LEM\. 53 



punctate-striate anteriorly within the depression, more finely so 

 at sides and apex, base with a semicircular black spot at shoulders 

 that does not quite extend up to suture, a round spot below the 

 middle. 



Var. a. Thorax with 4 black spots. 



Var. b. Elytra nearly black, with cross-like fulvous pattern. 



Var. c. Elytra with 5 spots, one below scutellum, two near the 

 shoulders, and two below middle. Thorax with 2 spots. 



Var. d. Thorax with 4 spots, elytra with one large sutural spoi 

 (L.jansoni, Baly). 



Var. e. Elytra black, apex rufous, thorax partly black. 



Var. /. Thorax as in var. a ; elytra entirely black. 



Length 4|-7 mm. 



Hab. Eastern India ; Siain. 



100. Lema crassipalpis, Duviv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, Bull. 



1891, p. xxvi. 



Testaceous ; labrum, four spots on the thorax, rneso- and 

 metasternum and the base of the first abdominal segment, black ; 

 elytra flavous, with two large black markings. 



Head smooth, strongly constricted posteriorly; eyes prominent, 

 deeply emarginate ; palpi incrassate ; vertex with a f ovea ; antennae 

 testaceous, rather robust, filiform, extended to the middle of the 

 elytra. Thorax subquadrate, strongly constricted in the middle, 

 transversely sulcate near the base, anterior angles pointed, 

 the anterior and posterior margins with a fine border; the sur- 

 face with some very fine punctures and others near the anterior 

 angles ; two black spots on each side, one near the anterior 

 angles, the other near the constriction. Elytra testaceous, with 

 a transverse depression below the base, strongly punctate-striate 

 anteriorly, the interstices near the apex also very finely punctured 

 and costate, a large triangular patch occupies the anterior two- 

 fifths, another patch almost covers the posterior half without 

 extending to either margin, this is prolonged laterally into a 

 narrow stripe and extends upwards as far as the shoulders. 

 Beneath clothed with short grey pubescence. 



Length 6'^ mm. 



Hab. Western India : Konbir. 



Allied to L. histrio, Clark, but probably distinct on account of 

 the different sculpture of thorax and elytra. 



101. Lema cardoni, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. \\i, 1897, p. 420. 



Fulvous ; the labrum black ; elytra with a subquadrate large 



r' on the shoulders and a rounded spot near the apex, metallic 

 . 



Head with a few punctures on the vertex, the supraocular 

 grooves and the clypeus furnished with golden-yellow hairs; labrum 



