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(Classification of the Coleoptera of North America, 1883) 

 adopted a scheme similar to Lacordaire's which has colored the 

 views of most American coleopterologists. In its final form 

 it consisted of: I. Meloini (Cysteodcmus, Megetra, Meloe, 

 Henons, Poreospasta} , II. Cantharini (i. Horiini, Horia, Tri- 

 crania), 2. Nemognathini (Nemognatha, Gnathium, Zonitis}, 



3. Sitarini (Hornia, Leonia}, 4. Mylabrini (Cordylospasta), 5. 

 Cantharini genuini (a. Macrobases, Macrobasis, b. Canthari- 

 des, Tctraonyx, Pleuropompha, Gnathospasta, Epicauta. Py- 

 rota, Pomphopoea, Cantharis, Calospasta, Tegrodera, c. Eu- ' 

 pomphae, Eupompha, d. Phodagae, Phodaga}. 



Fairmaire (Genere des Coleopteres d'Europe, 1863) has 

 arranged the family in this manner : I. Meloites, II. Cantha- 

 rites, i. Mylabrites (Cerocoma, Coryna, Mylabris}, 2. Cantha- 

 rites propres (Oenas, Lydus, Cabalia, Lytta, Lagorina, Can- 

 tharis), 3. Sitarites (Stcnodera, Hapalus, Sitaris, Ctenopus), 



4. Zonitites (Zonitis, Nemognatha, Lcptopalpus}. 

 Gemminger and Harold (Catalogus Coleopterorum, 1870) 



employed no subdivisions whatever in their arrangement of 

 the family. They accepted forty-two of the genera which had 

 been proposed, disposed in the following order: Meloc, No- 

 niaspis, Pseudomcloc, Cysteodemus, Henous, Gynaptcryx, Ho- 

 ria, Tricrania, Apteropasta, Cissites, RJiampJiolyssa, Cerocoma, 

 Diaphorocera, Coryna, Mylabris, Iletica, Tctraonyx, Jodcina, 

 Phodaga, Calospasta, Tegrodera, Eupompha, Cantharis, Spas- 

 tica, Oenas, Lydus, Halosimus, Sybaris, Cephaloon, Palaestra, 

 Tmcsidcra, Zonitis, Hapalus, Palaestrida, Sitaris, Sitarida, 

 Onychtenus, Goetymes, Ctenopus, Nemognatha, Gnathium. 



Beauregard (Les Insectes Vesicants, 1890) arrived at the 

 following classification : i. Zonitites (Nemognatha, Gnathium, 

 Zonitoides, Zonitis, Stenodera, Hapalus, Lcptopalpus), 2. Sita- 

 rites (Ctenopus, Onyctenus, Stenoria, Sitaris, Sitarida, Goety- 

 mes, Sitarobrachys, Hornia, Lconia], 3. Meloites (Meloc, 

 Pseudomeloe, Poreospasta, Megetra, Cysteodcmus, Nomaspis, 

 Gynapteryx}, 4. Cantharites, a. Horiides (Horia, Cissites, Tri- 

 crania), b. Cantharides (Tctraony.r, Spastica, Cantharis}, 5. 

 Lyttites (Henous, Aptcrospasta, Macrobasis, Epicauta, Pyrota, 



