49. NEoniEMA. 569 



49. NEOPHEMA. 



at ^ Type. 



IS anodes, part., Vig. § Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xv. p. 274 (1826). 

 Nanodes, She. (nee V. $ H.) Zool. III. 2nd ser. 



i. pt. 5, u. 21 (1829) N. pulchella. 



Lathamus, part., Leas. Tr.d'Orn. p. 20-5 (1831). 



Euphema, part., Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 492 (1832). 



Euphemia, Schleg. Dierent. p. 75 (1864). 



Neophema, Salvad. MS. N. pulcheUa. 



Range. Southern Australia and Tasmania. 



Key to the Species*. 



a. Upper surface brown ; abdomen rosy ; under 



tail-coverts light blue .' bourkei, p. 570. 



b. Upper surface green or olive-green : abdomen 



and under tail-coverts yellow. 

 a. Frontal band blue, sharply defined. 

 a". Lores yellow or greenish yellow. 



a'". Lores yellow ; abdomen yellow ; gene- 

 rally without an orange spot. 

 a*. Frontal blue band not reaching be- 

 hind the eyes; all the upper wing- 

 coverts deep blue : female like male . venusta, p. 570. 

 b*. Frontal blue band continued over and 

 behind the eyes ; exterior upper 

 wing-coverts blue, the inner ones 

 olive-green like the back ; between 

 the exterior blue wing-coverts and 

 the inner olive ones there is a band 

 of verditer-blue : female duller and 

 smaller, and perhaps with the frontal 



blue band narrower elegans, p. 572. 



b'". Lores greenish yellow ; abdomen with 

 a bright orange spot ; inner upper wing- 

 coverts green, the outer ones blue . . . . cAiysogastra, p. 573. 

 b". Lores and circle surrounding the eyes 



pale verditer-blue petrophila. p. 574. 



b . t ace blue. 



c". Chest yellow; a red-chestnut spot on the 

 inner upper wing-coverts : female duller, 

 with the lores yellowish, and no red- 

 chestnut spot on the wing-cove rts pulcheUa. p. 575. 



d". Chest rich scarlet; no red-chestnut spot 

 on the wing-coverts ; wing-coverts lazu- 

 line blue: female duller and paler, with 

 the cheal olive-green and the lores bluish, splendida, p. 576. 



* Besides the species included in the above Key, there is a nominal one which 

 most, likely was founded on a specimen of one or other of the already known 

 species: — 



Euphema sounncci, Bp. » t Mag. dc Zool. 1854, p. 154, n. 197 (deecr 

 nulla); id. Nawntumia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 205(7); G R Gr I Ast 

 Psitt Brit. Mus. p. 16 1859): Finsch, Papag. ii. pp. 1>,«). iU'.t . 1SUS): 

 G.R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 141, n. 8041 (1820); Gieb. Thcs. Om ii 

 p. 132(1875). 



