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XXXI. Descriptions of some new Coleoptera from 
Sumatra. By Cuartes O. WaTERHOUSE. 
[Read September 7th, 1881.] 
I nave the pleasure of laying before this Society descrip- 
tions of three new coleopterous insects just received 
from Sumatra. They are as follows :— 
RUTELIDA. 
Anomala (Spilota?) Curtisti, n.s. 
Form and appearance of Huchlora, but with a long 
mesosternal spine. Rather elongate-ovate, moderately 
convex, pale green, with yellow tints; the scutellum, 
tibia, and pygidium especially yellowish ; very shining. 
Head and clypeus moderately thickly punctured, the 
anterior margin of the latter slightly reflexed. Thorax 
nearly asin Huchlora viridis, but rather less convex, and 
much more strongly lobed in the middle of the base; 
moderately thickly and tolerably distinctly punctured ; 
with a very slight abbreviated medial impressed line. 
Elytra at the base scarcely wider than the base of the 
thorax, widest behind the middle, very obtusely rounded 
at the apex, with the ante-apical callus very slightly 
raised; the lateral margins thickened. Hach elytron 
has about fifteen lines of distinct fine punctures; the 
first is sutural, the second and third are wide apart 
(wider apart at the base than at the apex), the space 
between them is flat and moderately thickly punctured ; 
the fourth and fifth strize are more impressed, especially 
at the apex, regular, the intervals narrow (very narrow 
at the base, gradually becoming wider to the apex), gently 
convex and almost impunctate; the sixth, seventh, 
eighth, and ninth strie are about equidistant, the 
intervals narrow, the seventh stria is rather irregular, 
and there are a few punctures on the interval between 
the sixth and seventh strie; the tenth stria is not very 
recular, and joins the eleventh a little behind the middle, 
so that the space between them is elongate-triangular, 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1881.—PaRT Iv. _(DEC.) 
