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96. Lema obscurifrons, sp. n. 



Head and thorax flavous ; the labrum, intraocular space and 

 three longitudinal bands on the thorax greenish-black. Elytra 

 metallic dark green, extreme apex testaceous ; antennae black ; legs 

 testaceous with dark stripes. 



Head impunctate, vertex strongly constricted, neck with a 

 black stripe on the sides, base and apex of clypeus and the labrum 

 greenish-black; antennae with basal joint flavous beneath, third and 

 fourth equal, terminal joints slightly thickened, last four equal, 

 about twice as long as broad. Thorax subquadrate, moderately 

 constricted at sides ; disc with some fine punctures arranged in rows 

 on the middle, basal sulcus deep, anterior portion with another 

 more shallow sulcus, more distinct on the sides ; the sides with a 

 broad blackish band, middle of disc with another elongate 

 posteriorly pointed streak that extends to the basal sulcus. 

 Scutellum black. Elytra gradually narrowed posteriorly, distinctly 

 depressed, below base strongly punctate-striate ; punctures closely 

 placed, finer at apex, the latter with a narrow subtriangular 

 flavous spot. Femora with black streak above ; tarsi, sides of 

 breast and abdomen greenish-fuscous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Nilgiris (Andrewes). Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 



JSTot unlike L. ornaticottis, Jac., but the thorax has two sulci 

 and one central streak, not two ; elytra, apex excepted, entirely 

 green. 



97. Lema semifulva, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 152. 



Fulvous ; antennas, labrum, breast and legs black. Elytra 

 with broad longitudinal black band on 

 disc, sides narrowly fulvous. 



Head impunctate, the intraocular 

 space swollen, with a central fovea ; 

 eyes deeply notched ; labrum black ; 

 antennae black, two-thirds the length of 

 the bodv, third and fourth joints equal. 

 Thorax broader than long but slightly 

 constricted at the middle; the surface 

 impunctate, with the basal sulcus deep 

 and another more shallow transverse 

 groove at the sides before the middle. 

 Elytra deeply punctate-striate, inter- 

 stices costate from middle to apex. 



Length 5 mm. 



Jfab. Burma : Bhamo. 

 Fig. 6. Lema semifulva. Differs from L. spoliata in the black 



underside, black antennae, anterior 

 thoracic depression and costate elytral interstices. 



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