30 IIELOTA KRUGERI. 



metallic greeu, the base and the tip of the tibiae as well 

 as the tarsi pitchy, the claws reddish testaceous. 



The head strougly but rather remotely punctured on the 

 raised middle portion, very closely between the raised portion 

 and the eyes, very minutely on the narrowed front portion. 



The prothorax distinctly transverse and narrowing in 

 curved lines towards the front margin; the lateral margins 

 are crenulate, the front margin faintly curved backwards, 

 the anterior angles hardly prominent ; the base deeply bisi- 

 nuate, the lateral angles acute, the median lobe subtrun- 

 cate ; the upper surface covered with deep punctures which 

 become larger and closer set towards the lateral margins ; 

 in front of the scutellum an impunctate longitudinal streak 

 is present which is accompanied on each side of its base 

 by a small impression provided with large punctures ; out- 

 side from these impressions an impunctate on nearly im- 

 punctate raised patch may be observed. The scutellum is 

 strongly transverse, glossy and impunctate, and slightly 

 impressed in the middle. 



The elytra are slightly narrowing in straight lines to 

 the apices which are armed at the suture with a small but 

 distinct tooth ; each elytron is provided with ten regular 

 striae of punctures which become larger and deeper towards 

 the lateral margins which latter are narrowly flattened ; 

 the interstices are extremely finely punctured ; the d^'^ and 

 9th interstices are costate at the end and extend to the 

 apical margin. 



The under surface of the head shows in the middle 

 very distinct punctures; those on the prosternum are larger 

 and very densely set except along the middle; the ventral 

 segments are very finely but distinctly punctured. 



(ƒ. Anterior tibiae strongly curved, the inner upper margin 

 angularly dilated at the end, the dilatation blackish, the 

 inner under margin blackish along the apical half; the 

 apical two-thirds of the inner margin of the middle- and 

 hind tibiae are likewise blackish. The apical ventral seg- 

 ment is provided with a large semicircular impression which 



Notes from the Leyden Museuin, Vol. XXIII. 



