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80. Mimela macleayana. (Plate I, fig. 7.) 



Euchlora macleayana, Vigors,* Zool. Journ. i, 1825, p. 540, pi. 20, 



tig. 7 ; Hope, Mag. Nat. Hist, iv, 1840, p. 346. 

 Mimela macleayana, Burin., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 291. 



Bright coppery red, with the head, pronotum and scutellum 

 golden green and the elytra grass-green, with the outer mai'gins 

 yellowish. 



It is a large, elongate-oval insect, with the legs, pygidiuin and 

 lower surface rather closely and evenly clothed with decumbent 

 grey hair. The eyes are large and prominent, the clypeus is 

 rather small, coarsely rugose and nearly straight in front, and the 

 forehead is strongly punctured. The pronotum is strongly and 

 closely punctured, the punctures being least close in the middle 

 and becoming rugose at the sides ; the lateral margins are rounded, 

 the front angles not very sharp and the hind angles obtuse. The 

 scutellum is rather long and bears only a few fine punctures. 

 The elytra are strongly and moderately closely punctured, rather 

 more feebly upon the region adjacent to the scutellum and very 

 coarsely upon the apical part. The pygidiuin is rugosely punc- 

 tured, the metasternum smooth in the middle and finely rugose at 

 the sides, and the abdomen coarsely punctured, except along the 

 middle line. The prosternal process is small, with its ventral edge 

 very oblique ; the mesosterrial process is rather long and narrow ; 

 and the front tibia has no lateral tooth. A specimen in the 

 Indian Museum (in bad condition) has the punctures of the elytra 

 almost obliterated. 



c?. The front tibia is broad and its apex is very sharp, but 

 scarcely produced ; the pygidium is convex, with its extremity bare 

 and smooth ; and the antennae are rather long. 



$ . The apical tooth of the front tibia is long and curved, and 

 the pygidiuin is oblique and rather flat. 



Length, 24-28 mm. ; breadth, 14-16 mm. 



CEYLON : Wellawaya (E. E. Green, Nov.), Puttalam (G. F. S. 

 Baker), Iranaimadu (C. F. S. Balcer, Dec.); MYSORE : Shimoga; 

 CENTRAL PROVINCES: jNTagpur (E. A. D'Abreu, July). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This beautiful insect is not uncommon in Ceylon and has 

 evidently a wide range. A single specimen has been sent to me 

 from Nagpur, taken in a garden. 



81. Mimela passer inii. 



Mimela passerinii, Hope,* Proc. Linn. Soc. i, 1842, p. 128. 

 Mimela limbata, Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 508. 

 Mimela pomacea, Bates, The Entomologist, xxiii, 1 890, p. 245. 



Deep grass-green above, with the clypeus, the sides of the pro- 

 notum and the sides and apices of the elytra vaguely paler, the 

 lower surface reddish coppery, the femora orange, the tibiae dark 

 red and the tarsi nearly black. 



