B. planus, Tab. 48 fig. 7, and
in the supplementar volume of
B. rhinoceros, Tab. 9 f. 16,
B. furcifer, Tab. 11 fig. 16, but there is not the slightest indication of granulation on any of them, nor is there in the descriptions, generic or specific, the least mention made of the tubercular maculæ. It is also remarkable that in the works of Angelin and Novák where several hypostomas belonging to species of this genus are delineated, not a single one shows these tubercles. We shall now continue the descriptions of the Swedish Brontei, already begun with Br. polyactin in the introductory part of this memoir.
Bronteus irradians Lindstr.
has a hypostoma that much resembles that of Br. polyactin. In its general shape it is similar and the two concentric grooves with the two maculæ placed in the same way, just below the superior groove. These maculæ are much larger than in Br. polyactin, nearly thrice their size. They are also more ovate or rather like a bean, the smooth surface is larger and the granulated spot restricted to a more narrow space forming an oblique patch. The granules or lenses are also individually larger than in the allied species, double their size or 0,06 millimeters. We have not succeeded in making sections of the cephalic eye nor of the maculæ.
Br. platyactin Angelin.
The hypostoma has a transversally triangular form, and is divided only in two fields through a shallow semicircular groove near the posterior margin. The two maculæ are situated above the groove near its superior sinuses. They are elongated, [fig. 17], elliptic with the narrow pointed end directed outwards and the broad rounded end inwards. The chief surface is scooped out as a shallow depression. The granulated spot is situated on the broader end and covering it completely. The relatively large lenses are arranged in five regular rows, the uppermost one being the longest. On the interior surface of the hypostoma there are the corresponding sockets of both maculæ with smooth surface. The horizontal sections of the granules [figs. 18, 19] present the image of white rings in close contact, without, however, to occasion a prismatic structure, a dark interspace lying between each ring. These lenses are filled with a dark mass, and in some the same sort of radiated structure is perceptible as in the lenses of the cephalic eye. In horizontal sections of the cephalic eye the lenses approach the polyedral shape. In another section near to the surface of another specimen the lenses are decidedly hexaedral. The vertical sections, [fig. 14], reveal their real nature as lenses where they lie as a string of beads with a dark nucleus enclosed within a thin whitish shell. They are covered by a thin membranous lining. When seen in transmitted light the lenses proper are dark, and the shell white and in reflected light the lenses are lighter than the rest.