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ratlier flat above, aiiJ not liiglily glazfd. (Jlypeus granu- 

 lated, about as long as it is broad, sliglitly widening towards 

 the front, with the anterior and lateral margins nearly straight. 

 Prothorax very finely punctured upon the disk and very 

 coarsely and rugosely at the sides, rather shorter than in 

 A. (/loberrima and Mearesi, and with the sides rather more 

 distinctly angulated in the middle and the base strongly 

 trisinuate. Elytra finely and shallowly but rather closely 

 strigosely punctured, some of the punctures forming rows 

 anteriorly, witli the apical and posterior lateral parts coarsely 

 strigose, but scarcely setose, and the apical angles slightly 

 produced. Pygidium densely rugose and clothed with short 

 and not closely-set seta?. Sternal process moderately long, 

 depressed, blunt, and not much curved. Metasternum 

 smooth and deeply grooved at the middle and densely punc- 

 tured and pubescent at tlie sides. Abdomen almost smooth. 



The male is more elongate, with tlie prothorax more 

 narrowed in front, the abdomen deeply channelled, the an- 

 tennal club very long, and the hind tibite thickly fringed. 



Half a dozen specimens were collected by Mr. Doherty. 

 The species is closely related to A. gluherrima and Mearesi, 

 but is rather more elongate and depressed, and the upper 

 surface is much less glassy, being lather closely sculptured 

 all over. The male has the prothorax less narrowed in front 

 than in those two forms. 



The genus Anomalocera was formed for A. Mearesi, Hope, 

 alone, but that species is only peculiar in the rather greater 

 length of the antennal club of the male than that of its 

 allies, and a natural group is formed by associating with it 

 the species which have been placed in Hettrorrhina and 

 Rhomborrhina, characterized by a tapering sternal jirocess, 

 the clypeus simple in both sexes, and the hind tibiae straight. 

 The genus Heterorrhina will then be confined to the forms in 

 which the clypeus is armed in one (the female) or both sexe?, 

 and Rhomhorrhina to those in which the sternal process is 

 broadly transverse and the clypeus of the characteristic 

 spatulate shape. 



The species I include in Anomalocera as thus defined are 

 A. Mearesi, Hope, glaberrima, Westw., subopaca, sp. n., 

 microcephala, Westw., Mellii, G. & P., heros, G. & P., 

 resplendens, Schonli., rujitibiis, Bates, utiicolor, Motsch., 

 Fortunei, Saund., and olivacea, Jans. There still remains 

 one isolated species, which, while it has the clypeus simple 

 in both sexes and the sternal process long and slender, cannot 

 be associated with this group. The antennal club is equally 

 short in both sexes, the clypeus is nearly square in shape, 

 the elytra are very strongly and regularly punctate-striate, 



