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



Tkavancore : near Keni, in secondary forest, Bourdillon ! 



Stem soandent tawny-hirsute. Leaves 2 in. long, l£-2£ in. wide, tawny-hirsute 

 as are the petioles 1-1£ in. long. Peduncles l-2' 2 in., tawny-hirsute : cymes inany- 

 fld. ; pedicels i in. Calyx i in. quite glabrous. Corolla £ in., yr-llow, tube urceolate 

 limb short; filaments glabrous; bisal processes papillose. Ovary 2-locnlar, locules 2- 

 ovuled ; base surrounded by a deep disk. 



The presence of this 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 more closely to the latter. Is is however abundantly 

 distinct by reason of its quite glabrous obtuse sepals. 



9. CONVOLVULUS Link. 



7 b. Convolvulus tenellus Stocks. 

 Add to localities of Novicise Indicee viii. 102 : — 

 N.-W. Himalaya : Kashmir, Bargila, Winterbottom .' 

 It is interesting to find that this was collected in Kashmir by Winterbottom 



during his 1847 journey; it is remarkable that no one has reported it from Kashmir 



since. 



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

 M.B., C M.z.s., Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 



Plate X. 



[ Eeceived 19th August, 1896. ] 



The species here described and figured Avas found in flooded rice- 

 fields near Calcutta, by Museum Employees Moti Ram and Seoruttou. 

 Twelve males and six egg-laden females were taken. 



It belongs to the section Streptocephalus of the genus Branchipus, 

 and is most closely related to Branchipus rubricaudatus, Kluuzinger, 

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

 Branchipus torvicomis, Waga, from the neighbourhood of Warsaw. 



Branchipus (Streptocephalus) beugalensis, n. sp. 



The body in life is rather over an inch long, and 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 

 uniform white. 



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

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



Each fork of the tail is over one-eighth of an inch long, and has 

 beautifully plumose edges. 



