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BUTELIN.E. 



the base completely margiued. Tlie scutellum is very broad, 

 irregularly punctured, and obliquely channelled on each side. 

 The elytra are very deeply punctate-striate, with the second stria 

 disrupted in its anterior Inilf. The pygidium is shining and not 

 very closely transversely striolated. The raetasternum is rather 

 thickly clothed (except in the middle) with fine erect yellow hairs. 

 The legs are slender, the front tihia armed with two sliarp teerh 

 and a feeble upper one, the hind tibia slightly constricted before 

 the extremity, and the longer middle claw only minutely cleft at 

 the tip. 



Length, 13 mm.; breadth, 7'5 mm. 



Madras : Bangalore. 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only two male specimens of this species, which is 

 remarkable for the undivided longer front claw. It is possible 

 that the female will be found to have the longer front and middle 

 claws cleft. 



131. Aiiomala varicolor. (Plate 11, figs. 38, 39.) 



Mehlontlia varicolor, QryW., Schiinh. Syn. Ins. i, 3, 1817, App. p. 114. 



Testaceous, with the he;id, the extremities of the tibiae and the 

 tarsi dark red, and with a variable patch on each side of the 

 pronotnm (sometimes extending to the front, but not to the hind, 

 margin, and the two patches frequently uniting), the extreme 

 edges of the elytra, a sutural line, a spot on each shoulder (often 

 extending obliquely almost to the apical angle and sometimes 

 partly or entirely fused with the lateral margin), black or nearly 

 black. 



In the darkest phase the upper surface is entirely black, with 

 the exception of the lateral margins of the 

 pronotum, a very narrow incomplete hind 

 margin and a humeral patch upon each 

 elytron. 



It is shortly oval, convex, smooth and 

 shining, with the metasteriuim moderately 

 closely clothed with short yellowish hair. 

 The head is rather finely and densely ru- 

 gose, with the clypeus broadly semicircular. 

 The pronotum is finely punctured, with 

 the sides rounded, the front angles scarcely 

 acute, the hind angles rounded, and the 

 base finely and completely margined. The 

 elytra are deeply and finely punctate-striate, 

 with the subsutural interval broad and 

 closely punctured. The pygidium is rather 

 closely transversely rugulose. The front tibia bears two well- 

 developed teeth and a very feeble one above them, the hind tibia 

 is rather inflated before the middle aud contracted before the ex- 

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



Fig. 41. — Anomala 

 varicolor. 



