1879.] ON NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 773 



and white ; throat, cheeks, breast, and belly dirty white, tipped with 

 very pale brown ; sides, flanks, and vent greyish brown, barred and 

 spotted with white ; legs, toes, and claws pale brown. 



Length 5| inches, wing 2f . 



This interesting little Rail I submitted to Mr. R. B. Sharpe, who 

 kindly pronounced it to be a new species ; therefore I have much 

 pleasure in naming it after the collector, Mr. T. Waters. 



21. Podiceps pelzelni, Hartl. 

 S.W. interior of Madagascar. 



22. FULMARUS GIGANTEUS, Gm. 



S.W. coast of Madagascar. 



23. Plotus levaillantii, Licht. 

 S.E. Madagascar. 



3. Descriptions of new Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera. 

 By Martin Jacoby. 



[Keceived November 24, 1879.] 



Genus Lema. 

 I. Lema championi, sp. nov. 



Elongate, subparallel, fulvous. Head and breast black ; antenna* 

 piceous, their base and apex fulvous ; elytra punctate-striate, dark 

 violaceous blue, shining, a slightly curved median transverse band 

 and the apex fulvous. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Hab. Zapote, Guatemala. 



Head not constricted behind the eyes, impunctate ; lateral grooves 

 very deep ; eyes deeply emarginate, large, the space surrounding 

 them distinctly punctured ; epistome impunctate, shining black ; 

 antennae rather robust, of half the length of the body, the second 

 joint very short, third joint double the length, the basal as well as 

 the fourth to the seventh joints piceous, or black, the rest light 

 fulvous ; thorax slightly longer than broad, moderately constricted 

 in the middle at each side, base scarcely perceptibly impressed, 

 surface impunctate, fulvous. Scutellum black. Elytra much broader 

 than the thorax, rather convex and parallel, narrowly transversely 

 depressed below the base, deeply punctate-striate at their anterior 

 half, the punctuation gradually diminishing, and almost obsolete 

 towards the apex, where the interstices are slightly convex, the latter 

 also minutely punctate, of a dark violaceous blue, the middle is 

 occupied by a slightly convex fulvous band extending to the lateral 

 margins, while the entire apex is of the same colour. Abdomen and 

 legs also fulvous. 



Collected by Mr. Champion. 



