256 CEEAMBYCID^. 



Lenr/th 9-12 : breadth 2k-3 mm. 



Hah. Upper Burma : Euby Mines district (DoJierti/), Xorth 

 Chin Hills ( Watson) ; Java. 



201. PerissuS persimilis, Gahan, Ann. 3In.s. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, p. 23 



(1894). 



This species has a considerable x'esemblance to P. Icetus, Lameere, 

 but differs from it by the following characters : — Prothorax more 

 cylindrical, not bulging out at the sides, without a black transverse 

 space above. Scutellum entirely covered with ashy-grey pubes- 

 cence- The second baud on the elytra begins a little behind the 

 scutellum, diverges more widely from the suture as it passes 

 backwards, then curves round, and reaches the outer margin 

 without undergoing a second bend. 



Levgth 8 mm. 



Bab. Tenasserim : Thagata (Fea). 



292. Perissus nilgiriensis, sp. n. 



Black ; head and prothorax faintly covered with greyish pubes- 

 cence. Elytra dull black, tomentose, with four bands of ashy-grey 

 pubescence — the first band extends transversely at the base for a 

 short distance from the scutellum, which also is ashy grey in 

 colour ; the second band begins at the suture a little behind the 

 scutellum, curves backwards to the middle of the disc, which it 

 reaches at about one-third from the base, and then bends round so 

 as to run obliquely towards the outer margin ; the third band is 

 placed transversely at a short distance behind the middle, and 

 gradually widens out towards the suture ; the fourth band is at 

 the apex. Body beneath ashy grey, whitish at the sides of the 

 metathorax and abdomen, with a white spot on the mesotho- 

 racic episterna. Antennae slightly longer than half the body in 

 the 2 5 extending to the apical fourth of the elytra in the d" ; last 

 seven joints a little dilated. Prothorax subcyliudrical, narrowed 

 at base, scarcely narrowed in front, almost as broad as the elytra ; 

 the disc strongly but somewhat sparsely asperate, subglabrous 

 along the middle. The hind femora extend past the apex of the 

 elytra by a third of their length in the d . First joint of hind 

 tarsi more than twice the length of the second and third united. 



Length 7-8 ; breadth 2 mm. 



Bab. Southern India : Nilgiri Hills {Sir G. F. Hamjison). 



293. Perissus niutabilis, Gahan, Ann. Mas. Civ. Gmovn, xxxiv, p. 23 



(1894). 



Head and prothorax varies in colour from ferruginous red to 

 black, faintly covered with greyish pubescence, the prothorax with 

 a transverse subnude space on the middle of the disc, the basal 



