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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 
fourth joints equal, following joints elongate and slender. Thorax 
subquadrate, deeply constricted at the middle, anterior angles 
blunt but strongly produced at sides, basal sulcus placed at some 
distance from base ; surface entirely impunetate, black, shining. 
Scutellum truncate at apex, black. Elytra with short and rather 
deep depression near suture below base, finely punctate-striate 
except within the depression. Body beneath and legs black. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. Assam ; Burma : Buby Mines. 
Bather smaller than L. assamensis , Jac. : the head black, with 
fulvous tubercles ; the antennae shorter with more slender joints ; 
the thorax with a single sulcus. 
135. Lema belgaumensis, sp. n. 
Fulvous ; clypeus, antennae, legs partly and elytra black ; base 
of tibiae flavous. 
Head not constricted posteriorly, fulvous, bituberculate on the 
vertex ; the clypeus and labrum black ; antennae long and slender, 
third and fourth joints equal. Thorax subquadrate, with the 
basal sulcus deep and placed at some distance from the base, 
the anterior portion with another very obsolete transverse de- 
pression at the sides ; lateral constrictions deep, entirely sulciform, 
but with the usual short perpendicular ridge above, middle of the 
disc with a few minute punctures. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra 
with a distinct transverse depression below the base, the lower 
portion subcylindrical ; the surface strongly punctate-striate, the 
shoulders angularly prominent, deepty punctate-striate in front, 
the punctures extended quite to the base ; the colour black, with 
a very slight violaceous tint. Body beneath fulvous, the sides of 
the breast and the upper edge of the first abdominal segment 
black ; legs black, the upper edge of the posterior femora and the 
base of the tibiae flavous. 
Length 4| mm. 
Hah. Western India: Belgaum {Coll. H. E. Anclreives). 
A peculiarly marked species which may possibly represent a 
variety of one of the smaller forms, but so far as colouring goes, 
it appears to be quite distinct. 
136. Lema crassicollis, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 66 ; Weise, Deut. cut. 
Zeit. 1903, p. 22. 
Beneath blackish-blue ; upper part of the head, the thorax and 
the last two joints of the antenna? fulvous; elytra metallic blue, 
a small spot above the shoulders fulvous. 
Head finely punctured on the vertex, the mouth-parts black ; 
antenna? black, more than half the length of the body, the last two 
joints fulvous, third and fourth short, equal. Thorax not longer 
than broad, the anterior portion strongly swollen, its angles tuber- 
