Mr. Waterhouse on neiv species of Hoplia. 267 



white scales wliicli together form an a;, the spaces embraced by 

 these crescents appearing a httle darker than the rest of the 

 elytron ; below each shoulder there is a very small fuscous spot. 

 The anterior tibial are tridentate. The legs and posterior are 

 clothed with scales. 



Hab. Sarawak. Brit. Mus. 



Ifoplia squamneea^ White. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xiv. 1844, p. 424. 



" Head, thorax, elytra and podex covered with pale yellow 

 shining scales ; underside of body covered with similar but some- 

 what paler scales, those on the side with a pinkish hue. Legs 

 ferruginoiis, with sevei'al hoary scales and hairs." Length 3^ lin. 



Pitchy, densely clothed with pale greenish-golden not very 

 bright round scales, the scales not so densely packed as in the 

 preceding species, regularly and evenly convex. Thorax a little 

 narrower than the elytra, gently rounded at the sides, the base 

 with a slight mesial lobe. Elytra ^ longer than broad, evenly 

 convex, nearly straight at the sides, shoulders blunt and not at all 

 prominent, the sub-apical callosity very slightly visible. Legs 

 rather long, sparingly clothed with small narrow Avhitish scales ; 

 anterior tibiae tridentate ; tarsi without scales. 



Variety. Scales more silvery, tinged with jiink. 



Distinct from all the preceding by its more eA^enly convex 

 form, and l^y the absence of scales on the tarsi. 



Hab. Hong Kong (J. C. Bowring, Esq.). Brit. Mus. 



ITopVia squami(]era, Hope. 

 Gray's Zool. Miscell., 1830, p. 24. 



" Squamosa, corporo supra llavo-virescente, subtiisqne siib- 

 am-ato, til)iis anticis bidentahs." Long. 3^ lin. 



This species has more the form of an KctinohopUti, with 

 angular sides to the tliorax, and flat elytra. Thorax at the 

 widest part | tlie width of the elytra, a little l)i'oader than long, 

 convex, much narrowed in front and behind, the anterior angles 

 very acute and prominent, the sides strongly angular in the 

 middle, and gently sinuate Ijcliind the middle, the base regularly 



