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joints of equal length, the following more elongate. Thorax sub- 

 quadrate, not longer than broad, moderately constricted at the sides, 

 the basilar sulcation deep ; surface with a few scarcely visible punc- 

 tures. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra of a bright metallic yellowish 

 green or blue, with a very deep fovea below the base, near the 

 sutural margin, finely and rather remotely punctate-striate, the 

 punctures obsolete towards the apex. The legs and tarsi fulvous, the 

 posterior tibise slightly curved. 



Bogawantalawa, 4 900-5200 feet. 



It will not be very difficult to recognize this species amongst the 

 small metallic blue forms of Lacordaire's first section, with uninter- 

 rupted ninth elytral stria ; the colour of the antennae, which have 

 sometimes the first three joints and the last fulvous, or the underside 

 of the three or four terminal joints of tliat colour, the deep elytral 

 fovea, and the fine and remotely placed elytral punctures, will help 

 to distinguish L. ceylonensis ; the lateral margin is accompanied by 

 a deeper row of punctures and is costate towards the apex, but the 

 other interstices between the punctures are perfectly flat, the reverse 

 being the case with most of the allied species. 



Lema fulvicornis, sp. nov. 



Subquadrate-ovate ; fulvous ; labrum black ; thorax impunctate ; 

 elytra dark blue, deeply and regularly punctate-striate. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head with the interocular space strongly swollen and. finely punc- 

 tured, the lateral grooves very deep ; the labrum and upper part of 

 the clypeus black, the former with some transversely placed punc- 

 tures. Antennae rather more than half the length of the body, 

 entirely fulvous, the fourth joint very slightly longer than the third, 

 the following joints elongate, cyhndrical, and not increasing in 

 thickness. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, deeply constricted at 

 the sides, the basilar groove also deep, the anterior angles slightly 

 pointed but not tuberculate ; the surface convex and swollen, without 

 any punctures. Elytra broad, subquadrate, the shoulders moderately 

 prominent, the base scarcely depressed, the punctuation deep and 

 not very closely placed anteriorly, much more close and diminishing 

 posteriorly, where the punctures themselves are placed in striae and 

 the interstices longitudinally costate. Underside fulvous, clothed 

 with yellow pubescence ; legs robust, entirely fulvous. 



A single specimen. 



L. fulvicornis seems closely allied to L. prceclara, Clark, but 

 differs in its much smaller general size, in the colour of the head 

 and of the elytra. 7>. cyaniiiennis, Lac, is larger and the interstices 

 between the punctures of the elytra are finely punctate. The 

 present species may be further known by its broadly subquadrate 

 shape. 



LfiMA CRASSICOLLIS, Sp. UOV. 



Blackish blue below; upper part of head, the thorax, and the 

 last two joints of the antennae fulvous ; elytra metallic blue, deeply 



