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rounded behind and without distinct angles at the suture ; the 

 outer margins are slightly flattened, gently dilated behind the 

 shoulders, where they are very broad, and rounded from there to 

 the apices, which are not angular. The mesosternum forms a 

 lamina between the middle coxae, but is vertical in front and not 

 produced. The pygidium is rather prominent. The front tibia 

 has a sharp apical tooth, but only a minute vestige of an upper 

 one. The longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



cJ . All the legs are longer, the front tibia very broad and its 

 apical tooth short and very acute. The inner claw is broad and 

 strongly bent. 



5 . The front tibia has a long curved terminal tooth, and there 

 is a slight dilatation of the flattened lateral margins of the elytra 

 just behind the shoulders. 



Spilopopillia has all the characters of Anomala, but differs in 

 its flattened dorsal surface, the pronotum dilating from apex to 

 base, in its short, broad elytra, strongly rounded behind, the 

 peculiar single-toothed front tibiae, and in other features. 



74. Spilopopillia 6-guttata. 



Popillia 6-guttata, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, p. 116 ; 

 Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 180, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



Metallic green or coppery, with the elytra black or dark brown, 

 their outer margins, the anterior part of their sutural margins, 

 and the legs reddish, and three large round 

 spots upon each elytron bright orange in 

 colour. The first spot adjoins the middle of 

 the anterior margin, the second is before the 

 middle of the outer margin, and the third 

 occupies the centre of the apical part. 



The body is rather broad and depressed. 

 The head is densely rugose, except behind 

 the eyes, where it is strongly punctured. 

 The pronotum is closely covered with large 

 and deep transverse impressions. All the 

 angles are sharp, but the hind angles are not 

 OQ ., .... produced. The sides are curved, dilated from 

 g ^guu2 P apex to base and scarcely angulated in the 

 middle. The scutellum bears large punctures 

 in its basal part. The elytra are rather dilated and flattened 

 at the sides, which are widest a little behind the shoulders, 

 rounded from that point, and separately rounded at th apices ; 

 they bear very deep coarsely punctured strife, and the subsutural 

 interval is broad and irregularly punctured. The pygidium is 

 transversely strigose. 



J . The front tibia is broad and terminates in a short sharp 

 tooth, the front tarsi are short and thick, and the other tarsi 

 long. 



