158 APOLEON. 



NOTE X. 



ON THE GENUS APOLEON , GORH. 



BY 



the Rev. H. S. GORHAM. 



In the Vol. IX of » Notes from the Leyden Museum" 

 (1887, p. 212) M. Fairmaire has honoured my description 

 of a new genus of Bostryehidae (this Journal, Vol. VII, 

 1885, p. 51) with a short but attractive notice. 



There is no ground for M. Fairmaire's assertion that the 

 genus Apoleon Gorham is identical with Dysides Perty. 

 The difference of the countries from which they come, 

 Siam and South America , was alone sufficient to raise this 

 presumption. Nor does it belong to the P t i n i d e s (Anobiidae 

 is what M. Fairmaire intends I presume) , nor is there any 

 reason to think Dysides itself does not belong to the Bos- 

 tryehidae , where Westwood places it. 



The antennae of Apoleon are very much more in accord 

 with those of Polycaon and Psoa than with any of the 

 Anobiidae, 



It is therefore to be regretted that M. Fairmaire has 

 given the weight of his name to a statement containing 

 so many errors , and about which he had not sufficient 

 knowledge for criticism. 



Notes irom tlie Leyden Museum, "Vol. X. 



