70 CHEYSOMELID^E. 



fourth joints equal, following joints elongate and slender. Thorax 

 subquadrate, deeply constricted at the middle, anterior angles 

 blunt but strongly produced at sides, basal sulcus placed at some 

 distance from base ; surface entirely impunctate, black, shining. 

 Scutellum truncate at apex, black. Elytra with short and rather 

 deep depression near suture below base, finely punctate-striate 

 except within the depression. Body beneath and legs black. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob. Assam ; Burma : Euby Mines. 



Eather smaller than L. assamensis, Jac. : the head black, with 

 fulvous tubercles; the antennae shorter with more slender joints ; 

 the thorax with a single sulcus. 



135. Lema belgaumensis, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; clypeus, antennae, legs partly and elytra black ; base 

 of tibiae flavous. 



Head not constricted posteriorly, fulvous, bituberculate on the 

 vertex ; the clypeus and labrum black ; antennae long and slender, 

 third and fourth joints equal. Thorax subquadrate, with the 

 basal sulcus deep and placed at some distance from the base, 

 the anterior portion with another very obsolete transverse de- 

 pression at the sides ; lateral constrictions deep, entirely sulciform, 

 but with the usual short perpendicular ridge above, middle of the 

 disc with a few minute punctures. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra 

 with a distinct transverse depression below the base, the lower 

 portion subcylindrical ; the surface strongly punctate-striate, the 

 shoulders angularly prominent, deeply punctate-striate in front, 

 the punctures extended quite to the base ; the colour black, with 

 a very slight violaceous tint. Body beneath fulvous, the sides of 

 the breast and the upper edge of the first abdominal segment 

 black ; legs black, the upper edge of the posterior femora and the 

 base of the tibiae flavous. 



Length 4^ mm. 



Hab. Western India: Belgaum (Coll. H. E. Andrewts). 



A peculiarly marked species which may possibly represent a 

 variety of one of the smaller forms, but so far as colouring goes, 

 it appears to be quite distinct. 



136. Lema crassicollis, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 66 ; Weise, Deut. ent. 



Zeit. 1903, p. 22. 



Beneath blackish-blue ; upper part of the head, the thorax and 

 the last two joints of the antennae fulvous ; elytra metallic blue, 

 a small spot above the shoulders fulvous. 



Head finely punctured on the vertex, the mouth-parts black ; 

 antennas black, more than half the length of the body, the last two 

 joints fulvous, third and fourth short, equal. Thorax not longer 

 than broad, the anterior portion strongly swollen, its angles tuber- 



