MIMELA. 115 



95. Mimela terminalis, sp. nov. 



Deep green, with a metallic lustre, which is almost absent from 

 the elytra, except at the margins, and with the clypeus, sides of the 

 prothorax, extremity of the pygidium and the abdomen golden 

 yellow, and the legs reddish yellow with the external edge of the 

 tibiae green. 



It is rather short and broad, with the widest part towards the 

 extremity of the elytra. The clypeus is broad, nearly straight in 

 front and closely rugose, and the forehead and vertex are very 

 strongly and densely punctured. The pronotum is strongly and 

 closely punctured, rather rugosely at the sides, with an imperfect 

 smooth median line. The front angles are acutely produced, 

 the hind angles blunt, and the base strongly trisinuate. The 

 scutellum is finely punctured. The elytra are closely and very 

 coarsely punctured, except in the anterior sutural part, where the 

 punctures are much finer. The pygidium is very densely and 

 rugosely punctured, especially at the sides, where it is broadly 

 impressed. The mesosternum is produced into a short sharp 

 process, and the metasternum is smooth in the middle and 

 densely punctured and thinly clothed with tawny hair at the 

 sides. The front tibia is bidentate, the upper tooth rather 

 feeble. 



(J . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is short and sharp 

 and the inner front claw dilated. 



$ . The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long and blunt. 



Length, 22 mm. ; breadth, 12 mm. 



BUKMA : Karen Hills, 2900-3500 ft. (L. Fea, Dec.). 



Ti/pe in the Genoa Museum ; co-type in the British Museum. 



This resembles M. chrysoprasa, Hope, but differs from it in 

 the scarcely metallic elytra, with their feebler discoidal punc- 

 turation, the pale clypeus, sides of the thorax and extremity of 

 the pygidium, and the broad depressed form of the latter. 



96. Mimela princeps. 



Mimela princeps, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, 1842, p. 65 ; 



Burra., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 542. 

 Mimela pachyyastra, Burm.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 507 



(n. syn.). 



Deep shining golden green, with the lower surface, femora 

 and tibiae yellow; the extremities of the tibiae, the tarsi and 

 sometimes the abdomen brown. There is an inconspicuous 

 narrow yellow stripe at each lateral margin of the pronotum 

 and a similar marginal stripe at the apex of the pygidium. 



The body is shortly ovate, with the greatest width close to 

 the posterior end. The head is large, strongly and closely 

 punctured, with the clypeus rather small and rugose. The pro- 

 notum is closely punctured, continently at the sides, with an 

 incomplete smooth median line; the front angles are sharply 

 produced and the hind angles rounded. The elytra are strongly, 



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