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c? . The clypeus is coarsely punctured aud shining, dilated in 

 front, strongly reflexed, with its front margin gently excised 

 in the middle and a little produced outwardly on each side. The 

 front tibia is broad, its teeth sharp, the front tarsus shortened 

 arid thickened, the last joint very large and the inner claw 

 strongly bent, with a much dilated lower lobe. 



2 . The clypeus is broad and transverse, granulated and opaque, 

 with the front margin only slightly reflexed and the angles 

 rounded. The elytra are a little dilated just before the middle 

 and there is a slight thickening of the outer margins at the 

 widest part. 



Length, 4*5-6 mm. ; breadth, 2*5-3'5 mm. 



CEYLON : Diyatalawa (T. Bainbrigge FletcJier, Sept.), Kotmak 

 (E. E. Green), Balangoda (G. Lewis, March), Bogawantalawa 

 (G. Leivis, March and April), Galle (V. Doria, May). 



Type in the Paris Museum ; that of & vidua in the Berlin 

 Entomological Museum ; and of 0. semicincta in the British 

 Museum. 



Mr. E. E. Green found this species in great numbers destroying 

 tea- plants. 



From a specimen compared with the type, which Dr. Ohaus 

 kindly sent to me, A. vidua appears to have been based upon a 

 pale specimen of A. tenella in which all the dark markings are 

 absent. 



115. Anomala polymorpha. 



Anomala (Sinyhala) polymorpha^ Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 

 viii, 1911, p. 486. 



A comparatively large species of similar form to A. helleri, 

 Ohaus, but distinguished by its pale ground-colour and metallic 

 lustre. The head and clypeus 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 aud pronotum a 

 little more orange ; 



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

 side of the pronotum ; 



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

 in the middle of the pronotum, the suture (narrowly), 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 punc- 

 tured, the pronotum very lightly and sparingly punctured an 



