the Seychelles Islayids and AlJahra. 145 



small and rounded, joints 3-6 elongate and more slender, 

 joints 7-11 form a dilated club which is covered with 

 brownish pubescence. Pronoinm twice as broad as lon<;, 

 front margin more or less serrated, lateral margins rounded; 

 surface of disc uneven, impunctate ; the lateral expansions 

 with large and deep punctures, the centres of which are 

 more or less hyaline. Scutdhim triangular ; apex rounded. 

 El'itra : bas;il j)ortion green, deeply and closely punctate, 

 centres of punctures red ; the green portion of each elytron 

 is separated from the apical red portion by an oblique costa, 

 one end of which terminates in a swelling at the middle 

 of the lateral expansion, the other end joining with au 

 irregularly-branched costa on tiie apical red portion of the 

 elytron ; costfe shining ; the apical red portion of the elytra 



HopUotivta Ula, sp. n. 



has the suture raised and is deeply and closely punctate ; 

 elytral expansions sparsely and deeply punctate, centres of 

 the punctures more or less hyaline. 



Loc. Seychelles : Mahe; Cascade Estate, ca. 800 ft., 1909 

 {H. P. Thomasset). 



Type in the British Museum : described from one example. 



H. lila is related to H. thiemi, Weise, H. guerini, Weise, 

 and H. marginata, Boh., from Madagascar. All of these 

 are without elytral spines or tubercles, and also have the 

 basal portion of the elytra without any pronounced costa. 

 H. lila differs from all the others by (1) the orange-red 

 colour of the prothorax, scutellum, &c., (2) its larger size, 

 (3) the proportionately greater length of the antennae, (4) the 



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