304 Mr. J. S. Baly's notes on 



Sp. 76. affinis, Montrouz. 



Deplanchei, Perroud. 



approximata, Baly. 



The words used in the Synopsis, " Poitrine et abdomen 

 cfun noir de poix," are not used by Montrouzier, who 

 says, " Tete et corselet rouges, — louche, antennes et yeux 

 noires, — elytres lisses, rouges avec deux houdes noires, une a 

 la base Vautre a Vextremite, jambes rembrunies.'' The two 

 species joined with affinis by Allard differ (judging from 

 the above description) from his insect in having the 

 hinder band on the elytron replaced by a large sub- 

 rotundate patch ; in Deplanchei the tibias, breast, and 

 abdomen are black ; approximata is paler and much 

 larger in size. A. approximata is found in New Guinea; 

 the two others are natives of New Caledonia. 



Sp. 89. perplexa, Baly. 



A recent examination of this insect has shown me 

 that its claws are not bifid, but appendiculated ; it must 

 therefore be placed in my genus Paridea. 



Sp. 96. Udentata, Fabr. 



impressa, Fabr. 



The error into which Allard has fallen in uniting these 

 two species, one an African, the other an Indian form, 

 may be explained by the fact that Fabricius, having 

 already described several species of Halticince and Galeru- 

 cince under the common name of impressa, subsequently 

 (in 111. Mag., ii., p. 293) altered one of them, the present 

 insect, into bidentata ; this change was adopted by 

 Schonherr and some of the older writers, but subsequent 

 authors, finding that the insects belonged to different 

 genera, restored the original name ; it thus stands in 

 Harold's catalogue, bidentata being placed as a synonym, 

 and the same locality, Tranquebar, being placed against 

 each. Fabricius had, however already tSpec. Ins., 

 p. 151) described a species of Galenicince from Tropical 

 Africa as Criocercs bidentata ; this is the insect from 

 which Allard has evidently drawn his diagnosis, and 

 confounded with the true impressa. It is placed in 

 Harold's catalogue in the genus Diacantha; but Mr. C. 

 0. Waterhouse, who has kindly examined the type- 



