NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 223 



Java, Tcibodas, October (0. Beccari). 



Allied to N. pallidum Baly, separated by the shorter an- 

 tennae, the piceous underside and the want of the humeral 

 band. The punctures of the thorax in the present insects are 

 of a piceous colour so as to produce the effect of a more or 

 less distinct transverse band in some specimens, that of the la- 

 teral margin is widest below the shoulders and gradually gets 

 narrower towards the apex. 



45. TVodostoma g-ratiim, Baly. 



A single specimen from Celebes agrees perfectly with the 

 author's description , but one from Borneo and another from 

 Java differ in having a small piceous spot below the base of 

 each elytron ; the antennae have the outer joints also obscure 

 piceous, in all other respects the insects are identical. 



4G. JVodostoma simplex, n. sp. 



Oblong, pale fulvous; thorax strongly and closely punctured, 

 the sides obsoletely angulate; elytra testaceous, the base ele- 

 vated, finely punctate-striate below the latter, the apex impunc- 

 tate; femora with a minute tooth. 



Length 1 ^/g line. 



Head very strongly but not very closely punctured; episteme 

 not separated from the face; antennae slender, filiform about 

 two thirds the length of the body, four or five basal joints 

 pale flavous , the rest obscure fuscous ; thorax scarcely twice as 

 broad as long, the sides very obsoletely angled below the 

 middle, the entire upper surface covered with deep piceous 

 punctures, a little more closely placed at the sides than at the 

 disk; scutellum subovate its apex subtruncate; elytra convex, 

 distinctly transversely depressed below the base, the latter ele- 

 vated and strongly punctured within the depression, below the 

 latter finely punctate-striate, the apex entirely or very finely 

 punctured. Legs testaceous, anterior and posterior femora armed 

 with a very minute tooth. 



