138 HELOTA TIBIALIS. 
with deep punctures; the sides of the pro- and metasternum _ 
rather strongly, the middle portion very finely punctured ; 
the elytral epipleurae, abdomen and femora impunctate, 
the tibiae with a few indistinct punctures. The apical ven- 
tral segment emarginate at the end, the emargination 
occupying the entire width and densely fringed with pale 
yellow glithering hairs; in front of the apical margin a 
semilunar patch of a fulvous tomentose pubescence is pre- 
sent; the apical dorsal segment is rather dark brown and, 
at the apex, sub-angularly notched in the middle with 
broadly rounded lateral angles. 
The legs are very elongate ; the anterior tibiae are strongly 
curved in the middle, and the inner margin of the apical 
half widens out towards the apex, so as to form a flattened 
dilatation which abruptly ends before it reaches the tip of 
the tibia; the margin of this dilatation is black, densely 
fringed with short pale coloured hairs and ends anteriorly 
in a small but distinct tooth; the basal joints of the an- 
terior tarsi are slightly enlarged and fringed with long 
hairs; the intermediate tibiae are faintly curved, the pos- 
terior ones sinuate. 
A few colourless soft hairs are spread over the under — 
surface of the beetle; on the middle of the metasternum, 
however, these hairs are much more numerous and shorter. 
Hab. Darjeeling (Christie). — A single male specimen 
presented to the Leyden Museum by EH. Wasmann 8. J. 
Helota Severini, n.sp.Q. 
This species is very closely allied to and strongly re- 
sembles Helota notata Rits. from Burma“). The head in 
the new species, however, is smaller, the sides of the 
prothorax are less convergent, the pronotum is more regu- 
larly closely punctured, and the punctures in the elytral 
striae are stronger. 
1) Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vol. XXX (1891), p, 900. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
