LBMA. 63 



I have a single specimen without detailed locality. The species 

 ia much larger than L. nilgiriensis and the elytra have no basal 

 depression. 



119. Lema psyche, Baly, A. M. X. H. (3) xvi, 1865, p. 157. 

 Metallic blue ; antennae and legs black ; elytra purplish. 

 Thorax subtransverse, cylindrical, moderately constricted, the 



disc finely punctured. Elytra robust, transversely depressed 

 below the base, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices costate 

 near the apex. Antennae slender, the third and fourth joints 

 equal. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob. Northern India. 



The head is coarsely punctured on the vertex ; antennae two- 

 thirds the length of the body ; the transverse elytral depression 

 shallow, obsoletely wrinkled ; the elytra broad and robust. These 

 characters and the sculpture oC the head together with the color- 

 ation distinguish this species from any other. 



120. Lema paradoxa, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlviii, 1904, p. 380. 

 Beneath bluish-black, above metallic green or blue. 



Head deeply longitudinally sulcate on the vertex, supraocular 

 grooves very deep ; clypeus with a row of fine punctures ; labrum 

 similarly punctured ; antennae black, not extended to middle of 

 elytra, second to fourth joints gradually lengthened, terminal 

 joints rather robust. Thorax subquadrate, anterior angles 

 distinctly tuberculate, basal sulcus deep, another nearly equally 

 deep sulcus before middle, a few fine punctures in front of latter, 

 rest of disc impunctate. Elytra with deep sutural depression 

 below base, another depression near apex at junction of fourth and 

 eighth row of punctur'es, last two interstices at sides costate. Legs 

 very slender, bluish. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hob. Southern India : Pondicherry ; Mlgiris. 



Allied to L. cyanella, Fab. from Europe, but much larger, thorax 

 more distinctly tuberculate at the anterior angles and deeply 

 bisulcate ; elytral interstices not rugose. 



" Found on herbage from May till July and in November and 

 December." (Andreives.) 



121. Lema gahani, Jac. The Entomologist, xxxii, 1899, p. 67. 

 Dark metallic blue ; antennae, tibiae and tarsi black. 



Head impunctate, the base with a small fulvous spot, intra- 

 ocular space strongly convex, divided by a short groove ; eyes very 

 deeply notched ; clypeus impunctate ; antennae short, black, the 

 third joint twice as long as the second but shorter than the fourth, 

 fifth and following joints more elongate, stout and strongly 

 thickened. Thorax longer than broad, with rounded anterior 



