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The pygidium is finely and subrugosely punctured and the 

 lower surface is finely punctured and only very scantily 

 hairy. There is no mesosternal process. The front tibia 

 is tridentate and the longer claw of the front and middle 

 feet cleft. The hind tibia is not strongly inflated or 

 constricted. 



cJ . The inner front claw is very broad aiid divergently 

 cleft, and the last abdominal segment is extremely short and 

 only visible at the sides. 



? . The penultimate ventral seginent is very broad and 

 the last segment well developed. 



Length 11"5-14'5 mm.; breadth 7-8"5 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Mandalay, IShenmaga [L. Fea — June 

 1885). 



This is closely related to A. varicolor, Gyll., of which it 

 has the general appearance and type of coloration, as well as 

 great variability in the degree of pigmentation. 



Anomala dorsopicta, sp. n. 



Plava, vertice, prouoti vittia duabus, extiis medio productis 

 elytrisque nigris, his utrinque macula media ovata obliqua 

 ornatis, clypeo tarsisque rutis : elongato-ovata, sat lata, parum 

 convexa ; capita iibique sat fortiter punctate, clypeo brevi, 

 margine valde reflexo ; prothorace minute sat sequaliter punctato, 

 lateribus arcuatis, basi marginato, trisiuuato, angulis posticis 

 rotundatis ; scutello punctato ; eljtris profunde punctato-striatis, 

 interstitiis augustis, convexis, lateribus post humeros paulo 

 deplanatis ; pygidio sat fortiter punctato ; mesosterno baud pro- 

 ducto ; metasterno punctato et brevissime flavido-hirto ; tibiis 

 auticis bidentatis, pedum 4 posteriorum ungue majori bifido. 



Bright testaceous yellow, with the head and tarsi reddish 

 and the forehead (except a triangular excision in front), a 

 longitudinal bar on each side of the pronotum, extending 

 from front to hind margin and emitting an external brancii 

 at the middle, and the elytra, except an oblique oval })atch 

 a little before the middle of each, black. The head and pro- 

 thorax have generally a very slight metallic lustre. 



The shape is elongate-oval, moderately broad and not 

 very convex. The head is strongly and rather evenly 

 punctured, with the clypeus short, rounded at the sides and 

 strongly reflexed at tlie edge. The pronotum is rather 

 finely but regularly punctured, strongly rounded at the sides, 

 margined and trisiuuate at the base, with the hind angles 

 very obtuse. The scutellum is punctured and the elytra are 

 deeply punctate-striate, with the interstices narrow and con- 

 vex and the outer ed":e flattened for a short distance behind 



