264 MR. M. JACOBY ON COLEOPTERA [May 21, 
material, as descriptions from single specimens (unless particularly 
distinguished in one way or other) are not desirable, taking into 
consideration the variability of the Phytophaga. 
Perhaps it is not out of place here to caution future collectors of 
these insects against the practice of gumming them on small pieces 
of cardboard, since it is in most cases necessary to examine the 
undersides of the specimens. These suffer greatly during relaxation, 
and are in many instances almost impossible to clean so that the 
small spines and structures of the legs and antennz shall be made 
plainly visible. The specimens should in all cases be sent home in 
sawdust and left to be mounted in one way or other after they have 
been examined. 
I add here the localities in which M. Simon obtained the speci- 
mens :— 
La Guaira (level of the sea), October 1887. 
Caracas (elevation of 922 metres), October till January 1888. 
Colonia Tovar, Province Guzman Blanco, mountains of 1900 
metres at an average. 
Hacienda de Corosal, near Caracas, February 17th—21st. 
Puerto Cabello (level of the sea), February 27th-29th and March. 
San Esteban, hot forest near Puerto Cabello, March 1st—26th. 
Valencia, March 29th till April 6th. 
The collection, although not large, contains a good many appa- 
rently undescribed species ; those which are known are for the most 
part also found in Colombia and other parts of South America ; 
very few collections have to my knowledge been sent from Vene- 
zuela, which offers no doubt a rich field to the Entomologist. 
LEMA PATRUELIS, 0. sp. 
Head, the antenne (the three apical joints excepted), the breast, 
and the four anterior legs black ; thorax fulvous, impunctate ; elytra 
flavous, a transverse band at the base and another below the middle 
black ; posterior femora flavous. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head black, impunctate, eyes deeply notched ; antennee extending 
to half the length of the elytra, black, the apex of the ninth and 
the two apical joints entirely fulvous ; thorax slightly broader than 
long, dark fulvous, the sides deeply constricted, the basal sulcation 
distinct, the surface entirely impunctate ; scutellum black: elytra 
scarcely perceptibly depressed below the base, the anterior portion 
distinctly, the posterior one very finely punctured, the interstices flat, 
the lateral margin raised; the disk flavous, interrupted by a broad 
bluish-black band at the base, extending to the sides, having its 
posterior edge sinuate, and by another transverse band placed near 
the apex, not quite extending to the extreme margin ; this band has 
its upper margin convex near the sides but narrowed towards the 
suture, and its lower margin slightly concave: the breast and the 
four anterior legs (a flavous spot at the underside of the femora 
excepted) black; abdomen and the posterior femora fulvous, the 
extreme apex of the latter and the tibiee and tarsi black. 
