272 Mr. G. J. Arrow's notes on thr Jiiifrlid genera 



has no doubt been carried there at some period more or less 

 recent. 



The types of A/iohir/Ia (Bm-Ji /rn-a) fr.moralis and pcr2:)lexa, 

 Hope, in the British Museum show the two species to be 

 identical. Both names are therefore synonyms of hico/or, 

 Fab., with which tlie catalogue already shows yl. femoral is 

 as synon3nnous. 



A. iingitana, I^lanch. from Algeria is the European 

 species profnga, Erichs., which thus ranges, like so many 

 other S. European insects, on both sides of the Mediter- 

 ranean. Blanchard's specimens, as well as all I have seen 

 from the southern shore of the Mediterranean, belong to 

 the black variety (A. crrcins, var. 5, Illig.). It will be 

 remarkable if this proves to be the only form represented 

 there. 



Three species of Anoviala have been given the same 

 name of variegata, of which that described by Hope from 

 Nepal has priority. The second is a Brazilian insect 

 described by Latreille, and wrongly regarded by Burmeister 

 as the same as the North and Central American A. 

 undulata. This insect may be called A. hrasiliensis. 

 Mimela variegata of Walker also belongs to this genus, 

 although it is the species which has recently been made 

 the type of a new genus by Dr. Kraatz under the name of 

 Pcecilostieta 2yrinceps. Dr. Kraatz has regarded it as most 

 nearly allied to Po2rillia, but he is evidently not acquainted 

 with the species of Anomala with a produced mesosternum 

 forming the section Spihta, to which all the characters 

 mentioned by him refer it. The form of the tip of the 

 front tibia mentioned and figured by Dr. Kraatz as a 

 generic character is distinctive of the females of these 

 insects. Walker's name being inadmissible, this species 

 should be called Anomala {SpUota) princcps, Kraatz. 



Dr. Kraatz has formed another new genus {Had ropopillia) 

 for Popillia regina (not "regina}"), of Newman, which also 

 belongs to the subgenus Spilota, and is very closely 

 related to Anomala strigata, Lap. Newman's name has 

 been sunk in favour of Guerin's sp)lendida, dating from 

 1840, but as the original description of Newman's regina, 

 as of his numerous other species of Popillia, was in the 

 "Magazine of Natural History " of 1838 (vol. ii, p. 336) this 

 must be revived as the correct name. This paper was 

 overlooked by the cataloguers, although it preceded by three 

 years that to which they have given the references. 



