82 CETO^^IIXX 



Front tibia? slender and unarmed in the J , broader, and armed 

 with two sharp oblique teeth in the ^ . 



Ken ^^ '^"^ Species. 



1 (4) A dark posterior border to the 



elytra. 



2 (3) Dark border not sharply defined distinda, Hope, p. 82. 



3 (2) Dark border i?harply defined (ijncah'i>, Westw., p. 83. 



4 (1) p]lytra without dark posterior border, 

 fl (8) Hairy clothinfr black. 



6 (7) Colour blue-black liyacinUnna, Hope, p. 83. 



7 (6) Colour green inciscc, sp. n., p. 83. 



8 (6) Hairy clothing yellow opalina, Hope, p. 84. 



50. Torjrnorrhina distincta. 



Rhomborrhina distincta, Hope* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1841, 



p. 63. 

 Khomborrbina mellvi, Biirm. (nee G. S,- P.), Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, 



p. 198 ; Westw., Arcana Ent. i, 1842, p. 118. 

 Tar. Rhomborrhina flammea, (restro,* Ann. Mvs. Getiova (2) vi, 



1888, p. 115 (n. syn.). 

 Var. Rhomborrhina cjiriana, ?c?.,* op. cit. (2) x, 1891, p. 837 (n. sj-n.). 

 Var. Rhomborrhiua ultramariuea, Nonf., Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1906, 

 p. 222 (n. syn.). 



Bright metallic green above, A'arying to golden green, opales- 

 cent, fiery-red (var. flammea), red, with the scutellum black 

 (var. cariana) or deep blue (var. vUramarinea). with the lower 

 surface and legs deep green or blue, the abdomen sometimes 

 black, and the posterior margin of tbe elytra and tbe pygidium 

 dark and hairy, the posterior border of the elytra not sharply 

 defined. 



The clypeus is densely and rugosely punctured, the pronotnm 

 strongly punctured except in the middle, the scutelhon very 

 minutely and scantily punctured, and the ehftra irregularly and 

 rather coarsely punctured, with the posterior margins and the 

 hinder part of the hiteral margins coarsely rugose. The piigidium 

 is coarsely granulated, tbe sides of the metastermnn are closely 

 punctured, and the abdomen very smooth. The middle and hind 

 iihicp. are fringed v.ith black hairs at the inner edge. 



Length 29-32 mm.; breadth 15-10 mm. 



Bhutan ; Assam : Manipur ; Burma : Karen-ni, Kachin Hills. 



Ti/j)e in the Oxford IMuseum. 



The three succeeding forms are extremely close to the pi*e- 

 ceding and to one another, and I have only treated them as 

 distinct because, from the good series 1 have examined, the}' seem 

 to be less variable in their own localities than T. distincta. 



