YIAGIGIO DI LEONARDO FEi 



IN BIRMANIA E REGIONI VICINE 



XLVIII. 



CLERIDAE 

 BY Rev. H. S. GORHAM 



The Cleridae of which I now give an account form part of 

 the collection made by Sign. L. Fea in Tenasserim, Burmah and 

 Pegu between the years 1885 and 1888. 



Burmah was first visited in 1885-86 (Shwegoo, Teinzò and 

 Bhamo) ; but by far the larger part were obtained in December 

 1888, when Sign. Fea spent some time in the Garin or Karen 

 mountains. Thagatà is a station on the Mooleyit Mountains in 

 Tenasserim, Sign. L. Fea was here in April of 1887. 



The number of Cleridae obtained perhaps surpasses any thing 

 of the kind done before by any one single collector , at least 

 in one district that of the Garin mountains, and the great pro- 

 portion of new species, and their beauty is very remarkable. 

 It is also necessary to characterize three new genera. Of these 

 Nodepus is very interesting, being as I think the equivalent of 

 Denops, in these regions, and quite new to me. Xenorthrius has 

 been known to me for some years by types of Wallace's and 

 Mouhot's collecting, but lias no described species so far as I 

 am aware. Neohydnus has been described as Hydnocera^ which 

 is a New- World genus; no doubt it is its equivalent, but is, 

 as might have been anticipated, essentially distinct. The species 

 here described as Pelonium are very perplexing, — I have no 



