56 Mr. 0. J. Gaban— Notes on demise. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin ; and in the almost equally valuable col- 

 lection bequeathed to the Museum by the late Mr. Alexander 

 Fry. A few of his types also were found in the Pascoe 

 collection ; and types or cotypes of species described by him 

 are included in the valuable sets of Coleoptera, chiefly from 

 Rhodesia and Natal, presented at different times by Mr. Guy 

 Marshall. 



Incorporated in the general collection of Cleridse, there 

 are to be found also types of species described by Newman, 

 Adam White, Westwood (one or two), Andrew Murray (one), 

 Chevrolat (a few Mexican types), G. Waterhouse, C. O. 

 Waterhouse, Pascoe, and D. Sharp ; while kept apart in 

 separate cabinets are the types described by Wollaston, and 

 those few from the Banks collection described by Fabricius. 



The Classification of the Cleridse. 



Lacordaire, in his ' Genera des Coleopteres/ divided the 

 Cleridse into two main sections or tribes characterized as 

 follows : — 



1. Cinq articles aux tarses ; pronotum confondu avec 



les parapleures du prothorax Clerides vrais. 



2. Quatre articles aux tarses; pronotum distinct des 



parapleures du prothorax Enopliides. 



The distinction thus drawn between the two tribes or sub- 

 families, though real, is not quite accurately stated and 

 requires some explanation. 



In all Cleridse, with scarcely an exception, the tarsi are 

 o-jointed ; but in many genera, and not alone those belonging 

 to one subfamily, the first joint is very much reduced in size, 

 even in some cases almost to the point of disappearance. It 

 usually lies below the basal part of the second and cannot 

 be seen when the tarsus is looked at from above. This 

 apparently telranierous condition is, however, not the one to 

 which Lacordaire refers in the diagnosis given above. In 

 the true Cleridse, or those belonging to the subfamily Clerinae, 

 the fourth tarsal joint is normally developed, generally as 

 large as the third, and, like it, furnished with a membranous 

 lobe beneath ; but in the Enopliides (or, as we should now 

 call them, the Corynetinse) the fourth joint is very small and 

 inconspicuous, having almost the same relation to the other 

 joints as it has in the so-called tetramerous Coleoptera. So 

 small, as a rule, is this joint, that in many cases it has been 

 entirely lost sight of, with the consequence that not a few 

 genera of Cleridse have been placed in the wrong subfamily. 



