238 ZOOLOGISCHE MEDEDEELINGEN — DEEL I . 



C' Elytral interstices alternately raised. 



I Black apical half of elytra with a faint bronze 

 hue. — (f. Middle of metasternum and of 1 st 

 ventral segment without a hairy spot. 



J Black apical half of elytra. without a fulvous 



stripe in the middle; tibiae black .... costata Rits. 



J / Black apical half of elytra with a fulvous 

 stripe in the middle (5 th interstice) ; tibiae with 

 a broad fulvous ring var. stigma Rits. 



V Black apical half of elytra with a faint pur- 

 plish hue. — cT- Middle of metasternum and of 

 1st ventral segment with a hairy spot . . . semipurpurea Rits. 



B / Disk of pronotum with three black vittae. Ely- 

 tra fuscous, all over with longitudinal black 

 stripes Pauli Weise. 



A' Pronotum unicolorous (purplish blue). Basal 



half of elytra fulvous, apical half purplish blue tripartita Rits. 



Correction to the „Systematical Catalogue" 

 (vide antea p. 125). 



By an oversight ') I have quoted the specimen from Bandar Baroe 

 (Sumatra or.), registered in the Catalogue sub n°. 49<y, as „sumbawensis". 

 It does not belong to this species, which is not represented in the Museum, 

 but to a new though closely allied one, described in the following lines 

 under the name 



Helot a neghcta. 



It is closely allied not only to sumbawensis Rits. from the island of 

 Soembawa, but also to intermedia Rits. from British Bhotan, having the 

 prosternum fulvous and the anterior angles of the pronotum coloured like 

 the disk, but it is distinguished from both by the different position of 

 the anterior pair of elytral spots, these being placed between the 4 th 

 and 7*h striae. 



cf. Length 6,5 mm. — Subsuming; above coppery bronze, the ful- 

 vous elytral spots surrounded with bluish black ; the antennae dark pitchy, 

 the two basal joints metallic green; the anterior angles of the pronotum 

 coloured like the disk, not fulvous; the anterior elytral spots placed be- 



1) At the time that I received the specimen, I attached to it, aftev détermination, a label 

 with the annotation „an sumbawensls Rits. J." In dressing the „Catalogue" I overlooked the 

 little word „an" and wrote sumbawensls, neglecting a re-examiaation. 



