LEMA. 57 



Length 4|-5 mm. 



Hab. Malabar : Mahe (M. Maindroii) ; Nilgiris (H. L. Andrewes). 



This cannot be a variety of L. histrio as the thorax in the latter 

 insect has the sulcus placed close to the base ; in the present 

 insect the sulcus is deep and directly behind the middle, the 

 elytra! markings also are different. 



SECTION XI. 



Falvous or flavous ; elytra witJi apical portion and sometimes 

 with additional spots blue or black. 



107. Lema signatipennis, Jac. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 95. 



Fulvous ; antennae and underside partly black. Elytra with 

 basal spot and posterior half metallic blue. 



Head impunctate, with two strongly raised tubercles ; clypeus 

 and labruin black ; autenme black, the basal joint stained with 

 fulvous. Thorax subquadrate, the sides very moderately con- 

 stricted, anterior angles rounded, basal sulcus very deep; the 

 surface iinpunctate, fulvous. Elytra with a distinct basal depres- 

 sion, closely and strongly punctate-striate, the interstices slightly 

 costate at the sides, the base with a triangular metallic blue patch 

 that surrounds the scutellum, the posterior portion nearly to the 

 middle likewise metallic blue, this colour does not quite extend to 

 the lateral margins and has its anterior edge deeply notched and 

 convex. Bbreast and legs black, abdomen and sides of the breast 

 fulvous. 



Far. Legs fulvous. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Bengal : Mandar, Barway. 



Closely allied to L. histrio, Clk., L. chalybeo-notata, Clk., and 

 L. yestroi, Jac., but with differently shaped thorax, the elytral 

 markings blue instead of black and different in shape. 



108. Lema dimidiatipennis, Jac. Ann.Mus. do. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 871. 



Fulvous ; labruin black. Elytra with anterior half fulvous, 

 posterior half black. 



Head impunctate, the intraocular space triangularly raised, the 

 lateral grooves deep ; eyes triangularly notched : labrum black ; 

 antenna; slender, filiform, the second to the fifth joints gradually 

 lengthened. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, deeply constricted 

 at the sides, the constriction bounded above by a distinct ridge, 

 basal sulcus deep, the surface with a few minute punctures on the 

 disc and anteriorly. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra with a conspicuous 

 depression below the base, deeply punctured anteriorly, more 

 finely and gradually towards the apex, anterior half fulvous, the 



