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than in A. communis, etc., unci above all by the cleft middle claw 

 of the female. 



The representatives from Sikkim and Assam, respectively, 

 really form two distinct races, as shown by the two forms of 

 sedeagus of the males, but as T have found no external difference 

 I have followed the principle explained in the Ijitroduction and 

 treated them as one. 



174. Anomala viridilatera, sp. nov. 



Golden yellow, with the forehead and vertex, tlie pronotum 

 (except the lateral margins), and tiie tarsi dark coppery green, 

 the elyti-a coppery, with the external margins vivid peacock-greeu, 

 and the scutellum and the outer face of the tibiae also of the latter 

 colour. The abdomen is slightly yellowish. 



The body is moderately elongate in shape, rather broad behind 

 and not very convex. The head is small, rugosely punctured, 

 with the clypeus short and straight in front. The pronotum is 

 shining, finely and sparsely punctui'ed, with the sides strongly 

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

 obtuse, and the base entirely and strongly margined. The scu- 

 tellum is very short, semicircular (not pointed) and bears a few 

 punctures. The elytra have each two strongly elevated discoidal 

 costse, bordered by strongly impressed longitudinal lines of large 

 punctures, with wide and coarsely and irregularly punctured 

 intervals. The pygidium is smooth and shining, rather sparsely 

 and feebly punctured. The pronotum is produced behind the 

 front coxae into a sharp vertical knife-like process. The sides of 

 the metasternum are finely punctured and clothed with very 

 fine inconspicuous pale hair. The legs are stout, the front tibiee 

 armed with two sharp teeth, the hind tibia stout and not long, 

 and the longer front and middle claws cleft. 



c? . The club of the antenna is long, and the inner front claw 

 ia unequally cleft, but not noticeably dilated. 



Length, 12 mm. ; breadth, 6-5 mm. 



Bengal : Buxar Duars {D. Naoroji, May) ; Sikkim : Gopald- 

 bara, Eungbong Valley (B. Stevens). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is like no other Indian species known to me, but is related 

 to the Japanese A. difficlUs, Waterh. 



175. Anomala birmana. 



Pseudosinuhala hirmmia, lieller,* Deutsche Eiit. Zeits. 1891, p. 297 



iS). 

 Pseudosinrjhala rur/osifrons, Heller,* 1. c. ( $ ). 



Pale testaceous yellow, Avith a faint metallic lustre, and with 

 the head, a large patch occupying the whole centre part of the 

 pronotum and usually extending in the middle to the base, the 

 basal and lateral margins of the elytra, and an intra-apical spot 



