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addition, the eyes are larger, the head much more strongly sculp- 

 tured, the pronotum has a deep median groove, and its sides are 

 more convex and not strongly punctured. 



92. Mimela vittaticollis. 



Mimela vittaticollis, Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 506. 



Testaceous yellow above and beneath, including the legs, and 

 everywhere suffused with a slight metallic green lustre, which is 

 less apparent upon the lower surface, decorated with dark green 

 markings consisting of a patch on each side of the vertex of the 

 head, a broad stripe on each side of the pronotum not reaching 

 the lateral margins, an external border to each elytron from 

 shoulder to apex, narrow at the hind margin, and a rather vague 

 patch upon the region of the elytra adjoining the scutellum. 



The body is ovate, not highly convex, closely punctured, and 

 moderately shining above. The head is rather small, with the 

 clypeus rugose and the forehead irregularly punctured. The pro- 

 notutu is rather evenly punctured, there is a longitudinal groove 

 at the middle, and the sides are scarcely curved, obtusely angulated 

 at the middle and straight behind, with the posterior angles sharp. 

 The scutellum is punctured, and the elytra are strongly and 

 densely punctured, each having a punctured sutural stria and 

 three double lines of punctures rather far apart, the innermost 

 pair becoming deeply impressed at the extremity. The pygidium 

 is moderately and rather evenly punctured. The sides of the 

 metasternum are densely punctured and thinly clothed with yellow 

 pubescence, The abdomen is sparingly punctured. The meso- 

 sternum is pointed, but not at all produced. The legs are mode- 

 rately slender, the front tibiae bidentate. 



3 . The antennal club is nearly as long as the footstalk. 



Lenytli, 16-18 mm.; breadth, 9-11 mm. 



NEPAL (type) ; SIKKIM : Kurseong, 5000 ft. (N. Annandale, 

 May-July), JDarjiling (H. Fruhstorfer, Juue), Lebong (U. Maxwell 

 Lefroy), Soom, 4000-5000 ft. (F. H. Gravely, June); BHUTAN: 

 Maria Basti (L. Durel) ; ASSAM : Kliasi Hills. 



Type in M. Rene Oberthiir's collection. 



93. Mimela suosericea. 



Mimela subsericea, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i, 1908, p. 245. 



Bright metallic green, with the lower surface and legs golden 

 green, and the tarsi more or less fiery copper-coloured. 



The body is broadly oval, the legs short and stout, and the 

 whole upper surface is very strongly and densely punctured, but 

 moderately shining. The punctures are confluent on the clypeus 

 and at the sides of the head and pronotum. The clypeus is broad, 

 the eyes small and far apart. The lateral margins of the pro- 

 notum are evenly rounded, the front angles acute, the hind angles 



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