HELOTA MAniAE. 249 



NOTE XXXVIII. 

 THREE NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS HELOTA 



DESCBIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



The first of these species is very interesting as it belongs 

 to the same section as the recently described Helota Candezei 

 Rits., from Sumatra (see ante p. 199). It has been com- 

 municated to me by my friend Rene Oberthür who received 

 it from Maria Basti, a Christianity in British Bootang not 

 far distant from Pedong in Sikkim and founded by the 

 Missionaries of Monseigneur Biet. 



1. Helota Mariae, n. sp. cf. 



Resembling Helota serratipennis Rits. ^), from Burma, but 

 of a more parallel shape, more broadly rounded and not 

 serrate at the apex of the elytra, and having the entire 

 prothorax (the prosternum as Avell as the pronotum, the 

 anterior lateral angles included) of a dark metallic green 

 colour; moreover the flavous elytral spots are smaller and 

 of a different position. 



Length 7 mm. — Subshining; above dark bronze, the 

 anterior lateral angles of the pronotum included; the 

 antennae pitchy brown, the club darker ; the elytra provided 

 with four very small flavous spots which are situated be- 

 tween the same striae, viz. between the S^^ and Q^^, and 



1) Ann, Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2a, vol. X, 1891, p. 890. 



Notes from tlie Leyden JMLuseum , Vol. X-X. 



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