Mr. J.S. Baly on the Classification of the Eumolpide. 155 
This genus has so many distinctive characters that it cannot 
possibly be confounded with Nephrella, the only other possessing 
reniform eyes. 
The species are all natives of Brazil. 
Genus Nepuretia, Baly. 
Body elongate, subcylindrical, covered above and beneath with coarse 
adpressed hairs. Head exserted, perpendicular ; antenne moderately 
robust, subfiliform, first joint incrassate, second shorter than the first, 
subincrassate, third half as long again as the second, fourth and two 
following each rather longer than the third, equal, seventh to the 
eleventh shorter, subequal; cyes large, elongate, reniform, subpro- 
minent; mentum with its anterior margin concave; terminal joint of 
maxillary palpi ovate, of the labial lanceolate. Thorax subcylindrical, 
lateral border obsolete. lytra broader than the thorax, parallel, 
closely punctured. Legs short, moderately robust; theghs subincrassate, 
unarmed beneath; the hinder pair much shorter than the abdomen ; 
basal joint of tarsi rather shorter than the two following united; claws 
bifid. Prosternum narrow, elongate, its anterior margin continuous 
with that of the episternum. Mesosternwm subelongate, its apical half 
dilated, the apex itself truncate. 
Type, Nephrella elongata, Baly. Ceylon. 
The narrow elongate body, conjoined with the reniform eyes, 
serve to distinguish Nephrella from its congeners. The genus only 
contains a single species, peculiar to Ceylon. 
Nephrella elongata, Baly. 
N. elongate, parallel, subcylindrical, dark fuscous, subnitidous, clothed 
with coarse bright fulvous hairs; stomata, abdomen and legs fulvous, 
tibize piceous ; antennee black, their base fulvous; breast and base of 
abdomen pale piceous.—Long 23 lin. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
Head and thorax closely covered with coarse adpressed hairs; thorax 
cylindrical, rather broader than long, its sides nearly straight, surface 
not very deeply punctured. Elytra finely punctured, their surface in- 
distinctly wrinkled, clothed with similar hairs to those of the head 
and thorax. Abdomen more sparingly covered with hairs than the 
rest of the body. 
Genus Hasropnora, Erichs. 
Consp. Faun. Peruy. p. 163. 
Body elongate or subelongate, subcylindrical, clothed above and beneath 
with adpressed hairs. Head strongly exserted, face perpendicular ; 
antenne slender, filiform, nearly equal to the body in length, first joint 
