I'lIVTOI-'lIAyA FROM SUMATRA o9o 



sparingly punctured at the disc , nearly inipunctate near the 

 margins, scutellum subquadrale, elytra In-oad, subquadrate, with 

 a distinct transverse depression below the base , the shoulders 

 prominent, followed by a short costa, the punctures strong within 

 the depression and arranged in two rows near the suture the 

 rest of the disc extremely finely punctate, nearly indistinct, un- 

 derside and legs nearly black. 



Hah. Pangherang-Pisang. 



Tiie uniform dark metallic green colour, the rounded sides of 

 tlie thorax and the sculpturing of the latter will help to distin- 

 guish this species from others of a uniform coloration, the male 

 is of a little more parallel shape , the thorax has the sides 

 slightly angulate below the middle and the surface more strongly 

 punctured but as there is only one specimen of that sex before 

 me I am unable to say whether these differences are constant 

 in the sexes. 



18. Nodostoma viridissimum , n. sj). — Metallic green, basal 

 joints of the antennae fulvous , the others black , thorax with 

 rounded sides, deeply punctured, elytra strongly punctate-striate, 

 the base convex , transversely depressed , tibiae aureous , tarsi 

 black. 



Length 1 ^i.^-"! lines. 



Head coarsely and closely punctured, tlie interstices more or 

 less convex and rugose , the epistome not separated from the 

 face, deeply semicircularly concave at the anterior margin, palpi 

 fulvous, antennae extending a little beyond the base of the 

 elytra, black, the lower three joints fulvous, the first metallic 

 green above; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, 

 narrowed in front, the anterior angles produced into a short 

 tooth , the surface as deeply but not as closely punctured as 

 the head, with a short transverse sulcus at the sides near the 

 anterior margin which disappears at the middle, scutellum broad, 

 impunctate, its apex broadly rounded ; elytra wider at the base 

 than the thorax, deeply transversely depressed below the base, 

 the latter convex, deeply punctate-striate anteriorly, the punc- 

 tures closely placed Ijut getting gradually smaller towards tlie 



