ANOMALA, 175 



tibia is bidentate, and the larger claw of the front and middle 

 feet is cleft. 



d' . Eather less elongate than the female; the front tibial teeth 

 are sharper, the front tarsi thickened, and the larger claw broad 

 and abruptly bent. The longer spur of the hind tibia is slender 

 and clubbed at tlie end. 



Length, 16-18 mm. ; breadth, 9-9-5 mm. 



Assam : Sylhet, Cachar ; Sikkim : Darjiling ; United Pro- 

 VIN'CES : Jolikote (June). 



Ttji)e in the British Museum. 



This species, although different in colour and in the sculpture 

 of the elytra, has evidently a peculiarly close relationship to 

 A. anthracina, the pale marks upon the pygidium and the 

 curiously shaped spur of the hind tibia of tlie males being 

 identical in the two. 



It was taken upon a chestnut-tree at Jolikote. 



KiG. Anomala anthracina. (Plate 111, fig. 23.) 



Anomala anihracina, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix, 1912, 

 p. 76. 



Black, with a very feeble metallic lustre above, especially visible 

 upon the head and pronotum, the mouth and antennae dull red, 

 and the sides of the pygidium and abdominal segments exhibiting 

 spots of the same colour, those of the pygidium generally uniting 

 to form a wavy line. The sternum is thickly clothed witli long 

 tawny hair, and the vertex of the head and apex of the pygidium 

 bear a few similar hairs. 



The body is stout and convex, not long, widest near the 

 extremity. The head is densely rugose and opaque, and the 

 clypeus transverse and very gently curved at the front margin. 

 The pronotum is minutely punctured, i-ather densely at tlie 

 sides, but more scantily on the disk ; it is entirely margined, 

 the sides are rounded, the hind angles well marked and the base 

 rather prominent in the middle. The scutellum is scarcely 

 punctured, but generally bears an impressed line on each side. 

 The elytra are deeply and rather evenly sulcate internally, 

 less deeply and more irregularly punctate-striate externally. 

 The pygidium is finely and densely punctate-rugose. The meso- 

 sterniim is not produced, the front tibia is bidentate, and the 

 laro-er claw of the front and middle tarsi is cleft. 



J . The body is shorter, the front tibial teeth shnrper, the 

 front tarsi thickened and their larger claw very broad. The longer 

 spur of the hind tibia is slender, but clubbed at the end. 



Length, 14-16 mm. ; breadth, 8-9-5 mm. 



Sikkim: Kurseong, 6000 ft. {E.A. D'Ahreu, R, Verschraegheii), 

 Mungphu {E. T. AtlAmon), Darjiling { Harm and) \ Bhi'tan : 

 Maria Basti {L. Durel). 



I'yiH in the British Museum. 



