50 Mr. Newman's Descriptive List of Popillia. 



30. Popi. Pollux. 



Nigro-anea ; prothoracis marginibus elytrisque totis testaceis ; 

 pedes hrunnei, tarsis piceis ; elytra sulcata, sulcis profundi punc- 

 tatis. (Corp. long. "27 unc, lat. -16 vine.) 



Colour. — Head nearly black, with a metallic tinge ; prothorax 

 golden green, with a slender margin of pale yellow com- 

 pletely surrounding it ; scutellum golden green ; elytra pale 

 testaceous, with the shoulders concolorous, and the suture 

 brown : the legs are brown, and somewhat metallic ; the 

 tarsi dark. 



Sculpture. — Head thickly punctured} prothorax deeply and re- 

 gularly, but not very thickly punctured ; scutellum with deep 

 but not crowded punctures ; elytra with nine deep punc- 

 tured sulci, the three on each side nearest the margin being 

 sesquialterous. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



[Descriptions of two additional Assamese species have been pub- 

 lished by Mr. Newman in the Magazine of Natural History for 

 July, 1839, under the names of P. varia and P. gemma. A 

 figure of the latter species has since been published in the 

 Linnaean Transactions, vol. 18, pi. 40, fig. 4. Three other spe- 

 cies, from the Philippine islands, have also been described by 

 Mr. Newman in the " Entomologist" for December, 1841 ; and 

 another, from the Nielgherries, by M. Guerin Meneville, in 

 the Revue Zoologique for February, 1840. — Sec. E. S.] 



