278 Mr. J. S. Balj on the Phytophaga. 



pimctis prope basin fortiter impressis, iuterspatiis prope apicem elevatis. 

 — Long. 3 lin. 

 Mab. India. 



Elongate, subcylindrical ; face subtrigonate ; antennae slender, longer 

 tban half the body, filiform. Thorax marked on the disk with four 

 small black spots arranged in an in-egidar square. Scutellum small, 

 trigonate. Elytra much broader than the thorax, broadly excavated below 

 the basilar space, the latter indistinctlj' elevated, each elytron impressed 

 with ten rows of deep punctures ; at the base of the elytra is a large 

 somewhat square-shaped shining black patch, which extends from the 

 sutvu'e to the fourth stria and dowTiwards nearly a third the length of 

 the elytra. Hinder thigh slightly iucrassate, much shorter than the 

 abdomen, its outer sm-face beyond the middle stained with a fuscous 

 spot ; basal segment of abdomen also stained with fuscous. 



Lema Bretingliami. 



L. subelongata, parallela, subtus cum antennis nigris, pectore abdomineque 

 fuscis, supra fusco-fulva ; elytris infra basin non transversim depressis, 

 fortiter punctato-striatis, vitta lata communi a pauUo infra basin ad 

 apicem extensa, antrorsum angustata, obscure ceerulea ; thorace late- 

 ribus medio valde coarctatis, supra transversim bisidcato, sulco anteriore 

 medio interrupto. — Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. India, Collected by Mr. Bretingham. 



Subelongate, parallel ; face trigonate ; epistome and antennae black, 

 the latter moderately robust, nearly filiform, two-thirds the length of 

 the body, third joint twice the length of the second, fourth nearly 

 equal to the third ; forehead impressed with an oblong fovea. Thorax 

 quadrate, subcylindrical, sides deeply constricted in the middle ; upper 

 surface smooth, impunctate, impressed with two transverse grooves, 

 the first short, shallow, inteiTupted in the middle, the second deeply 

 sulcate, entire, and placed just behind the lateral constriction. Scu- 

 tellum trigonate, its apex truncate. El}i;ra much broader than the 

 thorax, more than three times its length, sides parallel above, convex, 

 slightly flattened along the sutm-e, transverse depression below the 

 basilar space obsolete ; each elytron with eleven rows of deep punctures, 

 the first abbreviated, the outer one deeply sulcate, the puncturing of 

 the inner striae near their base somewhat coarser and deeper than on 

 the rest of their extent, interspaces plane at the base, costate behind the 

 middle of the elytron. Hinder thighs scarcely thickened, shorter than 

 the abdomen. 



Lema sellata. 



L. elongata, subcylindrica, fulvo-fusca, nitida ; unguiculis, metathorace, 

 thoracis punctis duobus disco transversim positis, elytrorumque fascia 

 lata communi prope medium, extrorsum abbreviata, nigris; antennis 

 corporis dimidio longioribus, mediocribus, fere filiformibus, articulis 



