100 BUTBLIXJE. 



<?. The antennal club is moderately long, the last ventral 

 segment of the abdomen scarcely punctured, and the inner front 

 claw broad, acute and cleft. 



The female is not known. 



Length, 12-13-5 mm. ; breadth, 7-7 '5 mm. 



MA.DKAS : Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andreives). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus MICRANOMALA. 



Micranomala, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 1911, p. 268. 

 TYPE, Micranomala indica, Arrow. 



Eange. South India, Ceylon and Burma. 



Body very small, elongate and rather depressed. Clypeus small, 

 narrowed to the front, where it is strongly reflexed and emar- 

 ginate, the clypeal suture very strongly marked. Eyes very large, 

 with the inner margin nearly straight dorsally and very oblique, so 

 that the intervening space is nearly twice as wide behind as in 

 front ; ante-ocular ridges small and slight. Antennae 9- jointed, 

 the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th joints long and slender, the 6th very 

 short. Prothorax moderately transverse, not much narrowed in 

 front, completely but narrowly margined, with the base almost 

 straight. No sternal process. Legs long ; front tibiae tridentate, 

 the uppermost tooth minute; tarsi and claws slender; front and 

 middle tarsi with the longer claw cleft near the middle of its 

 length. Elytra with membranous outer margins. Labrurn hori- 

 zontal, emarginate in front. Mandible rather weak, rounded 

 externally, the apex forming a very slight and feeble tooth. 

 Maxilla strong, the extremity consisting of two thin rounded 

 lobes, a sharp tooth behind these and an acuminate carina behind 

 that. Mentum elongate, with the anterior part short, broadly 

 crescent-shaped. All the palpi stout, with a long last joint. 



J . Eyes much larger than in the female. Inner front claw 

 strongly dilated. 



This genus has most of the characters of Anomala, but is clearly 

 separated from it by a combination of peculiar features, the most 

 important of which are the emarginate and biangulate clypeus, 

 the very deep frontal suture, the obliquely placed eyes and tlie 

 great enlargement of these in the male, and the peculiar bilobed 

 maxillae and mentum. The cleavage of the claws far from the tip 

 is also an exceptional feature, although this occurs in Anomala 

 chinensis, Eedt., and a few allied species. The three known 

 species are Indian, all of very small size and apparently rare. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (2) Clypeus strongly punctured indica, Arrow, p. 101. 



2 (1) Clypeus smooth. 



3 (4) Forehead punctured lirmanica, Arrow, p. 102. 



4 (3) Forehead smooth cingalensis, Arrow, p. 101. 



