Novitates Zoologicae V06

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE H IiX Journal of Zooloo\^ r(h\NECTf()X WITH IIIF 'ITxTNG MTsEUM EDITED BY The Hon WALTER ROTHSCHILD, ERNST HARTERT, and Vol VI., Dr K Ph.D., JORDAN 181)!) (WITH srXTEKX PLATES.) Issued at the Zoological Musei'm, Trino I'lnXTED BY HAZKLL, WATSOX, \ VINKV 1899 I.n., LONDON AND AVLKSl'.L'UV CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI GENERAL SUBJECTS TAGES See Introductory Notes to "A Review of the Oriiithnlogy of tlu' Galapagos Islands, the Diaries of Messrs Harris and Drowne, and General Remarks about Walter RoTHSCHim and Ernst the Fauna of the Galapagos Islands 85-142 Hahtf.rt MAMMATJA Demhuihujiis mn.eimns Walter lioTHSfHiLD (Plate [.) 217 AVKS Not(>< Kurtliei- Note on Casnarhm On oil lluuiuiing- Birds i'asiinrlua sdaleri the Birds collected by Mr pelago Ernst IIarteht Ern.st IIaktkrt Walter Meek on IToTiisnin.n 72 — Bossel Island in the Ixjuisiade 7.5 7,5 \rclii- 70 — 8-t ( A Eeviow the Ornithology of of th«> Webster- Han-is Expedition Hartekt Ern'st ; I Part II Not^s on the Wai.tkr Kothsciiii.d and List Fauna of most the of the Mi i Drcwn.- I' I' works refeired Isl.mds, and lo on articles the in General Hem.-irks the about of l''auna thi' tialapagos 136—142 Islands 5, On the Birds Ti On some 'I'he collecterawn by Keulemans.) Uil-glanil of A/Uer,/.,- haiisli Pelvis of in (Photographed fiom (Plnitiigra|ilied Apliri/.r aiintmlis life, I'hotographeil from (Photograplii'd A/ileri/x otveni occideulaliti A/d^i-i/.i: ( fmm oireiii and (;.;.) iii'ylmlis (Nat size.) opiw.site to NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE Vol VI APRIL, 1899 No NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF THE FAMILIES DBEPANULIDAE, THYBIDIDAE, UBANIIDAE, EPIPLEMWAE, AND GEOMETRIDAE FROM THE OLD-WORLD REGIONS By W warren, Family M.A., DREPANULIDAE Cobanilla erminea F.B.S sp uov basal area pinkish brown-black, with darker trausver.se striae Forew/'/iffs varied with and bounded a dark browu Hue or shade ochreous, silvery scales, grey by from costa at one-third, sharply angled on the subcostal, and curved inward to near : ; base of inner margin ; from two-thirds of inner margin an obscure dark line runs straight and oblique towards apex as far as vein 6, where it is most acutely angled, and runs back to meet a browu costal streak at two-thirds except for the two : browu streaks the custa with transverse sooty is marginal area less browu than central, discocellular dark, with slight silvery dots at pale throughout specks ; ; the angles Ilindwings : uniform browu, with a curved deeper browu cloud beyond the margin and the discocellular; faint traces of darker specks towards apex; inner course of the lower veins studded with silvery scales fringe ; of both wings concolorous with wing, and slightly glistening Underside of forewiugs dull red, speckled and towards liindmargiu suffused with blackish the outer oblique line distinct, lustrous-edged of hiudwings bright : ; red, spotted with black along costa abdomen beneath brilliant red abdomen like hiudwings Ex2Jause of wings One from : :i4 ; and hindmargin Vertex, face, palpi, legs, and shoulders nearly white ; thorax ochreous grey ; mm Aignan, November 1«9T (A S Meek) A second example from Kei Island, much worn, evidcutly belongs to the same but above the whole of the species, the uudersurface beiug precisely the same is reddish with a few brown fawu-colour, wings striae, and the basal area but St ; slightly paler It is apparently a local form :i Cobanilla fulgens sp uov Forewings : olive-brown; the costa paler, pinkish, with a few black scales; the costal edge ochraceous ; discocellular marked with dots of white scales; the costa and outer half of wing lustrous jaearly, leaving ouly a triangular space ) ( Ihe cell aud a patch at anal angle of the deep ground-coloui- inclmlinj,' ; fringe Instrons red-brown but Himhcings: deepening in tinf towards hindinargin ; fringe as in forewings, preceded by a broad lustrous line ; discocellnlar as in forewings Underside of forewings reddish grey, the grey becoming darker towards hindhindwings redder margin a dark irrey obliiine outer line, and grey cell-spot red of both with dull Fiwe, fillet, wings bright fringe grey throughout, dajjpled and underside of abdomen crimson ; thorax and abdomen pinkish grey, the ; ; ; legs, along dorsum olive-brown like the wings 34 mm E.xpanse of wings latter : from Mount Dnlit, Borneo (Hose) Apex of forewings produced hindmargin excised to vein One c? ; i, where there is a blunt elbow o Cobanilla triumbrata nov sp the costa broadly paler, more pinkish, and Forewings: yellowish fulvous an scales blackish with oblique diffuse deeper fulvous shade from ouespeckled a second at two-thirds, slightly sinuous, neither reaching the third of inner ; ; margin : a broad marginal deep fulvous fascia containing an obscure dentate subit forms two blackish lilac-edged marginal line, only distinct at anal angle, where on veins and "2 fringe fulvous, marked with blackish beyond cell and above costa ; spots anal angle, these blackish patches preceded streaks discocellular marked in white ; by lilac-grey marginal lunnles or ; shades less distinct, the whole central space Ilindtvings : similar, the deeper between them being filled up with fulvous Underside yellow, with transverse bright fulvous striae, and fulvous suffusion at anal angle of both wings and apex of hindwing Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson and like wings forelegs top of face, palpi, ; Expanse of wings 39 mm One ? from Penang, May 1897 (Curtis) Along with this ? came a