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punctured at tiie sides. The mesosternum is not produced. The 

 front tibia is bideutute, the upper tooth rather slight. The front 

 tarsi and all the cla\vs and claw-joints are long, the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet deeply cleft. 



J . The antennae are rather long, the terminal tooth of the 

 front tibia is rather sharp, and the inner front claw a little dilated 

 and very acute. 



Lenr/tJi, 14-23 mm. ; breadth, 8-12 mm. 



UNITED PROVINCES : W. Almora, Eanikhet (H. G. Champion)^ 

 ASSAM : Kurseong ( Vcrschraeghen), Manipur ( W. Doherty), 

 Khasi Hills, Nongpriang (B. Warren), Jaintia Hills ; SIKKIM : 

 Darjiling, Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson), Peshoke Spur (R. S. Lister) 

 BHUTAN : Maria Basti (L. Dtirel). 



Type in the Vienna Museum ; that of A. striolata in the Paris 

 Museum and that of A. Icevissima in the Halle Museum. 



SECTION V. 



Key to the Species, 



1 (4) Elytra very shining, with micro- 



scopic puncturatiou. 



2 (3) Pronotum scarcely punctured .... merula, sp. n., p. 237. 



3 (2) Pronotum closely punctured trochanlerica, sp. n., p. 238. 



4 (1) Elytra coarsely punctured ralidipes, sp. n., p. 239. 



255. Anomala merula, sp. nov. 



Entirely black above and beneath, and very smooth and 

 shining. 



It is elongate in shape, broad at the shoulders and attenuated 

 at each end. The head is finely and 

 closely punctured, with the clypeus 

 broadly transverse, straight in front and 

 rounded at the sides. The pronotum is 

 narrow, little wider than it is long, 

 broadest at the base, which is rather 

 evenlv rounded and not margined, and 

 tapering to the front, which is very 

 narrow ; the sides are strongly curved, 

 subaugulate in the middle, with all the 

 angles sharp and nearly right angles ; 

 the surface is very minutely and incon- 

 spicuously punctured, except at the sides, 

 Fig. 52. Anomala merula. where the punctures are moderately 

 strong. The scutellum is also minutely 



and inconspicuously punctured and rather short. The elytra 

 are very smooth, with almost obsolete lines of minute punctures. 

 The pygidium is finely transversely rugose. The mesosteruum 

 is not produced. The sides of the metasternum are densely 

 punctured and clothed with very fine greyish pubescence. The 



