ALBERT

Description: Die hier beschriebenen Arten fand ich in Material, das mir aus den Museen zu Hamburg, Leiden, Paris und Stettin freundlichst zur Bearbeitung \xc3\xbcbergeben wurde; eine Art sandte mir die Firma Staudiuger & Bang-Haas in Blasewitz-Dresdeu. Die meisten Arten geh\xc3\xb6ren dem Leidener Museum, stammen aus Niederl\xc3\xa4ndisch-Ostindien und sind von Herrn E. Jacobson gesammelt worden.

Description: This new species, of which I have a single male-specimen before me 2), is a somewhat aberrant one as to shape and structural characteristics, the prothorax being considerably narrower than the elytra at the shoulders, the elytra being strongly costate and the apical tubercles of the elytra being strongly developed; moreover the pits by which the upper surface is covered are very large and deep.\nLength (from the anterior margin of the prothorax to the apex of the elytra) 12 mm.; greatest width (across the shoulders) 5 mm. \xe2\x80\x94 Covered with a brownisch crust, more greyish on the under surface, legs and antennae, and provided above with the following dirty white markings: on the pronotum three longitudinal lines (one along the middle and one on each side entirely visible from above); on the elytra a dorsal cross in the middle, its posterior half less distinct than the anterior half which latter is united with the base of the elytra by a prolongation of the lateral thoracical lines; the declivous portion of the apical tubercles, the humeral region, the lateral margins of the posterior two-thirds of the elytra and the scutellum are likewise dirty white; beneath the indistinct lateral stripe on the prosternum, just above the coxae, and the lateral margins of the meso- and metasternum dirty white.

Description: Some time ago Mr. P. J. Buitendijk, who enriched our collections already with many valuable objects, presented to our Museum three excellently preserved specimens of a Cubomedusa, belonging to the genus Chiropsalmus. As far as I know, hitherto only two species of this remarkable genus are described, viz. Ch. quadrumanus (Tamoia quadrumana), observed by Fritz M\xc3\xbcller in the sea near Santa Catharina (Brazil)\xc2\xb9), afterwards also found by Wilson near Beaufort (North-Carolina)\xc2\xb2) and Ch. quadrigatus, based by H\xc3\xa4ckel upon a single specimen, that was collected by Thallitzer at the coast of Rangoon \xc2\xb3). Unfortunately the last specimen was in an indifferent state of preservation, so H\xc3\xa4ckel was unable to give a detailed description of it ; nevertheless I think it elaborate enough to conclude, that our individuals belong to another species, that, in honour of its discoverer, may be named Ch. Buitendijki.\nLike the specimens of Chiropsalmus quadrumanus those of Ch. Buitendijki were met with in the vicinity of the shore, in the road of Batavia; they have no colour, but are transparent, gelatinous, the tentacles only have a rosy hue.

Description: Differt a typo et capite et prothorace et elytris multo latioribus robustioribus, statura majore, fronte antica foveis 2 profundioribus discoidalibus ornata, pronoti sulcis transversis in disco fere evanescentibus, cristae epipleuro-pronotalis parte posteriore plus minusve dilacerata aut minus acuta; elytris fere ut capite prothoraceque coloratis (non coerulescentibus) ; corpore subtus item minus coerulescente, magis viridi; pedibus paullo longioribus. \xe2\x80\x94 Long. 21mm- sine labro, summa elytrorum latitudine 9\xc2\xbd mm. 1 \xe2\x99\x80 Queensland borealis. \xe2\x80\x94 Coll. mea.

Description: Diese neue Art ist dem von mir beschriebenen Myrmeleon leucostigmatus (Arkiv f\xc3\xb6r Zoologi, Bd. 3, n. 2, p. 9, Taf. 1, Fig. 4, 1905) \xc3\xa4hnlich und geh\xc3\xb6rt ohne Zweifel in seine n\xc3\xa4chste Verwandtschaft. Sie ist aber in der K\xc3\xb6rperzeichnung, durch die fast 1 1/2 mal breiteren Fl\xc3\xbcgel, welche eine viel ausgedehntere Spitzenzeichnung haben und den viel l\xc3\xa4ngeren Hinterfl\xc3\xbcgel sofort zu unterscheiden.

Description: Les insectes faisant l\xe2\x80\x99objet du pr\xc3\xa9sent article font partie des collections du Mus\xc3\xa9e de Leide et appartiennent aux groupes suivants: Malachidae, Anobiidae et Anthicidae.

Description: On page 420 of the 2d volume of \xc2\xbb The Birds of Celebes\xe2\x80\x9d Meyer and Wiglesworth say: \xc2\xbb The southern Bird is the typical Edoliisoma morio, S. M\xc3\xbcller having visited Macasser and Bonthain in 1828, but not N. Celebes.\xe2\x80\x9d As to the visit, that S. M\xc3\xbcller paid to Celebes, it is right that he only visited the southern part, but he did .not collect there any Edoliisoma. The specimens, he described in the \xc2\xbb Verhaudelingen etc.\xe2\x80\x9d are collected by Dr. E. A. Forsteu, who was collecting in the years 1840 and \xe2\x80\x9941 on Celebes. Five specimens of this species are collected by this traveller in the northern part, at Tondano and Gorontalo, and these were labelled by Temminck \xc2\xbb Ceblepyris morio nov. spec.\xe2\x80\x9d These are the birds, which S. M\xc3\xbcller described on the known place.\nThe typical E. morio is therefore the northern bird; and as, according to Meyer and Wiglesworth, the bird of southern Celebes is different from that of northern Celebes, the latter having been bestowed by them with the subspecific name of septentrionalis, the southern bird must receive a new name, while the subspecific name of the northern bird ought to be suppressed. For the bird of the southern part of Celebes I here propose the name of Edoliisoma morio wiglesworthi in honour of the too early died ornithologist.

Description: Die Gattung Ostrea ist von Java verh\xc3\xa4ltnissm\xc3\xa4ssig schlecht vertreten, was vielleicht eine Folge ungen\xc3\xbcgender Aufsammlung ist, und unter den hierher geh\xc3\xb6rigen Versteinerungen befinden sich verschiedene, die wegen unvollkommener Ueberlieferung \xc3\xbcberhaupt unber\xc3\xbccksichtigt geblieben sind. Auch die folgende Liste, welche alle bis jetzt von Java bekannten Arten umfasst, enth\xc3\xa4lt ausser den beiden unbenannten noch mehrere recht unvollkommen bekannte Formen, zu denen in erster Linie O. incisa MART. und O. bataviana MART. geh\xc3\xb6ren. \nO. (s. str.) djuvana\xc3\xabnsis Mart.

Description: dates: Ostrea - Pinna = 1909; Pinna - Cucullaea = 1910

Description: Corps de taille m\xc3\xa9diocre, \xc3\xa0 pubescence nulle, la t\xc3\xaate et le thorax finement et tr\xc3\xa8s dens\xc3\xa9ment ponctu\xc3\xa9s-coriac\xc3\xa9s. T\xc3\xaate jaune, avec le front, le vertex et l\xe2\x80\x99occiput noirs; clyp\xc3\xa9us deux fois plus long que large, margin\xc3\xa9 de marron au bord ant\xc3\xa9rieur; mandibules assez grandes, plurident\xc3\xa9es. Antennes longues, brunes avec les deux premiers articles ferrugineux. Thorax ferrugineux; le m\xc3\xa9sonotum, l\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\xa9cusson et le post\xc3\xa9cusson noir-brun ; l\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\xa9cusson \xc3\xa9lev\xc3\xa9, subconique tr\xc3\xa8s obtus, avec une tr\xc3\xa8s l\xc3\xa9g\xc3\xa8re car\xc3\xa8ne, une petite tache oblique jaune de chaque c\xc3\xb4t\xc3\xa9 ; post\xc3\xa9cusson avec deux taches jaunes se touchant presque; pronotura ferrugineux avec des teintes jaunes ; deux taches lunaires dispos\xc3\xa9es l\xe2\x80\x99une au dessous de l\xe2\x80\x99autre et en sens inverse, jaunes, sur les m\xc3\xa9sopleures; le segment m\xc3\xa9diaire convexe-arrondi, brun-ferrugineux dans la moiti\xc3\xa9 basilaire, le reste jaune. Pattes jaunes, les tibias Post\xc3\xa9rieurs brun-ferrugineux, les tarses interm\xc3\xa9diaires et post\xc3\xa9rieurs brun fonc\xc3\xa9. Ecailles brun-ferrugineux. Ailes hyalines, \xc3\xa0 reflets iris\xc3\xa9s, des tons enfum\xc3\xa9s autour du stigma et dans la radiale. Abdomen noir-brun, le 2e segment p\xc3\xa9tiol\xc3\xa9, les 2e, 3e et 4e segments avec une petite tache jaune basilaire de chaque c\xc3\xb4t\xc3\xa9; le 1er sternite avec une grande tache jaune basilaire en forme de V, les autres sternites avec une petite tache jaune de chaque c\xc3\xb4t\xc3\xa9. \xe2\x80\x94 Un \xe2\x99\x82. \xe2\x80\x94 Long. 13mm.\nPatrie: Nouvelle Guin\xc3\xa9e (Bernstein).

Description: During a short stay made last year in Leyden, I was enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Ritsema, to examine the types of the Pentatomidae in the Leyden Museum, described by the late Snellen van Vollenhoven. Various doubtful species were thus identified and observations of previous authors controlled on the types. So a large part of the identifications hereafter quoted, were already made by C. Stal, who received from van Vollenhoven a number of his types for examination.\nI thought it would be useful for hemipterists to have for the van Vollenhoven\xe2\x80\x99s species a revision like the one Mr. Distant is publishing on Walker\xe2\x80\x99s types in the British Museum. Curiously enough, a number of the species described in the year 1867 [published 1868? 1)] by the dutch entomologist, were described at the same time by Walker in the British Museum\xe2\x80\x99s Catalogue: I think it very probable that the names given by Walker take priority, though I could not ascertain it.