198 HELOTA VANDIfiPOLLI. 



passing iuto dark pitchy towards the end ; the four con- 

 vex yellow elytral spots small ; surrounded with bluish 

 black , and situated between the S^d and Q^^ striae. The 

 colour of the underside is reddish testaceous , with the 

 exception of the head (the throat alone has a testaceous 

 colour) , the lateral portions and the anterior edge of the 

 prosternum , and the elytral epipleurae , these parts being 

 of a bronze green colour; the pro- and mesosternum show 

 a metallic green hue ; the legs are reddish testaceous , 

 with the apex of the femora, the base and apex of the 

 tibiae, and the tarsi dark pitchy or black, whereas an 

 infuscate stripe is present along the upperside of the an- 

 terior femora. 



Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, with a 

 raised streak along the middle , deeply punctured , the punc- 

 tures in the raised middle portion large and remote, near 

 the eyes they are smaller and placed close together , in 

 front they are very small ; underneath the metallic middle 

 portion of the head is finely and very remotely punc- 

 tured. 



Prothorax subtransverse , widest at the base, narrowing 

 in regularly curved lines to the front ; the sides irregular- 

 ly and rather indistinctly crenulate, the front angles 

 slightly produced ; the base deeply bisinuate , the lateral 

 angles acute, the median lobe subtruncate and with an 

 indistinct punctiform impression ; the disk strongly and 

 somewhat irregularly closely punctured , with the usual 

 nearly impunctate raised patches , viz. a mesial forked one 

 extending from the base on to the anterior margin, an 

 elongate slightly oblique basal one on each side of the 

 former, and a very small one in front of the oblique ba- 

 sal patches. The scutellum is small and transverse. The 

 sterna show laterally a few distinct punctures; the metal- 

 lic coloured sides of the prosternum are faintly and irre- 

 gularly wrinkled anteriorly. 



Elytra subparallel, the sides faintly convex, rapidly nar- 

 rowing in straight lines at some distance before the 



Notes from th.e Leyden Museum, Vol. XIII. 



