62 CUBYBOMELID.E. 



labruin black ; antennae black, long and slender. Thorax slightly 

 broader than long, the sides only moderately constricted ; basal 

 sulcus very deep, the space behind it with another obsolete 

 transverse wrinkle ; the surface impunctate, very shining, black. 

 Elytra rather flat, with a short but deep sutural depression below 

 the base, strongly and closely punctate-striate anteriorly, the 

 punctures somewhat elongate in the middle, much liner towards 

 the apex, the interstices costate at the latter place and at the sides. 

 Beneath black, clothed with fine silvery pubescence. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. India (Coll. Jacoby). 



A small species which may be known by the fulvous tubercles 

 of the head, the deep elytral depression and the black underside 

 and legs. 



117. Lema fulvimana, Jac. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 98. 

 Black ; vertex of head and legs fulvous ; thorax and elytra 



blackish-blue. 



Closely allied to L. fulvofrontalis but differs in the following 

 details : The vertex, although of fulvous colour is not raised into 

 a divided elevation but is flat and the black colour of the lower 

 portion extends upwards between the eyes, the latter are very 

 t'eebly notched ; the thorax is dark blue, not black, and has some 

 fine punctures on the middle and anteriorly ; the elytral depression 

 is less deep and more obsoletely limited ; the legs are fulvous and 

 the tarsi fuscous. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hab. Bengal (Coll. Jacoby). 



SECTION XIII. 

 Thorax and elytra metallic blue or greenish ; species rather large. 



118. Lema rufofrontalis, sp, n. 



Body beneath, the head, antennae and thorax black witha bluish tint ; 

 elytra metallic greenish-blue ; head with two high rufous tubercles. 



Amongst the unicolorous metallic species the present insect is 

 principally distinguished by the subcylindrical elytra without 

 basal depression, the puncturation below the base being more 

 marked and very deep, all the punctures are closely set and as 

 usual get finer posteriorly. The head is entirely black and has two 

 highly raised rufous tubercles between the eyes ; the antennae are 

 rather short and black with only moderately elongate joints, the 

 third distinctly shorter than the fourth. The thorax is very 

 moderately constricted and has the anterior angles produced into 

 a small point, the basal sulcus is deep and placed at some distance 

 from the margin, the surface is black and impunctate. The 

 puncturatiou at the base of the elytra is rather irregular near the 

 suture with the interstices obsoletely rugose. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hub. India. 



