LEMA. 
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All this agrees with a specimen from Ceylon in my collection, 
bnt the colour of the abdomen is entirely fulvous, not dark as 
AVeise gives it. 
Length 5-6 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon : Bandarawella. 
44. Lema flavimana, sp. n. 
Elavous, clypeus and breast black ; elytra violaceous blue. 
Head with the swollen portion at the vertex distinctly punctured 
and with a short and deep groove ; clypeus with its lower portion 
and the labrum black with bluish gloss ; antennae rather short, 
flavous, the third and fourth joints equal, terminal joints slightly 
thickened and rather short. Thorax rather transverse, the anterior 
angles tuberculate ; basal sulcus very deep, placed at some distance 
from the base ; lateral cavities broad at their upper portion, 
bounded by a strong ridge above; anterior portion of the thorax 
with a deep transverse sulcus at sides, very minutely punctured. 
Scutellum flavous. Elytra very strongly punctured at the base 
oidy, the posterior portion finely punctate-striate. Eegs flavous, 
the femora robust. 
Length 5f mm. 
Hab. India : Bandra. Type in Brit. Mus. 
Amongst those with blue elytra the present species may be 
known by the all but entire absence of an elytral depression, the 
flavous or pale fulvous colour of the antennae and their rather 
short joints, the position of the thoracic basal sulcus and its 
minutely punctured surface, when seen under a strong lens, the 
punctured vertex of the head and the black breast. L. epi pleural is, 
Jac. is smaller and has black antennae. 
45. Lema tranquebarica, Fabr. Eat. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 92 ; Lacord. 
Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 376. 
Eerruginous ; labrum, sides of breast, and elytra black. 
Head smooth ; antennae pale ferrugineous, extending slightly 
below* the middle of the elytra. Thorax subquadrate, im punctate, 
the basal sulcus rather shallow, an oblique but feeble depression at 
each side before the middle. Elytral puncturation not strong, with 
im punctate interstices, the latter convex at the apex. Legs 
ferruginous. 
Length 4| mm. 
Hab. Coast, of Coromandel. 
A much smaller species than A. ci/anipennis, with black elytra 
and similarly coloured sides of the breast. AVliether this is the 
true insect described by Eabricius under that name is doubtful, 
since this author’s description is too short to be conclusive and 
applies to several closely allied forms. It may be only another 
variety of L. Coromandel i ana in the description of which Eabricius 
has substituted black for blue as the colour of the elytra. 
