ig2 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol,. VIII, 



DYNAvSTINAE. 



6. Eupatorus hardwickei, Hope, var. cantori, Hope. 



Upper Rotung, 5-1-1912. A male specimen was found by the 

 32nd Sikh Pioneers while road-making. This is the only 

 representative of the Dynastinae taken and the Rutelinae 

 are entirely unrepresented. 



MELOLONTHINAB. 



7. Hoplia sp. 



Three minute specimens, two males and one female, taken 

 together at Rotung probably belong to one species, but 

 the sexes are quite dissimilar and further evidence o^ 

 their specific identity is necessary. 



8, Lachnosterna sikkimensis, Brenske. 



Rotung, 1400 ft., 3i-xii-i9ii ; Upper Rotung, 26-1-1912 ; Kobo, 

 400 ft., 30-xi-i9ii. vSeveral examples of this species 

 were found under stones. 



9. Lachnosterna scrricollis, Hope. 



Rotung, 1400 ft., 31-xii 1911, One specimen taken by Capt. 

 the Hon. M. de Courcy. 



10. Lachnosterna sp. 



Above Upper Renging, 7-11-1912. One specimen of a species 

 not previoush^ known to me, taken by Capt, the Hon. M. 

 de Courcy. 



II. Melolontha indica, Hope, (=flabellata, Sharp). 

 Kobo, 400 ft., 7-XH-1911. A male taken by Mr. Kemp. 



This species " described " in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1831, p. 23, 

 was omitted from the Munich Catalogue. It is one of the species 

 with an acute mesosternum for which the genus Hoplosternus was 

 formed. I am not able to recognize that genus, for the process is 

 found in every stage of development and in M. guttijera, Sharp, is 

 long in the female and absent in the male. M . indica, Hope, is 

 probably the Insect described by Burmeister as Hoplosternus 

 nepalensis, Hope. That name was used by Blanchard but not by 

 Hope. 



12. Apogonia sp. 



Rotung to Kalek, 2000-3500 ft., 14 — 15-111-1912. A single 

 specimen of a species unknown to me. 



13. Microserica viridicollis, sp. nov. 



Nigra, opaca ; capite, pronotoque viridi-ceneis, elytris nonnun- 

 quam rufis, leviter opalescentihus, corpore brevi, glohoso ; clypeo 



