HELOTA DURELII. 127 



Helota Durelii, n. sp. cf and 9« 



Very closely allied to Helota rotundata Rits. ') from 

 Burma, and agreeing with it in the position of the yellow 

 elytral spots, these being likewise placed between the same 

 striae, viz. between the 3 rd and 6 th , but differing by the 

 denser punctuation on the pronotum, by the smaller punc- 

 tures in the striae on the elytra and by the more broadly 

 (almost conjointly) rounded apices of the elytra in the Q. 



Length 7 — 10 mm. — Subshiuing; above dark bronze 

 with coppery and metallic green tinges; the antennae 

 reddish testaceous, the club infuscate, the basal joint with 

 a metallic green spot at the tip ; the anterior angles of 

 the pronotum fulvous which colour is more or less conti- 

 nued along the lateral margins 2 ) ; the scutellum metallic 

 green; the elytra provided with two pairs of yellow spots, 

 situated between the 3 rd and 6 th striae and surrounded 

 with bluish black or purple. — The colour of the uuder- 

 surface is reddish testaceous, with the exception of the head 

 (without the throat) and the elytral epipleurae which are 

 of a bronze colour; the legs are reddish testaceous, the 

 tip of the femora metallic green, the basal half and the 

 apex of the tibiae as well as the tarsi pitchy. 



The head strongly but rather remotely punctured on the 

 raised middle portion, more closely and more finely between 

 the raised portion and the eyes, very finely on the narrowed 

 front portion. 



The prothorax transverse, narrowed towards the front 

 in slightly curved lines, the anterior angles but very slightly 

 prominent, subangular; the lateral margins minutely cre- 

 nulate; the base bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the 



1) See my «Synopsis" in Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XIII (1891), p. 227. 



2) The extension of the fulvous colour along the lateral margins seems to 

 be very variable : in some of the specimens before me the anterior angles 

 only are fulvous, whereas in other individuals the fulvous colour reaches the 

 basal margin of the prothorax. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXV. 



