438 Mr.J.S. Baly on the Classification of the Kumolpide. 
Thorax scarcely longer than broad ; sides rounded, converging at base 
and apex; the fuscous scales on the surface are mixed with griseous 
scales, which form several ill-defined longitudinal rows, one more dis- 
tinct than the rest running down the middle of the disk. The scales 
on the elytra also have intermingled with them both griseous and 
darker fuscous scales, which form here and there ill-defined patches on 
the surface. 
Subfamily III. Bromrinaz. 
Body winged, broadly oblong-ovate or oblong, rarely elongate, very con- 
vex or subcylindrical, usually metallic, often brilliantly variegated with 
metallic colours, clothed above with coarse hairs. Head more or less 
deeply inserted in the body. Prosternum united in a single piece with 
its episterna, sutural grooves obsolete ; episterna always well defined. 
Thorax subcylindrical above, disk more or less convex, always forming 
an angle with the lateral portions of the thorax ; Jateral margin usually 
entire, rarely (Syricta) obsolete at the apex. Legs robust; thiyhs 
simple; ¢ibie thickened at their apices, intermediate pair usually 
notched. 
The Bromiine are more robust and of larger size than the majority 
of the species composing the two preceding subfamilies; many of 
the species are strikingly beautiful, they are usually metallic, and 
the pubescence on the upper surface of the body is composed of 
coarse, suberect or erect hairs, which contrast strongly with the 
adpressed scale-like covering in the Myochroine and in the greater 
number of the Adoxine*. From the Myochroine (Eryxia excepted) 
the present subfamily may be known by the absence of the sutural 
grooves between the prosternum and the anterior episterna; in form 
and size the Bromine closely resemble the Oorynodine, but they 
may be distinguished from that subfamily by the same character, viz. 
the absence of the prosternal grooves, also by the strongly marked 
pubescence of the upper surface of the body. 
The geographical distribution is very limited. Bromus is found 
in Siam and the Malay Islands, Lophea in Burmah, Acrothinium in 
Japan and Northern China, and Syricta in Southern Africa. 
Table of Genera. 
A. Claws bifid. 
1. Lateral border of thorax entire; club of an- 
fennm, five-jombted. ..'casissiisisieigee sae ni 1. Bromius. 
2. Lateral border of thorax obsolete in front; 
club of antennee six-jointed.............. 2. Syricta. 
* In some species of Bromius, in addition to the usual covering, are a number 
of decumbent, metallescent hairs, which form large patches on the surface. 
