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ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE 

 OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGOUS GOLEOPTERA 



by Iflarlin Jaeoity. 



The présent pâper deals with the apparently new species 

 obtained by M"* H.-L. Andrewes in the Nilgiri Hills and by 

 M'T.-R.-D. Bell at Kanara, Karachi, Khandesh and Kashmir. They 

 were submitted to me by M' H.-E. Andrewes for examination and 

 form the third consignment of this group received by this gentle- 

 man, of which I gave an account in the Annals of the Belgian 

 Entomol. Society. I hâve added a few other species which are 

 contained in my collection, the latter also contains types and 

 cotypes of ail the species described hère while the bulk of the 

 collection is in the hands of M"" H,-E. Andrewes. 



LEMA PARADOXA sp. n. 



Bluish black below, above metallic green or blue, thorax deeply 

 bisulcate, impunctate, elytra with a fovea below the base, strongly 

 punctate anteriorly more finely so towards the apex, interstices not 

 raised except near the margins. 



Length 7 mill. 



Head deeply longitudinally sulcate at the vertex with a few fine 

 punctures, supra ocular grooves very deep, eyes broadly and deeply 

 notched, clypeus metallic with a transverse row of fine punctures 

 anteriorly, labrum with a similar row, antennse black, slender, the 

 second to the fourth joint gradually lenglhened, thorax not longer 

 than broad, the anterior angles produced into a small tubercle, the 

 sides moderately excavated, the excavation gradually extending to 

 the basai sulcus, the latter deep, straight, another somewhat sinuate 

 and nearly equally deep sulcus is placed before the middle, in front 

 of this sulcus are a few fine punctures, rest of the dise impunctate, 

 elytra with a short but deep fovea near the suture below the base, 

 another impression is placed near the apex at the junction of the 

 fourth and eighth strise, last two interstices costate, legs very slen- 

 der, bluish black. 



Pondicherry (my collection), Nilgiri Hills, Anamalais (Andrewes). 



AUied to L. cyanea Fabr. but much larger, the thorax more 

 distinctly tuberculate and more deeply bisulcate, elytral interstices 

 not rugose; the insect was procured by beating and on herbage 

 from May till July and in November and December. 



