362 Mr. G. J. Anow on the 



or less irregular. The pygidium is strougly but not Aery 

 closely punctured^ and bears a few long hairs. The sides of 

 the mctasternum are rather closely punctured and thinly 

 pubescent, and the abdomen is coarsely punctured, each 

 segment bearing a transverse row of stiff bristles. The front 

 tibia is 3-dent;ite and the inner front claw only is cleft. 



The inner front claw of the male is dilated but very acute, 

 and the antennal club is very long. 



This is a very small species of the />fl//i^a and communis 

 group, to which A. wulkeri and gravida also belong, but it 

 differs from all others in having thescutellum and the greater 

 part of the pronotum dark. 



Anomala nuperjiua, sp. n. 



Pallide testacea, capite nigro, pronoti basi scutello elytrisque angus- 

 tissime nigro-marginatis, clypco, tibiis posticis tarsisquc omnibus 

 fusco-rufis; elongata, parallela, capite toto minute et creberrime 

 punctato, pronoto scutelloque suhtilissime punctatis, illo modice 

 confcrtim, basi anguste margiuato ; elytris baud profunde aut 

 crebre seriato-punctatis, spatio subsuturali irregulariter punctato, 

 marginibus externis sat late membranaceis ; pygidio minutissime 

 punctate ; tibiis anticis Ji-dentatis, donte supero obtuso. 

 Long. 19-22-5 mm.; lat. max. 10-11-5 mm. 



J . Pedum auticura tibia apice acuminata, unguc majori leviter 

 dilatato. 



$ . Pedum anticum apice paulo clavato. 



Hub. Ceylon : Peradeniya, Sigiriya, Colombo. 



Pale testaceous, Avith the head and the extreme edges of 

 the pronotum, scutellum, and elytra black, and the clypeus 

 (very deeply), the hind tibise, and all the tarsi red. 



Tlie body is elongate, with the elytra only very slightly 

 wider in the middle than at the shoulders, smooth but not 

 very shining above, and scarcely convex. The head is en- 

 tirely very densely punctured, the clypeus nearly straight in 

 front, Avith the sides slightly converging. The pronotum is 

 extremely minutely and rather evenly punctured, finely but 

 deeply margined all round, Avith the sides angulatcd near the 

 middle, the front angles acute and the hind angles obtuse. 

 The scutellum is finely punctured and the elytra lightly but 

 a little more coarsely, most of the punctures, except in the 

 broad subsutural interstice, forming rather indistinct lines. 

 The pygidium is finely and irregularly punctured, the mcta- 

 sternum closely punctured and clothed with short erect 

 pubescence at the sides, scantily j)uncturcd and pubescent in 

 the middle. Tiic abdomen is nearlv smooth. The front 



