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The scutellum bears a few tine punctures and is strongly depressed 

 anteriorly. The elytra are deeply punctate-striate, the second 

 and third intervals being wider than the rest, and the former 

 aving an incomplete row of punctures anteriorly. Thepygidium 

 is very convex and bears fine scattered punctures. The longer 

 claw is cleft at the tip in the front and middle feet, and the 

 trochanters of the hind legs are produced into spines. 



rf. The elytra are rather narrow and parallel-sided, the legs 

 very long, the hind tibiae inflated, the hind femora rather narrow 

 at the end, and the hind trochanters produced into strong spines. 



Length, H'5-13'5 mm. ; breadth, 5'5-6'5 mm. 



BOMBAY (Col. WhiteJiill) ; KASHMIR (according to Burmeister). 



Type in the Halle Museum. 



DACTYLOPOPILLIA, gen. nov. 



TYPE, Popillia virescens, Hope. 



Range. Himalayas. 



The form, is convex, long and narrow, especially the hinder part 

 of the body, of which the shoulders are not very prominent. The 

 prothorax is very gently excised before the scutellum, and the meso- 

 sternum forms a broad lamina between the coxae. The pygidium 

 is setose, but tufted only in D. vircscens. The legs are robust and 

 the front tibiae armed with two sharp and slender teeth, placed very 

 obliquely at the extremity, close together and separated only by 

 a very acute notch. All the claws are rather long and slender. 



The male has the teeth of the front tibia more acute, the inner 

 front claw excised at the base, dilated and cleft, and the remaining 

 claws simple. 



The female has the legs more slender and the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet cleft. 



In other respects the characters are those of Popillia. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (4) Pronotum punctured, shining. 



2 (3) Pygidium lightly punctured, with 



small basal tufts virescens, Hope, p. 56. 



3 (2) Pygidium rugose with the sides hairy, blanchardi, Ohaus, p. 57. 



4 (1) Pronotum rugose, dull opacicottis, Kraatz, p. 58. 



25. Dactylopopillia virescens. 



Popillia virescens, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 23 ; Newm., 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend, iii, 1841, p. 44. 

 Popillia truncata, Redt.,* Hiigel's Kaschmir, 1848, iv, 2, p. 527. 



Deep metallic green or golden green with the elytra orange and 

 lightly suffused with a metallic lustre. The femora and tibiae 

 are metallic green and the tarsi dark red. 



It is convex and rather elongate, scarcely dilated behind the 

 shoulders. The clypeus is densely granular, short and broad, and 

 almost rectangular in shape, with the front margin almost imper- 

 ceptibly indented in the middle, the forehead closely and rugosely 



