36*6 NEW SPECIES OF POPILLIA. 



tenor transverse band more or less interrupted or broken into spots, (in the 

 specimen before me four distinct spots supply the place of the band), a me- 

 dian transverse flexuose band, ancl a broad apical band, in which, on each 

 elytron, is a minute yellow spot ; the podex is nigro-aeneous, with a central 

 longitudinal yellow line; the legs have a mutable metallic lustre, the fe- 

 mora being margined and tipped with yellow ; the produced mesosternum is 

 yellow, the metasternum has two somewhat triangular yellow spots ; the 

 underside of the abdomen has various yellow markings. 



Inhabits Assam. There are several specimens in Mr. 

 Solly's cabinet. 



Popillia gemma, Newman. 

 Antennae testaceae ; caput, prothorax, et scutellum caprea ; elytra 

 puncto-striata, testacea, regione suturali pallidiori ; podex cupreus, 

 pilis albis bisignatus; pedes testacei fulgore cupreo nitidi. (Corp. 

 long. .425 unc. lat. .25 unc.) 

 Colour. — Antenna testaceous ; head, prothorax, and scutellum brilliant 

 copper-coloured ; elytra testaceous, with a tint of copper colour, the region 

 of the scutellum being paler ; the podex is brilliantly copper-coloured, and 

 has two rather diffuse spots composed of white hairs ; the legs are testace- 

 ous with a varying metallic lustre. Sculpture. — Head thickly punctured ; 

 prothorax punctured throughout, but posteriorly, near the scutellum, the 

 punctures are less obvious ; the scutellum is very sparingly punctured ; the 

 elytra are punctato- striate. 



Inhabits Assam. In the cabinet of Mr. Solly. 



Genus. — Paracrvsis, Newman. 

 E Popillid celeberrimi Leach mesosterno mutico nullo modo porrecto 

 plane differt ; elytra quoque convexiora, figura omnino globosior. 



This genus, in the structure of its antenna, instrumenta 

 clbaria, &c, nearly agrees with Popillia of Leach ; the for- 

 mation of the legs is also nearly the same, the outer claw of 

 the fore and middle feet being bifid at the apex : its habit, 

 however, is very different, its figure almost globose, as in 

 Coccinella, and the elytra very convex, but the most obvious 

 structural difference is in the sternum, the prosternum is 

 produced in a sharp ridge between the fore legs, and the me- 

 sosternum is depressed and indented, and entirely without the 

 anteriorly porrected portion so very obvious in the Popilli<B. 



Paracrusis cyanipes, Newman. 

 Rubra, oculis nigris, antennis testaceis, capitulo nigro ; elytris rubris, 

 glabris, obsolete striato-punctis ; tibiis tarsisque cyaneis. (Corp. 

 long. .5 unc. lat. .375 .unc.) 

 Colour. — Red, shining, antennce testaceous, with a black club ; palpi and 

 mandibles tipped with black ; elytra red ; tibice and tarsi of a bright metal- 

 lie blue. Sculpture. — Head regularly but not very thickly or deeply punc- 

 tured, a very distinct line (not. observable in any of the Popillia:), separates 

 the clypeus from the vertex ; prothorax regularly punctured and completely 

 surrounded dorsal ly by a slender ridge ; scutellum regularly but sparingly 

 punctured, broader and shorter than in the species of Popillia ; elytra with 

 twelve series of punctures, the 1st parallel to the suture, and the interstice 

 between this and the 2nd three times as wide as either of the other intersti- 

 ces, and irregularly punctured. 



Inhabits Assam. In the cabinet of Mr. Solly. 



Edward Newman, Deptford, June, 1839. 



