282 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse on 
ance somewhat resembles Telephorus rujicollis, but with ex- 
cessively fine punctuation on the elytra. The male has the 
basal joint of the antenne large, inflated, somewhat globular, 
and shining; the second joint is rather short, linear; the third 
is nearly twice as long as the second; the following joints 
longer and more slender, slightly diminishing in thickness to 
the apex. The female has the antenne similarly constructed, 
except that the basal joint is normal. The anterior claw to 
all the tarsi is bifid at the apex in the male, simple in the 
female. 
I think this genus should be placed near Anisotelus, with 
which it agrees in having a large basal joint to the an- 
tenne (although of a different form), but from which it 
differs in, form and in not having the antenne enlarged 
at the apex, and widely separated at the base. In the 
Munich Catalogue Anisotelus, Hope* (Royle’s ‘ Himalaya,’ 
p. 55), is placed as a synonym of Zylocerus, a genus founded 
on a West-Indian insect. I think the two genera should be 
kept distinct, the males having the anterior claw to all the 
tarsi bifid in Andsotelus, and only the anterior claw of the 
front tarsi in Tylocerus. 
Spherarthrum preustum. 
1 believe that it is the female of the species in question 
which Guérin has described (Voy. Coquille, p. 75) under the 
name of Telephorus preustus, from New Guinea. ‘There are 
numerous specimens in the British-Museum collection from 
Dorey, Aru Islands, Batchian, Amboyna, and Mysol. 
The antenne are generally blackish, with the basal joint 
either black, reddish, or yellow. The head (except in one of 
the specimens from Batchian) is yellow. ‘The thorax is 
always yellow. ‘The elytra are yellow, with a little black at 
the apex, half black, or nearly all black, or blackish with the 
suture and margin yellow. The legs are yellow, with the 
tarsi dusky, except the female specimen from Batchian with 
the black head ; this has the legs black. The male example 
from Batchian has the head yellow (with a little dusky mark 
on the forehead), the elytra broadly margined at the suture 
and sides with yellow, and the legs yellow. 
A single female example. 
* It may be well to point out that the following species mentioned in 
afew words by Hope in Gray’s Zool. Miscell. p. 26, are omitted (perhaps 
purposely) from the Munich Catalogue :— Telephorus rubricollis, cyanurus, 
trimaculatus, unipunctatus, purpurascens, assimilis; Anisotelus lividus 
bispilotus. 
