HETEROmiHIIfA. 95 



tooth iu the middle. The forehead is moderately punctured and 

 bears a rather broad longitudinal carina which forms a short 

 truncate lobe in front. The protJwra.v is triangular, not A'erj 

 convex, and finely punctured. The scutellum is very sparingly 

 punctured, and the eh/tra finel)' but distinctly punctured in rows, 

 with the apical margins rugulose. The ^>yr/?'cZiH>» is similarh^ 

 rugulose and the sides of the body beneath exhibit scattered linear 

 punctures. The sternal process is slender, curved and bluntly 

 rounded at the end. 



The head is similar in both sexes. The front tibia is slender 

 and unarmed iu the male and bidentate in the female. The hind 

 tibia of the male is fringed, but the fringe is not very conspicuous 

 nor much longer at the extremitiy of the tibia. The abdomen is 

 deeply channelled in the male. 



Length 19-22 mm. ; breadth 9"5-ll mm. 



BoMBAr : Kanara ; Madras : Nilgiri Hills (Mercara, IN'odgani). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species has been found by Mr. T. E. D. Bell, Mr. H. L. 

 Andrewes and Capt. A. K. W. Downing flying in bamboo jungle 

 at 3000 to 4000 ft. altitude. 



67. Heterorrhina micans. 



Gnathocera micans, Guer.,* Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1840, p. 80. 

 Var. Gnathocera olivacea, Gucr.,* L c. (n. sj'u.). 

 Heterorrhina olivacea, Westw., Arcana Ent. i, 1842, p. 139, pi. 35, 

 fig. 7. 



Uniform shining grass-green, olive-green, or deep blue above 

 and beneath. 



The form is elongate, oval and moderately convex. The chjpeus 

 is irregularly punctured, quadrate, and rather wider than it is 

 long, with the front margin straight and slightly produced 

 upwards in the middle, and v^ith a frontal carina, horizontally 

 produced in front. The ptrothorax is finely punctured, except in 

 the middle, with its sides rather strongly sinuated. The scutellum 

 is almost unpunctured and the elytra finely punctate-striate, with 

 the posterior margins strigose. The pygiclmm is very finely 

 ti'ansversely strigose, the metasternum coarsely punctured at the 

 sides, and the abdomen, coarsely but not closely punctured. The 

 sternal jjrocess is slender, flat, strongly curved and blunt. 



In addition to the usual sexual difference in the front tibijB,. 

 the abdomen of tlie male is smoother and rather shallowly furrowed 

 longitudinally at the base, the hairy fringes of the two posterior 

 pairs of tibite are closer and in the last pair form a tuft at the 

 extremity, and the hind tarsi are rather longer than those of the 

 female. 



Length 23-26 mm.; breadth 11-14 mm, 



Bombay. Kanara, Western Ghauts (ff. P. F. Tabourel); 

 Madras : Travancore, Trichinopoli, Nilgiri Hills, Shevaroy Hills ;. 

 Bengal : Chota Nagpur. 



Type in coll. E. Oberthiir : also that of olivacea. 



