ALBERT

Description: Die Herren Drs. Fr. und P. B. Sarasin haben von ihrer berühmten wissenschaftlichen Reise durch Celebes im Jahre 1902, zwei Fischarten aus dem Lindu-See (westliches Central-Celebes) mitgebracht. Dieselben wurden unweit des Strandes in seichtem Wasser gefangen. Die eine ist der bekannte Ophiocephalus striatus Bl., von dem drei Exemplare, lang 76—80 mm., vorhanden sind; die andere ist eine neue interessante Haplochilus- Art, die ich den berühmten Reisenden zu Ehren Haplochilus Sarasinorum benannt habe und wovon ich die Beschreibung hier folgen lasse.

Description: Closely allied to and strongly resembling A. abdominalis Rits., from Central Borneo (Notes Leyd. Mus. vol. XVIII, p. 26), but somewhat smaller, the punctuation somewhat stronger, the front margin of the clypeus slightly emarginate, the sides of the prothorax more narrowly edged, the pygidium provided with a more or less distinct longitudinal keel, the abdomen black 1). Length 8,5 —9,5 mm. — Oblongo-ovate; black, the palpi and antennae ferruginous; glabrous and glossy above, beneath the punctures bear small white scalelike setae.

Description: attenuata Rits. Notes Leyd. Mus. XVI, 1895, Kurseong. p. 112 (near rotundata Rits.). Bouchardi Rits. Notes Leyd. Mus. XVIII, Sumatra. 1897, p. 131 (near immaculata Rits.).

Description: Length 13—16mm. — Elongate; shining; fulvous, with the head and mandibles, a broad streak along the middle of the pronotum, the scutellum and the smaller apical half of the elytra black, the latter with a slight dark bronze hue; moreover the base of the pronotum and that of the elytra edged with black, the sides of the prothorax edged with dark fulvous; the 5 or 6 basal joints of the antennae fulvous, the succeeding joints from pitchy to black; the legs are black, with the basal half of the femora, a more or less distinct spot (sometimes wanting) on the middle of the tibiae, and the base of the claws fulvous; the black of the apical half of the elytra with a deep triangular incision at the suture. Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, rather remotely covered with large ovate punctures on the slightly raised middle portion, more closely punctured near the eyes, very finely on the narrowed front portion.

Description: 3 exemplaires, longs de 98, 105 et 106 mm. La hauteur du corps est égale à la longueur de la tête, qui est comprise 3 7/10 à 3 6/11 fois dans la longueur totale du corps 2); le diamètre des yeux est compris 3 1/3 à 3 2/3 fois dans la longueur de la tête; la distance interorbitaire mesure 1 à 1 1/6 fois le diamètre des yeux. Le museau a, en avant des narines, une petite concavité transversale et latéralement se remarquent des bourrelets, en dessus des côtés du museau. Il y a quatre barbillons, les deux rostraux mesurent 1/3—5/12 du diamètre des yeux, les deux maxillaires 1/2 — 7/12. En dessous du museau est une plaque ovale charnue. Le commencement de la nageoire dorsale est au milieu de la longueur totale du corps; le troisième rayon simple est dentelé en arrière. Il y a 3 1/2 séries d’écaillés entre la ligne latérale et les nageoires ventrales.

Description: Unter den von Dr. J. Büttikofer auf seiner Liberiareise im Jahre 1880 erbeuteten Neuropteren findet sich eine neue Ancylopteryx-Art, welche sich auf den ersten Blick von der von Gerstaecker aus Kamerun beschriebenen, verwandten A. splendidissima, durch ihre beträchtlichere Grösse, die milchig getrübten, nur wenig schillernden, mit 2 punktförmigen schwarzbraunen Flecken versehenen, Vorderflügel unterscheidet. Ausserdem ist noch eine dritte Art dieser Gattung, A. venusta Hagen aus Mossambique, bekannt, so dass wir also nun 3 Arten dieser Gattung aus Afrika kennen. Die neue Art charakterisirt sich folgendermassen: Kopf, Thorax und Abdomen gelb.

Description: The following pages contain an enumeration of the lizards collected in Borneo by the Dutch Borneo-Expedition, of which expedition Mr. J. Büttikofer was the zoologist, and also of the lizards collected by Dr. A. W. Nieuwenhuis during his travels in the interior of this island. The collections made during these expeditions were very graciously presented to the Leyden Museum of Natural History and form a valuable addition to our collections; so among the 37 species of lizards there are no less than 7 new species and moreover 8 species were hitherto not represented in our Museum. These last named 8 species are indicated in our list with an asterisk. 1. Gymnodactylus consobrinus Ptrs.

Description: Several years ago I was informed by an old Resident from Palembang, Sumatra, that in that part of the large island was living a Pig, differing from all other described species and called Nangoei by the natives; the animal is not always to be found in that country but in certain months and then in large numbers, so that the natives can procure quantities by netting. In vain I tried to become specimens until the now Resident of Palembang presented me with the skull of a Pig, afterwards with two heads in spirits: all three were told to belong to what the natives call Nangoei. Unhappily the skull first mentioned is that of a not-adult specimen (6 molars in each jaw), moreover it is in a rather poor condition, as the upperparts have been smashed into pieces; and the extracted skulls of the now finely mounted heads show that they belong to still younger (5 molars in each jaw) specimens than the first skull; apparently these two heads however cannot belong to the same species; for meanwhile one of them has the naked parts of the muzzle light colored the profile-line concave, the ears small, of an oval shape having the upper part of the inner margin nearly straight, very faintly concave with rather broadly rounded tip, outer margin slightly concave below the tip, for the rest broadly convex — has the other head the muzzle dark colored, the profile-line convex, the ears large, having the inner margin of a curved shape without concavity passing over in the rather sharply pointed tip, beneath the tip the outer margin deeply concave, then slightly curved towards the rounded off angle, from where the margin goes in a nearly straight line to the base of the earopening. The skulls present the same striking difference in the shape of the profile-line; moreover the small-eared specimen has a more elongated and in all parts more stoutly build skull, notwithstanding it belongs to a somewhat younger individual as the less development of the molars indicates. This small-eared, youngest but largest of the two specimens has the bony palate extended much more backwards, the anterior palatine foramina more elongate piriform, the distance between anterior incisors and end of intermaxillaria much larger, all the teeth are greater sized together with small differences in shape, nasalia more elongate and more slender, parietalia behind closer together than in the older large-eared specimen — distance of parietalia 17 mm. in the former (the youngest but largest) and 28 mm. in the latter (the oldest but smallest)! In the lower jaw the distance between the articular condyle and the coronoid process is the smallest in the largest of the two. So there are several more or less important differences to be observed between these two skulls by close examination, differences very difficultly to describe in a few lines, very evident however by an experienced eye. By comparing the skulls with other ones of about the same size and development it grows evident that they both belong to female-specimens. As the large-eared, smallest but oldest of these two specimens shows the same characteristics in external appearance of the head as well as in the above mentioned characteristics of the skull as are peculiar to Sus vittatus, I do not hesitate to bring it under that head — so that one of the so-called Nangoeispecimens turns out to be not a Nangoei at all! As however Sus vittatus is the sole well-known Pig-species living in Sumatra, there may be questioned to what species known from neighboring islands we must bring the other specimen just discussed?

Description: Glänzend schwarz, die Taster und die Fühler grösstentheils rothgelb, desgleichen die Vorderschienen, die hinteren Schienen an Basis und Spitze und die Tarsen. 2te Längsader sehr kurz. Stirn matt braunschwarz, mit kurzer, schwarzer Behaarung; das glänzend schwarze, nackte Scheiteldreieck ist jederseits gradlinig begrenzt und erstreckt sich fast bis zur Fühlerwurzel. Fühler rothgelb, die Aussenseite, sowie auch der Rand des runden, 3ten Gliedes meistens verdunkelt, die Fühlerborste schwarz. Untergesicht glänzend schwarz, kurz, fast ganz von den Fühlern überdeckt. Mundrand etwas hervorragend, zu beiden Seiten mit einigen Härchen. Rüssel glänzend schwarz, die Saugflächen deutlich verlängert.