new or little-known species of Glenea. 225 



This pretty little species, which resembles Daphisia 

 pulchella, Pasc, I refer with doubt to Glenea. It ought, 

 perhaps, to be regarded as the type of a distinct genus. 

 The claws present a character which, as far as I know, 

 is not met with elsewhere among the Lamiidce. The 

 anterior claw of all the tarsi is " bifid," with the inner 

 division a little longer than the outer ; the posterior 

 claw is, in each tarsus, simple. This character I find in 

 each of three specimens belonging to the same sex, 

 which is probably the male. Mr. Bates has, in Glenea 

 ocelota, described a structure of the claws which he could 

 not find alluded to in any generic description, but which 

 is, if I follow his description correctly, of the kind 

 existing in most of the N. American and a few of the 

 European species of Saperda. This character— the 

 presence in the male of a tooth on the outer side of the 

 base of the anterior (or inner) claw of the anterior and 

 middle legs — was first pointed out by Leconte. Lacor- 

 daire, while admitting it as far as the N. American 

 species are concerned, has denied the existence of this 

 character in any of the European species. It is present, 

 however, in S. carcharias, S. punctata, S. octopunctata, 

 and other species. 



Notes. 



M. Thomson having given the same name, Glenea 

 Mouhotii, to two distinct species, I propose to substitute 

 for the last described of these the name Glenea mutata. 

 Its synonymy will therefore be — 



Glenea mutata, n. s. 



= Glenea Mouhotii, Thoms., Eev. et Mag. de Zoologie, 

 1879, p. 24, nee Syst. Ceramb., p. 566. 



Glenea jucunda. Thorns., is synonymous with G.giraffa, 

 Dalm. 



The genus Glenea will, I think, include all the species 

 placed under Volutmiia in the Munich Catalogue, with 

 the exception of V. apicalis, Chev., V. Westermanni, 

 Thoms., and V. guinensis, Chevr. — the last two being 

 little more than varieties of V. apicalis. 



