sot 



black, the fifth is waxj yellow, the sixth is yellow more or less 

 clouded but iiot exci?ed, the margins of this and of the fifth, as well 

 as of the apical segment are ciliated with pale hairs. I hâve only 

 seen the two female exaraples in my own collection. 



Subfam. Drilides. 



Selasia Laporte (Cast.), Silb. Rev. Ent. IV, p. 19. 



Selasia was founded by Laporte, Comte de Castelnau, upon a 

 species S. rJiipiceroides from Sénégal. Guérin Méneville has descri- 

 bed two others (Sp. et Icon. Anim. Art., fasc. II, n" 6) and has 

 given an excellent plate of «S*, rhipiceroides with détails f. 1 to 8, 

 as well as of his two species. One of thèse iS. decipiens Guér. is 

 from India, and differs (as it is said) in having the apex of the 

 maxillary palpi pointed instead of truncate. This forms West- 

 woods genus Euptilia; an examination of the Indian species, shows 

 me that this distinction is more imaginary than real, for the palpi 

 are in fact compressed at the tips so as to be quite flat, and are a 

 little truncate or obtuse. 



D' Gestro has described a new species from Somali and has given 

 a list of fîve species (Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2), XII, 1892, 

 p. 760), to which however must be added S. fulva Gorham, from 

 Abyssinia (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XVIII, 1883, p. 596). The females 

 of thèse insects are quite unknown. 



51. Selasia basalis n. sp. — Nigro-picea, antennarum arti- 

 culo primo ^ capite suhtus, in'othorace, elytrorum hasi indeter- 

 minate, pedihusqiie ftUms^ elytris substriatis hasi plicatis. — 

 Long. 7 millim. (^. 



Hab. India, Belgaum (Andrewes, August). 



Head black above, moiith and palpi and gular parts fulvous, 

 the crown shining, broadly impressed between the eyes and spa- 

 ringly pubescent; raandibles a little pitchy. Thorax shining, rich 

 fulvous, a little pubescent, with acute projecting hind-angles, a 

 few distinct, but very lightly impressed, scattered punctures are 

 visible. Elytra pitchy-black, their bases narrowly fulvous, and 

 this colour spreads over the shoulders and runs down the suture 

 in an ill-defined way, a few obsolète striae are very well marked 

 beyond the middle, and the base becomes piicate, the humérus 

 is more prominent and more shining than in S. decipiens^ but the 

 elytra are less pubescent. The metasternum and abdomen are black 

 and shining, the legs wholly fulvous. 



52. Hydaspes Andrewesi n.sp. — (^.Nigfo-fîisciis^nitidus, 

 tenmter puhescens ; capite^ protliomcQf pectore pedibîisque testaceo- 



