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Lema nitidiceps. 



Anguste oblouga, sub-cylindrica, rufo-testacea, nitida, capite 

 uitidissimo, nigro, antennarum ai'ticulis ultimis tribus pallide 

 flavis ; thorace transverso, dorso vix pone medium late trans- 

 versim sulcato, lateribus medio profunde constrictis ; elytris 

 oblongis, nigris, evidenter punctato-striatis, iuterstitiis fere 

 planis, ad apicem pauUo elevatis, tenxiissime, irregulariter^ stri- 

 gosis. Long. 34 lin. 



Hab. Upper Amazons ; collected by Mr. Bartlett. 



Head shining black, glabrous, vertex very minutely punc- 

 tured, the puncturing only visible tinder a lens ; front impressed 

 with a small oblong fovea; antennae filiform, four-fiftlis the 

 length of the body, black, the three upper joints pale yellowish- 

 white. Thorax nearly one-fourth broader than long ; sides 

 deeply constricted in the middle, the apex of the constriction 

 obtuse ; disc sub-cylindrical, broadly and deeply excavated 

 transversely just behind the middle, shining, impuuctate. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, convex, very faintly 

 depressed below the basilar space ; distinctly punctate-striate, 

 the ninth stria from the suture broadly interrupted ; interspaces 

 nearly plane, very finely strigose, slightly thickened at the apex, 

 the second and eighth from the suture more elevated than the 

 rest. Outer edges of tibiae and the tarsi stained with piceous. 



Lema vittatipennis. 



Anguste oblonga, nigro-picea, nitida, capite inferiori anten- 

 nisque (harum basi obscure fulvu exceptri) nigris ; abdomine 

 thoraceque piceo-fulvis, hoc longitudine paullo latiori, lateribus 

 profunde constrictis ; sub-cylindrico, ante basin sat j^i'ofuude 

 transversim sulcato, et sulci medio fovea una impresso, basi 

 obsolete transversim strigoso, disco l^vi, medio lineatim, et 

 lateribus anticis tenuissime punctato ; elytris oblongis, thorace 

 multo latioribus, infra basin vix transversim depressis, basi 

 sub-fortiter, pone medium tentiiter punctato-striatis ; interspatiis 

 planis, ad apicem obsolete convexiusculis, ante medium hie illic 

 obsolete rugulosis ; nigris, utrisque limbo marginali vittaque 

 lata discoidali, basi et apice connexis, fulvis. Long. 2| lin. 



Var. A. Abdominis segmentis piceo marginatis. 

 ,, B. Corpore subtus cum capite pallide piceo, abdomine 

 fulvo, antennis nigris. 



Hab. Amazons, Para, Nauta. 



Very closely alhed in form, sculpturing and in the coloration 

 of the elytra to L. virgata, Lac. ; at once sej)arated from that 

 insect by its paler luider surface, unicolorous and much more 

 finely punctured thorax (the transverse sulcation being at the 



