26 CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



insect, from the original locality. This author makes, however, no 

 mention of any toothed tibiae. 



Size, coloration and the bisulcate thorax principally characterise 

 this species. Weise has named the variety in which the tibial 

 tooth, as well as the anterior thoracic sulcus, is very small or 

 entirely absent, and in which the breast and abdomen is quite 

 bluish or greenish-black, but such specimens cannot be distinguished 

 from several others of similar coloration, except perhaps by the 

 punctured and pubescent frontal tubercles. 



From Calcutta and other parts of India I have specimens with 

 entirely fulvous or rufous antennae and legs as well as similarly- 

 coloured underside (the sides of the breast excepted). I cannot 

 distinguish these specimens structurally from L. coromandeliana ; 

 they answer very nearly to L. melanocera, Lac., but that author 

 gives the lower joints of the antennae as black and the underside 

 as entirely fulvous : the locality for his species also is Java. 



42. Lema kandyensis, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 20. 



Eufous ; the head more or less aeneous anteriorly ; antennae, 

 breast, abdomen and legs black ; elytra metallic green or blue. 



Head and thorax rufous, with a violet tint above, the clypeus 

 and the labrum (the first-named at least at the margin) metallic 

 bluish ; mandibles black ; frontal elevations convex, not closely 

 punctured or pubescent, divided by a rather broad sulcus. 

 Antennae black. Thorax strongly constricted below the middle, 

 the anterior sulcus deep, terminating at the sides in a large fovea 

 which is clearly bounded above by a ridge, the basal sulcus rather 

 deep ; the surface with a few punctures at the middle and 

 anteriorly, the anterior angles pointed. Scutellum finely pubes- 

 cent, blackish or partly red. Elytra strongly metallic blue or 

 green, the inner rows of punctures obsolete behind the middle ; 

 interstices nearly smooth, finely granulate, the two sutural and the 

 three marginal interstices convex. 



The male has a fine median raised line on the first abdominal 

 segment, which is much more feeble and shorter than the 

 corresponding structure in L. coromandeliana. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon: Kandy. 



43. Lema tibiella, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 20. 



c? . Rufous ; antennae and labrum black ; clypeus, breast, 

 abdomen and legs dark aeneous ; elytra aeneous. 



This also is closely allied and resembles L. coromandeliana, but 

 is rather more slender, the breast and abdomen are greenish-black. 

 The thorax more closely punctured and the large and pointed 

 tibial tooth placed before, not behind the middle. 



