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96. Lema obscurifrons, sp.n. 
Head and thorax flavous ; the labrum, intraocular space and 
three longitudinal bands on the thorax greenish-black. Elytra 
metallic dark green, extreme apex testaceous; antennae black; legs 
testaceous with dark stripes. 
Head impunctate, vertex strongly constricted, neck with a 
black stripe on the sides, base and apex of clypeus and the labrum 
greenish-black; antennae with basal joint flavous beneath, third and 
fourth equal, terminal joints slightly thickened, last four equal, 
about twice as long as broad. Thorax subquadrate, moderately 
constricted at sides ; disc with some fine punctures arranged in rows 
on the middle, basal sulcus deep, anterior portion with another 
more shallow sulcus, more distinct on the sides ; the sides with a 
broad blackish band, middle of disc with another elongate 
posteriorly pointed streak that extends to the basal sulcus. 
Scutellum black. Elytra gradually narrowed posteriorly, distinctly 
depressed, below base strongly punctate-striate ; punctures closely 
placed, finer at apex, the latter with a narrow subtriangular 
flavous spot. Eemora with black streak above ; tarsi, sides of 
breast aud abdomen greenish-fuscous. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Nilgiris ( Anclreives ). Type in Coll. TI. E. Andrewes. 
Not nnlike L. ornaticollis, Jac., but the thorax has two sulci 
and one central streak, not two ; elytra, apex excepted, entirely 
green. 
97. Lema semifulva, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 152. 
Eulvous ; antenna), labrum, breast and legs black. Elytra 
with broad longitudinal black band on 
disc, sides narrowly fulvous. 
Head impunctate, the intraocular 
space swollen, with a central fovea ; 
eyes deeply notched ; labrum black ; 
antennae black, two-thirds the length of 
the body, third and fourth joints equal. 
Thorax broader than long but slightly 
constricted at the middle ; the surface 
impunctate, with the basal sulcus deep 
and another more shallow transverse 
groove at the sides before the middle. 
Elytra deeply punctate-striate, inter- 
stices costate from middle to apex. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hah. Burma : Bhamo. 
Differs from A. sjpoliata in the black 
underside, black antennae, anterior 
thoracic depression and costate elytral interstices. 
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Fig. 6 . — Lema semifulva. 
