LEM A. 
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broad. Thorax subquadrate, fulvous, the anterior angles pointed, 
distinctly but sparingly punctured, the disc with a double row of 
punctures, the basal sulcus deep. Elytra rather flattened, scarcely 
perceptibly impressed below the base, regularly and rather 
strongly punctate-striate, the punctures scarcely smaller on the 
posterior portion ; the suture with a metallic blue band, the sides 
with a similar band which is greatly constricted below the 
shoulders, neither of the bands extends to the apex and the lateral 
bands leave the extreme margins of the ground-colour ; the rest of 
the surface as well as the abdomen flavous. Legs slightly darker ; 
the breast black. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Northern India. Type in Coll. Jacoby. 
This little species cannot be mistaken for L. rufo-ornata , var. 
sinuato-vittata , Clk. and L. ornatipennis , Jac., with which it nearly 
agrees in coloration, as the punctured and not raised vertex of 
the bead, the pointed anterior angles of the thorax, shape of the 
elytral lateral blue band and structure of the antennae, which 
have the joints short and stout instead of slender and elongate, 
are more than sufficient to differentiate it from them. 
89. Lema difficilis, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 67. 
Body beneath and antennae black ; bead and thorax fulvous ; 
elytra metallic blue ; legs obscure fulvous. 
Head im punctate, fulvous ; intraocular space strongly triangu- 
larly raised and divided by a longitudinal groove, impressed with 
some fine punctures; eyes deeply triangularly emarginate; labrum 
fulvous ; antennae black, the third joint slightly shorter than the 
fourth, terminal joints slender and elongate. Thorax subquadrate, 
the anterior angles prominent, subtuberculate, the basal sulcus 
deep, lateral constrictions moderately deep, not in shape of a round 
excavation but gradually uniting with the basal sulcus, not 
bounded by a perpendicular ridge above ; the surface with two 
rows of line punctures at the middle and other punctures near the 
anterior angles. Scutellum black. Elytra dark blue, with a 
very shallow sutural depression below the base, very deeply and 
strongly punctured anteriorly, the punctures, as usual, gradually 
diminishing in size towards the apex, the interstices on that area 
costate. Underside black, very finely pubescent, the edge of the 
abdominal segments fulvous. Legs likewise fulvous, the posterior 
femora stained with aeneous at the middle. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Ceylon {Coll. Jacoby). 
Var. Elytra fulvous with blue sutural and lateral bands. 
It is quite possible that this species represents only another 
variety of L. rufo-ornata, Clark, in which the underside is dark 
instead of fulvous. Clark has described his species with black 
elytral bands; this is incorrect, they are metallic blue as can be 
seen by an examination of the type in the British Museum. 
