228 . Mr. H. Scott oti 



8. Cyclopodia sykesi (Westwood). 



Ni/eterihia s/y/ce*?', Westwood, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, i. 1835, p. 288, 



pi. xxxvi. iigs. 1-25. 

 Cyclopodia sykesi, Kolenati, Horne Soc. ent. Ross. ii. 1863, p. 82, 

 'pi. xiii. fig". 27; Speiser, Arch. Naturg. Ixvii. i. 1001, pp. 39, 55. 



Loc. India, Ceylon. 



Fryer collected 2 S autl 2 ? from Pteropus giganteus 

 ( = )7iedius), viii. 1911 ; the exact place in Ceylou is not 

 stated. 



100 specimens of this species, 57 J" and 43 ? , were 

 obtained from 11 specimens of Pteropus giganteus at Bar- 

 beryn Island, Ceylon, in 1907 by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 

 This large series was reported on by the present writer in 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1907, p. 421. It was fonnd that 

 the c? rT showed practically no variation, while the ? ? 

 varied in one respect, in the number of big tubercles (nor- 

 mally four) which stand in a group in the middle of the 

 dorsal abdominal connexivum (see op. cit. p. 424j. 



9. Eucampsipodia hyrtli (Kolenati). (PI. XII, figs. 18, 19.) 



Nycteribia hyrtli, Kolenati, Paras, d. Cliiropt. Briinn, 1856, p. 42. 

 Eucavipsipodia hyrtli, Kolenati, Horte Soc. ent. Koss. ii. 18G3, p. 78, 



pi. xiv. fig. 26 a-c; Speiser, Arch. Natiirq;. Ixvii. 1. 1901, p. 48; id. 



in Yoeltzkow, Reise in Ost-Afrika, ii 1908, p. 202. 



This species has not, to my knowledge, been recorded 

 previously from Ceylon, but Fryer obtained 5 ^ and 3 ? , 

 and the Cambridge Museum also possesses 1 cJ (in a rather 

 shrivelled state) obtained in that island some years ago by 

 H. H. W. Pearson. 



The (^ S differ only in some trifling details from Kolenati's 

 (1863) description and figure. The basal sternite in the 

 Ceylon &pecimens is bare towards its base, but has two 

 irregular rows of short bristles towards its hind margin. 

 The second sternite is not bare (as shown in Kolenati's 

 fig. 26 c), but has on its surface several irregular rows of 

 short bristles, which become longer and more numerous to- 

 wards the sides. The third sternite has only a single row of 

 bristles across its disc, and this row is widely interrupted in 

 the middle. The fourth sternite has its surface quite bare 

 in the Ceylon specimens, "without a group of several long 

 bristles on either side. (All these remarks apply only to 

 the bristles on the surfaces of the segments, not to those on 

 their hind margins.) The form of the claspers is charac- 

 teristic, straight, lying close beside one another, rather 



