POPILLIA. 91 



68. Popillia minuta. 



Popillia minuta, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 23. 



Deep metallic green, ratlier darker beneath, with the elytra 

 testaceous, uarrowly margined with black. 



It is small, short and compact. The clypeus is short and 

 rugose, with the front margin feebly rounded and reflexed. The 

 forehead is similarly rugose and clothed with rather long, not 

 thick, erect grey hairs, and the vertex is rather strongly and 

 closely punctured. The pronotum is nearly twice as wide as it is 

 long, very closely and coarsely rugose, except in the posterior 

 part, and clothed, not very thickly, with erect grey hairs ; the sides 

 are angulated before the middle and nearly straight from there to 

 the angles, which are sharp, the front ones acute, the hind obtuse. 

 The scutellum is coarsely punctured, and each elytron bears hve 

 deep punctured dorsal striae ; the second and fourth intervals are 

 very little wider than the others and bear only a very few 

 scattered punctures. The pygidium is rather coarsely punctured 

 aud decorated with a patch of rather long whitish hairs on each 

 side of the base and similar but longer scattered hairs at the sides. 

 The mesosternum forms a very slightly produced broad lamina 

 between the coxae, and the body is clothed beneath with long and 

 moderately tliick grey hair. 



(S . The club of the antenna is very long, tlie inner front claw 

 is deeply cleft and its inner lobe very broad, and the teeth of the 

 front tibia are very sharp. 



Length, 6"5 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



Nepal. 



Type in the British Museum. 



The unique type is not in very good condition, 



69. Popillia pilicoUis. 



Popillia pilicoUis, Kraatz,* Deutsche Eut. Zeits. 1892, p. 278. 



Coppery gi'een, often varying from bright green to fiery red in 

 different parts, the elytra orange, with narrow black margins and 

 tinged with metallic green. 



The body is rather long and narrow, and not very convex 

 above. The clypeus is broadly rounded, and, with the forehead, 

 densely granularly rugose and closely clothed with erect greyish 

 setse. The pronotum is rugosely punctured and entii-ely clothed 

 with similar setae, except upon a narrow longitudinal median carina, 

 which is smooth and shining and reaches the base, but not the 

 front margin; the lateral margins are angulated before the middle 

 and almost straight from there to the angles, of which the front 

 are very acute and the hind obtuse. The scutellum beai's a few 

 strong punctures, and the elytra have six regular dorsal rows of 

 deeply punctured lines, the intervals being narrow, except the 

 subsutural one, which is very broad and strongly and irregularly 

 punctured ; the sides are regularly contracted towards the 



