110 



is moderately punctured, the elytra densely and uniformly, with a 

 smooth juxta-sutural line and an almost obliterated dorsal one ; 

 the outer edges are nearly straight and diverge slightly for almost 

 their whole length, so that their greatest breadth is very little 

 before the extremity ; they are long and slope rather gradually 

 at the hinder part. The pygidium is short and broad, finely 

 granulated and thinly clothed with short golden hairs. The meso- 

 sternal process is small but acutely produced. The front tibiae 

 are distinctly bidentate and the antennae slender, 



Length, 23 mm. ; breadth, 14 mm. 



ASSAM: Naga Hills, Khasi Hills, Shillong (E. A. D'Abreu, 

 August). 



Type in the British Museum, 



The gradual slope of the elytra in this species at the sides and 

 posterior end, and their breadth at the extremity, produce a quite 

 peculiar appearance. There is an approximation to the curious 

 form of M. sericea, Ohaus, but M. pyriformis is larger, more 

 convex and much less opaque. 



88. Mimela horsfieldi. 



Mimela horsfieldi, Hope,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i, 1836, p. 114; 



Burin., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 290; Arrow, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1899, p. 273. 

 Mimela vittata, Red!.,* Hugel's Kascbmir, iv, 2, 1848, p. 525, 



pi. 25, fig. 1 



Deep metallic green above and beneath, including the legs, with 

 fiery-red markings upon the clypeus and on each side of the middle 

 of the pronotum, and an oblique median longitudinal stripe upon 

 each elytron, uniting at the apex with a lateral stripe, the middle of 

 the pygidium, and a patch upon the lower face of the hind femur 

 also fiery red. 



The body is elongate-oval, very smooth and shining, with fine 

 inconspicuous greyish pubescence at the sides of themetasternum. 

 The clypeus is broad, a little elevated in the middle and rather 

 feebly rugose. The forehead is coarsely punctured. The pro- 

 notum is strongly punctured in front, very feebly behind, and 

 rugose at the sides. The front angles are produced and acute, 

 and the hind angles rounded. The scutellum is broad and slightly 

 rugose. There are distinct rows of punctures upon the outer half 

 of the elytra, but these become obsolete upon the inner part, and 

 the apices bear impressed longitudinal lines, but are otherwise 

 almost smooth. The pygidium bears only fine scattered punctures. 

 The middle of the body beneath is very smooth and shining, and 

 the sides are rugosely punctured. The mesosternum forms a short 

 acute process, and the front tibia has a long curved terminal tooth 

 with a vestige of an upper one in the female, obsolete in the male. 



Length, 13-5-18 mm.; breadth, 8-10-5 mm. 



ASSAM: Jaintia Hills, Sibsagar(<S. E. Peal)- UNITED PBOYINCEB: 

 Eanikhet (tf. 0, Champion), Kusanie, 6000 ft., Kumaon (H. C. 



