. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 118 uvTtLmM. bears scattered punctures and hairs. The mesosternum is not produced. The front tibia lias a very slight lateral tooth, the hind tibia is rather stout, and the two branches of the inner front tarsal claw are very divergent. (S. The club of the antenna is long, the inner branch of the inner front tarsal claw is much dilated, and the pygidiutn is much less strongly sculptured than in the female. Length, 16-18 mm. ; breadth, 9'5-10 mm. Nepal {Uardiviclce—type); Sikkim : Ging Lebong, 4500 ft. {F. M. Hoivlett, June), Mungphu {E. T. Atkinson),
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 118 uvTtLmM. bears scattered punctures and hairs. The mesosternum is not produced. The front tibia lias a very slight lateral tooth, the hind tibia is rather stout, and the two branches of the inner front tarsal claw are very divergent. (S. The club of the antenna is long, the inner branch of the inner front tarsal claw is much dilated, and the pygidiutn is much less strongly sculptured than in the female. Length, 16-18 mm. ; breadth, 9'5-10 mm. Nepal {Uardiviclce—type); Sikkim : Ging Lebong, 4500 ft. {F. M. Hoivlett, June), Mungphu {E. T. Atkinson), Kurseong, 5000 ft., Gopaldhara, liungbong Valley {H. Stevens); Bhutan ; N. Bengal: Siliguri (July); Assam: ]Naga Hills (W. Doherty); Burma : Momeit (W. Doherty), Dawna Hills, 2000 ft. (Col. &. T. Bingham, Oct.) ; ToNKiN {R. V. de Salwtza). Tijin in the Paris Museum; that of M. splendens, Hope, in the British Museuui. 1 have found three species mixed together under this name in the Paris Museum, viz., the present species, M. splendens, Gyll., and M. viridipes, and it is possible that Blanchard actually drew up his description from all three; but as that description applies best on the whole to this insect, it will not be disputed, I think, that his name should be bestowed upon it. 100. Mimela atkinsoni. Mimela atkinsoni, A rrow, Ann. Mag. Niit. Hist. (8) i, ] 908, p. 244. Very shining deep metallic olive-green above and below, except the antennae, which are deep red. The form is oval, convex and rather globular, with the head relatively rather large, the legs short, the hind legs very thick and the femora strongly arched. The clypeus is strongly and almost rugosely, the forehead and prothorax rather finely and moderately closely, punctui'ed (but a little less closely at the sides and base of the latter), the scu- tellum very sparingly. The lateral margins of the pronotum are gently rounded, tlie front angles acute and the hind angles rounded off. The elytra are minutely pu
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