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NOTE XXIX. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OE THE GENUS HELOTA 

 FROM BORNEO 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Besides Helota Vigorsii Mac Leay no other ^e/oto-species 

 were as yet known from Borneo '). Now, in a recent con- 

 signment of beetles, received by Mr. Neervoort van de 

 Poll and brought together in the Doeson-countries (S. E. 

 Borneo, P South, 115° East) by Mr. Wahnes, two new 

 species , each represented by a single female specimen , 

 were present, and Mr. van de Poll kindly allowed me to 

 describe them. One of them , which I have much pleasure 

 in naming after its possessor, is allied to Helota i^ga e Rits. 

 from Burma ^) , the other to the Japanese Helota cereopunc- 

 tata Lewis ^). 



Helota V andepolli, n. sp. 9- 



Length 11 mm. — Shining; narrow and elongate, nar- 

 rowed in front and behind ; the colour of the upper sur- 

 face is greenish bronze , here and there with faint tinges 

 of purple; the antennae reddish testaceous at the base, 



1) The specimens from Borneo with which I am acquainted are in the col- 

 lections of Mr. Rene Oherthiir and of Mr. Neervoort van de Poll. — A male 

 specimen of a variety of the same species, from the neighbouring island of La- 

 buan, is in the collection of the Genoa Museum (see: Ann. Mus. Civ. di Ge- 

 nova, Vol. XXX, p. 885). In this specimen the punctuation of the head is 

 somewhat coarser than in the specimens from the other localities. 



2) Ann. Mus. Civ. di Genova, Vol. XXX (1891), p. 886. 



3) Ent. Mo. Mag. Vol. XVII (1881), p. 255. 



Notes from the Leyden lytuseum , Vol. XIU. 



