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of minute, almost obsolete, punctures, which become irregular 

 grooves upon the posterior part. The pygidium is smooth in the 

 middle and bears coarse irregular punctures at the sides. The 

 mesosternum forms a quadrate lamina nearly vertical in front. 



c? . The front tibia is broad and armed with a sharp terminal 

 tooth and an obtuse upper one. The front tarsus is very short, 

 the claw-joint very large and the inner claw very broad. 



Length, 10-13 mm.; breadth, 5-5-7 mm. 



N". INDIA. 



This was taken long ago by Capt. Boys, but the exact locality 

 is not recorded. 



Types (c? and $) in the British Museum ; co-type in the Oxford 

 University Museum. 



Genus MACROPOPILLIA. 



Macropopittia, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1905, p. 94. 



TYPE, Macropopittia arroivi, Ohaus. 



Range. South India. 



Body rather large, ovate and convex. Prothorax not margined 

 behind, the base abruptly emarginate before the scutellum, the 

 sides gently curved and all the angles fairly sharp, almost right 

 angles, the hind angles exactly meeting the humeral angles of the 

 elytra. Mesosternum produced into a strong, blunt curved process. 

 Legs not very long. Front tibiae armed with two external teeth; 

 the inner claw of the front and outer claw of the middle tarsus 

 cleft in both sexes. 



Macropopillia has almost the characters of Popillia, but differs 

 by its much larger size and its regular oval shape, with the 

 protborax dilating to the hind angles and exactly fitted to the 

 elytra, the shoulders of which are therefore not prominent. The 

 pygidium has no hairy tufts. 



Only a single species is known. 



72. Macropopillia arrowi. (Plate I, fig. 8.) 



Macropopillia arrowi, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1905, p. 94. 



Orange above, with a metallic suffusion, and with two longi- 

 tudinal stripes on the forehead, two oblique patches upon the 

 pronoturn, extending from the front to the hind margin and widest 

 a little before the base, where they are angulated internally, and 

 a small median spot on each side, dark green. The lower surface 

 and the pygidium are dark green, the latter having a broad longi- 

 tudinal median orange stripe, and the dorsal segments of the 

 abdomen are similarly banded from side to side. The femora and 

 tibiae are metallic red and the tarsi black. 



The body is large, broadly ovate and convex. The clypeus is 

 broadly rounded and finely punctate-rugose, the forehead finely 



