202 Mr. C. J. Galian on the 



able from the Indian species known as testacea, Fab., — that 

 it was, if I may so put it, testacea, Fab. {Li/mexylon), on the 

 male side and testacea, Fab. (Iloria) , on the female side. 



Cissitcs macrognatha, Fairm. [Horin), from West Africa, 

 is probably also identical with testacea, Fab. It was described 

 from a male, but the author evidently assumed that the 

 so-called male of senegalensis, (jasteln., with the characters of 

 which he compared it, was actually a male. 



Four other African species referable to the genus Gissites 

 have been described, and it is possible that one or more of 

 these will turn out to be the same as testacea, Fab. In the 

 British Museum collection there are specimens from Cape 

 Colony that I cannot distinguish specifically from testacea. 

 Tiiey do not, however, agree exactly with the description of 

 hottentota given by Peringuey. I suspect, nevertheless, that 

 Peringuey^s species is tiie same. 



As I have seen no specimens of d'ssites from East Africa, 

 I can express no opinion as to the validity of Kolbe's species 

 fischeri. Gerstaecker considered a female specimen from 

 East Africa to belong to the species ce'phalotes, Oliv. 



Only two species of Gissites from the Oriental Region have 

 been described — one tiie maxillosa of Fab., the other anguli- 

 ceps, Fairm. ; and I strongly suspect that the second was 

 founded upon the female of the first. 



The African and Oriental species of Gissites possess in 

 common two characters of considerable importance which 

 distinguish them from the American species, and I propose 

 therefore to place them in a distinct subgenus, to whicli the 

 name Synhoria, Kolbe, may be applied. The distinguishing 

 characters are as follows : — 



Eyes smooth and very glossy. The episterna of the meso- 

 thorax do not meet in front of the mesosternum or meet 

 only at a point Cissites. 



Eyes coarsely granulated and dull. The episterna of the 

 mesothorax meet in the middle line and form a suture of 

 some length in front of the mesosternum Synhoria. 



Genus HORIA, 



' Horia, Fab. INlant. Ins. i. p. 164 (1787) ; Latr. Nouv. Dict.d'Hist. Nat. 

 xxiv. p. 154 (1804) ; id. Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins. x. p. 364 (1804) ; 

 Oliv. et Latr. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. n. edit. xv. p. 291 (1817) ; 

 Kolbe, Dent. Ost-Afrika, iv. Coleopt. p. 256 (1897) ; Champion, SuppJ. 

 List Cantharida?, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1899, p. 156, 

 Cissites, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. ii. p. 211 (1807) ; id. Cuvier, Regne 

 Anim. n. edit. v. p. 60 (1829) ; Casteln. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 280 (1840) ; 

 Lacord. Gen. Col6opt. v. p. 663 (1859) ; Gemm. et Har. Cat. p. 2130 

 (1870) ; Beauregard, Les Insectes Vesicants, pp. 416 & 486 (1890). 



