216 HELOTA DONGKIERI. 



9. A few large punctures at the base of the ■ abdomen 

 between the posterior coxae, and a small well-defined semi- 

 circular impression at the tip of the apical ventral segment. 

 Metasternum and legs simple. 



Hab. Yunnan. — A (ƒ and a 9 (Leyd. Mus.) received 

 from Mr. H. Donckier, to whom I have dedicated this species. 



Helota Westivoodii, nov. spec. 9* 



Allied to the foregoing species but somewhat broader, 

 of a brighter colour and more shining owing to the less 

 dense punctuation and to the larger and flatter tubercles 

 along the middle of the elytra; the convex yellow elytral 

 spots are slightly larger and the impression on the apex 

 of the last ventral segment is transversely semi-ovate, not 

 semi-circular. 



Length 8 — 9 mm. — Above subshining, greenish bronze 

 with bright coppery or purplish tinges, especially on the 

 sutural interstices and along the sides, the mandibles green, 

 the anterior angles of the pronotum pale testaceous, the 

 scape and the club of the antennae pale testaceous, the 

 remaining joints infuscate; each elytron with two small 

 round convex yellow spots, the anterior one slightly larger 

 than the posterior. — The uudersurface of the head (except 

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

 the exception of the front angles) and the elytral 

 epipleurae metallic green ; the throat, the sterna and the 

 abdomen pale testaceous ; the coxae are metallic green, 

 the trochanters pitchy brown, the femora pale testaceous 

 with the apical portion dark pitchy and with a metallic 

 green hue on the knees; the tibiae pale testaceous with 

 the base and an incomplete ring (or spot on the outside) 

 just behind the middle dark pitchy or pitchy brown; the 

 tarsi pitchy brown with the base of the clawjoint and 

 that of the claws pale testaceous. 



The head is coarsely punctured, the punctures on the 

 front portion finer; on the disk two divergent longitudi- 

 nal elevations. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Musouiu, Vol. XXVIII. 



