248 C. RITSEMA CZ., DESCRIPTION OF FIVE NEW ASIATIC 



wider apart on the middle between the eyes; on the nar- 

 rowed front portion they are fine and close together. 



Prothorax subquadrate, the front margin straight, the front 

 angles rounded, not at all prominent; the base bisinuate, 

 the lateral angles acute, the median lobe rounded. The 

 pronotum rather regularly densely covered with punctures 

 which are distinctly larger than those on the middle of the 

 head. The scutellum is transverse, broadly rounded posteriorly 

 and impunctate. 



Elytra elongate, subparallel, each of them broadly rounded 

 at the end, somewhat looking as being obliquely subtruncatc 

 towards the suture. Each elytron with ten regularly punctured 

 striae, the punctures becoming larger towards the sides; 

 those interstices which join the apical margin are costate 

 at the end. 



Under surface of the head (except the throat) provided with 

 large punctures, the metallic coloured lateral portions of the 

 prosternum still more strongly punctured, the middle portion 

 much more finely ; the elytral epipleurae and legs apparently 

 impunctate, the abdomen very minutely punctured, the apical 

 ventral segment truncate posteriorly. 



Anterior tibiae slender, distinctly curved, shallowly notched 

 about the middle on the inside, and on the underside with 

 a thinly fringed black line extending from the notch to the 

 apex of the tibia; the basal joints of the anterior tarsi are 

 slightly widened and fringed beneath with long colourless 

 hairs; the intermediate and posterior tibiae are straight, their 

 inner margin untoothed. 



Hab. British Bhotan : Padong (Rev. Fath. L. DUREL). — 

 Three male specimens from Mr. René Oberthür's collection, 

 one of which is now in the Leyden Museum. This species 

 is dedicated to Mr. Prosper Boulé, the zealous preparator 

 of Mr. René Oberthür. 



Helota consanguinea n. sp. c?- 



Resembling Helota Boulet and of the same size, but at once 

 recognizable by the presence of a pubescent impression on 

 the apical ventral segment, by the darker coloured terminal 

 joints of the club of the antennae, by the less slender ante- 



