Il8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll 



ENOCLERUS 



Gahan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), v, 1910, p. 62 and 65. Clerus Schklg., 

 Gen. Ins., Cleridae, 1903, p. 48 (nee. Fabr.). 



The term Enoclerus proposed by Prof. Chas. J. Gahan for 

 the American species formerly placed in Clerus is suppressed 

 by Sigm. Schenkling in the Coleopterorum Catalogus (W. 

 Junk), Cleridae, 1910, p. 51, and placed as a synonym of Clerus 

 Fabr. 



Prof. Gahan has, I think, plainly demonstrated that the type 

 of the genus Clerus is the European mutillarius Fabr., a species 

 not congeneric with the American species. Prof. Gahan used 

 both the "first species" and "elimination" methods and both 

 gave the same result. Se.vguttatus Fabr., which must be ac- 

 cepted as the type of Clerus, if the classification of Mr. 

 Schenkling be approved, was not included as one of the 

 original species, apparently being unknown to Fabricius at the 

 time he characterized the genus, the description of se.vguttatus 

 appearing in an appendix to the volume. Mutillarius was the 

 last of the species originally included in Clerus by Fabricius to 

 be removed to another genus. Jacques du Val in 1861 made 

 it the type of his genus Pseudoclerops. Therefore there seems 

 to be no other course than to consider Pseudoclerops a syno- 

 nym of Clerus Fabr., and to retain the name Enoclerus for the 

 American species. 



Enoclerus ocreatus Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xii, 1885, p. 154. 

 Specimens of this species occur in Colorado in which the 

 antennae and tibiae are quite dark ; these specimens bear a 

 great deal of resemblance to an immaculate humeralis Schaeff., 

 but the elytra are slightly more depressed and the punctua- 

 tion much less inclined to become seriate. 



Enoclerus humeralis Schaeff., Sci. Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Mus., I, 

 1905, p. 155. 



This species originally described from Tulare Co., Califor- 

 nia, appears to be confined to the Pacific coast region. In the 

 collection of Mr. F. S. Daggett there is an example from San 

 Bernardino Mts., California, elevation 6,400 ft. My friend, 

 Mr. F. W. Nunenmacher, has recently sent me a specimen 



