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Notes on tho Cohopferoiis FdiniJy Clericla% iirith descriptions 

 of Nev Genera atid Species .- )iy the \\e\. H. S. Gorham. 



In preparing the present paper on the Cleridse, I have found 

 myself obHged to deviate in some measure from my original 

 plan. 



I had intended at the first to attempt a complete revision of 

 the family, — a work that a very slight acquaintance with the 

 catalogued species "woidd soon make it apparent to any one was 

 needed. But as I went on I found it impossible to gain acquaint- 

 ance (excepting in certain genera) with more than half the 

 described species ; and this from the very reason that former 

 authors have found themselves situated as myself. Attractive as 

 a family from their varied patterns and colouring, nearly every 

 author of note has added his quota to the list of species, the 

 types of which are scattered or lost ; while few possessed any 

 general knowledge of the family as such, and hence referred 

 their species to genera with which they often have no affinity. In 

 revising the family it will be necessary, then, to commence with 

 the genera, which under si;ch treatment have often become mere 

 collections of heterogeneous species. 



I have kejjt Ix'fore myself in tliis work the necessity of 

 (1.) — Indicating tlic true tyiic of ev(n'y genus, or at least id" 

 selecting the type from the oi'iginal constitution, where none 

 was fixed by the foiiudei'. II. — Eliminating from tin; genus 

 such species as could not be associated with the type without 

 rendering any definition useless. HI. — Creating new gcniera 

 for siicli of tliese species as could not be brought into any 

 existing ones. 



CiSTULA EnTOMOLOGICA. 



August 7th, 1876. 



