NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 219 



from the face, deeply but not closely punctured; sparingly co- 

 vered with whitish hairs, its anterior margin angulate-emargi- 

 nate at the middle; labrum piceous; palpi fulvous; eyes rather 

 large, round, entire; antennae of half the length of the body, 

 rather stout, the last seven joints thickened, black, the four 

 basal joints fulvous, the first stained with metallic green above. 

 Thorax convex, not more than twice as broad as long, the 

 sides obsoletely angled behind the middle, disk very strongly 

 and rather closely punctured at the sides , more finely punc- 

 tured at the middle; scutellum broad, subquadrate, impunctate; 

 elytra broader than the thorax, deeply transversely depressed 

 below the base, the latter distinctly raised, longitudinally sul- 

 cate within the humeral callus, very deeply punctured within 

 the basal depression and near the lateral margin , rest of the 

 disk more finely but very distinctly punctured, an indistinct 

 short costa runs from the shoulder parallel with the lateral 

 margin, disappearing before the middle; an obscure purplish 

 aeneous stripe is placed from the middle to the apex of the 

 elytra near the lateral margin. Posterior femora bluish, unarmed. 



Aru Islands, Wokan (0. Beccari). 2 specimens. 



Separated from N. pulchellum Baly, to which the present 

 species is closely allied by the thorax, which is not elevate-re- 

 ticulate, the longitudinally strigose base of the head and the 

 colour of the elytra. 



40. IVodostoma pieeipes, Baly. 



Celebes, Kandari, April (0. Beccari). 



The specimens obtained at the above locality , differ from the 

 type in having the antennae scarcely more than half the length 

 of the body and the femora without any teeth , but as I cannot 

 discover any other differences I prefer to consider the speci- 

 mens before me as local varieties. The species may be reco- 

 gnised by its entirely pale fulvous antennae, the metallic green 

 upperside and the strongly punctured thorax. 



