IIELOTA DONCKIERl. 213 



NOTE XV. 



TWO NEW ASIATIC SPECIES OF THE COLEOPTEROUS 

 GENUS HELOTA 



DESCBIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Helota Donckieri, nov. spec, (ƒ aud 9* 



Strongly resembling Helota Lesnei Rits. from Kouy- 

 Tcheou (China), of which the type-specimen ((ƒ) is in the 

 Natural History Museum at Paris '). The new species dif- 

 fers however from it by the sculpture of the elytra (the 

 rows of raised warts or tubercles are less numerous in the 

 new species: 5 in stead of 9), by the testaceous colour of 

 the anterior angles of the prothorax and of the sterna, 

 and in the male sex : by the larger pubescent spots on 

 the middle of the metasternum, by the want of the acute 

 tubercle on the middle of the hindborder of the punctured 

 spot on the middle of the basal-ventral segment, by the 

 otherwise shaped anterior- and posterior tibiae, etc. 



Length of the cf 8 mm., that of the 9 9 Dim. — Above 

 very dark bronze with slight coppery tinges, the mandibles 

 green, the anterior angles of the pronotum pale testaceous; 

 opaque in consequence of a very dense punctuation, pro- 

 vided with numerous warts or tubercles of diSerent size 

 and shape, which partly are surrounded with blackish thus 

 forming along the middle of each elytron an ill-defined, 

 rather indistinct blackish vitta; the scape and the club of 



1) Bulletin du Muséum d'hist. nat. de Paris, 1906, no. 4, p. 196. 

 .Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXVIII. 



