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On new West- Indian Longicorn Coleoptera. 
that Fewkes meant to express his belief in Ludwig’s homology 
between the adambulacrals of a Starfish and the ambulacrals 
of the Sea-urchin. But if this be the case the only plates in 
the Urchin to which the name adambulacrals 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 him, 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, Muller and have since 
had a very definite meaning for nearly all students of Echino- 
derm s. 
II. — Notes on some West-Indian Longicorn Goleoptera , 
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 Solenopterinas, and may, to some extent, be regarded 
as a revision of that group. Outside of the Solenopterinse 
the following genera and species are referred to or described : — 
Stenodontes Chevrolati, sp. n. 
damicornis, Linn. 
exsertus, Oliv. 
capra, Dej. 
laevigatus, Beciuv. 
Mallodon bituberculatum, Beauv. 
Elapbidion mutatum, sp. n. 
tomentosum, C/ievr. 
Hormathus, g. n. (Ibidioninae). 
cinctellus, sp. n. 
Phryneta verrucosa, Drury = P. 
melanoptera, Thoms . 
Stenodontes Chevrolati , sp. n. 
S. damicorni verisimilis, sed differt capite subtus valdo rugoso-puuc- 
tato ; elytris nitidis, vix puuctulatis. 
llab. Cuba. 
* Compare Herouard, loc. cit. 
