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ilUTELllS'J:. 



This species has been described from an example of each sex 

 submitted to me b}' Dr. Ohaus in 1914 with the then unpublished 

 name Sim/Jiala rolnista. Owing to the war, the specimens have 

 remained in the custody of the British Museum. I have no 

 knowledge whether the name has been published or nob. 



Section II. 

 This section contains onl}'^ a single species. 



117. Anomala dorsalis. (Plate II, fig. 21.) 



Mvlulonthu dorsalis, Fabr., Syst. Eut. 1775, p. 35 ; id. Syst. Eleuth. 



ii, 1^01, p. IGS; llerbst, K'atursvst. Kaf. iii, 1790, p. 64, pi. 22, 



iig. 12. 

 MeUdontha pallida, Oliv., Entom. i, 5, 1789, p. 25, pi. 9, fig. 103. 

 Anojnala donalis, Buriu., llandb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 232. 

 Var. Anomala fraterna , Barm., 1. c. 



Var. Anomala cc/dralis, Nonfr.,* Berl. Ent. Zeits. 1893, p. 335. 

 ? Anomala imitatrix, Nonfr., Ent. Nachr. xx, 1894, p. 12. 



Testaceous or reddish, generally with the vertex of the head, 

 the elytral suture, the hind tibise and the tarsi blackish, or with 

 a broad sutural stripe, or with the upper surface largely or 

 entirely black. 



The body is moderately elongate, not very convex, nor very 



shining, with a very scanty clothing of 



/ --, short yellow hairs beneath. The clypeus 



n ^J^^v' fi ^^^ forehead are densely, scarcely rugosely, 



punctured. The pronotum is very minutely 



and thinly punctured, with the sides 



strongly rounded, the front angles not 



acute, the hind angles very obtuse, and 



the base completely margined and scarcely 



sinuated. The scutellum bears a few fine 



punctures and the elytra are strongly and 



irregularly punctured, with a juxta-sutural 



line and four or five double rows of regular 



punctures. The pygidium is minutely 



Ficr. d'i.—Aiwma.la '^"^^ sparingly punctured, the metasternum 



dorsalis. rather finely and not very closely, and the 



ventral segments bear each a transverse 



row of punctures. The mesosternum is not pointed. The fi'ont 



tibia bears two sharp teeth and a feeble upper one, and the 



longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



6 • The cly|)eus is slightly produced, with the front mai'gin 

 straight and strongly reflexed aud the angles rectangular. The 

 front tarsus is thickened and the inner claw broad, moderately 

 sharp and deeply cleft. Tlie pygidium is convex. 



$ . The clypeus is straight in front and strongly reflexed, with 

 the angles rounded. The elytra have a slight, almost angular, 



