ANOMALA. 



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This is generally easy to distinguish from A. lateralis by its 

 shining pronottim, but the sculpture of this part varies according 

 to sex and is A'ery inconstant. I have seen a male of A. lateralis 

 in which the puncturation is not denser than in a female of 

 A. fiavifes, and in one female specimen of the latter it is quite 

 scanty, as in the male. 



A.'jiaviijes is ratjier smaller than A. moorei, its prothorax has a 

 pale median stripe not found in the latter and, in the correspond- 

 ing sex, is less smooth and shining. 



292, Anomala lateralis. 



Anomala lateralis, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Miscellany, 1831, p. 24. 

 Popillia rugicoUis, Newm.,* Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 337; 



id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841 , p. 47. 

 Ischnapupillia riu/icollis, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, 



p. 294. 



Deep metallic green, with the clypeus, the lateral margins of 

 the prothorax and generally a very narrow basal margin and an 

 imperfect narrow median line, the elytra and the legs brownish 

 or testaceous, suffused with a metallic gx'een lustre. 



It is rather small, not very convex, broad at the shoulders and 

 strongly, narrowed before and behind, with the pygidium promi- 

 nent and densely clothed with short decumbent white hair. The 

 head is tinelv granvdar, with some coarse punctures between the 

 eyes, bearing rather long yellow hairs; the eyes are small, the 

 clypeus rather broad, with its suture nearly straight. The pro- 

 notum is about half as wide again as it is long, much narrower 

 at its base than the elytra at the shoulders, and strongly tapering 

 forwards ; it is coarsely rugose above, except at the sides, which 

 are coarsely punctured, and has a large ill-defined pit on each side; 

 the lateral margins are strongly angulated in the middle, and 

 nearly straight from there to the front and hind angles, which 

 are sharp, the base being well rounded, not margined or excised. 

 The scutellum is rather short, blunt at the apex, and bears only a 

 few punctures. The elytra are closely and deeply sulcate fiom 

 base to apex, the sulci being finely rugulose and the fifth and 

 seventh intervals dilated ancl coarsely punctured near the base. 

 The pygidium is rugose and densely hairy, and the lower surface 

 is punctured and hairy at the sides, and smooth and shining in 

 the middle. The mesosternum forms a short right-angled lamina 

 between the middle coxa;. The legs are stout and ratlier long ; 

 the front tibia sharply bidentate ; the claws long, the larger one 

 of the front and middle feet very feebly cleft at the extreme tip. 



S . The clypeus is enlarged and rectangular, the three or four 

 innermost costae of each elytron are smooth and shining, and the 

 remainder finely rugulose and opaque, the abdomen arched beneath 

 and the pygidium narrow. The front tibia is very broad, with its 

 teeth miiuite and close together, the first four joints of the 

 front tarsus are very short and thick, the last joint very long and 

 strongly bent and the inner claw dilated. 



