1897.] PHYTOPHAGOirS COLEOPTEBA. OF APBICA. 239 



underside and legs fulvous, nearly impunctate ; the sides of the 

 breast clothed with short golden-yellow pubescence; terminal 

 joints of the tarsi more or less black. 



Hah. West Coast of Africa. 



Amongst the large-sized metallic-blue species of Africa, the 

 present one may be known by the coloiu* of the antennae, their 

 slender shape, the sculpturing of the thorax, and the deep elytral 

 impression and their strong punctuation, as well as by the colour 

 of the tarsi. I received several specimens from Mr. Alluaud in 

 Paris. 



Lema M.4.RSHALLI, u. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 2.) 



Grreenish black ; the vertex and the thorax fulvous, the latter 

 with two spots on the disc and the base greenish ; elytra fulvous, 

 strongly punctate-striate ; a spot on the shoulder, the suture, 

 and a transverse spot across the latter, below the base, metallic 

 dark green. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head strongly and remotely punctured, the vertex fulvous with 

 two greenish spots and a central similarly-coloured fovea; eyes 

 deeply notched ; lower portion of face greenish black ; the entire 

 head sparingly clothed with fulvous short hairs; palpi long and 

 slender, black ; antennae rather short, greenish black, pubescent, 

 the fifth and following joints graduall)'^ but slightly widened ; 

 thorax about one-half broader than long, the sides but moderately 

 constricted, the anterior angles sliglitly tuberculiform, the surface 

 with two rows of central punctures and some others anteriorly, 

 fulvous, two triangular-shaped spots at the middle and a trans- 

 verse band occupying the basal portion below the sulcus greenish 

 black ; scutellum of the same colour, subquadrate, sparingly pubes- 

 cent ; elytra with a slight depression below the base, reddish 

 fulvous, deeply and regularly punctate-striate, the interstices 

 longitudinally costate at the apex; an elongate spot on the shoulders, 

 a transverse short spot across the suture below the base, and the 

 suture itself narrowly metallic dark green : underside and legs 

 greenish black. 



Hah. Natal (collected by Mr. Or. Marshall). 

 Of this handsome species, two specimens were obtained by 

 Mr. Marshall in the neighbourhood of >«'atal. This Lema seems 

 very closely allied to L. insignis, Lac, lLke\.vise from Africa, in 

 regard to coloration ; but is smaller, the thorax is distinctly broader 

 than long (not scarcely so long as broad as in L. insignis), the 

 elytra have only a shallow depression below the base, not a deep 

 one, and the band and subquadrate spot of which Lacordaire speaks 

 are absent. 



Lema beeticoestis, n. sp. 



Below blackish ; antennae very short, black ; basal and apical 

 joint fulvous ; liead and thorax obscure dark fulvous, minutely 



