This is very closely related to Popillia mpricoUit, of which it is 

 the representative farther east. It differs by the less vivid and 

 more purplish colour of the head, prothorax, scutellum and legs, the 

 smaller hair-patches at the base of the pygidium, and especially 

 the much finer puncturation of the sides of the pronotiim. The 

 males may also be distinguished by their differently shaped aedeagi. 



P. macclellandi was stated by Hope to inhabit Cliusan, in 

 Eastern China, but, like Mimela downsi and other species described 

 at the same time, was evidently the subject of a mistake. 



46. Popillia nottrotti. 



Popillia nottrotti, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 273. 



(lolclen or coppery green above and beneath, the elytra orange, 

 with a strong metallic suffusion and generally with their sides 

 vaguely darkened. 



The body is narrowly elongate and not very convex. The 

 clypeus is densely granular and broadly rounded in front, and 

 the forehead closely punctured. The pronotiim is finely punc- 

 tured all over, sparingly in the middle and very closely at the 

 sides ; the lateral margins are angulated at the middle and nearly 

 straight from there to the angles, of which the front ones are 

 very sharp and the hind ones nearly right angles. The scutellum 

 bears a few fine punctures, and the elytra bear a smooth elevated 

 sutural costa and a similar median dorsal one, the intervening 

 space being wide and irregularly punctured ; the space between 

 the dorsal costzi and the shoulder bears three rows of closely 

 punctured striae, which are abbreviated behind ; the sides of the 

 elytra are without lateral flanges. The pygidium bears two basal 

 patches of dense whitish hairs, the apical part being very shining 

 and almost unpunctured, and the sides of the sternum and abdomen 

 are densely clothed with coarse whitish hair. The mesosternum 

 forms a compressed, broadly rounded, scarcely produced lamina. 



<3 . The tarsi are very thick, and the front tibia bears two acute 

 teeth. The pygidium is very convex. 



$ . The four anterior tarsi are slender, the hind pair thick, the 

 teeth of the front tibia blunt, and the pygidium rather flat. 



Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



BENGAL: Burgu (Dr. Nottrott type); SIKKIM : Gopaldharu, 

 Euugbong Valley, 6300 ft. (H. Stevens). 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 



47. Popillia patricia, sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 12.) 



Brilliant golden green, with the legs, pygidium and lower surface 

 dark coppery green, and the elytra testaceous with a strong metallic 

 green suffusion and dark greenish-black lateral margins. 



It is oval in shape and very brilliant, with two large roundish 

 patches of pale hairs at the base of the pygidium, some erect 

 scattered hairs near the extremity, and the sternum, femora and 

 abdominal segments rather closely clothed. The clypeus is 



