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Show 1879.] ON NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 773 and white ; throat, cheeks, breast, and belly dirty white, tipped with very pale brown ; sides, flanks, and vent greyish brown, barred and spotted with white ; legs, toes, and claws pale brown. Length 5| inches, wing 2f. This interesting little Rail I submitted to Mr. R. B. Sharpe, who kindly pronounced it to be a new species ; therefore I have much pleasure in naming it after the collector, Mr. T. Waters. 21. PODICEPS PELZELNI, Hartl. S.W. interior of Madagascar. 22. FULMARUS GIGANTEUS, Gm. S.W. coast of Madagascar. 23. PLOTUS LEVAILLANTII, Licht. S.E. Madagascar. 3. Descriptions of new Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera. By M A R T I N JACOBY. [Eeceived November 24, 1879.] Genus LEMA. 1. L E M A C H A M P I O N I , sp. nov. Elongate, subparallel, fulvous. Head and breast black ; antennae piceous, their base and apex fulvous; elytra punctate-striate, dark violaceous blue, shining, a slightly curved median transverse band and the apex fulvous. Length 3f lines. Hab. Zapote, Guatemala. Head not constricted behind the eyes, impunctate ; lateral grooves very deep ; eyes deeply emarginate, large, the space surrounding them distinctly punctured ; epistome impunctate, shining black; antennae rather robust, of half the length of the body, the second joint very short, third joint double the length, the basal as well as the fourth to the seventh joints piceous, or black, the rest light fulvous; thorax slightly longer than broad, moderately constricted in the middle at each side, base scarcely perceptibly impressed, surface impunctate, fulvous. Scutellum black. Elytra much broader than the thorax, rather convex and parallel, narrowly transversely depressed below the base, deeply punctate-striate at their anterior half, the punctuation gradually diminishing, and almost obsolete towards the apex, where the interstices are slightly convex, the latter also minutely punctate, of a dark violaceous blue, the middle is occupied by a slightly convex fulvous band extending to the lateral margins, while the entire apex is of the same colour. Abdomen and legs also fulvous. Collected by Mr. Champion. |