i26 Mr. G« J. Arrow 07i the 



Peripopillia hasaliSj Blanch. 



This has evidently a wide range, having been previously 

 recorded from Natal and from Zanzibar. 



Popillia bipunctata, F. 



Mr. Distant collected a series of this common insect showing 

 all stages from tiie typical form to the variety limbata, described 

 by Boheman as another species. 



NannopopilUa major, sp. n. 



Subparallela, nigro-aenea, dense griseo-vcstita ; prothorace cum 

 pedilms viridi-aeneis, clytris nigris, dimidio anteriore testacco 

 sutiira callisoiie humeralibus exccptis ; clypeo subquadrato cum 

 fronte granulato ; prothorace undiqne fortiter punctate, medio 

 obsolete sulcato, angulis anticis fere rcctis ; scutello grosse 

 irregulariter punctato; elytris profundc punctato-sulcatis ; pygidio 

 puDctato-rugoso, basis lateribus longe albo-hirtis. 



Long. 9| mm. 



Hob. Pretoria. A single male specimen. 



The genus Natnwpopi/lia has been formed by Herr Kolbe 

 for Poptdia minuscula, Harold, to which this species lias 

 evidently a very close relationship. It is larger, however, 

 and the prothorax, although coarsely punctured, is not clothed 

 with hairs except at the sides. There are long hairs upon 

 the ventral part of the pygidium, which are probably peculiar 

 to the male sex. As in the typical species, the larger claw 

 of the middle as well as the front tarsus is cleft, whereas in 

 the true I'opillia this is always undivided in the male. 



Phcenomeris Beschkei, Mannerh. 



This beautiful insect is common throughout a large part of 

 South and East Africa. 



Adoretus hirtellus, Lap. 



This appears to be the most abundant of the numerous 

 African species of Adoretus. In the Munich Catalogue it is 

 identified with several Alrican and Oriental species under the 

 common name of ^. uvihrosus, Fabr., which liurmeister has 

 pronounced to be the correct name of the present insect; but 

 from Fabricius's descrijttion 1 can only regard tiiis as very 

 doubtful. A. cinerarins, Burm., is a synonym of hirttUuSj 

 and aho A. puttctipennis, Fahr., the insect being Ibund over 

 a large } art of Alrica ; but there seems to me to be little 

 reason to suppose that it occurs beyond that continent, or 

 that any Oriental species ranges so far. 



