CRIOCERIS. 71 



culiform when seen from above with a single seta on each, surface 

 entirely impunctate. Elytra deeply foveolate below the base, 

 the basal portion convex ; the surface rather deeply punctured, 

 the punctures not very closely placed diminish in size towards the 

 apex, the interstices finely transversely wrinkled ; longitudinally 

 costate near the apex ; just above the shoulders is placed a small 

 fulvous spot. Legs black, the inner side of all the femora fulvous. 

 In a variety the entire elytral margin and apex are of that colour, 

 the femora beneath testaceous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



The strongly swollen anterior portion of the thorax and coloui 

 of the antennae are sufficient to separate this species. 



137. Lema macei, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 387. 



Eufous ; a black spot near anterior angles of thorax ; elytra 

 black, apex narrowly flavous. 



Kather short, parallel-sided and only slightly convex. Head 

 impunctate, ocular sulci very deep, eyes deeply notched. Thorax 

 slightly longer than broad, impunctate, basal sulcus rather deep. 

 Elytra moderately strongly punctured, interstices strongly costate 

 at "posterior third. Legs slender, rather short. 



Length 6| mm. 



flab. Bengal. 



Lacordaire's type in the Paris Museum was minus the antennae. 



The following two species have been omitted : 

 Lema bicolor, Fair. Syst. Eleuth. i, p. 476. 



The description of Fabricius does not admit of a recognition of 

 this species. 



Leina solani, Weber, Obs. Ent. p. 58 (1801). 

 Lema weberi, Har. Coleopt. Hefte, xiii, p. 185 (1875). 



Weber gives India as the " habitat " of this species ; his descrip- 

 tion, however, agrees entirely with L. solani, .Fab., which is a 

 N". American species. 



Genus CRIOCERIS. 



Crioceris, Geoffroy, Hist. Ins. Paris, i, 1762, p. 237 ; Lacord. Mon. 



Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 546 ; Chapuis, Gen. Col. x, 1874, p. 76. 

 Anchenia, Thunberg (part.), Charact. Gen. Ins. 1789, p. 21. 

 Lema, Fabr. (part.) Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 90. 

 The principal differences between this genus and Lema are the 

 free or separated not joined claws, and the generally shorter and 

 more robust antennae. As a rule the thoracic basal sulcua is also 



