the Family Pyiochroida?. 311 



Tschalia, vet Pic, in Junk's ' Coleopterorura Catalogus,' 

 pt. 26, 1911, retains them in the family Pedilidte, where, 

 perliaps, they are best left for the present. Neither does 

 Pilipa/pus come within tlie Pyroehioidie, but, with Cycloderus, 

 Sol., Techmessa, Hates, and Pseudananca, Blhn., is better 

 placed as a rather aberrant group of the QG lemeridie. These 

 genera all have the eyes very jjroniinent and entire, and the 

 liead, though sliarply narrowed l)eliiud, not constricted into 

 a definite neck. Pseiidoli/cus (?) apicnlis, Mach, which 

 Blackburn suggested might belong to the Pyrocliroidte, also 

 lielongs to this group. The genus Lemodes belongs to the 

 Anthicidce (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xi. p 2 )7). 



Thus the family is still left with the original three genera 

 recognized by Lacordaire, witii the exception that Pogono- 

 ceriis, Fisch., must be accorded distinct generic rank. 



On the other hand, the number of described species has 

 increased very materially. In Gemminger and Harohl's 

 'Catalogue,' ISrO, twenty species are enumerated; Cham- 

 l)ion's Supplement (1898) added twenty-nine, and fifty-eight 

 more have been added since that date. Of all these, how- 

 ever, about twenty have been removed to other families 

 (m(^stly with the genera Ischalia and Lemodes), so that there 

 remain about ninety described species and varieties. 



The most noteworthy point about this increase is the 

 extension of the area of the known distribution of the famil3\ 

 Formerly it was supposed to be almost confined to the north 

 temperate region, but a great number of species are now 

 known from India, even from Southern India, though none 

 have yet been recorded from Ceylon, and particularly from 

 the Malay Peninsula and its associated islands (Sumatra, 

 Java, and Borneo). 



In spite of their paucity in numbers the genera of the 

 Pyrochroidoe have been very generally misunderstood. Two 

 of them were founded upon North-American si)ccies 

 [Dendroides, Latr., and Schizutua, Newm.), and the nume- 

 rous Old-World species added to them later by European 

 authors are, without exception, wrongly placed, and would 

 be with better reason assigned to Pyruchroa. This genus is 

 thus left with by far the greater number of the described 

 species of the family, and forms a heterogeneous assortment 

 that may with advantage be split up into numerous sub- 

 genera, or, as I prefer to consider them, genera. 



Some attempt has already been made to this end ; thus we 

 have : — 



Hemidendroides, Ferrari (proposed as a subgenus of 

 Dendroides) , for his new spc'.i ledereri. 



