68 BUTELINyi:. 



marked, the front ones acute, the hind slightly obtuse, the sides 

 scarcely rounded, but angulated betore the middle. The scutelluni 

 bears a few minute punctures. The elytra have each five deep 

 punctured dorsal strise ; the intervals are convex, but the second 

 and fourth are a little depressed and the formei' bears a few large 

 punctures anteriorly. The pygidiuin is rather coarsely trans- 

 versely strigose, and bears two patches of pale hairs at the base. 

 The sternum is clothed with rather long decumbent hairs, and. 

 each ventral segment has a row of similar hairs at the side. The 

 mesosterual process is compressed, rounded at the extremiiy and 

 moderately long. All the tibiae and the hind tarsi are short 

 and thick in both sexes. 



(^ . The front tibiae are very broad and the two teeth sh.ort. 



Length, 9-5-11 mm. ; breadth, H-6-5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills, 2700-3;i00 ft.(L. Feci, Dec). 



Ti^ipe in the British Museum. 



36. Popillia difficilis. 



PopilUa difficilis, Newm. * Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 337 ; id., 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 45. 



Golden green, with the elytra and the front and middle tibiae 

 and tarsi testaceous yellow, and the whole surface suffused with 

 metallic green lustre. 



It is a small species of rather elongate oval shape. The head 

 and middle part of the clypeus are finely punctured, and the front 

 and sides of the latter a little excavated and rugose. The pro- 

 notum is finely and closely punctured, except in the posterior 

 median part ; it is strongly narrowed to the front, with its sides 

 sharplv angulated in the middle, the front angles acute, the hind 

 angles sharp and rectangular, the base deeply emarginate and 

 having a distinct marginal stria on each side. The scutellura 

 bears a few extremely fine punctures. The elytra bear seven 

 deep and nearly equidistant, strongly-punctured dorsal striae, and 

 the intervals are smooth and convex; the sides are not flanged. 

 The pygidium is strongly but not closely punctured, with the 

 sides hairy, and two large, not very well-defined hairy patches 

 at the base. The mesosternal process is long, compressed and 

 narrow, but not acute. The metasternum is rather thit-kly clothed 

 with coarse yellowish hair, and the abdominal segments bear con- 

 tinuous bands of similar hairs. The front tibia bears two sharp 

 teeth. 



Length, 8'5 mm. ; breadth, 4*5 mm. 



" East Indies." 



Ty^ye in the Oxford Museum. 



I have seen only the -single type-specimen. It is not certain 

 that the species inhabits India proper. 



