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APPENDIX. 



Descriptions are added here of a few new species received 

 while the preceding pages were in the press, and too late for 

 inclusion in their proper places. 



28 a. Popillia kanarensis, sp. nov. 



Deep metallic green or coppery, sometimes with the elytra tes- 

 taceous, suffused with metallic lustre, and decorated with a dark 

 patch round the scutellum, a spot on the humeral callus and a 

 patch on the apical callus. 



It is very smooth and shining above and rather closely clothed 

 beneath, except along the middle line, with long erect white 

 hairs, which also form two rather loose outstanding tufts at the 

 base of the pygidium. A very few erect hairs can sometimes be 

 traced in the marginal grooves of the pronotum. 



The form is oval and convex. The head is finely rugose, with 

 the clypeus narrow, triangular, bluntly produced and strongly 

 reflexed at the apex, the forehead lightly depressed along the 

 middle and the vertex strongly punctured. The pronotum is 

 very smooth, with a few fine scattered punctures. The sides are 

 nearly straight in front and behind, the front angles slightly 

 acute, the hind angles very obtuse and the base broadly emar- 

 ginate in the middle. The scutellum is broadly triangular and 

 bears a few fine punctures. The elytra bear five deep, strongly 

 punctured dorsal grooves, with smooth convex intervals, the sub- 

 sutural one having a few coarse punctures at the base. The 

 pygidium is strongly transversely rugulose. The mesosternal 

 process forms only a slight pointed prominence before the middle 

 coxae. The front tibia is armed with two very strong oblique 

 teeth and the longer front claw is very deeply cleft. 



d . The inner lobe of the longer front claw is very broad and 

 blunt, and the middle claws are long and entire. 



$ . The longer middle claw, as well as the front one, is cleft. 



Length, 9*5-ll*5 mm. ; breadth, 5'5-6'5 mm. 



BOMBAY : N. Kanara, Talewadi, near Castle Eock (S. Kemp, 

 Oct.). 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; co-types in the British 

 Museum. 



