610 Transaxitions South African PhilosopJiical Society, [vol. xir. 



Gen. PEEIPOPILLIA, Kolb., 



Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1894, p. 208. 



Mentum and palpi of Popillia, but the apical joint of the labial 

 palpi is a little elongato-ovate, and distinctly impressed outwardly ; 

 the maxillae ai'e armed with five sharp robust teeth, the shape of the 

 clypeus is that of Popillia, but the prothorax is that of Anoinakiy 

 and is likewise marginate all round, the scutellum is also short, but 

 broader than in the last-mentioned genus ; the elytra are shaped 

 mxjre like those of Popillia, but they are distinctly costate and less. 

 plane ; the pygidium is more declivous, and is glabrous ; the 

 abdominal segments have no bands of appressed hairs and the 

 mesosternum is simple ; inner claw of anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi cleft in both sexes, that of the anterior ones conspicuously 

 broad in the male ; legs short and massive as in Popillia , but with 

 the intermediate and posterior tarsi more slender and like those of 

 the metallic species of Anomala. 



This genus is a good form of transition between Anomala and 



Pomllia. 



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 Peeipopillia basalis, Blanch., \\>^* 



Catal. Coll. Entomol., 1850, p. 191. :?V<v^'^ 

 ? P. nitidicollis, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's. 

 Eeis., p. 259, pi. xv., fig. 6. 



P. Oherthuri, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 184. 



Head, prothorax, and scutellum bronze green, shining ; under side 

 and legs dark blue ; the elytra are almost completely dark blue with 

 the exception of a very narrow basal reddish testaceous line, or they 

 have a very broad testaceous yellow basal band reaching to beyond one- 

 third of the whole length, but not invading the suture ; in some species 

 they are violaceous or testaceous yellow with the exception of the 

 suture and of a supra-marginal dark blue band beginning at about 

 one-third of the length ; clypeus roughly punctured, somewhat blunt 

 in the anterior part, and slightly emargiiiate in the middle of it, 

 broadly I'ounded laterally, and with the margin moderately reflexed ; 

 prothorax finely and somewhat closely punctulate on the sides and 

 along the anterior margin, but very slightly, and sometimes not at 

 all, on the median dorsal part ; scutellum broader than long and 

 sparsely punctate ; elytra very plainly costate, with the intervals 

 narrowly but deeply punctato-striate, the eight dorsal costa>, which 

 include the sutural one, are tectiform and smooth, except tbat the fifth 

 has a series of deep punctures extending from past the median part to 

 the apex, and the seventh a similar row beginning near the humeral 



