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109. Mimela inscripta. 



Anomala inscripta, Nonfr., Berl. Ent. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, p. 236. 

 Mimela crocea, Ohaus,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1902, p. 55. 

 Mimela coxalis, Ohaus,* 1. c. p. 54. 



Straw-coloured, with a slight pinkish flush (sometimes becoming 

 slightly metallic), the clypeus and tarsi fiery crimson. There is a 

 round spot on each side of the forehead of a reddish mahogany 

 colour and an M -shaped mark (sometimes interrupted in the 

 middle) upon the pronotum. The larger part of the lower surface 

 of the body, a large patch upon each of the middle and hind 

 femora, and the hind tibiae are crimson or mahogany-red. In 

 some cases streaks of this colour appear also upon the elytra, 

 or they may be entirely suffused with it. 



The body is oval, very convex, and very smooth and shining. 

 The clypeus is straight in front, subquadrate, not broad, rather 

 closely punctured ; the forehead finely and irregularly punctured. 

 The pronotum is lightly punctured in the 

 middle and very smooth at the sides, all 

 the angles being distinct but not sharp. 

 The scutellum is nearly equal-sided and 

 scarcely punctured. The elytra are very 

 lightly and scantily punctured, some of 

 the discoidal punctures forming longi- 

 tudinal rows, which become deeply im- 

 pressed behind. The pygidium is pointed 

 and a little inflexed at the apex beneath 



p- 28 Mimela an d bears fine scattered punctures. The 



inscripta. metasternum is smooth in the middle 



and closely punctured at the sides, where 



there is a very thin pubescence. The abdomen bears a few 

 punctures. The mesosternum is rather sharply pointed and 

 minutely produced. The legs are short and stout, and the front 

 tibia unidentate, the upper tooth being represented only by a 

 slight sinuation of the outer edge; the hind femur is extremely 

 short and rounded, with the posterior edge distinctly emarginate. 

 A specimen from Siam in the British Museum is entirely deep 

 blood-red, except the sides of the pronotum, the middle of the 

 scutellum and a patch on each hind femur, which are cream- 

 coloured, the pale sides of the pronotum each bearing a small 

 red spot. 



<5 . Rather shorter in form than the female, and with the club 

 of the antenna rather long. 



Length, 12-21 mm. ; breadth, 7-11 mm. 



BENGAL : Ranch! ( W. H. Irvine), Barway (Pere Cardon 

 Berlin Ent. Mus.), Chota Nagpur, Nowatoli (Pere Cardon, 

 Aug. & Sept. Paris Museum) ; BUBMA : Tavoy ; SIAM ; TONKIN : 

 Pak-Lay (R. V. de Salvaza) ; PEBAK. 



Types of M. inscripta, crocea and coxalis in Dr. Ohaus' col- 

 lection. 



