250 I)"'- 1^- ^'- I-*- l^i'vkins on a 



with verv long liair ; underside of abdomen witli glittering 

 -\vliite hair. 



J". — Ijcugth about 5'5 mm. 



Like tlie female, but clypcus yellow except the sides and 

 very broad upper margin; labrum with a very large yellow 

 spot ; supraclypeal mark broadly triangular ; scape black, 

 faintly reddish at extreme base ; stripe on cheeks shorter ; 

 all the tibiae yellow on outer side ; band on sixth abdominal 

 segment. Apex of abdomen broadlv rounded and obtuse. 



Island of Penang (Baker, 9289). ' 



Related to C. obtusicaudd, Ckll,, from Java^ but distin- 

 guished by the spot behind tubercles, a character of 

 G. philipinnensis. The specific name is derived from the 

 marks at the sides o£ the second and third abdominal seg- 

 ments, resembling hands pointed at each other in accusation. 

 The sculpture of the lateral areas of mesothorax is unlike 

 that of C. philippinensis. 



XXIII. — On a tieio Genus and Species of Bird of the Famih/ 

 Drepanididfe from the [Jaioaiian Islands. Bj R. C L. 

 Perkins, D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



Dysmorodrepanis, gen. nov. 



IS^earest to Psitfacirostra, but distinguished primarily bj 

 the form of the bv.'ak. Maxilla strongly decurved, compressed 

 so as to be cariniform, and extending beyond the mandible 

 for a distance equal to one-third (or more) of its full length. 

 The nostril is .«ubreniform, the lower margin of the operculum 

 being rounded ; numerous antrorse pale setiform feathers 

 project over it from the base, and a ^ew black set£e, longer 

 than these, reach right to the apex. Seen in profile the 

 mandible has its upper and lower margin subparallel on the 

 basal itart, but before the middle of its length they curve 

 strongly up\Aards. The tip alone is received in the maxilla, 

 about midway between its apex and the nostril, so that for 

 mo.^t of the liingth of the mandible there is a free space 

 between its edge and that of the maxilla and no co-adaptation 

 at all. The upper margins of the mandibles are strongly 

 bent inwards and would afford protection to the tongue lying- 

 in the deep channel between the inner edges. The tongue, 

 which had been dry for years, even after long soaking in 

 water and subsequently in potash, could only be very im- 

 perfectly studied, but apparently it agrees in general with 



