214 



liUTELIN.T. 



The pygidium is finely and rather feebly transversely strigose. 

 The legs are fairly long, the front tibia armed with two \vell+ 

 developed teeth, the hind tibia slender, and the longer front and 

 middle claws cleft. 



cj" . The inner front claw is angulai'ly dilated internally. 



2 unknown. 



Le)}(ith, 15 nun. ; breadth, 8"0 mm. 



i\ssAAr {CoJ. \V. F. Badr/lei/). 



T[ii>e in the British Museum. 



217. Anomala corvina, sp, nov. 



Entirely sliining black above and beneati), with the footstalk of 

 the antenna alone pale yellow. 



The shape is elongate-oval and rather depressed. The clypeus 

 is broad and, like the forehead, finely punctured and shining, with 

 the front margin strongly reflexed and nearly straight. The pro- 

 notum is finely, evenly and rather closely punctured, with the 

 sides regularly rounded, the front angles nearly right angles, 

 the hind angles blunt, and the base not completely margined. 

 The scutellum bears a few punctures. The elytra are very closely 

 and deeply sulcate, with the sulci not distinctly punctured, the 

 intervals narrow and convex and only very scantily punctulated ; 

 the lateral margins are a little reflexed at the shoulders. The 

 pygidium is rather coarsely transversely strigose. The sides of 

 the metasternum are clothed with rather scanty yellowish hair. 

 The front tibia is bidentate, the hind legs are very long and 

 slender, the tibia not inflated nor constricted, and the longer 

 claw is cleft upon the front and middle feet. 



S . The front tibia is very broad, the terminal tooth rather 

 sharp, the upper tooth very minute, the front tarsus very short 

 and thick, and tlie inner front claw short and strongly dilated. 



5 unknown. 



Lenrith, 13 mm.; breadth, 6*5 mm. 



SiKK'TM. 



The single type specimen in the British Museum was taken by 

 the late !Sir Joseph Hooker about 1853. 



218. Anomala semiaenea. 



A72oi)iala semianea, Anew, Ann. iNJa<i-. JN'at. Hist. (8) viii, 1911 

 p. 484. 



Deep metallic green or coppery green, with the elytra, abdomen 

 and legs chestnut-red, often with a very faint metallic tinge. 



This is a small, not very convex, species, with the prothorax 

 short and not broad and the elytra dilating from the shoulders 

 almost to the extremities. The pygidium and the \\hole lower 

 surface are clothed with rather long erect grey hair. The clypeus 

 is broad, rugosely punctured and nearly straight in front, the 

 forehead coarsely punctured, the proiiotum moderately finely in 

 the luiddle and a little more coarsely at the sides ; the outer 



