Anomala/roni Southern India, 487 



A. helleri, Ohaus, but distinguislied by its pale ground- 

 colour and metallic lustre. The head and cljpeus are more 

 strongly, and the pronotum much more lightly, punctured. 



Five specimens of this species taken by Mr. H. L. 

 Andrewes are all different in colour. All have a yellow 

 ground-colour, with a slight golden lustre upon the upper 

 surface. 



(a) is a female entirely yellow, with the head and pronotum 

 a little more orange. 



(&) is a female with a vague crescentic brown mark on 

 each side of tlie pronotum. 



(c) is a male with the head behind the eyes, a circuLir 

 patch in the middle of the pronotum, the suture (narrowly), 

 the basal (broadly) and external margins of the elytra and 

 the basal segments of the abdomen dark. 



(d) is a female with the head behind the eyes, the pronotum 

 (except the lateral margins), and the elytra dark. 



(e) is a female with the elytra alone dark. 



It is oval, not very convex, and almost devoid of hairy 

 clothing. The head and clypeus are rather strongly but not 

 rugosely punctured, the pronotum very lightly and sparingly 

 punctured and shining, with the sides and base gently 

 rounded, the latter very narrowly margined and the hind 

 angles obsolete. The scutellum is distinctly punctured and 

 the elytra bear rows of rather close strong punctures. Tiic 

 pygidiura is strongly and moderately closely, the metasternuni 

 very coarselj^, and the abdomen rather strongly, punctured. 

 The front tibia is strongly bidentate and the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet cleft. 



I am unable to retain Singhala as a distinct genus, its only 

 distinctive feature being found in one sex alone, viz., the 

 form of the clypeus of the male, which reappears in almost 

 the same shape in Anomala dorsalis^ F., and other unrelated 

 species. 



In addition to the new species just described, the following 

 species of Anomala were also found in the same districts of 

 bouthern India : — 



A. vari'color, Gyll. — Nilgiri Hills and Shembaganur. 

 This is a very widely distributed form. 



A. elata, F. — Nilgiri Hills. This is probably not syno- 

 nymous with A. varians, Oliv., the identity of which 

 is not at all certain. 



