DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF LEMA. 243 



rather regular row, the deepest of all, a few along the lateral margin 

 and ante-apical region, the rufous colouring being as a rule exempt 

 from foveas ; beneath the glaze of colour can be easily seen regular 

 rows of fine punctures, vanishing behind, body beneath rufous more 

 or less pubescent. Length 8 mm. 



Type, two examples, N. Luzon (5-6000 ft.), Whitehead leg., 

 among the Tring material. 



Most nearly related to gibba, Baly, and differing as follows : 

 Joints 5, 6, 7 of the antennae are proportionately much longer 

 in gibba, the double line of punctures on the thorax is much 

 better defined in gibba, the thorax in gibba is more elongate, 

 and viewed from above shows a well-marked anterior angle, 

 which is very faint, almost lacking in tumida where the sides 

 are almost completely rounded ; the elytral punctuation, as 

 shown under the glazed surface, is coarse, quadrate, almost con- 

 fluent in gibba, but very fine and distant in tumida. The general 

 colour of gibba is old mahogany, tumida almost yellow. The 

 body beneath in tumida is almost wholly dark rufous with 

 abdominal rings edged with lighter colour ; femora strongly 

 clavate, with pubescence more or less gathered into rings, tibiae 

 and body more or less covered with grayish pubescence. 



Crioceris foveipennis, nov. sp. 



Form stout, colour yellow, with smooth black or very dark rufous 

 spots on the elytra; the scutellar region raised into a prominent 

 hump, like gibba, Baly. 



Head with swollen, punctate, and pubescent clypeus ; smooth in 

 front, the vertex deeply sulcate, punctured, pubescent, antennas short 

 (like severini, Jac), joints 2-4 short, equal, shining, the second 

 with a marked constriction, 5-11 pubescent, gradually broadened to 

 7, 8, 9, which are wider than long, and darkened, thorax cylindrical, 

 with a well-marked anterior angle and very faint double row of discal 

 punctures, moderately constricted back of the middle towards the 

 base, so as to give the appearance of a wide collar, scutel pubescent ; 

 elytra very shining, rather thickly covered with deep foveate punc- 

 tures, arranged without order, the dark spots of varying size and 

 without any particular order, a prominent post median and rounded 

 apical being the most marked, and scattered patches round the 

 hump and shoulders ; as a general rule the foveas avoid the colour, 

 but when they do occur they form a circle of the ground yellow 

 colour ; this tendency to form circles is noticeable at many points 

 where the foveas approach the dark patches ; body beneath, fulvous, 

 with dark spots on the sides and middle of the metasternum and 

 each segment of the abdomen ; legs fulvous pubescent, with darker 

 clouds on the femora, knees, and middle of the tibiae ; claws black. 

 Length 8*5 mm. 



Type, one example, Belihul-Oya, Ceylon (Kannegieter), 

 formerly part of Mr. Van de Poll's collection (coll. Bowditch). 



Belongs to the gibba, Baly, group ; allied to dromedarius, 



