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bears scattered punctures and hairs. The rnesosternum is not 

 produced. The front tibia has a very slight lateral tooth, the 

 hind tibia is rather stout, and the two branches of the inner 

 front tarsal claw are very divergent. 



c? . The club of the antenna is long, the inner branch of the 

 inner front tarsal claw is much dilated, and the pygidiuin is 

 much less strongly sculptured than in the female. 



Length, 16-18 mm. ; breadth, 9-5-10 mm. 



NEPAL (HardwicTce type) ; SIKKIM : Ging Lebong, 4f>00 ft. 

 (F. M. Hewlett, June), Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson}, Kurseong, 

 5000 ft., Gropaldhara, Kungbong Valley (H. Stevens) ; BHUTAN ; 

 N. BENGAL : Siliguri (July) ; ASSAM : IS T aga Hills ( W. Doherty) ; 

 BURMA : Momeit (W. Doherty), Dawna Hills, 2000 ft. (Col. C. T. 

 Bingham, Oct.) ; TONKIN (R.' V. de Salvaza). 



Type in the Paris Museum ; that of M. splendens, Hope, in the 

 British Museum. 



1 have found three species mixed together under this name in 

 the Paris Museum, viz., the present species, M. splendens, Gyll., 

 and M. viridipes, and it is possible that Blanchard actually drew 

 up his description from all three; but as that description applies 

 best on the whole to this insect, it will not be disputed, I think, 

 that his name should be bestowed upon it. 



100. Mimela atkinsoni. 



Mimela atkinsoni, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i, 1908, p. 244. 



Very shining deep metallic olive-green above and below, except 

 the antennae, which are deep red. 



The form is oval, convex and rather globular, with the head 

 relatively rather large, the legs short, the hind legs very thick and 

 the femora strongly arched. The clypeus is 

 strongly and almost rugosely, the forehead 

 and prothorax rather finely and moderately 

 closely, punctured (but a little less closely 

 at the sides and base of the latter), the scu- 

 tellum very sparingly. The lateral margins 

 of the pronotum are gently rounded, the 

 front angles acute and the hind angles 

 rounded off. The elytra are minutely punc- 

 tured in nearly regular longitudinal lines, the 

 innermost of which are strongly impressed 

 Fig. 26. Mimela at the posterior margins. The pygidium is 

 atkinsoni. rather deeply but not closely punctured, the 



lower surface of the body almost smooth. 

 The prosternal process is large and the mesosternum not pro- 

 duced. The front tibia is bidentate. 



The upper tooth of the front tibia is minute and obtuse in the 

 male and rather stronger in the female. 



In the type specimen the outer margins of the elytra have a 

 rosy tint, which I have not seen in others. 



