Aiioinula /Vo//< Stk/cttHj Xorlh India. 81 



punctatis, interstitiis augustis, 5", 7" et 9° medio lineato- 

 punctatis ; pygidio corporisqiie subtus lateribus grosso et con- 

 fluenter punctatis, his parco setosis ; pedibus robustis, tibiis 

 anticis valde S-dentatis, pedum 4 anticorum ungue majori fisso. 

 Long. 8-9 mm. ; lat. max. o-o'o mm. 



Ilab. SiKKIM : Kurseong {Ve.rschraeghen) ; Mungplm [At- 

 kinson) ; Assam : iSibsagar [S. E. Peal). 



Reddish-testaceou?", with a slight metallic lastie upon head, 

 thorax, and legs ; the elj'tra non-metallic and decorated with 

 black markings, consisting of a large spot adjoining the 

 scutellnm on each side, broad lateral and apical margins and 

 an irregular transverse band beyond the middle joining the 

 lateral borders, the suture being reddish : or 



the colour may be entirely pale, with reddish markings as 

 described upon the elytra : or 



the elytra may be entirely black, with very narrow anterior 

 and external margins reddish-testaceous like the remainder of 

 the body : or 



the forehead, prothorax (except narrow lateral margins), 

 scutellum, and legs may be metallic greenish black, the 

 elytra with black bands as described. 



It is a small, globose, shortly ovate insect. The head is 

 coarsely and closely punctured, with the clypeus broad and 

 nearly straight in front. The pronotum is strongly punc- 

 tured at the sides, a little more finely in the middle, with the 

 lateral margins strongly rounded, the front angles sharp, the 

 hind angles obtuse, and the base very gently trisinuate and 

 not margined. The scutellum is strongly punctured, and 

 the elytra are deeply punctate-striate, the punctures large 

 and annular, the interstices narrow, and the fifth, seventh, 

 and ninth divided by longitudinal rows of punctures. The 

 pygidium and the sides of the body beneath are coarsely and 

 coiifluently punctured, the latter scantily hairy. Tiiere is no 

 sternal process. The legs are stout, the front tibia strongly 

 tridentate, and the larger claw of the front and middle feet 

 is deejjly cleft. 



^ . The inner front claw is very broad. 



This species is similar in shape and pattern to A. decorata, 

 Kirsch, but it is a little smaller ; the pronotum is much less 

 densely punctured and the colour is not the same. The 

 markings are remarkably inconstant. 1 have seen six speci- 

 mens, most, if not all, males, but two specimens decorated 

 with red instead of black may be females, being so frag- 

 mentary as to render the sex indeterminable. 



An)i. c£- Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. ix. 6 



