308 Mr. Baly on new Criuceridaj. 



parallel, not (listinctly excavated below tlie basilar space, regu- 

 larly puiictulate-striate, the ninth stria from the suture entire, 

 the tenth stria sulcate ; the punctures rather strongly impressed 

 at the base, finer and shallower towards the apex ; interspaces 

 plane, faintly thickened at the apex, outer interspace thickened 

 and sub-costate for its Avhole length. 



Lema mutahilis. 



Sub-elongata, sub-cylindrica, fronte fovea clongata impresso, 

 antennis sat gracilibus, fihformibus ; thorace latitudini fere 

 a?quilongo, lateribus vix ante apicem tiiberculo acuto instructis, 

 medio sat profunde angulatim constrictis, disco la3vi, impunctato, 

 ante basin profunde transversim sulcato ; elytris thorace latiori- 

 bus, parallelis, convexis, infra basin sat fortiter sub-oblique 

 transversim excavatis, spatio basilari distincte elevato, leviter 

 convexo, regulariter punctato-striatis, punctis super sulcum 

 sub-basalem magis fortiter impressis ; interspatiis planis, ad 

 apicem convexiuscuhs. Long. 2§ hn. 



A. Corpus rufo-testaceum, elytris metallico-cfGruleis. 



B. „ „ antennis (basi excepta) pectore pedi- 



busque nigris, antennis infuscatis. 



C. „ totum fulvum. 



Hab. West Coast of Africa, Old Calabar, Camaroons. 



Head smooth, impunctate, front impressed with a narrow 

 elongate fovea ; lower portion of face clothed with aureo-sericeous 

 hairs, apex of clypeiis and labrum nigro-piceous ; antenna^ 

 slender, fihform, two-thirds the length of the body. Thorax 

 scarcely broader than long ; sides armed just behind the apex 

 with an acute tubercle, deeply constricted, the apex of the 

 constriction angulate ; disc shining, impunctate, very deeply 

 impressed in fi-ont of the base with a transverse sulcation. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, convex, longitudinally 

 excavated within the humeral callus, transversely and somewhat 

 obliquely excavated below the basilar space, the basilar space 

 itself distinctly thickened ; convex, regularly punctate-striate, 

 the ninth stria entire, the punctures distinct but not large, of 

 equal size and depth to the apex of the elytra, those on the 

 sub-basilar excavation coarser and more strongly impressed than 

 the rest ; inter sj^aces plane, slightly convex at the apex. 



Lema Murrayi. 



Sub-cylindrica, rvifo-testacea, nitida, pectore, abdominis disco 

 tibiisque a])ice obscure piceis, tarsis antenuisquc nigris, his apice 



