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violaceous-black, regularly punctate-striate, the inlerstices finely 

 punctured, underside and legs flavous, the knees, tibiae and 

 farsi steel-blue, claws simple. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



This is the second species of this apparently rare t>eaus 

 which has come to my uotiee, the lirst having been described 

 by Baly more than thirty years ago (Journ. of Entomol. 1861). 

 The present species does not differ in an}' way in regard to 

 structural characters l'rom the type but entirely in the colour 

 of the elytra, in the absence of the two deep thoracic foveae 

 and in other details. I received two specimens from Dr. Stau- 

 dinger, in one of them the head and thorax is without spots. 



Lema sumbawaeusis n. sp. 



Black, above flavous, thorax with a basal Iransverse 

 black band, elytra deeply punctate-striate, flavous with a trans- 

 verse subquadrate band before the middle and the apex, black, 

 basal joints of the antennae and the legs flavous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head flavous, impunctate, very shining, the vertex not 

 divided, the lateral grooves deep, the space surrounding the 

 eyes, rugose, the latter very prominent, deeply notched, 

 antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra. black, the 

 lower four Joints flavous, the third Joint slightly longer than 

 the second but shorter than the fourth Joint, the tifth and 

 foUowing joints opaque, pubescent, the others shining^ thorax 

 not longer than broad, the anterior portion strongly widened, 

 deeply constricted below the middle, the sides strongly oblique, 

 the anterior angles furnished with a very small tubercle, 

 bearing a Single hair, the basal suicus deep, the space below 

 it in shape of a narrow trausverse band, black, the anterior 

 portion flavous, the disc with .'^ome rows of very minute 

 punctures- ehtra much broader at the base than the thorax, 

 slightly depressed below Ihe former, very deeply and rather 

 closely punctate-striate, the punctures rather liner posteriori}' 

 where the inlerstices are also costate, the disc flavous, with 

 a subquadrate band immediately before the middle and not 

 quite extending to the suture and the apex black; legs 

 flavous, the underside and the tarsi (the latter obscurely ) black. 



Hab. Sumbawa. 



Of. this pretty and peculiarly marked species. Iwo ?-peci- 

 mens are contained in my collection. 



Statt, entomol. Zeit. 1895. 



