ON THE GENUS HELOTA. 105 



Ent. III. p. 52; pi. 3, fig. 8) belongs to Helota fulviventris 

 Kolbe , or to the true Helota gemmata Gorh. I can not make 

 out, Mr. Lewis having captured both species. 



Helota Guerinii Hope l ), c u r v i p e s R. Oberth. 2 ) 

 and o ce 11 at a Rits. 3 ). 



These three species are united by Mr. Sidney Olliff though 

 they are certainly distinct. Of the two latter species I 

 have the type-specimens before me, and Mr. Ch. J. Gahan 

 of the British Museum has been kind enough as to exa- 

 mine at my request the position of the yellow elytral spots 

 in the type-specimen of Helota Guerinii which is in the 

 British Museum. About this he wrote me: »I have exami- 

 ned Hope's type-specimen of Guerini*) which is a cT, in 

 which, unfortunately, the head and prothorax are wanting. 

 The anterior as well as the posterior spot of the elytra is 

 between the 3rd and 7th striae. There are a second male 

 specimen and two females associated with it, which agree 

 with the type in the position of the spots ; and , in the 

 cf, the anterior tibiae are much curved. These are ticke- 

 ted E. Indies. — There is also a Q specimen , ticketed 

 N. India , in which the spots are , respectively , placed be- 

 tween the 4th and 6th, and 3rd and 6th striae. The spots 

 in this specimen are at once seen to be smaller than in 

 the others." 



Of the true Helota Guerinii Hope (the species which has 

 the anterior as well as the posterior elytral yellow spot 

 between the 3rd and 7th striae) I have before me a male 

 and two females from Bombay from the collection of Mr. E. 

 W. Janson , and a third female from the collection of Mr. M. 



1) Coleopt. Manual. Ill (1840) p. 188. J. — Travancore. 



2) Coleopt. Novitates. I (1883) p. 60. J. — Himalaya. 



3) Notes Leyd. Mus. Ill (1881) p. 79. <j>. — Java. 



4) From Travancore. 



.Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



