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the raised portion and the eyes, very minutely on the 

 narrowed front portion. 



Prothorax strongly transverse, the sides more convex than 

 in the allied species which makes it broader in its anterior 

 half, the front angles slightly prominent, subangular, the 

 sides minutely crenulate, the base deeply bisinuate, the 

 lateral angles acute, the median lobe subtruncate ; the upper 

 surface strongly but rather irregularly punctured, the punc- 

 tures along the middle considerably finer than on the sides 

 and wider apart, impunctate in front of the scutellum, and 

 at the base, midway between the median lobe and the 

 lateral margins, with a small impunctate slightly raised spot. 

 The scutellum is strongly transverse, glossy and impunctate. 



Elytra narrowing in straight lines towards the end, the 

 apices rounded, slightly dehiscent at the suture. Each 

 elytron with ten regular striae of punctures which become 

 considerably larger towards the sides, making the interspaces 

 narrower than in the allied species. 



The underside of the head rather sparingly punctured, 

 the middle of the throat impunctate. The lateral portions 

 of the prosternum are rather densely covered with large 

 punctures, the punctures on the middle are minute and wider 

 apart. The abdomen is apparenti)- impunctate along the middle, 

 along the sides and on the apical segment ver)- minute 

 punctures are distinctly visible ; the apical segment is rounded 

 at the tip. The tip of the femora and the tibiae are very 

 distinctly punctured; the anterior tibiae are faintly curved. 



Hab. China: Yunnan. — The described female specimen 

 is in the collection of the Leyden Museum. The species 

 is dedicated to Mr. GEORGE Lewis. 



Helota Hopei n. sp. <$. 



Ven* closely allied to and much resembling Helota I<">'yi 

 RlTS. 1 ) from Burma, but shorter and slightly broader, with 

 the yellow elytral spots placed between the 4 th and 7 ,h and 

 between the 3 rd and 6 th striae, the apices of the elytra more 

 narrowly rounded and their posterior margin very minutely 



») Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XVI (1895). p. 



