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CHRYSOMELID.E. 
insect, from the original locality. This author makes, however, no 
mention of any toothed tibiae. 
Size, coloration and the bisulcate thorax principally characterise 
this species. Weise has named the variety in which the tibial 
tooth, as well as the anterior thoracic sulcus, is very small or 
entirely absent, and in which the breast and abdomen is quite 
bluish or greenish-black, but such specimens cannot be distinguished 
from several others of similar coloration, except perhaps by the 
punctured and pubescent frontal tubercles. 
From Calcutta and other parts of India I have specimens with 
entirely fulvous or rufous antennae and legs as well as similarly- 
coloured underside (the sides of the breast excepted). I cannot 
distinguish these specimens structurally from L. coromandeliana ; 
they answer very nearly to L. melanocera , Lac., but that author 
gives the lower joints of the antennae as black and the underside 
as entirely fulvous : the locality for his species also is Java. 
42. Lema kandyensis, Weise, Beut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 20. 
Kufous ; the head more or less aeneous anteriorly; antennae, 
breast, abdomen and legs black ; elytra metallic green or blue. 
Head and thorax rufous, with a violet tint above, the clypeus 
and the labrum (the first-named at least at the margin) metallic 
bluish ; mandibles black ; frontal elevations convex, not closely 
punctured or pubescent, divided by a rather broad sulcus, 
hntennae black. Thorax strongly constricted below the middle, 
the anterior sulcus deep, terminating at the sides in a large fovea 
which is clearly bounded above by a ridge, the basal sulcus rather 
deep ; the surface with a few punctures at the middle and 
anteriorly, the anterior angles pointed. Scutellum finely pubes- 
cent, blackish or partly red. Elytra strongly metallic blue or 
green, the inner rows of punctures obsolete behind the middle ; 
interstices nearly smooth, finely granulate, the two sutural and the 
three marginal interstices convex. 
The male has a fine median raised line on the first abdominal 
segment, which is much more feeble and shorter than the 
corresponding structure in L. coromandeliana. 
Length 5-6 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon : Kandy. 
43. Lema tibiella, Weise, Bcut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 20. 
d . Kufous ; antennae and labrum black ; clypeus, breast, 
abdomen and legs dark aeneous ; elytra aeneous. 
This also is closely allied and resembles L. coromandeliana, but 
is rather more slender, the breast and abdomen are greenish-black. 
The thorax more closely punctured and the large and pointed 
tibial tooth placed before, not behind the middle. 
