154 LEMA NIGRILABRIS. 



very deep longitudinal depression ; the underside is reddish 

 fulvous, clothed with short silvery pubescence; the legs 

 are black. 



This species , although evidently closely allied to L. vio- 

 laceipennis Lac, seems to be distinct from it on account 

 of the entirely black antennao, labrum and the similarly 

 coloured legs; the elytra are also devoid of a post basalar 

 depression and the interrupted ninth punctured stria is 

 raised in shape of a costa. — Two specimens. 



Haltica (Graptodera) m o d e s t a, n. sp. 



Black ; the head , the three basal joints of the antennae , 

 the thorax and the anterior femora flavous ; elytra dark 

 violaceous, extremely finely punctured. — Length 1^/g line. 



Head impunctate ; the frontal tubercles rather flattened , 

 the carina sharp and distinct; labrum and palpi black; 

 antennae about half the length of the body, the three (or 

 four) lower joints flavous, the rest black, the third and 

 fourth equal , scarcely one half longer than the second joint ; 

 thorax convex, twice as broad as long, the sides deflexed 

 anteriorly , the lateral margin nearly straight , the posterior 

 slightly lobed at the middle , the anterior angles oblique , 

 forming an indistinct angle before the middle, the surface 

 with a deep transverse and sinuate groove, which is bounded 

 at the sides by a short perpendicular groove, but con- 

 tinues beyond this , upwards for a little distance , the disc 

 entirely impunctate, rather swollen; elytra convex , slightly 

 widened posteriorly , without any basal elevation , very 

 closely and finely punctured, the punctuation distinct to 

 the apices and arranged in very closely approached semi- 

 regular lines ; underside and the legs black , the anterior 

 femora flavous. 



This small species forms part of a group described by 

 the late von Harold which difier from the typical forms 

 of Haltica by the possession of a small perpendicular groove 

 in addition to the transverse sulcation of the thorax , as 



Notes from tlie Leyden ]VIuseu.ra, "Vol. X. 



