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abdominal segment are black; but examples with entirely fulvous underside are not 
rare. The legs in all, with the exception of the femora being fulvous at the base, are 
black. There are some specimens before me which have only one small black spot 
below the base of the elytra, but the other differences (if any) are so slight that I 
cannot treat these examples as representing distinct species; in this case, as in many 
other instances, it is almost impossible to draw the line between species and variety. 
49 (a). Lema pardalina. 
Fulvous, the antenne (the fulvous basal joint excepted), the apices of the femora, and the tibie and tarsi black ; 
elytra deeply and remotely punctate-striate, with a fovea below the base, the suture anteriorly, a spot on 
the shoulder, two spots placed obliquely below the base, and one below the middle, black. 
Var, The sutural and humeral spots wanting. 
Length 23 lines. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Cordova (Sallé). 
I cannot treat this as a variety of L. sexpunctata, to which, however, it is closely 
allied; the differences are as follows:—The thorax is slightly shorter; the elytra have 
their punctures deeper and more remotely placed, the fovea is situated close to the 
suture, the latter is black for a short distance near the base, and there is an extra black 
spot placed a little lower down than the one within the fovea (this spot is always absent 
in all the specimens I refer to L. sexpunctata) at the sides below the base. The entire 
underside is fulvous; and the elytral punctuation is very fine below the middle. The 
three specimens before me only differ from each other in the spot on the shoulder and 
suture of the elytra being obsolete in one of them. 
49 (s). Lema dugesi. 
Lema dugési, de Borre, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxv. p. 13 (1881)’. 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato !. 
This species was described from a single example and placed by the author near 
LL. helvola, Lac. ; it is unknown to me. 
49 (c). Lema flavipennis. 
Pale flavous, the antenna, labrum, tibiz, and tarsi black; thorax subquadrate, rather transverse; elytra very 
faintly depressed below the base, strongly punctate-striate, the ninth row interrupted ; breast brownish. 
Length 2 lines. 
Of rather broad general shape; the head impunctate, with a short longitudinal groove between the eyes, the 
latter somewhat deeply indented; labrum and mandibles black; antenne slender, two thirds the length 
of the body, black, the third and fourth joints equal; thorax almost broader than long, the sides very 
moderately constricted at the middle, the basilar groove not strongly marked (in one specimen with a 
central depression) ; elytra much broader than the thorax, rather flattened, almost imperceptibly depressed 
below the base, pale flavous, deeply and regularly punctate-striate anteriorly, the punctuation becoming 
more feeble behind, the interstices costiform towards the apex, the ninth row of punctures only visible on 
the apical third; breast brownish, covered with thin pubescence; posterior femora extending to the apex 
of the elytra; the tibice and tarsi black. 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam (Sallé). 
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