62 llUTBLIN^. 



28. Popillia nasuta. 



Popillia ««s»i«,"Newm.* Ma<?. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 337; id.. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 46; Burni.,Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 

 1844, p. 295. 



Popillia acuta, Newm.,* 1. c. 



Golden-red, coppery or green, sometimes with the elytra less 

 deeply suftused with metallic green lustre. 



It is oval, stout, and convex in shape, with coarse yellowish 

 hairs at the sides beneath, but none upon 

 the upper surface. The head is finely 

 rugose; the clypeus is triangular, with the 

 sides nearly straight and regularly approxi- 

 mating towards the extremity, which is 

 bluntly pointed and strongly reilexed. The 

 pronotum is strongly convex and Tery 

 smooth, with a few fine punctures near the 

 frout angles ; the sides are strongly 

 rounded, the front angles slightly acute, 

 the hind angles very obtuse, and the base 

 not deeply emarginate. The scutelluin 

 bears a few punctures, and the elytra bear 

 Fig. \6.— Popillia nasuta. five deep, nearly equidistant, strongly punc- 

 tured dorsal striae. The intervals are smooth 

 and convex, the second having a short imperfect stria at the base. 

 There is no lateral flange. The pygidium is coarsely transversely 

 rugose and without tufts or hairy clothing. The mesosternal pro- 

 cess is rather long, acute, and not compressed. The front tibiae 

 are armed with two strong sharp teeth. 



c? . The inner front claw is deeply cleft, the inner lobe is broad, 

 and both lobes are truncated at the end. The outer middle claw 

 is long and entire. 



5 . The longer claw of the front and middle feet is deeply cleft, 

 with the lobes nearly equal and very sharp. 

 Length, 10-11 mm.; breadth, 5"5 mm. 

 Bombay. 



Types in the Oxford Museum ; co-typts in the British Museum. 

 There is a little variation in the degree of acuteness of the 

 clypeus, which led to the first-discovered specimens being regarded 

 as belonging to two species. 



29. Popillia cyanea. 



Popillia c;/a«ea, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 23; Newm., 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend, iii,' 1841, p. 39; Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 

 1844, p. 297. 



Pojnllia heryllina, Hope,* 1. c. 



Deep steel-blue, indigo-blue, or nearly black, above and beneath, 

 with the sides of the sternum and abdomen not very thickly 

 clothed with coarse greyish hair, and the pygidium quite naked. 



