360 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-knoivn 



spot at some distance from the shoulders and towards the side, a band 

 behind the middle, and another at the apex white ; antennse short, 

 linear, unai'med ; legs of moderate length, femora not clavate ; body 

 beneath black, nearly glabrous, the two basal segments of the abdomen 

 with a white silky fringe. Length 4 lines. 



This species will rank with the common European forms, par- 

 ticularly such as C. trifasciatus, ruficornis, &c. It is one of Mr. 

 Anderson the African traveller's captures. 



Sect. Antennge breves, setacese. Prothorax ovatus vel globoso-ovatus. 

 Femora baud clavata. 



Clytus notabilis. 



C. elongatus, viridi-flavus ; prothorace nigro bimaculato ; elytris apice 

 truncatis, fascia basali literam W simulante, altera media angulata 

 macidisque posticis duabus ornatis. 



Hab. Japan. 



Elongate, densely covered with pale-greenish-yellow hairs, and 

 spotted or marked with black; head small, quadrate in front; eyes, 

 mandibles, and palpi horn-colom*; prothorax ovate, with two black 

 spots on the disk ; scutelliun transverse, rounded behind ; elytra sub- 

 parallel, obliquely tiimcate at the apex, a black V-shaped mark at the 

 base of each, which, barely meeting below the scutellum, form together 

 a rude resemblance to the letter W, behind this there is another band 

 or blotch, zigzag or very strongly toothed, not extending to the side 

 or meeting at the suture, and midway between the latter and the apex 

 is a black irregular patch ; antennae setaceous, imarmed, shorter than 

 the body, black, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs ; legs slender, 

 elongate, black, with a thin yellowish pubescence, femora not clavate ; 

 body beneath covered with gTeenish-yellow hairs. Length 8 lines. 



This fine Clytus will come into the section that should also con- 

 tain such species as annularis, signaticollis, &e. I have not 

 adopted any of the genera of MM. Leconte, Chevrolat, and Thomson, 

 which they have proposed for comparatively a few of the members 

 of the old genus Clytus. The species generally comprised under this 

 name, although remarkably heterogeneous in many respects, are 

 connected by characters so iDtermcdiate, that it appears to me to be 

 impossible to fix any satisfactory limits to many of these groups. 

 As an example, the genus Cyllene, Newm., confined by M. Thomson, 

 as I think it should be, to C. nebulosus, is by M. Chevrolat (no mean 

 authority) made to include a number of North American species 

 also. Like Feronia, which, after having been divided into some 

 thirty or forty genera by the Baron de Chaudoir, left a large sui'- 

 plusage which could not be jilaced in any of them, so I believe it 



