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the scutellum, the latter being short and rather strongly punc- 

 tured. The elytra have five dorsal striae and a very nearly 

 complete row of confluent punctures upon the subsutural interval, 

 which is not much wider than the rest. The propygidium, pygi- 

 dium and body beneath are rather evenly clothed with decumbent 

 grey hairs, but the apex of the pygidium and a narrow median 

 line at its base are bare. The mesosternum is not produced, but 

 forms a rectangular lamina between the middle legs. The legs 

 are stout, the front tibiae being armed with two sharp slender 

 oblique teeth, separated by a very acute notch. 



cJ. The inner front claw is long, broad and cleft at the apex. 



Length, 10 mm.; breadth, 6 mm. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Berlin Entomological Museum). 



Type in Dr. F. Ohaus' collection. 



27. Dactylopopillia opacicollis. 



Popillia opacicollis, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 272. 



Dark metallic green or aeneous black, with the head and pro- 

 notum a little brighter green, and the elytra and legs bright 

 orange with a slight metallic suffusion. 



The clypeus is densely rugose, short and transversely rect- 

 angular, with the front margin nearly straight. The forehead is 

 rugosely punctured in front, and very strongly and closely 

 punctured behind. The pronotum is very densely granular, with 

 a very narrow elevated ridge along the middle ; the sides are 

 rather abruptly angulated before the middle and nearly straight 

 from there to the angles, of which the front are very acute and 

 the hind obtuse ; the sides are nearly parallel from the lateral 

 angulation to the hind angles, and the base is very feebly excised 

 before the scutellum. The latter is rather strongly punctured. 

 The elytra have five punctured dorsal striae and the subsutural in- 

 terval is broad and irregularly punctured. The pygidium is rather 

 ^evenly clothed with not very close decumbent white hair, and the 

 body beneath is similarly clothed with rather longer and looser hair. 



J . The inner front claw is long, broad, and rather deeply cleft 

 at the apex. 



Length, 10-12 mm.; breadth, 5'5-6'5 mm. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills. 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 



Genus POPILLIA. 



Popillia, Serv., Encycl. Me'th. x, 1825, p. 367 ; Burm., Handb. Ent. 

 iv, 1, 1844, p. 292 ; Lacord. Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 334. 



TYPE, Popillia bipunctata, F. (S. Africa). 



Range. Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Generally small in size and short and stout in shape. The 

 head is not large, and the clypeus is broadly rounded, except in 

 P. nasuta. The prothorax is narrow in front and dilated to the 



