( im ) 



margiiu" snperiore transvorso partis dilatatae cornus jwstic-i medio oonvexo, dein 

 Icvifer siiniato, lateribns ipsis obliquo. 



Pnmotum loiin;itudiiu' ]iariiiii latins, apice dimidio angustins qnam basi, medio 

 dnplo latins qnam apico, lateribns reflexo-marginatnm, convexnin, disio obtnsissime 

 tricarinatnm, sat dense (medio antice exeepto) vndose pnuctatum ; basi late 

 rotnndatnm, parnm prodnctnm, lateraliter obliqne sinnatum, angulis posticis 

 obtnsis. 



Sontcllnm latitndiiie vix lonijins, tviantrnlare, pnnctatnni, margiiiibns laeve. 



Elytra retrorsnm fortiter angnstata, jdanata, dorso levissimc longitrorsnm 

 impressa, vadose punctata. 



Pygidium rngis coiicentricis irregnlaribns notatnm. 



Metasternum ot abdomen medio minute punctata ac glabra ; processus mesoster- 

 nalis elevatns antice perpendicnlaris. Tibiae margiae interiorc ochracco-pilosae, 

 anticae longe ante medium deute minuto instructac. 



Long. (cap. exci.) 22 mm., elytr. 14, lat. 12. 



This species agrees witii }r>/rfi'ristfs microplii/llus Wood-JIas. in being devoid 

 of" a prothoracic born; the anterior horn of the head is almost shajied as in that 

 species, but it is much longer and much deeper sinuate. 



Hob. Brit. X. Borneo (A. Everett). 



XoTE. — •(?) Doreus barbanis .lord., described on p. 485 of the present volume 

 of NoviTATES ZoOLOGic.\E and figured on PI. XIII., fig. 2, is identical with 

 Falcicornis groulti Planet (/yf Natural., p. 44, February l.jth, 1894), which has 

 the priority of date of some weeks. 



Gnorimus dridis Jord., Xovitates Zoologic.\e, I., p. 480, I'l. XI II.. fig. 3 

 (1894), proves to be the same as Gn. cost/p(:n/u's Jans., Sot. Leyil. Mtts., xii., p. 128 

 (1890). 



P8EUD0NEST0B XANTHOPHRYS A DEEPANINE BIRD. 



By the HON. WAI,TER ROTHSCHILD. 



WHEX characterising this very remarkable form of birds from the Sandwich 

 Islands I compared the genus only with Psittacirosfra and believed it to 

 be a genus of the FrhtiiUlkhir. Since then several specimens in spirits have 

 come to hand, and the study of them, especially the structure of the tongue, has 

 proved beyond doubt that this bird belongs to the Drepanidae. 



More about this will be said in the forthcoming third volume of my work on 

 the birds of Lavsan and the Hawaiian Islands. 



