982 MR. M. JACOBY ON PHYTOPHAGOtTS COLEOPTERA. [Dec. 3 



4. Description of new Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera 

 from Central and South America. By Martin Jacoby. 



[Eeceived November 13, 1878.] 



nov. 



1. Lema suffriani, sp. 



Oblong, light testaceous. Head and breast black ; elytra striate- 

 punctate, testaceous, a short sutural and submarginal stripe at the 

 base and two small spots, one before, the other behind the middle of 

 each elytron, violaceous black. 



Length 2£-3J lines. 



Head shining black, impunctate, not constricted behind the eyes, 

 the lateral grooves very deep ; antennae nearly as long as half the 

 body, of a uniform light rufous or testaceous colour, only the basal 

 joint stained with piceous ; thorax scarcely longer than broad, deeply 



