78 RUTELIN^. 



surface, pygidium and hind tibiae generally reddish golden and 

 the hind tarsi dark brown. 



It is elongate in shape, and not very convex above. The 

 pygidium bears two large patches of yellow setae extending almost 

 across it at the base but scarcely meeting in the middle, the apex 

 bears similar scattered setse, and the lower surface is i-ather 

 closely clotlied at the sides. The clypeus is very short and 

 rugose, the forehead strongly and densely punctured, and the 

 pronotum coarsely and densely punctured, except before the 

 scutellum, the punctures coalescing near the sides. The scu- 

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

 seven dorsal rows of strongly impressed and punctured lines, 

 the second line rather irregular and disrupted at the base ; the 

 sutural space is broad and tapers considerably at each end ; there 

 is a narrow but abrupt lateral flange at the external margin. The 

 pygidium is scantily punctured and shining along the middle. 

 The mesosternal process is strong, compressed, broad, and bluntly- 

 rounded at the end. 



(5". The legs are stout, the front tibia armed with two short 

 sharp teeth near the end, the lower lobe of the inner front claw 

 angulated near the base and the longer claw of the middle foot 

 entire. 



1 have not seen the female. 



Length, 9-10 mm. ; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



Assam : Manipur, Naga Hills ( W. Doherty), Khasi Hills, 8hil- 

 long (Indian Mus.) ; Tonkin {R. Vitalts de Salvaza). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is very close to P. difficilis, Newm., but in that species the 

 pronotum is much less strongly punctured and the lateral flanges 

 to the elvtra are absent. 



51. Popillia impressipyga. 



PopiUia i7tipressipi/(/(i, OhauP, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 381. 



Deep metallic green or golden green, with the elytra orange, 

 suffused with a faint metallic lustre. 



The body is oval and depressed in shape. The clypeus is finely 

 rugose and the forehead densely punctured. The pronotum is 

 very smooth and shining, with extremely fine punctures, which 

 become more evident towards the sides and are strongest and 

 most numerous near the front angles ; the lateral margins are 

 obtusely angulate before the middle, nearly straight from there 

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

 nearly right angles. The scutellum bears a few punctures an- 

 teriorly. The elytra bear six nearly similar rows of strongly 

 impressed and punctured dorsal stria) ; the subsutural interval is 

 broad and strongly and irregularly punctured in its anterior half, 

 the punctures being gradually reduced to a single series upon the 

 posterior half ; there is an abrupt and conspicuous lateral flange 



