538 A. Alcock — New species of Branchrpus. [No. 3, 



Tkavancore : near Keui, in secondary forest, Bourdillon ! 



Stem scandent tawny-hirsute. Leaves 2 in. long, l|-24 in. wide, tawnj-hirsute 

 as are the petioles 1-1| in, long. Peduncles 1-2| in., tawny-hirsnte : cymes inany- 

 fid. ; pedicels i in. Calyx ^ in. quite glabrous. Corolla \ in., yellow, tube urceolate 

 limb short; filaments glabrous; b:^sal processes p;ipiIlose. Ovary 2-loeular, loeules 2- 

 ovuled ; base sui'rounded by a deep disk. 



The presence of tliis genus in Southern India is interesting as the locality is 

 mid-way between its Malayan and its African habitats. The present species is 

 somewhat intermediate in structure as well as in locality between the wide-spread 

 African, and the almost equally wide-spread Indo-Chinese and Malayan species, 

 though it perhaps approaches inore closely to the latter. Is is however abundantly 

 distinct by reason of its quite glabrous obtuse sepals. 



9. CONVOLVULUS Linn. 



7 h. CONYOLVDLUS TtNELLUS Stocks. 



Add to localities of Novicise Indicse viii. 102 : — 

 N.-W. Himalaya : Kashmir, Bargila, Winterhottom ! 

 It is interesting to find that this was collected in Kashmir by Wintei'bottoni 



during his 1817 Journey; it is remarkable that no one has reported it from Kashmir 



since. 



Description of a Neiv species of Branchipus from Calcutta. — By A. Alcock, 

 MB., C M.Z.S., Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 



Plate X. 

 [ Eeceived I'Jth August, 1896. ] 

 The species liere described and figured, ^vas found in flooded rice- 

 fields near Caicutta, by Museum Employees Moti Ram and Seorutton. 

 Twelve mnles and six egg-laden females were tukeii. 



It belongs to the sectiou Streptoceplialus of the genus BrancJdpv.s, 

 and is most closely related to Brancliipus rnhricaudatus, Kluiizinger, 

 from the south coast country of Arabia, and, through the female, to 

 Brancliipus torvicornis, Waga, from the neighbourhood of Warsaw. 



Branchipus {Streptoceplialus') betujale}isLS, n. sp. 



The body in life is rather over an inch long, aud is of a semi- 

 transparent hyaline colour flecked with grey, except the tail-fork which 

 is bright red. Spirit specimens are a good deal shrunken, and are 

 nniform white. 



Behind the head are twenty segments, namely, 11 thoracic, each with 

 a pair of swimming feet, and 9 abdominal, legless. 



Each fork ol; the tail is over one-cighlh of an iucli long, and has 



beautifully plumose edges. 



