CoUoijtera from the Nilgiri Hills. 471 



This species did not exist in the British Museum 

 collection. 



Ootacamund {C. A. Barber, no. 21-4); apparently rare. 

 In the collections of the British Museum, Cambridge Mu- 

 seum, and D. Sharp. 



Anomala Olivieri, sp. n. 



A. variantis, 01., affinis, sod supenie picea vel nigricans. 

 Long. 20-21 mm. 



Melolontha varians, var. b, Olivier, Ent. i. 5, p. 8, pi. x. fig. 123 b. 



This species has been long known, and was in fact treated 

 by Olivier as a variety of A. varians when he first charac- 

 terized that species. It is apparently distinct, no inter- 

 mediates having been discovered. The series forwarded by 

 Mr, Barber exhibits a little variation in colour. The sides 

 of the thorax are sometimes extensively pallid, and the dark 

 colour has a variable degree of extension on the pygidium. 

 The legs and under surface of the three thoracic divisions are 

 pallid, the tarsi and ventral segments piceous, and the dark 

 colour extends more or less on to the middle of the meta- 

 sternum ; the terminal ventral plate and the hind margin of 

 the penultimate one are dirty yellow, the broad intervening 

 membrane being more pallid. 



The male and female are very much alike, but the male 

 has the hind femora punctate and covered with long pubes- 

 cence over the whole of the lower face, while in the female 

 there is a smooth space along the middle, limited posteriorly 

 by a series of bristles, behind which the surface is coarsely 

 sculptured and somewhat pubescent. There are also slight 

 diflferences in the club of the antenna, in the clypeus, in the 

 shape of the claws and the length of the legs, as well as in 

 the shape of the pygidium. In the series before me the 

 female is very much rarer than the male. 



In the collections of the Cambridge Museum, the British 

 Museum, and D. Sharp. 



Ootacamund [C. A. Barber^ no. 201). 



Anomala glohulosa^ sp, n. 



Brevis, convexa, nigricans; antennis, palpid tarsisque tcstaceis; 



corpore subtus parce testaceo-hirsuto ; elytris punctato-sulcatis. 

 Long. 6-7 mm. 



This little species is not at all allied to any other and has 

 the appearance of a minute Dyuastid rather than of a Rutelid. 



