70 Mr. Joscpli S. Baly on the 
Earn. CRIOCEETDiE. 
Genus Lema, Fabr. 
Lac. Mon. Pliyt. i. 303. 
Of the tliirteen species eniimerated or described below, 
five arc jiropcr to Japan itself, and are all described liere 
lor the first time ; six are found in the adjacent parts of 
the Asiatic continent ; one is also found in Siberia, and 
two extend into Europe. 
Lema conclnnipennis, Baly. 
Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1865, p. 157. 
Nigra, nitida, abdominis apice testaceo ; pedibus 
cairuleo-nigris ; supra ca3ruleo-metallica, antennis nigris ; 
thorace longitudine vix latiori, ante basin transversim ex- 
cavato, disco rude, hie illic crebre punctato, vitta longitu- 
dinali centrali impunctato, lateribus vix pone medium 
constrictis et ibi rugosis ; elytris punctato-striatis, punctis 
basi fortiter — pone medium modice — impressis; utrisque 
infra basin transversim excavatis. 
Var. A. Thorace minus crebre punctato, abdomine ut 
in typo. 
13. Abdomine ? toto nigro. 
C. Corpore supra nigro. 
Long. 21— 3| lin. 
Ilab. — Nagasaki and Iliogo, Ja])an ; also the coast of 
Tartary and Northern China. Found on the Cluy- 
santhcmum. 
Forehead slightly raised, coarsely punctured, imj^rcssed 
in the middle with a deep longitudinal groove. Sides of 
thorax broadly constricted in the middle, a perpcndicidar 
space occupying the deej^est part of the constriction, 
coarsely rugose ; upper surface impressed with large 
deep pruictures, whicli vary greatly in number ; in most 
specimens they are crowded and confluent on the disk, 
having a central vitta free from ]uinctures ; the surface on 
cither side this line is generally depressed, having the 
vitta itself raised and subcostate ; the space between the 
punctures minutely but not closely punctured ; in many 
specimens, especially the large ones, the larger punctures 
are much less numerous, and are scattered at distant inter- 
vals over the surface. Scutellum subquadrate, its surface 
impressed Avith shallow punctures, and sparingly clothed 
with adprcssed sericeous hairs. Elytra strongly punctured 
