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Though I have only seen a Single specimen I have no doubt it 

 is a distinct species. 



Melolontha guttigera (n. sp.) : Fusco-nigra, elytris magis castaneis; 

 thorace einer eo-squamoso ; elytris guttis basalibus aliaque pone humerum 

 albido-squamosis, apice cinereo-tomentosis ; subtus einer eo-tomentosa, pectore 

 pubescente. — Long. 26 — 28 mill. 



Mas: Flabello elongato, heptaphyllo ; mesostemi processu brevissimo. 



Fem. : Flabello brevi, kexaphyllo ; processu valido, elongato. 



India. 



About the size of Melolontha vulgaris. Clypeus a little emargi- 

 nate in front. Thorax rounded at the sides, with the middle basal 

 lobe very large and the bind angles very acute , it is of a reddish 

 colour deeply dyed with black, very densely punetured at the sides, 

 more sparingly but yet closely on the middle, and is clothed with a 

 greyish pubescence or tomentum , which is most conspieuous on each 

 side of the middle. Elytra of a brown-leather colour , with some ir- 

 regulär marks at the extreme base and an elongate patch behind the 

 Shoulder of dense white scales, they shew two or three elevated lines 

 and are rather coarsely punetured between these; the deflexed apex is 

 closely clothed with very fine greyish pubescence, which is continued 

 forwards for some distance at the sides. Pygidium not prolonged at 

 the apex , clothed with a fine pubescence like that of the extremity 

 of the elytra. The abdominal segments are also clothed in a similar 

 manner to the pygidium, but are nearly bare along the middle; the 

 metasternum and hind coxae with a fine ashy pubescence. The front 

 tibiae are tridentate. 



I have a male of this species from Lafertes collection, in which 

 it was labelled „Melolontha guttigera Eeiche. India or." ; and I have a 

 female, also from India. 



Obs. Though the mesosternal process in the two individuals I 

 have above described is so dissimilar that the male would be placed 

 in Melolontha, while the female would be considered an Oplosternus, 

 I have no doubt from the extreme general resemblance, that they are 

 the sexes of one and the same species. 



Melolontha mandarina (n. sp.) : Opaca, fusca, elytris rufescenti- 

 bus, lineis elevatis angustis bene discretis ; capite , thorace scutelloque 



