iltMELA. Il9 



Length, 13 mm,; breadth, 8 mm. 

 BuBMA : Pegu {E. T. Atkinson), Tavoy. 



Tijpe in the British Museum ; co-type in Dr. Ohaus' col- 

 lection. 



101. Mimela rugicauda, sp. n. 



Deep non-metallic apple-green, with the pygidium slightly 

 metalhc and the lower surface and legs deep coppery red. 



Elongate-oval, very convex, smooth and shining, with only a 

 very thin and inconspicuous clothing ol hair at the sides o£ the 

 body beneath and upon the pygidium. The head is not very 

 large and is rather scantily but not very finely punctured ; the 

 eyes are moderately prominent. The pronotum is very finely and 

 sparingly punctured, with the sides gently rounded, all the angles 

 nearly right angles, but the hind ones a little more obtuse, and 

 the base rather strongly lobed. The scutellum is almost un- 

 punctured. The elytra are very minutely and thinly punctured 

 in the anterior part, coarsely and rugosely in the posterior part, 

 with slight indications of impressed longitudinal lines. The 

 pygidium is very minutely and densely granulated, with a very 

 tine, scanty and inconspicuous clothing of hairs. The meso- 

 sternum is produced into a long acute process. The front tibia 

 is bidentate and the hind tibia is slightly dilated from base to 

 apex. 



$ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is very long and 

 blunt, and the upper tooth very small. 



Length, 18 mm. ; breadth, 10 mm. 



SiKKiM : Kurseong, 6000 ft. {E. A. D'Abreu). 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have only seen a single female, presented by Mr. D'Abreu. 



102. Mimela amabilis. 



Mimela amahUis, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i, 1908, p. 242. 



Deep green, very smooth and shining, with the legs and lower 

 surface metallic and the upper surface non-metallic, but with 

 a very faint rosy reflection generally visible at least in the 

 anterior part. 



Very short, compact and convex, and only thinly clothed with 

 short hair at the sides of the metasternum. The head is large, 

 the eyes small, the clypeus broadly rounded and finely but rather 

 rugosely punctured. The forehead and pronotum are finely and 

 moderately closely punctured, the latter strongly and densely at 

 the sides ; the lateral margins are gently rounded, tlie front 

 angles acute, the hind angles rounded, and the base strongly 

 trisinuated. The scutellum is very sliort, but distinctly angu- 

 lated, and bears extremely minute punctures. The elytra are 

 lightly, minutely and thinly punctured in rows, the punctures on 



