142 



BUTELINyE. 



160 (159) Elytra deeply striated. 



161 (164) Intervals of the elytra equal. 



162 (16.3) Body very narrow fulviventris, Bl., p. 197. 



16.3 (162) ]?ody not very narrow signaticoUis, Nonfr., 



164 (161) Intervals of ^the elytra alternately [p. 198. 



convex and flat galerucina, sp. n., p. 199. 



118, Anomala transversa. 



Phi/llopertha transversa, Biirm., Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 513. 

 Smffhala basipennis, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1889, p. 28 ; 

 Uliaus, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 341. 



Black, with a bright yellow band crossing the elytra before the 

 middle and curving forwards at each end towards the shoulders. 

 This baud inay be absent, leaving the insect wholly black, or it 

 may extend until tlie elytra are entirely pale in colour except the 

 outer margins. The pygidium may also be yellow in certain 

 specimens, and I have seen examples in which there are broad 

 orange margins to the pronotum in addition. 



It is very short, broad and convex. The clypeus and forehead 

 are finely rugose, the former small, with converging sides and 

 the front margin slightly notched in the 

 middle ; the vertex is strongly punc- 

 tured. The pronotum is coarsely and 

 rather irregularly punctured, w ith an in- 

 complete smooth longitudinal line along 

 tlie middle ; the sides are strongly curved, 

 the front angles slightly acute, the hind 

 angles rounded away, and the base gently 

 rounded in a single uniform curve, with 

 a complete fine marginal stria. The 

 scutellum is broad, blunt and coarsely 

 pinictured. The elytra bear longitu- 

 dinal rows of large deep punctures ; they 

 are short and separately rounded behind. 

 The pygidium bears large scattered 

 punctures, and the sides of the metasternum are sparingly punc- 

 tured and clothed with grey hair. The front tibia bears two strong 

 teeth, the hind tibia is moderately short, and the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet is cleft. 



(^ . The lower lobe of the longer front claw is extremely 

 broad. 



LciKiih, 6-6-5 mm. ; breadth, 3-5 mm. 



Assam: Khasi Hills, Shillong, 4000 ft. (T. Bdinhru/ge Fletcher, 

 May); Burma: Ruby Mines ( IF. Doherty), Tharrawaddy {G. Q. 

 Oor)>ett), Majmyo {R. L. Anclreives) ; ToNKI^' : Chapa (i^. Vitalis 

 de Salvaza). 



Types of trami'ersa and hcisipennis in M. Eene Oberthiir's 

 collection. 



"This species was very common at ShiUong in the Khasi Hills 

 in May 1905, being found on cherry as a minor pest. Above 



Fig. 33. — Anomcda 

 transversa. 



