80 UUTliLIXJE. 



It is not impossible that Rutela liisteroidea, G-yll. (Schonh., Syn. 

 Ins. i, 3, 1817, App. p. 66) is another name for the present 

 suecies, but I have seen no specimen with a pale patch upon the 

 elytra. 



53. Popillia fese. 



Popillia fete, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1S92, p. 269. 



Coppery, golden green, deep green or nearly black, with the 

 elytra yellow or orange, with narrow black margins, sometimes 

 dilated externally and posteriorly, sometimes leaving only an 

 -oblique pale patch on each elytron or covering them entirely. 

 In the phase with pale elytra the legs are sometimes also pale- 

 coloured with the exception of the tarsi. 



It is rather short and rhomboidal in shape, with very stout 

 legs. The head is finely rugose, with the clypeus short and 

 nearly straight in front. The pronotum is very convex and 

 shining, strongly punctured at the sides and very scantily 

 and feebly in the anterior middle part ; the sides are angulated 

 before the middle, the front angles acute and the hind angles 

 obtuse. The scutellum is rather strongly punctured. The elytra 

 bear five deeply impressed and strongly punctured dorsal striae, 

 the second and fourth intervals being broader than the rest, and 

 the second bearing a nearly complete row of punctures ; each 

 elytron has a well-marked depression before the middle. The 

 pygidium is rather coarsely punctured and bears two basal patches 

 of white hairs. The sides of the sternum and abdominal segments 

 are also clothed with coarse whitish hairs, which cover only the 

 posterior half of the latter. The mesosternal process is moderately 

 long, and very broad and blunt. 



c? . The front tibia is broad and armed with two short and 

 sharp teeth placed close together. 



$ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long and blunt. 



Length, 9-10 mm.; breadth, 5-6 mm. 



NEPAL ; SIKKIM : Mungplm (E. T. Atkinson), Gopaldhara, 

 Eungbong Valley, 6300 ft. (H. Stevens); ASSAM: Sudiya (W. 

 Doherty), Sylhet ; BURMA : Karen Hills, 2700-3300 ft. (L. Pea, 

 Dec. type), Euby Mines ( W. Doherty), Shan States (Col. Man- 

 ders), Mergui ( W. Doherty) ; SIAM ; MALACCA. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



54. Popillia pulchripes. (Plate IV, fig. 19.) 



Popillia pulchripes, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, 



p. 48. 

 Popillia complanata, var. viridipennis, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 



1892, p. 263. 

 Popillia complanata, var. testaceipes, Ohaus, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1897, 



p. 345. 



Uniform metallic green, blue or coppery above and beneath, 

 with^the extreme lateral edge of the prothorax and the legs 



