ALBERT

Description: Besides the rather scanty material collected before 1900 the Phyllophorin\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb5 of the Leiden and the Amsterdam Museums consist of many of Karny\'s type specimens, and a number of specimens collected in New Guinea, especially by Van Kampen and by Versteeg.\nThough various authors (Kirby, 1899; Griffini, 1908) published papers of fundamental value concerning this subfamily of the Tettigoniidae, the general survey given by Caudell (1912) was little critical, in different genera even species are placed here of which the synonymy had already been established before (cf. Karny, 1924, pp. 19, 20). A modern revision of the subfamily was given by Karny (1924).\nThough Karny based his paper on a rather large number of specimens and a great deal of literature, it appears that there exist more species. The Leiden as well as the Amsterdam collections contain some specimens which could not be identified with the help of Karny\'s keys, and which did not fit in with the descriptions of the species already known. For that reason I feel justified to describe these as new species.\nAll specimens dealt with below, Karny\'s type specimens included, were carefully compared with the descriptions to avoid misinterpretations of Karny\'s view. In a few cases, however, I cannot agree with Karny\'s views concerning certain details in the keys as well as in the descriptions and I have given some additional notes when dealing with the genera or species under consideration.\nI abstained from giving a new key as that of Karny will do for the present when my remarks are taken into account.\nSasima Bol\xc3\xadvar

Description: In the present paper I have brought together the results of my studies of material from various collections made in New Guinea.\nOne new genus and some new species are described and figured, viz., Microsasima gen. nov. related to Phyllophorina, with as type-species Microsasima stueberi spec. nov.; Phyllophora cheesmanae spec. nov., and Phyllophora similis spec. nov.\nFurther the paper gives new information concerning species previously described from one sex only, viz., Sasima bifurcate Bol\xc3\xadvar I., \xe2\x99\x80 plesioallotype; also information is presented on the infraspecific variability and geographical distribution of some other species.\nThe basis for the modern study of the subfamily is Karny\'s monograph (Karny, 1924), which gives considerable information on most species, as well as an extensive list of references. It also contains a great number of descriptions of new species. For the older literature I refer to that paper.\nThe few papers published after Karny completed his monograph can be found in the list of references. The sequence of genera and species in the present paper is nearly the same as Karny\'s.\nSasima Bol\xc3\xadvar I., 1903 Sasima bifurcata Karny, 1924 (fig. 1) New Gtiinea: 1 \xe2\x99\x80, Papua, Kokoda, 1200 ft, viii.1933, L. E. Cheesman (plesioallotype, in British Museum).\nKarny described the species from a single male specimen from Menado on the island of Celebes. The only difference from the closely allied S. Spinosa (Brunner von Wattenwyl) is the medial vein (M) of the tegmina, which

Description: When rearranging a part of the collections of Orthoptera in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden I found a number of specimens belonging to this tribus, which by former authors is considered as a separate subfamily with the name Eumegalodontinae (Kirby, 1906, p. 289; Caudell, 1927, p. 30). With Karny I think it justified to let it retain its place as a tribe of the Copiphorinae.\nThe representatives of this group are of such a remarkable shape that they can easily be recognized among the other Copiphorinae by their relatively big head and strangely shaped prothorax, which bears strongly spined lateral processes on the disc.\nThe species under consideration can be divided into two groups, in the one of these the specimens possess a number of thorns on the fore and middle femora dorsally and ventrally. In this first group the following species are placed: Megalodon ensifer Brull\xc3\xa9 (1835) Lesina lutescens Walker (1869) Eumegalodon vaginatus Karny (1923) Eumegalodon intermedius Karny (1923) Lesina karnyi nov. spec., described below.\nIn the second group the dorsal surface of the fore and middle femora is devoid of spines, the ventral surface only bears a number of thorns. This group contains only one species: Megalodon blanchardi Brongniart (1890).\nThe generic names have been used differently by various authors.\nBrongniart (1892 a) established the name Eumegalodon for Megalodon

Description: Under the above title I intend to publish a number of short notes on Cerambycidae, including synonymies, descriptions of new species, etc. For the greater part the material on which these notes are based is from the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden. In other cases the collections are always indicated. Each set of notes published together will be arranged according to Aurivillius in Coleopterorum Catalogus (JunkSchenkling), parts 52, 39, 73 and 74.\nI.\nADDITIONAL NOTE ON RHAPHIPODUS DRESCHERI\nDE JONG (PRIONINAE, PRIONINI) Rhaphipodus drescheri De Jong (fig. 1a and b) Rhaphipodus drescheri De Jong, 1936, Zool. Med., vol. 19, p. 77.\nWhen studying some Cerambycidae in the collections of the Amsterdam Zoological Museum I found three specimens, 2 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80 and 1 \xe2\x99\x82, of the herementioned species from the same locality, Noesa Kembangan, and apparently belonging to the original series of specimens, all collected by Mr. F.\nC. Drescher. I would not have mentioned this find had not the measurements been varying from those given in the original description. Especially the male is larger than those I saw before. The data are as follows: These measurements agree in their proportions with those given before.\nIn the \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80 the antennae reach the middle of the length of the elytra, in the \xe2\x99\x82 they are longer and reach the base of the apical third.\nSome details which were not given in the original description may be added here.\nThe prosternum (fig. 1) is finely and evenly punctulated on its whole surface except on a narrow strip along the anterior and internal margins

Description: Some time ago I was asked to identify a fossil coleopteron which had been found in the drill cuttings of an oil well in the Southern part of Sumatra. As the fossil is only a few millimetres long it may be mentioned as an amazing fact that so small an object has been found during rather rough work like oil drilling.\nThe details of the locality as given by Mr. A. Wright Jr. of the N.V.\nStandard-Vacuum Petroleum Maatschappij are as follows: "The well is one of our Kaja wells, a wildcat well located 3.3 kilometres N. 300 E. from the northeast edge of the Djirah oilfield. The drill cutting was obtained from a depth of 1930 feet subsea. Although, in drill cuttings, there is a certain measure of uncertainty as to the exact level of derivation, we have sufficient evidence to be sure that the fossil actually derives from this depth.\nThe age is Tertiary-e; it occurs below beds of Baturadja stage age, but 200 feet above a lepidocyclina-bearing horizon. The fossil occurs in a shale interval of a formation which is generally non-fossiliferous; conditions were presumably marine, but either oligotrophe or toxic; the water at the time of deposition was shallow." The fossil is pyritized, dark bronze-greyish in colour. It is nearly free from substrate, though in some crevices a light grey, rather soft, somewhat fattish substance is found which can be taken away rather easily.\nThe fossil was sent to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden, mounted in a small box on a slide, pasted to the bottom with tragacanth. During the studies it was left in the small box, and kept in an exsiccator to preserve the fossil against deterioration by atmospheric influence.

Description: After Mr. F. T. Valck Lucassen\'s decease in september 1939 his collections have been transported to the Leiden Museum for better preservation. In 1941 the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, could acquire these considerable collections which also included those of Janson (London) and Girard (Geneva). These collections contain a great number of species, often represented by the types or series of types, many of which described by Valck Lucassen himself.\nIn an obituary Uyttenboogaart (1940: 1-2) gave an enumeration of all papers by Valck Lucassen, most of which are on Cetonids. The monograph on the genus Lomaptera, announced by Uyttenboogaart, had to be translated, illustrated and to be made ready for printing; it was published in 1961 by the Netherlands Entomological Society (Valck Lucassen, 1961). It is based for the greater part on specimens in Valck Lucassen\'s own collection, and other material from various collections in the world which was amiably lent to the author for study.\nIn the present paper I intend to give an enumeration of the full material now present in the Leiden and Amsterdam musea, with additional notes and descriptions of species new or insufficiently known.\nUnfortunately some misprints occur in the monograph which cause difficulties when using the identification tables. I give corrections in this catalogue. In this catalogue (V.L.) stands for: ex collection Valck Lucassen; (N.A.M.) for: ex collection Natura Artis Magistra. For the localities, which in many cases are not to be found on current atlases, I may refer to the map I added to Valck Lucassen\'s monograph, in which I tried to bring together all necessary data from expedition-reports, etc. A number of locali-

Description: Im Dezember 1938 besuchte der eine Autor, Dr. Breuning das Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden zum Studium mehrerer sich dort befindlichen Typen von Lamiinae f\xc3\xbcr seine \xe2\x80\x9e\xc3\x89tudes sur les Lamiaires" (1934\xe2\x80\x94 , Novitates Entomologicae, Suppl. 3). Er suchte dann auch eine Partie der interessantesten unbestimmten Cerambycidae zusammen, welche ihm zum weiteren Studium und Vergleichung an seiner Sammlung nach Wien zugesandt wurde. Einige Zeit sp\xc3\xa4ter sandte er sie zur\xc3\xbcck, die neuen Arten von kurzen Diagnosen versehen. Der andere Autor hatte auf sich genommen, diese Diagnosen auszuarbeiten, die St\xc3\xbccke nachzupr\xc3\xbcfen und die Abbildungen anzufertigen. Urspr\xc3\xbcnglich sollte vorliegende Arbeit im Sp\xc3\xa4tsommer 1939 ver\xc3\xb6ffentlicht werden. Die Herstellung der Figuren hat aber neben anderer Arbeit mehr Zeit in Anspruch genommen als erwartet worden war und als im August 1939 Dr. De Jong zum Milit\xc3\xa4rdienst eingerufen wurde war das Manuskript noch nicht druckfertig.\nErst nach seiner R\xc3\xbcckkehr im Sommer 1940 konnte er seine Arbeit fortsetzen.\nInzwischen hatte Dr. Breuning, in der Meinung dass die vorliegende Arbeit schon fr\xc3\xbcher zur Ver\xc3\xb6ffentlichung gekommen war, einige der damals neuen Arten angef\xc3\xbchrt in Novitates Entomologicae (Jahr 9, Dezember 1939, Supplement 3, Appendix, S. 516\xe2\x80\x94520).\nDie Anordnung der Genera ist nach Aurivillius (Coleopterorum Catalogus von Junk\xe2\x80\x94Schenkling, Pars 73, 1921 und Pars 74, 1923).\nDORCADIONINI Thoms.\nDolichostyrax basispinosus nov. spec. (Fig. 1) Holotypus: Sumatra, Palembang, Hoogvlakte van Liwa, 1000 m, leg. K. E. Keil.

Description: In Januari 1944 was ik in de gelegenheid om het Orthopteramateriaal, aanwezig in het Laboratorium voor Entomologie te Wageningen, te bestudeeren. Aan Prof. Dr. W. Roepke, directeur van genoemd Laboratorium, wil ik hier mijn dank brengen voor zijn medewerking en voor de in zijn laboratorium genoten gastvrijheid.\nBehalve het materiaal in de studiecollecties voor de toegepaste entomologie is thans ook tijdelijk de particuliere verzameling van Ir. P. A. Blijdorp in dit laboratorium ondergebracht. Vooral deze laatstgenoemde verzameling bevat mooi materiaal. Het is betrekkelijk nog pas kort geleden verzameld, voor het meerendeel door Mevr. M. E. Walsh, in W.-Java en Z.-Sumatra. Hoewel misschien de meeste soorten niet tot de groote zeldzaamheden behooren, is het vermelden toch de moeite waard, daar het aantal in de literatuur genoemde exemplaren en vindplaatsen tamelijk gering is. Ik heb het daarom nuttig geoordeeld om alle exemplaren van de Pterophyllinae uit de beide genoemde verzamelingen in de hier volgende lijst op te nemen.\nDe exemplaren van het Laboratorium voor Entomologie zijn met W. aangeduid, die uit de verzameling van Ir. Blijdorp met B.\n\nPTEROPHYLLINAE\n\nPSEUDOPHYLLINI\nChloracris prasina Pictet & Sauss., 1892 W.: 2 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80, vindplaats onbekend.\nB.: 1 \xe2\x99\x82, West-Java, 1935, leg. M. E. Walsh.\nChloracris brullei Pictet & Sauss., 1892 B.: 2 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80, Sumatra, Benkoelen, Kota, 3 I 1935 en III 1935, leg. F. W.

Description: Only part of the very extensive entomological collections made in New Guinea during various expeditions by Dutch scientists has so far been studied, but this already yielded many new species.\nA first superficial survey of the Orthoptera in these collections provided a number of specimens of a species of Phyllophora, which proved distinct from any of the forms described before. As I believe the species to be new to science, it is described here as Phyllophora boschmai nov. spec., and named in honour of Professor Dr. H. Boschma, who for many years was my teacher and director at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, and to whom I owe many thanks for his practical advices during my studies.\nThe greater part of the specimens mentioned here have been collected by Professor Boschma himself in his function of zoologist of the 1939-1940 expedition of the Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (Royal Netherlands Geographic Society) to Central New Guinea.\nAll the material dealt with was obtained in the Wissel Lakes area in the Central Mountains range of New Guinea (roughly at 136\xc2\xba 20\' E 3\xc2\xba 55\' S); the localities are indicated on the map in Dr. Boschma\'s (1943, p. 506) general account of his activities as a zoologist of the just mentioned expedition.\nPhyllophora boschmai nov. spec.\nMaterial. \xe2\x80\x94 10 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80 and 13 \xe2\x99\x82 \xe2\x99\x82, Paniai Lake, 22 August-15 November 1939, H. Boschma; 1 \xe2\x99\x80 and 1 \xe2\x99\x82, Bivak Araboe, 1-5 October 1939, H.\nBoschma; 3 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80 and 1 \xe2\x99\x82, Enarotali, Paniai Lake, 13 July 1952, W. J.\nRoosdorp; 1 \xe2\x99\x80, Enarotali, Paniai Lake, 5 January 1955, L. D. Brongersma c.s. (all syntypes).