DR A. WILLEY IN THE LOYALTY ISLANDS, NEW BRITAIN, ETC. 61 



The name violaceus applied by Newport to this species is inadmissible for it, having 

 been previously given by Fabricius to a South African member of the same genus. 

 Gervais's name violacescens can consequently stand. I proposed the name purpureus for 

 the species upon discovering that violaceus had to be transferred, but forgetting that 

 there were already a couple of other names in use. 



Dr Willey obtained examples of this species in the Loyalty Islands (Lifu and Uvea). 

 It was recorded from New Zealand by Newport, and from Gayndah and Rockhampton 

 in Queensland by Haase. 



Genus. Cupipes, Kohlrausch. 



(4) Cupipes amphieurys, Kohlr. 



Cupipes amphieurys, Kohlrausch. Arch. Nat. 1SS2, p. 79. 

 Cupipes quadrisulcatus, Meinert. Amor. Phil. Soc. p. 187, 1885. 

 Loc. New Britain — a single specimen. Previously recorded from Ponape in the 

 Caroline group. 



Genus. Otostigmus, Porat. 



(5) Otostigmus punctiventer (Tomcisv.). 



Branchiostoma punctiventer, TSmosvary. Termes. fuzetek. ix., p. 66, pi. ill., figs. 

 17, 18. 



Otostigmn punctiventre, Haase. Abh. Mus. Dresden, p. 72. 



Colour olive green or nearly black, with metallic purple or bronze reflections; head, 

 maxillipedes, first and last tergites tinted with chestnut red; legs a greenish or pale 

 purple, paler at the base or indistinctly annulate ; antennae greenish. 



Head and maxillipedes punctured ; coxal processes of maxillipedes with 3-3 or 

 4-4 teeth, the external on each side strong and separated, the internal fused. 



Antennae 18-22 segments, whereof the basal two are naked. 



Tergites from the 5th bisulcate, from the 9-11 marginate ; from about the 5th or 

 6th covered with fine spinules, which increase in coarseness in the posterior half of the 

 body ; external portion of tergites distinctly though not very strongly wrinkled. 



Sternites bisulcate in their anterior half, with a stronger or weaker posterior median 

 impression ; punctured and beset with short scattered setae. 



Anal tergite and sternite spicular like the rest; the former mesially impressed 

 posteriorly, the latter emarginate : pleurae elongate, armed with 5, 6 or 7 spines, 

 2 apical, 2 or 3 external, and 2 or 1 dorsal : anal legs long and slender, femur 

 armed with about 14 spines, 3 (one apical), 3, 3, 5 or 4 ; protarsus with a spur. Rest 

 of the legs also with protarsal spur. Length 50 mm., of anal leg 14 - 5, of antennae 15'5. 



Loc. New Britain. Several specimens. 



Haase's description of 0. punctiventer from Sarawak, Borneo, applies closely to these 

 specimens, making slight allowances for differences in the state of preservation of the 

 examples examined. 



