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CHIIYSOMELID.E. 
Rufous ; elytra black, the basal margins, a lateral band from 
shoulders to apex, and the apex itself rufous. 
The elytra in this species are either black, with metallic green 
lustre and with a basal and apical fulvous band or spot, or pale 
fulvous, with a metallic green sutural and marginal band of variable 
width, or again entirely blackish-green without any lighter markings. 
Typical rufo-orncita has the elytra black, with a short fulvous 
mark at the base and the apex of the same colour ; the anterior 
angles of the thorax are rather pointed or subtuberculate, the disc 
has some double rows of well-marked punctures, and the elytra 
have a distinct basal depression and are strongly punctured. 
Length 4 mm. 
I lab. Ceylon. 
In the variety L. sinuato-vittata the body beneath is rnfo-fuscous. 
87. Lema ornatipennis, sp. n. 
Obscure tiavous ; the labrum, antennae and the abdomen (partly) 
black. Thorax with two blackish narrow bands ; elytra metallic 
blue, a narrow elongate fulvous band along the middle ; tibiae and 
tarsi fuscous. 
Head not constricted, impunctate ; the vertex only slightly 
convex, scarcely grooved ; antennae black, slender, moderately long, 
third and fourth joints equal. Thorax with the anterior portion 
strongly convex and widened, deeply constricted near the base ; 
the lateral cavities deep, bounded above by a ridge ; basal sulcus 
deep ; the surface impunctate, with a short piceous stripe at each 
side. Scutellum broad, subquadrate, obscure fulvous. Elytra 
rather deeply depressed helow the base, impressed with large and 
deep punctures, closely placed, the interstices more or less rugose 
near the base and to a less extent posteriorly, the blue colour 
divided by a longitudinal fulvous stripe from the middle of the 
base to the apex, this stripe is narrower than either of the blue 
portions on each side of it and curves slightly outwards posteriorly. 
Length 4.| mm. 
Hah. Nilgiris. Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 
Very similar in coloration to L. rufo-ornata, Clk., but evidently 
distinct, as it differs in the following points : — the antennae as well 
as the labrum are entirely black, the thorax has rounded not 
pointed anterior angles, the disc is impunctate and furnished with 
two black stripes, the elytral puncturation is much stronger and 
the fulvous band narrower. 
88. Lema constricto-fasciata, sp. n. 
Elavous ; head and thorax fulvous, breast black, antenme 
fuscous. Elytra with sutural and lateral stripes metallic blue. 
Head not raised at the vertex, the latter closely punctured, 
fulvous, the emargi nation of the eyes pubescent ; antenme fuscous, 
the terminal joint fulvous, third and fourth joints short, equal, the 
succeeding joints more elongate, widened, about twice as long as 
