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NOTES ON MELIOENIS NOVAEHOLLANBIAE 

 NOVAEHOLLANDIAE AND 31. N. BIEMENENSIS. 



Br GREGORY M. MATHEWS. 



IN a collection of skins fioni New Sontli Wales sent me by luy friend Dr. J. 

 Barton Cleland 1 notice a change in the colour of the iris from the 

 " cafe-an-lait " colour of the immature male, first into greyish white, then to 

 a white very faintly tinged with grey (in a male with small testes), and finally 

 to enamel-white in a fully adult male with enlarged testes. 

 All the fully adults have quite white iris. 



It is also interesting to note that a specimen of Zosterops caeruleseens in full 

 breeding plumage was obtained in June, /.c. in the Australian winter. 



Description of the Eggs of 



Meliornis novaehoUandiae diemeneusis Mathews. 



Clutch three. Shape roundish, surface slightly glossy. Ground-colour buff, 

 with a tinge of pink; at the larger end a band of reddish spots with fewer grey- 

 brown ones. Axis 19'5, diameter lo'o mm. 



NOTES ON ABCTIANAE AND DESCRIPTIONS OF A EEW 



NEW SPECIES. 



Bv THE Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



1. Automolis schistaceus sp. nov. 



(?. This is nearest to -I. anie.vaca Uothsch. Pectus slate-grey with steel-green 

 gloss ; jialpi black with steel-green gloss ; head and antennae black ; tegulae and 

 shoulder-jiatches buffy yellow ; rest of patagia and thorax slate-grey ; first two 

 segments of abdomen dark butfy yellow, rest of abdomen blackish slate, a paler 



grey j)atch on terminal and subtorminal segments. Forewiug slate-grey, a 



buffy yellow transverse band reaches from the costa to inner margin across centre 

 of cell expanding towards inner margin. Iliudwing, basal two-fifths buft'y yellow, 

 apical three-fifths slate-grey. 



Length of forewiug : 'M — 2:i mm. 



llab. San Esteban, Venezuela, June I'JU'.i (S. M. Klages). 



2 <?<?. 



2. Automolis tanialoides sp. nov. 



c?. Very close to Uiniahi Schaus and Intitnia Druce. Legs orange-yellow, 

 forecoxae orange-yellow, middle and hindcoxae earth-brown ; palpi orange-yellow : 

 head black, metallic blue sjjots on frons and vertex, spots at base of antennae and 

 band across frons orauge-vcllow ; tegnlae orange with broad sooty black lateral 



