HELOTA DESGODINSI, 131 
NOTE XV. 
FIVE NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS HELOTA 
FROM SIKKIM AND DARJEELING 
DESCRIBED BY 
C. RITSEMA Cz. 
Helota Desgodinsi, n. sp. Oo. 
This handsome species is closely allied to Helota curvipes 
Oberth. ') from the Himalaya, but at once distinguished by its 
more robust shape, by the coppery colour of the upper sur- 
face, by the broad fulvous streaks on the sides of the 
pronotum, and by the broadly subtruncate apices of the 
elytra in the male sex. 
Length 10 mm. — Shining; above coppery with shades 
of green; the scutellum brassy, the extreme lateral mar- 
gins of the elytra bronze green; the antennae pale testa- 
ceous, the terminal joint of the club infuscate; the sides 
of the pronotum broadly margined with fulvous, which 
colour is not sharply separated from the dark metallic 
colour of the disk; the elytra provided with two pairs of 
yellow convex spots, the anterior pair placed between the 
4th and 6th”), the posterior pair between the 3rd and 6th 
striae; these spots are surrounded with the green shade, 
especially the posterior pair. The colour of the underside 
is testaceous, with the exception of the head and the ely- 
1) Coleopterorum Novitates, I (1883), p. 60. 
2) The punctures bordering the anterior spots are somewhat pushed aside, 
which makes the spots broader than the distance between the 4th and 6th 
striae. 
INotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV, 
