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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Gen. 
  PERIPOPILLIA, 
  Kolb., 
  

   Stett. 
  Entom. 
  Zeit., 
  1894, 
  p. 
  208. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  and 
  palpi 
  of 
  Popillia, 
  but 
  the 
  apical 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  labial 
  

   palpi 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  elongato-ovate, 
  and 
  distinctly 
  impressed 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  

   the 
  maxillae 
  are 
  armed 
  with 
  five 
  sharp 
  robust 
  teeth, 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  Popillia, 
  but 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  Anomala, 
  

   and 
  is 
  likewise 
  marginate 
  all 
  round, 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  also 
  short, 
  but 
  

   broader 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  last-mentioned 
  genus 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  shaped 
  

   more 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  Popillia, 
  but 
  they 
  are 
  distinctly 
  costate 
  and 
  less 
  

   plane 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  more 
  declivous, 
  and 
  is 
  glabrous 
  ; 
  the 
  

   abdominal 
  segments 
  have 
  no 
  bands 
  of 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  and 
  the 
  

   mesosternum 
  is 
  simple 
  ; 
  inner 
  claw 
  of 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  

   tarsi 
  cleft 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  ones 
  conspicuously 
  

   broad 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  legs 
  short 
  and 
  massive 
  as 
  in 
  Popillia, 
  but 
  with 
  

   the 
  intermediate 
  and 
  posterior 
  tarsi 
  more 
  slender 
  and 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  

   the 
  metallic 
  species 
  of 
  Anomala. 
  

  

  This 
  genus 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  form 
  of 
  transition 
  between 
  Anomala 
  and 
  

   Popillia. 
  

  

  Pekipopillia 
  basalis, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entomol., 
  1850, 
  p. 
  191. 
  

  

  ? 
  P. 
  nitidicollis, 
  Klug, 
  Monatsb. 
  Berl. 
  Acad., 
  1855, 
  p. 
  659 
  ; 
  Peter's, 
  

   Reis., 
  p. 
  259, 
  pi. 
  xv., 
  fig. 
  6. 
  

  

  P. 
  Oberthuri, 
  Kraatz, 
  Deutsch. 
  Entom. 
  Zeitschr., 
  1892, 
  p. 
  184. 
  

  

  Head, 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  scutellum 
  bronze 
  green, 
  shining 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  

   and 
  legs 
  dark 
  blue 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  almost 
  completely 
  dark 
  blue 
  with 
  

   the 
  exception 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  basal 
  reddish 
  testaceous 
  line, 
  or 
  they 
  

   have 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  testaceous 
  yellow 
  basal 
  band 
  reaching 
  to 
  beyond 
  one- 
  

   third 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  length, 
  but 
  not 
  invading 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  in 
  some 
  species 
  

   they 
  are 
  violaceous 
  or 
  testaceous 
  yellow 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  

   suture 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  supra-marginal 
  dark 
  blue 
  band 
  beginning 
  at 
  about 
  

   one-third 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  roughly 
  punctured, 
  somewhat 
  blunt 
  

   in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  and 
  slightly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  it, 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  laterally, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  margin 
  moderately 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  finely 
  and 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  punctulate 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  

   along 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin, 
  but 
  very 
  slightly, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  not 
  at 
  

   all, 
  on 
  the 
  median 
  dorsal 
  part 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  broader 
  than 
  long 
  and 
  

   sparsely 
  punctate 
  ; 
  elytra 
  very 
  plainly 
  costate, 
  with 
  the 
  intervals 
  

   narrowly 
  but 
  deeply 
  punctato-striate, 
  the 
  eight 
  dorsal 
  costse, 
  which 
  

   include 
  the 
  sutural 
  one, 
  are 
  tectiform 
  and 
  smooth, 
  except 
  that 
  the 
  fifth 
  

   has 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  deep 
  punctures 
  extending 
  from 
  past 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  to 
  

   the 
  apex, 
  and 
  the 
  seventh 
  a 
  similar 
  row 
  beginning 
  near 
  the 
  humeral 
  

  

  

  