70 Mr. C. J. Gahan — Notes on Cleridae. 



species having characters like those of Tenerus, Cast., but 

 differing in the fact that the third joint of the antennae is 

 dilated and resembles the fourth in form and size, and, 

 further, that the hind femora in the male are strongly 

 thickened and subfusiform. It appears to be undescribed. 



Teneroides tavoyanus (Gorh. M.S.), sp. n. 



Rather elongate and narrow ; fulvous-yellow or fulvous in 

 colour, with the antennse entirely black, the tibise, tarsi, and 

 the apex of the femora piceous. Prothorax sparsely pubescent, 

 subnitid, marked with a shallow, sinuately transverse im- 

 pression near the apex, and having a small feeble tubercle 

 before the middle of the base; elytra pubescent, each with 

 three or four feeble costse, the intervals between which are 

 somewhat sulcate. In the female, the meso- and metathorax 

 and the sides of the prothorax are very dark, nearly black. 

 The antennse are slightly longer in the male than in the 

 female, and more strongly serrate. 



Length, $ 5^, $ 7 mm. ; breadth 1^ and 2 mm. 



Hub. Tavoy in Tenasserim (IV. Doherty). 



The species described by me as Tenerus sulcipennis (P. Z. S. 

 1902, ii. p. 279) will have to go into this subgenus, but not 

 knowing the male, I cannot say whether the hind femora aie 

 in this sex thickened or not. 



In another very closely allied species, also belonging to 

 this subgenus, and which I have determined from description 

 to be Tenerus subsimilis, Schklg., the hind femora of the 

 male are very strongly thickened. 



One or two other species, apparently undescribed, which I 

 found amongst the Lycidse in the Fry Collection, labelled by 

 Mr. Gorham Calochromus sp., belong also to the subgenus 

 Teneroides. 



Teneromimus, gen. nov. 



This genus is formed for two species which have com- 

 pletely the aspect of Tenerus, and agree with that genus in 

 most of its characters ; the head is similar in structure, and 

 the gular area just as much reduced in size; the first joint 

 of the tarsi is visible from above, and the tarsal claws are 

 distinctly appendiculate at the base; the prothorax is some- 

 what parallel-sided, distinctly marginate on each side from 

 the base up to the middle, and then less distinctly so in front ; 

 the pronotum is evenly and not strongly convex ; the elvtra 

 are gradually but slightly widened behind, and are rounded 

 at the apex, they are only slightly convex above. The an- 

 tennse arc, however, 10-jointed, and quite different in form 



