442 Mr. J.8. Baly on the Classification of the Kumolpide. 
. guiculi appendiculated. Prosternwm united with its episterna ina single 
plece ; episternum wedge-shaped. 
Type, Lophea melancholica, Baly. Birmah. 
Lophea may be known from Bromius by its appendiculated claws ; 
from Acrothinium by the metallic colour and shorter form of the 
latter genus, by the different relative lengths of the basal joints of 
the antenne, and, lastly, by the different shape of the tarsal joints. 
In Lophea the third joint is distinctly broader than the first, the 
second being closely articulated with the third, the two conjointly 
being heart-shaped; in Acrothinium, on the other hand, the three 
joints are of equal width, the second being at the same time less 
closely articulated with the third. 
The species on which I have founded the genus has been recently 
received from Birmah. I have only seen two specimens, both now 
in my own collection. 
Lophea melancholica, Baly. 
L. elongate, parallel, subcylindrical, black or bluish black, subnitidous, 
clothed with suberect griseous hairs ; thorax and elytra coarsely punc- 
tured.—Long. 5 lin. 
Hab. Birmah. 
Head rugose; front impressed with a longitudinal groove ; epistome 
transverse, its anterior margin slightly concave; antennze two-thirds 
the length of the body, their five upper joints compressed, slightly 
dilated, scarcely forming a club. Thorax about a third broader than 
long, very convex on the disk; sides parallel and sinuate posteriorly, 
converging in front, anterior and posterior angles acute; surface coarsely 
punctured (in one of the two specimens that I possess a short, smooth, 
raised longitudinal line runs along the middle of the disk). Seutellum 
semiovate, smooth, concave. Elytra much broader than the thorax, 
parallel, their apex broadly rounded ; upper surface subcylindrical, ob- 
soletely impressed below the basilar space, coarsely punctured, clothed 
like the rest of the body with coarse griseous hairs. Legs robust; all 
the tibize dilated externally at their apices. Breast and abdomen more 
finely punctured than the upper surface of the body, clothed with 
silvery pubescence. 
My two specimens differ slightly in colour, one is entirely black, 
the other has a faint bluish tint ; in their dull sombre hue they pre- 
sent a strong contrast to the majority of the species belonging to the 
present subfamily, which are for the most part brilliantly metallic. 
CoRRIGENDA. 
Page 147, note, for Heteraspine, read Myochroine. 
