i98 LEMA QUINQUEPLAGIATA. 



pressed with ten regular and entire rows of rather fine 

 but deep punctures whicli gradually decrease in size towards 

 the apex, where they are nearly obsolete, the interstices 

 at the same place, being slightly convex. The colour is 

 metallic bluish green with a slight tint of purplish near 

 the sutural and lateral margin , both of which are narrowly 

 raised. Underside obscure bluish aeneous , the legs obs- 

 cure piceous below , covered like the sides of the abdomen 

 with fine, silky, whitish pubescence. The posterior femora 

 do not extend beyond the second abdominal segment. 



In the variety the entire head and thorax are dark greenish , 

 with the exception of an obscure fulvous spot at the ver- 

 tex and the anterior part of the labrum which is of the 

 same colour. 



This species seems closely allied to L. coeruleata Baly 

 and L. javana Lacord. from the former of which it is dis- 

 tinguished by its smaller size , the entirely black antennae 

 and their much smaller size. From L. javana it may be 

 separated by the dark, not blue underside, the shorter 

 antennae and the distinct elytral depression. 



2. Lema quinqueplagiata , n. sp. 



Flavous. Thorax impunctate. Elytra deeply punctate- 

 striate , the apex costate , a common sutural spot , an elon- 

 gate spot at the shoulder and another round one near the 

 apex of each elytron, black. 



Length 2V2 lines. 



Head impunctate, distinctly constricted behind the eyes, 

 the latter deeply notched ; clypeus impunctate ; antennae 

 short , not extending much below the base of the elytra , 

 entirely flavous , the third and fourth joints nearly equal , 

 the fifth joint the longest. Thorax not longer than broad , 

 the sides deeply constricted near the base , in front of the 

 latter distinctly transversely grooved , anterior angles acute 

 wheu seen from above, upper surface nitidous, flavous, 

 entirely impunctate. Scutellum of the same colour, small, 



Notes Iroxxi tlie Leyclen IVluseut» , "Vol. V. 



