POPILLIA. 85 



rugose, the forehead closely punctured and the pronotum finely 

 and rather evenly punctured over the greater part of its surface, 

 more strongly at the sides. The scutellum is distinctly punctured, 

 and each elytron has a deep impression behind the scutellum and 

 five strongly impressed and punctured striae, the subsutural 

 interval being very broad and coarsely punctured in its anterior 

 part. The pygidium is coarsely and deeply transversely strigose. 

 The mesosternal process is moderately long and strongly com- 

 pressed, curved and slightly acuminate at the end. 



cf . The front tibia is armed with two very short and sharp 

 teeth, and the longer claw of the middle feet is entire. The 

 pygidium is rather protuberant at the end. 



Length, 10-11 mm. ; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



BENGAL: Mandar (P. Cordon, July); BOMBAY: Bandra (fi. B. 

 Kinnear, Aug.), Khandala (Gapt. Dowries), Khandesh. 



Type in the Oxford University Museum ; co-type in the British 

 Museum. 



61. Popillia discalis. (Plate IV, fig. 21.) 



Popillia discalis, Walker,* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 55. 

 Popillia albilatera, Motch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. ii, 1863, p. 470. 

 Popillia nietneri, Redt.,* Eeise Novara, Col. 1867, p. 72. 

 Popillia complanata, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892. p. 263; 

 Ohaus, Ent. Nachr. 1899, p. 220. 



Deep metallic green, blue, coppery or black, usually with the 

 clypeus, the lateral margins of the pronotum, the elytra (wholly 

 or partly), the posterior part of the pygidium and the abdomen, 

 the femora and tibiae, or some of these, orange-yellow. 



It is a short and compact insect, smooth and shining, with a 

 conspicuous clothing of whitish hairs near the lateral margins of 

 the pronotum and in the front angles. The pygidium has two 

 large compact basal patches of similar hairs and a few scattered 

 apical ones, and the lower surface is moderately closely covered 

 with hairs except along the middle line. The clypeus is broadly 

 rounded and densely rugose, and the forehead is closely punctured. 

 The pronotum is thinly and minutely punctured, except at th 

 base, the puncturation becoming stronger in the front angle. Th& 

 scutellum has a few punctures at the base, and the elytra have 

 each a very slight transverse depression behind the scutellum and 

 five rather deep entire punctured dorsal striae, the intervals 

 between which are scarcely convex, the subsutural one broad, with, 

 an irregular row of punctures along the middle. The pygidium 

 bears rather coarse transverse punctures. The mesosternum is 

 produced into a moderately long, compressed, broad blunt process. 

 The legs are short and stout. 



c? . The sides of the pronotum are slightly sinuated before the 

 hind angles, which are sharply rectangular. The front tibia is 

 armed with two short sharp teeth, the broad lower lobe of the 

 inner front claw is obtusely angulated near the base, and the 

 longer claw of the middle feet is not cleft. 



