HELOTA KRUGERI. 



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is covered with a dark coloured feltlike pubescence; it is 

 broadly truncate at the apex with protruding lateral angles; 

 the last dorsal segment is metallic green. The apices of' 

 the elytra are broadly rounded. 



9. Anterior tibiae nearly straight, simple; no blackish line 

 along the inner margin of the tibiae. Apical ventral seg- 

 ment with a large very shallow impression which is not 

 pubescent: the apex is broadly truncate, the lateral angles 

 are rounded. The apices of the elytra more narrowly rounded 

 and slightly notched at the suture. 



Hab. Maria Basti in British Bhotan. — Collection Ober- 

 thür and Leyden Museum. 



Dedicated to His Honour Paul Kruger, the eminent Pre- 

 sident of the South African Republic. 



Key to the identification of the four species belonging 

 to the group of Helota Candezei Rits. 



1. Tibiae unicolorous (dark pitchy or bronze). 

 a. Above bronze green, elytral spots pro- 

 portionately large. — (ƒ. Anterior tibiae 

 not angularly dilated at the end, the 

 middle tibiae only with a minute tooth 



on their inner edge near the apex . . Candezei. 



h. Above dark bronze, elytral spots small. — 

 cf. Anterior tibiae angularly dilated at 

 the end, the middle and hind tibiae both 

 with a minute tooth on their inner edge 

 near the apex Mariae, 



2. Tibiae bicolorous (dark pitchy or metallic 



green and reddish testaceous}. 

 a, cf. The top of the dilatation of the an- 

 terior tibiae rounded, the apical ventral 

 segment subtruncate posteriorly, without 

 a pubescent impression. — Q. Apical 

 ventral segment regularly rounded at 

 the apex Margarethae. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, ~V"ol. XXII. 



