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relationship existing between the different forms. The 

 really good systematic, such as Lacordaire, could, of course, 

 see beneath all these disguises; but that this has not been done 

 in every case will, I think, be shown by the remarkable opinion 

 expressed by that experienced entomologist Count Castelnau 

 when writing upon Cleridse of this particular group, led to it 

 by a consideration of such resemblances as I have mentioned : 

 " En tout il me semble probable que lorsqu'on abandonuera 

 enfin le systeme tarsaire pour se rapprocher d'une classifica- 

 tion naturelle, les insectes dont nous uoib occupons ici seront 

 partages en groupes qui se placeront tres loin les uns des 

 autres." The tarsal system has been to a considerable extent 

 abandoned, but the mimetic Cleridae are still retained in the 

 same old group, and are not to be found placed in the Hete- 

 romera, Malacodermata, Phytophaga, and other such groups, 

 as Castelnau suggested they should be. Were he alive now 

 he would doubtless be astonished to find many of them placed 

 all in one single genus. 



In his arrangement of the genera of this group Herr 

 Schenkling places first Allochotes, Westw., and almost im- 

 mediately after it the genus Tenerus, Casteln.; and in this I 

 think he is, on morphological grounds, quite justified. But 

 at first sight the two genera seem utterly remote from one 

 another — the one composed of short, ovate, convex forms 

 coloured exactly like Coccinellidse and Chrysomelidse; the 

 other made up of elongate species suggestive in some cases 

 of Telephoridae and Lycidse. In the first genus the antennae 

 are rather short and gradually clavate towards the apex, in 

 the other longer and strongly serrate or subpectinate ; but 

 apart from the general difference in form, this is about the 

 only well-marked difference in structure between the two. 

 The gular area on the underside of the head is exceptionally 

 short in the genus Tenerus, and becomes narrower behind, as 

 in the genus Clerus ; the same part is a good deal longer in 

 Allochotes, but, as in Tenerus, the gular sutures converge 

 behind. 



Orthoijleuroides, Kuw., and Orthopleura, Spin., are the 

 only other described genera of the present subfamily in 

 which I have noticed a similar form of gula. In other 

 respects also these genera agree very well with Tenerus, 

 though having a different form of antennae and a slightly 

 different structure of the tarsi. Instead of being placed, as 

 at present, at the end of the Enopliini, they would come 

 better, I think, soon after Tene us. 



Teneroides ((iorham, MS.), subgen. nov. 

 Under this name I have found in the Fry Collection a 



