HELOTA THORACICA. 49 



NOTE X. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS HELOTA 

 EROM THIBET 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Helot a thoracic a, u. sp. Q, 



Very closely allied to Helota Feae Rits. from Burma ^) , 

 but distinguished by the coarser punctuation of the elytra, 

 which have moreover their apices not produced into a 

 point, by the less distinctly truncated apex of the last 

 ventral segment, and by the narrow and ill-defined red 

 streak along the sides of the pronotum. 



Length 15 mm. — The colour of the upper surface is 

 dark bronze, blackish around the four yellow elytral spots 

 which are small and strongly convex ; the antennae are 

 reddish testaceous , somewhat darker towards the club which 

 is pale brown ; an indistinct reddish testaceous narrow streak 

 runs along the lateral margins of the pronotum. The co- 

 lour of the underside is reddish testaceous, with the ex- 

 ception of the head (the throat alone shows this colour) , 

 a streak surrounding the anterior coxae, and the elytral 

 epipleurae, which parts are of a bronze colour; the legs 

 are reddish testaceous, with the trochanters, the apex of 

 the femora , the base and apex of the tibiae , and the tarsi 

 (with the exception of the basal half of the claw-joint) 

 dark pitchy or black ; an infuscate stripe is present along 

 the upperside of the anterior femora. 



Head strongly produced in front of the eyes , slightly 

 raised along the middle , deeply punctured , the punctures 

 in the raised middle portion large and rather distant, near 



1) Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, ser. 2a, vol. X, p. 886 (1891). 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. XVII. 



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