ANOMALA. 2o9 



281. Anomala nigroscripta, sp. nov. 



Chestnut-red, with a very feeble metallic lustre upon the 

 anterior part, and decorated with black markings consisting of 

 a spot on each side of the vertex, an oblique mark on each side 

 of the middle of the pronotum (the two connected at the base by 

 a narrow marginal line), a small spot in the front angle and 

 another immediately behind it, the scutellum, a patch closely 

 adjoining it upon each elytron, an irregular patch at the shoulder 

 and two zigzag transverse bands extending from side to side, the 

 first at the middle and the second at the hind margin. The 

 pygidium is black, with the exception of a pale median line, and 

 the legs and lower surface have some slight dark markings. 



It is oval, convex, very smooth and shining ; the metasternum 

 clothed with short, but fairly close, yellow hair. The head is 

 closely and rather rugosely punctured, with the clypeus evenly 

 rounded in front and almost parallel-sided. The pronotum is 

 thinly and extremely minutely punctured, except at the sides, 

 where the punctures are a little stronger ; the lateral margins 

 are rounded in the middle, straight in front and behind, with all 

 the angles nearly right angles, but slightly obtuse, the base being 

 rather strongly lobed in the middle and not margined. The elytra 

 bear six finely punctured and not deeply impressed dorsal strise, 

 and the fifth interval bears a row of punctures along its anterior 

 half. The pygidium is shining, but transversely striolated at the 

 sides and finely punctured along the middle line. The inesosternal 

 process is slender and strongly curved. The legs are not long, the 

 front tibia is bidentate, the hind tibia fairly stout, but not dilated 

 at the end, and the longer claw of the front and middle feet is cleft. 



1 have seen only a single female. 



Length, 13'5 mm. ; breadth, 8 mm. 



MADRAS : Anamalai Hills (H. L. Andrewes). 



The unique type has been presented by Mr. H. E. Andrewes to 

 the British Museum. 



282. Anomala ebena. 



Popillia ebena, Burm.,* Handb. iv, 2, 1855, p. 511. 



Coal-black, very smooth and shining above and beneath, and 

 almost devoid of hair. 



The body is rather elongate, depressed above, with the pro- 

 thorax much narrowed anteriorly, and the head small. The 

 clypeus is broadly rounded and coarsely granular, and the fore- 

 head coarsely and confluently punctured. The pronotum is 

 convex, finely and closely punctured at the sides, and almost 

 smooth in the middle ; the lateral margins are gently curved and 

 strongly convergent to the front, the front angles acute, the hind 

 angles obtuse, and the base strongly lobed and without a marginal 

 stria. The scutellum is smooth, and the elytra have each a strong 

 oblique impression a little behind the scutellum ; they are very 



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