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VIII. Notes 011 the Eutelid genera Anomala, Mimela, 

 Popillia, and Strigoderma. B}' Gilbert J. Arrow, F.E.S, 



[Read April 5th, 1899.] 



According to the type specimen now in the British 

 Museum, Anomala pallida, F. is the species known as 

 A. ypsilon, Wied. Beside this specimen an example of 

 Olivier's A. varians appears to have been placed at a time 

 subsequent to the original description of Si. pallida in the 

 Systema Entomologica, and this seems to have been taken 

 by Fabricius in mistake for his type when writing his 

 Systema Eleutheratorum, in which he quoted his previous 

 description, but referred to the original specimen as 

 var. minor. This confusion has hitherto escaped notice, 

 and Burmeister, following the later description, regarded the 

 larger specimen as the true A. iiallida without observing 

 its identity with Olivier's insect. Both species are Asiatic, 

 the localities given by all the authors mentioned being 

 wholly wrong. 



A. humeralis, Walker, which is very closely related to 

 the preceding insect, must be called A. walkeri, as the 

 name humeralis is preoccupied. It is larger and more 

 convex than A. pallida, and has the puncturation more 

 homogeneous and the head entirely dark. 



The Rev. T. Blackburn has described an Anomala from 

 Australia as A. aicstralasi/e, but examination of specimens 

 from Queensland and South Australia shows it to be the 

 common and very widespread species antiqua, Gyll., first 

 described from China, and of which there are also 

 specimens in the British Museum from India, Burma, 

 Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java. Mr. 

 Blackburn remarks in connection with this that another 

 Anomala, A. fuscoviridis, has been described from 

 Australia. This, however, is a mistake which has arisen 

 through a slip in Blanchard's Catalogue de la Collection 

 Entomologique du Museum de Paris, in which " Nouv. 

 Hollande " occurs instead of " Nouv. Guinee." I believe 

 this species will probably prove to be the same as 

 A. assimilis, Boisd., the figure being imaginary and 

 misleading. A. antiqua, Gyll., is therefore in all probability 

 the only beetle of this genus occurring in Australia, and this 



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