82 • EUTELIN^. 



is rather coarsely transversely striolated, and the mesosterna 

 process is curved and sharply acuminate. 



cf . The body is rather short, the pygidium shining and more 

 scantily punctured than in the female, the teeth of the front tibia 

 are short and sharp, the lower lobe of the inner front clavp scarcely 

 angulate at the base and the longer claw of the middle foot 

 entire. 



5 , The body is larger and more elongate and convex. The 

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



Length, 8"5-10 mm. ; breadth, 4-5-6 mm, 



Madras : JSTiiyiri Hills {Sir G. F. Hampson and H. L. Andrewes). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



56. Popillia chlorion. 



PopilUa ehlorivn, Newm.,* Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 337; 



id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 39; Burin., Handb, Ent. 



iv, 1, 1844, p. 298. 

 Popillia perrotteti, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 244 (n. syn.). 



Dark metallic green, blue-black, or coppery, occasionally with 

 the lateral parts of the elytra becoming dark blood-red. 



The shape is broadly and compactly globose. The lateral groove* 

 of the pronotum bear yellowish hairs or setae, the pygidium 

 has two basal tufts of outstanding hairs, and the sides of the 

 sternum and abdomen are clothed with similar but rattier long 

 outstanding hairs. The clypeus is moderately large, broadly 

 rounded and finely rugose, the forehead more coarsely rugose 

 and the vertex strongly punctured. The pronotum is very 

 convex, smooth and shining, with fine scattered punctures at 

 the sides ; the lateral edges are feebly angulated before the 

 middle and nearly straight from there to the front and hind 

 angles, of which the former are acute and the latter well-marked 

 but slightly obtuse ; the base is entirely devoid of a marginal 

 stria. The scutellum is finely punctured. The elytra are irre- 

 gularly corrugated, making the striae rather indistinct, and each 

 has a large deep transverse impression before the middle. There 

 are five dorsal striae upon each elytron, and the subsutural 

 interval is very broad and coarsely and irregularly punctured. 

 The pygidium is finely and scantily punctured in the middle, 

 and rugosely at the sides. The mesosterna] process is rather 

 long, slender and curved. The legs are moderately slender. 



S . The two teeth of the front tibia are short and sharp, and 

 the front tarsus slightly thickened. 



2 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long. 



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



Madras : Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andrewes), Utakamand (C A^ 

 Barber), 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; that of P. perrotteti in the Berlin 

 Entomological Museum. 



P. perrotteti was described as inhabiting Cochin-China, probably 

 by confusion of that pi'ovince with Cochin in Travancore. 



