192 BUTELIN^. 



front tibia armed with two sharp teeth, the hind tibia long, and 

 the longer claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



c?. The front tarsus is rather short and thick and its inner 

 claw broad, deeply and unequally cleft. The club of the antenna 

 is not elongated as in A. variegata. 



Length, 8'5 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



NEPAL (Maj.-Gen. Hardwicke). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Hope associated specimens of two different, but rather similar, 

 species under this name, and, as they belong to different sexes, I 

 have selected the male. Burmeister has treated A. testaeea as a 

 synonym of A. palleola, Gyll., but the species of this group seem to 

 be very numerous, local, and difficult to distinguish. Burmeister 

 appears not to have seen Hope's specimens, and the latter's 

 " description " consists only of five words. Gyllenhal's species is 

 from " India orientalis," a term of uncertain import. 



191. Anomala variegata. (Plate IV, fig. 9.) 



Anomala variegata, Hope,* Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 24. 



Pale testaceous yellow, with a very slight metallic suffusion 

 above and beneath, and, in the male, with the posterior part of 

 the head (bilobed anteriorly) and an irregular elongate mark on 

 each side of the pronotum (produced towards the front and hind 

 margins, but not reaching them), a spot at the base on each side 

 (sometimes not detached), and an indication of a median line, 

 dark green. The pygidium bears two dark 

 spots placed longitudinally on each side. 



These markings may be vaguely indicated 

 in red or brown in the female, but are 

 usually absent. 



It is elongate-oval in shape and mode- 

 rately convex. The head is densely and 

 uniformly rugosely punctured, with the 

 clypeus rather broad, the front margin 

 broadly rounded and not very strongly 

 reflexed. The pronotum is closely but not 

 very finely punctured, with the sides en- 

 tirely rounded, the front angles acute, the 

 hind angles indistinct, and the base finely 

 margined and gently trisinuate. The scutellum is finely punctured, 

 and the elytra are deeply and rather evenly punctate-striate, the fifth 

 and seventh intervals being a little wider than the rest and bearing 

 a few punctures in the anterior part. The pygidium is finely 

 transversely striolated and bears a few long hairs at the apex. 

 The metasternum is rather closely rugose at the sides and thinly 

 clothed with pale erect hairs. The legs are rather slender, the 

 front tibiae bearing two teeth, the upper one very slight and the 

 apical one very long and nearly straight, the hind tibia moderately 



