214 HELOTA DONCKIERI. 



the antennae pale testaceous, the remaining joints pitchy- 

 brown ; each elytron with two small round convex yellow 

 spots, the anterior one slightly larger than the posterior. — 

 The under surface of the head (with the exception of the 

 throat), the lateral portions of the prosternum (with the 

 exception of the anterior angles), and the elytral epipleurae 

 metallic green; the throat, the sterna and the abdomen 

 pale testaceous ; the coxae are metallic green, the trochan- 

 ters pitchy brown, the femora pale testaceous with the 

 apical portion dark pitchy with a bright greenish bronze 

 hue on the knees, the tibiae pale testaceous with the base 

 and an incomplete ring just behind the middle dark pitchy 

 or pitchy brown ; the tarsi pitchy brown with the base 

 of the clawjoint and that of claws pale testaceous. 



The head is very densely punctured, the punctures on 

 the narrowed front portion finer than those on the disk ; 

 on the disk two subparallel rather indistinct longitudinal 

 elevations. 



The prothorax is broader at the base than long, slightly 

 narrowed in faintly curved lines towards the front mar- 

 gin which is curved backwards making the lateral angles 

 protruding ; the base bisinuate, the middle-lobe truncate, 

 the lateral angles acute; the lateral margins very distinctly 

 crenulate, each with 8 or 9 crenulations. The upper sur- 

 face very densely punctured (the punctuation agreeing 

 with that of the elytra) and provided with several strongly 

 punctured raised patches and a few glossy tubercles which 

 are arranged about in the same manner as in the allied 

 species. The scutellum is strongly transverse, squarish, 

 broadly impressed along the middle. 



The elytra are broadest just before the anterior yellow 

 spot, thence slightly narrowing towards the apices which 

 are dehiscent and in the (ƒ almost conjointly rounded 

 and provided with a very minute sutural tooth, in the 9 

 however rather sharply pointed; the lateral margins are 

 indistinctly serrulate towards the base, more distinctly 

 towards the apex. The elytra are very densely covered 



Notes Irom tLie Ley den JMuseuin, Vol. XXVIH. 



