896 . C. RITSEMA ae 
bisinuate, the lateral angles short and acute, the median lobe 
broadly rounded; the pronotum rather remotely and somewhat 
irregularly covered with deeply impressed punctures, the lateral 
margins flattened and with minutely upturned edges. The scu- 
tellum strongly transverse, glossy and impunctate. The sides of ie : 
the sterna finely but distinctly punctured. 
Elytra parallel, with almost conjointly rounded apices, more 
broadly rounded in the male than in the female, the lateral — 
margins flattened ; each elytron with ten regular striae of rather : 
strong punctures, the interstices (which are most finely punc-— 
tured) flat, only slightly raised on the apical portion, the shoulders — 
impunctate, the elytral epipleurae with a few fine and rather — 
indistinct punctures. 
The sides of the abdomen are most finely punctured. In the 
male the last ventral segment is broadly rounded . posteriorly, 
and provided with a faint, finely pubescent and punctate de- 
pression. In the female the last ventral segment is subtruncate 
posteriorly. 
The femora are indistinctly punctured, the tibiae rather strongly 
so; the tarsi are short and thick. The anterior tibiae are di- 
stinctly curved on the apical half in both sexes, much more 
strongly so, however, especially underneath, in the male. 
11. Helota difficilis, spec. nov. 
Two male specimens, captured by Mr. L. Fea in December 
1888 in the Carin mounts, Cheba district, at an elevation of 
900-1100 meter above the level of the sea. 
This species strongly resembles in coloration Helota semufulva, 
Rits. from Java, and Melota fulvitarsis Rits. from Darjeeling, but 
it is decidedly broader in proportion to its length. It is most 
closely allied to the last named species on account of the broadness 
of the flattened lateral margins of the elytra, but differs from 
that species, besides by its broader shape, by the somewhat 
finer punctuation on the head and pronotum, whereas, on the 
contrary, the punctuation of the elytra is stronger in the new 
species than in fulvitarsis. 
