68 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Of a uniform dark blue colour ; the head impunctate, the neck 

 scarcely constricted, with traces of fulvous colour ; eyes very promi- 

 nent, the lateral grooves very deep ; clypeus impunctate, labrum and 

 palpi nearly black ; antennas very short, black, the third joint one-half 

 longer than the second, but shorter than the fourth, four lower joints 

 shining, the rest pubescent and robust ; thorax not much longer than 

 broad, moderately constricted at the sides, the anterior angles rounded, 

 the basal sulcus deep and sinuate, the disc extremely minutely and 

 remotely punctured, rest of the surface impunctate ; scutellum small, 

 black ; elytra parallel, with a very feeble depression near the suture 

 below the base, regularly and rather strongly punctured at the anterior 

 half, the punctures gradually diminishing in size and their places 

 occupied by striae at the posterior portion, the interstices convex at the 

 latter place, impunctate ; below dark blue, as well as the legs, sparingly 

 clothed with grey pubescence ; the posterior femora not extending 

 beyond the second abdominal segment ; ninth row of punctures at 

 the elytra entire. 



Hab. Khasia Hills. 



The single specimen which Dr. Kraatz kindly sent me differs 

 from any of its similarly coloured Eastern relations in the short 

 antennae, finely punctured disc of the thorax, and the sculp- 

 turing of the elytra, which are only partly punctate- striate. 



Lema ivestwoodi, sp. nov. 



Metallic dark blue ; the abdomen flavous ; antennas and legs 

 nearly black ; thorax finely rugose-punctate near the base only ; elytra 

 with deep basal depression, finely punctate-striate, the punctures 

 nearly obsolete near the apex, ninth row entire. Length, 5 mill. 



Head not constricted posteriorly, the vertex finely punctured at 

 the sides with a short longitudinal central groove ; eyes large, sub- 

 quadrately notched, the surrounding space rugose ; labrum black ; 

 antennas long and slender, black, the third and fourth joints equal ; 

 thorax subquadrate, not longer than broad, very moderately constricted 

 at the sides, the latter nearly straight when viewed from above, 

 widened towards the apex, the anterior angles very minutely tubercu- 

 liform, the surface obsoletely aulcate near the base, the latter finely 

 rugosely punctured, the middle of the disc with a few fine punctures, 

 which are also visible near the anterior angles ; scutellum broader 

 than long, smooth ; elytra strongly foveolate near the suture below 

 the base, the basal portions very feebly raised, the surface distinctly 

 punctate-striate, the punctures larger within the depression, much 

 finer and more elongate posteriorly, where the interstices are convex ; 

 below and the legs nearly black ; the abdomen fulvous or flavous. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



I know of no species of Lema from the East in which the 

 thorax is similarly sculptured, nor of any from other parts of the 

 world ; this character and the colour of the abdomen will easily 

 distinguish the species. In the Oxford Museum collection and 

 that of my own. 



