pubescentia elongata vestitü ; pectore longius pubescente. — Long. 

 23 mill. 



China. 



Head blackish, densely rugosely punctured and bearing a tawny, 

 elongate fine pubescence, front of the clypeus quite rounded. Thorax 

 short, the lateral margins much crenulate , the sides a good deal 

 narrowed (but not sinuate) in front of the middle, the hind angles 

 obtuse and the base on each side only very little sinuate, it is blackish 

 in colour, very densely punctured and bears a long tawny pubescence, 

 which becomes at the sides however quite short. Scutellum densely 

 clothed with a dark upright pubescence. Elytra obscure reddish, 

 quite dull, each with four fine but distinct elevated lines, very densely 

 punctured, and clothed with a fine, regulär, short, depressed pube- 

 scence. Pygidium moderately long , truncate at the apex , clothed 

 with fine setae. Breast densely clothed with a long, ashy pubescence; 

 the abdominal segments rather sparingly clothed at the sides with 

 longish , fine hairs , which are replaced in the middle by very fine, 

 scanty, short setae. Legs nearly black. 



This species was labelled in Lafertes collection „Melolontha man- 

 darina Reiche". 



Obs. This is one of a group of closely allied species which are 

 much mixed in collections under the names of M, serrulata Schh. and 

 umbraculata Burm. The present species may be identified by the 

 pubescence of the front parts. The individual described is a male 

 and has the front tibiae slender and only bidentate , and the ab- 

 domen impressed in the middle. A closely allied species, or variety, 

 proves on dissection to have the labrum rather strongly asymmetrical 

 (after the manner of Cyphochilus), and this is also evident in the indi- 

 vidual I have described , although it is not very conspicuous until 

 dissected. 



Melolontha pennata (n. sp.): Fusco-nigra, fere opaca; prothorace 

 dense fortiterque punctato , aequali; elytris sulcatis, sulcis pubescentibux, 

 interstitiis omnibus angustis ; subtus pubescens , abdominis latertjbus im- 

 maculaüs. — Long. 22 mill. 



Laos (Mouhot!). 



Head densely and rather coarsely punctured, bearing a fine but 

 rather long, ashy pubescence. Thorax rather long (somewhat more 



