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preoccupied. There is a Drasteria Hübn. Lepid., and Compsosoma 

 Serville, Coleopt. 



Engonia aurata n. sp. Amboina (p. 20). It is the same as 

 Clitellaria festinans Walk. J. Pr. Lin. Soc. IV, 95 (Celebes). It is a 

 striking, easily recognizable species , and should be called Negritomyia 

 festinans Wk. 



Ephippium spinigerum Dolesch. (p. 20) is quoted as as 

 probable synonym of E. maculipenne Macq., on the strength of 

 Doleschall's type-specimen in the Vienna Museum. — The specimens 

 described by Doleschall were from Java; what Dr. B. takes for the 

 type-specimen is, according to his own statement, from Amboina; it may 

 be therefore an authors type, but it cannot be the type of Doleschall's 

 description. If Dr. B, compares that specimen with the description, he 

 will find that the specimen has the leg-s partly black. partly yellowish 

 and that the spines of the scntellum are yellowish or reddish towards 

 the tip. Doleshalls description speaks of altogether black legs and 

 spines. The specimen in the Vienna Museum, although an author's type, 

 is a wrongly named specimen. It is E. maculipenne Macq., originälly 

 described from the Philippine Islands, but also occurring in Amboina, 

 the fauna of which is closely allied to that of the Philippines. — The 

 true E. spinigerum Dol. (Java) is the same as E. biUneatum Fab. 

 (bivittatura Wied.), as Mr. v. d. Wulp has shown (Sumatra Exp. 14). 

 This is confirmed by the original colored drawing of Doleshall's, 

 now in my possession, which is marked in his own handwriting: Ephippium 

 spinigerum, Java; and in the same handwriting, but added later; Clitellaria 

 bivittata Wied. — I will notice, by the way, that the bivittata in 

 Wied. II, 46, is merely a lapsus calami for hilineata. 



In another instance (Laphria tristis Dolesch.; in 0. Sack. Enumer. 

 etc. 41) I have drawn attention to a similar mistake , committed by 

 Schiner, on the strength of these so-called types of Doleschall; they 

 cannot be used without a previous comparison with the descriptions. 



Cyanauges, Antissa. On p. 5, 15, 31 the genus Antissa 

 Walker is declared a synonym of Cyanauges Philippi, on the strength 

 of a typical specimen of Antissa cuprea Walk. , which exists in the 

 Vienna Museum and which ,,answers completely the generic ehäracters 

 of Cyanauges" (,, welches ganz auf die Gattungsbeschreibung von Cya- 

 nauges passt"), only the antennae are more obtuse, and the Compound 

 third Joint not incrassate near the base. In virtue of this agreement, 

 on p, 29, No. 78 Cyanauges and No. 79 Antissa (why these two num- 



