. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 136 ilUTELllS'J:. This species has been described from an example of each sex submitted to me b}' Dr. Ohaus in 1914 with the then unpublished name Sim/Jiala rolnista. Owing to the war, the specimens have remained in the custody of the British Museum. I have no knowledge whether the name has been published or nob. Section II. This section contains onl}'^ a single species. 117. Anomala dorsalis. (Plate II, fig. 21.) Mvlulonthu dorsalis, Fabr., Syst. Eut. 1775, p. 35 ; id. Syst. Eleuth. ii, 1^01, p. IGS; llerbst, K'atursvst. Kaf. iii, 1790, p. 64, pi. 22
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 136 ilUTELllS'J:. This species has been described from an example of each sex submitted to me b}' Dr. Ohaus in 1914 with the then unpublished name Sim/Jiala rolnista. Owing to the war, the specimens have remained in the custody of the British Museum. I have no knowledge whether the name has been published or nob. Section II. This section contains onl}'^ a single species. 117. Anomala dorsalis. (Plate II, fig. 21.) Mvlulonthu dorsalis, Fabr., Syst. Eut. 1775, p. 35 ; id. Syst. Eleuth. ii, 1^01, p. IGS; llerbst, K'atursvst. Kaf. iii, 1790, p. 64, pi. 22, iig. 12. MeUdontha pallida, Oliv., Entom. i, 5, 1789, p. 25, pi. 9, fig. 103. Anojnala donalis, Buriu., llandb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 232. Var. Anomala fraterna, Barm., 1. c. Var. Anomala cc/dralis, Nonfr.,* Berl. Ent. Zeits. 1893, p. 335. ? Anomala imitatrix, Nonfr., Ent. Nachr. xx, 1894, p. 12. Testaceous or reddish, generally with the vertex of the head, the elytral suture, the hind tibise and the tarsi blackish, or with a broad sutural stripe, or with the upper surface largely or entirely black. The body is moderately elongate, not very convex, nor very shining, with a very scanty clothing of / --, short yellow hairs beneath. The clypeus n ^J^^v' fi ^^^ forehead are densely, scarcely rugosely, punctured. The pronotum is very minutely and thinly punctured, with the sides strongly rounded, the front angles not acute, the hind angles very obtuse, and the base completely margined and scarcely sinuated. The scutellum bears a few fine punctures and the elytra are strongly and irregularly punctured, with a juxta-sutural line and four or five double rows of regular punctures. The pygidium is minutely Ficr. d'i.— '^"^^ sparingly punctured, the metasternum dorsalis. rather finely and not very closely, and the ventral segments bear each a transverse row of punctures. The mesosternum is not pointed. The fi'ont tibia bears two sharp teeth and a feeble upper one, and the
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