102 NKCTARIKHD^. 



Avachnoraphis armata, Reichenb. Handb. Scansor. p. 313, pi. 694. 



fig. 402U (ISol). 

 Avachnoraphis robusta, Heichenb. t. c. p. 314, pi, 594. fig. 4031 ; 



Shelk'n, Monoc/r. Nect. p. 367, pi. 118. 

 Arachnocestra iu"opys'i>'»lis, Reichenb. t. c. p. 315, pi. 592. fig. 4017. 

 Nectai-inia robusta, Schlci;. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 237 (1857). 



The bill of this species is more than two inches long, and has the 

 culmen rounded, not compressed into a ridge. Upper parts dark olive- 

 green with a brownish tinge ; all the tail-feathers blackish brown, 

 the outer pairs with whitish tips ; quills and greater wing-coverts 

 dark brown, the outer web narrowly edged with olive, the inner 

 edged with whitish ; all the underparts sulphur-yellow ; the feathers 

 of the throat and breast tinged with olive, and with very obsolete 

 central streaks of brownish olive ; on each side of the breast a few 

 chrome-yellow feathers of long and diffused structure ; edge of 

 wing and under wing-coverts brown and whitish : " bill and legs 

 brownish black ; iris dark brown " (Shellci/). Total length 6 inches. 



Female. Without the pectoral tufts, and smaller in size. 



(5 (Sarawak). Culmen 2-30 in., wing 3-45, tail 2-2, tarsus O'TO. 



2 (Sarawak). „ 2-25 in., „ 3-0, „ 1-90, „ 0-70. 



Hab. Malacca, Java, and Borneo. 



2. Arachnothera crassirostris. 



Arachnocestra crassirostris, Reichenb. Handb. Scansoriee, p. 314, no, 



747, pi. 592. fig. 4016 (1854). 

 Arachnothera temminckii, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. 



p. 728, no. 1060 (1856); Grarj, Hand-1. B. i. p. Ill, no. 1367 



(1869) ; Tiveeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 301. 

 Arachnothera crassirostris. Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 111, no. 1368 



(1869) ; Salmd. Ann. Mm. Civ. Genova, v. p. 187 (1874). 

 Arachnoraphis crassirostris, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 261 ; Shelley, 



Monogr. Nect. p. 371, pi. 119. 

 Arachnothera crassirostris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv. 



p. 215 (1879). 



Like A. robusta, but much smaller in size, and without the obscure 

 central streaks to the throat and breast ; the long lax and flutfy 

 feathers on the sides of the flanks and on the centre of the lower 

 back bright lemon-yellow, and much more numerous than in A. 

 robusta; " legs and feet dark plumbeous, soles orange-yellow ; maxilla 

 black ; mandible dark brown, bluish white at base ; iris dark brown " 

 {Hume). 



The female is only slightly smaller ; breast without the chrome 



