HELOTA HELLERI. 51 
NOTE X. 
A SPECIES OF THE COLEOPTEROUS GENUS 
HELOTA FROM FORMOSA 
DESCRIBED BY 
C. RITSEMA Cz, 
Two of the species of Helota of the Dresden Museum 
kindly forwarded to me for identification by Prof, Heller, 
were sent over from the island of Formosa by Mr. H. Sauter. 
One of these species, H. thoracica Rits., originally deseribed 
from Thibet '), is represented by a single female specimen, 
captured at Fuhosho. The other, represented by a { from 
Hoozan and a Q from Taihorinsho, is new to science. It 
is, according to my „Synopsis”’, allied to my H. rotundata 
from Burma’), though differing in several important points : 
more elongate shape, quite differently shaped anterior tibiae 
and apical ventral segment in the {', more narrowly pointed 
apices of the elytra in the Q, etc. 
I propose to name this new species, in honour of the 
learned Entomologist of the Dresden Museum Prof. K. M. 
Heller 
Helota Helleri. 
Length of the o 11 mm., that of the © 10,5 mm. — 
Subshining; above dark purplish bronze, the mandibles 
and the scutellum bright metallic green, the thorax and 
elytra narrowly margined with green; the antennae rufous 
1) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XVII (1896), p. 49. 
2) Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vol. XXX (1891), p. 891, /. — Notes Leyd. 
Mus. Vol. XVI (1895), p. 101, 9. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
