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Ant-Like Cerambycid Beetle 
99 
A NEW ANT-LIKE CERAMBYCID BEETLE 
FROM HONDURAS 
By W. S. Fisher 
Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department 
of Agriculture 
In nearly all of the later works on Cerambycidas the 
genus Eplophorus Chevrolat is placed as a synonym of 
Apelocera Chevrolat, but the former name seems to be 
valid and should be used for the species of this genus. Thom- 
son (Classif. Ceramb., 1860, p. 229), under the genus Tillo- 
morpha, gives lineoligera Blanchard as the typical species, 
and states that Tillomorpha spinicornis Chevrolat from 
Mexico and another species in his collection from Venezuela 
have the third joint of the antennae strongly spinose at the 
extremity, and should constitute a new genus, but he does 
not give it a new name. Chevrolat (Journ. Ent., vol. 1, 
1861, p. 248) quotes Thomson’s remarks on spinicornis, and 
states that he has proposed the name Eplophorus in a 
printed catalogue for this Mexican species. Chevrolat 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 2, 1862, p. 61) erects 
the genus Apelocera for a new species, waltli, from Brazil, 
also includes spinicornis, and in a footnote he says : “I pro- 
pose to give Apelocera to the insects which I previously 
placed in the genus Eplophorus (Journ. Ent., vol. 1, 1861, 
p. 248), as I abandon Eplophorus since the root of this 
genus has not proper significance.” In this same publica- 
tion (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 2, 1862, p. 535), 
Chevrolat writes Apilocera instead of Apelocera, and this 
name has been used by Pascoe (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 
ser. 3, vol. 5, 1866, p. 295), and also by Bates (Biol. Centr.- 
Amer., Coleopt., vol. 5, 1880, p. 60; 1885, p. 305). 
