252 HELOTA OLLIFFII. 



acute. The upper surface is rather regularly densely covered 

 with large deep punctures and shows a smooth space in 

 front of the scutellum. 



The elytra are very slightly narrowing in straight lines 

 towards the end where they are conjointly notched at the 

 suture; at the bottom of the notch the suture forms an 

 acute angle or very minute tooth quite as in Boysi. Each 

 elytron has ten regular rows of punctures which become 

 larger towards the sides; the interstices become costate 

 towards the end, especially the Si"'' and 9*^. 



The metallic portions of the uudersurface of the head as 

 well as the lateral portions of the prosternum are covered 

 with strong punctures ; the rest of the uudersurface is 

 apparently impunctate. 



cf. Anterior tibiae slightly curved and faintly notched 

 about the middle of the inner edge; between this notch 

 and the apex the tibia is slightly widened out; the margin 

 of this enlargement forms a curved line, is black and ends 

 in a sharp angle; the basal joints of the anterior tarsi 

 are enlarged and densely fringed with colourless hairs; the 

 tarsi of the middle- and hind legs are very slender and 

 elongate; the posterior tibiae have a black line along the 

 inner edge of their apical half. 



Hah. Khasia Hills (Assam). — Zoological Museum at 

 Tring and Leyden Museum. — Dedicated to the late A. 

 Sidney Olliflf. 



3. Helota Jordanii, n. sp. cf and Q. 



Very closely allied to and strongly resembling Helota 

 Bretaudeaui Rits. ^), from Kurseong (Darjeeling), but dif- 

 ferentiated in the male sex by the shorter and broader 

 toothlike appendage on the inside of the apical half of 

 the anterior tibiae. 



Length 8 — 9 mm. — Narrow and elongate, shining, 



1) Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. XVI, 1894, p. 116. 



Notes from th.e Leyden IMuseutxt , 'Vol. X.X. 



