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strongly pimctured, with the sides evenly rounded, the front 

 angles obtuse and the hind angles nearly obsolete ; the base is 

 gently and almost uniformly rounded and bears an impressed 

 marginal line. Tlie scutellum is scarcely punctured, and the 

 elytra have six deep and coarsely punctured dorsal striae, the 

 second interval being coarsely and confluently punctured. The 

 pygidium is coarsely punctured. The mesosternum is not pro- 

 duced ; the fi'ont tibia is bidentate, the hind tibia stout and scarcely 

 constricted, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet is 

 cleft. 



<S . The club of the antenna is as long as the footstalk. 



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



Ceylon : Hakgala {E. E. Green, March). 



T^jpe in the Bi'itish Museum. 



177. Anomala mus. (Plate III, fig. 30.) 



Anomala mm, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 1911, p. 485. 



Pale yellow with the posterior part of the head, the pronotum 

 (except a lateral border, enclosing a dark spot, and a narrower 

 front and hind border, and sometimes an incomplete narrow 

 median line), the extreme edges of the elytra and a humeral spot 

 on each, two spots on each side of the pygidium, the lower surface 

 and parts of the legs, coppery- or greenish-black. 



A variety occurs in which the dark-coloured areas haye ex- 

 tended, and broad longitudinal dark bands appear at the suture 

 and sides of the elytra and from the shoulder to the apex, leaving 

 only a narrow thoracic margin, the scutellum and two ill-defined 

 stripes on each elytron pale. The Madura specimens are all of 

 this variety. 



It is small, ovate, and only sparingly hairy beneath. The head 

 is rugose and the clypeus rather broadly rounded. The pronotum 

 is very shining, strongly, rather evenly but not thickly punc- 

 tured; the sides are strongly rounded, the front angles nearly 

 right angles, the posterior augles very obtuse, and the base gently 

 rounded, with a marginal line which is almost obsolete in the 

 middle. The scutellum bears a few punctures, and the elytra are 

 rather strongly punctured in impressed rows. The pygidium is 

 coarsely and rather rugosely punctured. The mesosternum is not 

 produced. The metasternum is strongly punctured and thinly 

 hairy at the sides, and the abdomen strongly but sparsely punc- 

 tured. The front tibiae are strongly bidentate, and the larger 

 claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



S . The inner front claw is broad, acute and minutely cleft at 

 the upper edge. 



Length, 6'5-8"5 mm. ; breadth, 4-5 mm. 



Madras: Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft. {H. L. Andrewes), Shem- 

 baganur. 



Ty/)e in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. H. E. Andrewes' 

 collection. 



