LEMA. 59 



110. Lema terminata, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. \, 1845, p. 341. 



Dark reddish ; the head anteriorly, an- 

 tennae, the sides of the breast and the legs 

 black ; elytra with the apical third blue. 



I am doubtful whether this can be sepa- 

 rated from the preceding species. The 

 differences pointed out by Lacordaire between 

 it and L. prceusta are so slight that taking 

 into consideration the similarity of the 

 locality of both, it is more than probable 

 that the present insect is only a variety of 

 the other, a variety in which the sides of 

 the breast as well as the legs are black ; all 

 the other marks of distinction quoted are 

 evidently only individual. 

 Fig. 11. Length 5 mm. 



Lema terminafa. Hob. Coromandel. 



111. Lema chalybeo-notata, dark, App. Cat. Phytoph. I860, p. 37 ; 



Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 18. 



Fulvous or rufous ; antennae fuscous, base rufous ; elytra with 

 the greater part of their apical portions dark blue ; legs flavous, 

 tibia? and tarsi fuscous. 



Head impunctate ; antennae long, first two joints fulvous. 

 Thorax with anterior angles prominent and tuberculate, moderately 

 constricted at sides, basal sulcus shallow, extended to the sides, 

 surface impunctate. Elytra parallel, punctures large at base, 

 gradually smaller towards apex, somewhat elongate, interstices 

 convex at apex. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



Similar in coloration to L. terminata, Lac., and L. prceusta, Lac., 

 but smaller, thorax with single sulcus only, frontal elevations 

 smooth, tibiae at outer edge and tarsi piceous. The blue portion 

 of the elytra varies greatly in extent and sometimes nearly reaches 

 the base, leaving at that place only a small fulvous spot and 

 similarly coloured lateral margins (var. inc/loria, Weise). 



The above description is drawn from Clark's type in the Brit. 

 Mus., and differs somewhat from that of the author, which is 

 misleading. 



112. Lema admirabilis,sp. n. 



Black ; thorax with purplish gloss ; elytra fulvous, an elongate 

 sutural spot at the base and the posterior third metallic blue. 



Head impunctate, black ; intraocular space not divided or 

 tuberculate, the extreme base with two obscure fulvous spots ; 

 eyes very large, not deeply notched, the space in front of them 

 rugose, deeply sulcate at the sides ; antennae black, extended to 



