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and Cyphaleus under the heading " Prosternum not prolonged or 

 compressed." All the species known to me (the majority of the 

 described species) have the prosternum strongly compressed, as 

 stated by Lacordaire and Westwood. In the new Catalogue of 

 Junk, Herr Gebien has included Ephidonius Pasc, in this sub- 

 family, but the strongly exserted head, with its broad front, its 

 small widely separated eyes, its long tibial spurs, and differently 

 clothed tarsi, inter multa alia, separate it so widely from the 

 other genera of the Cyphaleinre, that it cannot be so included. 

 Both Ephidonius and Brises, as Hates remarks, (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 London, 1872, p. 280) occupy an uncertain position. The dis- 

 tinction between "epipleune entire" and " epipleurse abruptly 

 narrowed behind," is a very untrustworthy character for dis- 

 tinguishing some of the genera in Pascoe's Table, and the author 

 has included under Prophanes only those species which have the 

 more strongly characteristic spinose prothorax and elytral apex. 

 Oremasis, Cyclophanes and Prophanes have abruptly terminated 

 epipleune clearly defined, while Chartopleryx, Cyphaleus, Mozrodes, 

 Anausis and others have it to a modified extent. Pascoe's classi- 

 fication was published in 1869; the following tabulations of 

 genera and species include those since added by Haag-Rutenberg, 

 Bates, Lea, Blackburn, and the author. 



Since writing the above, the author has received a number of 

 specimens from the British Museum, that have been compared 

 with types, or otherwise identified, together with some valuable 

 notes on the types by Mr. K. G. Blair. Thus on Apomestris, 

 Mr. Blair writes: "The genus does not seem to me really distinct 

 from Altes, which also has the anterior femora with a similar 

 tooth, though the hind femora are plain. The sculpture is the 

 same in both, and there is the same indistinct ridge from the 

 humerus to the tip of the elytra." 



Mozrodes westwoodi Mac!.— There seems to be a strong pre- 

 sumption that this is identical with Prophanes acideatus Westw., 

 the type of the genus Prophanes. Four specimens sent by the 

 British Museum include one, named by Pascoe as P. aculeatus. 

 If this synonymy be maintained, the genus Moerodes must be 

 sunk. Unfortunately the type of P. aculeatus is in the Melly 



