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170. Anomala ignicollis. 



Anomala ignicollis. Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 

 (1850), p. 191. 



Blood-red, with the head darker, the pronotum suffused with 

 a slight metallic lustre, and the legs, the lower surface and the 

 extremity of the pygidium clothed with rather long tawny hair. 



It is a short, compact, highly convex and shining insect. The 

 head is small and densely rugose, the clypeus broadly rounded 

 and the suture well marked. The prouotum is minutely and 

 rather evenly puuctured, with the sides rounded, the base com- 

 pletely margined and broadly rounded, and all the angles obtuse. 

 The scutellum is broader than it is long, obtuse at the apex, and 

 bears a few punctures. The elytra are rather strongly punctate- 

 striate, with the alternate intervals broad and irregularly punc- 

 tured. The pygidium is closely, rather finely and rugosely 

 punctured, a little less closely at the apex, whei'e it bears a 

 few tawny hairs. The sternum is closely, and the abdomen 

 thinly, hairy. The longer claw o£ the front and middle feet is 

 cleft only at the tip. 



(S . The last joint of the front tarsus is deeply notched near the 

 base, and the inner claw is strongly bent near the base, afterwards 

 straight, parallel-sided and slightly cleft at the tip. 



Length, 13-15 mm.: breadth, 7*5-9 mm. 



Madras: Nilgiri Hills, Utakamand (C. A. Barber, April), 

 Pondicherry. 



Ti/pe in the Paris Museum. 



171. Anomala dorsopicta. 



Anomala doi'sopicta, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x, 1912, 

 p. 335. 



Bright testaceous yellow, with the head and tarsi reddish, and 

 the forehead (except a triangular excision in front), a longitudinal 

 bar on each side of the pronotum (extend- 

 ing from front to hind margin and emitting 

 an external branch at the middle), and the 

 elytra (except an oblique oval patch a little 

 before the middle of each) black. The 

 head and prothorax have generally a very 

 slight metallic lustre. 



The shape is elongate-oval, moderately 

 broad and not very convex. The head 

 is strongly and rather evenly punctured, 

 with the clypeus short, rounded at the 

 sides and strongly reflexed at the edge. 

 The pronotum is rather finely but regu- 

 larly punctured, strongly rounded at the 

 sides, margined and trisinuate at the base, with the hind angles 

 very obtuse. The scutellum is punctured and the elytra are deeply 

 punctate-striate, with the intervals narrow and convex, and the 



Fig. 44. 

 Anomala dorso'jncta. 



