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Zang has shown that Kuwert's species are all of them identical with C. comptoni, 

 Kaup ; and the specimens I have seen confirm this '. 

 Localities: — 



Ceylon: Central Province — Hakgalla; PatipoUa c. 6000 ft. ; Namunakuli Hill. 

 Uva — Haputale. 

 Ratnapura District — Bulutota. 



Episphenus indicus (Stoliczka). 



Aceraius Cantori \;ç)2Lxt'\ + neelgherriensis [? part], Kaup. 1868«, pp. 28 and 30. 

 Aceraius Canton [part] + neelgherriensis [? part], Kaup, 18686. p. 4. 

 (Aceraius Cantori [part] + neelgherriensis, [part] Gemminger and Harold, 1868, p. 972.) 

 Basilianus neelgherriensis [? part], Kaup, 1871, pp. 55-6. 

 Basilianus ■\ indicus, Stoliczka, 1873, pp. 159-160. 

 (Basilianus neelgherriensis [part] + indicus, Wytsman, 1884, p. 336.) 

 (Basilianus Indicus + Certus, Kuwert, 1891, p. 164.) 



Basilianus indicus -i- stoliczkae + neelgherriensis, Kuwert, 1898, pp. 340-341. 

 Basilianus indicus, Zaug, 1905c, p. 223. 



Basilianus "f certus + stoliczkae + "f indicus, Zang, 1906a, pp. 180-3. 

 Episphenus ■f indicus, Gravely, above, pp. 220-222, pi. xi, figs. 20-20Ô. 



The great range of variation found in this species appears to have been fully 

 recognized by Kaup, for it is evident from the measurements he gives for his Basili- 

 anus neelgherriensis that he must have referred to that species specimens of the present 

 one. The locahties which he quoted for his B. cantori in 1868, show that he confused 

 certain specimens of Episphenus indicus with that species also. Kuwert's B. stoliczkae 

 and B. indicus cannot be recognized as distinct species; and his B. neelgherriensis is 

 doubtless a worn specimen of the same. Kuwert's B certiis of 1891 appears to be 

 identical with Episphenus indicus, while that of his 1898 paper is identical with E. 

 neelgherriensis ; that they are not identical one with another has already been indicated 

 by Zang in his synonymy of 1906. 

 L-ocalities : — 



Bombay Presidency : N. Kanara. 

 Mysore: Bababudin Hills, 4000-5000 ft. 

 ? Cochin. 

 Travancore : High Range. 



Madras Presidency : Anamalai Hills — Puddutottam, 4200 ft.; Monica Estate, 

 4000 ft. ; other unrecorded localities up to 5500 ft. 



' While this paper was still in the press I was able myself to exaraiae Zang's series in Berlin. It 

 contains a specimen 38 mm. long, so the only distinction found between E. comptoni var. flachi (-^z-^y mm.) 

 and E. comptoni, s. str. (39-42 mm.) breaks down as was expected (see above, p. 220). In this series the 

 three first lamellae of the antennae are markedly shorter than the last three in small specimens and the 

 two first than the last four in large ones. This character is not, however, quite perfectly correlated with 

 size; and further, the series includes a specimen with antennae exactly intermediate between the two 

 extreme forms. The degree of asymmetry found in different specimens varies greatly, and may be very 

 much greater than is shown in my figure. 



