1870. ] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON OTIDIPHAPS NOBILIS. ie 
on 
NI 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE VIII. 
Fig. 1. Idiops kochii, 3, p. 103. 
a. Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces. 
6, c. Palpus in two positions. 
d. Profile, without legs or palpi. 
e. Natural length of Spider. 
2. Idiops sigillatus, 3, p. 105. 
a. Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces. 
6, Underside of cephalothorax, showing maxillx, labium, and sternum. 
ce, é. Palpus in two positions. 
d. Leg of first pair. 
f. Hinder portion of abdomen. 
g. Profile, without legs or palpi. 
h. Natural length of Spider. 
3. Idiops syriacus, 9, p. 107. 
a. Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces. 
6. Profile, without legs or palpi. 
c. Natural length of Spider. 
4. Idiops meadit, g, p. 152. 
a. Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces. 
5, c. Palpus in two positions. 
d. Leg of first pair. 
e. Profile, without legs or palpi. 
5. Idiops blackwallii, 8, p. 154. 
a. Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces, 
4, c. Palpus in two positions. 
d. Leg of first pair. 
e. Profile, without legs or palpi. 
Ff. Underside of tarsus and metatarsus. 
6. Idiops thorellit, 3, p. 156. 
a. Leg of first pair. 
6, Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces. 
c, e. Palpus in two positions, 
d. Tarsal claws. 
f. Natural length of Spider. 
g- Profile, without legs or palpi. 
March 24, 1870. 
Dr. E. Hamilton, V.P., in the Chair. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibited a coloured drawing, forwarded to him 
by Dr. S. Salvadori of Turin, C.M.Z.S., representing a bird which 
that naturalist had proposed to describe as a new genus and species 
of Megapodes, but which was evidently the remarkable Pigeon re- 
cently named by Mr. Gould Otidiphaps nobilis (Aun. N. H. 4th 
series, vol. v. p. 62,1870; cf. P. Z.S. anted, p.4). Dr. Salvadori 
had received the specimen in a box of skins bought at Singapore, 
but stated to have been brought from Macassar. All the other 
birds in this box (fifty-eight in number, belonging to forty different 
