LEMA. 27 



All this agrees with a specimen from Ceylon in niy collection, 

 but the colour of the abdomen is entirely fulvous, not dark as 

 Weise gives it. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon : Bandarawella. 



44. Lema flavimana, sp. n. 



Flavous, clypeus and breast black ; elytra violaceous blue. 



Head with the swollen portion at the vertex distinctly punctured 

 aud with a short and deep groove ; clypeus with its lower portion 

 and the labruin black with bluish gloss ; antennae rather short, 

 flavous, the third and fourth joints equal, terminal joints slightly 

 thickened and rather short. Thorax rather transverse, the anterior 

 angles tuberculate ; basal sulcus very deep, placed at some distance 

 from the base ; lateral cavities broad at their upper portion, 

 bounded by a strong ridge above ; anterior portion of the thorax 

 with a deep transverse sulcus at sides, very minutely punctured. 

 Scutellutn flavous. Elytra very strongly punctured at the base 

 only, the posterior portion finely punctate-striate. Legs flavous, 

 the femora robust. 



Length 5| mm. 



Hal. India : Bandra. Type in Brit. Mus. 



Amongst those with blue elytra the present species may be 

 known by the all but entire absence of an elytral depression, the 

 flavous or pale fulvous colour of the antenna? and their rather 

 short joints, the position of the thoracic basal sulcus and its 

 minutely punctured surface, when seen under a strong lens, the 

 punctured vertex of the head and the black breast. L. epipleuralit, 

 Jac. is smaller and has black antennae. 



45. Lema tranquebarica, Fair. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 92 ; Lacord. 



Mon. Phytoph. \, 1845, p. 376. 



Ferruginous ; labrum, sides of breast, and elytra black. 



Head smooth ; antenna? pale ferrugineous, extending slightly 

 below the middle of the elytra. Thorax subquadrate, im punctate, 

 the basal sulcus rather shallow, an oblique but feeble depression at 

 each side before the middle. Elytral puncturation not strong, with 

 impunctate interstices, the latter convex at the apex. Legs 

 ferruginous. 



Length 4| nun. 



Hub. Coast of Coromandel. 



A much smaller species than L. cyampcnnis, with black elytra 

 and similarly coloured sides of the breast. Whether this is the 

 true insect described by Fabricius under that name is doubtful, 

 since this author's description is too short to be conclusive and 

 applies to several closely allied forms. It may be only another 

 variety of L. coromandeliana in the description of which Fabricius 

 has substituted black for blue as the colour of the elytra. 



