888 C. RITSEMA 
yellow elytral spots small and strongly convex, as well as an 
otherwise coloured upper surface, whereas the bronze colour of 
the elytral epipleurae .and the other differences in coloration 
remove it at once from the group of Serville: and fh ice 
species in which the epipleurae are red. 
It is a pity that Mr. Fea did not find both sexes of this 
species: the male seems to have escaped his investigations. 
3. Helota Oberthiiri, Ritsema, Notes from the Leyden Mu- 
seum, 1889, p. 101. 
A male and a female from Assam (Atkinson). 
4. Helota gemmata, Gorham, Transact. Entom. Soc. of London, 
1874, p. 448 (pars). — Reitter, Verhandl. naturf. Ver. in Brinn. 
Bd. XIV (1876), p. 65; pl. 1, fig. 1-5. — Harold, Abhandl. 
naturw. Ver. in Bremen, Bd. V (1876), p. 119. — Ritsema, — 
Notes Leyden Museum, 1889, p. 104. 
A male specimen from Japan (Deyrolle). 
No doubt the Rev. Gorham has confounded two species in his 
above cited description. One of these, for which the name 
gemmata may be retained, and to which the male specimen of 
the Genoa Museum belongs, is differentiated from the other by 
the more regularly continued inner interstices on the elytra 
owing to the regularity of the punctured striae, these being less 
coalescent, whereas the outer interstices are less strongly raised 
and less interrupted, and, moreover, by the compressed apical 
dilatation on the inner margin of the underside of the anterior 
tibiae in the male, and by the acute apices to the elytra and 
the apical depression on the last ventral segment in the female. 
The second species, namely the one which has the elytral 
striae « often coalescing and leaving the interstices as detached 
raised portions » (Gorham, l. c. line 2 from bottom), has been 
described by Mr. Kolbe (’) under the name of Melota fulviventris. 
(!) Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Bd. 52 (1886), p. 182; pl. 11, fig. 25 (2). 
