HELOTA FROM BURMA 899 
latter, however, slightly invading the interstice between the 6° 
and 7® striae; the yellow spots are surrounded with bluish 
black. The colour of the underside is testaceous, with the excep- 
tion of the head and the elytral epipleurae which are golden 
ereen; the legs are testaceous with the apex of the femora and 
the entire tibiae golden green, the tarsi pitchy. 
The head strongly but not densely punctured, very finely so 
on the narrowed front portion. 
The prothorax transverse, slightly narrowing in straight lines 
to the front, the front angles narrow and acute, slightly pro- 
truding, the front margin curved backwards; the base bisinuate, 
the lateral angles acute, the minutely impressed median lobe 
subtruncate; the upper surface remotely and very irregularly 
punctured, the punctures along the lateral edges more or less 
confluent; a large impunctate streak is present in front of the 
scutellum and is accompanied on each side of its base by a 
small impression ; the scutellum subtransverse, rounded behind, 
glossy and impunctate. 
The elytra subparallel, slightly narrowing towards the end, 
the apices rather narrowly and conjointly rounded; each elytron 
with ten regular striae of punctures which are small in the 1* 
to 7, distinctly larger in the 8° to 10 striae ; the interstices, 
which are almost imperceptibly punctured, become costate on 
the apical portion, especially the 3" and 9% which, moreover , 
extend on to the extreme margin. 
The middle portion of the under surface of the head is finely 
and rather remotely punctured, the throat impunctate; the sides 
of the sterna are likewise finely and remotely punctured, the 
abdomen impunctate. 
The last ventral segment broadly truncate posteriorly, the 
truncation with a rounded sinus on each side of the straight 
middle portion, fringed with long pale coloured hairs, and pre- 
ceded by a shallow densely pubescent impression. 
The tibiae have a few strong punctures, which are, however, 
more numerous on the anterior ones; these latter are slightly 
elongated , strongly curved, and provided underneath with a 
