80 e. J. GAHAN 



one or two undescribed species the individuals seem to vary 

 with regard to the length of the hairs or ciliae on the anten- 

 nae); the scape of the antennae has, at the inner apex, a nar- 

 row cicatrice bounded by a very fine edge. There is some trace 

 of a cicatrice in the same position in //. lineata, but in this 

 species I have not been able to detect a limiting carina. In the 

 present species also the apices of the elytra are somewhat more 

 distinctly truncate. Closely as this species resembles //. lineata, 

 its resemblance to a South African form (? //. subvirgala, Fairm.) 

 is scarcely less pronounced. The latter species has the same 

 general facies and style of coloration. The scape of its antennae 

 is also furnished with a very narrow smooth cicatrice, limited 

 by a sharp but very feeble carina. The apices of the elytra 

 are more obliquely truncate, becoming in fact sub-acuminate. 

 The most essential difference between the two species lies in 

 the presternum, which in the African species is not only nar- 

 rower between the coxae, but does not widen out to nearly so 

 great an extent posteriorly. 



Hippopsis tonkinea , Fairm., appears to be very much like 

 Hyllisia comimilis and probably belongs to the same genus. 



189. Smermus sericeus, sp. n. Fuscus, pube griseo-sei'icea, ely- 

 tris plagiali/il condensata, vestilus; prothorace vittis tribus fulvo- 

 griseo-sericeis; capite fronte sat dense^, vertice densissime punctato, 

 prothorace elgtrisque sat dense punctatis, his punctis panilo pone 

 medium evanescentibus, apicibus ut risque fere regular iter rotundatis, 

 corpore sublus pedibusque pube fulvo-grisea sericea sat uniformiter 

 denseque veslitis. Long. 15-17 mm. 



Garin Mts. (Gheba district) , alt. 300-1000 m. ; also Burma 

 (Brit. Mus. coll.). 



Though at first sight looking rather unlike Smermus Mnis- 

 zechi , Lac. — the type of the genus — there can be little 

 doubt that the true place of the present species is in this 

 genus , with which it agrees in all its chief structural chara- 

 cters. The prothorax is somewhat shorter and is more thickly 

 punctured than in Mniszechi. The elytra are each almost regu- 

 larly rounded at the apex. The length of the antennae in the 



