﻿the 
  Family 
  Pyrocliroidse. 
  311 
  

  

  Tschalia, 
  yet 
  Pic, 
  in 
  Junk's 
  ' 
  Coleopterorura 
  Catalogus,' 
  

   pt. 
  26, 
  1911, 
  retains 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  family 
  Pedilidae,' 
  where, 
  

   perhaps, 
  they 
  are 
  best 
  left 
  for 
  the 
  present. 
  Neither 
  does 
  

   Pilipalpus 
  come 
  within 
  the 
  Pyrochroidse, 
  but, 
  with 
  Ci/cloderus, 
  

   Soh, 
  Techmessa, 
  Bates, 
  and 
  Pseudananca, 
  Blbn., 
  is 
  better 
  

   placed 
  as 
  a 
  rather 
  aberrant 
  group 
  of 
  the 
  (Eilemeridae. 
  These 
  

   genera 
  all 
  have 
  the 
  eyes 
  very 
  [)rominent 
  and 
  entire, 
  and 
  the 
  

   liead, 
  thongh 
  sharply 
  narrowed 
  behind, 
  not 
  constricted 
  into 
  

   a 
  definite 
  neck. 
  Pseudoli/cus 
  (?) 
  apicalis, 
  Mad., 
  which 
  

   Blackburn 
  suggested 
  might 
  beh)ng 
  to 
  the 
  Pyrochroidse, 
  also 
  

   l)eloiigs 
  to 
  this 
  group. 
  The 
  genus 
  Lemodes 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  

   Antliicidffi 
  (A.nn. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  (8) 
  xi. 
  p 
  207). 
  

  

  Thus 
  the 
  family 
  is 
  still 
  left 
  with 
  the 
  original 
  three 
  genera 
  

   recognized 
  by 
  Lacordaire, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  that 
  Pogono- 
  

   cerus, 
  Fisch., 
  must 
  be 
  accorded 
  distinct 
  generic 
  rank. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  described 
  species 
  has 
  

   increased 
  very 
  materially. 
  In 
  Gemminger 
  and 
  Harold's 
  

   'Catalogue,' 
  1870, 
  twenty 
  species 
  are 
  enumerated; 
  Cham- 
  

   pion's 
  Supplement 
  (1898) 
  added 
  twenty-nine, 
  and 
  fifty-eight 
  

   more 
  have 
  been 
  added 
  since 
  that 
  date. 
  Of 
  all 
  these, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  about 
  twenty 
  have 
  been 
  removed 
  to 
  other 
  families 
  

   (mostly 
  with 
  the 
  genera 
  Ischalia 
  and 
  Lemodes), 
  so 
  that 
  there 
  

   remain 
  about 
  ninety 
  described 
  species 
  and 
  varieties. 
  

  

  The 
  most 
  noteworthy 
  point 
  about 
  this 
  increase 
  is 
  the 
  

   extension 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  known 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  family. 
  

   Formerly 
  it 
  was 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  almost 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  north 
  

   temperate 
  region, 
  but 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  are 
  ^(^vf 
  

   known 
  from 
  India, 
  even 
  from 
  Southern 
  India, 
  though 
  none 
  

   have 
  yet 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  Ceylon, 
  and 
  particularly 
  from 
  

   the 
  Malay 
  Peninsula 
  and 
  its 
  associated 
  islands 
  (Sumatra, 
  

   Java, 
  and 
  Borneo). 
  

  

  In 
  spite 
  of 
  their 
  paucity 
  in 
  numbers 
  the 
  genera 
  of 
  the 
  

   Pyrochroidoe 
  have 
  been 
  very 
  generally 
  misunderstood. 
  Two 
  

   of 
  them 
  were 
  founded 
  upon 
  North-American 
  species 
  

   [Dendroides, 
  Latr., 
  and 
  Schizutus, 
  Newm.), 
  and 
  the 
  nume- 
  

   rous 
  Old- 
  World 
  species 
  added 
  to 
  them 
  later 
  by 
  European 
  

   authors 
  are, 
  without 
  exception, 
  wrongly 
  placed, 
  aiul 
  would 
  

   be 
  with 
  better 
  reason 
  assigned 
  to 
  Pyrochroa. 
  This 
  genus 
  is 
  

   thus 
  left 
  with 
  by 
  far 
  the 
  greater 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  described 
  

   species 
  of 
  the 
  family, 
  and 
  forms 
  a 
  heterogeneous 
  assortment 
  

   that 
  may 
  with 
  advantage 
  be 
  split 
  up 
  into 
  numerous 
  sub- 
  

   genera, 
  or, 
  as 
  I 
  prefer 
  to 
  consider 
  them, 
  genera. 
  

  

  Some 
  attempt 
  has 
  already 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  this 
  end 
  ; 
  thus 
  we 
  

   have 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Hemidendroides, 
  Ferrari 
  (proposed 
  as 
  a 
  subgenus 
  of 
  

   Dendroides) 
  , 
  for 
  his 
  new 
  species 
  ledereri. 
  

  

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