AXOMALA. 2Q9 



pronotura (generally more or less fused together), bright metallic 

 green, and the suture, outer edge and posterior part of the elytra 

 black. The pygidium (sometimes with the exception of a V-shaped 

 apical pale mark), parts of the lower surface, the hind tibia? and 

 tlie tarsi are also dark. 



The body is boat-shaped and the upper surface is everywhere 

 closely sculptured and not shining. The clypeus is broadlv 

 rounded and deeply rugose, the forehead is rugosely and the 

 vertex strongly punctured. The pronotum is closely, deeply and 

 rather evenly punctured, with the sides obtusely angulated near 

 the middle, the front angles right angles, the hind angles obtuse 

 and the base not margined. The scutelluin is strongly punctured, 

 and the elytra are deeply sulcate, with the intervals strongly con- 

 vex and irregularly punctured ; tlie sides are narrowly flanged and 

 widest a little behind the middle. The pygidium is strongly trans- 

 versely rugulose, and the body beneath is rugulose at the sides 

 and hnely punctured in the middle. The front tibia is bidentate 

 the hind tibia rather long and slender, and the larger claw cleft 

 on the front and middle feet. 



d. The teeth of the front tibia are sharp, and the lower lobe 

 ot the inner front claw broad and very acute. 



Length, 14-16 mm. ; breadth, 7-8 mm. 



SiKKiM : Mungphu {E. T. Atkinson) ; Assam : Chandkhira 

 bylhet {J. A. Slierivm), Khasi Hills, Wali Jain, 1000-3000 ft' 

 (May); Burma {F. M. Machivood, May). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in the Indian Museum 

 ( alcutta, and the Agricultural Eesearch Institute, Pusa. 



The metallic lustre of the upper surface is green upon the head 

 and thorax, and purple on the elytra, but the coloration is verv 

 variable. The basal pale patch upon the elytra generally reaches 

 the middle, where it ends squarely, but it may be reduced and in 

 one specimen in the British Museum the dark colouring is' almost 

 absent. " 



211. Anomala flavofasciata. 



Anomala Jtavofasciata, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix IGl-" 

 p. 72. V / ) -> 



Black or dark brown, with a greenish or bronzy lustre, which 

 is scarcely traceable upon the posterior part of the elytra, and 

 with a transverse zigzag yellow mark, interrupted or continuous, 

 at the middle of the elytra. 



It is ovate in shape, moderately broad in the middle and 

 tapering in front and behind. The head is densely punctured 

 rugosely upon the clypeus, which is broad. The pronotum is 

 closely set with line but deep transverse punctures and has an 

 iridescent lustre ; its sides are subangulate before the middle, the 

 front angles acute, the hind angles rectangular but slightly rounded 

 off, the base not margined and moderately prominent in the middle. 

 The scutellum is punctured like the pronotum. The elytra bear 



