LEM A. 
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at the middle when seen under a strong lens. Scutellum 
ferruginous. Elytra with a deep basal depression, the basal 
portion and the depression impressed with deep round punctures, 
the latter very fine posteriorly and formed into stria), the 
interstices convex towards the apex. Body beneath and legs 
ferruginous. 
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Length 9 mm. 
Hah. Assam. Type in Brit. Mus. 
I cannot look upon this species, of which a single specimen only 
is contained in the Brit. Mus., as a variety of L. lacordctirei, Baly 
{cycinipennis, Lac.) on account of its very much larger size, the 
impunctuate head, deep elytral depression and impunctate inter- 
stices as well as their dark violaceous colour. It is also a larger 
species than the preceding one. 
Section IY. 
Thorax with anterior and posterior sidcus , the former sometimes 
feeble. Coloration as in preceding sections. 
41. Lema coromandeliana, Fabr. (Leptura) Fnt. Cyst. Suppl. 1798, 
p. 154 ; Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 377 ; Baly , Trans. Fnt. 
Soc. (3) iv, 1865, p. 24 ; Jacoby , Notes Leyd. Mus. 1881, p. 199 ; 
Weise, JDeut. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 387. 
Var. gangetica, Weise, t. c. 1903, p. 20. 
Kufous ; antennae black ; anterior portion of head, sides of 
breast and legs greenish-black ; elytra metallic blue. 
Head with punctured and pubescent elevation between eyes, 
divided posteriorly by a groove ; antennae slender, extended to 
middle of elytra. Thorax with anterior angles pointed, im punctate ; 
surface with anterior medially interrupted and posterior deep 
sulcus. Elytra with shallow basal depression, strongly punctate- 
striate, metallic blue or greenish as are the legs and the sides of 
the breast. — J . Intermediate tibiae with triangular tooth before 
apex. 
Var. gangetica, Weise. llufous, sides of breast black. ( L . me- 
lanocerci, Lac. ?) 
Length 5-6 mm. 
ILab. India ; Ceylon ; Sumatra ; Java. 
The correct synonymy of this species is not at all understood 
at present ; the true A. coromandeliana of Eabricius was described 
from Coromandel. Since then many other closely allied forms, or 
it may be varieties, have been united by Baly; more lately Weise 
has defined the differences between this and allied species, but 
neither he nor Baly, so far as I am aware, had specimens before 
them from Coromandel, and it remains to be seen whether the 
Malayan insects with dentate tibiae in the male or those from 
Ceylon with or without similar structure are all one species. At 
present Lacordaire’s description (he w r as the first to give a detailed 
one of L. coromandeliana) must be accepted, since he received the 
