POPILLIA. td 



BuHM.v: Ruby Mines, 3(300-7500 ft. (W. Doherti/); Tonkix 

 (R. J'itdlis de iSaluaza, May). 



T(/pe in M. Kene Obertluir's collection. 



43. Popillia patkaina, sp. nov. 



Testaceous, entirely suffused with a golden-green lustre, and 

 with the forehead, an elongate median patch u[)on the pronotum, 

 the pygidium, lower surface, the lower part of the hind tibia and 

 the tarsi dark green or coppery. 



It is short and broad, with very stout legs, and rather densely 

 clothed with greyish hair beneath. The clypeus is broad and 

 densely rugose, the forehead rugosely and the vertex hnnly 

 punctured. The pronotuui is very finely and sparsely punctured, 

 but a little more strongly near the front angles; the sides are 

 angulated before the middle, scarcely rounded, with the front 

 angles acute and the hind angles nearly right angles. The scu- 

 tellum bears only a very few minute punctures, and the elytra 

 bear seven closely-set and deeply-punctured dorsal striae, \he 

 second disrupted at the base and the outer ones abbreviated 

 behind. The pygidium is very feebly rugulose and decorated with 

 two broad, nearly contiguous basal patches of white hairs and 

 longer scattered hairs in the apical part. The mesosternal process 

 is short, broadly compressed, and vei-y blunt and rounded in front. 



c? . The front tibia is very broad and armed with two very 

 short sharp teeth ; the longer front claw is very unequally cleft 

 and the longer middle claw entire. 



The 2 is unknown. 



Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



Assam : Patkai Hiils (Doherti/). 



Tyjye in the British Museum. 



44. Popillia cupncollis. 



PopiUia cuiiricollis, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 23 ; Newm., 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud, iii, 1841, p. 42. 

 PopiUia formosa, Hope,* 1. c.' 

 Popillia smara(i(lula, Hope,* 1. c. 



Popillia caschtnirensis, r{edt.,*Hiioers Kaschniir, iv, 2, 1848, p. 528. 

 PopiUia nitidicollis, Gory, Guerin's Icouogrrtphie, 1844, pi. 25, fig'. 2, 

 Popillia hilaris, Burin.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 510. 



Brilliant metallic crimson, less frequently golden green, with 

 the lower surface and femora usually deep green and the elytra 

 orange-red with a rosy metallic tinge. 



The body is broad, very smooth and shining, with very stout 

 legs. The clypeus and forehead are densely rugose, the former 

 broadly rounded, and the vertex closely and deeply punctured. 

 The pronotum is rather closely punctui*ed, more strongly at the 

 front and sides, with the lateral margins angulated before the 

 middle, the front angles acute and the hind angles distinct but 

 obtuse. The scutellun) bears a few fine punctures, and the elytra 

 have each five deeply impressed and puin-tured dorsal stria\ the 



