POPILLIA. 



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bright orange, except the hind tarsi and the extremity of the 



hind tibite, which are ahuost black. The extremity of the 



abdomen is often orange also. 



Rather elongate-oval in shape, very smooth and shining, with a 

 scanty fringe of greyish hairs at the 

 sides of the pronotura, a small but com- 

 pact tuft on each side of the base of the 

 pygidium, and a thin clothing at the sides 

 of the body beneath. The clypeus is 

 rugosely, and the forehead closely punc- 

 tured, the pronotum very finely and 

 scantily, except near the sides, and the 

 scutellum is almost smooth. The elytra 

 have each a deep transverse impression 

 behind the scutellum and five strongly 

 impressed and punctured striae, and the 

 intervals are convex, the second not 

 much wider than the third and bearing 

 only a few punctures. The pygidium is 

 coarsely transversely punctured and the 



mesosternal process is compressed, strongly curved and not very 



blunt. 



6 . The front tibia is armed with two short sharp teeth, 



the lower lobe of the inner front claw is not angulated and 



the longer claw of the middle foot is not clel't. 

 Length, 10-12 mm.; breadth, 6-7 mm. 

 Madras : Nilgiri Hills {F. H. L. Awlrewes and 8ir G. 



Hampson). 



Type, in the British Museum. 



Fig. 20.— PopiUia 

 pulchripes, male. 



55. PopiUia lucida. (Plate IV, fig. 18.) 



Popillia lucida, Newm.,* Mag. Nat. Hist. (2j ii, 1838, p. 377; 

 id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 41. 



Black, or dark blue, green, or coppery black, with the elytra 

 brick-red, or black, or red with the sutural region vaguely dark, 

 and non-metallic. In the female there is sometimes a small 

 vaguely red patch at each lateral border of the pronotum. The 

 antennae are also usually red. 



The body is shortly oval and moderately convex. It is very 

 shining and clothed beneath witli long white hairs, which are not 

 at all closely packed and which also form a narrow border on each 

 side ol' the pronotum, and a pair of small outstanding spots at the 

 base of the pygidium. The clypeus is rugose, short and transverse, 

 and the forehead is densely punctured. The pronotum is finely 

 punctured, a little more strongly at the sides, and the scutellum 

 bears a few punctures. The elytra have each a not very deep 

 impression behind the scutellum and five deep punctured dorsal 

 striae, the intervals of which are convex, the subsutural one being 

 little wider than the next and scarcely punctured. The pygidium 



