REMARKS ON A SUPPOSED NEW GENUS OF 



CLYTHRIDM {COLEOPTERA, PITYTOPir.i&A) FROM MADAGASCAR, 



DESCRIBED BY M. FAIRMAIRE. 



BY MARTIN JACOBT, F.E.S. 



In " Notes from the Leyrleii Museum," 1901, vol. xxiii, M. Fair- 

 maire described a new Phytophagous genus (Arsoa) from Madagascar, 

 which he phiced in the family Cli/thi'idce, and near Miojjristis, on 

 account of the extremely elongate anterior legs of one of the 

 species. Tn reading Fairmaire's description, in which the antennre 

 are given as long and slender, it must at ouce strike every one 

 acquainted with Coleoptera that Arsoa cannot possibly belong to the 

 Clythridce, in which family the antennae are always short and the 

 joints transverse or serrate. In fact, no family of Phytophar/a is 

 easier to recognise than the Cli/tliridce. As the British Museum has 

 received co-types of Fairmaire's species derived from the same 

 sources as his, T have been enabled to exnmine the insects, and my 

 surprise was great when I found that both species described had 

 nothing to do with the (Jli/thridce, but are members of the family 

 Eumolpidcs, where Mr. Gaban had rightly placed them, without 

 having seen Fairmaire's description. The proper place is amongst 

 the Edusvncp^ near Ahiriis. 



LoTiflon : Apr!], 1903. 



HYMENOPTERA COLLECTED BY COLONEL YERBURY IN 

 HEREFORDSHIRE, 1902. 



ACVLEATA BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S. ; 



CHRYSIDID2E AND TENTHREDISIDJE BY REV. F. D. MORICE, M,A., F.E.S. ; 



ICHNEUM0NID7F. BY CLAUDE MORLEY, F.E.S. 



The fauna of Herefordshire having been very little studied, Col. 

 Yerbury during the months he was staying in the county last suuimer 

 collected insects with the intention of forming a nucleus for a County 

 List. In the Hymenoptera he met with very considerable success, 

 especially among the Aculeata. Of this section 85 species were 

 obtained, and amongst them several which are local and of interest 

 on account of the locality, including one (Psen concolor, Dhlb.) 

 which has only once been previously taken in this country : of this 

 last Col. Yerbury met with a ,$ and ?, the male at Tarrington, 

 18.6.02, and the female at Tram fnn, 2.8.02. The former record was 

 from Ryfleet, Surrey, where Mr. Morice took a ? on June 14th, 1S97. 

 Other species of rarity in the collection are Sapyga clnvicornin, L., 



