HELOTA CANDEZEI. 199 



NOTE XXVIII. 

 A NEW HELOTA-SPECIES FROM SUMATRA 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



The species described in this Note and dedicated to the 

 late Dr. E. Candèze of Glain near Liege is very interesting 

 necessitating the establishment of a new section in my 

 Synopsis of the species of this genus '). It belongs to the 

 division I (base of elytra coloured as the apex), A (elytra 

 with four convex flavous spots), h (pronotum finely and 

 evenly punctured, without raised patches), but it has the 

 prosternum neither entirely fulvous {x), nor fulvous in the 

 middle with the lateral portions metallic green (/3) : in the 

 new species the prosternum is entirely of a dark metallic 

 green colour. 



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Helota Candezei , n. sp. cf • 



Length G'/.^ mm. — Subshining; above dark bronze green 

 with purple tinges along the middle of the elytra, especially 

 round the elytral spots; antennae dark pitchy approaching 

 to black ; the elytra provided with two pairs of small con- 

 vex flavous spots which are placed between the 2)^^ and 

 6*^ striae; the anterior spots are larger than the posterior 

 ones. Underneath the head , the prosternum and the elytral 

 folds are dark bronze green ; the raeso- and metasternum , 

 the abdomen , the coxae and the femora (the tip of the 

 latter excepted) reddish testaceous; the tip of the femora 

 and the entire tibiae and tarsi are dark pitchy , the claws 

 reddish testaceous. 



The upper surface of the head is rather strongly punc- 



1) Notes Leyden Museum, Vol. XIII, 1891, p. 223. 



Notes from the Leyden IVEuseum, Vol. XX. 



