Mr. C. J. Galian — Xotes on Oleridae. 55 



VII. — Notes on Cleridae and Descriptions of some new 

 Genera and Species of this Family of Coleoptera. By 

 Charles J. Gahan, M.A., of the British Museum (Nat. 

 Hist.). 



(Published hy permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Having been occupied for some mouths past in arranging 

 the Cleridse in the collection ot the British Museum, I had 

 necessarily to make myself pretty well acquainted with the 

 characters on which the classification of the family is based 

 and ou which the relationship between the different genera 

 is determined. The work of arrangement might have been 

 simplified had I been content to follow the order set out in 

 the latest general work on the classification of the family. 

 But this was not to be. My work was not long in progress 

 before I became dissatisfied with the order and arrangement 

 of the genera adopted by my friend Herr Schenkling in the 

 ' Genera Insectorum/ partly because I found a certain 

 number of undoubted errors left uncorrected, and chiefly 

 because the order of the genera did not seem to me in many 

 cases to be in accordance with natural affinities. 



Instead, therefore, of following his arrangement, I have 

 endeavoured to place the genera in our collection in what 

 appeared to me to be the most natural order ; and the study 

 which this entailed has enabled me to offer the following 

 notes, criticisms, and suggestions for the consideration of 

 other workers on the family. In one or two points they 

 will be found to have more general bearing on the classifi- 

 cation of the Coleoptera. 



Types of Cleric! as in the Collection of the British Museum. 



Herr Sigmund Schenkling has been good enough to 

 describe several new species, the types of which are now in 

 the British Museum ; and it is due to him that I should 

 express here my great indebtedness for the kind help he has 

 given in identifying the greater part of the unnamed material 

 sent to him for examination. These identifications, coming 

 from so well-acknowledged an authority on the Cleridse, 

 have been of the greatest value to me, and have made my 

 work much easier than it would otherwise have been. 



The Museum is fortunate also in possessing now a large 

 number of the types described by the Rev. H. S. Gorham. 

 These came to it chiefly in the splendid collections from 

 Central America presented by Dr. F. D. Godman and the late 



