Lamellicorn Genua Popillia. 51 



with a metallic-green suffusion and the sides more or les3 

 dark. The clypeus, legs, and extremity of the abdomen are 

 sometimes also of a deep red colour. 



It is a broad and massive insect, smooth and shining, and 

 moderately convex above. The sides of the pronotum are 

 conspicuously bordered with white hairs, the pygidium bears 

 a pair of large round hair-patches at the base, and the lower 

 surface is rather thickly clothed at the sides with similar 

 white hairs. The clypeus is rugosely punctured, the fore- 

 head densely, and the scutellum and front and sides of the 

 pronotum very finely and sparsely. The elytra have each a 

 deep fovea behind the scutellum and five deeply impressed 

 and punctured dorsal striae. The subsutural interval is broad 

 and has an irregular line of large punctures along the middle. 

 The pygidium is coarsely transversely striolated, and tho 

 mesosternal process is strongly compressed and rounded at 

 the extremity. 



$ . The two teeth of the front tibia are short and sharp, 

 the inner front claw has a broad angulated lower lobe, and 

 the outer middle claw is cleft at the tip. 



Length 11-12'5 mm. ; breadth 6'5-7'5 mm. 



Hab. S. India: Bangalore, Nilgiri Hills (H. L. An- 

 drewes) . 



Three other Oriental species of Popillia, which have been 

 described in connection with a volume in preparation for the 

 'Fauna of British India* series, may be conveniently 

 included here : — 



Popillia pilosa, sp. n. 



Golden or coppery green, with the lower surface and legs 

 darker coppery green, and the elytra testaceous, with a 

 metallic sheen, and with the outer edges coppery black. The 

 body is ovate and a little depressed. The clypeus is rugose 

 and short, with the front margin feebly rounded and slightly 

 reflexed. The forehead is rugosely punctured and clothed 

 with long, erect, yellow hairs, and the vertex strongly and 

 distinctly punctured. The pronotum is coarsely punctured, 

 the punctures becoming confluent near the sides, and is also 

 clothed with long but not close yellow hairs. The lateral 

 margins are scarcely curved, angulated before the middle, 

 with the front and hind angles sharp, the former produced, 

 the latter right angles. The scutellum bears a few unequal 

 punctures, and each elytron bears seven nearly equidistant 

 dorsal punctured stria?, the second and fifth less impressed 

 than the rest and abbreviated behind. There is no abrupt 



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