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lateral flange. The pygiclium is punctured and bears two 

 basal tufts of yellow hairs. The lower surface is clothed, 

 except along the middle line of the abdomen, with long 

 yellowish hair, and the mesosternal process is short and 

 vertical in front. 



£ . The inner front claw has the lower lobe very broad 

 and angulate near the base, the two teeth of the front tibia 

 are short and sharp, and the hind tarsi are rather longer and 

 slenderer than those of the female. 



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



Hab. Western Himalayas: Dehra Dan; Kumaon; 

 Lansdown Garhwal [A. G. Lyell, June 1909). 



Popillia simlana, sp. n. 



Golden or coppery green, with the legs and lower surface 

 dark coppery and the elytra testaceous, with a metallic suffu- 

 sion and the extreme lateral margins coppery black. The 

 body is ovate and a little depressed. The clypeus is con- 

 fluently punctured, broad, with the front margin nearly 

 straight and strongly reflexed. The forehead is rugosely 

 punctured and thinly clothed with erect yellow hairs. The 

 pronotum is very strongly punctured, the punctures becoming 

 confluent near the lateral margins, which are scarcely curved, 

 angulated near the middle, with the front angles acute and 

 the hind angles obtuse. The whole surface is thinly clothed 

 with erect yellowish hairs. The scutellum bears only a few 

 fine punctures and the elytra have each five complete punc- 

 tured dorsal strise, the second interval very wide and bearing 

 many large irregular punctures, and the fourth having a few 

 punctures forming an imperfect row along the middle. The 

 pygidium bears coarse and not close transverse striolse, and is 

 decorated at the base with two tufts of greyish hairs. The 

 lower surface and legs are similarly clothed with long, but 

 not close, grey hairs, except at the middle of the abdomen. 

 The mesosternal process is vertical in front and not produced 

 beyond the front coxse. 



$ . The inner front claw has the lower lobe very broad, 

 the front tibia is armed with two short and sharp teeth, and 

 the hind tarsi are rather longer and slenderer than in the 

 female. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; breadth 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Punjab : Simla (7000 feet — H. Chippendale, June 

 1909); Nepal: Khatmandu {Col. Manners Smith, June 

 1909). 



This species exactly resembles P. pilosa, but is easily 



