252 HELOTA VENTRALliS. 



the two basal joints of' the autennae red , the succeeding 

 cues gradually passing into dark pitchy , the apical joint 

 pale rufous ; each elytron provided between the S^^ and 

 Qth. striae with two small convex flavous spots. Underneath 

 the head , the pro- and mesosternum and the elytral epipleurae 

 are coloured like the upper surface, the metasternum and 

 abdomen however are of a uniform bright reddish testaceous 

 colour , the former with the hinder margin and an impressed 

 line along the middle , black ; the legs are reddish testaceous 

 with the coxae and trochanters , the apex of the femora 

 and the base and apex of the tibiae black , the tarsi dark 

 pitchy brown approaching to black. 



Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, slightly 

 raised along the middle, deeply punctured, the punctures 

 on the raised portion large and remote, near the eyes they 

 are smaller and closely set, on the narrowed front portion 

 they are fine and remote; underneath the middle portion 

 is sparsely and finely, the lateral portions strongly punctured. 



Prothorax widest at the base , narrowing towards the 

 front in slightly curved lines ; the front angles strongly 

 produced , rounded ; the sides crenulate on their anterior 

 half; the base deeply bisinuate , the lateral angles acute, 

 the central lobe rounded and with a more or less distinct 

 impression ; the disk strongly and very closely punctured , 

 with the usual raised impunctate patches. The scutellum 

 is small and slightly transverse. The sterna are impunctate, 

 the lateral portions of the pro- and metasternum, however, 

 remotely covered with rather large punctures. 



Elytra parallel, conjointly but not broadly rounded 

 behind, the apices which are not dehiscent are but very 

 little prolonged ; each elytron with ten rows of punctures 

 of which the 4*^^ and 5th are interrupted by the flavous 

 spots and are not continued behind the posterior ones ; 

 on the shoulders the punctuation becomes obsolete; the 

 punctures in the rows become gradually larger towards the 

 sides; the five inner interstices are rather broad and flat, 

 the remaining outer ones narrow and costiform, and these 



JVotes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XIII. 



