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65. Popillia sulcata. 



Popillia sulcata, Redt.,* Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv, 2, 1843, p. 52". 

 Popillia scutellaris, Blanch. * Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 

 p. 199. 



Shining black or blue-black beneath, and coppery, deep metallic 

 green or blue-black above, the elytra being orange or reddish, 

 sometimes with a slight metallic suffusion, with the lateral margins 

 black. The head, pronotum, legs and sides of the body beneath 

 are clothed with rather long, erect, but not closely-set yellowish 

 hairs. 



The body is oval and compact, without prominent shoulders, 

 the greatest width being behind them. The clypeus is broadly 

 rounded and rugose, and the forehead ver}' coarsely and closely 

 punctured. The pronotum is rugosely punctured, except in the 

 posterior part, where it is strongly but not densely punctured ; it 

 is very convex and the sides are strongly rounded, with the front 

 angles not sharp, and the hind angles almost obsolete. The 

 scutellum is rather strongly punctured. Each elytron bears six 

 deep and strongly punctured striae (the second abbreviated behind) 

 and a rather deep but not large pit before the middle. The 

 pygidium is closely and rugosely punctured, with scattered hairs to- 

 wards the apex, but without basal hairy patches. The mesosternal 

 process forms a vertical lamina, which is only very slightly 

 produced. 



J . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is very short and 

 sharp, and the inner front claw strongly dilated. 



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

 strongly curved. 



Length, 8 - 5-9 mm. ; breadth, 5-5*5 mm. 



KASHMIR (type) ; UNITED PROVINCES : Mussoorie, 7500 ft. (H. 

 Maxwell Lefroy, Aug.), Landour. 



Type in the Vienna Museum ; that of P. scutellaris in the Paris 

 Museum. 



66. Popillia simlana. 



Popillia simlana, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 52. 



Golden or coppery green, with the legs and lower surface dark 

 coppery, the elytra testaceous with a metallic suffusion, and the 

 extreme lateral margins coppery black. 



The body is ovate and a little depressed. The clypeus is con- 

 fluently punctured, broad, with the front margin nearly straight 

 and strongly reflexed. The forehead is rugosely punctured and 

 thinly clothed with erect yellow hairs. The pronotum is very 

 strongly punctured, the punctures becoming confluent near the 

 lateral margins, which are scarcely curved, angulated near the 

 middle, with the front angles acute and the hind angles obtuse ; 

 the whole surface is thinly clothed with erect yellowish hairs. 

 The scutellum bears only a few fine punctures, and the elytra 



