30 CHBTSOMELID^;. 



finely punctate, interstices slightly raised from the middle 

 downwards. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hob. Bengal ; Western India : Kanara ; Andaman Islands ; 

 Sumatra; Java. 



This species is principally distinguished by the swollen last joint 

 of the palpi in connection with its size and uniform coloration. 

 Lacordaire gives the thorax as longer than broad but this is not 

 the case in any of the specimens before me, which agree in every 

 other respect with the author's description. L. crassipalpis, Duviv. 

 differs in the thorax which is spotted and other details of coloration. 

 The type was obtained in Java, but I cannot separate the 

 Andaman Island and Indian specimens in any way. 



51. Lema indica, Jac. Ann, Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix, 1895, p. 252. 



Head flavous or testaceous, not tuberculate between the eyes, 

 but with a fine central groove, the neck rather strongly constricted ; 

 eyes very prominent ; antennae robust, only extend to the base of 

 the elytra, fuscous or flavous or partly of either colour, third and 

 fourth joints short, equal. Thorax subquadrate, deeply excavated 

 at the sides, the excavation scarcely separated from the basal sulcus, 

 the latter somewhat shallow, the disc with several rows of fine 

 punctures. Elytra with the basal portion slightly convex, deeply 

 punctate-striate anteriorly, the punctures placed in striae very fine 

 posteriorly, the interstices very minutely punctured, the first 

 subsutural row of punctures simple. Posterior femora strongly 

 incrassate, claws black. 



Length 7-8 mm. 



Hob. Burma: Tharrawaddy. 



This is a broad and robust species which might easily be 

 mistaken for a Crioceris but for the claws being united at the base ; 

 as the first row of elytral punctures are simple, the species would 

 find its place in Weise's genus Bradylema, which I look upon as a 

 section of Lema only. 



52. Lema yerburyi, sp. n. 



Pale flavous, claws black. 



Head deeply constricted posteriorly, the vertex with deep central 

 groove, lateral sulci very deep ; eyes very large and prominent, 

 broadly, deeply emarginate ; antennae flavous, short and robust, 

 the second joint moniliform, third and fourth very short, equal, 

 the others about twice as long as broad, rather widened. Thorax 

 deeply constricted at the sides, the cavity bounded by a per- 

 pendicular ridge above ; basal sulcus narrow but deep, curved, 

 placed close to the basal margin ; surface impunctate, convex. 

 Elytra with the basal portion raised, then feebly depressed, the 

 second and third row of punctures at the base rather deep, the 



