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in that of curvipes , and the interstices on the external half 

 of the elytra are not provided with a row of strong 

 punctures. 



Helota f ulvitarsis, nov. spec, cf and Q. 



Very closely allied to and strongly resembling the Java- 

 nese Helota semifulva Rits. with which it is united by 

 Mr. Sidney Olliff. I feel sure, however, of its specific di- 

 stinctness , which might be already presumed by the diffe- 

 rence of the countries from which they come: Bengal 

 (Darjeeling) and Java. 



The new species is proportionately broader , the punctu- 

 res on the pronotum are distinctly larger, the flattened 

 lateral margins of the elytra are broader, the tarsi are of 

 a pale fulvous colour (dark pitchy brown in semifulva) , 

 and the fulvous colour of the basal half of the elytra is 

 continued over the flattened lateral margins much farther 

 than in semifulva. The elytra are conjointly rounded, both 

 in male and female , but the male has the anterior tibiae 

 strongly curved, and its apical ventral segment is incon- 

 spicuously depressed in the middle before the apical mar- 

 gin , which depressed portion is very densely and finely 

 punctured and hairy. — Length of the male 8 mm., that 

 of the female 9,5 mm. 



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

 in the collection of Mr. René Oberthür , who possesses also 

 a female specimen of Helota semifulva Rits. , the second 

 specimen of this species with which I am as yet acquainted , 

 and which comes, like the type-specimen , from Mt. Ardjoeno 

 (Java orient.). 



The specimen from » India" in the collection of the 

 British Museum, alluded to by Mr. Sidney Olliff under the 

 name of Helota semifulva Rits. (Cist. Ent. III. p. 55) , 

 will , no doubt , prove to belong to Helota fulvitarsis. 



Notes from the Ley den Museum, Vol. XI. 



