IDACTTLOPOPILLIA. 57 



punctured, and the vertex of the head strongly and rugosely punc- 

 tured. The pronotum bears strong and close punctures all over, 

 which become coarser and partly confluent at the sides and finer in 

 the posterior median part. The scutellum is moderately punctured 

 and the elytra are deeply striated, the subsutural interval being 

 broad and irregularly punctured in its ante- 

 rior half, the punctured area gradually con- 

 tracting to form a deep median stria upon 

 the posterior half. The fourth interval 

 bears a nearly complete median row of 

 punctures. The elytra are without a dis- 

 tinct lateral flange. The pygidium is strongly 

 punctured, the punctures becoming rugose 

 at the sides ; it is decorated at the base 

 _ ^ with a pair of rather small roundish patches 



Fig. M.Dactylo- ^ P a * e h&ira and similar hairs clothe the 

 popillia virescens. sides of the abdominal segments. The 

 mesosternal process is laminar, bluntly 



pointed arid only feebly produced. The front tibia is moderately 

 long and armed with two long teeth arisfng close together and 

 directed forwards ; the claws are long ai>d the longer one rather 

 blunt. 



c? . Both teeth of the anterior tibia are very sharp. The claws 

 are long, the longer one of the front feet excised near the base 

 and cleft at the apex. 



$ . The apical tooth of the front tibia is long and not very 

 acute. The longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft at 

 the apex. 



Length, 12-14 mm. ; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



SIKKIM : Upper Teesta Valley, 1000-4000 ft. ; Darjiling (Fruh- 

 storfer, June), Mungphu (Atkinson), Soom (Carmichael Coll.), 

 Pedong (Desgodins), Kurseong, Gopaldhara, Eungbong Valley 

 (H. Stevens] ; NEPAL (type). 



Type in the British Museum ; that of P. truncata in the Vienna 

 Museum. 



26. Dactylopopillia blanchardi. 



Popillia blanchardi, Ohaus,* Stett. Ent. Zeit. Iviii, 1897, p. 348. 



Very dark metallic green or green-black, with the upper surface 

 of the head and thorax rather brighter green, the elytra pale 

 yellow, and the clypeus, antennae and legs orange, with a faint 

 metallic lustre. 



The body is elongate in shape, rather parallel-sided and convex. 

 The head is densely rugose, with the clypeus small and nearly 

 straight in front. The pronotum is very transverse, coarsely 

 punctured (rather rugosely at the sides), with the lateral margins 

 strongly curved and approximating in front and behind, the front 

 angles very sharp and the hind angles very obtuse ; the base has 

 a very fine marginal stria and is very slightly excised in front of 



