﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  611 
  

  

  callus 
  and 
  reaching 
  to 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  deeply 
  and 
  closely 
  

   punctured, 
  glabrous 
  except 
  for 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  setulose 
  hairs 
  set 
  in 
  an 
  

   oblique 
  depression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  the 
  exposed 
  

   area 
  of 
  the 
  dorsal 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  are 
  closely 
  and 
  

   deeply 
  punctured, 
  and 
  the 
  ventral 
  segments 
  have 
  shallow, 
  somewhat 
  

   indistinct 
  cicatricose 
  imprints 
  ; 
  legs 
  short, 
  robust, 
  and 
  distinctly 
  

   punctate 
  except 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae. 
  

  

  Length 
  9J-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5^-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  (Buluwayo, 
  Salisbury). 
  Occurs 
  also 
  in 
  

   German 
  East 
  Africa 
  and 
  in 
  Zanzibar. 
  

  

  The 
  clasps 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  are 
  Very 
  different 
  in 
  

   shape 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  Popillia 
  bipunctata 
  and 
  P. 
  major, 
  and 
  very 
  closely 
  

   resemble 
  those 
  of 
  Anomala 
  dorsata, 
  Fahr. 
  

  

  P. 
  nitidicollis, 
  Klug, 
  is 
  perhaps 
  a 
  varietal 
  form 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  whole 
  

   of 
  the 
  elytra 
  is 
  suffused 
  with 
  testaceous 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Gen. 
  POPILLIA, 
  Serv., 
  

   Encyclop. 
  Method, 
  x., 
  1825, 
  p. 
  367. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  ovoid 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  three-quarters 
  of 
  the 
  

   length, 
  incised 
  there 
  and 
  narrower 
  and 
  sub-parallel 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  

   apex 
  the 
  angles 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  rounded, 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  is 
  

   broadly 
  and 
  deeply 
  scooped 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  it 
  is 
  

   somewhat 
  convex 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  and 
  deeply 
  

   impressed 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  labial 
  palpi 
  short, 
  somewhat 
  massive, 
  

   intermediate 
  one 
  nodose, 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  other 
  

   two 
  taken 
  together, 
  and 
  deeply 
  impressed 
  laterally 
  ; 
  mandibles 
  very 
  

   robust, 
  and 
  provided 
  with 
  three 
  strong 
  arcuate 
  teeth, 
  the 
  two 
  lower 
  

   ones 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  double 
  and 
  connate 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  

   moderately 
  long, 
  apical 
  joint 
  sub-cylindrical 
  and 
  tapering 
  a 
  little 
  

   towards 
  the 
  apex 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  truncate 
  ; 
  labrum 
  very 
  short, 
  emarginate 
  

   in 
  the 
  centre, 
  mandibles 
  laminiform, 
  projecting 
  a 
  little 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   labrum 
  with 
  the 
  inner 
  edge 
  incised, 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  outer 
  one 
  emargi- 
  

   nate 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  being 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  

   the 
  head, 
  truncate 
  at 
  apex 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  slightly 
  rounded; 
  

   eyes 
  somewhat 
  prominent, 
  divided 
  into 
  equal 
  parts 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   part 
  by 
  the 
  canthus 
  of 
  the 
  genae 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  very 
  little 
  convex, 
  

   very 
  attenuate 
  obliquely 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  sub-parallel 
  from 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  basal 
  angle 
  which 
  is 
  

   sharp, 
  obliquely 
  sinuate 
  thence 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  from 
  

   the 
  scutellum 
  where 
  the 
  median 
  basal 
  part 
  is 
  completely 
  emarginate- 
  

   and 
  arcuate 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  elongate, 
  sharply 
  ogival 
  ; 
  elytra 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  

  

  