142 CLADOPALPUS HAGENI. 



descriptioQ of Mr. van Lansberge) is similar but stronger. 



My cf specimen is considerably smaller than the type 

 measuring only 21 mm., whilst the female attains a length 

 of 25 mm. 



At the end of his description Mr. van Lansberge remarks : 

 »L'exeraplaire de Serdang est brun clair, mais comme celui 

 de Java est noir, il est clair que la couleur brune n'est 

 qu'occasionnelle" ; the couple I now received is exactly of 

 the same pale chestnut colour as the specimen formerly 

 sent over from Serdang by Dr. Hagen , and I fear that 

 Mr. van Lansberge's statement will prove to be more 

 immature than the colour of the Sumatran species. A careful 

 re-examination of the Javan specimen may be highly re- 

 commauded. 



P. S. In the meanwhile the foregoiug remarks were 

 passing through the press , I happened to examine the figures 

 of White's Catalogue of Longicoru Coleoptera and was much 

 surprised to find on plate II, fig. 3, a Longicorn , which 

 directly called to mind the 9 of Cladopalpus. After having 

 carefully compared the description and figure of this in- 

 sect, I have no hesitation in placing Cladopalpus Hageni 

 Lansb. in synonymy with Cyrtonopst punctipennis White. 

 This author has already known the male sex too , but he 

 mistook the singular structure of its palpi , for a curious 

 difformity (vide his footnote) ; Lacordaire has ventured the 

 supposition of its being a peculiarity for one of the sexes. 

 White and Lacordaire have placed this insect among the 

 Prionidae, whilst van Lansberge described Cladopalpus as 

 a new genus of Cerambycidae (tribe of the Distenides); I 

 consider the former view the more correct. 



Notes from the Lieytien IMuseum , Vol. iX.!!. 



