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the following joints not thickened. Thorax subquadrate, the 

 anterior portion strongly widened, the anterior angles subtuber- 

 culate ; the disc with a t'e\v minute punctures when seen under a 

 very strong lens, deeply transversely sulcate, lateral excavation 

 deep, bounded by an acute ridge above. Elytra fulvous, with a small 

 depression near the suture below the base, strongly and closely 

 punctate-striate, the interstices costate from the middle downwards ; 

 the blue portion commences slightly before the middle and 

 extends to the apex. Beneath and the legs fulvous, the latter 

 rather slender, the underside clothed with very short pubescence. 



Length 6 mm. 



flab. Burma : Momeit (Doherty). Type in Brit. Mus. 



Can be distinguished from L. prtvusta by the want of the 

 anterior thoracic groove and the much larger extent of the blue 

 colour of the elytra, the colours on the elytra are sharply divided. 

 The fulvous head and other details separate the species from 

 L. admirabilis. 



SECTION XII. 

 Thorax blade or bluish; elytra metallic blue. 



115. Lema binghami, sp. n. 



Black ; head with a fulvous band at vertex ; elytra metallic 

 blue. 



Head black ; intraocular space strongly raised, undivided ; 

 immediately behind is a narrow obscure fulvous transverse band ; 

 eyes subtriangularly but feebly notched, very large and prominent ; 

 antennae black, extended beyond the middle of the elytra, very 

 slender, the third joint scarcely shorter than the fourth, following 

 joints very elongate. Thorax with the anterior angles rounded 

 but with a very small tubercle at the apex, the basal sulcus very 

 deep, placed at some distance from the base, the surface nearly 

 black with bluish gloss, the disc with two short rows of very fine 

 punctures. Scutellum black. Elytra with the shoulders rather- 

 prominent, depressed, but gradually so below the base, gradually 

 narrowed towards the apex, the puncturation rather strong and of 

 nearly equal depth and size. Beneath and the legs black. 

 Length 5| mm. 



Hub. Malabar coast : Mahe (Coll. Jacoby). 

 This is another nearly unicolorous species, which is separable 

 from allied forms by the undivided vertex of the head and its 

 fulvous band, the long antennae and the rather feebly impressed 

 elytx-a, the puncturation of which is rather stronger and more 

 co'ntinued than in most of the allied species. 



116. Lema fulvofrontalis, Jac. Mtm. Soc. JSnt. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 97. 



Black ; vertex of the head fulvous ; elytra dark metallic blue. 



Head impunctate, black, the vertex with two strongly raised 

 fulvous elevations which unite in front ; eyes deeply notched ; 



