126 KUTELra^E. 



the club of the antenna dark, and the tibise and tarsi metallic 

 blue-black. 



It is very shortly oval and convex, almost globular in shape, 

 very smootli and shining and almost devoid of hair, and the legs, 

 especially the hind ones, are short and stout. Tlie clypeus is 

 rather broad, nearly straight in front, rounded at the sides, and 

 moderately closely punctured. The eyes are rather small and 

 remote, and the forehead is finely punctured. The pronotum is 

 very short, strongly narrowed in front, finely but distinctly punc- 

 tured, with the sides gently rounded, the front angles acute and 

 the hind angles very blunt. The scutellum is small and finely 

 punctured, and the elytra bear faint longitudinal lines of minute 

 punctures. The pygidium and the sides of the metasternum are 

 finely and moderately closely punctured, and the mesosternum is 

 not produced. The front tibia bears only a single long and curved 

 terminal tooth, and the hind femur, tibia and tarsus are very 

 short and broad. 



There is a single female specimen in the British Museum. 



Length, 12-5-13 mm. ; breadth, 8*5-9 mm. 



Assam (type); Bukma : Mergui {E. T. Atkinson)-, Toxkik : 

 Hagiang {li. V. de Salvaza, May). 



The type (" in Mr. Solly's collection ") cannot be traced, but 

 the specimen in the British Museum, from which the above 

 description has been made, agrees well with AVest wood's drawings 

 of it. Hope and, following him, Burmeister, have described the 

 head as black, but this is from a careless reading of Newman's 

 " capitulo nigro," referring to the club of the antenna. 



M. f/lobosa, Ohaus, is apparently this species, and the M. ci/anipes 

 with wliich he has compared it, and which he describes as having 

 bidentate front tibite, is probably M. bicolor. Ohaus' type is 

 said to be mox'e strongly punctured than the other species, but in 

 this respect ill. bicolor is remarkably inconstant and M. rynnipes 

 may be the same. 



Genus ANOMALA. 



Anomula, Samouelle, The Entomologist's Useful Companion, 1819, 



p. 191 ; Burm., Handb. Eat. iv, 1, 1844, p. 230 ; Lacordaire, 



Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 328. 

 Euchlora, Macleay, Horaj Ent., part 1, 1819, p. 147.— Type, 



Mehdontha viridis, F. 

 Phylloperfhft, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent., Mandib. iii, 18.30, p. 223.— 



Type, Scarnlceus horticola, L. (n. syn.). 

 Rhombonyx, Hope, Coleopt. 3Ian. i, 1837, p. 106.— Type, Meloluntha 



holosericea, F. 

 Aprosterna, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i, 183.5, p. 117. — Type, 



Mimi'la nigricans, Kirby. 

 Lliocneina, Falderman, Mem. Acad. Petersb. ii, 1835, p. 378. — 



Type, I. sulcipennis, Fald. 

 Rhi'noplia, Burmeister, Handb. Enl. iv, 1, 1844, p. 232. — Type, 



Meloluntha dorsalis, E. 

 Heteroj)Ha, id., 1. o. p. 233.— Type, 31. elata, F. 

 Spilota, id., 1. c, p. 266. — Type, M. marginata, F. 



