146 RUTELlNiE. 



The body is elongate, with the elytra only very slightly wider 

 in the middle than at the shoulders, smoQth but not very shining 

 above and scarcely convex. The head is entirely very densely 

 punctured, the clypeiis nearly straight in front, with the sides 

 slightly converging. The pronotum is extremely minutely and 

 rather evenly punctured, finely but deeply margined all round, 

 with the sides angulated near the middle, the front angles acute 

 and the hind angles obtuse. The scutellum is finely punctured, 

 and the elytra lightly but a little more coarsely, most of the 

 punctures, except in the broad subsutural interval, forming rather 

 indistinct lines. The pygidium is finely and irregularly punc- 

 tured, the metasternurri closely punctured and clothed with short 

 erect pubescence at tlie sides, scantily punctured and pubescent in 

 the middle. The abdomen is nearly smooth. The front tibia has 

 three teeth and the larger claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



cJ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is sharp. 



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

 strongly bent outwards. 



Length, 19-22-5 mm. ; breadth, 10-11-5 mm. 



Ceylon : Peradeniva (E. E. Green), Sigiriya {E. E. Green, Sept.), 

 Hakgala (E. E. Green, May), Kandy {0. F. S. Balcer, April), Minu- 

 wangoda (C. F. S. Baker, Sept.), Kelani Valley, near Colombo 

 (W. Bvdine). 



Tyj^e in the British Museum. 



This is not easily distinguishable from A. elata, i\, except by 

 means of the genitalia of the males, but the clypeus is of slightl,^ 

 different shape, its sides being gently convergent, and the elytra 

 are long and parallel-sided, with relatively broad membranous 

 margins, especially at the posterior lateral part. The a^deagus of 

 the male is constricted just before the end and the paramera are 

 divergent and globularly swollen at the apices. 



124. Anomala polita. (Plate II, fig. 24.) 



Anomnln polita, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 

 p. 182. 



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

 of the pronotum, all the margins of the elytra, the extremities of 

 the tibia; and all the tarsi black or very dark red. 



It is elongate, rather parallel-sided, moderately convex and not 

 Tery shining. The head is finely granulated, with the clypeus 

 transversely rectangular, its margin strongly reflexed and the 

 angles rounded. The pronotum is exceedingly finely and not very 

 closely punctured, with its sides regularly curved, the front angles 

 slightly acute, the hind angles completely rounded off and the 

 base finely margined. The scutellum is similarly punctured, and 

 the elytra bear fine but rather larger punctures, most of them 

 in irregular longitudinal row^s. The pygidium is rather finely 

 transversely striolated. The sides of the metasternum are densely 

 punctured and rather closely clothed with moderately long pale 

 yellow hair. The front tibia bears three teeth, the uppermost 



