Mr. A. 8. Olliff on the Genus Helota, MacLeay, 479 
_ This species appears to differ from any previously known 
in the armature of the thorax. 
Amboina. 
SALTATORIA, 
Gryllide. 
11. Gryllus capensis. 
Acheta capensis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 281 (1775). 
St. Vincent, Cape Verdes, July 1873; Green Mountain, 
Ascension, April 1876. 
12. Anastostoma australasice. 
Anastostoma australusie, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) i. p. 143, fig. 16 
(1837). 
Somerset, Torres Straits, Sept. 1874. 
A single immature specimen. 
LVII.—Description of an African Species of the Coleopterous 
Genus Helota, MacLeay. By A. SrpNeY OLLIFF. 
THE species I am about to describe was collected by the 
late Dr. Welwitsch at Angola, and was recently received by 
Mr. Martin Jacoby in a box, containing chiefly Phytophagous 
Coleoptera, from Signor Paulino d’Oliveira, of Coimbra, in 
Portugal. I have elsewhere pointed out (Cist. Ent. iii, 
p- 49) that all the previously known species of the genus 
Helota ave found in Eastern Asia, and therefore the species 
here described is of special interest, as showing that the genus 
is of far wider range than could have been anticipated. Lord 
Walsingham informs me that he has received from Bathurst, 
West Africa, a new species of Dewterocopus, Zeller (belonging 
to the Lepidopterous family Pterophoride), a genus which, 
up to the present time, has only been known from Java. 
This appears to be a somewhat similar and equally unex- 
pected case of geographical distribution. 
Helota africana, sp. n. 
Elongate, depressed, narrowed both in front and behind, 
pale fulvous, shining; the head, disk of the prothorax, a spot 
near the base, and the apical half of each elytron black. 
