100 IIELOTA VERRUCOSA. 



The elytra slightly narrowing towards the apices which 

 are nearly conjointly rounded, narrowly dehiscent at the 

 suture and provided with a very minute sutural tooth; 

 the lateral margins are strongly serrate from the base to 

 the apex. The elytra are very densely covered with punc- 

 tures equal in size to those on the head and pronotum , 

 and the sculptured sutural interstice is separated from the 

 disk by a fine impressed line; they are provided, besides 

 with the four convex flavous spots, with rather irregularly 

 placed glossy tubercles of different size and shape, of 

 which those on the inner half are larger than those on 

 the outer half. 



The under surface of the head (except the throat) is 

 covered with deep punctures; on the sides of the proster- 

 num the punctures are larger, wider apart and evanes- 

 cent towards the front angles, the intercoxal part has 

 raised lateral margins and an obsolete punctuation ; the 

 metallic coloured lateral portions of the metasternum are 

 deeply punctured, the sparsely punctured flavous portion 

 shows on both sides of the median line an elongate ovate 

 somewhat oblique impression which is covered with an 

 erect fulvous pubescence. The abdomen is very finely 

 punctured, somewhat more strongly so at the sides; the 

 basal ventral segment is about as long as the three follow- 

 ing segments taken together, and provided on the middle 

 with a large but shallow finely punctate impression , 

 which is as broad as the distance between the posterior 

 coxae and extends from the base down to two thirds of 

 the length of the segment; this impression shows at its 

 base a swollen transverse streak which is divided by a 

 short longitudinal groove , whereas the posterior margin 

 of the impression is angularly raised in the middle; the 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments are equal in length. to each 

 other; the 5th or last is as long as the two preceding 

 segments, broadly rounded posteriorly and provided with 

 a large but shallow impression which is distinctly punc- 

 tured and thinly pubescent and occupies the whole length 



Notes from the Leyden !M!useum Vol. XVI. 



