( 6li4 ) 



tibiaeqne rufae, ochraceo pnbescentes, tarsi nitjri griseo-pubescentes baai colore 

 tibiarnm. Long. (cap. excl.) 8 mm. 



In a view from the side the species appears nniforml)- convex from the head 

 to the pygidium, while in a dorsal aspect it is elougate-ovate. The mouth-parts 

 are black, slightly rnfescent, with the exception of the lobes of the labium, which 

 are very pale rnfons. The prosternum is short, the praecoxal portion being shorter 

 than the width of a coxa ; its anterior edge is raarginate. The mesosternal process 

 is broader than long and rounded. The tarsi not quite equal the tibiae in length, 

 the first segment measuring less than half a tibia ; the third segment is very 

 small. 



A pair from Sumbawa (received from Messrs. Standinger and Bang-Haas). 



NOTES ON THE PABABISEIDAE FIGURED ON 

 PLATES VII. AND VIII. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



Falcinellus astrapioides (Rothsch.). 

 (Plate VII.) 



Epimachm astrapioides Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club vii. p. xxii. (December 1897 — '• Dutch New 



Gninea "). 

 Falcinellus astrapioides Rothschild, Tierreich, Lief. 2, Paradiseidae, p. 30 (1898 — "N.W.-Neu- 



Guinea") ; id., Ibis 1911. p. 366. 



Nothing is known of this extraordinary species, which seems to stand quite by 

 itself, without any close allies, than the type specimen in the Tring Museum, a 

 native skin jiurchased from Mr. van Renesse van Dnivenbode fourteen years ago. 

 It came from some place in Dutch New Guinea. 



Astrapia rothschildi Foerster. 

 (Plate VIII.) 



Astrapia rothschildi Foerster, Two Nno Birds of Paradise p. 2 [October 1906 — " Mountains of 

 German New Guinea (Wahnes coll.)"]; Rothschild, Ibis 1911. p. 361 ("Rawliuson Mts. 

 German New Guinea "). 



A good many examples from the Rawliuson Mountains have been sent over, 

 and there is a series in the Tring Museum, two in the British Museum, and specimens, 

 in various Continental collections. Mr. Keysser has also discovered the nest and 

 eggs, and an egg, with nest, is represented in the Tring Museum. A description 

 of the egg ajipears in the January number of the Ibis. It would not be far 

 wrong to treat this bird as a subspecies of ^4. nigra, but Mr. Rothschild has given 

 his reasons (Ibis, I.e.) for not doing so, evidently referring to the fiery red line 

 bordering the breast-shield not extending upwards to the head. 



