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Show 890 PROF. A. NEWTON ON NEW [Nov. 16, postlce acuminatum, obscure fulvum concolor, supra pills sordide albldls, subtus pills slrnpllclbus albldlorlbus, crebre vestitum. Chelce sternumque obscure fulva. Pedes albldo-squamulatl, aculeis tenuibus longis fuscis subpellucentlbus armatl. Pedes-maxillares marls lutel, breves ; femore rohuslo, compresso, suhclavlformi; patella tiblaque brevibus, ad apicem cannula nigra munlta ; tarso ovato, extus ad basin levlter unguloso. Ordo PEDIPALPI. ADMETUS PALMATUS Herbst. Phalangium reniforme Fabr. (nee L.). Admetus palmatus E. Sim., Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 1892, p. 51. Neophrynus pulmutus Kraeplin, Bev. Tar. 1895, p. 30. Tres repandu dans toutes les Antilles. Ordo SOLIFUG.E. CLEOBIS CUB^E Lucas. Guleodes cubes Lucas, Mag. Zool. cl. viii. 1835, pl. ii. Decrit de Cuba. 5. O n some N e w or Bare Birds' Eggs. By A L F R E D N E W T O N , F.B.S., F.Z.S. [Received November 16, 1897.] (Plate LI:) After an interval of many years it is with peculiar pleasure I find myself, thanks to the exertions of several kind friends, able once more to offer some ' Notes on New or Bare Birds' Eggs n, and thus continue the record, begun by my predecessors, of oological discoveries, the chief of which have, during the last half-century, been communicated to this Society 2. TRINGA SUBARQUATA, Giildenstadt. (Plate LI. figs. 1-4.) For the discovery of this long-sought treasure, egg-collectors have to thank Mr. Hugh Leyborne Popham, whose perseverance in a second time visiting the valley of the Jenisei (the Yenesay of some writers) has met with a fitting and (according to my precon- 1 Cf. Pmc. Zool. Soc. 18G1, pp. 393-402, pl. xxxix.; 1867, pp. 161-168, pl. xv.; 1871, pp. 55-58, pl. iv. 2 Cf. Owen and Lyall, Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1852, pp. 12 and 32, Aves, pl. xlvi. (Apteryx, Stringops, &c.); Gould, op. cit. 1853, p. 45, Aves, pl. liii. (Menura); Walter, torn. cit. p. 192, Aves, pl. lvi. (Prodhematodera) ; Wolley, op. cit. 1857, p. 55, Aves, pl. exxii. (Ampelis garrulus); Sclater, op. cit. 1859, p. 353 (Baheniceps); Bartlett, op. cit. 1868, p. 116, pl. xii. (Rhinochetus and Eurypiiga). To some scattered papers by others as well as myself I need not here refer. |