Mr. C. J. Gahan — Notes on Cleridse. 73 



Hub. Rio Janeiro {A. Fry). One example only in "Brit. 

 Museum. 



Plocamocera, Spin. — This genus is closely allied to Epi- 

 phlceus, and differs chiefly by its much more slender antennae, 

 which are covered with long bristle-like hairs. The antennae 

 are described by Selienkling as having eleven joints, but I 

 cannot distinguish more than ten. 



Ellipotoma, Spin. — In the type E. tenuicorni<s, Spin., of 

 this genus, I have after some trouble been able to make out 

 ten joints in the antennae, which at first appeared to me to 

 have only nine. The genus seems to be nearly related to 

 Phyllobanus, Spin., in which also the antennae are ten- 

 jointed. Pyticeroides, Kuw., a genus which I do not know, 

 seems from the description to come near to, and. possibly to 

 be identical with, Ellipotoma. 



I suggest later under Apolopha that two of the species 

 placed by Gorham in that genus would be best placed in 

 Ellipotoma, from which they differ little except in having 

 only nine joints to the antennae. 



Phyllobcenus, Spin. — This genus, if my suggestion be 

 adopted, will now include the following species : — 



P. punclatus, Gorh. (Epiphheus) . 



P. erythrocepkalus, Gorh. (Ejriphlaius) . 



P. capitatus, Gorh. (Epiphlwus) . 



P. nitidus, Gorh. (Epiphlujus). 



P. dislocatus, Say. 



P. merkeli, Horn. 



P. linearis 1 Gorh. {Apolopha). 



Apolopha, Spin. Mon. Clerides, i. p. 381 (1841). 



Type, A. reichei, Spin. 1. c. p. 383, pi. xxxvi. fig. 1. 



This genus appears to me to have been quite wrongly 

 identified by Gorham, who in this matter has been followed 

 by Selienkling. Although I have seen no species that 

 answers exactly to the description of A. reichei, I have not 

 the least doubt that Ichnea vitticollis, Gorham, is congeneric, 

 and indeed very closely related to it, possibly even only a 

 variety. The fact that in Gorham's species the antennae 

 are 10-jointed, whereas Spinola described the antennae in 

 his species as having only eight joints, cannot be taken as 

 an objection. In the figure of his species the antennae are 

 represented as having nine joints. Similarly in the case of 

 Pylicera he has described the antennae as 9-jointed, figured 



