158 Mr. J. S. Baly on new Species of Crioceridse. 



broader than long, subcylindrica], sides moderately constricted 

 just behind their middle, anterior angles acute, upper surface 

 convex, transversely excavated in front of the base, distinctly 

 punctured down the middle of the disk and along the anterior 

 border. Elytra broader than the thorax, not transversely de- 

 pressed below the basilar space, punctate-striate ; interspaces 

 towards the apex furcate. 



Lema globicollis, Baly. 



L. elongata, parallela, subcylindrica, picea, nitida ; ore antennisque 

 nigris ; pectore, scutello thoraceque rufis, hoc elongatulo, basi 

 constricto, antice globoso, fortiter punctato, utrinque spatio longi- 

 tudinali impunctato ; oculis nigris, prominulis, intus vix sinuatis ; 

 elytris cyaneis, dorso plauiusculis, infra basin haud transversim 

 impressis, fortiter punctato-striatis, interspatiis prope apicem 

 elevatis. 



Long. 2j lin. 



Hob. India. 



Head short; face triangular, concave between the eyes, the 

 latter very prominent, globular, shining black ; forehead nearly 

 impunctate ; antennae scarcely equal in length to half the body, 

 robust, gradually increasing in thickness towards their apex, 

 basal joints pitchy. Thorax rather longer than broad, deeply 

 impressed with subremote large punctures ; a longitudinal space 

 on either side the disk smooth, impunctate. 



Lema Dia, Baly. 



L. fulva, nitida ; pectoris lateribus pedibusque obscurioribus, femori- 

 bus (basi excepta) abdominisque utrinque macula basali nigro- 

 piceis ; antennis fuscis ; thorace fere transverso, lateribus medio 

 valde constrictis, dorso ante basin transversim sulcato, lsevi, disci 

 medio longitudinaliter tenuissime punctato ; elytris obscure caeru- 

 leis, violaceo micantibus, infra basin transversim depressis, tenuiter 

 punctato-striatis, punctis vix ante apicem deletis, interspatiis 

 planis ; limbo (basi excepta) fasciaque centrali fulvis. 



Long. 3| lin. 



Hab. Ega, Upper Amazons. 



Head deeply constricted behind the eyes ; face triangular ; 

 antennas two-thirds the length of the body, slender, filiform, 

 basal joint fulvous, second very short, third nearly twice as 

 long as the second, fourth one-third longer than the third, the 

 rest each equal in length to the fourth. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elytra much broader than the thorax, suboval, their apex broadly 

 rounded. 



Lema ornata, Baly. 

 L. oblongo-elongata, subcylindrica, nigra, nitida ; capite, scutello 



