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KUTBLINjB. 



oval patch on eacli side of the pygidium, sometimes green and 

 sometimes brown with a green encircling ring. 



The shape is oval, slightly elongate and rather hroad towards 

 the extremity. The clypeus and forehead are densely punctate- 

 rugose. The prothorax and scutellum are very shining and 

 extremely finely and sparingly punctured, with larger punctures 

 at the sides of the former ; the lateral margins are gently angu- 

 lated before the middle, the hind angles nearly right angles, and the 

 base is gently lobed before the scutellum. The elytra are deeply 

 striated, the striae closely punctured, the intervals convex, and 

 the fifth divided longitudinally by a continuous row of closely-set 

 punctures. The pygidium is very shining and finely and sparsely 

 punctured. The mesosternal process is long, strongly curved and 

 a little compressed. The sides of the metasternum are closely 

 punctured and thinly hairy. The front tibia is strongly bidentate, 

 the hind tibia moderately stout, and the longer claw of the front 

 and middle feet cleft. 



cJ . The apical tooth of the front tibia is short, the upper one 

 well-marked. The lower lobe of the inner front claw is broad 

 and angulated beyond the middle. The hind femur beai-s a strong 

 blunt lobe a little before the middle of the lower edge. 



5 . The apical tooth of the front tibia is long and blunt. The 

 hind femur bears a distinct angulation before the middle of its 

 lower edge. 



Lenr/th, 16-17 mm. ; breadth, 8*5-9"5 mm. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills (Sir G. F. Hampson). 



Type in the British Museum. 



I know of no other species of Aaomala in which the hind femur 

 of the male is armed in this way. 



278. Anomala vittilatera, sp. nov. (Plate III, figs. 39 & 40.) 



Deep metallic green, except the clypeus, the sides of the pro- 

 notum (which are longitudinally divided by a narrow dark line 

 not reaching the edges), the anterior margins of the elytra and 

 two irregular interrupted transverse bars, the median line of the 

 pygidium, the lower surface of the body, the femora and front 

 and middle tibiae, which are pale yellow, suffused with a faint 

 metallic green or golden lustre. The tarsi and sometimes the 

 middle oF each dark lateral patch of the pygidium are coppery 

 red. 



It is of compact oval shape and very smooth and shining. The 

 head is I'ugosely punctured, with the clypeus nearly straight in 

 front and rounded at the sides. The pronotum is scarcely visibly 

 punctured, except at the sides, which are angulated in the middle, 

 nearly straight from there to the angles, which are sharp, the 

 front ones acute, the hind ones nearly right angles, the base 

 being broadly lobed and not margined. The scutellum is scarcely 

 punctured, and the elytra each bear six deep dorsal sulci con- 

 taining minute punctures ; the intervals are convex, the fifth 

 longitudinally divided by an incomplete row of punctures. The 



