ANOMALA. 133 



armed with two strong sharp teeth, and the longer claw of the 

 front and middle feet is cleft. 



c?. The clypeus is dilated and strougly reflexed in front, its 

 front margin broad and only very feebly curved, the angles 

 forming sharp outwardly directed teeth. The front tibia is broad 

 and its teeth short, the front and middle tarsi are rather 

 thickened, and the inner front claw dilated and rather long. 



$ . The clypeus is short and broad, and the elytra have a 

 slight thickened horizontal flange at the outer margin behind 

 the shoulder. 



Length, 7-8 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



MADRAS : Mahe, Malabar. 



Type ( 6 ) in Dr. Ohaus' collection, $ in the Dresden Museum. 



114. Anomala tenella. 



Singhala tenella, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 (1850), 



p. 198. 

 Omaloplia semicincta, Walker,* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, 



p. 55. 

 Phylloperthina scutellata, Motch., Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 



1863. p. 469; id., op. cit. 1861. pi. 9, fig. 25. 

 Singhala vidua, Heller, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1891, p. 294 ; Ohaus, 



op. cit. 1905, p. 90. 



Orange or bright testaceous yellow, suffused above and beneath 

 with a golden green or coppery lustre. The forehead and vertex, 

 the pronotum (except its outer and hind margins), the scutelluin 

 (generally), the elytral suture, outer and posterior margins and 

 a conspicuous transverse patch surrounding the scutellum are 

 black. Parts of the metasternum, the posterior half of the hind 

 tibia and the tarsi are also dark-coloured. 



It is a minute species, with very short and broad elytra and 

 rather convex form. The surface is shining 

 and almost without hair above and beneath. 

 The head is strongly and closely punctured, 

 the pronotum closely, evenly and rather 

 finely, with its base rounded in a single 

 uniform curve, the sides gently rounded, 

 the front angles acute, and the hind angles 

 almost obsolete ; the basal marginal stria is 

 not complete. The scutellum is very short 

 and broad and well punctured. The elytra 

 bear a sutural and five discoidal lines of 

 separate punctures and finer scattered punc- 

 Fig. 30. Anomala tures on the intervals ; the apical edges are 

 tenetta, <$. separately rounded, the sutural angles al- 



most obsolete and the membranous margins 

 moderately wide. The pygidium and the sides of the metasternum 

 are rather coarsely and rugosely punctured. The front tibia is 

 armed with two strong teeth, and the larger claw of the front 

 and middle feet is cleft. 



