Anomala/ro??j Southern India. 477 



still vaguer anterior patches near the suture, and a large oval 

 spot on each side of the pjgidium. The dorsal segments of 

 tiie abdomen are striped with black and the tarsi are dark. 



The form is rather broadly ovate. The cljpeus and fore- 

 head are densely punctate-rugose. The pronotum is very 

 shining and tinely punctured, more strongly and a little 

 more closely at the sides ; the lateral margins are feebly 

 angulated before the middle, the front and hind angles are 

 sharp and the base is gently lobed in the middle. The 

 scntelliim is very minutely punctured. The elytra are deeply 

 striated, I he strise closely punctured, the interstices convex, 

 the fifth divided by an almost continuous row of closely-set 

 punctures. The pygidium is moderately punctured. The 

 mesosternal process is slender and acute, not compressed nor 

 strongly curved. The sides of tlie metasternum are closely 

 punctured and thinly clothed with yellow hair. 'J'lie front 

 tibia is sharply bidentate and the longer claw of the front 

 and middle feet cleft. 



cJ . The lower lobe of the front inner claw is dilated and 

 sharply angulated. 



Tliis and the following species have the pygidium strongly 

 punctured. It is smaller than the two preceding, but a little 

 larger than A. rugilatera, the pygidium and the sides of the 

 pronotum are rather less strongly punctured than in the 

 latter, and the dark patch on the tlurax is not completely 

 divided and frequently not at all. 



Anomala [Spilota) rugilatera, sp. n. 



Pallide flava, leviter viridi-metallica, verticis macula lata, pro- 

 thoracis laaculis duabus magnis, elytrorum fascia postica in- 

 distincta pygidiique lateribus lusco-viridibus ; ovata, capite crebre 

 rugoso, clypeo lato ; prothoracis lateribus subrugose puiictatis, 

 medio cum scutello subtiliter parcissime punctulato ; elytris pro- 

 funde punctato-striatis, interstitiis couvexis, 5° puuctorum serie 

 intcgra diviso ; pygidio ubique fortiter punctato ; processu meso- 

 sternali tenui, curvato, acutissimo. 



Long. 11-13 mm.; lat. max. 6-7'5 mm. 



Hah. NiLGIRl Hills {Sir O. F. Hampson). 



Pale testaceous, entirely suffused with metallic green and 

 with dark green maikings disposed as follows : — a bifid patch 

 on the vertex of the lieatl, a longitudinal stripe on each side 

 of the pronotum, extending from front to hind margin, and a 

 large oval spot on each side of the pygidium. There is a 

 narrow, zigzag, transverse band just before the exiremity of 

 the elytra, the dorsal segments of the abdomen are black- 

 striped, and the tarsi are dark. 



