of the Indian and Australian Regions. 45 



asiatica and its congeners. The yellow axillaries are the principal 

 character which indicates its affinity to Arachnechthra. 



Certhia nianillensis, Gm. (S. N. i. p. 471. no. 32, the diagno- 

 sis of which is taken, but unacknowledged, from Montbeillard, 

 Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p, 496, ex Lu9on), belongs either to this 

 species or else to one not since recognized from Luzon. The 

 French author having described Le Sou'i-manya (C souimanga, 

 Gm.), remarks : — " On doit rapporter a cette espece, comma 

 variete tres-prochaine, le Soui-manga de Fisle de Lujon que 

 j'ai vu dans le beau cabinet de M. Mauduit, et qui a la gorge, 

 le cou et la poiti'iue couleur d'acier poli, avec des reflets veits, 

 bleus, violets, etc., et plusieurs colliers que le jeu brillant de 

 ces reflets paroit multiplier encore ; il semble cependant que 

 I'on en distingue quatre plus constans, I'inferieur violet-noiratre, 

 le suivant marron, puis un brun, et enfin un jaune ; il y a deux 

 taches de cette couleur au-dessous des epaules; le reste du 

 dessous du corps, gris-olivatre ; le dessus du corps, vert-fonc^ 

 avec des reflets bleus, violets, etc., les pennes des ailes, les pennes 

 et couvertures superieures de la queue, d\in brun plus ou moins 

 fonce, avec un ceil verdatre." Were it not for the alleged 

 Philippine origin, I should not hesitate to refer C. insignis, 

 (Jard.) to C. nianillensis, Gm. 



33. Chalcostetha aspasia, (Less.), Voy. Coq. Zool. i. 

 p. 676, no. 100, t. 30. f. 4, " Dorey " (New Guinea), d adult. 

 (1826). 



Cinfiyris sericeus, Less., Diet. Sc. Nat. 1. p. 21, " Dorey " 

 (1827), ex Less. Voy. Coq. t. 30. f. 3 [errore). 



Hermotimia aspasia (Less.), E/eichenb. Handb. p. 285, no. 661. 



Hab. Celebes, Amboyna, Banda Islands, New Guinea (S, Miil- 

 ler) ; New Guinea, Waigiou, Mysol, Aru (Wallace, /rfe Gray). 



Miiller mentions having obtained this species at Macassar 

 (o/>. cit. Aves, p. 58). I do not find it given from Celebes in 

 any of Mr. Wallace's lists. It is therefore probable that 

 Miiller did not notice the characters discriminated by Mr. 

 Wallace in the nearly allied species C. j)orpMjrol(Bma. Again, 

 by including Amboyna within its range, Miiller seems not to 

 have recognized the specific differences of C. aspasioides (G. R. 



