. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. ANOMALA. 149 Cassava crop. It has been studied in all its stages by Mr. S. Leet'mans, who has issued a report upon it iu No. 13 of Mededeelin- gen van het Laboratorium voor Piantenziekten (Buiten/org, 1915), p. 48. The beetle is figured iu plate i, fig. 6, and the distinctive features of the larva are show n in plate vii, rig. 5. Tlie beetles are described as nocturnal in their habits. They appear in Ortober and November, and rt-duce the leaves of the Cassava plants to skeletons. 127. Anomala nigrovaria, sp. nov. (Plate III, fig. 18.) Pale testaceous
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. ANOMALA. 149 Cassava crop. It has been studied in all its stages by Mr. S. Leet'mans, who has issued a report upon it iu No. 13 of Mededeelin- gen van het Laboratorium voor Piantenziekten (Buiten/org, 1915), p. 48. The beetle is figured iu plate i, fig. 6, and the distinctive features of the larva are show n in plate vii, rig. 5. Tlie beetles are described as nocturnal in their habits. They appear in Ortober and November, and rt-duce the leaves of the Cassava plants to skeletons. 127. Anomala nigrovaria, sp. nov. (Plate III, fig. 18.) Pale testaceous yellow, with the A'ertex of the head, two longi- tudinal marks (sometimes coalescing) at the middle of the pro- notum, parts of the elytra, the extremities of the tibiae and the tarsi black or brown. It is elongate-oval, very con\ex, smooth and shining, and aitiiost devoid of hair. The clypcus is broadly rounded and very smooth, almost without punctures, and the forehead is strongly punctured. The pronotum is strongly but rnther unequally punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, the front angles nearly right angles, the hind angles very obtuse and tlip base finely margined. The scutellum is well punctured, and the elytra bear seven deeply impressed and punctured dorsal striae, the second disrupted at the base. The pygidium is rather coarsely and closely punc- Fig. 38.—Auomdla tured. The front tibia is armed with two nigrovaria, S. strong teeth ; the hind tibia is rather short and stout; the tarsi are rather long, and the longer claw is cleft on the front and middle feet, S . The outer margins of the elytra, from the shoulders to about the midtUe, are dark and there is a broad tlark patch common to both, sometimes uniting with the posterior end of the lateral stripe and generally extending along the suture to the base of the elytra (the scutellum remaining pale), but not reaching their extremities behind. 5 . The outer margins of the elytra, from the shoulders to about the
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