446 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [May 20, 



depression ; antennae and lower part of face obscure ferruginous, 

 the third joint of former not much longer than the second, the 

 fourth joint the longest. Thorax with the anterior angles but 

 slightly produced and rounded; surface finely punctured, shining 

 testaceous or flavous. Elytra widened behind, rather deeply and 

 very closely punctured, with a distinct longitudinal depression in the 

 middle of the base ; the latter narrowly ferruginous, which colour 

 also extends in form of a longitudinal short streak down the shoulders 

 to about one third the length of the elytra ; another sutural semi- 

 square spot is placed below the scutellum, while a transverse short 

 fascia occupies the middle, and another similar-shaped spot is placed 

 near the apex of each elytron. Neither of these markings touch 

 the suture or the lateral margins. Claw-joint strongly inflated. 

 Hub. Irazu Mountain, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. 



16. CEdionychis septemmactjlata, sp. nov. 



Piceous below ; lower part of vertex, thorax, and elytra testaceous, 

 the latter with seven black patches, viz. two at the base, one 

 common to both elytra before the middle, the other four at the 

 middle and before the apex respectively. 



Length 3 lines. 



Vertex impunctate, lower part of the latter, as well as that of the 

 clypeus, testaceous ; antennae piceous, basal joints paler. Thorax 

 rather convex, sides broadly margined, the anterior angles produced 

 into a short tooth ; surface minutely punctured, testaceous ; scutel- 

 lum obscure piceous : elytra narrowed at base and apex, broadly 

 margined, with two short longitudinal depressions at their posterior 

 half, more distinctly punctured than the thorax, of a light testaceous 

 colour, with the patches of the following shape — the basal one ob- 

 liquely cut at its posterior margin, the sutural one of triangular 

 shape, followed closely by a transverse quadrate fascia, and the apical 

 one also of a transversely subquadrate shape ; none of these mark- 

 ings touch the sutural or the lateral margins. Claw-joint greatly 

 dilated. 



Hah. Peru. 



2. On a Fourth Collection of Birds made by the Rev. G. 

 Brown, C.M.Z.S., on Duke-of-York Island and in its 

 vicinity. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 Secretary to the Society. 



[Received May 2, 1879.] 



(Plates XXXVI., XXXVII.) 



I have now again the pleasure of laying before the Society a series 

 of bird-skins collected by our excellent correspondent Mr. Brown on 

 Duke-of-York Island and on the adjacent parts of New Britain and 

 New Ireland. Though many of these specimens belong to species 



