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process is moderately long, slightly tapering and blunt. The legs are 

 rather slender, and the four poaterior tibia' rather iiarrowly fringed. 



This species is not a A'ariable one and the sexes do not con- 

 spicuously differ except in the form of th<! front tibise and that of 

 the head, the female having a strong transv^erse carina befoi'e the 

 middle of the clypeus and a strong tooth at tlie front margin. 



Leni/th 21~'2'S mm. ; breadth 11-1 1'o mm. 



Assam : jManipur. 



Ti/2)e in the Oxford Museum ; cotype in the 13ritish Museuui. 



73. Heterorrhina punctatissima. 



lleterorrhina punctatissima, Westic.,''^ Arcana Ent. \, 1842, p. 135, 



pi. 34, fig. 5. 

 Corvphe jucuuda, Hope (nee Gerniar)^ Trans. Ent. Sov. Lond. iii, 



1841, p. (54. 



Bright green, or lier}- red, the whole insect above and below 

 uniformly coloured, except the antennae and tarsi, which are black. 



The form is modei'ately elongated and rather flat. The licad is 

 rugosely punctured, the chipexis being quadrate and shorter than it 

 is broad, with the front margin straight, reflexed and armed with 

 a broad vertical tooth in the middle. The forehead is furnislied 

 with a short and broad horizontal lobe. The prothorax is rather 

 coarsely punctured, the scutellum feebly, and the eh/tra strongly 

 and closely, most of the punctures upon the last arranged in 

 regular rows which leave two elevated costa) upon the disc of each 

 elytron. The pijgidium is evenly transversely strigose, the 

 meiastenuun coarsely punctured except in the middle, where it is 

 smooth, and the abdomen rather sparingly punctured all over. 

 The sternal process is straight and blunt at the end. 



cT . The frontal lobe is narrow, occupying about a tliird of the 

 breadth of the clypeus, the front tibiaj are simple, the middle and 

 hind tibiae thickly fringed, and the hind tarsi longer than those 

 of the female. The abdomen is not channelled beneath. 



5 . The frontal lobe is broadly semicircular in shape, occupying 

 nearly the whole breadth of the clypeus, the front tibia) are 

 bidentate, and the prothorax is rather shorter and less narro\\ed 

 in front than in the male. 



Length 23-26 mm. ; breadth 12-13 mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills, Sudiya, Silhet, Manipur ; Sikkim : 

 Mungphu. 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; jucunda was described from the 

 same specimen. 



74. Heterorrhina nigritarsis. (Plate I, fig. 2 (male), fig. 3 (female).) 



Cetonia iiio-ritarsis, jEfo^je,* Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 24; JFcstic, 



Arcana Ent. i, 1842, p. 133, pi. 30, tigs. 7 & 8. 

 Gnathocera nigritarsis, G. c^- P., Monoffr. Cet. 1833, p. 134, pi. 20, 



fig. 3. 

 J^ar. Cetonia mutabilis, Westiv. (nee Hope), I. c. p. 134, pi. 30, fig. 7 



Orass-green, golden-green, fiery red, purple or indigo, often 



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