POPILLIA, 



This IS very closely related to Popillia mprlcolUs, of wliicb it is 

 the representative lartber east. Ix differs by tbe less vivid and 

 more purplish colour of tbe bead, protborax, scutellum and le^^s the 

 s.naller hair-patcl.es at the base of tbe pvgidiuin, and especially 

 tbe mucli hner puncturation of the sides of the pronotum The 

 males may also be distinguished by their differently shaped eedeao-i 



F maccMlandi was stated by Hope to inhabit Chusan, \n 

 iiastern China, but, like Mimela downsi and other species described 

 at the same time, was evidently the subject of a mistake. 



46. Popillia nottrotti. 



Popillia nottrotti, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 273. 



Golden or coppery green above and beneath, the elytra orange 

 with a strong metallic suffusion and generally with" their sid'es' 

 vaguely darkened. 



The body is narrowly elongate and not very convex. The 

 cypeus IS densely granular and broadlv rounded in front, and 

 the forehead closely punctured. Tbe pronotum is finely punc- 

 tured all over, sparingly in the middle and very closely at the 

 sides ; the lateral margins are angulated at the middle and nearly 

 straight iroin there to the angles, of which the front ones are 

 very sharp and the hmd ones nearly right angles. The scutellum 

 bears a tew fine punctures, and the elytra bear a smooth elevated 

 sutura costa and a similar median dorsal one, the intervenino- 

 space beuig wide and irregularly punctured ; the space between 

 the dorsal costa and the shoulder bears three rows of closely 

 punctured stris, which are abbreviated behind ; tiie sides of the 

 elytra are without lateral flanges. The pygidium bears two basal 

 patches ot dense whitish hairs, the apical part being very shining 

 and almost unpunctured, and the sides of the sternum and abdomen 

 are densely clothed with coarse whitish hair. The mesosternum 

 forms a^compressed, broadly rounded, scarcely produced lamina. 



+ ?u' S,? ^'''*^' ^'''' "'^''^ ^'''^''' ^"^ ^'>*^ ^''ont tibia bears two acute 

 teetti. ilie pygidium is very convex. 



$ . The four anterior tarsi are slender, the hind pair thick, tbe 

 teeth ot the front tibia blunt, and the pygidium rather flat. 



Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



Bengal :J3urgu {Dr. Nottrott-ty^^e) ; Sikkim : Gopaldhara, 

 Euugbong Valley, 6300 ft. {H. Stevens). 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 



47. Popillia patricia, sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 12.) 



Brilliant golden green, with the legs, pygidium and lower surface 

 dark coppery green, and the elytra testaceous with a strong metallic 

 greeu_ suffusion and dark greenish-black lateral margins. 



It IS oval in shape and very brilliant, with two large roundish 

 patches of pale hairs at the base of the pygidium, some erect 

 sca,ttered hairs near the extremity, and tbe sternum, femora and 

 al)dominai segments rather chjsely clothed. The clypeus is 



