1902.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 



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shape of the elytra is also that of A. dita, but there is no conspicuous 

 smooth callus on the outer margin at a short distance from the base, 

 the first three dorsal intervals are not so sharply costiform, all the 

 punctures of the striae are much shallower and rounder, especially 

 on the first three dorsal ones and on the second and third intervals 

 the j)luri-seriate punctures reach to about the median dorsal part ; 

 the pygidium is of the same colour as the elytra and deeply and 

 closely punctate ; the pectus is moderately densely pubescent ; the 

 anterior tibiae are bi-dentate ; the inner claw of the anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi are deeply cleft in both sexes, but the former in 

 the male is not broad. 



Length 11-12^ mm. ; width 6-7^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



Anomala resplendens, Fahr., 



Plate XLI., fig. 43. 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 60. 



Extremely closely allied to A. caffra ; the colour is the same, 

 although a little more greenish, but the under side and femora are of 

 the same colour as the upper side ; the punctures on the prothorax 

 are round but a little more closely set, and on the elytra the fifth 

 punctate stria is obliterated from the base to about the median 

 part. This, however, may prove to be accidental. The main dis- 

 tinctive characters are found in the much l^roader outer claw of the 

 anterior tarsi, which is very deeply cleft in the inner side in the 

 male (the intermediate one is also very deeply cleft, but is not 

 broad), and in the shape of the genital armature of the male, the 

 clasps of which are less elongate, more sloping, and the lower 

 process of which is very much longer and curves upwards. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere). 



Fahroeus' type is a female. 



Anomala dorsata, Fa,hr., 



Plate XLI., fig. 46. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 63. 



A. vittipennis, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 64. 



A. marginicollisr Arr., Ann. Magaz. Nat. Hisc, 1899, iv., p. 119. 

 Testaceous, with the head and tarsi piceous red ; on the prothorax 

 are two more or less faint fuscous patches which occasionally invade 



* Mr. Arrow informs me that he believes A. mai-(jinicolUs to be a variety of the 

 very variable A. dorxata. 



