164 RUTELIKJE. 



the suture and margins of the elytra, and a spot on each shoulder 

 black. 



The body is broadly cylindrical and not very convex. The 

 clypeus and head are strongly and irregularly, the former 

 rugosely, punctured. The clypeus is short, not very narrow, with 

 the front margin broadly rounded and not very strongly reflexed. 

 The pronoturn is short, finely punctured, margined all round and 

 gently rounded at the sides. The scutellum is finelv punctured. 

 The elvtra are deeply punctate-striate, the second stria dividing 

 in the anterior half. The pygidium and metasternum are rather 

 strongly and closely punctured. The front tibia is tri-dentate, but 

 the uppermost tooth is very feeble. The larger claw of the front 

 foot only is cleft. 



d . The club of the antenna is rather long. 



Length, 18 mm.; breadth, 10 mm. 



CEYLON: Kelani Valley, nr. Colombo (IF. Braine), Labugama 

 (E. E. Green), Balangoda (. Lewis, March), Kandy (C. F. S. 

 Baker, April). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species belongs to the pallida group and is closely allied 

 to the preceding A. wnlkeri, Arrow, also a Ceylonese species, which 

 is smaller and devoid of the black markings of A. gravida. It is 

 still more like the S. Indian A. communis, Burm., but larger, with 

 the eyes rather smaller and the clypeus less narrow. 



150. Anomala communis. (Plate II, fig. 31). 



Anomala communis, Burm. Handb. Ent, iv, 1, 1844, p. 236. 



Testaceous yellow, with the vertex of the head, a spot on each 

 shoulder (and usually one upon the apical callus of each elytron) 

 and the extreme margins of the elytra black, the sutural margins 

 dilated at the sides of the scutellurn. 



The form is depressed, but not broad, the clypeus is small and 

 the eyes are large. The clypeus is rugosely punctured and nearly 

 straight in front, and the forehead is finely punctured. The pro- 

 notum is finely and moderately closely punctured, but less closely 

 along the middle ; the sides are strongly rounded, the front angles 

 nearly right angles, the hind angles obtuse, and the base finely 

 margined and very feebly trisinuate. The scutellum is finely punc- 

 tured, and the elytra are deeply and regularly punctate-striate, the 

 second stria dividing near the scutellum. The pygidium is finely 

 punctured, the metasternum finely and closely punctured, and tl;e 

 lower surface of the body thinly hairy. The front tibia bears two 

 sharp teeth and a feeble upper one, and the hind tibia is a little 

 constricted before the apex. 



c? . The body is longer, flatter and more parallel-sided than 

 that of the female, and the hind angles of the pronotnm are more 

 distinct. The antenna, and especially the club, is very long, the 

 clypeus is still smaller than in the female and more hollowed, and 

 the eyes are larger, the interval between them beiug less than 



