ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF CALLISTE. 
By PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER, Esa. 
I Have been lately attempting to form a collection, and arrange 
48 complete a synonymy as lay in my power, of the Tanagride, 
of which family a vast number of new species have been recently 
described ; and particularly of the genus termed, not inappro- 
Priately, Calliste, the most splendidly coloured group of the whole 
*eries. Among these I find three unnamed species, very closely 
allied to the Tanagra punctata of Linneus, and forming with 
that a small section of the genus Calliste, which I now proceed to 
describe. 
The whole number of species of this genus that I am now ac- 
uainted with is about forty-four, including certain aberrant forms, 
denominated Procnopis by M. Cabanis, but which I cannot at pre- 
=o determine to be sufficiently distinct to warrant generic separa- 
on, 
Mrs. Strickland has been go kind as to draw figures of two of the 
new species here described ; of the third I shall attempt as clear a 
‘eseription as possible, giving at the same time, for the sake of com- 
nid the specific characters of the only previously recognised 
Species of the group. ; 
CALLISTE PUNCTATA, Liyy. 
T Re ke: 
mee Viridis indica punctulata, Brisson, Orn. vol. iii. p. 19, Tanagra punctata, 
date Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 316; Desmarest, Hist. Nat. des Tang. pl. 8 and 9, — 
iste punctata, Gray's Genera; Edwards, pl. 262; Pl. Enl. 133, fig. 1. 
se Calliste supra viridis, nisi in dorso inferiore, nigro punctata ; 
Mirai: ; Pennis caudaque nigris viridi limbatis ; subtus flavescenti- 
A gutture pectoreque nigro punctatis, rostro pedibusque nigris. 
