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80. Lema downesi, Bahj, A. M. N. II. (3) xvi, 1805, p. 156. 
Learn nigro-suturalis, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. I860, p. 37 ; Weise, 
Pent. Pint. Zeit. 1903, p. 19. 
Pale fulvous ; antennae (the basal joint excepted) and the tarsi 
fuscous ; scutellum black. Elytra with a black sutural band 
abbreviated before the apex. 
Thorax elongate, transversely sulcate at the base, the anterior 
portion subglobose, smooth, strongly punctured as is also the 
middle of the disc. Elytra strongly depressed below the base, 
very deeply punctate-striate, the interstices at the apex costate, 
the second and eighth interspace united at the apex and swollen. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hab. Bengal ; Bombay : Malabar coast. 
Thorax smoother and more swollen than in L. suturella, Baly ; 
third joint of the antennae half as long again as the second and 
equal in length to the fourth. 
81. Lema juvenilis, sp. n. 
Eulvous ; antennae black, basal joints fulvous. Elytra with a 
narrow greenish-black sutural band which does not extend to the 
apex. 
Head with a feeble groove at the vertex ; the clypeus and 
labrum piceous ; antennae extended nearly to the middle ofc' the 
elytra, basal four joints fulvous, apex of each piceous, following 
joints entirely dark, third and fourth equal, the others cylindrically 
elongate, slightly thickened. Thorax rather transverse, the an- 
terior portion dilated and produced into a point at the angles ; the 
lateral constrictions with a distinct ridge above ; basal sulcus 
placed immediately behind the middle, deep, slightly foveolate at 
its centre. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra with a rather deep though 
gradual depression below the base, the latter slightly raised, 
strongly and closely punctate-striate, rest of the surface more 
finely punctured ; a narrow greenish- black sutural stripe, slightly 
widened posteriorly and not extended to the apex. Body beneath 
and the legs fulvous, the breast piceous. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hab. Malabar coast : Mahc ( Coll. Jacoby ). 
Coloration similar to L. suturella, Baly, but the antennse much 
longer, the thorax with pointed anterior angles, its sulcus placed 
nearly at the middle ; the elytra with distinct basal depression. 
82. Lema viridi-suturata, sp. n. 
Eulvous ; terminal joints of antennse, breast and abdomen black. 
Elvtra with broad sutural greenish-black band. 
Head not constricted posteriorly, impunctate, sparingly pub- 
escent ; intraocular space strongly raised but not tuberculate, 
divided by a line groove ; eyes moderately prominent, triangularly 
