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158. Anomala procrastinator, sp. nov. 



Coppery, with the head arid prothorax, and sometimes also the 

 tibiae, abdomen and pygidium, dark coppery green. 



It is rather broadly ovate and depressed, with the entire upper 

 surface very closely sculptured and scarcely shining, the meta- 

 sternum thickly and the abdomen, pygidium and legs scantily 

 clothed with pale yellowish hair. The head is densely rugose, 

 the eyes very large and prominent, the clypeus very narrow (not 

 much broader than the diameter of the eye as seen from the side) 

 and its entire margin strongly reflexed. The pronotum is twice 

 as broad as it is long in the middle, strongly and densely punc- 

 tured, with the sides gently curved, all the angles rounded, and 

 the base gently trisinuate and finely margined. The scutellum 

 is moderately punctured, and the elytra are strongly sulcate, with 

 the intervals narrow, convex and rugosely punctured ; the mem- 

 branous margin is rather broad at the extremities. The pygidium 

 is very finely and densely coriaceous. The legs are moderately 

 slender, the front tibia armed with two teeth, the upper one 

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



<S . The club of the antenna is longer than the footstalk and 

 more than twice as long as the clypeus, and the lower lobe of the 

 inner front claw is dilated. 



The female is unknown. 



Length, 13 mm. ; breadth, 7'5 mm. 



CEYLON : Weligama (E. E. Green, Dec.). 



Type in the British Museum ; a co-type in the collection of the 

 Koyal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. 



It is not altogether impossible that this is A. infixa, Walker, 

 but the type of that is unknown and in its absence there can be 

 no sufficient certainty that the species really belongs to the genus 

 or subfamily. 



159. Anomala luridicollis. 



Anomala luridicollis, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii. 1911, 

 p. 482. 



Pale yellow, with the head coppery or deep metallic green, and 

 the pronotum, scutellum and tibiae pale crimson with a metallic 

 lustre. The lower surface and pygidium are clothed with rather 

 long grey hair, and the pygidium is more or less brown in colour. 



The body is rather elongate and parallel-sided, with its greatest 

 width near the posterior extremity. The eyes are large, the clypeus 

 small and rugose, with the margin strongly reflexed, and the fore- 

 head roughly and irregularly punctured. The pronotum is rather 

 uniformly but not very closely punctured, with a trace of a median 

 groove ; it is short, with all the angles rounded off, the sides 

 strongly curved, the base trisinuate and completely margined. 

 The scutellum bears a few fine punctures. The elytra are mode- 

 rately closely and regularly punctured in rows. The pygidium is 



