AXOMALA. 195 



BURMA : Karen Hills, 2700-3500 ft. (L. Fea, Dec.). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum ; co-type in the British Museum. 

 This is a member of the group called by Ohaus Spinanomala, on 

 account of the spines at the sides of the second ventral segment. 



195. Anomala pallidospila. 



Anomala (Spinanomala) pallidospila, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (8) x, 1912, p. 327. 



Deep metallic green or coppery green, the elytra light brown, 

 with margins of varying breadth, and sometimes nearly the whole 

 surface, greenish black ; the sides of the pronotum, a narrow basal 

 line on each side, the scutellum, a small spot near the outer edge 

 of each elytron behind the middle, and the greater part of the 

 femora, coxae and sternum pale yellow. The pygidium is deep 

 reddish and the tibiae are coppery. 



The shape is elongate-ovate, rather depressed and distinctly 

 tapering before and behind, and almost the 

 whole body, except the elytra, is clothed 

 with rather coarse and not close, greyish 

 hairs. The head is rugose, and the clypeus 

 flat and semicircular. The pronotum is 

 rather strongly punctured, the close and 

 fine punctures being intermixed with larger 

 ones which bear long erect hairs. The scu- 

 tellum bears a few large punctures and the 

 elytra are deeply striated, the intervals being 

 unequal and finely punctured. The pygi- 

 dium and metasternum are rather lightly 

 rugose and hairy, and the abdomen more 

 . 48. Anomala closely so. The second abdominal segment 

 pallidospila, rf . bears on each side three spines, rather larger 

 than those forming the general clothing. 

 The mesosternum is not produced, the front tibiae are strongly 

 bidentate, the four posterior legs very long and slender, and the 

 larger claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



c? . The hind legs are longer than those of the female, and the 

 inner front claw is broad but very acute. 

 Length, 8-10 mm. ; breadth, 4*5-5 mm. 

 BUBMA : Maymyo, 3500 ft. (H. L. Andrewes, May). 

 Type in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. H. E. Andrewes' 

 collection. 



This species is said to feed on the leaves of peach trees, Pnmus 

 persica. 



It is closely related to the group of Bornean species to which 

 Dr. Ohaus has given the name Spinanomala. The characteristic 

 spines at the sides of the abdomen differ only slightly from the 

 general hairy clothing and the mesosternal epimera are not pro- 

 duced upwards. It seems to me that no sufficient reason remains 

 for regarding Spinanomala as more than a subgenus of Anomala. 



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