88 RUTELIN.i:. 



dorsal striae ; the subsutural interval is broad and bears a row of 

 strong punctures along the middle. The pygidium is rather 

 coarsely and closely rugose. The mesosternal process is strongly 

 compressed and curved and rather sharp at the extremity. 



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

 and the longer claw of the middle foot is cleft at the tip. 



Length, 8"5-ll mm.; bi'eadth, 4*5-7 mm. 



Madras: Nilgiri Hills, Nadgani, 2500 ft. {H. L. Andretves, 

 April), Malabar, Mahe (3Iaindron) ; Bombay: N. Kanara (2\ R. 

 D. Bell). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This has a very close resemblance to P. discalis, Walk., with 

 which it has long been supposed to be identical. The males can 

 be easily distinguished by the important difference in the longer 

 claw of the middle foot, which is cleft in P. complanata and 

 simple in P. discalis. The females are less readily separated, but 

 the pygidium is much more deeply and closely sculptured in 

 P. comjjlanata and the thoracic border of white hairs is broader. 

 The mesosternal process is more sharply pointed in both sexes of 

 this species. 



64. Popillia schizonycha. (Plate IV, fig. 20.) 



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

 p. 50. 



Deep green, golden green or coppery, with the elytra generally 

 darker green or blue-black, but sometimes reddish with a metallic 

 green suffusion and the sides more or less dark. The clypeus, 

 legs and extremity of the abdomen are sometimes also of a deep 

 red colour. 



It is a broad and massive insect, smooth and shining, and 

 moderately convex above. The sides of the pronotum are con- 

 spicuously bordered with white hairs, tlie pygidium bears a pair 

 of large round hair-patches at the base, and the lower surface is 

 rather thickly clothed at the sides with similar white hairs. The 

 clypeus is rugosely punctured, the forehead densely, and the 

 scutellum and front and sides of the pronotum very finely and 

 sparsely. The elytra have each a deep fovea behind the scutellum 

 and five deeply impressed and punctured dorsal striae ; the sub- 

 sutural interval is broad and has an irregular line of large punctures 

 along the middle. The pygidium is coarsely transversely striolated 

 and the mesosternal process is strongly compressed at the 

 extremity. 



6 . The two teeth of the front tibia are shart and sharp, the 

 inner front claw has a broad angulated lower lobe, and the outer 

 middle claw is cleft at the tip. 



Length, ll-]2*5 mm.; breadth, 6-5-7'5 mm. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills (//. L. Andretves), Bangalore. 



Type in the British Museum. 



