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This insect differs considerably in form from the preceding species, and I doubt 

 the propriety of associating it in the same genus, but my specimen is in too 

 injured a condition to determine the point satisfactorily. 



I possess a single example of this insect, which was captured 

 above twenty years since in the neighbourhood of Dartford. Fa- 

 bricius gives it as a native of England, and refers to the late Mr. 

 Tunstall's collection as containing a specimen. 



Genus CCVIII. — Anomala, Koppe. 



Antennae nine-jointed; the basal joint stout, clavate, obliquely truncate, pilose; 

 the second short, subglobose ; the two following slender, elongate ; the two 

 next short, transverse; the remainder forming a short, triphyllous club. 

 Palpi subfiliform, glabrous : head suborbiculate : clypeus truncate anteriorly, 

 entire, the margins but little reflected : thorax transverse, undulated at the 

 base, which is as broad as that of the elytra, which are broad ; scutellum 

 rounded : body ovate, convex, glabrous : legs slightly pilose : anterior tibiae 

 simple, produced at the apex, with a spiniform process ; four anterior tarsi 

 with the claws unequal; one stout and bifid at the apex; posterior unequal, 

 undivided. 



Anomala differs externally from Anisoplia by having the clypeus 

 but slightly produced and transverse, the basal joint of the antennae 

 distinctly truncate at the apex; the palpi subfiliform; the thorax 

 transverse, with its base as broad as that of the elytra, which are 

 convex. 



Sp. 1. Frischii. Viridi-aut caruleo-aeneus, elytris obsolete punctato-striatis, 

 testaceis, suturd virescenti, aut toto aeneo-viridibus aut ccerulescentibus. (Long, 

 corp. 5 — 7 lin.) 



Me. Frischii. Fahricius. — Sc. Frischii. Don. xi. pi. 390. f. 2.— An. Frischii. 

 Steph. Catal. 116. No. 1193. 



Oblong-ovate, head, thorax, and scutellum punctured, green or blue-bronze, 

 rather glossy; the lateral margins of the thorax more or less broadly tes- 

 taceous : elytra rather obsoletely punctate-striate, the interstices irregularly 

 punctured, and slightly raised towards the outer margin, in general of a 

 greenish-testaceous, with the suture of a darker hue, but sometimes entirely 

 of a bright rich green or deep black or violet-blue : body beneath and legs of 

 a greenish brass : antenna testaceous, with the capitulum fuscous. 



The lateral margins of the thorax are sometimes concolorous with the disc, 

 without reference to the colour of the elytra: — such varieties have been 

 distinguished as different species, but evidently with impropriety. 



