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I have a single specimen without detailed locality. The species 
is much larger than L. nilgiriensis and the elytra have no basal 
depression. 
119. Lema psyche, Bahj, A. M. N. II. (3) xvi, 1865, p. 157. 
Metallic blue ; antennae and legs black; elytra purplish. 
Thorax subtransverse, cylindrical, moderately constricted, the 
disc finely punctured. Elytra robust, transversely depressed 
below the base, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices costate 
near the apex. Antennae slender, the third and fourth joints 
equal. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. Northern India. 
The head is coarsely punctured on the vertex ; antennae two- 
thirds the length of the body ; the transverse elytral depression 
shallow, obsoletely wrinkled ; the elytra broad and robust. These 
characters and the sculpture of the head together with the color- 
ation distinguish this species from any other. 
120. Lema paradoxa, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xlviii, 1904, p. 380. 
Beneath bluish-black, above metallic green or blue. 
Head deeply longitudinally sulcate on the vertex, supraocular 
grooves very deep ; clypeus with a row of fine punctures ; labrum 
similarly punctured ; antennae black, not extended to middle of 
elytra, second to fourth joints gradually lengthened, terminal 
joints rather robust. Thorax subquadrate, anterior angles 
distinctly tuberculate, basal sulcus deep, another nearly equally 
deep sulcus before middle, a few fine punctures in front of latter, 
rest of disc impunctate. Elytra with deep sutural depression 
below base, another depression near apex at junction of fourth and 
eighth row of punctures, last two interstices at sides costate. Legs 
verv slender, bluish. 
Length 7 mm. 
llab. Southern India : Pondicherry; Nilgiris. 
Allied to L. cyanella, Eab. from Europe, but much larger, thorax 
more distinctly tuberculate at the anterior angles and deeply 
bisulcate ; elytral interstices not rugose. 
“ Pound on herbage from May till J uly and in November and 
December.” ( Andrewes .') 
121. Lema gahani, Jac. The Entomologist, xxxii, 1899, p. 67. 
Dark metallic blue ; antennae, tibiae and tarsi black. 
Head impunctate, the base with a small fulvous spot, intra- 
ocular space strongly convex, divided by a short groove ; eyes very 
deeply notched ; clypeus impunctate ; antennae short, black, the 
third joint twice as long as the second but shorter than the fourth, 
fifth and following joints more elongate, stout and strongly 
thickened. Thorax longer than broad, with rounded anterior 
