ANOMALA, 237 



puiR'tured at tiie sides. The luesostermim is uot produced. Tlie 

 front tibia is bideiitate, the upper tooth rather slight. The front 

 tarsi and all the claws and claw-joints are long, the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet deeply cleft. 



(^ . The antennae are rather long, the terminal tooth of the 

 front tibia is rather sharp, and the inner front claw a little dilated 

 and very acute. 



Length, 14-23 mm.; breadth, S-12 mm. 



United Pkovixces : AV\ Almora, Eanikhet {H. G. Champion); 

 Assam: Knrseong {Verschnieghea). Manipur {W. Dohertij)^ 

 Khasi Hills, Xongpriang [B. Warreib), Jaintia Hills ; Sikkim : 

 Darjiling, Mungphn {E. T. Atl-insoa), Peshoke Spur (A'. aS'. Lister) ; 

 Bhutan : Maria Basti (L. Durel). 



Tyi^e in the Vienna Museum ; that of A. striolata in the Paris- 

 Museum and that of A. hevissiraa in the Halle Museum. 



Section V. 



A'e// to the Species. 



1 (4) Elj'tra very sliining-, witli micrcj- 



scopic puncturation. 



2 (3) Prouutum scarcely punctured .... iiterula, sp. n., p. 237. 



3 (2) Pronotum closely punctured trochani erica, sp. n., p. 238-. 



4 (]) Elytra coarsely punctured rulidipes, sp. n., p. 239. 



255. Anomala merula, sp. nov. 



Entirely black above and beneath, and \ery smooth and 

 shining. 



It is elongate in shape, broad at the shoulders and attenuated 

 at each end. The head is finelv and 

 closely punctured, with the ciypeu* 

 broadly transverse, straigiit in front and 

 rounded at the sides. The pronotum is 

 narrow, little wider than it is long, 

 broadest at the base, which is rather 

 evenly rounded and uot margined, and 

 tapering to the front, which is verv 

 narrow ; the sides are strongly curved, 

 snbangulate in the middle, with all the 

 angles sharp and nearly right angles ; 

 the surface is very minutely and incon- 

 spicuously punctured, except at the sides. 

 Fig. b2.— Anomala mn-ula. where the punctures are moderately 

 strong. The scutellum is also miiuitely 

 and inconspicuously punctured and rather short. The elvtra 

 are very smooth, with almost obsolete lines of minute punctures. 

 The pygidinm is tinely transversely rugose. The mesosternum 

 is not produced. The sides of the metasternum are densely 

 punctured and clothed with very line greyish pubescence. The- 



