OF 



INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 



PRINCIPALLY FROM MANDAR IN BENGAL 

 by Martin Jacoby. 



In the year 1891 and 92, the late Duvivier has published the 

 descriptions of Indian Phytophagous Coleoptera which were obtai- 

 ned by P. Cardon and P. Braet in different parts of Bengal and are 

 contained in the collection of the Brussels Museum. Since then the 

 latter institute has received further additions, for the most part 

 from Mandar in Bengal; these have been submitted to me for exa- 

 mination and prove to contain again many apparently undescribed 

 species of which I give the descriptions in this paper. I have added 

 from my own collection some of the more important new forms, so 

 as to get gradually a more complete idea of the Indian fauna, 

 which in spite of the many already known species, seems to be far 

 even from being approximately well known. It is to be hoped, that 

 one of these days, a more or less complete monograph of the Indian 

 Coleoptera will be taken in hand, similar to the great work, still in 

 progress, of Central America. 



LEMA SIGNATIPENNIS n. sp. 



Fulvous, the antennae and legs and the under-side partly black, 

 thorax impunctate, elytra with basal depression, strongly punctate- 

 striate, a basal spot, surrounding the scutellum and the posterior 

 half, metallic blue. 



var. The legs fulvous. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head fulvous, impunctate, with two strongly raised tubercles 

 above the eyes, the latter very deeply notched, clypeus and labrum 

 black, antennae extending to about the middle of the elytra, black, 

 the basal joint stained with fulvous, the second very short, third 

 and fourth joints equal, the rest longer and thicker, thorax not 

 longer than broad, the sides very moderately constricted, the ante- 

 rior angles rounded, the basal sulcus very deep, the surface convex, 



