166 HELOTA ACUTIPENNIS. 
Helota acutipennis, n. sp. Q. 
Very much resembling Helota Lesnei Rits., but recog- 
nizable by the fulvous coloured anterior angles of the 
pronotum and by the otherwise coloured tibiae, these having 
the base and the apical half black, whereas in Lesnei the 
tibiae are black at the base and provided with a dark 
fuscous ring just behind the middle. Moreover the apices 
of the elytra are narrowly prolonged and acutely pointed, 
in Lesnei Q not prolonged and bluntly pointed. The color- 
ation of the undersurface is also different. 
Length 10 mm. — Above dark coppery, the anterior 
angles of the pronotum testaceous; opaque in consequence 
of a very dense, minute punctuation, the punctures equal 
in size on the head, pronotum and elytra; provided on the 
elytra with numerous glossy coppery black warts or tu- 
bereles of different size and shape; an ill-defined dull black 
longitudinal spot on the basal half of each elytron, sur- 
rounding the anterior flavous spot. The two basal joints 
and the club of the antennae pale testaceous, the other 
joints pitchy brown. Underneath the head (except the throat) 
is brassy; the middle of the prosternum dark. fulvous with 
a metallic hue, the lateral portions (except the fulvous 
front angles) dark bronze; the middle of the mesosternum 
dark fulvous with a metallic hue; the middle of the meta- 
sternum pale fulvous, the sides brassy; the abdomen pale 
fulvous; the elytral epipleurae dark bronze. The coxae 
brassy; the trochanters black; the femora pale fulvous, 
their apical portion brassy; the tibiae black at the base 
and their apical half black; the only present tarsus (that 
of the left foreleg) dark pitchy, the base of the clawjoint 
and the claws themselves pale fulvous. 
The head is very densely punctured, finest on the middle 
of the narrowed front portion where it is subshining; an 
indistinct V-shaped figure, composed of small granules, is 
present between the eyes and preceded by some other 
indistinct unevennesses. 
The prothorax agrees pretty well with that of Lesnei, 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXVI. 
