HELOTA LUGUBRIS. 57 
NOTE V. 
TWO NEW ASIATIC SPECIES 
OF THE COLEOPTEROUS GENUS HELOTA 
DESCRIBED BY 
C. RITSEMA Cz. 
Helota lugubris, n. sp. {. 
This new species is closely allied to Helota Vandepolli 
Rits.') from Borneo, but at once distinguished by the more 
strongly raised interstices of the elytra, by the deeper 
angular notches at the apical portion of the lateral mar- 
gins of the elytra and by the more blackish (less bronze) 
colour of the upper side. 
Length 12 mm. — Subshining above, very shining under- 
neath ; above blackish, with very faint tinges of dark bronze 
green; each elytron provided with two small convex flavous 
spots, situated between the 3rd and 6th striae; underneath 
testaceous, except the head without the throat, the ante- 
rior margin and the front angles of the middle portion as 
well as the lateral portions of the prosternum, and the 
elytral epipleurae which parts are dark bronze green. An- 
tennae dark pitchy, the 3 or 4 basal joints reddish. Legs 
testaceous, the tip of the femora and the extreme base 
and apex of the tibiae black, the tarsi dark pitchy brown. 
Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, almost 
inconspicuously raised between the eyes, the raised por- 
tion broadly flattened and covered with large punctures, 
which are strongly contrasting with those on the lateral 
streaks along the eyes, where they are minute and closely 
set; along the middle of the narrowed front portion the 
punctures are still smaller and scarce. 
1) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XIII (1891), pp. 197, 223. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXVI. 
