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strigose, elytra dark fichons, strongly punctate-striate, the 

 interstices smooth* slightly convex. 



Length 4 Unes. 



Head greenish aeneous, the base with a narrow transverse 

 fulvous band, very finely punctured and strigose, clothed with 

 very short pubescence only visible under a strong lens, the space 

 between the eyes with a longitudinal narrow groove, labrum and 

 mandibles fulvous, antennse about half the length of the body, 

 fulvous, the apex of each joint stained with fuscous, the basai 

 joint entirely of that colour, the third joint more than twice the 

 length of the second, the fourth the longest, the terminal joints 

 much shorter; thorax subquadrate, slightly broader than long, 

 its sides perfectly straight, the anterior angles very slightly tuber- 

 culate, the dise with a dépression at each side and a rather deep 

 fovea near the base, greenish-aeneous, the margins more fulvous, 

 the surface impunctate, very finely strigose at the sides and more 

 strongly so near the base; scutellum pubescent; elytra strongly 

 flattened, slightly depressedbelow the base near the suture ; fulvous, 

 the punctures strong and regular, the interstices entirely smooth, 

 raised near the sides and at the apex, the latter truncate; legs 

 slender, fulvous, the femora with a more or less distinct elongate 

 aeneous markat their upper surface and armed with an acute tooth 

 below near the apex; underside densely covered with whitish 

 pubescence. 



Edb.\ India, Berhampur. In the collection of the Calcutta Muséum 

 and that of my own. 



Although evidently closely allied to D. Delesserti Lac, the 

 présent species differs in the elongate third joint of the antennae, 

 the straight sides of the thorax and the entirely smooth elytral 

 interstices also in their fulvous colour. 



Lema africanan. sp. — Fulvous, the dise of the thorax, the 

 breast and part of the abdomen black, thorax subquadrate, nearly 

 impunctate; elytra strongly punctate-striate, the interstices with 

 a fewfine punctures, fulvous, a transverse band below the middle, 

 black. 



Var. : Thorax fulvous with two black spots, underside fulvous, 

 the sides of the breast with a black spot. 



Length 3 i/s-4 Unes. 



Head deeply constricted behind the eyes, the vertex with two 

 strongly raised tubercles, eyes not very deeply notched, antennœ 

 not extending to the middle of the elytra," fulvous, the first 

 four joints shining, the rest opaque, terminal joint fuscous, the 

 third and fourth equal; thorax subquadrate, modéra tely deeply 



