274 Mr. O, J. Arrow's notes on the RuteJid genera 



the three species named above. Parry's insect, which is 

 from Assam (and not Kashmir as stated in the catalogue), 

 is a blue variety of the Assamese M. Icei, which is easily 

 distinguishable by the coarse puncturation and deep blue 

 sutural margins of the elytra ; and Redtenbacher's species, 

 which was described from Kashmir, is the same as M. 

 horsficldi of Hope, recognisable by its smaller size, loss 

 punctured elytra and the golden colour of the hind femora. 

 There is a variety of M.fulgidivittata, in which the green 

 ground colour is replaced by a reddish-bronze over the 

 entire surface, and the bands are a purplish black. 



Three names have been given to a species of Popillia 

 inhabiting the Philippine Islands. The types of P. scalfta 

 and xmada, Newman, are the same, and incticollis, Kraatz, 

 also belongs to this species. Dr. Kraatz having been misled 

 by Newman's very faulty descriptions. P. xmula was 

 described from a specimen from which the hairs on the 

 disc of the thorax had been rubbed off, and in P. scalpta 

 the author, by a strange omission, made no reference to this 

 most prominent characteristic. 



Strigoderma fidgicollis and insignis, described and 

 figured by de Breme, are merely two of the colour varieties 

 of >S^. sulcipcnnis, Burm. The volume in which these were 

 described bears the same date as Burmeister's (1844), but 

 the paper was not published until the following year. 



The descriptions of S. colomhica, Burm., and ^S'. cuprcice'ps, 

 Blanch., are virtually the same, and I have no doubt of the 

 identity of the types. 



S. nigri^pennis, Bates, to which a name was given by 

 Bates on account of its darker coloration than orlicularis, 

 Burm., is clearly only a variety of the latter, although very 

 distinct. The absence of all structural difference and the 

 fact that the great majority of the specimens occur in one 

 collection from the same place (Cordova) will not permit it 

 to be regarded as another species, and the apparent 

 absence of individuals intermediate in colour is by no 

 means unique. 



Synonymical List. 



Anmnala 'pallida, F., Syst. Ent., p. 35 = A. 'pallida, var., 



Syst. El., p. 168 = A. ypsilmi, Wied. 

 A. varians, Oliv. = A. pallida, Burm. 

 A. ivalkeri, n.n. = A. humeralis, Walker. 



