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37. ^odostoma. iua,i*^ina,ta,9 n. sp. 



Oblong, short, metallic green below; above reddish cupreous, 

 the thorax and elytra margined with metallic green. Thorax 

 closely punctured. Elytra transversely depressed below the base, 

 finely punctate-striate. Femora unarmed. 



Length 1 Yg lii^®. 



Head remotely but distinctly punctured , metallic green , mid- 

 dle of front stained with cupreous: epistome not separated, 

 punctured like the head; labrum metallic. Antennae more than 

 half the length of the body, stout, black, two basal joints ob- 

 scure fulvous. Thorax transverse, more than twice as broad as 

 long, the sides regularly but slightly rounded, with a narrow 

 transverse groove close to the anterior margin, surface rather 

 closely covered with very distinct punctures, the space near the 

 margins nearly impunctate; scutellum subpentagonal, slightly 

 broader than long, impunctate, metallic green. Elytra subqua- 

 drate-ovate, convex distinctly but not very deeply excavated 

 below the basilar space, the latter slightly raised and impunc- 

 tate, strongly punctate-striate near the suturai and lateral mar- 

 gin and within the depression , rest of the surface finely punc- 

 tate, the extreme apex impunctate, the interspaces flat. Femo^-a 

 and underside metallic green, tibiae obscure cupreous. 



Java, Tcibodas, October (0. Beccari). 



Allied apparently to R. pwyiireipemie Baly, but differing in 

 the metallic not black underside , the closely punctured thorax, 

 the sides of which are not dilated and in the colour of the latter 

 and elytra. 



38. ^N^odostoxna. sumatrensis, n. sp. 



Oblong, piceous or fulvous below; base of antennae fulvous; 

 thorax coarsely punctured, fulvous; elytra strongly punctate- 

 striate anteriorly, more finely towards the apex, fulvous, a 

 suturai broad band, narrowed posteriorly and a narrower one 



