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head, shorter and more robust antennae and their thickened joints, 

 the position of the thoracic sulcus and the entirely flat elytra! 

 interstices. 



132. Lema mandarensis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli, 1897, p. 421. 



Bluish-black ; vertex with two rufous spots. 



Head impunctate on the vertex, the latter with two more or 

 less distinct rufous spots, not constricted posteriorly, lower por- 

 tion of face sparingly pubescent ; antennae black, short and robust, 

 not extended much beyond the base of the thorax, the terminal 

 joints strongly thickened but longer than broad. Thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, longer than broad, the basal sulcus distinct but not 

 very deep, the disc with two rows of strong punctures, others 

 placed near the anterior angles. Elytra wider at base than the 

 thorax, parallel and subcylindrical, scarcely perceptibly depressed 

 below the base, very deeply punctate-striate, the punctures slightly 

 elongate, interstices costate at sides and apex. Underside and legs 

 nearly black, with slight bluish gloss. 



Length 4 mm. 



Nab. Bengal : Mandar ; Malabar : Mahe. 



Differs from L. globicollis, Baly in the colour of the head and 

 thorax, but otherwise similar in the shape of the latter. 



133. Lema funerea, sp. n. 



Bluish- black ; narrowly elongate. Head rugosely punctured, 

 interstices with some short grey hairs, ocular sulci obsolete ; eyes 

 sinuate but not notched ; antennae short and robust, basal joint 

 round and thick, second moniliform, third and fourth trigonal, 

 equal, following joints subquadrately widened. Thorax elongate 

 and subcylindrical, slightly narrowed at base, sides without con- 

 striction or sulcus. surface obsoletely depressed at base in front 

 of margin, the latter thickened, finely rugose, middle of disc with 

 two rows of punctures, anterior angles likewise punctate. Scu- 

 tellum small, ovate. Elytra narrow, parallel and cylindrical, very 

 closely punctate-striate, punctures elongate, interstices feebly 

 costate at sides. Underside and legs black ; claws joined at base. 



Length 4| mm. 



Hob. Nilgiris (H. L. Andrewes). 



A very aberrant species ; possibly belongs to Fairmaire's African 

 genus Sigrisma, but the thorax is entirely subcylindrical. Of 

 the Indian species the present form is the narrowest and most 

 elongate so far as the shape of the thorax goes. 



134. Lema nigricollis, Jac. The Entomologist, Supj)l 1891, p. :J1. 



Black, head with two fulvous spots ; elytra fulvous 

 Head black ; intraocular space highly convex, fulvous, divided by 

 a groove; antennae black, extended to middle of elytra, third and 



