. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 124 ETTTBLIN^. 109. Mimela inscripta. A^ioniala inscripta, Nonfr., Berl. Ent. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, p. 236. Mimela crocea. Oliaus,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1902, p. 55. Mimela , Uhaus,* 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
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 124 ETTTBLIN^. 109. Mimela inscripta. A^ioniala inscripta, Nonfr., Berl. Ent. Zeits. xxxvi, 1892, p. 236. Mimela crocea. Oliaus,* Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1902, p. 55. Mimela , Uhaus,* 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 Fig. 28.—Mimela ^^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 uuidentate, the upper tooth being represented only by a slight siuuation of the outer edge; the hind femur is extremely short and rounded, \\ ith the posterior edge distinctly emarginate. A specimen from Siam in the British Museum is entirely deep blood-red, except the sides of the pronotu
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