126 HELOTA. INTERMEDIA. 



front margin slightly curved backward, the lateral angles 

 acutangular and slightly prominent; the base bisinuate, 

 the lateral angles acute, the median lobe subtruncate. The 

 upper surface covered with strong punctures which are 

 very closely set on the sides; in front of the scutellum an 

 im punctate streak is present reaching as far as the middle 

 of the pronotum ; on both sides of the median lobe a faint 

 impression may be observed. The scutellum is strongly 

 transverse, glossy and impunctate. 



Elytra subparallel, slightly narrowing towards the end, 

 the outer margin faintly concave before the apices which 

 are narrowly and separately rounded, slightly dehiscent at 

 the suture; the sutural margin ends in a very minute tooth 

 and between this tooth and the extreme apex of the elytra 

 two similar teeth are present; moreover the outer margin 

 of the apical third of the elytra is indistinctly and irre- 

 gularly serrulate. Each elytron has ten regular striae of 

 punctures which become larger and deeper towards the 

 lateral margin ; the interstices, which are extremely finely 

 punctured, become costate on the apical portion, especially 

 the 3 vd and 9 th which extend down to the apical margin. 



The under surface of the head shows in the middle some 

 large punctures, at the sides it is more densely punctured, 

 the throat is impunctate ; the presternum is covered all over 

 with rather fine but very distinct punctures which are not 

 densely set; the metasternum is impunctate in the middle, 

 finely punctured at the sides ; the elytral epipleurae are 

 covered with indistinct punctures. The abdomen is extremely 

 finely punctured, the punctures closer together along the 

 sides ; the last ventral segment is truncate posteriorly and 

 provided with some larger punctures. The metallic portion 

 of the femora and the tibiae are distinctly punctured; the 

 anterior tibiae are slightly curved, the intermediate and 

 posterior ones straight. 



Hab. British Bhotan : Maria Basti (L. Durel). — The 

 described Q is in the collection of Mr. René Oberthür. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXV. 



