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45 (r). Lema variegata. 
Head, the basal joints of the antenne, the breast, and the tibie, black ; thorax rufous; elytra pale yellow, a 
transverse band at the base, the suture narrowly, and a small spot below the middle, bluish-black, the 
ninth row of punctures entire. 
Length 23 lines. 
Head black, impunctate, the space surrounding the eyes punctured; antennz obscure fulvous, the basal joint 
entirely black, the three following joints blackish above, the third joint distinctly shorter than the fourth ; 
thorax subquadrate, deeply constricted at the sides, rufous, the basilar groove not very deep, the middle of 
the dise with a few very fine punctures; scutellum black ; elytra convex, without basal depression, the 
anterior third deeply, the rest very finely, punctured, the surface pale yellowish, the markings arranged 
thus—the base occupied by a transverse bluish-black band which does not extend to the lateral margin 
and has its posterior edge rather deeply bi-emarginate, the suture narrowly bluish-black, this colour 
slightly widened out at the middle into a lozenge-shaped mark, and below this is a small dark spot; the 
breast black, the abdomen and femora flavous, the tibize and tarsi black. 
Hab. GuatTEMALA (coll. Jacoby). 
I possess a single specimen of this rather curiously-marked species, without more 
particular locality. 
Lema discoidalis (p. 11). 
To the locality given, add :—Mexico, Cosamaloapam, Vera Cruz (SaJ/é). 
It is probable that the specimen from Guatemala which served me for the type is 
somewhat immature, and that it represents a variety in which the two triangular elytral 
patches have united. ‘The Mexican examples are reddish-fulvous and have the elytral 
markings more or less isolated (though sometimes connected by a narrow sutural stripe), 
and the punctuation finer and more regular; in other respects they agree with the type. 
L. discoidalis may be known from its allies by the blackish colour of the elytral markings, 
the immaculate humeri, and the entirely fulvous underside and femora. 
46 (a). Lema permutans. 
Rufous, the antenne (the first joint excepted), the sides of the breast, the apices of the femora, and the tibie 
and tarsi black; elytra deeply depressed below the base, subfoveolate-striate, a large triangular spot at 
the base, and a small spot below the middle, black. 
Var. The elytral spots small and of equal size. 
Length 2 lines. 
Head not constricted behind the eyes, impunctate; antenns about half the length of the body, black, the basal 
joint fulvous; thorax rather broader than long, not very deeply constricted at the middle, the basilar 
groove well-defined, the surface with a few fine punctures; elytra with a deep depression below the base, 
the punctures very deep and large, the interstices near the base and within the depression swollen and 
somewhat irregular and towards the apex subcostate, the punctures distinct but becoming much finer 
behind, the ninth row largely interrupted at the middle; below fulvous, the sides of the breast, the upper 
edges of the four anterior and the apices of the posterior femora, and the tibie and tarsi, black. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa, Vera Cruz (Sallé); Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 
L. permutans belongs to Lacordaire’s twenty-eighth group, and on account of the 
deep punctuation of the elytra seems closely allied to the North-American L. ephippium ; 
