On new West-Indian Lonyicorn Coleoptera. 23 



that Fewkes meant to express his belief in Ludwig's liomology 

 between the adamhulacrals of a Starfish and the amhulacrals 

 of tlie Sea-urcliin. But if this be the case the only plates in 

 the Urchin to which the name adamhulacrals can properly be 

 applied are those generally known as ambulacrals. Why, 

 then, does Fewkes repeatedly use it for the interambulacrals ? 

 He implies that other authors have done so before liim, but 

 gives no references ; and, so far as I can make out, there are 

 none to be found. 



This is not the first occasion on which I have had to 

 comment on the looseness of Fewkes's Echinoderm termin- 

 ology and the confusion resulting therefrom. It is much to 

 be regretted that when he took up a branch of zoology diffe- 

 rent from that in which he has gained a well-merited reputa- 

 tion he did not make himself better acquainted with its 

 nomenclature, and thus enable his readers properly to appre- 

 ciate the value of his observations and of the conclusions 

 which he has drawn from them ■^. As it is, however, one is 

 constantly perplexed by his vague and inaccurate use of 

 terms which were clearly defined by Miiller and have since 

 had a very definite meaning for nearly all students of Echino- 

 derms. 



II. — Notes on some West-Indian Longicorn Coleoptera^ 

 with Descriptions of new Genera and Species, By 0. J. 

 Gahan, M.A. 



These notes chiefly refer to genera and species of Lacordaire's 

 group Solenopterinte, and may, to some extent, be regarded 

 as a revision of that group. Outside of the Solenopterinae 

 the following genera and species are referred to or described : — 



Stenodontes Chevrolati, sp. n. Elapbidion mutatum, sp. n. 



damicornis, Limi. tomentosum, Chew. 



■ exsertus, Oliv. Honnatlius, g. n. (IbidioniiicTe). 



capra, Bej. cinctellus, sp. n. 



IjBvigatus, Beauv. Plnyneta verrucosa, Drunj = P. 



Mallodon bituberculatum, Beauv. melanoptera, Thorns, 



Stenodontes Che.vrolati, sp. n. 

 /S'. damiconii verisimilis, sed diftert capite subtus valdo rugoso-puuc- 

 tato ; elytris uifcidis, vix puiictulatis. 



Hah. Cuba. 



* Compare Il^roiiard, luc. cit. 



