168 HELOTA EPIPLEURALIS. 
my Synopsis *), prooves to come nearest to Helota curvipes 
Oberth. The latter is however much larger and differs in 
many other important points. 
Subshining; above dark bronze; the middle of the 
anterior margin and the whole basal margin of the pro- 
notum, the basal margin of the elytra and the scutellum 
bright green, the sutural interstices tinged with green; 
the antennae rufous, the basal joint with a bright green 
spot, the apex of the club infuscate; the anterior angles 
of the pronotum fulvous; the elytra provided with four 
small yellowish spots, the anterior pair placed between the 
4th and 6th, the posterior pair between the 3rd and 6th 
striae. The colour of the undersurface is reddish testaceous, 
with the exception of the head without the throat and 
the elytral epipleurae which are bronze green; the legs are 
reddish testaceous, with the apex of the femora and the 
entire tibiae and tarsi bronze green. 
The head is broad, not strongly produced in front of 
the eyes and densely covered with a minute punctuation ; 
on the raised portion between the eyes the punctures are 
larger and wider apart; the clypeus is truncate anteriorly, 
the lateral angles rounded. 
Prothorax subtransverse, a trifle broader than the elytra, 
slightly narrowing in faintly curved sides which are very 
minutely crenulated; the front angles are scarcely protrud- 
ing; the base bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the middle 
lobe broadly rounded; the uppersurface densely covered 
with strong punctures, which come extremely close to- 
gether towards the sides, so as to make the punctuation 
somewhat reticulate; along the middle of the basal half 
(in front of the scutellum) the punctures are almost absent ; 
a distinct, strongly punctate impression on both sides of 
the middle lobe. The scutellum is strongly transverse, 
glossy and impunctate. 
Elytra subparallel, slightly narrowing towards the end, 
the apices separately subtruncate in a slightly oblique 
1) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XIII, p. 228. 
INotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXVI. 
