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Burma : Karen Hills, 2700-3500 ft. {L. Fea, Dec). 

 T^ipe in the Grenoa Museum ; co-type in the British Museum. 

 This is a member of the group called by Ohaus Spinanouuda, ou 

 account of the spines at the sides of the second ventral segment. 



195. Anomala pallidospila. 



A)H>mala {Spinanomala) inilliduspila, Arrow, Anu. Mag. N.at. Hist. 

 (8) X, 1912, p. 327. 



Deep metallic green or copj^ery green, the elytra light brown, 

 with maz'gins of varying breadth, and sometimes nearly the whole 

 surface, greenish black ; the sides of the pronotum, a narrow basal 

 line on eacli side, the scutellum, a small spot near the outer edge 

 of each elytron behind the middle, and the greater part of the 

 femora, coxae and sternum pale yellow. The pygidium is deep 

 reddish and the tibiae are coppery. 



The shape is elongate-ovate, rather depressed and distinctly- 

 tapering before and behind, and almost the 

 whole body, except the elytra, is clothed 

 with rather coarse and not close, greyish 

 hairs. The head is rugose, and tlie clyjjeus 

 flat and semicircular. The pronotum is 

 rather strongly punctured, the close and 

 fine punctures being intermixed with larger 

 ones which bear long erect hairs. The scu- 

 tellum bears a few large punctures and the 

 elytra are deeply striated, the intervals being 

 unequal and finely punctured. The pygi- 

 dium and metasternum are rather lightly 

 rugose and hairy, and the abdomen more 

 closely so. The second abdominal segment 

 bears on each side three spines, rather larger 

 than those forming the general clothing. 

 The mesosternum is not produced, the front tibiae are strongly 

 bidentate, the four posterior legs very long and slender, and the 

 larger claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



S . The hind legs are longer than those of the female, and the 

 inner front claw is broad but very acute. 

 Length, 8-10 mm. ; breadth, 4*5-5 mm. 

 Burma : Maymyo, 3500 ft. {H. L. Andrewes, May). 

 Ty^je in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. H. E. Andrewes' 

 collection. 



This species is said to feed on the leaves of peach trees, PriDins 

 persica. 



It is closely related to the group of Bornean species to which 

 Dr. Ohaus has given the name Spinanomala. The characteristic 

 spines at the sides of the abdomen differ only sliglitly from the 

 general hairy clothing and the mesosternal epimera are not pro- 

 duced upwards. It seems to me that no suilicieut reason remains 

 for regarding Spinanomala as more than a subgenus of Anomala. 



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l^'ig. 48. — Anomala 

 pallidospila, c? . 



