Description of five new asiatic species 

 of the Coleopterous genus Helota 



by 

 C. RlTSEMA CZ. 



Helota Lewisi n. sp. Ç. 



Closely allied to and ver)- much resembling Helota atte- 

 nuata Rits. x ) from Kurseong and British Bhotan, but smaller, 

 the sides of the prothorax more strongly curved, which 

 makes the thorax broader in the anterior half, the punctures 

 in the striae on the elytra larger and, consequently, the 

 interspaces narrower, the convex yellow spots on the elytra 

 smaller and the elvtral epipleurae brassy, not reddish testaceous. 



Length 8 mm. — Subshining; above dark bronze; the 

 basal 3 joints of the antennae testaceous, stained with fuscous 

 at the top, the following joints pitch)' brown, the club 

 darkest; the anterior angles of the pronotum fulvous; the 

 scutellum bright green; the elytra provided with two pairs 

 of convex yellow spots situated between the 3 rd and 6 th 

 striae and surrounded with purplish; these spots are smaller 

 than in attenuata. The colour of the underside is reddish 

 testaceous, with the exception of the head (without the 

 throat) and the elytral epipleurae which are brassy; the 

 femora are reddish testaceous with the tip metallic green ; 

 the tibiae dark pitchy, indistinctly stained with rufous about 

 the middle, the tarsi dark pitch)-. 



Head strongly but rather remotely punctured in the raised 

 middle portion, somewhat finer and more closely between 



l ) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XVI (1895), p. 112. 



