84 BUTELIN.E. 



mesosternal process is moderately long, compressed, blunt and 

 nearly straight. The sides of the sternum and abdomen are 

 clothed with long but not close hair. 



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

 sharp teeth, the lower lobe of the inner front claw is angulated 

 near the base and the outer middle claw is cleft at the tip. The 

 pygidiuin is smoother, shorter and more inclined than in the 

 female and slightly protuberant at the extremity. 



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

 blunt. 



Length, 9-12 mm. ; breadth, 5'5-7 mm. 



MADRAS : Nilgiri Hills (If. L. Andrewes), Pondicherry. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Mr. Andrewes took this species in considerable numbers. It 

 has the closest resemblance to P. Icevis, Burm., but the latter has 

 the outer middle claw entire in the male. 



59. Popillia eximia. (Plate IV, fig. 22.) 



Pofrillia eximia, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 49. 



Bright green above and coppery beneath, with a close but 

 narrow margin of white setae on each side of the pronotum and a 

 small compact patch on each side of the pygidiuin. 



It is oval and moderately convex in shape and very smooth and 

 shining above. The clypeus is rugose, the forehead densely 

 punctured and the pronotum finely and scantily punctured at 

 the front and sides. The scutellum is almost unpunctured, 

 broad and rounded at the apex. The elytra have each a very 

 large and deep impression behind the scutellum and five deep 

 dorsal striae, which are distinctly punctured ; the subsutural 

 interval is scarcely wider than the next and almost unpunctured. 

 The pygidium is coarsely transversely punctured, and the meso- 

 sternal process is moderately long, compressed, curved and pointed. 



c? . The two teeth of the front tibia are minute and sharp, the 

 lower lobe of the inner front claw is not angulated nor very wide, 

 and the longer claw of the middle feet is simple. 



Length., 11*5 mm. ; breadth, 7 mm. 



MADRAS : Nilgiri Hills (Sir G. F. Hampsori). 



Type (a single c? specimen) in the British Museum. 



60. Popillia adamas. (Plate IV, fig. 24.) 



Popillia adamas, Newm.,* Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 337 ; id., 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 40 ; Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 

 i, 1844, p. 298. 



Deep blue-black, shining but not metallic, with a conspicuous 

 fringe of white setae on each side of the pronotum and a larger 

 round spot of similar setae on each side of the base of the pygidium. 

 The sides of the body beneath are clothed with rather long but 

 not close whitish hairs. 



It is rather elongate-oval in shape. The clypeus is densely 



