HELOTA LUJAE. 219 
NOTE XXVI. 
A NEW HELOTA-SPECIES FROM KONDUE 
(BELGIAN CONGO) 
DESCRIBED BY 
C, RITSEMA Cz, 
Helota Lujae, n. sp. o and Q. 
This new species belongs to the group of guineensis, 
Sjöstedti and africana’) but is nearer to both the former 
than to the latter, having in the female-sex the apices of 
the elytra pointed, not obliquely truncate between the 
3rd interstice and the suture. It differs however in the 
male-sex from guineensis and Sjöstedti (the co of africana 
is not known) by the absence of the small hairy spot on 
the middle of the basal ventral segment. Moreover it differs 
from Sjöstedti by the situation of the black spot in the 
fulvous basal half of the elytra: in Sjöstedti as well as in 
africana (guineensis is unspotted) this spot lies nearer to 
the basal margin of the elytra than to the front border 
of the black apical half (consequently in the basal half 
of the fulvous portion) and is placed between the 3rd and 
4th striae; in the new species however nearer to the 
front border of the black apical half (consequently in the 
apical half of the fulvous portion) and between the 4th 
and 5th striae. 
Length 14 mm. — Elongate, depressed, shining; pale 
fulvous, the head with mandibles (the throat excepted), a 
broad streak along the middle of the pronotum, the basal 
1) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XXV (1905), pp. 214, 215. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XII.’ 
