HELOTA RENATI. 125 



The apical portion of the femora is finely, the tibiae 

 are strongly punctured; the anterior tibiae are slightly 

 curved, the intermediate and posterior ones straight. 



Hab. China: Kouy-Tchéou (J. B. Chaffanjon). — The 

 described female specimen belongs to the collection of Mr. 

 René Oberthür, to whom this species is dedicated. 



Helota intermedia, n. sp. Q. 



Allied to H. curvipes Oberth. but at once distinguished 

 from it and its nearest allies, not only by its smaller size, 

 but also by the want of the fulvous anterior angles to the 

 pronotum, this being of a bronze colour all over. 



Length 8 mm. — Subshining; above dark bronze, here 

 and there with coppery tinges, the scutellum shining green ; 

 the antennae dark brown-red, the two basal joints tinted 

 with green, the club dark pitchy; the pronotum bronze 

 coloured all over, without fulvous anterior angles; the elytra 

 provided with four small yellow convex spots surrounded 

 with bluish black, the anterior pair placed between the 

 4 th and 6 tn , the posterior pair between the 3 ld and 6 th striae. 

 The colour of the underside is reddish testaceous, with the 

 exception of the head (the throat is pitchy with a testa- 

 ceous spot in the middle), the front margin and a narrow 

 streak along the lateral margins of the prosternum, as well 

 as the elytral epipleurae which is all of a bronze colour ; 

 the margin of the truncation of the apical ventral segment 

 is pitchy ; the legs are reddish testaceous with the apex 

 of the femora and the entire tibiae and tarsi metallic green. 



The head is broad, not strongly produced in front of 

 the eyes, and rather remotely covered with large deep 

 punctures on the raised middle portion ; towards the eyes 

 the punctures are closer together and on the narrowed front 

 portion they are very small. 



Prothorax distinctly transverse, slightly narrowing in 

 straight lines from the base as far as two thirds of its 

 length, more strongly narrowed in the apical third; the 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. XXV. 



