128 HELOTA DURELII. 



median lobe rounded. The upper surface densely punctured, 

 the punctures on the middle of the anterior half finer and 

 wider apart, absent on a streak in front of the scutellum 

 and on a triangular oblique basal spot between the median 

 lobe and the lateral margins. The scutellum strongly trans- 

 verse, broadly rounded behind and impunctate. 



Elytra subparallel, but very slightly narrowing in straight 

 lines towards the apices where they are very broadly and 

 conjointly rounded in the <ƒ, more narrowly rounded in 

 the Q. Each elytron provided with ten regular striae of 

 punctures which are smaller than in the allied Helota rotun- 

 data ; the interstices are sparsely and extremely finely punc- 

 tured and become costate on the apical portion, especially 

 the 3'd and 9th. 



The underside of the head is strongly punctured, the 

 middle of the throat, however, impunctate ; the sides of the 

 prosternum are covered with rather large punctures, those 

 on the sides of the metasternum are much finer ; the middle 

 of the sterna is nearly impunctate; the abdomen is appa- 

 rently impunctate along the middle, sparsely punctured on 

 the sides and on the apical segment; the metallic coloured 

 tip of the femora and the tibiae are sparsely punctured. 



cf. The anterior tibiae are strongly curved in the apical 

 half; their inner margin, which is angularly widened out 

 at the tip, forms a deep and regularly rounded curvation, 

 occupying the entire apical half of the tibia; the intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae are faintly waved and provided on the 

 inside, a little before the apex, with a very minute angular 

 black tooth ; the apical ventral segment is subtruncate at the 

 tip and very faintly notched on both sides of the truncation. 



9- The anterior tibiae faintly curved, the intermediate 

 and posterior ones faintly waved but without the small 

 subapical black tooth on the inside; the last ventral segment 

 broadly rounded behind. 



Hah. British Bhotan (L. Durel). — Specimens of both 

 sexes are in the collection of Mr. René Oberthür and in 

 that of the Leyden Museum. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXV. 



