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impressed, tliose ou the reat of the surface finer ; interspaces 

 impressed here and there with minute punctures, plane, faintly 

 convex at the apex. 



Lema Mouhoti. 



Sub-elongata, sub-cyliudrica, pallide rufo-testacea, nitlda ; 

 antennis corpori fere a^quilongis, filiformibus ; thorace latitudine 

 vix longiori, lateribus medio sat profunde constrictis ; disco lavi, 

 medio et ad latera teuuiter punctato, pone medium transversim 

 sulcato ; elytris 'auguste oblongis, parallelis, metallico-ca^ruleis, 

 infi-a basin vix depressis, ante medium profunde, pone medium 

 minus fortiter punctato-striatis, interspatiis planis, apice leviter 

 convexiusculis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Siam ; Mountains of Laos, Pachybouri, collected by the 

 late M. Mouhot. 



Head deeply constricted behind the eyes, vertex smooth, 

 impunctate ; front impressed Avith a faint fovea, lower face 

 spai'ingly clothed with aureo-sericeous hairs ; lower edge of 

 the clypeus and jaws piceous ; lab rum black ; antennas rather 

 slender, fihform, about equal to the body in length. Thorax 

 scarcely longer than broad ; sides deeply constricted, the fundus 

 of the constriction broad and forming at its upper end an abrupt 

 angle with the disc of the thorax ; disc nitidous, deeply sulcate 

 transversely behind the middle, a broad medial vitta together 

 with a space on either side near the anterior angle, finely 

 punctured. Scutellum narrowed fi'om base to apex, the latter 

 truncate, faintly emarginate, piceous. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax, parallel, convex, obsoletely excavated below the basilar 

 space, regularly punctate-striate, the ninth stria from the suture 

 entire ; the punctures on the anterior disc large, foveolate and 

 deeply impressed, those on the hinder disc finer and less strongly 

 impressed ; interspaces plane, obsoletely convex at the apex. 

 Body beneath clothed with very short golden sericeous hairs. 



Lema amazona. 



Sub-elongata, subtus fiava, nitida, supra nigra, antennis apice 

 albidis, thorace fere quadrato, prope medium sat profiuide 

 constricto, l^vi, nitido, margine basali flavo ; elytris thorace 

 latioribus, distincte punctato-striatis, interstitiis apicem versus 

 leviter convexiusculis, margine lateral!, apice dilatato, fasciaque 

 commimi prope medium, ad suturam antrorsum pauUo prodiicto 

 flavis. Long. 3j lin. 



Ilab. Pebas, Upper Amazons. 



Vertex and front shining, impunctate, the latter faintly im- 

 pressed with an oblong fovea ; antenna; foiu'-fifths the length of 



