POPILLIA. 87 



62. Popillia propinqua. (Plate IV, fig. 25.) 



Popillia propinqua, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, 

 p. 47. 



Deep metallic green or coppery above and beneath, with the 

 elytra alone testaceous. 



Shortly ovate and very shining above. The clypeus and fore- 

 head are densely rugose and the vertex strongly punctured. The 

 prouotum is very shining, minutely punctured at the front and 

 sides, with a close fringe of white setae on each side. The 

 scutellum is almost smooth. The elyti'a have each a distinct 

 transverse impression before the middle and five punctured dorsal 

 striae, the subsutural interval being broad and bearing a row of 

 strong punctures anteriorly. The pygidium is coarsely punctured 

 and has two large round setose patches at the base and numerous 

 scattered setae towards the apex. The mesosternal process is 

 strongly curved and sharply pointed. 



6 . The inner front claw is broad, but scarcely angulated, and 

 the outer claw of the middle tarsus is entire. 



Length, 8*5-10 mm.; breadth, 5-6-5 mm. 



Maubas : Travancore {Mrs. G. S. Imray). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. H. E. Andrevves' 

 collection. 



This has the closest resemblance to P. discalis and P. complanata, 

 but, with the exception of the elytra, it is uniformly dark in 

 colour, the legs, clypeus and sides of the pronotum being appar- 

 ently always without the pale colouring which usually tinges 

 them in the other two species. The foveas before the middle of 

 the elytra are deeper, and the mesosternal process is more pointed. 

 The male is immediately distinguishable from that of P. complanata 

 by the fact that the outer claw of the middle tarsus is not cleft. 



63. Popillia complanata. (Plate IV, fig. 23.) 



Popillia complanata, Newm.,* Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 337 ; 

 id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 40; Arrow, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 46. 



Deep metallic greeu or coppery red, with the elytra testaceous, 

 and the clypeus, lateral margms of the prothorax, femora, tibiae 

 and extremity of the abdomen reddish. 



It is rather broadly ovate in shape and very smooth and shining. 

 The lateral margins of the pronotum are rather broadly bordered 

 with white setae, and the pygidium bears two roundish patches of 

 similar setae at the base and rather numerous scattered setae on 

 its posterior part. The sides of the body beneath are moderately 

 well clothed with similar setae. The clypeus is densely rugose, 

 the forehead closely punctured, the pronotum minutely punctured 

 in front, more strongly in the front angles. The scutellum bears 

 a few punctures, and the elytra have each a feeble impression 

 behind the scutellum and five strongly impressed and punctured 



