POPILLIA. 63 



The body is short, robust and convex, very smooth and shining. 

 The clypeus and forehead are finely and closely rugose, the former 

 semicircular in shape, with the margin only slightly reflexed, and 

 the vertex of the head closely punctured. The pronotum is very 

 convex, very smooth and shining in the middle and at the base, 

 closely punctured at the front and sides, with the lateral margins 

 strongly curved, the front angles acute, and the hind angles 

 almost obsolete. The scutellum is minutely and sparingly punc- 

 tured. Each elytron bears a deep transverse impression before the 

 middle and six lightly impressed dorsal rows of fine punctures, 

 the second row being incomplete posteriorly. The pygidium is 

 coarsely, and at the sides confluently, punctured. The meso- 

 sternal process is well produced, broad (vertically), and bluntly 

 rounded at the end. 



c? . The pygidium is convex and protuberant at the apex, and 

 tho front tibia is rather broad, with sharp but feeble teeth. 



$ . The pygidium is rather flat, and the terminal tooth of the 

 front tibia is long and blunt. 



Length, 11-13 mm. ; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



PUNJAB : Kangra Valley, 4500 ft. (G. C. Dudgeon, July) ; W. 

 KASHMIR (Lt.-Col.Seathun)-, N. BENGAL: Siliguri; UNITED PBO 

 VINCBS : G-arhwal, Mussoorie, 7500 ft. (H. M. Lefroy), Kumaon, 

 ~W. Almora (H. G. Champion) ; NEPAL (Hardwicke types); SIKKIM: 

 Darjiling (H. Fruhstorfer), Lebong, 5000 ft. (H. M. Lefroy}; 

 ASSAM : Naga and Patkai Hills ( W. Doherty). 



Types in the British Museum. 



Although it is placed as a synonym of P. cyanea in the Munich 

 Catalogue, the few words in which Popillia concolor, Cast., is 

 " described " do not seem to me to be applicable to this insect. 

 It may not be an Indian species. 



30. Popillia felix. (Plate IV. fig. 15.) 



Popillia felix, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 41. 



Golden red above and beneath, with the elytra orange-red, the 

 pygidium bearing two basal patches of whitish hairs, the sternum 

 densely clothed (except in the middle) with similar hairs, and each 

 ventral segment bearing two rows of transversely placed hairs at 

 the sides. 



The body is oval, compact and convex, and the upper surface 

 very smooth and shining. The clypeus is shortly transverse, 

 nearly straight in front and very finely rugose, and the forehead 

 is rather closely and evenly punctured. The pronotum is very 

 smooth and shining and scarcely visibly punctured, with the front 

 angles acute, the hind angles very obtuse, and the sides anpulate 

 in the middle and not visibly curved. The scutellum is very 

 minutely punctured, and each elytron bears five deep equidistant 

 dorsal striae, which are finely punctured, the intervals being 



