COLEOPTERA. 287 
(p. 254), Dorcadidides (p. 257), Parm6nides (p. 2G3), MonHUmides (p. 279), 
Dorcadionides vrais (p. 281), Phantasides (p. 285). 
Tho Lamiides vraies are again separated into two divisions, the first having 
the scape of the antenna cicatrized at its apex, which is simple in the second. 
The first division is completed in the part now under consideration, and is 
composed of two sections : A, comprising the groups Morimopsides (p. 289), 
Phrissomides (p. 290), and Lamiides vraies (p. 293) ; and JB, comprising the 
MonoJiammides (p. 299), Agniides (p. 340), Batocerides (p. 363), Gnomides 
(p. 3G3), Mesosides (p. 3G7), Mdtonides (p. 387), Ancylonotidcs (p. 391), Pro-, 
sopocerides (p. 39G), and Sternotomides (p. 401). 
Prionides. 
Pascoe (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd series, vol. iii. pp. 660- 
680, plates 23 and 24) completes his " Longicoriiia Malayana ** 
by describing the Prionides, which he arranges after Lacordaire^s 
method (except that tlie positions of that family and of the La- 
miades arc inverted, Pascoe having commenced with tlie latter, 
with which Lacordairc ends, before the publication of the vols. 
of the ^ Genera^ relating to the Longicornia). Nevertheless, the 
author considers Thomson's arrangement the more natural of 
the two, and would exclude such forms as Hypocephalus, Pa- 
randra, &c. from the Longicornia. He takes objection (p. 660, 
note) to Lacordaire^s dichotomous terms. 
None of Lacordaire^s first Legion,^’ Prionides aberrants, or 
of the first Cohort’^ {Prionides vrais souterrains) of his second 
“ Legion,^^ Prionides vrais, appear as yet to have been recorded 
from the Malayan Archipelago ; and Pascoe has only to treat of 
nine subfamilies (groupes) oufc^of the 27 contained in the second 
Cohort,” Prionides vrais sylvains : these he tabulates after 
Lacordaire, noting that the characters are taken exclusively 
from the male. 
Pascoe {1. c. p. 671) remarks upon the insufficiency of the absence of den- 
ticulations or other asperities on the legs to distinguish tho Mallodontides 
from tho Remphanides x ho observes that such a character, even as specific, 
must be received with caution. 
Pascoe (/. c.) figures : — Xaiirus depsarius (Pasc.), pi. xxiii. fig. 3 ; Zarax 
curypodnides (Pasc.), pi. xxiv. fig. 3; Omatagiis lacordairii (Pasc.), pi. xxiii. 
fig. 1 j Sarmydtis antennatus (Pasc.), pi. xxiv. fig. 2. 
H. W. Bates (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, April, pp. 37-58), 
in a memoir professedly continuing his papers in Ann. & Mag. 
of Nat. Hist. 1861, on the Lamiades of the Amazons, describes 
the genera and species of the Prionides found by him in that 
region. He adopts Lacordaire’s classification, which (without 
believing it to be entirely natural) he recognizes as superior to 
his own or any other classification applicable only to a single 
fauna. Having traced the successive modification of forms 
allied to the Lepturides, he admits Lacordaire^’s correctness in 
sinking that group as subordinate to the Cerambycides, and the 
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