eight specimens
from Kamerun and Fernando Po. The specimens from Fernando Po might be
separated again, as their bills appear to be still larger than in the Kamerun
examples, but better series must be compared to confirm these slight differences.

16. Malimbus rubricollis bartletti Sharpe.

Malimbus bartletti Sharpe, Cut. B. xiii. p. 479 (18110 — "West Africa from Liberia to the Gold
Coast." Terra typica not indicated !).

Besides some skins from the Gold Coast we have the following specimens

collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge :

7 c?c?, 8 ? ?, Oguta on the Lower Niger, July to November 1901. "Iris

chocolate-brown; bill and feet black." (Nos. 53, 56, 58, 59, 83, 218, 230, 231, 277,

285, 286, 287, 372, 37:3, 421.)

1 ? ad., Gregani, Southern Nigeria, 24. xi. 01. (No. 343.)

3 $$, 1 ?, Degama, Southern Nigeria, 7. vi. 02. (Nos. 54, 499, 514, 515.)

1 $ ad., Ugmgn on the Amambaru Creek, Lower Niger, 25. xi. 02. (Braham

coll.)

The young male has the forehead dark brown, nearly black. This subspecies

is closely allied to M. r. rubricollis, but differs in having the head of a somewhat

darker and more crimson red, and in being slightly larger, at least the bill being

generally larger.

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IT. Malimbus rubricollis centralis Rehw.
Malimbus rubricollis centralis Eeichenow, Orn. Monattber. 1893. p. 30 ("Nduluma").

This subspecies inhabits the Central African lake-district : Ndnlnma, NduB-
snma, Ntebbi. Dr. Ansorge has considerably extended its range, for he now
discovered it in Angola. The red of the head is lighter, and the bill is shorter,
than that of M. r. rubricollis. 1 have compared our Angolan specimens with those
collected by Mr. Jackson, and found them perfectly similar. It is, however, not
always easy to distinguish this form, especially the lighter colour of the red crown
is not always evident, and the size of the bill varies.

3 (JcT, Canhoca, Angola, 20, 25, 30. xi. 03. "Iris dark brown ; feet purplish
black, soles greenish j bill black." (Nos. 1188, 1263, 1320.)

1 £ ad., Golnngo Alto, Angola, 16. i. 04. (No. 55.)

Recently we have also received three skins from Mpanga Forest, province of
Toro in Uganda, collected by Rnd. Grauer.

18. Malimbus scutatus scutatus (Cass.).

Scobius scutatus Cassin, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1849. p. 157 (Sierra Leone).

This form ranges from Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast.

M. rubropersonatus is a synonym, being described from a yonng bird.

19. Malimbus scutatus scutopartitus llchw.

Malimbus scutopartitus Rchw., Journ.f. Orn. 1894. p. 38 (Kamerun).

The birds inhabiting the Lower Niger, Kamernn, and Gaboon have been justly
separated by Reichenow. The females have the red throat-patch divided in the
middle by a more or less interrupted line of black patches. This is always present,
while in the females of M. s. scutatus no such dividing line and very rarely an
indication of it is found. The males of the two forms are not distinguishable. The
differences in the extent of the black and red colour mentioned by Reichenow ( Yog.
Afrikaa Hi. p. 22) are not constant. Shelley, when not recognising scutopartitus as
separable, evidently did not grasp the fact that the line of black spots in the middle
of the red throat was never supposed to be present in the male.

6 £ ad., 6 ? ad., Ogata, on the Lower Niger, October to December 1901,
Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. " Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet chocolate-brown."
(Nos. 219, 259, 276, 282, 288, 289, 290, 321, 360, 385, 386, 472.)

1 £ juv., Oguta, 14. x. 01. "Iris light brown; feet chocolate-brown; bill —
upper horn-grey, lower orange-yellow." (No. 291.)

The young bird has the head and throat black and the bill pale, not black.
4 ££, 1 ¥, Degama, Southern Nigeria, 29. i., 14. ii., 21. iv., 22. v., 17. vi. 02.
(Nos. 72, 123, 334, 470, 524.) Dr. W. J. Ansorge.

2 ££, 3 ? ?, Warri, Southern Nigeria, May, October. Dr. Felix Roth coll.
2 ££, Ogrugu, Amambara Creek, Niger, July, August. Braham coll.

1 ?, Victoria, Kamerun. Prenss coll. Without original label, but marked as
one of the types by Reichenow.

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20. Malimbus nitens (Gray).

Ploceus nitens Gray, Zonl. Misc. i. p. 7 [1831 — "Africa." Terra typica: Sierra Leone (collected by
Capt. Edw. Sabine)].

We have, besides some (parti}' from spirits !) from Liberia (Demery coll.) and
a series from the Gold Coast, the following specimens :

7 <? ad., 1 ? ad., 2 c? jnv., Degama in Southern Nigeria, February, March,
May, June, July 1902. Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. " Iris blood-red in the adult males
and female, reddish brown or grey-brown in the young ; bill pale blue in the adults
and very pale blue in the young ones ; feet dark slate or dark blue in adult and
young." (Nos. 145, 284, 333, 395, 416, 435, 455, 534, 535, 566.)

The female has the red throat-patch lighter, and is smaller, the wing being
3 mm. shorter. The young birds have the throat up to the chin dull red, the
forehead tinged with red.

1 cf ad., Oguta, Southern Nigeria, 13.x. 01. Ansorge coll. (No. 283.)

1 c? ad., Ogrugu, on the Amambara Creek, Niger, 5. iii. 01. Braham coll.

1 ? ad., Rio Moonda, Gaboon. Dn Chailln coll.

1 S, Efulen, Kamerun, 10. xii. 02. Bates coll.

It seems that generally the specimens from the Niger have larger bills than
those from the Gold Coast and Liberia, bnt this difference does not seem to be quite
constant, and our series seems not to be large enough to be sure about it.

21. Malimbus malimbica malimbica (Daud.).

Tonagra malimbica Daudin, Ann. Mas. Paris i. p. 151. PI. x. fig. 1 (1802 — £ , "Malimbe, royaume

de Congo," Perrein coll.).
Malimbus cristatus Tieillot, Ois. Chant, p. 71. PI. 42 (1805 — Malimbe !).

Hab. Kamerun to Angola.

The birds from South Kamerun (Efulen, Bates coll.), Gabun, Congo and
Angola have larger bills (cf ad. bill 18 — 20 mm.), slightly longer crests, and the
young birds as well as some which are apparently fully adult, have the greater
part of the abdomen and the under tail-coverts blackish slaty grey, instead of pure
black.

1 S " Gabun " (ex Bartlett coll.).

1 S ad., 1 3 juv., Canhoca, Angola, 25. xi., 10. xii. 03. Dr. W. J. Ansorge
coll. " Iris dark brown ; feet slate-black ; bill black." (Nos. 1264, 1414.)

An unsexed specimen without exact locality, collected by Zenker in " Kamerun "
agrees better with the northern form, but it is probably a dark female of the
southern form. Specimens collected by Bates in Efulen are typical malimbica.

22. Malimbus malimbica melanobrephos subsp. nov.

Specimens from the Gold Coast have slightly smaller bills (bill <$ ad. 16-5 —
18 mm.), slightly shorter crests, and the young are underneath perfectly black or
somewhat brownish black, but not in the least greyish !

Hab. Upper Guinea from Liberia to the Gold Coast and Togo. Type : c? ad.
Gold Coast (Fauti preparation). No. 719 in the Tring Museum.

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23. Malirnbus erythrogaster Rchw.

Malimbut erythrogaster, Reichenow, Dm. Monatsber. 1893. p. '.M;, (Jannde in Kamerun).
(Neither Shelley nor Reichenow quoted the original description of 1893.)

Dr. Ansorge sent ns a small but interesting series of this rare bird from
the Lower Niger.

3 6 ad., 1 <$ jnv., 1 ? fere ad., Oguta, vii., ix., x., 01. " Iris dark brown or
chocolate ; bill black in adults ; upper dark grey, lower horn-grey in young ; feet
brown." (Nos. 90, 185, 258, 305, 375.)

1 ? ad., Gregani, 10. x. 01. " Bill black." (No. 331.)

1 ? ad., Degama, 14. v. 02. " Bill black." (No. 438.)

NOTE ON THE GENERA OF PLOCEIDAE.

Some modern ornithologists have recognised too many genera of Weaver-birds.
Shelley accepted a great number, judging entirely by coloration. Reichenow
judiciously united " Hypkanturgm,'" " Melanopteryx" " Symplectes" " Phormo-
plectes,'" " Hyperrnegethes? " Xanthophilus" " Otyphantes" " Hypkantornis" and
" Sitagra " with Ploceus. In my opinion even " Anaplectes " must be united with
Ploceus, and " Sharpia " is only an extremely thin-billed form, as " Pachyphantes "
is the thick-billed extreme in Africa. I should not recognise any genera which
merely differ in coloration.

Genera do not exist in nature as such, and they are made for the convenience
of students, in order to help us in naming species : to recognise unnecessary genera
is therefore obviously increasing our difficulties instead of simplifying them. Genus-
splitting is a serious danger to ornithology.

24. Ploceus rubriceps rubriceps Snndev.

Ploreus {Hypkantornis) rubriceps, Sundevall, Oef. Vet. Ah. Fiirh. 1850. p. 97 (Limpopo).

2 <? ad., Barberton, Transvaal, 25. x. 01. Col. Giffard coll.
1 <?, 1 ? ad., Zontpans, Transvaal, 12. xi. 1877.

1 S ad., Mrogoro, Usagara, 24. xi. 1889. Emiu Pasha coll.
"Long. tot. 153, rostr. a fronte 15, al. 88, caad. 44, tars. 17 mm. lride rufa,
rostro miniato, pedibuB rubellis."

25. Ploceus rubriceps gurneyi Shell.

Phu-eus gurmy'i Shelley. This, 1887. p. 17. PI. i. fig. 1 (Caconda).

The subspecies from Angola (Benguella) differs from P. r. rubriceps as follows :
The red of head and foreneck is much darker, the abdomen is less pure white, being
washed with grey, the outer edges to the primaries are darker and somewhat orange-
yellow. The black patch on the sides of the head, which has been described as a
specific character, is not constant, as it is absent in one of onr adult males.
Probably it is peculiar to immature specimens only. The red of the throat extends
as far down as in P. rubriceps rubriceps. The type, which is so well figured in the
Ibis for 1887, is undoubtedly an immature specimen, but nevertheless P. r. gurneyi
is a well distinguishable subspecies.

Dr. Ansorge sent us the following examples of P. r. gurneyi :
? ad., Sources of the Cunene River, 23. ix. 04. Dr. \V. J. Ansorge coll.
(No. +77.)

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? ad., Elandswater, Bengnella, 27. vii. 04. (No. 462.)
?, Warmbad, Benguella, 28. vii. 04. (No. 465.)
? Kingolo, Bengnella, 21. xii. 04. (No. +941.)
<? ad., Colla, Bengnella, 18. viii. 04. (No. 677.)
<3 semi-ad., Caconda, Bengnella, 5. ix. 04. (No. 862.)

5 ad., Gnndua Siva, Bengnella, 12. ix. 04. (No. 935.)

6 ad. " Iris mahogany red ; feet brown-ochre ; bill chrome-orange."

? ad. " Iris mahogany or orange-red ; feet brown-ochre ; bill chrome-orange."
Younger birds have more or less dark brown on the bill.

26. Ploceus melanotis Lafr.

Ploceus melanotis was originally described from the " Senegal." We have no
specimens in Tring from the Senegal. I cannot see that Reichenow's erythrogenys
can possibly be anything else than an individual aberration. Grant's blundelli
requires further investigation, but I do not think that it will prove to be distinct.
The type (from Beni-Schongol) is very blackish on the back, but the amount of
black on the back varies apparently, perhaps according to age (?). Our blackest
specimens are those from Omo, Gelo, and Akobo (E. Sudan), collected by
Neumann, and one shot by Dr. Donaldson Smith 26. iii. 1895, between San
Kural and Higo, while those from the Kassam River, " Hedeli," " Ladjo River,"
and " Karawa," from Zapphiro, are on the back palest and greyest. Two from
Ussure (Fischer) are also very blackish. A male from Gambaga (Giffard) is
too much worn to be of much importance for this question, and the same can
be said of a male from Masongoleui in British East Africa (Ansorge), and a
male and some females from the Escarpment, Kiknyu Mountains, collected by
W. Doherty.

Though, in my opinion, there is no doubt as to the identity of erythrogenys
and melanotis — while blundelli is very doubtful — Shelley's rufigena from Chinta,
on the Tanganyika plateau, north-west of Lake Nyasa, is perhaps a distinct
form. It is evidently not the same as erythrogenys, having no black at all on
the chin, which is red to the base of the bill, a deep black auricular patch,
and being very small. Further investigation is necessary to confirm or to deny
its value.

27. Ploceus angolensis (Bocage).

Sharpia angolensis, Bocage, Jam. Lisboa, 1878. p. 258 (Caconda).

On account of the peculiar pattern of coloration, and rather fine and slender
bill, Ploceus angolensis has been separated generically under the name of Sharpia.
This name being preoccupied by Sharpia Tourniei 1873, Mr. Oberholser renamed
the supposed genus as Notiospiza* without having seen a specimen of the type of
the genus, and thus without being able to judge about the value of the genus.

Mr. W. J. Ansorge sent us a fine series of this very rare bird.

c?? ad., Pedreira (Bihe), Angola, II, 13. xi. 04. "Iris <^? blood-red; feet
purplish brown ; bill black." (Nos. + 625, + 647.)

1 S ad., Caiala (Bihd), Angola, 4. xii. 04. (No. + 846.)

2 c? ? immat., Chingnli (Bibs'), Angola, 12. xii. 04. (Nos. + 894, 895.)
" Iris blood-red ; feet greenish slate ; bill greenish grey, lower mandible pink."

* Smithsou, Mite. Coll. Is, 1. p. 64 (1905).

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These young birds have also the head olive-grey instead of blackish brown.
The sexes of the adult bird do not differ, except in size.
1 <? ad., Cambul (Benguella), 21. viii. 04. (No. 725.)
1 ? ad., Chissamba (Bihe), Angola, 21. xi. 04. (No. 747.)

1 ? ad., Chiynka (Bihe), Angola, 25. xi. 04. (No. + 774.)

2 t?S ad., ( lasBOC, Benguella, 25. viii. 04. (Nos. 797, 798.)
Wings 6 ad. 86—88 ; ? ad. 82-5—84 mm.

28. Ploceus sanctithomae (Hartl.).
Sycobius sanctithomae Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1848. p. 109 (Island of St. Thomas).

This species is confined to the island of St. Thomas, on the west coast of
Africa. It is a good example to show the value of the genera of African
Weavers, as they are now in vogue. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 418.,
placed it in the genus I/efe/y/j/tantes, Shelley in 1**7 in Ploceus, while recently
Reichenow and Shelley placed it in the genus " Skarpia." It seems to me that
there is no more reason for uniting it in the same genus with " Skarpia "
angolensis, than for placing it with the Heterypkantes. Its colour-pattern differs
from that of P. angolensis, and it has a most peculiar musky smell not observed
in P. angolensis : it therefore requires only " furor genericns " in a very mild form
to make a new genus for it, but as I do not see that science can be benefited
by this, I prefer to unite it with the other forms in Ploceus. We have a very
good series collected by M. Moc(|nerys at Ro<;a Laura and Pedroma on St. Thomas.

The females differ conspicuously from the males, as described by Shelley,
Reichenow, and others.

29. Ploceus emini (Hartl.).

Sycobrotua emini Hartlaub, Orn. Centralb. 1882. p. 92 ; Journ. f. Orn. 1882. p. 322 (Agaru).
Sycobrottu ;<i/iliir<>i Grant, Bull B. 0. Club. xiii. p. 22 (1902— Abn Beker in Harar).

6 ad., Agaru, 30. iv. 1881. "No. 101. Long. tot. 170, caud. 61, tars. 21,
rostr. a f route 17, al. 82 mm. Iride margaritacea ; rostro nigro; pedibus rubellis."
Emin Pasha coll. Type of S. emini !

?, Agaru, 1. v. 1881. (No. 108.) Emin Pasha coll. "Long. tot. 170 mm.,
rostr. a fronte 17, al. 78, caud. 53, tars. 19. Iride stramiuea, rostro nigro, pedibus
rubellis."

$ " in.mut.," Bnguera, 22. iii. 1889. (No. 133.) Emin Pasha coll.

$ " hieme," Buguera, 20. iii. 1889. (No. 123.) Emin Pasha coll.

$ ad., Masindi (Unyoro), 9. vi. 1897. (No. 126.) W. J. Ansorge coll.

& juv., Masindi (Unyoro), 21. iv. 1897. (No. 50.) W. J. Ansorge coll.

c? juv., Sheik Mahomet, Arusi-Galla-land, 9. xi. 1894. Dr. Donaldson Smith
coll.

$ ? ad., Chaukori, near Harar, alt. 1800 m., 9. vi. 02. Zapphiro coll.

3 ad., Arluc des Adieus, near Harar, 21. vi. 02. Zapphiro coll.

? ad., Abu Hakim, near Harar, 10. vi. 02. Zapphiro coll.

? ad., Sotie, near Harar, 16. vi. 02. Zapphiro coll. (with eggs).

? , " Klonmbi " (?), " alt. 8800 ft.," 6. xii. 01. Zapphiro coll.

Eggs are sent in three varieties : White with a faint reddish bnff tinge, or
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greyish-purplish patches (Sofie, 16. vi. 02). White with rnfons-brown and deeper-
lying greyish spots (Harar, 9. vi. 02). Pale bluish green with dark brown and
underlying paler, or with uniform dull pale brown patches. Measurements :
20-5 x 151, 20-8 x 15, 21 x 14-8, 21 x 15, 211 x 14-7, 2M x 159, 21-9 x 155,
21*8 x 157, 22 x 156, 23 x 15-6 mm.

30. Ploceus stuhlmanni (Reichw.).
Symplectea eluUmanni Reichenow, Orn. Monatsber. 1893. p. 29 (Wallia, Bukoba).

Dr. Ansorge collected this species at Kaweli in Uganda, in Torn, at Galabi
in Uganda, and at Masindi in Unyoro ; and besides these we have two females
taken by Oscar Neumann at Habela in Sidamo and at Abera in Djamdjam.

In this species the males and females are alike in colour, but differ in size,
the female being about 6 or 7 mm. shorter in the wing. The idea that " the
present species can be looked upon as the western representative of P. reichenowi "
is entirely unfounded. What Reichenow described as the female is apparently an
immature bird, but not the adult female in full plumage (Vogel Afrikas ii. p. 40).
Reichenow's uhehensis is apparently not a " var." but a subspecies.

31. Ploceus reichenowi (Fischer).

Sycobrotus Reichenowi Fischer, Journ.f. Orn. 1884. p. 180 ("Gross-Aruscha, Naiwascha-See").

S ? , Nairobe, Brit. E. Africa, 30. i. 1899. (Nos. 56, 57.) W. J. Ausorge.

S, First Swamp (Kikuyu), 6. ii. 1899. (No. 100.) W. J. Ansorge.

t?, Second Kedoug, 8. ii. 1899. (No. 110.) W. J. Ansorge.

19 <-? ad., ? ad. and juv., Escarpment, Kikuyu Mountains, 7500 to 8o00 ft.,
September 1900 to March 1901. W. Doherty coll. " Iris creamy white ; feet dull
purplish white or pale dirty brownish ; bill black." AV. Doherty.

The males and females as well as the young birds have been described. From
our series, however, it seems to me as if there also is a plumage of the adult
male like that of the adult female, i.e. with black top of head and upper back.
Perhaps this is the regular plumage of the adult male during the non-breeding
season. Young birds have the crown greenish olive.

32. Ploceus baglafecht Vieill.

Cf. Reichenow, VSg. Afr. iii. p. 40.

We have the 13 ue series collected by Oscar Neumann in Shoa, Kaffa, etc.,
and three collected by Ragazzi. Neumann is perfectly right in describing the
? ad. (in breeding plumage !) like the male, only with the forehead not yellowish
olive-green like the back, and without the black auricular patch. I may add that
it is a little smaller. The adult male in breeding plumage has the rump olive-
yellowish-green like the back, not greyish-brownish as described by Reichenow
and Shelley, and the adult female has the entire under-surface yellow, not
" Bauch weiss."

" Otyphantes lovati," Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 457, is not a species, but merely
the adult male in breeding plumage.

" Si/mpli'ctcn eremobim"1 Hartl, from Unyoro (Zool. Jahrb. 18*7. p. 320),
is probably /'. stuhlman/ii, as suggested by Neumann, but never baglafecht.
Unfortunately the type is lost. (Cf. <'">. B. xiii. p. 419.)

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Ploceus ocularius and its Geographical Forms.

The most recent authorities on African birds treat this group with refreshing
variation. Prof. Reiehenow in 1004 :

Ploceus ocularius: S.E. Africa, from Zambesi to eastern ('ape Colony.

Ploceus ocularius crocatus: E. Africa, from the Upper Kir and Lake Abaya
to Nvassaland, Loango, and Angola.

Ploceus ocularius brachypter/tx : W. Africa, from Senegamhia to Loango.

What strikes us at a glance is, that Reiehenow admits P. o. crocatus and
P. o. brackypterus as subspecies, though in various localities both occur together.
But Reichenow's " subspecies" or " conspecies," are not " our " subspecies, which
are geographical representatives.

Shelley in 1905 :

Hyphanturgus ocularius : Loango to the Cnnene and over Eastern Africa
generally from Eastern Cape Colony into the Upper White Nile district and
South Abyssinia.

Hyphanturgus bracliypterus : W. Africa, from Senegambia into Gaboon.

Shelley unites ocularius with crocata, thus simplifying very much, but we
cannot agree to this lumping. It is violating nature to unite all South and
East African forms. On the other hand, Shelley does not fall into the evident
error of extending the range of bracliypterus right into the area of ocularius
in Angola.

0. Neumann, 1905 :

Ploceus ocularius ocularius : S. Africa, from Cape Colony through Natal to
Transvaal.

Ploceus ocularius suahelicus : E. Africa, from Zambesi through Mozambique
to Mombasa and Lamn.

Ploceus ocularius brackypterus : W. Africa, from Senegal to Kamernn.

Ploceus ocularius crocatus: Central Africa, from Upper White Nile over the
Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika to N. Angola.

Ploceus ocularius abayensis : South Ethiopian Lakes.

This last arrangement is the most advanced one, and shows at least the
results of careful research. Unfortunately I cannot, however, follow Neumann in
his separating P. o. abayensis, though otherwise I find his arrangement excellent.
I therefore come to the following results :

33. Ploceus ocularius ocularius Smith.

Cf. Reiehenow, ]riir/. A/r. iii. p. 45.

South Africa, from Cape Colony to Zambesi, and perhaps north of the latter.
We have the following specimens :

1 S ad., " S. Africa." Ex coll. R. B. Sharpe. (No. in ( 'at. : 502b.)
1 ? , " S. Africa." Ex H. Whitely.

1 <3, 1 ?, Port Natal. Ex Jardine coll. (From Mr. McKeu.)

2 ? ?, "Natal." Ex Gerrard.

2c??. Ifafa River, Natal, 1895. Woodward coll.

2 $ ? , Etchowe, Zulnland, Woodward coll.

1 S ad. from Mlangi, Brit. E. Africa (J. Brown coll.) not very far north from
the Zambesi, agrees better with S. African birds than with any others, unless we
unite it with crocatus ! It does not agree with suahelicus. A series of better
skins should be examined before finally deciding about the Mlangi form.

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34. Ploceus ocularius crocata Haiti.

Hyphantorms crocata Hartlauh. Abh. Wofor. Ver. Bremen. 1881. p. 100 (Magungo).
Ploceus ocularius abayensis Neumann, Journ./. Orn. 1905. p. 339 (Gigiro in Gudgi, east of Lake
A bay a).

Very closely allied to P. ocularius ocularius, btit bill shorter and comparatively
thicker, less long and slender, than in the latter. Coloration the same, only
the cheeks of the males and the entire throat of the females are generally, though
not always, somewhat less tinged with golden brownish. Size generally much
smaller.

We have the following specimens :

1 ? (erronously sexed 6) Magungo 25. xi. 1879. Type of H. crocata. (Cf.
Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 341, 1887.) Emin Pasha coll. (No. 152.) 1 pull.
Magungo, 22. xi. 1879. Emiu Pasha coll. (No. 141.)

1 ¥ (sexed 6 — possibly 6 out of breeding season?), Tomaja, 9. xi. 1882.
" Long. tot. 104, rostr. a fronte 16, al. 72, cand. 55, tars. 18*5 mm. Iride perlacea ;
rostro nigro ; pedibus fnsco-rnbellis." Emin Pasha coll. (No. 249.)

1 6 ad., Masindi in Ungoro 1. v. 1897. Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 76.)

1 6 ad., Kitagwetoa (Torn), 6. iv. 1899. Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 328.)

1 c? ad., Klip-plaat-drift, Benguella, 4. viii. 04. "Iris chrome-yellow, feet
slate-blue, bill black." W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 536.)

1 ? ad., Bonga Mountain, Quilenges, Benguella, 27. i. 05. " Iris dark
brown, feet bluish grey, bill black." W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 317.)

2 ? ? ad., Pungo Audongo, Angola, 4, 5. vi. 03. " Iris greenish grey."
W. J. Ausorge coll. (Nos. 246, 250.)

1 ? juv., Pungo Andougo, Angola, 25. vi. 03. "Iris dark brown; feet
pale slate ; bill — upper yellowish brown with ochrc-brown tip, lower yellowish ochre,
yellowish brown near base." W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 455.)

1 6 ad., Catumbela, Benguella, 1900. Albert Mocquerys coll.

1 ? ad., Gigiro (Gndji), east of Lake Abaya in Southern Ethiopia. O. Neu-
mann coll. — (No. 487 — type of Ploceus ocularius abayensis).

1 6 ad., 1 ¥ immat., Herer River, 16. vii., 10. ix. 02. Zapphiro coll.

1 ¥ ad., Harawa, near Harar, 26. xii. 02. Zapphiro coll.

Although the type of P. ocularius abayensis is a somewhat dark individual,
the examination of our series and that in the British Museum has convinced me
that it is impossible to separate a South Ethiopian form.

P. o. crocata thus ranges from Angola throughout Central Africa to Southern
Ethiopia and Southern Abyssinia.

35. Ploceus ocularius brachypterus Swains.

Ploceus orachypterus Kwainson, B. W. Afr. i. p. 168 Taf. 10 (1837— Senegal).

The West African form ranges from Senegambia to Gaboon and perhaps
to the mouth of the Congo (Landana) — from where I have, however, not seen a
specimen.

Of Ploceus ocularius brachypterus we have the following specimens :

2 66 ad., " W. Africa " (? Senegambian make). Ex Bartlett coll.
1 jnv., " W. Africa, Dr. Gordon coll." Ex Jardine coll.

1 6 ad., Sierra Leone, Fowlles coll. Ex Jardine coll.

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1 ? ad., Sierra Leone, Dr. Fergusson coll. Ex Jardine coll.

1 cj ad., Robertsport, Liberia, 27. ix. 1889. A T. Demery coll.

1 ? immat., Snlymah River, Sierra Leoiv, 29. iii. 1890. A. T. Deruery coll.

1 6, 1 ? ad., Cape Mount, Liberia, April and May 1892. A. T. Demery coll.

1 ? juv., Accra, 5. xi. 1897. From Dr. F. Roth.

2 (?c?, 2 ? ? ad., Agberi on the Lower Niger, June and September 1901.
W.J. Ansorge coll. (Nos. 13, 173, 174, 175.) " <J ? Iris pale straw-yellow, bill
black, feet slate."

1 S ad., Oguta, Southern Nigeria, 16. xi. 01. W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 384.)
" Iris pale straw-yellow."

1 ? ad., Akassa, Southern Nigeria, 15. xii. 01. W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 488.)
1 c? ad., Forcados, Southern Nigeria, 31. xii. 01. W. J. Ansorge coll.
(No. 516.)

1 S ad., Degama, Southern Nigeria, 8. ii. 02. W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 99.)
1 S ad., Buguma, Southern Nigeria, 19. iii. 02. W. J. Ansorge coll. (No. 242.)
This form is much more distinct than the other subspecies of ocularius.
The bill is thicker, stronger. The forehead is of a golden brown, the sides
of face and surroundings of the wide, large black gnlar patch are golden brown.
Moreover the female differs from the females of the other forms in having no
yellow forehead, only the feathers just above the lores and a narrow superciliary
line being golden yellow, but the forehead yellowish olive-green.

36. Ploceus ocularius po snbsp. nov.

Snbspeciei Ploceus ocularius brackypterus dictae simillimns sed rostro
validiore hand difficile distinguendus.

Differs from P. o. brackypterus, with which it entirely agrees in colour, by
its larger and more powerful bill. Type c? ad., Fishtown, Fernando Po. 2. i. 04.
E. Seimnnd coll. (No. 3119.)

Besides the type we have a ? from the same place, date and collector, an
adult male and a young bird collected by Fraser. In addition to these I have
examined half a dozen skins in the British Museum.

37. Ploceus ocularius suahelicus Neum.

Ploceus ocularius suahclirus Oscar Neumann, Journ. f. Oru., 1905 p. 339. (Terra typica : Lewa in
Usambara).

According to Neumann, P. o. suahelicus is distributed from Lamu and
Mombasa throughout German East Africa and Mozambique to the Zambesi. This
form is fairly distinct from its allies, the bill being like that of P. o. crocata, or
a little stronger, not as long and thin as in P. o. ocularius, but not as strong as in
P. o. brackypterus; the upper/side is darker and more olive than in all its allies, and
the forehead is strongly washed with golden brown, though not as much as in
P. o. brackypterus. I have examined some skins in the British Museum, and we have
five from the Escarpment. I am quite uncertain about the birds from Nyassaland
and the Zambesi, and would like to examine a series. Mr. Doherty sent :

1 $ ad., Escarpment, Kikuyn Mts., Brit. E. Africa, 6500 ft., December 1900.
W. Doherty coll.

1 $ immat., 1 ? immat., Escarpment, 8500 ft., November 1900. W. Doherty

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coll. " Iris pale grey-brown ; feet (dark) bluish grey, soles yellowish ; bill — above
dull brown, below dull whitish horn-colour."

1 ? immat., Escarpment, 8500 ft , Jannary 1901. W. Doherty coll.

On Ploceus aureoflavus, bojeri, and holoxanthus.

These three forms have been correctly separated in Shelley's book, while
Reichenow united holoxanthus with aureoflavus.

The adult male of Ploceus bojeri has the back olive-yellow, the crown bright
golden-orange, the underside rich golden-yellow, the throat surrounded by a bright
chestnut band. The remiges are pale olive-brown, only the basal portion of the
inner webs being yellow. The wings measure about 75 to 76 mm.

The adult male of Ploceus aureoflavus has the back more greenish, the crown
and throat much more yellow, the underside less bright, the wings similar, but
more greenish above, and the yellow more sulphur-yellow. The wing is about
76 mm. long.

Ploceus holoxanthus is not at all the same as aureoflavus. Its wing is
considerably shorter, measuring only 65 to G9 mm., the tail is canary-yellow and
shorter, measuring only 4-5 instead of 5 cm., the back is almost pure yellow, the
remiges are quite canary-yellow, only the secondaries being washed with olive
on the outer webs !

One must feel inclined to think that these forms and also castaneiceps are
geographical forms (subspecies) of one species. The distribution is, however, not
quite clear :

P. aureoflavus is the bird inhabiting Zanzibar, the lower Pangani River, and
ranges probably northwards close to Mombasa. This form, however, occurs also
northwards in South Somaliland, for specimens from Mogadoxo in Sonth Somaliland
agree with aureoflavus and not with bojeri ! These examples were collected by
Revoil, and there are some in the Paris Museum and one in Tring, the latter
purchased from Boucard.

On Mombasa Island we find the bright P. bojeri. This, according to
Reichenow and Neumann (in litt.) extends northwards through Tanaland and Witn
to the Lower Djuba River, on the frontier of Somaliland. Th« alleged occurrence
on the island of Zanzibar is probably erroneous. The type was obtained by Bojer,
but, though said to have come from Zanzibar, might have been shot on the
opposite coast, the name Zanzibar coast, or merely Zanzibar, being for many
years used for the opposite coast, which was under the rule of the Zanzibar
sultans, and it is only recently that the name has again been reserved, as it should
be, to the island of Zanzibar. No specimens from v. d. Decken and Fischer seem
to be in collections, if I am not mistaken, and observations of live birds might
be erroneous. Therefore, if it were not for the occurrence of aureoflavus at Mogadoxo
in Southern Somaliland — while bojeri ranges north to the Lower Djuba River — we
might well accept that P. bojeri and aureoflavus are representatives. The same
may be said of holoxanthus (of which the type is in the Tring Museum), which
appears to be only known from Mtoni, and of castaneiceps ; this last form was first
described by Sharpe in 1890 from the Useri River in Teita (Taweta). Judging
from the short description, Reichenow considered castaneiceps to be a synonym
of aureoflavus, and redescribed it in 1902 under the name of Ploceus schilliiu/si
from the Rufn River (Upper Pangani), giving a good description in Vog. Ajr. iii.
p. 03.

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Onr material is, so far, most scanty, for we have only :
Of P. aureojiavus . 1 3 ad., Mogadoxo, Somaliland. Revoil coll. (Ex Boncard.)
1 ? Jim., on the label of which is written in Reichenow's

handwriting " Ploceus anreoflavus." (Ex Bartlett.)

Zanzibar.
Of P. bcgeri : 2 S ad., Mombasa Island, 12. x. 1896. W. J. Ansorge coll.
Of P. holoxantkus: 1 <$ ad., 1 ? ad., Mtoni, January. Bohndorf coll., the

former the type ! (Cf. Hartlanb, Abh. Bremen, 1891,

p. 22.)

38. Ploceus temporalis (Boc).
Efyphantornis temporalis Bocage, .lorn. Lisboa, xxviii. p. 244 (1881) — Caconda).

1 J ad., Bunhe River, Bengnella, 28. ix. 04. (No. 410.) "Iris yellow-lake;
feet bistre ; bill black." W. J. Ansorge coll.

It is a great pleasure to record the capture of an adult male of this rare
Ploceus, hitherto only known from the single type specimen in the Lisbon Museum.
It is in worn plumage, but agrees with the original description. The bill is stout
and short, like the bill of Ploceus xanthops, and Dr. Bocage wrongly compared
P. temporalis with P. baglqfecht (B. Angola ii. p. 557), thus misleading Shelley
(in 1896) and Reichenow (1904) to place the former in the "subgenus Otyphantes."
In coloration, and especially in the peculiarity that the under wing-coverts and
inner edges of the quills are brownish grey — the former with yellow edges, this
form is perhaps nearest to Ploceus capensis and olivaceus, but the very strong
bill is like that of P. xanthops. P. temporalis is one of those forms which show
the fallacy of the establishment of too many genera of African Ploceinae. I may
add that the crown is golden-yellow with a faint olivaceous tinge, not at all
inclining to orange as in PI. XLI. of Shelley's work, where the bill is not
thick enough either. Shelley's description (_B. Afr. iv. p. 467) is very exact,
the undcr-surface not being as bright yellow as in the plate. The wing of our
specimen measures 84 mm., bnt being somewhat worn would be, if fresh, a few
millimetres longer. The bill is 17 mm. long, and at base 115 mm. high.

The following examples seem to belong to P. temporalis :

1 cj in non-breeding plumage, Chissamba (Bih£), Angola, 19. xi. 04. " Iris
pink-rose, feet purplish brown, upper mandible dark slate, lower yellowish grey."
(No. + 725.) W. J. Ansorge coll.

In worn plumage ! Upperside olive with yellowish edges to the feathers,
lower rump and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow. Under-surface yellow, abdomen
mixed with creamy-buff feathers. Wing about 80 (very worn, probably more —
88 mm.); bill 26-8 mm. Inner edges to the quills brownish grey, under wing-
coverts pale brownish grey with pale yellow borders.

1 ?, Chingwari (Bihe), 10. xii. 04. "Iris dark brown, feet purplish ln-owu.
Upper mandible light brown, lower piukish brown." (No. + 8s3.) W. J. Ansorge
coll.

Upper surface olive-browu with yellowish edges to the feathers. Underside
very pale dull yellow. Wing 76-5 mm.

" S " in non-breeding plumage, Cauda (Bihe), Angola, 4. xii. 04. (No. + 848.)
Exactly like the ¥ No. + 883, but larger. Wing S3 mm.

?,Bulu-bulu (Bihe), 4. x. 04. (No. +182.) Wing 785 mm. Underneath
more yellow than No. + 848.

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<? (jnv)., Kalai River (Benguella), 15. ix. 04. (No. 981.) Like the former,
but underneath more yellowish, breast and flauks washed with olive. Wing 77 mm.

39. Ploceus bicolor bicolor Vieill.

? Pyranga icteromelas Vieillot, Nouv. Did. d' Hist. Nat. (Xouv. Ed.), xxviii. p. 291 (1819 — " Amerique
meridionale "). It is most probable that the "Pyranga icteromelas" is the present South
African Weaver. Pucheran — Arch. Mus. Hist Nat. vii. 1855, p. 355 — especially tells us that
it is the same as Vieillot's Ploceus bicolor, and that it came from West Africa and not from
America. Nevertheless Sharpe, Shelley, and Reichenow have rejected the name, and it will
doubtless be best to reject it in future, though it is probably referring to our species. The
" habitat " is doubtful ; the description of the upperside as uniform deep black is incorrect, if
meant for P. bicolor. Moreover, the type is no longer in existence, at least Mr. Hellmayr s
careful researches in the Paris Museum failed to turn it up.

Ploceus bicolor Vieillot, Nouv. Did. d'HUt. Nat. (Nouv. Ed.), xxjtiv. p. 127 (1819— " Senegal " !
Errore ! Terra typica South Africa !). The name bicolor must undoubtedly be adopted for
the South African form. Shelley, Ibis, 1887. p. 20, stated already that he examined the type
in Paris, and that it was a specimen of the South African form. The locality " Senegal,"
given by Vieillot. is wrong, only being due to a lapsus of Vieillot. The type in the Paris
Museum has been examined by Hellmayr. It has on the label as well as on the wooden stand
the words " Sycobrotus bicolor (V.) Type. Afri(|ue australe.' The type specimen agrees well
with a male from Pondoland in the Tring Museum. It has no similarity with the West
African amaurocephalus.

Ploceus gregalis Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. p. 23 (1823 — "Terr. Caffror") ; Reichenow, Vbg. Afr.
iii. p. 32 (1904— " Siidostaf rika ").

Ploceus bicolor has the upper-surface uniform deep brown, thus differing at
a glance from amaurocephalus.

Our material of P. bicolor bicolor is poor :

1 ad., " S. Africa, A. Thomson, 1887." (Probably cage-bird.)

1 ad., Etchowe, Zululand. Woodward coll.

1 <$, Port St. John's, Pondoland, 27. xi. 02. H. H. Swinny coll. " Kill
greyish, darker above. Iris brown ; feet light hazel. Length iS\ in. In the crop
remains of insects." (Compared with type in Paris Museum by E. C. Hellmayr.)

1 cS, Zuurberg, Cape Colony, 3. vi. 05. (Purchased from Rosenberg.)

1, Ifafa River, Natal. Woodward coll.

1, " Central Africa" (errore), 1853. Ex Leyland. From the Jardine collection.

1, Cape of Good Hope. On the back, in Jardine's hand : " Type of figure
pi. x. of Orn. Illustr. (n.s.)." Ex Jardine coll.

1, Cape of Good Hope? (Dr. Dyce's sale.) Ex Jardine coll.

Ploceus bicolor bicolor is only found in S.E. Africa, as correctly stated by
Reichenow and Shelley.

40. Ploceus bicolor stictifrons (Fischer & Rchw.).

Cf. Reichenow, Yog. Afr. iii. p. 33.

We have only five skins collected by J. Brown at Mlangi in Mozambique
(frontier of Brit. C. Africa). Four are adult, one juvenile. The latter has the whole
throat yellow and the forehead not marked with greyish tips to the feathers.

41. Ploceus bicolor amaurocephalus (Cab.).

Sycobrotus amaurocephalus Cabanis, Journ.f. Urn. 1880. p. 349. pi. xxi. fig. 1 (Angola). The figure

is taken from the type, which is iu very worn and dirty garb, and the back is thus too dark.
Ploceus bicolor (non Vieillot !) Reichenow, VBg. Afr, iii. p. 34.

It is impossible to use the name bicolor for this form, as the type of bicolor
is from South Africa and agrees perfectly with other specimens from iSouth Africa.

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The upper-surface is brownish grey, in fresh plumage with a strong greenish yellow
tinge, t he head black, sharply separated from the back. In worn plumage the back
becomes brownish and the black crown does not appear to be so sharply separated
from the back. The throat-feathers are hoary or brownish grey, sometimes almost
whitish, and blackish at base. The females do not differ very conspicuously from
the males, but the throat appears to be more uniform, as the bases to the feathers
are not blackish but grey. Wing, S <S 81—87, ?? 78-5 — 80'5 mm. The young
birds have the bill pale, the throat tinged with yellow.

Dr. W. J. Ansorge sent us a good series from Angola :

5 cJ (J, 3 ? ?, Canhoca, Angola, November and December 1903. (Nos. 1225,
1357, 1384, 1409, 1433, 1469, 1544, 1599.)

1 <3, Caporodo River, Quilenges, Bengnella, 6. ii. 05.

2 <J ?, Elaudswater, Bengnella, 25. vii. 04. (Nos. 421, 422.)
2 J cj, Usolo River, Bengnella, 16, 19. vi. 04. (Nos. 51, 59.)
1 ? juv., Warmbad, Bengnella, 28. vii. 04. (No. 463.)

1 ?, Kasimo River, Quilenges, Bengnella, 3. ii. 05.

1 ?, " 10th day from Bengnella," 13. vi. 04. (No. 38.)

1 <S, Dondo, Qnauza River, Angola, 30. vi. 01. (C. Hubert Pembertou coll.).

With absolute certainty only known from Angola and Bengnella.

The form from the Tanganyika highlands belongs, judging from Manning's
specimen in the British Museum, to tephronotus, and I expect that also the one from
Kibondo (Bohudorff) belongs to the latter, as well as Bohm's Lukumbi and Lualabu
examples, which are, unfortunately, lost.

42. Ploceus bicolor tephronotus (Rchw.).

Symplectea tephronotus Reichenow, Ber. Febr. Site. D.O.G. p. 4(1892— Buea, Kamerun). Of. Journ.

f. Orn. 1892. pp. 185, 219 ; Vtig. Aft. hi. p. 35.
Sycobroiue poensia Alexander, Bull. Brit. Urn. Club xciv. vol. xiii. p. 38 (1903— Fernando Po).

This form is very closely allied to P. b. amaurocepkalus, from which it merely
differs in having a slightly larger bill and in the somewhat more deep brown
colour of the crown and entire sides of the head, and the narrower pale grey edges
to the throat-feathers, so that the throat is darker, almost black or deep brown, not
greyish as in amaurocepkalus.

We have no material from Kamernu and Fernando Po, but a skin said to
be from the " Congo" evidently belongs to this form. It was brought from the late
Alfred Guillot, a dealer in Paris. The birds labelled " Congo," of which we bought
a few long ago, were probably from the mouth of the Congo, but their origin is open
to doubt.

P. bicolor tephronotus does not extend to the Qnanza, but is, so far, with
certainty only known from Kamerun and Fernando Po. The specimen from the
Qnanza River, collected by Mr. Pemberton, mentioned by Reichenow, is a young
one of the Angola form : P. b. amaurocepkalus. Shelley has recognised it as the
latter (J5. Afr. iv. p. 370).

In the British Museum is a " female " from the Tanganyika plateau (Manning).
Judging from the deep brown throat, this specimen should belong to tephronotus
and not to amaurocepkalus. This specimen is very worn and dirty. The under-
surface is rather paler yellow than in tephronotus, but it is marked " ? ," and
females may be somewhat paler than males. At present it is impossible to say

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whether this bird belongs to tephronotus or to a new form inhabiting the Tanganyika
plateau — to which the birds from Kiboudo, Lnalaba, aud Lukumba would also
belong- — and more material is required.

43. Ploceus bicolor nandensis (Jackson).

Syenbrntus nandensis Jackson, Ibis. 1899. p. 615.

Apparently spread over Uganda.

Mr. Rnd. Graner sent four skins from Mpanga Forest in Toro. _il four
are marked as males, but evidently one of them is a female, as the featL-rs of the
middle of the throat, nearly up to the chin, are only black at base, being widely
tipped with yellow. The three others have the whole throat black for about 1 J cm.,
the feathers of the adjoining upper portion of the jngulum being black, tipped with
yellow. In the middle of the chest is a more or less conspicuous longitudinal
black patch. Upperside slate-grey, upper tail-coverts in the female distinctly,
in the males hardly tinged with greenish. Head deep black ; lesser upper wing-
coverts and bastard wing to primary coverts black.

Wing, <J S 78—83, ¥ 72 mm.'

" Angen rot, Schuabel schiefergrau, an den Randern weiss ; Fusse hellbraun."

44. Ploceus bicolor mentalis (Hart!).

Symple.ctes mentalis Hartlaub, Jouru. f. Orn. 1891. p. 314; cf. Reichenow, Yuij. Afr. iii. p. 35.

S ad., Buguera near Wadai, 23. iii. 1889. Emiu Pasha coll. " Long. tot.
181 mm., rostr. a fronte 18, al. 87, cand. 50, tars. 18; iride coccinea ; tarso
caerulesceute plumbeo ; pedibus rubellis."

It appears that only this single skin from the Bahr-el-Djebel is hitherto
known. It differs from P. b. nandensis in being larger (wing in the flesh 87,
in skin 800 mm.), and in liaviug the feathers of the middle of the throat yellow,
at base whitish. It is apparently an inhabitant of the valley of the Balir-
el-Djebel.

It is a mistake to unite this bird with P. b. nandensis. The greater extent
of yellow on the throat would be peculiar to a female rather than to a male,
but Emin Pasha's bird must be a male, because nobody ever sexed birds more
correctly than Emiu, and tlie wing is longer than in any other specimen. Moreover,
the locality is far away from Naudi and Uganda (Toro).

45. Ploceus kersteni (Fiusch & Hartl.).
Cf. Reichenow, Vttg. Afr. iii. p. 31.

This bird seems to represent the various forms of P. bicolor, as accepted by me,
in East Africa.

It is probably a further subspecies of P. bicolor, an extreme form with
deep black upper-surface and throat.

We have the following specimens :

2 S ad., Bagamoyo, Emin Pasha coll. (Without original labels. Ex Hartlaub.)

1 ? ad., Mogadoxo, Somaliland, Revoil coll. Ex Boncard.

1, Zanzibar, vii. 1889., StuhJmaun coll. (Exchanged from Berlin Museum.)

1, Nguru, E. Africa April L896. Purchased.

(To be continued.)

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SOME NOTES ON CASSOWARIES.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

(Plates V, VI, VII.)

WHEN on January 20, 1904, I described two subspecies of Casuarius
unappendiculatus, and three new species of Casuarius, all these birds
were immature both in plumage and in the colouring of the naked parts.
Unfortunately Casuarius hagenbecki died before attaining maturity, and C. un-
appendicidatus sufficsus is, owing to an attack of the fungoid disease peculiar to
cassowaries, at present unfit for sketching. However, Cas. unappendiculatus
mitratus, C. jamrachi, and C. doggetti are now quite adult, and in the finest
condition ; and as considerable changes have taken place in the naked parts,
I herewith give a fresh description of them.

C. unappendiculatus mitratus.
Head, face, occiput, and face-wattles pale bine, inclining to greenish on occiput.
Hindueck pale yellow. Throat bluish violet, foreneck and sides of lower neck
deep crimson. Neck-wattle and three folds above it bright bine. Casque very
high, compressed at the sides, and abruptly truncate at the back.

C. jamrachi.
Back and sides of head pale greenish blue, (.'bin, throat, foreneck and occiput
dark blue. An occipital patch deep buff. Cheek-wattle oval, small, whitish blue.
A pale blue small lappet at the base of lower mandible on each side. Hindueck
scarlet. On each side of the foreneck are two long thin wattles of a crimson-red
colour, tipped with white. At the lower end of the foreneck in the centre is a
pear-shaped pale blue wattle. Lower sides of neck mauve purple. Casque low,
sloping in front, three-cornered, as in C. papuanus and allies.

C. doggetti.

This bird has two wattles, one above the other, on the centre of the foreneck,
so I have treated it as a species, but it may be an extreme form or geographical
race of Casuarius unappendiculatus.

Entire head, throat and occiput dark greenish bine, a large occipital patch
orange yellow. Fore- and hindneck yellow. Neck-wattles pale blue, cheek-
wattles dark blue, small. Lower sides of neck crimson, with a broad pale yellow
border. Casque high, abruptly declivous in front.

We now know the following species and subspecies of Casuarius :

Casuarius casuarius casuarius, Ceram.

„ c. violicollis, Traugan Island, Aru Islands.

,, c. beccarii, Vokan Island, Am Islands.

„ c. salvadorii, Beran Peninsula.

„ c. altijugus (= intensus Rothsch.), Geelviuk Bay.

„ c. sclateri, British New Guinea.

„ c. australis, N. Queensland.

„ c. chimaera (?)

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Casuarius bicarunculatus, Kobroor, Aru Islands.

,, unappendiculatus unappendiculatus, Salwatty Island.

„ w. occipitalis, Dutch New Guinea and Jobi.

„ u. aurantiacus, German New Guinea.

,, u. rufotinctus (?)

„ u. mffusns (?)

„ u. mitratus (?)

„ doggetti (?)

„ roseiqularis (?)

„ philipi (?)

„ hagenbecki , probably Admiralty Islands.

„ jamrachi, „ „

„ papuanus papuanus, Berau Peninsula.

„ p. edwardsi, " Dorey " 1

„ p. wester manni, " Mansinam " !

„ picticollis picticollis, British New Guinea.

„ pict. hecki, German New Guinea.

,, loriae, Owen Stanley Mountains.

„ bennetti bennetti, New Britain.

„ b. maculatus, probably one of the islands to the west of New Britain.

I have restored westermanni to the rank of subspecies of C. papuanus because,
in two specimens I had alive, the black band separating the fore- and hindneck was
most distinct, and the birds showed all the markings of the type figured, and
differed obvionsly from the two other subspecies of C. papuanus. The distribution
of these forms is, however, not clear.

I have united C. unappendiculatus rothschildi, C. u. ab. laglaizei, and others
with C. occipitalis, as no two specimens of C. unappendiculatus from the mainland
round Geelvink Bay and Jobi are exactly alike, and I do not believe they are
distinct.

C. altijugus of Sclater is not a synonym of C. c. salvadorii, but is the same
bird as my C. c. intensus, and the name altijugus has the priority.

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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TREE KANGAROO.
By Professor F. FOERSTER and THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

(Plate IV.)
Dendrolagus matschiei sp. nov.

Hair more silky than in the other species, directed forward from a whorl
in the centre of the back. Head, hack, base of tail, outside of forelegs, basal
third of hindlegs, throat and chest of a bright golden rufous brown, narrow
central line and flanks darker. Lower half of face and muzzle silver-grev.
Tips of ears, feet, inner surface of legs, abdomen, and presumably rest of under-
side bright golden yellow. Tail brownish golden yellow.

Total length of skin 14o4 mm. Head and body 806 mm. ; tail 598 mm.

Habitat. Rawlinson Mountains, German New Guinea.

ON A NEW RACE OF ORYCTEROPUS.

By THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

Orycteropus afer albicaudus aabsp. nov.

Hitherto we have only been acquainted with five living races of Orycteropus.
These races are as follows :

Orycteropus afer afer: Cape Colony, Natal.

0. afer wertheri : Hinterland of Bagamoyo, E. Africa (Matschie, in Werther's
Mittl. Hochl. P.O. Afrika p. 266 [1895]).

0. afer aethiopicus : Abyssinia and the Eastern Soudan.

0. afer senegale?isis : Senegambia.

0. afer lianssanus : Togo Hinterland.

I have lately received a very old individual from German South- West Africa
which is conspicuously different from the forms mentioned above. Outwardly
it is conspicuous by the uniform deep brown colour of the body, and very short
tail, which is pure white. The head is rosy greyish brown. It differs also markedly
in its dentition, for it has in the lower and upper jaws only five teeth, while
all the others, in the lower jaw at least, have six on each side. The teeth
are nearest to those of 0. afer senegalensis, and the last molar is almost
identical, but the praemolar is large and pointed, while in the others the two
praemolars are small and flat. For this uew form I propose the name 0. afer
albicaudus.

Total length of skin 1649 mm.; head and body 1319 mm.; tail 330 mm. ;
skull from basion to end of gnathion 234 mm.; palate 143 mm.; length of last
lower molar 10 mm., of last but one 13 mm.

Habitat : German South- West Africa.

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A NEW SPECIES OF SPHINGIDAE.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

Libyoclanis punctual spec. nov.

<?. Head and thorax clayish buff, abdomen and breast ochraceons buff, legs
pinkish. Antenna (of <S) long and strong, nearly reaching to the apex of the cell
of forewing, obtusely dentate. Tibiae spinose, one pair of spurs to hindtibia.

Wings, up per side : forewing clayish bnff, a faint liue from apex to 3. radinl
slightly fuscous ; a conspicuous blackish brown dot below costal margin about
6 mm. from apex ; tip of wing pointed, distal margin a little incurved below apex,
hindmargin incurved close to angle, slightly rounded between this sinns and base,

hindmargin pink at base. Hindwing pink, brightest below cell, abdominal margin

creamy, anal angle washed with cinnamon.

Underside buff; forewing pinkish red from base to disc, costal margin excepted,

oblique apical fuscous line distinct, but no distinct costal dot. Hindwing somewhat

worn, with slight traces of two discal lines ; subcostal aud 1. radial on a short
stalk.

Anal tergite deeply divided into two broad lobes, which are somewhat spatnlate
with the extreme tip obtusely acuminate. Clasper elongate, sole-shaped ; harpe
small, without free process; from tip of harpe upwards some denticulate wrinkles ;
dorsally at base of clasper a short denticulate process.

Length of forewing : 35 mm.

Bab. Salisbury, Mashoualaud, March 1904 (G. A. K. Marshall); 1 S in the
British Museum.

Nearest to L. bicolor Rothsch. (1894).

SOME NEW HIMANTOPTERINAE, A SUBFAMILY OF

ZYGAENIDAE.

By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D.

1. Semioptila ansorgei spec. nov.

S . The body, the basal area of the forewing, a spot at apex of cell of both
wings aud the basal third of hindwing yellow; rest of wings brownish black,
transparent. Hindwing of nearly even width from base to apex, the abdominal
margin being very slightly dilated beyond middle in most specimens, tip of tail
feebly widened.

Hab. (Jaiala, near Bihe, Angola, December 1, l'JU4 (Dr. Ansorge); a series in
the Triug Museum.

2. Semioptila marshalli spec. nov.

$. Body pale yellow ; antenna, frons, breast, legs and a stripe on underside
of abdomen blackish.

Forewing pale yellow from base beyond apex of cell, the yellow scaling diffuse

( .508 )

distally, reaching posteriorly to onter edge of wing, the veins being blackish ;

at apes of cell a small yellow spot. Hindwing gradually narrowing from base

to tip ; a small yellow spot in middle.

Hab. Masoe, Masbonaland, 5000 ft., and Uiutali, Mashonaland (G. A. K.
Marshall) ; 2 $ i in the British Mnsenm.

3. Semioptila torta maschuna Bubsp. nov.

$. Paler than 5. torta torta Bntl. (1887), the hindwing with larger lobe,
bearing a larger yellow spot, the tail half as long again as the wing is broad at
the widest point Frons and legs blackish brown.

Jlab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. A. K. Marshall) ; 1 <J in the British Museum.

CORRECTION.

In my notice of the Eland of British East Africa (Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 324) I
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INDEX TO VOLUME XIV 509

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( 509 )

INDEX

abayensis (Ploceus), 49fi, 497.
abietina (Phylloacopus), 339.
Abraxas, 167.
Abrornis, 335, 330, 339.
acanthizoides (Abrornis), 339.

— (Phylloscopus), 339.
Acanthopneuste, 33fi, 337.
Accipitres, 452.
Acidalia, 222.
Acrotomodes, 297, 301.
Actenochroma, 123.
acupicta (Paroecia), 117, 118.
acuta (Eacles), 424.

— (Othorene), 428.

— (Rhagastis), 95.
acutaria (Tricolpia), 190.
aeutilunata (Strepsichlora), 136.
Addaea, 100, 101.

addendus (Cacomantis), 436.
Adelocephala, 429-32.
Adeta, 151, 160.
adminiculata (Otucha), 157.
adolphinae (Myzomela), 479.
adornata (Epiplema), 113.
adspersus (Crypturus), 410.
adusta (Othorene), 420, 427.
Aegotheles, 456, 457.
aenea (Sangala), 205.
aecpiisecta (Epiplema), 113.
aequivirgata (Dyspteris), 244.
aethiopicus (Orycteropus), 506.
aethiops (Poeeilodryas), 407.

— (Pratincola), 467.
Aetliomyias, 460.

afer (Orycteropus), 500.
affinis (Adelocephala). 429. 130.

— (Agyrtria), 33.

— (Chloronerpes), 25.

— (Cryptolopha), 336.

— (Oreopneuste), 338.

— (Phoethornis), 70, 393, 394.

— (Phylloscopus), 338, 339.
Agapornis, 87.

Agathia, 341.
Aglaia, 348.

Agyrtria. 24. 33, 70, 395.

Ailuroedus, 408.

alberti ( Eudynamis), 440.

— (Hypotaenidia), 451.
albertisi (Drepanornis), 469.
albertisii (Columba), 449.

— (Gymnophaps), 449.
albescens (Synallaxis), 14. 52.
albibasis (Stenoplastis), 200.

— (Tolmera). 178.

albicamea (Tephroelystia), 247. 248.
albicaudus (Orycteropus), "'ttii.
albiceps (Elaenia), 47.

— (Muscipeta), 47.
albicilla (Musoioapa), 335,
albicollaris (Letchena), int.
albicollis (Caprimulgug), 24. 78.

— (Nyctidromus), 24. 78.
albidisca (Zeugma), 145.
albifacies (Poeeilodryas), 159.
albifrons (Neositta), 474.

— (Sitella), 474.

albifusca (Tephroelystia), 248.
albigula (Myzomela), 480.
albigularis (Abrornis), '■'•'■>>'■

— (Gerygone), 468.

— (Nemosia), 351.

— (Poeeilodryas), 459.

— (Synallaxis), 52.
albilunata (Trotocalpe), 235.
albimaculata (Gasterocome), 172.
albimixto (Tripteridia), 160. 101.
albipectus (Thryophilus), 2-4. 29. .".45.

— (Thryothorus), 2.
albipennis (Ischnopteris), 287.

— (Platerosia). 118.
albiplaga (Physooleora), 278.
albipunota (1'ulla), 321, 322.
albirostris (Coccothraustes), 486,

- (Galbula). 30. 402.

— (Texlor), 485, 480.
albisecta (Azelina), 301.

- (typhura), 108.
albisparsa (Tachyphyle), 210.
ulbistrigula (Paralcidia), 175.

( 510 )

albistrota (Ereboehlora). 22.">.
albitaise (Symium), 407.
albithorax (Xipteria), 207.
albitumida (Aseetra), 314. 31.5.

albiventer (Hirundu), <i.

— (Tachycineta). G.
albiventris (Agyrtria). 24, 33, 395.

— (Heterocnemia), 375.

— (Omismya), 24.

— (Rhamphocaenus), 66, 374.

— (Tachycineta), 6.
albivertcx (Elainea), 48.
albiviridis (Sillopliora), 160.
albogularis (Melithreptus), 480.
albonotatus (Megalestes), 460.
alboscapulatus (Malurus), 461.
albovittatus (Donacobius), 42.
Alcedo, 27, 36, 84, 170, 402.
alexandrae (Troides), 96.
alieuaria (Cbogada), 171.
alterata (Rhodomena), 232.
altijugu.s (Casuarius), 504, 605.
Amalocichla, 465.

amanda (Peigama). 31S.
amata (Dyspteris), 245.
amaura (Craspedosis), 170.
amaurocephalus (Ploceus), 501.

— (Sycobrotus), 501.
amazonica (Capito), 81.

— (Myrmotherula), 70, 71.

— (Othorene), 427.

— (Sporophila), 8.

— (Synallaxis), 13, 52, 53.
amazonicus (Capito), 81.

— (Forruicarius), 344, 390, 391.

— (Phaethomis), 23.

— (Phoethornis), 23, 33.

— (Thamnophilus), 370.
amazonum (Hetcropeluia), 361.

— (Rhamphocaenus), 66, 67, 373, 374.

— (Pyrrhura), 36, 37, 405.

— (Scotothoras), 361, 362.

— (Urogalba), 27, 28, 401.
amazonus (Sittasomus), 31, 59.
ambigua (Paradromulia), 174.
Aniblycercus, 46.
Amblyornis, 468, 469.
Amblypodia, 340.
amboinensis (Macropygia), 449.
amerieana (Alcedo), 402.

— (Ceryle), 402.
amethystata (Bassania). 300.
amethystina (Actenochroma), 123.
Amuiomanes, 338.
amnieulata (Metieulodes). 310.
Ampelis, 51.

amplata (Psamathia). 195.

Anabate . 16, .'>:;. 364, S65.
anais (Gracula), 4H7.

— (Melanopyrrhua), 4(17.
analiplaga (Clirysocraspeda), 138.

— (Paracomistis), 316.
analis (Adelocephala), 431.

— (Formicariufl), 73, 391, 302.

— (Myothera), 73, 391.
analiscripta (Tephroclystia), 248.
analoga (Ptilotis), 482.
Anapalta, 223, 224.
Anaplectes, 492.

Ancistrops, 54.

andensis (Dysdaemonia), 41s.

— (Rothschildia), 41."..
angelica (Dacnis), 42.
angolensis (Ploceus), 493, 494.

— (Sharpia), 493.
angulata (Letehena), 104.

— (Psamathia), 195.
anguUmargo (Pyrinia). 323.
angustiplaga (Sangalopsis), 265.
angustirostris (Conopophaga). 1:1.

— (Hypocnemis), 19, 20, 68, 378.
Aniserpetes, 151, 152, 160.
Anisodes, 211-16, 221.
Anisoganiia, 126-30.
Anisoperas, 297.

Anisota, 432.

aniens (CeratophylluB), 332.
Anoplops, 343, 385-88.
annulifera (Bassania), 299.
ansorgei (Ctenophthalmus), 330.

— (Semioptila), 507.
anteocularis (Polioptila), 4.
anthoides (Corythopis), 392.
anthonilis (Adelocephala), 431, 432.
anthophilus (Phaetomia), 394.
Antliracothorax, 78, 396.
antiphates (Sangala), 265.
aphrias (Anisogamia), 127.
Aphyodes, 190, 191.

apicalis (Likoma), 93.

apicata (Myrioblephara), 173.

apicefulva (Hyposidra), 184.

Apicia, 297-99.

Aplogompha, 261.

Apophyga, 171.

appropriata (Phryginnis). 260.

approximans (Cercomacra), 1, 18, 19, 32, 372.

— (Xenops), 54, 55.
Aprosmictus, 456.
Ara, 85, 405.

aracari (Pteroglossus), 26.
Aramides, 90, 412.
arctiata (Melanosoia), 277.
arctitorquis (Pacliycephala), 472.

(511 )

Ardea, 411, 412.

Ardeiformes, 452.

ardesiacus (Dysitharnnus), 63, 64, 371.

arenaceus (Empidochancs). 357.

arenaria (Tephroclystia). 240.

arfaki (Oreocharis), 475.

— (Oreopsittacus), 45-1 .

— (Strix), 445.
arfakiana (Sericomis), 4fi7.
arfakianus (Caeomantis), 436.
argentata (Sclateria), 375.
argentatus (Herpsiloclimus), 375.
argenticincta (Opisthoxia), 265.
argentifilata (Cambogia), 239.
Argyroscelia, 137, 13s.
Argyrotome, 262.

aricia (Rothsehildia), 415.

— (Citheronia), 422.
armida (Rheseyntis), 418, 420.
armiti (Heteromyias), 450.
aroa (Citheronia), 422.
aroma (Rothsehildia), 415.
arpata (Racheolopha). 207.
arpi (Othorene), 425.
Arsenura, 420.

Arses, 462.

Artamus, 467.

Artona, 328.

aruensia (Centropus). 442.

— (Geoffroyus), 455.

— (Monarcha). 463.
Arycanda, 168. 1G0.
Asestra, 314. 315.
aspasia (Cinnyris), 475.
assimilis (Anisota), 432.

— (Caeomantis), 434.

— (Ctenophthalmus). 331, 332.

— (Cueulus), 434, 435, 436.
(Myrmotherula). 384.

— (Ninox), 445.

astigma (Racheolnpha), 206.

Astrapia, 469.

Astur, 406.

Asturina, 89, 406.

Astyoehia, 266.

Ateneo, 79.

ater (Daptrius), 405.

— (Ibycter), 405.
ateralbus (Centropns). 44.:.
Athene, 406, 443-45.
atomosaria (Tephrinopsis), 296.
atra (Monasa), 35.

— (Rhipidura), 461.
atramentaria (Cyphura). Ins.
atrata (Pratincola), 467.
atricapilla (Pitta), 468.
atricapillus (Donaeobius), 41, 42.

atricapillus (Lanio), 349.

— (Pachyrharnphus), 363.

— (Tharnnophilus), 60.

— (Turdus), 41.

atricollaris (Tephroclystia), 240, 257.
atricollis (Pteroglossns), 26.

— (Tiogon), 403.
atromaculata (Tephroclystia), 250.
atronitens (Molothrus). 10.
atroviridis (Halioscia), 202.

— (Oospila), 202.
Attila, 13, 51, 52, 364.
Atyriodes, 198.
andacis (Geoeichla), 341.
Auophylla, 201.
aurantiaeus (C'asuarius). 605.

— (Monarcha), 463.
aurantiicinctus (Capito), 82.
auratisquama (Oehyria), 148.
anratos (Capito). 81, 82.
anrea (Alcedo). 84.

— (Jacamerops), 84.
aureoflavus (Ploceus), 499, 500.
aureola (Parus), 358.

— (Pipra), 12, 358.
aureus (Conurus), 404.

— (Psittacus). 404.
auricollis (Nemosia), 351.
aurieularis (Rhipidura), 462.
aurifrons (Myospiza), 0, 45.

— (Picumnus), 80, 344, 398.
- (Tanagra), 9, 45.

auropurpurata (Oenoptila), 291.
auropurpurea (Paraleis), 176.
aurota (Rothsehildia), 413-15.
aurovirens (Bucco), 81.

— (Capito), 81.
australis (C'asuarius). 504.

— (Synoicus), 448.
Automolus, 53, 365.
axillaris (Graucalus), 463.

— (Monarcha). 462.

— (Myrmotherula), 22. 32, 69, 383.
Azelina, 301, 320.

baglafecht (Ploceus), 495. 500.
Iialteata (Callipia), 243.

— (Thalassodes), 137.

balzani (Thalurania), 77. 78. 396.
Banisia, 101.

barbatus (Myiobius), 357.
bartletti (Crypturus), 343. 410, 411.

— (Malimbus), 489.
basaliata (Cambogia), 235.
Basiothia, 95.

basiplaga (Auophylla), 201.

( 512 )

basiplaga (Perizoma), 230.

Bassania, 299, 300.

batesi (Melirrhophetes), 481.

— (Rhescyntis). 420.
beauharnaesii (PterOglosaUB), 343, 399.
beecarii (Casuarius), 504.

— (Drymoedus), 464.

— (Phlegoenas), 450.
belfordi (Melirrhophetes), 481.
bella (Physocleora), 278, 280, 281.
bellus (Ptilinopus), 449.
Belonoptera, 187.

beneseripta (Nematocampa), 310.
bennetti (Casuarius), 505.
Berberodes, 262, 263.
bernsteini (C'entropus), 443.
biagita (Ptychopoda), 144.
bianchii (Oreopneuate), 338,
biangula (Erosia), 196.
biangulata (Chloroclystis), 152.
biearunculatus (Casuarius), 505.
bicolor (Chlorochroma), 131.

— (Formicivora), 17, 18, 66, 373.

— (Libyoclanis), 507.

— (Melanocharis), 475.

— (Physocleora), 279.

— (Ploceus), 501-3.

— (Syeobrotus), 501.
bidens (Othorene), 426.
bidentatus (Falco), 39.

— (Harpagus), 39.
bifasciata (Sioata), 265, 266.
bigriseata (Sauris), 163.
bijugata (Anisogamia), 126.
bilineata (Clanis), 92.

— (Pterotosoma), 117.
bimaculata (Mimomiza), 184.

— (Muscipeta), 357.

— (Ophthalmophora), 263.

— (Paradroniulia), 174.
biruaculatus (Empidochanes), 357.

— (Poecilodryas), 459.
binotata (Hymenomima), 275.
biplagiata (Hypolamprus), 102.
bipunctigera (Epipleraa), 114.
birufata (Tephroclystia), 255.
biseeta (Perixera), 142.
bisignata (Tricentra), 222.
bisinuata (Erosia), 197.
biumbrata (Eucymatoge), 246.
bivittata (Callipseutes), 284, 286.
blainvillii (Peltops), 463.
Blechroma, 201.

blundelli (Ploceus), 493.
boeagei (Georyehus), 330.
bogotana (Rothsehildia), 414.
bogotensis (Thrvophilus), 3.

bohmi (Dinemellia), 487.

boisduvali (Othorene), 427.
bojeri (Ploceus), 499, 500.
boliviana (Calliste), 7.

— (Calospiza), 7, 348.

— (Myrmotherula), 69.

— (Penelope), 408.

bolivianus (Phaethomis), 393, 394.
bonapartii (Todopsis). 460.
bonaricnsis (Molothrus), 10.

— (Tanagra), 10.

borbae (Picumnus), 26, 344, 398.

— (Phlegopsis), 389.

— (Thamnophilus), 17, 369.
Bordeta, 169.

boreas (Dysdaemonia), 41.8.

bourcieri (Phoethornis), 74.

bouvronides (Sporophila), 8.

bowmani (Phlegopsis), 73, 344, 388, 389.

Brabira, 152.

Brachyglene, 197.

brachypterus (Falco), 405.

— (Micrastur), 405.

— (Ploceus), 496, 497, 498.
brachypus (Hypotaenidia), 451.
brasilianus (Scops), 407.
brasiliensis (Dysdaemonia), 418.

— (Taehyphonus), 30.

— (Tinamus). 408.
brehmi (Psittaeella), 455.
brevicauda (Amalocichla), 465.

— (Myrmotherula), 69, 70.
breviceps (Thaumapsylla), 329.
brevimargo (Saccoploca), 196.
brevirostris (Crypturus), 90, 91.

— (Tinamus), 90.

brevis (Adelocephala), 431.
brevistriga (Xipteria), 267, 268.
brissoti (Citheronia), 422.
Bronchelia. 271, 272.
Brotogeris, 28, 88. 405.
Brotogerys, 28, 88.
bruijni (Grallina), 468.

— (Nasiterna), 455.

— (Pomareopsis), 468.
bninnea (Dirades), 112.

— (Mychonia), 313.
hrunneata (Spliacelodes), 292.
brunneilinea (Racheospila), 209.
brunneodorsata (Eucymatoge), 247.
brunneofusa (C'hogada), 171, 172.
brunneonotata (Tliysanopyga), 292.
hrunneopicta (Hydata), 203.
brunneosticta (Hemipterodes), 219.
brunneotacta (Arycanda), 168.
brunneseens (Horornis), 339.

— (Phylloecopus), 339.

(513)

brunneua (Sclerurus), 56-8.

— (Tacliyphonus), 30.
Bryoptera, 273.
Bubalornis, 486.
Bucco, 26,81, 399. 400.
Budara, 197, 271.
budytoides (Culicivora), 11.

— (Stigmatura), 11.
buffoni (Polioptila), 4.
burkii (Cryptolopha), 336, 337.
burmanica (Cryptolopha), 337.
Bursada, 169.

BusareUus, 29, 38, 406.
butleri (Cryptolopha), 337.
Butorides, 411.

cabanisi (Empidochanes), 357.

Cabira, 316.

Cacicus, 10, 354.

C'acomantis, 433-7.

caelesti-pileata (Pipra), 343, 359, 360.

Caementa, 328.

Caereba, 42, 347.

caerulea (Caereba), 42, 347.

— (Cyanerpes), 42, 43, 347.
caeruleogrisea (Graucalus), 463.
caerulescens (Eupetes), 464.
caeruleus (Chlorestes), 33, 76, 396.
caesia (Muscicapa), 64.
caesiogrisea (Epipleraa), 191.

caesius (Tharnnoinanes), 17, 64-6, 343, 371, 372.

Caiea, 89.

cajanea (Aramides), 90, 412.

— (Fuhca), 90.

calcareus (Polyptychus), 92, 93.

caligata (Epiplema), 114.

caliginosa (Coenocalpc), 145.

Callidrepana, 97.

Calliechthrus, 439.

Callipia, 243.

Callipseustes, 284-7.

Calliste, 7.

eallogenys (Conurus), 85.

callopteris (EaclesV 424.

Caloealpe, 224.

Calornis, 341.

Calospiza, 7, 43, 347, 348.

Cambogia, 235-43.

C'arnpephilus, 25.

caruptogrammaria (Perizoma), 229.

Canipylorhynchus, 345.

canadensis (Lanius), 60.

— (Thamnophihis), 60, 61.
Canaea, 104.

canariensis ( Phylloseopus), 339.
cancellata (Belonoptera), 187.
candidata (Tephroclystia), 250.

candidus (Strix), 446.
eanibuccalis (Conurus), 404.
canidiscata (Dichromatopodia), 217.
cantator (Forrnicarius), 19, 32.
- (Hypocnemis), 1, 19, 32. 67. 377.

— (Phylloseopus), 336.
Capasa, 181.
capensis (Ploceus), 500.
capistratus (Chloronerpes), 79.

— (Chloropicus), 79.
capitalis (Dysithamnus), 62, 63.

— (Thanmophilus), 62.
Capito, 81, 82.

caprata (Pratincola), 467.

Caprimulgus, 24, 33, 78, 396, 397, 457.

eaprurna (Physocleora), 283.

carabaya (Othorene), 425.

Carabus, 334, 335.

Carbo, 29.

Carecomotis, 171.

earneata (Coenocalpe), 146.

Carpophaga, 449.

easbiata (Chaetoceras), 110.

i lassicus, 10, 46.

cassiteris (Berberodes), 262.

castanea (Dysdaemonia), 418.

— (Zeuzerodes), 189.
castaneata (Stenalcidia), 282.
castaneiceps (Cryptolopha), 337.

- (Ploceus), 499.
castaneiventris (C'acomantis), 433, 434-7.

— (Sporophila), 7, 30, 45.
castaneoventris (Oligura), 337.
castanonotus (Eupetes), 464.
castelnaudii (Glyphorhynchua), ■')'■>.
castelnaui (Onychorhynchus), 12, 356.
castraria (Jleticulodes), 312.
Casuarius, 504, 505.

Catascia, 293.

catenifera (Psaliodes), 230.

catingae (Rhynchotus), 411.

Catoria, 274.

catoxantha (Othorene), 428.

cauca (Rothsehildia), 414.

caucasica (Ctenophthalmus), 330.

caudacutus (Sclerarus), 56, 57, 58.

— (Thamnophilus), 56.
caudate (Serpophaga), 11.
caudipunctata (Gelasnia), 134.
caurensis (Phiiethornis), 75, 76.
caurensis (Sclateria), 376.
cayana (Calospiza), 347.

— (Dacnis), 29, 346.

— (Piaya), 35.

— (Tanagra), 317.
cayanea ( Arainides), 90.
oayanua (Charadrius), 29.

( 514 )

cayanus (C'uculus), 26. 35.

— (Hoplopterus), 20.
ccla (Cacicus), 10.

i clcrio (Hippotion). 91. 05.
Ccleus, 25, 34, BO, 308.
rcllulata (Paralcis), 176.
centralis (MalimbuB), 100.

— (Nemosia), 350-2.
C'cntropus. 441-3.
Ceophloeu*. 25, 20.
Ceratophyllus, 332, I
Cercomacra, 1. 18, 10, 32, 66, 372.
C'ertima, 300.

cervicalie (Autoniolus), 53.

— (Otidiphaps), 451.

— (Paroaria), 10.
cervina (Grammopelta), tin.

— (Holoreta), 97.

— (Mychonia), 314.
cervinioauda (Drepanornis), 169.

— (Tbrenetcs), 74.
cervinicolor (Anisoperas), 207.
cervinufi (Synoicus), 448.
Ceryle, 84. 402.

Ceyx, 452.

chacuru (Bucco), 400.
Chaerocanipa, 341.
Chaetoceras. 110, 111
Chaetolopba, 145.
Cbaetorkynchus, 474.
chalcia (Iridopsis), 277.
chalcocepbala (Galbula), 3(i, 402.
chalconota (Carpophaga), 449.
Ckalcopsitlacus, 453.
chalybeus (C'cntropus), 442.

— (Nesocentor), 442.
chainaeleonis (Ercbochlora), 225.
championi (Rhescyntis), 419.
C'haradrius. 29.

C'haraxes, 340.

Charmosyna, 454.

Ckarniosynopsis, 453, 451.

C'helidoptera, 84. 401.

oherriei (Cyancrpes), 42, 43, 347.

C'hiasmia, 179.

rhimaera (Casuarius). 504.

— (Troides), 96.
ckiricote (Araniidcs). 9u.
chiris (Rotksekildia). 413.
Ckiroxipkia, 31, 361.
chivi (Sylvia), 42.

— (Vireo), 42.
Cklorestes, 33, 76, 396.
chloris (Hippotion), 94. 95.
Chlorochroma. 131, 132.
Ckloroclystia, 159.
Cbloroclystis, 152-4.

Ckloronerpc », 25, 33, 79.

( 'liliuopicus, 79.

ckloroptera (Melanocharis), 477.

chloropterua (Aprosmiotus), 456.

— (Cbalcopsittacus), 453.
ohloropyga (< loereba), 6.
chlorotica (Eupkonia), 6.

— (Tanagra), 6.
Ckogada, 171, 172.

choliba (Pisorliina), 30, H9, 40 .

— (Strix), 39, 89.
Chromis, 93, 94.
Ckrostobapta, 164.
ckryses (Isohnopteris), 289.
( Ihrysoooocyz, 437-9.
Chryaocraspeda, 138-4R
cluysogaster (Gerygono), t i8
ohryBomela (Monaroha), 463.
Ckrysoptilus, 79.
lineracea (Myzonicla), 4S0.

— (Nonnula), 401.
oinerascena (Cambogia), 236.

— (Gerygono), 458.

— (Synallaxis), 14.

cinerea (Adelocephala), 429, 430.

— (C'opkocerotis), 244.

— (Gerygone), 45S.

— (Latkria), 36:>.

— (Ptilotis), 483.
cinereioeps (Gerygone), 458.

— (Macropygia), 449.
cinerciventris (Myrmotherula), 70, 384.

— (Packyrkampkus), 303.
cinereus (Crypturus), 90, 409.

— (Rallus), 90.

— (Tinamus), 409.
cinnaniomea (Myrmeciza), .'!_'.

— (Neopipo), 361.

— (Pipra), 361.
rinnamorncus (Ccleus), 34.

— (Turdus), 32.
Cinnyris. 475.

ciocolatina (Cambogia). 236.
cireumdata (Drucia), 202.
Cieticola, 466.
Citheronia, 421-3.
eitreopygius (Celeus), 79.
citrinaria (Tricentra), 222, 223
eitrinus (Celeus), 25, 398.
Clanis, 92.

clarus (Pitohui), 470.

— (Troglodytes), 2, 41.
Cleora, 172.
Climacteris, 474.
clysiaria (Pero), 318
Clytomyias, 460.
Cnemodes, 216.

( 515 )

cocciueifrons (Cyclopsitta), 454.

Coccothraustes, 485.

Coccyzus, 80.

coelestis (Tanagra), 348.

Coenocalpe, 145, 146, 225, 229.

coenosata (Anisodes), 211.

Coereba, 6, 43.

coerulescens (Paralcis), 176, 177.

collaris (Citheronia), 421.

— (Roussettus), 330.
CoUix, 146.
Collocalia, 457.

collybista (Phylloscopus), 338.
collybita (Phylloscopus), 338, 339.
colma (Formioarius), 73, 390.
■ — (Hypocneinis), 344.
colorata (Eriopygidia), 226.

— (Urogonodcs), 99, 100.
colorifera (Apicia), 297.

— (Iza), 188.
Colpocraspeda, 185, 186.
Columba, 407, 408, 449.
columbiana (Rheseyntis), 419.

— (Sicalis), 8, 9, 30.

— (Sycalis), 8.

columbicolor (Epiplema), 192.
Columbula, 408.
columnata (Paralcis), 177.
coniata (Erateina), 257, 258.
Coiuibaena, 201.
commaculata (Evigncsia), 165, 166.

— (Heterephyra), 220.
coinminuta (Haerualea), 219.
comniixtilinea (Stcnista), 160.
Comostolodes, 132.
completa (Eucymatogc), 156.

— (Sillophora), 160.
composita (Letchena), 10-4.
concentricus (Micrastur), 400.

— (Nisus), 406.

concinna (Plutodes), 166, 167.
concomitans (Dkhromatopodia), 217.
condensata (Cambogia), 237.

— (Melochlora), 205.

— (Striglina), 105, 106, 108.
conduplicaria (Hetcrusia), 258.
conduplicata (Tephroclystia), 252, 253.
conferta (Callipseustes). 285, 286.
confluens (Callipia), 243.

confusa (Blechroma), 201.

— (Nematocampa), 316.
congener (Ctenophthalnius), 331.

— (Halioscia), 203.
connexa (Anisodes), 214, 215.

— (Plutodes), 166. 167.
connivens (Falco), 444.

— (Ninox), 444, 445.

Conopophaga, 19, 22, 23.
consimilis (Meticulodes), 311.
— (Saccoploca), 196.
consobrina (Citheronia), 422.

— (Heterusia), 258.
conspersa (Physocleora), 279.
constricta (Eustenophasma), 305.
contaminata (Eucymatoge), 156.
contecta (Nipteria), 268, 270.
continens (Callipseustes), 285, 286.
rontinuata (Chloroclystis), 153.
contrariata (Ophthalmophora), 264.
contraversa (Cambogia), 237.
Conurus, 37, 85, 343, 404.
convergens (Callipseutes), 284.

— (Tachyphyle), 136.
conversata (Budara), 197.

— (Nipteria), 271.
Cophocerotis, 244.
coracina (Pero), 318.
cordigera (Ephialtias), 198.
coronata (Muscicapa), 12.

— (Ifrita), 465.

— (Pipra), 50, 359.

coronatus (Onychorhynclius), 12, 356.

— (Platyrhynchus), 354, 355.
coronulatus (Ptilinopus), 448.
corrosa (Hypochroma), 123.
corticinaria (Mychonia), 314, 315.
Corythopis, 392.

Cosmorhoe, 156.
costimaculata (Anapalta), 223.
costirufaria (Eucymatoge), 247.
costirufata (Striglina), 106.
Cotinga, 51.
Coturniculus, 9, 45.
Crasilogia, 146, 147.
Craspedosis, 170.
crassior (Microgonia), 312.
crassirostris (Euphonia), 347.

— (Psittacula), 86, 87.

— (Rhamph&eharis), 478.
( 'rateroscelis, 465.
Creciscus, 90, 412.
crenata (Likoma), 93.
crenulata (Dasystolc), 301.
crepuscularia (Ophthalmophora), 263.
crissalis (Formicarius), 391, 392.

— (Myrmornis), 392.

— (Zosterops), 483.
cristata (Anoplops), 388.

— (Pithys), 388.

— (Pitohui), 470.

— (Tanagra), 3a
oristatellus (Tachyphonus), 30.
oristatus (Malimbus), 489, 491.

— (Tachyphonus), 30, 349.

( 516 )

erocata (Hyphantornis), 197.

- (Othoronr). 428, 129.

- (Ploeeus), 496 8.

I |, 496.

croceata (Opiathoxia), 264.
i rocomorphus, 25, 80, 398.
crucigera (Pifiorhina), 39, 89, 107.

- (Strix). 39, 89.
cruentata (Myzoniela), 179.
cruentatus (Melanerpes), 'J.",, 79, 3'.17.

- (Pious), 25, 7'J.

crypaichroma (Coe alpe), 225.

< Irypsicrocis, 301.
Cryptolopha, 335-7, 158.
Crypturus, 39, 90, 91, 343, 109 11.
i Itenophthalmus, 330-32.
Ctcnopsyllus, 329.

i ii. ulus, 26, 35. 133, 134, 137, 139.
Culicivora, 1 1.

culininatus (Ramphastos), 399.
cumulata (Eugnesia), 165.
cunctata (Scotoaia), 224.
cuneatua (Glyphorhynchua), 31, 59.
cuneilinoa (Chloroclystia), 154.
curtistriga (Nipteria), 268.
curucui fjfrogou.), 84.
ourvilinea (Bronchelia), 271.
curviniacula (Dissolophodes), 155.

- (TophroolyBtia), 1")").
cuvieri (Ramphastos), 343, 399.
cyanater ( Dacnis), 30.
Cyanerpes, 42, 43, 347.
cyanescenB (Galbula), 343, 102.
cyanicollia (Galbula), 84, 102.
cyanocephala (Dacnis). .".Mi.
cyauooephalus (Eudynamis), 140.

— (Todopsis), 460.
cyanoohlora (Pnttacula), .'{8, 80, 88.
cyanopterue (ConuniB), .'17.
cyanus (Hylocharis), 24.

— (Poeoilodryas), 459.
Cyclopsitta, 454, 455.

i yclorhis, 346.
cyllene (Eriopygidia), 226.
Cyllopoda, 197, 198.
Cymatophora, 274, 276.
Cymbilanius, 60, 369.
cymonia (Rhescyntis), 120.
Cyphos, 400.
Cyphura, 108, 109.
i ypanagra, 350.

Dacnis, 29. 30, 42, -".Hi.
dainarensi* (Npornpipes). 4Sfi.
Dammcria, 341.
Daptrius, 405.

Darna, 198.

Dasystole, 301, 302.
davidi (Orcopncustc), 338.
dca (Aloedo), 27.
— (Tanysip(pia). 452.

- (Urogalba), 21. 28, 401.
dealbata (Cyphura), 108, 109.
debiliB (Turdus), 41.
decolor (Alois), 170.
decolorata ( Eugnesia), 165.
Deconyohura, 367, 368.
decora (Pergama), 318.
decorata (Miantonota), •jiic.
docoris (Eaoles), 423.
Dectoohilus, 302.
decumanus (Ostinopa), 46.
definite (Hanimaptcra), 22~i.
deformipennis (Bryoptera), 273.
defulvata (Mioromia), 156.
I leinopygia, 216, 222.
dejeani (Cryptolopha), 337.
delauta (Pergama), 318.
dolicatula (.Strix), 446.
deliciosa (Psittacula), 38, 8ii, 87.
delospila (Euimiltis), 140.
deludena (ChrOBtobapta), 164.
Dendrcxctaslcs, 343, 366, 367.
Dendrocincla, 367-9.
Dendrocolaptes, 31, 366.
Dendrocopus, 16, 368.
Dendrocygna, 39.
Dendrolagua, 506.
Dendroplex, 366.

Dendrornis, 16, 31, 53, 344, 365, 366.
densata (Hymenomima), 276.
densioomis (Paragonia), 317.
densilineata (Orthonama), 228.
dentifasoia (Striglina). 106.
derbianus (Taurotragus). 324-6.
derbyanus (Nyctidronius), 79.
dcrufata (Rhopalodes). 216.
dcsolata (Anisogamia), 126.
despectus (Pinarolcslc^i. 17o.
detccta (Bursada), 16'J.
devestita (Deinopygia), 216.
devillei (Dendrezetastes), 343, 'MM, 367.

— (Dendrocolaptes), 366.

— (Pyrrhura), 37.
deviridata (Emmesoconia), 155.
devittatua (Lorius), 453.
Dicaeum, 475.
Dichromatopodia, 217.
diehroua (Pitohui), 470.
DioruruB, 341.

differens (Spectrobaais), 149.
dileotaria (Erateina), 257.
dilute (Othorene), 428.

( 517 )

dimorpha (Athene), 441).

— (Ninox), 443.
Dinemellia, 486, 487.
dinemelli (Dincniollia), 486, 487.
diophhalmus (Cyclopsitta), 454, 455.
Dioscore, 132.

Diphyllodes, 469.
Dirades, 112, 117, 191,
discata (Bryoptcra), 273.
discipuncta (Arycanda), 168.
disoipunctata (Callidrepana), 07.
discolor (Dendrocygna), 39.

— (Ischnoptei'is), 287.
discolorata (Lomographa), 261.
discretata (Tephroclystia), 251.
dispansa (Nipteria), 271.
dispar ( Brachyglenc), 197.

— (Crasilogia), 146, 147.
dissimilis (Pergama), 318.
Dissolophodes, 155.
distincta (Erosia), 230.

— (Plemyriopsis), 230.
diversicolor (Pseustoplaca), 323.
doggetti (Caeuariue), 504, 505.
dohertyi (Banisia), 101.
Dolerophyle. 197.

doliatus (Thamnophilus), 370.

domesticus (Passer), 487.

Donacobius, 41, 42.

draco (Epiplema), 194.

Drepanodes, 303.

Drepanornis, 469.

Dromococcyx, 398.

Drucia, 202.

Drymoedus, 464.

Drymophila, 32.

dubius (Dysithauinus), 63.

dumetorum (Cacomantie), 434.

dumontii (Jlino), 468.

duplicilinca (Psaliodes), 231.

durnfordi (Cyllopoda), 197.

Dysdaeinonia, 417, 418.

Dj'sephyra, 217.

Dysithamnus. 31, 61, (i4, 370, 371.

Dysptcris, 244.

Eacles, 423, 424.

Eafa, 478.

ecaudatum (Todirostruui), 11, 47.

ceaudatus (Orchilus), 11, 47.

Edoliisorna, 338, 463, 464.

cdwardsi (Casuarius), 505.

Eilicrinia, 285.

Elaenia, 47, 362.

Elainea, 47, 48.

Elanoides, 29.

data (Sylvia), 47.
clatus (Tyrannulns), 47.
clegans (Celeus), 34.

— (Colpocraspeda), 185, 186.

— (Hypocnemis), 20, 21.
Elphos, 172.
Emberiza, 10.

cmilii (Melidectis), 481.
cmini (Ploceus), 494.

— (Sycobrotus), 494.
Emmesocoma, 155.
Euiuiiltis, 140, 141, 218, 222.
Empidochanes, 12, 357.
Einpidonax, 49, 357.

Eos, 453.

Ephialtias, 198.

Ephialtis, 407.

Epiplema, 110. 113-16, 117, 191-4.

episcopus (Phaethornis), 75.

— (Phoethomis), 75, 76.

— (Tanagra), 348.
Epitherapis, 182. 183.
oquatorialis (Rothschildia), 413.
ccjues (Myzomela), 479.
Erateina, 257.

crebata (Dirades), 191.

Erebochlora, 225.

erecticoma (Tephroclystia), 251.

Eremita, 75, 76.

eremita (Phoethornis), 24, 76.

cremobius (Symplectes), 195.

Eremocentra, 141.

Eriopygidia, 225, 226.

Erosia, 196, 197, 230.

erycina (Rothschildia), 416.

crycinas (Rothschildia), 416.

crythrocephala (Pipra), 30, 31, 111.

crythrogasler (Malimbus), 492.

erythrogenys (Ploceus), 493.

crythropterus (Formicarius), 389.

— (Phlegopsis), 389, 390.
erythropus (Grypturus), 39.

— (Tinaruus), 39.
crythrothorax (Leiates), 11.

— (Lorius), 453.
crythrurus (Myiobius), 48, 361.
Eschrostoma, 147.
esculenta (Collocalia), 457.
Euclysia, 303.

Eucometis, 349.

Eucyuiatoge, 146, 156, 246, 247.

Eudule, 244.

Eudynarais, 440.

Eugnesia, 165, 166.

Eupetes, 464.

Eupetomena, 395.

Euphemia, 304.

( 518 )

Euphoria, 6, 43, 347.

eupitheciata (Aoidalia), 222.
Eurvpyga, 412.
Euscarthuius, 47. 3SS, 350.
Eusenea, 3<V4.
Eustenophasma, 3i ©.
Euthyrhynchuu, 483.
Euthysana, 141, 142.
Eutoca, 180.
Eutomopepla, 306.
evacuate (Tephroclystia), 251.
evcretti (Phylloscopus), 33(5.
exalbata (Elphos), 172.
cxangulata (Chloroolystis), 153.
exauota (Perixera), 143.
excisa (Alychoria), 315.

— (Saecoploca), 196.

excitus (Cacomantis), 433, 436, 437.
exooria (Epiplema), 192.
excurvaria (Stenotrachelys), 283.
exilis (C'istii'ola). 400.

— (Creciscus), 90.

— (Psaliodes). 231.

— (Rallus). 90.
expectata (Abraxas), 167.
exquisita (Pipra), 359.
exsanguis (Chloroclystie), 153.
exsul (Hypotaenidia), 451.

— (Phylloscopus), 339.
cxtensata (Racheoloplia), 207.
cxtorsaria (Hymenoraima), 270.
cxtincta (Craspedosis), 170.
extremata (Dyspteris), 245.
cytoni (Dendrocolaptes), 366.

— (Dendrornis), 10, 344. 366.

faeetata (Phibalapteryx), 230.

— (Plemyriopsis), 230.
facilis (Epiplema), 115.
Faleinellus, 409.

Falco, 29, 38, 39, 89, 405, 400, 444.
fallax (Glyciehaera), 480.

— (Goniocampa), 306, 307.

— (Racheolopha), 208.
falsa (Nematocampa). 310.
fasciata (Chrysocraspeda), 138.

— (Myrioblephara), 173.

— (Oreta), 98.

— (Pipra). 12. 358.

— (Pisoraca), 144.

— (Tridrepana). 99.
fasciioauda (Pipra), 12, 358.
fenestrata (Citheronia), 421.
ferrugata (Siculodes). 189.
ferniginata (Physocleora), 279.
ferruginea (Jlyrmeciza), 32.

ferruginea (Isochrornodes), 30S.
frrrugineus (Pitohui), 470.

— (Turdcis). 32.
festiva (Perixera), 141.

— (Pisoraea), 144.
lilippii (Phaethornis), 71.
Bjnbripedata (Arisodes), 212.

— (Racheolopha), 207.
tlagrans (Callipia), 243.
Ilammea (Heterodisca), 183.

— (Strix), 29. 440.
Hammifera (I)arna), 198.
ilavescens (Ccleus), 34.

— (Psittacula), 80.
Havibasis (Drepanodes), 303.
Ilavieata (Epiplema), 113, 114.
Ilaviceps ((.'ymatophora), 271.
ilavicollis (Nemosia), 350-53.

— (Pipra), 358.
Ilavida (Dysephyra), 217.

— (Urogonodes), 100.
rlavidula (Hastina). 102.
Havifascia (Mesoboinba), 295.
flavifrons (Picumnus), 80.
rlavigaster (Microeca), 45s.
flavigula (Chloronerpes), 25, 33.
flavigularis (Chloronerpes), 25.
flavilauta (Chogada), 171, 172.
flavilimes (C'hlorochroma), 131, 132

— (Phrygionis), 200.
Havilinea (Myrioblephara), 173.
rlavimedia (Ninodes), 166.
flavinigra (Xenopepla), 2111.
flavipars (Chogada), 171.
Havipennis (Crasilogia), 140.
flaviplaga (Physocleora), 279.
Havirostris (Pteroglossus), 83. 399.
flavissima (Perixera), 143.
flavistigma (Anisodes), 211.

— (Tricentra), 223.
flaviventer (Dacnis), 42.
flaviventris (Calliste), 7.
Havivertex (Heterocercus), 363.
Havogrisea (Pachycare). 474.
flavovirescens (Microeca), 457.
Bavus (Crocomorphus), 25, 80, 398.

— (Picus), 25.
flebilis (Nipteria), 268.
flexilinea (Capasa), 181.

— (Microseraa), 313.

— (Myehonia), 313-15.

— (Myrioblephara). 173.

— (Physocleora), 280.
floccosa (Lasioedma), 147, 148.
rlorediscata (Poecilostigma), 135.
llnris (Aeanthopneuste), 337.

— (Cryptolopha), 337.

( 519 )

floris (Phylloscopus), 336.
Florisuga, 395.
fluviatilis (Agyrtria), 76.

— (Thaumatias), 76.
foedicosta (Epiplema), 115.
foetida (Graoula), 364.
foetidus (Gymnoderus), 361.
forbesi (Rallieula). 451.
Formicarius, 19. 32, 73. 344, 389-92.
Forniieivora, 17, 18, 66, 68, 70, 372.
fortis (Bassania), 299, 300.

— (Myrmelastes), 66.

— (Percnostola), 66.
fi'agiiicntata (Anisoganiia), 127.
fraterculus (Phoethornis), 393, 394.
fratema (Chlorochroma), 131, 132.

— (Meticulodcs), 311.
frcnata (CSnnyris), 475.

— (Synallaxis), 52.
frondicula (Belonoptera), 1S7.
frontalis (Sporopipes), 489.
fulgens (C'arabus), 334.
fulgurans (Prosthetopteryx), 157.
fulgurata (Anisodcs), 213.
Fulica, 90.

fuliginosa (Dendrocincla), 368.

— (Hypolamprus), 103.
fuliginosus (Dendrocopus), 368.
fulva (Addaea), 100.
fulvaster (Eacles), 424.
fulvata (Tridrepana). 99.
fulvicomosa (Berbcrodes), 262, 263.
fulvida (Callipia). 243.
fulvifacies (Abromis), 336.
fulvigularis (Myiobius), 48.
fulviplaga (Trochistis), 178.
fulvipuncta (Mieromia), 156.
fulviradiata (Arycanda), 168.
fulvistriga (Ochyria), 148.
fulvivcna (Mj-rioblephara), 173, 174.
fulviventris (Eutbyrhynchus), 483.

— (Phylloscopus), 336.
funiata (Myzomela), 479.
funiifrons (Euscarthtnus). 47.
fumigata (Dendrocopus) 368.

— (Merula), 2, 344.
fumigatus (Melipotes), 481.

— (Turdus), 2. 4<i, 344.
funiilinca (Nipteria), 268.
fumipennifl (Crasilogia), 147.
fumosa (Cleora), 172.
fumosta (Nipteria), 269.
funesta (Epiplema), 115.
furcata (Thalurania). 24. 77.
furcatoides (Thalurania). 21.
furcatus (Elanoides), 29.

— (Falco), 29.

Furnarius, 13.
furva (Caloealpe). 224,
fuscalis (Cithcronia), 423.
fuscata (Eos), 453.

— (Muscipeta), 357.

— (Eustenophasnia), 305.
fuscatus (Empidochanes), 357.
fuscimargo (Oreta), 98.
Euscisecta (Eremocentra), 141.
fuscus (Tinactor), 56-8.
fusilinea (Apicia), 298.

Galactochlora, 133.
galatea (Tanysiptera). 152.
galbraithii (Thryophilus), 4.
Galbula, 36, 84, 343. 401, 102.
galbula (Alcedo), 36.

— (Galbula), 36.
galenaria (Tephroelystia), -~r2.
galiata (Cosmorhoe), 156.
gamblei (Pachycephala), 471.
garbei (Myrmotherula), 383.
Gasterocome, 172.
Gastrina, 301.

Gathynia. 117.

geelvinkianum (Dicaeum), 475.

Gelasma, 134.

genibarbis (Thryothorus), 345, 346.

— (Xenops), 16, 54, 55, 365.
Gcocichla, 341.
Geoffroyus, 455.

Geopelia, 450.
Georychus, 330.
Geotrygon, 407.
Gerusia, 118, 120.
Gerygone, 337, 341. 458.
gestroi (Ptilinopus), 449.
gibbosa (Petrodava), 181.
gigas (Chlorochroma), 131.

— (Taurotragus), 324, 325.
gilva (Microgonia), 312.
gilvicollis (Micrastur), 405, 406.

— (Sparvius), 405, 406.
giulianettii (I ryptolopha), 458.
giulianctti (Phylloscopus), 336.
gladiaria (Gynopteryx), 307.
gladiator (Thryothorus), 373.
glareolus (Hypudaeus), 332.
glareosa (Eremocentra), 141.
glauca (Pyrrhaspis), 135.
Glaucis, 74, 392.
glaucopectus (Formicarius), 390.
glaucopsis (Thalurania), 24.
glaucotis (C'aementa). 328.
glaucus (Thamnomancs), 17, 63-5.
Glossopsittacus, 453.

f 520 )

Glyoiohaera, 480.
Glyciphila, 480.
Glyphorhynchus, 31, 60.

goeldii (Sicalis). 8, 9, .'In.
goldici (Glossopsittacus), 153.
goldii (Ninox), 444.
goliath (Troides), 96.
Goniocampa, 306, 307.
Gonophaga, 183.
goodenoviensiB (Ninox), 444.
gracililinea (Anisodes), 212.

— (Anisngamia), 127.
gracillima (Cyllopoda), 107.
Gracula, 364, 467.
(irallina, 4(i8.

grammiceps (Cryptolopha), 337.
grammicus (( 'clous), so, :i!is.

- (Picus), 80.
Grammopelta, U9.
Granatellus, 5, 340.
grandimacula (Rhodomena), 232.
grandis (Caprimulgus), 33.

(Hypolamprus), 103.

— (Oreopsittacus), 154.

— (Nyctibius), 78.

— (Siosta), 265.
granulosaria (Bronohelia), 272.
I .i aucalus, 403.

gravipes (ArgyroBoelia), L38.
gregalia (Ploceus), 501.
grisea (Formicivora), 17.
griseella (Emmiltis), 140.
griBeioeps (Pachycephala), 472.
griseipectus (Myrmeciza), 32.
griseiplaga (Apophyga), 171.
griseivcntris (Hypocnemis), (i7. lis. 378.

— (Pachysylvia), (i.

— (Pithys). 07, .178.
griseomixta (Anisodes), 212.
griseotincta (Reinwardtoena), 450.
grisescens (Hymenoniima), 270.

— (Myzomela), 479, 480.

— (Physoclcora), 281.
grossus (Pitylus), 7.
guianensia (Agapornis), 87.

— (Cyclorhis), 340.

— (Lainpropsar), 40, 354.

— (Leistes). 10.

- (Phoethornis), 393.

— (Piaya). 35.
(I'sitlucula). 38, S0-S.

— (Pyrrhococcyx), 35.

— (Synallaxis), 13.
Guiraca, 45.
gujanensis ((.'yolarhis). 340.

- (Motaoilla), 13, 52.

— (Synallaxis), 13, 52, 304.

gujanensis (Tanagra), 340.
gularis (Paroaria), 10.

— (Rhipidura), 461.

— (Tanagra). 10.
gurneyi (PlooeuB), 492.
guttata (Aethomyias), 460.

— (Dcndrornis), 31, 50. 311. 365, 366.

— (Myrmotherula), 00.

— (Rhopotcra), 377.

guttatoides (Dendromk), 31, 59, 344. 305, 300.

— (Nasica), 50.
guttatum (TodiiOBtrom), 46.
guttatus (ChrysoptiltiB), 79.

— (Dcndrocolaptes), 31.

— (Tinamus), 400.

'.mi iiula (Monarcha), 402.
guttoratua (Anabates), 364.

— (Siptornis), 301.
Gymnoderus, 364.
Gymnophaps, 440.
Gymnopithys, 71, 72, 385.
gymnope (Melipotes), 481.

— (Rhrginatorhina), 388.
Gynopteryx, 307, 308.

rladrostomus, 51.

Haenialea, 21S, 210, 307.
haeinatodes (Cambogia), 237.
haematodua (Trichoglossus), 453.
liaeruatonota (Formicivora), 70.

— (Myrmotherula), 70, 71, 384.
haematostygnia (Mcsopicus), 307.

— (Veniliornis), 397.
haemorrhouB (Caoious), 354.
hagenbecki (Casuarius), 504, 505.

— (Macropus), 333.
Halcyon, 338, 452.
Halioscia, 202. 203.
haniifcra (Cithcronia), 422, 423.
Hammaptera, 227.
Harpagus, 39.

harterti (( iryptolopha), 337.
II it ina, 162.

haussanus (Orycteropus), 506.
hauxwelli (Formicivora), 08.

— (Morula), 344.

— (Myrmotherula), 08, 09. 383.

— (Porzana), 89.

— (Tardus), 40, 344.

Iiayilcnata (( atast'ia), 293.
hccki (Casuarius), 505.
Hclcodytcs, 345.
helias (Ardea), 412.

— (Eurypyga), 412.
heliodes (C'hromis), 93, 94.
hcllmayri (Myrmotherula), 09.

( 521 )

helviventris (Plilegoenas), 450.
Hernicopha, 293, 294.
Hemipodius, 448.
Hemipterodes, 219.
hemirhodia (Adelocepha)a), 430.
hendida (Erosia), 190.

— (Saccoploca), 190.
henkei (Arses), 402.
henrici (Dammeria), 341.
henricus (Xenocerus), 341.
Hepialopsis, 187, 188.
Herdonia, 102.

liermes (Maehaerosema), 419.
Herpetotheres, 89.
Herpsilochmus, 375.
herrichiata (Opisogonia), 228.
Hestia, 340.
Heterephyra, 219, 220.
Heterocereus, 302, 303.
Heterocnemis, 375, 379.
Heterodisca, 183.
heterogynus (Dysithamnus), 01-3.

— (Thamnophilus). 371.
heteromorplia (Eutoea), 180.
Heteromyias, 459.
Heteropelrna, 301, 302.
Heterusia, 257-9.
Heteryphantes, 494.

liilaris (Anisogarnia), 128.
hippodamia (Maehaerosema), 419.
Hippotion, 94, 95.
liirsuta (Glaucis), 74, 392
hirticosta (Xenoclystia), 102.
hirtivena (Coenocalpe), 140.
hirundinacea (Ornismya), 395.
hirundinaceus (Melanerpes). 397.
Hirundo, 0.
hispidus (Phoethornis), 394.

— (Trochilus), 394.
hocina (C'allipseutes), 285.

— (Eilicrinia), 285.
hodgsoni (Tickellia), 335.
hoedti (Ninox), 443.
hoffmannsi (Anoplops), 343, 387.

— (Meticulodcs), 312.

— (Myrmotherula), 22.

— (Pipra), 49, 50, 359, 360.

— (Thamnomanea), 17, 04-0.
Holoreta, 97.

holoxanthus (Ploceus), 499, 500.
homoea (Adelocephala), 431,
Homoplexis, 117.
Homoptera, 301, 302.
Hoplopterus, 29.
Horornis, 339.

humaythae (Sclateria), 344, 375, 376.
humboldti (Pteroglossus), 83.

lnimeralis (Athene), 4 14.

— (Ninox), 444.
humerata (Xenoclystia), 162.
hunsteini (Diphyllodes), 469.
Hv.lata, 203, 204.
Hydatoscia, 271.
Hydrocorax, 29.
Hydropsalis, 396.
Hylocharis. 24, 395.
hylophilum (Syrnium), luT.
Hylophilus, 0.
Hymenomima, 275, 276.
Hypagyrtis, 308.
Hypermegethes, 492.
hyperrhynohus (Bucco), 399.
hyperythra (Pachycephala), 473.

- (Rhipidura), 461.
Hyphantornis, 4!i_', 497, 500.
Hyplianturgus, 492.
Hypoehroma, 123-5.
hypochromaria (Hypoehroma), 124.
Hypocnemis, 1, 19-21, 32. 07. 344. 377-82.
hypoenochrous (Loriua), 453.
Hypolampms. 102, 103.

hypoleuea (Heterocnemis), 379.

— (Hypocnemis), 379, 380.

— (Poeeilodryas), 459.
hypoleueus (Tliryopliihis), 3.
liypopyna (Laniocera), 364.
Hyposidra, 184.
hypospodia (Synallaxis), 304.
hypoetictus (Campylorhynehus), 345.

— (Heleodytes), 345.
Hypotaenidia, 341. 451.
Hypotriorchis, 39.
hypoxantha (Adelocephala), 429.
Hypudacus, 332.

Hyriogona, 220.

Ibyeter, 4n5.

ieteromelas (Pyranga). 501.

Icterus, 40.

Ictinia, 400.

Ifritii. 4115.

ignea (Anisodes), 212.

— (Melinodes), 309.
ignefissa (Striglina), 106.
ignefumata (Epiplema), 192.
ignefusa (Epiplema), 193.
ignita (Chrysocraepeda), 139.
ignobilia (Momotus), 28.

— (Turdus), 41.
iliolophus (Melilestea), 481.
illunata (Teldenia), 99.
illiistrnria (Chogada). 171.
imitaiis (.Miantonota) 206,

( 522 )

imitata (Cambogia), 238.
immaculata (Gynopteryx), 307.
iniperialis (Eacles), 423, 424.
impuber (Rhopalist.O. 234.
impunctata (Nephodia), 2117.
inaequata (Loniographa), 201.
inapieata (Gynopteryx), 307.
inea (Rothschildia), 41").
inoepta (Eugnesia). 105.
ineertus (Thamnophilus). 02.
inoolorata (Microgonia), 31.
ineomptaria (Hyposidra), 184.
inconapiooa (Cambogia), 238.

— (Euthysana). 141, 142.

— (Isehnopteris), 288.

— (Symmacra), 142.

— (Troehistis), 178.
indecisa (Perixera). 143.
indigene (Perixera), 142.
indignaria (C'nemodes). 210.
infaris (Arycanda), 108.
infantilis (Prosthetopteryx), 158.
infaustus (Caeomantis), 434. 435.
inferna (Pero), 310.
inllammata (Bordeta). 100.
infusratus (Anabates), 53.

— (Automolus). 53.
Ingena, 100.
innotata (Polioptila). 4.
innuba (Anisogamia), 128.
inornata (Oenoptila). 202.

— (Paragonia), 317.

— (Synallaxis), 13, 52, 304.
inornatus (Amblyornis), 408.

— (Thamnophilus), 02.
inquinata (Myrioblephara). 173.

— (Polla), 321.

— (Rhomborista), 130.
inacriptua (Pteroglossus), 20.
insignia (Aegotheles), 450. 457.

— (Clytomyias), 400.

— (Nemosia), 350-53.
insperata (Anisogamia), 127.
insperatus (Caeomantis), 434.
intensa (Eriopygidia), 220.

— (Petrodava), 181.
intensus (Casuarius). 505.
interlauta (Perizoma), 220.
interlineata (Astyochia), 200.
intermedia (Chloroebronia), 131.

— (Cryptolopha), 330.

— (Euclysia). 303.

— (Melochlora). 205.

— (Othorene), 427.
intermedins (Capito), 82.

— (Textor), 486.
interposita (Nephodia), 266.

interrnpta (Nematooampa), 310.
invalida (Othorene), 420.
invisibilis (ChloroolyBtis), 153. 154.
iozonus (Ptilinopus). 440
Iridopsis, 277.
Isandria. 283.
Is.linopsylliis. 320.
[sohnopteris, 287-0.
Isoehromodes, 30S. 309.
Iza, 188.

Jacamerops, 84.
jacquaeu (Penelope), 344, 4ik.
jacupemba (Penelope). 408.
jamesi (Phonygammns). 47o.
jamraebi (Casuarius). 504, ~>l»~h
janeira (Othorene). 425.
- (Phaludia), 295.
jason (Othorene), 425, 420.
jelskii (Thalurania), 77, 78.
jerdoni (Cr\rptolopha), 337.
Jolaus, 340.

jorulla (Rothchildia), 415, 410.
jumana (Celeus), 25, 79, 398.
juruana (Myrmotherula), 09, 70.
juruanus (Thryothorus), 345.

kadeni (Dysdaemonia). 417.
karu (Lalage), 404.
kebirensis (Paehyeephala), 472.
keraudreni (Phonygammus), 470.
kersteni (Ploceus), 503.
khakiata (Anisodes), 213.
kinabaluensis (Phylloscopus). 330.
klagesi (Othorene), 424.
kuehni (Calornis), 341.

— (Hypotaenidia). 341.

— (Litocerus), 341.

— (Myzomela), 341.

— (Paehyeephala), 341.

— (Xenocerus), 341.
kiihni (Agathia), 341.

— (Amblypodia), 340.

— (Chaeroeampa). 341.

— (Dierurus), 341.

— (Gerygone), 341.

— (Hestia), 340.

— (Jolaus), 340.

- (Phalaenoides), 341.

— (Pieris), 340.

— (Pitta), 341.

laciniata (Tricentra), 223.
laeteata (Apicia), 298.

( 523 )

lacteata (Myrioblephara), 173.
lactilineata(Pero), 319.
laeta (Agyrtria), 70.
laevipennis (Nipteria) 268, 260.
laglaizei (Casuarius), 505.
Lalage, 464.
Lamproeoocyx, 438.
Lampropsar, 46, 354.
tanaris (Adelocephala), 431.
laneearia (Anisodes). 212, 215.
langsdorffii (Pteroglossus), 84.

— (Selenidera), 84.
laniirostris (Euphonia), 347.
Lanio, 349.

Laniocera, 364.
Lanius, 17, 60, 356.
laocoon (Citheronia), 423.
Lasiaedma, 147, 14S.
lateralis (Banisia), 101.
Lathria, 303.

laticosta (Hypolamprus), 103.
latifasciata (Anisodes). 213.

— (Hydata), 203.
latilinea (Syiiecta), 283.
latimargo (Melinodes), 310.
laliorata (Callipseustes), 285.
latirostre (Euscarthnius), 47.

— (Todirostruui), 47.

latistriga (Chlorochroma), 131, 132.
lavendula (Cambogia), 239.
lawesi (Parotia), 469.
lawrencei (Empidonax), 49, 357.

— (Sclerurus), 56, 57.
lebeau (Rothscliildia), 416.
Leistes, 10, 11.
leopoldinae (Sicalis), 8, 9.
lepidonota (Hypocneniis), 378.
leprosa (Apioia), 298, 299.

- (Hypochroma), 123, 124.
leprosata (Aerotomodes), 297.
Letehena, 104.

leucaspis (Gymnopithys), 72.
leueauchen (Tliamnophilus), 60.
leucocilla (Pipra), 49.
leucocynia (Eriopygidia), 225.
leucogaster (Pionites) 89.

— (Psittaeus) 89.
leucogastra (Pachycephala) 471.

— (Polioptila) 5.
Leucolepia, 41, 340.
leueolophus (Callieohtlirus), 439.

— (Cuculua), 439.
lc-ucopareia (Trugon), 450.

leueophrys (Hypoonemis), 19, 20. 68, 378, 380

— (Pithys), 19.
Ii-ucophthalmus (Conurus), 85.

(Psittaeus), 85.

leucops (Poeeilodryaa), 459.
leucoptera (Psopbia), 412.
Leucoptcrnis, 406.
leucostictus (Eupetes), 464.
leueostigma (Pacbycephala), 473.
— (Percnostola), 376.

- (Raeheolopha). 207.

- (Sclateria), 344, 370. :!77.
Leueula, 269.

Ii-ueurus (Threnetes), 74. .'I!I2.

— (Troehilus), 74.
Libyoelanis, 507.
liehenosa (Hypochroma), 124.
liehtensteinii (Euphonia). 6, 347.
lietor (Lanius), 356.

- (Pitangus), 356.
lignata ( Hyposidra), 184.
lignicolor (C'abira), 310.

— (Paracoraistis), 310.
ligustri (Sphinx), 1SS.
Likoma, 93.

lilacina (Cambogia), 237.
limosa (Cymatophora), 274.
linearia (Catoria), 274.
lineata (Ardea), 411.

- (Eugnesia), 165.

- (Tolmera), 177.
lineatum (Tigrisoma), 411.
lineatus (C'eophloeus), 26.

— (Cymbilanius), 60, 369.

— (Lanius). 60.

— (Pieus), 26.
lineola (Loxia), 8.

— (Sporophila), 8.
linteata (Elaenia), 362.
linteatus ( Heterocercus), 362.
Lipangus, 13, 51, 363, 364.
Lipomelia, 165, 220.
Lissochlora, 204, 205.
Litocerus, 341.

littorabs (Xenops), 55.
livida (Motaeilla), 4.

— (Polioptila), 4, 5.
livingstonei (Taurotragus), 324. .'L'5.
lobesis (Citheronia), 423.
Lomographa, 260, 261.
lomogiaphata (Ingena), lor,,
longicauda (Deconyehura), 307. 368.

— (Dendrocinela), 307.

— (GraucaluB), 403.
(Myrmotherula), 08.

— (Uroeharis), 475, 470.
longidena (Paragonia), 317, 318.
longimaoula (Bordeta), 169.
longipennis (Myrmotherula), 69, 70, 383.

— (Phoethomia), 75.
longipes (Drymophila), 32.

( 524 )

longipes (Myrmeciza), 32.
longiplaga (ParatyTia), 198.
longirostris (Dendrocopus), 16.

— (Nasica), 16, 31, 367.

— (Tinamus), 39.
longispina (Othorene), 425.
longispinata (Aniserpetes). IS1
longistriata (Banisia), 101.
Lophorina, 469.

lorenzii (Phylloscopus), 339.
loretoyacnensig (Thaninophilus). 60. 61.
Loria, 469.
loriae (Casuarius). 505.

— (Eupetes), 464.

— (Loria), 469.
Lorius, 453.

lory (Lorius). 453.

lotharingica (Motacilla), 338.

lovati (Otyphantes). 49.1.

Loxia, 8.

Loxochila. 132.

lucena (Tachyphyle), 210.

luciana (Rotlischiklia), 417.

lucianii (Conurus), 37, 404.

lueiaai (Pyrrhura), 37. 343, 404, 405.

lucida (Pharambara), 104.

lucidioi (Triehoclystis), 256.

lucidus (Chrysoeoccyx), 4311.

lucivittata (Cambogia), 239.

luctuosa (Myrmotherula), 22.

luctuosus (Lanius), 17.

- (Myrnielastes), 17, 372.

- (Tachyphonus), 7, 30, 349.

- (Thaninophilus), 17, 372.
lugubris (Hypocnemis), 19, 379, 380.

— (Melainpitta), 468.

— (Mellopitta), 468.

— (Myrmonax), 379.

- (Tephrinopsis), 296.

— (Tephroclystia), 252.
lunifera (Hydata), 204.
lumdata (Pithys), 72.
lunulatus (Melithreptus). 480,
luridata (Heterophyra), 219.
lutea (Mychonia), 314, 315.
luteola (Muscicapa), 335.
luteonigra (Tephroclystia), 253.
lutulenta (Tephroclystia), 253.
Lygris. 301.

macao (Ara), 405.

— (Psittacus), 405.

— (Sittace). 405.
Machaerirhynch.ua, 462.
Maohaerosema, 418.
macleayi (Halcyon), 452.

maerodactylus (Buceo), 400.

— (Cyphos), 400.
Macropteryx, 457.
Macropus, 333, 398.
Macropygia, 449, 450.
macrorhynehus (Astui). 406.
maeroura (Eupetomena), 395.
macrouriis (Trochiliis), 395.
niacrurus (Caprimulgus), 457.

— (Megalurus), 466.
maculata (Addaca), 101.

— (Alcis), 170.

- (Eafa). 47s.

- (Euelysia), 303.

— (Rhamphocharis), its

— (Zeuzerodes), 190.
maculatum (Todirostrum), 11. 46.
maculatus (Casuarius). 505.

- (Todus), 11.
maculicauda (Hypocnemis). 381. 3S2.
maculieaudus (Caprimulgus), 397.

— (Stenopsis), 397.
maeulicosta (Azelina), 320.

— (Pero), 320.

maculipennis (Pygiptila), 370.
maculosus (Hemipodius), 448.

— (Turnix), 448.
madaraszi (Psittacella). 455.
madura (Tephroclystia). 255.
magnidiscata (Anisodes), 215.
magnifica (Diphyllodes), 469.

— (Eacles), 423, 424.

— (Megaloprepia), 449.
magnirostris (Falco). 38.

— (Phylloscopus), 336.

— (Rupornis). 38, 406.
magnus (Macropus), 333.

— (Saltator), 45.

raahali (Plocepasser). 487, 488.

maior (Polioptila), 5.

major (Thamnophilus), 16, 369.

— (Tinamus), 40S.

— (Sehiffornis), 362.
Malacoptila, 400.

malaria (Phoethornis). 76, 39.'!. 394.
maligna (Speotrobaais), 149.
malimbica (Malimbus), 491.

— (Tanagra), 491.
Malimbus, 489-92.
malina (Hydata), 204.
Malurus. 461.

marcescens (Tolmera), 177, 178.
marcida (Crypsicrocis), 301.
marginatus (Pachyrhamphus), 363.
mariae (Pteroglossus), 83. 399.
marina (Pyrrhaspis), 135.
marmorata (Nothura), 86.

( 525 )

marshalli (Scmioptila), 507.
martena (Physocleora), 278.
rnartha (Rothschildia), 416, 417.
martii (Machaerosema), 418.

— (Momotus), 403.

— (Prionites), 403.

— (Rhescyntis) 418

— (Urospatha), 403.
Marumba, 327.
inaschuna (Semioptila), 508.
uiasoni (Eacles), 424.
massena (Trichoglossus), 453.
matschiei (Dendrologus), 506.
maxima (Tanagra), 45.
maximus (Artamus), 467.

— (Saltator), 45.
maynana (Ampclis), 51.

— (Cotinga), 51.
medea (Basiothia), 95.
media (Calopiza), 7.
mediostrigata (Cambogia), 239, 242.
ineeki (Caconiantis), 436.

— (Cbxomis), 93.

— (Edoliisoma), 463.

— (Loxochila), 132.

— (Myzomela), 479, 480.

— (Pachycepbala), 472.

— (Pingasa), 125.

— (Strix), 446.

— (Syma), 452.
meekiana (Ptilotis), 482.
Megalestes, 460.
Megaloprepia, 449.
Megalurus, 466.

megarhyncha (Pinarolestes), 470.
megarhynchus (Melilestes), 481.
meisneri (Sylvia), 338.
melaena (Myrmotherula). 22, 69.
Melampitta, 468.
Melanerpes, 25, 79, 397.
melanobrephos (Malinibus), 491.
melanocephalus (Ailuroedus), 468.
Melanocharis, 475-8.
melanochrous (Thamiiophilus), 17.
melanocoryphus (Coccyzus), 80.
melanogaster (Conopophaga), 22, 23.
melanogastra (Myrmotherula), 22.
melanogenia (Cyclopsitta), 455.
melanograpta (Tephroclystia), 253.
melanolaema (Hypocnemis), 20, 21, 344, 379, 380.
melanoleucus (Micrastur), 405.

— (Sparvius), 405.
melanomma (Thalassodes), 132.
melanopogon (Hypocnemis), 381, 382.
melanopsis (Monarcha), 463.
Melanopteryx, 492.
Melanopyrrhus, 467.

melanorhynchus (Plocepasser), 488.

Melanoscia, 277.

melanospila (Eugnesia), 165, 166.

— (Mychonia), 315.
melanosticta (Anoplops), 386.

— (Hypocnemis), 24.

— (Pithys), 386.
melanotis (Ailuroedus), 468.

— (Ploceus), 493.
melanotus (Phylloscopus), 338.
melanoxantha (Nemosia), 350-2.
melanura (Euphonia), 347.

melanurus (Rhamphocaenus), 66, 67, 373-5.

— (Thamnophilus), 16, 369.
melas (Edoliisoma), 463.
Melidectis, 481.
Melilestes, 481.
Melinodes, 309, 310.
Melipotes, 481.
Melirrhophetes, 481.
Melithreptus, 480.
mellivora (Florisuga), 395.
Mellopitta, 468.
Melochlora, 134. 205.
menbeki (Centropus), 441, 442.
menetriesii (Myrmotherula), 69, 70, 384.
mentalis (Ploceus), 503.

— (Symplectes), 503.
mera (Melinodes), 310.
meridana (Rothschildia), 414.
meropia (Bassania), 300.
Merula, 2, 344.

merula (Dendi'ocincla), 369.
Mesobomba, 295.
Mesopicus, 397.
Mesotrophe, 144.
metachromata (Erosia), 197.

— (Trotorhombia), 197.
metallicata (Argyrotome), 262.
metallifera (Striglina), 107.
meticulata (Drepanodes), 303.
Meticulodes, 310, 311.
mexicana (Calospiza), 7, 43, 348.

— (Citheronia), 422.

— (Tanagra), 7.
mexicanus (Xenops), 55.
meyeri (Chrysococcyx), 437.

— (Falcinellus), 469.
Miantonota, 206.
miantosoma (Chloroclystis), 154.
micliolitzi (Panacra), 94.
Micrastur, 405, 406.
Microdynamis, 440, 441.
Microeea, 457, 458.
Microgonia, 312.

Micromia, 156.

microrhyncha (Cyanerpes), 43.

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( 526 )

Microsema, 313.
microta (Ma rumba), 327.
militaris (Emberiza). I<>.

— (Lcistcs). 10. 11.
millerii (Agyrtria), 33.

— (Trochilus), 33.
Mimomiza. 184, 185.
Mimomma, 290.
Mimopara. 290.
Mimosema, 313.
mimula (Tricentra), 223.
miniata (Eriopygidia), 221).
Mino. 468.

minor (Chlorochroma), 131.

— (Furnarius), 13.

— (Hadrostomus), 51.

— (Lophorina), 469.

— (Meloohlora), 205.

— (Myrmotherula), 383.

— (Nijiteria), 267.

— (Opetiorhynchus). 13.

— (Prionirhynohus), in I.

— (Qucrula), 51.
minus (Edoliisoma), 464.
minuta (Piaya), 26.
Mionectes, 47. 356.
miranda (Craspedosie), 170.

— (Pseudosauris), 159.

— (Tephroclystia), 159.
miscellanea (Myrioblephara), 173.
mitratus (Casuarius), 50-1, 505.
mixta (Hyriogona), 220.
mixtilinca (Arycanda), 168.

— (Epiplcma), 193.
mnio2>hilaria (PhyBOcleora), 279.
modesta (Glyciphila), 480.

— (Lomographa), 260, 261.
modulator (Leucolepia), 41, 346.

- (Thryothorus), 41.
mollis (Euphemia), 304.

— (Myrioblephara), 174.
Molothrus, 10.

momota (Momotus), 1, 28, 36.

— (Rhamphastos), 28, 36.
Momotus, 1, 28, 36, 403, 104.
Monachella, 459.
Monarcha, 462, 463.
Monasa, 26, 35, 84.
montana (t'olumba), 41 17.

— (Edoliisoma), 461.

— (Geotrygon), 407.
monticola (Pitohui), 470.
montis (Cryptolopha), 337.
moorei (Phoethornis), 393, 394.
moroka (Pachycephala), 472.
morphoeus (Monasa), 84.
mortyana (Myzomcla), 480.

Motacilla, 4, 13, 52. 338.
motmot (Ortalis), 39.

— (Phasianus), 39.
muelleriana (Monachella), 459.
mugimaki (Muscicapa), 335.
multiguttata (Gonophaga), 183.
multiplagiata (Auophylla), 201.
multistrigaria (C'yphura), 108.
multostriata (Myrmotherula), 68, 382.
munda (Cymatophora), 275.
mundata (Mierogonia), 312.
mundiscripta (Tephroclystia), 161.
munita (Azelina), 301.

murina (Phaeomyias), 11.
murinus (Crateroscclis), 465.

— (Dysithamnus), 31, 371.

— (Platyrhynchus), 11.

— (Thamnophilus), 31.
muschenbrockii (Nanodes), 454.
Muscicapa, 12, 13, 47, 51, 64, 335-58, 382.
Muscipeta, 47, 357.

Muscivora, 12, 358.

muscosaria (Hypochroma), 124.

musculi (Ctenopsyllus), 329.

musculus (Troglodytes), 2, 41.

musschenbroekii (Neopsittacus), 454.

mustclina (Synallaxis), 52.

Mychonia, 313-15.

Myiagra, 4(i2.

Myiobius. 48, 357. 361.

Myiodynaste.s, 48.

Myiothera, 20, 56, 372.

myiotherina (Hypocnemis), 379.

Myospiza, 9. 45.

myotherina (Hypocnemis), 20, 21, 344, 379, 380.

Myothera, 73, 392.

myotherinus (Thamnophilus). 20.

Myrioblephara, 173, 174.

Myrmeciza, 32.

Myrmelastes, 17, 66, 372.

Jlyrmonax, 379.

Myrmornis, 392.

Myrmotherula. 22, 32. 68-71, 382-4.

mystaceus (Macropteryx), 457.

mystica (Pampa), 328.

Myzomela, 341, 479, 480.

Nadagarodes, 180.
naevia (Hypocnemis), 377.

— (Sclateria), 375.
nairnii (Malurus), 461.
nandensis (Plocous), 503.

— (Sycobrotus), 503.
Nanodes, 454.

napensis (Tachyphonus), 45.
Nasica, 16, 31, 59, 367.

( 527 )

Nasiterna, 455.

nattered (Momotua), 1, 28, 36.

— (Pipra), 360, 363.
nazadaria (Gynopteryx), 307, 308.
neglecta (Gerygone), 337.
neglectus (Phylloscopua), 339.
Nematocampa, 316.

Nemosia, 350-3.

Neopipo, 361.

Neops, 54.

Neopsittacus, 454.

Neositta, 474.

Neotherina. 271.

Nephodia, 266, 267.

Nepytia, 270.

neriaaria (Dolerophyle), 197.

nervicula (Belonoptera), 187.

Nesace, 328.

Nesoceutor, 442.

nigella (Gathynia), 117.

niger (Bubalornis), 486.

— (Cuculus), 35.

— (Melanocharis), 476, 477.

— (Pachyrhamphus), 363.

— (Textor), 486.
nigerriruus (Cassicus), 46.
nigra (Monasa), 35.
nigrata (Careconiotis), 171.

— (Nyctibadistes), 195.

nigreseens (Cercnmacra), 1, 18, 19, 372.

— (Percnostola), 18.

— (Pitohui), 470.

— (Rothschildia), 416, 417.
nigricans (Centropus), 442.

— - (Polophilus), 442.
nigricauda (Ornianiya), 24.
nigriceps (Cambogia), 240.

— (Oenoptila), 291.

— (Polioptila), 4, 5.
nigricinetus (Phaethornis). 75.

— (Phoethornis), 75.

nigricollis (Antbracothorax), 78, 396.

— (BusareUus), 29, 38, 406.

— (Falco), 29, 38.
nigricomia (Lissochlora), 204.
nigricoatata (Haemalea), 218.
nigricrisaus (Eupetes), 464.
nigricristatua (Thamnophilua), 61, 370.
nigriflexa (Banisia), 101.

nigrifrons (Bucco), 26.

— (Forniicarius), 390.

— (Monasa), 26.

— (Sauris), 163.
nigrilinea (Cleora), 172.
nigrinotata (Cambogia), 240.
nigripectus (Machaerirhynchus), 462.
nigripennis (TeiAroclystia), 254.

nigriplena (Bronchelia), 272.
nigripuncta (Striglina), 107.
nigrirostris (Maeropygia), 450.
nigriseriata (Polla), 322.
nigrisquama (Miantonota), 206.
nigrita (Myzomela), 479.
nigriversa (Pisoraca), 144.
nigrocincta (Aglaia), 348.

- (Calospiza), 348.
nigrofasciata (Thalurania), 77.
nigrogularis (Ramphocelus), 45, 348.

- (Tanagra), 45.
nigromaculata (Gonophaga), 183.

— (Mychonia), 314, 315.

- (Myothera), 73.

- (Phlegopaia), 73, 344, 388, 389.
nigrorufa (Sericornis), 466.
nigrorum (Pbylloscopus), 336
Ninodea, 166.

Ninox, 443-5.

Nipteria, 197, 267-71.

nisa (Othorene), 425, 426, 427.

Nisus, 406.

nitens (Malimbua), 491.

— (Pharambara), 105.

- (Ploceus), 491.
nitida (Aaturina), 89.

— (Coereba), 43.

— (Cyanerpes), 43.
nitidifrona (Agyrtria), 33.
nitidua (Falco), 89.
nivestrota (Galactochlora), 133.

— (Paaliodes), 232.
Noctua, 444.
Nonnula, 401.

norax (Machaeroaema), 418.
notata (Epitberapia), 183.
Nothura, 86.
Notiospiza, 493.
novaeguineae (Pitta), 468.
novaehollandiae (Scythops), 441.
nubilata (Epitherapis), 182.

— (Microaema), 313.
nubirnargo (Lomograpba), 260.
Nucifraga, 338.

nucleata (Euaenea), 304.
Nuniia, 290.

nummifera (Oi-'noptila), 291.
nyanaae (Textor), 486.
Nyctibadiatea, 195.
Nyctibius, 78.
Nyctidromus, 24, 78, 79.
nyuiani (Myzomela), 479.

obducta (Paralcia), 177.
obliquifaBcia (Paralcie), 177.

( 528 )

obscura (Aplogompha), 261.

— (Myzomela), 479. 480.
obscurior (Pachycephala), 471.
obscurissirna (Sioya), 323.
obsoleta (Oreta), 98.

obtusa (Opisogonia). 228.
obtusaria (Hamruaptera), 227.
obumbrata (Ischnopteris), 287.
occidentals (Ninox), 445.
occiduata (Paragonia), 317.
occipitalis (Casuarius), 505.

— (Phylloscopus). 336.
ocellata (Alcis), 170.

— (Othorcne), 425. 426.

— (Paralcis), 177.

— (Sporophila), 8.
oeellatus (Podargus), 456.
ocbraceivcntris (Phoethornis), 393, 394.
ochraceus (Celeus), 34.

— (Picus), 34.
ochriplaga (Mimomma). 290.
ochrolaema (Hypocnemis), 20, 21, 344, 379.
oehrolaomus (Anabatos), 365.

— (Autoniolus), 365.
oehromcla* (Mclirrhophetes), 481.
oohropurpuraria (Paraoomistis), 316.
Ochyria, 14S, 155.

ockendeni (Eudule), 244.

— (Opisthoxia), 265.

— (Tardus), 342.

— (Xylnpbanes). 342.
ocularius (Ploceus), 496, 497, 498.
Oedistoma, 481.

Oenoptila. 290-2.

oleaginea (Muscicapa), 47, 356.

oleaginous (Mionectes). 47, 356.

Oligura, 337.

olivacea (Bassania), 300.

— (Euphonia). 43.

— (Phylloscopus), 336.

— (Polla), 322.

— (Sericornis), 466.

— (Tridrepana), 99.
olivaceus (Ploceus), 500.
oliveseens (Gerusia). 119, 120.
omissa (Abraxas), 167.

— (Synallaxis), 13, 15.
Onagrodes, 149.
Onychorhynchus, 12. 356.
oorti (C'lytomyias), 460.
(tospila. 202.
Opetiorhynchus. 13, 345.
Ophthalmophora, 263, 264.
Opisogonia, 228.
Opisthoxia, 264. 265.
oppleta (Bleehroma), 201.
orbata (Organopoda), 142.

orbiferata (Paraoomistis), 316.
orbimaculata (Anisogamia), 129.
Orchilus, 11, 47.
ordinaria (Banisia), 101.
Oreocharis. 475.
Oreopneusto. 336-9.
Oreopsittacus, 454.
Oreta, 98.
Organopoda. 142.
orientalis (Eudynamis), 440.

— (Gracula), 467.

— (Melanopyrrhus), 467.

— (Nasiterna), 455.

— (Ptilotis), 482.
Oriolus, 16, 474.

orizaba (Rothschildia), 413-5.
ornate (Ischnopteris), 288.

— (Myrmotherula), 22.
Orneostoma, 188.
Ornistnya, 24, 395.
Ortalis, 39.
Orthocolaptes, 366.
Orthonama, 228.
Orycteropus, 506.

oryx (Taurotragus), 324-6.
oslari (Anisota), 432.

— (Eacles), 423.
Ostinops, 46.
Othorene, 424-9.
Otidiphaps, 451.
Otucha, 157.

Otyphantes, 492, 495, 500.
ovaliplaga (Heterusia), 258.
ovate (Cyllopoda), 198.
0x.VP.Vga, 58.

Pachycare, 474.
Pachycephala, 341, 470-3.
Pachycephalopsis, 473.
Pachycopsis, 204.
Pachyphantes, 492.
Pachyrhamphus, 363.
Pachyrhynchus, 363.
Pachysylvia, 5, 6.
Palaeodoxa, 121.
pallescens (Iridopsis), 277.

— (Piaya), 35.

pallida (Psittacella), 455.
pallidaria (Hypagyrtis), 308.
pallidiooeta (Cambogia), 241.
pallidifrons (Siculodopsis), 196.
pallidigula (Cypsnagra), 350.
pallidilinea (Niptoria), 269.

— (Therapis), 183.
pallidior (Myzomela). 480.

— (Plutodes), 167.
pallidistria (Erebochlora), 225.

( 529 )

pallidipunctata (Aniserpetea), 151.
pallidiatriga (Paralcis), 177.
palpebrosa (Gerygone), 458.
pamala (Adelocephala), 432.
Pampa, 328.
Panacra, 94.

panda (Tephroclystia), 249.
papuana (Microeoa), 457.
papuanua (Casuarius), 504, 505.
papuensis (Alois), 170.

— (Chaetorhynchus), 474.

— (G'hiasmia), 179.

— (Herdonia), 102.

— (Melochlora), 134.

— (Podargus), 456.
Paracomistis, 316.
paradisea (Galbula), 401.

— (Troides), 96.

— (Urogalba), 27.
Paradmeta, 221.
Paradromulia. 174.
paraenais (Automolua), 53.

— (Denconychura), 367.

— (Granatellus), 5.

— (Phlegopsia), 73, 388, 389.
Paragonia, 317.
Paralcidia, 175.

Paralcis, 176, 177.
parapostica (Atyriodes), 198.
Paratyria, 198.
Parazeuxis, 221.
parcinotata (Rhodomena), 233.

— (Tephroclystia), 254.
parciscripta (Anisodes), 213.
parensis (Momotus), 36.
pareola (Chiroxiphia), 31, 361.
Pareupithex, 222.
Paroaria, 10.

Paroecia, 117, 118.

Parotia, 469.

Parus, 358.

parva (Eudynamis), 440.

— (Microdynamis), 440. 441.

— (Muscicapa), 335.
parvidens (Aniaodes), 214.

— (Chaetoceraa), 110.
parvirostris (Crypturus), 410, 411.

— (Elaenia), 47.

— (Elainea), 47, 48.

— (Polioptila), 5.
Paaser, 487, 488.
passerina (Paittacula), 86, 87.
passerinus (Psittacua), 86.
patiens (Oreta), 98.
pattersonianus (Taurotragus), 324-6.
peotoralis (Crateroseelia), 465.

— (Paohyaylvia), 6.

pectoralis (Plocepasser), 488.
pelias (Othorene), 427.
pelota (Othorene), 429.
Peltops, 463.
pelzelni (Granatellus), 5, 346.

— (Xenops), 55.
penardi (Todirostruni), 47.
Penelope, 344, 408.
penicillata (Eucometia), 349.

— (Tanagra), 349.
peninsularis (Ninox), 445.
peninsulata (Gallipseustes), 285, 286.
penurahrata (Lomographa), 260.
percisa (Cambogia), 241.
Percnostola, 18, 66, 376.
peregrina (Trichoelystis), 257.
perfumosa (Carecomotis), 171.
perfusa (Pergaina), 318.
Pergama, 318.

periculosa (Trochistis), 178.

periculosaria (Meticulodes), 310.

Peridrepana, 99.

perilla (Nephodia), 266, 267.

periophthalmicus (Monarchal, 463.

Perixera, 142—1.

Perizonia, 229, 230, 235.

perlatus (Ptilinopus), 449.

Pero, 318-20.

peronii (Geocichla), 341.

perpusilla (Nipteria), 269.

peraicua (Caaaicus), 10.

persimilis (Thamnomanes), 64-6, 343, 371, 372,

personatus (Geoffroyus), 455.

perspicillata (Pulsatrix), 406.

— (Sericornia), 466.

— (Strix), 406.
peratrigata (Cambogia), 241.

— (Paradmeta), 221.
peruana (Monasa), 84.
peruanus (Coturniculus), 9, 45.
Perusia, 314, 320, 321.

peruviana (Phoenicothraupis), 44, 348.

— (Rothschildia), 413.

peruvianus (Hypocnemis), 1, 19, 32, 67, 377,

— (Phoenicothraupia), 44.
Peteha, 290.
Petrodava, 1.81.

Pezus, 408.
Phaeochlaena, 199.
Pliaeomyias, 11.
phaeopygoides (Turdus), 345.
phaeopygus (Turdus), 344, 345.
Phaethornis, 23, 74, 75, 393.
Phaetornis, 394.
Phalaenoidca, 341.
Phaludia, 295.
Pharambara, 104, 105.

( 530 )

phasianeltus (Dromoeoeeyx). 398.

— (Macropus), 398.
I'hasianus, 39.
Pkibalapteryx, 230.
philipi (Casuarius), 505.
philippii (Phoetliornis), 394.

— (Trochilus). 74.
Philydor, 10, 366.
Phlegoenas, 450.
Phlegopsis, 73, 344, 388-90.
phoearia (Eudule), 244.
Phoenioothraupis, 44, 348.
Phoethornis, 23, 24, 33, 74, 70, 393-5.
Phonygauinius, 470.
Phorrnoplectes, 492.
Phorodesma, 134.

photophila (Adelocephala), 430.
Phrudophleps, 186.
phryganeata (Stenoplastis), 200.
Phrygionis, 200.
Phyllopseuste, 338.
Phylloscopus, 335, 336, 337-9.
Physocleora, 278, 283.
Piaya, 26, 35.

picta (Pyrrhura), 36, 37, 343, 401.
picticollis (Casuarius), 505.
pictifronfl (Phaeochlaena), 199.
pictum (Todirostrum), 40.
pictus (Psittacus), 36.
picui (Columba), 408.

— (Columbula), 408.
Picuranus, 26, 88, 344, 398.
Picus, 25, 26, 34, 79, 80, 397.
picus (Dendroplex), 16, 366.

— (Oriolus), 16.
Picris, 340.
pileata (Pipra), 343.
pileatus (Tinamus), 409.
pilosa (Aphyodes), 190, 191.
Pinarolestes, 470.
Pingasa, 125.

Pionites, 89.

piperivora (Selenidera), 35.
piperivorus (Rampkastos), 35.
Pipra, 12, 30, 31, 49, 50, 343, 358-01.
Pisoraca, 144.
Pisorhina, 39, 89, 407.
Pitangus, 350.

Pithys, 19. 67, 71, 72, 378, 385, 380, 388.
Pitohui, 470.
Pitta, 341, 408.
Pitylus, 7.

placens (Climacteris), 474.
placentis (Charmosynopsis), 454.
placida (Geopelia), 450.
plagosus (Clirysocoecyx), 439.
(Cucuhis), 439.

planetaria (Cambogia), 242.
planimargu (Epiplema), 117.

— (Homoplexis), 117.

— (Paragonia), 317.
plateada (Othorene), 427.
Platerosia, 118.
platura (8tenopsis), 397.
platydesmi.i (Dysdaemonia), 417. 118.
I'lalyrkynchus, 11, 48, 354, 355.
platyrkyncus (Momotus), 403, 404.

— (Prionirhynchus), 343, 403, 404.
Pleuiyriopsis, 230, 235.
plenilimea (Heterusia), 258.
Plocepasser, 487, 488.

Ploceus, 489-503.
plumbea (Ictinia), 406.

— (Ptilotis), 483.
plumbeiceps (Polioptila), 4.
plumbeus (Falco), 400.

— (Lipaugus), 303.

- (Synoicus), 447, 448.
plumosa (.Spectrobasis), 150.
plurimaoulata (Raoheolopha), 208.
pluristrigata (Artona), 328.
pluto (Dysdaemonia), 417, 41s.
Plutodes, 100, 107.
Podargus, 456.

poeeilinota (Hypocnemis), 67, 378.
poecilocercus (Empidoehanes), 12.
Poecilodryas, 459, 467.
Poecilostigma, 135.
poecilurus (Chrysococcyx), 438.
poensis (Sycobrotus), 502.
poliocephalum (Todirostrum), 47.
poliocephalus (Rhynehocyclus), 48.
poliogenys (Cryptolopha), 337.
polionotus (Thamnopbilus), 62, 344, 309, 370.
polioptera (Melilestes), 481.
Polioptila, 4, 5.
poliosoma (Pachyccphala), 473.

— (Pachycephalopsis), 473.
poliotis (Marumba), 327.
politata (Phrygionis), 260.
poliura (Megaloprepia), 449.
Polla, 321, 322.
Polophilus, 442.

polybia (Othorene), 425.

poly chropterus ( Pacbyrhynchus), 363.

polygrammica (Lalage), 464.

Polyomma, 244.

Polypoetes, 199.

Polyptychus, 92, 93.

Pomareopsis, 468.

ponderosa (Rhescyntis), 420.

Porzana, 89.

praecipua (Ptilotis), 482.

praeHava (Mimomiza), 184, 185.

( 531 )

praefulvata (Hemicopha), 294.
praegriseata (Chrysoeraspeda), 139.
prasina (Eupetomena), 395.

— (Perusia), 320.
Pratincola, 467.

presbytia (Phylloseopus), 33fi.
pretrei (Phoethornis), 394.
priamus (Troitles), 96.
priniivemalis (ChloroolyBtis), 154.
principalis (C'itheronia), 421.
prionia (Rothschildia), 415.
Prionirhynchus. 343, 403, 404.
Prionites, 403.
Pristorhamphus, 478.
proeellosa (Epitherapis), 182. 1S3.

— (Halioscia), 202.
proeurvoides (Xiphornis). 367.
prodiga (Ochyria), 14S.
projectata (Ischnop(eris), 289.
propinquus (Conurus), 85.
Prosthetopteryx, 157-9.
proximata (Myrioblephara), 173. 174.
Psaliodes, 230-2.

Psamathia, 195.

Pseudosauris, 159.

Pseustoplaca, 323.

Psilomycter, 396.

Psittacella, 455.

Psittaeula, 38, 86-8.

Psittacus, 28, 36, 37, 85-9. 404, 405.

Psophia, 412.

psyra (Anapalta), 224.

psyroides (Anapalta), 223, 224.

Pteroglossus, 26, 83. 84. 343. 399.

Pterotosoma, 117.

Ptilinopus, 448, 449.

Ptilotis. 482, 483.

Ptychopoda, 137. 141, 142. 144, 222.

Ptyehotheea, 160.

pubicornis (Paragonia), 317.

puellaria (Bronchelia), 272.

pulcliella (Charmosynopsis). 454.

— (Panacra), 94.

— (Ptilinopus), 448.
pulcher (Aegotheles), 466.
- (Eupetes), 464.

pulchrifimbria (Racheospila), 209.

Pulex, 329.

pullaria (Callipseustes), 285.

pullieauda (Neopsittacus). 454.

pulmentum (Bucco), 440.

Pulsatrix. 406.

pulverata (Physoeleora), 281.

puraaria (Pergama), 318.

pumila (Ardea), 412.

pumilus (Zebrilus), 412.

punctatus (Capito), 81.

punctifera (Parazeuxis), 221.
punctigula (Chrysoptilus), 79.
punctilla (Physoeleora), 282.
punetulata (Hypocnemis), 377.

— (Rhopotera), 377.

punetuliger (Thamnophilus), 314, 370.
punctum (Libyoclanis), 507.
purpuraseens (Carabus), 334.

— (Othorene), 427.
purpurea (Craspedosis), 170.

— (Gasterocorue), 172.

— (Petelia), 290.

— (Pygmaeopsis). 296.
piirpurissa (Chrysocraspeda), 139.

— (Hypoeliroma), 125.

— (Rhodomena), 233.
pusilla (Oreta), 98.

— (Serieornis), 461!.
pusio (Nasiterna). 455.
Pycnoloraa, 160.
Pygiptila, 61. 370.
pygmaea (Muscicapa), 382.

— (Myrmotherula), 382.
pygmaeata (Physoeleora). 281.
Pygmaeopsis, 295, 296.
pygmaeum (OediBtoma), 481.
Pyranga, 501.

Pyriglena, 32.
Pyrinia, 323.
Pyrocephalus, 357.
Pyrrhaspis, 135.
Pyrrhococcyx, 35.
pyrrliodes (Anabates), 16.

— (Philydor), 16, 365.

pyrrholaemus (Prionirhynchus), 343, 403, 404
pyrrhonota (Myrmotherula), 70, 71.
Pvrrhura. 36, 343, 404, 405.

quadrigata (Trieentra), 222,
Querula, 51.

Raclieoloplia, 206-8.
Racheospila, 209.
radiata (Anisodes), 214, 215.
— (Oenoptila), 291.
radiatus (Crypturus). 4 Jo.
Rallicula, 451.
Rallus. 90.
liamphastes, 28.
Ramphastos, 35, 36, 343, 399.
Ramphocaenus, 373-5.
Ramphocelus, 45, 348.
Hamphotrigon, 48, 356.
rasimargo (Gerusia), 119.
recticisa (Epitherapis), 182.

( 532 )

rectilinea (Petrodava), 181.
rectirostris (Troglodytes), 373.
rectnia (Iridopsis), l'TT.

reeurva (Onagrodes), 149.
refulgens (Thalurania), 77.
regia (Muscivora), 12.
regina (Chiroxiphia), 361.
regius (Todus), 12.
regulata (Tolmera). 177, 178.
regulella (Tephroclystia), 254.
Reguloides, 336, 337.
reguloides (Tyrannulus), 47.
reichenbaehi (Celeus), 34.
reichenowi (Ploceua), 495.

— (Sycobrotus), 495.
Reinwardtoena, 450.
reinwardtsi (Reinwardtoena), 450.
rostricta (Euclysia), 303.

— (Hetcrusia), 258.
reversa (Melinodes), 309.

— (Striglina), 106.
reversata (Epiplema), 194.
Rhagastis, 95.
Rhamphocaenus, 66, 67.
Rhamphocharis, 478.
Rhegmatorhina, 388.
Rhescyntis, 418-20.
Rhinura, 235.
Rhipidura, 461, 462.
rhodinolaema (Phocnicothraupis), 44.
Rhodochlora, 209.

rhodogaster (Phylloscopus), 338.
Rhodomena, 232-4
Rhomborista, 136.
Rhopalista, 234.
Rhopalodes, 246.
Rhopotera, 377.
Rhyrichocyclus. 48.
Rhynchotus, 411.
ricketti (Phylloscopus), 336.
riofrio (Aplogompha), 261.
rivolii (Ptilinopus), 449.
roberti (Conopophaga), 23.
roseifrons (Conurus), 37.
roseigularis (Casuarius), 505.
rosenbergi (Myzomela), 479.
roseola (Oreta), 98.
roseostriata (Rhodomena), 234.
rosipara (Racheolopha), 208.
Rostrhamus, 89.

rostripallens (Dendromis), 31, 59.
rothschildi (Casuarius), 505.
— (Guiraca), 45.
Rothschildia. 413-17.
rotundala (Euscnea), 304.
Roussettus, 330.
rubecula (Myiagra), 462.

rubeoula (Nonnula), 401.

— (Todus). 462.

rubella (Hetcrephyra), 220,
rnbellioincta (Tephroclystia), 2SS.
rubor (Phoethornis) 24. 75. 76, :'.'i">.

— (Tachyphonus). 44.
rubetra (Rhagastis), 95.
rubicunda (Neopipo). 361.
rubinus (Muscicapa), 357.

— (Pyrocephalus). 357.
rubra (Petrodava), 181.

— (Phocnicothraupis), 44, 348.
rubriceps (Hyphantornis), 492.

— (Ploceus), 492.
rubrieollis (Malirabus). 489, 190.

— (Ploceus), 489.
rubrimaculfl (Sangala), 265.
rubriviridis ( Eriopygidia), 226.
rabrobrunnea (Myzomela), 480.
rubrocapilla (Pipra), 30, 31, 49.
rubrocoronatum (Dieaeum), 475.
rufa (Formicivora), 372.

— (Malacoptila), 400.
(Motacilla), 338.

( Myiothera), 372.

— (Ninox), 444.

rufata (Hymenomima). 276.
rufescens (Rhynchotus), 411.

— (Tinamus), 411.
ruficauda (Platyrhynchus), 48.

— (Ramphotrigon), 48, 356.
ruficaudus (Neops), 54.
ruficeps (Anisodes), 215.

— (Formicarius), 344, 390, 391.

— (Picus), 397.

— (Veniliornis), 25, 397.
ruficincta (Comostolodes), 132.
ruficolhs (Aramides), 412.

— (Chrysococcyx), 438.

— (Cypsnagra), 350.

— (Lamprococcyx), 438.

— (Tanagra), 350.
ruficorpus (Brabira), 152.
rutidorsa (Rhipidura), 461.
rutigaster (Phaethornis), 75.

— (Phylloscopus), 338.
rufigena (Ploceus), 493.
rutigula (Anoplops), 387.

— (Dendrexetastes), 367.

— (Orthocolaptes), 366.

— (Phlegoenas), 450.

— (Turdus), 385.
rufigularis (Attila), 52.

— (Falco), 39.

— (Hypotriorolms), 39.
rulinucha (Pachycephala), 471.
ruliplaga (Pisoraca), 144.

( 533 )

rufistriga (Chlorocliroma), 131.
rufistrigata (Siculodes), 105.
rufitincta (Paralcidia), 175.
rufivaria (Hypochroma), 125.
rufivenata (Tephroclystia), 255.
rufiventer (Eudynamis), 440.
rufiventris (Phylloscopus), 338.

— (Thryophilus). 3, 4.
riifobrunnea (C'rateroseelis), 405.
rufogularis (Leucolepia), 41, 34G.

— (Sarochalinus), 41.
rufoscapulatus (Plocepasser), 488.
rufostrigata (Athene), 445.

— (Ninox), 445.
rufotinetus (C'asuarius), 505.
rufula (Certinia), 300.
rufuni (Heteropelma), 362.
rufus (Bucco), 400.

— (Macropus), 333.

— (Phylloscopus), 338.
Rupornis, 38, 406.
ruppeli (Passer), 488.
rupurumii (Phaethornis), 23.

— (Phoethornis), 23, 33.
rusbyi (Conopophaga), 22, 23.
rutila (Piaya), 26.

rutilans (Synallaxis), 13, 14, 52.
rutilus (CuouIub), 26.

sabulosa (Adeloeephala), 430.

Saceoploca, 196.

Saltator, 45.

salvadorii (Aegotheles), 457.

— (Casuarius), 504, 505.

— (Eudynamis), 440.

— (Paehycephala), 473.

— (Ptilotis), 482.
Salvadoriua, 452.

salviui (Anoplops), 343, 385.

— (Pithys), 71, 385.

— (Gymnopithys), 71, 385.

— (Leucolepia), 41.
sanctaethoniac (Brotogeris), 88, 405
sanctithomae (Brotogeris), 405.

— (Ploeeus). 494.

— (Sycobius), 494.
Sangala, 265.
Sangalopsis, 265.
sapphirina (Hylocharis), 395.
sarasinorurn (Phylloscopus), 336.
Sarochalinus, 41.

saturatus (Cuculus), 433.
saturninus (Dysithamnus), 371.

— (Thamnophilus), 371.
Sauris, 163.

scabra (Epiplema), 193.

scansor (Oxypyga), 58.

— (Sclerurus), 57, 58.
Schiffornis, 362.
schillings! (Ploeeus), 499.
schistacea (Asturina), 406.

— (Leucopternis), 406.

— (Sclateria), 344, 375, 376.

— (Urubitinga), 406.
schistaceigularis (C'acoraantis), 437.
schistaceus (Dysithamnus), 31, 61-3, 370, 371.

— (Pitohui), 470.

— (Thamnophilus), 62, 370.
schisticeps (Abrornis), 336.
sehlegelii (Paehycephala), 471.
seintillans (Anisodes), 215.

— (Strighna), 106, 107.

— (Urogonodes), 100.
scintillatus (Chalcopsittacus), 453.
scioanus (Textor), 485, 486.
scitaria (Meticulodes). 311.
sciurorum (Ceratophyllus), 332, 333.
Sclateria, 344, 375-7.

sclateri (Anabates), 53.

— (C'asuarius), 504.

— (Cercomacra), 18, 66.

— (Nonnula), 401.

— (Polioptila), 4.

— (Pvhynchoeyclus), 48.
Sclerurus, 56, 57, 58.
Scops, 407.

Scotosia, 224.
Scotothorus, 361, 362.
scutatus (MaUmbus), 490.
scutopartitus (Mahmbus), 490.
Scythrops, 441.
secunda (Deconychura), 368.
segmentata (Lipomelia), 220.
Selenidera, 35, 84.
Selidoseminae, 290.
sellata (Miantonota), 206.
selysi (Chloronerpes), 25.
semialba (Cyphura), 109.
semiatra (Pomareopsis), 468.
semicarnea (Dirades), 112.
semicinerea (Pachysylvia), 5, 6.
semidiscata (Chogada), 172.

— (Cleora), 172.
semifasciata (Tityra), 363.
semifasciatus (Pachyrhynchus), 363.

— (Thamnophilus), 16.
semifimbriata (Callipseustes), 286.
semilugens (Erateina), 257.
Semioptila, 507, 508.
semiornata (Racheospila), 209.
scmipallida (Eriopygidia), 226.
semiplaga (Craspedosis), 170.
semiradiata (Cassicus), 46.

( 534 )

semiradiata (Ohaelnlnpln), 146.

— (Myiodynastes), 48.

— (Tyrannus), 48.
semirubra (Zomia), 18.">.
semirufa (lTrospatha), 403.
aemiteasellata (Canaea), HU.
semitorquatua (Micrastur), 405.

— (Sparvius). 405.
senegalensis (Oiycteropos), .ri06.

— (Text,.,). 485.
separata (Heterusia). 259.

— (Plntodes), 107.
seriaria (Oynopteryx), 307.
serieeus (Molnthrus), 10.
Sericornis, 460. 407.
Serpophaga, 11.

serrata (Xylina), 301.
serratilinea (Emmiltis). '21 S.
serratus (Pezus). 408.

— (Tinamus), 408.
setosa (Rhipidnra), 401.
so vera (Ara), 85.
severus (Psittacus), 85.
sexmaculata (Phorndesma). 134.
Sharpia. 492. 403. 494.

Siealis, 8, 9. 30.

Sieulodes, 105, 189.

Sieulodopsis, 190.

Sieya, 323.

siennata (Isoehromodes), 308, 309.

sigillaria (Raeheospila). 209.

sigillata (Poeeilodryas), 459.

signata (Astyoehia), 260.

signatum (Todirostrum), 11, 40.

Sillophora, 159, 160.

Silvia, 338.

siraoni (Tlialurania), 77.

simplex (Lipaugus), 13. 51. 364.

■ — (Museieapa), 51.

— (Myzomela). 480.

— (Nadagarodes), 180.

— (Pero), 320.

simus (Caeomantis), 437.

sincera (Lomographa). 261.

sindianus (Phylloseopus), 339.

sinensis (C'ryptolopha), 337.

singula™ (Thaumatographe), 122.

Siosta, 265.

Siptornis, 364.

Sitagra. 492.

Sitella, 474.

sitellaria (Raeheospila), 209.

Sitta, 68.

Sittaee, 405.

Sittasomus. 31, 59. 308.

sociabilis (Herpetotheres), 89.

— (Rostrhamus), 89.

Bolidata (Eugneaia), 165.
solitaria (( Vvx), 452.
sulitarius (Amblyoercus), 46.
sollicitans (Carabus), 335.
Bordida (Tolmera), 177. 178.
snrdidata (Eugneaia), 165.

— (Lomographa), 261,
Bonn (Pachyoephala), 47n.
Bororoula (Chlorochroma), 131, 132.
Bororia ( Dendrorois), 31, 59.

Boui (CrypturuB), 409.

— (Tinamus). 109.
spadieea (Museieapa), 51.
spadiceua (Altiln). 51.
Spargania, 220.
Sparviua, 405, 406.
speeiosata (Pergama), 318.
speeiosus (( 'hrvsoptilus), 79.
Speetrnliasis, 149. 150.
speeulifera (Tanagra), 351.
Sphaoelodes, 292.

sphingiponnis (Hepialopsis), 187, 188.

Sphinx. 188.

spiculifer (Anisodes). 210.

spilodera (Aethomyias). 460.

Spiloglaux, 443.

spilosata (Hydata), 204.

spinosus (Hoplopterus), 29.

Sporophila, 7, 8, 45.

Sporopipes, 489.

aqualidus (Phoethornis), 23.

Squamifrons, 489.

stabilata (Pisoraca), 144.

stellae (Charmoayna), 454.

stellaris (Thamnophihis), 01.

— (Pygiptila). 61, 370.
stellata (Anisogamia), 129.
stellataria (Cambogia), 242.
Stenaleidia, 282.
Stenista, 10O.
Stenoplastis, 200.
Stenopsis, 397.

stenoptila (Isehnopteris), 289.
stenosema (Clanis), 92.
Stenotrachelys, 283.
stephaniae (Astrapia), 469.
Stesichora, 109.

stictieata (Tephroclystia), 250, 257.
stietifrons (Ploeeus), 501.
slietolaemus (Deeonyehura), 368.

— (Sittasomus), 308.

Bticturua (Rhamphoeaenus), 67, 375.
stigma (Anisota). 432.
Stigmatura. 1 1.
stonei (Ailuroedus), 468.
straminea (Epiplema). 1!I4.
stramineata (Epitherapis). 182.

( 535 )

stramineata (Eremoeentra), 141.
stramineus (Roussettus), 330.
Strepsichlora, 136.
striata (Butorides), 411.
striativentris (Melanocharis), 478.
striata (Ardea), 411.
striatals (Oriolus), 474.
Btrictifascia (Perizoma), 230.
strigata (Thysanopyga), 293.
Striges, 443.
strigilatus (Aneistrops), 54.

— (Thamnophilus), 54.
Striglina, 105-8.
strigulosata (Chaetoceras), 110.
strigulosus (Crypturus), 411.

— (Tinamus), 411.
striola (Addaea), 101.
striolata (Chaetoceras), 110.
Strix, 29, 39, 89, 406, 445, 446.
stuhlmanni (Ploceus), 495.

— (Symplectus), 495.
stylophora (Hypolaruprus), 103.
suahelicus (Ploceus), 496, 498.
suavissima (Cyclopsitta), 455.
subaftinis (Phylloscopus), 338.
subalaris (Amblyornis), 469.
subalba (Tepliroclystia), 249.
subalbescens (Perixera), 143.
subangulata (Othorene), 428.

— (Thalerura), 137.
subapicata (Melinodes), 310.
subatomaria (Hypagyrtis), 308.
subaurea (Comibaena), 201.
subcoerulea (Dyspteris), 245.
subcomosa (Tripteridia), 161.
subconfusa (Oenoptila), 291.
subcuprea (Haemalea), 218.
subcyanea (Poecilodryas), 459.
subdivisa (Gasteroconie), 172.
subfasciata (Oenoptila), 291.
subtiava (Crasilogia), 147.
subflavus (Crocomorphus), 25.
subignea (Palaeodoxa), 121.
subinnotata (Erebochlora), 225.
sublucens (Organopoda), 142.
subraarginata (Iridopsis), 277-
subnigra (Bryoptera), 273.
subnigrata (Anisogaruia), 130.
subochrea ( Physocleora), 282.
subochreata (Othorene), 425.
subpallida (Nipteria), 268.
subplacens (Charmosynopsis), 454.
subplumbea (Sclateria), 376.
subpulchra (Gonophaga), 183.

— (Orneostoma), 188.
subradiata (Eucymatoge), 140, 156.

- (Petrodava), 181.

subradiatua (Thamnopbilua), 61, 370.
subrufa (Epiplema), 115, 116.
subspurcata (Melinodes), 310.
subtrita (Myrioblephara), 173.
subustata (Nipteria), 270.
sutfusa (Palaeodoxa), 121.
Buffusca (Collix), 146.
surl'usua (Casuarius), 504, 505.
sulcata (Epiplema). 116.
sulphurata (Chaetoceras), 111.

- (Oreta), 98.
sumbaensis (Strix). (4li.
superbus (Ptilinopus), 44s.
superciliare (Syrnium). 407.
superoiliaris (Abrornis), 336.

- (Penelope), 344. 408.

— (Platyrhynchus), 354. 356.
superciliosa (Ceryle), 84. 402.
superciliosus (Phoethornis), 393, 394.

— (Plocepasser), 488.

— (Trochilus), 394.
superscripta (Hymenomima), 276.
superstes (Perusia), 314.
surinaniensis (Myrmotherula), 68, 382.

— (Sitta), 68.

surinauius (Tachyphonus), 45.

— (Turdus), 45.
swainsoni (Myrmeciza), 32.

— (Onychorhynchus). 12.
Syealis, 8.

Sycobius, 494.

Sycobrotus, 494. 495. 5111, 502.

sylla (Rbescyntis). 420.

sylvestria (Sylvia), 338.

Sylvia, 42, 47, 338.

Syma, 452.

symbonomus (Cuculus), 437.

Svnimacra, 141, 142.

Symplectea, 492, 495, 502.

Synallaxis, 13, 52, 53, 364.

Synecta, 283.

Synoicus, 447, 448.

syrniaria (Iridopsis), 277.

Syrnium, 407.

Tachyeineta, 6.

Tachyphonus, 7, 30, 44, 45, 349.

Tachyphyle. 136, 210.

taeniata (Physocleora). lNl'.

taenioptera (Thryophilus). 2.

tamatia (Bueco), 400.

Tanagra. 6. 7, 9. 10, 30. 45. 347-53, 491.

tanagrinus (Icterus), 46.

— (Lampropsar), 46, 354.

Tanysiptera, 4.">2.

tascaria (Physocleora). 280.

( 536 )

tatanpa (Cryptarus), 41ft

Taurotragus, 324—0.
Teldenia, 99.

teleseophthalmus (Arses), 462.
temmim-ki (Dendrexetastcs), 366, 367.
temporalis (Hyphantfirnis). 500.

— (PloceUS), 500.
lenebriensa (Strix), 44."..
tenebrosa (Argyrotome), 262.

- (Chclidoptcra), 84. 401.

— (Polypoetes), 199.
tenera (Zamaradopeis), 271.
tenuis (Pisoraca), 144.
tenuiscripta (Emmesoeoma), 155.
Tephrinopsis, 29(i.

tephrocephalus (Cryptolopha), 336, 337.
Tephroelystia, 155-61, 247-57.
teplironotus (Plooeus), 502, 503.

— (Syniplectes), 502.
Tephroaia. 274.
terranea (Catascia). 293.
terrestris (Trugon). 450.
terricolor (Ninox). 444.
tertia (Synallaxis), l,r>.
Textor, 485, 48(5.
Thalassodes, 132, 136, 137.
Thalerura, 137.
Thalurania, 24, 77, 78, 396.
Thamnomanes, 17, 63, 66, 343, 371, 372.
Thamnophilus, 16, 17. 2(1. 31. 54. 56, 60-63,

344, 369-72.
thamnophiloides (Attila), 13, 364.

— (Muscicapa), 13.

— (Myiothera), 20.
ThaumapsyUa, 329.
Thaurnatias, 76.
Thauinatographe, 122.
theomaeha (Ninox), 443.

— (Spiloglaux), 443.
Therapis, 121, 183.
theresae (Hypocnemis), 377.
theresiae (Psilomycter). 396.
thomae (Psittacus), 88.
thoracica (Dasystole), 301, 302.

— (Homoptera), 302.

— (Pachysylvia), 5.
thoraeieus (Hylophilus). 6.
Threnetes, 74, 392.
threnothorax (Rhipidnra), 461.
Thryophilus, 2, 3, 4, 29, 345.
Thryothorus, 2, 3, 41, 345, 346, 373.
Thysanopyga, 292, 293.
tianduana (Pachycephala), 472.
tibialis (Adelocephala), 432.
Tickellia, 335, 336.

Tigrisoma, 411.
timandrata (Numia), 290.

Tinaetor, 56, 57, 58.
Tinamus, 39, 90, 408, 409. 411.
titlionus (Troides). 96.
Tityra, 363.

Todiroatrum, 11. 4ii. 47.
Todopsis, 460.
Todus, 11. 12.462.
Tolmera, 177. 178.
tombacea (Oalbnla), :(4:;. In2.
torotoro (Syma), 4.">2.
torquata (Alcedo), 402.

— (Athene). 41 Hi.

— (C'eryle). 402.

— (Corythopis). 392.

— (Hydropsalis). 396.
torquatus (Caprimulgus). 396.

— (Melidectis), 481.
torta (Semioptila). 508.
traehelopyrus (Campephilus), 25.
traeheolopyrrhus (Ceophloetis), 25.
tranquilla (Geopelia), 450.
transductaria (Hydata), 203.
translineata (Nipteria), 270.
transnigrata (Chaetoceras), 111.
transsecta (Prosthetopteiyx), 158.
transvisata (Astyoehia), 266.
Tricentra, 222, 223.
Triehoclystis, 256.
Trichoglossus, 453.

Tricolpia, 196.
tridentata (Hydata), 204.
Tridrepana, 99.
trifoliata (Heterusia), 259.
trigonata (Darna), 198.
triloba (Rothsehildia), 415.
trimaeiilata (Ophthalmophora), 264.
trinitatis (Rhamphocaenus), 67, 373-5.

— (Sporophila), 8.

triodontus (C'tenoplithalimis), 330.
Tripteridia, 160, 161.
triseeta (Callipseustes), 287.
tristis (Dectochilus), 302.

- (Phylloscopus), 336, 339.
tristygma (Othorene). 427.
trivirgata (Phylloscopus), 336.
trivittata (Phlegopsis), 389.
trivittatus (Formicarius), 389.

— (Phlegopsis), 389, 390.
trochilirostris (Xiphornis), 367.
trochiloides (Phylloscopus), 336.
Trochilus, 33, 74, 394, 395.
Trochistis, 178.
Troglodytes, 2, 41, 373.
Trogon, 84, 403.

Troides, 96.
Trotocalpe, 234, 235.
Trotorhombia, 196, 197.

( 537 )

Trugon, 450.

tschudii (Thalurania), 77, 78.
tucumana (Eacles), 423.
tuipara (Brotogeris), 28.
tumida (Nadagarodes), 180.
turbinata (Epiplema), 194.
turdinus (Automolus), 365.

— (Heleodytes), 345.

— (Opetiorynchos), 345.

Turdus, 2, 32, 40, 41, 45, 344, 345, 385.
Turnix, 448.

typica (Deconychura), 367.
typicus (Taurotragus), 324.
tyrannina (Cercomaera), 1, 18, 19, 32.

— (Pyriglena), 32.
Tyrannulus, 47.
Tyrannus, 48.

— (Muscicapa), 358.

— (Muscivora), 358.

uhehensis (Ploceus), 495.
unibretta (Myiothera), 56.

— (Sclerurus), 56, 57, 58.
uuibrilinea (Arycanda), 169.

— (Nipteria), 270.
umbriniedia (Haernalea), 218.
unappendieulatus (Casuarius), 504.
uneimargo (Chrysucraspeda), 140.
undulatus (Crypturus), 410.
undulosa (Rhopalista), 234.
unieolor (Arycanda), 169.

— (Rhodochlora), 209.
uniforniis (Eutomopepla), 306.

— (ParadroniuUa), 174.
unilinea (Holoreta), 97.

— (Nipteria), 271.
unimacula (Phaeochlaena), 199.
unipuncta (Xenoclystia), 148, 162.
unitaeniata (Ochyria), 155.
Urocalpe, 235.

Urocharis, 475, 476.
Urogalba, 27, 28, 401.
Urogonodes, 99, 100.
Urospatha, 403.
Urubitinga, 406.
usta (Scops), 407.
ustularia (Asestra), 314.

vacuata (Cnemodes), 216.
valentini (Cryptolopha), 336, 337.
varians (Eugnesia), 165, 166.
variegata (Ninox), 444.

— (Noctua), 444.

— (Rhopalodes), 246.

— (Striglina), 108.

variegatus (Carnpylorhynehus), 34.3.

variegatus (Crypturus), 91, 411.
variolosus (Cacomantis), 434, 437.

— (Cuculus), 437.
variotincta (Aniserpetes), 152.
velata (Rhagastis), 95.
velutina (Pipra), 50.
venata (Mimosema), 313.
venezuelanus (Thryophilus), 3.

— (Thryothorus), 3.
venezuelensis (Xiphornis), 367.
vcnilineata (Lissochlora), 205.
Veniliornis, 25, 397.
veniplaga (Anisogamia), 130.
vcnulata (Trichoelystis). 256.
venusta (Isandria), 283.
verana (Othorene), 427.
vermiculata (Banisia), 101.
versicolor (Lanio), 349.

— (Tachyphonus), 349.
versicolurus (Brotogeris), 28.

— (Psittacus), 28.
veisipennis (Ischnopteris), 289.
versteri (Pristorhamphus), 478.
verticata (Peridrepana), 99.
victoriae (Troides), 96.

vidua (Hypocnemis), 68.
viduata (Tephroclystia), 256.
vieilloti (Calospiza), 7.
vigua (Carbo), 29.

— (Hydrocorax), 29.
vinacea (Othorene). 428.

— (Rothschildia), 416.
vinosa (Prosthetopteryx), 1.39.

— (Xanthorhoe). L50.
vinosata (Cambogia), 243.
violacea (Euplionia), 6, 347.

— (Eustenophasma), 305.

— (Mychonia), 315.
violaceus (Carabus), 334, 335.

— (C'entropus), 442.
violata (Phrudophleps), lsii.
violicollis (Casuarius), 51 >4.
Vireo, 42.

virescens (Brotogerys), 28.

— (Gerusia), 119, 120.

— (Nesace), 328.

— (Pipra), 360.
viridata (Sauris), 164.
viridiceps (Agyrtria), 33.
viridimacula (Gerusia), 120.
viridiplaga (t'ncraodes), 216.
viridis (Adeta), 151.

— (Creciscus), 412.

— (Perusia), 321.

— (Phrudophleps), 186.

— (Spectrobasis). 149.
viridissiinu (Psittacula), 38, 86, 88.

( 586 )

viridiventris (Hylocharis). 24.
viridochrea (Cbiasmia), 179.
vivida (Psittacula), 86, 87.
volitans (Darna), 198.
voraria (Pnlla). 322.
vulneraria (Sph&celodeB), 292.
vulpiiui (Epiplema), 194

waigiui'iisis (( Iryptolopha), 337.

— (Salvadorina). 452.
wallacei (Todopsis), 460.
wallarii (Picumniix). 80.

— (Scotothorus), 362,
watcrstradti (PhyllosoopUB), 330.
watsonii (Ephialtcs). 407.

— (Pisoiliina). 407.

ivebstcri (Cacomantis). 434, 435.
weddellii (Conurus), 343, 404.
wertheri (Oryctcropus), .TOG.
westermanni (Casuarius), 505.
whitclyi (Eremita), 75, 76.
wiedi (Pteroglos8Us), 20.
wilhelminae (Charmosynopais), (53.

xaliria (Miantnnota), 206.
xanthina (Rothschildia), 415.
xanthogenys (Machacrirhynchus), 462.
xanthoiru'laena (Hemicopha), 294.
xanthoineria (Caica), 89.

xanthonierius (Pionites). 89.
Xanthophilus, 492.
xanthops (Ploceus), 500.
xanthopygia (Oyptolopha), 337.
Xanthorhoe, 15(1.

xanthoschistes (Cryptolopha), 337.
xanthoscia (Striglina), 1110, His.
xantliyala (Eratcina), 257.
Xenocerus, 341.
Xenoclystia, 148, 102.
Xenopepla, 210.
Xenops, 16, 54, 55, 305.
Xiphornia, 307.
Xylina, 301.

xylinata (Ischnopturis), 288.
xylonaria (Pero), 319.
Xylophanes, 342.

Zamarada, 271.
Zauiaradopsis, 271.
zaphiroi (Syoobrotus), 494.
zebrata (Steeiohora), 109.
Zebrilus, 412.
Zeugma. 145.
Zeuzerodes, 189, 190.
Zomia, 185.

zonurus (Ptilinnpus), 449.
Zosterops, 483.
— (Euscarthmus), 355, 350.
zuri'a (Ischnopteris), 288.

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