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broad. Thorax subquadrate, fulvous, the anterior angles pointed, 

 distinctly but sparingly punctured, the disc with a double row of 

 punctures, the basal sulcus deep. Elytra rather flattened, scarcely 

 perceptibly impressed below the base, regularly and rather 

 strongly ptmctate-striate, the punctures scarcely smaller on the 

 posterior portion ; the suture with a metallic blue band, the sides 

 with a similar baud which is greatly constricted below the 

 shoulders, neither of the bands extends to the apex and the lateral 

 bands leave the extreme margins of the ground-colour ; the rest of 

 the surface as well as the abdomen flavous. Legs slightly darker ; 

 the breast black. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hub. Northern India. Type in Coll. Jacoby. 



This little species cannot be mistaken for L. rufo-ornata, var. 

 sinuato-vittata, Clk. and L. ornatipennis, Jac., with which it nearly 

 agrees in coloration, as the punctured and not raised vertex of 

 the head, the pointed anterior angles of the thorax, shape of the 

 elytral lateral blue band and structure of the antennae, which 

 have the joints short and stout instead of slender and elongate, 

 are more than sufficient to differentiate it from them. 



39. Lema difficilis, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 67. 



Body beneath and antennae black ; head and thorax fulvous ; 

 elytra metallic blue ; legs obscure fulvous. 



Head irn punctate, fulvous ; intraocular space strongly triangu- 

 larly raised and divided by a longitudinal groove, impressed with 

 some fine punctures ; eyes deeply triangularly emarginate; labrum 

 fulvous ; antennae black, the third joint slightly shorter than the 

 fourth, terminal joints slender and elongate. Thorax subquadrate, 

 the anterior angles prominent, subtuberculate, the basal sulcus 

 deep, lateral constrictions moderately deep, not in shape of a round 

 excavation but gradually uniting with the basal sulcus, not 

 bounded by a perpendicular ridge above ; the surface with two 

 rows of fine punctures at the middle and other punctures near the 

 anterior angles. Scutellum black. Elytra dark blue, with a 

 very shallow sutural depression below the base, very deeply and 

 strongly punctured anteriorly, the punctures, as usual, gradually 

 diminishing in size towards the apex, the interstices on that area 

 costate. Underside black, very finely pubescent, the edge of the 

 abdominal segments fulvous. Legs likewise fulvous, the posterior 

 femora stained with aeneous at the middle. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hal. Ceylon (Coll. Jacoby). 



Var. Elytra fulvous with blue sutural and lateral bands. 



It is quite possible that this species represents only another 

 variety of L. rufo-ornata, Clark, in which the underside is dark 

 instead of fulvous. Clark has described his species with black 

 elytral bands ; this is incorrect, they are metallic blue as can be 

 seen by an examination of the type in the British Museum. 



