﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  613 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

  

  Mesosternal 
  process 
  very 
  long, 
  compressed, 
  with 
  a 
  sharp 
  upper 
  edge 
  ; 
  

   aeneous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  yellow 
  or 
  pale 
  

   testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  discoidal 
  black 
  band 
  ; 
  intervals 
  of 
  elytra 
  

   plane 
  bi-punctata. 
  

  

  Mesosternal 
  process 
  moderately 
  long, 
  compressed, 
  bluntly 
  triangular 
  ; 
  

   coppery 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  flavous 
  ; 
  intervals 
  of 
  elytra 
  

   convex 
  laetans. 
  

  

  Mesosternal 
  process 
  short, 
  cuneiform 
  ; 
  seneous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  

   with 
  the 
  elytra 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  and 
  black 
  in 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  major. 
  

  

  Popillia 
  bipunctata, 
  Fabr,, 
  

   Mantiss., 
  Insect., 
  i., 
  1787, 
  p. 
  25. 
  

  

  P. 
  limbata, 
  Boh., 
  Insect. 
  Caffr., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  59. 
  

  

  P. 
  apicalis, 
  Kraatz, 
  Deutsch. 
  Entom. 
  Zeitschr., 
  1892, 
  p. 
  190. 
  

  

  Glabrous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  ; 
  head, 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  scutellum 
  

   coppery 
  red, 
  or 
  seneous, 
  elytra 
  completely 
  yellowish 
  red, 
  or 
  

   testaceous 
  yellow 
  with 
  the 
  median 
  discoidal 
  part 
  slightly 
  infuscate, 
  

   or 
  distinctly 
  black, 
  leaving 
  only 
  a 
  somewhat 
  narrow 
  marginal 
  

   yellowish 
  band 
  along 
  the 
  outer 
  and 
  posterior 
  margins, 
  along 
  the 
  

   base 
  and 
  also 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  up 
  to 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  with 
  two 
  patches 
  of 
  whitish 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  the 
  abdo- 
  

   minal 
  segments 
  are 
  banded 
  with 
  similar 
  hairs, 
  the 
  mesosternum 
  is 
  

   entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  them, 
  and 
  the 
  posterior 
  femora 
  have 
  a 
  similar 
  

   band 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  and 
  legs 
  bronze, 
  or 
  bronze-black 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  broader 
  

   than 
  long, 
  truncate 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  rounded, 
  

   closely 
  shagreened, 
  head 
  very 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  but 
  not 
  rugose 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  distinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  in 
  front 
  from 
  the 
  median 
  

   part, 
  a 
  little 
  slightly 
  obliquely 
  ampliate 
  from 
  the 
  middle 
  to 
  the 
  

   sharp 
  basal 
  angle, 
  conspicuously 
  tri-sinuate 
  along 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  

   sinuations 
  of 
  equal 
  depth, 
  marginate 
  in 
  front 
  and 
  laterally, 
  but 
  only 
  

   for 
  a 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  along 
  the 
  base, 
  not 
  very 
  convex 
  and 
  

   covered 
  with 
  very 
  closely 
  set 
  round 
  punctures 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  on 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  but 
  impunctate 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  median 
  part 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  and 
  sharp 
  at 
  tip, 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  elytra 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  long, 
  plane 
  with 
  the 
  humeral 
  and 
  apical 
  calluses 
  not 
  much 
  

   developed, 
  deeply 
  punctato-striate 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  first 
  

   dorsal 
  striae, 
  intervals 
  plane 
  or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  and 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  propy- 
  

   gidium 
  partly 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  elytra, 
  closely 
  punctate 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

   sub-scabroso-punctate 
  ; 
  femora 
  hardly 
  punctate, 
  tibiae 
  more 
  so. 
  

  

  Length 
  llf-13 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  6J-8 
  mm. 
  

  

  