18 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
the eighteenth group of Lacordaire’s monograph, by the costate interstices, the obsolete 
basal depression, and the narrow sutural and sublateral stripes of the elytra. 
In one specimen the upper edge of the femora is more or less stained with black. 
25 (z). Lema nigro-lineata. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 25.) 
Fulvous, the head, the seven lower joints of the antenne, the sides of the breast, and the tibia and tarsi black ; 
thorax impunctate ; elytra closely punctate-striate, flavous, narrowly margined with black, the black 
margin interrupted before the apex. 
Length 23 lines. 
Head black, impunctate; antennz about half the length of the body, black, the apical four joints fulvous, the 
third joint twice as long as the second; thorax slightly longer than broad, fulvous, moderately constricted 
at the sides, the basilar groove rather shallow but well marked, the surface entirely impunctate, very 
shining; elytra without basal depression, deeply and closely punctured, the interstices costate near the 
apex, the sutaral, basal, and lateral margins narrowly black (this colour extending to about four fifths of 
the length of the elytra, and forming a broader spot at the shoulders) ; the epipleurs, underside (with the 
exception of a narrow black band at the sides of the breast), and femora flavous, the tibie black, the 
tarsi piceous. 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam (Sallé). 
A single specimen. J. nigro-lineata will enter the nineteenth group of Lacordaire’s 
arrangement, on account of the fulvous terminal joints of the antenne. ‘The details of 
the elytral pattern, and the colour of the legs &c., separate the species from any of its 
allies of somewhat similar markings, more particularly from L. abrupta, Lac. 
25 (c). Lema variabilis. 
Fulvous, the head, the intermediate joints of the antenne, the breast, and the tibie and tarsi black; thorax 
fulvous ; elytra testaceous, a sublateral longitudinal stripe, a spot below the base, a transverse band beyond 
the middle, and the suture, black. 
Var, The black markings more or less confluent. 
Length 4 lines. 
Head black, impunctate, the base more or less fulvous ; antenne less than half the length of the body, black, 
the apical three joints obscure fulvous; thorax subquadrate, the basilar sulcation not very deep, the 
surface entirely impunctate, fulvous; scutellum black; elytra slightly depressed below the base, finely 
punctate-striate, the interstices slightly convex towards the apex, the suture, a narrow sublateral stripe 
extending to the middle, an elongate spot below the base, and a subangulate transverse band of variable 
size below the middle, black; the breast black, the abdomen and the femora fulvous. 
Hab. GuatemMata, Las Mercedes, Cerro Zunil (Champion). 
L. variabilis seems somewhat allied to L. suffriani and L. semisepta, but differs in the 
elytra having a transverse postmedian band. In the variety the basal spot is confluent 
with the black lateral stripe, and the transverse band is slightly curved in shape and 
extends across the suture; in the typical forms this band is abbreviated on each side, 
and angulate at its outer ends. 
25 (p). Lema maculigera. (Tab. XXXV. fig. 17.) 
Head and breast black, the antenne and the thorax fulvous, the latter punctured on the disc; elytra testaceous, 
