. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 72 HUTELINiE. pygidiuin is coarsely and coiiflueutly punctured, as are the meta- sternum and abdomen at the sides. The mesosternal process is moderately produced and sharp. <S . The front tibia bears t\\ o short and rather sharp teeth. $ . The front tibia bears two longer and blunter teeth. This species closely resembles PojnlUa IcevicoUis, Kr., to which it is most nearly related, but with well-marked points of difference. Besides the broadly turned-up edge of the clypeus, from which it takes its name, it has a smaller and shorter ^icutellum, and t
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 72 HUTELINiE. pygidiuin is coarsely and coiiflueutly punctured, as are the meta- sternum and abdomen at the sides. The mesosternal process is moderately produced and sharp. <S . The front tibia bears t\\ o short and rather sharp teeth. $ . The front tibia bears two longer and blunter teeth. This species closely resembles PojnlUa IcevicoUis, Kr., to which it is most nearly related, but with well-marked points of difference. Besides the broadly turned-up edge of the clypeus, from which it takes its name, it has a smaller and shorter ^icutellum, and the pygidium has a ba!«al band of not very dense hairs, instead of two hair-patches. Length, 9 mm.; breadth, 6 mm. Assam: Khasi Hills ; Punjab: Sim hi; Kashmir. Tyj^e in Dr. F. Ohaus' collection. 42, Popillia flavofasciata. Popillia jiavofasciata, Kraatz, Deutsche Eut. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, p. 271. Brilliant deep purplish crimson, with the elytra testaceous, except the apical third, the shoulders and the lateral margins, which are black, and entirely metallic, with the exception of the elytra, of which only the sutural edges are metallic. It is elongate in shape, rather depressed, and extremely smooth and brilliant, with the sides of the body beneath densely clothed with rather long decumbent yellow hair. The clypeus is r densely rugose, with the front margin I straight and the sides rounded; ihe I forehead is rather rugosely, and the ver- tex irregularly, punctured. The prono- tum bears only extremely minute and scanty punctures, except near the front angles, where they are stronger, and the scutelluui has onlv a few minute punc- tures. The elytra are ratln-r smooth, but bear a sutural stria and five nearly equal and equidistant dorsal striae, with a wide and irregularly-punctured the striiB are finely punctured and the The pygidium is coarsely but scantily punctured, and has a broadly transverse basal patch of yellow hairs on each side. The mesosternal process is strongly produ
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