NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE ZOOLOGY A JOURNAL OF Founded by LIONEL WALTER, LORD ROTHSCHILD and continued by THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Vol 42, 1940-1948 LONDON PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES : BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) CROMWELL ROM), IONDON, S.W.7 I94O I948 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE Vol 42, 1940-1948 Tin.' parts of Part I, Pari II, Volume 4? were issued as follows : — containing pages i-2i(> and 13 plates, issued 26 April 1940 containing pages 217-396, issued 251 1 October, 1940, Part III, containing pages 397-508 and plates, issued 20th March, 1948, ERRATUM Page 93 "METRACRINIA gen nov." should read "METACRINIA gen nov CONTENTS OF VOLUME PART 42 940-1948) (i I PAGJ The Australasian of Frogs Parker (Plate the Family Sour1 i— 106 By R Malum Revision By (Plate I) (Plate I) By D E Kimmins By M Banningek (Plates VIII) I Looss 1S96, Cercaria imbricata Miriam Rothschild nee 1893 Note on Nomenclature \ PART A Monographic By H E British of the 203—214 By 215- 216 to 10.54 Expedition, Curculionidae By Sir Genus Mecedanum Erichson (Coleoptera Asteroids The Species '217 Burma A G I K -397—473 olydiidae) i; in the of Astropecten British By I) — 396 III H E "Hinton Notes on the I te) Hinton India — Coleoptera: Marshall By 165- 202 Revision of the Mexican Water Beetles of the Family Entomological Results from the Swedish A Synopsis 1(>4 II PARI and — 146 — 147 131 Australian Pamborini, Ozaenini and Scaritini (Coleoptera, Carabid Elmidae 107—130 New and Islands Shillito F J Solomon the W Edwards the Osmylid Subfamilies Stenosmylinae and Kalosmylinae oi (Neuroptera) On h F By from (Diptera) J Studies on Diopsidae (Diptera) A Sapromyzid«e aledonia - \V II I) Neotropical Neoempheria (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) (Plates I-II) By Leptodactylidae Museum (Natural Dilwyn John s i I llistoi\ (Plates IV) (.85 508 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE ZOOLOGY A JOURNAL OF hounded by LIONEL WALTER, LORD ROTHSCHILD and continued by THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM ^ ^ l* \9*0 Vol 42 PART WITH I, THIRTLtH 26 April, BRITISH PLATES 1940 LONDON PRINTED 1-2 16 pp : ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) BY CROMWlill ROAD, LONDON, S.W 1940 Price Fifteen Shillings NOTICE The Journal, Novitates £oologicae, was founded in 1894 by the late Lord Rothschild as the official publication of his Museum at Tring, and Lord Rothschild himself was joint editor until his death in 1937 In September, 1938, the Trustees of the British Museum assumed control of the Tring Museum, which had been bequeathed to them by Lord Rothschild In the meantime the Journal was carried on under the joint editorship of the Hon Miriam Rothschild and Dr K Jordan until the close of Vol 41 Beginning with the British this part, the first Museum have of Vol 42, the Trustees of undertaken the publication of Novitates Zoologicae, and the Journal will be edited at the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W C FORSTER-COOPER, Director British Museum (Natural History), London, S.W , 12 April, 1940 ri \ 1: in tropecten brasiliensis or mat u type, iK