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with a small transverse impression below the base, finely 

 puuctate-striate except at the base where the punctures are larger, 

 the first row near the suture single, the interstices with some 

 minute punctures here and there, slightly costate near the apex. 

 Legs rather short, bluish-black. Underside clothed with fine grey 

 pubescence. 



Length 5 in in. 



Hob. Tenasseriin (DoJierty) ; Andaman Islands (Roepstorjf). 

 Type in Brit. Mus. 



A narrow, elongate species, of more or less dark blue colour, 

 distinguished by the fulvous labrum, the widened intermediate 

 joints of the antennae and the punctured elytral interstices ; there 

 are some slight differences present in the Andaman specimens but 

 these are not sufficient to justify separation. Thus the thorax 

 is not perceptibly punctured, the elytral depression is very small 

 and feeble and their puncturation finer, but these differences are 

 probably racial not specific ; all other characters are identical. 



126. Lema crebrepunctata, sp. n. 



Metallic dark blue ; antennae black. 



Bather flattened above ; the head not constricted, the vertex 

 convex, not tuberculate, with a short deep central groove 

 anteriorly ; eyes very prominent, not very deeply notched ; lower 

 portion of face aeneous ; antennae long and slender, third and 

 fourth joints short, equal, following joints very elongate. Thorax 

 quadrate, the lateral constrictions deep, furnished within with 

 short perpendicular ridges, the basal sulcus deep ; the anterior 

 portion aeneous, the base blue, anterior angles very slightly 

 tuberculate. Scutellum rather broad, aeneous. Elytra slightly 

 narrowed posteriorly, with a small, rather shallow basal depression ; 

 the punctures large, round and deep, very closely placed, the 

 interstices costate over the greater portion of the disc. Underside 

 and legs bluish-black. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Ruby Mines (Doherty). 



Allied to L.cyanea, Fabr.,but of narrower, more cylindrical shape, 

 generally of smaller size; the thoracic constriction furnished 

 with ridges, the elytral puncturation much stronger and the 

 interstices more or less costate. 



127. Lema atro-caemlea, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. 1866, p. 32. 



Black ; elytra with slight bluish gloss. 



Head impunctate, intraocular space not strongly raised, lateral 

 sulci rather feeble ; palpi fulvous ; antennae black, long and slender, 

 the third joint shorter than the fourth, the following joints very 

 elongate, terminal three joints shorter. Thorax with the anterior 

 angles pointed but not tuberculate, black, shining, the surface not 

 perceptibly punctured, basal sulcus very deep. Elytra with a very 



