136 HELOTA GUTTATA. 
The elytra are distinctly narrowed in regularly curved 
lines towards the apices which are more narrowly rounded 
than in the female sex of serratipennis ; the posterior third 
of the outer margin is remotely serrulate. Hach elytron 
has ten regular striae of punctures which become larger 
towards the sides; the interstices show some extremely fine 
punctures and become costate on the apical portion. 
The brassy coloured underside of the head is remotely 
covered with deep punctures; on the sides of the proster- 
num the punctures are shallower, and on the sides of the 
metasternum they are finer; the elytral epipleurae have a 
few large punctures on their basal half; the middle of the 
abdomen is apparently impunctate, on the sides and on 
the apical segment, however, fine but distinct punctures 
are visible; the apical ventral segment is subtruncate at 
the tip where it is moreover faintly impressed; the tibiae 
are strongly punctured, the metallic tip of the femora 
sparsely so; the anterior tibiae are slightly curved. 
Hab. Environs of Pedong in Sikkim (Desgodins). — A 
single female specimen in the collection of Mr. René Oberthür. 
Helota tibialis, n.sp. {. 
Closely allied to and strongly resembling Helota laevigata 
Oberth.'), and from the same locality (Darjeeling). Both 
species are easily recognized by the colour of the legs, 
these being fulvous without metallic green. From the male 
sex of laevigata the new species may be separated at a 
glance by the compressed dilatation of the inner margin 
of the anterior tibiae close to the apex. 
Length 8'/, mm. — Shining; above dark bronze green 
with coppery tinges; the antennae fulvous with the two 
apical joints of the club infuscate; the sides of the prono- 
tum narrowly margined with pale fulvous, more broadly, 
1) Coleopterorum Novitates, I (1883), p. 59. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
