LEM A. 
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Length 4|-5 mm. 
Hub. Malabar : Malic (M. Mainclron) ; Nilgiris (II. L. Andrewes). 
This cannot be a variety of L. histrio as the thorax in the latter 
insect has the sulcus placed close to the base ; in the present 
insect the sulcus is deep aud directly behind the middle, the 
elytral markings also are different. 
Section XI. 
Fulvous or jlavous ; elytra with apical portion and sometimes 
with additional spots blue or black. 
107. Lema signatipennis, Jac. M6m, Soc. Eat. Bely, vii, 1900, p. 95. 
Fulvous; antennae and underside partly black. Elytra with 
basal spot and posterior half metallic blue. 
Head impunctate, with two strongly raised tubercles; clypeus 
and labrum black ; antennae black, the basal joint stained with 
fulvous. Thorax subquadrate, the sides very moderately con- 
stricted, anterior angles rounded, basal sulcus very deep ; the 
surface impunctate, fulvous. Elytra with a distinct basal depres- 
sion, closely and strongly punctate-striate, the interstices slightly 
costate at the sides, the base with a triangular metallic blue patch 
that surrounds the scutellum, the posterior portion nearly to the 
middle likewise metallic blue, this colour does not quite extend to 
the lateral margins and has its anterior edge deeply notched and 
convex. Bbreast and legs black, abdomen and sides of the breast 
fulvous. 
Var. Legs fulvous. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hub. Bengal : Mandar, Barway. 
Closely allied to L. histrio , Clk., L. chalybeo-notata , Clk., and 
L. gestroi , Jac., but with differently shaped thorax, the elytral 
markings blue instead of black and different in shape. 
108. Lema dimidiatipennis, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxx ii, 1892, 
p. 871. 
Fulvous; labrum black. Elytra with anterior half fulvous, 
posterior half black. 
Head impunctate, the intraocular space triangularly raised, the 
lateral grooves deep ; eyes triangularly notched : labrum black ; 
antenna: slender, filiform, the second to the fifth joints gradually 
lengthened. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, deeply constricted 
at the sides, the constriction bounded above by a distinct ridge, 
basal sulcus deep, the surface with a few minute punctures on the 
disc and anteriorly. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra with a conspicuous 
depression below the base, deeply punctured anteriorly, more 
finelv and gradually towards the apex, anterior half fulvous, the 
