ANOMAI.A. 



145 



Lemjih, 22 mm. ; breadth, 12 mm, 



Ceylon : Trincomali (C. F. S. Baker, E. E. Green, Sept.). 



Ty2}e iu tlie British Museum, 



122. Anomala elata. (Plate II, fig. 22.) 



Melolontha elata, Fabr., Ent, Syst. i, 2, 1792, p. 161 ; id., Syst. 



Eleut. ii, 1801, p. I(i7. 

 ? Melolontha varians, Oliv,, Ent, i, 5, 1789, p, 78, pi. 10, tig. 123. 

 Anomala elata, Burm., llandb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 233, 



Testaceous, with the head, the extreme front and hind margins 

 of the pronotum, all the margins of the elytra, the hind tibiae, 

 the extremities of the other tibiae and all the tarsi black or very 

 dark red. 



It is elongate, ratlier parallel- sided, moderately convex and 

 not very shining. The head is rather finely and closely punctured, 

 with the clypeus transversely rectangular 

 and nearly straight in front. The pro- 

 notum is exceedingly finely but not very 

 closely punctured, with its sides res^ularly 

 curved, the front angles slightly acute, the 

 hind angles completely rounded olf and 

 the base finely margined. The scutelhim 

 is similarly punctured, and the elytra bear 

 fine but rather larger punctures, most of 

 them in irregular longitudinal rows. The 

 pygidium is rather finely transversely strio- 

 lated. The sides of the metasternum are 

 densely punctured and rather closely clothed 

 with moderately long pale hair. The front 

 tibia bears three teetli, the uppermost one 

 minute; the hind tibia is stout, the hind tarsus thick, and the 

 longer claw of the four posterior feet cleft. 



c? . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is sharp, and the 

 inner front claw dilated. 



2 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is very blunt, 

 Lengtli, 21-24 mm. ; breadth, 11-13 mm. 



Madeas : Tranquebar, Bangalore (Anstead, May), N, Coorg, 

 Mercara (T. B. Fletcher, May), S. Coorg, PoUibetta {T. B. 

 Fletcher, May), 



Type in the Copenhagen Museum. 



It is not certain which of the closely related species of this 

 group is the Melolontha varians of Olivier, which was wrongly 

 attributed by him to the Cape of Good Hope, 



123, Anomala superflua. (Plate II, fig. 25,) 



Anomala superfiua, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 1911, 

 p. 362. 



Pale testaceous, with the head and the extreme edges of the 

 pronotum, scutellum and elytra black, and the clypeus (very 

 deeply), the hind tibias and all the tarsi red. 



Fig. 35. — Anomala 

 elata. 



