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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
interstices costate at the sides. The sides and anterior edge of 
the breast and the legs bluish-black, closely covered with fine 
yellowish pubescence ; abdomen fulvous with similar pubescence. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hob. Burma : Ruby Mines {Doherty). Type in Brit. Mus. 
A very distinct species on account of the pubescence in the 
emargination of the eyes and on clypeus, the short and sub- 
quadrate terminal joints of the antennae and the absence of an 
elytral depression. 
78. Lema decolorata, sp. n. 
Fulvous ; antennae (basal joints excepted) and tarsi obscure 
fuscous ; underside black. 
Head very finely and rather closely punctured at vertex ; the 
latter with a short longitudinal groove, lower portion clothed with 
yellow pubescence ; eyes deeply notched ; antennae fulvous, rather 
long and stout, all joints stained with fuscous above, third and 
fourth short, equal. Thorax slightly broader than long, anterior 
portion rather strongly widened, basal sulcus deep, middle of 
surface with another deep sulcus at sides joining the basal one ; 
middle of disc with several rows of fine punctures. Scutellum 
finely pubescent. Elytra parallel, subcylindrical, without trace 
of basal depression, moderately, strongly and very regularly 
punctate-striate, puncturation gradually finer towards apex, ninth 
row of punctures not interrupted, first row near suture double on 
the basal portion. Extreme apex of tibiae and of the tarsi fuscous. 
Body beneath clothed with fine yellow pubescence. 
Length 4|-5 mm. 
Hah. Nilgiris. Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 
Section VII. 
Elytra pale ; suture blue or blade ; in one case with additional 
discoidal stripe or small spots. 
Thorax with one or two sulci. 
79. Lema suturella, Baly, A. M. N. H. (3) xvi, 1865, p. 156. 
Fulvous; tibiae and tarsi fuscous; breast and abdomen at base 
black ; antennae (base excepted) fuscous ; elytra with suture 
narrowly blue. 
Thorax less swollen than in L. downesi , irregularly punctured ; 
a longitudinal space down the middle of the disc and the sides in 
front, more coarsely punctured than the rest of the surface. Third 
joint of the antennae distinctly longer than the fourth. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hab. Bengal. 
The antennae in this species have their joints rather short, the 
thoracic sulcus is placed close to the base and the elytral sutural 
stripe is of equal width and does not extend quite to apex. 
