ANOMALA. 143 



4000 ft. these beetles come out of the ground in enormous 

 numbers by day and feed on white flowers, roses, spiraeas, etc." 

 (T. B. Fletcher, Agric. Eesearch Inst., Pusa, Bull. 59, 1916, p. 4.) 



119. Anomala bengalensis. (Plate II, figs. 26, 27.) 



Anomala benqalensis, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 



(1850), p. 182. 

 Anomala pcdlidicollis, Blanch., 1. c. p. 181 (n. syn.). 



Pale testaceous yellow, with the head, the extreme edges of 

 the pronotum, scutellum and elytra, the hind tibiae and all the 

 tarsi dark. 



The shape is moderately elongate and rather massive, scantily 

 clothed with hair beneath. The head is rather finely punctate- 

 rugose with the clypeus broadly and transversely rectangular, its 

 front margin strongly reflexed and almost 

 straight, but rather more elevated at the 

 angles, which are not sharp, than in the 

 middle. The pronotum is very minutely 

 punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, 

 the front angles almost right angles, the 

 hind angles very obtuse, and the base finely 

 margined and feebly trisinuated. The scu- 

 tellum bears a few fine punctures, and the 

 elytra are moderately closely and deeply 

 punctured, some of the punctures forming 

 longitudinal rows. The pygidium is finely 

 Fij. 34. Anomala puncturedat the sides a-id apex and minutely 

 ^ bengalensis. coriaceous in the middle of the basal part. 



The metasternum is finely punctured and 



clothed with coarse but not thick yellow hair, and the abdomen is 

 shining and thinly setose. The front tibia is tridentate and the 

 larger claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



3 . The teeth of the front tibia are sharp, the front tarsi 

 rather thick and the inner claw unequally cleft. 



5> . The apical tooth of the front tibia is long, but very blunt ; 

 the tarsus is slender, and the inner claw is equally divided. 

 Length, 19-23 mm.; breadth, 10-11 mm. 



BENGAL: Calcutta, Chota iNagpur (Berl. Ent, Mus.), Maldah 

 ( W. H. Irvine), Murshidabad, Pusa (T. Bainbrigye Fletcher, May, 

 June); MADRAS: Vizagapatam Dist., Golgonda (T. V. Ruma- 

 krishna, April), Bangalore, 3000 ft. (Dr. Travers}, Coimbatore 

 (T. B. Fletcher, May); BURMA : Mandalay (Major Slade}. 

 Type in the Paris Museum. 



In some specimens the elytra assume a reddish shade like that 

 of the head, but it is not quite certain that this is not a post 

 mortem alteration. The name Anomala pallidicollis, Bl., seems 

 to have been given to such a discoloured specimen with the 

 clypeus and front tibiae worn down. 



