vew specie.'* of Clavicorn Coleoptera, &c. 55 



HeJota cereopiinctata. 



Helota cereopiinctata, Lewis, Ent, Mo. Mag. xvii, p. 255; 

 Waterhouse, Aid ii, pi. cxxxiii, fig. 1. 

 Chiuzenji, Ontake and Oyayama, Japan. 



Helota cnlta, n. sp., PI. Ilf, fig. 2. 



Elongate, slightly narrowed both in front and behind, shining 

 brassy-green. Head slightly narrowed in front, nearly flat 

 between the eyes, rather finely and very closely punctured at 

 the apex, less closely punctured at the base. Epistoma as finely 

 and more closely punctured than the head. Anteunaj reddish 

 testaceous. Prothoi'ax a little longer than broad, narrowed in 

 front, slightly constricted just behind the midrlle, moderately 

 convex, strongly and sparingly punctured on the disc, rather 

 more closely so at the sides; anterior angles rounded, posterior 

 sharply pointed and acute. Scutellum small, transverse, rounded 

 behind and impunctate. Elytra not quite twice the length of 

 the head and prothorax together, as broad as the prothorax at 

 the base, slightly narrowed posteriorly ; humeral angles not very 

 prominent; sides nearly parallel, rounded behind; apical sutural 

 angles slightly rounded, without any tooth: each elytron with 

 eight rows of rather finely punctured stria% and two rather 

 large, very slightly raised oval spots on the disc, one just before 

 the middle and the other near tlie apex. Underside fulvous; 

 head and under-margins of the prothorax brassy, very strongly 

 punctured ; pro- and metasternum fulvous and impunctate ; 

 abdominal segments extremely finely punctured. Legs reddish- 

 testaceous ; knees, tips of the tarsi, and the claws green. 

 Length 6 mm. 



North hidia. 



This very distinct and pretty species is the smallest of the 

 genus. It is allied to Helota guerini and H. cereopiinctata, but 

 is easily distinguished from either by its proportionately longer 

 and narrower prothorax, more parallel form, smaller size, and 

 the different punctuation of the sterna and under-margins of the 

 prothorax. The specimen described is a female and is. as far as 

 I am aware, unique in Mr. Janson's collection. 



Helota semifalva. 

 Helota Sfiinifuiva, Ritsema Notes Leyd. Mus. ill, p. 80. 

 Java, India. 



There is one specimen of this curious species in the National 

 Collection, lal)elled " India," 



