96 CETONiixji:. 



68. Heterorrhina gracilis, sp. n. 



Bright grass-gTet,'!!, .sometimes with rosy reflections beneath, 

 and the sides of the hind coxae yellow. 



Tlie body is elongate, depressed above, and quite naked except 

 for a few i-etse upon the front and middle coxae and upon the 

 extremity of the abdomen. The head is moderately punctured, 

 with the front margin strongly elevated and bearing at the middle 

 a strong tooth not distinctly bifid. The forehead bears a strong, 

 very narrow longitudinal carina which is freely produced and 

 almost pointed in front. Hhn pronotum is triangular and not very 

 convex, very feebly punctured in the middle and strongly at the 

 sides. The latter are very slightly siiuiated, the hind-angles very 

 prominent and the base «ide and deeply emarginate in the 

 middle. The scutellum is scarcely punctured and the ehjtra have 

 impressed lines of moderately strong but rather distant punctures. 

 The sides are strongly sinuated behind the shoulders and the 

 apical margins coarsely strigose, with the angles acutely produced. 

 The pygidmm is very finely strigose and the metasternum and 

 /(hdo)iieu have large elongate impressions at the sides, the 

 metasternum being smooth and the abdomen finely punctured at 

 the middle. The sterncd process is long, narrow, and blunt at the 

 end. The front tibia' are bidentate in both sexes, and the hind 

 tibid' thinly ciliated. 



cJ . The front tibia is slender and the upper tooth small but 

 sharp. The abdomen is very feebly impressed along the middle 

 beneath. 



Length 19-22 mm. ; breadth 9*5-11 mm. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills (//. L. Andreives). 



Type in the British Museum. 



<Sd. Heterorrhina sinuatocoUis. 



Heterorrhina siuuatocollis, Schaum, Ann. Sac. Ent. France, 1849, 



p. 249. 

 Coryphocera smaragdina, linrni. (nee 6'. S) P.), Handh. Ent. iii, 



1842, p. 229. 

 Heterorrhina elegaiis, rar., Westic. Arcana Ent. \, 1842, p. 138, 



pi. 3."), lig. 3. 



Bright green or indigo-blue, very smooth and shining, with the 

 ■elytra! suture, the tibiae, tarsi and the apical part of the pygidium 

 piceous or greenish black. 



The body is elongate and moderately convex. The ch/peas is 

 ■quadrate, strongly and rugosely punctured, and excavated in 

 front, with the front margin strongly reflexed and broadly toothed 

 in the middle, the excavation being overhung by a slight horizontal 

 projection. The pronotum is strongly punctured at the sides, 

 more feebly in the middle, with the lateral margins deeply 

 sinuated behind and much narrowed in front. The scidellum is 

 rather short and feebly punctured. The ch/tra are strongly 

 punctured in irregular rows, with the apices strigose and the 

 lateral margins very gently sinuated behind the shoulders. The 



