LEM A. 
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Elytra strongly foveolate near the suture below the base, the 
punctures strong anteriorly, much finer and more elongate 
posteriorly. Legs nearly black ; abdomen flavous. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon (Colls. Oxford Mus. cf Jacoby). 
The peculiar sculpturing of the thorax and the flavous abdomen 
distinguish this species from any other of nearly similar 
coloration. 
124. Lema cribricollis, Weise, JDeut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 18. 
Beneath testaceous ; sides of metasternum and first abdominal 
segment blackish-aeneous ; antennae ferruginous, second to ninth 
joints fuscous. Head black and ferruginous. Thorax aeneous. 
Elytra metallic blue. 
Head piceous, fulvous between the eyes, closely punctured and 
pubescent, convex, with a smooth slightly raised median line. 
Antennae with the basal five joints fulvous, the second and the fifth 
above more or less black, the sixth to the ninth entirely fuscous 
black, tenth and eleventh yellowish. Thorax subquadrate, anterior 
margin formed into a transverse raised fold, interrupted at the 
middle, the basal sulcus fine, another transverse depression placed 
at the disc which ends in a fovea at the middle ; the surface trans- 
versely wrinkled, with numerous punctures at the interstices ; two 
rows of stronger punctures are also placed on the middle of the 
disc. Scute! lum black, finely pubescent. Elytra greenish-blue, 
with cupreous gloss at the base and suture, a deep round de- 
pression below the base ; the surface punctate-striate anteriorly, 
behind the middle striately punctured, the third and eighth rows 
unite before the apex and form a deep fovea. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon : Kandy. 
Allied to L. ivestivoodi, Jac., but differs in the strongly con- 
stricted neck and the rugosely punctured thorax. 
125. Lema pedestris, sp. n. 
Dark metallic blue ; antenme black, labrtun fulvous. Body 
beneath bluish-black. 
Head fulvous, deeply constricted behind the eyes, the latter 
extremely prominent, triangularly notched, the intermediate space 
highly raised but not tuberculiform, with a short posterior central 
groove, the extreme base obscure fulvous ; clypeus metallic blue ; 
labrum fulvous ; antennae black, the intermediate joints slightly 
subquadrately widened, third and fourth equal, short. Thorax 
slightly longer than broad, with a deep lateral excavation, 
bounded by an acute ridge above, the basal sulcus deep, placed 
close to the basal margin, the anterior portion of the thorax with 
rounded angles ; the surface with a few fine punctures at the 
middle and near the anterior angles. Elytra narrow and parallel, 
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