74 RUTELIN.E. 



fcubsutural interval being very broad and bearing an irregular 

 double line of strong punctures, and the fourth interval bearing 

 a single row of separate punctures along the middle ; they are 

 not flanged at the sides. The pygidium is strongly and rugosely 

 punctured, except along the middle, and bears a dense patch of 

 yellowish hairs on each side at the base ; the femora and the 

 lower surface (except along the middle) are rather thickly clothed 

 with similar coarse hairs. The mesosternal process is blunt and 

 not very long. 



cJ . The two teeth of the front tibia are short and sharp, and 

 the hind tibia is inflated at the base. The pygidium is rather 

 convex and protuberant. The larger claw on all the feet is very long. 



$ . The legs are a little less robust, except the hind tarsi, which 

 are rather shorter and thicker than in the male. The teeth of the 

 front tibia are moderately sharp, but longer than in the male. 



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



PUNJAB : Kangra Valley, Simla (Aug.), Kulu, Kasauli (H. J. 

 Barrow, July); UNITED PROVINCES: Mussoorie, 7500 ft. (H. M. 

 Lefroy,A\ig.), Naini Tal,Kumaon, 6000 ft. (E. T. Atkinson); NEPAL 

 (Maj.- Qen. Jfardwicke types) ; SIKKIM : Kurseong, 5000 ft. 

 (Annandale, Sept.), Soom, Darjiling District (Carmichael Coll.); 

 A SSAM : Pedong (Desgodins). 



Types of Hope in the British Museum ; that oF P. caschmirensis in 

 the Vienna Museum; that otP.hilaris, Burtn., in the Halle Museum. 



This beautiful species is extremely abundant throughout the 

 Himalayan region from Kashmir to Sikldm. Although varying 

 comparatively little in coloration, it is subject to great variation 

 in size, in its relative proportions of length and breadth, and in 

 the puncturation of the pronotum. The type is a male. The 

 names formosa and smaragdula were given by Hope to female 

 specimens darkened in colour, perhaps by bad methods of preser- 

 vation, and the form caschmirensis is comparatively small and 

 narrow in shape. 



45. Popillia macclellandi. 



Popillia macclellandi, Hope,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, 1845, p. 8. 



Deep purplish crimson, metallic, with the elytra orange, suffused 

 with a faint rosy metallic lustre, the lower surface and femora 

 sometimes very deep metallic green. 



Moderately elongate in shape, with very stout legs ; very smooth 

 and shining above and moderately clothed beneath with grey hairs, 

 the pygidium bearing two small basal patches of white hairs. 



The form and sculpture generally are exactly as in P. cupricollis, 

 Hope, but the punctures at the sides of the pronotum are very 

 minute and inconspicuous, instead of being coarse and strong. 



Length, 12-13-5 mm. ; breadth, 7-8 mm. 



ASSAM : Cherrapunji, 4400 ft. (S. W. Kemp, October), Naga 

 Hills (If. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



