ANOMALA. 239 



257. Auomala validipes, sp. nov. (Plate 111, tigs. 14 ^ic 1.').) 



Deep pitcby-red, with tlie head, pronotum, scuttillum, and hiud 

 tibiae aud tarsi almost black, the upper surface suffused witli a 

 scarcely perceptible metallic lustre. 



Broadly spindle-shaped, convex, smootli and shining, with very 

 stout hind legs. The head is finely and not very closely punc- 

 tured, nearly smooth in the middle of the forehead, the clypeus 

 short, broad and rectangular, with the front edge nearly straight. 

 The pronotum is narrow, finely punctured, a little more coarsely 

 at the sides, with a narrow smooth median line ; the sides are 

 strongly convergent, the lateral margins incurved, the front angles 

 not very sharp, the hind angles very obtuse, and the base com- 

 pletely margined and broadly rounded. The sciitellum is blunt 

 and well punctured, and the elytra dilate to a little behind the 

 shoulders and narro\A- from there to the end ; they are deeply aud 

 rather coarsely striate punctate, with the subsutural interval rather 

 broad and irregularly punctured. The pygidium is transversely 

 strigose. The sides of the body are clothed heuenth with rather 

 fine and close greyish pubescence. The front tibiae are bideutate, 

 \Aith the upper tooth rather feeble ; the hind legs are very strong 

 and massive, with short and stout tibiae and tarsi, and the longer 

 claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



(S . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is short and sharp, 

 aud the inner front claw very short and broad but sharply 

 pointed. 



§ unknown. 



Length, 20 mu). ; breadth, 11 mm. 



Assam : Goal para. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is very close to A. holosericea, Bates, said to come 

 from tlie Punjab, but found by Doherty in the Malay Peninsula. 

 Tlie elytra are much more strongly punctured thau in that form 

 and the head more lightly. 



Section VI. 

 Kei/ to the Species. 



1 (48) Mesosternal process elongate and 



pointed. 



2 (3) Front tibia without lateral teeth ; 



meso-nietasternal suturo distinct . rosetti, Nonfr., p. 241. 



3 (2) Front tibia bidentate ; meso-meta- 



sternal suture obliterated. 



4 (19) Body long and narrow. 



5 (10) Upper surface green. 



6 (9) Entirely shining and metallic. 



7 <8) Lateral margins of the elytra nar- 



row ; fiery-red stripe interrupted. . auronttens. Hope. p. 242. 



8 (7) Lateral margins of the elytra broad ; 



fiery-red stripe continuous ptenjgojjJiorus, Oh., p. 243. 



