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6 CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUBFAMILY CRYPHALINA, 
The classification of the subfamily Cryphaline, as here defined, is 
based almost entirely on a first-hand study of the material repre- | 
sented in the collections of the United States National Museum and | 
the Le Conte collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
The genera and species included in the classification which have | 
not been seen by the writer are indicated by angles (<) and are 
_ provisionally placed on evidence found in the descriptions. The 
names not in angles and not followed by reference to a page are of | 
described species represented in the collections. The names with | 
page references are new, except when followed by the author’s name. 
The collection also includes considerable new material from the in- | 
sect collection of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Sciences, | 
Manila, Philippine Islands, collected by Mr. J. L. Webb, under the | 
general instructions of the writer.1 | 
The descriptions of new genera are based on the type species and 
the descriptions of new species are based on individual types, but in | 
the case of a number of the genera many species, and in the case of | 
some species many hundreds of specimens, have been studied. | 
Revised descriptions of described genera are included in cases | 
where new species are added and, so far as possible, are based on the | 
type species as identified by the writer. If the type species is not 
available, its nearest ally is utilized. 
With this method of basing specific and generic diagnoses on an 
individual type, allowance must be made for a reasonable limit in the 
range of variation from the type, which should be brought out (as in 
Technical Series No. 17, Part I, of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture) whenever a species or genus is discussed 
in a more comprehensive manner. 
The manuscript of this paper was completed and submitted for 
publication in January, 1913, and only includes references to species 
and genera described to January 1, 1913. 
1¥For references to other collections. acknowledgments, explanation of abbreviations, etc., see preface 
and introduction to Parts I and II, Technical Series, No. 17, Bureau of Entomology, United States De- 
partment of Agriculture. 
