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134. Anomala nilgirensis, sp. nov. 



Pale testaceous yellow, with the head and tarsi dark red, and a 

 triangular patch on each side of the pronotum (the two patches 

 frequently coalescing), the edges of the scutelluui and elytra, a 

 spot on the humeral callus and another on the apical callus r 

 black. 



This closely resembles A. varicolor, and perhaps varies to a 

 similar extent in its colouring. In its form and sculpture, as in 

 marking, ic is almost the same, but it is rather more elongate, 

 there is no trace of a third tooth upon the front tibia, and the 

 pvgidium is closely, sometimes rugoselv, punctured. The dark 

 marks upon the pronotum, which in A. varicolor rarely if ever 

 extend to the base, in A. nilgirensis send backwards a pointed 

 process which may reach the hind margin. 



Length, 15-16 mm. ; breadth, 8'5 mm. 



MADRAS : ISfilgiri Hills (If. L. Andrewes). 

 in the British Museum. 



135. Anomala discors. 



Rhinoplia discors, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeits. 1882, p. 387. 



Pale yellow in colour, with the head and tarsi red, and a spot 

 or patch on each side of the prouotum and the extremities of the 

 tibiae brown. The humeral callus is usually also dark, and some- 

 times a vaguely darkened area extends backwards from it towards 

 the ends of the elytra. 



It is a small, oval and compact insect, smooth and shining, with 

 only a very scanty clothing of pale hairs at the sides of the meta- 

 sternum. The head is densely and finely rugose, except on the 

 vertex, where it is closely punctured. The clypeus is broadly 

 rounded. The pronotum is finely and moderately closely punc- 

 tured, strongly and evenly rounded at the sides, narrowed in 

 front, finely margined at the base, with the front angles not 

 sharp and the hind ones very blunt. The scutellum is finely 

 punctured, and the elytra are deeply punctate-striate, the sub- 

 sutural interval broad and having a punctured stria similar to the 

 rest, but disrupted in front and abbreviated behind. The pygidium 

 is moderately punctured, and the metasternum densely at the sides 

 and sparsely in the middle. The front tibia bears two strong 

 teeth and the hind tibia is broad at its extremity. The longer 

 claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



d . The dark markings are generally more developed than in 

 the female, the club of the antenna is longer, and the lower lobe of 

 the inner front claw a little dilated, 



Length, 10-11 mm.; breadth, 6-6*5 mm. 



CEYLON: Trincomali (C. F. S. Baker), Nilaveli (C. F.S. Baker, 

 Sept.). 



Type in the Berlin Koyal Museum. 



