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11. Lema bitaeniata. 



Lema bitaniata, Lacord. Mon. p. 405 ; Chevrol. Col. Mex. cent. i. fasc. 1, no. 24. 

 Hah. Mexico. 



This species may be separated from L. eguestris and L. elegantula principally by its 

 rufous antennae and black underside. 



12. Lema flavofasciata. 



Lema flavofasciata, Clark, Cat. Phyt. App. p. 43. 

 Hab. Panama. 



13. Lema violaceofasciata. 



Lema violaceofasciata, Clark, Cat. Phyt. App. p. 42. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



14. Lema transversofasciata. (Tab. I. fig. 11.) 



Elongate-parallel, flavous ; head, basal and middle joints of the antennae, and the breast black ; elytra with a 

 broad transverse bluish-black band at the base surrounding two small flavous spots, and another narrow 

 band below the middle. 



Length 3^ lines. - 



Head with some distinct punctures round the inner orbits of the eyes and a small fovea in the middle ; antennae 

 slender, filiform, flavous, or the basal and middle joints more or less black ; thorax scarcely longer than 

 broad, moderately constricted at the sides, the basal transverse groove obsolete ; sxirf ace impunctate, 

 shining flavous or rufous; scutellum black; elytra moderately deep punctate-striate, the punctuation 

 obsolete towards the apex, where the interstices are slightly costate, without any basal transverse depres- 

 sion, of a Blight flavous colour ; the basal dark blue band reaches to nearly half the length of the elytra, 

 and has near its anterior margin two small flavous spots or streaks, while its posterior margin is irregu- 

 larly dentate or sinuate ; the second band is of less than half the width of the first, neither of them 

 extending to the lateral margin ; legs and abdomen entirely flavous. 



Hab. Costa Rica, Rio Sucio, Volcan de Irazu (Rogers). 



Several almost similarly coloured species have been described. This is most nearly 

 allied to L. ducalis, Lacord., and L. basalis, Chevr., as well as to L. violaceofasciata, 

 Clark ; but it differs from the first and second by the colour of the antennae and legs 

 as well as that of the head ; the blue elytral bands are also differently shaped ; from 

 L. violaceofasciata the light-coloured legs and the small fulvous basal spot of the 

 elytra will separate it, although the latter may sometimes be wanting. 



15. Lema nicaraguensis. (Tab. I. fig. 13.) 



Lema nicaraguensis, Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 774. 



Head and thorax ferruginous ; antennae (the base excepted), breast, tibiae, and tarsi black ; elytra bluish black, 



the lateral margins, a transverse median band, and the apex flavous ; femora and abdomen testaceous. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Hab. Nicakagua, Chontales (Jansori). 



