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This and the following species have the pygidium strongly 

 punctured. It is smaller than the two succeeding species, but a 

 little larger than A. rugilatera, the pygidium and the sides of the 

 pronotum are rather less strongly punctured than in the latter, 

 and the dark patch on the thorax is not completely divided and 

 frequently not at all. 



276. Anomala strigata. 



Euehlora strigata, Castelnau,* Ann. Nat. Hist, iv, 1840, p. 351 ; id., 

 Hist. Nat. Ins. ii, 1840, p. 137 ; Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, 

 P- 274. 

 Anomala {Spilota) innocens, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 

 1911, p. 475. 



Pale yellow, with a metallic green or purple suffusion and 

 decorated with dark green markings, consisting of a broad patch 

 on the vertex, a large patch on each side of the pronotum (the 

 two partly coalescing in the middle and almost or quite reaching 

 the front and hind margins), an oblique elytral spot near the 

 scutellum on each side, a vague postmedian patch and a zigzag 

 transverse stripe near the extremity. There is a large brown 

 patch on each side of the pygidium surrounded by a green ring. 



This species has the closest resemblance to A. at-mata, from 

 which it differs chiefly by the absence of the femoral process in 

 the male, the lower edge of the hind femur being only very gently 

 sinuated. The upper tooth of the front tibia in the same sex is 

 feeble and the lower lobe of the inner front claw is angulated at 

 the middle and not beyond it. There is a marked difference in 

 the shape of the sedeagus in the two species. 



Length, 15 mm.; breadth, 9 mm. 



Madras : Anamalai Hills {H. L. Andreives), Coromandel (type). 



Both sexes were found by Mr. H. L. Andrewes and a single 

 male was taken by Mr. W. Davison in the same locality many 

 years ago. 



I believe this to be Castelnau's species from a specimen sent to 

 me by M. Eene Oberthiir, derived from the collection of Dupont, 

 by whom the name strigata was first proposed, and which may 

 therefoi-e be the actual type specimen. The type of A. innocens is 

 in the British Museum. 



277. Anomala armata. 



Anomala {Spilota) armata, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 

 1911, p. 474. 



Pale yellow, entirely suffused with a metallic green lustre and 

 decorated with dark green markings, consisting of a broad patch 

 on the vertex of the head, a large patch on each side of the pro- 

 notum (almost or quite extending to the front and hind margins 

 and sometimes coalescing in the middle), the scutellum, an oblique 

 basal elytral spot near it on each side, an indefinite postmedian 

 interrupted stripe and a zigzag anteapical one. There is a large 



