On new Burmese Species of RateUne Cohoptera. 327 



XLIV. — Descriptions of some neio Burmese Species of 

 Ruteline Coleoptera belonging to the Genus Anomala. By 

 Gilbert J. Arrow. 



(Publislied by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 

 Additional forms of this great genus are continually found, 

 and ihe larger the number of its species grows the less 

 practicable becomes the task of subdividing it. About 700 have 

 already been described, and yet from various tropical regions 

 in which they abound hardly any have yet received names. 

 Probably no country is more richly provided with species 

 of this attractive group than Burma, but the number of 

 described forms at present known from that country is insig- 

 nificant. A few additions form the subject of this paper. 

 They were collected chiefly by the late L. Fea, H. Doheity, 

 and G. Q. Gorbett, and a few by Mr. H. E. Andrewes. The 

 types of all are in the British Museum, and co-types are 

 either in Mr. H. E. Andrevves's collection or the Genoa 

 Museum, or in both. 



Anomala (subg. Spinanomala) pallidospila, sp. n. 



-^neo-viridis vel cuprea, elytris testaceis, marginibus vel parte 

 majora ajneo-nigris, pronoti lateribus lineaque basali medio 

 interrupta, scutello, elytrorum puncto submarginali post medium, 

 femoribus, coxis sternoque partim, pallide flavis, pygidio obscure 

 rufo, tibiis cupreis : elongato-ovata, paulo depressa, capite rugoso, 

 clypeo semicirculari ; prothorace crebre inaequaliter punctato, 

 parce setoso, medio leviter sulcato, lateribus fortiter arcuatis, 

 angulis anticis acutis, posticis fere rectis, basi anguste marginato, 

 leviter trisinuato ; scutello grosse punctato ; elytris profunde 

 striatis, interstitiis inaequalibus, subtiliter punctulatis ; pygidio 

 metasternoque leviter rugulosis et hirtiferis, abdomine crebrius 

 ruguloso et flavido piloso, segmento 2° utrinque spiuis tribus 

 munito ; pedibus posterioribus gracilibus, tibia antica fortiter 

 bidentata, pedum 4 anticorum ungue majori fisso. 



Deep metallic green or coppery green, the elytra light 

 brown, with margins of varying breadth and sometimes 

 nearly the whole greenish black, and the sides o£ the pro- 

 notum, a narrow basal line on each side, the scutellum, a 

 small spot near the outer edge of each elytron behind the 

 middle, and the greater part of the femora, coxae, and 

 sternum pale yellow. The pygidium is deep reddish and the 

 tibite are coppery. 



The shape is elongate ovate, rather depressed and dis- 

 tinctly tapering before and behind, and almost the whole 



