ALBERT

Description: The Dalskog Dais-Rostock area lies in the Swedish province of Dalsland, to the west of lake Vänern. It lies entirely within the Upperud sheet of both the topographic (1926) and geological map (1870) and comprises parts of the parishes Gunnarsnäs, Dalskog and Ör. As shown by the outline map (fig. 1), the investigated region is situated in an area of gneiss-granites and supracrustal formations, which lies to the west of lake Vänern as an island in the great, highly metamorphic complex of gneisses of southwestern Sweden. In the adjoining table the geological events wich left their marks in the rocks of the Dalskog Dals-Rostock area are listed in chronological order. For the sake of clearness the table has been completed with data known from the adjoining regions, but these are placed in parentheses.

Description: The description of the Foraminifera of the type-locality of the Maestrichtian and its stratigraphical value is the object of this thesis. This type-locality is found in the Southern part of the Dutch province of Limburg.

Description: In deze publicatie is een deel der Amerikaanse Podostemaceae van de onderfamilie Podostemoideae opgenomen nl. de nauw verwante geslachten Apinagia, Marathrum, Rhyncholacis, Wettsteiniola, Lophogyne, Monostylis, Jenmaniella en het nieuwe geslacht Macarenia. Nagegaan wordt waarom deze geslachten verwant zijn. Uit het onderzoek is gebleken dat de geslachten Apinagia en Oenone, zoals die beschreven werden door Tulasne in 1852, niet als twee afzonderlijke geslachten gehandhaafd kunnen blijven. De indeling van de onderfamilie Podostemoideae, zoals Engler die in 1930 gaf, is gewijzigd in die zin dat de subtribus Mourerinae tot tribus is verheven en de subtribus Apinagiinae en Marathrinae met de tribus Eupodostemeae tot één tribus Eupodostemeae verenigd zijn. In het beschrijvende deel zijn de beschrijvingen van de soorten opgenomen met gegevens over type, verspreiding en vindplaatsen. Tabellen ter determinatie van de soorten zijn opgenomen. 1 Nieuw geslacht, 30 nieuwe soorten, 8 variëteiten en 2 vormen zijn beschreven. Aan deze beschrijvingen zijn de Latijnse beschrijvingen toegevoegd terwijl 16 pagina’s afbeeldingen van de nieuwe soorten en van enige oudere soorten geven. Een literatuurlijst welke alleen de Amerikaanse en de algemene literatuur omvat maken een nadere studie van deze familie mogelijk op die gebieden die in deze publicatie niet behandeld zijn.

Description: Alphen de Veer, E.J. & F.A. Verduyn Lunel: Kweekproeven met Intsia palembanica Miq. en Intsia bijuga O.K. (Tec-Tona 40, 1950, 336-345, 5 fig.). Data on germination and seedlings.

Description: A short account of the establishment of the Herbarium of the Department of Forests, Papua and New Guinea appeared on p. 61, no 3, volume I of Flora Malesiana Bulletin. This Herbarium has now been firmly established and is constantly receiving collections of plants from various parts of Papua and New Guinea. As a routine measure these are being distributed to the following herbaria: The Queensland State Herbarium at Brisbane, Queensland; The Herbarium of the Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra; The Arnold Arboretum, America; The Herbarium at Kew, England; The Herbarium at Leiden, Holland; The Herbarium at Bogor, Indonesia; The Herbarium at Singapore, Malay States; The Herbarium of the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, England. Duplicates of Coniferae are also sent to M.Y. Orr at Edinburgh, Scotland and to E. Stirling Booth at Adelaide, South Australia.

Description: Compared with their New World relatives of the subfamily Cyprinodontinae, the Old World Cyprinodonts are but little known. However, some interesting accounts on Turkish species, discovered by Kosswig, Sözer and Aksiray, have recently been published. Besides the species known, several new forms and species are described. While compiling an account on these fishes suitable for the home aquarium (Hoedeman & Bronner, 1950—1951), we felt some characters need reexamination, not only of Aphanius, but also of the North African genus Tellia which is said to differ from Aphanius only in the absence of ventral fins.

Description: Voorjaar 1949 ontving ik een kleine collectie levende vissen uit Suriname (Nederlands Guiana), door een zeeman verzameld in een poel nabij Paramaribo. Helaas is de juiste vindplaats niet nader aangegeven, dan enige kilometers ten zuiden van de hoofdstad. Onmiddellijk na ontvangst werden de vissen, die hier het onderwerp van bespreking zijn, in een groot gezelschapsaquarium (150 X 60 X 50 cm. hoog) ondergebracht, dat reeds werd bevolkt door verscheidene Nannostomini, Hasemania marginata, Rivulus cylindraceus, Acanthophthalmus kuhli, Dermogenus pusillus en Nannacara anomala en N. taenia.

Description: Le processus préoral est court. L’œil migrateur dépasse le bord antérieur de l’œil fixe de plus de la moitié de son propre diamètre. La narine exhalante zénithale est présente. La lèvre mandibulare zénithale est hypertrophiée en un petit nombre de larges processus nullement ciliés. Koμψòs, élégant; μεwiaμa, sourire.

Description: March 1951 Dr J.C. Koningsberger, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Bogor, 1910 – 1918, died at The Hague, aged 84. Dr J. Mattfeld, well-known to Malaysian botanists by his excellent work on Papuan Compositae, commissioned Director of the Botanic Gardens and Herbarium at Berlin-Dahlem died Jan. 19, 1951, aged 57.

Description: Scope, organization, and purpose of Series III, Flora Malesiana (Musci and Hepaticae) are explained. Collaboration is asked on the following points: (a) To collect Mosses and Hepaticae in Malaysia and to add extensive and detailed data to the specimens (directions available on application to the Editor). (b) To send on loan or donate existing collections. (c) To forward data concerning collectors, travels, and collections made. (d) To name (if necessary provisionnally) all unnamed specimens. (e) To collect data from literature (and to forward reprints). (f) To join the team of bryologists revising groups of Malaysian Bryophyta and to write the Editor about planned research.

Description: Dr E.D. Merrill is working on a MS index to William Jack’s papers. Mr R.D. Hoogland, Leiden, has finished his research on Dilleniaceae. The results will be embodied in a revision of the family in Flora Malesiana, a revision of Indo-Malaysian Tetracera, and a monograph of Dillenia (incl. Wormia) the latter serving as a thesis at Leiden University. He finished a revision of Malay Peninsular Argyreia and has started work on a monograph of the genus Erycibe (Convolv.). His work on Convolvulaceae is to be added to Dr S.J. van Ooststroom’s who will compile the revision of Gonvolvulaceae for Flora Malesiana.

Description: Survey of the flora of Bikini and other atolls before the atomic-bomb tests were made. The phytoplancton is excluded from the present carefully written and extensive analysis, which is most instructive to every student of tropical coral island floras. A general introduction furnishes an excellent view on Phanerogamic vegetation and land flora, the physical conditions of the islands, and the part played by different lements in coral building. The major part of the book is occupied by descriptions of the plants collected; marine Algae, of course, predominate. Several new spp. have been described e.g. in Halimeda, Rhipilia, Caulerpa, Pocockiella, Acrochaetium, Porolithion, Botryodiplodia and Fungi, etc. Latin diagnoses of new forms and species and a bibliography are given at the end. The book is exemplary illustrated and well-executed.

Description: In Flora Malesiana Bulletin No 8, 197-231, appeared a report on the changes in the international rules of botanical nomenclature made by the 7th Int. Bot. Congress at Stockholm (1950). Dr D.P. Rogers and Dr G.W. Martin, both members of the ad hoc Committee found some inaccuracies regarding the nomenclature of Fungi. They write: ”The multigraphed report of the Special Committee for Fungi contained numerous errors, which, because copies were furnished us very late, could not be corrected before distribution”. They are in favour of the following corrections: Rec. VIII. First sentence; after ”-phyta” insert ”(for Fungi, -mycota)”. Third sentence; after ”phytina” insert ”(for Fungi, -mycotina)”. Line ”1” under ”(b)”: delete ”(or autotrophic Thallophyta generally)”. Line ”2” under ”(b)”; delete; ’(or heterotrophic Thallophyta generally)”. ”Mycophyta”, in the examples of names of divisions, must be changed. Art. 20. (p. 225 of the F.M.B.): for ”Dec. 31, 1821” substitute ”Jan. 1, 1821”; for ”Jan. 1, 1801” substitute ”Dec. 31, 1801” (Art. 20) (e).

Description: A l’E d’Orange-Avignon, au pied du Mt. Ventoux, s’élève un petit massif, qui est limité au N et à l’W par l’Ouvèze (fig. 1), à l'E par la route de Vaison—Malaucène—le Barroux et au S par la route du Barroux à Vacqueras. Dans la littérature géologique ce massif se trouve le plus souvent indiqué sous le nom de massif de Gigondas, d’après le village situé sur le versant occidental du massif.

Description: In commemoration to Mr C.T. White, the Royal Society of Queensland of which Mr White was a president, will publish a White Memorial Volume of its Proceedings. Reinwardtia. Onwards of 1950 the Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg (Bulletin of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg) has changed its name and has been named Reinwardtia in commemoration of the founder of the Botanic Gardens, Prof. Dr C.G.C. Reinwardt, who directed the Gardens 1817-1822. The size of the new journal is slightly smaller than the former series; subscriptions through G.C.T. van Dorp & Co, Publishers & Booksellers, Djalan Nusantara 22, Djakarta, Indonesia. Price per part $1.50 or the equivalent in other currency. Exchange is through the Bibliotheca, Djalan Raya 20, Bogor, Djawa, Indonesia, The Bulletin, series III, is complete in 18 volumes and 3 Supplement volumes.

Description: In September and October 1950, Mr. C. Swaneveld, of Zierikzee, and Mr. Jac. Viergever, of Serooskerke, collected some rich samples of Copepods, found alive in the branchial sac of certain species of Tunicates. The greater part of the Tunicates belonged to the Ascidian-species Ascidiella aspersa (O. F. Müller.) The peculiar little commensal lives in the branchial cavity, often in considerable numbers, with their posterior antenna fixed to the body wall of the Ascidian. The species of the genus Notodelphys stand lowest in the scale of species adapted to this curious mode of life : I observed them moving quickly through the water outside the Tunicate, in a jumping way. Especially when the water contains little oxygen, the animals leave their host through the ingestion opening. They do not swim for longer than a few seconds, then settling again on some object, often the outer wall of the Ascidian.

Description: Compared with their New World relatives of the subfamily Cyprinodontinae, the Old World Cyprinodonts are but little known. However, some interesting accounts on Turkish species, discovered by Kosswig, S\xc3\xb6zer and Aksiray, have recently been published. Besides the species known, several new forms and species are described.\nWhile compiling an account on these fishes suitable for the home aquarium (Hoedeman & Bronner, 1950\xe2\x80\x941951), we felt some characters need reexamination, not only of Aphanius, but also of the North African genus Tellia which is said to differ from Aphanius only in the absence of ventral fins.

Description: Le processus pr\xc3\xa9oral est court. L\xe2\x80\x99\xc5\x93il migrateur d\xc3\xa9passe le bord ant\xc3\xa9rieur de l\xe2\x80\x99\xc5\x93il fixe de plus de la moiti\xc3\xa9 de son propre diam\xc3\xa8tre. La narine exhalante z\xc3\xa9nithale est pr\xc3\xa9sente. La l\xc3\xa8vre mandibulare z\xc3\xa9nithale est hypertrophi\xc3\xa9e en un petit nombre de larges processus nullement cili\xc3\xa9s. Ko\xce\xbc\xcf\x88\xc3\xb2s, \xc3\xa9l\xc3\xa9gant; \xce\xbc\xce\xb5wia\xce\xbca, sourire.

Description: Voorjaar 1949 ontving ik een kleine collectie levende vissen uit Suriname (Nederlands Guiana), door een zeeman verzameld in een poel nabij Paramaribo. Helaas is de juiste vindplaats niet nader aangegeven, dan enige kilometers ten zuiden van de hoofdstad.\nOnmiddellijk na ontvangst werden de vissen, die hier het onderwerp van bespreking zijn, in een groot gezelschapsaquarium (150 X 60 X 50 cm. hoog) ondergebracht, dat reeds werd bevolkt door verscheidene Nannostomini, Hasemania marginata, Rivulus cylindraceus, Acanthophthalmus kuhli, Dermogenus pusillus en Nannacara anomala en N. taenia.

Description: The increased importance which the European red mite (Paratetranychus pilosus (Can. et Fanz.)) (= Metatetranychus ulmi (Koch)) has assumed in recent years has led to an intensive study of its biology and natural history.\nIn the course of these investigations many workers, and in particular those in Nova Scotia (vide Lord, 1949), have become convinced that this pest can be controlled, on apple trees at least, by natural means and that some of the most active agents in its eradication are the representatives of that group of predaceous mites which Vitzthum (1941) placed in the subfamily Phytoseiinae Ber\'lese, 1916 1). As the late Dr. A. C. Oudemans of Arnhem included many if not most of these species in the genus Typhlodromus as he conceived it, this paper is in essence a revision of that genus.\nPresumably because of their small size and limited distribution, which is largely contingent upon readily available populations of their hosts, little attention has been paid to these predators from either the ecological or taxonomic point of view. A cursory survey of the literature pertaining to the predaceous relationship which exists between the Phytoseiinae herein to be discussed and the tetranychid mites may serve as an appraisal of this economically significant group of mites. Koch (1839) in describing what now appears to be a typhlodromid, viz., Gamasus vepallidus, made no reference to its possible predaceous habits. Scheuten (1857) thought that the eriophyids which he found associated in numbers with his Typhlodromus pyri were its offspring. Berlese (1882-1898), however, had a better understanding of these relationships and was able to state in his redescription of G. vepallidus as Seius (Seiulus) vepallidus (K.) that it was a predator of small acari as well as being a mycophage. His countryman, Ribaga (1902), writing of the

Description: Alphen de Veer, E.J. & F.A. Verduyn Lunel: Kweekproeven met Intsia palembanica Miq. en Intsia bijuga O.K. (Tec-Tona 40, 1950, 336-345, 5 fig.).\nData on germination and seedlings.

Description: In Flora Malesiana Bulletin No 8, 197-231, appeared a report on the changes in the international rules of botanical nomenclature made by the 7th Int. Bot. Congress at Stockholm (1950). Dr D.P. Rogers and Dr G.W. Martin, both members of the ad hoc Committee found some inaccuracies regarding the nomenclature of Fungi. They write: \xe2\x80\x9dThe multigraphed report of the Special Committee for Fungi contained numerous errors, which, because copies were furnished us very late, could not be corrected before distribution\xe2\x80\x9d. They are in favour of the following corrections: Rec. VIII. First sentence; after \xe2\x80\x9d-phyta\xe2\x80\x9d insert \xe2\x80\x9d(for Fungi, -mycota)\xe2\x80\x9d. Third sentence; after \xe2\x80\x9dphytina\xe2\x80\x9d insert \xe2\x80\x9d(for Fungi, -mycotina)\xe2\x80\x9d. Line \xe2\x80\x9d1\xe2\x80\x9d under \xe2\x80\x9d(b)\xe2\x80\x9d: delete \xe2\x80\x9d(or autotrophic Thallophyta generally)\xe2\x80\x9d. Line \xe2\x80\x9d2\xe2\x80\x9d under \xe2\x80\x9d(b)\xe2\x80\x9d; delete; \xe2\x80\x99(or heterotrophic Thallophyta generally)\xe2\x80\x9d. \xe2\x80\x9dMycophyta\xe2\x80\x9d, in the examples of names of divisions, must be changed.\nArt. 20. (p. 225 of the F.M.B.): for \xe2\x80\x9dDec. 31, 1821\xe2\x80\x9d substitute \xe2\x80\x9dJan. 1, 1821\xe2\x80\x9d; for \xe2\x80\x9dJan. 1, 1801\xe2\x80\x9d substitute \xe2\x80\x9dDec. 31, 1801\xe2\x80\x9d (Art. 20) (e).

Description: In commemoration to Mr C.T. White, the Royal Society of Queensland of which Mr White was a president, will publish a White Memorial Volume of its Proceedings.\nReinwardtia. Onwards of 1950 the Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg (Bulletin of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg) has changed its name and has been named Reinwardtia in commemoration of the founder of the Botanic Gardens, Prof. Dr C.G.C. Reinwardt, who directed the Gardens 1817-1822. The size of the new journal is slightly smaller than the former series; subscriptions through G.C.T. van Dorp & Co, Publishers & Booksellers, Djalan Nusantara 22, Djakarta, Indonesia. Price per part $1.50 or the equivalent in other currency. Exchange is through the Bibliotheca, Djalan Raya 20, Bogor, Djawa, Indonesia, The Bulletin, series III, is complete in 18 volumes and 3 Supplement volumes.

Description: In September and October 1950, Mr. C. Swaneveld, of Zierikzee, and Mr. Jac. Viergever, of Serooskerke, collected some rich samples of Copepods, found alive in the branchial sac of certain species of Tunicates. The greater part of the Tunicates belonged to the Ascidian-species Ascidiella aspersa (O. F. M\xc3\xbcller.) The peculiar little commensal lives in the branchial cavity, often in considerable numbers, with their posterior antenna fixed to the body wall of the Ascidian. The species of the genus Notodelphys stand lowest in the scale of species adapted to this curious mode of life : I observed them moving quickly through the water outside the Tunicate, in a jumping way. Especially when the water contains little oxygen, the animals leave their host through the ingestion opening. They do not swim for longer than a few seconds, then settling again on some object, often the outer wall of the Ascidian.

Description: Among a recent importation from the Belgian Congo there was a multitude of lovely little aquariumfishes, mostly well-known to aquarists. but partly new to them, and some of these fishes even new to science. A large number of small \xe2\x80\x9dTetra\xe2\x80\x99s\xe2\x80\x9d closely resembled the well-known species Petersius caudalis. Four perfectly preserved specimens (formol), were supplied to me by Mr. C. A. Spoelstra of Haarlem, a well-known aquarist-breeder.\nIn order to identify this species, and designate its proper place, I started to study literature and material in the Museum. It then became evident that the classification and nomenclature of this group is far behind, a case somewhat similar to the one I recently discussed concerning the South-American Nannostomidi (Hoedeman, 1950 : 11-271). A large number of forms, merely of subspecific rank or local varieties only, have been named and classified as good species, while too much stress has been laid upon the dentition and number of rows of teeth as a character in the classification of this group. This character now clearly is of polyphyletic nature, and even highly variable in species and subspecies.

Description: Dr Junge of the \xe2\x80\x9eRijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden\xe2\x80\x9d has been so kind to lend me the following specimens of bats, registered as Tylonycteris pachypus (Temminck) (all in alcohol). reg. no. 273 ...... 3 males, 3 females ......... Java. \xe2\x80\x9e \xe2\x80\x9e 274 ...... 2 females (1, m) ............ Cambodge. \xe2\x80\x9e \xe2\x80\x9e 280 ...... 4 spec ........................ Annam. \xe2\x80\x9e \xe2\x80\x9e 1260 ...... 1 male, 1 female ............ Mt. Dapad, Borneo. \xe2\x80\x9e \xe2\x80\x9e 1420 ...... 4 spec. (v, w, x, y) ......... Buitenzorg, Java. \xe2\x80\x9e \xe2\x80\x9e 1645 ...... 34 spec. ........................ Malang, Oost-Java.\nWhen examining this material, I discovered that the 2 female specimens I and m of Cambodge (reg. no. 274), were misnamed. The label is reading:

Description: The sinus rhomboidalis sacralis or sinus lumbosacralis as it is named by Ariens Kappers (1920) is an interesting anatomical part of the lumbosacral region of the avian spinal medulla. It is found in birds only and neither in reptiles nor in mammals.\nFig. 1 shows the lumbosacral part of the spinal medulla of Phoenicopterus Pig. 1. Spinal medulla of Phoenicopterus, dorsal view, with sinus lumbosacralis and corpus gelatinosum. From Imhof (1905). seen from the dorsal surface and Fig. 2 represents a diagrammatic transverse section through the lumbosacral part. These figures show some peculiarities that are found in birds only. All vertebrates with hind limbs have a lumbosacral enlargement of the spinal medulla, but in birds this enlargement has become more pronounced through the presence of the lumbosacral sinus. At the dorsal surface of the medulla there is an elongated cleft, which we may call the sinus, and this cleft penetrates rather deep, deeper than the central canal. The cleft is filled up by a plug of peculiar gelatinous tissue, which protrudes in a marked degree above the surface of the medulla. This tissue is named by Terni (1924) the corpus glycogenicus because the cells contain a great mass of glycogen. Perhaps it is better to use the name corpus gelatinosum, as this name pretends nothing, and glycogen is of common occurrence in tumors and in many other tissues. Ariens Kappers (1924) has shown that this tissue is of a very complicated origin, it is partly glious, partly pial and partly arachnoidal, it contains blood vessels and it is composed of large vacuolized cells. It is remarkable that this gelatinous tissue, when transferred to 70 % alcohol collapses in a few minutes. Imhof (1905) has studied the embryonic development of the lumbosacral sinus

Description: The Dalskog Dais-Rostock area lies in the Swedish province of Dalsland, to the west of lake V\xc3\xa4nern. It lies entirely within the Upperud sheet of both the topographic (1926) and geological map (1870) and comprises parts of the parishes Gunnarsn\xc3\xa4s, Dalskog and \xc3\x96r.\nAs shown by the outline map (fig. 1), the investigated region is situated in an area of gneiss-granites and supracrustal formations, which lies to the west of lake V\xc3\xa4nern as an island in the great, highly metamorphic complex of gneisses of southwestern Sweden. In the adjoining table the geological events wich left their marks in the rocks of the Dalskog Dals-Rostock area are listed in chronological order. For the sake of clearness the table has been completed with data known from the adjoining regions, but these are placed in parentheses.

Description: A l\xe2\x80\x99E d\xe2\x80\x99Orange-Avignon, au pied du Mt. Ventoux, s\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\xa9l\xc3\xa8ve un petit massif, qui est limit\xc3\xa9 au N et \xc3\xa0 l\xe2\x80\x99W par l\xe2\x80\x99Ouv\xc3\xa8ze (fig. 1), \xc3\xa0 l\'E par la route de Vaison\xe2\x80\x94Malauc\xc3\xa8ne\xe2\x80\x94le Barroux et au S par la route du Barroux \xc3\xa0 Vacqueras.\nDans la litt\xc3\xa9rature g\xc3\xa9ologique ce massif se trouve le plus souvent indiqu\xc3\xa9 sous le nom de massif de Gigondas, d\xe2\x80\x99apr\xc3\xa8s le village situ\xc3\xa9 sur le versant occidental du massif.

Description: I. Grouping of European species of the genus Astata Latr.\nIt is not my intention to anticipate in this paper a subgeneric division of the genus Astata 1). For the purpose of such division, it would be necessary to investigate more non-European material than at present is at my disposal.\nBut at first view it seems to me that the European species may be divided into four distinct groups, which may be separated with the key given below.\nTwo of the proposed groups (the stigma-group and the tricolor-group) form part of the subgenus Dryudella Spinola, as this subgenus has generally been understood; nevertheless, the differences between these two groups, namely in the shape of the clypeus and, in the females, in the habitus, seem to justify separating them; although, investigation of allied non-European species might make it necessary to adapt or to modify the key to the groups.\nEventually, the possibility that non-European intermediate forms will make the separations untenable cannot be absolutely excluded. A decision about the taxonomic rank of the proposed groups, therefore, must be postponed.\nSpinola (1843, P- 135), erecting the genus or subgenus Dryudella ("une nouvelle coupe, qu\'on appellera genre ou sous-genre, selon les principes qu\'on aura adoptes dans la nomenclature binominale"), based the "nouvelle coupe" on the wing venation of "Dimorpha cincta Perris" and separated it from "Dimorpha" 1) "par la troisieme cubitale, lunulee comme dans les "Lyrops" 2) et par la premiere nervure recurrente, qui s\'anastomose avec la nervure transversale qui separe la premiere de la seconde cubitale". However, in these critical features, Spinola was incorrect in several respects. Even excluding stigma and its near allies from Dryudella (Spinola himself never

Description: Records of cave-dwelling Lepidoptera are scarce in comparison with those in other orders of Insects, e.g., Coleoptera, of which even a whole subfamily (Silphidae, Bathysciinae) is in a most remarkable way adapted to this peculiar habitat. In the group of the so-called Microlepidoptera we could find examples of some eight species only, belonging to different families.\nApparently none of them is a true cave-dweller, i. e., a permanent resident of caves and really adapted to life in total darkness.\nCrypsithyris spelaea Meyrick, 1908 (Tinaeidae) only has been regarded as an exception. This species has been described from a large cave in Moulmein, Burma, and originally was reported as "being practically bleached or colourless", but with normally developed eyes and wings (Meyrick, 1908, p. 399). Later on better material has been collected at the same locality, and this time the moth appeared to be not quite colourless (Meyrick, 1916, pp. 602-603). It remains uncertain, therefore, whether there is question of any adaptation to cave-life and whether this species can be regarded as an "obligate cavernicole,, insect, the more so as larvae of closely allied species of this genus have been found living in the open, in portable cases on lichens covering rocks.\nFurthermore we could find reference to three species of the genus Tinaea: T. antricola Meyr., 1924, and T. pyrosoma Meyr., 1924, both from Siju Caves, Assam, and T. palaechrysis Meyr., 1929, from Batu Caves, Selangor (Malaya). Of the latter was said that it "belongs to the typically unicolorous yellow group, but has probably acquired fuscous colouring as an adaptation to cave life; it may therefore be a true cave-dweller, possibly restricted to these particular caves" (Meyrick, 1929, p. 375). Afterwards, however, Dam-

Description: When discussing the genus Errina in my paper "Investigations on Stylasteridae (Hydrocorals),, (1942) I arrived at the conclusion held by Hickson (1912) that the species of the genus should be grouped in two, or possibly three, subgenera. It was pointed out that Hickson had erroneously used the designation "the Labiopora group" for the subgenus containing the type species Errina aspera (L.), and accordingly I proposed to name this subgenus Eu-Errina. For the other subgenus, viz., "the Errina group" of Hickson, the type species of which is Errina labiata Moseley, I introduced the name Labiata. A third group, viz., "the Spinipora group" of Hickson, was only casually mentioned by me, as I had no representative of this group at hand.\nThe only species of this group known at that time was Errina echinata (Moseley).\nAs, unfortunately, the Nomenclator Zoologicus (Neave, 1939-1940) was not accessible to me until recently, I was not aware that the name Labiata had been already used by Fabricius for a genus of Molluscs in 1823. Accordingly it will be necessary to introduce a new name for this subgenus of Errina. I thus propose to change this to Inferiolabiata. This name, moreover, has certain advantages in that it embraces the main character of the subgenus, viz., its waterspout-like spines which are connected with the mouths of the dactylozooid pores, which may be regarded as adumbrations of protruding, lower lips.\nIn this connexion the Spinipora group of Hickson might well be discussed.\nHere also the name, Spinipora, is preoccupied according to Neave: it was introduced by Agassiz in 1846 (emend, pro Spinopora Blainville, 1830) for a bryozoan genus. Moseley used it in 1879 f\xc2\xb0r a Stylasterid genus, and Hickson

Description: The respiratory organs of snakes show a great diversity according to genera and species. In the Boidae (two genera excepted; cf. Brongersma, 1951 a and 1951 b), and in Xenopeltis unicolor (Reinw.) both lungs are well developed, although the left is shorter than the right (Butler, 1895). The difference in length between the right and the left lung is not the same in all genera and species, but it also shows individual variations within the species. In the Anilidae the left lung has undergone further reduction than in the Boidae; in Cylindrophis rufus (Laur.) the left lung is still rather well developed, its length is 12% of that of the right lung; in Anilius scytale (L.) the left lung is rudimentary, its length being only 3.5% of that of the right lung; in Anomochilus weberi (Lidth) the left lung has disappeared completely (Brongersma & Helle, 1951). Among the Colubridae, Elapidae, and Viperidae a rudimentary left lung is present in some species, while it has disappeared in others. A rudimentary left lung is present in the following species examined by me: Elaphe radiata (Schleg.) and Elaphe flavolineata (Schleg.) (Colubridae), Bungarus candidus (L.) and Bungarus fasciatus (Schn.) (Elapidae), Crotalus durissus L. and Trimeresurus wagleri (Boie). The diagram in fig. 1 shows the relative length of the left lung in a number of species of Boidae, Anilidae, and in Xenopeltis unicolor (Reinw.).\nIt must be remembered that these diagrams are based on measurements taken from preserved specimens; therefore, the values found are only approximately correct.\nDifferences according to genera and species also exist in the structure of the lungs, e.g., with regard to the area of the internal wall that is alveolar, and the development of a smooth-walled anangious air-sac at the caudal end

Description: The present paper deals with a collection brought together by J. G. Kooiman in 1946. After the defeat of Japan, some Dutch biologists, who during the war had worked as prisoners of war on the notorious Burma railroad, biologically explored the Khwae Noi valley. Kooiman joined this party as an ornithologist. The collection might have been larger, but shooting was limited by the exceedingly high prices of cartridges at that time. The lack of field glasses also was an inconvenience. The collection is of interest as it is the first from this part of Siam. Afterwards the collection was sent to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, where it was worked out by Junge, who is responsible for the taxonomical part of the paper. Kooiman added the field notes.\nArdeola bacchus (Bp.) Buphus bacchus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, 2, 1855, P- 127 (Malay Peninsula).\nNikhe: 2 \xe2\x99\x82\xe2\x99\x82 ad. (nos. 44, 51).\nNo. Sex Date Wing Tail Culmen Tarsus 44 \xe2\x99\x82 ad. 3-5-1946 226 80 63 64 51 \xe2\x99\x82ad. 4-5-1946 233 88 65 60 Irides golden yellow. Maxilla pale blue at base, central part yellow, tip black. Mandible at base yellowish geen or blue, central part yellow, tip black.\nTarsus yellow, feet yellowish green.\nThe two birds are in breeding plumage. One of them (no. 44) has the chestnut of the neck mixed with white feathers.\nField notes. The Chinese Pond Heron is a very common bird in western Siam, occurring everywhere in rice fields and marshes. Along the river Khwae Noi it is found in small flocks of 4-6 birds on grassy places, open

Description: Sous le nom de Cynoglossus xiphoideus G\xc3\xbcnther, la collection ichthyologique du Zo\xc3\xb6logisch Museum, Amsterdam poss\xc3\xa8de 2 sp\xc3\xa9cimens dont l\xe2\x80\x99un est originaire de Shangha\xc3\xaf et l\xe2\x80\x99autre, de la mer de Timor. Le sp\xc3\xa9cimen de Shangha\xc3\xaf a \xc3\xa9t\xc3\xa9 c\xc3\xa9d\xc3\xa9 au Zo\xc3\xb6logisch Museum (sans doute \xc3\xa0 titre d\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\xa9change) par le British Museum, en 1909: c\xe2\x80\x99est feu G\xc3\xbcnther qui est responsable de sa d\xc3\xa9termination. Le sp\xc3\xa9cimen de la mer de Timor a \xc3\xa9t\xc3\xa9 captur\xc3\xa9 par le \xe2\x80\x9eSiboga\xe2\x80\x9d: il a \xc3\xa9t\xc3\xa9 mentionn\xc3\xa9 par Weber (1913), puis par Weber et de Blaufort (1929). De teinte \xc3\xa9galement tr\xc3\xa8s claire, ces deux sp\xc3\xa9cimens semblent avoir subi une action d\xc3\xa9colorante. Tous deux sont des femelles; ni l\xe2\x80\x99un ni l\xe2\x80\x99autre n\xe2\x80\x99appartiennent \xc3\xa0 l\xe2\x80\x99esp\xc3\xa8ce d\xc3\xa9sign\xc3\xa9e par leur \xc3\xa9tiquette respective, esp\xc3\xa8ce avec laquelle ils n\xe2\x80\x99ont gu\xc3\xa8re de commun que leur formule pleurogrammique (3 lignes lat\xc3\xa9rales sur la face z\xc3\xa9nitale, aucune sur la face nadirale) et l\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\xa9tat ct\xc3\xa9no\xc3\xafde de la plupart (chez l\xe2\x80\x99un) ou de la totalit\xc3\xa9 (chez l\xe2\x80\x99autre) de leurs \xc3\xa9cailles. Tous deux diff\xc3\xa8rent \xc3\xa0 premi\xc3\xa8re vue de C. xiphoideus par la bri\xc3\xa8vet\xc3\xa9 relative de leur processus pr\xc3\xa9oral.\nEtablis d\xe2\x80\x99apr\xc3\xa8s l\xe2\x80\x99examen de 30 sp\xc3\xa9cimens, y compris le holotype, ainsi que les types de C. solum SAUVAGE, les caract\xc3\xa8res de C. xiphoideus sont les suivants: D 113\xe2\x80\x94122. A 89\xe2\x80\x9499. C 8 (10). D + 4 + A + C 212\xe2\x80\x94226. S 123\xe2\x80\x94150 (1); entre la ligne lat\xc3\xa9rale synaxonale et l\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\xa9panoxale 20\xe2\x80\x9423: entre la synaxonale et l\xe2\x80\x99hypaxonale 21\xe2\x80\x9426 (28). Toutes les \xc3\xa9cailles sont ct\xc3\xa9noides, sans excepter les pleurogrammiques; le champ acanthog\xc3\xa8ne des nadirales n\xe2\x80\x99est nullement r\xc3\xa9duit. En centi\xc3\xa8mes de la longueur \xc3\xa9talon: t\xc3\xaate 18\xe2\x80\x9422; hauteur 21\xe2\x80\x9426. En centi\xc3\xa8mes de la longueur de la t\xc3\xa9te; oeil 5\xe2\x80\x948 (9); espace interoculaire 4\xe2\x80\x946 (7); espace postoculaire (2) (39) 40\xe2\x80\x9443; uropt\xc3\xa9rygie (48) 50\xe2\x80\x9457. Le canthus rostal est tr\xc3\xa8s pro\xc3\xa9mineat et \xc3\xa9troitement arqu\xc3\xa9. Le processus pr\xc3\xa9oral atteint et d\xc3\xa9passe presque toujours la verticale du bord post\xc3\xa9rieur de l\xe2\x80\x99oeil fixe. Il en est de m\xc3\xaame pour l\xe2\x80\x99extr\xc3\xa9mit\xc3\xa9 caudale du maxillaire. La narine post\xc3\xa9rieure z\xc3\xa9nithale est petite; elle s\xe2\x80\x99ouvre dans la moiti\xc3\xa9 ant\xc3\xa9rieure de l\xe2\x80\x99espace interoculaire. En alcool, la face z\xc3\xa9nithale est tout enti\xc3\xa8re d\xe2\x80\x99un brun plus ou moins fonc\xc3\xa9, uniforme; les nageoires sont ordinairement bord\xc3\xa9es de blanc; la face nadirale est plus claire. Dimensions maximun observ\xc3\xa9es: longueur totale 281 mm.; longueur \xc3\xa9talon 279 mm. Cette esp\xc3\xa8ce n\xe2\x80\x99est connue que des eaux douces du Siam et de l\xe2\x80\x99Indo-Chine (Cambodge. Cochinchine. Annam et Tonkin).

Description: The Dwarf-cichlid genus Apistogramma, very popular among aquarists and at present among students of animal behaviour, hitherto comprises about 16 forms, several of them hardly specifically distinguished, and probably only based on stages or sexes of other species. Nevertheless I found a new form among a small collection of fresh-water fishes, imported alive by a sailor from near Paramaribo, in Dutch Guiana. I had the opportunity to keep them in an aquarium for several months, and to study their behaviour. When at last they died I tried to identify this species, and it then appeared that they were new to science. They may, however, be identical with the species described by Innes as Apistogramma U2, of which I have been unable to find a scientific description yet.\nThe two specimens on which the new species is based, were captured near Paramaribo, where they lived together with Apistogramma steindachneri (Regan 1908), at least forms which resemble this species in almost every character. I will report on this form in the revision of the genus which is in preparation.

Description: The description of the Foraminifera of the type-locality of the Maestrichtian and its stratigraphical value is the object of this thesis.\nThis type-locality is found in the Southern part of the Dutch province of Limburg.

Description: In literature only very scanty information is to be found about the viscera of the Boid genera Tropidophis and Trachyboa, and therefore I believed it worth while to publish some notes which I made during dissections of the following species and subspecies: Tropidophis melanurus (Schleg.), Tropidophis maculatus haetianus (Cope), Tropidophis pardalis pardalis (Gundl.) and Trachyboa gularis Ptrs. The notes are in no way exhaustive; the specimens have been preserved in alcohol for a long time, and therefore it was not possible to study all features in detail.\nAll but two genera of the Boidae have two well developed lungs. One of these two exceptions was mentioned already by Cope (1894, pp. 218, 220: Ungualia; 1900, p. 697), viz., the genus Ungalia (i.e., Tropidophis of present day nomenclature). In this genus only one lung is present, and besides1 a tracheal lung has developed. The second exception is the genus Trachyboa; the fact that in this genus too a tracheal lung and only one true lung have developed, seems to have escaped notice up till now. As will be shown below there are also other features in which Tropidophis and Trachyboa agree with one another, while they differ from the other Boidae.\nTropidophis melanurus (Schleg.) Specimens examined: 1 $, Cuba, leg. Ramon de la Sagra, Mus. Leiden reg. no. 1299. 1 # juv., Cuba, leg. Ramon de la Sagra, Mus. Leiden reg. no. 1298.\nBoth specimens were labelled "Ungalia maculata", but after due consideration I refer them to Tropidophis melanurus (Schleg.). Especially the identification of the male no. 1299 caused me some difficulties, and therefore I may give my reasons for this identification. This male has a quadrifurcate

Description: Dr E.D. Merrill is working on a MS index to William Jack\xe2\x80\x99s papers.\nMr R.D. Hoogland, Leiden, has finished his research on Dilleniaceae. The results will be embodied in a revision of the family in Flora Malesiana, a revision of Indo-Malaysian Tetracera, and a monograph of Dillenia (incl. Wormia) the latter serving as a thesis at Leiden University. He finished a revision of Malay Peninsular Argyreia and has started work on a monograph of the genus Erycibe (Convolv.). His work on Convolvulaceae is to be added to Dr S.J. van Ooststroom\xe2\x80\x99s who will compile the revision of Gonvolvulaceae for Flora Malesiana.

Description: In deze publicatie is een deel der Amerikaanse Podostemaceae van de onderfamilie Podostemoideae opgenomen nl. de nauw verwante geslachten Apinagia, Marathrum, Rhyncholacis, Wettsteiniola, Lophogyne, Monostylis, Jenmaniella en het nieuwe geslacht Macarenia.\nNagegaan wordt waarom deze geslachten verwant zijn. Uit het onderzoek is gebleken dat de geslachten Apinagia en Oenone, zoals die beschreven werden door Tulasne in 1852, niet als twee afzonderlijke geslachten gehandhaafd kunnen blijven. De indeling van de onderfamilie Podostemoideae, zoals Engler die in 1930 gaf, is gewijzigd in die zin dat de subtribus Mourerinae tot tribus is verheven en de subtribus Apinagiinae en Marathrinae met de tribus Eupodostemeae tot \xc3\xa9\xc3\xa9n tribus Eupodostemeae verenigd zijn. In het beschrijvende deel zijn de beschrijvingen van de soorten opgenomen met gegevens over type, verspreiding en vindplaatsen. Tabellen ter determinatie van de soorten zijn opgenomen. 1 Nieuw geslacht, 30 nieuwe soorten, 8 vari\xc3\xabteiten en 2 vormen zijn beschreven. Aan deze beschrijvingen zijn de Latijnse beschrijvingen toegevoegd terwijl 16 pagina\xe2\x80\x99s afbeeldingen van de nieuwe soorten en van enige oudere soorten geven.\nEen literatuurlijst welke alleen de Amerikaanse en de algemene literatuur omvat maken een nadere studie van deze familie mogelijk op die gebieden die in deze publicatie niet behandeld zijn.

Description: March 1951 Dr J.C. Koningsberger, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Bogor, 1910 \xe2\x80\x93 1918, died at The Hague, aged 84.\nDr J. Mattfeld, well-known to Malaysian botanists by his excellent work on Papuan Compositae, commissioned Director of the Botanic Gardens and Herbarium at Berlin-Dahlem died Jan. 19, 1951, aged 57.

Description: Scope, organization, and purpose of Series III, Flora Malesiana (Musci and Hepaticae) are explained. Collaboration is asked on the following points: (a) To collect Mosses and Hepaticae in Malaysia and to add extensive and detailed data to the specimens (directions available on application to the Editor). (b) To send on loan or donate existing collections. (c) To forward data concerning collectors, travels, and collections made. (d) To name (if necessary provisionnally) all unnamed specimens. (e) To collect data from literature (and to forward reprints). (f) To join the team of bryologists revising groups of Malaysian Bryophyta and to write the Editor about planned research.

Description: Survey of the flora of Bikini and other atolls before the atomic-bomb tests were made. The phytoplancton is excluded from the present carefully written and extensive analysis, which is most instructive to every student of tropical coral island floras. A general introduction furnishes an excellent view on Phanerogamic vegetation and land flora, the physical conditions of the islands, and the part played by different lements in coral building. The major part of the book is occupied by descriptions of the plants collected; marine Algae, of course, predominate. Several new spp. have been described e.g. in Halimeda, Rhipilia, Caulerpa, Pocockiella, Acrochaetium, Porolithion, Botryodiplodia and Fungi, etc.\nLatin diagnoses of new forms and species and a bibliography are given at the end. The book is exemplary illustrated and well-executed.

Description: A short account of the establishment of the Herbarium of the Department of Forests, Papua and New Guinea appeared on p. 61, no 3, volume I of Flora Malesiana Bulletin. \nThis Herbarium has now been firmly established and is constantly receiving collections of plants from various parts of Papua and New Guinea. As a routine measure these are being distributed to the following herbaria: The Queensland State Herbarium at Brisbane, Queensland; The Herbarium of the Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra; The Arnold Arboretum, America; The Herbarium at Kew, England; The Herbarium at Leiden, Holland; The Herbarium at Bogor, Indonesia; The Herbarium at Singapore, Malay States; The Herbarium of the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, England. Duplicates of Coniferae are also sent to M.Y. Orr at Edinburgh, Scotland and to E. Stirling Booth at Adelaide, South Australia.

Description: In Ziphioid Whales the toothrows as a rule have been subject to pronounced reduction, so that the number of teeth of fairly large size is restricted to one pair in the lower jaw. Even these often are concealed in the gum and then must be regarded as functionless, though especially in old males the tips of these teeth protrude above the gum and may be used for the capture of the prey. In many species, besides the larger teeth in the lower jaw, rows of smaller teeth have been found in both jaws, often completely hidden in the gum, sometimes with their tips protruding. In Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver these smaller teeth are of fairly large size, they show signs of wear against their antagonists of the other jaw, indicating that here they are functional. The much smaller teeth occurring in rows in both jaws of other Ziphioid Whales generally are regarded as rudimentary, though in one species, Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast, they constantly form a so distinct regular row on each side of the upper jaw that they seem to perform a distinct function. Moreover, in this species the tips of the small teeth always protrude above the surface of the jaw, an additional indication of a definite function.\nThe data concerning the position of the larger teeth in the lower jaw and their size and shape may be summarized as follows.\nHyperoodon. At the tip of the lower jaw as a rule one pair, usually concealed in the gum, in older specimens sometimes with the tips projecting. In some specimens on one or on both sides a second tooth closely behind the first, the second tooth generally slightly smaller than the first. The teeth are conical, sharp pointed, oval in cross section.\nIn a fairly large male the length of the teeth was 38 mm, the long (antero-posterior) diameter 19 mm, the short (transverse) diameter 12 mm1). In female specimens the

Description: During a visit to the Fiji Islands, of about three weeks in March, 1949, through the kind help of Mr. Harold Gatty at Suva I had the opportunity to make trips to various coral reefs. On one of these trips, on March 18, to the reef of Tomberua, a small island to the south east of the large island Viti Levu, I collected an extensive material of various species of the genus Montipora. Among this material there is one colony of Montipora monasteriata (Forsk.), apparently the first to be reported from the Pacific region, as Crossland (1941, p. 35) states: "It is remarkable that the species, which is not uncommon in the Red Sea, has not appeared in any collection outside this area except in Gravier\'s from the Gulf of Aden." Forsk\xc3\xa5l\'s (1775) short description of his Madrepora monasteriata does not give any details about the growth form of the species. Milne Edwards (1860) ranges the species in the group characterized by "polypier subdendro\xc3\xafde ou en forme de touffe rameuse \xc3\xa0 branches digitiformes". Probably Klunzinger (1879) was influenced by Milne Edwards\'s data when he identified a branched form as Montipora monasteriata. After examination of some of Forsk\xc3\xa5l\'s specimens, von Marenzeller (1907) concluded that Klunzinger\'s Montipora tuberculosa belongs to M. monasteriata (Forsk.), whilst Klunzinger\'s M. monasteriata is another species of the genus. Crossland (1941) arrives at the same conclusion; as this author gives an elaborate account of the history concerning the species, I have noted here the most salient details only. According to Crossland the work by Bernard (1897) is not helpful and is best ignored (meaning, of course, as far as concerns the data in connexion with the specific status of M. monasteriata). However this may be, it must not be overlooked that Bernard (1. c, p. 137), although

Description: I. Introduction.\nWhen using here the name Hydrocorallia for a group of corals, it is not intended to regard this group as a recognized systematic unit. Since Moseley (1880) placed the Stylasteridae with the Milleporidae in the Hydrocorallinae, a separate sub-order of the Hydroids, it has been sufficiently pointed out that the families Milleporidae and Stylasteridae have little in common, and that their respective relations are with Hydroids of systematically different groups. Broch (1914) maintains that the family Milleporidae traces its origin to that of the Corynidae, whilst in his opinion the family Stylasteridae is a highly specialized group that has been derived from the Bougainvilliidae.\nStechow (1923) came to the same conclusion, he also placed the Milleporidae next to the Corynidae, and regarded the Stylasteridae as related to the Hydractiniidae (classified by other investigators as the subfamily Hydractiniinae of the Bougainvilliidae). Broch (1924) divides the suborder Athecatae of the Hydroida into three sections, the Simplicia, the Capitata, and the Filifera; the Capitata embrace the Corynidae, the Milleporidae, and a number of other families, the Filifera are divided into the Bougainvilliidae, the Stylasteridae, and some other families. According to Hickson & England (1905) \xce\xa1\xe2\x80\xa2 1) the Milleporidae have very little in common with the Stylasteridae : "It appears to us that to express more accurately the relations of the old group Hydrocorallinae, Millepora should be placed in an order Milleporina situated in our system next to the Hydromedusae, whilst the family Stylasteridae should be placed in an order Stylasterina situated near the Trachymedusae". Some years before publication of the opinion quoted above, Hickson had already expressed his views in a similar manner (cf.