ANOMALA. 185 



Madras : Nilambur (P. M. Lushimjton). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in the 1^'orestry Sesearch 

 Institute, Dehra Dun. This species was found damaging Dalbergia 

 latifolia. 



180. Anomala aurora. 



Anomala aurora, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x, 1912, p. 337. 



Pale yellow, entirely suffused above and beneath with a delicate 

 rosy-green metallic lustre, sometimes with a large vaguely reddish 

 patch on each side of the prouotum, a small brown spot near each 

 lateral margin and two or three still smaller on each side of the 

 pygidium. 



It is a stout, oval and highly convex species. The head is 

 rugosely punctured, with the clypeus semicircular and flat. The 

 pronotum is minutely and sparingly but rather deeply punctured, 

 with its sides obtuyely angulated in the middle, the front angles 

 acute, the hind angles obtuse but well-marked, and the base 

 margined aud gently trisinuate. The scutellum is minutely 

 punctured, and the elytra strongly in regular rows, with a wide, 

 irregularly punctured second interstice. The pygidium and the 

 lower surface are rather strongly but not closely punctured, the 

 latter thinly clothed with pale hairs. The front tibiae are strongly 

 bidentate, the hind femora short and thick, the hind tibiae a little 

 inflated in the basal half, and the larger claw of the front and 

 middle feet is cleft. 



The sexes scarcely differ, but the inner anterior claw of the 

 male is a little widened and the apex of the front tibia rather 

 less blunt than in the female. 



Length, 10'5-12 mm. ; breadth, 5"5-6"5 mm. 



Burma : Maymyo {H. L. Andrewes, May), Euby Mines 

 ( W. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. H. E. Andrewes' 

 collection. 



Mr. H. RI. Lefroy has received the species from Maymyo as 

 feeding upon peach (Prunus persica). 



181. Anomala fracta. 



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

 p. 55. 



Testaceous, with the head, pronotum and scutellum strongly, 

 and the elytra less strongly, suffused with metallic lustre, the 

 head or the posterior part of it, the pronotum (except the lateral 

 margins), and the scutellum dark coppery green or red, the elytra 

 decorated with rather indefinite dark markings, the dark parts 

 consisting of the extreme outer njai'gins, a patch round the 

 scutellum, one at each shoulder, and a vague crescent common to 

 the posterior part of the two elytra, its ends directed towards, or 

 continuous with, the humeral patches. There is also a dark spot 

 on each side of the pygidium. The hind tibiae (and sometimes 

 all) are also dark metallic, as well as the tarsi. The primary 



