42 CHBYSOMELIDjE. 



interstices costate at the sides. The sides and anterior edge of 

 the breast and the legs bluish-black, closely covered with fine 

 yellowish pubescence ; abdomen fulvous with similar pubescence. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Ruby Mines (DoJierty). Type in Brit. Mus. 



A very distinct species on account of the pubescence in the 

 emargination of the eyes and on clypeus, the short and sub- 

 quadrate terminal joints of the antennae and the absence of an 

 elytral depression. 



78. Lema decolorata, sp. n. 



Fulvous; antenna? (basal joints excepted) and tarsi obscure 

 fuscous ; underside black. 



Head very finely and rather closely punctured at vertex ; the 

 latter with a short longitudinal groove, lower portion clothed with 

 yellow pubescence ; eyes deeply notched ; antenna? fulvous, rather 

 long and stout, all joints stained with fuscous above, third and 

 fourth short, equal. Thorax slightly broader than long, anterior 

 portion rather strongly widened, basal sulcus deep, middle of 

 surface with another deep sulcus at sides joining the basal one ; 

 middle of disc with several rows of fine punctures. Scutellum 

 finely pubescent. Elytra parallel, subcylindrical, without trace 

 of basal depression, moderately, strongly and very regularly 

 punctate-striate, puncturation gradually finer towards apex, ninth 

 row of punctures not interrupted, first row near suture double on 

 the basal portion. Extreme apex of tibiae and of the tarsi fuscous. 

 Body beneath clothed with fine yellow pubescence. 



Length 4|-5 mm. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 



SECTION VII. 



Elytra pale; suture blue or black ; in one case with additional 

 discoidal stripe or small spots. 

 Thorax with one or two sulci. 



79. Lema suturella, Baly, A. M. N. H. (3) xvi, 1865, p. 156. 



Fulvous ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous ; breast and abdomen at base 

 black ; antennae (base excepted) fuscous ; elytra with suture 

 narrowly blue. 



Thorax less swollen than in L. downesi, irregularly punctured ; 

 a longitudinal space down the middle of the disc and the sides in 

 front, more coarsely punctured than the rest of the surface* Third 

 joint of the antenna? distinctly longer than the fourth. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Bengal. 



The antenna? in this species have their joints rather short, the 

 thoracic sulcus is placed close to the base and the elytral sutural 

 stripe is of equal width and does not extend quite to apex. 



