66 EUTEIilliai. 



There is I lie closest relationship between this and the pre- 

 cedint^ species (P. marginicollis), although the genitalia of the 

 males are very different. P. binnanica is a rather smaller form, 

 with deeply striated elytra and very convex intervals. 



33. Popillia laevistriata. 



Popillia Iceoistriata, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 42. 



Reddish testaceous, sufiused (except upon the elytra) with a 

 metallic green lustre, the head (except the clypeus), the pronotum 

 and scutellum dark green, the former Avith rather bread but 

 vaguely defined yellow margins. 



It is rather elongate and extremely smooth and shining. The 

 clypeus is very minutely rugulose and the forehead rather closely 

 punctured. The pronotum is very minutely punctured at the 

 front and sides, the lateral margins are sharply angulated in the 

 middle, the front angles very acute, the hind angles slightly obtuse 

 but not rounded, and the base strongly excised before the 

 scutellum, which bears only a few minute punctures. Each 

 elytron bears five equidistant punctured striae, which are lightly 

 impressed, with the intervals scarcely convex. The pygidium is 

 coarsely transversely rugose and bears two rather large compact 

 patches of whitish hairs at the base. The ventral segments are 

 divided laterally by median carinse and each bears a double fringe 

 of stiff hairs. The mesostenuim is produced into a moderately 

 long and acute process. 



S . The legs are very short and thick, and the front tibia 

 bears two very minute sharp teeth placed close together at the 

 extremity. 



Length, 11 mm.; breadth, 6 mm. 



Assam: Patkai Hills (Doherti/). 



I know only the single type-specimen in the British Museum. 



34. Popillia andamanica. (Plate IV, fig. 17.) 



Popillia andamanica, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 279 ; 



Arrow, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 89. 

 Popillia marginicollis, var. andamani ca,Oh.{ius,'Stett. Ent. Zeit. Iviii, 



1897, p. 346. 

 Popillia marginicoUis, var. trifolium, Ohaus, loc. cit. 



Orange, with the tiead (except the clypeus), the pronotum 

 (except the lateral borders), and the scutellum dark golden green 

 or metallic greenish blue, and the elytra decorated with black as 

 follows : — The posterior half is black, sharply limited anteriorly 

 and extending forward at the suture and still more along the 

 outer margins, where it frequently unites with a black shouldei'- 

 spot, and there is a black spot in the middle of the remaining pale 

 area upon the anterior half of each elytron. The upper and lower 

 surface, except the elytra, as well as the legs, are suffused with a. 

 pale greenish metallic lustre. 



