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J. Taytor, Norwich, 1818, CONTENTS OF VOL, V. [SEVENTH SERIES. } NUMBER XXV. Page I. Arctic Crustacea: Bruce Collection. By the Rev. Tuomas EMME EA, MER ecin seb eas cican'ts Meade weichecsb tac II. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Aculeate Hymeno- ptera from the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. Cameron .... 17 ILL. Note on the Weasel, Putorius (Ictis) nivalis, Linn., and some of its Subspecies. By G. E. H. BarretT-HaMILTON ...,........ 4] IV. On Squirrels of the Sciwus MacClellandi Group. By J. L. ES yal 72 warn ve wiv is Sle Wiens. ecnletesde ois = we boo 8 ye d's 50 V. Descriptions of Two new Atherinoid Fishes from Mexico. By SLING, TES. 0, Ai. i eM Ue nea aela’ we 54 VI. Description of a new Lizard of the Genus Nucras from Usoga, British East Africa. By Oscak NEUMANN .........0.,-s0e000. 56 VII. On the Genus Lycodes. By Prof. F. A.Swirr .......... ib. VIII. On a Second Collection of Butterflies obtained by Mr. Ed- ward M. de Jersey in Nyasaland. By A. G. Burier, Ph.D. &c... 59 IX. Descriptions of new or doubtful Species of the Genus Ammo- phila (Kirby) from Algeria. By F. D. Morice, F.E.S. .......... 64 X. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Coleoptera from S. and W. Africa, of the Section Serricornia, and of the Families Erotylida, Endomychide, and Languriide. By H. 8. Goruam, ine 0) cals» arin om sty sR bikes 0 Gace oi ec Fane 0 71 XI. Descriptions of Three new Forms of Tragelaphus. By R. L. ati cis tie aden 4S Cie Aale go sanin we * ox Yin)n 0 o's ease a4 XII. Notes on the Pangonine of the Family Tabanide in the British Museum Collection. By Miss Gertrupkr Ricarpo. (Platel.) 97 XUI. The Hexagonal Structure naturally formed in Cooling Bees- wax, and its Influence on the Formation of the Cells of Bees. B Cuar_es Dawson, F.G.S, &c., and S. A. WoopHxKaD, B.Sce., F.C.S., Ss TU ce din dx di Oe GM MERA ase ZO { vs ens oe pe eke wd wee 121 XIV. British Amphipoda of the Tribe Hyperiidea and the Families Orchestiide and some Lysianasside. By Canon Norman, M.A., fe -O.be, LL.D, BRS. 5 Bee ie. i cee dn neieerecesncescevies 126 —~ XV. A new Bat from the Key Islands. By OLpFreLp THomas.. 145 ~~ = XVI. The Geographical Races of the Tayra (Galictis barbara), with F Notes on Abnormally Coloured Individuals. By OLpFizLp Tuomas. i. XVII. New South-American Mammals. By O_pFretp THomas. 148 e iv CONTENTS. Page New Books :—Rhopalocera Athiopica. Die Tagfalter des ASthiop- ischen Faunengebietes. Eine systematisch-geographische Studie. Von Cur. Avrivitiius.—Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck- Archipels. Von Dr. ARNOLD PAGENSTECHER. Erster Thiel. —Orthopteren des Malayischen Archipels, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. W. KixenTHAL in den Jahren 1893 und 1894, bearbeitet von BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL, unter Beriicksichtigung neuer verwandter Species.—New Zealand Moths and_ Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera). By G. V. Hupson, F.E.S.—The Butterfly Book, a Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America. By W.J. Hoxvanp, Ph.D., D.D., &c... 154—157 Note on Ceroplastes africanus (Family Coceide), by E. E. Green, F.E.S. ; On the Lateral Cephalic Organs of Glomeris, by N. de Zograf NUMBER XXVI. XVIII. On the Nephridium of Nephthys ceca, Fabr. By FRANCIS Hueu Stewart, M.A., Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. (Plates TT. SW) hss coke amici we tae eae beast hee eee : XIX. Descriptions of Three new Species of Siluroid Fishes from Southern Brazil. By G. A. Boutenaer, F.RS..........0.-008- 1 XX. Notes on the Pangonine of the Family Tabanide in the British Museum Collection. By Miss GkrtrupDE RicaRDO XXI. On the Mating Instinct in Moths. By ALFRED GoLps- BOROUGH MaYyER © 6000 0,0, ble oe 6 6 elec 6 0 4 B06. 2 0 09.6 @ 6) 0 6 O10 bse ee eanneleem XXII. On British Species of Siphonostoma. By M. I. Nrwstatn, D.Sc. (Lond.). (Plate IV.) XXIII. On an Unnamed Species of Cervus from Turkestan. By R. LyDEKKER 6B 6 9.0 0s 6s 000s © bo ov, 6 Che 00 6 e Blm Dern e rere cee ot as Fever reece sce pice 8 0.» 6 6.6» 6 6) ve seme © ols Pies XXIV. British Amphipoda: Fam. Lysianasside (concluded). By Canon Normay, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. (Plate VI.) XXV. A new Flying-Squirrel from Borneo. By CHar es Hose, XXVI. Description of a new Fruit-Bat from New Guinea. By OLDFIELD THOMAS XXVII. Descriptions of new Neotropical Mammals. By OLpFrELD THOMAS 66 66's © 6 6 5 6.6.0 6 8 0 0s © 6 £:6)6 6 C'S 616) C0 6) a9 6 6 6 6's. a .0)5 (6) Olere lamin aee XXVIII. The Generic Name Thylacomys. By Epear R, Warts, F.LS. XXIX. On new Species of Histeride, and Notices of others. By G. Lewis, F.L.S. XXX. On the Absence of Regeneration in the Posterior Limbs of the Orthoptera saltatoria and its probable Causes. By EpMonp BORDAGE), 6. i)06is fies ded ns 00 0 60 80 0 adn sis to de Sind CHE STO OCT TEPER CCFO eC Bath 6 6 d8 O86 6 60 \n 6 0266 6 wie ole SSFDC CK Gee ee Ve VtE KR 6 cas 6 6 65 10.5 o V6 y etenne eevee oe eo ee le eee 158, 159 161 167 234 CONTENTS.. Vv Page XXXI. Regeneration of the Tarsus and of the Two Anterior Pairs of Limbs in the Orthoptera saltatoria. By EpmMonp BorpaGe, 237 New Book :—Die Fledermiiuse des Berliner Museums fiir Naturkunde. —Neunzig, unter Leitung von Prof. W. Peters und Paul Matschie, gezeichnete und lithographirte Tafeln. Bearbeitet und durch Verbreitungskarten und Bestimmungstabellen fiir alle bekannten Arten erginzt. Von Paut Marscurg, Kustos am Museum fiir Naturkunde zu Berlin. Erste Lieferung. Megachiroptera .... 239 NUMBER XXVII. XXXII. A New-Zealand Species of the Amphipodan Genus Cyproidia. By CHARLES CuiLTon, M.A., D.Se., M.B.,C.M., F.L.S., Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh. (Plate V.) .......... 241 XXXIII. On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others. LORS ON SS Sh ee ee ag ee eerie es 246 _ XXXIV. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews.— No. XX. By Prof. M‘lntosu, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., &e. (Plates NRE he teeta ays Soma ese Le oacaei es cs 254 ™.> = XXXYV. Descriptions of new Neotropical Mammals. By OLpFIELD Nag Pee iia Sa oinls Biipsln Azo Rare Tees winavi aivie-o Lewv alors. 269 XXXVI. Descriptions of Two new Sciuropteri discovered by Mr. Charles Hose in Borneo. By OLpFreLp THOMAS............ 275 XXXVII. Notes on a Collection of African Blattide, chiefly from the Transvaal, formed by Mr. W. L, Distant. By W.F. Kirsy, eR Pg PRS ds 2). So acter Mian ap ten np Rie es de oes 277 XXXVIII. Some new or little-known Thelyphonide and Solifuge. By hE Pocock ......: ERAN /s iu Meat ela ¢ erit awed vink gota lee 294 XXXIX. Descriptions of new Reptiles from Perak, Malay Peninsula. By G. A. Bouteneer, F.R.S. ...........0. cee ee. , 306 XL. Description of a new Genus and Species of Longicorn Coleo- ptera from Central Formosa, By C. J. Ganan, M.A............. 508 XLI. Descriptions of new Coleoptera from Hainan Island, China. CREAM Ch WV ATREROURE, HE) ee. cd isnew ssw ecasecess 310 XLII. Description of a new Species of Plectopylis from Tonkin. MO SEAN ey cas Sab bode Mele ce db Rate bec doe oh XLII. On the Spiral Growth of Appendages in Course of Re- generation in Arthropoda. By EpMonp BorbaGeE ............., 314 New Book :—Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 1397, by Arthur Willey, D.Sc. Lond., Hon. M.A. Cantab., late Balfour Student of the University of Cambridge. “Part ITI, ................000... 317 The Hexagonal Structure formed in Cooling Beeswax in relation to the Cells of Bees, by F. Chapman ..............,cceeee+es 320 vi CONTENTS. NUMBER XXVIII. Page XLIV. Evidence of an Extinct Eel (7renchelys anglicus, sp. n.) from the English Chalk. By A. Smrra Woopwarp, LL.D., F.L.S. (Plate 1X. figs. AS Ea) RNS CHA dete Wine Sete ea eae iy nee ee 32] XLV. On a new Specimen of the Clupeoid Fish Aulolepis typua from the English Chalk. By A. Smira Woopwarp, LL.D., F.L.S. (Plate IX. figs. Lg PED cnn caitap ita: F tan NOW Rev dds igo deem 524 XLVI. British Amphipoda: Families Pontoporeide to Ampe- liscide. By Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &e. .. 326 XLVII. On some Longicorn Coleoptera from the Island of Hainan. By:0. J; Garin, WAY oct ts sre eee LA Sik i XLVIII. Descriptions of Two new Murines from Peru and a new Hare from Venezuela. By OLDFIELD THOMAS ............+005 354 XLIX. On a new Genus and Species of Bulbul and an apparently new Species of Cyornis. By Col. C. T. Brnewam, F.Z.S. ........ L. Note on the Common Hedgehog (Erinaceus europeus, Linnzeus) and its Subspecies or Local Variations. By G. E. H. Barrerr- ERAMEIETOR sou tio sce ieee Wan Sukie en as «ees «ieee 560 LI. Asiatic Tortricide. By the Rt. Hon. Lorp WaLsINGHAM, Ry AMS Dg TERNS one vie roles eke ys tints +0 4k cepts enn 368 LU. Rhynchotal Notes. —IV. Heteroptera: Pentatomine (part.). BS WV. 2s: SAE dss oun. tees tS ae ein os hon 9 4 ee 386 LIII. Description of a new Cetoniid Beetle fron East Africa, By. A, Hearn, MODELS, oe salad «hous s,s cone Sen 397 New Book :—The Students’ Flora of New Zealand and the outlying Islands. By Tuomas Kink, P.LS.) wo eee 399 Scriptotricha or Paracantha?, by T. D, A. Cockerell ............ 400 NUMBER XXIX. LIV. Observations on Bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains. By T. D. A. CocKkErELL, Pro- fessor of Entomology, New Mexico Agricultural College.......... 401 LY. On anew Ostracoderm (Luphanerops longevus) from the Upper Devonian of Scaumenac Bay, Province of Quebec, Canada. By A. Smira Woopwarp, LL.D., F.L.S. (Plate X. figs. 1, la, (i. 5 nn Per reese ce ar 416 LVI. On a new Species of Deltodus from the Lower Carboniferous (Yoredale Rocks) of Ses By A. Smirn Woopwarp, LL_D., F L65( Plate Rs fies 2/20 28D). oc 09 se toe ee 3 eaee 419 LVI. Rhynchotal Notes.—IV. Heteroptera: Pentatomine (patt.). By W. L. Distant ..... Siete see tes ves one ulin en 4 j CONTENTS. Vii Page LVIII. On the Variation of the Weasel (Puforius nivalis, Linn.). By Dr. Ernan Lonnpera LIX. New Species of Mollusea of the Genera Voluta, Conus, Siphonalia, and Luthria. By G. B. Sowersy, F.L.S. (Plate XL.) 499 LX. A List of the Species of Cyaniris, a well-known Group of the Family Lycenide. By A.G. Burier, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.5., &e... 441 LXI. Asiatic Tortricide. By the Rt. Hon. Lorp WaLsinonam, rn Me Serre Oe ier y wer sves tives apie rein 451 LXIL. Some new or little-known Neotropical Scorpions in the British Museum. By R. IL. Pocock New Book :—Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels. Mit Beriicksichtigung der thiergeographischen und_biologischen Verhiiltnisse systematisch dargestellt. Von Dr. ARNOLD PAGENSTECHER. Zweiter Theil: Die Nachtfalter .......... 478 Proceedings of the Geological Society ..........-seeeeeeeeee aves 479 A Question of Nomenclature, by F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A. &e. ........ 480 NUMBER XXX, LXIII. Asiatic Tortricidae. By the Rt. Hon. Lorp Wansryc- EEA MOET, | cine she Many axe aod ants x a eat << tet 48] LXIV. On the Squirrels of the Ratufa (Sciwrus) bicolor Group. EN SIOMIMIEN 509 oi tes ak cain deen Ps males nants eae ED BS-0 4) 499 LXV. A new Skunk from Peru. By OLpFieLp THomas LXVI. On the Special Protection of Appendages in Process of Regeneration after Artificial Mutilation among Insects. By EpMonp I Rea Behe 46 < i wn 0 RAMEN Oc eats pa resi ones i belek 501 LXVII. New Species of the Coleopterous Genus Prionocalus from Ecuador and Peru. By Cnas. O. Warernovss, V.P.E.S......... 503 LXVIII. Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Hete- rocera from Tropical South America. By Herbert Druce, EG 0S AVE 6 i dierh a re Ne ccs dee wna sdei'vnse vce bcs HOT LXIX. Further Note on the Harvest-Mouse (Mus minutus, Pallas) and its Geographical Variations. By G. E. H. Barrerr- Ua eM ROW G Cocos sce t's we day sbiccccvyessnves. O20 LXX. On a Small Collection of Odonata (Dragonflies) from Hainan, collected by the late John Whitehead. By W. I. Kirsy, Pima MEO, CRUMMO MEL), yc cc ucon see ttaveressuccerusees * 530 viii CONTENTS. Page LXXI. On the Species which have been included in Zygonyz, Hagen and De Selys. By W. F. Kirsy, F.LS., P.ES., &e. 0.0... 539 LXXII. Note on the Individual Variation of the Common Hedge- hog (Erinaceus europeus, Linn.). By Dr. Etnar LONNBERG ...... 542 Proceedings of the Geological Society. ........ 06: cece eens 544, 545 Golianthinus (Sphyrorrhina) Wisei, by Ii. A. Heath, M.D., F.LS. ; On the Skeleton of the Snout and Os carunculz of the Mammary Foetus of Monotremes, by Prof. J.T. Wilson, M.B., Ch.M. .... 546 PLATES IN VOL. V. PiaTE I. New Tabanide. we Nephridium of Nephthys ceca. IV. British Species of Siphonostoma. V. Cyproidia otakensis. VI. New Amphipoda. hase Species of Nephthys. IX. Urenchelys anglicus and Aulolepis typus. X. Euphanerops longzvus and Deltodus Croftoni. XI. New Mollusca. XII. New Odonata. THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, (SEVENTH SERIES.] « per litora spargite muscum, Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. At vos, o Nymph Craterides, ite sub undas ; Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas Ferte, Dew pelagi, et pingui conchylia suceo."’ N. Parthenii Giannetlusi, Eel. i, No. 25. JANUARY 1900. I.—Aretic Crustacea: Bruce Collection. By the Rey. THomas R. R. STeBBING, M.A., F.R.S. Tue Crustacea collected by Mr. W. S. Bruce in Franz-Josef Land during 1896 and 1897, in connexion with ihe well- known Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, have recently been described by Mr. Thomas Scott, F.L.8., in the ‘ Journal of the Linnean Society.’ In 1898 Mr. Bruce made three new Arctic cruises: the first with Mr. Andrew Coats in his yacht ‘Blencathra’ to Kolguev and Novaya Zemlya; the second with the same friendly sportsman “to Bear Island, Hope Island, across the Barents Sea almost to the north end of Novaya Zemlya, and to the Wiche Islands” ; the third with the Prince of Monaco, on the ‘ Princesse Alice,’ to Bear Island, Hope Island, several parts of Spitzbergen, and the Greenland Sea. As might have been expected, Mr. Bruce made every possible use of his opportunities in the interests of natural science. The Malacostraca thus obtained he has, on the suggestion of Mr. Scott, submitted to me for determination, and the following catalogue is the result. Ann, & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 1 2 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. BRACHYURA. Tribe OKYRRHYNCHA. Fam. Maiide. Genus Hyas, Leach, 1813-1814. Ilyas araneus (Linn.). 1758. Cancer araneus, Linn., Systema Nature, ed. x. (reprint, 1894), p- 628. F i» ; 1790. Cancer bufo, Herbst, Naturg. Krabben u. Krebse, vol. i. pt 8, p. 242, pl. xvii. fig. 95. 1814. Hyas araneus, Leach, Edinb. Encyel. vol. vii. p. 431. 1816. Hyas araneus, Leach, Malacostraca Podophth. Britannia, pl. xx. A. 1834. Hyas aranea, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. vol. i. p. 312. 1851. Hyas araneus, Brandt, Middendorft’s Sibirische Reise, vol. ii. y ’ ’ abode! Part Os 1853, sian araneus, Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 31, fig. in text. 1864. Hyas arancus, Goés, Crust. podophth. Suecize &c., in GEfy. Vet.- Akad. Forh. p. 161 (extr. p. 1). 1882. Hyas coarctatus, var., Hoek, Die Crustaceen..... des Willem Barents, in Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 3, pl. i. fig. 1. 1887. Hyas araneus, H. J. Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 234. In regard to this abundant, widely distributed, and well- known species there is still an unsettled question. Leach in one work mentions and in another figures a specimen measuring 16 inches across between the tips of the extended legs. ‘lhe carapace of the specimen figured is 5} inches long by a little over 24 broad. These dimensions, as Leach himself recognizes and as subsequent experience has shown, are very uncommon. From this form, capable of so large a development, the same author in 1815 distinguished, as Hyas coarctatus, a second species, of which a specimen is considered fine when the carapace is 1} inch long by 3 inch wide. Leach did not, however, lay any stress on the difference in size, but on a character less easily appreciable, namely, that the acute lateral postorbital process of the carapace is tuberculate to the rear in Hyas araneus, whereas to the rear in [yas coarctatus it is much dilated and unarmed. ‘he latter species more- over, in accordance with its name, has the sides of its carapace constricted. It is not said, and it would not be true to say, that they are without constriction in the other form. The fact appears to be that the constriction forms a small pocket (as in the smaller of Leach’s two figures of Hyas coarctatus) only in small specimens, but that, as specimens increase in size, it becomes a shallow emargination. ¥ 4 bs J — Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. 3 Brandt, in distinguishing the species, uses Leach’s character of tuberculation, saying that the part of the carapace in question has about two or three warts in Hyas araneus and only about one or none in Hyas coarctatus. His words are “subternis vel subbinis ” and “ subunica vel nulla,” of which the meaning seems plain, although the Latinity is not Ciceronian. He adds that in Hyas araneus the breadth of the front third of the carapace is a little less or more than half the extreme breadth, but that in Hyas coarctatus this front third has more than three fourths, or about four fifths, of the extreme breadth. ‘The two species live in the same waters, so that, when it comes to determining matrimonial alliances, one cannot help wondering how they manage without compasses to prevent a narrow-fronted Romeo from winning the affections of a broad-fronted Juliet, since we, with all appliances and means to boot, can scarcely keep their rival clans from mixing. According to Bell, “ In the young state it is very difficult to distinguish the two species, as the former [Hyas araneus] has, in its early age, the spreading form of the postorbital processes which distinguishes the present species [ Hyas coarctatus] inits perfect adult condition, and which is gradually lost by the other.” Bell dismisses Hailstone’s Hyas serra/us as undoubtedly only a very young form of Hyas coarctatus. Sars, in the ‘ Crustacea of the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition ’ (Crust. pt. 2, p. 2, 1886), records both H. araneus and H. coarctatus, and, further, considers Brandt’s var. alutacea of the latter ‘to be strictly entitled to specific distinction.” Unfortunately he does not give the characters to be relied on for keeping the three forms apart. Most of the specimens assigned by him to //. coarctatus were young individuals. He notices, as earlier authors had done, that this form descends into much deeper waters than those frequented by H. araneus. Brandt considers the Hyas coarctata of De Kay (Nat. Hist. of New York, 1843) to be a form intermediate between H, araneus and FH. coarctatus. Professor 8S. I. Smith, in ‘The Stalk-eyed Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast of North America north of Cape Cod,’ 1879, not only shows no doubt of the distinctness of these two species, but accepts a third from Stimpson. ‘That author, he observes, in the Pr. Ac. Philadelphia, 1857, ‘describes a new species, latifrons, as common in Bering Sea, apparently using the same specimens which were a few months before referred to /. coaretatus. H., latifrons., though closely allied to cvarctatus, is certainly |* 4 Rev, T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. a good species or a very remarkable variety, and quite distinct from Brandt’s variety alutaceus.” Miers, on the other hand, in the ‘Challenger’ Brachyura, pronounces Stimpson’s H. latifrons to be “very doubtfully distinct from Hyas coarctata,” though he recognizes Dana’s Hyas lyratus from the west coast of America as a very distinct species. In 1882 Hoek, among the Crustacea of the ‘ Willem Barents’ Expedition, describes and figures ‘* //yas coarctatus, Leach, var.,”’ and lays stress on measurements of the male chelipeds. But these appear to be far too variable with age and size of specimen to admit of any reliance being placed upon them, and, moreover, as Hansen has pointed out (‘ Dijmphna Krebsdyr,’ p. 235), it is clear that Hoek’s species is a true /yas araneus. Uansen’s own conclusions are as follows :— Specimens from the ‘ Dijmphna’ give the same result as that of Hoek’s table of measurements, that the breadth of the carapace in front, compared with its breadth behind, is relatively greater in the small than in the large specimens, just as the breadth in front is in the small specimens greater in relation to the length than in the large individuals. Whether, all things considered, //yas coarctatus is a valid independent species or only a variety of HH. araneus, appears to me somewhat doubtful, although I have inspected a rather - considerable number of animals at various ages and from various seas,” Into how many species the genus Hyas will eventually be divided it is impossible to foresee. Dana’s HH. lyratus should, it seems, stand by itself. Of the other forms as yet known how happily, sua si bona norint, may all of them live under the common name of L/yas araneus. But to expect that they will do so is utopian. Mr. Bruce’s specimens were obtained from off the north end of Kolguev Island at 12 fathoms, and from the western part of the Barents Sea, 76° 17’ N., 21° 36’ E., at 60 fathoms depth. MACRURA, Tribe ANOMALA. Fam. Paguride. Genus Eupacurus, Brandt, 1851. Eupagurus pubescens (Kroyer). 1838. Pagurus pubescens, Kroyer, Danske Selsk. Skr. Afh. pt. 7, p. 314; Kroyer, Conspectus Crust. Greenlandie, Naturh. Tidsskr. vol. ii. p. 251. ai ae Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea 5 1846. Pagurus pubesceus, Kroyer, Gaimard’s Voy. du Nord, Crust., Atlas, pl. ii. fig. 1. 1851. Eupagurus pubescens, Brandt, Middendorff’s Sibirische Reise, vol. ii. pt. 1, pp. 31, 84, 35. 1853. Pagurus Thompsont, Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 372, fig. in text. 1858. Eupagurus pubescens, Stimpson, and Lupagurus Kréyeri, Stimp- son (both without description), Pr. Ac, Philad. pp. 75, 87. coe cre beg Kréyeri, Stimpson, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. vil. p. 89. 1879. Engrs pubescens, S. I. Smith, Trans. Connect. Ac. vol. v. bs . 47, 1359. Piaurws Kréyert, 8. I, Smith, ibid. p. 48. aug oa pubescens, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no. 18, p. 42, ~l. gs. 1-2Z. 1886, Eupagurus pubescens, Henderson, Crust. Decap. Firth of Clyde, ». 26. 1888. Lupagurus pubescens, var. Kroyert, Henderson, Rep. Voy. ‘ Challenger,’ yol. xxvii. p. 65. In first establishing the species Kréyer assigned to it two distinctive characters, the long soft hairs clothing the chelipeds and the form of the left hand, which, however, he left un- described. In the same year he gave another characterization as follows :— Dorsal surface of the cephalothorax and the legs densely beset with yellow sete, and a strong dentate carina of the right hand extending from the base of the finger to the outer carina of the wrist.” This was followed by a comparison or contrast instituted between the new species and Pagurus bernhardus. No mention at all is made of the left hand; but Brandt is no doubt right in supposing that Kroyer by a slip of the pen wrote “ dextre ” in place of “ sinistree.” Bell probably instituted his Pagurus Thompson? in igno- rance or forgetfulness of Kréyer’s species, and he speaks of the small anterior leg (that is, the left cheliped) as “ nearly linear,” without noticing the characteristic carina. Stimpson found specimens which agreed with the figure in Gaimard’s ‘ Voy. du Nord’ in having the pubescence little demonstrative, and both he and afterwards Professor 8S. I. Smith concluded that Kréyer had mixed up two distinct species. Professor Smith finds numerous minute distinctions in the outline, position, and denticulation of the outer carina of the left hand in the two forms. But Professor Sars maintains that the two cannot possibly be separated specifically. He urges that the pubescence of body and legs is on the whole very variable, and that the form of the left chela varies a good deal in the two sexes—in the female fairly corresponding with Smith’s account of Hupagurus Kréyeri and in the male with his Eupagurus pubescens. Ue finds the male as a rule more 6 Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing on Aretic Crustacea, strongly pubescent than the female. Professor Henderson contents himself with the compromise of accepting Stimpson’s species as a variety of Kréyer’s. In the feebleness of the pubescence Mr. Bruce’s specimens make no very marked claim upon the original specific name, to which otherwise they may well have a right. Localities. Off north end of Kolguev Island, 12 fathoms ; Novaya Zemlya, 20 fathoms. Tribe CARIDEA. Fam. Crangonide. Genus SABINEA, Owen, 1835. Sabinea septemcarinata (Sabine), 1821. Crangon septemcarinatus, Sabine, Parry’s Voyage, Appendix no. x., Zoology, p. 58, pl. ii. figs. 11-15. ie ¢ 1835. Sabinea septemcarinata, Owen, Ross’s 2nd Voyage, App., Zool. . Ixxxii. 1879. Sabinea septemcarinata, S. I. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, p. 57, pl. xi. figs. 5, 9-18. 1890. Sabinea septemcarinata, Sars, Arch. Natury. Christian. vol. xiv. p- 168, pl. v., pl. vi. figs. 1-13. It has been pointed out by Professor Smith that two distinct species have sometimes been confounded under the name septemcarinata. ‘The specimens to which that name properly belongs have the rostrum obtusely rounded at the tip and the telson subtruncate, its apex fringed with eight or more spines. On the other hand there are specimens of similar general appearance belonging to the species Sabinea Sarsit, Smith, 1879, which can readily be distinguished by the circumstance that the rostrum ends in an acute tip and that the telson likewise has its apex acute, with one or two spines on either side. Sars has pointed out that the Myto Gaimardii of Kroyer is in fact the first larval stage of Sabinea septemcarinata, and that in a very young post-larval condition that species is already sharply distinguished from Sabinea Sarsit by the character of the telson. Mr. Bruce’s specimens were obtained by the trawl off North Kolguey Island, at 12 fathoms and at 30 fathoms; and in the west of the Barents Sea, 76° 44'-76° 47' N., 30° 30/— 29° 55’ E., at 110 fathoms; at 76°17’ N., 21° 36’ E., in 60 fathoms. AD oul» ee st ae Dee wr . 7 .. | Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing on Aretic Crustacea, 7 Genus SCLEROCRANGON, Sars, 1582. 1882. Selerocrangon, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no. 18, p. 45. 1885. Selerocrangon, Sars, Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp. vol. xiv., Crust. pt. 1, p. 14. Sclerocrangon jerow, Sars. 1876. Cheraphilus ferox, Sars, Arch. Natury. Christian. p. 359. ap ere JSerox, Hoek, Nied. Arch. f. Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 9, i, fig. 3. 1885. Sclerocrangon salebrosus, Sars, Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp. vol. xiv., Crust. pt. 1, p. 15, pl. ii. 1887. Sclerocrangon fero., HW. J. Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p, 236. 1890, Selerocrangon ferox, Sars, Arch. Natury. Christian, vol. xiy. p. 180 The dentiform projections on the lower margins of the pleon-segments afford an easily observable distinction between this species and the Sclerocrangon boreas of Phipps. In Sclerocrangon Agassizii, 8S. 1. Smith, the first pleon-segment has an obtuse tooth on the lower margin and the second has a slight tooth, but the following segments have the lower edges unarmed, Hansen points out that the Cranyon sale- brosus of Owen cannot be identified with the present species, since, besides other differences, it is described as having the carapace septemcarinate. Mr. Bruce’s specimens were obtained between 76° 24 N., 33° 43’ E., and 76° 47’ N., 29° 55! E., at depths of 100 and 110 fathoms ; at 77° 14’ N., in 76 fathoms. Genus Sprronrocaris, Spence Bate, 1888. Spirontocaris polaris (Sabine). 1821. Alpheus polaris, Sabine, Parry’s Voyage, Appendix no. x., Zoology, p. 60, pl. ii. figs. 5-8. 1835. Hippolyte polaris, Owen, Ross’s 2nd Voyage, App., Zool. . Ixxxy. 1855. Hippolyte borealis, Owen, ibid. p. lxxxiv, pl. B, fig. 3. 1842. Hippolyte polaris, Kréyer, Monogr. Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p- 116, pl. iii. figs. 78-81, pl. iv. fig. 82. . 1842. Hijpolyte borealis, Kroyer, ibid. p. 122, pl. iii. figs. 74-77. 1879. Hippolyte polaris, 8. 1. Smith, Tr, Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt.1, . 80, pl. xi. figs, 1-4, 186. Hippolyte polaris, Koelbel, Crustaceen von Jan Mayen, p. 11. 1887. Hippolyte polaris, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 239. 1899. Spirontocaris polaris, Scott, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. yol. xxvii. p. 63, From Sabine onwards authors have noticed the great 8 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. variability in the number of the teeth of the rostrum both above and below. Professor Smith’s conclusion that no specific distinction is tenable between polaris and borealis has been generally accepted. The American professor is also inclined to believe that Hippolyte cultellata, Norman, 1867, is another synonym, and Norman himself (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xiii. p. 270) accepts it as such. It may be noticed that cu/tel/atum is a word used by Kroyer in describing the rostrum alike of polaris and borealis. he variability in the pterygostomian spines (to disappearance) and in the number of dorsal aculei (from four to ten pairs) on the telson is fully discussed by Professor Smith. Keelbel gives the branchial formula as comprising a podobranchia on the second maxilliped, an epipod on each of the five appendages from the first maxilliped to the second trunk-leg, and a pleuro- branchia on each of the five successive trunk-legs. As this species has seven subdivisions to the fifth joint of the second trunk-legs, or, in brief, a seven-jointed wrist, it seems proper to include it in the genus Spirontocaris. Hansen mentions 77 millim. as the length of a very large male. A. large specimen (about 3 inches long), with others not so large, was obtained at 70° 03’ N., 49° 10! E., in 20 fathoms. A small specimen (about 12 inch long), with eight pairs of dorsal spines on the telson and eight apical spines, of which the median six are subequal, was taken at 76° 29’ N., 19° 08! E., in 140 fathoms, Sptrontocaris spinus (Sowerby). 1805. Cancer spinus, Sowerby, British Miscellany, p. 47, pl. xxiii. 1814. Alpheus spinus, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. vol. vii. p. 481. 1815. Alpheus spinus, Leach, Trans. Linn, Soc. London, vol. xi. p. 347. 1817. Hippolyte Sowerbei, Leach, Malac. Podophth. Britannie, pl. xxxix. 1837. Hippolyte Sowerby’, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. vol. ii. p- 380. 1842. Hippolyte Sowerbei, Kyéyer, Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 90, pl. ii. figs. 45-54. 1879. Hippolyte spinus, S. 1 Smith. Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, p. 68. 1882. Hippolyte spinus, Hoek, Crust. Willem Barents, in Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 15, pl. i. figs. 4-7. 1886, Hippolyte spinus, Koelbel, Crustaceen von Jan Mayen, p. 11. 1888. Sprrontocaris spinus, Bate, Rep. Voy. ‘ Challenger,’ vol. xxiv. p. 596, pls. evi., cvyii. The synonymy may with little doubt be amplified by the names [Hippolyte Liljeborgi, Danielssen, 1861, and Hippolyte securifrons, Norman, 1863. Stimpson in 1860 adopts the Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing on ‘Arctic Crustacea. 9 curious reading of the name, //ippolyte spina, as if spinus were an adjective. Spence Bate emphasizes the variability of the species by describing seven varieties. According to Keelbel the branchial formula is the same as in Spirontocaris polaris, except for the additional epipod in the present species, which has one on the third trunk-leg, as observed by Kroyer. Specimens were obtained at 76° 17! N., 21° 36! E., in 60 fathoms depth. Spirontocaris Gaimardii (Milne-Edwards). 1837. Hippolyte Gaimardii, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. vol. ii. 378 1842. Hippolyte Gaimardii, Kroyer, Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 74, pl. i. figs. 21-29. 1842. Hippolyte gibba, Kroyer, ibid. p. 80, pl. i. fig. 30, pl. ii. figs. 31-87. 1864. Hippolyte Gaimardi, Goés, Crust. podophth. Suecie etc., CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Foérh. p. 168 (extr. p. 8). 1879. Hippolyte Gaimardit, 8. I. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. v. pt. 1, p- 67, pl. ix. figs. 8, 9. _ 1882. Hippolyte Gaimardi, Hoek, Crust. Willem Barents, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 13. 1886. Hippolyte Gaimardu, Keelbel, Crustaceen yon Jan Mayen, p. 12. 1887. Hippolyte Gaimardit, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 238. 1888. Hetairus Gaimardi, Bate, Rep. Voy. ‘ Challenger,’ vol. xxiv. p- 611, pl. cix. fig. 2. 1895. Spirontocaris Gaimardi:, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat. Science Series, vol. ]xxili. p. 235. 1899, Spirontocaris Gaimardii, Scott, Journ. Linn, Soc. London, Zool. vol. xxvii. p. 68, pl. iii. figs. 1, 2 This species is notable for the absence of the pair of spines so commonly found in this genus over the eyes at the base of the rostrum. According to Keelbel the branchial formula is the same as that of Spirontocaris polaris. Goés has been followed by subsequent authors in uniting the forms gibba and Gaimardii*, With these he united Hippolyte Belcheri, Bell (Belcher’s ‘ Voyage,’ p. 402, pl, xxiv. fig. 1), and was inclined to unite Hippolyte pandaliformis, Bell (Brit. Stalk-eyed Crust. p. 294). Hoek considers that they should both be regarded as synonyms of Gatmardit. A specimen measuring 24 inches in length was obtained by Mr. Bruce. It has the third pleon-segment dorsally produced over the next with a rather broadly rounded apex, above which, but not reaching beyond it, is a narrow, though not acute, median projection. ‘The rostrum has four teeth below and eight above, in addition to three on the carapace. ‘The dorsal spines of the telson * Miss M. J. Rathbun, however, keeps them distinct, but without comment, in her recently 5 cae ‘ List of Crustacea known to occur on or near the Pribilof Islands.’ 10 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. are not exactly paired, being six on one side and five on the other. Locality. 70° 51’ N., 53° E., at a depth of 20 fathoms. Spirontocaris turgida (Kroyer). 1841. Hippolyte turgida, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidsskr. vol. iii. p. 575. 1841. Mippolyte Phippsii, Kroyer, ibid. pp. 575-576, 1842. Hippolyte turgida, Kroyer, Hippolyte’s nordiske Arter, p. 100, pl. ii. figs. 57, 58, pl. iii. figs, 59-63. 1842. Hippolyte Phippsii, Kroyer, ibid. p. 106, pl. ii. figs. 64-68, 1864. Hippolyte Phippsii, Goés, Crust. podophth. Sueciz etc., ify. Vet.-Akad. Forh. p. 169 (extr. p. 9). 1879. Hippolyte Phippsti, 8. I. Smith, Tr. Connect. Ac. vol. vy. pt. 1, 73 1882, Hippolyte Phippsii, Hoek, Crust. Willem Barents, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 17. 1899. ? Spirontocaris Phippsit, Scott, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. vol, xxvii. p. 63, pl. ili. figs. 3, 4. The suggestion made by Goés that Kréyer’s turgida and Phippsii were respectively female and male of one species has been generally accepted. The priority of the name turgida has been as generally set aside, probably under the idea that the male was so obviously the superior animal that no rules of nomenclature could compete with its claim to preferential notice. Professor Smith includes in the synonymy the Hippolyte vibrans of Stimpson (Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. x. p. 125, 1871), and, with some doubt, Hippo- lyte ochotensis, Brandt, 1849. Specimens were obtained by Mr. Bruce at 76° 17! N., 21° 36' E., in 60 fathoms depth. SCHIZOPODA. Fam. Euphausiide. Genus RuovA, Sim, 1872. 1872. Rhoda, Sim, “Stalk-eyed Crust. N.E. Coast of Scotland,” in Scottish Naturalist, sep. copy, p. 6 (fide Norman). 1883. Boreophausia, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no, 7, p. 11. 1886. Boreophausia, Norman, Fourth Annual Rep. Fish. Board Scot- land, p. 156. 1892. Boreophausia, Norman, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. ix. . 461. 183, Rhoda, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat. Science Series, vol. lxxiv. p- 263. Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. 11 Rhoda tinermis (Kroyer). 1846. ? Thysanopoda inermis, Kriyer, Gaimard’s Voy. du Nord, Crust, 1. vii. figs. 2 a-t. 18b9, Euphausia inermis, Sars, Forh. Selsk. Christian. no. 18, p. 51, pl. i. fig. 15, 1885. Boreophausia inermis, Sars, ‘ Challenger Schizopoda, p. 64. 1886. Boreophausia inermis, Sars, Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp., Crust. vol. ii. p. 13. 1887. Boreophausia inermis, Hansen, Malac. Groenl, occid., Vid. Medd. , Reports, vol. xiii. . 53. 1809. Boreophausia inermis, Norman, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser, 6, vol. ix. p. 461. 1893, Rhoda inermis, Stebbing, Hist. Crust. p. 263. Norman having identified the Boreophausia Raschit (M. Sars) with Rhoda Jardineana, Sim, 1872, it seems clear that the generic name Boreophausia, proposed by Sars in 1883, must give way to the much earlier name Rhoda. Mr. Bruce’s specimens of Rhoda inermis were taken on two occasions iu July by the tow-net at night. Fam. Myside. Genus Mysrpet1s, Sars, 1869. 1869. Mysideis, Sars, Underségelser over Christianiafjordens Dybvands- fauna, p. 28. 1870, 1879. Mysideis, Sars, Monogr. Norges Mysider, pt. 1, p. 9, pt. 3, pp. 1, 110. On page 9 of the ‘ Monograph’ Sars assigns Myszdezs to the group in which all the pleopods of the male are unlike those of the female, and to the division of that group which has the molar of the mandibles distinct, separating the genus from its companions by the character that the incisive lobes of the first maxille are only two instead of three. The full eneric character in pt. 3, page 1, and the subsequent specific Reeristobe and figures, agree with the original account in 1869 in applying the character to the second maxilla, to which alone it could be appropriate. From the type species, Mysideis insignis, the M. grandis of Goés is very clearly distinguished by the subacute or tubercular projection in the middle of the outer margin of the first maxillz, as well as by the truncate apex of the telson. Mysideis grandis (Goés). 1864. Mysis grandis, Goés, Crust. podophth, Suecia etc., CEfy. Vet.- Akad. Forh. p. 176 (extr. p. 16), 12 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacez. 1879, Mysideis grandis, Sars, Monogr. Norges Mysider, pt. 3, p. 106, pls. xh., xlii. A specimen, 1} inch in length, and two of smaller size, were obtained at 70° 51! N., 53° E., in about 20 fathoms depth, comparatively shallow water for this apparently rare species. CUMACKEA. In this group the only captures observed were Leucon pallidus, Sars, from a depth of 60 fathoms, and some small specimens taken with the tow-net, probably belonging to Lamprops fuscata, Sars; but the lateral margin of the cara- pace is furnished with five or six denticles, the first joint of the inner branch of the uropods has only six spines, and the apex of the telson scarcely looked as if it could have been furnished with more than three spines, the full number in L. fuscata being five. ISOPODA. Tribe CHELIFERA. Genus CrYPTOCOPE, Sars, 1880. 1880. Cryptocope, Sars, Isopoda Chelifera, Arch. Naturv. p. 49. 1886. Cryptocope, Norman and Stebbing, Trans. Zoo]. Soc. London, vol. xii. pt. 4, p. 106. 1896. Cryptocope, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. p. 33. Cryptocope arctica, Hansen. 1887. Cryptocope arctica, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 209, pl. xxi. fic. 4; id. Malac. Greenl. occid., Vid. Medd. p. 180, pl. vii. figs. 1-1 ¢. This minute species, less than 44 inch long, differs from the Cryptocope Véringwi and Cryptocope abbreviata in having sete on the pleopods, of which the other two species are devoid. The sete are apical in the specimen I have examined. It has the antenne agreeing with those figured by Hansen in pl. vii. fig. 15 for the female. Also apparently the outer branch of the uropod is two-jointed, in agreement with Hansen’s figure of that microscopic appendage in the ovigerous female. According to Sars the outer branch is one-jointed in the female both of C. abbreviata and of the larger C. Véringit, although in 1876, when describing the latter as Tanais Véringit, he had stated that both branches of the uropods were two-jointed in the female. Mr, Bruce’s specimens came from a depth of 100 fathoms. Rev. 'T’. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. 13 Tribb FLABELLIFERA. Fam. Anthurida. Genus CALATHURA, Norman and Stebbing, 1886. 1886. Calathura, Norman and Stebbing, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. xii. pt. 4, p. 122. 1897. Calathura, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. p. 44. To this genus Sars assigns three species —Stimpson’s Anthura brachiata, his own Puranthura norvegica, 1872, and Bonnier’s Ca/athura affinis, 1896. But the last of these three should be referred to the genus Leptanthura, Sars, 1897. It is, I think, quite certain that in the genus Calathura the inner ramus of the uropoda is not biarticulate, but, in accord- ance with the view separately propounded by Dr. Anton Dohrn for Paranthura Costana, and by Dr. Charles Chilton * for the Anthuride in general, only one-jointed. ‘The outer ramus is articulated near the base of the peduncle and there is the possibility that the elongate peduncle includes a coalesced first joint of the inner ramus, but, at least in Cala- thura, the homology of such a first joint is not proved either by perceptible suture or power of movement. Calathura brachiata (Stimpson). 1853. Anthura brachiata, Stimpson, Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan, p. 43. 1874. Anthura brachiata, Harger, in Verrill and Smith’s Invert, Vine- yard Sound, p. 573. 1875. Paranthura arctica, Heller, Denk. Ak. Wien, vol. xxxvi. p. 38 (14), pl. iv. figs. 9-12. 1886. Calathura brachiata, Norman and Stebbing, Trans, Zool. Soc. London, vol. xii. pt. 4, p. 131, pl. xxvi. fig. 1. 1897. Calathura brachiata, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. p. 46, pl. xix. fig. 2. Heller accurately describes the uropods in agreement with Dohrn and Chilton, but, like Gerstaecker, he regards the upper ramus as the inner instead of the outer, a problem in homology which, as Dr. Chilton suggests, can perhaps only be deter- mined by an appeal to embryology. A single specimen, 1 inch long, was obtained at or near 71° 31’ N., 49° 12’ E., in 76 fathoms. * Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2nd ser. Zool. vol. vi. pt. 2, p. 317, 14 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea, Tribe VALVIFERA. Fam. Idoteida. Genus CuiripoTea, Harger, 1878. 1878. Chiridotea, Harger, Amer. Journ. Sci. vol. xv. p. 374. 1880. Chirtdotea, Harger, U.S. Fish. Comm. pt. 6, p. 337. 1882. Glyptonetus (part.), Miers, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. vol, xvi. p. 9; Hoek, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p. 29. 1897. Chiridothea, Sars, Aun. Mus. Zool. St. Pétersb., Extr. p. 21. As pointed out by Sars, and earlier by Miers himself, though the latter did not regard the distinction of generic value, this genus is separated from Glyptonotus by the im- portant character that it has the side-plates distinctly defined on six segments of the pereon, from the second to the seventh, while in Glyptonotus they are only defined on the last three. Chiridotea Sabini (Kroyer). 1847. Idothea Sabini, Kréyer, Naturh. Tidsskr, ser. 2, vol. ii. pp. 394, 401. 1846? Idothea Sabini, Kroyer, Gaimard’s Voy. du Nord, Crust., Atlas, pl. xxvii. figs. 1 ao. 1875. Idotea Sabini, Heller, Denk. Ak. Wien, vol. xxxvi. p. 38 (14). 1882. Glyptonotus Sabini, Miers, Journ. Linn, Soc. London, Zool. vol, xvi. p. 15, pl. 1. figs. 3-5. 1882. Glyptonotus Sabin, Hoek, Nied. Arch. fiir Zool., Suppl. vol. i. p- 29, pl. ii. figs. 11, 12. 1887. Glyptonotus Sabini, Hansen, Dijmphna Krebsdyr, p. 193. 1897. Chiridothea Sabini, Sars, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pétersb., Extr. p. 21. A single specimen, 3 inches long, in full agreement with Kréyer’s figures, was obtained near 77° 14! N., 38° 26’ E., in 76 fathoms. Tribe ASELLOTA. Fam. Janiride. Specimens of Janira tricornis (Kréyer) were obtained from depths of 20 and 27 fathoms. Fam. Munnide. Munna Fabricit, Kroyer, was taken from 60 fathoms depth. Fam. Munnopsida. Specimens of Munnopsis typica, M. Sars, in somewhat damaged condition, came up from 100 fathoms, and Lurycope mutica, Sars, from 60 fathoms. Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctic Crustacea. 15 AMPHIPODA. Of these it may be sufficient to enumerate the species, most of them being well known and having been frequently dis- cussed. Jam aware that faunistic lists, without any particulars to guarantee the identification or to warn the reader of lurking errors, are of little value; but the attempt to give them value by adding descriptions would often make it impossible to give them at all. Socarnes Vahli (Kréyer). From about 20 fathoms. Anonyx nugax (Phipps). As usual in very great abundance. n small specimens, with acute angles to the upturned corners of the third pleon-segment, the knobbed spine of the first and second pereopods is quite as con- spicuous as in Anonyx Lilljeborgit. Hoplonyx similis, Sars. Onisimus brevicaudatus, Hansen. From 76 fathoms. plautus (Kroyer). Chironesimus Debruynit (Hoek). From 76 fathoms. Pseudalibrotus littoralis (Kréyer). Taken in tow-net. Orchomenella minuta (Kroyer). From 75 fathoms. Andaniella pectinata, Sars. Byblis longicornis, Sars. From 76 fathoms. Proboloides Bruzelii (Goés). Monoculopsis longicornis (Boeck). The rami of the third uropods in this specimen are quite devoid of spines, the telson apically rounded, some appendages abnormal, as if renewed after accidental injury, but the specimen is otherwise in exceptionally good preservation. Acanthostepheia pulchra, Miers. Fragment. Acanthonotosoma serratum (O. Fabricius). Pardalisca cuspidata, Kréyer. From 60 fathoms. Rhachotropis aculeata (Lepechin). inflata, Sars. From 60 fathoms. Apherusa glacialis (Hansen). Taken in tow-net. 16 Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing on Arctie Crustacea. Atylus carinatus (J. C. Fabricius). From 17 fathoms. Guernea coalita (Norman). Melita dentata, Kroyer. Gammarus locusta (Linn.). Ischyrocerus angutpes, 2, Kréyer. Evichthonius (?) Huntert (Bate). From 100 fathoms. Caprella microtuberculata, Sars. Shore, east coast of Kolguev; 2, the flagellum of the first antenna with only eleven joints, the dorsal tubercles of the body numerous, agreeing with Sars’s description much better than with his figure in the ‘ Norwegian North-Atlantic Exp., Crust.,’ p. 222, pl. xviil. fig. 3. Euthemisto libellula (Lichtenstein). Taken in tow-net. crassicornis (Kroyer). Taken in tow-net. (?) compressa (Goés). Fragment. Parathemisto oblivia (Kréyer). Taken in tow-net. Besides the species above named, Mr. Bruce’s collection may still afford some gleanings in the tubes of small mixed Amphipoda. One or two small species of Pantopoda were observed, and outside the limits of the Malacostraca some large masses of Balani were ee eee One or two species of Macrura procured while Mr. Bruce was with the Prince of Monaco do not come within the scope of the present report *. * I may take this opportunity of announcing a new genus required in my revision of the Amphipoda, Fam. Phliadide. PALINNOTUS, gen. nov. In general agreement with Peretonotus, but distinguished as follows :— Upper lip not bilobed. First maxille having a small spinule representing the palp. Maxillipeds with the outer plates reaching slightly beyond the three-jointed palp and minutely fringed on the distal half of the inner margin, ‘The third pleopods, but not the second, with the inner side of the peduncle produced. ‘The second uropods are developed in the female (male unknown), short, uniramous, and the third uropods are without distinction between peduncle and ramus, as in Pereionotus. The type species is Palinnotus Thomsoni, Stebbing, previously referred to Pereionotus. New Aculeate Hymenoptera, 17 Il.—Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Aculeate Hymenoptera from the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. CAMERON. In describing the new genera recorded in this paper, I have taken as a basis Kohl’s admirable work “ Die Gattungen der Sphegiden,” Ann. d. k.-k. Hofmuseums, Wien, Band xi. 1896. In the sequence of the genera and species [| have followed Col. Bingham in his ‘ Fauna of Brit. India,’ Hymen. In addition to the genera here described for the first time, the genus Agenta is now added to the Indian fauna, Scolide. Tiphia brevipennis, sp. n. Nigra ; alis brevis, flavo-hyalinis, nervis flayis; metanoto rugoso, 2. Long. 14 mm. Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). Coll. Rothney. Scape of antennez thickly covered with long white hair, shining, punctured ; the flagellum thickly covered with a pale down; the base pilose. Front and vertex shining, strongly and rather closely punctured and covered with pale hairs. Clypeus closely punctured. Mandibles broadly rufous in the middle; the palpi testaceous. Pronotum strongly punctured, its apex smooth, bare; the base thickly covered with long pale hair. Mesonotum perag large deep scattered punctures, which are few in the middle; the scutellum similarly punctured round the edges and down the middle. Postscutellum closely and finely punctured; the scutellum is pare covered with long white hair. Median segment finely and closely rugosely punctured ; the central kee! does not reach quite to the apex, the outer ones are straight and converge towards the apex; the apex of the segment is slightly concave, smooth, indistinctly furrowed down the middle. The upper part of the propleure is strongly acicu- lated, the rest closely striolated, the lower part rugose; the middle of the mesopleure shining, punctured, thickly covered with white pubescence; metapleure shining, closely striated throughout. Mesosternum shining, sparsely punctured, sparsely covered with long white hair ; the triangular apical area less shining, aciculated, sparsely punctured, deeply furrowed down the middle. Legs thickly covered with white silvery hairs ; the calcaria pale, the tarsal spines pale fulyous. Wings short, not reaching much beyond the apex of the second Ann. & Mag. N. List. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 2 18 Mr. P. Cameron on new Aculeate Hymenoptera abdominal segment; yellowish hyaline, the nervures yellowish; the second transverse cubital nervure is oblique, slightly curved at the top; the second recurrent nervure is received near the base of the apical third; the base of the radius has two oblique curves, the latter being slightly the larger and not quite so uniformly straight. Abdomen shining, closely punctured, weakly on the second, strongly on the apical seg- ments; the apical half of the pygidium is smooth in the middle; the petiole is sparsely punctured; the furrow on the base of the second segment is smooth in the middle. The basal neck of the underside is roundly raised in the middle ; the apex of the raised part is oblique and does not reach to its apex. Myzine ceylonica, sp. n. Nigra ; mesonoto levi; alis fumatis, nervis fuscis. 9. Long. 9-10 mm. Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury). Scape of antenne shining, sparsely covered with white hair ; its apex rufous; the second joint is shining, punctured ; the others are opaque and thickly covered with white pubes- cence. The ocellar region and the middle of the vertex behind impunctate, the rest of the vertex and the front bearing large, deep, clearly separated punctures; the vertex is bare; the front bears long black hairs; the antennal tubercles are smooth and shining. Face and clypeus closely punctured. ‘he basal depression of the pronotum closely and finely rugosely punctured; the apex bears large deep elongated punctures. Mesonotum smooth; its sides with some punctures; on the apical half are two deep, wide, oblique furrows. Scutellum sparsely covered with large punctures; the postscutellum more closely and not so strongly punctured. Median segment opaque, irregularly closely rugosely punctured; the middle region with some distinct punctures ; in the middle, extending from the base to near the apex, are two not very distinct longitudinal keels, which are wider apart at the base and the space between them is irregularly transversely striated; theapical slope is more coarsely rugose, more strongly at the sides than in the middle. Propleure strongly punctured, the apex closely longitudinally striated ; on the upper part at the apex is an oval depression. Mesopleure rugose, distinctly punctured above; thickly covered with white hair. Metapleure closely striolated; the base depressed, the depression with a few stout keels. Meso- sternum shining, sparsely covered with large deep punctures ; el from the Oriental Zoological Region. 19 the metasternal process is triangular at the base, obscurely keeled in the middle; the apex is depressed broadly in the middle. Legs black, the tibie ard tarsi thickly covered with glistening silvery-white hair; the tibial spines white; the apices of the tarsal joints are rufous. Wings fuscous-viola- ceous, the hinder pair only slightly paler in tint than the anterior; the nervures are fuscous; the second cubital cellule is distinctly shorter than the third; all the transverse cubital nervures are roundly curved. Abdomen shining, sparsely punctured, covered with long white hair; the narrowed base of the petiole is depressed in the mid. jle above ; the underside is finely rugose Ad is furrowed down the centre. Comes nearest to M. fuscipennis, but is abundantly distinct, Characteristic is the almost impunctate mesonotum, which is, according to Bingham, more closely and coarsely punctured than the head in M. fuseipennis, but not according to Smith. Pompilida. Agenia diana, sp. n. Nigra, basi mandibularum alba; apice clypei inciso ; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. 9. Long. 11 mm. Hab. Khasia (Coll. Rothney). Head alutaceous, below the antenne thickly covered with silvery pubescence. LKyes slightly converging at the top. Clypeus roundly convex ; its apex clearly separated, smooth, shining, glabrous, roundly, broadly incised, obliquely depressed. Mandibles at the base thickly covered with depressed silvery pubescence ; the underside at the base pale yellow; before the apex they are ferruginous ; the palpi black at the base ; the apical joints pale; the hair-bundle on the maxilla ferruginous. horax alutaceous, pruinose; the median segment sparsely covered with fuscous hair. Wings clear hyaline; the stigma black ; the nervures slightly paler; the first cubital cellule at the top is very slightly longer than the second ; the trans- verse cubital nervures are curved; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly before the middle; the second at the apex of the basal third of the cellule. Legs black, pruinose; the anterior tibie and base of tarsi rufo-testaceous in front. Abdomen pruinose. A distinct species. The genus Agenda, as defined by Kohl, has not been hitherto recorded from India, ‘l'he females are easily separated from Pseudagenia by the maxilla having at the base a bunch of long stiff hair; but I am very much in DF 20 Mr. P. Cameron on new Aculeate Hymenoptera doubt if the males of the two groups can be always distin- guished by characters which can be regarded as of generic value. Ceropales parva, sp. n. Nigra; pedibus abdomineque rufis, orbitis oculorum lineaque pronoti pallide flavis; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis, the male, but it is not (as placed in the Munich Catalogue) a Macrotelus, Klug= Monophylla, Spin.,—a generic name which only includes the American J. terminatus. Philocali are very rare in collections; I had not seen this insect before. 72 Rev. H. S. Gorham on new Coleoptera Phleocopus undulatus, sp. n. } » Sp Nigro-piceus, robustus, valde pubescens, fortiter punctatus ; elytrorum maculis duabus basalibus, una humerali, una lineari scutellari san- guineis ; fascia tenui mediana valde dentata, maculaque subapicali suturam haud attingente testaceis. Long. 14-15 millim. Mas, antennarum articulo ultimo elongato, falciformi; abdominis segmento quinto emarginato. Femina, antennarum articulo ultimo dimidio breviori. Hab. Natal; Mashonaland, Umfuli River, Gadzima (Marshall) ; Zambesi (coll. Gorham). Head clothed with golden-brown pubescence, thickly, coarsely, and rugosely punctured; antenne of the pitchy- black colour of the whole body, the terminal joint long and faleate, much longer in the male, equalling the preceding eight joints. The thorax is longer than wide, shining, distinctly but sparsely punctate, with a deep but vague central channel ; anterior constriction ill-defined. Elytra at the base scarcely wider than the thorax, wider at the apex ; the punctuation is cellular and confluent, coarse for half their length, not so coarse and worse defined beyond the fascia; the fascia is rendered irregular by coarse punctuation, it has a double undulation, sometimes it reaches the margin and at others it does not; there are two deep blood-red not conspicuous marks at the base and a yellowish spot at the apex. The scutellum is clothed with golden-yellow pubescence. The femora are coarsely punctured ; the tibiz are also punctured and have carine on their sides. ‘The body beneath is shining, sparsely and rather obsoletely punctured; the fifth segment in the male is broadly and angularly emarginate, exposing the membranous base of the sixth, and it has deep strong punctures round the margin, the sixth ventral plate being very smooth and shining. This insect has been known to me for many years from specimens from Natal. It is apparently allied to P. flavo- notatus, Bohem., but seems to differ in the colour of the antenne, which aie entirely dark, in the apical spot not being double, by the larger size, &c. Mr. Marshall has sent three specimens, two being from Gadzima, one of which is a male. Trichodes tugelanus, sp. n. Niger, subceruleus, elongatus, subparallelus, pubescens; capite prothoraceque creberrime confluenter punctatis; elytris auran- tiacis, fasciis duabus latis apiceque nigris; creberrime rugose from South and West Africa. 73 confluenter punctatis, punctis in seriebus vix congestis ; antennis brevibus, articulis quatuor basalibus rufis (supra nigro-notatis), clava valida, articulo apicali lato, apice intus acuminato; pedibus nigris, femoribus tibiisque czerulescentibus, unguibus rufis, simpli- cibus. Long. 10-11 millim. Hab. Natal, Tugela River, Weenen (Marshall). Elongate, parallel; head and thorax dark steel-blue, thickly rugosely punctate, the latter half as long again as wide, the front margin straight, the base rounded ; there is no constriction, but the disk is depressed a little behind the front and there is a somewhat carinate bright line down the middle. Elytra scarcely wider than the thorax; they have three orange bands narrowly interrupted at the suture, the first and second united along the margin: the first occupies the base and shoulder, but is rounded off on each side of the scutellum ; the second is undulate, concave towards the base ; the third orange band is subapical, cut out in front at the suture. The abdomen and body beneath are blue. The pattern of the elytra of this insect is almost identical with that of the North-American 7. apivorus. It is really allied to Clerus lepidus, Walker, a species described from examples taken by J. K. Lord in “ Egypt,” and figured by C. Waterhouse in ‘ Aid to the Identification of Insects,’ t. Ixxvi., also noticed by him in the index to vol. i. of the same publication, p. 12, and of the variety examples of which, without a central orange band, are in my collec- tion from “'lajura, Straits of Bab-el-Mendeb.” Both this insect and J’. tugelanus are aberrant, if, indeed, they can be referred to Trichodes. The cultriform apical joint of the antennez, though short, almost square, yet acuminate on its inner side, agrees with that genus better than with Philocalus. Two Trichodes only have yet been recorded from South Africa, viz. 7’. aulicus, Klug, Spin., and 7. Drege, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 50, unless, as M. Chev- rolat seems to think (¢/. note, p. 16,4.) J. aulicus, Klug, is a different species from 7’. aulicus, Spin. t. xxxi. fig. 4, in which case there are three. These Cape Colony “ T'richodes”’ are very scarce; I possess two examples only, which appear to be distinct species, and neither of them agrees with the figure in Spinola, the base of the elytra having only a narrow line of red in one and being wholly dark green in the other, besides other differences. Insects labelled “* Cap,” g, h, &c., trom old collections, must be received with reserve as to the locality, as any South-African locality was often so designated. 74 Rev. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera T’. zahare, Chevr. (J. c. pp. 16, 51; Rev. Zool. 1861, p. 152), I have not seen. The Egyptian and North-African species of Trichodes are at present ill detined *. Three examples of T. tugelanus were obtained by Mr. Marshall. Do.icuopsis, Gorh. Dolichopsis, Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 154. Dolichopsis was proposed by me for two species of very Dasytid appearance, but pertaining to the Necrobiides, from the Cape Colony. Of each species I have since then ob- tained fresh examples, but without more precise locality. Dolichopsis auronitens, sp. n. Subcylindricus, lete viridi-auronitens, longius griseo-pubescens ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter creberrime punctatis; elytris ereberrime et confluenter fortiter punctatis ; antennis pedibusque testaceis. Long. 5-75 millim. Hab. Natal, 6576, 6677, 6718 (Marshall). The larger of three examples before me is rather smaller than the larger examples of D. haplocnemodes; the head. and thorax are more finely and the elytra more coarsely punctate. It is also more cylindrical. The legs and antenne are testa- ceous, the claws and the extreme tip of the latter infuscate. The colour varies a little from grass-green with a pale golden reflection to brassy. Being more convex, it is even more like the species of the Melyrid genus Haplocnemus than the type. ‘The pile is very long and thick in fresh specimens. Three examples. Corynetes analis, Klug. Courynetes analis, Klug, Mon. Cler., Abhand. Berl. Akad. 1842, p. 348 t. Corynetes pallicornis, Spin. Mon. ii. p. 95, tab. xliii. fig. 3 [analis]. Hab. Natal (Plant), Estcourt, Frere (Marshall) ; Caffraria ({Krebs). The identification of this with Corynetes abdominalis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. i. p. 286, is an error, that insect being from “India,” and also having the whole abdomen pale; and no doubt Fabricius’s description refers to some wholly different insect at present unidentified. The records from Senegal necd, I think, confirmation. * See description of Philocalus pretiosus, Gorh. Ann. Mus. Ciy. diGenoya, xviii. 1883, p. 602 (Abyssinia). from South and West Africa. 75 Corynetes concolor, sp. 0. Niger, supra ceruleus ; capite prothoraceque crebre distincte punc- tatis; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis; pubescens ; antennis pedibusque nigris; tibiis subcerulescentibus. Long. 5-7 millim. Hab, Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). In form and sculpture and as regards size very like C. analis, but immediately distinguished from it by the colour of the legs and antenne. The punctuation of the head and thorax is less confluent, and hence under a strong glass the surface looks more even. The elytra have the series of punctures somewhat irregular ; those near the suture are geminate for half their length from the base, but not distinctly so, and they are similar in C. analis. ‘The pubescence is similar to that of C. analis. Four specimens were obtained by “ beating” by Mr. Mar- shall near Estcourt. Opetiopalpus rubricollis, Klug. _ Opetiopalpus rubricollis, Klug, Mon. Cler., Abhand. Berl. Akad. 1837- 40, p. 352. Hab. Natal, 3602-3 (Marshall). ‘lwo examples of an Opetiopalpus which appears to be the insect indicated by Klug under this name were sent by Mr. Marshall. They are much smaller than the species which I possess as OV. collaris, being only two millim. in length ora little over. ‘he elytra are blue-black ; the legs pale, with darker femora, and the claw-joint dark. They are the smallest examples of an Opetiopalpus I have seen. Fam. Melyride. Charopus cyanopterus, sp. 0. Nigro-subenescens, antennarum basi, femorum apice tibiisque testa- ceis ; elytris cyaneis, crebre leviter punctatis, parum nitidis. Long. vix 3 millim. Hab. Natal, Frere (Marshall). Head black, with an eneous reflection, as wide as tlie thorax, a little shining, smooth ; antenne almost simple, the three basal joints yellow, the basal joint just touched with dark above, the fourth and fifth dark, but pale at their bases and tips. Palpi black. ‘Thorax subquadrate, rounded at the sides and base, scarcely any hind angles; the surface finely iu 76 Rey. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera aciculate, with an eneous tint. Elytra steel-blue, greenish at their bases in one example, very finely coriaceous, and with very short, scarcely visible pubescence. ‘The legs are black ; the tips of the femora and the tibie are yellow, in one example the hind tibiz are fuscous. The hind body projects beyond the elytra in both examples. ‘Two specimens of this insect, which is rather like the European C, pallipes, but larger and more brightly coloured, were obtained. Sexual difference not apparent. DINOMETOPUS, gen. nov. Corpus oblongum, subparallelum. Elytra abdomen haud tegentia. Caput (maris?) fronte eroso-excavata; erosionis marginibus elevatioribus, antice laminato-reflexo, lamina sulcata. Antenne vix serrate, fere simplices. Palpi maxillares apice subuliformi. Pedes longi; tarsi tibiarum fere longitudine, distincte quinque- articulati, antici (maris?) articulis longis subaequalibus haud multo obliquis. I propose this name for a singular Melyrid having at first sight very much the appearance and size of Anthocomus fasciatus, but of which the head is excavated somewhat in the manner of some Hedybit. The genus Cephaloncus, West- wood, from the Canary Islands, is another example of this curious structure of heads in this subfamily, but has, according to Westwood, the excavation situate on the back of the head and different in form. T'roglops has the crown of the head hollowed out, but has 4-jointed front tarsi in the male. Kiesenwetter has described as a Malachius a very similarly constructed insect from Japan, M. foveifrons, K.; but it is necessary in classifying this subfamily to describe the sexual differences in the tarsi, in the antennz, and form of the elytra where they exist. Of the remarkable insect I describe here from Natal there are three specimens only, presumably males (as the heads are usually simple or only impressed in the females of Melyrids) ; the thorax is produced in a lobe-like form towards the base and is much depressed before the base. The elytra are not much expanded, nor are they convex nor in any way contorted at their apices as in many Malachit or Anthocomi. Dinometopus natalensis, sp. n. Niger, capite favo, elytrorum margine laterali antice, fascia lata ad suturam interrupta, apiceque tenui flavis; tibiarum apicibus et from South and West Africa. 77 tarsis plus minusve flavescentibus ; antennis basi flavis, articulis nigro-maculatis. Long. 4 millim, o¢. Mas? capitis occipite profunde excavato-eroso, erosionis margine antico laminato-reflexo, lamina suleata, intus sub lamina nigro- maculata, Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall), Head yellow, scarcely wider than the thorax across the eyes; the antenne are about as long as would reach to the extremity of the elytra, black, but pale at the base, yet only the basal and second joints are clearly so, and they are both spotted with black above; they are scarcely serrate. The thorax is longer than wide, the front angles much depressed, the front margin broadly receiving the base of the head, narrowed towards the base very suddenly; its disk much depressed before the base, the margin only a little reflexed ; punctuation not visible. The elytra are somewhat parallel, being very little wider at the apex than the base, finely coriaceous, black, faintly brassy ; the lateral margin as far as a very broad fascia, only extending half across the elytra, and the extreme apical margin are yellow. ‘The legs are nearly black, only the tips of the femora and the tarsi are sometimes obscurely yellow. The abdomen shows two or three segments beyond the elytra. The pubescence is very sparse and not easily seen without a strong lens. Three examples, apparently all males. Attalus? ornatipennis, sp. n. Lete flavus, sat latus; capite nigro, fronte anguste flava, levi; prothorace suborbiculare, glabro, aurantiaco ; elytris flavis, basi et annulo postice aperto nigris, breviter pubescentibus, crebre haud profunde punctatis ; metasterno nigro. Long. 35 millim. dQ. Mas, tursorum anticorum articulo secundo superne producto, tertium et quartum obtegente. Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (JJarshall). Head black, smooth, shining, with the mouth and front bright orange-red. ‘The antenna are yellow, feebly, scarcely serrate; the thorax is as wide as the head and rather broad, glabrous, and deep orange, almost blood-red, its basal margin broadly reflexed, without any hind angles, slightly impressed near the middle of the base. Elytra a little broader than the thorax and a good deal widened behind, thickly clothed with grey short pubescence; in the male the black ring is open behind like a horse’s shoe, distinctly, closely, finely punctured. 78 Rev. H. S. Gorham on new Coleoptera The legs and antennee are deep yellow, and the apex, the suture, and the margins of the agin have a tendency to this red colour, which is no doubt more conspicuous in the living insect. ‘The tip of the prolonged second tarsal joint in the male is blackish, as in several other species; the claws are curved, with short pads, that give them the effect of being thickened at their bases when closed. Two males and one female only occurred in December 1894, and a male and a female in January 1895, in sweeping to Mr. Guy Marshall. Anthocomus apricus, sp. n. Niger, tenuiter pubescens, antennarum articulis secundo ad quin- tum, elytrorum lateribus in medio et apice tibiisque flavis; tarsis fuscis, ad basin dilutioribus ; antennis serratis. Long. 4 millim. 9. Hab, Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). Head black, shining, the membranous base of the labrum alone yellow, narrower than the thorax; the antenne are a little longer than the head and thorax, yellow as far as the filth or sixth joint, but the basal joint marked with black above, the fourth to the tenth joints acutely serrate. The thorax is half as wide again as long, of the usual form, tran- cate in front, the sides and base rounded, without angles, entirely black and shining. Elytra very closely and very obsoletely punctured, rather shining, clothed with upright black hairs, especially on the apical half, black, with the margin in the middle and the apex broadly orange-yellow, the yellow returning a little up the suture. The body beneath and the femora black; the tibize and bases of the tarsi yellow. The examples, three in number, appear to be all females ; at least there is no sexual character in either the antenne or tarsi. ‘The claws appear to have membranous short pads. PAGURODACTYLUS, gen. nov. Corpus subparallelum, pubescens. Antennee leviter serrate. Tarsi quinque-articulati, unguiculi anteriores ineequales, anteriore multo longiori. This new genus of Malachiide is sufficiently characterized by the unequal anterior claws, a structure not known in any other genus of the subfamily. The tarsi are rather long, especially the hind pair ; the front pair have the joints all oblique and produced at the apex beneath, the third and From South and West Africa. 79 fourth joints very short, the two basal joints longer, but short, and the claw-joint longer than the two basal ones taken together ; the claws are thin, the anterior one of the front pair (¢. e, the inner one, as set on a card) twice as long as the other. From the four specimens before me [ cannot state if this is a sexual difference, probably it is not. ‘The antenne are simply formed, with joints two or three times as long as wide (excepting of course the second) and feebly serrate from the second to the tenth. In other respects the insect is allied to Aftalus and Anthocomus. Pagurodactylus vitticeps, sp. n. Niger, pube erecta tenuiter vestitus, punctatus; antennarum basi pedibusque pallidis, bis femoribus anticis et intermediis externe posticis totis, illis articulo basali nigrescentibus; capitis fronte et occipite interdum conjuncte ferrugineo-maculatis. Long. 24-3 millim. Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). The head with the rather prominent eyes is a little wider than the thorax ; it is thickly and strongly punctured, with the mouth and front, and a spot on the crown, rusty red ; these marks are often joined, forming a vitta. The thorax is small, narrower than the elytra at the base, flattish and impressed near the hind angles; shining, but with erect hairs and thickly punctured, the base and sides margined, but only the former conspicuously so. The elytra desis subrugosely punctured, with long fine erect hairs, widening a little, but not much, towards their apex. The antenne are as long as the elytra, their first and second joints touched with black above, the third quite pale, the fourth partly so; the fourth to the tenth joints are gently serrate, becoming gradually longer; the apical joint is a little longer than those preceding it, narrow and acuminate. ‘The palpi are blackish at the tip. ‘The legs are pale, with the exceptioa that the upper edges of the middle and front femora, or sometimes the whole, and the whole of the hind femora and the hind tibie are dark, nearly black. Four examples in which I can detect no sexual difference. Apalochrus nitens, sp. n. Lete viridis, elytris vel viridibus vel ceruleis; antennarum basi pedibusque flavis, his tarsis nigris. Long. 6 millim. o6 Q. Mas, tarsis anticis articulo secundo apice superne elongato ; tibiis intermediis incrassatis, intus erosis. 80 Rev. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). This species is evidently very much like A. azureus, Erichs., but appears to have darker antenna, and the tarsi are dark, excepting the first joint and the basal part of the second joint of the anterior tarsi in the male. In the female the same joint is wholly dark. Hedybius amanus. Hedybius amenus, Gorham, in Distant’s Naturalist in the Transvaal, p. 197, tab. i. fig. 2, 2. Mas, capite antice excavato-eroso, erosione ima et basi nigra ; pone oculos elevato, quasi cornuto ; antennis longioribus, articulis tertio et quarto compressis, intus modice expansis, subtus nigro- maculatis, superne linea tenuissima aurea, quinto ad apicalem superne nigro-maculatis ; prothorace transverso, plaga magna et punctis duobus basalibus nigris. Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). The specimens from which this insect was described were two females. I have now the advantage of having several examples of both sexes before me, and I think there are three closely allied species all from Estcourt. The very extra- ordinary structure of the head is not precisely alike in these, and I associate the male described above with /7, amenus from the spotted antennz, and from the form and amount of the black markings upon the head and the thorax, and from the hind tarsi being blackish in both sexes. The front of the head is yellow, slightly more prominent in the male than in the female, the excavated erosion is pubescent at the back, and a spur of golden hairs, with a ridge of hairs connecting it with the sides, is to be seen at the bottom; on each side but in front of the eye a few yellow sete are found ; the elevated portion which forms the back of the eye and supports it is yellow and is not separated from the black temples by a deep sulcus as it is in H. Marshalli ; moreover, the black mark, and indeed the whole disk, is shining and not opaque. These considerations lead me to believe we have here three closely allied but distinct species, and that we cannot assign either of them to A. erosus, Krichs., to which, however, they are obviously also allied. Another male differs somewhat, in the coloration of the antennz: the third to the sixth joints have each a black line above, the seventh has only an interrupted line, the apical joints being yellow, and the thorax lacks the two basal dots ; too much reliance therefore must not be placed on the black markings. from South and West Africa. 81 Hedybius anceps, sp. 0. Lete flavus, capitis dimidio basali nigro; prothorace subquadrato vel toto flavo, vel punctis duobus parvis nigris; antennis pedi- busque flavis, tarsis posticis infuscatis ; elytris viridi-cwruleis, creberrime leviter punctatis. Long. 6-6-5 millim. ¢ @. Mas, capite antice excavato-eroso, erosione ima tota nigra, supra oculos alte elevato, quasi cornuto ; antennis longis, vix serratis. Femina, antennis multo brevioribus, leviter serratis, Hab, Natal, Esteourt (Marshal/). This insect is so very closely allied to //, amenus, that I think it only necessary to call attention to the observed differences, which are that the thorax is not transverse, in some males there is a slight denticulation in the margin, in others it is quite simple; the antennz are longer in the male and unspotted, but with the extreme apex black ; the elevated ridge borders the whole inner side of the eye, passing into the frontal elevation. Obs.—It is perhaps not correct to say that the second joint of the front tarsi in the male overlaps the third, but it is certainly distorted and raised above the very short third joint, and is black at its tip. The FHedybii which I have seen from the Cape of Good Hope, which at all resemble the above, have the heads quite differently formed in the males, and have smooth and shining elytra, wrinkled and substriate. Iedybius Marshall, sp. n. Lete flavus, capitis basi, prothoracisque disco opaco maris, nigris, nigredine marginem anticam haud attingente, femine macula irregulari subdivisa et metasterno nigris; antennis, palpis, pedi- busque totis flavis. Long., ¢ 65, 2 6 millim. Mas, capite antice excayato-eroso, erosione ima nigro-notata ; pone oculos elevato, quasi cornuto, nigro opaco ; antennis longioribus. Femina, occipite plano, depressiusculo ; prothoracis disco nigro maculato. Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). Very closely allied to /7. amenus, to be distinguished from it by the wholly yellow antenne and legs, and by the head having less black at its base in either sex, but especially by the elevated canthus of the eye, which rises like a short horn, being separated from the temples by a deep groove, yellow at the bottom; so that the eye and its horn are quite separated Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 6 82 Rey. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera from the black templar portion. The disk of the thorax is smooth but dull, it is yellow, but in the male a large patch, rather narrower in front than at the base, occupies the greater part and covers the base for nearly its whole width. The thorax is a little less wide than the head in the male, and in that sex the edge is notched below the middle. The scutellum is black ; the elytra are blue or with a green metallic tint as in H, amenus and very closely and finely punctured. _ All these three Hedybii were found either on the Acacia horrida or by sweeping on grass, and no doubt on flowers and herbage generally. PHILHEDONUS, gen. nov. Corpus oblongum, postice modice expansum. Antenne breves, in utroque sexu leviter serrate. Tarsi longi, maris 4-articulati. Caput (maris) carini transyersé bidentaté. Prothorax (maris) antice dentato-productus. Relique plerumque ut in Hedybio, Erichson. Philhedonus coronatus, sp. n. Niger, ore, antennarum basi, thoraceque rufis, hoc punctis duobus interdum confluentibus nigris; elytris ceruleis, creberrime minute punctatis, pube breyi tenuiter erecta vestitis. Long. 5°5-6 millim. Mas, capite carina transversa, bidentata, postice instructa; pro- thoracis margine antico dentato-producto; tarsis 4-articulatis. Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). The head is black, the labrum blood-red, and the palpi are blackish. ‘The antenne are rather shorter than they usually are in female Hedybii; their third to the tenth joints are subequal, and not or scarcely longer than wide, there is no apparent difference in those of the male; the first four joints are yellow, but in the male and sometimes in the female the third and fourth are infuscate internally. The head in the male has at its base a ridge which is bituberculate on each side, the outer tubercule being the larger, and both are yellow at their summits; the thorax in this sex has the middle of the front margin acutely produced and turned upwards, with a tuft of black hairs at its tip. The disk of the thorax is very smooth and shining, blood-red, with either two nearly confluent black dots or with a single larger spot nearly reaching the front margin; its front margin in the female is truncate, faintly bisinuate, the sides and base together round and finely margined. The scutellum is transverse, black, and Srom South and West Africa. 83 punctured, The elytra are ample, widened behind, deep blue or bluish green, obsoletely sulcate at the base; near thie suture closely and finely punctured. The abdomen is black, like the body, but the membranes joining the segments are almost scarlet, so that when distended they appear margined with red. Also the vesicles which these insects can project when alarmed, in common with the Malachti and Hedyhii, are red. he legs are entirely black, the tarsi four-fifths of the length of the tibia. Obs.— This very distinct genus is the only one yet described of the larger Malachitdes with four-jointed tarsi in the male— a character found in the small European Treglops and Colotes. I have no doubt the anterior production of the thorax in the male is a stridulating apparatus. One male and three females were obtained by Mr. Marshall. Fam. Lycide. Lyeus Distant’, Bourgeois. Iycus Distanti, Bourgeois, in Distant’s Naturalist in the Transvaal, p. 196, t. i. fig. 3, ¢. 2. Minus, attamen modice expansus, mari similiter coloratus, sed subtus saturatiori; abdomine, lateribus et segmentis duobus apicalibus exceptis, nigro, margine humerali multo minus elevato- reflexo. Long. 12 millim. Flab. Natal, Malvern. ¢ 2. This species, described by M. J. Bourgeois, appears to differ from L. e/evatus, Guérin-Mén., Bohem. Ins. Caffr. i. fase. 2, p- 428, by lacking the lateral black mark, as well as by the shorter rostrum and some differences in form. The male of our insect has the abdomen wholly yellow. The female was not met with by Mr. Distant, and is now described for the first time. The single male sent by Mr. Marshall has the black apical portion of the elytra less contracted than in the single example taken by Mr. Distant at Pretoria, but which struck me when I saw it as a good deal shrivelled, not altogether in a normal condition. I have not seen L. elevatus. Lycus terminatus, Dalm. (Acantholycus, Bourg.) Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury. ¢ ¢. Several examples. 6* 84 Rey. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera Lycus sinuatus, Dalm. (Laplolycus, B.) Hab. Natal, Tugela River. Lycus, sp. Hab. Natal, Karkloof. Lycus haagi, Bourg. (Lopholycus, B.) Lycus haagi, Bourg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, p. 166. Hab. Natal, Tugela River, Weenen (Marshall); Transvaal, Barberton. Fam. Lampyride. Lampyris nigripennis, Bohem. flab, Natal, Tugela River. Lampyris tinctorta, sp. n. Ochracea, capite, antennis, elytrorum basi, geniculis, tibiis, tarsisque nigro-fumosis. Long. 14 millim. o. Hab. Mashonaland, Gadzima, Umfuli River (A/arshall). Parallel, the thorax as wide as the elytra at the base, as long as or a little longer than wide, delicately carinate, rather strongly so near the base, the disk rather strongly “ honey- comb” punctured in front, the sides and basal half obsoletely so; scutellum elongate ochraceous; the elytra are opaque, with a smoky patch on their bases, not reaching the outer margin, and shading off indefinitely on the apical side ; wings smoky. ‘lhe body beneath is ochraceous; the femora out- wardly and at the knees, the tibia and tarsi entirely smoky black. The antenne are black, but inclined to be fuscous at. their base; the mouth and palpi are ochraceous, fuscous in parts, Three examples. Lampyris imbecilla, sp. n. Pallide fusco-testacea, antennis, pedibus, prothoracisque disco in- determinate subfuscis ; elytris nitidis, distincte tricostatis, quam abdomen quadrante brevioribus, debilibus, fuscis. Long. 13-14 millim. <6. Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). Narrow, obscurely coloured. ‘Thorax as long as wide, the from South and West Africa. 85 hind angles right, the whole surface obsoletely, but rugosely, punctured, the disk shining, channelled in the middle only, scarcely carinate, but with a smooth line in front, of a dirty bone-yellow, but the basal portion within the rather straight sulci ochraceous, the central channel is wide, but short. The elytra are shorter by a fourth part than the abdomen, they are attenuated and shrivelled (which is probably their normal condition from their being very thin); the body beneath is bone-colour, the margins of each segment are paler. This insect is about the size of, and somewhat like, the European L. Lareyniet. The shortening of the elytra is a character shared with L. Huddi, Gorh., but not to the same degree. Lampyris natalensis. Lampyris natalensis, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. p. 442. Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, at light) ; Lake Nyasa (coll. Gorham). To this I refer three specimens from Salisbury which have the disk of the thorax with a nearly square black spot placed posteriorly, but not touching the base, and the elytra fuscous with the suture and margins pale. Lampyris troglodytes, Lampyris troglodytes, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. p. 444. Hab. Natal, Tugela River (Marshall). Four examples. Fam, Telephoride. Telephorus (Cantharis) circumdatus. Telephorus (Cantharis) circumdata, Bohem. Ins, Caffr. p. 456, Hab, Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). Ichthyurus, sp.? Malthinus australis, Péringuey. Hab. Natal, 4944 (Marshall). A single female labelled with M. Péringuey’s name belongs to this genus, but cannot be identified by that sex alone. PROSTHAPTUS, gen. nov. ? Corpus parvum, quasi Malthodis. Antenne 11-articulate, maris tertio incrassato, quam secundus duplo longiore, quarto ad septimum parum elongatis, subequalibus, octavo quam septimus sesqui longiore, tribus ultimis debilibus, qaam precedentes multo 86 Rev. H. 8. Gorhati on new Coleoptera minoribus. Prothoracis margo lateralis in medio dentato-plicatus Femora compressa, intermedia et postica curvata. Elytra abbreviata. This name is proposed for a singular Telephorid resembling a very small Malthodes, but with the antenne of the male remarkable for the three small apical joints, which spring rather from one side of the oblique termination of the large eighth joint: the three basal joints are somewhat distorted, the third being a little swollen and with a minute linear impression on its inner side. ‘he femora are a little widened and compressed, the intermediate and hinder pairs being bent. The antenne of the female are quite simple. Prosthaptus claudus, sp. n. Parvus; Walthodis minimi, L., statura, fuscus; coxis, femorum basi, tibiisque dilutioribus, subtestaceis ; antennis (maris) flavis, apice nigris, (femine) basi tantum testaceis. Long. 3 millim. 6 Q. Mas, antennis parum distortis, articulo tertio incrassato, extus fusco-tincto, octavo precedente sesqui longiore, tribus ultimis parvis. Femina, antennis simplicibus. Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). The head is black and shining, with the antennal sockets and the epistome and mouth yellow; the antenna are about as long as the head, thorax, and elytra taken together, yellow in the male, with only the outside of the third joint, the tip of the eighth, and the three small apical joints blackish, in the female they are fuscous with the base indeterminately yellow. ‘The thorax is small and transverse, as wide as the head, smooth, the lateral margin with a tooth-like projection (somewhat as in Plectonotum, a Central and South American genus), and the hind angle rather prominent. The elytra are as in Malthodes, about half as long as the body, rather opaque, fuscous ; the wings are amply developed, covering the hind-body, and are fuscous. The legs are of normal length; the femora appear to be very much compressed, and the middle and hind pair to be curved and distorted. Many genera of Telephoride with the antenne very singu- larly distorted or abnormally formed have now been described, but nothing like the present genus is known to me from the African continent. It appears to connect certain forms which I have placed near Si/’s with Malthodes ; it is a small, obscurely coloured insect, but of interesting structure. Two males and one female were obtained by sweeping. from South and West Africa. 87 Section PSEUDOTETRAMERA. Fam. Erotylida. Subfam. Lavevrrpes. PROMECOLANGURIA, Fowler. Promecolanguria Marshalli, sp. u. Elongata, parallela, subdepressa, nigra, subnitida ; capite elytrisque cyanescentibus, illo crebre ac distincte punctato, his profunde crebre punctato-striatis ; prothorace oblongo, postice vix angustato, latitudine fere duplo longiori, subtilius concinne punctato, medio vage canaliculato rufo, antice indistincte nigro-maculato; an- tennis articulis sex basalibus pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus et genibus plus minusve infuscatis ; lineis abdominalibus nullis. Long. 7 millim. Hab. Natal, 2008, 8947 (Marshall). _ Promecolanguria was proposed as a genus by Fowler for Languria dimidiata (Guérin, Icon. R. A., Ins. p. 314), and is also given in my table of genera (P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 361). There are no abdominal lines ; the eyes are not very coarse, the facets being only just visible, but the depressed form and the oblong and parallel-sided thorax, with finely neatly mar- gined sides, the prosternal process rather long, truncate, and margined with a thickened edge, give these insects a very distinct appearance among the Languriides. I suspect that Languria lyctoides, Fowler (Comptes rendus Soc. Ent. Belg.), belongs to the genus. The species obtained by Mr. Marshall is very like an insect I have received from the Cape Colony, but has the thorax quite differently shaped from the Langurias I have seen trom that Colony. ‘The underside is not so coarsely punctured as that of L. dimidiata; the abdomen is quite finely punctured. ‘l'wo specimens. Promecolanguria trogositotdes, sp. n. Sordide flava, capite prothoraceque, antennis pedibusque piceis ; illo basi, his basi tarsisque flavis. Long. vix 6 millim. Hab. Natal, 3748, 3509 (Marshall). This insect is similar in form to P. Marshalli, but is smaller, the thorax is a little more contracted towards the base and shows only a very faint trace of canaliculation towards its base; the puncturing is fine and like that of P. Marshall. ‘Yhe head is either black with a metallic 88 Rev. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera tinge, or pitchy, finely and thickly punctured; the antennas with four or five joints at the base pitchy red, gradually passing into the black club, insensibly thickened from the seventh joint, but the club is clearly three-jointed. ‘The thorax is pitchy, becoming yellow in the basal half, with a slight metallic tint. The elytra are punctate-striate (as in P. Marshall’) ; there are eight strix, apart from the marginal one, which is on the reflexed edge; their apex is simple, the sutural angle is a right angle, and there is no mucro. Subfam. Dacyipes. AMBLYSCELIS, Gorham. Amblyscelis nigrinus, sp. n. Breviter oblongus, subcordatus, nitidus, niger, crebre fortius punc- tatus ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctulatis ; antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus piceis. Long. 4 millim. Hab. Natal, 7252, 7253, 219, 220 (Marshall). Black, shining ; legs and antennz and palpi yellow, the femora pitchy or nearly black; tibiae very strongly dilated in their apical half. Head and thorax closely and strongly punctured, the punctures not confluent. Antenne of the form and length usual in the genus, rather slender, their length about equal to the width of the head, the two basal joints nodiform, the third elongate, the club composed of three strongly transverse joints. The thorax very little narrowed in front, with deflexed front angles, the hind angles almost right angles, the disk convex, the sides very finely margined ; the base and apical margin not margined. Elytra narrowed to the apex, presenting almost a uniform outline with the thorax, finely striate, with close but small punctures, the striae and punctures continued to the apex ; the interstices even, with small, rather sparse punctures. Underside thickly, not deeply nor coarsely, punctured ; pro- sternal process very wide at the truncate apex and margined ; coxal lines on the ventral basal segment, which appear raised. This species has quite the appearance of a Triplaz. As Crotch remarks, the African species which have been referred to that genus are not typical. Amblyscelis Conradti, sp. n. A, mgrint statura et summa similitudine, niger, nitidus, crebre fortius punctatus ; elytris profundius punctato-striatis, interstitiis Jrom South and West Africa. 89) fortius punctulatis ; labro, antennis, palpis, pedibusque luteis, illis articulis quinque ultimis nigro-piceis, clava laxe articulata. Long. 4 millim. Hab. W. Africa, N. Cameroon, Johann Albrechtshihe (L. Conradt). Of the same size and extremely like A. nigrinus, but rather broader, more like a 7r/toma, the antenne are longer, their third joint is almost as long as the two basal ones taken together ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth are elongate, the seventh and eighth bead-form; the three apical joints form a lax club, tne first two are strongly transverse, the apical one round and yellowish at the tip. he body beneath is pitchy, but nearly black, strongly and deeply punctured. The legs with their coxe are entirely luteous yellow. Sent to me by Dr. Kraatz for description. Amblyscelis brunneus, sp. n. Oblongus, subparallelus, totus brunneus, parum nitidus; capite prothoraceque creberrime, distincte haud profunde punctatis ; elytris striato-punctatis, suberenulatis, interstitiis haud punctatis, subopacis. Long. 4°5 millim. Hab. Natal, Estcourt, Frere (Alarshall). This insect is very like the species described by me as A, pallidus (‘Notes from Leyden Museum,’ 1888, p. 146) from the Congo, but on comparing them closely it is rather larger than the single exponent of that species in my possession, and the interstices of the elytra are not finely punctulate as they are in it. It is of a parallel, dull, rusty-brown colour. The antenne are short, with the club almost capitulate, com- posed of three strongly transverse joints. ‘The thorax is convex, with its basal margin somewhat deflexed, except in the middle, so that the lobe appears rather elevated in front of the scutellum. ‘The sides are a little more rounded than in A. pallidus and the front angles depressed. The elytra have eight finely punctured strize, the punctures of which are so close that they almost join each other; the striw coalesce in pairs near the apex. ‘The tibize are strongly dilated in the apical half, the dilated part compressed. ‘his insect is like a unicolorous 7’. vittipennis (Gorh. P. Z.S. 1889, p. 614), but is smaller, and the dilatation of the tibia and the structure of the antennze, especially that of the club, are quite different. I have taken an African insect for the type of Amblyscelis, otherwise I should have regarded this species and A. nigrinus as belonging to my genus Petaloscelis. 90 Rev. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera The African T'riplacid genera will no doubt require revision when they are better known ; at present the species described as “ Triplax” are a medley. Mr. Marshall’s examples of A. brunneus were taken at light. Amblyscelis hemorrhous. Amblyopus hemorrhous, Gorham, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. vi. 1885, p. 326. Sanguineo-rufus ; elytris nigo-fuscis, puncto humerali apiceque indeterminate rufis; crebre punctatus ; elytris punctato-striatis, opacis, interstitiis crebre perminute punctulatis. Long. 5 millim., Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). There is something remarkable in the fact that I have described an insect from India which I cannot separate from this insect, and in writing that description I say: “had this species been an African insect I should have re- ferred it to my genus Amblyscelis, for the tibiz are angularly widened.” Mr. Marshall now sends three recent examples, of the origin of which there can be no doubt, and except that they are less shining than my Indian type, I can detect no difference. PYCNOGEUSTERIA, gen. nov. Corpus oblongum, nitidum, punctatum, haud pubescens. Oculi concinne leviter reticulati. Antenne articnlo tertio duobus basalibus superante, quarto ad octavum haud transyersis, tribus ultimis clavam oblongam formantibus, decimo cum apicali connato. Palpi maxillares articulo apicali triangulari valde dilatato, labiales articulo ultimo oblongo parum dilatato. Pro- notum fere ut in Amblyopo, tenuissime marginatum, prosterni - processu lato quali opaco, antice haud elevato vel compresso. Metasternum levye. Abdomen sequale, leviter parce punctatum, lineis nullis. Pedes compressi ; femoribus sat latis ; tibiis valde angulariter ad apicem dilatatis. The type of this new genus is a black insect with the antenne, trophi, and body beneath, with the exception of the head, prosternum, mesosternum, and mesothoracic epistoma, bright luteous yellow ; the parts are so distinctly separated in colour as to render it an easy object of study ; the mesothorax may be piceous, but the yellow mesothoracic epimera are peculiar. It will be observed that Pycnogeusteria approaches both Amblyopus and Amblyscelis ; from the former the almost entire absence of raised lines on the abdomen (they are distinct in A. vittatus, running across the segment) and the from South and West Africa. 91 plain prosternum, as well as the much more dilated tibie, from the latter the quite finely facetted eyes and superior size, amply separate it, not to mention minor differences such as the antennal and palpal structure. Pycnogeusteria Kraatzt, sp. n. Oblonga, subparallela, aterrima, nitida, crebre fortiter punctata ; elytris seriatim punctatis, striis parum impressis, interstitiis crebre minute punctulatis ; labro, antennis (apice fusco), palpis, prothoracis, epimeris, metasterno pedibusque late luteis ; corpore subtus leviter crebre punctato. Long. 9 millim. Hab. W. Africa, N. Cameroon, Johann Albrechtshéhe (L. Conradt). Head black, strongly, at the base almost coarsely, punctate ; the epistoma very distinctly separated from the labrum, pro- duced and deflexed, the latter bright pale yellow; the mouth and trophi yellow, except the mandibles, which are only pitchy externally. ‘Thorax black at the base, twice as wide as long, narrowed in front, with the front angles a little depressed, finely margined except in the middle of the front and base, thickly punctured, but less so than the head, and not so strongly, there being room for other punctures. The base of the elytra is of the width and forms an even outline with the thorax. ‘The elytra are entirely black, very finely seriate punctate, the small punctures in the series being close but not impressed in striw, the interstices being also thickly minutely punctate; they are continued evenly to the end, but coalesce before reaching the apex. The body beneath is sparsely and finely punctured; the mesosternum is black (or pitchy in less matured specimens) ; the metasternum with its side pieces, the meso-episterna, and abdomen and legs are all entirely clear luteous yellow. I have pleasure in dedicating this insect to Dr. Kraatz, the veteran writer on Kuropean Coleoptera, who sent it me with other Krotylide. N.B.—This insect very closely resembles a new Zythonia, which I propose to describe as Z. anthracina, and which appears to inhabit the same district, as well as the Congo, from whence my examples came. LOPHOCROTAPHUS, gen. nov. Forma oblonga plerumque Mycotreti vel Amblyopi, sed caput maris depressum, ad templa ampliatum in carinam elevatum. Oculi per carinam subdivisi, haud magni, tenuiter reticulati. Mentum 92 Rev. H. 8. Gorham on new Coleoptera triangulare. Antenne (maris) longi, caput prothoracemque supe- rantes; articulis longioribus quam lati, tertio elongato, tribus ultimis clavam laxam formantibus; feminse dimidio fere breviores. Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo transverso, valido. Pronotum (preesertim maris) valde transversum, plus quam duplo latum quam longum. Linew metasternales et abdominales distincte. Tibie lineares; tarsi breves. Corpus castaneum, punctatum, haud pubescens. Maris clypei carina altitudine variat. Hlab. West Africa, Gold Coast, Guinea, and Cameroon Mountains. This extraordinary Erotylid has been long known to me from a male and female I obtained from Mr. G. Waterhouse’s collection, where it stood as Amblyopus testaceus, Lac., with which, however, it has nothing to do. While the female presents no peculiarities beyond those of some ordinary yellow Triplacid, the male conveys the idea of some Hetero- merous genus like Gnathocerus. The longer antenne in this sex and the depressed clypeus, with sinuate sides, and an elevated crest in front of the eyes which invades and almost divides them, are unlike anything I have met with in the Erotylide before. Lophocrotaphus guineensis, sp. n. Oblongus, testaceus, punctatus; antennis, basi excepta, nigris ; elytris obsolete punctato-striatis, interstitiis punctatis. Long. 4—4°5 millim. Mas, clypeo depresso, ad latera sinuato, ante oculos eleyatiore, in carinam altam oculos incidentem pervecto ; antennis longis. Femina, capite minore, ad antennarum insertionem parum elevato, ad canthum ocularem paululum producto; antennis brevioribus. Hab, Africa, Guinea. Var. ? Maris clypeo carina altiore, cornu muticum nigricans com- pressum simulante. a Africa, Cameroon, Johann Albrechtshéhe (Z. Con- radt). ZYTHONIA. Zythonia, Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. p. 108 (1874). Zythonia anthracina, sp. n. Elongato-ovalis, aterrima, nitida; capite prothoraceque creberrime leviter punctatis: elytris tenuiter punctato-striatis, striis vix impressis ; abdomine fulvo ; tarsis piceis. Long. 6°5-9 millim. from South and West Africa. 93 Hab. Upper Congo (Clark). The form is that of Lpiscaphula, elongate-ovate, narrowed in front, and the elytra especially so behind, subcordate, shining black, the surface very even. ‘The antenne have the third joint elongate, the fourth to the seventh short and nodi- form, the eighth is triangular, the last three form a wide club and are transverse, the apical one being compressed ; the eyes are finely facetted. ‘The thorax is much narrowed in front, its base is bisinuate, the sides neatly and finely margined; its surface quite smooth, not impressed, and ex- ceedingly finely but thickly punctured. ‘The elytra are of the same width as the thorax at their base, and form with it a nearly continuous outline; they are very finely punctate- striate, the punctures in the series numerous and close ; the interstices are even, and under a Coddington lens are very finely punctured, but not so as to prevent the surface being very shining. ‘The under surface is very smooth ; short raised metasternal and abdominal lines are present, the latter extend over half the basal segment; the sides of the hind-body are obsoletely punctate, and it is wholly clear fulvous yellow. The legs are black, with pitchy tarsi; the femora are com- ressed, a little thickened, not punctured; the tibiz very little widened, the tarsi not long, the claw-joint as long as the basal part. Many specimens of this interesting species, the second at present known, were collected by Mr. Clark on the Upper Congo. In form, size, and sculpture it is very like its con- gener, Z. fulva, Westw., which is a rare insect of which I have only seen a few examples. Fam. Endomychide. Ancylopus nigrofuscus, sp. 0. Totus nigro-fuscus vel brunneus; capite prothoraceque crebre ac distincte punctatis, hoc leviter transverso, antice a basi parum angustato, basi marginato, sulcis basalibus distinctis ad medium disci provectis; elytris crebre distincte punctatis, nitidis, subtus cum pedibus unicolore, Long. 6 millim. Mas, tibiis anticis, dente parvulo infra medium, intus munitis. Hab. Natal, 5572, 5578, 5574, 5575; Congo, Boma. This insect is evidently allied to A. fuscipennis, Gahan, in Distant’s ‘ ‘T'ransvaal,’ p. 210, t. iv. fig. 10, but is larger, and differs by the thorax not having the sides rounded, as de- scribed by him and shown in the figure, but evenly narrowed 94 Mr. R. T. Pocock on from the base to the front angles, which also are more pro- minent and more acute; the basal sulci are prolonged over half the disk of the thorax, and are linear, deeply impressed at their base, and parallel. The whole insect is nearly uni- colorous, but of the four examples before me two are lighter in colour than the others. The antenne have their third joint rather longer than the fourth and fifth together, the club is three-jointed and is distinct, the eighth joint being in no way wider than those preceding it. If the figure of A. fusct- pennis is correct, this should not be the case in that species, the antenne appearing there gradually thickened without a distinct club. Four examples were obtained by Mr. Marshall. I have also received it from the Congo, from Boma (J. Tschoffen). Vhe examples from there are black, and are females, with pitchy antennee, and the joints of the legs and disk of the thorax and other parts more or less pitchy. XI.— Descriptions of Three new Forms of 'Tragelaphus. By R. I. Pocock. Eary in the spring of 1898 my colleague Mr. Oldfield Thomas, who was unhappily compelled by ill health to abandon for the time being all zoological work, kindly asked me to undertake, with Dr. Sclater’s acquiescence, his share of the preparation of the systematic and bibliographical section of the part of the ‘Book of Antelopes’ dealing with the Tragelaphing, so that no delay in the completion of the work should be caused by his enforced absence from London. At tle suggestion of the joint authors of this work, the three new forms of Bushbuck, which came to light during the investi- gation of the species of the genus Tragelaphus, are described in the following pages prior to their appearance in the forth- coming part of the ‘ Book of Antelopes,’ in order that the responsibility for them should, rightly, rest solely with me. Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas). To the known subspecific forms of this species, namely T. scriptus typicus, decula, sylvaticus, and Roualeynet, the following two may be added :— Subspecies ornatus, nov. Adult male of the same size and much the same genera} Three new Forms of Tragelaphus. 95 colouring as the West-African 7. scriptus typicus, being a dark chestnut-red, passing into black inferiorly and on the legs, and marked with as many as seven or eight transverse white stripes, six spots on the shoulder and many on haunches; a line of white spots passing longitudinally above belly, but never a trace of upper longitudinal white stripe running posteriorly from shoulder. Young male pale reddish yellow, with spots and stripes much more faintly marked, Adult female smaller than male, bright chestnut in colour, marked with only three or four faint white stripes, and with fewer spots than in the other sex. Loc. Linyante on the Chobé River (2. C. Selous). Type: stuffed male in British Museum, no. 81. 4. 20. 4. Subspecies fasciatus, nov. (=Tragelaphus decula of Swayne and Ghika ; nec decula, Riippell.) Somewhat intermediate in character between 1. scriptus typicus and the East-African Bushbuck which passes as 7. scriptus Roualeynet. General colour reddish yellow, brighter on the hind-quarters and distinctly blacker on the dorsal region, where the hair assumes a dusky greyish-brown hue. Body marked with four or five very distinct, mostly broad, white stripes on each side; a row of white spots above tlie belly and a few on the hind-quarters. No upper white band passing backwards from shoulder. Neck darker than in 7. seriptus typicus and scriptus Roualeynei, the entire neck being covered with a coating of short silky greyish-brown hairs of the same length as those of the head. Young male redder in colour than adult and equally strongly marked with white. Loc. Sen Morettu, on the Webbe River, Somaliland (Capt. Swayne). Type: skin of male in British Museum, no. 94, 2. 21. 7. Tray laphus Delamere?, sp. n. About the same size as 7. scriptus. Head ruddy brown on forehead, with a blackish band extending down muzzle ; cheeks fawn, with two small white spots; no white stripe running inwards from the corner of the eye; edge of upper 96 On Three new Forms of Tragelaphus. lip and chin white ; white patches at upper and lower ends of throat small, the former only just traceable. General colour of body dark yellowish brown above, paler below, and gradu- ally passing into yellowish fawn upon the shoulder and upon the lower half of the hind-quarters. No traces of white stripes or spots observable either upon the body or upon the hind- or fore-quarters. Fore legs both outside and inside right up to the base yellowish brown, blackish all down the front from above the knees to the fetlocks ; fetlocks and pasterns black, except for a pair of white spots on the pasterns in front. Hind legs coloured like fore legs, but paler above the hock and marked with a distinct white patch in front of the hock. Tail white below, dark at the tip. A collar of short hairs round the base of the neck. No long crest of hairs along spine. Hab. Sayer, in Somaliland. A single subadult example of this species, remarkable for the absence of white on the inner side of the legs and on the body, was procured by Lord Delamere on his last sporting expedition into Somaliland, and kindly presented by him to the British Museum. It is a matter for regret that there is some doubt as to the sex of this specimen. In spite of the absence of horns it was declared to be a male by the skinner entrusted with the stripping and preservation of the skin; but it must be held ‘to be in the highest degree improbable that there exists a species of Z'ragelaphus with the male normally hornless. Hence, unless there has been some error either of memory or observation on the part of the skinner, the specimen under discussion is abuormal, and its peculiarities may possibly be attributable to this circumstance. This, however, is not likely to be so, for in a case of this kind the characters liable to be affected by falling under the influence of the cause that has brought about the suppression of the horns would be those which, like the horns themselves, are of a sexual nature; and the coloration of the inner side of the legs does not fall into this category in the antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus, Hence, whether the skin in question be that of a normal female or an abnormal male, I venture to think the characters that have led me to regard it as the representative of an un- described species will be found to hold good when further material has been procured, On the Pangoniney of the Family Tabanide. 97 XIT.—Notes on the Pangonine of the Family Vabanide in the British Museum Collection. By Miss Gerrrupe RIcARDO. [Plate I.) THE present paper embodies the results of an attempt to re- arrange the specimens of Pangonine in the British Museum collection, dealing only, so far, with Pangonia, Latreille, and its allied genera. Little seems to have been added to our know- ledge of the Pangonine since the publication of ‘ Dipteren- Fauna Siidafrika’s’ by Loew, nearly forty years ago, in which he gave a valuable summary of the genera of the above, besides the description of species. Rondani, in Archiv. Canestr., three years later, suggested a subdivision of Pangonia, Latreille, which has been carried out in this paper. Schiner in ‘ Reise der Novara’ (1866), and other authors of a later date, have established four or more new genera and described new species. The only catalogues of any species of Pangonine were those included in Schiner’s ‘Cat. European Diptera’ (1863), Osten Sacken’s ‘ Cat. N. Amer. Diptera’ (1878), and Wulp’s ‘ Cat. Diptera §. Asia’ (1826). 1 hope those I have compiled will prove fairly complete, and be of some use in the future study of the family, together with a few notes on the species possessed by the British Museum, including the descrip- tion of eleven new species. Any fresh specimens of Pango- nine, to be added to the National collection, would be most acceptable and greatly facilitate further study, especially as regards the Walker types, many of which are in such poor preservation that it is difficult to form any opinion on them ; when further modern specimens are available for comparison, more of these types will very probably prove to be synony- mous. The family Tabanide is divided into two divisions, viz. :— Hind tibia with spurs. Ocelli usually present ..,,.... PANGONIN. Hind tibia without spurs. Ocelli absent.............. TABANIN 2, PANGONINE. The following table of genera of the Pangonine of the world compiled from different authors I have found useful to work by, carrying it so far as to include Pangonia, Latr., and the genera divided off from it ; St/vius and its allied genera to follow later. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. v. 7 ‘ 98 Miss G. Ricardo on the Pangonine PANGONIN2E, Hind tibia with spurs. Ocelli usually present. 1. Third joint of antennz with eight or at least seven divisions. Proboscis usually pro- eS Eee CAR ny Te ACR Cee eee 3. 2. Third joint of antenne with five divisions. Prohoscis SHOFG sixcin sa ceven vs iaiinyaes 14 (Stlvius &e.). 3. Third joint of antenn with a tooth...... Dicrania, Macq. Third joint of antenne with no tooth .. ; 4. Wings short ; body flat, elliptical ..... .. Apocampta, Schiner. AVings NOL BBOKY 5 Geshe ds ne kaos ft 5. 5. Third joint of antenne with each segment PPANENG | 0. oc e tends tes gas cewabmn as Pityocera, Gigl.-Tos, Third joint of antennz not branched ads. 6. Upper corner of eyes terminating in an acute BNGIG. ns 0h Ft gt de See ans SA .. Goniops, Aldrich. Upper corner of eyes not terminating in an SPARES REIS hig Ge mee