THE IBIS. 



FOURTH SERIES. 



No. VI. APRIL 1878. 



X. — A Synopsis of the Genus Pomatorhinus, By Lieu- 

 tenant Wardlaw Ramsay, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 67th 

 Regiment. 



(Plates III.-V.) 



The range of the genus Pomatorhinus, so far as is known, 

 is confined to India, Ceylon, Assam and Arakan, Burmah, 

 China, Formosa, Hainan, Malacca, Java, and Borneo. 

 Twenty-one species are known to science, of which sixteen 

 inhabit the continent of Asia. Of the remaining five insular 

 forms one is found in Java (P. montanus, Horsf., type of the 

 genus), two in the island of Formosa (P. erythrocnemis, Gould, 

 and P. nigrostellatus, Swinhoe), and one in Ceylon (P. mela- 

 nurus, Bly th) , all peculiar to the islands on which they are 

 found, whilst a fifth species, which inhabits Borneo (P. bor- 

 neensis, Cabanis), is also found in Malacca. No species of 

 Pomatorhinus has been recorded from Sumatra; but it is pro- 

 bable that when the mountainous regions of this island have 

 been scientifically explored, one, if not two or more, possibly 

 undedescribed species may be revealed to us. 



In the Austro-Papuan region is found a single species, which 



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