Anomala//-o;n Southern India. 485 



Tfao. NiLGiRi Hills (1000-GOOO feet, April and May). 



Deep metallic green or coj^pery green, with tiie elytra, 

 abdomen and legs chestnut-red, often with a very taint 

 metallic tinge. 



This is a small, rot very convex, species, with tlie pro- 

 thorax short and not broad and the elytra dilating trom the 

 shoulders almost to the extremities. The ])ygidium and the 

 whole lower surface are clothed with rather long erect grey 

 hair. The clypeus is broad, rngosely punctured, and nearly 

 straight in front, the forehead coarsely punctured, the pro- 

 notuin moderately finely in the middle and a little mm'e 

 coarsely at the siiles. The outer margins are angulated at 

 the middle, the front angles nearly right angles, the hind 

 angles obtuse, the base very gently curved and not margined. 

 The scutelluai is minutely punctured. The elytra are deeply 

 but unevenly striated, with moderately fine punctures in the 

 striie and upon the alternate interstices, which are broader 

 than the rest. The pygidium is very finely and densely 

 punctured, the sides of the merasternuin strongly and closely 

 and the abdomen coarsely and sparingly. Tiiere is no meso- 

 sternal process. The front tibiiB are strongly bidentate and 

 tiie larger claw of the front and middle tarsi is cleft. 



(J . The front inner claw is broad, abruptly angulated near 

 the middle of the lower edge, acute and strongly bitid. 



A series of males, without females, has been taken by 

 Mr. H. L. Andrewes. 



Anomahi musj sp, n. 



Pallide flava, fronte, pronoti medio, humeris, pygidii pnnctis 4 

 lateralibus, corpora eubtus pedibusque partim nigro-aeneis vol 

 nigro-cupreis ; parva, ovata, postice lata, subtus parce hirsuta, 

 capita punctato-rugoso, clypeo fere semicirculari ; pronoto nitido, 

 fortiter at aequaliter, baud crebre punctato, lateribus valde 

 arcuatis, augulis anticis fere rectis, posticis obtusis, basi levitor 

 arcuato, linea marginali subobsoleta ; scutello parco punctato ; 

 elytris grosse seriato-punctatis ; pygidio grosse sat crebre punc- 

 tate ; metasterni lateribus crebre, abdomine minus crebre, puuc- 

 tatis ; mesosteruo hand producfco ; tibiis anticis fortiter bidentatis, 

 pedum anticum et intarmediorum ungue majori fisso. 



Long. 6*5-8'5 mm. ; lat. max. 4-5 mm. 



Hab. NiLGiRi Hills (6000 feet) ; Madura : Shemba- 

 ganur. 



Pale yellow, with the posterior part of the head, pronotuni 

 (except a lateral border, enclosing a dark spot, and a narrower 

 front and hind border, and sometimes an incomplete narrow 

 median line), the extreme edges of the elytra and a humeral 



