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Two species of Talegallus are generally known to naturalists. One, Talegallus Lathamii inhabiting Australia, is remarkable for its size equalling almost that of the Turkey, for its wattled throat and tolerably long roofshaped tail. The other, Talegallus Cuvieri, is found in New-Guinea and most of its dependencies, viz: the isles of Mysole, Salawattie, Aru and Iobie. This latter species, however, has been subdivided, by certain modern naturalists, into several other species. All those birds presenting the same size, the same proportions and the same coloring of plumage, other characters have been sought for in order to corroborate those species. One of these characters is said to be in the coloring of the legs and feet, reddish in Talegallus jobiensis,...

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508718

On Gallinula frankii

The readers of my work entitled “Muséum des Pays-Bas” will recollect that I identified with the Gallinula olivacea of Meyen, inhabiting the Philippine islands, a bird collected by the late Dr. Bernstein, in the islands of Halmahera and Ternate, and which was afterwards stated to live equally in the isles of Amboina and Mysole. This bird was designated by me as belonging to a particular subdivision characterized by its very small triangular frontal plate. Mr. Frank, the well known dealer in zoological objects at Amsterdam, a man who, during more than half a century, with an unaltered integrity, has procured for our Museum many thousands of the most valuable objects, sent to me the skin of a bird, recently collected in New-Guinea, which appears to belong to...

On a new species of the Lucanoid genus Figulus from the Malayan Archipelago

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509239

Synonym: Figulus subcastaneus v. Voll. (nec Westwood), Tydschrift voor Entomologie. Dl. VIII (1865) p. 146 n°. 146 and p. 156. Allied to Figulus subcastaneus Westw. ¹) but quite distinct from that species by the different tuberculation of the head, by the comparatively longer prothorax and the presence of a tubercle on the middle of its front margin, by the different sculpture of the lateral margin of the elytra, etc.

On a new genus and species of Bat from Celebes

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509204

Upper and lower lips deeply grooved; index finger with a distinct claw; wings from the back near the spine; metacarpal bone of the middle finger slightly shorter than the index finger; tail well developed, rather thick; in the upper jaw two incisors separated from the canines and from each other; upper canines grooved in front, lower canines inclined outwards.

On Hypherpes corallirostris Newton

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508855

This species was established after a single specimen without indication of the sex. See Newton in Proc. Zol. Soc. London, 1863, p. 85, pl. 13. Crossley collected two other specimens (Sharpe, ibid. 1871, p. 318), and Hartlaub, Vögel Madagascars, 1877, p. 105, mentions a few other specimens existing in different collections. They were all obtained in the North-East part of Madagascar from Tamatave upwards along the bay of Antongil. A small series of specimens collected in the latter locality, containing specimens of both sexes, proved, that there exists a constant difference of color between the two sexes, and that all the specimens hitherto described belong to the female sex. This sex indeed is distinguished by having the underside of a sordid fulvous...

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509341

On Artamia bernieri

My readers will remember that this species was originally based on a single specimen, introduced into science by Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, under the name of Oriolia Bernieri (Vide: Acad. des sciences, Avril 2, 1838; Revue zoologique, vol. 1, p. 50; Guérin, Magazin de Zoologie , 1839, Oiseaux, pl. 4). When I published in the “Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar, Mammifères et Oiseaux par H. Schlegel et Fr. Pollen, p. 86, pl. 25” a description and an exact figure of the very same specimen, I considered the bird as belonging to the genus Artamia and the specimen as presenting a yet immature plumage, which led naturally to the supposition, that the perfect plumage of the adult would be a very different one. This supposition was proved true, but only with...

On the genus Galidia and its species

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508610

In the year 1839 Is. Geoff. St. Hilaire ¹) described and figured three species of his new genus Galidia, viz: elegans, concolor and olivacea, all natives of Madagascar. It seems that Galidia olivacea has not been captured by the travellers who visited Madagascar after Bernier and Goudot: the only specimen hitherto known was the type of which Is. G. St. Hilaire relates “la queue, dans notre individu, est incomplète; mais, à en juger par la portion très étendue qui est conservée, elle paraît plus longue que chez la Galidie concolore”, and therefore every one meant that the tail of the species in question would be as long as it is in Galidia eoncolor ²). The two other species are of frequent occurrence, especially Galidia elegans: some writers considered them...

Contributions to the Herpetology of Sumatra

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509275

Hubrecht, A.A.W..

The genus Cophotis was established by Peters for an Agamid from Ceylon and his species, Cophotis ceylanica, must be rare and very locally distributed in that island, according to Günther. The latter author gives a detailed description and an excellent figure of the animal in his Reptiles of British India. A specimen very closely allied to the Ceylon species has been forwarded to our Museum from Sumatra; it differs however in enough important respects from its Ceylonese namesake to permit a specific distinction. In order to facilitate a comparison the points of difference with Cophotis ceylanica are printed in italics.

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508794

Campophagae

Sharpe, R.B..

Notes on some Campophagidae in the Leyden Museum. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F. L. S. etc.

On a new species of Echimys

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508793

Differs from the other species of Echimys hitherto described by the extraordinary length of the tail. Upperparts rusty brown: cheeks, sides of the abdomen and outside of legs rusty. Chin, chest, belly and inside of legs dirty white. Woolly hairs on the upperparts rusty, intermixed with narrow flexible rigid hairs, rusty near the base, brown towards the tip. The colors of the upper and lower parts are sharply defined.

On a new Bat, Nyctinomus bemmeleni, from Liberia

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508474

At a glance this species is distinguished from all the other species of the genus Nyctinomus by the length of the metacarpal bone of the third and the fourth finger, by the peculiar manner in which the interfemoral membrane and the wings are attached to the tibiae, and by the very long end of the tail free from the membrane. Muzzle as in the other species; upper lip very expansible and thick, deeply grooved by vertical wrinkles.

On an undescribed species of Ardea (Ardea lansbergei)

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508882

His Excellency, the present Governor General of Dutch India J. W. van Lansberge, Bart. L. L. D. by repeatedly authorizing exploring expeditions into different parts of the Indian Archipelago has given a glorious example how to promote a science which he cultivates himself most ardently. Mr. J. E. Teysmann honorary Inspector of the cultures at Buitenzorg in the isle of Java, put at the head of the expedition, was accompanied by a certain number of hunters for the purpose of collecting and preparing zoological objects. During a visit in the district of Macassar in the southern part of Celebes, the party met with the undiscribed species of heron, the epithet of which will serve to remember the name of one of the few high functionaries, who appreciate the...

On a new Bat, Taphozous dobsoni, from Madagascar

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508850

After the careful examination by Dobson ¹) of the walking and suctorial organs of certain Bats, it is evident, that although there is a great difference in external form, the structure and the physiological signification are the same. The very highly developed suctorial disks of Thyroptera tricolor and the comparatively simple adhesive sole of the foot and thumb of Vesperugo pachypus present a difference of degree only and not of function. Spix ²) is the first who has discovered and described a Bat, Thyroptera tricolor from Brazil, with sucking-cups. Several years after, Gray 3) announced the very curious Mystacina tuberculata of New-Zealand, with a remarkable climbing aparatus.

On two new species of the genus Ischiopsopha, Gestro

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509393

This species may at once be recognized by the black color of the deeply emarginate median lobe of the prothorax. Length 24 mm., breadth at the shoulders 11,5 mm. — Shining green, in some lights with a faint yellowish red tinge at the pronotum and the basal half of the elytra; the extreme tips of the clypeus, the median lobe of the prothorax, the extreme base of the elytra along the sides of the median thoracical lobe, and the tibiae and tarsi black; the palpi and antennae, except the club of the latter, dark pitchy; the first joint of the antennae bronzy green above, the club brown with a metallic hue.

On the Sumatra Porcupine, Hystrix mülleri, Temminck MS

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508847

In his short paper on the fauna of the Malayan Archipelago S. Müller ¹) states, that Hystrix fasciculata is found in Sumatra, Java and Borneo. In this he must have been mistaken, and seems to have confounded H. javanica with H. fasciculata. H. fasciculata, Shaw ²) is the Porc-épic de Malacca, Buffon. 3) Wagner 4) also confounded this species with H. macroura, L., which is the Porcus, aculeatus, sylvestris sen Hystrix orientalis singularis, Seba.5) The H. macroura has the tail half the length of the body and head (Seba), H. jasciculata one third (Buffon), the Java Porcupine, which has a very short tail, only nearly one fifth.

On a new species of the genus Paussus, Paussus andreae, from Java

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508461

This new species is very closely allied to Paussus Ludekingii v. Voll. ¹) of Sumatra, but differs specifically in having the club of the antennae more slender and less swollen, and the elytra without distinct punctures ²). Both species belong to Westwood’s 3) section A (prothorax quasi bipartitus), b (antennarum clava postice excavata),* (species Asiaticae). I have named the species in honor of its fortunate discoverer, whose father-in-law kindly presented the specimen to the Leyden Museum:

On a new species of the genus Apatetica, Apatetica brunnipes, from Sumatra

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508637

To the two known species ¹) of this remarkable genus of the coleopterous family Silphidae I now add a third, sent over from Sumatra a long time ago by Dr. Salomon Müller. The new species, which may bear the name of Apatetica brunnipes, is allied to and of the same form and size as A. nitiduloides Westw., but can easily be distinguished by the different coloration and by the prolonged exterior acute angle of the elytra.

On the new Cetoniidae collected during the recent Scientific Sumatraexpedition

Ano: 1879

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509362

Length without the head 20,5 mm., that of the head with the protuberances 4,5 mm.; breadth at the shoulders 11 mm. — Head bronzy green with coppery tinges, especially at the front margin of the protuberances; palpi and antennae dark brown red with metallic green tinges; the basal joint of the antennae green. Pronotum and scutellum opaque green, the margins smooth and shining. The elytra sub-opaque green, the suture and lateral margins smooth and shining. Pygidium, body beneath and legs shining green, partially with rich coppery tinges. The whole insect, except the clypeus and the outer surface of the cephalic protuberances, the raised lateral border of the prothorax and elytra, the lateral margins of the scutellum, the suture (partially), the under surface...