_-HELOTA FROM BURMA ; 895 
| being as long as if not longer than the tibiae; the three basal 
_ joints of the anterior tarsi are distinctly widened and densely 
covered at the under surface with long pale coloured hairs. 
I am much pleased in naming this species after D.* R. Gestro, 
the able Sub-Director of the Genoa Civic Museum of Natural 
History, to whose liberality I owe the opportunity of examining 
the insects treated of in this paper. 
10. Helota immaculata, spec. nov. 
Four males and eight females, captured by Mr. L. Fea in 
December 1888 in the Carin mounts, Cheba district, at an ele- 
vation of 900-1100 meter above the level of the sea. 
This species is very distinct on account of its immaculate 
elytra. 
‘Length 7-7!/, millim. — Rather narrow and elongate; shining; 
above metallic green, the sides of the pronotum reddish testa- 
ceous which colour gradually passes into green towards the 
middle; each elytron with an ill-defined more or less extensive 
coppery streak laterally which is entirely wanting in only one 
of the twelve specimens before me; the antennae are dark 
pitchy, the two basal joints rufous, the first with a metallic 
green spot at the tip in front. The under surface is testaceous, 
with the exception of the blackish head (the throat alone is 
testaceous) and the infuscate tip of the abdomen; the elytral 
epipleurae are brown with a bronze hue and pitchy margins; 
the coxae and femora are testaceous with the tip of the latter 
and the tibiae metallic green, the tarsi pitchy, the tibiae on 
the inside reddish brown. , 
Head not strongly produced in front, strongly punctured, 
sparser so in the middle, very finely on the narrowed front 
portion; the more or less metallic middle portion of the under 
surface rather remotely punctured, the throat impunctate. 
Prothorax somewhat broader than long, only slightly narrowed 
to the front where the sides are curved, the latter finely but 
distinctly crenulate at the anterior angles which are slightly 
prominent, the anterior margin curved backwards; the base 
