230 Ml-. H. Scott OH 



Fryer's specimens were collected at Peradeiiiya : — from 

 Tylonycteris jiachypus , xii. 1911, 1 ^ ; from Rousettus semi- 

 nudus, xii. 1911, I S , and iv. 1911, 3 c? , 3 ? . 



Speiser states in Voeltzkow's ' Reise^ that the specimens 

 collected in Grand Comoro were from a species of Rousettus. 

 In the same work he remarks on the very wide distribution 

 of Eucampsipodia hyrtli. In Arch. Naturg. (/. c.) he stated 

 that it lias been taken in Egypt on Cynonycteris cegripiiaca, 

 and Kolenati (Horse Ross., /. c.) records it from Xantharprjia 

 cegyptiaca on the Senegal : I am informed that both these 

 names are synonyms of Rousettus (sgyptiacus. 



II. Re-descriptiox of Ntctesibia p^^izis, Walker. 



This species was described by Walker from a single S 

 collected at Batchian (Moluccas) by "Wallace and preserved 

 dry in the British ]Museum. Walker's description is as 

 follows : " Nycteribia parilis, u. s. Pallide lutea. Pale 

 luteous. Length of the body ^ line.'^ As it is quite 

 impossible to say from this description even to what geuus 

 the species belongs, Speiser, in his work published in 1901, 

 merely included it as a doubtful species in his list. I have 

 carefully examined Walker's type and hud that the species 

 belongs to the subgenus Llstropodia of Xyctenbia. I also 

 found in the British Museum another J , preserved dry, 

 from Australia, belonging to the same species. I have also 

 examined in the British Museum 3 c? and 2 ? , preserved in 

 spirit, collected by Mr. Frederick Muir in Amboyna in 1908, 

 and find these also to be N. parilis. These Amboyna 

 specimens, and a number of others of the same species 

 obtained at the game time and place, had previously been 

 examined by Speiser and named by him in manuscript 

 Listropodia folisima. I therefore have to give this name 

 as a synonym of parilis, though, as far as I am aware, no 

 description of tolisima has been published. Muir, in his 

 paper cited below, dealing with Ascodipteron and other 

 Diptera Pupipara found by him in Amboyna, refers several 

 times to " Lipoptena tolisina, Speiser,'^ which is probably an 

 error for '^Listropodia tolisima. Speiser,^' and may thus have 

 reference to the species under discussion. 



Moreover, in 1908 Speiser described a species from 

 ^Madagascar, Nycteribia stylidiopsis. Judging from the 

 description and figures, this must be very closely allied to, 

 if not identical with, Nycteribia parilis. Some slight 

 dift'erences are apparent, such as the presence in the figures 

 of stylidiopsis of fine short bristles on the surfaces of certain 



