72 Mr. C. J. Gahan — Notes on Cleridse. 



number of species in which the antennae are 10-jointed. 

 Two of these, viz., E. sericeus,^sA\\g, and E. humeralis, Spin., 

 are rather different in facies from the more typical species of 

 Epiphlceus, and the emargination of the eyes is feebler and 

 less removed from the antenna?. They approach somewhat 

 closely a few of the species of Ichnea, and might either form 

 with these a new genus or else be included in Ichnea. 



Leconte and Horn, in referring to the latter genus, state 

 that the pronotum is entirely continuous with the flanks of 

 the prothorax, as in Clerinse; but this can only be true of 

 North American species which 1 have not seen. They say 

 also that the eyes are emarginate on the inner side ; this is 

 the case with some species only, not the more typical ones, 

 and the emargination is never much above the point where 

 the antenna? are inserted. 



Four other species of Epiphlceus having only ten joints in 

 the antenna? are of a somewhat narrow elongated form, and 

 would be better placed in the genus Plnjllob&ntis ; these are 

 E. copitatus, Gorham, E. nitidus, Gorham, E. erythrocephalus, 

 Gorham, and E. punctatus, Gorham. 



Epiphhus fasciatus, Klug (1842) = E. chevolati, Gorham 



(1877). 

 Epiphlceus velutinus, Gorham (1877) =E. ruficeps, Kuwerfe 



(1893). 



Epiphlceus schenklinyi, sp. n. 



Yellowish brown, with the head, prothorax, and a broad 

 transverse band behind the middle of the elytra blackish 

 brown ; clypeus, labrum, and mouth-parts, excepting the 

 mandibles (which are quite black), testaceous, the antenna?, 

 legs, and body beneath of a similar colour, but somewhat 

 darker. Head densely, minutely punctulate, sparsely covered 

 with pale seta? ; face rather broad and flat ; eyes distinctly 

 emarginate rather high up on the inner side. Prothorax 

 very densely, finely punctulate, subtuberculately rounded 

 at the middle of each side. Elytra rounded at the apex, 

 strongly and very closely punctured from the base up to the 

 front margin of the dark transverse band, and thence to the 

 apex less thickly and less strongly punctate ; the area between 

 the black band and the apex is divided into a yellowish- 

 brown anterior, and a somev\hat blackish, apical zone, the 

 latter being so covered with yellowish pubescence as partly 

 to obscure the colour of the derm ; the anterior zone is 

 crossed by two bands of yellowish pubescence. 

 Length 9, breadth 2^ mm. 



