LEMA. 65 



Elytra strongly foveolate near the suture below the base, the 

 punctures strong anteriorly, much finer and more elongate 

 posteriorly. Legs nearly black ; abdomen flavous. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon (Colls. Oxford Mus. Sf Jacoby). 



The peculiar sculpturing of the thorax and the flavous abdomen 

 distinguish this species from any other of nearly similar 

 coloration. 



124. Lema cribricollis, Write, Veut. enf. Zeit. 1903, p. 18. 



Beneath testaceous ; sides of metasternum and first abdominal 

 segment blackish-aeneous ; antennae ferruginous, second to ninth 

 joints fuscous. Head black and ferruginous. Thorax aeneous. 

 Elytra metallic blue. 



Head piceous, fulvous between the eyes, closely punctured and 

 pubescent, convex, with a smooth slightly raised median line. 

 Antennae with the basal five joints fulvous, the second and the fifth 

 above more or less black, the sixth to the ninth entirely fuscous 

 black, tenth and eleventh yellowish. Thorax subquadrate, anterior 

 margin formed into a transverse raised fold, interrupted ab the 

 middle, the basal sulcus fine, another transverse depression placed 

 at the disc which ends in a fovea at the middle ; the surface trans- 

 versely wrinkled, with numerous punctures at the interstices ; two 

 rows of stronger punctures are also placed on the middle of the 

 disc. Scutellum black, finely pubescent. Elytra greenish-blue, 

 with cupreous gloss at the base and suture, a deep round de- 

 pression below the base ; the surface punctate-striate anteriorly, 

 behind the middle striately punctured, the third and eighth rows 

 unite before the apex and form a deep fovea. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon : Kandy. 



Allied to L. ivestivoodi, Jac., but differs in the strongly con- 

 stricted neck and the rugosely punctured thorax. 



125. Lema pedestris, sp. n. 



Dark metallic blue ; antennae black, labrum fulvous. Body 

 beneath bluish-black. 



Head fulvous, deeply constricted behind the eyes, the latter 

 extremely prominent, triangularly notched, the intermediate space 

 highly raised but not tuberculiform, with a short posterior central 

 groove, the extreme base obscure fulvous ; clypeus metallic blue ; 

 labrum fulvous ; antennae black, the intermediate joints slightly 

 subquadrately widened, third and fourth equal, short. Thorax 

 slightly longer than broad, with a deep lateral excavation, 

 bounded by an acute ridge above, the basal sulcus deep, placed 

 close to the basal margin, the anterior portion of the thorax with 

 rounded angles ; the surface with a few fine punctures at the 

 middle and near the anterior angles. Elytra narrow and parallel, 



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