390 Mr. G. Lewis oa 
Hab. Satsuma (Leech). I took an example on Mitsudake, 
near Nagasaki, in April, and nine examples from the flowers 
of the wild rose at Hitoyoshi, 3rd May, 1881. This species 
appears to occur only in Kiushiu. The drawing shows a 
position the insect usually assumes when resting in flowers, 
Sericanta, Motschulsky. 
Sericunia, Motschulsky, Schrenck’s Reisen, p. 136 (1860), 
The characters of this genus are very similar to those of 
Serica ; I find no valid character except in the antenna of the 
male. Jive terminal joints are foliate (Motschulsky’s figure 
only contains four) ; the first leaflet is peculiar, being a shorter 
and more slender appendage than the others, and it rises from 
the base of a rather long joint, and this position separates it 
from the four terminal leaflets. ‘The compilers of the Munich 
Catalogue did not notice that Motschulsky, in a note of 
“errata” at the end of the volume of Schrenck’s ‘ Reisen,’ 
corrects the spelling of this genus. Sericarda is a misprint. 
Sericania mimica, sp. n. 
Elongata, piceo-rufa, nitida; capite rugose punctato, clypeo rufo- 
brunneo; thorace parum grosse punctato; elytris punctatis, 
punctis confluentibus. 
L. 9-11 mill. 
Elongate (outline similar to that figured for Pellaplonyx 
Aavidus, Waterh.), pitchy red, shining; the head roughly and 
densely punctate, clypeus reddish brown, outer edge more or 
less raised, head dark brown between the eyes; the thorax 
bisinuous anteriorly, transverse, narrowest in front, widest 
behind, evenly arched at the sides, lateral edges narrowly 
raised, base feebly sinuous on each side, punctate, points larger 
