164 HELOTA SJÖSTEDTI. 



front margin; the anterior angles prominent, rounded; the 

 base strongly bisinuate, each sinuation divided into two 

 smaller ones ; the median lobe rounded, the lateral angles 

 acute; the upper surface somewhat uneven, rather spa- 

 ringly and irregularly covered with very distinct ovate 

 punctures which are more or less arranged in irregular 

 groups, impunctate along the middle. The scutellum strongly 

 transverse, impunctate. 



Each elytron is provided with ten striae of fine punctu- 

 res which become larger towards the base and the sides; 

 the interstices are impunctate; the 1 st (sutural one), 3 ld , 

 7 th and 9 th interstices are distinctly raised towards the 

 apex (the 7 th from one third from the base), the 3 rd and 

 9 th extend to the extreme apical margin. 



Under surface: the triangular middle portion of the 

 head is sparingly covered with fine but distinct punctures, 

 the lateral portions are more strongly punctured ; the sterna 

 show some large punctures laterally and the elytral epi- 

 pleurae some fine punctures along the inner margin of 

 the basal fourth ; the abdomen is nearly impunctate, the 

 legs are impunctate. 



cf. Legs more slender and more elongate than in the9| 

 the underside of the anterior femora shallowly furrowed, 

 covered on both sides of the furrow with very minute 

 warts or granules which give it a rough appearance; an- 

 terior tibiae flattened beneath, slightly curved in their apical 

 half, the inner margin of the curvation fringed with ful- 

 vous hairs ; the outside of the apical half of these tibiae is 

 longitudinally scratched ; intermediate tibiae with a minute 

 triangular tooth at the end on the underside; posterior 

 tibiae densely fringed on the underside of the apical third 

 with fulvous hairs which increase in length towards the 

 tip. Abdominal segments with a small group of hair-bearing 

 punctures on both sides of the middle, the basal segment 

 shallowly impressed along the middle, the impression pro- 

 vided with a small tuft of short fulvous hairs, the apical 

 segment broadly truncate posteriorly, the truncation very 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXV. 



