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piceis, tliorace longitudine vix latiori, ante basin profunde con- 

 stricto, antice convexo, Ifcvissimo, niinntissinie piinctato, ntrincpie 

 linea transversa impresso ; scutello obsciire rvifo ; elytris paral- 

 lelis, tliorace latioribus, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis 

 minute granulosis, plauis, apice leviter convexiusculis ; nietallico- 

 cajruleis aut nigris, apice extremo rufo-testaceis. Long. 2^ lin. 



Var. A. Pectore abdominisque disco rufo-testaceis. 



Hab. Guinea, Gabon ; Var. A. Old Calabar. 



Head trigonate, vertex and front finely punctured, the latter 

 impressed -with a small oblong foA^ea ; lower portion of face 

 clothed with golden pubescence ; labrum nigro-piceous ; antennae 

 more than three-fourths the length of the body, filiform, black, 

 the two lower joints rufo-piceous, the intermediate ones black, 

 the three or four upper ones obscure nigro-piceous, third and 

 foTU'th joints equal, each twice the length of the second. 

 Thorax scarcely broader than long, sub-cylindrical, deejily 

 constricted in front of the base, the sulcation extending dowu- 

 Avards on the constricted sides ; disc in front convex, very 

 minutely punctiu-ed, impressed on either side with a transverse 

 groove. Scutellum rather longer than broad, sides slightly 

 converging from base to apex, the latter truncate. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, slightly flattened along the 

 suture, excavated transversely on the inner disc beloAv the base ; 

 rather strongly punctate-striate, the interspaces minutely grauu- 

 lose, plane, sometimes irregularly Avrinkled on the transverse 

 depression, convex at the extreme apex. Body beneath clothed 

 Avith adpressed sericeous hairs. 



This species must stand close to L. apicipennis, Lac. 



Lema Stevensi. 



Oblonga, convexa, la'te rufo-testacea, nitida, subtus aureo- 

 sericea ; thorace sub-cylindrico, longitudini fere a^quilato, Literi- 

 bus medio constrictis, disco la;vi, minute punctato, a,nte basin 

 profunde transversim sulcato ; elytris thorace multo latioribus, 

 couA^exis, dorso leviter deplanatis, infra basin leviter transversim 

 excavatis, regulariter punctato-striatis, punctis ante medium 

 magnis, profunde impressis ; interspatiis planis, ad apicem con- 

 vexiusculis ; metallico-can-uleis, violaceo tinctis, apice extremo 

 rufo-testaceo. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Burmah. 



Head constricted liehind the eyes, vertex and front shining, 

 impunctato, the kilter thickened, iin])resscd Avith a distinct fovea; 

 aiitciuuc four-lil'ths the length of tlic body, iilifonn, more rol)Ust 



