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than in A. communis, etc., and above all by the cleft middle claw 

 of the female. 



The representatives from Sikkim and Assam, respectively, 

 really form two distinct races, as shown by the two forms of 

 aedeagus of the males, but as I have found no external difference 

 1 have followed the principle explained in the Introduction and 

 treated them as one. 



174. Anomala viridilatera, sp. nov. 



Golden yellow, with the forehead and vertex, the pronotum 

 (except the lateral margins), and the tarsi dark coppery green, 

 the elytra coppery, with the external margins vivid peacock-greeu, 

 and the scutellum and the outer face of the tibiae also of the latter 

 colour. The abdomen is slightly yellowish. 



The body is moderately elongate in shape, rather broad behind 

 and not very convex. The head is small, rugosely punctured, 

 with the clypeus short aud straight in front. The pronotum is 

 shining, finely and sparsely punctured, with the sides strongly 

 and evenly rounded, the front angles acute, the hind angles 

 obtuse, and the base entirely and strongly margined. The scu- 

 tellum is very short, semicircular (not pointed) and bears a few 

 punctures. The elytra have each two strongly elevated discoidal 

 costae, bordered by strongly impressed longitudinal lines of large 

 punctures, with wide and coarsely and irregularly punctured 

 intervals. The pygidiuui is smooth and shining, rather sparsely 

 and feebly punctured. The pronotum is produced behind the 

 front coxae into a sharp vertical knife-like process. The sides of 

 the rnetasternurn are finely punctured and clothed with very 

 fine inconspicuous pale hair. The legs are stout, the front tibiae 

 armed with two sharp teeth, the hind tibia stout and not long, 

 and the longer front and middle claws cleft. 



S . The club of the antenna is long, and the inner front claw 

 is unequally cleft, but not noticeably dilated. 



Length, 12 mm. ; breadth, 6-5 nim. 



BENGAL : Buxar Duars (D. Naoroji, May) ; SIKKIM : Gopald- 

 hara, Bungbong Valley (H. Stevens). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is like no other Indian species known to me, but is related 

 to the Japanese -4. difficilis, Waterh. 



175. Anomala birmana. 



Pseudosuujhala birmana, Heller,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1891, p. 297 



(<?) " 

 Pseudosinghala rugosifrons, Heller,* 1. c. ( $ ). 



Pale testaceous yellow, with a faint metallic lustre, and with 

 the head, a large patch occupying the whole centre part of the 

 pronotum and usually extending in the middle to the base, the 

 basal and lateral margins of the elytra, and an intra-apical spot 



