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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society. 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  varies 
  much 
  in 
  the 
  coloration 
  of 
  the 
  elytra, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  

   not 
  difficult 
  to 
  find 
  intermediate 
  forms 
  between 
  those 
  with 
  concolorous 
  

   wing 
  covers 
  and 
  those 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  black 
  discoidal 
  band 
  ; 
  this 
  

   latter 
  is 
  the 
  P. 
  limbata, 
  Bohem., 
  and 
  any 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  its 
  being 
  

   identical 
  with 
  P. 
  bipunctata 
  is 
  at 
  once 
  removed 
  by 
  the 
  examination 
  

   of 
  the 
  genital 
  armatures 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  which 
  are 
  absolutely 
  similar. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Knysna, 
  Graham's 
  Town, 
  Uitenhage, 
  

   Kimberley, 
  Bedford, 
  Somerset 
  East, 
  King 
  William's 
  Town, 
  Fort 
  

   Beaufort, 
  East 
  London, 
  Port 
  St. 
  John's) 
  ; 
  Natal 
  (everywhere) 
  ; 
  

   Orange 
  River 
  Colony 
  and 
  Transvaal 
  (the 
  whole 
  territory), 
  Mozam- 
  

   bique 
  ; 
  probably 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  Eastern 
  Africa 
  ; 
  occurs 
  also 
  on 
  the 
  

   West 
  Coast, 
  teste 
  Kolbe. 
  

  

  POPILLIA 
  LAETANS, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Head, 
  prothorax, 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  legs 
  coppery, 
  under 
  side 
  darker 
  

   bronze 
  ; 
  elytra 
  flavous 
  with 
  the 
  suture, 
  and 
  a 
  narrow 
  marginal 
  line 
  

   bronze 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  with 
  two 
  transverse 
  patches 
  of 
  appressed 
  white 
  

   hairs, 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  with 
  a 
  lateral 
  band 
  of 
  similar 
  hairs 
  ; 
  this 
  

   species 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  like 
  Popillia 
  bipunctata, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  more 
  rounded 
  laterally, 
  the 
  shape 
  and 
  sculpture 
  of 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  is 
  the 
  same, 
  but 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  shorter, 
  more 
  triangular 
  

   and 
  closely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  more 
  roundly 
  ampliated 
  

   laterally 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  and 
  have 
  a 
  deep, 
  long, 
  and 
  broad 
  

   impression 
  reaching 
  from 
  the 
  seventh 
  stria 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  the 
  

   striae 
  are 
  deeper 
  and 
  more 
  deeply 
  punctured, 
  the 
  intervals 
  are 
  plainly 
  

   costate; 
  the 
  basal 
  outer 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  is 
  short 
  and 
  

   moderately 
  sharp, 
  but 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  is 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  sub-horizontal, 
  

   and 
  the 
  outer 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  tarsi 
  is 
  slightly 
  cleft 
  ; 
  the 
  

   mesosternum 
  is 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  compressed 
  obtusely 
  triangular 
  

   process, 
  as 
  broad 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  as 
  long 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  closely 
  punctate 
  in 
  

   the 
  centre, 
  strigose 
  laterally, 
  and 
  not 
  quite 
  so 
  horizontal 
  as 
  in 
  P. 
  

   bipunctata. 
  

  

  Length 
  9 
  J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5 
  J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Southern 
  Rhodesia 
  (Manica). 
  

  

  Popillia 
  major, 
  Arr., 
  

  

  Annals 
  and 
  Magaz. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  1899, 
  vol. 
  vi., 
  7th 
  ser., 
  p. 
  120. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  coppery, 
  under 
  side 
  and 
  legs 
  bronze-black 
  with 
  

   the 
  tarsi 
  piceous 
  red 
  ; 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  yellow 
  with 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  part 
  bronze-black, 
  and 
  having 
  also 
  a 
  narrow 
  sutural 
  bronze 
  

   line, 
  glabrous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  and 
  with 
  two 
  transverse 
  patches 
  of 
  

  

  