248 RUTELIN^;. 



(Yunnan), of which it exactl}' reproduces the form and colora- 

 tion. It can be most readily distinguished by the conical 

 pygidium. Bates has declared (' The Entomologist,' xxiv, 1891, 

 •Supplement, p, 78) that his Fancsjnlota impicta from Korea is a 

 variety of A. plagiicolUs, but, as numerous deceptively similar 

 species ai'e now found to exist, several of them being described 

 here, it is much more probable that the Korean form is also 

 specifically distinct. 



267. Anomala princeps. 



Mimela variegata, Walker* (preoccupied), Anu. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(3) iii. 1859, p. 56. 

 Prndlosticta princeps, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, 



p. 291, pi. iv, fig. 3. 



Dark bronzy-black or green-black, with the elytra sometimes 

 entirely black, and decorated with orange n)arkings as follows : — 

 the clypeus (except the margin and two small basal spots), the 

 lateral margins of the prouotum (produced inwai'ds at each angle) 

 and sometimes two small transverse basal spots, the middle of tlie 

 scutellum, two large spots placed transversely before the middle 

 of each elytron and sometimes coalescing, and a third a little 

 behind them near the suture, a longitudinal stripe at the middle 

 of the pygidium and parts of the sternum, coxae, and abdominal 

 segments. 



The body is very smooth and shining, oval, slightly depressed, 

 broad in the middle, and tapering before and behind. The 

 clypeus is broadly rounded and finely rugose, and the forehead 

 is closely punctured. The prouotum is very smooth and almost 

 unpunctvired ; the sides are angulated in the middle, strongly 

 convergent in front, the hind angles well-marked but obtuse, and 

 the base immarginate and gently rounded in the middle. The 

 scutellum is sharp, straight-sided and unpunctured. The elytra 

 are irregularly punctate-striate, with a very broad irregularly 

 punctured subsutural space. The pygidium is very prominent, 

 flat and almost horizontal, very finely and indistinctly punctured. 

 The mesosternal process is large, cur\ed, bluntly pointed and 

 strongly compressed. The metasternum bears a few fine scattered 

 punctures and hairs, and the abdomen is almost smooth. The 

 front tibia is strongly bidentate, the hind tibia moderately long, 

 and the larger claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



6 . The two teeth of the front tibia are small and sharp, and 

 the inner front claw is dilated and cleft. 



$ . The two teeth of the front tibia are very blunt and the 

 terminal one very broad at the end. The extreme apex of 

 the pygidium bears a transverse impression. 



Length, 14-17 mm. ; breadth, 8-10 mm. 



Ceylon: Pundaluoya, Dimbula, Kandy {E. E. Green, May). 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum ; that of iJ/. varie- 

 gata in the British Museum. 



