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HUTELINiE. 



pygidiuin is coarsely and coiiflueutly punctured, as are the meta- 

 sternum and abdomen at the sides. The mesosternal process is 

 moderately produced and sharp. 



<S . The front tibia bears t\\ o short and rather sharp teeth. 



$ . The front tibia bears two longer and blunter teeth. 



This species closely resembles PojnlUa IcevicoUis, Kr., to which 

 it is most nearly related, but with well-marked points of difference. 

 Besides the broadly turned-up edge of the clypeus, from which 

 it takes its name, it has a smaller and shorter ^icutellum, and the 

 pygidium has a ba!«al band of not very dense hairs, instead of two 

 hair-patches. 



Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



Assam: Khasi Hills ; Punjab: Sim hi ; Kashmir. 



Tyj^e in Dr. F. Ohaus' collection. 



42, Popillia flavofasciata. 



Popillia jiavofasciata, Kraatz, Deutsche Eut. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, 

 p. 271. 



Brilliant deep purplish crimson, with the elytra testaceous, 

 except the apical third, the shoulders and the lateral margins, 

 which are black, and entirely metallic, with the exception of the 

 elytra, of which only the sutural edges are metallic. 



It is elongate in shape, rather depressed, and extremely smooth 

 and brilliant, with the sides of the body 

 beneath densely clothed with rather long 

 decumbent yellow hair. The clypeus is 

 r densely rugose, with the front margin 

 I straight and the sides rounded; ihe 

 I forehead is rather rugosely, and the ver- 

 tex irregularly, punctured. The prono- 

 tum bears only extremely minute and 

 scanty punctures, except near the front 

 angles, where they are stronger, and the 

 scutelluui has onlv a few minute punc- 

 tures. The elytra are ratln-r smooth, 

 but bear a sutural stria and five nearly 

 equal and equidistant dorsal striae, 

 with a wide and irregularly-punctured 

 the striiB are finely punctured and the 

 The pygidium is coarsely but scantily 

 punctured, and has a broadly transverse basal patch of yellow 

 hairs on each side. The mesosternal process is strongly produced 

 and compressed, with its apex curved upwards and rather sharp. 

 The legs are stout, the front tibia armed with two acute teeth. 



cJ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is short and straight, 

 and the longer middle claw is hardly perceptibly cleft. 



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

 and the longer claws of the front and middle feet distinctly cleft. 

 Lenqth, 10-12 mm,; breadth, 5-7 mm. 



Fig. 19. 

 Popillia flavofasciata. 



subsutural interval ; 

 intervals nearlv flat 



