3S0 ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGOUS GOLEOPTERA by Iflarlin Jaeoity. The présent pâper deals with the apparently new species obtained by M"* H.-L. Andrewes in the Nilgiri Hills and by M'T.-R.-D. Bell at Kanara, Karachi, Khandesh and Kashmir. They were submitted to me by M' H.-E. Andrewes for examination and form the third consignment of this group received by this gentle-man, of which I gave an account in the Annals of the Belgian Entomol. Society. I hâve added a few other species which are contained in my collection, the latter also contains types and cotypes of ail the species described hère while the bulk of the collection is in the hands of M"" H,-E. Andrewes. LEMA PARADOXA sp. n. Bluish black below, above metallic green or blue, thorax deeply bisulcate, impunctate, elytra with a fovea below the base, strongly punctate anteriorly more finely so towards the apex, interstices not raised except near the margins. Length 7 mill. Head deeply longitudinally sulcate at the vertex with a few fine punctures, supra ocular grooves very deep, eyes broadly and deeply notched, clypeus metallic with a transverse row of fine punctures anteriorly, labrum with a similar row, antennse black, slender, the second to the fourth joint gradually lenglhened, thorax not longer than broad, the anterior angles produced into a small tubercle, the sides moderately excavated, the excavation gradually extending to the basai sulcus, the latter deep, straight, another somewhat sinuate and nearly equally deep sulcus is placed before the middle, in front of this sulcus are a few fine punctures, rest of the dise impunctate, elytra with a short but deep fovea near the suture below the base, another impression is placed near the apex at the junction of the fourth and eighth strise, last two interstices costate, legs very slen-der, bluish black. Pondicherry (my collection), Nilgiri Hills, Anamalais (Andrewes). AUied to L. cyanea Fabr. but much larger, the thorax more distinctly tuberculate and more deeply bisulcate, elytral interstices not rugose; the insect was procured by beating and on herbage from May till July and in November and December.
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