HELOTA MOUTONIT. 129 



Helota Moutonii, n. sp. (ƒ. 



Allied to Helota rotundata Rits. l ) and Helota attenuata 

 Rits. but at once distinguished from these species by the 

 different position of the yellow elytral spots, these being 

 placed in the new species between the 4 th and 6 th striae 

 (the anterior pair) and between the 3 rd and 6 th striae (the 

 posterior pair), whereas both pairs of spots are placed be- 

 tween the 3 rd and 6 th striae in the two quoted species. 

 Moreover the yellow elytral spots are decidedly smaller in 

 the new species than in the two others. 



Length 9 mm. — Subshining; above dark bronze with 

 coppery tinges especially on the head and pronotum ; the 

 antennae dark brown-red ; the anterior angles of the pro- 

 notum fulvous, which colour is indistinctly continued along 

 the lateral margins ; the scutellum bright metallic green. 

 The elytra provided with two pairs of very small convex 

 yellow spots, the anterior pair situated between the 4 th 

 and 6 th , the posterior pair between the 3 rd and 6 th striae. 

 The colour of the underside is reddish testaceous with the 

 exception of the head (without the throat) and the elytral 

 epipleurae which are bronze coloured ; the coxae and the 

 femora are reddish testaceous, the tip of the latter metallic 

 green ; the tibiae are rufous, metallic green at the base ; 

 the tarsi are rufous, darker towards the end. 



Head densely and finely punctured, on the slightly raised 

 middle portion the punctures are however larger and 

 wider apart. 



Prothorax transverse, slightly narrowed towards the 

 frontmargin which is faintly curved backwards, the anterior 

 angles somewhat produced ; the lateral margins finely crenu- 

 late; the base bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the median 

 lobe rounded and with a punctiform impression. The upper 

 surface covered with punctures which are larger and closer 

 together on the sides and at the base, leaving free a longi- 



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

 Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. XXV. 



