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9- Legs simple. — Ventral segments with a single 

 hair-bearing puncture on both sides of the middle, the 

 basal segment without tuft of fulvous hairs, the apical seg- 

 ment subtruucate posteriorly and slightly impressed along 

 the middle. — Apices of elytra pointed, but slightly pro- 

 longed and narrowly dehiscent; the 7 th interstice almost 

 inconspicuously raised. 



Hab. West Africa : Assinia, Accra and Abétifi. — Leyden 

 Museum, Paris Museum and in the collections of Messrs. 

 Alluaud, Neervoort van de Poll, Oberthür and Grouvelle. 



Helota Sjöstedti Rits. 

 Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XXV, p. 163, tf and 9. 



Closely allied to the foregoing species but easily disting- 

 uishable 

 in the male-sex : by the much less strongly raised 7 th 



elytral interstice and by the more narrowly rounded apices 



of the elytra; 

 in the female-sex : by the more strongly prolonged acutely 



pointed apices of the elytra. 



There are specimens of this species which show a very 

 distinct black spot in the fulvous basal half of the elytra 

 at some distance from the base between the 3 rd and 4 th 

 striae; in other specimens this spot is less distinct or 

 nearly wanting, and in a male-specimen, belonging to the 

 Berlin Museum of Natural History, no trace of it is 

 discernable. 



Hab. West Africa: Cameroon. — Stockholm Museum, 

 Leyden Museum, Berlin Museum and in the collections of 

 Messrs. Schenkling and Oberthür. 



Helota africana Olliff, 9« 



Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) XIII, p. 479. — 

 Waterhouse's Aid Ident. Insects, PI. 153, fig. 3. 



I have not seen the type-specimen of this species which 

 comes from Angola and which belongs to the Lisbon 



Motes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXV. 



