212 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



punctures, which dimmish in size posteriorly, where the interstices 

 are also longitudinally costate, below and the legs black, clothed 

 with very short yellow pubescence. 



Hab. Del ago a Bay. 



I only know of a single specimen of this species, which 

 differs entirely from any other Lema with which I am 

 acquainted, in the two longitudinal deep thoracic grooves 

 which are not foveiform but elongate and narrow, in 

 other respects the species is allied to L. armata, Lac. 



Lema bifoveata, sp. n. 



Below black, above metallic dark greenish, thorax subquadrate, 

 closely punctured, the sides feebly constricted, elytra with a deep 

 fovea below the base of each, not very deeply punctate-striate, the 

 ninth row not interrupted, the base of the tarsi often fulvous. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head remotely punctured, with deep central and lateral grooves, 

 the eyes very large, deeply triangularly notched, antennae scarcely 

 reaching to the middle of the elytra, black, the basal joints more 

 or less fulvous below, the third and fourth equal, terminal joints 

 slightly thickened ; thorax as broad as long, very feebly constricted 

 at the sides, the anterior angles in shape of a small tubercle, the 

 surface closely and strongly punctured except at the middle near 

 the anterior margin, the basal portion with a feeble transverse-sulcus 

 which extends a little way obliquely upwards at the sides, elytra 

 with a deep oblique fovea near the suture below the base, with 

 closely placed rather elongate punctures, distinct to the apex and 

 larger within the foveae, the interstices only costiform near the apex 

 at the sides and impunctate, legs and the tarsi elongate, the base of 

 each joint of the latter more or less fulvous. 



Hab. Natal, Jsipango, Malvern (G. Barker). 



One of the smaller-sized species, and well distinguished 

 by the closely -punctured thorax and its tuberculate 

 anterior angles and by the deep elytral fovea, the entire 

 upper surface is greenish aeneous; L. azurea, Lac, is of 

 double the size and has only an elytral depression. 



Lema pulchella, Peringuey. 



This seems to me to be a somewhat doubtful species, 

 which the author compares with L. chalcoptera and L. 

 aenea, Lac, but does not point out the differences; the 



