H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Nycteribiidae. 



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This species was recorded as found on European examples of 

 Penicillidia conspicua Speiser (= westwoodi Kolenati), Nycteribia 

 (Acrocholidia) vexata Westwood (= montaguei Kolenati), and 

 Penicillidia dufouri Westwood). Speiser also records 3 ) the finding 

 of Labculbeniaceae on Cyclopodia macrura Speiser (New Pome- 

 rania), on specimens of Eucampsipodia hyrtli Kolenati from Egypt 

 and from Burmah, and on German examples of Nycteribia blasii 

 Kolenati. I am not aware that tbey have ever previously been 

 recorded from Penicillidia jenynsi. 



Loc. China, Sumatra, Ceylon, Formosa. 



P. jenynsi was described from China, and is known from 

 Sumatra. Speiser (op. cit., p. 49) queries an old record from 

 Ceylon, but as stated above I have before me specimens from 

 that island. Its abundance in Formosa — in certain localities 

 at any rate — is proved by the subjoined list of material: 



In spirit: Tainan, 3. X. 1906, 33 <J, 46 ?. Tainan, 6. X. 1906, 

 49 (?, 54 ?, Tainan, 7. X. 1906, 20 <?, 29 ?. 



Dried specimens: Tainan, dated X. 1906 and X. 1907 — 9, 

 12 <J, 13 ? (including 1 pair in Coitu, and 2 <J and 1 $ bearing 

 f ungus) . 



Nycteribia, Latreille. Subgenus Listropodia (Kolenati). 

 3. Nycteribia (Listropodia) allotopa Speiser. 



Nycteribia (Listropodia) allotopa Speiser, Arch. Naturg., 

 67. 1. 1901, p. 37. 



Nycteribia (Listropodia) insolita Scott, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 London, 1908, p. 364, PL 18, figs. 9—13. 



This species was described by Speiser from 1 and 1 $ from 

 Sumatra, preserved dry in the Museo Civico of Genoa; only the 

 ventral surface was described. Through the kindness of Dr. R. 

 Gestro, it has been possible for me to examine the actual types 

 of allotopa, and after close comparison I find that allotopa and 

 insolita are identical. 



The original description under the name allotopawasvery incom- 

 plete, but after examination of the very long series now before me, 

 there is not much to add to the description given under the synonym 

 insolita. I described and figured the 4 th tergite of the (J as quite bare 

 on its surface: itwasso in the specimen then before me, and itis so 

 in many others, and it is so also in Speiser's $ type of allotopa: 

 but in many of the Formosan it bears scattered short bristles 

 on its surface, a very little longer but less dense than those on 

 tergites 2 and 3. Even the <$ 5th tergite occasionally has one or 

 two short bristles on its surface. The 2nd tergite of the $ varies 

 in a similar way. In the type of allotopa and in other specimens 

 its surface is quite bare, while in some of the Formosan specimens 

 it is fairly closely covered with short dark bristles from its front 



3 ) Arch. Naturg., 67. 1. 1901, p. 20. 



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