78 HELOTA GROUVELLEI. 
Hab. Java: Sukabumi (2000') and Mt. Kawie. — Two 
female specimens, that from Sukabumi (the type of the 
species) in the collection of Mr. René Oberthür, that from Mt. 
Kawie in the collection of the Leyden Museum. 
Helota Marthae, nov. spec. {. 
This is the third immaculate asiatic species with which 
I am acquainted. The two other species are: Helota imma- 
culata Rits, from Burma and British Bhotan and Helota 
Bouchardi Rits. from Sumatra. The new species differs 
from both by the uniformly coloured uppersurface, the 
eatire pronotum having the same metallic greenish blue 
colour as the head and elytra. From Bouchardi it differs 
moreover by its narrow and more parallel shape, in which 
it better agrees with zmmaculata, but it is still narrower. 
Length 7 mm. — Narrow and elongate, parallel-sided. 
Uppersurface shining, of a metallic greenish blue colour; 
the antennae pitchy brown, the two basal joints somewhat 
brighter. Underneath reddish testaceous, the tip of the 
abdomen infuscate and the head dark steelblue; the elytra] 
epipleurae dark fuscous, with a strong metallic hue; the 
coxae and femora reddish testaceous, the tip of the latter 
metallic green; the tibiae are metallic green along the out- 
side, dark pitchy along the inside; the tarsi are dark pitchy. 
The head is rather distantly punctured, the punctures 
on the narrowed front portion smaller and closer together. 
The prothorax transversely quadrate, the sides conse- 
quently parallel; the uppersurface rather regularly remotely 
punctured, the punctures along the middle smaller; the 
lateral margins narrowly flattened, the outer edge finely 
raised, not distinctly crenulate; the front margin nearly 
straight, the lateral angles rounded, not protruding ; the base 
bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, short, the median lobe 
subtruncate. The scutellum transverse, broadly heartshaped, 
glossy and impunctate. 
The elytra parallel-sided, rather narrowly coujointly 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XIII. 
