104 HELOTA THIBETANA. 



immaculata Rits. 4 cT and 8 9 , Karen M^s (Fea). — Genoa 



and Leyd. Mus. 

 difficilis Rits. 2 ^, Karen Mts (Fea). — Genoa and Leyd. Mus. 

 fulvitarsis Rits. 1 (ƒ , Ruby Mines (Doherty). — Coll. Fry. 



Finally I may conclude with an ample description of 



Helot a thibetana Westw. 9» 



Helota thibetana Westwood , Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 

 1842, p. 123'). — Ritsema, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1876, p. 19. — 

 Oiliff, Cist. Ent. Vol. Ill, pp. 54 and 56 (1883). — Ritsema, Notes 

 Leyd. Mus. Vol. XI, 1889, p. 110; vol. XIII, 1891, p. 226. 



Helota Mellii Westwood, Cabin, of Orient. Entom. p. 86; pi. 41, 

 fig. 8, 9 (1848). — Ritsema, Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XI, 1889, 

 p. 110. 



Length Q'A mm. — The upper surface rugose, more 

 distinctly on the outer half of the elytra than along the 

 middle, coppery bronze, the elytra indistinctly bordered 

 with green at the sides , and provided , besides with four 

 small convex flavous round spots, with rows of glossy 

 black tubercles of different size and shape; the mandibles 

 greenish bronze ; the antennae fulvous , their basal joint 

 and the 1st joint of the club palest, the two apical joints 

 of the club infuscate; the extreme tip of the anterior an- 

 gles of the pronotum fulvous. — The under surface is pale 

 fulvous; the head (except the throat), the sides of the 

 sterna (except the tip of the anterior angles of the proster- 

 num) and the elytral epipleurae , bronze green ; the space 

 between the anterior coxae shows a metallic green tinge, 

 which is also the case with the pitchy brown coxae of 

 the three pairs of legs ; the trochanters are brown , the 

 femora pale fulvous with the apex dark pitchy and with 

 a bronze green hue on the knees , the tibiae alternately 

 pitchy brown and pale fulvous which colours are , how- 

 ever , not sharply defined ; the tarsi dark brown with the 



1) Published in October 1841. 



Notes from tlae J-ieyden Museum, Vol. XVI. 



