DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF LEMA. 239 



Head impunctate, fulvous, frontal elevations highly raised, joined 

 in front but deeply divided behind, lateral grooves deep, finely 

 pubescent, labrum and palpi fulvous, antennae black, the lower two 

 joints and the base of the following two joints fulvous, third and 

 fourth equal ; thorax not longer than broad, the anterior portion 

 rather strongly widened, the sides deeply constricted near the base, 

 the cavity bounded above by a short perpendicular ridge, the basal 

 sulcus very deep, the middle of the disc with some few punctures 

 arranged in rows, all the rest of the surface impunctate, scutellum 

 truncate at the apex ; elytra with a rather deep depression below the 

 base, strongly punctate-striate, the ninth row of punctures entire, 

 fulvous, each elytron with a posteriorly strongly widened black band 

 which does not quite extend to the apex ; this band is rather sud- 

 denly obliquely narrowed anteriorly and extends to the shoulders 

 in a narrow stripe ; under-side and legs fulvous, the tibiae (the base 

 excepted) and the tarsi black. 



Habitat. — Beira (P. A. Sheppard). 



A well-marked species, of which three specimens are before 

 me. The shape of the elytral dark bands obliquely narrow at 

 the base, so as to separate the fulvous portion at the base into 

 a somewhat elongate triangular space, below which only the 

 sutural and lateral margins remain narrowly fulvous, which 

 colour is again widened at the apex. L. atrofasciata, Jac, is of 

 somewhat similar coloration but has differently coloured legs, 

 and the elytral band is of nearly equal width and slightly 

 narrowed at the middle ; the labrum and sides of the breast are 

 black, &c. 



Lema fulgentula, Jac. 



Fulvous, the breast, the posterior femora at the apex and the 

 tarsi more or less black, head finely pubescent, impunctate, thorax 

 with deep basal and feeble anterior sulci, impunctate ; elytra cylin- 

 drical, rather finely punctate-striate, feebly depressed below the 

 base ; posterior femora with a minute tooth. Length 4 mm. 



Very closely allied to L. pubifrons, Jac, and L. planifrons, 

 Weise, so that it will be sufficient to point out the differences. From 

 the first-named species the present insect differs in the longer 

 antennae, which have their terminal joints distinctly widened, in the 

 much more feeble anterior thoracic sulcus, the more cylindrically 

 shaped elytra, and in the much more strongly developed legs and 

 their colour. From L. planifrons the species may be known by the 

 entirely impunctate head, the colour of the antennae, very feeble 

 elytral basal depression, the minutely dentate posterior femora, and 

 the partly fulvous, partly black tarsi ; all the other characters are 

 nearly similar. 



Habitat. — Beira (P. A. Sheppard). 



Lema callangaensis, nov. sp. (Jac. in litt.). 

 Elongate, ferruginous, labrum, antennae (first joint excepted) 

 knees, tibiae (almost entirely) and tarsi black. Length 3^-4 mm. 

 Type, Callanga, Peru (coll. Bowditch). 



