250 Rev. H. S. Gorhara's descriptions oj 



Lemidia albofasciata, Thorns. G. & H. Cat. p. 1748. 

 „ cyanea, Thorns. G. & H. loc. cit. 

 „ dorsalis, Thorns. G. & H. loc. cit. 

 I have not seen these, but they belong without doubt to 

 Callimerus, Gorh., Cistula Ent. 1876, p. 64. 



Thomson recites the generic formula for Lemidia, but 

 points out the affinity with C. dulcis,Westw., in which the 

 eyes are deeply cut out. 



Lemidia carissima, Pascoe. Journ, of Ent, i. 48. 



A specimen of this in my collection has the sutural 

 angle of the elytra spined as in biaculeata, Westw. It is, 

 I suspect, the male. 



Lemidia hilaris, Newm. ZooL 1843, p. 119. [Clerus.] 



It is impossible to understand why Mr. Westwood 

 suppressed this name in favour of a new one of his own 

 coralliyennis (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1852, p. 47), unless it 

 was that he conceived it clashed with Tillus hilaris, 

 AVhite, Cler. App. p. 48. In that case, it was hilaris 

 (Westw.), White, that should sink, Newman's hilaris 

 being six years older. The two insects belong to diffei'ent 

 genera (see ante, p. 62), the present insect being, accord- 

 ing to the type in Major Parry's collection, a true 

 Lemidia. It may be convenient to observe here, that the 

 species described by White in the Museum Catalogue, 

 1849, must be referred to that author, though Mr. West- 

 wood has appropriated the authorship of them in his later 

 descriptions and plates (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1852). Also 

 that, in the latter place, they are not referred to genera 

 Avhich had then been characterized, except in a very 

 speculative and misleading manner. 



Dr. Le Conte's- prefatory remarks ( Synopsis of the Cle- 

 ridfB, Ann. Lye. of Nat. Hist., New York, 1849, v. 9—35) 

 on the inconvenience of descriptions, without reference to 

 the work of preceding authors, was surely prophetic. 

 "Considering the rapidity with which unknown species 

 — too likely in most cases to remain unknown — are named 

 and diagnosed * pour prendre date,' want of zeal is hot to 

 be numbered among the faults" of succeeding authors. 



Lemidia inanis, Germ. = Metahasis accinctus, Newm. 

 [Thanasimus], Cistula loc. cit., p. 75. 



