EnOMBOREHITiA. 85 



Keij to the Species. 



1 (6) Mesosternal process broad, uot 



tapering. 



2 (3) Green, with a black sutural patch . . heros, G. & P., p. 85, 



3 (2) Uniformlj' coloured. 



4 (.5) Mesosternal process curved mellyi, G. & P., p. 86. 



5 (4) Mesosternal process straight gestroi, Moser, p. 86. 



6 (1) Mesosternal process narrow and 



tapering. [p. 87 



7 (8) Head relatively small microcephala, Westw., 



8 (7) Head relatively large. 



9 (10) Elytra extremely glossy, without [p. 87 



puncturation f/laberrima, Westw., 



10 (9) Elytra punctured, not very glossv'. 



11 (12) Sides of body very hairy beneath . . viearesi, Hope, p. 88. 



12 (11) Sides of body not very hairy 



beneath siihopaca, Arrow, p. 88. 



55, Khomborrhina heros, (Plate I, fig. 1.) 



Goliathus heros, G. S, P., Monogv. Cet. 1833, p. 15-5, pi. 26, 

 fig. 3. 



Bright apple-green or blue-green, sometimes with golden or 

 rosy reflections, and with the humeral calli, the sutural margins 

 of the elytra, aud the parts adjoining the scutellura and the edges 

 of the ventral segments indigo-black, and the anteunse and tarsi 

 black. 



It is long and very smooth. The cli/peiis is rugosely punctured, 

 quadrate, as broad as its length measured from the point of 

 insertion of the antennae, scarcely dilated at the end, with the 

 front margin straight and minutely produced vertically in the 

 middle. The prothorcLv is minutely coriaceous, punctured at 

 the sides, with the lateral margins feebly angulated in the middle. 

 The scutellum is rather small, minutely coriaceous and uupunc- 

 tured. The elytra are very smooth, with a strongly impressed 

 and punctured sutural stria on each and irregularly scattered 

 punctures upon the posterior half, and the margins are coarsely 

 strigose posteriorly. The pjigidium is evenly and moderately 

 finely rugulose. The sternal process is narrow, a little longer than 

 broad measured from the meso-metasternal suture, and blunt at 

 the end. The metasternum is thinly but distinctly punctured, 

 except in the middle, and the sides of the abdomen are coarsely 

 sti'igose. 



S . The abdomen is arched but not channelled beneath. 



Length 35 mm. ; hreadth 17 mm, 



SiKKiM : Mungphu ; Tonkin (Lcmce, 1908), 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



This is often confused with the Chinese B. resplendens, Swartz, 

 which closely resembles it. 



