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5 . The clypeus is short and rounded in front. The elytra have 

 a very strong and prominent thickening just before the middle 

 of the outer margin, and all the dorsal costae are smooth and 

 shining. The terminal tooth of the front tibia is rather long. 



Length, 9-10 mm. ; breadth, 6 7 mm. 



SiKKiM : Darjiling, Kurseong {Verschraer/hen) ; Nepal {Maj.- 

 Gen, Hardwiche — type). 



Type in the British Museum ; that of P. rugicollis in the 

 Oxford Museum. 



The specimen referred to by Dr. Oliaus (Stett. Eut. Zeit. Iviii, 

 1897, p. 350) as the type of PopUlia riujkolUs, Newni., "in 

 London" is apparently Dactylopopillia virescens, Hope; Newman's 

 type is not in London. 



The sculpture of the pronotum is curiously varial'le. It is 

 generally quite opaque, but occasionally somewhat shining. 



Although the characters of the three foregoing species in com- 

 bination produce a very well marked and peculiar type, there is 

 no single feature of the female which is not to be found in one of 

 the groups of Anomala, and I ha\e therefore not been able to 

 retain this and the allied species as generically separate. The pro- 

 thorax much narrower than the base of the elytra, the prominent 

 hairy pygidium, the form of tlie inesosternal process and of the 

 front tibia in the male connect them ratlier closely with PopUlia. 



Genus RHINYPTIA. 



lihinyptia, 13urm., Handb. Eutom. iv, 1, 1844, p. 227; Lacord., 

 Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 324. 



Type, Rhinyptia indica, Burm. 



Range. India, Western Asia and Africa. 



Ovate in form, very smooth, shining and without hairy clothing 

 above. Eyes large and prominent, and the clypeus small, narrow- 

 ing anteriorly, where it forms a recurved rostrum. Antenna 

 9-jointed, the first joint clubbed, the 2nd globular, the 3rd to the 

 otii elongate, the 6th very short. Labrum thin and horizontal, 

 bluntly angular in front. Mandible i-ather rectangular, with the 

 apex rounded, and bearing a very sharp spine-like internal tooth 

 beneath it and a strong coarsely-ridged molar part at the base. 

 Maxilla armed with six very sharp slender teeth parallel to one 

 another. Mentum broad and eujarginate at the front edge. 

 Base of the pronotum completely margined, scarcely lobed before 

 the scutellum. Prosternum and mesosternum without process. 

 Elytra membranous at the outer margins. Last abdominal spiracle 

 ])laced midway between the front and hind margins of the penul- 

 timate dorsal segment. Fifth ventral segment twice as long as the 

 preceding ones. Front tibia armed with three external teeth ; 

 liind tibia moderately long ; all the tarsi long, with the claws very 

 unequal, and the longer claw of the front foot cleft at the tip. 



S . The end of the abdomen protrudes more than in the female, so 

 that the body is arched beneath. The terminal tooth of the front 

 tibia is rather sharp and the longer front claw very unequally divided. 



