70 ARRANGEMENT OF THE GEOPHTLID.E—rOOK. vol.xviii. 



large pores more or less concealed; anal pores present; genital palpi; 

 anal legs strongly crassate, six-jointed, witliont claw. Pairs of legs, 

 63-73 (87-91 in Mesocanthus). 



BALLOPHILUS, new genus. 



Type. — Bullopkilus clavicornis, Cook, new species, in the National Mu- 

 seum collection. 

 Distribution. — Upper Guinea. 



Genus MESOCANTHUS, Meinert. 

 MesocantliHs, Meinert, Nat. Tidsskr., VII, p. 34, 1870. 



Type. — Mesocaiithus albns, Meinert. 



Distributio7i. — Tunis. 



This genus is assigned to the present family provisionally, and tlie 

 family desciiption was not arranged to contain it. According to 

 Meinert's descri])tion and plates, tliere is great similarity with Ballo- 

 philus in the labrum. The mandibles are strikingly different from 

 those of Orya and Orphnwus, the other forms with several pectinate 

 lamella^, and the ventral pores are in a single area. Seliwanoff has 

 described a species with pleural pores. 



Genus T^^NIOLINUM, Poeock. 

 Ta'nioHnnm, POCOCK, Journ. Liuu. Soc, XXIV, p. 471, 1893. 



Type. — Tceniolinum setosion, Poeock. 

 Distribution. — St. Vincent. 



SCHENDYLID.55, new family. 



AntenuiP filiform; frontal lamina coalesced; cephalic lamina not con- 

 cealing the prehensors; prebasal lamina evident or concealed; basal 

 lamina narrow; labrum entire, free or coalesced; mandibles with one 

 pectinate and 1-3 dentate lamelhie; labial sternum entire, simple, or 

 with a])rocess; labial palpus two-jointed, with a process; interior labial 

 lirocessdistiiict or united with pal pus at base; maxillary sternum entire; 

 claw of maxillary i)alpus simple or pectinate; prehensorial sternum 

 moderately broad; chitinous lines present or wanting; suprascutella 

 wanting; ventral pores in a median area or wanting; anal pleurjie not 

 much inflated, with few or many pores; anal pores wanting; genital 

 palpi entire; anal legs five or six jointed, with or without claw. Pairs 

 of legs, 39-71. 



Genus SCHENDYLA, Bergsoe and Meinert. 



Schendyla, Bergsoe and Meixert, Xatuih. Tidsskr., IV, p. 103, 1866. 



Type. — Schendyla nemorensis (C. L. Koch).^ 



Distribution. — Europe; North Africa; Eastern North America. 



1 Deutschl. Crnst. \i. Myr., Hft. 9, t. 4, 1837. 



