a?IlIGONOPHOEUS. 103 



10 (7) Metasternum sparsely punctured, 



scarcely hairy. 



11 (12) Elytra distinctly punctured, meta- [p. lOo. 



^ sternum shining- scit/til/ans, Arro^v, 



12 (11) l^lytra indistinctly punctured, meta- 



sternum coriaceous fe(s, Gestro, p. 106. 



13 (0) Tibia? black foveiceps, Gestro, p.|l 07. 



14 (.5) Tibiaj green delcsserti, Gu^r., p.-'l07. 



78. Trigonophorus nepalensis. 



Trio'onophorus nepalensis, IIopc,^' Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 24 ; 



Westic, Arcfma Ent. i, 1842, p. 121, pi. 29, tig-. 3. 

 ( 2 ) Trig-onophorus hardwickei, Hope,* I. c. 

 lihomborrhina cantori, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. LonO. iii, 1841, 



p. (J2. 



Deep green, blue-green, or indigo-black, moderately sinning, 

 with the lower surface dark, the femora, tibite, and hind coxae 

 orange-red without any suffusion of green, and the tarsi black. 



Tiie form is moderately elongate and convex. The licad is 

 rather long, excavated, with the chjpeus closely granulated in 

 front, the sides rounded and scarcely reflexed, and the anterior 

 process slender, gradually dilated, and straight in front. The 

 prothorax and ehjtra are coriaceous and finely punctured ; the 

 scutelhun almost unpunctured. The 2\'/f/«^J«wi is feebly rugose, 

 the metasUrnum. coriaceous and indistinctly punctured, and the 

 abdomen almost smooth. The sternal 2}rocess is narrow, curved and 

 directed slightly downwards. 



6 . The posterior cephalic process is long and acuminate, and 

 the prothorax narrowed iu front. 



$ . The posterior cephalic process is truncated and dilated in 

 front and the anterior process short. The prothorax is more 

 transverse and the pygidium rather setose. 



Length 28-32 mm. ; breadth 15 mm. 



SiKKiM : Karsiang ; Bhutan ; Assam : Cacliar, Xaga Hills, 

 Manipur. 



Types of nejmlensis and ha rdivid'ei in the British Museum ; that 

 of cantori in the Oxford Museum. 



79. Trigonophorus saundersi. 



Trigonophorus saundersi, IVestio.,^'- Arcana Ent. i, 1842, p. 122, 

 pi. 29, fig. 5. 



Shining grass-green, with the lower surface dark, the femora 

 and tibijE dark purplish red, and the tarsi and antenna? black. 



The body is moderately broad and depressed. The dypeits is 

 rugose and rather parallel- sided, with the anterior process strongly 

 dilated but not large or slender. The protliorax is coriaceous and 

 distinctly punctured at the sides, with the marginal striae abbre- 

 viated behind, the hind angles moderately prominent, and the 



