New System of Chalininas. 333 ' 



The close relationship between the Chalininse and Renie- 

 rinse is now fully demonstrated, and if further proof were 

 needed I think 1 may fairly claim to have given it in my 

 recent papers on the West-Indian Chalininse '^ and on Pachy- 

 cJialina spinosi'ssima f. Indeed the distinction between the 

 two groups is an arbitrary one and of a quantitative rather 

 than a qualitative character. Hence the two are united 

 together in one family under the name Homorrhaphidse, and I 

 still think that the family Homorrhaphidee, as constituted by 

 Mr, Ridley and myself, is a fairly natural one ; but it would 

 certainly no longer be so were we to include therein the 

 genera Gelliodes and Toxochalina \. 



It would be too long and too difficult a task to offer in this 

 place any detailed criticism of Dr. von Lendenfeld's arrangement 

 of his Ohalininse ; but for the information of the reader I 

 will briefly give the classification of the group proposed by 

 him. For diagnoses of the different subdivisions the reader 

 is referred to the original memoir. 



Subfamilia CHALININ^. 

 1. Tribus C h a l i n i n ^ b e t i c u l a x iE. 



I. Grnppe Cacochalinin^. 



1. Geaus Cacochalina, 0. Schmidt, 1870. 



2. „ Chalinopora, n. g. 



3. „ Cladochalina, 0. Schmidt; 1870, emend. 



4. „ Chalinella, n. g. 



II. Gruppe Pachychalinin-S!. 



5. Genus Chalinissa, n. g. 



6. „ Paehychalina, O. Schmidt, 1868, emend. 



7. „ Ceraochalina, n. g. 



8. „ Chalinopsis, O. Schmidt, 1870. 



III. Gruppe Placochalinin^. 



9. Genus Anther ocTialina, n. g. 



10. „ Euplacella, u. g. 



11. „ Placochalina, n. g. 



12. „ Platychalina, Ehlers, 1870. 



IV. Gruppe GELLioDiNiE. 



13. Geuus Gelliodes, Ridley, 1884. 



14. „ Spirophora, n. g. 



* Abstracted in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 603. 



t Loc. cit. p. 524. 



X I take these as examples. Dr. von Lendenfeld also includes other 

 genera, such as Spirophora, n. g. (= Trachxjeladus, Carter), which, in my 

 opinion, have no business in the group. 



