from Kulu in N.W. India. 17 



interstices minutely punctate -rugose, and clothed with ashy adpressed hairs 

 or elongate scales. Pygidium (female) elongate -triangular, nearly plane; 

 apex obtuse or briefly truncated, densely clothed with incumbent tawny 

 pUe. Breast densely villose, tawny. Abdomen very finely and closely 

 clothed with ashy-tawny pile, sides of the segments with the usual white 

 chalky tomentose spots. Legs black. Antennae chestnut-red, 4th joint 

 slightly produced, club scarcely longer than joints 2 — i, composed of six 

 leaflets. Long. 30 millim., 2 • 



As in M. cuprescens, the mesosternum does not project 

 beyond the middle coxae. 



Family RUTELID^E. 

 Anomala (Heteroplia) brachypus, n. sp. 



Oblong, convex, glabrous ; legs remarkably short ; the four hinder tibiae 

 short, broad, and compressed, with two strong transverse ridges ; the hind 

 tarsi short and thick. Rufo-testaceous ; tarsi and suture blackish ; head 

 subconfluent, punctate, the punctures much sparser on the crown ; clypeus 

 small, with strongly reflexed margin. Thorax evenly and separately punctu- 

 lated, with regularly rounded lateral margin, roimded hind angles, and con- 

 tinuous basal margin. Elytra deeply punctate-striate, the 2nd striae dujili- 

 cated and irregular towards the base ; interstices convex and smootli ; in- 

 crassated lateral margin with a continuous row of setiferous punctures. 

 Pygidium convex, shining, strongly punctured ; apical margin with a row of 

 long hairs. Anterior tibiae 3-dentate ; 3rd tooth very short. Tarsal claws 

 very unequal, the longer claw of the fiist pair bifid ( ? ?), of the middle pair 

 simple. Mesosternum between the coxae reduced to a narrow septum. Long. 

 12 millim. 



Allied to A. (Heteroplia) ypsilon (Wiedm.), from which it differs 

 by its much narrower form and short and broad hinder tibiae and 

 tarsi. 



Anomala (Heteroplia) polita, Blanch.^ Cat. Col. Ent. i. 182. 

 North India, according to Blanchard. 



Anomala (Aprosterna) rufiventris, Redtenhacher, in Hiigel's 



* Kaschmir.' 



Anomala lineatopennis, Blanchard, Cat. Col. Ent. i. 191. 

 A species only known from Northern India. 



Anomala varicolor, Schonherr. 

 This species appears to be as variable in the sculpture of the 

 elytra as it is in colour, Burmeister gives "Vorder Indian" 

 as its locality. I have seen examples from Burmah and Hong 

 Kong, which differ from the Indian form in the head being 

 brassy black instead of dark red. 



Anomala holomel^ena, n. sp. 



Elongate-ovate, convex ; the thorax narrowed in front and widened at 

 the base, the hind angles being subacute, and, viewed from above, prominent 

 owing to a thickening of the margin ; entirely glossy black, subpurpurascent, 

 the breast densely clothed with dark brown pile, and antennal club dark 

 castaneous. Head (except the middle of the vertex) densely and finely 



SUPPLEMENT, ENTOM, — FEB. 1891. 



