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the whole of the lower surface, the femora, aucl oFten the 

 posterior part of the pygidium yellow, with a faint metallic 

 tinge, and the tibiae and tarsi deep metallic green. 



The body is compactly oval and convex and very densely 

 punctnred over the whole upper surface. The clypeus and 

 forehead are very deeply and densely punctured, the clypeus 

 broad and nearly straiglit in the middle. The pronotum and. 

 scutellum are finely punctured, the punctures very dense on 

 the former and becoming coarser at the sides. The elytra 

 are equally densely and rather more coarsely punctured, with 

 slight indications of longitudinal rows of punctures. The 

 marginal membrane is extremely narrow. The pygidium is 

 moderately closely rugosely punctured, and bears very scanty 

 setae, and the metasternum is densely punctured and thinly 

 pubescent at the sides. 



This species is one of the numerous very closely similar 

 forms of the Euchlora group related to .^. pei-plexa, Hope. 

 It is almost identical in size, sliape, and coloration to that, 

 but the membranous margins of the elytra are narrower and 

 the pygidium less hairy. A. malabariensis, Bl., is also very 

 similar, but smaller and more elongate, with the front angles 

 of the prothorax sharper, the elytra with distinct rows of 

 punctures larger than the rest, the pygidium densely rugose, 

 and the tibise and tarsi slightly coppery instead of green. 



Anomala pellucida, sp. n. 



Pallide testacea, capite, tibiis posticis, tarsis omnibus, prouoti mar- 

 gine postico, scutelli elytrorumque marginibus extremis angus- 

 tissime rufis ; breviter cylindrica, convexa, polita ; capite minute 

 rugoso, clypeo antice verticeque punctatis ; prothorace subtiliter 

 punctate, lateribus fortiter curvatis, angnlis anticis acutis, posticis 

 fere rotundatis ; scutello subtilissime punctate, apice vix angn- 

 lato ; elytris profunde striatis, striis crebre punctatis ; pygidio 

 medice punctato, metasterno crebre puuctato, parce hirto ; pedum 

 anticorum tibiis fortiter bideutatis, ungue majori fisso : 

 cj , clava antennali longa, ungue antico majori paulo dilatato. 



Long. 16-18 mm. ; lat. max. 9-10 mm. 



Hab. S. India : Madura ; Ceylon. 



Pale testaceous yellow, with the head (except an undefined 

 pale patch on each side of the clypeus), the hind tibiae, tarsi, 

 and extreme edges of the scutellum, elytra, and base of the 

 pronotum reddish. 



The insect is broadly cylindrical and convex. The head is 

 finely rugose, with the anterior part of the clypeus and the 

 hinder part of the vertex shining and distinctly punctured. 



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