HETEROERHINA. 97 



]iygidium is very finely and closely strigose upon its apical half 

 and less closely upon its basal half. The metastermmi and abdomen 

 are smooth in the middle and marked with deep crescentic 

 punctures at the sides. The sternal -process is slender, moderately 

 long and curved at the apex. 



(S . The club of the antenna is rather long. The front tibia 

 is slightly sinuated externally near the apex, the hind femur 

 gently arched, and the hind tibia furnished with a rather long 

 fringe of yellow hairs. The abdomen is deeply and narrowly 

 channelled beneath along the middle. 



$ . The pronotum is less narrowed in front and the front tibia 

 is rather broad and bidentate. 



Lenr/t7i 18"5-22 mm.; breadth 9-9*5 mm. 



Bombay : Belgaum. 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



I am indebted to M. Pierre Lesne, of the Paris Museum, for 

 Idndly examining the specimens in that collection, which are the 

 originals of the descriptions of both Burmeister and Schaum, and 

 affording me the information necessary for establishing the identity 

 of the species. 



70. Heterorrhina obesa. 



Heterorrhina obesa, Janson, Cist. Ent. ill. 1884, p. 104. 



Deep green, blue-green, indigo, purple or fiery red, above and 

 beneath, with the sides of the hind coxae reddish and the antennae 

 and tarsi black. 



This is a species of rather abnormal form, short, stout and 

 convex, and the sides of the metasternum are clothed with long 

 hairs. The head is coarsely punctured and the clypeus quadrate, 

 broader than it is long, with the front margin nearly straight, 

 reflexed and broadly toothed in the middle. The forehead is pro- 

 vided with a short carina which is slightly lobed in front. The 

 jtrothorax is rather broad, well punctured, and rather strongly 

 sinuated at the sides ; the scutellum is punctured and the elytra are 

 rather rugosely punctured, the punctures arranged in rows upon the 

 disc, and the apical margins strigose. The pyyidium is transversely 

 strigose, and the metasternum and abdomen are well punctured, the 

 punctures becoming coarse and strigose at the sides. The Jiind 

 tibia} have a long but rather thin fringe. 



cJ . The prothorax is rather more narrowed in front than in the 

 female, the antennal club is longer, and the abdomen is slightly 

 channelled beneath. The front tibiae are not very slender and are 

 feebly bidentate. 



5 . The front tibiae are broader and strongly bidentate. 



Length 18-24 mm. ; breadth 9'5-14 mm, 



Madras : Kodaikanal Mts., Anaimalai Hills, Trichinopoli. 



Tyjye in coll, 0. E. Janson. 



This species was described from Assam, owing to a mistake as to 

 the origin of the first discovered specimens. 



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