ALBERT

Description: It is the fate of most historic personalities that in the course of time their work sinks almost completely into oblivion, and that the few lingering reminiscences of their achievements are transmitted to later generations in the form of second- or third-hand quotations, usually mixed with more or less anecdotic episodes from their life. It must be admitted that LINNÉ occupies in this respect a comparatively favourable position, for most educated people will remember that they heard in their school days of at least three things which are credited to him, in the first place that he produced a classification of the plant kingdom which is based on the number of stamens and carpels, the so-called sexual system, in the second place that he was the first who consistently applied the binomial nomenclature, i.e. the custom to designate an organism by a combination of two names, viz. a generic and a specific one, and thirdly that he was the originator of the pronouncement “Species to numeramus quot diversae formae in principio sunt creatae” (We count so many species as in the beginning different forms were created). Other achievements of LINNÉ may have been of greater importance, but it are these three things for which he is most generally remembered. The pronouncement quoted above, which means that the groups of individuals which form the species are descended from ancestors that owed their origin to an act of creation, derives its historic importance from the part it played in the debates on the theory of evolution. As it implies that the species are constant, it became the watchword of the antagonists. It is, however, rather strange that this pronouncement has so often been quoted, for it is found in LINNÉ’s earlier works only, and was in the later ones replaced by another statement that flatly denies the constancy of the species.

Description: Erismadelphus Mildbr. is remarkable because it is the only African genus of the Vochysiaceae, a family represented in tropical America by no less than 5 genera and 180 species. Erismadelphus was discovered in 1913 by Prof. J. MILDBREAD and has hitherto been represented by only one species: E. exsul Mildbr. Recent examination of the African collections has, however, revealed the existence of two other taxa. Unfortunately the type of E. exsul (Mildbraed s.n. from Elon, French Cameroons) was destroyed at Berlin during the 1939-45 war and no duplicates or cotypes are known to exist. In response to an enquiry Prof. MILDBREAD, to whom we are very grateful, informed one of us that in his view Corbisier 1362 from Eala in Belgian Congo was identical with his original type. Prof. MILDBRAED and KEAY have, in fact, together examined Corbisier 1362 in the Herbarium of the Jardin Botanique de l’Etat at Bruxelles through the courtesy of Prof. ROBYNS. Duplicates of Corbisier 1362 are at Kew and Paris, they agree in every respect with MILDBRAED’s original description and figure and we therefore propose that this specimen be adopted as the neotype (lectotype).

Description: In my first paper (1951) a part of the tribe Eupodostemeae was revised, viz. the genera Apinagia, Marathrum, Rhyncholacis, Lophogyne, Monostylis, Jenmaniella, Wettsteiniola and Macarenia. The second part deals with the subfamily Tristichoideae, which comprises the genera Tristicha and Weddellina, and the tribe Mourereae of the subfamily Podostemoideae, which consists of the genera Mourera, Lonchostephus, and Tulasneantha.

Description: Centenary of the Kew Herbarium and Library. If we are well informed the centenary of the Herbarium” and Library of the famous Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, occurs in 1953 and will be informally celebrated by an Exhibition in the Herbarium on the 8th and 9th of May, 1953, which will, we assume, be attended by many of the countless friends of this Mekka of Botany and in honour of the unsurpassed service which it renders to botanists all over the world. Indonesian timbers. A sample proof sheet was received of a book to be issued by the Indonesian Forest Research Station at Bogor. This will comprise a botanical treatment of about 400 of the most important timbers of Indonesia. Each species is to occupy 4 pages, viz a full page drawing, and one page for the text in 3 languages: Indonesian, Dutch, and English. Each description consists of the name and synonyms, preferent vernacular name, other vernacular names, geographical distribution, habitat circumscription, habit description, technical-botanical description, and notes. No mention is made of the anatomical characters of the wood; these will be published in a separate book which is prepared simultaneously. The book will probably be finished in 1956.

Description: Dr R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, Leyden, made a provisional revision of the genus Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae). Onwards of 1953 he will be working on the completion of Backer’s Flora of Java. Dr M.J. Baumann-Bodenheim who made a big collection of plants in New Caledonia during the past two years has been temporarily appointed at the Bot. Garden Zürich for the working out of this collection.

Description: Argostemma Wall. (type species: A. verticillatum Wall.). This large Old World genus, comprising about 240 binomials of which, ca 70-80 will prove to be distinct species, has been almost unanimously left undivided. Exceptions are Reinwardt who in 1825 created the genus Pomangium, independently of Wallich (1824) and Ridley who in 1927 based the genus Argostemmella on two Bornean species of Argostemma. My revision (in msc.) of Argostemma occurring in Malaysia confirmed the common view that there is no reason for splitting up this genus. However, several subdivisions (sections) can reasonably be accepted. As those sections mostly represent well-delimited taxa in connection with a rather evident distribution of their own, I propose here the following 5 sections for Argostemma. It should be borne in mind that I have examined almost all extra-Mallaysian species too.

Description: Faisant suite aux levés géologiques dans la zone Nord-Pyrénéenne et dans la zone axiale des Pyrénées ariégeoises et de la haute-Garonne, le Val d'Aran et le Haut-Pallaresa ont été incorporés dans la cartographie depuis 1952. Néanmoins les résultats provisoires ont déjà une importante influence sur notre conception de la structure générale de la zone axiale centrale. Il paraît utile d'en esquisser une première ébauche, quoiqu'il paraîsse certain que beaucoup de détails seront corrigés par les levés postérieurs. Le Val d'Aran depuis el Puente del Rey jusqu'au Puerto de Bonaigua constitue un vaste bassin dans lequel naît la Garona, alimentée par une dizaine d'affluents venant du Sud, de l'Est et du Nord. Sa situation au centre de la grande chaîne paléozoique des Pyrénées en fait le lieu le plus propice pour étudier le développement stratigraphique du Primaire et sa déformation structurale accompagnée de deux phases magmatiques, datant de la fin de cette époque.

Description: Depuis longtemps on trouve dans la littérature sur la géologie des Pyrénées des discussions sur les lherzolites et les ophites, concernant leur origine, leur âge et leur mode de formation. En général ces discussions ont rendu difficile l'éclaircissement de ce problème et un résumé de toute la littérature manque jusqu'ici. Dans un rapport inédit de l'Institut géologique de l'Université de Leyde M. H. Heetveld a rassemblé toutes les données sur les lherzolites et ophites, et en vérité il est difficile d'en tirer une conclusion. C'est pourquoi nous ferons dans cet article une proposition quant à leur définition et leur âge et mode de formation. Les deux termes lherzolite et ophite sont bien définis: la lherzolite est une roche consistant essentiellement en olivine ,parfois serpentinisée, et en plus de diallage ou diopside, bronzite et picotite. En réalité une lherzolite est une péridotite avec un caractère spécial. L'ophite est une roche composée de plagioclase, An 40—70, pyroxène, souvent ouralitisé, et quelques minéraux accessoires, avec une texture ophitique.

Description: Depuis 1948 des groupes d'étudiants en géologie de l'Université de Leiden sous ma direction, plus tard assisté par M. Zwakt, se sont occupés de la géologie du Primaire des Pyrénées centrales. Le levé s'est déplacé graduellement du Nord vers le Sud et de l'Est vers l'Ouest, de sorte qu'en 1953 nous avons dépassé la frontière franco-espagnole et entrepris la cartographie du Val d'Aran et de la Haute Pallaresa. Evidemment nous nous sommes basés largement sur les travaux de nos prédécesseurs, français surtout, et sur les feuilles au 80.000ième de la carte géologique, dont surtout les nouvelles éditions des feuilles de Foix et de Bagnères de Luchon ont été un precieux appui. Tous les noms des grands géologues pyrénéens, de Leymerie, Caralp, Mussy, Dalloni, Léon Bertrand, Raguin, Casteras, sont associés à ces cartes et je crois qu'il est superflu de rappeler à chaque instant leur rôle individuel dans ce court exposé. Le manque presque total de fossiles oblige chaque géologue de terrain de notre région à opérer par comparaisons de facies lointains et considérations générales et l'oblige à cartographier la totalité d'une grande région afin d'aboutir à une conception générale. Chaque lacune du levé de terrain se venge irrévocablement par des raccordements faux, il faut tout suivre sur le terrain, autrement on tombe dans des erreurs graves puisque les facies ne sont pas très constants.

Description: Un des plus grands phénomènes structuraux des Pyrénées est sans doute la faille Nord-Pyrénéenne qui longe la zone axiale depuis la Méditerranée jusqu'à la côte atlantique. Elle est caractérisée par plusieurs particularités exceptionelles, dont le métamorphisme des terrains jurassiques et crétacés inf., accompagné d'intrusions de roches basiques est le plus important.

Description: The list of Araceae published in 1906 by A. A. PULLE in his “Enumeration of the Vascular Plants known from Surinam” comprises 39 species belonging to 14 genera, the largest genera being Anthurium with 7 species and Philodendron with 12 species. It was found that one of these 39 species was included by mistake, for the specimen Wullschlaegel n. 1764, which is the type of Spathiphyllum blandum Schott, was erroneously assumed to have been collected in Suriname. Already in 1908 TRESLING had collected a species that was not listed by PULLE, viz. Dieffenbachia picta (Lodd.) Schott.

Description: Mr A.G.L. Adelbert was on short leave in Holland, Nov. 1951-April 1952; during Dr Donk’s leave he has been appointed acting Keeper of the Herbarium Bogoriense. Mr E.G. Browne assumed duty as Head of the Sarawak Forest Department, Jan. 1951.

Description: Tn the Malaysian area proper this small genus is represented by one species only (G. floribunda), but it seemed preferable to extend this work to a revision of the whole genus. The species of this genus are not easily distinguishable when sterile and the identification of such specimens is all too often made on geographical evidence.

Description: A recent collecting trip extended the region to which these Studies originally referred in such a way that it seemed wise to change the original title, so that not only the arid area off the North coast of South America was indicated as the field of study. Although as yet these Studies are principally based on material collected by the editor on his three trips to the Caribbean, this volume proves that results obtained from material of different origin will be incorporated.

Description: Dr P. Wagenaar Hummelinck entrusted me with the identification of the mosquitoes he collected during his trips to the West Indies in 1936—1937 and 1948—1949. Although dr Hummelinck told me that it was not his intention to catch representative material, the present collection is of particular hygienic and biological interest as some mosquitoes were found on islands from which they had not been reported before. This paper deals with 16 species: Wyeomyia celaenocephala — Curaçao, Anopheles pseudopunctipennis pseudopunctipennis — Margarita, Curaçao, Aruba, Anopheles albimanus — St. Martin, Aëdes taeniorhynchus — Curaçao, Saba, Dog Island, Aëdes aegypti — Curaçao, Aruba, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, Haemagogus anastasionis — Curaçao, Aruba, Psorophora confinnis — Bonaire, Curaçao, Psorophora pygmaea — St. Martin, Deinocerites cancer — St. Martin, Culex erraticus — Curaçao, Culex americanus — St. Eustatius, St. Martin, Culex bahamensis — St. Eustatius, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, Culex maracayensis — Curaçao, Culex chrysonotum — Suriname at Zanderij, Culex coronator — Venezuela near La Guaira, Culex nigripalpus — Bahamas, on South Bimini, and Culex quinquefasciatus — Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin.

Description: Among the material brought together in the West Indies by Dr P. Wagenaar Hummelinck there are some coral colonies of the genus Tubastraea that are interesting from various points of view, in the first place because this genus of Madreporaria has but recently become known to occur in the West Indies. Vaughan & Wells (1943, p. 239) note as range of distribution of the genus Panamá, Indo-Pacific, Gulf of Guinea, and the West Indies. As I did not succeed in finding data in the previous literature on the occurrence of Tubastraea in the West Indian area, I wrote to Dr J. W. Wells, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, who kindly informed me that the statement given above was based on otherwise unpublished recent finds of material from off Puerto Rico, whilst later a specimen was received from Curaçao. Moreover, the genus is mentioned in the Taxonomic Key to Genera of Living Western Atlantic Corals in Smith (1948, p. 108). Vaughan & Wells (l. c., pp. 238/239) define the genus Tubastraea with the following characters: “Like Endopsammia, but producing small subplocoid clumps by extratentacular budding from the edge-zone, polyps remaining organically united and with corallites united by some coenenchyme and feeble costae. Columella feeble, but occasionally well developed.” As the authors refer to the genus Endopsammia, the characters of the latter genus also may be cited here (l. c., p. 238): “Simple, subcylindrical, nonepithecate, fixed by broad base. Wall thin, costate. Septa thin, arranged according to Pourtalès plan only in early stages, later appearing normal. Columella small and spongy or scarcely developed.”

Description: While studying the parasitic copepods of the Dutch Waddensea, at the Zoological Station Den Helder, I came across a species of Bomolochus from the gills of the Black Sole, Solea solea (L.). Except for the second leg, the various appendages resembled those of B. soleae CLAUS, as figured by TH. & A. SCOTT in their Ray Society Monograph (1912—13). According to them, the endopod of the second leg has narrow joints, like the exopod. They stated that the second and third leg have about the same structure. In my material, however, the endopod of the second leg has widened joints; second and third legs have, therefore, quite a different aspect. Of TH. and A. SCOTT’S material, 2 samples remained**) in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), Londen. The specimens proved to be quite distinct from the Dutch ones, differing not only in the structure of the second leg, but also in several other, less striking, characters.

Description: The genus Qualea is found in tropical South America, particularly in the Hylaea and in the Extra Amazonian part of the Brazilian mainland (see fig. 3); it comprises 59 species as defined in this paper. Many species are forest trees occurring in the Amazonian basin, a number are found in the Brazilian Atlantic coastal forests, whereas other species are typical trees of the campos of the interior plateau. The genus was first described by AUBLET in 1775; its name is a latinization of the vernacular name “Qualé” used by the “Caribbean” inhabitants of French Guiana. AUBLET described O. rosea (type species) and Q. coerulea; the first exhaustive and morphologically correct description was given by A. DE ST. HILAIRE (1820) who placed the genus in his newly established family of the Vochysiaceae.

Description: Abbayes, H. des: Traité de Lichénologie. 217 pp., 109 fig., 8°. Paris 1951. Akamine, E.H.: Viability of Hawaiin forest seeds in storage at various temperatures and relative humidities (Pac. Sc. 5, 1951, 36-46).

Description: Sir Joseph Banks. Sir Joseph Banks, the autocrat of philosophers. The Bartchworth Press. London, 344 pp. 8°. sh.25/.. By H.C. Cameron. Dr P.J.S. Cramer, late director of the General Agricultural Experiment Station, Buitenzorg and extra-ordinary professor of tropical agricultural economy at Utrecht University died at Wassenaar, Holland, March 23, 1952, in the age of 72.

Description: Dialium hydnocarpoides, sp. nov. — Foliola (15)17—19, elliptice oblonga, 4.5—6.5(8.5) cm longa, 2—2.5(3) cm lata, apice abrupte breviter acuminata. Sepala extus pubescentia, intus puberula. Stamina 2, raro 3. Ovarium in receptaculo plano, lato, strigoso excentrice insertum. Stylus glaber. Legumen fere globosum, leave, velutinum, c. 15 mm diam. Typus — Sumatra, Palembang, prope Lematang Ilir: FRI 185 T. 3 P. 541 (L).

Description: Manilkara Adanson em. Gilly, Trop. Woods 73, 1943, 1—22 — Manilkara Adanson, Fam. 2,1763,166; Dubard, Ann. Mus. col. Mars. 23,1915,6; Baehni, Candollea 7, 1938, 394—508; Lam, Blumea 4, 2, 1941, 323; Lam, Blumea 5, 1, 1942, 41 — Manilkara Rheede, Lam in Bull. Jard. bot. Bzg, sér. 3, 7, 1925, 238; Lam, 1. c., sér. 3, 8, 1927, 481 — Manyl-kara Rheede, Hort. Mal. 4, 1673, 53, t. 25 — Mimusops L., sect. Ternaria DC., Prodr. 8, 1844, 203; as a subgenus in Engler, Monogr. Afr. Pfl. Fam und Gatt. 8, 1904, 55 — Delastrea A. DC, Prodr. 8, 1844, 195 — Labramia A. DC, 1. c. 672 — Mimusops L., sect. Euternaria Engl., 1. c., p.p. (except sect. Muriea) – Northia (not of Hook, f.) sensu Lam, 1. c. 1925, 241 and 1927, 481, p.p.; Lam, Bern. P. Bish. Mus. Bull. 141, 1936, 163 — Northiopsis Kanehira, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 47, 1933, 677; Lam, 1. c. 1941, 343; Lam, 1. c. 1942, 43 — Faucherea Lec., Bull. Mus. hist. nat. 26, 1920, 248 — Achras L., Sp. Pl., 1753, App. 1190; Loefling, Iter Hisp,, 1758, 186; Lam, Bull. Jard. bot. Bzg, sér. 3, 7, 1925, 218; Lam, 1. c., sér. 3, 8, 1927, 476; Little, Brittonia 7, 1948, 48. Laticiferous trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, often obovate with rounded tip, stipules caducous; midrib impressed or crested above, prominent below, secondary and tertiary nerves parallel, secondary ones hardly stronger than tertiary nerves, the latter slender, descending from margin, often stretchedly and minutely reticulate. Inflorescences axillary, clustered, manyflorous. Flowers hermaphrodite, pedicellate, pedicel often incrassate when fruiting. Calyx with 2 whorls of 3 lobes each. Corolla with 6 lobes, each of them with 2 dorsal or lateral segments which are sometimes reduced or wanting. Stamens 6, epipetalous, inserted in the row of the staminodes, anthers dehiscing extrorsely. Staminodes 6, petaloid, alternipetalous, ovate, acuminate,, usually dentate or lobed. Ovary 6—14-celled, cells 1-ovuled, ovules axile, anatropous to campylotropous. Fruit a dryish berry, 1—6- seeded; seeds compressed to terete, pear-shaped to oblong ellipsoid, scar basiventral or almost basal, large to small, wide to narrow, oblong to linear, with the hilum at the apical and the micropyle at the basal end; testa crustaceous; albumen copious, cotyledons foliaceous, thin, ovate, radicle long exserted, cylindrical.

Description: The small collection of tiger-beetles, belonging to the genus Cicindela, which is the subject of this paper, was made by Dr P. Wagenaar Hummelinck during his visits to the Lesser Antilles and the adjacent South American mainland coast in 1936-’37 and 1948-’49. The greater part of the material has been deposited at the „Zoölogisch Museum” of Amsterdam and the „Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie” at Leiden. Some specimens (14 C. auraria, 10 C. graphiptera and 9 C. trifasciata) were presented to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, British Museum, Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Hope Department of Entomology at Oxford, The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique at Brussel, Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris, Natural History Museum of Jamaica at Kingston, United States National Museum, and the Zoological Museum (including the collection E. Suenson) at Copenhagen, whose keepers kindly entrusted me with some material included in this study. The specimens from the U.S. Nat. Mus. were presented to Amsterdam, those from the Amer. Mus. to Leiden.

Description: Le texte contient l'explication de la carte, des profils et du tableau stratigraphique. La description lithologique fait mention d'une dolomitisation du Dévonien moyen, montant quelquefois plus haut, et de quelques poudingues dans le Dévonien supérieur. Un affleurement probablement du Dévonien inférieur dans un facies gréseux et fossilifère, est exceptionnel dans les Pyrénées. Dans la tectonique on a essayé de faire une évaluation des influences alpines et hercyniennes séparément. Puisque le métamorphisme de contact des granites de Foix et de Lacourt ne monte pas plus haut que le Gothlandien, leur âge reste incertain, quoique des dykes et sills acides traversent le Carbonifère. La minéralisation due au granité ne monte nul part plus haut que le Dévonien.

Description: The days of big game seem to be numbered. Lists of mammals recently extinct are growing longer and longer and many more species are in danger of extinction. Of course, the last world war has hastened the fate of several species of animals. Eastern Asia and the Pacific region without doubt have suffered most in this respect. For example, the number of Javanese Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus DESM., has diminished to such extent that survival seems hardly possible, owing to the aftermath of the Pacific war, which put out of action all painstaking measures of protection. Even before the last war two Asiatic species of deer were on the list of nearly extinct animals, viz. the Milu and Schomburgk’s Deer.

Description: Material: Indochina, Tonkin, Manson Mts. 2—3000’. April—May. (Coll. H. FRUHSTORFER), 2 ♂ ♂, 1 ♀. Colour: probably somewhat faded. Head yellowish, with frons and vertex rather dark brown. Antennae yellowish, the distal part of the 6th, and the 7th joint brownish. Somites with a broad median yellowish band from collum to tail and yellowish lateral keels, the rest castaneous, slightly paler at the ventral side. Sternites and legs yellowish.

Description: It is remarkable that, though on several occasions rather full accounts have been given of the history and activities of the Botanic Gardens at Bogor (Buitenzorg), ”Kebun Raya Indonesia”, up till now nothing comparable has been published on it’s Mountain Garden Tjibodas. This is the more striking as the establishment of a guesthouse annex biological laboratory in the Mountain Gardens by Melchior Treub, in 1890, which gave Tjibodas a definite claim to be recognized as a scientific institution, has sometimes been declared to be one of the greatest achievements in Treub’s period of office.

Description: This important book, written by C.A. Gardner after 30 years of field study and several years of preparation, deals with 420 species of grasses of which over a hundred have been provided with a plate, by which the habit and important details are shown. Especially the drawings of various parts of the spikelets are very skilful, instructive, and of the utmost importance for students of critical genera. There is an introductory part giving a general survey of the grass vegetation of W. Australia. It is a revelation to see that so many introduced and naturalised species had to be included; this striking invasion of 132 species affects a great change in the original vegetation.

Description: Dr Kostermans points our attention to an article by W.H. de Vriese, in Tijd.Nat.Geschied. & Phys. 12, 1845, p.60, in which was noted that Hasskarl’s Catalogue of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, was issued Oct. 1844.

Description: In the ”Directions and Hints” for collaborators in Flora Malesiana, which has been forwarded to all collaborators, two corrections should be made, viz: 1) p. 12; Omit the explanatory notes under Jamaica Plain, Mass., and Cambridge, Mass. 2) p. 13; Add as number 12a; Stockholm, Paleobotaniska Avdelningen of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm 50. — Specially important for Gymnosperms and Pteridophytes; contains the Swarz types, Rosenstock’s species; indispensable for series II.

Description: Xyris malmei sp. nov. — Folia ensiformia, 7—30 cm longa, subfalcata, minute papillosa. Scapus 20—45 cm longus, teres vel subteres, papillatus. Bracteae ovatae ad ellipticae, obtusae, emarginatae vel retusae; bracteae basales cum nervo uno completo et nervis 4 descendentibus incompletis. Sepala lateralia naviculata, cum carina glabra carinata. Petala obovata, 8—9 mm longa, ungui 7—8 mm longo. Stamina 3—4.5 mm longa, antherae basi obtuse, apice profunde incisae, thecarum apex acute bifidus. Staminodia penicillata. Ovarium obovoideum. Stylus trifidus, ramulis apice capitatis. Typus: Robinson & Kloss 5962, in K: Malay Peninsula, Kedah Peak, 850— 1200 m, Dee. 1915.

Description: On March 7, 1953 the Rijksherbarium suffered a severe loss by the sudden death of its honorary co-operator Dr. D. F. van Slooten, the wellknown specialist particularly of Dipterocarpaceae. To honour his memory the following lines may serve as an obituary note. Dirk Fok van Slooten was born in Amersfoort on 17 March 1891. In the local gymnasium his biology teacher was the later Prof. A. Pulle, who was again his master at the University of Utrecht where he was matriculated in 1910. His doctor’s thesis of 1919 was dealing with the Combretaceae and Flacourtiaceae of the Dutch East Indies.

Description: Erycibe beccariana Hoogl. sp. nov. — Frutex scandens, ramulis junioribus sparsim stellato-hirsutis, adultioribus glabrescentibus cortice rimis longitudinalibus fisso. Folia elliptica ad elliptico-oblonga, 9—13 X 4— 71/2 cm, apice breviter acuminata, basi rotundata vel minute cordata, supra glabra, subtus sparsim stellato-hirsuta, glabrescentia; petiolus 8—13 mm longus. Inflorescentiae axillares, paniculatae, c. 6—12-florae, 1—2 cm longae, stellato-hirsutae, bracteis minutis, caducis. Flores pedicello 2— 4 mm longo bracteolis 2 minutis, caducis. Sepala 2 exteriora transversoovalia, c. 2.5 X 3 mm, 2 interiora transverso-elliptica, c. 2.7 X 4.5 mm, extus stellato-hirsuta, intus glabra. Corolla c. 8.5 mm longa; areae mesopetalinae c. 4 X 3 mm, adpresso-hirsutae pilis praesertim 4—6-ramosis; lobuli c. 3.6 mm longi, 3 mm lati, margine undulati. Stamina c. 1.1 mm supra corollae basin inserta,, filamento 1.6 mm longo, basi c. 0.6 mm lato, anthera c. 2.3 mm longa, 1 mm lata, 0.8 mm crassa, apice acuminata acumine sterili c. 0.6 mm longo, basi subcordata. Ovarium ellipsoideum, c. 1.1 mm longum, 1.8 mm diam., glabrum; stigma conicum, c. 1 mm altum, 1.8 mm diam., radiatim 10-carinatum carinis 5 maioribus 5 minoribus alternantibus. Types: Beccari P.P. 91, holotype in FI; paratype: Beccari P.P. 532 (FI). New Guinea.

Description: In this paper I intend to give a review of the genus Erycibe Roxb. in. which all the names published in the genus will be accounted for. The representatives from Malaysia have been dealt with more extensively in the revision of the genus in Flora Malesiana, Ser. I, Vol. 4, 4th instalment, 1953, pp. 404—431. — Technical descriptions of new taxa have been published in another paper in Blumea 7, 1953, pp. 310—319. In the present paper the literature will be published more extensively than in Flora Malesiana; besides I have included citation of all type specimens. The extra-Malaysian species have been studied less extensively than the Malaysian ones, but as I have seen nearly all the types, some notes are inserted which will be, I hope, useful for future study of the genus. Particularly the specimens from the Indian Peninsula need closer study.

Description: The following new species of Terminalia will be included in the forthcoming account of the Combretaceae for the Flora Malesiana where their respective positions in the key will indicate more clearly their relationship to already described species. Terminalia capitulata Exell, sp. nov.

Description: The editor has received the first and second fascicle of a treatise of the vascular plants of West Virginia. According to the preface this flora, when complete, will present descriptions, illustrations, geographical data and other information, particularly of local interest for the approximately 2000 species found growing without cultivation in that State. The first part contains the Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, and Monocotyledoneae, the second part the Dicotyledoneae, p.p. (Saururaceae-Leguminosae). Keys are given for genera and species. The rather short descriptions are completed by many for the greater part original line drawings. Nomenclature and sequence are those of the 8th edition of Gray’s Manual, 1950, by M. L. Fernald.

Description: On a private collecting trip to the Netherlands Antilles, in the winter of 1948—1949, I had the opportunity of studying an infestation of the sapodilla, caused by a well-known kind of fruitfly, Anastrepha serpentina, which, however, has never before been reported from these islands. The identification was kindly confirmed by E. McC. Callan, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad; specimens were compared by him with material named by A. Stone, deposited with the collections of the I.C.T.A. My grateful thanks are due to the Department of Agriculture of the Netherlands Antilles for giving a financial support which made entomological work possible, and especially to Agricultural Superintendent B. A. Bitter, for putting at my disposal the facilities of the Agricultural and Experimental Gardens at Cas Corá.

Description: Comme la carte de la page 8 le montre le Massif du Saint-Barthélemy se trouve dans le Dépt. de l'Ariège à l'Est et au Nord de la rivière dont le département porte le nom et entre Foix et Ax-les-Thermes. Le terrain examiné est formé entièrement de roches paléozoïques ou plus anciennes, bordées au Nord, au Sud et à l'Est par des formations mésozoïques. Ce terrain est limité également de Paléozoïque au côté Ouest, le long d'une faille qui sépare le Massif du Saint-Barthélemy du Massif de l'Arize. De cette manière le Massif du Saint-Barthélemy est un des Massifs primaires Nord-pyrénéens: c'est-à-dire l'une des îles de roches paléozoïques dans le Mésozoïque, situées au Nord de la zone axiale, qui est entièrement constituée de roches paléozoïques. Les principaux Massifs Nord-pyrénéens sont de l'Est à l'Ouest: le Massif de l'Agly, du Saint-Barthélémy, de l'Arize, des Trois Seigneurs, de Castillon et de la Barousse. Il existe en outre encore quelques petits Massifs.

Description: Material: Indochina, Tonkin, Manson Mts. 2\xe2\x80\x943000\xe2\x80\x99. April\xe2\x80\x94May. (Coll. H. FRUHSTORFER), 2 \xe2\x99\x82 \xe2\x99\x82, 1 \xe2\x99\x80.\nColour: probably somewhat faded. Head yellowish, with frons and vertex rather dark brown. Antennae yellowish, the distal part of the 6th, and the 7th joint brownish. Somites with a broad median yellowish band from collum to tail and yellowish lateral keels, the rest castaneous, slightly paler at the ventral side. Sternites and legs yellowish.

Description: Manilkara Adanson em. Gilly, Trop. Woods 73, 1943, 1\xe2\x80\x9422 \xe2\x80\x94 Manilkara Adanson, Fam. 2,1763,166; Dubard, Ann. Mus. col. Mars. 23,1915,6; Baehni, Candollea 7, 1938, 394\xe2\x80\x94508; Lam, Blumea 4, 2, 1941, 323; Lam, Blumea 5, 1, 1942, 41 \xe2\x80\x94 Manilkara Rheede, Lam in Bull. Jard. bot. Bzg, s\xc3\xa9r. 3, 7, 1925, 238; Lam, 1. c., s\xc3\xa9r. 3, 8, 1927, 481 \xe2\x80\x94 Manyl-kara Rheede, Hort. Mal. 4, 1673, 53, t. 25 \xe2\x80\x94 Mimusops L., sect. Ternaria DC., Prodr. 8, 1844, 203; as a subgenus in Engler, Monogr. Afr. Pfl. Fam und Gatt. 8, 1904, 55 \xe2\x80\x94 Delastrea A. DC, Prodr. 8, 1844, 195 \xe2\x80\x94 Labramia A. DC, 1. c. 672 \xe2\x80\x94 Mimusops L., sect. Euternaria Engl., 1. c., p.p. (except sect. Muriea) \xe2\x80\x93 Northia (not of Hook, f.) sensu Lam, 1. c. 1925, 241 and 1927, 481, p.p.; Lam, Bern. P. Bish. Mus. Bull. 141, 1936, 163 \xe2\x80\x94 Northiopsis Kanehira, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 47, 1933, 677; Lam, 1. c. 1941, 343; Lam, 1. c. 1942, 43 \xe2\x80\x94 Faucherea Lec., Bull. Mus. hist. nat. 26, 1920, 248 \xe2\x80\x94 Achras L., Sp. Pl., 1753, App. 1190; Loefling, Iter Hisp,, 1758, 186; Lam, Bull. Jard. bot. Bzg, s\xc3\xa9r. 3, 7, 1925, 218; Lam, 1. c., s\xc3\xa9r. 3, 8, 1927, 476; Little, Brittonia 7, 1948, 48.\nLaticiferous trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, often obovate with rounded tip, stipules caducous; midrib impressed or crested above, prominent below, secondary and tertiary nerves parallel, secondary ones hardly stronger than tertiary nerves, the latter slender, descending from margin, often stretchedly and minutely reticulate. Inflorescences axillary, clustered, manyflorous. Flowers hermaphrodite, pedicellate, pedicel often incrassate when fruiting. Calyx with 2 whorls of 3 lobes each. Corolla with 6 lobes, each of them with 2 dorsal or lateral segments which are sometimes reduced or wanting. Stamens 6, epipetalous, inserted in the row of the staminodes, anthers dehiscing extrorsely. Staminodes 6, petaloid, alternipetalous, ovate, acuminate,, usually dentate or lobed. Ovary 6\xe2\x80\x9414-celled, cells 1-ovuled, ovules axile, anatropous to campylotropous. Fruit a dryish berry, 1\xe2\x80\x946- seeded; seeds compressed to terete, pear-shaped to oblong ellipsoid, scar basiventral or almost basal, large to small, wide to narrow, oblong to linear, with the hilum at the apical and the micropyle at the basal end; testa crustaceous; albumen copious, cotyledons foliaceous, thin, ovate, radicle long exserted, cylindrical.

Description: The following new species of Terminalia will be included in the forthcoming account of the Combretaceae for the Flora Malesiana where their respective positions in the key will indicate more clearly their relationship to already described species.\nTerminalia capitulata Exell, sp. nov.

Description: Abbayes, H. des: Trait\xc3\xa9 de Lich\xc3\xa9nologie. 217 pp., 109 fig., 8\xc2\xb0. Paris 1951.\nAkamine, E.H.: Viability of Hawaiin forest seeds in storage at various temperatures and relative humidities (Pac. Sc. 5, 1951, 36-46).

Description: Mr A.G.L. Adelbert was on short leave in Holland, Nov. 1951-April 1952; during Dr Donk\xe2\x80\x99s leave he has been appointed acting Keeper of the Herbarium Bogoriense.\nMr E.G. Browne assumed duty as Head of the Sarawak Forest Department, Jan. 1951.

Description: This important book, written by C.A. Gardner after 30 years of field study and several years of preparation, deals with 420 species of grasses of which over a hundred have been provided with a plate, by which the habit and important details are shown. Especially the drawings of various parts of the spikelets are very skilful, instructive, and of the utmost importance for students of critical genera.\nThere is an introductory part giving a general survey of the grass vegetation of W. Australia. It is a revelation to see that so many introduced and naturalised species had to be included; this striking invasion of 132 species affects a great change in the original vegetation.

Description: Sir Joseph Banks. Sir Joseph Banks, the autocrat of philosophers. The Bartchworth Press. London, 344 pp. 8\xc2\xb0. sh.25/.. By H.C. Cameron.\nDr P.J.S. Cramer, late director of the General Agricultural Experiment Station, Buitenzorg and extra-ordinary professor of tropical agricultural economy at Utrecht University died at Wassenaar, Holland, March 23, 1952, in the age of 72.

Description: Dr R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, Leyden, made a provisional revision of the genus Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae). Onwards of 1953 he will be working on the completion of Backer\xe2\x80\x99s Flora of Java.\nDr M.J. Baumann-Bodenheim who made a big collection of plants in New Caledonia during the past two years has been temporarily appointed at the Bot. Garden Z\xc3\xbcrich for the working out of this collection.

Description: Erycibe beccariana Hoogl. sp. nov. \xe2\x80\x94 Frutex scandens, ramulis junioribus sparsim stellato-hirsutis, adultioribus glabrescentibus cortice rimis longitudinalibus fisso. Folia elliptica ad elliptico-oblonga, 9\xe2\x80\x9413 X 4\xe2\x80\x94 71/2 cm, apice breviter acuminata, basi rotundata vel minute cordata, supra glabra, subtus sparsim stellato-hirsuta, glabrescentia; petiolus 8\xe2\x80\x9413 mm longus. Inflorescentiae axillares, paniculatae, c. 6\xe2\x80\x9412-florae, 1\xe2\x80\x942 cm longae, stellato-hirsutae, bracteis minutis, caducis. Flores pedicello 2\xe2\x80\x94 4 mm longo bracteolis 2 minutis, caducis. Sepala 2 exteriora transversoovalia, c. 2.5 X 3 mm, 2 interiora transverso-elliptica, c. 2.7 X 4.5 mm, extus stellato-hirsuta, intus glabra. Corolla c. 8.5 mm longa; areae mesopetalinae c. 4 X 3 mm, adpresso-hirsutae pilis praesertim 4\xe2\x80\x946-ramosis; lobuli c. 3.6 mm longi, 3 mm lati, margine undulati. Stamina c. 1.1 mm supra corollae basin inserta,, filamento 1.6 mm longo, basi c. 0.6 mm lato, anthera c. 2.3 mm longa, 1 mm lata, 0.8 mm crassa, apice acuminata acumine sterili c. 0.6 mm longo, basi subcordata. Ovarium ellipsoideum, c. 1.1 mm longum, 1.8 mm diam., glabrum; stigma conicum, c. 1 mm altum, 1.8 mm diam., radiatim 10-carinatum carinis 5 maioribus 5 minoribus alternantibus.\nTypes: Beccari P.P. 91, holotype in FI; paratype: Beccari P.P. 532 (FI). New Guinea.

Description: The editor has received the first and second fascicle of a treatise of the vascular plants of West Virginia. According to the preface this flora, when complete, will present descriptions, illustrations, geographical data and other information, particularly of local interest for the approximately 2000 species found growing without cultivation in that State. The first part contains the Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, and Monocotyledoneae, the second part the Dicotyledoneae, p.p. (Saururaceae-Leguminosae). Keys are given for genera and species. The rather short descriptions are completed by many for the greater part original line drawings. Nomenclature and sequence are those of the 8th edition of Gray\xe2\x80\x99s Manual, 1950, by M. L. Fernald.

Description: In den Jahren 1935 und 1936 sammelte C. E. Carr in Papua u. a. auch ziemlich viele Moose. Diese Sammlung wurde H. N. Dixon zur Bearbeitung \xc3\xbcbergeben. Die Originale der von diesem Bryologen aus dieser Sammlung kurz vor und w\xc3\xa4hrend dem Kriege neu beschriebenen Arten liegen in seinem Herbarium, das jetzt im British Museum untergebracht ist. Ein Teil der Carr\xe2\x80\x99schen Sammlung wurde vom Rijksherbarium in Leiden angekauft, darunter auch viele Nummern, die jetzt als Cotypen der Dixon\xe2\x80\x99 schen novae species gelten k\xc3\xb6nnen. Da der Ankauf schon vor dem Kriege bet\xc3\xa4tigt wurde, diese Moose also noch nicht bestimmt waren, \xc3\xbcberliess Herr Prof. Dr. H. J. Lam, der Direktor des Rjjksherbariums., mir diese Moose noch w\xc3\xa4hrend dem Kriege in liebensw\xc3\xbcrdiger Weise zur Bestimmung, wof\xc3\xbcr ich ihm auch hier danken m\xc3\xb6chte. Erst nach dem Kriege konnten die inzwischen \xc3\xbcber diese Moose erschienenen Ver\xc3\xb6ffentlichungen Dixon\xe2\x80\x99s eingesehen und mit meinen eigenen Befunden verglichen werden. Ueber das Resultat m\xc3\xb6chte ich im Folgenden berichten.\nFissidens wichurae Broth. et Fl. in Hedw. 38, 1899, p. 127. \xe2\x80\x94 Fissidens pungentissimus Dixon in Journ. of Bot., Jan. 1942, p. 2.

Description: Xyris malmei sp. nov. \xe2\x80\x94 Folia ensiformia, 7\xe2\x80\x9430 cm longa, subfalcata, minute papillosa. Scapus 20\xe2\x80\x9445 cm longus, teres vel subteres, papillatus. Bracteae ovatae ad ellipticae, obtusae, emarginatae vel retusae; bracteae basales cum nervo uno completo et nervis 4 descendentibus incompletis. Sepala lateralia naviculata, cum carina glabra carinata. Petala obovata, 8\xe2\x80\x949 mm longa, ungui 7\xe2\x80\x948 mm longo. Stamina 3\xe2\x80\x944.5 mm longa, antherae basi obtuse, apice profunde incisae, thecarum apex acute bifidus. Staminodia penicillata. Ovarium obovoideum. Stylus trifidus, ramulis apice capitatis.\nTypus: Robinson & Kloss 5962, in K: Malay Peninsula, Kedah Peak, 850\xe2\x80\x94 1200 m, Dee. 1915.

Description: More than twenty years have elapsed since the senior author (H. J. Lam) recognized Haplolobus as a genus separate from Canarium. In the mean time much newly collected material has become available and in view of the intended revision for Flora Malesiana, the time has come to sum up our present knowledge.\nIt must be said first of all that this knowledge, in spite of a considerable progress, is still far from satisfactory. Not only is much of the material sterile, but the genus however small it is, more and more proves to be an extremely difficult one to handle in a practicable way. Whether or not this is due to its phylogenetic youth is of little consequence. The fact stands that we have to deal with a genus in which the subgeneric limits, even if intuitively recognizable to the experienced eye, are so evasive as to make it extremely difficult to show them clearly to the man of practice who has to work with the species and the names attributed to them.

Description: Within the Sapotaceae, the tribe of the Madhuceae presents a very homogeneous group. One point of view is to consider it a single polymorphous genus. The opposite opinion was expressed by Pierre, who distinguished a number of small genera, many on futile characters. Amongst those which stood later criticism is the genus Ganua which was, however, not published by Pierre but by Dubard (1907, 1908a, 201 and 1908b, 407), who adopted Pierre\xe2\x80\x99s Ms names and made use of his extensive annotations.\nThe name Ganua is derived from the word ganu, the native name for latex produced by a tree, \xe2\x80\x9cused for falsifying the valuable products of \xe2\x80\x98gutta terbu\xe2\x80\x99\xe2\x80\x9d (f. Errington de la Croix in schedula; cf p. 389).

Description: It is the fate of most historic personalities that in the course of time their work sinks almost completely into oblivion, and that the few lingering reminiscences of their achievements are transmitted to later generations in the form of second- or third-hand quotations, usually mixed with more or less anecdotic episodes from their life. It must be admitted that LINN\xc3\x89 occupies in this respect a comparatively favourable position, for most educated people will remember that they heard in their school days of at least three things which are credited to him, in the first place that he produced a classification of the plant kingdom which is based on the number of stamens and carpels, the so-called sexual system, in the second place that he was the first who consistently applied the binomial nomenclature, i.e. the custom to designate an organism by a combination of two names, viz. a generic and a specific one, and thirdly that he was the originator of the pronouncement \xe2\x80\x9cSpecies to numeramus quot diversae formae in principio sunt creatae\xe2\x80\x9d (We count so many species as in the beginning different forms were created). Other achievements of LINN\xc3\x89 may have been of greater importance, but it are these three things for which he is most generally remembered.\nThe pronouncement quoted above, which means that the groups of individuals which form the species are descended from ancestors that owed their origin to an act of creation, derives its historic importance from the part it played in the debates on the theory of evolution. As it implies that the species are constant, it became the watchword of the antagonists. It is, however, rather strange that this pronouncement has so often been quoted, for it is found in LINN\xc3\x89\xe2\x80\x99s earlier works only, and was in the later ones replaced by another statement that flatly denies the constancy of the species.

Description: Dialium hydnocarpoides, sp. nov. \xe2\x80\x94 Foliola (15)17\xe2\x80\x9419, elliptice oblonga, 4.5\xe2\x80\x946.5(8.5) cm longa, 2\xe2\x80\x942.5(3) cm lata, apice abrupte breviter acuminata. Sepala extus pubescentia, intus puberula. Stamina 2, raro 3. Ovarium in receptaculo plano, lato, strigoso excentrice insertum. Stylus glaber. Legumen fere globosum, leave, velutinum, c. 15 mm diam.\nTypus \xe2\x80\x94 Sumatra, Palembang, prope Lematang Ilir: FRI 185 T. 3 P. 541 (L).

Description: A recent collecting trip extended the region to which these Studies originally referred in such a way that it seemed wise to change the original title, so that not only the arid area off the North coast of South America was indicated as the field of study.\nAlthough as yet these Studies are principally based on material collected by the editor on his three trips to the Caribbean, this volume proves that results obtained from material of different origin will be incorporated.

Description: On a private collecting trip to the Netherlands Antilles, in the winter of 1948\xe2\x80\x941949, I had the opportunity of studying an infestation of the sapodilla, caused by a well-known kind of fruitfly, Anastrepha serpentina, which, however, has never before been reported from these islands. The identification was kindly confirmed by E. McC. Callan, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad; specimens were compared by him with material named by A. Stone, deposited with the collections of the I.C.T.A.\nMy grateful thanks are due to the Department of Agriculture of the Netherlands Antilles for giving a financial support which made entomological work possible, and especially to Agricultural Superintendent B. A. Bitter, for putting at my disposal the facilities of the Agricultural and Experimental Gardens at Cas Cor\xc3\xa1.

Description: The small collection of tiger-beetles, belonging to the genus Cicindela, which is the subject of this paper, was made by Dr P. Wagenaar Hummelinck during his visits to the Lesser Antilles and the adjacent South American mainland coast in 1936-\xe2\x80\x9937 and 1948-\xe2\x80\x9949.\nThe greater part of the material has been deposited at the \xe2\x80\x9eZo\xc3\xb6logisch Museum\xe2\x80\x9d of Amsterdam and the \xe2\x80\x9eRijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie\xe2\x80\x9d at Leiden. Some specimens (14 C. auraria, 10 C. graphiptera and 9 C. trifasciata) were presented to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, British Museum, Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Hope Department of Entomology at Oxford, The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique at Brussel, Mus\xc3\xa9e National d\xe2\x80\x99Histoire Naturelle at Paris, Natural History Museum of Jamaica at Kingston, United States National Museum, and the Zoological Museum (including the collection E. Suenson) at Copenhagen, whose keepers kindly entrusted me with some material included in this study. The specimens from the U.S. Nat. Mus. were presented to Amsterdam, those from the Amer. Mus. to Leiden.

Description: Fifteen years ago, H. Helfer in his paper \xe2\x80\x9dEinige neue Pantopoden aus der Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums in Berlin\xe2\x80\x9d (Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr., Berlin 1937 (1938), pp. 162\xe2\x80\x94185) established 5 new genera, each based on a new species, 2 new species belonging to known genera, and 3 new varieties.\nSince then, several authors have expressed their doubt about the validity of Helfer\xe2\x80\x99s new forms. Indeed, Helfer\xe2\x80\x99s descriptions and figures leave doubt as to the affinities of the material. Often the descriptions and the figures are contradictory e.g., in Heteronymphon kempi var. dimorpha the figure of the chelifore shows one suture too much, and in Pycnosoma batangense a suture too little.

Description: Among the notes and collections that came to the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam, after Dr H. C. REDEKE\xe2\x80\x99s death in 1945, I found an entirely completed manuscript, dealing with a new D\xe2\x80\x99Arcythompsonia found in a canal at Den Helder (Netherlands). This is the species cited as nomen nudum by KARL LANG (1948, p. 274), in his \xe2\x80\x9cMonographie der Harpacticiden\xe2\x80\x9d.\nPencil drawings and two coloured pictures relating to this species were found among REDEKE\xe2\x80\x99s papers. They have been redrawn in China Ink, without important alterations. The original slides used for these illustrations were found among the temporary glycerin mounts of Dr REDEKE; they are now \xe2\x80\x94 in a rather bad condition of course \xe2\x80\x94 in the Zoological Museum, with the collection number Co. 105,002. The holotype \xe2\x99\x82 (Z.M.A. coll. no. Co. 105,000) and allotype \xe2\x99\x80 (Z.M.A. coll. no. Co. 105,001) were selected from a vial labelled in REDEKE\xe2\x80\x99s handwriting \xe2\x80\x9cD\xe2\x80\x99 Arcythompsonia neglecta n.sp.\xe2\x80\x9d

Description: Toen ik deze studie begon was het mijn bedoeling de verspreiding van de Clausiliidae over de Indo-Australische Archipel te toetsen aan de van andere diergroepen bekende zo\xc3\xb6geographische gegevens. Al spoedig bleek echter, dat eerst een systematische bewerking noodzakelijk zou zijn om als basis voor verder onderzoek te kunnen dienen. Mijn doelstelling is dus gewijzigd in: het geven van een zo volledig mogelijk overzicht van de in de Indo-Australische Archipel voorkomende Clausiliidae, gebaseerd op literatuur-gegevens, museum-materiaal en recente, mede op mijn verzoek gedane vondsten. De thans uit de bewerking ter beschikking gekomen zo\xc3\xb6geographische gegevens zijn helaas beneden mijn verwachting gebleven. Daardoor valt de klemtoon van deze studie meer op de systematiek, waarbij vele nieuwe gegevens op het gebied van morphologie, anatomie en biologie aan het licht kwamen. Indien iedere verzamelaar van het bestudeerde materiaal zijn vondsten echter volledig had ge\xc3\xa9tiketteerd, waren nog veel meer bijzonderheden bekend geworden en waren die vondsten veel waardevoller geweest. Hieronder volgt een korte uiteenzetting van wat in de opeenvolgende hoofdstukken behandeld wordt.\nHOOFDSTUK I bevat een inleiding over de begrenzing van het onderzoek en vermeldt tevens van welke musea en particulieren materiaal voor studie is verkregen. De soorten van de familia Clausiliidae, die in de Indo- Australische Archipel voorkomen behoren alle tot de subfamilia Phaedusinae, die in hoofdzaak over Oost-Azi\xc3\xab is verspreid. Het bestudeerde gebied omvat de Maleise Archipel met inbegrip van het schiereiland Malakka en de Philippijnen.\nHOOFDSTUK II geeft een overzicht van de Phaedusinae men vindt er algemene gegevens over het voorkomen, over het uiterlijk van de slak, over de bouw van de schelp en over de anatomie van de voor de systematiek belangrijke organen. Er blijkt uit, dat de dieren vooral in heuvel- en bergland voorkomen, dat de spoelvormige tot penvormige schelp zeer ingewikkeld van bouw is en steeds kan worden afgesloten door middel van een sluitplaatje, dat in de laatste winding als een deur heen en weer kan bewegen.\nVerder worden de radula en de ingewikkeld gebouwde genitaal-organen beschreven. De slakken zijn hermaphrodiet, het is echter niet zeker of wederzijdse bevruchting plaats vindt. Ze leggen eieren of brengen jongen ter wereld, die reeds een schelpje met 2 tot 3 windingen bezitten.\nHOOFDSTUK III geeft een overzicht van de geschiedenis van de studie van de Zuidoost-Aziatische Phaedusinae. Daaruit blijkt, dat tot nu toe eigenlijk alleen aandacht aan de bouw van de schelpen, aan de systematiek en aan de verspreiding is besteed. Slechts in uitzonderingsgevallen vindt men bij de vroegere auteurs iets over de anatomie van een slakkensoort (3 x) of over het biotoop vermeld. De morphologie van de schelpen treft men in hoofdzaak aan in de vorm van onvolledige soortbeschrijvingen. Veelal zijn de inwendige bouw van de schelp en het clausilium niet beschreven.\nHOOFDSTUK IV behandelt het systematische gedeelte en begint met een opsomming van de 54 in het gebied aangetroffen soorten en ondersoorten, verdeeld over 6 genera. Negen soorten of ondersoorten zijn door mij voor het eerst beschreven.\nVervolgens vindt men een determinatie-tabel tot de genera en daarna worden de genera met de ertoe behorende soorten behandeld.\nDe behandeling van een genus begint steeds met de karakteristiek en met een determinatie-tabel tot de soorten. Daarna wordt soort voor soort volledig beschreven. Hierbij heeft in de meeste gevallen het holotype als uitgangspunt voor de beschrijving kunnen dienen. Ik heb tekeningen gemaakt van bijna alle soorten en ondersoorten, zoveel mogelijk naar de holotypen. Na de morphologische beschrijving van de schelp volgt een kort overzicht van de gepubliceerde gegevens op dit gebied. Daarna wordt zoo mogelijk de anatomie behandeld en vervolgens de verspreiding aan de hand van literatuurgegevens. Tenslotte worden alle door mij bestudeerde monsters, welke van behoorlijke vindplaatsgegevens voorzien waren, genoemd met opgave van minimum en maximum afmetingen en van de gemiddelden.\nDit hoofdstuk geeft dus een volledig overzicht van het bestudeerde materiaal in al zijn facetten.\nHOOFDSTUK V vat de in het vorige hoofdstuk verkregen gegevens samen. In de eerste plaats wordt in een systematisch gedeelte de huidige opvatting over de systematiek der Indo-Australische Phaedusinae uiteengezet. Daarna geef ik aan welke wijzigingen door mij in het door THIELE gepubliceerde systeem noodzakelijk worden geacht. Dit betreft in hoofdzaak twee punten, nl. 1. Acrophaedusa (type A. cornea P.HIL.), behoort niet als subgenus onder Hemiphaedusa en 2. Phaedusa (type Ph. corticina PFR.) en Pseudonenia (type Ps. javana PFR.) zijn niet synonym, doch duidelijk te scheiden genera.\nIn het bestudeerde gebied komen vertegenwoordigers voor van de volgende 6 genera: Phaedusa, Pseudonenia, Euphaedusa, Paraphaedusa, Acrophaedusa en Hemiphaedusa.\nVoor het combineren van deze genera tot groepen van hoger orde acht ik de tijd nog niet gekomen. Vervolgens worden de voor de systematiek meest belangrijke kenmerken genoemd en hun aanwezigheid in de zes genera wordt besproken. Hierbij is bij de morphologische kenmerken vooral aandacht besteed aan de inwendige bouw van de schelpen, d.w.z. aan de lamellae, plicae en aan het clausilium. Voorts worden enige anatomische en biologische eigenschappen behandeld; tot nu toe was daarover bijna niets bekend. Een korte bespreking van de genera en de daartoe behorende soorten sluit hierbij aan. Vervolgens eist de oecologie van de soorten de aandacht. De gegevens op dit gebied zijn nog steeds zeer onvolledig, ook al heb ik het aantal bekende feiten bijna kunnen verdubbelen. Men vindt onder de aanwezige soorten zowel bodembewoners als boombewoners.\nTenslotte wordt de verspreiding behandeld. Tabel I geeft de verspreiding van de soorten en ondersoorten over de eilanden aan. Daaruit blijkt, dat vier genera (Phaedusa, Pseudonenia, Acrophaedusa en Hemiphaedusa) binnen het bestudeerde gebied gebonden zijn aan het Sunda-plat, terwijl de twee andere genera (Euphaedusa en Paraphaedusa) in hoofdzaak beperkt zijn tot de eilanden tussen het Sunda- en het Sahul-plat. De soorten, die op het Sunda-plat voorkomen, hebben hun naaste verwanten in Achter-Indi\xc3\xab, zodat de immigratie wel van daaruit moet hebben plaats gehad. De soorten van de beide andere genera hebben hun naaste verwanten in China, zij moeten de Archipel wel via de Philippijnen hebben bereikt. De zo\xc3\xb6geographische conclusies, verkregen uit de verspreiding van de Clausiliidae over het Indo-Australische gebied, ondersteunen in het algemeen de bestaande, op andere diergroepen gebaseerde opvattingen.

Description: INTRODUCTION\nThe genus Metabelba was created by Grandjean in 1936 for Belbidae of which the solenidions of tibiae II and III are coupled with protective hairs, but of which the solenidion of tibia IV is free, long, and tactile. The genus belongs to the group of rather small species that are never covered with foreign material, but of which the cerotegument is very thick, especially on the moniliform legs, whilst the adults often bear the larval and nymphal skins.\nThe species have three or four lateral apophyses : one (which is not always present) between leg I and leg II, two between II and III, and one between III and IV. We have been in doubt as to the nomenclature of these apophyses, for although they have generally been regarded as tectopedia, they do not protect the trochanteres. Grandjean (in litt.) recently proposed to us the following notation. The apophysis between I and II is restricted to some members of the Belbidae, and in the present paper it is simply called anterior apophysis (a.a.). The two apophyses between II and III occur in several families; they protect the sejugal stigma; here they are called anterior and posterior parastigmatic apophyses (a.p.a., a.p.p.). It is obvious that the fourth apophysis is a discidium (dis; cf. Grandjean, 1952, p. 31).\nThere are no spinae adnatae but there is often one pair of protuberances under the anterior border of the notogaster, opposite to a corresponding pair on the propodosoma ; sometimes there is even a second pair of protuberances on the propodosoma, also situated in the posterior part.\nThe type of the genus is Damaeus papillipes Nicolet, a species that was insufficiently described, but of which Grandjean discovered specimens at

Description: Since 1948 Mr. H. R. van Heekeren, then prehistorian to the Archaeological Survey of the Dutch East Indies, kept up an intermittent search for fossil teeth and bones that occur in association with Palaeolithic artifacts at Beru and Sompoh, near Tjabenge (Sopeng district), about 100 km Northeast of Macassar in Southwestern Celebes. These sites are now known to yield an interesting vertebrate fauna, presumably Pleistocene in age, the first found elements of which were described a few years ago (Hooijer, 1948, 1949).\nOne of the most remarkable discoveries in the Tjabeng\xc3\xa8 area made by Mr.\nVan Heekeren is a small elephantine that I have named Archidiskodon celebensis (Hooijer, 1949). It was based on an almost complete and unworn upper molar, and on a similar but worn specimen, while parts of an ulna and a tibia were also described. I ventured to interpret these fossils as belonging to a dwarf archidiskodont elephant (standing about six feet high at the shoulder when adult), in a curious way retaining the characters of Archidiskodon planifrons (Falconer et Cautley) from which I took the Celebes elephantine to have been derived.\nIt is a great pleasure, again, to acknowledge my indebtedness to Prof. Dr.\nA. J. Bernet Kempers, Head of the Dinas Purbakala R.I. at Djakarta, Java, who entrusted the Celebes fossil vertebrates to me for study. Moreover, I wish to thank Dr. Edwin H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, for stimulating discussions and kind advice. The proboscidean remains to be described below are the best specimens that Mr.\nVan Heekeren ever collected in Celebes in the years 1948 to and including 1950, and credit should go to him especially for his perseverance in the field without which these valuable specimens would never have been collected.

Description: Sherborn (1899) very ably discussed the four editions of Lacep\xc3\xa8de\'s "Tableaux des Mammif\xc3\xa8res et des Oiseaux" that were known to him, and made the complicated history of these publications clear. To these four editions we now can add two that evidently were not known to Sherborn, one of which must be exceedingly rare. In the following lines the six editions are discussed in chronological order; editions I, III, IV, and V have been dealt with by Sherborn, II and VI are those that we recently became acquainted with.\nEdition I (published between January 1 and September 22, 1799). The original "Tableaux" were published in Lacep\xc3\xa8de\'s "Discours d\'ouverture et de cl\xc3\xb4ture du cours d\'histoire naturelle Donn\xc3\xa9 dans le Mus\xc3\xa9um national d\'Histoire naturelle, l\'an VII de la R\xc3\xa9publique, et Tableaux m\xc3\xa9thodiques des mammif\xc3\xa8res et des oiseaux" a paper, in-4, issued "\xc3\xa0 Paris chez Plassan, Imprimeur-Libraire. L\'an VII de la R\xc3\xa9publique." This publication consists of three parts. The first (4 pp., pp. 1-55, 1 p.) contains the actual "Discours". The second is the "Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des mammif\xc3\xa8res", pp. 1-18; the third is "Tableau des sous-classes, divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des oiseaux", pp. 1-20. This edition has been fully dealt with by Sherborn (1899).\nEdition II (published between September 23 and December 31, 1800).\nThis second edition was published as an appendix to "S\xc3\xa9ances / des \xc3\xa9coles normales, / recueillies / par des st\xc3\xa9nographes, / et revues / par les professeurs. / Nouvelle \xc3\xa9dition. / Tome huiti\xc3\xa8me." published at "Paris, / \xc3\xa0 l\'imprimerie du cercle-social. / (1800.) / An 9 de la R\xc3\xa9publique Fran\xc3\xa7aise.", it is in-8. The appendix consists of pp. 1-86 (pp. 1, 2, 3, 38 and 39 are un-

Description: Argostemma Wall. (type species: A. verticillatum Wall.).\nThis large Old World genus, comprising about 240 binomials of which, ca 70-80 will prove to be distinct species, has been almost unanimously left undivided. Exceptions are Reinwardt who in 1825 created the genus Pomangium, independently of Wallich (1824) and Ridley who in 1927 based the genus Argostemmella on two Bornean species of Argostemma. My revision (in msc.) of Argostemma occurring in Malaysia confirmed the common view that there is no reason for splitting up this genus. However, several subdivisions (sections) can reasonably be accepted. As those sections mostly represent well-delimited taxa in connection with a rather evident distribution of their own, I propose here the following 5 sections for Argostemma. It should be borne in mind that I have examined almost all extra-Mallaysian species too.

Description: The Compositae of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea collected by O. Beccari have been studied by U. Martelli in 1883. Afterwards J. Mattfeld reconsidered some of Beccari\xe2\x80\x99s Compositae, chiefly specimens of the genus Blumea, founding also a new species, Anaphalis arfakensis, on a Beccari specimen from Papua.\nThe re-examination of the above mentioned collection brought to light some misinterpretations.

Description: Faisant suite aux lev\xc3\xa9s g\xc3\xa9ologiques dans la zone Nord-Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9enne et dans la zone axiale des Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9es ari\xc3\xa9geoises et de la haute-Garonne, le Val d\'Aran et le Haut-Pallaresa ont \xc3\xa9t\xc3\xa9 incorpor\xc3\xa9s dans la cartographie depuis 1952. N\xc3\xa9anmoins les r\xc3\xa9sultats provisoires ont d\xc3\xa9j\xc3\xa0 une importante influence sur notre conception de la structure g\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9rale de la zone axiale centrale. Il para\xc3\xaet utile d\'en esquisser une premi\xc3\xa8re \xc3\xa9bauche, quoiqu\'il para\xc3\xaesse certain que beaucoup de d\xc3\xa9tails seront corrig\xc3\xa9s par les lev\xc3\xa9s post\xc3\xa9rieurs.\nLe Val d\'Aran depuis el Puente del Rey jusqu\'au Puerto de Bonaigua constitue un vaste bassin dans lequel na\xc3\xaet la Garona, aliment\xc3\xa9e par une dizaine d\'affluents venant du Sud, de l\'Est et du Nord. Sa situation au centre de la grande cha\xc3\xaene pal\xc3\xa9ozoique des Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9es en fait le lieu le plus propice pour \xc3\xa9tudier le d\xc3\xa9veloppement stratigraphique du Primaire et sa d\xc3\xa9formation structurale accompagn\xc3\xa9e de deux phases magmatiques, datant de la fin de cette \xc3\xa9poque.

Description: Comme la carte de la page 8 le montre le Massif du Saint-Barth\xc3\xa9lemy se trouve dans le D\xc3\xa9pt. de l\'Ari\xc3\xa8ge \xc3\xa0 l\'Est et au Nord de la rivi\xc3\xa8re dont le d\xc3\xa9partement porte le nom et entre Foix et Ax-les-Thermes. Le terrain examin\xc3\xa9 est form\xc3\xa9 enti\xc3\xa8rement de roches pal\xc3\xa9ozo\xc3\xafques ou plus anciennes, bord\xc3\xa9es au Nord, au Sud et \xc3\xa0 l\'Est par des formations m\xc3\xa9sozo\xc3\xafques. Ce terrain est limit\xc3\xa9 \xc3\xa9galement de Pal\xc3\xa9ozo\xc3\xafque au c\xc3\xb4t\xc3\xa9 Ouest, le long d\'une faille qui s\xc3\xa9pare le Massif du Saint-Barth\xc3\xa9lemy du Massif de l\'Arize. De cette mani\xc3\xa8re le Massif du Saint-Barth\xc3\xa9lemy est un des Massifs primaires Nord-pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9ens: c\'est-\xc3\xa0-dire l\'une des \xc3\xaeles de roches pal\xc3\xa9ozo\xc3\xafques dans le M\xc3\xa9sozo\xc3\xafque, situ\xc3\xa9es au Nord de la zone axiale, qui est enti\xc3\xa8rement constitu\xc3\xa9e de roches pal\xc3\xa9ozo\xc3\xafques.\nLes principaux Massifs Nord-pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9ens sont de l\'Est \xc3\xa0 l\'Ouest: le Massif de l\'Agly, du Saint-Barth\xc3\xa9l\xc3\xa9my, de l\'Arize, des Trois Seigneurs, de Castillon et de la Barousse. Il existe en outre encore quelques petits Massifs.

Description: Le texte contient l\'explication de la carte, des profils et du tableau stratigraphique. La description lithologique fait mention d\'une dolomitisation du D\xc3\xa9vonien moyen, montant quelquefois plus haut, et de quelques poudingues dans le D\xc3\xa9vonien sup\xc3\xa9rieur. Un affleurement probablement du D\xc3\xa9vonien inf\xc3\xa9rieur dans un facies gr\xc3\xa9seux et fossilif\xc3\xa8re, est exceptionnel dans les Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9es. Dans la tectonique on a essay\xc3\xa9 de faire une \xc3\xa9valuation des influences alpines et hercyniennes s\xc3\xa9par\xc3\xa9ment. Puisque le m\xc3\xa9tamorphisme de contact des granites de Foix et de Lacourt ne monte pas plus haut que le Gothlandien, leur \xc3\xa2ge reste incertain, quoique des dykes et sills acides traversent le Carbonif\xc3\xa8re. La min\xc3\xa9ralisation due au granit\xc3\xa9 ne monte nul part plus haut que le D\xc3\xa9vonien.

Description: Un des plus grands ph\xc3\xa9nom\xc3\xa8nes structuraux des Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9es est sans doute la faille Nord-Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9enne qui longe la zone axiale depuis la M\xc3\xa9diterran\xc3\xa9e jusqu\'\xc3\xa0 la c\xc3\xb4te atlantique.\nElle est caract\xc3\xa9ris\xc3\xa9e par plusieurs particularit\xc3\xa9s exceptionelles, dont le m\xc3\xa9tamorphisme des terrains jurassiques et cr\xc3\xa9tac\xc3\xa9s inf., accompagn\xc3\xa9 d\'intrusions de roches basiques est le plus important.

Description: Depuis longtemps on trouve dans la litt\xc3\xa9rature sur la g\xc3\xa9ologie des Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9es des discussions sur les lherzolites et les ophites, concernant leur origine, leur \xc3\xa2ge et leur mode de formation. En g\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9ral ces discussions ont rendu difficile l\'\xc3\xa9claircissement de ce probl\xc3\xa8me et un r\xc3\xa9sum\xc3\xa9 de toute la litt\xc3\xa9rature manque jusqu\'ici. Dans un rapport in\xc3\xa9dit de l\'Institut g\xc3\xa9ologique de l\'Universit\xc3\xa9 de Leyde M. H. Heetveld a rassembl\xc3\xa9 toutes les donn\xc3\xa9es sur les lherzolites et ophites, et en v\xc3\xa9rit\xc3\xa9 il est difficile d\'en tirer une conclusion. C\'est pourquoi nous ferons dans cet article une proposition quant \xc3\xa0 leur d\xc3\xa9finition et leur \xc3\xa2ge et mode de formation.\nLes deux termes lherzolite et ophite sont bien d\xc3\xa9finis: la lherzolite est une roche consistant essentiellement en olivine ,parfois serpentinis\xc3\xa9e, et en plus de diallage ou diopside, bronzite et picotite. En r\xc3\xa9alit\xc3\xa9 une lherzolite est une p\xc3\xa9ridotite avec un caract\xc3\xa8re sp\xc3\xa9cial. L\'ophite est une roche compos\xc3\xa9e de plagioclase, An 40\xe2\x80\x9470, pyrox\xc3\xa8ne, souvent ouralitis\xc3\xa9, et quelques min\xc3\xa9raux accessoires, avec une texture ophitique.

Description: Depuis 1948 des groupes d\'\xc3\xa9tudiants en g\xc3\xa9ologie de l\'Universit\xc3\xa9 de Leiden sous ma direction, plus tard assist\xc3\xa9 par M. Zwakt, se sont occup\xc3\xa9s de la g\xc3\xa9ologie du Primaire des Pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9es centrales. Le lev\xc3\xa9 s\'est d\xc3\xa9plac\xc3\xa9 graduellement du Nord vers le Sud et de l\'Est vers l\'Ouest, de sorte qu\'en 1953 nous avons d\xc3\xa9pass\xc3\xa9 la fronti\xc3\xa8re franco-espagnole et entrepris la cartographie du Val d\'Aran et de la Haute Pallaresa. Evidemment nous nous sommes bas\xc3\xa9s largement sur les travaux de nos pr\xc3\xa9d\xc3\xa9cesseurs, fran\xc3\xa7ais surtout, et sur les feuilles au 80.000i\xc3\xa8me de la carte g\xc3\xa9ologique, dont surtout les nouvelles \xc3\xa9ditions des feuilles de Foix et de Bagn\xc3\xa8res de Luchon ont \xc3\xa9t\xc3\xa9 un precieux appui. Tous les noms des grands g\xc3\xa9ologues pyr\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9ens, de Leymerie, Caralp, Mussy, Dalloni, L\xc3\xa9on Bertrand, Raguin, Casteras, sont associ\xc3\xa9s \xc3\xa0 ces cartes et je crois qu\'il est superflu de rappeler \xc3\xa0 chaque instant leur r\xc3\xb4le individuel dans ce court expos\xc3\xa9.\nLe manque presque total de fossiles oblige chaque g\xc3\xa9ologue de terrain de notre r\xc3\xa9gion \xc3\xa0 op\xc3\xa9rer par comparaisons de facies lointains et consid\xc3\xa9rations g\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9rales et l\'oblige \xc3\xa0 cartographier la totalit\xc3\xa9 d\'une grande r\xc3\xa9gion afin d\'aboutir \xc3\xa0 une conception g\xc3\xa9n\xc3\xa9rale. Chaque lacune du lev\xc3\xa9 de terrain se venge irr\xc3\xa9vocablement par des raccordements faux, il faut tout suivre sur le terrain, autrement on tombe dans des erreurs graves puisque les facies ne sont pas tr\xc3\xa8s constants.

Description: Ever since it became apparent that terrestrial animals ranging over large continental areas generally showed a certain degree of gradual geographic variation, attention has been focused on the colour variation of the Jay, Garrulus glandarius, in Europe. Surely the Jays belong to those species of palearctic land birds in which the formation of geographical differences must be considered to be exceptionally favoured: HARTERT (1903\xe2\x80\x941922; including HARTERT & STEINBACHER 1932) recognized as many as 10 European races of the Jay by name, whereas Kleiner (1935\xe2\x80\x9438) in his monographic treatment of the species numbered as many as 9 races in the same region. In several instances of the geographic variation of the Jay the differences are exceedingly striking, e.g. between the reddish brown Jays from Ireland and the dark grey ones from northern and central Europe. Still, the intergradations are so gradual and the individual variation is so unexpectedly large, that the application of subspecific names as a method of expressing geographical variation has proved to meet with serious difficulties. The resulting confusion of names for years has stressed geographical differences being of only minor importance and has obscured others meriting a closer attention.\nHowever, it was not at all for nomenclatorial purposes that this study was started, nor in order to propose a new arrangement of the geographic races of the Jay in Europa. That, in spite of this, these topics have been dealt with in one of the following chapters of this paper must be explained from the fact that the author failed to see a possibility to avoid them. The main purpose of this study was to investigate instances of \xe2\x80\x9cclinal variation\xe2\x80\x9d, meaning the presence and the origin of geographical character gradients. \xe2\x80\x9cCharacter gradients in the frequencies or in the expression of variable characters\xe2\x80\x9d (DOBZHANSKY 1947, p. 67) occurring in continuous geographical areas have seriously attracted the attention of students of population genetics and of micro-evolution. Hence it seemed worth while to select a suitable subject for a comparison of local individual variation with geographical variation and to study the origin of the clines. This is what the author has tried to do in the course of the present study on Garrulus glandarius.

Description: While studying the parasitic copepods of the Dutch Waddensea, at the Zoological Station Den Helder, I came across a species of Bomolochus from the gills of the Black Sole, Solea solea (L.). Except for the second leg, the various appendages resembled those of B. soleae CLAUS, as figured by TH. & A. SCOTT in their Ray Society Monograph (1912\xe2\x80\x9413). According to them, the endopod of the second leg has narrow joints, like the exopod. They stated that the second and third leg have about the same structure. In my material, however, the endopod of the second leg has widened joints; second and third legs have, therefore, quite a different aspect.\nOf TH. and A. SCOTT\xe2\x80\x99S material, 2 samples remained**) in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), Londen. The specimens proved to be quite distinct from the Dutch ones, differing not only in the structure of the second leg, but also in several other, less striking, characters.

Description: A faunal list of the birds of the Moluccan Islands has been previously published by the first author (Treubia 19, part 2, May 1948, pp. 323\xe2\x80\x94 402). Additional data have been collected since by Mr. G. A. L. de Haan during a period of several years in which this zealous collector lived in Halmahera and visited the islands Morotai, Ternate and Gebe. It seemed us worth while to publish the species and new localities from the data collected by Mr de Haan, which are not contained in the previous list. We take this opportunity to add some data from literature, published after May 1948 or overlooked by the first author, some data from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Leiden, and to add some corrections to the first list.\nWe want to express our sincere thanks to Mr de Haan for all troubles taken to provide us with material and information, to Dr E. Mayr (New York) for his corrections and valuable information, to Dr M. A. Lieftinck (Bogor) and Prof. Dr H. Boschma (Leiden) and Dr G. C. A. Junge (Leiden) for material put at our disposal.