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pygidium bears fine, rather scattered punctures. The meso- 

 sternal process is slender, sharp and strongly curved ; the middle 

 of the metasternum is very smooth and the sides are closely 

 punctured and clothed with short pale pubescence. The hind 

 femora are rather short and thick, the front tibiae bidentate, the 

 hind tibiae not inflated, constricted or dilated, and the longer 

 claw is cleft upon the front and middle tarsi. 



cJ. The front tibia is slender, the terminal tooth short and 

 sharp, the inner front claw dilated and angulated. 



$ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is loag, curved and 

 blunt. 



Length, 13-16 mm. ; breadth, 7'5-8-5 mm. 



MADE AS : N. Coorg, Sonawarpet (L. Newcome, Julv). 

 . Type in the British Museum. 



Only a single pair has been found. 



In the male the elytra are rather pale green and only the sulci 

 dark. This is probably due to slight immaturity. 



279. Anomala varia. 



Popillin varia* Newm., Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) iii, 1839, p. 365; 



Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 545. 

 Anomala popiliopsig, Cand.,* Col. Hefte, v, 1869, p. 43. 



Deep metallic green, with the elytra purple-bronze and with 

 pale testaceous markings, consisting of the lateral margins of the 

 pi-othorax, two zigzag transverse bands crossing the elytra (the 

 first before the middle, touching the base and the scutellum and 

 enclosing a dark basal spot, the second behind the middle), a 

 median longitudinal line upon the pygidium, and stripes at the 

 sides of ttie sternum and abdomen and upon the femora. 



The body is shortly ovate, very shining above and thinly 

 clothed with tawny hair upon the sternum. The clypeus is 

 broadly rounded and rugose, the head coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured. The prouotum is slightly opalescent in the middle, where 

 it is almost impunctate, and finely and sparingly punctured at 

 the front and sides ; the lateral margins are angulated in the 

 middle and scarcely curved, the front angles very, and the hind 

 angles slightly, acute, the basal lobe being truncate. The scutellum 

 is short, acute and feebly punctured. The elytra are deeply 

 sulcate, with fine and rather irregular punctures in the sulci. 

 The pygidium is strongly punctured^ the metasternum smooth in 

 the middle and rugose at the sides, and the abdomen sparingly 

 punctured. The mesosternal process is strongly curved and a 

 little compressed. 



The teeth of the front tibia are sharp in the male and very blunt 

 in the female. 



Length, 12-14 mm. ; breadth, 7-8*5 mm. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills. 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; that of A. popiliopsis in the 

 Brussels Museum. 



