NOVTTATES ZOOLOOIOAE XXVI. 1919. 175 



31.3. Melilestes fergussonis Hart. = Toxorhynchus iliolophns fergussonis. 



Mdilestes fergussonis Hartert, Xov. Zool. 1896. p. 237 (Fergus3on Island). 



Type : i ad., Fergusson I., October 1894. No. 15, A. S. Meek Coll. 



314. Melilestes novaeguineae flaviventris Rothsch. & Hart. = Toxorhynchus 



novaeguineae flaviventris. 

 Melilestes novaeguineae flavivenlria Bothschild & Hartert, Bvll, B.O, Club, xxvii. p. 44 (Aru Islands). 



Type : S ad., Sungej Bark, Kobroor, Aru Is., 27. viii. 1900. Heinr. Kiihn^ 



No. 2380. 



31.5. Melipotes ater R. & H. = Melipotes ater. 



Melipotes ater Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxix. p. 13 (1911 — " RawUnson Mountains, 

 north of Huon GuU, German New Guinea "). 



Type: ((J ad.) Rawlinson Mountains, 1911. C Keysser leg. (Bought 

 from Professor Foerster). 



There are now two females and one male of this remarkable species in the 

 Tring Museum. Only one of the females is sexed, but it is evident from the very 

 different size (wing 22 mm. longer !) that the type is a male, the third specimen 

 also a female. 



316. Melipotes gymnops goliathi R. & H. = Melipotes gymnops goliathi. 



Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxix. p. 34 (1911 — " Mt. Goliath, 

 Central Dutch New Guinea, above 5,000 feet "). 



Type : <? ad., Mount Goliath, 27. i. 1911. A. S. Meek Coll. No. 5221. 



This very distinct form is much nearer to M. jumigatus than to gymnops ; 

 we described it as M. gymnops goliathi because we had considered gymnops to be 

 a subspecies of ftimigatus. This may be open to criticism and goliathi might be 

 called M. jumigatus goliathi. 



317. Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris R. & H. = Melirrhophetes belfordi 



griseirostris. 



Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxix. p, 34 (1911 — 

 " Mt. Goliath, Eastern Central Dutch New Guinea"). 



Type : <J ad., Mt. Goliath, ll.ii. 1911. A. S. Meek Coll. No. 5353. 

 .318. Melirrhophetes foersteri R. & H. = Melirrhophetes foersteri. 



Melirrhophetes foersteri Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxix. p. 12 (1911 — "Rawlinson 

 Mountains, north of Huon Gulf, German New Gninea "). 



Type: (<J ad.) Rawlinson Mts. C. Keysser leg. 1911. (Ex Professor 

 Foerster). 



319. Stigmatops indistiacta nupta Stres. = Stigmatops indistincta nupta. 

 Stigmatops indistincta nupta Stresemann, Nov. Zool, 1913. p. 344 (" Ani-Inseln "). 



Type: 3 ad., Manien, Aru Islands, 19. xi. 1897. Heinr. Kiihn leg. No. 

 347. 



