On some new Species of Miiuela. 241 



Tlie lateral fins were a good deal folded and the epidermis 

 had become detached from the bodj-wall, so that it was not 

 possible to ascertain the exact boundaries of the fins ; the rays 

 were very inconspicuous. 



XXXVI. — On some new Species of the Coleopterous Genus 

 Mimela. By Gilbert J. Arrow. 



The species of this brilliant genus of Rutelidaj, although 

 ranging as far as Japan and Java, appear to flourish to a 

 special and remarkable degree in the eastern part of the 

 Himalayan region, Burma, and Tonkin. Half the fifty 

 described species are inhabitants of that region, and eight 

 more are here described from the same part, all of them 

 contained in the British Museum collection. One from 

 Western and another from Eastern China have been added. 



Mimela loevigata, sp. n. 



Lsete viridi-metallica, nitida, supra paulo magis aureo-viridis, 

 elytrorum sutura angustissime violacea; capita irregulariter 

 punctate, prothoracis et elytrorum lateribus grosse punctatis, 

 supra fere la^vigatis, pygidio fere Isevi, punctis nonnullis margin- 

 alibus, corpora subtus glabro, metasterni lateribus solum crebre 

 punctatis ; mesosteruo sat longa producto, baud acuto, tibiis 

 anticis extus sinuatis, baud dentatis. 



Long. 21-22 mm. ; lat. max, 12 mm. 



Ilab. Sikkim {Sir J. D. Hooker) ; Mungphu (E. Atkin- 

 son). 



Entirely bright metallic green, with the upper surface 

 rather more golden green and the extreme edge of the elytral 

 suture violet. It is a large species, of elongate oval form 

 and almost devoid of hairy clothing. The head is irregularly 

 punctured, the clypeus rngosely. The pronotum is scarcely 

 visibly punctured on its disk, but strongly and confluently at 

 the sides. 'J'he scutellum is short and smooth. Tiie elytra 

 are almost without punctures on the inner half, but very 

 strongly and irregularly punctured on the outer half, and the 

 pygidium is very smooth, only exhibiting a few punctures 

 near its circumference. The prosternal process is broad and 

 triangular at the summit, and the niesosternal process is 

 moderately long but rather blunt. The front tibia? are 

 without a lateral tooth in either sex. 



Our collection contains one specimen of each sex. 

 Ann. dc Mag. N. hist. Ser. 8. Vol. i. 16 



