10 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
(sometimes obsolete); elytra flattened, scarcely depressed below the base, deeply punctate-striate, the 
ninth stria entire ; femora short. 
Length 13 line. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 5500 feet (Champion). 
L. propingua, although not differing in any marked degree from several others of - 
this section with uniformly coloured upper surface, may be known principally by its 
small size and subdepressed elytra. The head is convex at the vertex and impunctate ; 
it is not constricted behind the eyes and has no central groove; the lower part of the 
face and the space surrounding the eyes, which latter are not very deeply notched, is 
covered with yellowish pubescence; the antennz have the third joint one half longer 
than the second, and scarcely extend to the middle of the body (in which they differ 
from several similarly-coloured species described by Lacordaire). .The thorax is but 
very moderately constricted at the sides and scarcely longer than broad; the basilar 
groove is distinct, placed at some distance from the base, and slightly rugose within ; 
the disc in some examples is impressed with two more or less distinct rows of punctures 
which in others are often obsolete; some smaller punctures are also here and there 
visible at the sides. The elytra are almost imperceptibly depressed below the base and 
deeply and regularly punctured, the interstices becoming slightly costate towards the 
apex where the punctuation is much finer. The posterior femora are very short. 
Many specimens; the majority are entirely black, others are blue above. 
5 (a). Lema chapuisi. 
Lema chapuisi, de Borre, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxv. p. 75 (188])’. 
Hab. Mexico}. 
This seems to be one of the largest-sized species of Lema, the length, as given by the 
author, being 9 millim. L. chapuisi is placed near L. chalybeipennis, Lac. 
5 (ps). Lema amabilis. 
Rufous, the antenne (the first two joints excepted), tibise, and tarsi black ; elytra metallic violaceous-blue, with 
basal depression, the punctuation nearly obsolete below the middle. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head rufous, impunctate, the lateral grooves very deep; the eyes very deeply notched, surrounded by a 
blackish space; antenne about half the length of the body, the first two joints rufous, the others black; 
thorax not longer than broad, deeply constricted at the middle, the basal groove obsolete, the surface 
impunctate, rufous, shining; scutellum black; elytra subdepressed, with a short impression below the 
base, the latter and the impression deeply punctured, the punctuation thence to the apex very fine but a 
little more distinct at the sides; underside and the femora rufous; tibie and tarsi black. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Cordova (Sallé); Guatemana, Mirandilla (Champion). 
This species although no doubt closely allied to L. chalybeipennis appears to be distinct, 
on account of the rufous head and basal joints of the antenne, and the colour of the 
femora; the elytra seem, however, to be similarly punctured. In the Guatemalan 
