186 RUTBLIN^. 



intervals of the elytra are generally wholly or in part lighter than 

 the general ground-colour. 



It is a small, elongate-oval, not very convex species. The head 

 is entirely rugose, except on the vertex, which is coarsely punc- 

 tured. The clypeus is small and shortly transverse, with its 

 front margin nearly straight. The pronotum is shining, but rather 

 strongly punctured, with its hind edge completely margined and 

 only very gently sinuated, its sides gently rounded, the front 

 angles not very acute and the hind angles very obtuse. The 

 scutellum bears a few punctures and the elytra are strongly and 

 closely punctate-striate, the punctures large and confluent. The 

 pygidium is strongly and rugosely punctured, and the lower 

 surface is strongly punctured and almost without hairy clothing. 

 The legs are moderately long, the hind tibiae a little inflated before 

 the middle, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



(^ . The antennal club is as long as the footstalk. 



Length, 6-5-8 mm. ; breadth, 3-5-4 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in the British Museum. 



182. Anomala puella. 



Anomala puella, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) x, 1912, p. 338. 



Entirely pale yellow, with a faint metallic lustre, the antennae 

 and tarsi only being a little darker. 



The body is shortly ovate in form, convex and shining, with 

 pale erect hairs upon the pygidium and lower surface. The head 

 is strongly and rugosely punctured, M'ith the clypeus short and 

 broadly rounded, its margins strongly reflexed and the frontal 

 suture carinate. The pronotum is strongly and closely punctured, 

 with the base completely margined, the sides strongly rounded, 

 the front angles acute and the hind angles rounded away. The 

 scutellum is well punctured, and the elytra are closely striate- 

 punctate, with the intervals narrow, except the subsutural one, 

 which is broad and strongly and irregularly punctured. The 

 pygidium is strongly and closely punctured. The prosternum is 

 slightly lobed behind the front coxae, and the mesosternum is not 

 produced. The front tibiae are bluntly bidentate, and the larger 

 claw on each of the four anterior feet is cleft. 



S . The lower lobe of the inner front claw is acutely pointed, 

 broad and angulated at the lower edge. 



Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 5-5-6-5 mm. 



BuEMA. : Karen Hills {W. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This little insect is one of the puzzling species which stand on 

 the border line between Anomala and Mimela. It is very much 

 like Mimela debilis, Sharp, to which it is undoubtedly allied. 

 The prosternum is slightly prominent behind the front coxae, but 

 does not form an angular process between them, and both the 

 species must, I think, be placed in Anomala, if any distinction is 

 to be retained. 



