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BHUTAN; SIKKIM: Mungphu (E. T. Atkinson), Darjiling (Ver- 

 schraeghen), Birch Hill, 6000-7000 ft. (June), Paskok, 2800 ft. 

 (Sept.), Kurseong, 5000 ft. (Indian Mas.), Gangtok, 6150 ft. 

 (Sept. Indian Mas.), Shamdang, 3000 ft. (Sept. Indian Mus.) : 

 MADRAS : Mercara, Coorg (Pusa Coll.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



106. Mimela nmndissima. 



Mimela mundissima, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iv, 1859, 

 p. 220. 



Testaceous beneath, including the femora, and grass-green 

 above, sometimes with a very faint pinkish flush, and margined 

 with a sharply-defined narrow yellow band completely sur- 

 rounding the dorsal surface, the clypeus and sometimes the 

 pygidium being yellow, with a greenish suffusion, and the tibiae 

 and tarsi coppery red. 



The body is broadly ovate, with its greatest width near the 

 hinder extremity, not very convex, and very smooth and shining 

 above. The head is finely punctured, the clypeus short, broadly 

 rounded and rather rugosely punctured, the pronotutn finely, 

 evenly, but more thinly at the sides. The scutellum is very short 

 and blunt, and punctured in the middle. The elytra are irre- 

 gularly and a little more coarsely punctured, with slight traces of 

 longitudinal lines. The pygidium is moderately strongly and 

 closely punctured. The metasternum is closely punctured at the 

 sides and clothed with pale yellow pubescence. The abdomen 

 is sparsely punctured. The mesosternum is not produced. The 

 front tibia is bidentate. 



d 1 . The upper tooth of the front tibia is indistinct. 



Length, 13-19 mm. : breadth, 8-5-11 mm. 



CEYLON : Maskeliya (E. E. Green, March- April), Dikoya, 3800- 

 4200 ft. (G. Lewis, l)ec.-Feb.), Uda Point (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, 

 Sept.), Kelani Valley, ur. Colombo (W. Braine), Kaudy. 



Type unknown. 



The types of this and seven other Coleoptera described at the 

 same time by Walker in an Appendix to his paper do not seem 

 to have been in the British Museum, and cannot be traced ; but, 

 unlike the other species, there appears to be no reasonable doubt 

 as to the identity of Mimela mundissima. 



107. Mimela xanthorrhina. 



Mimela xanthorrhina, Hope,* Coleopterist's Manual, i, 1837, 

 p. 120 ; Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 641. 



Lower surface, legs and antennae testaceous, with a very faint 

 metallic green lustre, upper surface light grass-green, with 

 reddish-yellow reflections, the clypeus paler, the sides of the 

 pronotum and elytra narrowly and not very sharply bordered 

 with yellow, and the end of the pygidium indefinitely yellow. 



