DICHELOPLIA CR ASS A. 219 



NOTE XXXVI. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF MELOLONTHINI 



AND RÜTELINI , COLLECTED IN THE ISLAND 



OF SUMATRA DURING THE SCIENTIFIC 



SUMATRA-EXPEDITION. 



D. SHARP. 



1 . Dicheloplia c r a s s a, n. sp. 



Sat convexa , pallide grisescens , supra vage albido-vittata , 

 squamulis acuminatis, suberectis , subtus squamulis setifor- 

 mibus vestita, antennis rufis , tibiis posterioribus brevibus, 

 crassiusculis. — Long. 7, lat. 4 m.m. 



Antennae pale red, 10-joiuted, the leaves of the club 

 rather short, about as long as joints 3 — 7 together. Head 

 short , clothed with pale , erect , narrow, acuminate scales. 

 Thorax convex , much narrowed in front and behind , den- 

 sely clothed with grey scales, of nearly uniform colour, 

 but these are mixed with darker scales , these latter beco- 

 ming near the front numerous ; the scales are acuminate , 

 suberect and dense , and among them are a very few more 

 elongate pale setae. Scutellum densely clothed with pale 

 scales. Elytra clothed with scales similar to those of the 

 thorax , with a sutural , and two or three other very indis- 

 tinct stripes a little paler 5 the scales on these paler stripes 

 are rather coarser than the darker ones. Undersurface den- 

 sely clothed with a pale , uniform pubescence , consisting 



Notes from the Leyden Museuxn, Vol. III. 



