. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 7° H. EASON a number of Malayan species (Verhoeff 1937b) and was characterized in exactly the same way. But the prosternal diastema is not a striking feature in the specimen of from Upper Burma and was not noticed by Pocock in the original specimen. There is no evidence of Chamberlin having examined a specimen himself and he must have based Burmobius on Silvestri's illustration of the prosternum of an Indian specimen which shows a diastema between the four lateral and four medial teeth (Silvestri 1917 : fig. I 11). It may be that this
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 7° H. EASON a number of Malayan species (Verhoeff 1937b) and was characterized in exactly the same way. But the prosternal diastema is not a striking feature in the specimen of from Upper Burma and was not noticed by Pocock in the original specimen. There is no evidence of Chamberlin having examined a specimen himself and he must have based Burmobius on Silvestri's illustration of the prosternum of an Indian specimen which shows a diastema between the four lateral and four medial teeth (Silvestri 1917 : fig. I 11). It may be that this intermediate position of the pro- sternal diastema characterizes an Indian subspecies of but it is more likely that the exact position and even the existence of a diastema are variable in this species. 16. Lithobius weberi Pocock (Figs. 45 and 46) Lithobius (Archilithobius) weberi Pocock, 1894 : 310, PI. ig fig. 2. Archilithobius javanicus : Attems, 1907 : 89 (non Pocock, 1894). Archilithobius weberi : Attems, 1914 : 97. Monotarsobius javanicus : Attems, 1914 : 97. Tamulinus japanicus : Attems, 1927 : 244 (typ. error). Lithobius (Australobius) weberi : Attems, 1938 : 345. Lithobius (Tamulinus) javanicus : Attems, 1938 : 345. Lithobius {Australobius) javanicus : Attems, 1953 : 151. Type localities. Manindjau and Mount Singalang, Sumatra. Material examined. A jar labelled " Lithobius javanicus Pocock, weberi Pocock, type, " contains a tube labelled " Lithobius weberi Pocock, type, Manindjau (Sumatra) ". A male with the 13th, 14th and 15th legs missing. Type specimen. Pocock's description was based on two males, one from Man- indjau and one from Mount Singalang. The latter has not been found and the specimen from Manindjau is here formally designated as the lectotype (Reg. no. ). Description of lectotype. Size: 12 mm long and i-6 mm broad at Colour: dull red. Shape: fusiform; as broad as ; body broadest at and 10.
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