MACROPOPILLTA. — TRICHANOMALA. 95 



punctured. The pronotuin and scutellum are almost smooth, 

 with a few minute scattered punctures; the sides of the former 

 are gently curved, the hind angles almost right angles and the 

 base very gently but abruptly excised in the middle. The elytra 

 are rather evenly but shallowly striated, the striae containing fine, 

 partly confluent and rather irregular punctures. The pygidium 

 bears a few scattered punctures ; the metasternum is rugosely 

 punctured and very scantily hairy at the sides, and the abdomen 

 strongly but scantily punctured. 



The extremity of the front tibia is pointed in the male and 

 very blunt and rounded in the female. 



Length, 18-24 mm. ; breadth, 10-14 mm. 



Madras : Utakaraand (Indian Mus.), Trichinopoli (Paris Mus.), 

 Palni Hills (June — Madras Museum), Kodaikanal {T. V. Campbell). 



Type in Dr. Ohaus' collecLion. 



TRICHANOMALA, gen. nov. 

 Type, Pojoillia Jimbriata, Newm. 



Range. The Himalayan Region. 



Small, ovate, depressed above. Clypeus small and rounded. 

 Pronotum not closely adapted to the elytra at the shoulders,., 

 gently lobed and completely margined at the base, and having 

 a fringe of decumbent hairs all round the margin. Mesotlioracic 

 epimera ascending and interposed between the pronotum and 

 shoulders. Mesosternum not produced. Legs rather long, with 

 the front tibiae bidentate and the larger claw of the front and 

 middle feet cleft. The lower surface of the body and the 

 pygidium are thickly clothed with hairs. 



The type of this genus is Popillia Jimhriata, Newm., and 

 a second species is Phyllopertha dentipennis., Fairm., which is very 

 similar, but besides the curious spinose terminations of the 

 elytra (common to both sexes), the pygidium is shining in the 

 male and rough in the female. 



The genus has the characters of Anomala, but differs in the 

 ascending epimera (in which it resembles Popillia), the hairy 

 margins of the pronotum, etc. 



73. Trich anomala fimbriata. 



Popillia firnbriata, Newm.,* Trans. Ent. See. Lend, iii, 1841, p. 47. 



The body is elongate-oval and rather depressed. The head is 

 coarsely but closely punctured, with the clypeus small, rounded 

 and moderately reflexed at the margin. The pronotum is strongly 

 and not very closely punctured, with the sides rounded and 

 narrowed to the front, the front angles very sharp, the hind 

 angles obtusely rounded and the base broadly lobed. The disc is 

 encircled by a row of white hairs lying flat, at right angles to the 

 margin, but becoming inconspicuous in the middle of the front 

 and hind margins. The scutellum is strongly punctured at the 



