AXOMALA. 229 



$ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is longer, blunter 

 and more curved, and the pygidiuin is clothed with longer 

 hair. 



Length, 16-19 mm. ; breadth, 9-11 mm. 



BHUTAN : Maria Basti (L, Durel) ; SIKKIM : Darjiling, 7000 ft. 

 (Mcj. Bennett), Gopaldhara, Eungbong Valley (H. Stevens), 

 Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson), Pedong (Desgodins), Gantok. 6000 ft.; 

 NEPAL (Maj.-Gen. Hardwicke). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; co- types in the British Museum. 



In some specimens of this species there is a rather close clothing 

 of fine decumbent silvery hairs upon the pygidiuin, but these are 

 not generally apparent. They may perhaps be present only in 

 freshly-emerged specimens. 



241. Anomala indistincta, sp. nov. (Plate III, fig. 9.) 



I have found myself obliged to separate from A. perplexa, 

 Hope, this Assamese representative of it, although after a pro- 

 longed examination of numerous examples of both forms I am 

 entirely unable to find' any external difference whatever between 

 them. The aedeagus of the male is very markedly different, the 

 lateral lobes being simply rounded, without the abrupt excision 

 near the tip seen in A. pcrplexa, and the median lobe broad 

 and forming two widely-diverging processes anteriorly. Com- 

 bined with the different habitat, this difference, which is sufficient 

 for the immediate identification of every male specimen I have 

 seen, renders it impossible to unite the two races. 



Length, 16-19 mm. ; breadth, 9'5-H mm. 



ASSAM : Sylhet, Naga Hills ( W. Doherty), Helem (Mitchell, Dec.), 

 Jorhat (Desenne, July), Mangaldai (S. W. Kemp, Oct.), Sibsagar 

 (S. E. Peal) ; UPPER BURMA : Bhaino Hills, 4000 ft. (F. M. 

 Maclcwood, May). 



Type in the British Museum. 



242. Anomala chloropus, sp. nov. (Plate II. fig. 6.) 



Apple-green, with a narrow lateral border to the pronotum, 

 a V-shaped mark at the apex of the pygidium, the lower surface 

 and femora golden yellow, and the tibiae and tarsi deep metallic 

 green. 



Shortly oval, convex and very shining, with the upper surface 

 closely and very finely punctured. The clypeus is broadly 

 rounded, with the forehead densely and rugosely punctured. 

 The sides of the pronotum are rounded, the front angles right 

 angles, the hind angles very blunt, and the base not completely 

 margined. The scutellum is finely punctured, and the elytra 

 a little more strongly, with indefinite longitudinal rows of rather 

 larger punctures. The pygidium is closely transversely strigose 

 and sparsely hairy. The front tibia is strongly bidentate, and 

 the longer claw of the front and middle feet cleft. 



