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sides, each puncture bearing a white seta, but is smooth along 

 the middle. The elytra are smooth and shining, lightly punc- 

 tured in indistinct rows. The pro- 

 pygidium is clothed, like the sternum 

 and abdomen, with white hairs lying 

 closely in longitudinal rows, and the 

 pygidium is finely shagreened, bearing 

 only a very few scattered setae. The 

 legs are rather long, the front tibiae 

 sharply bidentate, and the longer claw 

 of the front and middle feet cleft. 



d 1 . Dark bronzy or bronzy green, 

 with the elytra pale yellow, except at 

 the outer margins, which are black. 

 The teeth of the front tibia are very 

 Fig. W.-Trichanomala shar P> the front tarsi contracted, the 

 tmbriata, male. claw-joint very large. 



5 . Bronzy or bronzy green with 



pale yellow elytra, the outer margins of which are imperfectly, 

 or not at all, bordered with black. The prothorax has bright 

 yellow lateral edges, which extend partly or entirely round the 

 base, and the femora and tibiae may be of the same colour. The 

 elytra are angularly dilated behind the shoulders. 

 Length, 7-8'5 mm. ; breadth, 45 mm. 



SIKKIM : Eungpo, 1400 ft., Sept. ; UNITED PROVINCES : Dehra 

 Dun, W. Almora, Kumaon (H. G. Champion, April). 

 Type in the Oxford University Museum'. 



The coloration described is that normal to the respective sexes, 

 but probably a long series would show every stage of transition. 

 Of six males which I have seen, one has the female coloration. 



The type (a female) belongs to a dark variety with the elytra 

 entirely black and the remainder of the body dark metallic 

 green. 



Genus SPILOPOPILLIA. 



Spilopopillia, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 181. 



TYPE, Popillia 6-guttata, Fairm. 



Range. The Himalayas, Indo-China and S.W. China. 



Small, oval in shape and flattened above, very thinly clothed 

 with hair beneath, and very shining and very coarsely sculptured 

 above. The legs are rather long. The clypeus is short and 

 broad, with the front margin quite straight and slightly reflexed. 

 The antennae are nine-jointed and similar in the two sexes. The 

 pronotum is only very slightly convex, about half as broad again 

 as it is long, dilating from apex to base, where it is widest, with 

 the base gently trisinuate, forming in the middle a broad rounded 

 lobe not at all emarginate before the scutellum. The latter is 

 short, with rather straight sides. The elytra are short, separately 



