POPILLIA. 71 



4u. Popillia laevicollis. 



FopiUia heoicollis, Kraatz* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 275. 



Deep iimtallic i;reeii, golden green, ov fiery red, with tlie lower 

 surface usually dark green and the elytra orange-red. 



'J'he form is rather ovate and depressed, the pygidium bears a not 

 ver}^ thick patch of grey hairs on each side of the base, and the sides 

 of the steriiuin and abdomen are thinly clothed with rather long 

 grey hairs. The clypeus is densely punctured, with the front margin 

 broadly rounded and narrowly reflexed ; the forehead is densely 

 punctured and tlie vertex nearly smooth. The pronotum is rather 

 broad at the base, not very convex and almost smooth, but with 

 fine scattered punctures towards the sides ; the lateral margins 

 gradually approximate from base to apex and are only very feebly 

 angulated at the middle, the frout angles being ncute and the hind 

 angles distinct but obtuse. The scutellum is very smooth, and 

 the elytra bear six deeply-impressed dorsal striae, the fifth interval 

 very broad, with a median line of punctures, sometimes very 

 incomplete ; there are no lateral flanges. The pygidium is rather 

 flat and irregularly punctured ; the metasternum and abdomen 

 are smooth in the middle. The mesosternal process is long, 

 narrow, and blunt at the end. 



6 . The front tibia b^ars tw o sharp but very short teeth. 

 2 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is rather long and 

 blunt. 



Length, 9-10 mm. ; breadth, 5-55 mm. 



Assam: Khasi Hills, JShillong; Bhutan {Ciq'tt. Pemherton); 

 SiKKiM : 'D^Y\\\\ng{E.T.AtTctnson); Tonkin (22. Vitalis de Salvaza). 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 



41. Popillia clypealis. 



Popillia dypeulis, Ohaus,* Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 347. 



Deep metallic green, golden green, or fiery red, v^ith the lower 

 surface usually deep green and the elytra orange-red. 



It is ovate and rather depressed in shape. The pygidium and 

 lower surface are clothed, not very thickly, with long grey hairs, 

 w hich form a not very conspicuous transverse band at the base of 

 the pygidium. The head is closely punctured, the clypeus less 

 closely and deeply than the forehead, the clypeal margin broadly 

 rounded, and strongly and abruptly reflexed. The pronotum is 

 very smooth and shining, w"ith a few shallow scattered punctures 

 towards the front and sides ; the lateral margins contracted from 

 the base to the front angles, scarcely curved, very obtusely angu- 

 lated before the middle, wdth the front and hind angles sharp, the 

 former acute and the latter obtuse. The scutellum is smooth, 

 very short, and bears only a few punctures. The elytra bear six 

 deeply-impressed, finely-punctured dorsal sti'iae, the intervals 

 convex and rather narrow, the fifth broader, with scattered 

 punctures along the middle ; there are no lateral flanges. The 



