148 RUTELINiE. 



It is elongate and cylindrical iu shape, shining and almost 

 devoid of hairy clothing, but with a peculiar opaque area near the 

 end of the outer raai'gins of the elytra. The head is rugosely 

 punctured, with the clypeus transverse and the front margin 

 nearly straight in the middle. The pronotum is rather coarsely 

 and closely punctured, witli a slight impressed line in the middle 

 of its anterior half ; the sides are strongly curved, the front 

 angles acute and the hind angles almost obsolete. The scutellum 

 is strongly punctured, and the elytra deeply sulcate, with large 

 confluent punctures in the sulci and minute punctures upon the 

 intervals ; the membranous outer ujargin is narrow. The pygidium 

 is closely, and the sides of the metasternum coarsely but not 

 closely, punctured. The front tibia is armed with three strong 

 teetli, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



Len</th, 11-3 2 mm.; breadth, 5-5-6 mm. 



Bhutan: Maria Basti (L. Burel); Sikkim: Darjiling (R^ 

 Ribbe), Kalimpong (April, May), Pashok, Pedong {Desgodins) ; 

 Assam: Manipur {W. Doherti/) ; Tokkin (H. Fruhsiorfer) ; 

 S. China. 



The female has a deceptive resemblance to A. anchoralis, 

 Lansb., but the three-toothed front tibia and the peculiar opaque 

 areas at the sides of the elytra immediately distinguish it. The 

 different coloration of the two sexes is an interesting feature. 



126. Anomala anchoralis. 



Anomala ancJioralis, Laiisb., C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxii, 1879, p. 151. 



Pale testaceous, with the head and tarsi reddish, and with 

 brown or black markings, consisting of two oval obliquely placed 

 patches at the middle of the pronotum (sometimes united at the 

 middle line), the extreme edge of the elytra all round, and an 

 angular dilatation of the sutural border on each side beyond the 

 middle with the points directed towards the shoulders. 



It is rather narrowly oval and very convex, smooth and shining,, 

 and almost without hairy clothing. The head is rugose and the 

 clypeus short and broad. The pronotum is strongly punctured 

 all over, with its sides strongly rounded, the front angles rather 

 acute, the hind angles almost obsolete and the base very finely 

 margined. The scutellum is moderately punctured, and the elytra 

 are deeply striated, the intervals convex and the striae closely 

 punctured, the second stria transforming anteriorly into a broad 

 patch of large punctures ; the membranous margins are rather 

 wide behind. The pygidium and the sides of the metasternum 

 are closely punctured. The front tibia is bidentate, and the 

 longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



S • The inner front claw is dilated, and the teeth of the front 

 tibia are longer and sharper than in the female. 



Length, 11-12'5 mm. ; breadth, 6-7-5 mm, 



Burma: Meetan (Z. i^m, April); Java; Tonkin. 



Tgj)e in the Brussels Museum. 



A. anchoralis is abundant in Java, where it is injurious to the- 



