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jiostice acuminaium, ohscure ftdvum concolor, svpra 'pUis squami- 

 formibiis sordide cdbidis, subtus pilis simplicibus albidioribus, 

 crebre vesiitum. CheJce sternumque obscure fulva. Pedes liitei, 

 albido-squamulati, amleis teniiibus hngis fuscis subpellucentibus 

 (irmati. Pedes-maxillares maris lutei, breves ; femore robusto, 

 compresso, subclaviformi ; patella tibiaque brevibus, hac extus 

 ad anicem carinula nigra mitnita ; tarso ovato, exhis ad basin 

 leviter anyidoso. 



Ordo PEDIPALPI. 



Admetus palmatus Herbst. 



Fhalangium reniforme Fabr. (nee L.). 

 Admetus palmatus E. Sim., Ann. Soc. ent. Yv. 1892, p. 51. 

 Neophrynus 2Jah)mtus Krteplin, Eev. Tar. 1895, p. 30. 

 Trcs repandu dans toutes les Antilles. 



Ordo SOLIFUG^. 

 Cleobis cub^ Lucas. 



Qahodes cubce Lucas, Mag. Zool. cl. \iii. 1835, pi. ii. 

 Decrit de Cuba. 



5. On some New or Rare Birds' Eggs. 

 By Alfred Newton, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



[Eecei\ecl November 16, 1897.] 



(Plate LI.) 



After an interval of many years it is with peculiar pleasure that 

 I find myself, thanks to the exertions of several kind friends, able 

 once more to offer some ' Notes on New or Bare Birds' Eggs ", 

 and thus continue the record, begiui by my predecessors, of 

 oological discoveries, the chief of which have, during the last half- 

 century, been communicated to this Society '. 



Tringa subaequata, Giildenstadt. (Plate LI. figs. 1-4.) 



For the discovery of this long-sought treasure, egg-collectors 

 h3,ve to thank Mr. Hugh Leyborne Popham, whose perseverance 

 in a second time visiting the valley of the Jenisei (the Yenesay of 

 some writers) has met with a fitting and (according to my precon- 



' Cf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G1, pp. 393-402, pi. xxxix. ; 1867, pp. 161-168, 

 pi. XV. ; 1871, pp. 55-58, pi. iv. 



2 Cf. Owen aud Lyall, Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1852, pp. 12 and 32, Aves. pi. xlvi. 

 (^Apterijx, Stringops, &c.) ; Gould, op. cit. 1853, p. 45, Ave^, pi. liii. {Meimra) ; 

 Walter, torn. cit. p. 192, Aves, pi. Ivi. {Profitheinafodera) ; WuUey, op. cit. 

 1857, p. .55, Avoi, pi. cxxii. (Ampdis garrulus); Sclater, op. cit. 1859, p. 353 

 {Ba!a-7uceps) ; Bartlett, op. cit. 1868, p. 116, ))1. xii. (Hhinochcius and Eiirypyga). 



To some scattered papers by others as well as myself I need not here refer. 



