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11UTELIN.1-. 



the sides. The lateral margins are rounded, the front angles 

 rectangular but not sharp, the liind angles rounded and the 

 base entirely margined. The scutelhnn is finely punctured and 

 tlie elytra rather less finelj^ but rather closely, and with the 

 linear arrangement almost obliterated, the intervals being ex- 

 tremely minutely punctured. The pygidium is rather closely and 

 the metasternum densely punctured, the latter sparingly in the 

 middle. The mesosternuni is not produced, and the front tibia is 

 armed with three teeth. The larger claw of the front and middle 

 feet is cleft. 



d . The front margin of the clypeus is rather more reflexed, and 

 the inner branch of the inner front claw is very broad and blunt. 



Length, 14-17 mm. ; breadth, 8-8"5 mm. 



Nepal {Maj.-Gen. Narchuicke) ; Burma: Minhla (Comotto), 

 Thayetmyo {E. Y. Watson); Hainan; Hongkong; 8iam ; 

 Tonkin; Annam ; Malay Peninsula; Borneo; Java; Timor; 

 North Australia. 



Ti/iJc in the Stockholm Museum ; that of 31. Inguhris in the 

 Copenhagen Museum, and that of A. aiistralasia' in the British 

 Museum. 



Allhougli sometimes found in great numbers, the habits of this 

 insect have not yet been recorded. It is the most widely distributed 

 species of the genus, and the only one found in Australia. 



156. Anomala erosa. (Plate II, figs. 41, 42.) 



Anontald erosa, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x, 1912, p. 334. 



Testaceous, with the eutii-e head, the disc of the pronotum 

 (sometimes divided by a pale median line), the circumference 

 or the whole of the scutellum, the inner and outer borders 

 of the elytra, a vitta extending backwards from the shoulder, 

 and the grooves and punctures of the elytra black, and with a 

 very faint coppery or metallic green lustre upon the head and 

 pronotum. The pygidium and underside of the body are eitlier 

 entirely pale or partly or entirely black, and the amount of dark 

 pigmentation generally is extremely variable. The femora are 

 usually pale, and the tibiae and tarsi are more or less dark. 



The body is oval, short, convex, and smooth and shining. The 

 head is densely and finely punctured, with the clypeus short and 

 its front margin strongly reflexed. The pronotum is finely and 

 rather closely punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, the 

 front angles slightly obtuse and the hind angles rounded away ; 

 the base is finely margined. The scutellum is finely punctured. 

 The elytra are very deeply striated, with the striae closely punc- 

 tured, tlie primary dorsal costae very narrow, the intermediate 

 intervals A'ery broad, the lateral ones strongly punctured all over 

 and the dorsal ones with deep crowded punctures along the 

 middle, the latter reduced to a single row posteriorly upon 

 the 2nd (subsutural) interval and anteriorly upon the 4th interval. 

 The pygidium is finely and subrugosely punctured, and the lower 



