20 Phytophaga Malay ana. 



22. Lema nifina, Swartz. 

 Lac. Mon. Phyt. i. p. 346. 



" Sat elongata, laete rufa, prothorace infra medium modice 

 coarctato, supra basi sat profunde transversim impresso ; 

 elytris punctato-striatis, viridi-caeruleis, jipice summo sin- 

 guloque fascia lata longitudinali, testaceo-flavescentibus." 



Long. 2 lin. (Lacordaire.) 



Hab, Java. 



23. Lema Bowr'wgv, Baly. 



Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. July, 1862, p. 18. 

 Elongata, subcylindrica, nitida, subtus nigro-cyanea, argenteo- 

 pubescens ; capite thoraceque rufo-testaceis, illo pone oculos 

 valde constricto, oculis antennisque subfusiformibus nigris, 

 harum articulis ultimis duobus sordide albis ; hoc cylindrico 

 lateribus vix pone medium valde coarctato, ante basin trans- 

 versim sulcato, sub lente remote punctato ; scutello nigro ; 

 elytris laete caeruleis, parallelis, basi obsolete elevatis, punc- 

 tato-striatis, interspatiis antice planis, disco exteriori indis- 

 tincte transversim corrugatis, ad apicem subcostatis. 

 Var. A. Capite thoraceque laete casruleis, vertice obscure rufo. 

 Long. 2f — 3 lin. 



Hab. Pulo-Penang. Collected by Messrs. J. C. Bowring and 

 Lamb. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, nitidous, bluish-black beneath and 

 sparingly clothed with adpressed silvery pubescence ; head and 

 thorax rufo-testaceous ; elytra deep metallic blue. Head con- 

 stricted behind the eyes ; face triangular, epistome separated 

 from the face by a deep, acutely-angled groove ; from its apex 

 two others run obliquely upwards, one on either side, along the 

 edge of the orbit ; inner portion of the latter stained with black ; 

 labrum piceous ; general surface of head minutely and distantly 

 punctured, front impressed with a single distinct fovea ; antennae 

 subfusiform, moderately robust, black, their two terminal joints 

 dusky white, basal joint incrassate, ovate ; second short, sub- 

 moniliform ; third and fourth each longer than the first, equal, 

 obconic; four basal joints nitidous, the rest opaque. Thorax 

 subcylindrical, slightly longer than broad ; sides broadly and 

 deeply constricted immediately behind their middle, narrowed at 

 the extreme apex ; upper surface impressed in front of the base 

 with a deep sulcation, which is extended at either end into the 

 lateral constriction ; on the centre of the disc are five or six Ion- 



