102 ON THE GENUS HELOTA. 



scum, coll. Fair m aire, coll. Neervoort van tie Poll), Himalaya 

 (Leydeu Museum), Uarjeeling (coll. Oberthiir aud Copen- 

 hagen Museum), Cherra Ponjee (coll. Sédillot), Bengal (coll. 

 Neervoort van de Poll), India bor. (coll. Sédillot). 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this beautiful spe- 

 cies to Mr. Leon Fairmaire. 



Helot a cauda t a, nov. spec. Q. 



Very closely allied to Helota Gorhami Olliff *) and strongly 

 resembling that species in the sculpture of the elytra. It 

 is, however, smaller and proportionately narrower , the api- 

 ces of the elytra are much more prolonged and more acu- 

 tely pointed, the elytral epipleurae are strougly punctured 

 on the inner half of the basal portion (entirely impuuc- 

 tate or nearly so in Gorhami), the abdomen is bright rufous 

 (dark pitchy brown in Gorhami), and the last ventral seg- 

 ment is decidedly shorter and more broadly rounded than 

 in the female of Gorhami. — Length 12,5 mm. 



Hob. China. — A single female specimen (brought home 

 by Père David) in the collection of Mr. Rene Oberthur. 



Obs. In the Archiv für Naturgeschichte , Vol. L1I (1886) 

 p. 181, Mr. H. J. Kolbe has published a very satisfac- 

 tory description of both sexes of Helota Gorhami Olliff. 

 The male is clearly distinct from that of the other species 

 of the Gemmata-gr oxxxy by the very conspicuous sutural 

 spine and by the tomentose depression on the middle of 

 the metasternum , which latter character it has in com- 

 mon with the males of the Vigorsi- and Servillei- group. 



Of this species I have seen a type-specimen (9) from 

 Shantung from the collection of Mr. E. W. Jauson which 

 is now in the possession of Mr. Neervoort van de Poll , 

 further a male and a female specimen from Corea recei- 

 ved from Mr. Kolbe , a female specimen from North China 



1) Cistula Entomologica. Vol. Ill, p. 53. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. .X.I. 



