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and the metallic variety barbata cannot be confused with any 

 other species. This variety is very remarkable in a group 

 strikingly constant, as a rule, in colour. 



This species has been taken amongst the roots of Motha at 

 Pusa in June. 



243. Anomala dussumieri. (Plate II, figs. 9 & 10.) 



Anomala dussumieri, Blauch.,* Cat. Coll. Eut. Mus. Paris, 1851 

 (1850), p. 194. 



Bright emerald-green, with the lateral margins of the prouotum, 

 the lower surface of the body, the femora and frequently the 

 sides or the whole of the pygidium, yellowish, with a green or 

 golden suffusion, and the tibiae and tarsi coppery green. 



It is oval in shape, very smooth and shining. The clypeus is 

 rugosely, and the forehead densely, punctured, the former well 

 rounded at the sides. The pronotum is finely and closely punc- 

 tured, rather more strongly and densely at the sides ; the lateral 

 margins are gently rounded, with the front angles almost right 

 angles, and the hind angles well marked but obtuse. The scu- 

 telluin is finely punctured, and the elytra finely, but not closely, 

 with scarcely traceable longitudinal lines ; there is a very narrow 

 lateral flange and the membranous margin is also very narrow. 

 The pygidium is finely and closely transversely strigose and bears 

 a very few fine long hairs. The sides of the metasternuin are 

 closely punctured and thinly clothed with short yellowish hairs. 

 The front tibia is armed with two teeth, and the larger claw is 

 cleft on the front and middle feet. 



<5 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is sharp and nearly 

 straight, and the lower lobe of the inner front claw slightly dilated. 



$ . The term nal tooth of the front tibia is more curved and 

 less acute. 



Length, 24-26 mm.; breadth, 13-15 mm. 



CEYLON : Colombo, Kandy ; MADRAS: Cochin (T. V. Rama- 

 Tcrislma, June), Ernakulam (F. H. Gravely, Sept.), S. Kanara, Udipi 

 (Pfleiderer, Xov.). 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



This species is evidently the one referred to in a pamphlet 

 "Ail about Grub," published in Ceylon by Mr. E. C. Haldane in 

 1881, in which it is said to be very destructive to cinchona leaves 

 in that island, especially to Cinchona sucdrubra. 



249. Anomala chlorophylla, sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 8.) 



After a most prolonged endeavour, I have failed to find any 

 really tangible external difference between this and A. dussumieri, 

 although it is impossible to unite them on account of the differ- 

 ence in the aedeagi of the males, as well as their widely separated 

 habitats. The sculpture of the pygidium is perhaps a shade finer 

 and closer in A. clilorophylla and the membranous fringe at the 

 extremity of the elytra is a little more conspicuous. The real 



