206 HELOTA AFRICANA. 



Museum (Portugal), but in the collection of my friend Reué 

 Oberthür is a Helota-specimen (9) from Frauceville (French 

 ' Congo) which I believe to belong to africana. 



It is allied to guineensis and Sjöstedti but differs from 

 these species (in the female-sex) by the otherwise shaped 

 apices of the elytra, these being obliquely truncate between 

 the 3 rd interstice and the suture ; moreover its apical 

 ventral segment is decidedly shorter and more broadly 

 truncate at the apex. 



Length 14 mm. — Elongate, narrowed in front and 

 behind; shining; fulvous, with the head and mandibles, a 

 broad streak along the middle of the pronotum, the basal 

 edge of the pronotum and that of the elytra, the scutellum, 

 a spot on the elytra at some distance from the base between 

 the 3 rd and 4 th striae and the greater apical half of the 

 elytra black, the latter with a slight dark bronze hue; the 

 sides of the prothorax edged with dark fulvous; the 5 or 

 6 basal joints of the antennae fulvous, the succeeding 

 joints from pitchy to black; the legs') black, with the 

 greater basal half of the femora and a broad ring around 

 the middle of the tibiae fulvous. 



Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, remotely 

 covered with large ovate punctures on the slightly raised 

 middle portion, more closely punctured near the eyes, very 

 finely on the narrowed front portion. 



Prothorax slightly broader at the base than long, nar- 

 rowing to the front in nearly straight lines; the anterior 

 angles rounded and slightly prominent; the base broadly 

 bisinuate, each sinuation divided into two smaller ones, 

 the median lobe broadly rounded, the lateral angles acute. 

 Upper surface remotely and irregularly covered with large 

 punctures. The scutellum transverse, glossy and impunctate. 



Elytra parallel, narrowing in slightly curved lines near 

 the apices which are obliquely truncate between the 3 rd 



l) The left foreleg and both the middlelegs are wanting in the specimen 

 before me. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXV. 



