augulated iu the middle, scarcely curved, the hind angles obtuse, 

 the base gently lobed and not margined. The scutellum is rather 

 broad and scarcely punctured. The elytra have several double 

 rows of punctures, with broad and irregularly punctured spaces 

 between. The pygidium is strongly punctured. The meso- 

 sternum is produced into a narrow, rather compressed, but not 

 acute process, which is not at all curved, but abruptly bent 

 downwards in front of the middle coxae, and sometimes nearly 

 A^ertical. 



d . The inner front claw forms a broad, rather sharply pointed 

 lamina, very minutely cleft on its outer edge. The club of the 

 antenna is as long as the foot-stalk. 



Length, 11-5-13 mm.; breadth, 6-5-7-5 mm. 



Madras: Trichinopoli (P. liebiere), Kodaikanal {J. Castets), 

 Shembaganur (P. du Breuil). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Among fifteen specimens in the British Museum, the Paris 

 Museum, and the collection of Baron de Moifarts, I have seen 

 no females. 



The deflexion of the sternal process is a peculiar character 

 which I have never found elsewhere. The process is generally 

 nearly vertical but the angle of flexion varies and is occasionallv 

 very obtuse. 



270. Anomala aguella. 



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

 p. 481. 



Pale yellow, with a very slight metallic lustre, Ihe head, pro- 

 thorax and scutellum coppery green or bronze. 



It is a stout>bodied, ovate insect, with its greatest breadtli near 

 the posterior end, and rather thickly clad with greyish hair on 

 the lower surface, the i)ygidium and extremities of the elytra ; 

 the inner edges of the eyes and the lateral margins of the 

 pronotum are also bordered with white hairs. The clypeus is 

 small and rugose, the forehead coarsely punctured, the pronotum 

 strongly and rather closely punctured. The sides ot the latter 

 are feebly augulated before the middle, the hind angles very 

 obtuse, and the base gently lobed before the scutellum and not 

 margined. The scutellum is sparingly punctured. The elytra 

 bear double rows of well-marked punctures, and the alternate 

 intervals are broad and bear similar but irregular punctures. 

 The pygidium is closely and rather finely punctured. The 

 mesosternal process is short, straight and very sharp. The meta- 

 sternum is densely punctured at the sides, and the abdomen 

 moderately punctured all over. The antennal club is rather long 

 in both sexes, and the front tibia is strongly bidentate. 



6 . The inner anterior claw forms a broad sharply pointed 

 lamina and is minutely cleft at tlie outer edge. 



Length, 10-13 mm.; breadth, 6-7"5 mm. 



