15G HELOTA FERRANTI. 



NOTE XI. 

 A NEW AFRICAN HELOTA-SPECIES 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Helofa Ferranfi, n. sp. (ƒ. 



Allied to H. guineemis and Sjöstedti. Recognizable by 

 having four black spots in the fulvous basal half of the elytra 

 (two on each elytron), which spots are by two and two 

 united posteriorly by an infuscation of the 4^^ interspace. 



Length 14,5 mm. — Elongate, depressed, shining; ful- 

 vous, the head with mandibles (the throat excepted), a 

 broad streak along the middle of the pronotum (anteriorly 

 as broad as the neck), the basal and lateral edges of the 

 pronotum, the scutellum, and the basal edge and larger 

 (apical) half of the elytra black, the latter with a faint 

 bronze hue; the fulvous basal portion of the elytra shows 

 four black spots, two on each elytron : the larger, foremost 

 one between the 3rd and 4th striae, the smaller hindmost 

 one between the 5tli and 6^^ striae, both united posteriorly 

 by an infuscation of the 4'li interspace, the hindmost one 

 moreover united with the black apical half at the 6'^ stria ; the 

 space between these black spots and the black apical half 

 is occupied by an almost inconspicuously swollen yellow 

 sj)ot of a somewhat trapezoidal shape, extending over the 

 4tli , 5th and 6th interspaces and deeply entering into the 

 black of the apical half; the fulvous colour of the basal 

 half is slightly prolonged backward along the lateral 

 margin. The antennae are reddish fulvous, with the excep- 



r^otes from the Leyden Museutu, Vol. XX XV. 



