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of Professor Westermann of Copenhagen, the pos- 

 sessor of a very rich collection of exotic entomology. 

 The above species is subject to vary in its colours ; 

 some specimens have the wings golden green, others 

 brown, which are immature ; in its mature state 

 the colour is black, with a strong metallic lustre ; 

 it appears to approach the genera Iphicerus and 

 Odontopus. 



Engim:, MacLeay. 

 Helota, MacLeay. 

 Type of the Genus Helota Vigorsii of MacLeay. 

 Helota Servillei, Hope. N. S. 



Long. lin. 8, lat. lin. 2j. Corpus supra roseo- 

 cupreum, punctatum, thorace eminentiis laevissimis, 

 elytris geminatim striatis et flavo bimaculatis. 



Caput aurato cupreum punctatissimum oculis fus- 

 cis collo subtus rubro, antennis piceis. Thorax 

 cupreus lateribus subserratis, disco punctulis eroso, 

 lineis duabus antice elevatis, et glabris, ternisque 

 aliis postice eminentibus. Scutellum nigrum. Elytra 

 acuminata, roseo-cuprea, striis punctorum geminatis, 

 marginibusque externis elevatis in singulo maculae 

 binae magnae, succineo colore inquinatae. Corpus 

 totum infra rubrum et nitidum. Pedes rubro 

 corallini, geniculis chelisq. nigris. 



Habitat in India Orientali, circa Poonah. 



Described from the collection of Colonel Withill. 

 This beautiful insect, the largest of the known 



