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ZOOLOGICAL LITEKATUUE. 
Ance&thetiteSy AgapanthiteSy Super ditesy PhytceciiteSy and is not completed in the 
last livi’aison which the Recorder has had the opportunity of seeing. 
Thomson (Syst. Ceramb. pp. 310-321) refers to certain forms 
of Beetles which have usually been placed with the Longicorns, 
although their title to such a position appears, in some respects, 
problematical. Of these the genera ThaumasuSy Erichsonia, and 
Parandra have the strongest Cerarnbycidan affinities, and may, 
without much violence, be regarded as aberrant members of that 
family ; but the others, namely Trictenotomay Anoplo derma y and 
Hypocephalus, with their allies, present greater difficulties, and 
depart so widely from the type of the true Cerambycidse, that 
M. Thomson is perhaps justified in founding distinct families for 
their reception. He gives the following table of the distinctive 
characters of these six groups : — 
(Tarsi tetrameri, artic. 3“^ bilobatus vel profunde lunatus. 
Cerambycidce). 
I. Tarsi tetrameri, artic. 3"® simpliciter lunatus. 
* Prothorax later, immarginatus j coxae anticse subtransversae j palpi 
breves j corpus elongatum, cylindricum , ant. breviss. j mand. parvae ; 
max. valde bilobatae j abd. elongatum j tibiae fere cjdindricae j tarsi 
vix scopigeri Thaumasidce. 
t Prothorax later, marginatus j coxae anticae transversae. 
a. Palpi breves j caput 4-carinatum j ant. breves j mand. parvae ; 
max. unilobatae , abd. subelongatum j tibiae apice dilatatae ) tarsi 
vix scopigeri Erichsonidce. 
b. Palpi elongati j corpus depressum, parallelum ; ant. breves ; <5“ 
mand. magnae horizontales j max. unilobatae ; abd. breve ; tibiae 
apice dilatatae ; tarsi fere scopigeri Parandridce. 
II. Tarsi vel heteromeriy vel tetrameriy vel pentameriy art. 3“® subinteger vel 
integer. 
* Corpus subdepressum; ant. art. 1 ® elongatus, art. 9®, 10<>, et 11® apice 
valde dentatis j ^ mand. magnae, horizontales j max. valde bilobatm j 
abd. subelongatum ; tibiae cylindricae \ tarsi heteromeriy fere scopigeri, 
artic. 3"‘‘‘ integer Trictenotomidce. 
t Corpus convexum j ant. breves, extus serratae ; mand. subverticales j 
max. unilobatae j tibiae dilatatae j tarsi tetrameriy vix scopigeri, art. 
3“* subinteger Anoplodermidce. 
f Corpus convexum j ant. breves, moniliformes j mand. magnae subtus 
ductae j max. fere unilobatae \ prothorax maximus ; abd. breve j pedes 
postici robustissimi, dilatati ; tibiae dilatatae extus dentatae , tarsi 
pentameriy nec scopigeri, art. 3“* interger Ilypocephalidce. 
Notes on known genera and species :■ — 
Pascoe (Journ. of Entom. ii. p. 245) has some remarks upon 
the genera which have been formed by the dismemberment of 
the old genus Clytus, with especial reference to the Australian 
species. He seems to think that these genera are ratlier iude- 
