78 Psyche [September 
sidered his genera as subgenera ( Cyphoda and Serroderus) 
throughout, merely to avoid confusion. Three species had 
been previously recorded from Lebanon. In the present 
work two of these were re-discovered, and species pre- 
viously recorded from Egypt and Palestine were found. 
Along with one new species, this brings the total known 
from the area to six species. 
Cyphoderus genneserae Carpenter 
Cyphoderus genneserae Carpenter, 1913, Jour. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 
9:215 
This species is fairly widespread throughout the south- 
western Syrian Region. Handschin and Carpenter re- 
ported it from Palestine and the variation described by 
Handschin as “aethiopica” has been found in several 
regions in Central Africa. I have recovered the species 
from two localities: Litani River near the mouth on 
August 23, 1953 (Asfour and Salaymeh Coll.) and Ante- 
lias Stream Bank on November 9, 1952. Both of these 
localities are in the coastal plain of Lebanon and all of 
the specimens (about 25) agree with the descriptions and 
figures shown in Handschin, except in one startling re- 
spect: The presence of only two fringed scales in the 
inner row of dental scales. This characteristic places the 
species in the genus Serroderus of Delamare, although 
it lacks any hint of the gradation between scale and seta 
structure described as characteristic of the genus. The 
species of this genus which it most resembles is S. sub- 
limis and this species also lacks the above mentioned 
characteristics. In spite of the difficulty of separating 
the specimens at hand from the last mentioned species I 
feel that the exact detail for detail identity of the present 
form with the described genneserae leaves little doubt 
that the existence of only a single pair of internal scales 
is a local variation. This, of course, points up the neces- 
sity of revising the limitations of the genus Serroderus, 
but this is beyond the scope of the present paper. The 
only other modification of Handschin’s description is that 
in a few specimens the tenent hair can be seen to have a 
minutely clavate tip, visible only under the highest magnifi- 
