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regularly and rather strongly curved; the posterior femora 
slightly curved, the tibiae as long as the femora, straight, 
provided at the end with a small tuft of long reddish hairs. 
Hab. Laos: Kong Kahas, Province Sayannakit. — A single 
ov which belongs to the ,Muséum de Paris” and which was 
kindly communicated to me by Mr. Antoine Grouvelle. 
Helota distincta, n. sp. { and Q. 
Formerly I believed this Chinese species to be a variety 
of Helota fulviventris Kolbe ') from Corea, but now, after 
having seen more specimens, I am convinced of its specific 
distinctness. ; 
Both species are to be separated at a glance by the 
different coloration of the legs and of the metasternum. 
In fulviventris the legs and the metasternum are black ; in 
the new species the legs are partly black partly testaceous 
yellow ®), and the metasternum too is testaceous yellow. 
As to the shape and sculpture both species are alike, 
but in fulviventris &{ the legs are more slender and the 
anterior tibiae less curved than in distincta o; in fulvi- 
ventris Q the apical margin of the last ventral segment 
is more convex between the two impressed punctures than 
in distincta Q. In the oJ of both species the apical ventral 
segment is broadly truncate, the truncation preceded by 
a large tomentose impression. 
Finally the metallic colours are more vivid in the new 
species than in fwlviventris. 
The length of H. distincta varies between 12 and 16 mm. 
Hab. China: Siao-Lou, Su-Tchuen and Oui-sy. — Both 
sexes are in the collection of Mr. René Oberthiir and in 
the Leyden Museum. 
Leyden Museum, February 1914. 
1) Arch. f. Naturgesch. Jahrg. LIT (1886) I, p 182, t. 11, f. 25, ©. — 
Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XIII (1891) p. 225. 
2) Coxae and trochanters black; basa] two-thirds of femora testaceous 
yellow, apical third purplish or bronze black; basal half and apex of tibiae 
black, the rest testaceous yellow; tarsi pitchy black, the claws paler. 
INotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXVI. 
