Anoniala/ro»J Southern Indut. 4S7 



A. hellen', Oliaus, but disfiuguislied by it3 pale gioiind- 

 colour and metallic lustre. The head and clypeus are more 

 stron2;lv, and the pronotum much more lightly, j)uncturcd. 



Five specimens of this species taken by Mr. II. L. 

 Andrewes are all ditTereut in colour. All have a yellow- 

 ground-colour, with a alight golden lustre upon the upper 

 surface. 



(a) is a female entirely yellou', with the head and j)ronotum 

 a little more orange. 



(b) is a female with a vague crescentic brown mark on 

 each side of the pronotum. 



(c) is a male with the head behind the eyes, a circular 

 patch in the middle of the pronotum, the suture (narrowly), 

 the basal (broadly) and external margins of the elytra and 

 the basal segments of the abdomen dark. 



((/) is a female with the liead behind the eyes, the pronotum 

 (except the lateral margins), and the elytra daik. 



(e) is a female with the elytra alone dark. 



It is oval, not very convex, and almost devoid of hairy 

 clothing. The head and clypeus are rather strongly but not 

 rugosely punctured, the pronotum very lightly and sparingly 

 punctured and shining, with the sides and base gently 

 rounded, the latter very narrowly margined and the hind 

 angles obsolete. The scutellum is distinctly punctured and 

 the elytra bear rows of rather close strong punctures. I'iie 

 pygidiuni is strongly and moderately closely, the metasternuni 

 very coarsely, and the abdomen rather strongly, punctured. 

 The front tibia is strongly bidentate and the longer claw of 

 the front and middle feet cleft. 



I am miable to retain SingJiala as a distinct genus, its only 

 distinctive feature being found in one sex alone, viz., the 

 form of the clypeus of the male, which reappears in almost 

 the same shape in Anomala dorsalisj F., and other unrelated 

 species. 



In addition to the new species just described, the following 

 species of Anomala were also found in the same districts of 

 bouthern India : — 



A. vari'color, Gyll. — Nilgiri Hills and Shembaganur. 

 This is a very widely distributed form. 



A. data, F. — Nilgiri Hills. This is probably not syno- 

 nymous with A. varians, Oliv., the identity of wiiich 

 is not at all certain. 



