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the following joints not thickened. Thorax subquadrate, the 
anterior portion strongly widened, the anterior angles subtuber- 
culate ; the disc with a few minute punctures when seen under a 
very strong lens, deeply transversely sulcate, lateral excavation 
deep, bounded by an acute ridge above. Elytra fulvous, with a small 
depression near the suture below the base, strongly and closely 
punctate-striate, the interstices costat.e from the middle downwards; 
the blue portion commences slightly before the middle and 
extends to the apex. Beneath and the legs fulvous, the latter 
rather slender, the underside clothed with very short pubescence. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hab. Burma : Momeit [Doherty). Type in Brit. Mus. 
Can be distinguished from L. prceusta by the want of the 
anterior thoracic groove and the much larger extent of the blue 
colour of the elytra, the colours on the elytra are sharply divided. 
The fulvous head and other details separate the species from 
L. admirabilis. 
Section XII. 
Thorax blade or bluish; elytra metallic blue. 
115. Lema binghami, sp. n. 
Black ; head with a fulvous band at vertex ; elytra metallic 
blue. 
Head black ; intraocular space strongly raised, undivided ; 
immediately behind is a narrow obscure fulvous transverse band ; 
eyes subtriangularly but feebly notched, very large and prominent ; 
antennae black, extended beyond the middle of the elytra, very 
slender, the third joint scarcely shorter than the fourth, following 
joints very elongate. Thorax with the anterior angles rounded 
but with a very small tubercle at the apex, the basal sulcus very 
deep, placed at some distance from the base, the surface nearly 
black with bluish gloss, the disc with two short rows of very tine 
punctures. Scutellum black. Elytra with the shoulders rather 
prominent, depressed, but gradually so below the base, gradually 
narrowed towards the apex, the puncturation rather strong and of 
nearly equal depth and size. Beneath and the legs black. 
Length 5£ mm. 
Hab. Malabar coast : Ma he [Coll. Jacoby). 
This is another nearly unicolorous species, which is separable 
from allied forms by the undivided vertex of the head and its 
fulvous band, the long antennae and the rather feebly impressed 
elytra, the puncturation of which is rather stronger and more 
continued than in most of the allied species. 
11G. Lema fulvofrontalis, Jac. Mem. Soc. Ent. Bely, vii, 1900, p. 97. 
Black ; vertex of the head fulvous ; elytra dark metallic blue. 
Head impunctate, black, the vertex with two strongly raised 
fulvous elevations which unite in front ; eyes deeply notched ; 
