184 THE HELOTA-SPECIES 
surrounded by dark purple and situated between the 3rd 
and 7th striae (the anterior pair) and between the 3rd and 
6th striae (the posterior pair). The color of the underside 
is reddish testaceous, with the exception of the head, the 
extreme front- and lateral margins of the prosternum and 
the elytral epipleurae which all is of a more or less dark 
bronze; the legs are reddish testaceous, with the apex 
of the femora and the entire tibiae and tarsi metallic 
green. 
The head is broad and rather remotely punctured in the 
middle; towards the eyes the punctures are smaller and 
more closely set, and on the apex of the narrowed front 
portion (which is truncated) they are almost absent. 
The prothorax is transverse, slightly narrowing in faintly 
curved lines towards the front margin which is slightly 
curved backwards; the anterior angles are blunt and slightly 
prominent; the base is bisinuate, the median lobe broadly 
rounded; the lateral angles are acute and slightly divergent, 
their basal margin raised. The upper surface is strongly 
punctured, the punctures towards the middle somewhat 
smaller, absent on and in front of the median lobe. The 
scutellum is strongly transverse, glossy and impunctate. 
The elytra are subparallel, slightly narrowing towards 
the end, the outer margin faintly concave before the apices 
which are narrowly rounded and at the suture slightly de- 
hiscent. Hach elytron has ten regular rows of punctures 
which become larger and deeper towards the lateral margin ; 
the interstices, which are extremely finely punctured, be- 
come costate on the apical portion, especially the 3rd and 
9th which extend to the apical margin. 
The under side of the head has in the middle some large 
punctures, at the sides (between the antennal groove and 
the eyes) the punctures are linear and transverse, the throat 
is impunctate. The prosternum is rather distantly covered 
all over with small but distinct punctures, the metasternum 
is finely punctured at the sides. The abdomen is indistinctly 
punctured, the apex subtruncate. The tibiae are finely but 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXI. 
