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worfene Tierwelt keinen Bezug. Leider scheinen sich 

 gegenwärtig- immer mehr zu bewahrheiten die Worte 

 unseres Ahmeisters Qoethe, die da lauten: 

 „Geduld, Qeduld! Die Bestialität 

 Wird bald sich herrlich offenbaren!" 



54. 3 : Ol 



Zwei vergebene Gattungsnamen in Opiliones. 



Von Embrik Strand Berlin (K. Zoolog. Museum) 



In seiner Bearbeitung der Opilionen der sjöstedt- 

 schen Kilimandjaro-Expédition ist Herrn Dr. VVilliam 

 Sörensen das heutzutage nicht leicht zu vermeidende 

 Versehen passiert, daß er neuen Gattungen schon ver- 

 gebene Namen gegeben hat. Es sind dies : Amasis, 

 schon sowohl in Hymenoptera als Coleoptera praeoc- 

 cupiert, möge in A ma si IIa m. umgetauft werden ; 

 ferner Palpipes, schon zweimal früher in Arachnida 

 verwendet, möge Er ec a nan a m. genannt werden. 



In der Anfangs der sörensenschen Arbeit gegebenen 

 Uebersicht der neuerdings aus Afrika beschriebenen 

 Opilionen wäre Phalangium rhinoceros Strand 

 aus Kapland nachzutragen (beschrieben in meiner Be- 

 arbeitung der Arachniden der Deutschen Südpolar- 

 Exp edition). 



57. 92 Chaicididae (91.1) 



Descriptions of New Genera and Species 

 of Chaicididae. 



Collected by Mr. John Hewitt, B. A. in Borneo. 

 By P. Cameron. 



Hippota cilicornis, sp. n. 



Black, the tarsi rufo-testaceous, wings clear hyaline, 

 the nervures black. Head and thorax sparsely covered 

 with longish white pubescence, the antennae, especially 

 the lateral rami, more densely with longer white hair. 

 The top of the base of the pronotum in the middle 

 with two wide teeth, roundly narrowed towards the 

 apex, the apex of the scutellum with two similar, but 

 smaller teeth. Sides of metanotum broadly rounded. 

 Apex of abdomen bluntly rounded, margined; the 

 apical segments fringed with white hair. The basal 

 tooth of hind femora bluntly triangular. Head and 

 thorax coarsely reticulated; the base of mesonotum 

 much more finely, closely, rugosely punctured, the 

 metanotum widely irregularly reticulated. Propleurae 

 aciculated, the centre with three longitudinal keels. 

 The base of the mesopleurae with a triangular reticu- 

 lated area, the narrowed end above ; the rest is stoutly 

 longitudinally striated, the striae clearly separated. 

 The centre of front hollowed, stoutly closely trans- 

 versely striated ; the inner orbits margined by a stout 

 keel, which is continued roundly above, between the 

 anterior and the two posterior ocelli 6- Length 6 mm. 



Baram, Sarawak, Borneo. 



There is a narrow crenulated furrow between 

 the inner eye orbits and the raised keel. Tegulae 

 shining, covered with depressed white pubescence, 

 the outer margin raised. Legs densely covered with 

 silvery pubescence. Parapsidal furrows distinct, con- 

 verging towards, but not not meeting, at the apex. 



Parasperina gen. no v. 



Antennae 11-jointed, the last two joints not clearly 

 separated; the flagellum thickened gradually towards 

 the apex; the joints pilose; the first joint of flagellum 



longer than wide; the scape does not reach to the 

 top of the frontal depression. Eyes bare, twice the 

 length of the ma lar space. Frontal depression twice 

 the width of the space between it and the eyes. 

 Temples narrow. Parapsidal furrows distinct. Scu- 

 tellum longer than it is wide at the base, becoming 

 gradually narrowed towards the apex, which ends in 

 a clearly separated square point, which projects dis- 

 tinctly over the post-scutellum and metanotum which 

 is obliquely sloped and has the sides broadly mar- 

 gined especially below. Hind femora tooth-less, mar- 

 gined or keeled below; basal joints of hind tarsi al- 

 most equal in length. Base of abdomen rounded ; 

 the first segment as long as the following three united ; 

 the stylus long, as long as the preceding three seg- 

 ments united, thick, the apex gradually narrowed from 

 the top to the bottom. Apex of marginal and the 

 post-marginal nervures thickened; the stigmal branch 

 short, undivided, twice longer than wide. 



May be known from the Neotropical Genus 

 Aspirhina, Kirby by the long, stout projecting 

 stylus. 



Paraspirhina nitida, sp. nov. 



Black, shining, the head and thorax closely, some- 

 what strongly punctured, the pronotum more closely 

 than the mesonotum or scutellum, both of which have 

 the punctures more widely and distinctly separated. 

 Metanotum not very distinctly or closely transversely 

 striated ; with three areae, the central narrow, narrowed 

 towards the apex. Abdomen smooth, as long as the 

 thorax, the stylus one third of its length. The four 

 anterior tibiae, all the tarsi, the antennal scape basal 

 two joints of flagellum and the tegulae, rufous. 

 Wings hyaline, suffused with fulvous; the nervures 

 of a deeper fulvous colour, ^. 



Length, including stylus, 7 mm. 



January, 



Pro- and mesopleurae smooth for the greater part, 

 the mesosternum and metapleurae coarsely punctured ; 

 the apex of the latter below is roundly dilated, mar- 

 gined at the base, in front of which is a hoUow. In 

 side the eyes is a keel which curves round the 

 malar space; the space between the two being stria- 

 ted. The last abdominal segment is weakly punctured 

 and pilose; the stylus is smooth; almost bare. Scape 

 as long as the basal 6 joints of the flagellum, the 

 antennae are about as long as the thorax, stout. Head 

 a little broader than the thorax. 



The species has a long, narrow appearance; the 

 abdomen is clearly narrower, than the thorax and 

 becomes gradually narrowed. 



(to be continued) 



57. 64 Aphodiidae. 



Fünf neue Aphodiinen aus dem Museum 

 zu London. 



Von Adolf Schmidt, Berlin. 



1. Aphodius ornatus n. sp. 



Länglich, gewölbt, glänzend, Kopf und Halsschild 

 schwarz, letzterer an den Seiten und die mit schwar- 

 zen Längsflecken versehenen Flügeldecken heller oder 

 dunkler rotbraun. Kopf vorn etwas stärker und dichter 

 punktiert als hinten, die Mitte schwachbeulig, Stirnlinie 

 undeutlich, ohne Höcker; Clipeus wenig ausgerandet 

 und jederseits verrundet ; Wangen rundlich, die Augen 

 wenig überragend. 



