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and not prominent, as seen from above. The clypeus is short, 

 broadly rounded and rugosely punctured, and the forehead bears 

 fine irregularly scattered punctures. The pronotum is thinly 

 and minutely punctured, with the sides gently rounded, the 

 front angles acutely produced, the hind angles very obtuse, and 

 the base gently rounded. The scutellurn is grooved on each 

 side near the edge and bears a few scattered minute punctures. 

 The elytra have a juxta-sutural and two pairs of dorsal lines 

 of rather strong punctures, the three innermost lines very 

 deeply impressed at the posterior end, and the intervening 

 spaces are wide and irregularly punctured. The pygidium is 

 finely and sparingly punctured. The mesosternum is not pro- 

 duced. The metasternum is smooth in the middle and rugosely 

 punctured at the sides. The legs are moderately long, the front 

 tibia bidentate, the hind tibia inflated before the middle and not 

 much dilated at the extremity. 



I know only the male. 



Length, 15'5 mm. ; breadth, 9*5 mm. 



ASSAM : Sylhet. 



Type in the British Museum. 



The only other specimen I have seen is in the Paris Museum, 

 where it appears to have been confused by Blanchard with 

 M. heterochropus, when drawing up the description of that species. 



99. Mimela heterochropus. 



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



(1850), p. 196. 



Mimela hopei, Burin., Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 507. 

 Mimela splendens, Hope* (nee Gyll.), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i, 



1836, p. 114. 



Brilliant dark metallic green, with the femora and tibiae orange- 

 red and the tarsi nearly black. 



The body is shortly ovate, with the greatest width considerably 

 behind the middle, very smooth and shining, and with a soft erect 

 pubescence at the sides of the metasternum. The clypeus is 

 finely but rather rugosely punctured, moderately short and 

 broad, with the margin broadly rounded at the sides and almost 

 straight in front. The forehead is finely and irregularly punc- 

 tured, with the eyes small and wide apart, but moderately 

 prominent. The pronotum bears fine and rather scattered 

 punctures ; its front angles are acute, and the hind angles 

 distinct but not sharp. The scutellum is broad and feebly 

 punctured ; the disk of each elytron bears two or three paired 

 series of punctures, rather fine anteriorly, but becoming deeply 

 sulcate towards the extremities, " and there is an irregularly 

 punctured space on each side. The pygidium is lightly striolated 

 in the male and roughly punctured in the female. The meta- 

 sternum is smooth and broadly channelled in the middle and 

 densely punctured and pubescent at the sides. The abdomen 



