132 HELOTA DESGODINSI. 
tral epipleurae which are brassy; the legs are testaceous, 
with the apex of the femora and the entire tibiae brassy, 
the tarsi more or less dark brown-red. 
The head strongly but not densely punctured on the 
raised middle portion of the face, finer and closer near the 
eyes, still finer and extremely close together on the nar- 
rowed front portion. 
Prothorax transverse, slightly narrowing in faintly cur- 
ved lines towards the front margin, the lateral margins 
indistinctly crenulate, the anterior angles prominent and 
rounded; the base bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the 
median lobe subtruncate and with a small impression at 
the extreme apex. The pronotum strongly and rather den- 
sely punctured, very densely on the fulvous lateral streaks; 
an impunctate streak, narrowing towards the front mar- 
gin, runs along the middle, and is, on both sides of its 
base, accompanied by a distinct impression. The scutellum 
is strongly transverse and impunctate. 
The elytra are nearly parallel, the sides regularly cur- 
ved, the apices broadly subtruncate, the outer angle of the 
truncation broadly rounded, the sutural one sub-angular. 
Each elytron with ten regular striae of punctures which 
become larger towards the sides; the interstices are very 
finely punctured, but on the 6th and following interstices 
moreover a few large punctures occur; on the apical 
portion of the elytra the interstices are costate. 
The brassy coloured under surface of the head is remo- 
tely covered with large punctures; on the prosternum the 
punctures are shallow, on the sides of the metasternum 
they are finer; the central portion of the latter is very 
finely pubescent; the elytral epipleurae are distinctly but 
sparsely punctured; the abdomen apparently impunctate, 
but in the broad impression which occurs ou the apical 
segment distinct hair-bearing punctures are present; the 
apical ventral segment is broadly truncate with slightly 
prominent lateral angles, the hinder margin fringed with 
long pale coloured hairs; the apical margin of the last 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
