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the terminal scute hard, yellow, and almost square at the end, the 

 inconspicuous points heing side by side, not superposed ; subcaudals 

 13. Back uniform black nacreous, belly with two rows of the scales 

 on each side of the ventrals yellow ; chin and the anterior first inch 

 or so of the belly black ; tail black beneath, but with a yellow band 

 on each side ; upper labials yellow. 



Hab. " High Wavy " mountain, Madura district, 5000 feet eleva- 

 tion. 



B. Number of scutes less than 160. 

 a. Caudal disk fiat; snout obtuse. 



SlLYBURA MADURENSIS, n. Sp. 



Scales in 17 rows, abdominals 142-149. Rostral very small, 

 obtusely conical ; nasals large, forming a suture behind the rostral ; 

 vertical distinctly six-sided ; caudal disk flat, each scale with 1-2 very 

 prominent keels ; terminal scute sharply bicuspid, the points side by 

 side ; subcaudals 7-8. Back black, very iridescent, each scale girt 

 with a narrow white rim ; belly orange-yellow, with very irregular 

 broad black markings, which sometimes meet and form cross bars. 



Hab. "High Wavy" mountain, Madura district, elevation 5500 

 feet. 



5. A Note on Pceoptera lugubris, Bp. 

 By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



[Received August 15, 1878.] 



(Plate XLIX.) 



This species was first described by Prince Bonaparte, in the 

 ' Comptes Rendus' for 1854, as Pceoptera lugubris, as he thought it 

 was the Abyssinian Muscicapa lugubris of Miiller (Beitr. Orn. Afr. 

 Taf. ii.) ; and it was on account of this confusion of names that Dr. 

 Bruggemann wrote his note in the 'Annals of Natural History' for 

 1877 (xx. p. 244), and suggested that the species should be called 

 Pceoptera cryptopyrrha (Cabanis). When he states, however, that the 

 species had no name of its own until 1 876, he is mistaken ; for the 

 title " lugubris, Bonap." was adopted for the species by Dr. Hart- 

 laub (Orn. Westafr. p. 69), which was sufficient to fix the specific 

 name. But on reading Bonaparte's description again, I find that I 

 missed the point of it, and Dr. Bruggemann does not appear to have 

 consulted the original description, having been incited to write his 

 notice probably by the footnote to the genus Pceoptera in my 

 ' Catalogue,' wherein I hinted that Bonaparte had so confused his 

 species with Muller's Muscicapa lugubris that the title ought per- 

 haps to be rejected. I am sorry to have led Dr. Bruggemann wrong, 

 for I had overlooked the fact that when Bonaparte described the 

 Pceoptera he added : — " Nous appellerons l'espece lugubris, qu'elle 



