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outer edge flattened for a short distance behind the shoulder. The 

 pygidium is evenly punctured and the sides of the metasternum 

 rugosely punctured and very thinly clothed with short hair. The 

 front tibiae are strongly bidentate, and the larger claw of the front 

 and middle feet is cleft. 



cf . The forehead and clypeus are shining, and the inner lobe 

 of the cleft anterior claw is broad. 



5 . The forehead and clypeus are more densely punctured and 

 scarcely shining, and the dilated margins of the elytra are 

 thickened. 



Length, 13-14 mm. ; breadth, 7-8 mm. 



Burma : Thnrrawaddy, Taung-ugu, Prome {O. Q. Corhett), 

 Bhamo Hills, 4000 ft. {F. M. MacJcivood, May). 



Tyj^e in the British Museum. 



172. Anomala fallaciosa, sp. nov. (Plate III, fig. 22.) 



Testaceous yellow, with the head a little darker, the vertex on 

 each side, tlie humeral calli and a narrow marginal line entirely 

 surrounding the elytra brown or black ; the tarsi are also dark. 

 The anterior part of the upper surface is faintly suffused with a 

 metallic lustre, which is not very apparent but constitutes an 

 important distinctive feature. 



It is shining, oval in form and not very convex, and the legs 

 are rather short and stout. The head is rugosely punctured, 

 except upon the vertex, which is strongly and not very closely 

 punctured, the eyes are large and prominent and the clypeus 

 very short and broadly rounded. The pronotum is moderately 

 finely and closely punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, 

 the front angles acute, the hind angles rounded and the base 

 completely margined. The scutellum is finely punctured, and 

 the elytra bear seven deep equidistant and closely punctured 

 dorsal striae, the second disrupted at the base. The pygidium 

 is moderately strongly and closely punctured, and the meta- 

 sternum is thinly clothed with short erect hairs. The front 

 tibia is armed with two strong and rather closely approximated 

 teeth, the hind tibia is short and broad, but a little narrowed at 

 the extremity, and the longer front and middle claws are cleft. 



S . The club of tlie antenna is moderately long, the front tibia 

 is short and broad, and the front tarsus rather short and thick. 

 5 unknown. 



Length, 13 mm. ; breadth, 7 mm. 



Burma : Tharrawaddy {G. Q. Corhett). 



Type in the British Museum. 



I know only the unique type specimen presented by Mr. H. E. 

 Andrewes to the British Museum. The species is remarkable 

 for its close resemblance to A. communis, Burm., with which in 

 its general aspect and coloration it is identical. A rather close 

 examination is necessary to detect the very slight metallic lustre 

 which shows it to belong to a different group and this is 



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