HELOTA MAGDALENAE. 75 
NOTE IV. 
DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW HELOTA-SPECIES 
FROM INSULINDE 
BY 
C. RITSEMA Cz. 
Helota Magdalenae, nov. spec. o and Q. 
Very closely allied to Melota ocellata Rits., from Java, 
and strongly resembling this species, but of a more dark 
green colour and the posterior pair of yellow elytral spots 
placed between the Std and 6th striae, in ocellata between 
the 3t¢ and 7th, The anterior pair is placed in both species 
between the 4th and 7th striae. In the new species the 
yellow elytral spots are smaller than in ocellata and the 
distance between the spots on the same elytron is larger. 
Length 8—8'/, mm. — Above metallic green, brightest 
along the margins of the elytra; the anterior angles of 
the pronotum fulvous, this colour more or less continued 
along the lateral margins of the pronotum; the antennae 
piceous, the two basal joints and the club fulvous, the 
basal joint with a metallic green hue; the yellow elytral 
spots surrounded with purplish, — Underneath reddish 
testaceous; the head, the elytral epipleurae, the tip of the 
femora and the tibiae bright metallic green, the tarsi 
piceous with a metallic green hue. 
The head closely punctured, the punctures small, some- 
what larger and more distantly placed in the middle 
between the eyes, 
The prothorax broader than long, slightly narrowing 
towards the front margin which is slightly curved back- 
wards, making the lateral angles somewhat protruding; the 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XIII. 
