74 Mr. C. J. Galian— Notes on Cleridse. 



them with ten joints, while in reali'y they have eleven. 

 Spinola's statements as to the number of the antennal 

 joints in species of this group are no more trustworthy than 

 are some of those made by Mr Gorham himself- Mr. Gor- 

 ham has placed in tlie genus Apolopha three Central American 

 species — trilineata, Chev., chirig aiana , Gorh., and linearis, 

 Gorh.; and 1 1 is chief ground for doing so was, as he states, that 

 the antennae in these species have apparently only eight joints. 

 There is, I admit, some difficulty in determining exactly the 

 number of joints. In the first two of the species I make 

 out nine joints, in the third ten joints in the antennae. In 

 all three the head in front is rather flat and without trace of 

 a frontal costa, the presence of which is the chief charac- 

 teristic of Spinola's genus. The first two species have very 

 much the characters of Ellipotoma, and might very well go 

 in that genus, while the third would be better placed in 

 Phyllobcenus. 



The characters of Apolopha, as I interpret the genus, are 

 as follows: — Head rather convex in front and haviug a 

 frontal carina, anteclypeus membranous ; labrum emar- 

 ginate ; last joint of labial and maxillary palpi Hat, elongate, 

 subtriangular ; eyes rather finely facetted, deeply emarginate, 

 with the antennae placed under a short carina opposite the 

 emargination ; antennae 10-jointed, the 5th and 7th joints 

 not transversely produced. Acetabula of front coxae closed 

 behind by the prolongation inwards of the epimera to meet 

 the prosternum. First joint of hind tarsi moderately long, 

 rather narrow, the second and third joints with membranous 

 lobe beneath. 



To this genus the following species belong : — 



A. reichei, Spin. 



A. vitticollis, Gorh. (Ichnea). 



A. nilida, Gorh. {Ichnea). 



A. suturalis, Klug {Enopliuni). 



A, fry ana, Gorh. {Ichnea). 



A. fronticosta, Kuw. {Ichnea). 



Pelonium, Spin. — This genus, as at present constituted, is 

 not a homogeneous one, and may very w r ell be divided up 

 into at least three different genera, for one of which the 

 name Lasiodera, proposed by Gray, may be adopted. 



(1) Lasiodera (Gray), gen. no v. 



Eyes finely facetted, deeply emarginate in front, widely 

 separated from one another both above and below ; acetabula 



