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closely and rather irregularly punctured, with four or five 

 imperfect double longitudinal series of punctures. The pygidium 

 is strongly but not closely punctured, the metasternum densely 

 punctured and very finely pubescent, and the abdomen punc- 

 tured at the sides. The mesosternal process is very short and 

 triangular and the front tibia is sharply bidentate. 



$ . The extremity of the front tibia is long and spatulate. 



Length, 25 mm. ; breadth, 15 mm. 



N. BENGAL : Siliguri (July Indian Mus.) ; SIKKIM : Kur- 

 seong, 5000 ft. ( Verschraeghen, Frulistorfer), Gropaldhara, Rung- 

 bong Valley (H. Stevens) ; BHUTAN (Capt. Pemberton); ASSAM: 

 Khasi Hills (Berlin Entom. Museum), Cachar (J. Wood-Mason) ; 

 TONKIN (R. V. de Salvaza). 



Type (Solly Coll.) unknown. 



97. Mimela laevigata. 



Mimela Itevigata, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i, 1908, p. 242. 



Entirely bright metallic green, with the upper surface rather more 

 golden green and the extreme edge of the elytral suture violet. 



It is of elongate-oval form, smooth and shining, and almost 

 devoid of hairy clothing. The eyes are small and far apart, 

 the vertex of the head is finely and sparingly punctured, the 

 clypeus and forehead rather rugosely. The pronotum is scarcely 

 visibly punctured on its disk, but strongly and confluently at the 

 sides, which are gently rounded, the front angles acute, the hind 

 angles obtuse, and the base distinctly lobed in the middle. The 

 scutellum is short and smooth. The elytra are almost without 

 punctures on the inner half, but very strongly and irregularly 

 punctured on the outer half. The pygidium is very smooth, 

 only exhibiting a few punctures near its circumference. The 

 prosternal process is broad and triangular at the summit, and 

 the mesosternal process is moderately long but rather blunt. 

 The metasternum is smooth in the middle, coarsely and con- 

 fluently punctured at the sides. The front tibi are without a 

 lateral tooth in either sex. 



c? . The club of the antenna is rather long. 



Length, 21-22 mm. ; breadth, 12 mm. 



BENGAL: Raniganj (A. Martin); SIKCIM : Mungphu (E. T. 

 Atkinson); ASSAM: Kurseong ( Verschraeglicn), Tejpur (Desenne 

 Pusa Coll.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



98. Mimela viridipes, sp. nov. 



Deep metallic green above, including the tibiae and tarsi, with 

 the lower surface and femora reddish, suffused with a metallic 

 green lustre. 



It is shortly oval in shape, very convex, smooth and shining, 

 with a very thin clothing of short yellowish hair at the sides 

 of the body beneath. The head is large, with the eyes small 



