Mr. J. 8. Baly on the Classification of the Eumolpide. 433 
XXIX.— Attempt at a Classification of the Kumolpide. 
By J. 8. Bary. 
(Continued from p. 163.) 
Subfamily II. Myocuroin 2. 
| Body apterous or winged, oblong or elongate, convex or subcylindrical, 
often flattened above, non- or but faintly metallic, clothed with ad- 
pressed scale-like hairs or scales. Thorax convex or flattened above, 
lateral surface forming a distinct angle with the disk, lateral border 
usually entire, sometimes replaced either by a row of irregular teeth, or 
by a toothed ridge; anterior episternwm always distinct. Antenne fili- 
form or subfiliform, basal joint short, incrassate ; eyes usually notched, 
rarely entire. lytra rarely (Dictyneis) soldered together along the 
suture, punctate-striate, or irregularly punctured, their surface some- 
times furnished with longitudinal rows of tubercles. Legs moderately 
robust; thighs usually unarmed beneath, rarely toothed; anterior tebie 
either simple or armed within just before the apex with a short spine 
or tooth; four hinder fidie usually simple, rarely notched at their 
apices; claws appendiculated or bifid. - Prosternum separated from its 
episterna by a distinct groove, the latter rarely obsolete. 
The present subfamily is of much smaller extent than the preced- 
ing, the insects composing it being, however, generally of a larger 
size; they are dull and sombre, although often possessing a faint 
metallic tinge, more especially on the elytra, in this as well as in 
some other characters approaching the third subfamily, the Bromiine, 
which are for the most part brilliantly metallic. The Myochroine 
differ from the Adoxine chiefly in the general habit, in the posses- 
sion of well-defined anterior episterna, and in the form of the thorax ; 
in the Adowine this part of the body is more or less cylindrical 
above, its lateral border obsolete, and its lateral surfaces usually 
forming with the disk the segment of a circle; in the Myochroine 
the disk always forms a distinct angle with the side portion or 
“ora”? of the thorax ; it is frequently (as in Myochrous) flattened in 
the middle, the lateral margins being always more or less distinctly 
developed; the claws in the great majority of the species are 
appendiculated, and not toothed or bifid as (on the contrary) is the 
case in nearly all the genera of Adoxime. Pachnephorus, by its 
notched hinder tibiz, as well as through habit and other characters, 
forms a strong connecting link between the present subfamily and the 
Typophorine ; in fact, for some time I hesitated in which of the two 
subfamilies I should place the genus ; lastly, the Myochroine, through 
the simple prosternum of Eryaia, are allied to the Bromine. 
