210 BUTELINiE. 



a flattened dilatation from the shoulder to beyond the middle ; 

 they are deeply striated, with confused punctures in the striae 

 and upon the 2nd and 4th intervals, which are broad, and fine 

 scattered punctures upon the remaining surface. Tlie pygidium 

 is transversely strigose and bears a few erect tawny hairs. The 

 metasternum is finely punctured and pubescent, and the abdomen 

 irregularly striolated, with transverse rows of stout bristles. The 

 mesosternum is not produced, the front tibiae are bidentate, the 

 hind tibiae long, and the larger claw of the front and middle feet 

 is cleft. 



(^ . The front tibial teeth are short, the claw-joint is strongly 

 curved and bears a sharp basal tooth, and the lower lobe of the 

 inner claw is broad. 



Length, 14-16-5 mm. ; breadth, 7-5-8-5 mm. 



SiKKiM : Kurseong, 4700-5000 ft. (iV. AnnandaJe), Gantok ; 

 Bhutan {L. Durel) ; Tonkin : Mauson Mts., 2000-3000 ft. 

 (R. Fruhstorfer). 



Type in the British Museum. 



A. flavofascinta is closely related to the Chinese A. spiloptera, 

 Burni., as well as to A. jiavonotata and A. flaviventris, which 

 follows The peculiar iridescent lustre of the pronotum and the 

 well-marked lateral flange of the elytra will serve to distinguish it. 



This insect is nocturnal iu its habits, Mr. Annandale having 

 noted that it hides by day in the moss under tree-trunks and 

 emerges at night. 



212. Anomala flaviventris. (Plate III, figs. 16 & 17.) 



Anomala Jlaviventris, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix, 1912, 

 p. 74. 



Black or purplish black, with yellow markings as follows : — 

 narrow lateral borders to the pronotum, 

 an irregular transverse median band 

 common to both elytra (directed slightly 

 forward towards the extremities, which 

 do not quite reach the outer margins), 

 the posterior part or almost the whole 

 of the ]jygidiuin, the lower surface of 

 the body, the antennae, femora, and front 

 and middle tibise. 



The body is elongate, rather parallel- 

 sided, closely punctured and scarcely 

 shining above. The head is densely 

 rugosely punctured, with the clypeus 

 short and nearly straight in front. The 



^\g.bl.— Anomala flaviven- prouotum_ is finely _ and densely punc- 



i'r/.s, male. tured, with the sides obtusely angu- 



late in the middle, the hind angles nearly 



right angles, tiie base not margined and very gently trisinuate. 



The scutellum is closely punctured at the sides. The elytra are 



deeply striated, with coarse confused punctures in the striae and 



