OnrKNTAL f'()M,i:.M|ir)r,A. 85 



the extreuiity of the tibia; {h) in tlie conihiiH^fl l(-ii<(tli of tlie dens 

 and inucro not ex(;ee(lin<( tiuit of the tibia; and (c) in the anal 

 Kpines hein;,' larger and moif; strongly cnrved. X. rjtHsea Axels. 

 and X. rnarUima Tidlb. did'er f'loin X. ohscura in having tho 

 inijcro and dens fused together, and in the anal papilla? being 

 larger. X. hrevicavda Tullb. and X. nitida Tullb. are both 

 ♦^asily separable fiom the present species on account of their 

 having a njuch .smaller furctdn. 



Stdj-faui. AriioKiTlx.K iJorn. 

 (jlcnn.s Ariioui;TKs Teiii]d. 



Achnrvtes Teniplet(»n, " Thys. Hib.," Trans. Ent. Sor. Ivond. 

 vol. i. lH;jr), p. 9(5 (a/i partem). 



Aclmrule.H Schott, " Ziir Syst. iind Verbreit. I'al. ('ollein.," 

 Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. J H!Ki, vol. xxv. p. HO. 



Af'iioiii;TB.s AKMATUfi Nicolet. 



•Syn. 1842. Poditra ar7}mia ^ieoU^t, Reoh. pour sei-\ir a. I'bist. 

 »les l*<»dur, p. 57, pi. v. fig. (5. 



+ J 847. Achorntes aruiatttn Nicolet, Kssai s. classif. de I'urdre 

 des Thy.s. p. 'AlH. 



One hiindici] ;ii)<l Un-ty speciinr>ii.s, J'eradeniya, Ceylon (A' K 

 fJrean, JliOn). 



I have coiii2)ai(;d these spccinien.s with Euroj)eaij examples of 

 ArkoriilPH ariuatufi and firjd that they agree in all details of 

 structure. In a letter dated Nov. 2nd, 1907, Mi-. E. E. Creen 

 remarks that " this little species appears occasionally in vast 

 nuinl)ers on the silt left in di.t<dies after rains. It could then be 

 collected by the l)ucketful. It has a peculiarly unjjleasant 

 odour of its own, which it has (iomniunicated to the spirit in which 

 it has been preserved." 



ft has been previously recorded fr-om the Oriental rcgioii by 

 OndrtDtnist fi-oiji Suiuatnu 



Sub-fau). XKAXirniN^ Biirn. 

 (jlenus Xkanlra Macgillivray. 



t Anoiira Oeivais, Une oninz. d'espoces des Ins. Apt., 184'' 

 p. 45. 



f Anura Xicolet, Essai s. cla.ssif. de I'ordre des Thys., 1847 

 p. 386. 



Neanura Macgillivray, "A Cat, Thys. \. America," Can. 

 Ent, xxiii. 1891, p. 267. 



*Neanura cor/Xllixa, sp. n, (I'i. Vlf. figs. 23-26.) 



Latera corjmris 2>(t.rvis tuherihiiH iniitracta. Unyuiculus inermis. 



t Apfengota lies Iiiditipht'ii Arch., in Man W'cljfi's ' Zi.ol. Ki-jji-bnissc einrr Jlcisn 

 in .N'icdcrl.-O.stiiid.' lUt. i. p. 8!». 



