Mr. A. Sidney Olliff's Notes on Helota. 



101 



in the other species of the geuus the anterior tibia? are nearly 

 straight and the apex of the elytra produceil. Length $ 8^ 



mm.; 9 >• "im. 



b 



Darjeeliug, India. 



Helota culta, Olliff (Cist. Ent. iii, p. 55, pi. 3, tig. 2). The 

 unique example of this species is a male, and not as was .stated 

 by an unfortunate misprint, a female. This, however, will be 

 readily seen on reference to the plate. 



Helota pusilla. 



Helota pnsiUa, Oberthlir, Coleopt. Novit., p. GO; Water- 

 house, Aid ii, pi. cxliv, lig. 2, $ . 



Allied to //. ciilta, OUifP; longer and the sides slightly moi-e 

 parallel. Head more finely punctured; eyes more prominent; 

 antenna testaceous, the club black. Prothorax longer, lesa 

 convex, much more finely and closely punctured. Underside 

 fulvous; under- margins of prothorax dark metallic greeu, mode- 

 rately strongly punctured. Legs testaceous, knees, tibiaj, and 

 tips of the tarsi of a metallic green colour. Length 6^ mm. 



Darjeeling. 



Helota seviifulva. Kits. (Notes Leyden Mus. iii, p. 80). In 

 M. Oberthlir's collection from Darjeeling. The fact that this 

 species occurs so far north is worthy of note, as it was described 

 from East Java, and must, therefore, have a tolerably wide 

 range. 



Synonymic LtsT. 



HELOTA, MacLeay. 

 vigorsi, INIacLeay. 

 scintillans, Olliff. 

 servillei, Hope, 

 gemmata, (Jorhm. 



boirringi, Dorhn. (in lift.) 

 gorhami, Olliff. 

 sinensis, Olliff. 

 thibetana, Westw. 



viellyi. Westw. 



guerini, Hope. 



ocellata, Rits. 



cnrvijjes, Oberth. 

 cereopunctata, Lewis, 

 laevigata, Oberth. 

 culta, Olliff. 

 pusilla, Oberth, 

 semifulva, Rits, 



