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behind the eyes); the elytra have a scarcely visible basal depression; and all the 
femora have an obscure dark spot at the middle. One of the specimens from 
Guatemala differs in having fulvous antenne and immaculate legs; but as it does not 
differ in any other way I treat it as a variety of the same species. The robust femora 
and the partly piceous and partly fulvous underside will assist in the recognition of 
L. dilaticollis. 
65. Lema sneipennis. 
Obscure piceous, the antenne and the clypeus black ; thorax fulvous, spotted with black, the disc punctured ; 
elytra seneous, deeply and remotely punctured, the apical margin testaceous, the space in front of it 
thickened, the ninth row of punctures only indicated at the base and apex; legs testaceous, spotted 
with fuscous. 
Length 13 line. 
Head impunctate, obscure fuscous at the vertex; eyes not deeply notched, the space between them bounded by 
a deep transverse groove; labrum black, clothed with rather long whitish pubescence; antenne two 
thirds the length of the body, black, the three or four basal joints testaceous at the base, the third and 
fourth joints equal; thorax rather transverse, short, deeply constricted at the sides, the basal sulcation 
also very deep, the surface obscure fulvous, with a greenish-zneous longitudinal band at the middle and 
a short similar marking at each anterior angle, and a distinct transverse groove on each side within the 
anterior margin, the middle of the disc and the sides anteriorly distinctly punctured; elytra with a 
distinct depression below the base, bronze-coloured, the punctures deep and distantly placed, those near 
the apex very fine and still more remote, the ninth row only indicated at the base and apex, by a few 
punctures, the interspace near the lateral margin strongly swollen behind, the margin itself from the 
middle to the apex narrowly testaceous; underside piceous, the sides of the abdominal segments more or 
less fulvous; legs testaceous, the femora with a fuscous spot at the knees above. 
Hab. Guatemata (coll. Jacoby). 
Of this apparently very distinct species I have received a specimen from the Museum 
of Stuttgart. 
Too late to be fully noticed in their proper place we have received a large number of | 
examples of many species of Lema from Mexico. Amongst these are the following two 
new species :— 
66. Lema ceruleo-plagiata. 
Black ; head usually more or less fulvous in front ; elytra with a distinct basal depression, fulvous, a triangular 
mark at the base, and a transverse band below the middle, metallic blue. 
Var. The elytral spots more or less confluent. 
Length 2 lines. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
Numerous specimens lately received from the above localities differ so much in 
coloration from Z. dorsalis, L. longicornis, and several allied species, that I am obliged 
to separate them. In ZL. cwruleo-plagiata the head is either entirely black or has the 
front marked with fulvous to a greater or less extent; the antenne and the thorax 
are entirely black, the latter being impunctate; the elytra are without a spot on the 
shoulders; and, lastly, the entire underside and the legs are black. In the variety the 
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