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angles very acutely produced, the hind angles nearly right angles, 

 and the base finely and completely margined. The scutellum is 

 short, obtuse and finely punctured. The elytra each bear six 

 deeply impressed dorsal rows of punctures, the second abbreviated 

 behind, the intervals narrow, the fifth a little wider and bearing 

 a few scattered punctures ; the apical margins are separately 

 rounded and the angles obtuse. The pygidium is very smooth and 

 shining, with minute scattered punctures, and the sides of the 

 sternum and abdomen are rather coarsely punctured. The front 

 tibia is bidentate, the hind tibia rather strongly inflated in the 

 middle and constricted before the end ; the claws are very long 

 and slender, and the longer one on the front and middle feet 

 minutely cleft. 



c? . In addition to the difference in coloration already described, 

 the body is narrower, the clypeus smaller, the legs longer and 

 stouter, the front tibia broader, with much shorter and sharper 

 teeth, and the longer claw almost imperceptibly toothed at a 

 distance from the tip, and the longer middle claw is very minutely 

 cleft at the apex. 



Length, 10-14 mm.; breadth, 5-6'5 mm. 



ASSAM: Khasi Hills (Ohaus); TONKIN (Ohaus); CHINA: Sze- 

 chuen, Hongkong. 



Type in the Vienna Museum ; that of A. metallicum in the 

 British Museum. 



198. Anomala fulviventris. (Plate III, fig. 35.) 



Adoretosoma fulviventre, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 

 1851 (1850)', p. 235. 



Bright yellow, with a metallic green suffusion, usually with the 

 vertex of the head and two round spots, or more or less triangular 

 patches, near the middle of the prouotum (in the $? ) or with the 

 entire head, pronotum (except the lateral margins), scutellum and 

 elytra (in the <5 ) deep metallic green. The hind tarsi are usually 

 also dark, and all the tarsi, the hind tibiae and the metasternurn 

 may be so, at least in the male. In certain specimens the head 

 and thorax remain pale, while the elytra are dark ; in others the 

 two first named are deep green, the elytra having a purplish hue. 

 Occasionally the metallic lustre is quite absent. 



The shape is very elongate, parallel- sided and rather depressed. 

 The head is densely rugose in front and closely punctured on the 

 vertex, and the clypeus is short and broad, with its margin 

 strongly reflexed and nearly straight in front. The pronotum is 

 finely, sparingly, but rather evenly, punctured, transverse, with 

 the angles well-marked, the front ones acute and the hind ones 

 obtuse, the base finely margined and gently trisinuate. The 

 scutellum bears scattered punctures, and each elytron has five 

 strongly punctured entire dorsal striae, the subsutural one with or 

 without an incomplete median line of punctures ; the apical angles 

 are rounded. The pygidium is strongly and moderately closely 



