of the Species of Popillla. 45 



Melolontha higuttata. Wiedemann, in Germar's Magasin der 

 Entomologie, torn. iv. p. 136. 



Colour. — Bright golden green ; the antennae are black; the elytra 

 are testaceous, with a golden green suture and a black band 

 at the apex, which is prolonged nearly half the length of each 

 exterior margin ; the legs are golden green, and the tarsi 

 black ; the terminal segment of the abdomen is golden green, 

 with two white spots ; the legs are golden green, and the 

 tarsi black. 



Sculpture. — Headanteriorly thickly punctured, posteriorly nearly 

 smooth ; prothorax punctured, but the punctures are exces- 

 sively minute, and only visible under a lens of high power ; 

 the scutellum has numerous large scattered punctures : the 

 punctures of the striae are deep and distant, the second stria 

 terminates considerably before the apex of the wing. 



Inhabits the Island of Java. 



20. POPI. DIFFICILIS. 



Lcelt a:nea ; anteiince testacece, capitulo nigra ; elytra testncea ; 



pedes castanci, fulgore metaU'ico nitidi ; jiodex ceneus, fills alhis 



obscure hisignatus ; elytra striata, striis punctis. (Corp. long. 



'S'Zo unc, lat. '175 unc.) 



Colour. — Bright golden green ; the antennae are testaceous, with 

 black lamellae ; the elytra are testaceous, with a metallic 

 splendour ; the legs are brown, with a metallic splendour ; 

 the terminal segment of the abdomen is golden green, with 

 two somewhat obscure grey spots. 



Scidpture. — The head and prothorax are regularly and rather 



• deeply punctured ; the scutellum is very sparingly punc- 

 tured; the elytra are striated, and the stria; are nearly entire 

 and coarsely punctured. 



Inhabits the East Indies. 



##*## Asiatic Group, 



The strice are typically 11 ; the second stria from the suture is 

 not different from the others ; the elytra have no dorsal excava- 

 tion ; the terminal segment of the abdomen is immaculate. 



21. PoPI. NITIDA. 



Lcete cenea ; antennce, elytra, pedesque testacea, fulgore metallico 



