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268. Anomala chloromela. 



Anomala chloromela, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 1911, 

 p. 357. 



Bright grass-green, with the clypeus, lateral margins of the 

 protliorax and the entire elytra pea-green, and the lower surface 

 and legs golden red, with the sides of the metasternuin and outer 

 edges of the tibiae more or less green. 



The body is compact, oval, convex, very smooth and shining. 

 The clypeus is broad, nearly straight in front, and finely and 

 rugosely punctured, the clypeal suture straight and impressed, 

 and the forehead densely punctured. The pronotum is rather 

 closely and strongly punctured, especially at tlie sides, it is 

 strongly rounded laterally, with the front angles rather sharp 

 and the hind angles right angles, tlie base being hroadly rounded 

 in the middle and not margined. The scutellum is finely and 

 sparingly punctured. The elytra are rather scantily and shal- 

 lowly punctured, the punctures becoming rather coarse at the 

 sides and apices, and most of them forming imperfect longi- 

 tudinal lines ; the marginal membrane is narrow. The pygidium 

 is finely and rather irregularly punctured. The metasternum is 

 densely punctured and hairy at the sides, smooth and shining in 

 the middle, and there is a short but sharp mesosternal process. 

 The front tibia is strongly bidentate, and the longer claw of the 

 front and middle tarsi is cleft. 



S . The inner front claw is broad, acute and strongly angulated 

 at the middle of its lower edge. 



Length, 17-18 mm. ; breadth, 10-10-5 mm. 



Ceylon : Ambalangoda {E. E. Greea, March). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is an interesting connecting link between those forms 

 which have a mesosternal process and the Eucldora group in 

 which there is none, but to which A. cJiloromela lias in all other 

 respects the closest resemblance. 



259. Anomala gemmula. 



Anoniala (femmula, Arrow, Auii. Mag. Nat. Ilist. (8) viii, 1911, 

 p. 480. 



Bright grass-green above, with the elytra a little lighter in 

 colour, the head and scutellum more or less coppery, the pro- 

 notum sometimes slightly opalescent, the legs, pygidium and 

 lower surface coppery. 



It is a small ovate, shining species, rather densely clothed with 

 white hair on the lower surface and pygidium, and with the inner 

 edges of the eyes, the lateral margins of the pronotum and the 

 extremities of the elytra fringed with similar hairs. The clypeus 

 is rather small, rounded and strongly reflexed at the margins, 

 and rugosely punctured, and the forehead is coarsely punctured. 

 The pronotum is rather strongly and evenly punctured, the sides 



