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37. Popillia puncticollis. 



Popitiia puncticollis, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1897, p. 329. 



Green or golden green, with the elytra testaceous, suffused with 

 a metallic lustre. 



The body is rather long and narrow. The clvpeus is finely 

 granular and the forehead densely punctured. The pronotum is 

 closely and rather coarsely punctured, but less strongly along the 

 middle line, with a nearly smooth space before the scutellum ; 

 the sides are gently angulated before the middle, the front angles 

 acute and the hind angles very obtuse. The scutellum bears a 

 few punctures, and each elytron has six deeply impressed, strongly 

 punctured dorsal striae placed at nearly equal distances, the 

 intervals being smooth and convex ; the sides are dilated, but not 

 abruptly flattened behind the shoulders. The pygidium is coarsely 

 and rngosely punctured, and entirely but not thickly clothed with 

 rather long coarse whitish hair, with a rather narrow transverse 

 basal band of dense hairs, which is interrupted at the middle. 

 The sides of the rnetasternum and of the abdominal segments are 

 rather thickly clothed with similar hairs and the mesosternal 

 process is rather long and strongly compressed. The front tibia 

 is armed with two strong sharp teeth. 



I have not seen a male. 



Length, 11 mm. ; breadth, 5'5 mm. 



SIKKIM (Bretandcau). 



Type in M. Rene Oberthiir's collection ; co-types in the Genoa 

 and Berlin Entomological Museums. 



38. Popillia testaceipennis. 



Fo}>iltia testaceipennis, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 270. 



Steel-blue or green above and below, with the elytra testaceous, 

 their inner, front and hind edges very narrowly and the outer edges 

 less narrowly bordered with the dark colour of the rest of the body. 



The body is rhomboidal, slightly elongate, depressed, and very 

 smooth and shining. The head is rather finely and rugosely 

 punctured, with the sides of the clypeus strongly contracted to 

 the front margin, which is very gently curved. The pronotum is 

 almost smooth, with very minute punctures towards (but not 

 reaching) the sides and in the front angles ; the lateral margins 

 are angulated before the middle, the front angles acute and the 

 hind angles obtuse. The scutellum is scantily and minutely 

 punctured, and the elytra bear six similar and nearly equidistant 

 strongly-punctured striae, with the intervals smooth and scarcely 

 convex ; the lateral margins are not flanged. The pygidium is 

 strongly punctured, and bears rather scanty yellowish hairs at 

 the sides and apex and two sharply-defined rather remote basal 

 patches. The mesosternal process is strongly compressed, broad, 

 curved and acuminate. The middle of the merasternum and 

 abdomen are smooth and the sides rather thickly hairy, the hairs 



