HELOTA SEVERINI, 139 
Length 6—6!/, mm. — Very narrow and elongate, 
shining; above bronze green with coppery tinges, the tip 
of the mandibles and the antennae pale testaceous, the 
club of the latter infuscate. Each elytron provided with 
two yellow spots, which are narrowly surrounded with 
bluish black and are situated between the 3rd and 7th 
striae; the anterior spot is conspicuously larger than the 
posterior one. The colour of the under side is pale testa- 
ceous, with the exception of the head (without the middle 
of the throat), the lateral portions of the prosternum and 
the elytral epipleurae, which are brassy; the legs are testa- 
ceous, with the apex of the femora and the base of the 
tibiae metallic green, the tarsi more or less dark brown. 
The head is remotely punctured, especially on the middle 
of the face where the punctures are large; they are finer 
and closer set along the inner orbits, and very minute 
on the narrowed front portion. 
The prothorax is somewhat broader at the base than 
long, slightly narrowing to the front margin in nearly 
straight lines, the anterior angles rounded, not at all pro- 
minent, the front margin straight; the base bisinuate, the 
lateral angles acute, the median lobe rounded; the upper 
surface regularly densely covered with deeply impressed 
punctures which leave, however, a smooth space in front of 
the scutellum free; the scutellum transverse and impunctate. 
The elytra subparallel, narrow and elongate, the apices 
broadly, almost conjointly rounded; each elytron with ten 
regular striae of punctures which are stronger than in 
notata; the interstices slightly costate at the end. 
The underside of the head and the brassy lateral por- 
tions of the prosternum strongly punctured, the sides of 
the metasternum with a few minute punctures, the elytral 
epipleurae, legs and abdomen apparently impunctate; the 
anterior tibiae nearly straight, the intermediate and posterior 
tarsi slender and elongate. 
Hab. Environs of Kurseong in Sikkim (Braet). — Three 
female specimens from the Brussels Museum, one of which 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
