250 HELOTA MARIAE. 



surrounded with bluish black. — Underneath the head, 

 the prosternura, and the elytral folds are dark bronze ; the 

 meso- and metasternum, the abdomen, the coxae and the 

 basal two-thirds of the femora reddish testaceous; the apical 

 third of the femora and the entire tibiae dark bronze, the 

 tarsi pitchy, the claws reddish testaceous. 



The head rather remotely covered with large deep punc- 

 tures on the raised middle portion ; towards the eyes the 

 punctures are smaller and closer together, and towards the 

 front margin they are still smaller and closer set. 



The prothorax somewhat broader at the base than long 

 and slightly narrowing in curved lines towards the front 

 margin ; the sides are distinctly crenulate ; the front margin 

 curved backwards, the anterior angles rounded and slightly 

 prominent; the base deeply bisinuate, the lateral angles 

 acute, the median lobe broadly rounded ; the upper surface 

 covered with strong punctures which become larger and 

 very closely set towards the lateral margins; in front of 

 the scutellum a longitudinal, nearly impuuctate streak is 

 present which is accompanied on each side of its base by 

 a strongly punctured impression ; outside from these impres- 

 sions a sparsely punctate slightly raised patch may be 

 observed. The scutellum is strongly transverse, glossy and 

 impunctate. 



The elytra parallel, broadly, almost conjointly rounded 

 at the apex, each of them provided with ten regular striae 

 of punctures which become larger and deeper towards the 

 lateral margins which latter are narrowly flattened; the 

 interstices are extremely finely punctured and become costate 

 towards the apex especially the 3'"'^ and 9*^ which extend 

 to the apical margin. 



The undersurface of the head shows in the middle very 

 distinct punctures; those on the sides of the prosternum 

 are larger and deeper, on the middle portion, however, 

 smaller, the sides of the metasternum are also distinctly 

 punctured ; the middle of the metasternum shows a narrow 

 longitudinal impression ; the ventral segments are very 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, "Vol. X.X.. 



