36 JHTTEL1NJ5. 



This species has been described from an example of each sex 

 submitted to me by Dr. Ohaus in 1914 with tbe then unpublished 

 name Sinytiala robusta. Owing to the war, the specimens have 

 remained in the custody of the British Museum. I have no 

 knowledge whether the name has beeti published or not. 



SECTION II. 

 This section contains only a single species. 



117. Anomala dorsalis. (Plate II, fig. 21.) 



Melolontha dorsalu, Fabr., Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 35 ; id. Syst. Eleuth. 

 ii, IfeOl, p. 163 ; Herbst, Natursyst. Kaf. iii, 1790, p. 64, pi. 22, 



MeFoloniha pallida, Oliv., Entom. i, 5, 1789, p. 25, pi. 9, fig. 103. 

 Anomala. dorsalis, Bunu., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 232. 

 Var. Anomala fraterna, Burm., 1. c. 



Var. Anomala centralis, Nonfr. * Berl. Ent. Zeits. 1893, p. 335. 

 ? Anomala imitatrix, Nonfr., Ent. Nachr. xx, 1894, p. 12. 



Testaceous or reddish, generally with the vertex of the head, 

 the elytral suture, the hind tibiae and the tarsi blackish, or with 

 a broad sutural stripe, or with the upper surface largely or 

 entirely black. 



The body is moderately elongate, not very convex, nor very 

 shining, with a very scanty clothing of 

 short yellow hairs beneath. The clypeus 

 and forehead are densely, scarcely rugosely, 

 punctured. The pronotum is very minutely 

 and thinly punctured, with the sides 

 strongly rounded, the front angles not 

 acute, the hind angles very obtuse, and 

 the base completely margined and scarcely 

 sinuated. The scutellum bears a few fine 

 punctures and the elytra are strongly and 

 irregularly punctured, with a juxta-sutural 

 line and four or five double rows of regular 

 punctures. The pygidium is minutely 

 Fig. 32. Anomala an d sparingly punctured, the metasternum 

 dorsalis. rather finely and not very closely, and the 



ventral segments bear each a transverse 



row of punctures. The mesosternum is not pointed. The front 

 tibia bears two sharp teeth and a feeble upper one, and the 

 longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



cf . The clypeus is slightly produced, with the front margin 

 straight and strongly reflexed aud the angles rectangular. The 

 front tarsus is thickened and the inner claw broad, moderately 

 sharp and deeply cleft. The pygidium is convex. 



$ . The clypeus is straight in front and strongly reflexed, with 

 the angles rounded. The elytra have a slight, almost angular, 



