890 C. RITSEMA 
and 6". The posterior pair is, quite normally, placed between Ù 
the 3" and 6° striae. 
7. Helota serratipennis, spec. nov. 
Two males and four females, captured by Mr. L. Fea in De- 
cember 1888 in the Carin mounts, Cheba district, at an eleva- 
tion of 900-1100 meter above the level of the sea. 
This species is closely allied to and strongly resembles Helota 
curvipes Oberth., but it is smaller and the yellow elytral spots 
have a different arrangement. It is moreover at once distinguished 
by the serrulate margin of the posterior third of the elytra. 
Length 7-8 !/, millim. — Subshining; above dark bronze, here 
and there with green and coppery tinges, the scutellum shining 
golden green; the antennae pale testaceous, the club infuscate, 
the scape with a metallic green patch in front; the anterior 
angles of the pronotum testaceous; the elytra provided with 
four small yellow spots, of which the anterior pair are placed 
between the 4 and 7”, the posterior pair between the 3" and 
6" striae, the latter, however, slightly invading the interstice 
between the 6" and 7° striae; the spots are surrounded with - 
bluish black. The colour of the underside is reddish testaceous, . 
with the exception, however, of the head (the throat alone has. ee 
a testaceous colour) and the elytral epipleurae which are of a . 
bronze colour; the legs are reddish testaceous with the apex of 
the femora and the entire tibiae and tarsi metallic green. 
The head is broad, not strongly produced in front of the eyes, 
and rather remotely covered with large and deep punctures on 
the raised middle portion; towards the eyes the punctures are 
closer together and towards the front margin they become con- 
siderably smaller. 
Prothorax slightly transverse, and slightly narrowing in nearly 
straight lines towards the front, the indistinctly crenulate sides 
being only curved near the front angles which are scarcely 
prominent, the antexior margin slightly curved backward ; the 
base bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the median lobe broadly 
rounded ; the upper surface covered with strong punctures which 
