182 EUTBLIN^. 



upon each, dark brown or black. The pygidium is generally 

 decorated with a dark spot on each side, and the front tibia? and 

 all the tarsi are usually also dark, but all the dark parts are liable 

 to reduction or extension, and the upper surface may be wholly 

 pale, or wholly dark, with the exception of the sides of the pro- 

 notuni and the scutellum. 



It is a stout, compact and convex insect, very shining and 

 almost devoid of hair. The head is finely and densely rugose, and 

 the clypeus shortly semicircular. The pronotum is rather finely 

 and closely punctured, with the sides strongly curved and the 

 base gently and uniformly curved, and without a marginal stria. 

 The scutellum is much broader than it is long and well punctured. 

 The elytra are strongly punctured in nearly uniform and equi- 

 distant rows, and strongly separately rounded at the end. The 

 pygidium is strongly, and at the base rather conflueutly, punctured. 

 There is no sternal process. The front tibia is strongly but not 

 acutely bidentate, the hind tibia is short and stout, and the longer 

 claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



S . The club of the antenna is as long as the footstalk, and 

 the lower lobe of the longer front claw is very broad. 



Length, 5*5-6 mm, ; breadth, 3-3*5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills ( W. Doherty), Meekalan Hills {L. Fea, 

 March), 



Types ( S and $ ) in Capt, Moser's collection, 



176, Anomala hamifera. 



Omaloplia hamifera, Walker,* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, 

 p, 56. 



Pale testaceous, with a slight metallic lustre, and with the 

 vertex of the head, the entire middle part of the pronotum 

 (divided into two by a narrow pale line) and 

 a small elongate mark near each lateral 

 margin, the elytral suture (very narrowly), 

 a short transverse bar crossing the suture 

 before the middle, an abrupt dilatation of 

 the posterior extremity of the sutural line, 

 continued round the outer margin to the 

 shoulder (interrupted behind the latter by 

 an oblique pale mark), and usually a spot 

 at the base of the pygidium on each side, 

 black or dark brown. Parts of the sternum 

 p. ,- _ , and abdomen, the tarsi and the inner surface 



^^' hamifera!^"^ '^ of the four posterior tibiae are also dark- 

 coloured. 

 This is one of the smallest species of the genus. It is short, 

 broad behind and not very convex. The clypeus is finelv punc- 

 tured, short and broad, with the front margin nearly straight and 

 well reflexed. The forehead is rather more strongly and closely 

 punctured. The pronotum is strougly transverse and rather 



