70 llUTKLliS-TE. 



forming transverse lateral bands upon the abdominal segments 

 and also bordering the femora. 



In one specimen of the Genoa Museum series tlie dark border 

 of the elytra has enlarged to such a degree that only a large 

 roundish pale spot remains upon each. 



c? . The front tibia is broad and bears two very short minute 

 teeth close together at the extremity. 



5 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long and blunt. 



Length, 10 mm.; breadth, 6 mm. 



Burma: Karen Hills, 900-1100 metres (L. Fea, Dec). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



9. Popillia nitida. 



Popillia nitida, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 23 ; Newm., 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. iii,'^1841, p. 45. 

 Var. Popillia concolor, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1897, p. 328. 



Deep metallic green or golden green, with the legs and elytra 

 orange, suffused with a metallic green lustre. 



It is very smooth and shining, oval in form, with the slioulders 

 scarcely prominent, and rather depressed. The clypeus is finely 

 rugose, sliort and broad, with the margin rounded ; the forehead 

 is finely and not densely punctured. The pronotum is extremely 

 smooth and shining, very feebly convex, and scarcely i)erceptibly 

 punctured, except towards the lateral margins ; these are gently 

 angulated near the middle and nearly straight from there to the 

 angles, of which the front ones are acute and the hind rather 

 obtuse. The scutellum is smooth and almost devoid of punctures, 

 and tlie elytra each bear seven deeply impressed, regular and 

 almost equidistant, punctui-ed dorsal striae, with the intervals 

 narrow and convex ; the sides are gently rounded and not flanged. 

 The pygidium is rather flat, smooth and shining along the middle, 

 coarsely punctured and clothed with moderately long greyish hairs 

 at the sides, the hairs collected at the base into two masses, not 

 very well defined and sometimes indistinguishable. The meso- 

 srernal process is long and curved, but blunt at the end. The 

 sides of the sternum and the abdominal segments are clothed with 

 coarse yellowish hairs. The legs are slender, and the longer claw 

 of the four anterior feet is cleft in both sexes. 



In the var. concolor, Kr., the elytra, like the rest of the body, 

 are deep metallic green. This phase was taken with the typical 

 form in Sikkim, 



cJ . The front tibia is broad and the teeth very short and sharp. 



5 . The apical tooth of the front tibia is long and blunt. 



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



Nepal (Maj.-Gen. Hardwlde — type) ; Sikkim : Darjiling(Per/r- 

 50Ji), Kurseong, 0000 ft. {E. A. J/Abreii, July); Assam: Khasi 

 11 ills ( Griffiths), M anipur ( W. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum ; that of var, concolor in JM. Eene 

 Oberthiir s collection. 



