Anon){x\a from Southern India. 477 



still vaf^uer anterior patclies near the suture, and a large oval 

 spot on each side of the pygidiuni. 'J'he dorsal segments of 

 the abdomen are strii)ed with blaek and the tarsi are dark. 



The form is rather broadly ovate. The clypeus and lore- 

 head are densely punctate-rugose. The pronotuai is very 

 shininji^ and finely punctured, more strongly and a little 

 more elost ly at the sides ; the lateral margins are feebly 

 angulated before the middle, the front and hind angles are 

 sliarj) and the base is gently lobed in the middle. The 

 seut(dlum is very minutely punctured. The elytra are deeply 

 striated, ihe strire closely punctured, the interstices convex, 

 the fifth divided by an almost continuous row of closely-set 

 ])unctures. The pygidiura is moderately punctured. The 

 niesosternal process is slender and acute, not compressed nor 

 strongly curved. The sitles of the rnetasternum are closely 

 jninctured and thinly clothed with yellow hair. 'J'he front 

 tibia is sharply bidentate and the longer claw of the front 

 and middle feet cleft. 



S . The lower lobe of the front inner claw is dilated and 

 sharply angulated. 



Tiiis and the following species have the pygidium strongly 

 }niiictured. It is smaller than the two preceding, but a little 

 larger than ^1. rugilatera, the pygidium and tlie sides of the 

 pronotum are rather less strongly |)unctured than in the 

 latter, and the dark patch on the thorax is not completely 

 divided and frequently not at all. 



Anomala {S/nlota) rugilatera, sp. n. 



Pallide flava, leviter viridi-metallica, verticis macula lata, pro- 

 tlioraeis maculis duabus magnis, elytrorum fascia postica in- 

 distincta pygidiique lateribus I'usco-viridibus ; ovata, capita crobre 

 rugose, clypeo lato ; prothoracis lateribus svibrugose punctatis, 

 medio cum scutello subtiliter parcissime j)unctulato; elytris pro- 

 funde punctato-striatis, interstitiis eonvexis, 5" punctorum serie 

 Integra diviso ; pygidio ubique fortiter punctate ; processu meso- 

 Bternali tcnui, eurvato, acutissimo. 



Long. 11-13 mm.; lat. max. 6-7*5 mm. 



JIab. NiLGiRi Hills (Sir G. F. IJampson). 



Pale testaceous, entirely suffused with metallic green and 

 with dark green mai kings disposed as follows : — a bifid patch 

 on the vertex of the head, a longitudinal stripe on each side 

 of the pronotum, extending from front to hind margin, and a 

 large oval spot on each side o£ the pygidiura. There is a 

 narrow, zigzag, transverse band just before the extremity of 

 the elytra, the dorsal segments of the abdomen are black- 

 stri})cd, and the tarsi are dark. 



