142 



160 (159) Elytra deeply striated. 



161 (164) Intervals of the elytra equal. 



162 (163) Body very narrow fulviventris, Bl., p. 197. 



163 (162) Body not very narrow signaticollis , Nonfr., 



164 (161) Intervals of the elytra alternately [p. 198. 



convex and flat gakrucina, sp. n., p. 199. 



118. Anomala transversa. 



Phyllopertha transversa, Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 513. 

 Singhala basipennis, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1889, p. 28 ; 

 Ohaus, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 341. 



Black, with a bright yellow band crossing the elytra before the 

 middle and curving forwards at each end towards the shoulders. 

 This band may be absent, leaving the insect wholly black, or it 

 may extend until the elytra are entirely pale in colour except the 

 outer margins. The pygidium may also be yellow in certain 

 specimens, and I have seen examples in which there are broad 

 orange margins to the pronotum in addition. 



It is very short, broad and convex. The clypeus and forehead 

 are finely rugose, the former small, with converging sides and 

 the front margin slightly notched in the 

 middle ; the vertex is strongly punc- 

 tured. The pronotum is coarsely and 

 rather irregularly punctured, with an in- 

 complete smooth longitudinal line along 

 the middle ; the sides are strongly curved, 

 the front angles slightly acute, the hind 

 angles rounded away, and the base gently 

 rounded in a single uniform curve, with 

 a complete fine marginal stria. The 

 scutellum is broad, blunt and coarsely 

 punctured. The elytra bear longitu- 



IV 33 -Anomala dinal rOWS f lar e dee P P unctur es ; they 



' transversa. are short and separately rounded behind. 



The pygidium bears large scattered 



punctures, and the sides of the metasternum are sparingly punc- 

 tured and clothed with grey hair. The front tibia bears two strong 

 teeth, the hind tibia is moderately short, and the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet is cleft. 



<$ . The lower lobe of the longer front claw is extremely 

 broad. 



Length, 6-6-5 mm. ; breadth, 3-5 mm. 



ASSAM: Khasi Hills, Shillong, 4000 ft. (T. Bainbrujge Fletcher, 

 May) ; BURMA : Ruby Mines ( W. Uohcrty}, Tbarravvaddy (G. Q. 

 Corbett), Maymyo (//. L. Andrewes) ; TON'KIX : Chapa (R. Vitalis 

 de Salvaza). 



Types of transversa and basipennis in M. Bene Oberthiir's 

 collection. 



"This species was very common at Shillong in the Khasi Hills 

 in May 1905, being found on cherry as a minor pest. Above 



