MIMELA, 1 21 



The body is elongate-oval in shape and not vei'v convex. It is 

 exceedingh'^ smooth, the upper surface scarcely punctured, the 

 sides of the raetasteriium alone clothed with a fine greyish 

 pubescence. The liead is very finely punctured ; the clypeus 

 feebly punctate-rugose. The pronotuni, scutellum and elytra 

 are not perceptibly punctured, except at the sides of the first, 

 and the pygidium is very lightly punctured, scarcely at all in 

 the middle. The mesosternal process is short and triangular, 

 but rather sharp. The metasternum is densely punctured at 

 the sides and smooth in the middle, and the abdomen feebly 

 punctured at the sides. The legs are moderately stout and the 

 front tibia bears a feeble upper tooth in the female, absent in the 

 male. In the latter the club of the antenna is rather long. 



Length, 19-25 mm. ; breadth, 12-14 mm. 



Assam: Khasi Hills, 1000-3000 ft. {H. Maxivell Lefroy), 

 Cherrapunji (B. Warren, May); Bhui'AN (Caj)t. Pemherton); 

 SiKKiM : Darjiling {Fruhstorfer, March and April). 



Types in the Oxford Museum. 



105. Mimela marginalis. 



Mimela marginalis, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i, 1908, 

 p. 242. 



Deep non-metallic green, with the antennae, clypeus, legs, tlie 

 hind margins of the propygidium and pygidium, the outer 

 margins of the pronotum and elytra, and usually the extremity 

 of the abdome.i beneath, testaceous, more or less suffused with 

 metallic green ; the outer edges of the 

 tibiae and the tarsi dark coppery green. 



The body is oval, very smooth, very 

 lightly punctured above, and thinly 

 clothed at the sides beneath with grey- 

 ish hair. The head is large, the eyes 

 small :ind far apart; the clypeus is broad 

 and finely rugose, the vertex, pronotum 

 and scutellum minutely and sparingly 

 punctured. The sides of the pronotum 

 are gently rounded, the front angles 

 acute, the hind angles well marked but 

 not sharp. The elytra are finely and rather 

 -pig. 21. —Mimela irregularly punctured, with a complete 



line ot punctures upon each adjoimng the 

 suture and a few other imperfect lines. The pygidium is rather 

 more coarsely, but not deeply, punctured. The antennae are 

 long, the mesosternal process is short, but rather slender and 

 acute, and the front tibiae ai'e bidentate, the apical tooth being 

 blunt and long, and the lateral one short and rather sharp. The 

 inner claw of the front tarsus is rather widely cleft. 

 2 . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is very long. 

 Length, 19-23 mm. ; breadth, 12-13 mm. 



