418 Rev. H. S. Gorham's descriptions of 



testaceum {Buquet), increases the confusion of synonymy, 

 the latter name being akeady used by Klug, Moii. p. 367, 

 for a distinct species. I propose the name Klugii for it. 



Pelonium pustuliferum, Westwood [Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1852, 52, pi. xxiv. fig. 8]. However mucli|species from the 

 East may resemble the species of the present genus, their 

 differences will always, we may be sure, justify their sepa- 

 ration generically. 



The present species is identical with Mr. Pascoe's 

 Pliymatophoea electa (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Plist. 1876, 

 p. 50), with which Mr. Sharp associating opiloides, Pascoe, 

 loc. cit. p. 51, describes as new two other species — hilar is, 

 Sharp, longula. Sharp. See Ent. Mo. Mag. [1877, xiv. 

 pp. 7, 8], and Gorh. Notes on Clerid^ [Cist. Ent. 1876, 

 p. 89]. 



Chevrolat has proposed a genus, Tarandocerus, for 

 those species of Pelonium which have the antennae of the 

 males with the three terminal joints longer than in the 

 females, and overlapping each other, including as well 

 Platynoptera lycoides as Chariessa pilosa. Apart from 

 the doubtful advantage of dissociating lycoides, Spin., 

 from the Platynoptercs, pilosum being the first of the 

 described species mentioned by Spinola, becomes, in lieu 

 of any other being indicated, the type of Pelonium. 



Pelonium semivittatum, Chev. Mem. 1876, p. 37 = P. 

 helopioides, Cast. 



Pelonium centromaculatum, Chev. Mem. 1876, p. 40. 

 Distinguished by the colour of the prothorax, which is 

 yellow, and by its finer punctuation, and by the black 

 antennse from humerale, Spin. It is very variable in the 

 colour of the elytra and head, and somewhat so in that of 

 the antennge. In a small series found by Mr. Fry at Hio 

 one has the head entirely yellow, the apex of the elytra is, 

 however, constantly pale. 



Pelonium marginipenne, Chev. Mem. 1876, p. 40. 

 This does not equal P. marginipenne. Spin. i. p. 363 ; 

 if I am right in referring a specimen in Mr. Fry's col- 

 lection to Chevrolat's species, it is, I believe, only a 

 variety of centromaculatum with the elytra nearly black. 



Pelonium humerale, Spin. i. 366, G. and H. Cat. 

 1754 =^ P. vitticeps, Blancliard, sec. Fry. 



