THE ARISTOLOCHIAS OF PARA (BRAZIL) 5 
and presumably help to fertilize the next Ry flower.* The 
scent is bad, but is fainter than that of A. didym 
Notes AND Descriptions BY SPENCER Moore. 
f the forty-eight species of Festa te described in the 
lora Brasiliensis (vol. iv. 2, pp. 78-114), the Parad province is 
mentioned as the home of mated het and although considerable 
additions Pag been made to the genus as represented in Brazil 
since Masters’s Monograph Prabhe our knowledge as concerns 
the tio in question is virtually no further advanced to-da 
Thanks to Rey. A. Miles Moss a step forward can now be made. 
o be t pekinghiy satisfactory, Aristolochia specimens should 
tsaier the attachmen t of the flowers to the stem, and the fruit 
. Mo 
clever drawings in water colour of it various species, a mo 
valuable asset to a student of Avivtoloahinos. The list of Park 
species is as follows: with the ioe tone of A. Burchell (§ Pelti- 
jlore) a vole to § Unilabia 
A. Burchellii Mast. Generally distributed and noted as far 
as Mosquito, twenty miles north of Par 
Pre ously known only from San Paulo pro 
A. “trilobat al. In gardens of Para and ie aireies islands; wild 
on Marajo i <¢ nd. 
A species with a rather wide American distributio 
A. longecaudata Mast. Environs of Para, Ditties “Bio Guama, 
and near sete of ei Una. 
A Guiana specie 
Of this “Me pee sends a drawing of the capsules, hitherto 
unknown. cha are oblong in shape, about 10 x nearly 2 cm. 
long, on stalks of their own length, yellow-green in colour and 
averse tongitadinlly by five dark brows ribs. The cordate- 
reniform, grey-brown, 6 mm. long, seeds are flat and glabrous on 
the ventral face, on the dorsal bearing a slightly raised brown 
raphe. 
* Specimens of these flies kindly examined by Mr. F. W. Davies, of the 
Natural History Museum, were pronounced to belong to the genus Sarcophaga, 
but are too much damazed to name specifically. 
