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strongly deflexed, the anterior angles sinuate behind the eyes, the surface closely 

 jiiinctiired, the interstices rather irregularly wrinkled or convex; scutelluni broader 

 than long; elytra, with a very obsolete dejiression below the base, very strongly a:id 

 deeply punctate-striate to the apex, the interstices (especially at the sides) slightly 

 convex, with a few fine punctures here and there; legs robust, fulvous, the foiu- 

 posterior tibiae emarginate at apex, claws l)itid : prostcnuini broad, widened jiosteriorly, 

 strongly punctured. 



Hctb. Timor. 



Allied to C. badius Lefev., but dift'ering in the nearly inipunctate head and the 

 different sculpture of the thorax and elytra; the colour of the antennae and the 

 deep punctures of the elytra and their convex interstices separates the species from 

 C. lefevrei Duviv. The amount of metallic aeneous in the fulvous variety varies 

 greatly, and is sometimes only visible at the head or part of the thoi-ax; these 

 specimens make the im])ression of being iiiiinature : in the variety (/») the head and 

 thorax are fulvous as well as flio legs. 



Nodina tricostata sp. "ov. 



Below blackisli. the antennae and legs fulvous, above aeneous, liead finely, thorax 

 distinctly punctured, elytra stronglv punctate-striate, flic sides with three very 

 strongly raised longitudinal costae. 



I>ength A line. 



Head finely and sparingly punctured, with a short sidcus above the eyes, labrum 

 fulvous, antennae sliort, not extending to the middle of the elytra, fulvous, the joints 

 gradually thickened towards the apex, sulimoniliform, the terminal joint elongate ; 

 thorax strongly transver.se, the sides rounded, narrowed and deflexed in front, the 

 surface not very closely but di-stinctly imjiressed vnX\\ olilong punctures ; elytra 

 strongly convex, pointed at the ajiex, moderately strongly punctate-striate, the sides 

 with three or four strongly raised co.stae not extending to the base or apex; the legs 

 fulvous, the four posterior tibiae emarginate at the apex, prosternum broader than 

 long, finely ijunctured, anterior thoracic episternum concave. 



Hah. Talaut (I.sland of Lirung or 8alihabo, in the Talaut grouji, N.K. of Sangir). 



I have jilaced this small species in Nodina on account of the general sha])e and 

 structural characters, but neither Baly nor Lefevre mentions any sulcus above the 

 eyes which I find .several other species of Nodina possess {N. chaleosoma lialy. i\>y 

 instance, of which 1 possess a typical specimen) ; nor can the antennae be called 

 filiform, as described by authors, since the joints are short and often moniliform. 

 Edistus Leffevre seems a better place for these species, but the author describes the 

 thorax as angulate, which is not the case in Nodina. N. tncostata is much dis- 

 tinguished by the elytral lateral costae. 



Dematochroma timorense -p. nov. 



Obscure testaceous, the terminal joint of the antennae black; thorax parallel, 

 strongly and closely punctured, elytra semipunctate-striate, the interstices at the 

 sides and apex costate. 



Length 2 lines. 



Of elongate and parallel shape, the head rather closely and strongly punctured, 

 more especially so between the eyes, the latter sinuate at their inner margin, anterior 

 margin of the clypeus deejily trisinuate. jialpi filiform, antennae extending beyond the 

 middle of the elytra, testaceous, the apical joint nearly black, the third joint one half 



