46 CHBYSOMELIDJE. 



Eufous ; elytra black, the basal margins, a lateral band from 

 shoulders to apex, and the apex itself rufous. 



The elytra in this species are either black, with metallic green 

 lustre and with a basal and apical fulvous band or spot, or pale 

 fulvous, with a metallic green sutural and marginal band of variable 

 width, or again entirely blackish-green without any lighter markings. 

 Typical rufo-ornata has the elytra black, with a short fulvous 

 mark at the base and the apex of the same colour ; the anterior 

 angles of the thorax are rather pointed or subtuberculate, the disc 

 has some double rows of well-marked punctures, and the elytra 

 have a distinct basal depression and are strongly punctured. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



In the variety L. sinuato-vittata the body beneath is rufo-fuscous. 



87. Lema ornatipennis, sp. n. 



Obscure flavous ; the labrum, antennae and the abdomen (partly) 

 black. Thorax with two blackish narrow bands ; elytra metallic 

 blue, a narrow elongate fulvous band along the middle ; tibiae and 

 tarsi fuscous. 



Head not constricted, impunctate ; the vertex only slightly 

 convex, scarcely grooved ; antennae black, slender, moderately long, 

 third and fourth joints equal. Thorax with the anterior portion 

 strongly convex and widened, deeply constricted near the base ; 

 the lateral cavities deep, bounded above by a ridge; basal sulcus 

 deep ; the surface impunctate, with a short piceous stripe at each 

 side. Scutellum broad, subquadrate, obscure fulvous. Elytra 

 rather deeply depressed below the base, impressed with large and 

 deep punctures, closely placed, the interstices more or less rugose 

 near the base and to a less extent posteriorlv, the blue colour 

 divided by a longitudinal fulvous stripe from the middle of the 

 base to the apex, this stripe is narrower than either of the blue 

 portions on each side of it and curves slightly outwards posteriorly. 



Length 4| mm. 



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



Very similar in coloration to L. rufo-ornata, Clk., but evidently 

 distinct, as it differs in the following points : the antennae as well 

 as the labrum are entirely black, the thorax has rounded not 

 pointed anterior angles, the disc is impunctate and furnished with 

 two black stripes, the elytral puncturation is much stronger and 

 the fulvous band narrower. 



88. Lema constricto-fasciata, sp. n. 



Flavous ; head and thorax fulvous, breast black, antennge 

 fuscous. Elytra with sutural and lateral stripes metallic blue. 



Head not raised at the vertex, the latter closely punctured, 

 fulvous, the emargination of the eyes pubescent ; antennae fuscous, 

 the terminal joint fulvous, third and fourth joints short, equal, the 

 succeeding joints more elongate, widened, about twice as long as 



