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pygidiuiu bears fine, rather scattered punctures. Tlie meso- 

 sternal process is sleuder, sharp and strongly curved ; the middle 

 of tfie metasteruum is very smooth and the sides are closely 

 punctured and clothed with short pale pubescence. The hind 

 femora are rather short and thick, the front tibia? bideutate, the 

 hind Hbiaj not inflated, constricted or dilated, and the longer 

 claw is cleft upon the front and middle tarsi. 



J. The front tibia is slender, the terminal tooth short aud 

 sharp, the inner front claw dilated and angulated. 



2 ' The terminal tooth of the front tibia is lone, curved aud 

 blunt. 



Length, 13-16 mm. ; breadth, 7-5~8-5 mm. 



Madras: N. Coorg, Sonawarpet (L. Newcome, Julv). 



'fype in the British Museum. 



Only a single pair has been found. 



In the male the elytra are rather pale green and only the sulci 

 dark. This is probably due to slight immaturity. 



279. Anomala varia. 



PopiUid varia* Newm., Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) iii, 1839, p. 365 • 

 Burm., Handb. Eut. iv, 1, 1844, p. 045. ' 



Anomala liopiliopsis, Cand.,* Col. Hefte, v, 1869, p. 43. 



Deep metallic green, with the elytra purple-brouze aud with 

 pale testaceous markings, consistiog of the lateral margins of the 

 prothorax, two zigzag transverse bands crossing the elytra (the 

 first before the middle, touching the base and the scutellum and 

 enclosing a dark basal spot, the second behind the middle), a 

 median longitudinal Hue upon Hie pygidium, and stripes at the 

 sides of the sternum and abdomen and upon the femora. 



The body is shortly ovate, very shining a:bove and thinly 

 clothed with tawny hair upon the sternum. The ciypeus is 

 broadly rounded and rugose, the head coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured. The pronotum is slightly opalescent iii the middle, where 

 it is almost impunctate, and finely and sparingly punctured at 

 the front and sides; the lateral maigins are angulated in the 

 middle and scarcely curved, the front angles very, and the hind 

 angles slightly, acute, the basal lobe being truncate. The scutellum 

 is short, acute and feebly punctured. The elytra are deeply 

 sulcate, with fine and rather irregular punctures in the sulci. 

 The pygidium is strongly punctured, the metasternum smooth in 

 the middle and rugose at the sides, and the abdomen sparingly 

 punctured. The mesosternal process is strongly curved ancf a 

 little compressed. 



The teeth of the front tibia are sharp in the male and very blunt 

 in the female. 



Length, 12-14 mm, ; breadth, 7-8*5 mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills. 



Type in the Oxford Museum; that of A. popUiopsis in the 

 Brussels Museum. 



