266 KTJTELINjE. 



291. Anomala flavipes, sp. n. 



Testaceous, with a greenish- golden lustre, and with the forehead 

 and vertex, the pronotuin, except broad lateral margins (narrowed 

 behind) and usually narrow front and hind margins and an incom- 

 plete median longitudinal line, the scutellum (sometimes pale 

 posteriorly), the pygidium and lower surface (except the legs) 

 deep metallic green. The tarsi are light brown and the tibiae 

 may be of a rather deeper orange colour than the femora but are 

 not green or coppery beneath. 



Oval in shape and rather tapering in front. The head is 

 rugosely punctured and opaque, except behind the eyes, where 

 it is shining. The eyes are small and far apart. The clypeus is 

 broadly transverse, finely rugose, with the front margin nearly 

 straight, and strongly reflexed, and the forehead is coarsely 

 rugose and thinly clothed with erect yellow hairs. The pronotum 

 is narrower than the elytra at the shoulders, strongly or slightly 

 shining and extremely variable in sculpture, with the sides angu- 

 lated a little before the middle and nearly straight from there to 

 the front and hind angles, the front angles slightly acute, the hind 

 angles strongly marked but slightlv obtuse, and the base not mar- 

 gined. There is a deep puncture on each side near the middle and 

 a broader and shallower one just behind it. The elytra are closely 

 and deeply sulcate, with the second sulcus disrupted at the base 

 and the fifth more or less broken up into coarse punctures. The 

 marginal membrane is rather broad behind. The pygidium is 

 clothed with close grey pubescence. The mesosternal process 

 is not produced, but forms a broad lamina between the middle 

 coxae. The front tibia is armed with two sharp teeth and the 

 hind tibia is moderately elongate. The lower surface is very dark 

 and clothed with grey hair. 



<? . The pronotum is sparingly punctured and very shining. 

 The elytra are opaque, except near the base and the inner margin, 

 and the abdomen is produced, arched beneath, with the pygidium 

 narrow and densely clothed. The tibiae and tarsi are much 

 thickened, the teeth of the front tibiae minute, the hind tibiae a 

 little narrowed at the extremity, the front tarsus contracted, the 

 longer claw blunt and not cleft. The longer middle claw is 

 minutely cleft. 



$ . The pronotum is generally closely and roughly punctured. 

 The elytra are rather shining and each has a conspicuous thickening 

 before the middle of the outer margin. The abdomen is rounded 

 and the pygidium broad and closely, but not densely, pubescent. 

 The legs are slender, the front tibia bearing a long curved ter- 

 minal tooth, the hind tibia a little dilated at the extremity and 

 the longer front and middle claws cleft. 



Length, 9-10 mm.; breadth, 5-5-6 mm. 



UNITED PEOVINCES : Eanikhet (H. G. Cliampion, June-Aug.). 



Found upon Alder (Alnus nepalensis). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in Mr. G. C. Cham- 

 pion's collection. 



