8. ANTUOTHEEPTES. 123 



Cinnyris lepidus, Vieill. N. Bid. d'Hisf. Nat. xxxi. p. 504 (1819) ; 



id. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 592 (1823) ; id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 291, pi. 177 



(1825) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. pp. 33, 58 (1828) ; id. Traite d'Orn. 



i. p. 298 (1831). 

 Ciiinvris ruticollis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 600 (1823). 

 Nectarinialepida, Temm. PI. Col. 126. figs. 1, 2 (1823); Drapiez, Diet. 



Class. XV. p. 512 (1829) ; Loio, Sara^vak, p. 410 (1848) ; (pt.) Finsch, 



Neu-Guinca, p. 163 (1865). 

 Anthreptes javanica. Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 329, fig. 288/(1837). 

 Nectarinia malaccensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 980 (1843) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 99 (1847) ; Pelzeln, Novara Reise, VUg. pp. 52, 161 



(1865). 

 Anthreptes lepida, J?;). C. A. i. p. 409 (1850) ; Wallace, P. Z. S. 



1862, pp. 343, 486 (pt.). 

 Antliothreptes malaccensis. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 104 (1850) ; Blyth 



Sj- Walden, Cat. Mamm. df Birds Burma, p. 142 (1875) ; Walden, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 348. 

 Anthreptes malaccensis, Beichenb. Handb. Scansor. p. 305, pi. 688. 



figs. 3989-91 (1854) ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mtis. ii. 



p. 737 (1856) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 461 (pt.) ; Walden, Ibis, 



1870, p. 47 (pt.) ; id. Trans. Zool. -SocViii. p. 70 (1871) ; (pt.) Salvad. 



Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. \. p. 178 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 473; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 107, & 1879, p. 342; Briigg. Abh. nat. 



Ver. Bremen, v. pp. 72, 458 (1876) ; Tu-eeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 302; 



id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 621 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd series, Zool. 



i. p. 342 (1877) ; Ttveedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 621 ; Hume ^- Davis. 



Str. F. vi. p. 186 (1878); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xiv, 

 • p. 213 {1879); Nic/wlsoti, Ibis, 1879, p. 166 ; S/unpe, P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 342; ShelUy, Monogr. Met. p. 315, pi. 101. fig. 2. 

 Arachnothera malaccensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 113 (1869). 

 Nectarophila malaccensis, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 301 (1870) ; 



Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 167. 

 Nectarinia lepida, (pt.) Miill. <§• Schleg. Verh. Natnurl. Gescli. p. 63 



(1846) ; (pt.) Fi7isch, Neu-Guinea, p. 163 (1865). 

 Anthreptes malaccensis, pt., Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 461 ; Walden, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 47 ; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 70 (1871) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. v. p. 178 (1874) ; Briige/. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, v. p. 72 (1876) ; Hnme ^- Dav. Str. F. 1878, p. 186; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 90 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 324. 

 Anthreptes lepida, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 335, 343. 

 Anthothreptes malaccensis, pt., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. 



p. 661 (1875) ; id.Atti B. Ace. Torin. xii. p. 320 (1877). 

 Anthreptes celebensis, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 319, pi. 103. figs. 



2 & 3 ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 131. 



A. clilorogaster. 

 Anthothreptes malaccensis (pt.), Salvad. Ann. 3Itis. Civ. Gen. vii. 

 p. 661 (1875) ; id. op. cit. ix. p. 57 (1876) ; id. Atti B. Ace. Torin. 

 xii. p. 320 (1877). 

 Anthreptes chlorigaster, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd series, Zool. i. 



p. 342 (1877). 



Anthreptes chlorigastra, Shelley, Monogr. Ncct. p. 321, pi. 103. fig. 1. 



Anthreptes rhodolasma, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 313, pi. 101. fig. 1. 



Adult males from Java and Malacca. Crown of head, hind neck, 



and upper back metallic, dark green in position C, green and pnritlo 



in position B ; least -wing-covcrts, lower back, upper tail-coverts. 



and outer edge of tail-feathers brilliant deep metallic blue, purplish 



