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Descriptions of some new species 



of 



Criocerini from the Malayan region 



by 

 Martin -lacolij, 



Lema Dohrni. sp. nov. 



Black, the antennae sliovt and robust, tborax subcylindrical, 

 fulvous, impunetate, elytra fulvous, with remotely placed punc- 

 tures, wbich become very (ine from the middle downwards, (he 

 iuterstices flat. 



Length 7 millini. 



Head black, the eyes large and prominent, deeply notclied, 

 the supraocular grooves deep, the rest of the suvface with 

 some short, white hairs, antennae exlending slightly beyond the 

 base of the elytra, black, the fifth and following joints triangu- 

 larly widened, the terminal two joints of narrower shape, the 

 lower two shining, the second very small, moniliform, the third 

 and fourth equal, sliorter than the fifth Joint ; thorax slightly 

 longer than broad, subcylindrical, the sices moderately constricled 

 below the middle, the anterior porlion but slightly widened, the 

 angles obtuse, the basal sulcus shallow, seutellum piceous, 

 elytra with a short and feeble depression below the base, the 

 latter somewhat strongly puncfured, the punctures gradually 

 dimiuishing in size and nearly obsolete below the middle, the 

 interstices flat, lateral margins strongly raised, accompanied by 

 a row of deep punctures, placed in a strong groove, below and 

 the legs black, fmely clothed with white pubescence. 



Hab. Soekaranda, Sumatra (Dr. Dohrn). 



The black head and antennae aud the f'lattened joints of 

 the latter, resembling some species of Crioceris in connectiou 

 with the fine and remotely placed punctures separates tbis Lema 

 from auy other of the same region ; (he species allhough 



Slod. eolomol. Zeit. 1900. 



