M1MELA. Ill 



Tytler)- PUNJAB: Kulu, Palarapur (G. C. Dudgeon), Simla; NEPAL: 

 Khatmandu ; SIKKIM : Kurseong (Verschraeghen}, Go \vchar. 



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

 the Vienna Museum. 



89. Mimelaleei. 



Scarabceus leei, Swed., Nov. Acta Holm, viii, 1787, p. 180. 

 Melolontha leei, Oliv., Entom. i, 5, 1789, p. 30, pi. 8, fig. 87. 

 Melolontha fastuosa, Fabr., Ent. Syst. i, 2, 1792, p. 168; id., Syst. 



Eleut. ii, 1801, p. 173. 

 Mimela leei, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i, 1836, p. 115; Burm., 



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



1899, p. 273. 

 Mimela leei, var. sapphirina, Parry. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, 1845, 



p. 85. 



Brilliant metallic green, sometimes passing into deep blue (var. 

 sapphirina) above and beneath, decorated with fiery-red patches, 

 consisting of the clypeus and forehead, the pronotum, except the 

 circumference and a longitudinal median line, two longitudinal 

 stripes extending from base to apex of each elytron and uniting 

 behind, and two patches (sometimes united) upon the pygidium. 



The body is rather broadly ovate, very shining, with a scanty 

 yellowish pubescence at the sides beneath. The clypeus is rather 

 narrow, subquadrate and, with the forehead, strongly and not very 

 closely punctured. The pronotum is strongly and unevenly punc- 

 tured, smooth along the median line, and coarsely and cdnfluently 

 punctured at the sides ; the front angles are very sharp and the 

 hind angles rounded. The scutellum is moderately short and 

 bears a few distinct punctures. The elytra are very strongly and 

 rather evenly punctured, each with a sutural line, a double dorsal 

 line, and several incomplete outer lines of punctures. The pygi- 

 dium is strongly and irregularly punctured, the metasternum is 

 finely punctured in the middle and strongly and closely at the 

 sides, and the abdomen is strongly punctured, but scantily in the 

 middle. The mesosternal process is very short and not sharp, 

 and the front tibiae are strongly and acutely bidentate. 



d . The club of the antenna is very long. 



Length 15-21 mm.; breadth, 9-5-13 mm. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills. 



90. Mimela fulgidi vittata. 



Mimela fulgidivittata, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent, Mus. Paris, 1851 

 (1850), p. 197 ; Arrow, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1899, p. 273. 



Deep metallic green above and beneath, with the antennae 

 ferrugineous, and with fiery-red markings as in M. horsfieldi, but 

 generally absent from the hind femora. 



The body is ovate, finely sculptured above, very shining, with a 

 scanty yellowish pubescence at the sides of the metasternum. 

 The clypeus is rugose, rather convex, rounded and not ver\ wide, 



