132 HELOTA BOUCHARDI. 



ous, along the middle a broad infuscate streak with a 

 bright metallic green lustre , the margins of the pronotum 

 pitchy; the scutellum dark green; the elytra steel-blue 

 with a metallic green hue along the suture and lateral 

 margins. — The undersurface is pale testaceous, with the 

 exception of the head which is metallic green in the 

 middle, black at the lateral portions (the throat however 

 is testaceous), and the lateral margins of the prosternura 

 and the elytral epipleurae which are pitchy ; the legs are 

 pale testaceous with the tip of the femora and the smaller 

 basal half of the tibiae metallic green ; the extreme tip of 

 the tibiae and the tarsi are pitchy. 



Head finely punctured, remotely in the middle, more 

 densely near the eyes and on the clypeus, especially on 

 the latter; the punctuation on the black lateral portions 

 of the undersurface is dense , on the metallic green middle 

 portion only a few very large punctures are present. 



Prothorax somewhat broader than long and somewhat 

 narrower in front than at the base , the sides slightly and 

 regularly curved, the anterior angles slightly prominent, 

 the front margin curved backwards , the base deeply bisi- 

 nuate, the lateral angles acute; the punctuation on the 

 pronotum is fine and remote on the middle , stronger and 

 denser on the testaceous lateral portions; the lateral mar- 

 gins are flattened, their edgings turned upwards and in- 

 distinctly crenulate. The scutellum is transverse and im- 

 punctate. The sides of the sterna are remotely punctured. 



Elytra parallel, their apices rather narrowly and sepa- 

 rately rounded , their lateral margins flattened , with up- 

 turned edgings ; each elytron with ten rows of fine punct- 

 ures which in the rows are very close together; the interstices 

 are flat and extremely finely punctured. 



The sides of the abdomen are very finely punctured. 

 The apical ventral segment is broadly subtruncate poste- 

 riorly. 



The femora are finely, the tibiae more strongly punct- 

 ured ; the tibiae are short and thick , those of the anterior 



Notes from the Leyden IMiaseuni, Vol. XVIII, 



