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length, and often very short, so as not to extend beyond the 

 abdomen. The prothorax is rarely spined or toothed, and is 

 frequently not broader than the head ; the latter is more or less 

 quadrate in front, with the antennary tubers approximate at the 

 base, except in Euclcea, and a few other genera, and the eyes are 

 small and emarginate. The elytra are occasionally crested, but 

 in many cases these crests are simply expansions or elevations of 

 a carina or raised line, and have then no generic importance. 

 The abdomen has sometimes all the segments except the basal 

 one of equal length. But it is in the antennae that the most frequent 

 modifications of structure are met with. Sometimes they are entirely 

 plumose, at other times the plumosity is confined to one or more 

 particular joints, either surrounding them entirely or forming a 

 dense or a pectinated fringe beneath them. In many genera it is 

 difficult to detect the articulations of the terminal joints, but in 

 Clonioceinis the very reverse of this prevails, and each joint after 

 the fourth is drawn out on one or both sides at the tips. When 

 very short (and they are rarely longer than the body) it is owing 

 to the last seven joints heing unusually abbreviated. The scape 

 is not produced, and never scarred at the apex. 



The affinities of the ApomecynitKB are numerous. To the NIpho- 

 ni/ice they approach through Praunetlia on the one side and ^go- 

 mnnius on the other, while Diexia in the preceding sub-family might, 

 as I have already observed, have been equally well placed in this. 

 From such short-footed groups as the Phytoeciince and Oberelnce, 

 they may be distinguished by their simple claws, and from the Sa- 

 perdiiicB by the emargination of the intermediate tibiae. The Hip- 

 popsince have their antennae contiguous at the base ; this is never 

 the case with the Aponiecynince. It is scarcely necessary to observe 

 that none of the characters distinguishing secondary groups are 

 absolute. Here and elsewhere are ambiguous genera, whose posi- 

 tion, in the absence of any obvious affinity, depends on the import- 

 ance to be attached to certain points of structure. Perhaps the most 

 aberrant genera in the sub-family are Cloniocerus and Dcsmiphora, 

 but these are bridged by such forms as Apodusya, Atelodesmis, 

 Eupogonius, &c. But none of these belong to the Malay fauna. 



Albana and Steniden are the only European exponents of this 

 sub-family. Mycerinus (which although represented in Africa 

 and Australia has not been found by Mr. Wallace) and a few 

 other genera recently added to our lists represent it in Australia. 

 In America there are Agennopsis, Eupogonius, Phidola, Eudesmus, 

 Euprnmera, Hebestola, and many more. Africa contributes Tec- 

 tony Enaretta, Corniia. El'ithiotes, Cyvmlura, Sophronica, and 



