HELOTA DESGODINSI. 433 
dorsal segment is trisinuate, the central sinus very small. 
The femora are very finely and sparingly punctured, on 
their metallic tip, however, the punctures are better visi- 
ble; the tibiae are very strongly punctured, those of the 
anterior pair of legs are strongly curved in the middle, 
those of the posterior pair slightly sinuate. 
Hab. Environs of Pedong in Sikkim (Desgodins). — A 
single male specimen of this species, which is dedicated to 
its captor, is in the collection of Mr. René Oberthiir. 
Helota pustulata, n.sp.Q. 
Like the foregoing species allied to Melota curvipes 
Oberth.+) from the Himalaya, but somewhat smaller and 
decidedly narrower; moreover the colour of the upper sur- 
face is a more coppery bronze, the prothorax is propor- 
tionately smaller, and the anterior and posterior elytral spots 
are placed closer together. 
Length 87, mm. — Shining; above coppery bronze, 
the coppery hue more distinct on the head and pronotum 
than on the elytra, the scutellum bright metallic green; 
the antennae testaceous, the terminal joint of the club 
infuscate; the anterior angles of the pronotum pale ful- 
vous; the elytra provided with two pairs of yellow spots, 
the anterior pair placed between the 4th and 6th, the 
posterior pair between the 3rd and 6th striae. The colour 
of the under surface is reddish testaceous, with the excep- 
tion of the head (without the throat) and the elytral epi- 
pleurae, which are brassy; the legs are reddish testaceous 
with the apex of the femora and the entire tibiae metallic 
green, the tarsi dark pitchy with a bronze hue on the 
claw-joint. 
The head is strongly and rather remotely punctured on 
the raised middle portion of the face, near the eyes the 
punctures are smaller and somewhat closer together, and 
1) Coleopterorum Novitates, I (1883), p. 60. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
