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SIKKIM : Kurseong ( Vcrschraeylieii), Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson), 

 Darjiling, Gopaldhara, llungbong Valley (H. Stevens), Kaiimpong 

 {F. H. Gravely, April, May) ; BHUTAN : Pedong (L. Durel) ASSAM : 

 Sibsagar (8. E. Peal). 



This species is similar in shape and pattern to A. decorata, 

 Kirsch, but it is a little smaller, the prouotum is much less 

 densely punctured, and the colour is not the same. The markings 

 are strikingly inconstant. I have seen nine specimens, most, if 

 not all, males, but two specimens decorated with red instead of 

 black may be females, being so fragmentary as to render the sex 

 indeterminable. 



220. Anomala decorata. 



Anomala decorata, Kirsch, Mitth. Mus. Dresden, i, 1878, p. 30. 



Mahogany- or light chestnut-brown, with a light metallic red 

 suffusion, and with irregular yellow markings upon the elytra 

 partly outlined with dark brown. These pale markings consist of 

 an irregular crescent crossing the suture near the middle of the 

 elytra and reaching the anterior margin on each side of the scutel- 

 lum, a short transverse bar also crossing the suture a little before 

 the hind margin, and a few minute spots on each side. The meta- 

 sternum is clothed rather closely, and the abdomen thinly, with 

 short yellow hairs. 



The shape is oval, compact and convex. The head is closely 

 and rugosely punctured, the eyes small and widely separated, and 

 the clypeus broad, with its margin gently rounded and not strongly 

 reflexed. The pronoturn is strongly and closely punctured, the 

 punctures becoming coarse and confluent at the sides, which are 

 gently rounded, the front angles sharp, the hind angles very 

 blunt, and the base broadly trisinuate. The scutellum is broad, 

 blunt and well punctured. The elytra bear rather closely set 

 rows of moderately large punctures. The pygidium is finely and 

 densely granulated. The legs are rather short, the front tibia 

 armed with two sharp teeth, the hind tibia very stout and the 

 longer claw cleft on the front and middle feet. 



d . The lower lobe of the longer front claw is broad. 



Length, 11*5 mm.; breadth, 7 mm. 



BURMA : Maymyo (H. L. Andreives, May) ; MALAY PENINSULA : 

 Perak (W. Doherty). 



Taken on peach trees (Primus persica} at Mnymyo. 



221. Anomala conjuga. 



Pseudosinghala conjuga. Arrow, Aim. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 1901, 

 p. 400. 



Yellow, with the head, the pronotum (except the lateral mar- 

 gins), the elytral suture, an anterior patch common to the two 

 elytra and enclosing the scutellum, a common posterior patch 

 extending to the hind margins, and the tibiae and tarsi, reddish 

 or deep metallic green. 



