478 Bihliogvaphical Notice. 



P. Large, 60-80 mm. in adult: pectinal teeth 16-22 

 (d 2)i hand granular internally, fingers weakly 

 lobate ; width of hand in adult much exceeding 

 half the length of the carapace charcasus. 



Note. — Mr. P. O. Simons also collected two species of 

 Bothriuridie, namely Brach'sfosterus Ehrenhergi, at Eten in 

 Peru, and JJoiliri'unis coriaceuSj Pocock, at Banos. 



With regard to Kraepelin's determination of the species 

 of the genus Bot/triurits, it may be remarked that there is no 

 justification for the retention of the name chilensis, Molina, 

 for the species I have described as B. signatus. The name 

 Scorpio chilensis of Molina may have been founded upon a 

 species of Hadriiroides, or Carahoctonus, or Bothriurus, or, 

 indeed, upon ahnost any of the species of Bothriurid?e or 

 Vejovidffi that occur in Chili. The fact that Karsch identitied 

 a particular species as probably referable to the Scorpio 

 chilensis of Molina has little or no value in settling what 

 chilensis really is. Hence, since it is more than doubtful 

 that B. signatus, 'Pocock,= Scorpio chilensis, Mol., it is inde- 

 fensible to assign tiie latter name to the former species. 



BIIiLIOGKAPHIC A L N OT ICE . 



Die Lejndopteienfuvna des Bismdrch-ArcJiipels. Mit Berikhsicht- 

 igting der thieiyeographischen und hioJogifsclien Verhaltnisse 

 sgstematisch dargestellt. Yon Dr. Aenold Pagenstecher, Wies- 

 baden. Zweitcr Theil : Die Nachtfcdter. Mit 2 col. Tafeln. 

 {Zooh(/ica, Heft 29.) Stuttgart, 1900. 



This is the second and concluding part of a work of which we had 

 the pleasure of noticing the first part, which contained the Butter- 

 flies, a few months ago. Some pages of general observations are 

 prefixed to the second part, in which the author remarks that the 

 fauna of the Bismarck Archipelago is most nearly related to that of 

 New Guinea and the Moluccas to the west, and to that of the 

 Solomon Islands to the east, and of Australia to the south. These 

 countries contain a great number of moths of identical or represen- 

 tative species, especially among the Pyralidie, a group remarkable 

 for the vast range of many of the species which it includes. The 

 systematic part of the book will be chiefly interesting to specialists, 

 and the descriptions and remarks of previous authors are freely 

 utilized to complete the subject so far as it is known. After 

 this we find a detailed analysis of the distribution of the various 

 families belonging to the fauna in other parts of the world, alpha- 

 betical indices of genera and species, supplementary notes to the 

 first part of the book ; &c. 



