Novitates Zoologicae V23

NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE I'l Ml E Journal of Zoology IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRING MUSEUM EDITED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD, De ERNST HARTERT, E.R.S., Ph.D., and Dr K JORDAN Vol XXIII., 1916 (WITH EIGHT PLATES.) ^ *«'!*Issued at the Zoological Museum, Teing TE1NTED EY HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY, 1916-1917 Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY J ,_j Lv,~r \a- i v.X3 CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIII (1916) AVES (Illustrated.) Notes on Glareola Ernst Haeteet Concerning the Occurrence Ernst Hartert Notes on Pigeons Erolia of South-West in bairdii 78 89 Africa Ernst Haeteet 91 What is the Correct Name of the "Long-toed Stint"? Ernst Hartert On the Forms of Burhinus oedicnemus Ernst Hartert On the Birds figured in the Atlas to Krusenstern's Voyage round the Ernst Hartert World 10 11 Weiteres zur Avifauna von Timor Errors in Quotations C E Ernst Hartert Hellmayr 92, 93 93 94, 95 96 112 On the Forms of Rhodinocichla rosea Ernst Hartert What is the Correct Name of the Arabian Sea Tern? Ernst Hartert On some Forms of Coracina from the Solomon Islands Lord Roth The Alleged Occurrence Hartert 13 On of 291, 292 14 More Erroneous Quotations and other 15 A 16 Description of a 17 The Name 18 One New E C 19 Notes on the Little Bustard On 21 The Distribution I.) 298 Ernst Hartert 318 Ernst Hartert (Plate IL) of the " Auklets." of Stuart Baker European Cormorant Rarest Birds (Plate Name 295, 296 Lord Rothschild and Ernst 297 Larvivora of the Central 293—295 Ernst Hartert Errors Rössel Island 20 the — 291 Ernst India Ernst Hartert the European Forms of Phalacrocorax carbo new Monarcha from Hartert 288 289 melanocephala in Arenaria — 111 — 114 229 schild and Ernst Harteet 12 of the — 88 — 91 Ernst Harteet Ernst Hartert Columba gi/mnophthalma 335, 336 337—339 339, 340 Ernst Hartert 341 HYMENOPTERA List of some Hymenoptera from Algeria and the M'Zab Country F D Morice Rev 241—246 342 COLEOPTERA On Anthribidae collected by the Oriental Anthribid Genus Apolecta (Illustrated.) I Vitalis Karl Jordan Karl Joedan de Salvaza in — 349 French Indo-China 359—363 vi ( ) LEPIDOPTERA PAGES New Genera and Species Corrections of Indo- Australian Geomelridae of Louis B Prout and Additions to our of the Sphingidae." Lord Rothschild and Karl Jordan (Illustrated.) A New Notes on Arctiidae 10 New Species of Geonietridae from (Illustrated.) Guinea Karl Jordan Karl Jordan — 123 124 — 150 123 George Further Corrections 12 Some New 13 New of Hampson F and Additions 230 to our Arctiadae Lord Rothschild Louis B Prout African Geometridae Some Notes of a Faunal and other Nature on the Lepidoptera collected by Herr Geyr von Schweppenburg in the Hoggar Mountains Lord Rothschild 15 Notes on Amathusiidae, Brassolidae, Morphidae, New Forms On (Plates III.— VI.) — 240 "Revision of the Sphingidae." Lord Rothschild and Karl Jordan 14 17 115 (Illustrated.) 16 — 77 New Neotropical Geometridae Louis B Prout 151 — 190 191 — 209 New Indo-Australian Geometridae Louis B Prout New Orthostixis (Family B Prout A Geometridae) Louis 209 210—227 New Oriental Noctuidae in the Tring Museum W Warren Some New Palaearctic Noctuidae in the Tring Museum W Warren 228, 229 Descriptions of New Species of the Family Arctiadae in the British Museum 11 " Revision etc., 247 264 — 263 — 271 272—286 287 — 288 with Descriptions of Lord Rothschild S Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier, and Vulcan Islands {Continued from, vol xxii.) Lord Rothschild 299—318 the Lepidoptera sent by Mr A On the Species -of VIII.) INDEX Somabrachys Karl Jordan in the Tring Museum (Plates 319—334 VII., 350—358 365—388 OF PLATES IN VOLUME XXIII LIST I II III —VI Coloured Callaeops periophthcdmica Wing of the Male Butterflies, Larvae, Mo-rphidae VII., VIII of Otis tetrax and Pupae The Parts of this Part I Part II (pages (pages By H Volume were Grönvold of the Families Amathusiidae, Brassolidae, From specimens and Structure of Somabraehys by H Grönvold fig By Karl sketches by Horace Knight Jordan issued as follows 1—150): April 14th, 1916 151—298): September 25th, 1916 Part III (pages 299—363, Plates I.— VIII.) : December 1st, 1916 Part IV (Index, Title-page, Contents, and Errata): February 20th, 1917 ERRATA AND CORRECTIONS " Astux" should read " Astur." Page 97, line 19: Page 317, line 35: By some careless oversight advanced the theory that eugenia is it has been stated that Mr Kaye "had the dry-season form of adonis." It should have been " the wet-season form." Page 337, line 18 : " about cm shorter than the fourth " should read : " about cm shorter than the fifth." Page 338, lines 26 and 27 been reversed —the : By some carelessness the measurements of the wings have western birds being the smaller, the eastern the larger ones NOYITATES ZOOLOGICAE * H Journal of Zoolog^ f N 1916 EDITED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD, Dr ERNST HARTERT Vor E.R.S., Ph.D., and Dr K JORDAN XXIIL No Pages 1—150 Issued April 14th, at the Zoological Museum, Trixg FEINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY, 1916 Ld., LONDON AND AYLESBURY Vol XXIII N0VITATE8 Z00L0GICAE EDITED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD, ERNST HARTERT, and CONTENTS OF NO SPECIES OF LNDO- NOTES ON PIGEONS NOTES ON GL AREOLA CONCERNING (Illustrated) Louis B Prout 1—77 Ernst Bartert 78—88 Ernst Bartert 89—91 Ernst Bartert THE OCCURRENCE OP EROLIA BAIRDII IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA WHAT IS Ernst Bartert Ernst Bartert ON THE BIRDS FIGURED IN THE ATLAS TO KRUSENSTERN'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Ernst Bartert WEITERES ZUR AVIFAUNA VON TIMOR ERRORS IN QUOTATIONS 10 (Illustrated) • • - C.E.Bellmayr Ernst Bartert Lord Rothschild and K Jordan A NEW SPECIES OF GEOMETRIDAE FROM NEW GUINEA CORRECTIONS OF AND ADDITIONS TO OUR "REVISION OF THE SPBING1- DAE" 1 ON THE FORMS OF BÜRBINUS OEDIC- NEMUS 91 THE CORRECT NAME OF THE "LONG-TOED STINT"? I PAGES NEW GENERA AND AUSTRALTAN GEOMETRIDAE KARL JORDAN NOTES ON ARCTIIDAE • • (Illustrated) • • K.Jordan K Jordan 92—93 93 94 — 95 96—111 112—114 115-— 123 123 124—150 JUN NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE APRIL Vol XXIII NEW GENERA AND 1916 No 1, SPECIES OE INDO-AUSTRALIAN GEOMETRIDAE By LOUIS B PB.OCJT, OENOCHROMINAE Subfamily Dichromodes exocha F.E.S sp nov S, 27 mm Head whitish grey, irrorated and dotted with dark fuscons Palpus rather more than twice as long as diameter of eye above mixed whitish grey and dark fuscous, sides blackish fuscous, first joint beneath sharply whitish ; Antennal pectinations about three times diameter of whitish grey, mixed with fuscous shaft Thorax and abdomen forefemur fuscous on inner side, foretibia and ; tarsus fuscous except at extremities of joints; hindtibia slender Forewing shaped about as in stilbiata Guen whitish grey, rather glossy, the markings blackish fuscous a fine, slightly curved line near the base a thicker a strong, fairly straight line from before but less dark line shortly beyond one-fourth costa to beyond one-fourth hindmargin, accompanied distally by a dark shade which narrows to a point on costa; a rather narrow median band, its proximal edge indented on the veins, its distal with a moderate double proan elongate-oval black jection in the middle and curving distad at hindmargin slightly sinuous brown middle) fine, a cell-mark in this band (distally to its grey line from a sharp line nearly mm from termen, separated by a whitish blackish subterminal band, narrower and better-defined than that of stilbiata swollen near costa and again at hindmargin, and with a double distal projectiou terminal line very slender or reaching about halfway to termen at R'-M obsolescent, but with very sharp triangular black dots (almost wedges) between ; ; ; ; ; ; ; , the veins; fringe weakly dark-spotted opposite the veins slightly paler at costa ; faint traces of a sinuous pale Hindwing postmedian fuscous, line, best expressed at abdominal margin, where it is followed (towards tornus) by weak beginnings of alternately dark and pale lines Forewing beneath pale fuscous, with a darker submarginal band, edge (especially anteriorly) darkest Hindwing beneath band and its Kelso, more ; irrorated with whitish grey, the proximal pale shade better expressed South Wales, January 19-31, 1902 (A Simmons), New Triug Museum slightly its distal a slight pale shade proximally to this band subterminal