LEMA. 
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with the basal three or four joints fulvous, the rest black. Thorax 
with the disc rather strongly swollen, the sides with a deep cavity 
bounded above by a short perpendicular ridge, basal sulcus com- 
paratively shallow and broad, the surface entirely impunctate. 
Elytra depressed below the base, strongly punctured anteriorly 
only, rest of the surface finely punctate, each elytron with a black, 
transversely shaped spot behind the middle. Beneath and the 
legs fulvous. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hab. Andaman Islands. 
The above detailed description is founded on a specimen in my 
collection named by Baly himself ; the species is clearly differen- 
tiated by the two black elytral spots and colour of the antennae. 
104. Lema quadripunctata, OUv. Ent. vi, 1795, p. 731, pi. i, fig. 5 
Lacord. Mon. P/iytoph. i, 1845, p. 318. 
Eulvous; eighth and uinth joints of antennae and tarsi black. 
Elytra each with two black spots ; breast sometimes black. 
Head strongly bituberculate between the eyes ; antennae robust, 
fulvous, the eighth and ninth joints black, third joint shorter than 
the fourth, the following joints subquadrately elongate. Thorax 
with a very small tubercle at the anterior angles, the lateral con- 
striction deep, bounded by a ridge above, the surface impunctate, 
the basal sulcus placed directly behind the middle, with a fovea at 
the middle. Elytra with very deep and closely placed punctures 
anteriorly, the interstices at the base more or less strongly trans- 
versely rugose, costate at the apex, a transversely shaped spot at 
the middle and another at some distance from the apex and below 
the first spot, black. Sides of the breast more or less black. 
Posterior femora strongly incrassate in the male, less so in the 
female. Underside clothed with short yellow pubescence. 
Ear. Antennae and femora black. 
Length 7-10 ram. 
Hab. Ceylon ; Burma ; Andaman Islands ; Sumatra ; Java. 
This is evidently a very variable species, if indeed all those from 
different localities really represent the same insect ; the species 
may be recognized by the four elytral black spots and usually by 
its large size. The latter is however, very variable. From 
Ceylon I have seen specimens with entirely black antennae and 
breast; these have the elytral spots much larger and the 
posterior femora very strongly incrassate in the male, in size 
they are larger than any of the other specimens from India or 
Sumatra, and it is quite possible that these Ceylon forms represent 
an allied species. 
