252 RUTELIXJE. 



dark bead, relatively longer prothorax, and especially by the form of 

 the rnesosternal process. This varies greatly, but is always short 

 and straight, and not slender and curved. 



272. Anomala regina. (Plate III, figs. 37 & 38.) 



Popillia regina, Newm.,* Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii, 1838, p. 336; 



id., Trails. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, p. 35; Burni., Handb. 



Entorn. iv, 1, 1844, p. 294. 

 Popillia splendida, Guerin ; Delessert, Souv. de ITnde, 1843, 2, 



p. 42, pi. xii, tig. 1 ; id., Rev. Zool. 1840 ; p. 39. 

 Hadropopillia splendida, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1892, p. 290. 

 Popillia lugitbris, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1897, p. 328. 



Brilliant golden-green, with the head, tibia3 and tarsi deep 

 green, the lower surface and pygidium more or less fiery, and the 

 sides of the pronotum inconspicuously yellowish, enclosing a 

 large dark spot. The yellow lateral patches are variable and may 

 be absent. 



The body is oval, moderately elongate, rather broad in the 

 middle .and not very convex. The clypeus is semicircular, 

 moderately broad and densely granulated; the forehead is 

 closely punctured and the vertex smooth. The pronotum 

 is finely and irregularly punctured at the sides, almost smooth 

 in the middle, strongly narrowed in front ; the sides are strongly 

 arcuate, the hind angles right angles, and the base bears a broad 

 rounded lobe. The scutellum is rather short, blunt at the apex 

 and scarcely visibly punctured. The elytra are deeply striated, 

 with the intervals narrow and very convex, the striae finely but 

 rather shallowly punctured, and the lateral margins rather pro- 

 minent. The pygidium is finely and sparsely punctured at the 

 sides, very finely rugose in the middle. The mesosternal process 

 is very strongly curved and a little compressed. The sides of the 

 metasternum are closely punctured and clothed with short tawny 

 hair. The longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



c? . The front tibia has two sharp teeth, and the inner anterior 

 claw has its lower division broadly lobed. 



$ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long and spatulate, 

 and the upper tooth slight. 



Length, 16-18 mm. ; breadth 9-10-5 mm. 



MADRAS : Utakamand (C. A. Barber, April), Naduvatam, 

 Nilgiri Hills (ff. L. Andrewes). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; that of P. luyulris in the Genoa 

 Museum. 



Specimens occur which are wholly of a deep non-metallic blue, 

 the phase named Jugubris by Kraatz. 



273. Anomala madurae. (Plate IV, fig. 11.) 



Anomala (Spilota) maduree, Arrow, Ann. 3 

 1911, p. 478. 



Pale testaceous, suffused with a slight metallic lustre, with 



Anomala (Spilota) maduree, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, 

 1911, p. 478. 



