POPILLIA. 7^ 



behind the shoulder of each elytron. The pygidium is extremely 

 smooth and shining, very minutely and scantily punctured, except 

 at the sides and apex, where the punctures are rather coarse • 

 there are also scanty grey hairs in the same parts and two patches 

 of decumbent han-s at the base. The sides of the sternum and 

 the posterior half of the sides of the abdominal segments are 

 raiher thickly clothed with coarse whitish hairs. The meso- 

 sternal process is short, blunt, and compressed. 



cS . The two teeth of the front tibia are acute, and the pygidiinn 



IS very prominent and feebly longitudinally impressed at the apex 



$ . The apical tooth of the front tibia is long and blunt, and 



the pygiduim is deeply excavated at the apex, the cavity being 



smooth and shining. 



Length, 11-12 mm.; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



Assam: Shillong {F. W. Champion), Kliasi Hills, Cherrapunii, 

 JNongpriang ( 7i. Warren, May); ^ikkim ftype). 



Type in Dr. F. Ohaus' collection. 



52. Popillia caerulea. 



Popdlia cferulea, Boh., Eugen. Rasa, 1858, p. 55. 



Blue-black or green-black, sometimes with the elytra entirely 

 black. There are scanty erect greyish hairs on the forehead and 

 a very few near the lateral margins of the pronotum, two rather 

 loose and inconspicuous patclies at the base of the pygidium 

 and a thicker clothing upon the legs and the sides of the body 

 beneath. 



The body is rather globose, compact and convex. The head is 

 densely rugose and the clypeus broadly rounded. The pronotum 

 is coarsely and closely punctured, except in the posterior median 

 part, where the punctures are tine and scanty. The scutellum is 

 distinctly punctured. Each elytron bears h've rather broad and 

 coarsely punctured dorsal striae, with the subsutural interval 

 rather broad and smooth, except at the base, and there is a deep 

 fovea before the middle. The pygidium is convex and coarselr 

 punctured at the sides. The mesosternal process is broadly 

 compressed, blunt and very little produced. The middle of the 

 metasternum and abdomen are smooth. The front tibia is rather 

 strongly bidentate. 



6 . the pygidium is very convex, and the front tarsus short 

 and thick, with a very broad iuner claw . 



Lemjih, 9-12 mm. ; breadth, 5-7'5 mm. 



Burma : Maymyo {H. L. Andrewes, May), Ruby Mines 

 {W . Dohertij) ; ^.Qui^k; Hainan; Formosa. 



This is a common and widely-distributed Ciiinese species. I 

 have seen specimens from Formosa determined by Kraatz as. 

 FopilUa semicenea, Kr., but although superficially very like that 

 species, it is different, having a blunter and shorter sternal 

 process and less close and definite hair-patches on the pygidiinn. 



