HELOTA FRUHSTORFERI. 117 



NOTE VIII. 



EIGHT NEW ASIATIC SPECIES OF THE 

 COLEOPTEROUS GENUS HELOTA 



DESCRIBED BT 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Helota Fruhstorferi, n. sp. cT. 



According to my » Synopsis" of the described species of 

 the genus Helota '), this species is allied to Helota Vande- 

 polli Rits. 2 ), from Borneo. It is however larger and pro- 

 portionately broader than that species, and at once recog- 

 nizable by the pale colour of the antennae and the more 

 strongly raised interstices between the lines of punctures 

 on the elytra. 



Length 13 mm. — Shining; rather narrow and elongate; 

 upper surface golden bronze ; the antennae pale testaceous ; 

 the four convex yellow elytral spots are small, surrounded 

 with bluish black and situated between the 3 rd and 6 th striae. 

 The colour of the undersurface is reddish testaceous, with 

 the exception of the head (without the throat), the lateral 

 portions and the front margin of the prosternum and the 

 elytral epipleurae, which parts are of a brassy green or 

 bronze colour; the legs are reddish testaceous, with the 

 apex of the femora, the base and apex of the tibiae, and 

 the tarsi (with the exception of the basal half of the claw- 



1) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XIII (1891), p. 223. 



2) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XIII (1891), p. 197. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. XXV. 



