360 Mr. F. P. Paseoe on nmm mm or litth-k-nown 



spot at some distance from the shoulders and towards the side, a band 

 behind the middle, and another at the apex white : antenna? short. 

 linear, unarmed ; legs of moderate length, femora not clavate : body 

 beneath black, nearly glabrous, the two basal segments- of the abdomen 

 with a white ?ilky fringe. Length 4 lines. 



This species will rank with the common European forms, par- 

 ticularly such as C. trifaseiatus. ri'Jicornis, Arc. It is one of Mr. 

 Anderson the African traveller s captures. 



Stct. Antenna breves, setacea?. Prothorax ovatus vel globoso-ovatus. 

 Femora haud clavata. 



Cl'/tus notabilis. 



C. elongatus, viridi-flavus : prothoraee nigro bhnaculato : ehi:ris apice 

 truncatis. fascia basali literam TV simulante, altera media angidata 

 maeulisque posticis duabus ornatis. 



Hub. Japan. 



Elongate, densely covered with pale-greenish-yellow hairs, and 

 spotted or marked with black : head small, quadrate in front : e yes. 

 mandibles, and palpi hom-colour; prothorax ovate, with two black 

 spots on the disk : scutelluin transverse, rounded behind : elytra sub- 

 parallel, obliquely truncate at the apex, a black V-shaped mark at the 

 base of each, which, barely meeting below the scutelluni, form together 

 a rude resemblance to the letter W, behind this there is another band 

 or blotch, zigzag or very strongly toothed, not extending to the side 

 or meeting at the suture, and midway between the latter and the apex 

 is a black irregular patch ; antenna? setaceous, unarmed, shorter than 

 the body, black, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs : legs slender. 

 elongate, black, with a thin yellowish pubescence, femora not clavate : 

 body beneath covered with greenish-yellow hairs. Length 8 lines. 



This fine Ciytus will come into the section that should also con- 

 tain such species as aamdaris, siynaticollis, Arc, I have not 

 adopted any of the genera of MM. Leconte. Chevrolat. and Thomson, 

 which they have proposed for comparatively a few of the members 

 of the old genus Ch/tus. The species generally comprised under this 

 name, although remarkably heterogeneous in many respects, are 

 connected by characters so intermediate, that it appears to me to be 

 impossible to fix any satisfactory limits to many of these groups. 

 As an example, the genus CyUene, Xewm., confined by M. Thomson, 

 as I think it should be, to C. nebulosus, is by M. Chevrolat (no mean 

 authority) made to include a number of North American species 

 also. Tike Feronia, which, after having been divided into some 

 thirty or forty genera by the Baron de Chaudoir, left a large sur- 

 plusage which could not be placed in any of them, so I believe it 



