HELOTA EPIPLEURALIS. 169 
direction and narrowly dehiscent. The lateral margin of 
the posterior third very minutely and remotely serrulated, 
Each elytron has ten regular striae of punctures which 
become larger and deeper towards the lateral margins; 
the interstices, which are almost imperceptibly punctured, 
become costate on the apical portion. 
The undersurface of the head shows in the middle some 
large punctures, those on the sides are closer together; 
the prosternum and the sides of the metasternum are 
strongly punctured; the middle of the metasternum is 
glossy and nearly impunctate and provided in the middle- 
line with two impressions: one (punctiform) touching the 
frontmargin, the other (linear) on the basal half; the 
elytral epipleurae are punctured all along. The ventral 
segments are very minutely though distinctly punctured, 
more densely along the sides than along the middle; the 
apical segment is not quite as long as the two preceding 
segments together, the hindmargin is broadly truncate in 
a straight line, a large shallow impression in front of the 
truncation and as broad as it, reaching the hindmargin 
of the preceding segment; the impression very minutely 
punctured. 
The metallic coloured parts of the legs very distinctly 
punctured. The tibiae of the forelegs are almost angularly 
curved about the middle but nearer to the apex and pro- 
vided in the angle of the curvation with a small but 
distinct notch. 
Hab. Tonkin. — The described specimen belongs to 
the Paris Museum and has been communicated to me by 
Mr. A. Grouvelle. 
Leyden Museum, March 1914. 
INotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXVI. 
