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smooth, slightly depressed in the middle and closely punctured 

 at the sides ; the abdomen is smooth in the middle and rugosely 

 punctured.at the sides. The mesosternal process is strong, straight 

 and sharply pointed. The front tibia is straight, sharply pointed 

 At, the end and without trace of a lateral tooth, the hind tibia 

 is moderately long and stout, and the longer claw is cleft upon 

 the front and middle feet. 



I have not seen a male. 



Length, 27-33 mm. ; breadth, 15-18 mm. 



BUEMA : Mulmein (E. T. Atkinson) ; SIAM : Laos. 



Types of Nonf ried in Dr. JF. Ohaus' collection ; that of H. paviei 

 in the Paris Museum. 



This appears to be a very variable insect both in size and colour. 

 The few female specimens, which are all I have yet seen, differ 



freatly in size, but none of them reaches the size given by Non- 

 ried (40 to 42 mm.). They are green or golden green, one of 

 them having a tinge of red in certain lights. But it is probable 

 that the rosy and purplish specimens called " Mimela " pyropus 

 by Nonfried also belong to the same species, and judging by the 

 figure quoted above, this is probably also the form associated bv 

 Eairmaire with Australian and American genera under the name 

 of Hoplolonttia paviei. Both descriptions, however, are entirely 

 unreliable. 



259. Anomala auronitens. 



Mimela auronitens, Hope,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i, 1835, p. 114. 

 Anomala (Spilota) auronitens, Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 2. 1855, 



p. 504. 

 Callistethus constdaris, Blanch.,* Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1851 



(1850), p. 198. 



Very smooth and shining, deep metallic green above and nearly 

 black beneath, with the head golden-green, and an undefined 

 patch on each side of the pronotum, one at the shoulder of the 

 elytron, and usually another behind the latter, golden red. 



The body is long and narrow, with the sides of the elytra almost 

 parallel. The head, pronotum and scutellum are almost devoid of 

 punctures, the clypeus transversely rectangular, with the angles 

 rounded, and the clypeal suture deep and straight. The prothorax 

 is short, gently rounded at the sides, with the lateral pit almost 

 obliterated and the lateral groove very short and shallow beyond 

 the front and hind angles. The elytra are very feebly punctured, 

 some of the punctures forming longitudinal lines. The pygidium 

 has a few scattered punctures on each side of the middle line, 

 bearing long grey hairs. The metasternum is smooth in the 

 middle, densely and finely punctured and clothed with short silky 

 hairs at the sides ; the abdomen is almost smooth, but bears tufts of 

 hair at the sides and apex. The mesosternal process is slender and 

 strongly curved. The front tibia bears a minute lateral tooth. 



<3 . The club of the antenna is moderately long, the apical 

 tooth of the front tibia very sharp, and the abdomen narrowly 



