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The body is elongate-oval, moderately shining, with the breast 

 rather densely and the abdomen and pygidium thinly clothed 

 with long yellowish-grey hair. The eyes are large and prominent, 

 the clypeus transversely rectangular with the angles only slightly 

 rounded, and the forehead and vertex strongly and irregularly, but 

 not coarsely, punctured. The pronotum is rather short, strongly 

 and moderately closely and evenly punctured, with the sides gently 

 rounded, the front angles acute, the hind angles well-marked and 

 not very obtuse, and the base strongly trisinuate. The scutellum 

 is minutely, and the elytra strongly and closely punctured, many of 

 the punctures forming impressed longitudinal lines. The pygidium 

 is metallic green and finely and densely granulated. The meta- 

 sternum is smooth and shining in the middle and finely and 

 densely punctured at the sides. The mesosternal process is mode- 

 rately long, very narrow and acute. The abdomen is irregularly 

 punctured. The front tibia is bidentate. 



cf . The club of the antenna is very long (as long as the foot- 

 stalk), and the teeth of the front tibia are acute, the upper one 

 being minute. 



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

 blunt. 



Length, 13-23 mm. ; breadth, 9-12 mm. 



SIKKIM : Darjiling ( Verschraeghen), Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson}, 

 Jellapahar, 7500 ft., Lacheu Valley, 7000 ft. ; KASHMIE : Cauip- 

 bellpur ; TIBET ; W. CHINA. 



Type in the Oxford University Museum ; that of M. limbata in 

 the Halle Museum and of M. pomacea in M. Rene Oberthur's 

 collection. 



82. Mimela vernicata. 



Spilota vernicata, Fairmaire,* Notes Leyd. Mus. 1896, p. 88. 

 Mimela biplagiata, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1908, p. 642 (n. syu.). 



Testaceous beneath, including the legs, and pea-green above, the 

 middle of the head, that of the pronotum, except a large rounded 

 patch on each side, and the extreme outer margins of the elytra 

 being vaguely paler. The pygidium is brilliant metallic green, and 

 the tibia? and tarsi are coppery green. 



The body is shortly oblong and moderately convex. The clypeus 

 is short, nearly straight in front and densely punctured, the eyes 

 are large and prominent, and the forehead and vertex are strongly 

 but sparingly punctured. The pronotum is finely and rather 

 sparingly punctured, well rounded at the sides, with the front and 

 hind angles nearly right angles, but the latter slightly more obtuse. 

 The scutellum is very feebly, and the elytra are closely and rather 

 rugosely punctured, except near the base, where they are rather 

 smooth ; there are irregular longitudinal striae, which become deep 

 at the apices. The pygidium is densely granulated and very thinly 

 hairy, the metasternurn rather thickly clothed with yellow hair, 

 and the abdomen almost smooth. The mesosternal process is 



