40 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
arranged in strie, but becoming stronger towards the base, the ninth row of punctures interrupted, the 
interstices costate towards the sides and apex ; underside black, finely clothed with greyish pubescence ; 
legs with a slight bluish gloss ; the femora rather feeble, extending to the end of the abdomen in the male. 
Hab. Mexico, San Miguel (Sallé) ; Guatemata, Zapote (Champion) ; PanaMA, Bugaba, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
L. foveipennis approaches L. fryi, Clark, a species placed by me at the beginning of 
the genus, from which it is separated by the deep transverse elytral depression, long 
antenne, and the wart of the small rufous spots on the head. LL. violacea, Lac., and 
L. cerulea, Lac., are larger, the former having more strongly developed femora, and the 
latter a differently shaped head; Z. lepida, Lac., has the head rufous in front, and the 
eyes deeply notched. Many specimens from the State of Panama, but one only from 
Guatemala, and one from Mexico. ‘This latter does not differ from the others, except 
in having (as is the case with so many other similarly-coloured species) two rufous 
spots behind the eyes, and in the more violaceous colour of the elytra; in the absence 
of other distinctive characters, I think it best to look upon the Mexican form asa 
variety of L. foveipennis. 
60 (s). Lema azureipennis ? 
Lema azureipennis, Lacord. Monogr. in Mém. Soc. Liége, iii. p. 506 - 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (H. H. Smith & F. D. Godman), Toxpam, Vera Cruz, Cordova 
(Sallé); Guatemaua, Volcan de Atitlan, Cerro Zunil (Champion); Nicaracva, Chontales 
(Janson).—V ENEZUELA, Caracas '. 
I am not able to refer with certainty the specimens before me from the above 
localities to this or to any one of the several closely allied species described by 
Lacordaire; all are apparently subject to a good deal of variation. They agree with 
the description of Z. azuretpennis in having the first two joints of the antenne red, but 
in a few examples the first joint only is of that colour. The elytra are either metallic 
blue or violet, and have a deep basal depression; their punctuation is much finer than 
in most of the other similarly-coloured species of our region, the apex being almost 
impunctate, and the ninth row interrupted. In most specimens the colour of the 
underside is black, but in a few (which differ in no other way) it is fulvous: this 
variation prevents the certain identification of the species with any one of those 
included in Lacordaire’s monograph. The present insect varies in size from 14 to 2 
lines; and the legs vary in colour from black to fulvous, but are usually of the latter 
colour with the tibiz darker; it has the third joint of the antenne shorter than the 
fourth, and the elytral punctures are rather distantly placed. 
60 (c). Lema bisulcata. 
Black, the head rufous at the base; thorax finely punctured on the disc, sulcate in front and at the base; elytra 
metallic blue, with a deep basal depression, very strongly punctate-striate, the ninth row interrupted. 
Length 14-2 lines. 
