. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. ANATONA. 115 and extending beyond the hind angles. In the northern form the latter generally stops at the angle and the discoidal spots are absent. It is exceedingly abundant during the autumn rains in the districts it inhabits. Mr, T, R, D, Bell records that upon the day following a fall of rain he has found them swarming all over the Khandesh plateau, flying in thousands close to the ground, over the burnt grass, and making a humming noise like a swarm of bees, which they very much resemble on the wing. The females burrow into the ground and apparen
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. ANATONA. 115 and extending beyond the hind angles. In the northern form the latter generally stops at the angle and the discoidal spots are absent. It is exceedingly abundant during the autumn rains in the districts it inhabits. Mr, T, R, D, Bell records that upon the day following a fall of rain he has found them swarming all over the Khandesh plateau, flying in thousands close to the ground, over the burnt grass, and making a humming noise like a swarm of bees, which they very much resemble on the wing. The females burrow into the ground and apparently deposit their eggs among the grass roots, upon which no doubt the larvae feed. The beetles are also sometimes found clinging together in clusters, in which the different varieties occur together. 91. Anatona alboguttata. Anatona alboguttata, Burm., Hanlb. Eat. iii, 1842, p. 504. Black, with the prothorax, scutellum and elytra opaque, and the head, pygidium, legs and lower surface shining; decorated with the following white markings :—a mar- ginal line on each side of the pronotum, a narrow median line, not reaching the front or hind margin and interrupted behind the middle, and three spots placed in a longi- tudinal line on each side; the mesosternal epimera and a spot at the apex of the scutellum ; from six to eight on each ely- tron and two on each side of the pygidium (sometimes coalescing). A spot near the extremity of each hind femur and patches at Fig. 26. the sides of the sternum, hind cox« and Anatona alboguttata. abdomen are also white. This species is far larger than the other two. It is of similar form, compact and convex. The head is very small, finely granulated, clothed with long yellow hairs on the forehead, with the clypeus strongly rounded from side to side, but not carinated. and narrow but a little dilated in front. The prothorax has the sides strongly rounded, the hind angles moderately well-marked and the base feebly excised in the middle. The scutel
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