ANOMALA. 239 



257. Anoinala validipes, up. nov. (Plate III, figs. 14 & 15.) 



Deep pitchy-red, with the head, pronotum, scutellum, arid hind 

 tibiae and tarsi almost black, the upper surface suffused with a 

 scarcely perceptible metallic lustre. 



Broadly spindle-shaped, convex, smooth and shining, with very 

 stout hind legs. The head is finely and not very closely punc- 

 tured, nearly smooth in the middle of the forehead, the clypeus 

 short, broad and rectangular, with the front edge nearly straight. 

 The pronotum is narrow, finely punctured, a little more coarsely 

 at the sides, with a narrow smooth median line ; the sides are 

 strongly convergent, the lateral margins incurved, the front angles 

 not very sharp, the hind angles very obtuse, and the base com- 

 pletely margined and broadly rounded. The scutellum is blunt 

 and well punctured, and the elytra dilate to a little behind the 

 shoulders and narrow from there to the end ; they are deeply and 

 rather coarsely striate -punctate, with the subsutural interval rather 

 broad and irregularly punctured. The pygidium is transversely 

 strigose. The sides of the body are clothed beneath with rather 

 fine and close greyish pubescence. The front tibiae are bidentate, 

 with the upper tooth rather feeble ; the hind legs are very strong 

 and massive, with short and stout tibiae and tarsi, and the longer 

 claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



J . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is short and sharp, 

 and the inner front claw very short and broad hut sharply 

 pointed. 



5 unknown. 



LengtJi, 20 mm.; breadth, 11 mm. 



ASSAM : Goal para. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is very close to A. holosericea, Bates, said to come 

 from the Punjab, but found by Doherty in the Malay Peninsula. 

 The elytra are much more strongly punctured than in that form 

 and the head more lightly. 



SECTION VI. 

 Key to the Species. 



1 (48) Mesosternal process elongate and 



pointed. 



2 (3) Front tibia without lateral teeth ; 



meso-metasternal suture distinct . rosetti, Nonfr., p. 241. 



3 (2) Front tibia bidentate; meso-meta- 



sternal suture obliterated. 



4 (19) Body long and narrow. 



5 (10) Upper surface green. 



6 (9) Entirely shining and metallic. 



7 ^8) Lateral* margins of the elytra nar- 



row ; fiery-red stripe interrupted . . aunmitens. Hope, p. 242. 



8 (7) Lateral margins of the elytra broad ; 



fiery-red stripe continuous pterygophorus, Oh., p. 243. 



