NOTES FROM THE SARAWAK MUSEUM. 261 
from their nearest allies; and the same holds good when treating 
with new families. [t is, of course, necessary when writing the 
catalogue, to enter and number in order every species, genus and 
family already recorded from the area in which the collections 
advantage is a bagia interpolation is only needed 
when new species or gene e discovered, and the нор 
becomes а complete faunistic list of the collected-over area, 
into a previously catalogued series has been as follows:—The 
new genus is numbered with a fractional nangi the numerator 
of such a fraction being the number of the nearest ally of the 
new genus. The denominator the last boo eremi of the year 
in which the new genus was described. For кашы. let us 
imagine that а new genus closely allied to арч was discovered 
this | year. The number of genus Hestia in the Sarawak Museum 
and somewhat destroys the syinmetry of the series, but it is 
significant, and that feature I have endeavoured to hold constant- 
ly in view during my re-cataloguing labours 
R. H. Shelford. 
