. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. ANOMALA, 237 puiR'tured at tiie sides. The luesostermim is uot produced. Tlie front tibia is bideiitate, the upper tooth rather slight. The front tarsi and all the claws and claw-joints are long, the longer claw of the front and middle feet deeply cleft. (^. The antennae are rather long, the terminal tooth of the front tibia is rather sharp, and the inner front claw a little dilated and very acute. Length, 14-23 mm.; breadth, S-12 mm. United Pkovixces : AV\ Almora, Eanikhet {H. G. Champion); Assam: Knrseong {Verschnieghea). Manipur {W. Dohertij)^ Khas


. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. ANOMALA, 237 puiR'tured at tiie sides. The luesostermim is uot produced. Tlie front tibia is bideiitate, the upper tooth rather slight. The front tarsi and all the claws and claw-joints are long, the longer claw of the front and middle feet deeply cleft. (^. The antennae are rather long, the terminal tooth of the front tibia is rather sharp, and the inner front claw a little dilated and very acute. Length, 14-23 mm.; breadth, S-12 mm. United Pkovixces : AV\ Almora, Eanikhet {H. G. Champion); Assam: Knrseong {Verschnieghea). Manipur {W. Dohertij)^ Khasi Hills, Xongpriang [B. Warreib), Jaintia Hills ; Sikkim : Darjiling, Mungphn {E. T. Atl-insoa), Peshoke Spur (A'. aS'. Lister) ; Bhutan : Maria Basti (L. Durel). Tyi^e in the Vienna Museum ; that of A. striolata in the Paris- Museum and that of A. hevissiraa in the Halle Museum. Section V. A'e// to the Species. 1 (4) Elj'tra very sliining-, witli micrcj- scopic puncturation. 2 (3) Prouutum scarcely punctured .... iiterula, sp. n., p. 237. 3 (2) Pronotum closely punctured trochanierica, sp. n., p. 238-. 4 (]) Elytra coarsely punctured rulidipes, sp. n., p. 239. 255. Anomala merula, sp. nov. Entirely black above and beneath, and \ery smooth and shining. It is elongate in shape, broad at the shoulders and attenuated at each end. The head is finelv and closely punctured, with the ciypeu* broadly transverse, straigiit in front and rounded at the sides. The pronotum is narrow, little wider than it is long, broadest at the base, which is rather evenly rounded and uot margined, and tapering to the front, which is verv narrow; the sides are strongly curved, snbangulate in the middle, with all the angles sharp and nearly right angles ; the surface is very minutely and incon- spicuously punctured, except at the sides. Fig. b2.—Anomala mn-ula. where the punctures are moderately strong. The scutellum is also miiuitely and inconspicuously punctured and rather short. The elvtra are very sm


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