76 KUTELIN.E. 



broadly rounded and finely rugose, the forehead rugosely 

 punctured. The pronotum is finely punctured in the middle, 

 strongly and closely at the sides, the lateral margins are angulated 

 in the middle, nearly straight from there to the angles, of which 

 the front ones are very acute and the hind slightly obtuse. The 

 scutellum bears only a very few minute punctures, and the elytra 

 bear six very deeply impressed and punctured striae, the second a 

 little interrupted, the fifth a little abbreviated behind, and the 

 fifth interval broad and bearing an incomplete series of deep 

 punctures. The pygidium is irreguhirly and not deeply punc- 

 tured. The mesosternum is prominent beneath, but very blunt 

 and not produced. The legs are short and stout. 



c? . The teeth of the front tibia are short and very sharp. 



. The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long, curved and 

 blunt. 



Length, 8'o-9'5 mm. ; breadth, 4*5-5'5 mm. 



ASSAM: Naga Hills ( W. Doherty, June), Khasi Hills (Col 

 Godwin- Austen). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. O. E. Janson's 

 collection. 



This species is more elongate than P. subquadrata, the pro- 

 notum is much less transverse and less coarsely punctured, and the 

 pygidial tufts are not transverse. 



48. Popillia subquadrata. 



Popillia mbyuadrata, Kraatz,* Deutsehe Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 250. 



Coppery green, golden green, or red, with the elytra of the 

 same colour, or chestnut-red, with a metallic green lustre, and 

 with undefined dark margins. The clypeus, legs and extremity 

 of the abdomen are usually of a deep red colour. 



The body is short, rhomboidal in shape and flattened above. 

 The clypeus is broad and semicircular, finely rugose, and the 

 forehead densely punctured. The pronotum is very coarsely and 

 closely punctured in front, and very sparingly punctured and 

 shining behind ; it is short, broad and convex, with the sides 

 angulate in the middle, the front angles verv acute and the hind 

 angles obtuse. The scutellum bears a few punctures, and each 

 elytron has a sutural and five deep dorsal stria?, placed close 

 together and strongly and confluently punctured ; the subsutural 

 interval is broad, and coarsely and irregularly punctured ; the 

 lateral margins are not flanged. The pygidium is coarsely and 

 rugoselv punctured and bears two transverse patches of whitish 

 hairs at the base. The sides of the sternum and abdominal 

 segments are densely clothed with similar coarse hairs. The 

 mesosternum forms a broadly rounded, scarcely produced lamina. 



J . The front tibia is broad, and its two teeth are sharp and 

 minute. The pygidium is convex, and smooth and shining at 

 the apex. The inner front claw is very broad and angulated 

 near the base, and the outer middle claw is entire. 



