POPILLIA. 67 



Pale specimens occur in which the dark markings are almost 

 or entirely absent. 



The shape is rhomboidal and rather depressed above. The head 

 is small, with the clypeus finely rugose and not strongly trans- 

 verse. The forehead is closely punctured. The pronotum is 

 rather long, shining, with excessively fine punctures upon its 

 anterior part, becoming rather stronger near the front angles ; 

 the sides are obtusely angulated before the middle, the front 

 angles acute and the hind angles obtuse. The scutellurn bears 

 rather numerous punctures, and each ehtron bears five deep, 

 nearly equal and equidistant dorsal striae, which are finely punc- 

 tured at the bottom. The pygidium is strongly transversely 

 punctured and striolated and has two tufts of whitish hairs at 

 the base, and the lower surface of the body is rather thickly 

 clothed at the sides with similar hairs. The mesosternal process 

 is scarcely produced. 



c? . The legs are very stout, the front tibia very broad, with 

 two minute but sharp teeth and very short and thick front tarsi. 

 The pygidium is conical at the extremity. 



2 . The four anterior legs are slender and the hind legs stout, 

 with very short and thick tarsi. The two teeth of the front tibia 

 are long, the terminal one blunt and the upper one very sharp. 

 The pygidium is rather flat. 



Length, 8-9*5 mm.; breadth, 5-5-5 mm. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS (Roepstorff) ; IS T IOOBAR ISLANDS (Roepstorff). 



Type in the Brussels Museum. The British Museum possesses 

 a long series collected, together with the type, by Roepstorff. 



This was stated by Dr. Ohaus to be a variety of PopiUia 

 marginicollis, Hope, but it is in reality a very well-marked species, 

 differing from the latter in its small size, differently shaped 

 mesosternal process, clypeus, prothorax, etc., as well as in its 

 very peculiar coloration. The specimen called by Ohaus P. mar- 

 ginicollis var. trifolium appears to be a normal well-coloured 

 example. 



35. Popillia pulchra. 



PojJillia pulchra, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 40. 

 Popillia gemma, Krautz (nee Newm.), Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, 

 p. 268. 



Brilliant golden yellow, with crimson and greenish reflections; 

 the head (except the clypeus), pygidium (except the posterior 

 half), and lower surface dark metallic green, and the legs golden, 

 with the hind tarsi black. 



The body is rather short, rhomboidal in shape and not very 

 convex. The clypeus is short, nearly straight in front and closely 

 punctured, and the forehead is strongly and not very closely punc- 

 tured. The pronotum is distinctly but not closely punctured at 

 the sides, very lightly in the middle, and the angles are well- 



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