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Species VII.— Rhomborhina microcephala, Westw. (Plate 30, fig. 3.) Rh. brunneo- 
olivacea nitidissima, capitc parvo, clypeo suboiiaJrato, tibiis anticis $ angustis mcdiocriter 
bidentatis; pedibus cyaneo-nigris, nigro-setosis $. Long. corp. lin. 13—14. Habitat 
in Montibus Himalayan^, D. Meares. In Mus. D. Parry. 
Obs. —This very robust species has a remarkably small head, and the fore tibise in the 
female are also very narrow, and but slightly bidentatc. The upper side of the body is of a 
dark olivaceous brown colour inclining to a deep copper in certain lights ; the scutellum and 
suture of the elytra being concolorous, but their shoulders are marked with a dark patch : the 
underside is of a dark mneous colour tinged with blue; the abdomen being blacker. The 
mesosternal process is narrow and not dilated in front, with the apex rounded (fig. 3 a and 
3 b). The hairs of the hind feet and abdomen are short and black. 
Species VIII.— Rhomborhina hyacinihina, (plate 30, fie. 1.) Hope, in Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. vol. iii. p. 62 *. 
This very distinct species was received by Mr. Hope from Assam; 
Captain Parry has since received it from Sylhet; specimens are 
also contained in the fine collection recently received by the Ento¬ 
mological Society from Miss Sealy, forwarded by Mr. McClelland. 
The latter specimens are entirely jet black, except the feet, but Mr. 
Parry’s have the front and hind parts of the body slightly tinged 
with green and blue above, and more particularly beneath. They 
do not, however, appear to me to be specifically distinct. The hairs 
on the hind tibiae and abdomen are short and black. The meso¬ 
sternal process (fig. 1 a 9 1 Z>,) is large and transverse, the sides 
being rather more angulated in the middle than in fig. 1 a . The 
female has the fore legs broad and acutely bidentatc, and the hind 
tibiae acutely spurred beyond the middle, the spurs being, however, 
small; in the male, (as in the rest of the genus in this sex,) they 
are almost obliterated. The abdomen of the male is not longitudi¬ 
nally impressed beneath. 
Species IX.— Rhomborhina clypeata , Dupont’s MSS. (Plate 33, fig. 3.) Rh. viridis 
punctulatus, thoracis latcribus elytrorumque 'disco postice magis auratis, clypeo magno, 
antice subtruncato, mesosterno fere circulari basi truncato, pedibus posticis fulvo-setosis. 
Long. corp. lin. 12J. Habitat in Japonia. Mus. Dupont et Buquet, Parisiis. 
This is the smallest species of the genus, and is distinguished by 
its comparatively large quadrate clypeus with the front angles 
rounded off, and its short elytra; the disc of the head and sides of 
the pronotum are very finely granuloso-punctate ; the fore tibiae in 
the females (I have not seen the male) are broad and strongly 
bidentate; the mesosternal process is porrected and almost 
rounded, but scarcely broader than the porrected front of the 
metasternum on which it is placed, with its base truncated. The 
tips of the tibiae and the tarsi are black; the under side of the 
thoracic region is more golden than above. M. Buquet’s speci¬ 
men is labelled Japonica, from which species, however, it is abun¬ 
dantly distinct. 
* Mr. Hope’s memoir having been read in 1839, his name is retained in preference to the 
manuscript one of azuripes, Burm., which I find attached to Mr. Hope’s typical specimen. 
