52 nUTELIN^. 



the pronotura less attenuated in front, the elytra more parallel- 

 sided and ending more abruptly behind. The mandibles (in the 

 type-specimen) are about as long as the head and pronotum 

 together. 



2 . The head is more rugose and more hairy than that of the 

 male. The pronotum is more narrowed in front and broader 

 behind, and clothed on each side of the middle line with rather 

 lono- and rough yellow hair, like that upon the head. The elytra 

 are a little less velvety, slightly dilated near the middle of the 

 sides and narrowed behind. 



Length (without mandibles), 21 mm. ; breadth, 10-5-11-5 mm. 



AssA.M : Wakidgaon, near Sadiya. 



Ti/pe in the British Museum. 



Nothing is known of the habits of this remarkable insect. 

 The female is now described for the first time, a specimen having 

 been found, together with a newly-emerged and deformed male, 

 by Col. W. F. Badgley. 



Division III. ANOMALINI. 



This group contains the great majority of the known species 

 of Old World E-UTELiN^ and almost all the brilliantly coloured 

 Indian representatives of the subfamily belong to it. Although 

 luxuriating most of all in the Oriental Region, the group is found 

 in all parts of the World except Australia, New Zealand, and the 

 Western slope of the South American mountain-chain. All the 

 species are probably root-feeders in the larval, and leaf-feeders in 

 the adult, condition. 



Extremely varied in their outward form, these insects are yet 

 easily recognised and form a very well-defined group. The 

 antennae consist of nine joints only. The clypeus is reflexed at 

 the front margin and generally broadly rounded or semicircular, 

 but occasionally narrowly produced and snout-like, and still more 

 rarely a little excised in the middle. The labrum is horizontal, 

 generally slightly excised at the middle of the front edge and 

 conterminous with the clypeus. The mandibles are rounded 

 externally and do not extend beyond the clypeus when in repose. 

 The maxilla is short and armed with several sharp teeth, generally 

 forming three successive parallel series at right angles to the axis. 

 The mentum is broad and emarginate in front. The prothorax is 

 generally either broadly lobed or narrowly excised at the middle 

 of the hind margin, and may or may not have an elevated process 

 beneath just behind the front cox<e. The mesosternum may or 

 may not be produced forward between the middle coxae. The 

 elytra are fringed externally with a narrow colourless membranous 

 border. The last spiracle on each side is placed midway between 

 the front and hind margins of the penultimate segment. The legs 

 are very variable, stout or slender, the front tibiae generally armed 

 with two external teeth (but sometimes vi'ith three or only one). 

 The claws are variable, the hind ones always undivided, the longer 



