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rather feeble, the liind tibia and tarsus are rather slender, and 

 the longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



c? . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is sharp, and the 

 inner front claw dilated. 



2 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is blunt and clubbed. 



Length, 22-5 mm.; breadth, 11'5 mm. 



UNITED PKOVINCES : Agra ( C. F. Selous, July), Dehra Dun 

 (N. C. Chatterji, June); BOMBAY: Khandesh (T. R. D. Bell], 

 Belgaum (H. E. Andrew*), N. Kanara (T. R. D. Bell) ; BENGAL : 

 Pusa (H. Maxwell Lefroy, May) ; ASSAM : Jaintia Hills. 



Ti/pes in the Paris Museum. 



The habits of this or an allied species have been studied by 

 Mr. H. Maxwell Lefroy and described by him under the name of 

 Anomala varians in vol. ii. of the Mem. Dept. Agric. India, 1910, 

 p. 143. The larva? appear to feed indifferently upon the roots of 

 Gramineffl and other plants, having been found attacking millets, 

 rice, sugar-cane, grasses, etc. It is reported as having caused 

 considerable damage to a crop of ground-nuts, but it is possible 

 that Mr. Lefroy's report refers to more than one species, for 

 Anomala bengalcmis, Bl., which was not distinguished by him, is 

 perhaps the most abundant one in the part of India under his 

 personal observation. A summary of his account of the life- 

 history is given in the introductory remarks at the beginning of 

 this volume. 



125. Anomala bilunata. 



Anomala bilunata, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6) viii, 1888, 

 p. 341. 



Testaceous, with the head red, and the vertex, the middle of 

 the pronotum and more or less of the elytra (according to the sex) 



Fig. 36. Anomala bilunata, c? . Fig. 37. Anomala bilunata, $ . 



brown or black. In the female the suture, a broad curved band 

 crossing the elvtra beyond the middle and ascending to the 

 shoulders, and sometimes a patch surrounding the scutellum are 

 dark. In the male the dark areas spread over the greater part 

 of the elytra, leaving only a narrow pale band, which crosses the 

 suture before the middle and ascends to the base within the 

 shoulders, and a patch of variable size at the apex of each elytron. 



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