262 ruteliNjE. 



rounded in front, with the front angles acute, the hind angles 

 nearly right angles, and the base not margined. The scutelluni 

 is short and almost entirely smooth. The elytra are punctate- 

 striate, the lines strongly impressed near the suture, the external 

 ones more lightly, and most of them becoming rather feeble 

 posteriorly. The pygidium is rather rugosely punctured. The 

 mesosternura forms a very slight prominence between the middle 

 coxae. The front tibia is bidentate. and the hind tibia rather 

 slender, without constriction or dilatation. 



cJ . The front tarsus is rather thickened, the claws have each 

 an angular dilatation at the base and the larger one is broad, but 

 not cleft. The longer claw of the middle tarsus is cleft. 



I have not seen a female, but it is probable that in it the 

 longer claws of both front and middle feet are cleft. 



Lenqth, 8-5-9"5 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



SiKKiM: Tungu, Teesta Valley. 13,000-14,000 ft. (Julv); 

 Tibet : Khamba Jong, 15,000 - 16,000 ft. (July), Yatong, 

 10,500 ft. {A. E. Hohson). 



Type in the British Museum. 



A series of eighteen specimens collected during the Tibet 

 Military Expedition of 1903 are all males. 



This is a peculiar species without ariy known near ally in 

 India. It is related to the familiar A. liorticola, L., and other 

 European species usually known liy the generic name of Phyllo- 

 liertha^ but is without a basal margin to the pronotum, which 

 Eeitter regards as an essential feature of the PhyUopertha group. 

 The uncleft inner front claw is a very peculiar characteristic, but 

 is probably distinctive of the male alone. 



286. Anomala erythroptera. 



Ischitupopillia I'l-ythroptcra, Kraatz,* Deutsche Eiit. Zeits. 1892, 

 p. 295. 



Steely -blue or blue-green, with the elytra bright brick- red. 



It is a small species, short and broad in form, very smooth and 

 shining. The clypeus is broad and rugose, «ith the front margin 

 strongly reflexed and nearly straight. The forehead is strongly 

 and closely punctured, and the vertex smooth and shining. The 

 pronotum is short, very smooth and shining, with a large pit on 

 each side, but otherwise almost unpunctured ; the sides are 

 strongly convergent in front and nearly parallel behind, the front 

 angles acute and the hind ones nearly right angles. The scutellimi 

 is short and almost unpunctured. The elytra bear five dorsal 

 rows of deep punctures, and the second and fourth intervals are 

 wide and bear incomplete rows of similar punctures along the 

 middle. The pygidium is very shining, but moderately closely 

 set with deep punctures. The mesosternum forms a rectangular 

 lamina, vertical in front. The metasternum is very smooth in 

 the middle and closely punctured at the sides, and the sides of the 



