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Description: The names Blumea intermedia Koster (syn. Bl. acutata DC. var. \xc3\x9f) and Blumea floresiana (Schultz-Bip.) Boerl. must be kept upright. Blumea humifusa (Miq.) Clarke var. monochasialis Koster has to be changed into Blumea tenella DC. var. monochasialis (Koster) Koster, for Blumea humifusa (Miq.) Clarke is a synonym of Blumea tenella DC.\nBlumea lacera (Burm.) DC. var. burmanni DC. is not a clearly distinguishable variety.\nBlumea runcinata DC. is a synonym of Blumea lacera (Burm.) DC.\nBlumea fasciculata DC. is a synonym of Blumea sessiliflora Decaisne, which is not a synonym of the closely related Blumea fistulosa (Roxb.) Kurz (syn. Bl. glomerata DC. and Bl. leptoclada DC.). Blumea chinensis (L.) DC. as well as Blumea semivestita DC. are a mixture of Blumea riparia (Bl.) DC. and Blumea bullata Koster.

Description: The International Association of Wood Anatomists in the early years of its existence has undertaken to standardize the nomenclature used in describing woods. Later the classes of dimensions have been added thereinto.\nIn the same way it should be possible now to standardize one or two identification methods.\nUniversal schemes in the first place will fit for this purpose. In the introduction it is explained which requirements should be fulfilled in such schemes.\nThe advantages and drawbacks of an English and a Dutch identification method are compared mutually. It is suggested, that a procedure according to the Hollerith system will allow of a synthesis of both methods mentioned, thus combining advantages and eliminating their drawbacks. The restriction in the applicability of the Hollerith scheme is determined by the fact, that complicated devices are necessary the costs of which can only be justified, if they are constantly employed at full capacity. Thus the method can only be used in a central office. It will especially yield good results if a close international collaboration is established.\nA standardized codification and centralized multiplication and distribution of cards are indispensable requirements for realising this purpose. A short general survey is given of the Universal Decimal Classification and it is explained according to which principles wood species have been included in this scheme. The decimal codes of the U.D.C. can be used for indicating botanical and geographical data in the Hollerith identification. In this way, the great advantage is achieved, that a literature card index on wood species can be compiled with the same figure combinations. In doing so these figures get a wider field of application than when independant classifications are made for identification and documentation purposes.

Description: During the time that I was stationed at Port Dickson (State of Negri Sembilan) on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, a small zoological collection was made. The specimens were brought to me by the personnel of different units of the Royal Netherlands Forces, while I am also indebted to Major C. Rae, RASC, for some interesting specimens. Nearly all specimens belong to common species. However, this area has not been studied so very extensively and therefore, it seems worth while to place these species on record. Unless otherwise stated the specimens are from the strip of country along the coast road to the south of Port Dickson to about ten miles from the township. Where no unit is mentioned, the specimens have been collected by personnel of my own unit (NICA-NRX Detachment). The collection has been presented to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden.\nBufo melanostictus Schn. 1 specimen, Major L. D. Brongersma, Herp. reg. no. 8488.\nBufo parvus Blgr. 1 \xe2\x99\x82 halfgrown, Herp. reg. no. 8486. 1 juv., among dry leaves in a rubber plantation, March 1946, Sergt.\nEveraarts, Herp. reg. no. 8487.\nI am indebted to Mr. H. W. Parker, London, for his advise that both these specimens should be referred to Bufo parvus Blgr.\nIn the male (length from snout to vent 33 mm), the cranial ridges are distinct. The supraorbital ridges are slightly divergent behind, while the short parietal ridges converge posteriorly; thus the whole of the ridge is somewhat curved. In a fullgrown Sumatran specimen these ridges are straight.

Description: In 1776 beschreef P. L. S. M\xc3\xbcller (Syst. Nat. Suppl., p. 145) naar aanleiding van in Oost-Java verzameld materiaal de nominaatvorm dezer pitta onder de naam Turdus guajanus, terwijl de in West-Java levende ondersoort affinis als Myiothera affinis in 1821 door Horsfield (Trans. Linn. Soc.\nLondon, vol. 13, p. 154) werd beschreven op grond van in Bantam verkregen materiaal. In Cat. Birds Brit: Museum (vol. XIV, 1888, p. 445/6) vatte Sclater deze beide soorten samen onder de naam Eucichla cyanura.\nRobinson & Kloss (Treubia, vol. V, 1924, p. 279) noemden de OostJava vogels Eucichla c. cyanura en die van het Westen Eucichla cyanura affinis, welke naam ook door Bartels & Stresemann (1929) werd gebezigd. Later toonde Boden Kloss echter aan, dat de naam cyanura diende te worden gewijzigd in guajana (Journ. Mal. Br., Royal As. Soc., vol. IV, 1926, p. 161), terwijl Chasen in diens Handlist (1935) het geslacht Eucichla met Pitta vereenigde en deze brengt Pitta guajana guajana op voor OostJava en Bali en Pitta guajana affinis voor het Westen van dit eiland.\nDe oorspronkelijke beschrijving der beide ondersoorten hebben wij niet ter beschikking, maar Kuroda (Birds of the Island of Java, vol. I, 1933, p. 339) deelt ten aanzien van de nominaatvorm het volgende mede. ,,Characters: \xe2\x80\x94 Very similar to E. g. affinis of W. Java, but the blue gorget much more broader (10 mm in width in \xe2\x99\x82).\nAdult \xe2\x99\x82 (E. Java) \xe2\x80\x94 The ground-colour of underparts yellowish instead of brownish yellow as in affinis and the throat also whiter.\nAdult \xe2\x99\x80 (Bali) \xe2\x80\x94 "The ground-colour below of this female is not white as described in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XIV. p. 446, but yellowish buff, and the throat is more white (HARTERT)."

Description: In zijn laatste revisie van het genus Zosterops (Journ. f\xc3\xbcr Orn., vol. 87, 1939, p. 156-164) geeft Stresemann o.a. een schematische voorstelling van de horizontale en verticale verspreiding binnen deze Archipel van de vier voornaamste groepen van dit geslacht: montana, atricapilla, palpebrosa en chloris. Tot onze verwondering wordt hierin geen montana-vorm voor WestJava opgegeven, terwijl Siebers toch reeds in 1929 vogels van Goenoeng Tjerimai besprak, en afsplitste onder de naam Zosterops montana sindorensis (Treubia, vol. 11, 1929, p. 151). Deze ondersoort werd zoowel door Chasen (Handlist of Malaysian Birds, 1935, p. 266) als door Kuroda (Birds of the Island of Java, vol. 1, 1933, p. 127) geaccepteerd. De beide auteurs van \xe2\x80\x9eDe vogels van het Tenggergebergte" (De Tropische Natuur, jrg. 29, 1940, p. 93-101), de heer en mevrouw Van Bemmel, merken daarentegen weer op dat de soort Zosterops montana in West-Java ontbreekt, hetgeen echter in hetzelfde tijdschrift op p. 140 door den heer Bartels wordt herroepen, die melding maakt van het verzamelen van deze soort op de Papandajan. De laatste durft echter aan de hand van het geringe materiaal dat hem ter beschikking staat niet te zeggen tot welk ras de Papandajan-vogels behooren.\nHet Zoologisch Museum te Buitenzorg geraakte echter in 1941 in het bezit van negen balgen van dit brilvogeltje eveneens afkomstig van de Goenoeng Papandajan en aldaar verzameld op een hoogte van circa 2500 m door den heer A. de Vos. Deze balgen wijken in enkele opzichten z\xc3\xb3\xc3\xb3 belangrijk af van alle reeds bekende vormen, dat wij het alleszins verantwoord achten haar hieronder als nieuw te beschrijven.\nZosterops montana minor nov. subspec.

Description: The Blattid fauna of Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea, a region which from a zoogeographical point of view forms an important area of transition, is still insufficiently known. Moreover the literature on the Blattids of this region is scattered in various papers which made it desirable to give a general survey of the hitherto known species of the group from Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea.\nThe present paper deals with the material of Blattidae from the region mentioned above contained in the Leiden and in the Amsterdam museums.\nI am indebted to Prof. Dr. H. Boschma and Dr. H. C. Bl\xc3\xb6te of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden, and to Prof. Dr. L. F. de Beaufort and Mr. J. B. Corporaal of the Zoological Museum at Amsterdam for placing the material at my disposal. Further I should like to express my thanks to the board of Greshoff\'s Rumphiusfonds for a grant which enabled me to carry out the investigations.\nAs far as concerns our knowledge of the Blattidae in the region dealt with in the present paper, Celebes is the best known although the number of known species probably represents a part only of the existing forms. Hanitsch (1933) already came to this conclusion as he could state that few species only were caught by more than one collector. A survey of the most important collections from the region, with the names of the collectors and the authors who reported upon the material may be given here.\nBasler Naturhistorisches Museum, collectors P. and F. Sarasin (18931896 and 1902-1903), author R. Hanitsch.\nUniversity Museum Oxford, collector A. R. Wallace (1856-1859), author F. Walker (1868) ; collector W. Doherty (1896), author R. Shelford

Description: The \xe2\x80\x9cNotes on the Flora of Java\xe2\x80\x9d I and II published in Bull. Jard. hot. Buitenz., S\xc3\xa9r. III, Vol. XVI\xc2\xb2, 107\xe2\x80\x94110 (1939) and in Blumea V, No. 3, 490\xe2\x80\x94525 (1945).\nNext to these the present paper has two other precursors published under different titles but serving entirely the same purpose, which exists in the publishing of all the observations (including new species and nomenclatorial changes) made during the preparation of a Flora of Java under the direction of Dr C. A. Backer (see introduction to Notes II).

Description: In 1823 heeft Temminck onder de naam Myiothera melanothorax (Pl.\nCol., pl. 185) Cyanoderma m. melanothorax voor het eerst voor Java vastgesteld naar aanleiding van in West-Java (zonder nadere plaatsaanduiding) verzameld materiaal. In 1930 (Orn. Monatsber., vol. 38, p. 148/9) noemt Stresemann vijf exemplaren van deze timelia, afkomstig van Goenoeng Gedeh (West-Java) typische vertegenwoordigers van de nominaatvorm.\nIn 1918 werd door Robinson (Journ. Fed. Mal. States Mus., vol. 7, p. 236) de ondersoort intermedia afgesplitst n.a.v. te Sodong Gerok (Idjen Geb., Oost-Java) verzameld materiaal, waarbij volgens Kuroda (Birds of the Island of Java, vol. I, p. 284/5) de volgende diagnose werd gegeven. \xe2\x80\x9eIntermediate between Stachyris (= Cyanoderma) m. melanothorax (Temm.) from Western Java and St. m. baliensis (Hartert) from Java (error for Bali). Differs from the former in having the middle of the breast sandy buff, uniform with the flanks, not white, and from the latter in having the chin and throat pure white, only very faintly tinged with buff. Outer webs of the primaries, decidedly richer brown than the back but not nearly so bright as the wing coverts".\nVergeleken met de later door Stresemann (l.c.) afgesplitste ondersoort albigula, zou intermedia hiervan afwijken door zand-isabella-kleurig in plaats van grijsachtig wit borst-centrum.\nDe diagnose van de ondersoort albigula, die in 1930 door Stresemann werd afgesplitst n.a.v. materiaal afkomstig van Goenoeng Papandajan (WestJava) luidt als volgt: \xe2\x80\x9eDrei Exemplare (1 \xe2\x99\x82, 2 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80) vom Papandajan wurden von mir in Berlin mit 1 Exemplar von G. Gedeh und von Mr. A. Goodson in Tring

Description: During the stay of the Nica-detachment at Port Dickson, Malaya, in March 1946, a small collection of fishes was made, which was presented by Major Dr. L. D. Brongersma to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden. Besides these fishes from Malaya, two specimens of flying fishes from the Indian Ocean were presented.\nThe collection from Port Dickson was pretty small, 45 specimens in total, belonging to 25 species. It gives therefore by no means an idea of the fishfauna of Malaya. The fishfauna of the Westcoast of Malaya is still imperfectly known, so even this small collection can contribute to the knowledge of this fauna.\nThe species are arranged according to the system followed by M. Weber & L. F. de Beaufort in their Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago.\nThe length of the specimens is the total length.\nPORT DICKSON, MALAYA, MARCH 1946 Stolephorus indicus (v. Hasselt) 2 specimens of 39 and 45 mm.\nPlotosus canius H.B. 1 specimen of 41 mm.\nMuraena (Gymnothorax) meleagris Shaw 1 specimen of 157 mm.\nSyngnathoides biaculeatus (Bl.) 4 specimens of 127-141 mm.\nHippocampus kuda Blkr. 1 specimen of 136 mm from tip of coronet to end of tail.\nZenarchopterus quadrimaculatus Mohr

Description: Material collected by Mr. J. van der Drift and by myself in the National Park "De Hooge Veluwe", situated near Hoenderloo in the province Gelderland, led to some notes on the nomenclature and to supplementary descriptions of some Hahnia species.\nThe main works dealing with European Hahniidae are Dahl (1937) and Simon (1937).\nThe descriptions and figures in Dahl (1937) are very good and it is rather easy to recognise the species by the sexual organs. Unfortunately the nomenclature is partly wrong. Now the nomenclature in Simon (1937) for the greater part is correct, but the descriptions are sometimes incomplete.\nIn the following I tried to clear up some points.\nHahnia ononidum Simon, 1875 Hahnia mengei, M. Dahl, 1937, p. 105, figs. 6, 10, 19-21.\nHahnia ononidum, Simon, 1937, pp. 1029, 1045, figs. 1603-1605.\nHooge Veluwe, 13.XII.1946. \xe2\x80\x94 2 \xe2\x99\x82 \xe2\x99\x82 subadult.\nThis species did not yet occur on our faunal list. During my revision of the collection Van Hasselt I found one adult male between males of Hahnia nava (Blackwall). Our subadult males correspond close with the adult one. They show already the round spots near the petiolus.\nThe description in Simon (1937) makes the above-mentioned synonymy evident.\nHahnia cacuminata B\xc3\xb6senberg, 1902 Hahnia cacuminata, M. Dahl, 1937, p. 108, figs. 13, 24.\nHooge Veluwe (beechwood without herbaceous layer), 15. VIII. 1944. \xe2\x80\x94 2 \xe2\x99\x80 \xe2\x99\x80.\nSimon (1937, p. 1046) adds with a question-mark Hahnia cacuminata