HELOTA JENTINKIT. 223 



NOTE VIL 



A NEW SUMATIUN SPECIKS OF THE 

 COLEOPTEROUS GENUS HELOTA 



BESCElbED Bï 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Helota Jentinkii^ nov. spec. (ƒ. 



Allied to Helota sinensis Oil. and tonkinensis Rits., but 

 distinguished by the differently coloured prothorax aud legs, 

 and, in the male sex, by the want of pubescence in the 

 semiovate impression on the apical ventral segment, and 

 by that of the tuft of long hairs on the inside of the 

 apex of the posterior tibiae. 



Length 8 ram. — Above rugose in consequence of a 

 very dense punctuation, the sutural streak, however, slightly 

 shining; provided on eacii elytron with two yellow convex 

 spots aud with four rows of slightly raised glossy warts 

 of different shape and size. The colour of the upper sur- 

 face is dark greenish bronze, the scutellum aud the sutural 

 interstices coppery ; the anterior lateral angles of the pro- 

 uotum fulvous; the antennae fulvous, the top of the joints 

 (except of those of the club) darker; the anterior pair of 

 the convex yellow spots on the elytra larger and irregu- 

 larly roundish, the posterior pair smaller and elongate 

 ovate. -- The under surface is fulvous, with the exception 

 of the head (without the throat), the anterior margin of 

 the middle portion of the prosternura, the coxae and the 

 elytral epipleurae which are coppery or greenish bronze ; 

 the lateral portions of the prosternura, the intercoxal part 



jSotes from the L.eyclen JMuseum, Vol. XA.VI. 



16 



