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Iletica, Calospasta, Iselma, Phodaga, Eupompha), 6. Mylabrites 

 (Lydus, Alosimus, Oenas, Mylabrls, Cerocoma, Cephaloon, Sy- 

 baris, Rampholyssa, Diaphorocera, Cordylospasta). Beaure- 

 gard's work is epoch-making, more from its method and influ- 

 ence than from its actual conclusions however. He was the first 

 to base divisions on larval as well as adult characters and, while 

 his interpretations are not so important as his data, his mono- 

 graph is a foundation stone of a natural classification. 



Champion (Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1893) adopted the 

 following groups : i. Meloinae (Meloe, Henous, Cysteodemus, 

 Megetra), 2. Cantharinae, a. Horniides (Leonia), b. Horiides 

 (Horia), c. Nemognathides (Nemognatha, Gnathium, Zonitis), 

 d. Cantharides (Tetraonyx, Eupompha, Calospasta, Macroba- 

 sis, Gnathos pasta, Epicauta, Pyrota, Cant harts). 



Escherich (Bestimmungs-Tabelle der europaischen Coleop- 

 teren, 1897) proposed the following grouping: i. Meloidae 

 (s. str.), a. Meloini, b. Lyttini, 2. Zonitidae, a. Cephaloonini, 

 b. Zonitini. Escherich deserves the credit of being the first to 

 see that the family falls naturally into two great divisions, one 

 of which is typified by the genus Zonitis. 



Von Heyden, Reitter and Weise (Catalogus Coleopterorum 

 Europae, etc., 1906) put forth the following: i. Meloini 

 (Meloe, Proscarabaeus, Sitarobrachys), 2. Lyttini (sic)* (Ce~ 

 rocoma, Rampholyssa, Zonabris (Hycleus), Oenas, Calydus, 

 Lydus (Halosiinus), 3. Lyttini (Lytta (Teratolytta), Lago- 

 rina, Cabalia, Epicauta, Zonitis, Eusonitis, Cochliophorus, Ste- 

 nodera, Nemognatha, Leptopalpus, Hapalpus (Criolus), (Ste- 

 noria), Sitaris, Ctcnopus}. 



Ganglbaur (Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1907) modified 

 Escherich's (1897) idea as follows: i. Meloinae, a. Lyttini 

 (Epiacuta, Lytta, Lagorina, Cabalia, Lydus, Calydus, Oenas, 

 Mylabris, Cerocoma, Rampholyssa}, b. Meloini (Meloe, Sitaro- 

 brachys), 2. Zonitinae (Hapalus, Stenoria, Sitaris, Ctenopus, 

 Stenodera, Cochliophorus, Leptopalpus, Zonitis, Nemognatha}. 



Before presenting my own classification which lays stress 

 upon phytogeny, as against pure taxonomy, for a guiding 



*Probably a lapsus calami for Zonabrini. 



