100 ON THE GENUS HELOTA. 



Moreover he considered the three clearly distinct species 

 Helota Guerinii Hope , curvipes R. Oberth. and ocellata Rits. 

 to belong to one and the same species. 



Helota Oberthüri, nov. spec, cf and Q. 



Belongs to the group of Helota Servillei Hope ') and 

 strongly resembles that species. In the female sex , how- 

 ever, the apices of the elytra are more abruptly narrowed , 

 more acutely pointed and more dehiscent than in Servillei 2 ), 

 and the apical margin of the last ventral segment is bisi- 

 nuate , whereas it is regularly rounded in Servillei. In the 

 male sex the second interstice is sharply raised at the end 

 of the elytra and slightly prolonged beyond them , and ? 

 as the sutural margin is likewise slightly prolouged, each 

 elytron seems to be faintly bideutate , whereas in the male 

 of Servillei the apices of the elytra are conjointly and very 

 regularly rounded and the sutural margins end in a very 

 distinct spine. Moreover the anterior tibiae of the male do 

 not show the small strongly compressed dilatation on the 

 inner margin of the under surface a little before the apex , 

 which is present in the male of Servillei. Finally the red 

 coloured lateral streak of the pronotum is more densely 

 and very regularly punctured in the new species. — Length 

 of the male 18 mm., that of the female 15 mm. 



Hab. India orient. : Darjeeling. — A male and a female 

 in the collection of Mr. Rene Oberthiir to whom this spe- 

 cies is dedicated. 



b s. Helota Servillei Hope , the type of which is from 

 Poonah , is represented in the Leyden Museum by a ^ 

 from India bor. , iu the Brussels Museum by a (f from 

 Poonah , in the Museum of Budapest by a cf from the 



1) Coleopt Manual. III. p. 187; pi. 3, tig. 4. 



2) In the above cited figure of this species, representing a female , the shape 

 of these apices is correetly drawn. 



JNotes trom the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



