166 KtJTELINJfi. 



prouotuni is finely and eveiil}' punctured, with the sides rounded, 

 the front angles acute, the hind angles very obtuse, and the base 

 finely margined and very feebly trisinuate. The scutelluiu is punc- 

 tured, and the elytra are deeply punctate-striate. The pygidium is 

 evenly and faii'ly closely punctured. The lower surface of tfie body 

 IS very thinly hairy. The front tibia is strongly tridentate, the hind 

 legs are short, with the feiiiur broad, the trochanter long and not 

 acute, the tibia broad and not inflated, nor constricted before the 

 extremity. 



(S . The inner anterior claw is unequally divided and the tro- 

 chanters of the hind legs are long, nearly parallel-sided and rather 

 promijient at the end. 



2 . The black sutural line is broader than in the male, the fore- 

 head has a rugose area in front, the apex of the front tibia is 

 spatulate, and the inner anterior claw almost equally divided. 



Length, 14'5-lt) mm. ; breadth, 7"5-8 mm. 



Burma : Tharrawaddy (6r. Q. Corhett), Cachin Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A. latqies is very closely like A. communis, Burm., and 

 A. pallida, Y., but is narrower in shape, the black sutural line 

 is broadei', especially in the female, and the hind femora and 

 tibiae are shorter and broader. 



153. Anomala biharensis, sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 36.) 



Pale testaceous yellow, with the head of the female, the 

 extremities of the tibiae, the tarsi, and the extreme margins of 

 the clypeus, pronotum, scutellum, and elytra, brown. 



It is smooth and shining, moderately elongate and not very 

 convex. The eyes are large, tlie clypeus small, densely and 

 rugosely punctured, with the front margin nearly straight; the fore- 

 head is finely and closely punctured. The pronotum is finely and 

 rather closely punctured, with the sides rounded, the front angles 

 acute, the liind angles very obtuse and the base finely margined. 

 The scutelluui is minutely punctured and each elytron bears seven 

 finely punctured and not very d.eeply impressed dorsal striae, the 

 second disrupted at the base ; the sutural angles are rounded. 

 The pygidium is deeply and rather rugosely punctured. The 

 front tibia is armed with three teeth, of which the uppermost is 

 very feeble, the hind tibia is very short and stout and a little 

 constricted before the end, and the longer claw of the front foot 

 only is cleft. 



(3 . The head is pale, the eyes very large, and the longer front 

 claw very unequally cleft, 



2 . The body is stouter, the head red, with the clypeus nearly 

 black, and the longer front claw nearly equally divided. 



Length, 12-15 nnn. ; breadth, 7-8 n)m. 



Bengal: Pusa {T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, April-June). 



This species was bred from a larva found underground at the 

 base of a Banyan tree and was also taken at light and at the base 



