Bibliographical Notice. 679 



Genus POMASIA. 



(Guen. ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 387 (1895).) 

 Pomasia albolinearia, sp. n. 



Pale brown. Primaries have a black discal dot and two 

 white transverse lines with black specks on them, the outer 

 one curved and recurved ; submarginal line wavy, whitish, but 

 not clearly defined. Secondaries have a black discal dot and 

 a white transverse indented line beyond, the latter inwardly 

 edged with black, most distinctly towards inner margin. 

 Fringes of the ground-colour preceded by a series of black 

 dots. Under surface pale brown, suffused with fuscous on 

 the disk : primaries have a pale discal mark and transverse 

 line beyond : secondaries have a black discal dot and a pale 

 band beyond, the latter inwardly edged with blackish. 



Expanse 20 millim. 



One male specimen from Chang-yang and an example of 

 each sex from Moupin : July. 



In the female specimen from Moupin the white lines are 

 wider and in the male from same locality are almost band- 

 like ; but these examples are not in such good condition as 

 the one from Chang-yang, which I have taken as the type. 



Hob. Central and Western China. 



[To be continued.] 



Erratum. 

 P. 568, line 12, for " entirely black" read "entirely white." 



BIBLIOGKAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Das Tierreich. I. Lief erung. Aves : Podargidae, Caprimulgidae, 

 and Macropterygidae. Bearbeitet von ERNST HARTERT. Berlin: 

 Friedlander u. Sohn, 1897. 



IN the first portion of the Birds in * Das Tierreich,' which we have 

 lately received, Mr. Ernst Hartert gives an excellent manual of the 

 Goatsuckers arid Swifts (Podargidae, Capriniulgidae, and Macro- 

 pterygidae). As may be supposed, it is based on the portion of 

 vol. xvi. of the ' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum ' con- 

 taining those families, which was written by him in 1892, 

 thoroughly revised and broughb well up to date ; but some little 

 alteration is made in the arrangement and in the sequence of the 

 genera, added to which Mr. Hartert has, in the present instance, 

 declared himself wholly for trinomialism, which we rather regret, 

 as we are old-fashioned enough to believe that this is a course that 

 does not tend to the simplification of the study of ornithology, but 

 rather the reverse. The number of species added to those included 

 in the Brit. Mus. Catalogue is fifteen, as follows : Podargus inter- 

 medius, Hart. ; Batracliostomus microrliynclius, Grant ; B. mixtus. 



