488 ON A COLLECTION OF BIEDS FEOM THE [1877. 



ground for separating specifically any one or more races of this spider-hunter ; and if there were, 

 the Javan and Sumatran race would require the new title, and not the race named affinis 

 (subsequently pusilla) by Ely th ; for it supplied Latham with the type of his C. longirostra. 



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54. Arachnothera fl.\vigastea. 



Anthreptesjlavigaster, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105, " Malacca." 

 Arachnothera eytonii, Salvadori, t. c. p. 182 (1874). 



Ibis, 1S77, Identical with typical examples. Count Salvadori has bestowed a fresh title, on account of 



p. 301. ^jjg hybrid construction of the name given by Eyton. 



55. Arachnothera chrtsogents. 



mctarinia chrysogenys, Temm. PI. Col. 388. f. 1, " Java " (1826). 

 Certhia longirostra, Lath., Raffles, t. c. p. 299, " Sumatra," nee Lath. 



Sumatran, Bornean (N.E.), and Malaccan examples do not differ. 



56. Arachnothera temmincki. 



Arachnothera temmincki, Moore, Cat. E.I. C. Mus. ii. p. 728, " Malacca T' (1856-58). 

 One Lampong example, obtained by Mr. Buxton, is inseparable from Malaccan individuals. 



57. Arachnophila simplex. 



l^ectarinia simflex, S. Miiller, Verb. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez., Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 172, note, " Sumatra, Borneo " (1843) ; op. cit. Zool. Aves, p. 62, t. 8. f. 4 (1846) ; Walden, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 31. [Antea, p. 79.] 



Arachnophila simplex (S. Miiller) ; Salvadori, t. c. p. 172. 



A single example of this rare Sun-bird ( c? ) is in the collection. Reichenbach's generic title, 

 Arachnorajjhis, cannot be used, being partly founded on a Malaccan Arachnothera (A. Jlavigastra, 

 Eyton) and partly on the New-Ireland Nectarinia^^avigastra, Gould (=A. frenata). A. simplex, 

 Miill. & Schlegel, ex Lombock, Gray's Hand-1. no. 1870, is a true Arachnothera from Lombock, 

 discovered by Mr. Wallace, and has nothing to do with the species it is there referred to. 



58. jEthopyga siparaja. 



Certhia siparaja. Raffles, t. c. p. 299, " Sumatra" (1821) ; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 33. [Antea, 

 p. 81.] 



^thopyga eupogon, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 103, note, "Malacca, Borneo" (1850-51). 



The examples from S.E. vSumatra are identical with Malaccan, Penang, and Bornean 

 specimens. Cabanis's title of eupogon must therefore fall. 



Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 302. 59. Arachnechthra pectoralis. 



Nectarinia pectoraUs, Horsf. t. c. p. 167, "Java" (1820). 

 Undistinguishable from Javan examples. 



