On new Burmese Species of Ruteline CoJeoptera. 327 



XLIV. — Descriptions of some neio Burmese Species of 

 Ruteline Coieoptera helonging to the Genus Anomala. By 

 Gilbert J. Arrow. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Additional forms of this great genus are continually found, 

 and the larger the number of its species grows the less 

 practicable becomes the task of subdividing it. About 700 have 

 already been described, and yet from various tropical regions 

 in which they abound hardly any have yet received names. 

 Probably no country is more richly provided with species 

 of this attractive group than Burma, but the number of 

 described forms at present known from that country is insig- 

 nificant. A few additions form the subject of this paper. 

 They were collected chiefly by the late L. Fea, H. Doherty, 

 and G. Q. Corbett, and a few by Mr. H. E. Andre wes. The 

 types of all are in the British Museum, and co-types are 

 either in Mr. H. E. Andrewes's collection or the Genoa 

 Museum, or in both. 



Anomala (subg. SpirMnomala) paUidospila, sp. n. 



^neo-viridis vel cuprea, elytris testaceis, margiuibus vel parte 

 majora seneo-nigris, pronoti lateribus lineaque basali medio 

 interrupta, scutello, elytrorum puncto submarginali post medium, 

 femoribus, coxis sternoque partim, pallida flavis, pygidio obscure 

 rufo, tibiis cupreis : elongato-ovata, paulo depressa, capite rugoso, 

 clj'peo semicirculari ; prothorace crebre insequaliter pimctato, 

 parce setoso, medio leviter sulcato, lateribus fortiter arcuatis, 

 angulis anticis acutis, posticis fere rectis, basi anguste marginato, 

 leviter trisinuato; scutello grosse pimctato; elytris profuude 

 striatis, interstitiis inaequalibus, subtiliter punctulatis ; pygidio 

 metasteruoque leviter rugulosis et hirtiferis, abdomine crebrius 

 ruguloso et flavido piloso, segmento 2" utrinque spinis tribus 

 munito ; pedibus posterioribus gracilibus, tibia antica fortiter 

 bidentata, pedum 4 anticorum ungue majori fisso. 



Deep metallic green or coppery green, the elytra light 

 brown, with margins of varying breadth and sometimes 

 nearly the whole greenish black, and the sides of tlie pro- 

 notum, a narrow basal line on each side, the scutellum, a 

 small spot near the outer edge of each elytron behind the 

 middle, and the greater part of the femora, coxae, and 

 sternum pale yellow. Thepygidium is deep reddish and the 

 tibiic are coppery. 



The shape is elongate ovate, rather depressed and dis- 

 tinctly tapering before and behind, and almost the whole 



