FROM THE SOCIETY S GARDENS. 



287- 



GoNiODES MEGACEROS Kell. & Paine (22). 



1 d from Lophophorus refulgens Temm. 



The species is based on a single male from the same host. 

 Concerning the copulatory apparatus, the authors, in passing, 

 note that it is " pi-ominent with heavily chitinised rods reaching 

 to the second abdominal segment." In their figure (pi. xv. 

 fig. 8) the genitalia are shown as seen through the integument, 

 but with the parameres in front and the basal plate behind ! 

 The specimen prepared probably had its genitalia exserted and 

 coiled over its back with parameres pointing backwards, and in 

 the course of being mounted the apparatus became pressed down 

 upon the abdomen in the reversed position. 



GoNiODES FALCicoRNis Mtzsch (10, p. 198). (Text-fig. 19.) 



Several specimens from Pavo cristatus var. nigrijyennis Sclater. 



Mouth-parts (text-fig. 19). — Mandibles : The left (dorsal surface) 



is roughly of the shape of an equilateral triangle ; at the exterior 



Text-figure 19. 

 Scl 



Goniodes falcicornis. Mouth-parts. X 113'o. 

 L. Left mandible. R. Right mandible. 



BF. Basal process ; C. condyle; G. gland; IjO. lyriform organ; N. chitinous 

 nodule ; Far. paragiossa ; QF. quadrangular process ; Scl. sclerite. 



basal angle is a small cup-shaped socket where the mandible arti- 

 culates with the head ; at the inner basal angle is the usual tooth- 

 like process which is here in the form of a long narrow stylet, 

 curved at the base, and carrying at the tip pi-eaxially a small 

 recurved tooth. The apex of the triangle is produced, and carries 

 two distinct cutting-edges with separate tips. On the ventral 

 surface the mandible is more of an isosceles triangle in shape, the 

 base-line being shorter and about midway along its length, running 

 out into a large rounded condyle of dense chitin. In the right 

 mandible the basal process as usual is quadrangular, the large 



