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Apical margm of prosteriium obhquely produced, deflexed, 

 slightly emargiuate, the hinder margin concave, armed on either 

 side Avith a deflexed, obtuse tooth ; mesosternum transverse, its 

 apical border angTilate-emarginate. Apical segment of abdomen 

 in the $ impressed with a shallow fovea ; the same segment in 

 the $ deeply excavated, the fovea large, rotundate. Basal 

 joint of the four anterior tarsi in the $ dilated, elongate-ovate, 

 longer than the following two imited. 



The form of the presternum will separate this species from 

 any nearly allied species. 



6. Nodostoma concinnicoUc, n. sp. 



Oblongo-ovatum, convexum, ^lallide piceum, nitidum, pedibus 

 antennisque fulvis ; thorace transverso, lateribus ante basin acute 

 angulatis, disco crebre foveolato-punctato ; elytris nigris, fortiter 

 punctato-striatis, intersjmtiis planis. Long. 2 lin. 



Var. A. Elytris piceo-fulvis, punctis piceis. 

 Hab. Jhelam Valley. 



Head coarsely and deeply punctured, the punctures on the 

 extreme vertex crowded ; clypeus not distinctly separated from 

 the face ; antenna; slender, filiform, the second joint ovate, three- 

 fourths the length of the thud, the latter two-thirds the length 

 of the fourth. Thorax more than twice as broad as long ; sides 

 abruptly diverging and acutely angled just in front of the base, 

 thence obliquely converging to the apex, just before reaching 

 the latter abruptly incurved, the apical angle obtuse, the hinder 

 one armed with a lateral tooth ; disc closely covered with 

 large round, deeply impressed ])uuctures ; on either side are 

 a fcAV short siib-erect griseous hairs. Scutellum longer than 

 broad, cuneiform, its apex obtusely angulate. Elytra convex, 

 transversely depressed below the basilar space, strongly punc- 

 tate-striate ; on the transverse depression, and also below the 

 shoulder, the punctiu'ing is confused ; interspaces plane, iri'egu- 

 larly wrinkled on the sub-basilar depression. All the thighs 

 armed beneath with an acute tooth. 



7. Noddstoma /ilagiosum, n. sp. 



Oblongo-ovatum, piceum, nitidum, pedil)Us antennistpie piceo- 

 fulvis, his extrorsimi jticeis ; thorace profunde et crebre punc- 

 tato, lateribus pone mediimi cjbtuse angulatis ; elytris fortiter 



