114 BUTELIN^E. 



very obtuse, and there is a very narrow incomplete smooth line in 

 the middle of the disk. There is a straight line of punctures on 

 each side of the elytra! suture, leaving a quite smooth inner 

 margin to each elytron, and slight traces of three or four other 

 smooth longitudinal lines upon each. The pygidium is strongly 

 but less densely punctured. The prosternal process is rather 

 broad, the mesosternal process pointed but not produced, and the 

 front tibia has a very long blunt terminal tooth and a slight 

 upper tooth. 



Length, 14-15 mm. ; breadth, 8-9 mm. 



ASSAM: Naga Hills (W. Doherty); BUBMA: Ruby Mines (W. 

 Voherty), Mandalay (E. T. Atkinson). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 



This species is nearly allied to the succeeding one (M. soror), 

 but smaller and more densely punctured, except upon the pygidium, 

 which is smoother and more shining. The mesosternum is not 

 distinctly produced as in that species, and the hind angles of 

 the pronotum are much more rounded. 



94. Mimela soror. 



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



This species is metallic green above and the antennae, legs and 

 lower surface are ferrugineous and more or less suffused with 

 green. A small pale patch is vaguely traceable on each side 

 of the pygidium in certain lights. 



The form is oval and convex. The clypeus is broadly rounded 

 and coarsely rugose, the eyes small and the forehead strongly punc- 

 tured; the pronotum is closely and coarsely punctured, and densely 

 and rugosely at the sides, with the lateral margins strongly 

 rounded, the front angles acute and the hind angles obtuse. 

 The scutellurn is very minutely, and the elytra strongly, densely 

 and irregularly punctured, leaving only a narrow smooth sutural 

 strip and slight vestiges of two or three others upon each. 

 The pygidium is strongly and thickly punctured, the punctures 

 becoming confluent at the sides, and the lower surface of the 

 body is smooth in the middle and rugose and hairy at the sides. 

 The mesosternal process is sharp but very short, and the front 

 tibia (of the female) has a long blunt terminal tooth and a rather 

 feeble upper one. 



The male is not known. 



Length, 19-20 mm. ; breadth, 10-5-11-5 mm. 



ASSAM : Manipur ( IF. Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



It is closely allied to M. chrysoprasa, Hope, of Borneo and 

 the Malay Peninsula, but rather smaller, with the pronotum a 

 little less strongly punctured, the scutellum more minutely, the 

 pygidium punctured instead of finely granulated, and the femora 

 and tibiae of a darker shade. 



