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183. Anomala aenigma, sp. nov. 



Pale yellow, with a faint golden-green suffusion. The clypeus 

 and the tarsi are red, and the vertex, the humeral callus, a short 

 lougitudinal line near the outer margin of each elytron about the 

 middle and a basal spot adjoining the scutellum on each side, black 

 or brown, the last sometimes absent. 



It is small, oval and convex. The head is rugosely punctured, 

 the eyes large, and the clypeus small, with its margin strongly 

 rounded and raised. The pronotum is strongly and closely punc- 

 tured, with its sides well rounded, its angles obtuse (the hind 

 ones almost rounded off) and the base marked with a deeply 

 incised marginal stria. The scutellum is well punctured, and the 

 elytra are deeply punctate-striate, with a very broad, strongly 

 and irregularly punctured subsutural interval. The pygidium is 

 closely, coarsely and confluently punctured, and bears long erect 

 hairs on the sides of its posterior part, and the metasternum is 

 moderately finely and closely punctured and clothed with very 

 fine erect pale hair. The front tibia is armed with very blunt 

 teeth, and the longer claw is cleft on the front and middle feet. 

 The prosternum forms an erect, sharply pointed process behind 

 the front coxae. 



c? . The inner front claw is broad, angulated at its lower edge, 

 very acute at the tip and deeply cleft. 



In the female specimen the dark spots adjoining the scutellum 

 are absent, but this may not be a constant feature. 



Lengthy 10-12 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



Burma : Rangoon, Karen Hills {W. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is closely related to A. discoidea, Burm. (of the 

 Malay Peninsula), which Ohaus places in the genus Mimela, on 

 account of the existence of a prosternal process ; but the process 

 is not easily visible, being in an incipient stage only, and, in the 

 absence of any other reason for separating it from Anomala, it 

 seems to me unnatural to do so. 



A. cenigma was found in the same locality as A. puella, Arr., 

 from which, in spite of its more marked prosternal process, it is 

 not very easily distinguishable. 



184. Anomala leporalis, sp. nov. (Plate III, figs. 28, 29.) 



Testaceous, with the head, the pronotum (except broad lateral 

 margins and a narrow median line), an elongate triangular patch 

 upon the anterior part of the elytra (enclosing, but not including, 

 the scutellum) and sometimes a small posterior spot on eacli side 

 of the suture and a transverse bar at the base of the pygidium, 

 dark brown or nearly black. The extremities of the tibiae and 

 the tarsi are also dark, and the head, pronotum and scutellum are 

 suffused with a metallic green lustre. 



Small and oval in shape, smooth and shining. The head is 

 rugose, with the sides of the clypeus converging and the front 



