Anomala from Southern India. 485 



Hao. NiLGlRl Hills (iOOO-GOOO feet, April and May). 



Deep metallic green or coppery green, witli the elytra, 

 abdomen and legs chestnut-red, often with a very faint 

 metallic tinge. 



This is a small, not very convex, species, with the pro- 

 thorax short and not broad and the elytra dilating from the 

 shoulders almost to the extremities. The pygidium and the 

 whole lower surface are clothed with rather long erect grey 

 hair. The clypeus is broad, rugosely punctured, and nearly 

 straight in front, the forehead coarsely punctured, the pro- 

 notum moderately finely in the middle and a little more 

 coarsely at the sides. The outer margins are angulated at 

 the middle, the front angles nearly right angles, the hind 

 angles obtuse, the base very gently curved and not margined. 

 The scutellum is minutely punctured. The elytra are deeply 

 but unevenly striated, with moderately fine ])unctures in the 

 striae and upon the alternate interstices, which are broader 

 than the rest. The pygidium is very finely and densely 

 punctured, the sides of the metasternum strongly and closely 

 and the abdonien coarsely and sparingly. There is no meso- 

 sternal process. The front tibise are strongly bidentate and 

 the larger claw of the front aiul middle tarsi is cleft. 



(^ . The front inner claw is broad, abruptly angulated near 

 the middle of the lower edge, acute and strongly bifid. 



A series of males, without females^ has been taken by 

 Mr. H. L. Andrewes. 



Anomala muSj sp. n. 



Pallide flava, fronte, pronoti medio, humeris, pygidii punctis 4 

 latoralibus, corpore subtus j)edibusque partim nigro-seneis vel 

 nigro-cupreis ; parva, ovata, postice lata, subtus parce hirsuta, 

 capita punctato-rugoso, clypeo fere semicirculari ; pronoto nitido, 

 fortiter at sequaUter, baud crebre punctate, lataribus valde 

 arcuatis, augulis anticis fere rectis, posticis obtusis, basi leviter 

 arcuato, liuea marginali subobsoleta ; scutello parce punctato ; 

 elytris grossa seriato-punctatis ; j)ygidio grosse sat crebre punc- 

 tato ; metasterni lateribus crebre, abdomine minus crebre, punc- 

 tatis ; mesosteruo baud producto ; tibiis anticis fortiter bidentatis, 

 pedum anticum et intermediorum ungue majori lisso. 



Long. 6*5-8"5 mm. ; lat. max. 4-5 mm. 



Ilab. NiLGiRi Hills (6000 feet) ; Madura : Shemba- 

 ganur. 



Pale yellow, with the posterior part of the head, pronotuni 

 (except a lateral border, enclosing a dark spot, and a narrower 

 front and hind border, and sometimes an incomplete narrow 

 median line), the extreme edges of the elytra and a hunieral 



