238 RUTELINvE. 



legs are not long, the hind ones very stout ; the front tibia bears 

 a long curved terminal tooth and a very feeble upper one, the 

 hind feinur is short and broad, the land tihia and tarsus short and 

 thick, and the longer claw is cleft on the front and middle IVet. 



iS . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is ratiier shorter and 

 sharper, and the lower lobe of the inner front claw is broad and 

 angulated beneath. 



Length, 20-25 nun,; breadth, I0'o-14 mm. 



Assam : Naga Hills ( IF. Dohertij). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This resembles no species known to me except A. holosericea, 

 Bates, a native of the Malay Peninsula, wrongly attributed, in my 

 opinion, to the Punjab by the describer, like others in the same 

 paper. A. merula is very easily recognizable by its smooth black 

 surface, narrow tapering prothorax and massive hind legs. 



256. Anomala troclianterica, sp. nov. 



Black, smooth and shining, with a very faint purplish lustre 

 upon the elytra. 



It is elongate in shape, with the prothorax narrow and strongly 

 attenuated in front, and the hind legs very strong and massive. 

 The head is evenly and rather closely punctured and the clypeal 

 margin regularly rounded. The prothorax is narrow, widest at 

 the base, where it is narrower than the elytra at the shoulders ; 

 the sides are angulated before the middle and almost straight 

 from that point to the front and hind angles, all of which are 

 blunt, but appear acute as seen from above ; the base is not 

 completely margined. The pronotum is finely and closely punc- 

 tured, the puncturation becoming stronger at the sides. The 

 scutellum bears a few fine punctures, and the elytra bear faint 

 longitudinal lines of very minute punctures. The pygidium is 

 finely and closely transversely strigose. The sides of the meta- 

 sternum are clothed with a rather fine and. close short yellowish 

 pubescence. There is uo sternal process. The front tibia has a 

 long straight terminal tooth and a very feeble upper one ; tlie 

 hind femur is very thick and strongly arched, the trochanter pro- 

 duced as a narrow process at its extremity, the tibia very short 

 and thick and the tarsus broad and rather short ; the longer claws 

 of the front and middle feet are cleft. 



cJ . Tlie inner front claw is rather abruptly dilated near its 

 base. 



$ unknown. 



Length, 18 mm. ; breadth, 10 mm. 

 . .SiKKiM : Gopaldliara, Rungbong Valley, 6300 ft. ( IF. K. 

 Webb). 



7\>/pe in the British Museum. 



